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They are hoping to trace the child's mother who has not come forward.
The baby girl was found at Steelstown Lane on a Friday afternoon.
It is thought that she may have been born 24 to 36 hours earlier. She was wrapped in a beige fleece and placed with a towel into a black bag inside a green paper carrier bag.
Staff at the Dublin hospital where she was taken have called her Maria.
Sgt Maeve O'Sullivan of the Child Protection Unit in Clondalkin said: "We are releasing this photograph so mum can see her little baby girl and we would ask mum to please contact us."
Police said they were only concerned for the welfare of the baby's mother and that they were not treating the matter as a criminal investigation.
They have appealed for information.
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Police have released a photograph of a newborn baby girl found in a bag near a gateway at Rathcoole, County Dublin, on 8 May.
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The DUP has met officers over recent attacks there and at St Columb's Park.
In one incident, the party said a community worker and a friend were assaulted after going to help a young man wearing a Northern Ireland jersey.
In another, the father of a Protestant man beaten up near the bridge said he had no doubt the attack was sectarian.
Allister Gault told the BBC his 21-year-old son was knocked unconscious in the mugging last week.
The young man had been attending the birthday party of a Catholic workmate in the city centre and was making his way home when a group of youths targeted him and called him sectarian names.
"He decided to walk home as he couldn't get a taxi," Mr Gault said.
"Two guys linked unto him and got him onto Browning Drive and gave him a beating and mugged him and took his wallet.
"He was knocked on the head and knocked unconscious and had a black eye."
Mr Gault said his son was left shaken by the ordeal and may have sustained a cracked rib.
"My son isn't a sectarian person and it is so sad seeing things like this happen in the town."
The Peace Bridge was built as symbol of reconciliation linking the mainly nationalist and unionist sides of the city.
The DUP met senior officers on Monday to underline its concern at a number of recent incidents which the party described as a major cause for concern.
It asked for more visible patrols around the bridge and the park.
DUP councillor Gary Middleton said that he got reassurance from the police that they would be committing additional resources to St Columb's Park.
"We did stress the need for a wider strategy. Recently we have seen an increased amount of tension in the area," he said.
Sinn Féin has said the trouble should not undermine the good cross community work going on in Derry.
PSNI Supt Gordon McCalmont has made an appeal for potential victims of the attacks to report the crimes to police.
"We want people to come forward to talk to us," he said.
"This sectarian element has come to the fore in the past week and it is causing us concern that somebody might be in the background orchestrating this.
"We must make the park an uncomfortable place for anyone with criminal intent or sectarian motives."
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The police have been asked to increase patrols around the Londonderry's Peace Bridge after a number of reportedly sectarian incidents near the landmark.
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The Beach Bot can draw sand pictures that are ten metres tall.
The robot uses a rake with different types of scrapers to make a variety of lines and pictures.
Duncan Bew, a consultant at King's College Hospital, said he has seen increasingly ferocious stabbing injuries inflicted on children.
In 2016, 299 children were caught carrying knives in schools, up from 152 in 2011, according to the Met Police.
The first-aid skills would mean fewer deaths from stab injuries, Mr Bew said.
The number of pupils caught in possession of knives in schools has risen for a fifth successive year, according to Met Police statistics.
"There's a need to raise public preparedness," Mr Bew said.
The surgeon co-founded Growing Against Violence which provides training in schools for 10-15 year olds to reduce gang membership and tackle violence, including equipping them with first aid techniques.
"We see more stabbing victims around the end of school than any other time," Mr Bew said.
"Gone are the days of children coming in having fallen off their bikes, now it's all because of knives."
The family of murdered teenager Quamari Barnes told BBC London that for some children carrying a knife came as naturally as picking up "their keys or mobile phone".
Justin (not his real name), was 12 years old when his mother found a hunting knife in his bag as he left for school.
"All the bigger boys in my class bully me and make me feel scared, they threaten me," he told the BBC.
"I wanted to carry a knife to look cool."
His mother said she "wasn't angry at all; I'm just really concerned."
"I live on an estate and I see bad things all the time. The situation will get worse because young people are competing against each other," she added.
First aid is taught in some schools as part of the personal, social, health and economics education (PSHE) curriculum - but it is not compulsory.
In March, the government announced PSHE would be made compulsory in all state schools, but there is no timetable for its introduction.
The government is currently consulting on what to include in the permanent curriculum.
The White House said the move was intended to acknowledge Sudan's efforts to reduce internal conflict, improve humanitarian access to people requiring aid and curtail "terrorism".
The president signed an executive order implementing the measures on Friday.
The move is been seen as an effort by Mr Obama to strengthen ties with Sudan before he leaves office.
The White House in a statement said the easing of sanctions will be delayed by 25 weeks in order to give further incentives to the Sudanese government to continue its reforms.
Mr Obama said in a letter to members of Congress that sanctions introduced by President Clinton relating "to the policies and actions of the government of Sudan have been altered by Sudan's positive actions over the past six months".
Economic sanctions were imposed against the country after the state was labelled a "sponsor of terrorism".
The penalties being suspended could be re-imposed if Sudan were seen to backtrack on any progress.
The actions recognised by the US include the move by South Sudan to deny safe haven to South Sudanese rebels.
Despite the move by the outgoing Obama administration, Sudan is expected to remain on a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
In 2009, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir was indicted on war crimes charges, the first to be issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against a sitting president.
The US foreign policy establishment has been split between those who advocate greater engagement with Sudan, and those who believe it is morally wrong to deal with what they consider a genocidal regime.
Easing sanctions shows that the realpolitik wing - which in my experience has deeper knowledge of Sudanese affairs - holds the upper hand.
There are legitimate questions over whether Sudan has really passed the series of tests set by the Americans in areas such as stopping aerial bombardments, opening up the political arena to dissidents and improving humanitarian access to conflict areas.
However, it is clear that the sanctions, which have been in place for so long, have not brought about political change in Sudan and have hurt the people more than the politicians, a point made by Sudanese campaigners in recent months.
For Sudan, which is struggling with an economic crisis, the attraction of the policy change is obvious.
Questions remain.
Will the Trump administration continue this new policy left to them by Obama's team? Activists from all parts of the US political spectrum are implacably opposed to the Islamists who run Sudan, and may try to exert pressure to reverse this decision.
And would the US really be prepared one day to fully normalise relations with Sudan if the ICC-indicted Omar al-Bashir is still president?
That's for the future. For now, this announcement is an important first step towards a better relationship between the US and Sudan.
Human rights activists in the US have in recent years been strongly critical of President Bashir's record in the western region of Darfur.
The area has for many years been plagued by tensions between mostly nomadic Arabs and farmers from the Fur, Massaleet and Zaghawa communities who have complained of persecution.
Administration officials first raised the possibility of a reduction in sanctions in the autumn.
The number of homes Bovis sold rose to 1,525, compared with 1,487 in same period last year.
The average private sales price rose to £264,200, 10% higher than last year, Bovis said.
Last week, a survey indicated that demand for houses in the UK was continuing to outstrip supply.
Chief executive David Ritchie told the BBC that the firm's average price was "reasonable" given the firm mainly operated in the south of England.
"Our sales price... is about a medium sized three-bedroom house on average, and that we feel is a reasonable price for that type of home in the south of England."
About a decade ago, a government review found the UK would need to build 250,000 homes a year to keep pace with demand.
Mr Ritchie said recently relaxed planning laws had helped the building industry to get hold of land, but that it faced a challenge in finding builders.
"In the last 12 to 18 months we've seen an improvement in the land coming through the planning process, such that we are now releasing over 200,000 plots for house building each year - that's the key starting point to deliver the capacity.
"We then do have to find enough people in the country to allow us to build those, and that will be the next challenge," he said.
Last week, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said the government was failing to address the issue of UK housing supply.
Its latest survey, Rics said the number of homes for sale had sunk to a record low, and so demand was continuing to outstrip supply.
Highlands and Islands Airports (HIAL) said the incident happened just before 15:30 when the Dornier 328 aircraft was undertaking a training exercise.
The two pilots on board were not injured in the incident.
Flights in and out of the airport were being delayed while the aircraft was moved to allow the runway to reopen.
Marshall died at a hospital in Burbank, California, on Tuesday of complications from pneumonia following a stroke, his publicist Michelle Bega said.
Henry Winkler, who played "The Fonz" on Happy Days, wrote on Twitter: "Garry Marshall rest in peace.
"Thank you for my professional life. Thank you for your loyalty, friendship and generosity."
Several other Hollywood figures who have previously worked with Marshall have also taken to social media to pay tribute, including Steve Carell, Lea Michele and Zach Braff, who said: "God I loved this man."
As well as creating Happy Days, Marshall directed blockbusters such as Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride - both starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Gere said: "Everyone loved Garry... he was a super fine and decent man."
"He was a mentor and a cheerleader and one of the funniest men who ever lived. He had a heart of the purest gold and a soul full of mischief."
Actor Rob Lowe said: "Garry Marshall hired me at 15 years old. He gave my wife her start at 18, as a makeup artist. He changed our lives and many others."
Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Alba - both of whom worked with Marshall on the film Valentine's Day - also paid tribute, with Alba calling him "a true pioneer".
Octavia Spencer said she "will miss that talented one" and Ghostbusters director Paul Feig described Marshall as "an amazing person".
As well as creating Happy Days, Marshall wrote sitcoms such as The Odd Couple and Mork and Mindy.
The prolific director, producer and writer is survived by his wife, Barbara, and their three children.
Actress Sarah Paulson, who appeared in Marshall's 1999 film The Other Sister, said: "Garry Marshall, I am forever indebted to you. Thank you for taking a chance on me."
Mandy Moore, whose first on-screen film role was in 2001's The Princess Diaries, which Marshall directed, wrote: "Garry Marshall was one of the greats.
"He connected us all through joy, laughter, compassion and kindness. He also gave me my very first job."
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Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter Alia Joy during a vote on Tuesday.
The lower house last year joined the Senate in allowing breastfeeding, but no MPs in either house had done so.
It followed a backlash in 2015 when Kelly O'Dwyer, a government minister, was asked to consider expressing milk to avoid missing parliamentary duties.
Ms Waters told the BBC World Service: "It's frankly ridiculous, really, that feeding one's baby is international news. Women have been breastfeeding for as long as time immemorial.
"I had hoped to not only be able to feed my baby but to send a message to young women that they belong in the parliament."
Earlier on Facebook, she called for "more family-friendly and flexible workplaces, and affordable child care, for everyone".
Labor Senator Katy Gallagher said the moment deserved to be acknowledged.
"Women have been doing it in parliaments around the world," she told Sky News Australia.
"Women are going to continue to have babies and if they want to do their job and be at work and look after their baby... the reality is we are going to have to accommodate that."
Until last year, MPs in the lower House of Representatives could take babies only into parliamentary offices or public galleries.
Politicians have been permitted to breastfeed in the Senate since 2003.
The subject is a sensitive issue in many parliaments around the world. In 2016, Spanish MP Carolina Bescansa, from the Podemos (We Can) party, was both criticised and commended for taking her baby into parliament and breastfeeding him.
Last year, a report on diversity in UK politics recommended that allowing breastfeeding in the House of Commons should be considered.
However, one MP in 2015 warned it could risk ridicule from the tabloid press.
The IBF featherweight champion returns to the ring against Adoni Gago at the O2 Arena on Saturday, having not fought in 11 months since beating Eric Hunter.
Selby saw a Las Vegas title defence cancelled in January and the non-title fight with Gago will mark the end of Selby's agreement with Matchroom.
"This is my last fight with Matchroom, after this I am a free agent," he said.
"I will have a contract with no-one.
"My advisor [Al Haymon] and my manager [Chris Sanigar] will be free to put me on shows anywhere in the world.
"Hopefully that will mean I fight in America more and in my home country."
Selby says he is targeting the biggest names in his division and would be keen to face Carl Frampton, with a third fight between Frampton and Santa Cruz now looking less likely.
"I want to be in the ring with all three of Carl Frampton, Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares, in any order, either defending my title or in unification fights," Selby explained.
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After a period of inactivity and the disappointment of a postponed fight, Selby is thrilled to be returning to the ring for a sold-out bill at the O2 Arena.
"I am looking forward to fighting, finally, but even saying that, I won't think the fight is definitely happening until I see him in the other corner of the ring," he said.
"I am looking forward to getting back in there, on the big stage.
"He's not been stopped, Gago, but I am just going in to get the win by any means, but if I can put one on him, I will.
"I don't expect inactivity to have any effect on my performance; I'm in the gym all the time, getting hours on the bag, sparring.
"I've had a look at him, but I don't like to study my opponents, I like to see their style and then adapt on the night."
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A couple of weeks after using the Royal Prerogative to appoint a new press secretary, was it really the executive's considered media strategy to reveal important correspondence from Downing Street live on Radio Ulster's Nolan Show?
And only in the event that an SDLP MLA happened to ask a DUP MP whether the letter from the Prime Minister had arrived?
Surely if this was the plan, Stormont Castle could have saved themselves a lot of expense by appointing East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson as its press secretary?
The first minister brushed the complaints of opposition MLAs aside, insisting that the prime minister's letter had been published in the assembly library at the same time as it was released to the media.
A couple of hours after Arlene Foster spoke, the assembly library finally tweeted the prime minister's comments.
So much for the "inside the Stormont beltway" focus on how the letter was published.
Its contents appears, in the main, a restatement of UK government policy. The mantra of "no return to borders of the past" is now getting to sound very tired.
But, some Stormont sources pointed to the emphasis on the continued free movement of people and goods across the island of Ireland as worth noting.
Free movement of goods? Is that in the sense that lorries will be free to drive north and south unhindered or an indication that those goods will be free from customs tariffs? If the latter, then how would this equate with the UK potentially withdrawing from the European Single Market?
Certainly the hard Brexiteers aren't happy with the prime minister's letter.
The TUV said any arrangements that "retains free movement of labour and goods only for Northern Ireland should be unacceptable to any unionist, because the practical effect would be to push the border back to the Irish Sea".
"Free movement of goods" the TUV argued "can only be secured for the whole UK, or not at all".
Equally, UKIP described Mrs May's letter as very worrying, claiming it "appears to be a capitulation to letting unlimited border crossing into the United Kingdom from anywhere - via the Irish Republic".
"We must press for clarification on Mrs May throwing open a porous border," the party added.
Coming just a day after MLAs rejected "special status" for Northern Ireland within the EU, the Downing Street letter underlines the fact that - when it comes to the UK's departure from the EU - everything is still extremely tentative.
In England, car manufacturers and city traders are pressing their special cases for exemptions from the worst repercussions of a hard Brexit.
In Northern Ireland, food processors and cross-border businesses need to make their voices heard.
Both London and Dublin may want as little as possible to change on the island of Ireland after Brexit.
But, Theresa May and Enda Kenny will have to persuade other EU leaders of the merits of this approach and how it can be squared with fundamental changes in the UK's relationship with the rest of the EU.
Both leaders may get an opportunity to sketch out their thoughts at a Brussels summit they are due to attend later this week.
Queensland Police Service earlier named the suspected murderer as 29-year-old Frenchman Smail Ayad.
He is also charged with two counts of attempted murder, 12 counts of serious assault and one count of serious animal cruelty.
Miss Ayliffe-Chung died after being stabbed in Home Hill, near Townsville, on Tuesday night local time.
The 21-year-old from Wirksworth, Derbyshire, died from multiple stab wounds, a post-mortem examination confirmed.
Mr Ayad is due to appear before Townsville Magistrates Court on Friday by video-link.
Earlier, Supt Ray Rohweder, regional crime co-ordinator from the Northern Region, confirmed a 30-year-old British man, Tom Jackson, who was critically injured in the attack, had tried to save Miss Ayliffe-Chung after she was stabbed at Shelley's Backpackers in Home Hill.
Mr Jackson, from Cheshire, remains in hospital with critical head injuries.
Of his intervention, Mr Rohweder said: "His subsequent actions were absolutely fantastic. I have no doubt that his actions on that day, as completely selfless as they were, led to the injuries he now has."
Another man - a 46-year-old named by a friend as Grant Scholz, who ran the hostel - received non-life threatening injuries and has since been released from hospital.
A dog at the accommodation complex was also killed.
Confirming there was CCTV footage of the incident, he added: "There's no-one that can view that CCTV that doesn't come away feeling sick to the stomach. It's absolutely horrific."
The suspect was on a second visit to Australia and had arrived in the country for the second time in March.
Mr Rohweder said he understood Mr Ayad had been in Home Hill for about a month while Miss Ayliffe-Chung had been there only a couple days.
Police have claimed that as Mr Ayad was being transferred from hospital to the station on Wednesday night he became violent towards officers and was Tasered and doused with pepper spray in order to subdue him.
Forensics teams have returned to the scene and specialists from Brisbane are going to Home Hill to do further testing.
Another British backpacker was injured and is in hospital being treated for injuries to both his ankles.
Miss Ayliffe-Chung's family has paid tribute to an "amazing young woman with an adventurous spirit".
The statement, on behalf of Mia's mother Rosie Ayliffe, was read out by her partner Stewart Cormack.
He said: "Mia was full of the kind of open-minded compassion for life that you don't see that often. It felt as though she was reminding us all of the beauty and possibilities we each have that we should live life to the full.
"Mia was a rare person who saw beyond race, creed and belief. She would always treat others with dignity, respect and kindness.
"As a peaceful person Mia had huge respect for everybody. She would not want to be the reason for any hostilities caused by any misrepresentations of the events."
Miss Ayliffe-Chung had lived in Surfers Paradise, on Australia's Gold Coast, and worked as a waitress at the Bedroom Lounge Bar before making an 800-mile trip north to work with animals on a farm.
She was just days into the three-month trip when she was killed.
Her last Facebook update was on 20 August, four days after starting work on the farm.
Miss Ayliffe-Chung went to Anthony Gell School in Wirksworth before going to Chesterfield College to study psychology and communication and culture.
She later went to Buxton and Leek College to study childcare.
It is understood she travelled to Bali before arriving in Australia.
Paul Lovatt, head of pastoral care at Anthony Gell School in Wirksworth, remembered her as "enriching the school environment".
"We knew Mia as a student with so much joy and energy who was well-liked by her friends and teachers," he said.
"She joined our school in Year 9 and flourished here, both in making strong friendships and in achieving high-level GCSEs."
Rachel McVeigh, curriculum leader for education and childcare at Buxton and Leek College, said: "Mia had a zest for life and was free-spirited, with a keen desire to travel.
"We are devastated and extremely sorry to hear such tragic news. Our thoughts are with her family and friends."
He was speaking after a report into the jail found it was in a "state of crisis".
Inspectors who visited the County Antrim prison in May found it was "unsafe and unstable" for prisoners and staff.
The report said there were also significant failures in leadership.
Speaking anonymously, the officer raised concerns over staff shortages and restraining inmates.
"Landings are running with two officers for 50 prisoners and posts are being stood down all over the prison," he told the BBC's Evening Extra.
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"For example in the pods it's just one person to do all the movement around the house - to issue out the passes and make sure prisoners are going for their appointments as well as controlling all the grilles and doors.
"Sometimes you have a safer cell that you need to check every 15 minutes on the camera as well, and write down what they are doing.
"It's supposed to be at least two people, I mean it's even laid out for two people - the computer and passes are all on one side for somebody to do, while the cameras and movement buttons are on the other side of the pod.
"All day you're just running from one side of the pod to the other to keep up - it's crazy."
The prison officer said staff shortages meant they could not use recommended prisoner restraint techniques.
"Our control and restraint is taught using three people. Everything is done with three people but they are only putting two of us on the landings, so the control and restraint seriously loses its effectiveness.
"From personal experience, I have been restraining a prisoner and I have had to rely on another prisoner to press the alarm because there is nobody else to do it.
"Two of us are wrestling a prisoner and even when you get them restrained, you can't just get up and walk to the alarm.
"It's happened a hell of a lot of occasions around all the houses."
Stormont Justice Minister David Ford has said steps have been taken to improve standards inside the jail.
Northern Irishman McIlroy, 26, will tee off at 19:01 BST on Thursday and 16:05 BST on Friday as he looks to complete a career Grand Slam of majors.
World number one Jason Day is grouped with Matt Kuchar and Ernie Els.
Defending champion Jordan Spieth tees off alongside England's Paul Casey and American amateur Bryson DeChambeau.
McIlroy said: "I think it's the third year in a row I've been off last either Thursday or Friday here. I was sort of expecting it.
"I have many different ways to pass my time. We are working on another jigsaw puzzle and we brought Monopoly to the house that we're renting, so there's a lot of really fun stuff going on!"
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You wanted to know how Stoke-on-Trent became a centre for pottery when it was located so far away from clay.
You asked why Shrewsbury was not a city, despite having a cathedral.
And you were curious to find out if Rowley Regis had a royal connection. Here is how we got on with answering your questions.
At the time of the Industrial Revolution, the clay mainly came from the south west, said Angela Lee, manager at the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.
She says what Stoke-on-Trent did have was previous experience before the Industrial Revolution of making pottery and, crucially, coal seams in the area.
Angela says it takes around 10 times as much coal as clay to make a pot, so it was more cost effective to bring clay to the Potteries.
The simple answer is that having a cathedral doesn't guarantee city status, although the two have been linked in the past.
Blackburn and Guildford both have cathedrals, but are classified as towns, while Bath and Nottingham have city status, but no Anglican cathedral.
The key thing has always been to get Royal approval, and these days that is done through a bidding process - Shrewsbury twice applied for city status early this century, without any success.
Size doesn't matter either. London isn't officially a city, but St Davids in Pembrokeshire, with only 1,600 inhabitants, is one.
It's also worth noting that Lichfield has an Anglican cathedral, but Shrewsbury's cathedral is a Roman Catholic one and while that doesn't matter these days, it might have influenced decision-making in the distant past.
Paul Longhurst asked us: "Why is Rowley Regis so named? I always thought that places containing Regis as part of the name had some royal connection."
Frank Caldwell, Sandwell Council's heritage and museums manager, told us: "It was a royal manor - i.e. land that was held directly by the Crown and as such rented out - rather than given in return for feudal service. So tenure was always contractual rather than feudal.
"The Regis appears first in the records about 1140, to determine it from Rowley Somery, which was held (feudally) by the de Somery family, the Earls of Dudley.
"The Rowley is derived from a pre-Saxon word which suggests Iron Age settlement but no direct evidence has been found.
"It doesn't appear in the Domesday book - but this is the case for most land held directly as Royal estates owned by King Edward the Confessor - post conquest William I took over these royal lands himself."
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Burnley full-back Hendrie has a tight hamstring while Newcastle midfielder Longstaff is suffering with a dead leg.
County's lengthy injury list has grown since their midweek victory over Hamilton Academical.
Midfielders Michael Gardyne and Martin Woods are both struggling to be fit after going off injured against Accies.
Ryan Dow, Andrew Davies, Paul Quinn, Jay McEveley, Chris Burke and Tony Dingwall all remain out, although Ian McShane could make his first appearance since December after recovering from a long-standing groin complaint.
Both Kilmarnock and Ross County ensured their top-flight status after positive post-split results. Killie will leapfrog the Staggies in seventh place with victory, to finish top of the bottom six.
Kilmarnock winger Jordan Jones: "It's been a good year both personally and as a team. We've all done well, especially since (interim manager) Lee McCulloch's been in charge.
"We've come together and the mentality has really changed. We're all looking to get better and better.
"If we could get seventh place by beating Ross County this weekend it would cap off a good season."
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Freemont, the owner of Denbigh's former North Wales Hospital, lost a High Court bid in March to overturn the local council's compulsory purchase order of the Victorian asylum.
While Denbighshire council is "one step closer" to owning the building, it does not belong to it yet.
It said it is "fragile and unsafe."
Last week, the Official Charts Company overhauled the way it compiles the Top 40 in an effort to stop A-list artists elbowing newer acts out of the way.
The move was prompted by Ed Sheeran, whose new album ÷ [Divide] proved so popular that it propelled 16 tracks into the top 20 in March.
Appropriately, he seems to be the main victim of the new rules, with several of his songs adversely affected.
Last week, Sheeran had eight songs in the Top 100. This week, he has three.
Four of those former hits dropped out naturally, because their sales declined following a brief, post-Glastonbury peak.
But another song was excluded from the countdown because, under the new system, artists are only allowed a maximum of three songs on the chart at any one time.
Some of Sheeran's other songs tumbled down the charts, apparently the victim of a second rule penalising tracks that are "well past their peak and in steep, prolonged decline".
For those songs, the Official Charts Company is applying a new formula, whereby 300 streams count as one sale (for newer songs, the ratio is 150:1).
The idea is that the longer a song has been in the charts, the faster it will fall out of the top 100.
As a result, Sheeran's former number one Shape Of You, which has been in the Top 40 for 26 weeks, suddenly dropped 12 places after weeks of steady decline.
Similarly Clean Bandit's Symphony, which has been in the chart for 16 weeks, dropped 10 places.
The upshot of these moves, however, is that newer tracks have been bumped into the Top 40; with more new entries this week than any other in 2017.
These include Most Girls, the new single by actress Hailee Steinfeld, which makes its top 40 debut after hovering just outside the main countdown for six weeks.
Finnish singer Alma also saw her single Chasing Highs rocket from 54 to 30, giving the musician her first ever hit in the UK.
Elsewhere, Selena Gomez's Bad Liar jumped nine places to reach a new peak of 25.
At the top end of the charts, the new rules made little difference.
Luis Fonsi's Spanish-language smash Despacito, which features a guest verse from Justin Bieber, remained at number one for an eighth week.
DJ Khaled and Rihanna's Wild Thoughts, meanwhile, held steady at number two.
According to the Official Charts Company, the new rules were designed to "ensure the chart continues to be a showcase for the new hits and talent which are the lifeblood of UK music".
But chart analysts questioned the need for the changes.
"It's a really odd situation," said Fraser McAlpine on the Top 40 podcast Unbreak My Chart. "Part of the fun of the chart has always been that it reflects what people's listening habits are."
"If you've managed to iron out the possibility that everybody in Britain is suddenly really excited by four songs by the same artist, that seems like an odd way of hammering down on enthusiasm."
McAlpine noted that a situation like last April, when six Prince songs entered the Top 100 in the week after his death, would no longer be possible.
"The charts have never been a pure system," added his co-presenter Laura Snapes. "But never before have the rules felt like such a blatant attempt to ensure the relevance of the singles chart at a time when it is less relevant than ever.
"It just seems like desperation and panic".
James Masterton, who has been commentating on the Top 40 for the last 25 years, was more positive on his blog, saying the new rules would "clear out" long-in-the-tooth hits, such as Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop The Feeling which has spent 61 weeks in the Top 100, "and which is now clearly taking up a space that could be better used by a newer hit".
On the album chart, where the system was unchanged, Sheeran remained at number one, closely followed by Calvin Harris's fourth album, Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1.
Rag N Bone Man's Human rose two places to number three, which means it will spend its 21st week in the top five.
The Bee Gees' greatest hits album Timeless jumped to number six, bolstered by Barry Gibb's recent appearance at Glastonbury.
And TLC saw their final, self-titled album enter the chart at number 40 - an impressive placing given that fans who crowd-funded the project two years ago received their copies for free, making them ineligible for the chart.
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Mervyn White, 64, of Orion Way, Grimsby, was sentenced after pleading guilty at York Crown Court in July to his role in the death of Julian Barlow.
Mr Barlow, 49, from Pollington, near Goole, died after being hit by a HGV at a roundabout at Eggborough, North Yorkshire in September 2014.
He was taken by air ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary, where he later died.
Speaking outside the court, acting Sgt Zoe Billings said she thought the sentence was "proportionate".
She said: "I think it shows that the judge has taken into account not only the avoidability of this accident, but also Mr White's insistence that he was innocent and refused to take any responsibility for the collision until literally the day before the trial".
The pair plan to have the exchange, called Gemini, trading later this year, reports the New York Times.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are known to have invested millions in the virtual currency.
Currently the value of each bitcoin is approaching $200 (£133) - far below the $1,200-high it hit in November 2013.
Development work on software underpinning the exchange is being carried out at the Bitcoin start-up founded by the Winklevoss twins. In addition, they have been lobbying New York financial regulators to drum up support for the idea and have signed up banks to handle deposits and transfers.
Work on the exchange began after New York's financial services watchdog last year encouraged virtual currency entrepreneurs operating in the state to apply for formal recognition. This, said the watchdog, was the first step towards full regulation of such exchanges.
The twins won a $65m payout from Mark Zuckerberg after accusing him of stealing their idea for a college-based social network.
Bitcoin is a virtual currency built around a complicated cryptographic protocol and a global network of computers that oversees and verifies which coins have been spent by whom.
Exchanges, through which virtual money can be traded for real cash or to other owners, have been one of the weak points in the whole Bitcoin ecosystem. Some have gone bust leaving traders out of pocket, many have been robbed of all their deposits and now more and more nations are seeking to impose strict controls on how they operate.
The value of each bitcoin has fluctuated widely over the last few years but has been on a steady downward path since late 2013 even though many more online stores and companies accept them in exchange for goods and services.
The 69-year-old is among 12 recipients being recognised for their cultural contributions to the US.
The White House praised the director for "combining the art of storytelling with boundless imagination and cutting-edge techniques".
President Barack Obama will award the medals next Wednesday.
"Mr Lucas has transported us to new worlds and created some of the most beloved and iconic films of all time," the White House added.
Herb Alpert, the co-founder of A&M Records and the Tijuana Brass is among the other recipients.
Honoured for his contribution to music and the fine arts, the Grammy-winner is best-known for his 1979 instrumental hit Rise and worked with the likes of The Carpenters, Sergio Mendes and Janet Jackson.
Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner, best known for 1993 Al Pacino film Angels in America will also be honoured, as will screenwriter Elaine May, who was Oscar nominated for the films Primary Colors and Heaven Can Wait.
"With groundbreaking wit and a keen understanding of how humour can illuminate our lives, May has evoked untold joy, challenged expectations, and elevated spirits across our nation," her citation said.
Others to receive awards include Lin Arison, co-founder of the National Young Arts Foundation and the New World Symphony; Joan Myers Brown, the founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company; opera singer Renee Fleming; author Ernest Gaines; artist Ellsworth Kelly; landscape architect Laurie Olin and composer Allen Toussaint.
The Washington Performing Arts Society will also be honoured for "bringing world-class performances to our Nation's capital".
The teenager was with a 17-year-old male when she was assaulted on the 12th floor stairwell of the car park in Oswald Street at about 11:00 on 29 July.
Police said a dark-haired woman carrying books entered the landing just before the attack and a man in a dark suit passed by shortly after.
Officers want to speak to both people.
Det Insp Craig Willison, of Police Scotland, said: "We are keen to trace these two witnesses, who potentially could provide us with information which may help with our inquiry.
"I'd like to reassure the public that we are following a positive line of inquiry in this case, and I would like to reiterate that Police Scotland takes any report of any sexual assault very seriously."
What impact do you think the new ratings might have on your line of work?
Films have had ratings for so long, it hasn't necessarily changed film and I don't think it's something that will change my life too much. I think it will be interesting to see what happens.
[In the future] you [might] get it on a brief for a music video - "this can't have any content that's 18 or over", you know. But you're not going to make Olly Murs an 18 video.
Do you think certain directors will set out to make 18 certificate videos?
Music videos used to live on TV in the days of big Michael Jackson videos. It used to be such a big thing to get banned from MTV, you would make a video to get it banned if you wanted [to make] a big thing about it back in the day, and I suspect that will happen again. People will make videos to get banned, like they do already.
Everybody loves breaking the rules. Online things get shared - that's how you get them watched - and being shocking is always going to be part of that. Something has to be funny, shocking, or a couple of other things to make them go viral, so I think people will play to it. But I also think we are still at the beginning of the internet, and I think all content is not necessarily for all ages, so it's a good thing.
Do you think the online age classifications will actually work?
They are obviously a stab at some kind of policing, but ultimately, who can really control what kids are watching in their bedrooms? You can't really. All I know is the biggest win of my life when I was 13 was getting into an 18 film. It makes things hotter property in a way - who's seen it, who hasn't seen it.
It's unavoidable, but then what do you say? Don't police anything? Everyone's trying to work out how to do it and I don't think anyone's got the solution yet.
Do you ever discuss whether a video is too violent or too sexual - or whether to make it more risque to attract attention?
I don't think I've ever had a conversation like that. Everyone has an instinctive level of what's right and what's not. If you are making something shocking it has to be part of what your audience is and what they want. An amazing video was The Shoes video with Jake Gyllenhaal in it [2012's Time to Dance]. That was really violent but that was right for that band and their audience.
Lily Allen's video for Hard Out Here attracted a lot of attention. How much discussion did you have over what would and wouldn't be appropriate?
We did talk about it a bit, but it was about being a pastiche of hip-hop videos, so if it would have sat in a hip-hop video, it was right for us. It was a very different situation. We deliberately made that video to provoke a conversation and it was aping a lot of videos. The idea was to get people to look at all these images they see and go, "why the hell do I just stare at that numbly without even thinking 'it's probably not that cool'?" Lily is the perfect person to do that and that's what she'd written the song about.
The one I did for Lily for Our Time was banned by MTV because of violence and vomiting and a couple of other things. That got that video lots of attention.
What impact do you think it will have on an artist's image or reputation if they have 18 certificate video?
I think someone like Rihanna, that video she just did [BBHMM], I don't think the fact it was branded an 18 would change much. It's actually a really nice and easy shortcut for some people to be branded shocking and I think people like that because shocking stuff sells and goes viral and that's what people want from their music videos.
Christopher Sweeney was speaking to BBC News entertainment reporter Sarah-Jane Griffiths.
I'm still coughing my way around Roland Garros as I get over the effects of my latest bout of sickness - the more I talk, the more I want to cough - but I felt fine during my match on Tuesday and happy to get through to the second round.
I haven't played as many matches, or had as many wins, as I would like in the build-up to the French Open but Grand Slams are long events and hopefully I can play my way into form.
The Slams are what's driving me more than the number one ranking. If you win these events, you give yourself a chance of staying at the top of the rankings. If you don't, you don't deserve to be up there.
Last year I performed well in the Slams with finals in Australia and France, a win at Wimbledon and the quarter-finals at the US Open.
This year the start hasn't been so good, but I can turn things around over the next few weeks both here in Paris and at Wimbledon.
I've been pretty lucky over the past couple of years but shingles, an elbow injury and illness have certainly set me back this year.
When I had the shingles I could still do a bit of training, I just couldn't do anything that was of high intensity at all.
I was able to hit balls, so stay in a bit of rhythm in terms of my timing, but I couldn't do any physical work like interval training - just staying active and avoiding anything too strenuous to make sure my heart rate didn't get up too high.
With the elbow, I could do everything except serve. I could at least train and stay in decent shape, I just couldn't play tournaments or matches or points.
And obviously, that's what we do. As much as you practise and work on stuff, playing points is the most important thing and I couldn't do that.
So it was really positive that I came through four sets on Tuesday and the elbow felt fine. That was probably the most I'd served since the injury, and in fairly slow, heavy conditions, and it feels pretty good.
I feel totally over the illness I had a week ago and although the cough's a bit irritating, I'm certainly not sick any more.
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There were points towards the end of last year when I wasn't number one, but I felt like I was the best player in the world. This year I've been number one and I certainly haven't been the best player out there.
It was a great experience to get there for the first time here in Paris last November, and obviously I've enjoyed keeping hold of it for the past six or seven months.
It's not easy to stay at the top and the past three or four months have not really been good enough to merit that ranking, but it's calculated over the past 12 months, and over that time I've been the best.
So far this year I obviously haven't, and I need to try to turn that around.
The next step will be my second-round match against Martin Klizan - a big hitter with a pretty unorthodox style. He played five sets on Tuesday so hopefully I can make it tough for him again.
The end of his first match was also pretty unorthodox as there was no handshake with Laurent Lokoli. I saw the video, although I didn't see what happened in the match, but the two of them obviously weren't happy with each other.
I'm pretty sure that in every match I've played professionally, there's always been a handshake at the end of it.
Hopefully there will be another one in a couple of days, and I'm the one smiling.
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery
About 496kg (1,093lb) of cannabis resin was recovered by officers searching the garage in the Springburn area on Friday morning.
The arrested men, aged 41 and 28, have been charged with drug offences.
Det Ch Insp Kenny Gray said it was a "significant seizure of controlled drugs destined for our streets".
The men play Poland in their semi-final on Friday while the quad team meet the United States on Saturday.
Both won all three of their round-robin ties in the tournament this week.
"There's a good atmosphere in the camp," said men's team player Alfie Hewett. "We are focused."
Rio 2016 men's singles silver medallist Hewett is in the men's team alongside Dermot Bailey and the man who beat him to the gold medal last summer, Gordon Reid.
Each game features two singles matches and a doubles match and the trio have so far won 3-0 against China, Italy and Austria at the event in Sardinia.
The quad team features Rio quad singles silver medallist Andy Lapthorne, Antony Cotterill and James Shaw, who have so far enjoyed a 3-0 victory over Korea and 2-1 wins over Canada and Japan.
"I'm really pleased with how the week has gone so far and I'm looking forward to another big match on Saturday," said Lapthorne.
On Friday, Donald Trump said the US military was "locked and loaded" to deal with North Korea,
By mid afternoon, the FTSE 100 was down 71.50 points, or 1%, to 7,318.44, having dropped 1.4% on Thursday.
Other markets in Europe also fell, with Germany's Dax index down 0.1% and France's Cac 40 dropping 1.1%.
US markets held steady in early trade on Friday, with the Dow Jones edging up 0.1%.
On the London stock market, mining shares saw the biggest falls as many metal prices were hit by the geopolitical concerns. Shares in Glencore, Rio Tinto and Anglo American were all down by more than 3%.
"The FTSE has carried on where it left off on Thursday, with yet another day of risk-off sentiment seeing investors shift out of equities," said Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG.
"The UK headline index has crashed to the lowest level since late June, in a week which has turned from mundane to insane.
"For a week that has been largely devoid of major economic releases, Donald Trump's confrontational stance with North Korea has raised volatility across the board."
Gold - generally regarded as a safer asset in times of uncertainty - hit its highest price for more than two months on Friday, touching $1,288.97 an ounce at one point.
On the currency markets, the pound was unchanged against the dollar at $1.2972 and down 0.3% against the euro at 1.0992 euros.
The visitors took the lead eight minutes into the second half when Brad Potts' 20-yard shot was deflected past goalkeeper Tommy Lee.
Four minutes later the Spireites were level as substitute Jay O'Shea found the top corner from 25 yards.
Blackpool captain David Ferguson was sent off late on, picking up a second yellow for pulling back Gboly Ariyibi.
The Seasiders slipped back into the relegation zone following Shrewsbury's victory, while Chesterfield are only three points above the drop zone.
As I am in Delhi to report on the UK Prime Ministers trade mission to India, I assumed it was an announcement in some way connected to the UK and India's future trade relationship.
It was much much bigger than that. The Indian PM announced the withdrawal of 500 (£6.50) and 1,000 (£13) notes from circulation from midnight tonight. Wow.
The waiters at the restaurant where i was enjoying a Mutton Rogan Josh were open mouthed in astonishment - but totally supportive.
We have too much "black money" in the economy - one told me. According to the chef who emerged from the kitchen to watch the news Mr Modi is doing the right thing - cracking down on an unmanageable, untaxable illegal economy.
"Lots of people who come in here pay in bundles of cash that is unknown to the government. It is good what Mr Modi is doing."
Not a single news agency seemed to know this was coming. The news anchor I am watching as we speak produced a wad of 500s from his own pocket on air wondering whether these were now just pieces of paper - and also wondering if the bars of Delhi would see a sudden surge of business.
It has caught the country completely off guard. There will also be limits on cash point withdrawals over the next couple of weeks.
Financial officials like the economic affairs secretary are taking to the airwaves right now to assure that the authorities are there to help cushion the shock this will cause to a cash based economy.
The news channels are trying hard to interpret the news for viewers who are worried that they will not be able to get a cab, buy milk, or even have their life savings in cash. It feels they are scrambling right now.
Mr Modi has set his stall out as a modernising, anti-corruption crusader. Scrapping notes that are very, very common is his biggest offensive yet. Most transactions in daily life are in cash and 45% of those are in notes in denominations of 500 rupees and over.
There is a cashpoint downstairs and I need a cab in the morning - do I take out enough for my fare - the waiters are divided on whether they will be usable, the news channels don't appear to know and big queues are forming at the petrol station I can see from my window.
There are global financial shocks which ripple through the world economy for years. This is much more immediate and unexpected. Right now I'm not sure how I'm going to get back to the airport.
Authorities in California confirmed that seven others remain in hospital.
The collapse happened during a 21st birthday party shortly before 01:00 local time (08:00 GMT) on Tuesday in the city of Berkeley.
The students are believed to have been living temporarily in the US as part of a work exchange programme.
Around 700 Irish students are currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, said Philip Grant, the Consul General of Ireland to the Western United States.
"We're still in an emergency response mode," he said. "It's a formative experience, and to have this happen ... has left us all frozen in shock and disbelief".
Berkeley City Mayor Tom Bates described the incident as a "shocking set of events".
"We're all sort of awestruck by the incredible tragedy," he said.
The victims
Police began receiving emergency calls about the incident around 00:41 local time. The police chief said it took patrolmen about two minutes to arrive on the scene.
The cause of the collapse is still under investigation, but the city's police chief said there was no indication of any criminal activity at this point.
Photos taken at the scene appear to show a 5ft x 10ft (1.5m x 3m) balcony on the fourth floor of the building fallen on to the balcony on the level below.
Two Irish students who were asleep in the building when the incident occurred described a loud sound when the balcony fell.
"I just heard a bang and a lot of shouting," said Dan Sullivan.
Outside the apartment where the balcony collapsed, flowers and photos and wreaths are stacked, and shocked Berkeley residents have been coming to pay their respects.
The building is cordoned off while forensic workers investigate and scrub the street below the collapsed balcony.
One woman who used to live in the building told the BBC she thought there should be a criminal investigation of the city's Planning Commission.
But the police chief says so far there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Another student, Mark Neville, said: "I walked out and I saw rubble on the street and a bunch of Irish students crying."
Enda Kenny, the Irish Prime Minister, said that police had told him there were 13 people on the balcony when it collapsed.
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan said that four of the victims died at the scene and another died in hospital.
The Alameda County coroner's office later told the BBC a sixth person had died in hospital.
The foreign minister has said that the families of all of those who died have been contacted.
University College Dublin President Andrew Deeks said late Tuesday that the accident involved students from the university and their friends.
"We cannot comprehend the desperate shock and grief they are feeling and we are heartbroken at their suffering and loss," he said. "We know the local Irish community has been offering assistance and solidarity and we thank them for this."
Berkeley Police spokesman Byron White said first responders described the scene as "quite disturbing".
Many of those hurt have life-threatening injuries, said Jennifer Coats, a Berkeley Police Department spokeswoman.
Police received a complaint about loud noise at the flat about an hour before the balcony collapsed, but did not go to the building to investigate.
The city's police chief said that the noise complaint was treated as a low priority, and noted that police officers were responding to several other emergency calls at the time - including one for shots fired in another part of town.
Irish President Michael Higgins said that he had "heard with the greatest sadness of the terrible loss of life of young Irish people and the critical injury of others in Berkeley, California today".
He said his heart goes out to the families and their loved ones.
The Irish consul general in San Francisco is helping those affected and there is an Irish helpline (+353 1 418 0200).
The apartment building was constructed in 2006, according to the Los Angeles Times.
A Berkeley city official said that building inspectors had visited the building on Tuesday. Three remaining balconies on the building have been closed.
In 2013, a similar accident killed 13 people and injured at least 50 others in Chicago, when a deck holding revellers collapsed.
In that incident, more than 60 people were on the building's porches, according to CBS Chicago.
Max Schrems alleges that the way the social network monitors its members' activity on and off the site puts it in breach of EU laws.
As part of the claim, he also alleges that the company co-operated with Prism, a US surveillance scheme.
Facebook has previously denied knowing about Prism before it was mentioned in leaked US government documents.
The company has, however, acknowledged complying with national security requests from US government agencies.
Facebook has not commented on the wider case being brought against it.
The BBC understands it does not plan to respond until it has been served the relevant papers.
Mr Schrems asked Facebook users based outside the US and Canada who wished to take part in the case to sign up via an app.
The case is targeted against the company's Irish subsidiary, which is responsible for all accounts belonging to users outside of North America. It has been filed with the Commercial Court for Vienna, the 26 year old's home city.
Among the allegations are that Facebook broke EU privacy laws by introducing:
Mr Schrems is demanding 500 euros ($667, £396) in damages for each of the first 25,000 people who signed up to the case.
While the Austrian legal system does not make provision for US-style class actions, Mr Schrems is working round this by getting the other participants to transfer their financial claims to him, which is permitted.
If he wins he intends to share the money after delivering a 20% cut to a German firm that is funding the case.
While the promised payout might have helped him attract support, Mr Schrems says the money is a side-issue.
Instead, he explains, the dispute with Facebook is intended to be a "model case" that sets a precedent addressing the wider problem of tech firm developing products that comply with US laws, but are not adapted for other countries' rules.
"It is not an epic fight with Facebook but more of a general question of where we are going and if we respect our fundamental rights in Europe," he told the BBC.
"Right now I have the feeling that we love to point the finger at the US in Europe, and say they are not respecting our privacy. But the reality is that we don't really do anything about it - we complain, then go home and drink beer."
This is not the first action Mr Schrems has taken against the social network.
In 2011 he forced the firm to reveal all the information it was holding on him.
When he discovered the 1,222 pages of information included details he thought he had deleted or had not consented to being shared, he lodged a complaint with the Irish data protection commissioner.
The case has since been referred to the European Court of Justice, but has already resulted in the firm restricting its use of facial recognition software and making it easier for members to find out more about the data held on them.
One of the UK's leading data protection lawyers, who is not involved in the case, suggested the latest action could deliver a landmark ruling.
"The current climate of data protection enforcement in the EU in the courts and by the data protection regulators, coupled with an increasing awareness by consumers of their rights means that this case could well run its course in the Court in Vienna and achieve a result for Max Schrems and Facebook users," said Robert Bond, a partner at the law firm Speechly Bircham.
"Of course it remains to be seen whether or not Facebook will try to settle as reputational damage may be worse than a financial penalty."
Mr Schrems has limited the number of people involved in the case to 25,000 because each participant's submissions must be vetted.
However, he says other Facebook users wishing to take part can still register their interest in case he later decides to expand the legal action.
The pause was a "precautionary measure", the government said, without giving details.
Moscow's warning came after the US shot down a Syrian military plane.
Russia also said it was halting communications with the US aimed at preventing such incidents.
Australia has deployed about 780 military personnel as part of the US-led coalition fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in both Iraq and Syria.
The halt in operations comes as the coalition and the fighters it is supporting on the ground attempt to oust IS militants from the city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the "caliphate" they proclaimed in 2014.
"Australian Defence Force protection is regularly reviewed in response to a range of potential threats," the defence department said in a statement.
"ADF personnel are closely monitoring the air situation in Syria and a decision on the resumption of ADF air operations in Syria will be made in due course."
Australia joined the US-led coalition in Syria in September 2015, but did not carry out any operations in the country between March and May this year, according to the defence department.
Its activities in Iraq, where it carried out 80 operations in May alone, will continue.
Australia's decision to suspend air operations over Syria in the wake of Russia's warning that it might target coalition aircraft is an indication of the concern among Washington's allies, but is unlikely to have a significant impact upon the air campaign.
Australia has a small but highly capable contingent of six F/A-18 strike aircraft; a tanker; and an E-7A Wedgetail early warning aircraft, all based at Al Minhad in the United Arab Emirates. Most of the Australian strikes have been in Iraq, though its aircraft do also operate over Syria.
Australian commanders will reassess the situation in due course. The more fundamental question is what the Russian threat actually amounts to. Is it just rhetoric or does Moscow want to deny certain areas of Syrian airspace to US-led coalition aircraft?
With the assault on the de facto IS capital Raqqa just getting under way, the last thing the Pentagon needs is a stand-off with Moscow.
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Russia warned on Monday that it would track coalition aircraft with missile systems and military aircraft, but it stopped short of openly saying it would shoot them down.
The move came after the US shot down a Syrian Su-22 which, the Pentagon said, had bombed US-backed fighters battling IS near the town of Tabqa in Raqqa province.
It was believed to be the first air-to-air kill of a manned aircraft by a US military jet since the Kosovo campaign in 1999.
But both Russia and Syria said the warplane was on a mission against IS about 40km (25 miles) south-west of Raqqa when it came under fire.
The Syrian army said the "flagrant attack" would have "dangerous repercussions".
Russia also denied the US had used a communications channel before the Su-22 fighter bomber was shot down, as claimed by the US military.
In response, it said was ending a memorandum of co-operation with the coalition aimed at preventing air incidents and guaranteeing flight safety.
The Rio 400m freestyle silver medallist, 25, finished in eight minutes, 19.7 seconds.
Compatriots James Guy, 20, and Ben Proud, 21, qualified for semi-finals in the men's 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle respectively.
Proud and Guy will compete in the semi-finals in the early hours of Friday - the action starts from 02:03 BST.
American Katie Ledecky set an Olympic record of eight minutes, 12.86 seconds in her women's 800m freestyle heat to beat the record set by Briton Rebecca Adlington at Beijing 2008.
Ledecky, 19, is the defending Olympic champion and is looking to add to her four medals already won in Brazil.
A silver medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay was followed up by gold medals in the women's 200m and 400m freestyle, as well as the 4x200m relay.
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The 26-year-old centre, who also plays as a winger, has scored 13 tries in 44 appearances for the NRL side.
Purtell started his career with Canberra Raiders where he ran in 30 tries in 64 matches.
"I'm at a point where I'm looking for a new challenge and a new experience and this is the biggest challenge I could've taken on," he said.
"I will be 27 by the start of next season and entering the most important years of my career."
We needed longevity in our signings so it's a good deal for both sides
Bulls head coach Mick Potter added: "Adrian has played virtually every game in first grade in the past two years, in every position from lock to the wing.
"He's a big guy with speed and he'll be an asset to our team next season. I'm pleased to get him signed up for a few years.
"He wanted the security and we needed longevity in our signings so it's a good deal for both sides."
The Kenyan port of Mombasa and Tanzania's Dar es Salaam port are the traditional competitors but the Kenyan government is now planning a huge new port at Lamu, while Tanzania is developing Bagamoyo.
Both ports will be larger than any other port in sub-Saharan Africa if completed as planned. They will also be at the centre of much bigger developments, with industrial zones being laid out and intensive farming being proposed.
The Tanzanian authorities hope Bagamoyo will handle 20 million containers a year, that is 25 times larger than the port at Dar es Salaam. Kenya's planned Lamu port is expected to be just as big.
However, these are the proposed, long term figures, which will be achieved over decades rather than years. Construction will take place in phases as and when required.
The scale of the initial phases has not been determined but will be much more modest.
One hurdle that is delaying the development of both projects is the question of compensation. In the case of Bagamoyo, 2,000 people have lost their homes or farmland to the project and associated industrial zone.
The Tanzanian government says that it will pay a total of $20.9m (£14.4m). But the figure would be much higher if there was a plan to enlarge the Dar es Salaam port as it is already surrounded by urban development and has limited room for expansion.
Apart from serving their own domestic markets, the Tanzanian and Kenyan ports will also be competing for a wider prize, the business from the landlocked countries of East Africa.
They could handle containers travelling to and from Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Ethiopia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and parts of Zambia.
Lamu and Bagamoyo have been little used as ports for about a century but at one point they were rivals in East Africa's slave trade.
Indeed, the name Bagamoyo derives from a Swahili phrase meaning lay down your heart, or give up hope, suggesting that slaves taken there had no hope of escape.
But with the revamped ports they could become better known for helping develop the region rather than bleeding it dry of its human resources.
Construction work on Bagamoyo is to begin before the end of this year, once financing is put in place by China Merchant Holding International and the State General Reserve Fund, which is an Omani sovereign wealth fund.
Preliminary work has already begun on Lamu, although funding is still being finalised.
New life is also being injected into the Tanzanian port of Tanga. The government managed to persuade Uganda to route its planned oil export line through Tanzania to Tanga, rather than through Lamu.
In addition, a new railway could run parallel to the pipeline connecting with ferry services on Lake Victoria.
Tanzania won the fight over the pipeline because it was offering the cheaper option and, probably, also because any line to Lamu was seen as being vulnerable to attack from the Somalia-based Islamist al-Shabab group.
A big difference between the two countries approaches is the fact that Kenya has stuck with state ownership.
The Kenya Ports Authority continues to own and manage most of Mombasa, while Dar es Salaam container terminal is operated by Tanzania International Container Terminal Services, an offshoot of Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa.
Similarly, Bagamoyo will be operated by China Merchant Holdings, a sign of how the country has moved away from the principles of African socialism, as espoused by the country's founding father Julius Nyerere.
Lamu is being developed by the China Communications Construction Company but the Kenya Ports Authority will still be in control.
The two countries are also looking at boosting their rail infrastructure.
Mombasa and Dar es Salaam are connected to the rest of the region via long distance railways. A colonial-era line runs from Mombasa to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and on to the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
It was nicknamed the Lunatic Express because of the problems involved in building it across difficult terrain filled with hostile wildlife. A new, more modern railway is now under construction from Mombasa to Nairobi with Chinese funding.
For its part, Dar es Salaam is connected to Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika, also by colonial-period railways.
In addition, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway was built in the 1970s by the Chinese government to help Zambia export its copper through Dar es Salaam. This allowed it to bypass the ports of apartheid South Africa or colonial-era Mozambique.
New railways from Lamu to South Sudan and Ethiopia are planned, while funding is currently being sought for a new line from Rwanda and Burundi to either Dar es Salaam or Bagamoyo.
Bagamoyo lies just 75km (47 miles) north of Dar es Salaam, so it should be relatively easy to connect the new port to the country's main rail lines.
Tanzania appears to be winning projects in the face of Kenyan competition because of lower costs and because, as with the Uganda oil pipeline, any railway or pipeline out of Lamu could be vulnerable to attack by Somali militants.
But the competition is not over and the rivalry could serve to boost the business prospects for the whole region.
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New research suggests that most of it was put in place just five to six million years ago.
Earlier studies had claimed the canyon was perhaps 70 million years old.
The latest investigation, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, agrees that some segments are very ancient, but says the full system is young.
"The 'old canyon model' has argued that the Grand Canyon was carved 70 million years ago in the same place and to nearly the same depth as the modern canyon. We are refuting that," said Prof Karl Karlstrom from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
"We are also refuting the 'young canyon model', which claims the canyon was cut entirely in the last six million years. Instead, we show that the Colorado River used some old segments as it found its path from the Rockies to the Gulf of California in the past six million years.
"What's different here I think is that we finally have a description of the Grand Canyon that honours all the hard-won data," he told BBC News.
Whether Karlstrom's and colleagues' paper will actually end the debate that has raged for 140 years remains to be seen. What is in little doubt is the great splendour of the canyon.
Running for almost 450km and to a depth of 1,800m, it is simply too vast for the five million tourists who visit the National Park each year to take it in. Many try their best by taking a plane or helicopter ride through the deep incision, which records nearly two billion years of Earth history.
That huge scale has also been problematic for scientists who have had to gather data from many different locations through the canyon in an attempt to gauge its true age.
The latest study used a couple of techniques that go under the term thermochronology.
This measures changes in the structure of rocks' mineral crystals as they get cooler through time. This transition occurs as deeply buried rocks come closer to the surface as erosion removes overlying layers of material.
Karlstrom's team used thermochronology to constrain the timing of the formation of four of the Grand Canyon's five segments.
They found that two of the three central segments - known as the "Hurricane" segment and the "Eastern Grand Canyon" - were indeed ancient palaeocanyons. The former was cut between 50 and 70 million years ago; the latter was incised some 15 to 25 million years ago.
But they determined that the two end segments of the canyon - known as the "Marble Canyon" and the "Westernmost Grand Canyon" - had to have been carved in the last five to six million years, when the Colorado River managed to link up the full system that everyone recognises today.
"If you were to add up the 280-mile length and ask, 'how much is young? More than half of it is young; a quarter of it is middle-aged - 15-25 million years old; and the rest of it is 70 million years old," said Prof Karlstrom.
"It continues to deepen today, of course. Right now, over the course of the last half-a-million-years or so, it's been deepening by about the thickness of a piece of paper every year.
"It's a beautiful place to work and a wonderful laboratory where the geology is laid bare. It's great for research, and for the many students we take there to teach."
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The Community union, the biggest in Tata, announced its result of a ballot on industrial action on Friday.
The dispute is over proposed changes to pensions which could see employees retiring at 65 instead of 60.
GMB and Ucatt members also voted to strike. Unite members are still voting.
Unite is balloting until next Friday.
The four unions represent 17,000 steel workers.
Tata released an open letter to employees on Friday which said Tata's UK operations were losing money and the pension scheme had a shortfall of up to £2bn.
Profits within the UK steel industry are being squeezed by cheap imports and weak demand. Its costs are also higher than elsewhere for both energy and labour.
The company's parent, India's Tata Steel Ltd, reported an $889m (£582m) quarterly loss this month, partly because of its UK business.
The union has now informed Tata of the result and are hoping the strength of feeling will lead to the company changing its proposals on pensions.
Tata Steel has not yet commented on the move, although the letter said "we have always said we are open to talks and further negotiations with the unions and that continues to be the case".
Roy Rickhuss, General Secretary of Community, said: "We stand on the brink of the first national strike in the steel industry for over 30 years.
"This is not where we wanted to be but Tata now has an opportunity to end this dispute by removing the threat of scheme closure and discussing alternative measures.
"Community's members at Tata Steel have now spoken loud and clear. Steelworkers are determined to stand up to Tata.
"We will begin to consult our members on the kind of action that they want to take."
Tata's sites include some of the biggest names in the UK industrial heritage.
In Wales, Tata has sites in Port Talbot, Llanwern in Newport, Shotton in Flintshire and Trostre, Carmarthenshire.
It also has a plant at Motherwell in Scotland, while in England there are plants at Corby, Scunthorpe, Redcar, Rotherham, Hartlepool, Walsall and Wednesbury.
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Tata Steel workers across the UK have voted by almost 9-1 to go on strike in a row over pensions, which would be the first national strike in the steel industry in 30 years.
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Frances Cappuccini suffered a fatal haemorrhage at Tunbridge Wells hospital after an emergency Caesarean in 2012.
The original NHS report into her death stated another woman had suffered a haemorrhage in Dr Nadeem Azeez' care.
It said he had mismanaged her resuscitation and it was recommended he have a period of supervised practice.
Consultant anaesthetist Errol Cornish was cleared of gross negligence manslaughter and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was cleared of corporate manslaughter last January.
The inquest at Gravesend Old Town Hall heard details of the earlier mistake had been removed from the report given to Mrs Cappuccini's family, the coroner and the strategic health authority.
Neil Sheldon, the family's lawyer, asked Karen Woods, the nurse who compiled the report, if she took it out.
"I don't remember personally taking it out," she answered.
He suggested to her that it was done "because, for the trust, it was an embarrassment".
Ms Woods denied this, saying it "would go against all my personal and professional integrity".
She went on to say no pressure had been applied to anyone at any stage to remove the section from the document.
The coroner will deliver his findings on Monday.
Fire crews were called to Wiggington Road, South Newington, at about 10:20 GMT.
The horse, named Tight Squeeze, fell unconscious after becoming stuck in the deeply banked ditch for several hours.
Fire crews and the service's animal rescue team used slings and harnesses to pull the 18-year-old from the ditch.
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue became "more complex as she was sinking further into the mud in a deeply banked, extremely muddy swamp-like ditch".
The service said following the rescue the race horse slowly raised herself and stumbled on to her feet.
The current agreement between Cricket Australia and the country's top players expires on 30 June and no new deal has been struck.
"It is extremely likely that as of 1 July we'll be jumping over the cliff together," said Dyer.
"The fundamentals of the deal are nowhere near to being resolved."
Former Test wicketkeeper Dyer added: "We will be assisting in whatever way we possibly can in that but they're unemployed."
In March, Cricket Australia proposed salary increases for men and women as part of a revised memorandum of understanding, but that meant players would no longer receive a percentage of the organisation's revenue.
This was rejected by the Australian Cricketers' Association, who also turned down a recent revised pay offer.
The dispute has put a question mark over the Australian men's team playing a two-Test series in Bangladesh scheduled for August, while they are scheduled to host England in the Ashes from 23 November to 8 January, 2018.
The women's team is currently in England for the Women's World Cup and are under contract until the end of the tournament.
Nadarajah Raviraj was shot dead in his car in the capital, Colombo, during Sri Lanka's bitter civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels.
Raviraj was an advocate of self-rule for the minority Tamils and his death sparked international condemnation.
The men who have been cleared include three Sri Lankan navy personnel.
In a highly unusual move, the jury's verdict was delivered at midnight following a unanimous decision in the month-long trial.
Earlier this year, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who has previously ruled out allowing any political leader to be prosecuted for alleged war crimes, said he was concerned that naval and military commanders had been summoned before the courts.
Raviraj's death was seen as a setback for moderates in Sri Lanka and led to thousands of people marching in Colombo in protest at the murder.
Raviraj, who was fluent in Tamil, Sinhala and English, acted as a bridge between communities and spoke out against extreme nationalists.
He was shot as he left his house in Colombo for work.
Sri Lanka's army defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009 after 26 years of civil war.
The death toll as a result of the conflict is estimated to be more than 70,000.
The government has since insisted that it is on the path of reconciliation and rebuilding Sri Lanka's north.
RNLI rescuers said an adult and two teenagers fell into the water at Seaton Carew along with a fourth person, who swam out to try and help them.
The four were pulled from the water by a crew from the Hartlepool RNLI inshore lifeboat at about 17.30 BST on Sunday and were "shocked and cold".
The three who fell from the craft continue to be treated in hospital.
Hartlepool RNLI Lifeboat operations manager Mike Craddy said his team got to the scene very quickly before the situation "deteriorated."
Whitstable Museum should have opened on 1 June, run by Whitstable Community Museum Group, but the transfer was delayed by legal issues.
Canterbury council said the museum will now open on 9 July with an exhibition on the town's shipbuilding past.
The building has been revamped with an Arts Council England grant of £15,000.
Currently, the museum is still officially under city council management in partnership with the museum group.
The group has researched and organised the new exhibition.
Councillor Neil Baker, chairman of the council's community committee, said: "The delay is unfortunate but it's not the fault of anyone involved in the project.
"Legal matters often take a while to sort out. We're still committed to the transfer and look forward to a successful resolution."
Brighton's i360 - designed by the team behind the London Eye - will be 162 metres tall, with an observation pod at 138 metres.
Two hundred lorry loads of concrete are being driven to Brighton seafront at regular intervals for the work on Saturday.
The concrete will arrive one truck at a time "to minimise disruption".
Eleanor Harris, i360 CEO, said the progress was "exciting".
A steady flow of trucks, arriving every five minutes since the early hours of the morning, will bring 2,640 tonnes of concrete to the site.
Ruth Chapman, from the firm, said the trucks waited at a holding area in Shoreham to minimise disruption along the King's Road promenade.
The tower will be situated on the axis of the city's Grade II listed Regency Square.
Developers hope it will attract at least 700,000 visitors per year, which would make it the city's most popular paid-for attraction.
Construction will be completed this summer before the tower officially opens in mid-2016, they said.
Another praised his "fine" portrayal of the Roman soldier whose inability to compromise results in tragedy.
Hiddleston, The Guardian's review goes on, "conveys the hero's complexity" as well as his "reckless impetuosity".
Sam Mendes and Sir Nicholas Hytner were among Tuesday's first night audience at London's Donmar Warehouse theatre.
The BBC's John Humphrys was also in attendance to see the first Shakespeare play the Donmar's artistic director Josie Rourke has directed for the venue.
According to The Guardian's Michael Billington, Rourke "uses the Donmar's intimacy to come up with a fast, witty, intelligent production".
Dominic Maxwell in The Times found the show "intimate and compelling", while the Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer called it "exciting and intense".
Yet Quentin Letts expressed reservations in the Daily Mail, saying the production's "numerous good points" were "diminished" by Rourke's "silly directorial touches".
Letts cites one of these "touches" - a shower scene in which Hiddleston's soldier removes his shirt and washes his wounds - as a "slightly desperate gambit".
The Times' man was more appreciative though, saying the scene would "please the MTV viewers who have just voted Hiddleston the sexiest man in the world".
Spencer also singled out the "extraordinary moment" in which his "lean, mean killing machine... takes a shower after the battle and gasps with pain".
Speaking earlier this year, Hiddleston - known to millions for his villainous Loki role in the Thor and Avengers films - said the play had "an interesting contemporary resonance".
"Coriolanus is an impeccable soldier who becomes a war hero," the actor told the BBC News website.
"That leads him to be corralled into politics, an arena he has no place in."
The political arena is represented in the play by the wily Menenius, played by Mark Gatiss of Sherlock and The League of Gentleman fame.
The cast also includes Deborah Findlay as Coriolanus's fierce mother Volumnia and Borgen actress Birgitte Hjort Sorensen as his wife Virgilia.
The Donmar's sold-out production, which will be broadcast live in cinemas on 30 January, is one of several high-profile Shakespeares running in London over Christmas.
Jude Law can currently be seen as Henry V at the Noel Coward theatre, while David Tennant is portraying Richard II at the Barbican following its run in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Laurence Olivier, Sir Ian McKellen and Toby Stephens are among the many notable actors to have played Coriolanus on stage, while Ralph Fiennes played him on screen in 2011 film version that he also directed.
It quickly turned into a survival battle at 57-4, but Aneurin Donald (66 not out) and Chris Cooke managed to dig in after Donald was dropped early.
The home side gave themselves a maximum of 57 overs to bowl Glamorgan out.
Leicestershire's declaration came on 360-6 after Mark Pettini had scored an unbeaten 110 - his first century at home for the county.
Batting on until 55 minutes after lunch looked to be a conservative option from stand-in Foxes captain Ned Eckersley, but Leicestershire kept alive real victory hopes into the chilly final session before shaking hands with eight overs remaining.
Donald curbed his natural attacking instincts in a mature performance, although he was dropped on 18.
Leicestershire were hindered by injury problems for Clint McKay, who only bowled three overs, and Ben Raine, who also left the field.
Leicestershire head coach Pierre de Bruyn told BBC Radio Leicester:
"It's been a tough four days for the bowlers especially, as we lost Zak Chappell for Glamorgan's first innings, and then Clint McKay and Ben Raine were only able to bowl a limited number of overs in the second innings.
"We believed around 60 overs would be enough to put them under pressure, especially if we could nip out the likes of Rudolph and Ingram early, which we did. But we missed a chance with the dropped catch, that could have changed everything."
"McKay and Raine will both have scans on Tuesday, back and side respectively, but Richard Jones and Dieter Klein are available , so there are options."
Glamorgan batsman Aneurin Donald told BBC Wales Sport:
"Chris [Cooke] and me took a while to get into it but ultimately we're really pleased with the way we played.
"Trying to spend time in the middle is key but also to get through a tough patch like we had is good for the confidence, I think something our dressing-room needed a little bit.
"We're pleased with how we dealt with it, all-in-all a worthwhile four days for both teams, and a high-scoring draw for both teams probably isn't the worst result."
Hospitals in the city, which is controlled by Houthi rebels, are crowded with cholera patients.
The Red Cross says the number of suspected cases in the country has tripled in a week to more than 8,500.
Yemen has been ravaged by hunger and civil war, allowing disease to spread rapidly.
Two-thirds of the population do not have access to safe drinking water, according to the UN.
Dominik Stillhart, director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross, told a news conference in Sanaa on Sunday that there had been 115 deaths from cholera nationwide from 27 April - 13 May.
"We now are facing a serious outbreak," he said.
Sanaa has been worst hit, followed by the surrounding province of Amanat al-Semah, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says.
Cholera is a water-borne disease that is transmitted through contaminated water and food.
Symptoms include acute diarrhoea and vomiting. People with cholera can become very sick and, if left untreated, death can occur within hours.
It is the second outbreak of cholera in Yemen in a year.
The WHO said last week that fewer than 45% of health facilities in Yemen were fully functioning.
Almost 300 hospitals or clinics have been damaged or destroyed in fighting between forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi - who is backed by a Saudi-led multinational coalition - and those allied to the Houthi rebel movement.
Since fighting escalated in March 2015, more than 8,010 people - mostly civilians - have been killed and about 44,500 others injured, the UN says.
The civil war has also left 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.
Paul Wilmott, 63, died in the blast at his home in Haxby, near York, on 19 February 2016.
Mr Wilmott may have become desensitised to the smell of gas before the blast, caused by a fracture in a corroded gas pipe, jurors were told.
They returned a verdict of accidental death earlier.
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Steve Critchlow, from the Health and Safety Executive, said the house had been filled with gas leaking from a pipe buried in Mr Wilmott's concrete floor.
He said: "I would imagine that probably an hour, maximum, would be enough to create this sort of incident."
Given the amount of gas present, a small electrical spark from a contact switch would have been sufficient to cause the explosion, he added.
He said it was not uncommon for people to become desensitised to the smell of leaking gas if they were asleep when the leak began.
The house in Springwood was built in the 1970s and had not been built to modern standards that may have protected the pipe from corrosion, jurors were told.
Forensic metallurgist Dr Elizabeth Geary told the inquest in York that formic acid produced by an ants' nest found in a wall nearby may have contributed to the pipe corrosion.
An inquiry found the copper pipe fractured at a point where two concrete floor slabs met and had moved "possibly as a result of bad weather", coroner Rob Turnbull said.
David Cameron made the announcement at the G7 in Bavaria ahead of a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister on 8 June.
Mr Cameron told reporters that terror activity by IS was "the biggest threat" G7 leaders had to address.
Most of the extra personnel would be involved in training Iraqi soldiers to deal with explosive devices, he added.
But Mr Obama will still attend the G20 economic talks in St Petersburg.
A White House aide said Mr Snowden's asylum had deepened the pre-existing tension between the two countries.
The Kremlin said it was disappointed by the move and that the invitation to bilateral talks remained in force.
Mr Snowden, a former intelligence contractor, has admitted leaking information about US surveillance programmes to the media.
The decision to cancel the talks, announced during a trip by the president to Los Angeles, comes the morning after Mr Obama said he was "disappointed" with Russia's decision to offer Mr Snowden asylum for a year.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC diplomatic correspondent
Relations between Washington and Moscow were not good, with divisions over a range of issues - not least Syria - even before the fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden pitched up at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow. They certainly have not got any better since the Russian authorities granted him temporary asylum in the country.
If Mr Snowden had gone swiftly on his way, then this might have remained just another irritant in US-Russia relations. But now the Americans have felt compelled to respond. That is going to make the G20 gathering itself in St Petersburg a potentially embarrassing affair.
The fallout over the Snowden affair is a symptom of a much more fundamental crisis in US-Russia relations that has continued despite the effort during Mr Obama's first term to "reset" relations with Moscow. These are no longer equivalent powers and they have so far not found a way to co-operate on terms that benefit both.
"We have reached the conclusion that there is not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda with Russia to hold a US-Russia Summit," the White House said in a statement.
In addition to Russia's "disappointing decision" to grant Mr Snowden temporary asylum, the White House cited a lack of progress on issues ranging from missile defence to human rights.
"We believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda," the White House said.
The decision to cancel the US-Russia summit comes the day after Mr Obama appeared on an evening chat show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, in which he condemned a newly enacted anti-gay law in Russia.
"I have no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them," Mr Obama said.
But the White House reaffirmed Mr Obama's commitment to attending a forthcoming round of G20 economic talks, which take place on 5-6 September in the Russian city of St Petersburg.
In the wake of the announcement, Mr Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said it was clear the US had cancelled the meeting over the Snowden affair.
In a conference call on Wednesday, Mr Ushakov added the Kremlin was disappointed by the move and that the invitation for talks remained open.
"Russian representatives are ready to continue working together with American partners on all key issues on the bilateral and multilateral agenda," Mr Ushakov said.
Mr Obama and Mr Putin last met in June, on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.
Mr Snowden, an American former National Security Agency (NSA) technical contractor and CIA worker, in June leaked to the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers documents and details relating to NSA programmes that gather data on telephone calls and emails.
Mr Snowden, 30, fled his home in Hawaii, where he worked at a small NSA installation, to Hong Kong, and subsequently to Russia. He faces espionage charges in the US.
He spent about a month in a transit area of the Moscow airport as the US pressured other countries to deny him asylum. On 1 August, he left the airport after the Russian government said it would give him asylum there for a year.
Bath and North East Somerset Council is considering the move in an attempt to save £800,000 a year.
However, campaigners say the new base would be smaller and not meet demand.
Mr Loach said the library was a "big feature in the centre of Bath" and putting it somewhere "less accessible" was a "bad sign".
"The library is very well-used... [and] really expresses something of the community of the city which is hard to find now," the Bath-based film director said.
The campaigners gathered on Tuesday evening as the authority set its 2017-18 budget with one of the proposals to move the library to nearby Manvers Street.
Conservative councillor Keith Gerrish, who is responsible for finance and efficiency, told the budget and council tax meeting a public consultation would now be going ahead "in respect of the proposal".
However, he said: "The implications indentified refer to future years and are not part of the budget we are proposing tonight for 2017-18".
Mr Gerrish added that any move was still subject to public consultation and would form part of a future business case.
The proposed new location would be owned by the council rather than leased, as it is currently, and this would "contribute to an annual saving of £800,000".
The meeting also heard the authority needed to make £49m of savings over the next four years with £14.5m in savings required for 2017-18. Some £13.2m of this would be through "increased efficiency and new and innovative ways to generate income".
Councillors also heard £1.3m would be achieved through changing the way some local services are delivered.
The budget for 2017-18 was voted through by 36 to 24 votes. The authority's part of council tax will rise by 3.5% - an increase of £52 per year on a Band D property.
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The 29-year-old hurdler helped Team GB surpass the 65 medals won at London 2012, and Scotland's Olympians equal their best ever medal tally of 13.
She also joined Yvonne Murray as Scotland's most decorated track and field athlete with an 11th major medal.
"It just means the absolute world to me," Doyle told BBC Scotland.
"I wanted to come here and take something back. We knew we were capable of winning a medal but it is one thing being capable of it, another thing going out there and doing it.
"I couldn't have done it with a nicer bunch of girls as well. I am over the moon that I can now call myself an Olympic medallist.
"I have got Commonwealth, Europeans and World Championship medals so to have an Olympic medal to add to the collection is amazing."
Doyle, who finished eighth in the 400m hurdles final, clocked 52.4 seconds for the lead-off leg before Anyika Onuora, Emily Diamond and Christine Ohuruogu took GB to bronze, behind the United States and Jamaica.
"My job was done early so I just had to sit and watch," she added. "By the time it got to Chrissie I was just screaming, but I had complete faith she'd get the job done.
"It is great to be part of such an amazing GB team - absolutely fantastic."
Doyle was the first Scottish track and field athlete to stand on an Olympic podium since Liz McColgan (women's 10,000m silver), Elliott Bunney (men's 4x100m relay silver) and Murray (women's 3,000m bronze) in Seoul in 1988.
Doyle's medal was one of several notable Scottish performances on the final night of athletics.
Andrew Butchart, in his first major championships, took nearly five seconds off the Scottish 5,000m record of 13.13:30 he set in late May, setting a new mark of 13.08.61 in finishing sixth behind double gold medallist Mo Farah.
"I am over the moon," the 24-year-old from Dunblane told BBC Scotland. "The place is more important than the time, but I will take the time. I am so happy.
"I came into this year being really positive, and I guess I showed that. I am not scared of anyone, no matter who they are, and I think everyone has to be like that.
"You can't fear these people. I train and work as hard as them so I deserve to be there.
"I have no idea what I could do next, but it is looking good. This is my first majors and it went really well. I just hope I can keep going and progressing."
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Lynsey Sharp continued her strong form in Rio as she set a new personal best of 1:57:69 to finish sixth behind gold medallist Caster Semenya in the women's 800m.
"I have run faster than I have ever done before after three rounds, in a very competitive field, so I can't be too disappointed," the 26-year-old from Dumfries told BBC Scotland.
"It is the nature of the sport that you will be disappointed unless you get a medal, but I always knew that was going to be a big ask in a really competitive field.
"I will see how my coach says I ran but I have got to be happy. I finished quite strongly and felt like that was my best chance - to pick people off in the last 100m. It was good."
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Attawapiskat chief Teresa Spence says she will join the 11 January meeting, but continue her fast until then.
She began her protest against a budget bill critics say weakens native land rights and environmental safeguards.
Three other chiefs have joined Ms Spence in her hunger strike.
"To all the supporters and the helpers, I'm really grateful today," she said on Friday. "But I'll still be here on my hunger strike until that meeting takes place."
She did not rule out continuing the fast beyond the meeting: "We'll see what the results are, if there's really a positive result, because there are a lot of issues that we need to discuss."
The Canadian government previously offered the Attawapiskat leader a meeting with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan.
On Friday, Mr Harper released a statement which cited his January 2012 meeting with First Nations leaders and said he would meet with chiefs "in this spirit of ongoing dialogue".
Mr Harper said the "working meeting" would focus on "the treaty relationship and aboriginal rights and economic development".
While the Attawapiskat leader has continued her fast, First Nations protesters and others have rallied around her, as well as Canadian indigenous rights movement Idle No More, in protest on a range of issues.
Ms Spence has staged her protest in a traditional teepee within sight of the parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada's capital city.
"This is a crisis, and we cannot continue on this path of social indifference," Ms Spence said in a statement issued earlier on Friday, before Mr Harper's announcement.
Ms Spence has urged Mr Harper to "open his heart" and meet native leaders.
During her hunger strike, Ms Spence is consuming only water, fish broth and a medicinal tea, Reuters news agency reports.
"I know it's hard for people to understand what I'm doing," she told reporters on 28 December. "But it's for this pain that's been going on too long with our people."
Ms Spence has invited MPs and senators to visit her teepee. High-profile visitors have included former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark.
Budget legislation passed last month by Canadian lawmakers will reduce environmental safeguards for rivers and lakes and make it easier to sell reserve lands, critics say.
Aboriginal groups have also criticised what they say are unfulfilled promises by the federal and provincial governments - dating back to the early 1900s - to give them a stake in the development of natural resources, and other benefits.
Supporters of the Idle No More movement held marches, rallies and highway blockades across Canada in 2012, as well as "flash mob" protests with traditional drumming and dancing.
On Wednesday, protesters blocked cargo transport at Quebec's Pointe-a-la-Croix, but allowed passenger trains through.
"We are aware our fight is not with the citizens of this country, but rather the Harper government," Alexander Morrison, a spokesman for the group, told CBC News.
Many of the group were from the nearby Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation.
And on Friday, the Sikniktuk Mi'kmaq Rights Coalition in New Brunswick said they were planning a cargo train blockade in the eastern part of the province until Monday. Another protest was planned along a highway in Fredericton, New Brunswick by the Kingsclear First Nation.
In Mr Harper's year-end remarks on Monday, he said the government "continued to strengthen our relationship with First Nations", but did not mention Ms Spence.
A spokesman for Mr Duncan, the aboriginal affairs minister, said the federal government had built schools and homes, enacted measures to protect women's rights, and invested in safe drinking water in native areas.
Their report claims jade valued at a staggering almost $31bn (£20bn) was extracted from Burmese mines last year.
It estimates that the figure for the last decade could be more than $120bn.
Presented with the data by the BBC, the government did not question the quantity or valuation of the jade.
But it said most of the gemstones from the last year had been stockpiled, with only a small fraction sold so far.
Hpakant, in Kachin state, is the site of the world's biggest jade mine. We were stopped from travelling there by the chief minister, but footage obtained from the site shows huge articulated vehicles turning mountains into moonscapes.
With an election on the horizon and considerable political uncertainty the companies involved are clearly in a hurry.
To operate a mine in Hpakant you need military connections. The main companies listed in the Global Witness report are either directly owned by the army, or operated by those with close ties.
A few are run by those connected to ethnic armies, in return for them maintaining a ceasefire.
"If a military family does not have a jade company they are something of a black sheep," Mike Davis from Global Witness said. "These families are making extraordinary sums of money, often in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars."
Prominent among those allegedly profiting from the trade are jade companies owned by the family of retired senior general Than Shwe. As the military ruler of Myanmar, also known as Burma, between 1992 and 2011, he presided over a period in which demonstrations were brutally repressed and opponents imprisoned. Despite having retired many still think he's influential behind the scenes.
The Global Witness report - Jade: Myanmar's 'Big State Secret' - claims that companies connected to Than Shwe's family made more than $220m in jade sales in 2013 and 2014.
Several of the other companies are linked to recent ministers but most named were at their most prominent before Thein Sein's quasi-civilian government came to power in 2011. None were immediately available for comment.
More than a year in the making, this report digs deep into previously unseen Burmese government figures.
To reach the headline number of nearly $31bn extracted in 2014 they took the officially recorded figure for jade production (16,684 tonnes) and then estimated, based on previous studies, the proportion that's likely to have been mined of each quality or "grade".
Using the prices for each grade from publically recorded sales they then calculated the likely total value of jade production. That came to a jaw-dropping $30.859bn.
To double-check this number, Global Witness then obtained customs data for jade imports into China. Last year precious and semi-precious stone imports from Myanmar were valued at $12.3bn on a weight of 5,402 tonnes. The researchers' analysis of the data shows that almost all of that was jade.
Using the officially declared production figure for 2014, and keeping all things equal (to the average value of declared imports into China) then the estimated value for the jade mined in 2014 is $37.98bn.
Clearly in both methods estimates are being used, but the ballpark figure remains similar and huge. The real total could even be much higher with many insiders saying that the best quality jade never goes through the books and is smuggled directly to Chinese buyers.
This contents of the report challenges the Burmese army narrative of recent history. The military has long said that it keeps a tight control of Burmese political life to maintain stability and, in the face of numerous ethnic wars, to prevent the country disintegrating.
It was, the people were told, a selfless act to maintain the unity of a troubled country.
This report makes it clearer than ever before that the top brass used their privileged positions to award themselves choice concessions and contracts and become extremely rich.
Ye Htay, a director from the Ministry of Mining, confirmed that the valuation of the jade mined in 2014 at $31bn was plausible, but said that most of it had been stockpiled and not sold.
Sales through the Nay Pyi Taw emporium last year were close to $1bn, he said, with about $90m paid in taxes.
He was much less forthcoming when pressed on how the concessions were awarded and the dominance of military companies.
He said Myanmar was "in a stage of democratic transition" and that such moves "haven't happened during the last five years".
There is an element of truth in that. The most egregious abuses do seem to date back to before 2010, and all agree that there have been moves towards greater transparency.
This report underscores just how difficult it will be to prise the Burmese army away from political power.
It also helps explain why the conflict in Kachin State, where the mines are, has proved so difficult to resolve.
Last week, rebels from the Kachin Independence Army refused to sign a nationwide agreement with the government - aimed at ending decades of civil conflict - and clashes with the Burmese army continue.
"Jade is a key source of financing for both sides," Mike Davis told me.
"There is an incentive there for the hardliners on the government side to keep the conflict going until such time as they can be confident that when the dust settles, their assets will still be there."
Most proposals for a lasting federal settlement to Myanmar's long running ethnic conflicts involve greater transparency and the sharing of wealth from natural resources in the states where they are extracted.
It's easy to see why peace and democratic transformation aren't attractive options for those making hundreds of millions from exploiting the jade mines.
Four Manx artists have also been selected to display work in an exhibition at the Festival Interceltique Lorient.
Juan Moore, Julie Roberts, Eileen Schaer and Will Sutton will display works on the theme of mythology.
The annual event welcomes more than 800,000 people to Brittany.
Culture Vannin Chairman Phil Gawne said it is an amazing opportunity to showcase Manx culture to a huge audience".
This year the festival is celebrating the Isle of Man and Cornwall as its joint honoured nations for the first time in its 45-year history.
The event brings together performers and artists from all of the Celtic Nations - the Isle of Man, Cornwall, Wales, Brittany and Ireland - as well as visitors from countries including Argentina, Australia and Cuba.
Hundreds of metres of film protecting it from building work around it were carefully peeled off Concorde 216.
The jet will be the supersonic centrepiece of the £19m Aerospace Bristol centre, which will document the city's aviation heritage.
The museum's executive director Lloyd Burnell said he hoped the centre in Filton would open in August.
Concorde 216 was towed into its new home in February and was wrapped up as fire protection paint was sprayed on the walls of its hangar.
The last Concorde built and the last to fly will next be fixed up, cleaned and polished by Airbus, before being handed over to the Bristol Aero Collection Trust, the charity behind the new museum.
"It's fantastic to see Concorde unwrapped and looking stunning in her brand new home," said Mr Burnell.
"As the centrepiece of Aerospace Bristol's exhibition, Concorde will inspire the next generation to pursue careers in engineering and develop the big ideas of tomorrow.
"We can't wait to welcome our first visitors on board this summer."
Colin Stewart, 31, along with friend Raymond Higgins, 45, and a 16-year-old male, were caught using dogs to hunt hares near Kirriemuir, Angus, in March of this year.
Stewart was jailed for four-and-a-half months at Forfar Sheriff Court.
The men, who are all from Aberdeen, admitted hare coursing charges.
The court was told police found the three dogs they were using and took swabs for DNA analysis.
Post-mortem examinations carried out on the hare they had killed revealed DNA matching one of the dogs.
Police later examined a video camera found in their van at Ladywell Farm, on the outskirts of Kirriemuir, and found footage of the incident.
Depute fiscal Fiona Caldwell said the men had been engaged in "cruel sport" when police intervened, after being contacted by a witness.
Police attended and stopped the men in a van nearby, where they claimed they were searching for a missing dog.
Ms Caldwell said: "It was then put to them that persons matching their description were seen coursing hares earlier, which they vehemently denied.
"They were noticeably evasive after that point."
Two of the three dogs were in the van and Colin Stewart asked to retrieve the third which was in some nearby trees.
She added: "Shortly afterwards he made good his escape from the trees and was not traced."
Additional units and a police dog were called in to trace Colin Stewart but he was not found.
Police later found footage of the Aberdeen men posing with dead hares and discussing the Kirriemuir incident on a video camera, and "extensive evidence" that Stewart and the teenager had been involved in previous offences.
Sheriff Pino di Emidio jailed Colin Stewart for 135 days while the teenager was given a community payback order with one year's supervision.
Both were banned from having custody of any dog for a year.
Higgins was fined £400.
It is unusual for any Formula 1 boss to openly admit their team have made an error; and from Ferrari's Maurizio Arrivabene - any Ferrari team principal, for that matter - it is rarer than most.
But after the Canadian Grand Prix, there was no mistaking Arrivabene's message when he was asked about the fateful strategy decision that probably cost Sebastian Vettel victory in the Canadian Grand Prix.
"We overestimated the degradation of the tyres," Arrivabene said. "This is the reason we called him in. It was the wrong decision."
And so it was.
It has been a frustrating start to the season for Ferrari, who have talked themselves up - and been talked up by Mercedes - but, before the weekend in Montreal, had only flattered to deceive.
Around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, though, they finally looked like the real deal.
Vettel missed out on pole position by less than 0.2 seconds, and had to be content with third on the grid behind Mercedes team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. But he was optimistic of a decent race, and his blistering start made a win look on.
It was the sort of start that helped form the legend of one of Ferrari's biggest heroes, Gilles Villeneuve, back in the late 1970s and early '80s - on a completely different scale than every other car on the grid.
The new rules introduced this year, restricting the assistance drivers can receive from both the pit wall and in the car, have made this sort of disparity possible again.
Hamilton is suffering at one end of the spectrum; Vettel benefiting at the other. And in Canada, the four-time champion got off the line as if powered by a rocket, and was past both Mercedes within 100 metres or so.
From there, he tried to run the start of the race as he did in his Red Bull days - build a quick lead with a blistering first couple of laps and then hold it, eking out the tyres, keeping his rivals at arm's length.
Hamilton admitted to being impressed by the Ferrari's initial pace, but a fastest lap by the world champion on lap three made it obvious it would not be that easy. And from there Hamilton was comfortably able to sit within 1.5 seconds of the Ferrari - the smallest margin a driver can allow before risking wrecking the fragile Pirelli tyres.
Still, track position is critical in F1, especially between cars that are relatively evenly matched, even on a circuit on which overtaking is as common as it is in Montreal.
Critically - and oddly - Ferrari chose to surrender it.
It made sense on a micro level - the virtual safety car was enforced while Jenson Button's smoking and broken McLaren-Honda was recovered, and Ferrari took the opportunity afforded by everyone being held to a slow pace to make a pit stop that as a result would cost less time than normal.
But on a macro level, it was a misjudgement.
Hamilton did not stop - and would only do so once. So to get the lead back and win the race, Vettel would now have to a) pass the two Red Bulls while also trying to close down Hamilton's lead; b) prevent Hamilton from closing in on him after the Briton's sole pit stop when the Mercedes would have fresher tyres; and c) catch and then pass a fundamentally faster car in the final stint of the race.
That was always going to be a long shot.
There were echoes here of the first race of the season in Australia, when Vettel was again leading unexpectedly after a stunning start, and Ferrari again chose to surrender it.
Back then it was by switching to super-soft tyres when the race was stopped, forcing themselves to stop again, while Mercedes went for tyres that would get them to the end of the race.
If Vettel was cross at losing his second potential win in seven races, he hid it very well.
"We have very strong people on board making decisions and I don't want them to be criticised," he said.
"With hindsight it is always very easy, but I will always defend what we did."
It's not hard to see at times like this why Ferrari love Vettel. Like Michael Schumacher before him, he believes that if hard words are to be said, it should be behind closed doors; anything else is counter-productive.
Ferrari technical director James Allison - who has worked with an elite group of drivers that includes Schumacher and Fernando Alonso - recognises this as one of Vettel's greatest strengths.
"I have worked with two guys who really, really understand the value of being in a team and one was Michael and the other is Sebastian," he told BBC F1's Tom Clarkson last season.
The positives for Ferrari go beyond Vettel's attitude, though. Most importantly, they were genuinely quick again, even if not quite on Mercedes' pace.
It has been an odd season for the Maranello team. Mercedes have always insisted their concern about Ferrari is genuine, saying the car has real speed, but that circumstances had prevented them showing it.
You could see what they meant. First there was the strategy bungle in Australia. Then in Bahrain an engine failure on the formation lap for Vettel and a bad start for team-mate Kimi Raikkonen put them out of the fight for victory.
In China, Vettel and Raikkonen collided at the first corner; in Russia, Vettel was taken out on the first lap by Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat. In Spain, they bungled Vettel's strategy trying to pass the Red Bulls.
But the longer it has gone on, the more it has looked like Ferrari were not quite there.
They would appear to be quick in practice, only for Mercedes to stretch ahead in when it mattered.
In both Spain and Monaco, they mysteriously lost pace in qualifying, blaming not getting the difficult-to-manage Pirelli tyres in the right operating window.
Their understanding of the tyres' vagaries does seem behind that of Mercedes - and perhaps this led to their mistake on Sunday.
Before Canada, Ferrari's average qualifying deficit to Mercedes was only 0.075secs less than it had been in 2015 - and was a still-massive 0.779secs.
For Montreal, they introduced a new turbo, and it seemed to make a big difference, Vettel qualifying only 0.178secs off pole, and was strong - if not quite Mercedes fast - in the race.
"We desperately wanted to win," Vettel said. "We didn't, but we showed the car is quick, it has potential. We are moving forward with a lot of confidence. The team is on a great path."
It will take more races to judge whether Canada was a one-off. But at least Ferrari have something to hang on to again.
"Look where the car and engine were in 2014 and look where we are now," Vettel said. "The team is making immense progress and we are challenging an opponent who two years ago was supposed to be untouchable. There will be a point when we start to be ahead."
Four weeks ago, Lewis Hamilton had just crashed out of the Spanish Grand Prix with team-mate Nico Rosberg and was staring down the barrel of a 43-point deficit in the championship with nearly a quarter of the season gone.
Two races later, that deficit has been cut to just nine points, after two very different but equally-impressive victories in Monaco and Canada.
In both, Hamilton owed his win to a stroke of fortune - in Monaco, a bungled pit stop by Red Bull; in Montreal, a strategic blunder by Ferrari.
But in each case, Hamilton still had plenty to do, and has performed his task with the sort of judgement and expertise that befits a three-time world champion.
Even after falling nearly two race wins behind Rosberg after a troubled first four races, there was always the sense that somehow Hamilton would come through in the end this year.
That now looks a much less arduous task than it did after Rosberg's four opening victories, even if there are pot holes ahead for Hamilton.
The turbo and hybrid failures he suffered in qualifying in China and Russia mean he is already short of engine parts and by inevitably exceeding his permitted allowance, he will receive grid penalties at some point.
But he has now taken pole at every race in which he has not suffered a mechanical problem in qualifying; and won two straight in impressive style.
"I'm really overwhelmed to think just how difficult this season was before these last two races," he said.
"I'm super-focused. I felt that was one of my best races for a while, maybe not as good as the last one, but I'm still really happy with it."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there needed to be improvements after a report criticised the way the NHS dealt with patient deaths in England.
The Care Quality Commision said current practices were inadequate and often caused more suffering to families.
Mr Hunt said rules would be published next year setting out how cases should be identified and looked into.
The CQC report said too often grieving relatives were shut out of investigations or left without clear answers.
The regulator looked at the approach taken across the NHS by both hospitals and community providers, but it placed a particular focus on those caring for people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities.
It came off the back of some high-profile cases of neglect, including the deaths of 33-year-old Richard Handley and 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk.
Connor, who had a learning disability and epilepsy, died in 2013 while receiving care at an Oxfordshire treatment centre run by Southern Health NHS Trust.
Initially, the trust classified Connor's death as a result of natural causes after he drowned in a bath.
Following campaigns by his family, an independent investigation found his death was entirely preventable, there had been failures in his care and neglect had contributed to it.
Richard Handley had lifelong problems with constipation, exacerbated by his Down's syndrome and medication.
He died in 2012, days after being admitted to Ipswich Hospital from a supported living unit run by the United Response charity. A review found Richard's health needs were overlooked, confirming his family's fears.
Not all deaths would represent a medical failing or problem with the way the person had been supported during their life, said the CQC.
But Mr Hunt acknowledged there was an "inconsistency" in the way NHS trusts approached the issue of preventable deaths and learning from what had happened was "not prioritised" enough.
He said by publishing data on avoidable deaths from next April, patients and the public would be able to see which hospitals were learning from their mistakes.
In addition, Health Education England is to review its training of medical staff on dealing with patients and families after a tragedy.
Analysis: By Michael Buchanan, social affairs correspondent
The report says part of the problem lies in what type of death should be investigated.
Terms like "preventable", "avoidable" and "unexpected" mean different things to different trusts.
Many people who contributed to the review opposed calling a death either unexpected or avoidable as it lacked scientific clarity.
The CQC say improving the standard definition of each word, in discussion with families, should form part of the work to develop a national framework.
Speaking to the BBC, Connor Sparrowhawk's step-father, Richard Huggins, said: "We need to stop these things happening. It beggars belief to me that it is still so endemic."
Prof Dame Sue Bailey, chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, added: "This landmark review reveals in stark detail what many in healthcare have suspected for a long time.
"Put simply, we have consistently failed and continue to fail too many of the families of those who die whilst in our care.
"This is not about blaming individuals, but about the health service learning the lessons from this report."
Stephen Dalton, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: "Both national and local bodies in the NHS are committed to working with families and their representatives to improve how it deals with investigations resulting from unexpected deaths.
"In the aftermath of an unexpected death there are often complex legal and organisational responsibilities to address but the priority must be that all families are treated with nothing short of total respect and compassion."
Michael Lane, 27, of Portslade, east Sussex, who denies murder, was right to fear he would be blamed, his defence counsel Simon Russell Flint QC said.
Shana Grice, 19, was found dead in her bedroom in Portslade last August.
Mr Russell Flint told Lewes Crown Court the defendant did have a history with Miss Grice, but it was "not of violence or causing her harm".
The court has already heard evidence from Mr Lane who admitted finding his ex-girlfriend's body but claimed he went into shock and did not know what to do.
In closing arguments, Mr Russell Flint said: "Michael Lane was and still is an easy target. He was right, we suggest, to be scared the finger of blame would be pointed at him.
"He did not subject her to the brutal and callous attack which someone subjected her to on that morning."
He added: "From that first hour after Shana's death, the police believed they had got their man so they didn't even bother to consider anyone else."
Prosecuting, Philip Bennetts QC asked jurors to decide if Mr Lane was "an innocent man who was panicked or a lying, manipulative killer".
During the trial, jurors heard claims Mr Lane had refused to accept his relationship with Miss Grice had ended and decided no-one else could have her.
Mr Bennetts told jurors Mr Lane had said Miss Grice "would pay" for what she had done, and he added: "She did, with her life, at his hands."
Judge Mr Justice Green told the jury: "You are not here to like or dislike Michael Lane.
"You are also not here to form a personal view about Shana's behaviour. You are here to form an objective view about the evidence."
The trial continues.
The emergency product withdrawal involved 66,000 packs, worth £93,000.
The producer of the slices - Bakkavor Foods - said it had taken steps to avoid a repeat of the problem.
Aberdeenshire Council trading standards officers measured the weight of 290g packs of own-brand garlic bread slices at stores in Huntly and Inverurie.
They found that 39 were under the stated weight, with one weighing less than 230g.
Aberdeenshire Council welcomed action being taken "swiftly".
Trading standards manager Wilma Urquhart said the service "takes these incidents extremely seriously".
She said: "We were pleased to see that the supermarket acted swiftly following the discovery.
"Our work is very important in protecting both consumers and businesses from unfair competition and the service will continue to work with both Tesco and Bakkavor to ensure legislative compliance."
A Tesco spokesperson said: "We take great care to deliver clear information for our customers so they can make informed decisions on the products they buy and to ensure that customers receive the stated quantity of product.
"We are disappointed that errors occurred with a very small number of product and we have worked with our supplier to ensure there is no repeat of the issue."
A Bakkavor spokesperson said: "We confirm that a bakery product made on behalf of a customer has been recalled due to an error with product weight.
"Bakkavor takes such incidents seriously and sincerely apologises for this error. We have put in place a number of measures to prevent a similar incident arising in the future.
"We wish to reassure customers and consumers of our continued commitment to compliance and the highest standards of production."
The alarm was raised at about 11:20 and the Stornoway Coastguard helicopter was called in to help.
The sailor was flown to a hospital in Glasgow.
Ships, aircraft and personnel from Europe and North America have been arriving in and around Scotland for a major Nato exercise.
Joint Warrior is held twice a year, in April and in October.
The exercise is one of Nato's largest training events and involves thousands of army, navy and air force personnel.
For the first time, this October's Joint Warrior will see exercises using unmanned vehicles. This event is called Unmanned Warrior.
FareShare Cymru in Cardiff, has been helping 45 frontline groups, including homeless shelters, women's refuges and breakfast clubs.
All the food is perfectly safe to eat but faces going to waste.
However, the charity said demand is continuing to grow - and it needs more suppliers and volunteers to help.
"We're redistributing enough food to provide more than one-and-a-half-million vulnerable people with a square meal every single year, which is an incredible achievement," said the south Wales manager, Sarah Germain.
"The food we deliver is of excellent quality and is surplus for a whole number of reasons ranging from incorrect barcoding to over-production - never because it is out of date.
One of the charities that has benefitted from the FareShare donations is the Moorland Road Community Centre in Cardiff, which offers support for older people from Splott, Tremorfa and Pengam Green.
They provide daily meals for anyone over the age of 50.
"Before we had FareShare we were buying food from the supermarkets and our local butcher which would cost us around £300 per week," said the centre manager, Dorothy Templeman.
"FareShare has saved us a significant amount of money on our food bills compared to that. They offer an amazing service which is vital in supporting our core operation; it makes such a big difference."
But the charity's organisers said they still need to secure new suppliers to meet ever growing demands for their services across south Wales.
They have also appealed for new volunteers to come forward to help pack and deliver the food it receives.
"It's a great feeling knowing that as well as tackling food waste we're getting nutritious food to local charities who do a tremendous amount of good," added Ms Germain.
The most expensive tickets for the Dominion theatre show are £100 more than the equivalent for the Lion King.
Cheaper tickets for the musical, out in time for Christmas, cost a minimum of £50, but with a fee of £15 for each ticket booked online or over the phone.
A family of four booking the cheapest tickets would pay £267.
Many people expressed their anger at the prices on Twitter.
Gemma-Louise Fowler wrote: "Was looking forward to Elf the musical but the ticket prices are beyond ridiculous. Think I'll be giving it a miss for now!"
Joash wrote: "Wait why are Elf ticket prices so high!? £240 is extortionate! Calm down London."
And Chris Chilton wrote: "The Elf ticket prices are a total disgrace!! For a family show? I would rather take my kids on holiday."
Elf is a musical based on the film starring Will Ferrell. It is about a young orphan who crawls into Father Christmas's bag of presents and travels to the North Pole.
The show also outpriced several others such as Les Miserables at Queen's Theatre, where the ticket price ranges from approximately £16 to £159.
It also was more expensive than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Drury Lane Theatre Royal, which costs between £23 and £121.
The producers of Elf, who decide the ticket prices, said: "Ticket prices are set according to the commercial terms and budgets for the show. These prices - like all things - will fluctuate depending on supply and demand.
"Elf is a large-budget show with only a ten-week run in the West End - and we have been delighted with the interest shown in this London premiere run."
David Pearson, general manager at the Dominion Theatre, said the decision to charge the commission to the public was the producer's, as the producer can either opt to pay the commission itself or charge the public.
He said the theatre charged 7% of the ticket price "regardless". "This is in line with other theatre companies," he added.
The Duchess of Cambridge complained after the images were published online by the Express and OK! magazine in May.
Prince George was seen through the railings of Kensington Palace along with the Duchess and four officers.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) said it was a "private activity on private land".
The pictures show the Duchess smiling as the young prince, aged three, reaches out for the motorbike's handlebars.
The officers, believed to be motorbike outriders, look on while one is showing him the controls.
Ipso's complaints committee said the photographs had been taken when the royals had "a reasonable expectation of privacy".
"They were engaged in a private activity; the images had been taken while they were on private, protected land where commercial photography is prohibited; and no permission for the images to be taken or published had been sought or obtained," it said.
The committee added that both the news website and magazine "denied that the images had shown the complainants in a private interaction".
They said the police officers were photographed while on duty, and they "considered that it was important for the public to see how young members of the Royal Family interacted with public servants, particularly when the officers had been 'commandeered for a three-year-old's entertainment.'"
Ipso said it agreed they were public figures but no public interest had been served with images which "simply showed Prince George playing on a police motorbike".
"They were photographed standing within the grounds of their private home, in a position that was not easily visible to the photographer; they were not carrying out any official duties, and they were unaware they were being photographed," it said.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released family photographs of themselves and their two children at various milestones in their life.
Kensington Palace has also released several warnings about press intrusion including after the birth of their daughter Charlotte.
There has been a long series of attacks on companies previously controlled by Mr Quinn, once Ireland's richest man.
He said in a statement that the attacks are "not in the interests of me and my family" and should end immediately.
Mr Quinn lost control of his manufacturing businesses in 2011.
A consortium of banks and other lenders took over Mr Quinn's group after he made a disastrous bet on shares in Anglo Irish Bank.
The packaging and construction materials business, based in counties Cavan and Fermanagh, were sold off to Quinn Industrial Holdings.
It is run by some of Mr Quinn's close associates but is jointly owned by three US investment funds that had urged him to condemn "escalating violence and intimidation" against the businesses.
On Tuesday, a placard was erected in Derrylin in County Fermanagh threatening executives who now run one part of the former Quinn group.
And on Wednesday, a crane hire company working at a wind farm on Slieve Rushen near Derrylin once owned by Mr Quinn quit its work at the site after receiving threats.
Part of the dispute over the wind farm is about access rights and land ownership.
Mr Quinn said the threats and "negative activity" were "offensive and totally unacceptable".
"[My family has] repeatedly made our view clear within the local community over the past number of years, and once more, I, on behalf of the Quinn family, totally condemn any such intimidation," he said.
"I have always criticised the intimidation, however I am but one voice.
"I feel that other people that operate within this community should play their part also."
He added that, in his view, Platina Partners, the owners of the wind farm, needed to do more to "address the unease and tension in the area".
Mr Quinn said commercial discussions with the US investment funds that own his former businesses have been "constructive".
But he said they had been "unnecessarily hindered" by "negative actions".
"[This] simply deepens the hurt and distrust that has plagued the company and the community since Anglo took the Quinn Group away from my family," he said.
"As it is wholly counterproductive to my efforts to buy back the company, I would urge that the negativity is brought to an immediate end."
Mr Quinn is a consultant for Quinn Industrial Holdings and is the highest paid person at the company.
He added that while he has "differences of opinion" with the company's senior management on business matters, he believes they can be resolved.
"My hope would be that those discussions will be constructive, and that the company I founded and put my life's work into could return to being one that people are proud to work for, and customers are happy to support."
Taylor was available on a free transfer after leaving MLS side Portland Timbers by mutual consent in December.
The 31-year-old centre-back had joined Portland in June following his departure from Newcastle after 13 years with the club.
He could make his debut for Ipswich when they host Derby in the Championship on Tuesday.
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"My father backed me despite all the opposition from my family and tribe," she said.
The 30-year-old is from Pakistan's restive Balochistan province where women are expected to stay at home.
But her father, a liberal man who also managed to get an education, always backed her.
"He would say to people that Nahida is my daughter, I'm proud of her passion," says Nahida, a university graduate.
"He appreciated my struggle and that gave me all the confidence I needed as budding cricketer."
Nahida Khan's father died a few months ago and she feels his loss deeply but she is also on top form during the Women's World Cup in England.
"My strategy going in to bat is always quite simple: score maximum runs and attack the opposition."
In their first game against South Africa, Pakistan's batting line-up started to crumble early.
But Nahida Khan opened the innings and went on to make a blistering 76 from 101 balls, including nine fours and a six.
Though the Proteas won by three wickets, Khan gave then a run for their money.
"Nahida is a true fighter and she showed that on the field today," said Pakistan team captain Sana Mir.
"It would have been a one-sided affair without her contribution with bat and ball."
Pakistan's first female international cricket team was founded in 1997, a full 21 years after India's female cricketers formed a team.
They faced court cases and even death threats and the government banned them from playing in public for religious reasons.
Despite all that, the team did play in the 1997 Women's World Cup. Early encounters were characterised by heavy losses - including a last place finish in that tournament and a humiliating world record of 27 all out against Australia.
But Nahida Khan is one of a group of sportswomen from middle class families who have been improving the side's fortunes.
The Quetta-born player made her international cricket debut in 2009 in a match against Sri Lanka at Bogra, Bangladesh.
She was also a member of the team who took part in the 2010 Asian Games and won a gold medal.
Khan was initially brought into the team as a middle-order batter who could bowl on the side.
"I felt I couldn't perform to the best of my ability when I was being sent in at number eight or nine," she said.
"I continued to work hard on my batting. I'd analyse the other batters such as former England captain Charlotte Edwards, whose technique I have always admired."
After half a decade of struggle, Nahida Khan is not only a dependable opener but shoulders the responsibility for any role assigned to her.
"She's one of those players you can depend on in any given situation," said Pakistan's national team coach Ayesha Ashar.
Nahida Khan still remembers how she rushed to her school cricket trial in 2007.
Her selection was a dream come true, especially given the challenges she faced every day - playing alongside men where everyone disapproved of her.
"Even today, women cricketers have to practice in the same grounds as men due to a lack of facilities," she said.
"In a society where any intermingling of the sexes is frowned upon, you can imagine the stigma that follows."
Nahida Khan knows how lucky she is to fulfil her dreams in a conservative society where women have few choices.
"Once on my way back from practice, the rickshaw driver asked if I played cricket because he knew of a girl named Nahida - of questionable morals - who also played cricket with boys," she said.
"I lied but every day I am more conscious of the fact that my success would not have been possible without my father's support.
"He would shut everyone up who tried to warn him of some impending moral disaster or trouble in finding a marriage partner because I played cricket."
She has lost her father but he was alive long enough to make sure the rest of her family did not clip her wings.
"My family used to say no one is going to marry me because I wear boys' clothes and play cricket," she adds.
"No one wants a girl like that in their family."
There are 1.2 million people over 50 in Wales and more than a third of 50 to 64-year-olds are not working.
Chairman William Graham said this was "alarming" while work was "now a necessity - not a choice for the majority of this age group".
There was a need to dispel "myths" that older workers were less productive.
In Wales, 53,000 people aged 65 and over are employed, an increase of 14% over the year to March 2014.
People over 50 are more likely to be unemployed for more than a year than any other age group in Wales, the committee found.
Older People's Commissioner Sarah Rochira told AMs she found this "quite alarming".
They were "undervalued, underappreciated and very much an afterthought" in terms of programmes to help them.
The proportion of over 50s out of work in Wales is the highest in the UK, apart from in Northern Ireland.
Of those who are working, one in three are working part-time, with women more likely to be working part-time than men.
Barriers included care responsibilities but also ageism, and stereotypes that the over 50s are in poor health, are less productive or are slower to adapt to new technologies.
Prime Cymru, a charity which helps older workers find work or set up their own businesses, told the AMs that the employers' group the CBI has forecast that the UK will need 13.5 million new workers in the next 10 years and that there are only 7 million young people entering the workforce.
The report makes 11 recommendations, including:
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "We will consider the report and respond in due course."
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Dawn Wilcox helped children struggling with reading in schools when she was made redundant at the age of 52.
Her daughter, 26, was also made redundant at the same time in March 2014 and they pooled their redundancy money to start their own cafe business in Ystrad, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
"I was quite scared when they delivered the news. When you lose your job it drains you of everything, you feel so worthless. You think 'all these years I've put into training and that's not needed anymore'.
"I had a lot of family commitments besides so I didn't feel like going through the retraining route.
"It's nice to come into work knowing you're your own boss and doing something totally different."
Ferry operator the Steam Packet Company said 29,241 people visited during the fortnight - up 6.3% on 2015.
Figures also showed 4,013 fans brought a motorbike - an increase of 4.5%.
The fortnight-long motorcycling festival, includes the Classic TT and Manx Grand Prix races - both held on the Mountain Course.
Steam Packet Chief Executive Mark Woodward said the figures were "very encouraging".
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Hogg received 30% of the public votes, with Billy Vunipola (27%) second after helping England to the Grand Slam.
Wales wing George North, the top try-scorer with four tries, came third in the public vote with 11%.
Hogg, in superb form throughout the tournament, capped by a wonderful solo try against Ireland, told BBC Scotland the award "means a great deal".
"I played in a very good Scotland side these past few weeks, and to get the award is really pleasing," he added.
"I was playing with confidence, I was having lots of fun as well. The game plan suited our back division and it was good to get a couple of good wins on the board.
"For us now, that's the minimum standard; we've got to be winning game after game and looking to win trophies."
With the Scots in desperate need of a win after nine Six Nations defeats in a row, Hogg created two tries as Vern Cotter's men swept to victory over Italy in Rome.
With the Scots in desperate need of a win after nine Six Nations defeats in a row, Hogg created two tries as Vern Cotter's men swept to victory over Italy in Rome.
After crossing for his team's opening try against France at Murrayfield, Hogg's audacious mid-air flick to send Tim Visser over in the corner sealed a first Scottish victory over the French in a decade.
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He then lit up the Aviva Stadium with a majestic score from inside his own half against Ireland, further evidence the 23-year-old is playing the best rugby of his career.
"We're all thrilled to have a Scottish player recognised by the public in a year where three teams finished above them in the Six Nations," said Glasgow head coach Gregor Townsend.
"That shows what an impact he had. It's a testament to how Stuart has conducted himself, how he's worked really hard during games and shown his ability."
Vunipola was a consistently impressive figure as England delivered five wins from five in Eddie Jones' first Six Nations as head coach.
The powerful number eight finished the campaign in the top five for ball-carries, metres made, defenders beaten and offloads.
Ireland scrum-half Conor Murray came fourth, with England wing Jack Nowell fifth and Italy captain Sergio Parisse making up the top six.
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Scotland full-back Stuart Hogg has won the 2016 Six Nations player of the championship award.
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Imagine constantly fighting off chest infections and living with a progressive lung disease for which there is no cure.
For 65-year-old Anthony Rhodes, from Wigan, no imagination is required.
"I don't leave my bedroom on bad days. It can be terrible. I find I can't even get to the bathroom because I feel like there's a heavy weight on my chest.
"I start gasping, that makes me panic which then makes everything worse.
"When you have nobody to help you, it's very frightening."
Anthony has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, a slowly progressive lung disease which has been diagnosed in about 900,000 people in the UK.
COPD is a term used to describe a number of conditions, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
It is estimated that there are another 2.8 million people in the UK who have COPD, but do not realise it because they confuse their symptoms with getting older and being 'out of shape'.
What they all have in common are damaged airways in the lungs, which makes the simple process of breathing air in and out particularly difficult.
"There have been a few times when I've had to walk for three or four minutes to get to the car and I've got into trouble," Anthony says.
"Sometimes I can't shout for help and I'm left wondering where the next breath is coming from. I remember thinking: 'This is it'. At its worst it's very debilitating."
Although most cases of COPD are linked to smoking, Anthony's condition is a direct result of the asthma he has had since he was six months old.
Childhood breathing problems only improved in his early teens when he got his first inhaler, which he remembers as a "miracle" because it enabled him to live a more normal life.
Over the past three years, however, Anthony says his condition has worsened.
He has nasty infections on his chest all the time and takes a cocktail of tablets, potions and antibiotics to try to get rid of them.
June Roberts, a consultant nurse in respiratory medicine in Salford, says there are many people out there who are ignoring the deteriorating health of their lungs.
"Most people who get a diagnosis of COPD are in the moderate or severe stages of the disease. This has big implications on patients and what we can do for them. The earlier we can catch it the better."
Roberts is one of a group of experts across the country helping the Department of Health to drive awareness of COPD and encourage people with breathing problems to come forward for testing at their GP's practice.
The best way to confirm diagnosis is through spirometry, a simple breathing test which involves blowing into a machine. This will indicate whether airways have narrowed.
People should not assume COPD is terrible news, Roberts says, because giving up smoking and keeping fit and healthy will all lead to an improved quality of life.
"Breathlessness is frightening but COPD is like training for a marathon. You have to keep as fit as you can."
The British Lung Foundation describes how breathlessness can often become a vicious circle.
"People with COPD may reduce their activities to avoid becoming breathless. But by reducing activity levels you become less fit and therefore get breathless even sooner when you try to do any activity."
There is also the danger that people with COPD could become anxious and depressed as a result of having to adapt their lifestyles.
And the profile of patients with COPD is changing. No longer are they 'old smokers'. Instead it is more and more likely they are young women, who are more susceptible to lung cancer, and who started smoking as girls.
Doctors now look for signs of COPD in people as young as 35.
Even if people like Anthony cannot change the slow progression of his lung disease, his experience is a telling reminder to those who can.
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After a government inspector found "serious shortcomings" in its original plan for 29,000 properties, the local authority announced 7,000 extra homes.
Extra development sites have been allocated, with a number of extra greenbelt sites being earmarked around Knutsford, Wilmslow and Macclesfield.
Cheshire East's revised plan will now be submitted back to the government inspector in June.
Councillor Rachel Bailey, who is due to become the next leader of the Conservative-run council, said: "We are doing everything possible to progress the Local Plan and to speed up its completion."
The authority insisted its previous plan - for 29,000 homes - was criticised by the government inspector only because the borough's economy was likely to grow faster than anticipated.
Cheshire East Council has previously described itself as being "besieged" by housing developers.
A local development plan would make it more difficult for developers to build on land which has not been earmarked for development.
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In February, a suicide bomber used a device in a computer to blow a hole in the side of a passenger plane at take-off in the capital, Mogadishu.
Al-Shabab said it carried out that attack but no group has claimed the latest one.
Police said two other devices were defused, including one in a printer.
Two police officers were among the wounded, said Lieutenant Colonel Ali Dhuh Abdi.
African Union troops from Djibouti and Somali government security forces were stationed at the security checkpoint.
The explosion happened at the screening area where cargo and baggage is checked before being put onto planes.
The pilot of the plane targeted in February managed to land it safely.
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The 21-year-old, who is ranked 557th in the world, will play American Ingrid Neel in the ITF event, which has a total prize fund of £17,500.
Robson has had niggling injuries since having wrist surgery in 2014 and had 18 months out of the game.
She reached a career-high singles ranking of 27 in July 2013.
Robson returned at Eastbourne last June after her wrist operation, but played only 10 singles matches in 2015, and was knocked out of both Wimbledon and the US Open in the first rounds.
She played her last match of the year in September, taking the rest of the year off to continue her recovery.
"Little niggles have cropped up as they do when you are not using your body in the way that you want to on the match court," said Britain's Fed Cup captain Judy Murray.
"I can only imagine it must be hugely, hugely frustrating but the key for her is to make sure her body is absolutely ready to go, however long that takes.
"Qualifying for a smaller event is exactly the right way to go."
"We are a group of educated and well-travelled individuals that are poised to take the Niger Delta struggle to new heights that has never been seen in this nation before," the NDA proclaimed in one of their first statement's on their website in April.
"We have well-equipped human resources to meet this goal."
It was not an idle threat. The NDA has carried out a barrage of attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta region, causing a huge decline in oil production, which is the mainstay of the West African state's economy.
"The renewed activities of the militants in the Niger Delta is seriously affecting our oil production," Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun admitted on state-owned NTA television.
This is the first armed group to emerge in the region - where most people are poor despite the fact that it is rich in oil - since late Nigerian President Umar Musa Yar'Adua granted amnesty to militants there seven years ago.
At the time, militants in the region said they wanted a better deal for their people who have suffered environmental degradation and economic dislocation because of oil production by some of the world's leading firms.
Many of the militants were encouraged to drop their arms and agitation in exchange for some cash incentives and training. Former President Goodluck Jonathan, who comes from the Niger Delta, continued the scheme.
The amnesty programme, which provides tens of thousands of former oil militants with a monthly stipend from the government, stemmed the level of violence.
But in the latest budget, President Muhammadu Buhari reduced funding for it by 70%, and has spoken of phasing it out entirely by 2018.
It is difficult to identify or determine who the members of the NDA are - their Twitter handle currently has an AFP photo of a Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) militant taken in September 2008 as its profile picture.
Local people in the region believe members of the group are largely elements of previous militant groups like Mend - led by Henry Okah, who has been incarcerated in South Africa - or the Niger Delta People's Salvation Front led by the vocal Mujahideen Asari Dokubo. They were left out of the government's amnesty programme.
Many say the NDA militants are followers of former Niger Delta warlords like Government Ekpemupolo, who has the alias Tompolo.
He signed up to the amnesty programme but has been on the run since February, refusing to be questioned by Nigeria's anti-corruption agency in connection with $231m (£163m) in missing government funds.
Mr Ekpemupolo has dissociated himself from the group - but none of the former militant leaders have commented.
Others believe the new militants are criminal elements that want to draw attention to themselves now that their kinsman, ex-President Jonathan, is out of power.
Currently, it is not known who officially leads the group, although a Col Mudoch Agbinibo has been signing press releases on behalf of the NDA.
There are suggestions that "Mudoch" is a pseudonym, like the one-time "Jomo Gbomo" of Mend.
Whatever perceptions people might have of the group, its activities in the Niger Delta appear well co-ordinated with a high level of technical expertise.
The NDA has stated unambiguously what it is setting out to achieve: "Our goal is to cripple Nigeria's economy."
After declaring what it called "Operation Red Economy" in February, it blew up an underwater pipeline forcing Royal Dutch Shell to shut down a terminal which normally produces 250,000 barrels of oil a day (bpd).
Last month, Shell declared a force majeure, which excuses a company from contractual agreements because events beyond its control, on exports of high grade crude oil after an attack on one of its trunk lines.
A few days later, US firm Chevron shut its Valve Platform following another attack, also claimed by the Avengers.
And ahead of President Buhari's first expected visit to the region on Thursday, the NDA said it had blown up two Chevron export terminals.
These attacks have dealt a huge blow to the revenue of the Nigerian government, which says the renewed activities of the militants are seriously affecting oil production.
In fact the country's production has dropped to 1.65 million bpd, as against the projected 2.2 million bpd.
The military has issued a stern warning that it will deal decisively with any group fermenting trouble in the country, including those it has described as "criminal elements in the Niger Delta".
But this appears to have emboldened the Avengers into more attacks that have had a knock-on affect on the supply of electricity that depends on gas from the oil-producing companies.
For President Buhari, who just marked one year in office, the NDA presents another fresh security challenge to the government which has been grappling with Islamist insurgency in the north-east of the country.
Mujibur Ibrahim, 25, who worked as a financial investigator for Leicestershire Police, confessed to taking the items earlier this year.
Defending lawyer Michael Gomulka said the defendant, who had a gambling addiction, acted out of greed.
Ibrahim was jailed for four years and ordered to pay back £40,000.
Ibrahim, from the Anstey area of Leicestershire, admitted to the theft on the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court on 24 October.
During sentencing, prosecutor Peter Ratcliff said a day before one of his thefts in April the defendant lost £12,000 in a casino.
He said Ibrahim had been responsible for ordering a safe which held keys to other secure boxes and so would have known the relevant codes.
The items in storage that Ibrahim had access to had been confiscated as part of four investigations into drug trafficking.
"It must have been apparent to the defendant that he could seriously jeopardise those investigations," Mr Ratcliff said.
Following Ibrahim's arrest, officers found £113,000 hidden under floorboards in his house and a series of large cash deposits in his bank account.
Mr Gomulka said Ibrahim had been a man of "previous good character" and described the case as "almost Shakespearean".
"The heart of his tragedy is that a good man brings about his downfall in weakness - not in a lust for power, or the jealousy of Othello, but in greed," he said.
He admitted his client had "acted in an appalling way, given the trust vested in him" and that the thefts were "acts of desperation".
Judge Robert Brown said Ibrahim had abused his position and his behaviour would have led to suspicion falling on his colleagues.
"You had a very good career ahead of you but you have thrown it all away," he said.
Ibrahim has since been dismissed from the force.
The private member's bill would have pardoned all men living with UK convictions for same-sex offences committed before the law was changed.
There were emotional scenes with one MP fighting back tears during his speech.
The government, which has its own plans for posthumous pardons, "talked out" the bill, which will not now go ahead.
Minister Sam Gyimah spoke for 25 minutes, reaching the time limit allotted for the debate.
There were shouts of "shame" and "shameful" from angry MPs as the seconds ticked down and proceedings came to an end.
SNP MP John Nicolson said he had secured government support for his bill, which was withdrawn when the Ministry of Justice published its own commitment to a "Turing's law" on Thursday.
During Friday's debate Mr Nicolson accused the government of trying to "hijack" his plans.
The government's rival measure, an amendment to the Policing and Crimes Bill announced on Thursday, would grant pardons for those convicted who have since died. Ministers say those who are still alive can go through a "disregard process" to clear their names.
The government said it would not support Mr Nicolson's Sexual Offences (Pardons) Bill - which proposes a blanket pardon for the living - because it could lead to some people being cleared of offences that are still crimes.
"I understand and support the intentions behind Mr Nicolson's Bill, however I worry that he has not fully thought through the consequences," said justice minister Sam Gyimah. "Our way forward will be both faster and fairer."
Speaking during the debate, Mr Nicolson said: "I have to ask the House, should we not prioritise the living over the dead?"
His bill would have "set aside" nearly 50,000 convictions, about 15,000 of which apply to men who are still alive today.
Mr Nicolson says he was motivated by his work as a BBC journalist in the 1990s: "I made a documentary in the 1990s looking at the discriminatory laws which criminalised gay men.
"There were some shocking injustices. Men were arrested aged 21 for having 'under-age sex' with their 20-year-old boyfriends," he said.
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The debate saw MPs from both government and opposition parties speaking in favour of moving the bill through Parliament.
Labour Rhondda MP Chris Bryant made an emotional speech in favour of the bill, recalling gay and bisexual MPs who demanded the right to fight in World War Two, insisting they and others should receive "something that feels like an apology".
Conservative MP Iain Stewart said that while he would support the government amendment, he believed it wouldn't go far enough.
Mr Stewart said: "We can move forward in a much more symbolic way... a way which will really make a difference to many people in this country."
A 2015 petition calling for pardons for the estimated 49,000 men affected by convictions for consensual gay sex was signed by over half a million people, including the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Turing in the 2014 film The Imitation Game.
Another signatory was Turing's great-niece Rachel Barnes. Speaking to BBC News in 2015, Ms Barnes said: "We've always considered that it is totally unjust that only Alan was given a pardon.
"There were 50,000 other homosexuals who were convicted and not given a pardon. We would really like this to be put right now."
The company said the practice, which sees certain trains given the green light to miss out stops, was being curtailed due to "customer feedback".
Trains will now stop at all scheduled stops between the hours of 08:00-09:00 and 17:00-18:00.
ScotRail said that out of 59,000 trains that ran over a four-week period, stop skipping only affected 222 trains.
Consumer group Transport Focus said passengers had the right to expect the destination that appeared on their ticket was the one they would be taken to.
Spokesman Robert Samson said: "What would make the problem better is that if the infrastructure in the system improved to such a level that stop skipping was not part of the solution.
"Just now, performance is hovering just below the 90% mark. We want to see that performance improve and that involves cutting down on signalling or other infrastructure issues."
The news comes after the ScotRail Alliance franchise, operated by Dutch firm Abellio, was severely criticised for delayed, cancelled and over-crowded services.
A ScotRail Alliance spokesman said the number of services affected by stop skipping was "miniscule".
He added: "In a tiny number of occasions each month we have to take action to recover the service after some kind of incident.
"Late trains have a knock-on effect on other services behind them, so taking action to get everything back on time is important. If we don't, then disruption affects more and more people.
"What we have decided to do is to make sure that we protect the services that carry the most number of people.
"These are the busy commuter routes that operate during the peak."
The spokesman said that action to correct late-running trains would now take place outwith peak hours.
He said that the chance of large scale disruption as a result was "minimal".
Scottish Labour's transport spokesman Neil Bibby said: "There is nothing more frustrating for passengers than paying over the odds for tickets on overcrowded trains that are often late running, only for the train to fly by their stop. Hundreds of trains have been missing stops and thousands of passengers have been affected.
"Passengers want to see improvements across the board and this pledge cannot be an excuse for failure if ScotRail does not hit its key performance targets again."
Paul Emsley's work took several months using a technique of building thin layers of oil and glazes on canvas.
The artist had two sittings with the duchess and also worked from a series of photographs he took.
The portrait is now on display at London's National Portrait Gallery, which commissioned the work. The duchess is the gallery's patron.
Mr Emsley was chosen by the gallery's director, Sandy Nairne. Catherine, who studied history of art at St Andrews University, was also involved in the selection process.
The duchess, 31, whose pregnancy was announced by the Royal Family last month, sat for the artist in May 2012 at his studio, and again in June at Kensington Palace.
Mr Emsley said she had expressed a desire to be portrayed as her natural self, rather than her official self.
The artist described his work as simple.
"I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary," he said.
"I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.
"To have anything else in there is really just an interference."
The artist's other subjects have included the former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, and the author V S Naipaul. In 2007 he won the BP Portrait Award for his depiction of fellow artist, Michael Simpson.
Mr Emsley said it was easier to work from photographs.
"I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable?" he said.
"Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them."
Originally, Mr Emsley had planned to produce an unsmiling portrait. But on meeting the duchess he changed his mind.
"It was the right choice in the end to have her smiling. That's really who she is," he said.
He also knew he wanted to make a feature of Catherine's hair.
"Everyone, I think, recognises her partly through her lovely hair," he said.
"I've altered the colour of the eyes slightly to match the colour of the blouse and the blue background."
The painting took three-and-a-half months to complete and was presented to the portrait gallery's trustees in November.
Waldemar Januszczak, art critic for the Sunday Times, said he was not impressed by the painting.
"I was disappointed, to be honest. I have been waiting for it, like everybody else, with great expectation because the Duchess of Cambridge is someone who we know likes art and was presumably going to be an enlightened patron," he said.
"But I think she's been let down really by the picture. In the end it's yet another pretty ordinary painting of a royal of the sort that we've been really churning out for the last few hundred years in Britain."
Paul Emsley was asked how he felt about some art critics' less than flattering comments about his work.
He told BBC News: "I tried my best. Inevitably it's not to everyone's taste, I understand that.
"I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that."
Alastair Adams, president of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, said Mr Emsley had showed the natural, not official, side of the duchess.
"It's very human - when you look at it, the full face is in front of you, you look straight into the eyes and face," he said.
"There are no airs and graces, there's no background context to allude to success or power - it's very much on a level of one to one with the viewer.
"It's quite natural, it's open, it's straightforward and very pure - it's immediate and not overly sentimental."
The portrait was given to the gallery by Sir Hugh Leggatt in memory of Sir Denis Mahon, with support from the Art Fund.
Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar said: "The unveiling of a first official portrait of a royal sitter is always an important and intriguing moment, defining and enshrining their public image in a new way."
Mr Nairne said it was an "exciting moment" to display the first commissioned public portrait of the duchess.
He added that he was grateful to the duchess for giving up her time for the sittings and to Mr Emsley for creating a "captivating contemporary image".
The portrait, called HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, is on display as part of the National Portrait Gallery's Contemporary Collections.
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The two current rest weeks would be scrapped under the reported plans.
Any changes would come in as part of plans for a global season from 2020.
"The injuries that happen in Tests, the physicality of rugby now - for that to be [occurring] on a weekly basis, for me, is pretty much impossible," Hogg told BBC Radio 5 live.
It is believed English clubs presented the proposed changes at a World Rugby meeting in San Francisco in January, at which the governing body discussed the potential shape of a global calendar to come into effect after the 2019 World Cup.
That calendar could see greater alignment between northern and southern hemisphere domestic seasons.
Former England coach Sir Clive Woodward believes a five-week Six Nations would help northern hemisphere teams compete with their southern hemisphere counterparts by replicating the final stages of a World Cup.
Hogg's concerns over player welfare were echoed by team-mate Tommy Seymour.
"If we were playing Wales last weekend we certainly would have been short on numbers, we've already ruled a few guys out of the entire tournament so if you're talking about short-term injuries we definitely would have been short," said Seymour.
And former Scotland scrum-half Rory Lawson said support staff would have similar doubts about players' ability to play Test matches every week.
"I bumped into Stevie Much, an old physio of mine and who's been around the Scotland squad forever, and he suggested that over half of the Scotland squad wouldn't have been able to back it up again," said Lawson
"He said, 'any claims you can condense it into five weeks are madness'."
Scotland face Wales at Murrayfield on Saturday, with kick-off at 14:25 GMT.
The woman, 74, was on the hard shoulder cycling between junction 10 for Cobham and junction 11 for Chertsey.
Police said she was seen earlier using the motorway as a shortcut at about 14:20 BST, Surrey Police said.
A spokesman said the woman, from New Haw, was given a fixed penalty notice and "words of advice" before her bike was put in the back of a patrol car.
She was then taken to another road to continue her journey.
Bach had already said he would miss Wednesday's opening ceremony in Rio to attend a funeral.
The International Paralympic Committee "does not see it as a snub", according to director of media Craig Spence.
The opening ceremony starts at 22:15 BST and the Paralympics run for a further 10 days until 18 September.
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Bach had cancelled attending the opening ceremony at the Maracana to remain in Germany for the funeral of his friend Walter Scheel, the former West German foreign minister and deputy chancellor, who died last month aged 97.
And officials said Bach was now unable to reschedule other commitments and will not to travel to Brazil after the funeral.
"We fully understand that he cannot reschedule other longstanding engagements to attend the Games here at a later date," said Spence.
"The fact that he can't come is unfortunately a fact of life and shows how busy these presidents and officials are."
The last time an IOC president failed to attend a Paralympics was in 2010, when Jacques Rogge missed all of the Winter Games in Vancouver.
The Lion Theatre, in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, was built in 1988 in the back of the Red Lion Hotel by volunteers and the then landlord.
Last year, owners RBNB boarded up the Grade II listed building and this month asked the actors to move out.
The theatre company said its pantomime would go ahead this month and hopes to find another venue later in the year.
Shirley Moffat, chairman of the group, said: "It's really sad that it has come to this. We've got our pantomime coming up which ends on Saturday, 7 February.
"We will then have a couple of days to empty the theatre and leave.
"We are hoping the end of the theatre won't necessarily be the end of the theatre company, but if we do go we go with a bang."
Ms Moffat said she had spoken to the lawyers who said there were some options available to them but for the time being it had to be assumed they have to leave.
They hope the building will be bought by a sympathetic publican who will allow the group to continue running the 90-seat theatre.
Nobody from the BBC could contact RBNB.
US Ambassador Jon Huntsman urged China to "immediately" release Xue Feng, following a hearing in which Mr Xue appealed against the conviction.
He was convicted last July, after a two-and-a-half year trial, on charges of stealing state secrets.
His case is one of many in which ethnic Chinese with foreign passports have been jailed on similar charges.
The BBC's correspondent in Beijing, Martin Patience, says this case has come to symbolise the country's use of state secret laws to protect powerful business interests.
Xue Feng, 44, was detained in 2007 after negotiating the sale of an oil industry database to his employers, an American consultancy company.
Mr Xue said the information he had acquired about China's oil industry was publicly available. He claimed he had been tortured while in detention.
Other cases include that of the Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu, now imprisoned in Shanghai, and several Hong Kong residents detained in business disputes.
Our correspondent says the judiciary in China is not independent, and high-profile trials are often susceptible to government influence.
The Beijing High People's Court proceedings were brief and a statement was read out denying the appeal for a sentence reduction for Mr Xue.
"They rejected all our arguments," his lawyer, Tong Wei, said outside the courthouse.
The jail term handed down was described by his lawyer as "very heavy". Mr Xue was also fined 200,000 yuan (£19,500; $30,000).
"I'm extremely disappointed in the outcome, although it wasn't completely unexpected," Mr Huntsman said.
"We ask the Chinese government to consider an immediate humanitarian release of Xue Feng, thereby allowing him to get back to his family and to his way of life," Huntsman told reporters outside the court.
"This case has been brought up in every single meeting that I've been involved with for almost two years.
"We'll not let this one go," he added.
Our correspondent says that Washington had hoped that Xue Feng would be freed last month, ahead of President Hu Jintao's visit to the US.
Mr Xue had arranged the sale of an openly available database about China's largely state-controlled oil industry to his US consulting firm IHS Energy, now known as IHS inc.
The geologist has claimed that interrogators burned his arms with cigarettes and hit him on the head with an ashtray.
Three Chinese nationals were also sentenced for illegally providing intelligence abroad.
Draft regulations released by China's government last year defined business information held by state firms as state secrets.
Legal observers have also voiced concern that China's courts are ignoring legal procedures when dealing with sensitive cases.
They say that in Xue Feng's case, the time it took to reach the verdict delivered last July breached China's own legal time limits.
The driver of the Ulsterbus sustained minor injuries in the incident, which happened on the Portaferry Road at about 06:30 GMT on Wednesday.
Translink said no passengers were on board the bus and no other vehicles were involved.
It said the driver had been taken to hospital to be assessed and an investigation was ongoing.
"PSNI attended the scene," a Translink spokesperson said.
A major operation to recover the bus from the water has now ended.
Councillor Kellie Armstrong said her husband, Barry, who is deputy station officer with Portaferry coastguard, was called to the scene on Wednesday morning.
She said the driver of the bus was fortunate he did not sustain more serious injuries.
"I came past the scene on my commute to work this morning," she said.
"There is a substantial chunk out of the wall on the passenger side.
"The bus driver is lucky he did not sustain worse injuries, and was not thrown through the front window.
"It was windy and dark this morning, the tide was out at the time of the incident and it is lucky the tide was not in or the bus would have been submerged."
Councillor Armstrong said the removal process was hampered by the incoming tide later in the day.
"The tide came in and that made everything more complicated. The conditions were difficult for those involved in the removal."
Broadcasting Minister Matt Hancock said Welsh ministers gave "no good reason" for blocking the UK Government's nomination of businesswoman Carol Bell.
Mr Hancock called Welsh ministers' veto "unreasonable" and "very unfortunate".
He said the Welsh Government's representative previously agreed the UK government's choice was "appointable" and had sat on the interview panel.
The row has left an empty chair on the board.
Without naming Dr Bell, Mr Hancock told his Labour shadow Kevin Brennan in a written parliamentary answer: "We hope the Welsh Government will withdraw their objection, which is entirely unreasonable.
"A new competition will be run as soon as possible."
Mr Hancock said :"The Welsh minister for lifelong learning and Welsh language [Alun Davies] wrote to the secretary of state for culture, media and sport stating that the Welsh Government was unable to endorse the preferred candidate, despite the Welsh Government representatives having deemed the candidate as appointable at interview.
"This is very unfortunate, and no good reason has been given."
Last week, Mr Davies described UK ministers' handling of the matter a "textbook example" of how not to deal with such things.
Dr Bell, a former member of S4C's governing authority, has said she will not be commenting on the matter.
Omoregie, 21, ran a World Championships qualification 'A' standard of 13:47 seconds in his season opener at Loughborough last weekend.
He needs one more 'A' time and must finish in the top two at the British Trials on 1-2 July to cement his place.
"It was a really good weekend," said the student.
"I was hoping to open on a solid time but to start with a World Championships qualification time was great.
"It has taken off a little bit of pressure to get the standard, especially with what happened last year when I was chasing a time and eventually got it a week late.
"I still have to finish top two in the trials and get another time, but it's put me in a really good place."
Omoregie last year just missed out on the Olympics in Rio after running the qualification time a week after the deadline, before setting a new personal best of 13.24 secs in Berlin in September a month after the Games in Brazil.
So the Cardiff athlete has his own motivation for qualifying for the 2017 World Championships in his home country.
"It would be massive for me," said Omoregie.
"In 2012 I went to London as a spectator and I was inspired by the performances there and one day wanted to get there myself.
"This would also be my first senior outdoor major championships and I could learn so much from this ahead of the Commonwealth Games and European Championships next year and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics."
Omoregie was due to compete at the City Games in Manchester on Friday, which will go ahead despite the terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena on Monday evening.
But the Welshman pulled out of the event earlier this week because of a minor heel injury and will race next in Hengelo, Netherlands, on 11 June.
Omoregie's youngest sister, Sarah, is also showing promise after being named in a 39-strong team for this summer's Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas.
Sarah is a shot-putter and broke the British Under-18 record in Loughborough over the weekend.
"She has excelled over the last couple of years and I am really proud of her," said Omoregie.
"She is in a good position to get a medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games.
"If she keeps progressing she can throw really far in the future. My mum is really happy and been overwhelmed by the whole experience."
The York Independent Flood Inquiry investigated the reasons why more than 600 properties in the city flooded.
It highlighted issues over the suitability of the police command centre and problems in warning the public.
Recommendations include installing sirens and expanding the number of community flood wardens.
Following criticism from some members of the the public that they had not received updated flood warnings, the inquiry panel suggested the setting-up of an "opt-out" emergency system that would telephone all the homes and business in an area at risk of flooding.
The inquiry's chair Angharad Davies paid tribute to the "fortitude" of the people of York in dealing with the flooding.
Ms Davies said everybody in the city "had to work collectively to increase the resilience of residents and businesses so they are better prepared to recover more quickly from flooding".
She said: "We recognise the inevitability that York will flood again and any solutions need to be forward looking.
"They cannot simply address the current problems."
The Environment Agency had faced criticism from residents and politicians after hundreds of homes were flooded when the Foss Barrier was raised after water entered the control room.
The report said the decision by the EA to lift the barrier "was the best option available".
The inquiry added that the "decision had to be taken very quickly" and the EA "had no time to consult" other organisations.
The report said: "In future whenever possible, the EA should discuss decisions such as opening the Foss Barrier with their multi-agency partners."
The inquiry also concluded the Silver Command control centre set-up at Fulford Road Police Station was "not suitable" due to "limitations in space and IT facilities available".
A Kenyan contingent of the African Union force in Somalia was attacked by al-Shabab militants in el-Ade, in the south of the country.
Kenya has not said how many soldiers died, but al-Shabab puts the figure at more than 100.
The army has asked people to be patient while it investigates what happened.
In 1998 more than 200 people died when al-Qaeda attacked the US embassy in Kenya's capital, in one of the first operations launched by the jihadist group.
Kenya's Chief of Defence Forces Gen Samson Mwathe told journalists in Nairobi to imagine the damage that "three of those in that small defensive position" can cause.
The comparison with the 1998 embassy bombing suggests this could be one of the deadliest attacks to have occurred in the history of Kenya's army.
By comparing last Friday's attack with the embassy bombing, he is trying to prepare the country psychologically for what could be a large loss of life.
The general's comments would have caused considerable anxiety to the relatives and friends of the soldiers whose fate remains unknown.
They have been flocking to the information and counselling centres established in three barracks across the country, but they have been provided with minimal information.
The questions on everyone's lips are: "How many soldiers died?", and "Where are the survivors?".
The armed forces chief said that given the size of the explosion, DNA tests may be required for the identification of some of those who died.
But while Kenyans wait for answers, Gen Mwathe said that people should "exercise patience and support out families" as an investigation is carried out.
Last week, an al-Shabab official told the BBC that its fighters had attacked the base after morning prayers, starting with a car bomb before storming the facility.
"We took control of the base after one hour of fierce fighting," he said.
Al-Shabab was ousted from the capital, Mogadishu, in August 2011, but still has a presence in large areas of southern Somalia and often stages attacks across the country.
Kenyan sent troops into Somalia to help the government battle al-Shabab in 2011.
Raising the Bar will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November.
The series is part of the BBC's On Stage season, celebrating theatre in the UK.
Sir Lenny said it will highlight the "history and struggle of black British creativity" over the last century.
Trinidadian playwright Mustapha Matura, actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah and theatre director Paulette Randall are among interviewees.
"This Radio 4 series covers a huge span of black British theatre, TV and film - from Ira Aldridge to Steve McQueen and Nina Baden-Semper to Bola Agbaje - it's a great sweep of history that excites and stimulates the imagination," Sir Lenny said.
"It is easy to forget that there were precedents to our current age of BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) breakthroughs and by talking to the likes of Roy Williams and Mustapha Matura, we acknowledge that the young reach their current heights by standing on the shoulders of those that went before."
Sir Lenny has been a prominent campaigner for greater ethnic diversity in the arts.
He is part of BBC director general Tony Hall's working group - which includes broadcaster Floella Benjamin and DJ Nihal - to improve diversity at the corporation.
In December last year, he guest edited the Today programme on Radio 4.
It featured interviews with people who helped to break down racial barriers a generation ago, and asked what progress was still needed in fields such as broadcasting, sport and business.
Last year, delivering a lecture to Bafta, the comedian said funds should be set aside to boost the presence of BAME people in the broadcasting industry.
He put the presence of those from BAME backgrounds in the creative industry at 5.4%, a figure he described as "appalling".
BBC On Stage will be broadcast across radio, television and online in November as a push to get people involved in the creative arts.
The season will also include the previously announced adaptation of The Dresser starring Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Gwion Edwards' shot put the visitors ahead but Billy Kee levelled with a tap-in soon after the break.
Stanley's Shay McCartan and Crawley's Simon Walton were then sent off following a melee, while Accrington's unused substitute keeper Jason Mooney saw red for racing onto the pitch.
The home side took control and goals from Matty Pearson, Seamus Conneely and Piero Mingoia sealed the points.
Crawley Town boss Mark Yates told BBC Surrey:
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"The sending off affected us massively and it was a disgraceful tackle.
"I've just seen the incident 20 times and how he [the referee] can pick Simon Walton out and send him off is beyond me.
"But why the heck are we getting involved? Their lad is getting sent off straight away for a disgraceful tackle and we decided to even it up.
"The referee lost the plot for two or three minutes, I don't think he knew what he was doing. I am fuming at my players for getting involved and I am even more fuming with that last half hour display."
Lam, 28, joined the club in 2014 and, despite missing out on promotion to the Premiership, the Samoa forward has ignored interest elsewhere to re-sign.
He says the challenge of getting the club into the top flight was one he could not walk away from after their play-off loss to Worcester in May.
"I feel I've got unfinished business here," Lam told BBC Radio Bristol.
"There is a lot of talent here and massive potential at the club and I'll probably see my years out here. I couldn't see myself leaving the club and not helping them get up into the top flight.
"I've made some really good friendships in the team, the supporters are unreal and playing at Ashton Gate is a top facility."
Lam, who was part of Samoa's World Cup squad, says he could have signed elsewhere but ultimately thinks he will end his career at the club.
"I got a couple of approaches from other clubs but I couldn't see myself leaving having not helped them get promoted," he said. "Bristol is a home away from home and everyone here has made me feel very welcome.
"I'm not getting any younger, two more years takes me up to 30 and then I'll have to start thinking about what I do after rugby. There are not too many years left in me and I'd like to see my years out at Bristol."
And Lam, who has scored 12 tries in 17 appearances, says securing promotion would be one of the greatest achievements of his career.
"It would be massive, you go through a career without any silverware, that would hopefully be my first and it'll be one of biggest achievements in my rugby career," he added.
The Royal Lancaster Infirmary has again blamed "a significant surge in demand" for the problem.
It comes three weeks after a similar appeal was issued over a lack of beds.
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust said: "Yet again we are experiencing increased pressure in our A&E department at the RLI."
A trust spokesman said: "This is due mostly to patients that need to be admitted to our wards from A&E, however, due to delayed discharges and lack of bed availability, we are having to keep those patients in A&E."
Another appeal was made in March.
People who are not suffering serious illnesses or injuries are advised to dial the NHS advice line on 111, a pharmacist, Primary Care Assessment Centre, or GP.
The Magpies are 18th in the Premier League, having won six games and lost 14 this season.
McClaren said it was "one extreme to the other" as his side were "fantastic" in beating West Brom last month, seven days before losing 5-1 to Chelsea.
McClaren, 54, has also managed Middlesbrough, FC Twente, Wolfsburg, Nottingham Forest, Derby and England.
Many of those spells have been marked by unpredictability. Last season, Derby topped the Championship in February after eight wins in 11 games, only to finish eighth after winning just two of their last 13 matches.
Under McClaren, England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 after losing to Russia and twice to Croatia.
Newcastle visit Stoke on Wednesday (19:45 GMT).
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"You are going to get the best of British competing cheek-by-jowl against the best of the rest of the world. The track and field is the centrepiece of the Olympics and is the main event. I think Team GB are set for their best Olympics ever, as not only are they wonderfully talented, but they'll be competing in front of a partisan crowd. Dai Greene and Mo Farah will be going for gold. Christine Ohuruogu is the defending 400m champion and is raring to go. After all the controversy surrounding South Africa's Caster Semenya, it is going to be great to see her put that all behind her in London. She is definitely the woman to beat in the 800m."
That athletics event remains the Games' ultimate showstopper and all eyes will be trained on Usain Bolt in the men's final on Sunday 5 August.
But athletics is not just about the track events; there are 47 medal events in all and just over half of these (24) are on the track. The field events, such as the triple jump and javelin, are also popular and have provided Great Britain with Olympic medals in recent years.
For those unable to get tickets for the Olympic Stadium, there are five road races being held on the streets of central London and finishing at the Mall. The women's marathon will see British world record holder Paula Radcliffe attempt to win gold at the third time of asking.
The athletics concludes with the relay races on 11 August, which should provide a fascinating finale. The men's 4x100m has been dominated by the USA but Jamaica - led by that man Bolt - broke the world record to win gold in Beijing.
Athletics offer the widest range of choice of any Olympic sport as its various disciplines provide the opportunity to throw, run or jump.
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Immense core physical strength is required to throw a shot put that weighs 16 pounds for men and 8.8 pounds for women.
The test of endurance posed by the marathon sees athletes burn up to 3593 calories running a 26.2 mile course.
For those looking to follow in Bolt's footsteps, research has found sprinting offers a harder workout than slow and steady cardiovascular work such as long-distance running.
It is also an efficient way to reduce body fat and strengthen the heart muscles.
As training sessions are often carried out in groups, it is an excellent way to develop communication skills and learn to work effectively with other people. Clubs also offer a variety of social events beyond simply playing the sport.
Great Britain's Kelly Holmes became the oldest winner of the women's 800m when clinching gold in 2004. The 34-year-old had plenty more to give though - five days later she produced a memorable sprint finish to win the 1500m.
If you want to run, jump or throw, athletics provides the perfect platform to compete. The United Kingdom Athletics Grassroots scheme provides information on how you can begin taking part whether as an athlete, coach, official or volunteer.
Take the first step by finding your local club on the UKA website, with over 1,400 throughout the country.
Your local club will also be able to tell you what equipment you will need for the event you wish to try.
The UKA Academy provides a great source of schemes, with qualified coaches on hand to put on a variety of training courses aimed to excite and challenge people of all ages and abilities. A packed calendar of events happening in stadiums and running tracks throughout the UK can be found on the Academy's website.
Further information is also available on the England Athletics,Athletics Northern Ireland,Scottishathletics and Welsh Athletics websites.
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'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers.
More than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved.
As well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out.
Find an event near you.
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The regulations across 40 different disciplines are many and varied, with governing body the International Association of Athletics Federations responsible for standardised rules, technical equipment and world records.
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Team GB head coach Charles van Commenee has targeted eight medals, a figure unmatched by a British Olympic team since 1988.
Leading the way on the track are world champions Mo Farah and Dai Greene, while heptathlete Jessica Ennis and triple jumper Phillips Idowu have the motivation and talent to get gold.
Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt has a pretender to his crown - training partner Yohan Blake. The younger Blake won the world 100m title last year after Bolt false-started, and weeks later he ran the second-fastest 200m in history.
Australian world 100m hurdles champion Sally Pearson will be expected to upgrade her Olympic silver medal from 2008.
The word athletics is derived from the Greek word 'athlos,' which means "contest" or "task," and the sport was first run in an Olympic format in that part world.
Before then, running, walking, jumping, and throwing-based sports had all been performed in a variety of different guises far back into antiquity. Ancient Egyptian tombs dated to approximately 2250 BC have been found that contained depictions of running and high jump competitions.
Discus thrower Jules Noël of France was denied a medal in 1932 when the judges were distracted watching the pole vault and didn't see where his best throw had landed; it would likely have won him gold. Noël, who sneaked off to drink champagne during the competition, was awarded an extra throw but was unable to improve on fourth place.
The first event contested in the ancient Olympic Games was the "stadium" race, a sprint of about 192 metres, with recorded winners dating back as far as 776 BC.
The modern format of athletics, competed at a single meeting involving numerous disciplines, evolved in the late 19th century, with the earliest recorded meeting in 1840 in Shropshire, England.
The formation of the Amateur Athletic Association in England in 1880 provided the sport with its first national governing body.
The American Amateur Athletic Union and French Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques followed before the end of that decade.
Athletics has been on the programme of each edition of the Games since 1896, with women's events appearing for the first time at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.
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Mr Mason, 53, from Ipswich, was recording an episode of The View alongside US resident Rebecca Mountain, who he had met online.
He said yes and has vowed to lose enough weight to allow him to walk down the aisle.
"I don't want to go down that aisle in a wheelchair," Mr Mason said.
Mr Mason, who at his heaviest weighed 70 stone (440kg), flew to the United States in December to spend Christmas with Ms Mountain and to see a consultant about surgery to remove excess skin.
He got his weight down to 22 stone (140kg) with the help of gastric band surgery but said his life is on hold until the excess skin was removed.
Mr Mason went to New York to meet with Dr Jennifer Capla, who has agreed to donate her time to perform the operations.
"What she's going to do is my tummy and my arms, both at the same time," Mr Mason said.
"I thought just the tummy would be major surgery on its own, but she feels confident that because my health is good, she could do the arms at the same time.
"It's excellent."
Mr Mason said he received a second surprise on The View, saying the programme found someone to pay the $17,000 (£10,341) he had been fundraising for the cost of the first operation.
"We've still got to fundraise to pay for the aftercare," Mr Mason said, adding that he hoped Friday's broadcast of the show in the United States would prompt people to add to the $1,170 (£711) already raised.
"I'm excited, all I've got to do is go back to the UK, get a medical visa, and then come back."
The couple said they had not set a date for the wedding.
Ms Mountain said: "There's so many things we need to do to take care of Paul first.
"There will be another surgery for his legs, but not for another six to eight months."
The 28-year-old medical equipment salesman is trying to find a girlfriend at speed-dating events, but without much luck so far.
Over a pot of tea in a restaurant, he tells me he is having no more success in finding a property that he can afford.
Despite prices falling sharply in Hangzhou, Jian is still struggling to find a place of his own -even with a decent salary.
"I'm keeping a very close eye on the falling prices, and will keep doing that," he says, between slurps of chrysanthemum flower tea.
Prices across China surged in the decade up until the beginning of this year.
The government decided to try to take some heat out of the market, so people like Jian would have a chance of buying.
The policy seems to have worked, but perhaps a little too well.
Property values have recently been falling fast in many Chinese cities, and some say that a property bubble could be bursting.
At one property development here in eastern Hangzhou, the asking price of new apartments has been reduced by 25%, compared to the original sales price in 2011.
The show flat is decorated very extravagantly, with a chandelier in the living room and a large walk-in wardrobe as big as a bedroom.
The sales agent, who only gives her name as Miss Wang, shows me around.
She explains it is a "perfect apartment" for a three-person family - a family that can afford $900,000 (£530.000), that is.
"The banks have tighter cash flow. People think the government might launch something like a property tax. That would make the price go a bit lower so buyers have started to wait and see," she explains.
Developers and builders seem keen to cash in as soon as they can.
"The real estate developer wants to get their investment back. That's why we're giving a better discount," she says.
The risk for developers is that buyers will continue to wait, and so prices will continue to fall.
Yet despite falling prices, it seems as if Hangzhou is ringed by building sites.
In one northern suburb, a dozen apartment blocks are being built. They're going up at quite a speed.
At one, a man in a white hard hat is precariously balanced on the edge of a lower floor, banging in some flooring. A man next to him is leaning down, cigarette in mouth, to grab a saw.
At another building site, a large, bright red sign publicises the fact that the aim is to shift these new flats as quickly as possible.
It offers "zero deposit and 0% interest rates".
For many economists this has all the hallmarks of a property bubble, though they disagree about whether it is bursting or merely deflating.
"Housing construction has some kind of bubble, since there have been many investments in the sector," says Cai Fang, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) and an adviser to the government.
Sitting in his central Beijing office, he highlights the balancing act the authorities are trying to pull off.
"The central government wants to see the falling prices, but at the same time wants it to go slowly."
Yet, in Hangzhou, some of the price falls have been fast.
One property developer's office in the city was smashed up by buyers.
They were angry they had paid more for their apartments a year ago than their new neighbours were now paying.
"A lot in China depends on confidence, and it's a matter of trying to get the middle class to think the value of their investment will go up again," says Jonathan Fenby, China director at Trusted Sources.
It's not just households' balance sheets which are exposed.
The property market - including construction, furnishing, sales of white goods and so on - is varyingly estimated to make up 15-30% of China's economy.
Jonathan Fenby warns that there's a risk for the Chinese economy and its leaders too.
"If there were a serious property crash, that would be politically a very big danger."
But it could be good news for Ye Jian, the man in Hangzhou searching for an apartment.
"I hope the prices keep going down," he says.
He's carrying on search for a girlfriend, too. He didn't find anyone he liked at the speed-dating event.
A cross-party group of peers said Britain's financial sector must be offered a Brexit "bridge" to prevent firms moving to rival locations such as New York, Dublin, Frankfurt or Paris.
It urged the government to act to stop business tumbling off a "cliff edge".
It comes as Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to meet other EU leaders at a summit meeting in Brussels.
Mrs May will take part in EU-wide discussions on defence, foreign affairs, migration and the economy as well as holding bilateral meetings with the leaders of Latvia and Lithuania and the president of the European Parliament.
However, she will not be present for a dinner on Thursday evening - at which the EU's remaining 27 leaders are expected to discuss their approach to Brexit.
In other Brexit developments:
The UK is expected to begin official negotiations on the terms of its exit this Spring following the Leave vote in June's referendum.
Businesses are pushing for an interim arrangement to safeguard the interests of companies, investors and customers during the period between the UK's departure and when post-Brexit trading and regulatory arrangements are settled.
In the latest of a series of Lords Committee reports on Brexit, its EU financial affairs sub-committee said firms could decide to remove their operations from London because of uncertainty about what kind of agreement would be negotiated for cross-border trade.
Analysis by Simon Jack, the BBC's business editor
There are many definitions of what such a Brexit transition might look like.
Is it merely an implementation period for a largely agreed deal or is it a longer term arrangement that keeps the status quo in place while details are worked out more slowly?
Either way, the pressure for more clarity is growing. The Lords Committee is warning that thousands of banking jobs will go to Europe if some sort of transition deal is not made ready.
Lobbying group TheCityUK will endorse that view and privately bankers are finalising contingency plans and some are close to pressing "Go".
The chairman of HSBC, Douglas Flint, has told Bloomberg TV that the bank was looking at the option of moving staff to Paris if needed.
As one source told me: "There is no enthusiasm for leaving. Banks are looking for excuses to stay."
We'll soon see whether the sudden warmth towards a transitional deal is excuse enough.
Baroness Falkner, the Lib Dem peer who chairs the committee, said that while she did not detect any sense of panic in the City, it was important "red lines" were set out in areas such as passporting rights, which London firms need in order to trade freely across EU.
"Companies may decide that uncertainty is too high a price to pay so they might as well move to Dublin, they might as well move to Frankfurt - that is our great concern."
The Lords urged businesses to strengthen the government's negotiating hand by sharing internal analysis about their passporting rights as soon as possible.
It said a failure to do so could leave companies seeking equivalent provisions that are "patchy, unreliable and vulnerable to political influence".
However, it said building a detailed picture may prove a challenge for the government because some City firms do not fully understand their reliance on passporting.
"The committee got a sense that [government] engagement has been sporadic and it should be more consistent and there ought to be a clearer view," Baroness Falkner said.
The Lords also stressed the importance of firms being able to seamlessly move staff around Europe to ensure they and the growing FinTech sector continued to thrive.
Speaking on Friday, Mr Davis said his over-arching goal was "maximum access to markets with the minimum disruption" to firms as part of a "smooth and orderly" exit.
He said a transitional agreement was possible "if necessary" but he believed both sides should be able to conclude a full EU withdrawal agreement within the 18-month timeframe set out by EU negotiators.
James John Boyle failed to return to the open prison near Dundee following a period of home leave
The 24-year-old was reported missing at 15:40 on Wednesday.
Police Scotland said it was understood that Boyle travelled to the Clydebank area for the home leave visit and has connections to the Drumchapel area of Glasgow.
He was described as being 5ft 8in tall, of medium build, and clean shaven with short brown hair.
Health inspectors found the fast food restaurant in the Bullring had evidence of "mouse activity throughout the premises", including food preparation areas.
Parent company, Caspian Food Services also had to pay £1,389 in court costs.
The branch has since been re-inspected and given a top hygiene rating.
Caspian Food Services pleaded guilty at Birmingham Magistrates' Court to four offences under the Food Safety and Hygiene Regulation after being prosecuted by the city council.
Inspectors found mouse droppings in the food preparation and storage areas, as well as evidence of inadequate cleaning and food exposed to risk of contamination.
The premises was closed on 2 February 2015 as there was deemed to be "an imminent risk to public health" and reopened two days later.
A further unannounced inspection was carried out in June by environmental health officers, after which Burger King was given a Food Hygiene Rating of five - the maximum score.
Simon Stuart, 30, attacked 19-year-old Jodie McKenna outside a McDonald's restaurant in Glasgow on 4 April.
At the city's high court, he admitted a string of charges, including assault and offences under the Firearms Act.
Judge Lord Turnbull told Stuart he was a "dangerous individual" that the public need protected from.
Stuart has a lengthy criminal record and was jailed for six years for assault in 2004.
He was on bail at the time of the pepper spray attack in connection with a breach of the peace.
Stuart's lawyer Sean Templeton said his client was sorry and told the court that Stuart claimed he had found the pepper spray before the assault.
But Lord Turnbull told Stuart: "That you simply found this item is simply preposterous and comes close to an insult to the court's intelligence.
"You possess an on-going willingness to resort to violence without provocation. You are a dangerous individual that the public requires to be protected from."
The court heard that Ms McKenna had been out with friends at Frampton's nightclub, in the Maryhill area, when she rebuffed Stuart's attempts to chat her up.
He then became abusive and threatened her by saying: "Just you wait and see what...happens outside."
Doormen were alerted to what had gone on and ordered Stuart out.
Later, Ms McKenna went to a nearby McDonald's restaurant with a friend after leaving the club.
Stuart, who by this time had changed clothes, suddenly re-appeared and approached Ms McKenna.
When she tried to ignore him he became aggravated and produced the pepper spray canister and discharged it in her face,
As Stuart fled, one of Ms McKenna's friends dragged her into the McDonald's and immediately washed her face.
The victim experienced problems with her breathing and eyesight and was treated in hospital. She suffered no lasting damage but continues to suffer from stress as a result of her ordeal.
Stuart was not traced until weeks later at his girlfriend's home after a warrant had been issued for his arrest.
A new elimination-based system will be introduced for the 2016 season, which starts next month, if teams given it the go-ahead in the next few days.
Brit Hamilton, who drives for Mercedes, hopes the changes will help spice up the sport but said: "I don't really feel like it is going to change much."
Williams driver Felipe Massa added that the plan could cause "chaos".
The idea is to retain the current system of three parts of qualifying, but eliminate one driver at a time through each of the sessions.
This would result in a 90-second shoot-out for pole position between two drivers.
"I don't know if it I like it or not," added Massa. "I need to have a little bit of time to sit down and understand the rules, understand the change.
"The only thing I understand is that they want to create some chaos - and this will happen for sure."
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo agreed with Hamilton.
"I don't know how much it's going to change," he said.
"It might put a little bit more pressure on us to execute the lap early in the session because after five minutes or something they're going to start ticking them off."
F1's governing body the FIA has also agreed the fundamentals of changes to make the cars faster and more dramatic-looking in 2017.
These will result in wider cars, with wider bodywork and wider tyres, and more downforce created from the underfloor.
The teams had been trying to lower the weight of the cars, to help with the plan to make them faster, but they have ended up being 20kg heavier.
Hamilton described the situation as "ridiculous".
He said he had been wondering why his car had been sliding around on the track and only realised late on that it was because the cars weigh more.
"That makes a big, big difference," said the three-time world champion.
"They don't have to change the regulations much to make it go faster, just make the cars lighter. They are just super heavy."
Hamilton did not comment directly on the specific design changes planned but said: "I don't agree with the changes that are made and have been made for many years, so you just live with it."
He also said he felt the drivers should have more input into rule changes.
Might the Syrian government seek to employ chemical weapons against rebel forces as a last resort ? It says that it would not use such weapons in this way.
But perhaps of even greater concern is what might happen to these weapons if the country descends into anarchy with nobody in effective control?
President Barack Obama's explicit warning to President Assad coincides with press reports citing an unnamed US official, claiming that the Syrian regime had begun mixing the chemicals required to make sarin nerve gas.
Within some 24 hours a second, different official was quoted by NBC News as insisting that there was in fact no evidence that the Syrian military had begun to mix the precursor chemicals needed to produce the deadly nerve agent.
So what is going on? Without access to the intelligence data it is almost impossible to say. Was there an element of political spin here to accompany Nato's decision to deploy patriot missiles in Turkey?
Sources contacted by the BBC say that there are indications of activity at certain chemical weapons storage sites.
However it is of course impossible to determine if this is a preliminary to the weapons' use or, as some analysts believe, much more likely, the movement of munitions to ensure their security. Indeed such movement has been noted in the past.
What is clear is that US and western intelligence agencies are monitoring Syria's chemical arsenal as closely as they can and for good reason.
There are even persistent reports in the US that preparations are being made to secure such stocks in the event of a regime meltdown.
One aspect of the problem is the scale and scope of Syria's chemical weapons programme.
Leonard Spector, executive director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies based in Washington, notes that: "Syria has one of the world's largest chemical weapon arsenals, including traditional chemical agents, such as mustard, and more modern nerve agents, such as sarin, and possibly persistent nerve agents, such as VX.
"Syria is thought to have a number of major chemical weapon complexes, some in areas of current conflict, such as the Homs and Hama regions. The bases are said to be guarded by elite forces, but whether they would stay at their posts if the Assad regime collapses cannot be predicted."
An additional concern is the manner in which the different kinds of chemical weapons are stored.
Mr Spector notes that while the mustard agent is believed to be stored in bulk form, rather than in individual munitions, other agents are thought to be in "binary" munitions, in which two innocuous solutions combine when the munition is fired to create the chemical warfare agent.
These might be more easily transported and used than the bulk agent.
Mr Spector adds: "US officials believe Syria's chemical arms are stored in secure bunkers at a limited number of sites and have not been dispersed into the field."
Beyond the intelligence services there is little hard and fast detail on Syria's chemical weapons programme.
Unlike Libya, which had signed the Chemical Weapons Convention and was in the process of dismantling its stocks when Muammar Gaddafi's regime collapsed, Syria has not joined the convention and thus has never made any formal declarations of its stocks.
Sources: CSIS, RUSI
Could US remove Syria chemical weapons?
Indeed as Charles Blair, a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists underlines, Libya is not a terribly useful precedent when considering the potential problems surrounding Syria's chemical arsenal.
Libya's arsenal was much smaller; stocks of mustard agent were essentially old; locations of stockpiles were known and the Libyan authorities were co-operating in their destruction.
Crucially too, says Mr Blair, there are huge differences in the two countries' potential abilities to deliver chemical weapons.
"Libya was able to deliver its sole CW agent via aerial bombs only - a militarily ineffective manner in this case," he says.
"Syria, by comparison, is thought to possess a variety of platforms for chemical weapons delivery - an open-source CIA report lists aerial bombs, artillery shells and ballistic missiles."
There is considerable discussion as to the nature of the threat Syria's weapons pose.
Leonard Spector says that there are multiple dangers.
"Conceivably, the Assad government could use some of these agents against rebel forces or even civilians in an effort to intimidate them into submission," he says.
"Or insurgents could overrun one of the chemical weapon sites and threaten to use some of these weapons, in extremis, if threatened with overwhelming force by the Syrian army."
The scenario that is causing the greatest concern, he says, is the possible loss of control over Syria's chemical arsenal leading to the transfer of chemical weapons to Hezbollah, in Southern Lebanon, or to al-Qaeda.
Components of both organisations are now operating in Syria as one of the groups challenging the Assad regime, he says.
Such a link-up between al-Qaeda-affiliated groups and weapons of mass destruction has haunted US military planners for more than a decade.
In the face of such concerns there has been considerable pressure, not least from Washington, for the US to come up with plans to secure the Syrian weapons in the event of the collapse of the regime.
There has been a succession of press reports displaying various degrees of bravado suggesting US Special Forces are being readied to swoop in and take over Syria's chemical weapons infrastructure.
The reality is more complex. Such a mission would require significant numbers of "boots on the ground" in highly volatile circumstances.
As Charles Blair makes clear: "The Iraq experience demonstrates the difficulty of securing highly sensitive military storage facilities."
He argues that in Syria the challenges are likely to be greater "because no foreign army stands poised to enter the country to locate and secure chemical weapons manufacturing and storage facilities".
Of course, as Leonard Spector points out, details of US contingency planning are not known.
"The most desirable plan would be to urge the weapons' current custodians to remain in place during any transition of power, and to place the sites under the supervision of an international contingent that could monitor the weapons' security, as decisions were made about how to manage or destroy them in the future," he says.
However, he adds: "For the US to attempt to secure the sites in the face of armed resistance by Syrian forces would be extremely demanding, given the number of the sites involved and their considerable size."
Of course if the Assad regime were to go, a whole new set of issues emerges.
Would any new Syrian government agree to join the convention and agree to eliminate its chemical weapons stocks?
Or, as Leonard Spector notes, would they instead "insist on retaining them as a counter to Israel's nuclear capabilities and as a bargaining chip in future negotiations with Israel over the Golan Heights?"
The NHS trust boards of Ipswich and Colchester Hospitals have voted to develop plans for a single combined organisation to care for patients.
The two hospitals already have a joint chief executive, Nick Hulme, and will decide on a full merger next year.
Mr Hulme said: "We now have the challenge of setting out how we will create a new trust."
In the coming months, the trusts say they will be asking the public, patients, staff and stakeholders to help define how they can improve services.
Mr Hulme said it was a "landmark opportunity" to create the future for healthcare in the area.
A final decision to form a single organisation, which would also require approval from health regulators, is expected to be made in June 2018.
The union Unison has been asked to comment on the plans.
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Tens of thousands of Cubans attended the ceremony, as well as world leaders.
Raul Castro vowed to honour the socialist principles and goals of the revolution led by Fidel, who died on 25 November aged 90.
He also announced that Cuba would ban naming any monuments or roads after Fidel Castro, at the request of the late leader.
"The leader of the revolution strongly opposed any manifestation of cult of personality," said Raul Castro.
No statues or busts of Fidel will be erected in Cuba, he said.
The urn with his ashes will be interred on Sunday in Santiago, known as the birthplace as the Cuban Revolution.
It arrived on Saturday in Santiago, after a four-day journey from the capital, Havana.
Large crowds shouting 'Long live Fidel!" and "I am Fidel!" greeted his funeral cortege through the streets of Santiago.
The leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia have attended the ceremony.
"All of us who love Fidel, who is a father to us. He cleared a path for us and the people will follow him," Tania Maria Jimenez told Reuters.
She was among thousands of Cubans watching as the urn with Mr Castro's ashes was driven past the historic Moncada barracks in Santiago.
Fidel Castro was part of the small group of revolutionaries who launched an attack on the barracks on 26 July 1953.
The attacked failed, but it was considered the first act of the revolution that would depose the US-backed government of Fulgencio Batista on 1 January 1959.
Opinion on Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century, remains divided.
Supporters say he returned Cuba to the people and praise him for some of his social programmes, such as public health and education.
But critics call him a dictator, who led a government that did not tolerate opposition and dissent.
Raul Castro took over when his brother's health deteriorated in 2006.
Fidel Castro's ashes will be placed in the Ifigenia Cemetery, where Cuban independence hero Jose Marti is buried.
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Thirteen Slovakian immigrants were found at Iqbal Bros picture frame factory in Rochdale, on Monday.
Mohamad Iqbal, 51, of Belmont Way and Najum Mohammed Iqbal, 40, of Harrison Close are both charged with knowingly requiring another person to perform forced or compulsory labour.
Both have been remanded in custody.
The pair are due to appear at Bury and Rochdale Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
Three other men arrested as part of the police operation have been released on bail pending further enquiries.
Nurse Josie Butler yelled "That's for raping our sovereignty" when she threw what appeared to be a large rubber penis at Steven Joyce's face.
She said it was a protest against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, signed in Auckland on Thursday.
Mr Joyce was unhurt and later took to Twitter to make a joke of the incident.
Prime Minister John Key had pulled out of attending the event amid a row about New Zealand's role in the TPP.
New Zealand's national day marks the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, which made New Zealand a part of the British Empire and guaranteed rights to the indigenous Maori population, although many were not fully respected.
Mr Joyce did not appear to be harmed by the missile, which hit him in the face as he was talking to reporters.
Ms Butler was taken away by police, but is reportedly now out of custody with no charges laid against her.
The minister himself appeared to take it in good humour, suggesting that a popular gif made of the incident be sent to the US Daily Show comedian John Oliver - known for making jokes about New Zealand - "so we can get it over with".
The demonstration also led to numerous humorous responses on social media, with some dubbing it #dildogate.
Prime ministers usually attend Waitangi Day events at the invitation of the Maori trustees of the Te Tii Marae land, on which the Waitangi Treaty was signed.
But Mr Key pulled out of attending on Thursday after the trustees told him he would not be allowed to discuss politics at the signing location.
The dispute centred on the TPP, a 12-nation trade pact which has angered many Maori who say it surrenders national sovereignty that should be guaranteed by the treaty.
Signing it days before Waitangi Day was also seen as insensitive.
Other activists have also criticised the deal for, they say, undermining environmental, social and other protections.
Ms Butler, who has campaigned against the deal, told media the TPP would increase the price of medicines and undermine public healthcare.
Hughes was sent to the stand for reacting angrily to two incidents during the 4-0 defeat by Tottenham.
The 52-year-old said the FA charge "rubbed salt into the wounds".
"There is no point appealing because if you appeal and lose then it costs you more money," he said.
"I would prefer to give that to my grandchildren."
The Welshman, who was upset by the decision to book Marko Arnautovic for diving during Saturday's game, was charged on Tuesday and could face a touchline ban.
Stoke said they would speak to the FA about a "potentially inconsistent approach" from match officials to managers leaving their technical areas.
The Potters, who travel to Crystal Palace on Sunday (14:15 BST), are bottom of the Premier League with one point from four games.
However, Hughes is confident his squad will turn things around
"We haven't yet been able to produce a really strong 90-minute performance, but that will come," he said.
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Alexis Sanchez is fit, but a thigh injury has sidelined Lucas Perez, while Santi Cazorla's Achilles injury has ruled him out until next season.
Kevin de Bruyne and Raheem Sterling are both in contention for Manchester City despite picking up injuries while on international duty.
Gabriel Jesus and Ilkay Gundogan remain long-term absentees.
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Steve Wilson: "Two meetings in three weeks between Arsenal and Manchester City look pivotal to both clubs' seasons.
"If Arsene Wenger finds himself at a crossroads, so do some members of City's staff. It's hard to see anything other than a major Etihad clearout in the summer, with Pep Guardiola having judged a squad with an ageing core and found it wanting.
"Guardiola will firmly believe that a golden time lies ahead - conjuring images of Leroy Sane, Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus thrilling fans and haunting opponents.
"Think of Wenger's wonder years at Arsenal and the images are of Tony Adams, Marc Overmars, Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira framed by that familiar Highbury backdrop.
"These are certainly great memories of some of the finest football played on English fields - but they are memories of a different time and a different place."
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "Our season will be decided by the next two months and the ability we show to fight.
"Our future will be decided by our mental qualities. We have had enough press conferences about (my future) and at this moment it is not the most important thing at the club.
"It's a strange season because we played 20 games unbeaten but I cannot sit here and say we have no flaws in our team because we have."
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola: "Arsene and the Arsenal players are so professional. They want to win every game.
"When you lose a lot it is the most dangerous moment to face them. I would prefer to face Arsenal after a lot of wins."
Manchester City have dropped a few points recently, with two successive draws. I think they will make it three in a row at Emirates Stadium.
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When I went back to get coffee three hours later, it was gone. Instead, there was a pile of rubble - as if a miniature tornado had swept along the small row of shops that had been there, gobbling each and every one of them up, before abruptly running out of steam at a huge apartment building.
This strip of businesses - fronting a leafy street - was unique for Lagos. There were cafes with benches outside, a small supermarket stocking the essentials, a brand new pharmacy, a bakery and a dance studio - all of them run by women.
That morning, at 09:00 Ada Osakwe, owner of Nuli Juice, got a call from her manager who told her armed police with a bulldozer were outside the cafe.
The officers said the building was to be demolished immediately.
When she arrived 10 minutes later, Ada found her staff trying to rip fixtures from the walls and throwing tables and chairs out of the window onto the rain-soaked street.
Later, I saw videos of a bulldozer with its yellow metal claw hacking at the polished wood and glass of this brand new cafe.
All the businesses were razed to the ground by the Lagos state government. The owners stood on the street staring in disbelief at what had just happened.
And the reason for all this destruction?
The engineer in charge told the owners that the premises had no permit - and that they had told the landlord this six months earlier.
Two days after the demolition, Lagos state government issued a statement saying the buildings were "causing environmental nuisance, traffic snarls and more importantly a security threat to the neighbourhood".
But I live on this road and have never noticed a problem with traffic or felt any threat.
Demolitions of businesses - especially market stalls or roadside shops - happen regularly in Lagos.
The government usually says these traders have no permit or permission to operate.
Razing concrete buildings to the ground happens less often.
But just a few days after the Lagos demolition, a bakery in the capital Abuja was threatened with demolition too, after five years in business at the same spot.
When I posted a video of the Lagos demolition on Twitter, I got caught up in a social media storm of indignation.
Many people were asking where the landlord was in all of this.
He's currently abroad, but I tracked him down and he told me that he found out about the demolition the evening after it had happened.
He seemed to me as shocked about it as the tenants.
He told me the building had been marked with an X in red paint last March, so he went to see officials in the state government to find out why.
He said he showed them what he had invested in the area - paving the public road and fixing the drainage.
He added that the officials told him they would get back to him.
And that was the last he had heard - until the demolition.
But he wasn't too keen to complain.
"In Nigeria, you take any beating from the government," he said. "If you make a fuss, the government will go after you."
Recently, Lagos state government also closed a market that had emerged around a police barracks.
The owners of those businesses are suing the state.
What they intend to argue, I've been told, is that the authorities in Lagos were inconsistent.
They allowed the shops on my road to stay open for much longer than the ones near the police barracks.
It may be impossible to unearth what prompted the order to rip down six thriving small businesses. But if the reaction is anything to go by it was an insensitive move at a sensitive time for Nigeria.
The country is now officially in recession, following the fall in the oil price.
To reduce dependency on oil, the federal government says it's promoting agriculture and entrepreneurship.
But that claim feels empty when a juice bar that works with local farmers is torn down, along with a vegetable shop that sells Nigerian produce.
Just a few days before the demolition, I followed Mark Zuckerberg as he made a surprise visit to Lagos.
The Facebook founder praised the country's entrepreneurial spirit and the great and the good of Nigeria nodded in approval.
But one young tech entrepreneur who met Mr Zuckerberg told me that businesses like hers thrive, not because of their government but despite it.
They battle poor infrastructure, erratic power supply, sky-rocketing inflation and government that they think throws obstacles in their path.
Many Nigerian businesses are struggling.
And for now any pledges to help entrepreneurs mean little to those on the street I live on, who are still picking through the rubble - to salvage what is left.
It's called the Taxi Fabric Project and the idea is to give new designers and artists to an opportunity to show off their work.
Taxis are a popular mode of transport in India so it's hoped lots of people will see them.
They feature all sorts of images from historic freedom fighters to life under the sea.
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The 17-year-old was trailing Great Britain's Kyle Edmund 6-3 6-4 2-1 when he struck the ball in anger and hit Arnaud Gabas - and defaulted the match.
He must pay $2,000 for the default and $5,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct, escaping the maximum $12,000 penalty as it was not deemed intentional.
The International Tennis Federation has said no further action is anticipated.
The Davis Cup World Group first-round tie in Ottawa was poised at 2-2 after Vasek Pospisil beat Dan Evans to set up a decider, but Canada's hopes ended when Shapovalov was disqualified after letting frustration get the better of him.
He later apologised to Frenchman Gabas in the match referee's office before the umpire went to Ottwawa General Hospital as a precaution.
No damage to the cornea or retina was found and Gabas will see an eye doctor in France on Tuesday for a further examination.
Shapovalov, who had just dropped serve when the incident happened, said he feels "incredibly ashamed and embarrassed".
"I just feel awful for letting my team down, for letting my country down, for acting in a way that I would never want to act," he added.
"I can promise that's the last time I will do anything like that. I'm going to learn from this and try to move past it."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
Shapovalov was full of remorse and handled himself very impressively in the hour after his disqualification. He is only 17, and should be allowed to put this behind him.
But - given the ferocity with which he hit the ball away - this appears a lenient response from the ITF.
By way of comparison: Heather Watson was fined $12,000 and Serena Williams $10,000 for smashing racquets into Wimbledon's turf last year. Yes, they are both much more experienced than Shapovalov - but the consequences in Ottawa were potentially far greater.
I wonder if chair umpires around the world feel their employers are doing all they can to protect them?
Several athletes have come under scrutiny after stolen medical records showed they used banned substances for medical reasons under TUE rules.
Culture, media and sport select committee chairman Damien Collins, said MPs wanted to understand the system.
"It may well be that nobody has done anything wrong but is the process itself right?" he told the BBC.
It was revealed on Friday that MPs wanted to question British Cycling about the issue and speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek on Sunday, Collins explained: "We want to understand more about the way TUEs works and how British Cycling oversees that as the governing body.
"Cycling has had its problems with doping in the past and we also want to speak to the World Anti-Doping Agency about it."
TUEs have been brought into the spotlight by the Fancy Bears hackers with Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Laura Kenny among the British athletes to have the data of their use leaked.
All of the British athletes whose use of TUEs has been revealed have denied they were seeking any sporting advantage, saying they were issued for genuine medical needs.
The select committee hearing follows those into doping in athletics, which heard submissions from top officials such as president of world governing body the IAAF and London 2012 Olympic chief Lord Coe and British Athletics chairman Ed Warner.
Collins said the committee may also ask British Cycling about claims one of its staff delivered a medical package to Team Sky in France on the day Wiggins won the Criterium du Dauphine in La Toussuire in 2011.
The UK Anti-Doping Agency is already investigating the claims made by the Daily Mail newspaper.
Collins said he did not believe it would be acceptable for British Cycling to say it was unable to recall the contents of the package, which still remains a mystery.
"With something as important as this, they should have records," he said. "In a sport like cycling, there should be a degree of transparency and that is one of our concerns."
The news of the hearing came as former British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton said he was "adamant that I am innocent" after he was found to have used sexist language towards double European sprint champion Jess Varnish.
The governing body expressed "sincere regret" after an investigation led to Varnish's allegations being upheld.
Varnish, 25, claimed in an interview with the Daily Mail in April that Sutton told her to "go and have a baby", adding that she had "a list as long as my arm about comments I've had about my figure and it's not right".
Sutton, 59, resigned in April having been suspended pending the investigation, and could yet appeal or take legal action.
"I have definitely never overstepped the mark with Jess Varnish or any other athlete," the Australian told the Sunday Telegraph.
"I put my trust in [the investigation]. I have gone back to them now and asked for the supporting evidence to try to understand how they have arrived at this conclusion."
Residents in the town have spent 18 years campaigning to have the Dibble Tree in Ferrier Street protected.
The 30ft (9m) "cricket bat" willow was planted in 1797, and the present town of Carnoustie grew up around it.
Carnoustie's name is said to derive from the Scottish phrase craw's noustie, or crow's nest, after the birds which nest in the tree.
The Dibble Tree now sits between a back lane and a disused public toilet, and fears were raised after adjacent trees were cut down.
It dates back to the late 1790s when Thomas Lowson, a loom wright, was granted the first patch of land in the area now occupied by the town.
In 1797, it is said that while farming cabbage he left the willow stick he had been using stuck in the ground, and later found it had taken root and sprouted leaves.
Angus Council head of planning Vivien Smith recommended the order be granted, calling the tree "an important part of cultural history".
Willows are not normally expected to live more than 150 years, but the Dibble Tree has prospered despite being split in two almost to the roots by a lightning strike in the 19th Century.
Mr Lowson's great-great-grandson Davie, 94, had supported the call for the preservation order.
Ian Bear and Ryan Lawrence, both from Airdrie, were also given five-year football banning orders.
The incident happened during disorder at Forfar Athletic's tie with Airdrieonians in April last year.
Bear, 36, and Lawrence, 19, both pleaded guilty midway through their trial to a breach of the peace.
They admitted running on the field of play, shouting, swearing, using foul language and struggling with Mr Douglas at Station Park, Forfar, on 11 April, 2015.
An allegation that the crime was motivated by sectarianism was removed from the charges.
Mr Douglas told Forfar Sheriff Court that he received sectarian abuse from supporters in the crowd and was spat on as he took a goal kick towards the end of the game.
Mr Douglas said: "The final whistle had just went and I heard our left back, Iain Campbell, shouting at me and I turned round.
"The first man was about two feet away from me.
"I tried to protect myself at first and we made contact with each other at the same point.
"He punched me in the head and I punched him.
"The second fan approached and we made contact as well."
"I've played 650 games in my career and it's only the second time anything like that has happened to me."
Fans reacted angrily on social media to the news that refunds would not be offered for Saturday's game - abandoned after 60 minutes amid torrential rain.
Adults tickets for the rearranged match on 20 September will cost £19-25.
"Shocking, absolutely disgraceful. It's ridiculous for me, that is taking the mickey," Clarke told BBC Radio Bristol.
"I've never heard of that to be honest with you. If a game gets abandoned, you get your ticket refunded or you get a ticket to go and watch the replay of the game.
"For me, it undermines football. It's the general punters that miss out. I'm certainly not happy about that."
Earlier on Tuesday, Mike Welsh, vice-chair of Swindon Town's supporters' trust, urged Swindon to "rethink" their decision.
"Supporters were asked to keep their tickets stubs," Welsh told BBC Wiltshire. "We thought the club could have reached out to the fans and sought some middle ground.
"The club know perfectly well what they can do about it. The ball is very much in their court. We encourage them to come back, have a rethink and see if we can meet the fans halfway."
BBC Wiltshire contacted Swindon Town for comment, but nobody was available on Tuesday.
A statement on the club website said: "Swindon Town would like to advise supporters that the club must still cover matchday costs as they would for any home game."
Season ticket holders will not face additional charges for tickets to the rearranged game, but non-season ticket holders must purchase a new ticket.
A spokesperson for the Football Supporters Federation told BBC Wiltshire that lower-league clubs usually offered refunds when a match was abandoned before half-time, but not after.
Bristol Rovers' club website told fans: "Due to high policing costs for the match, Swindon have taken the decision to charge home and away supporters the full price for admission."
Eric McFarland is originally from Plumbridge, County Tyrone and has been at the heart of the production.
Mr McFarland usually gets to hide behind the camera, but one piece of footage featuring him was too good to go unseen.
Speaking to BBC Northern Ireland from the Canadian Arctic, Mr McFarland said: "We found ourselves with a flat battery, windows that weren't fully up and two bears circling us.
"So a little bit tense!" he laughed. "But we stayed calm and we used a bit of good old-fashioned Heath Robinson ingenuity - one electricity cable, four crocodile clips and we were on our way again, no problem."
No problem perhaps, but polar bears are the only animal that will actively hunt human beings.
"We've got a bear guard just over here who's got a gun and a dog who is always looking out for us, making sure that we're safe," he said.
"They've got a really amazing force here, the polar bear cops, the Manitoba Conservation people and they make sure that the town is safe.
"But it is extraordinary living somewhere where you can have encounters with such amazing animals.
Close encounters with man-hunting polar bears aside, working on the programme is a career highlight for the man from Plumbridge.
"It's a dream come true to come to this kind of environment, to see the Northern Lights which we saw last night, to see these bears," he said.
"And to be able to do it for work and to see these bears day after day is something I think I'll never forget. It's going to be very hard to top this!"
It was the steepest profit rise of the three big US banks that reported quarterly results on Friday.
Profits at Wells Fargo increased 5% to $5.8bn, but revenue was flat.
Citigroup reported a 3% fall in profits to $3.9bn as higher taxes and costs took their toll. The bank also made greater provision for bad loans.
The banks largely performed better than investors had expected, but shares fell on lagging revenue in key trading units.
Wells Fargo, which has been working to move past a scandal tied to fake accounts, fell 1.1%.
JP Morgan dropped 0.9% and Citigroup declined 0.5%.
JP Morgan reported total net revenues of $26.4bn for the second quarter of the year, a 4.7% increase from the same period a year earlier.
Revenues were helped by an 8% increase in interest income, which the bank said was driven by the impact of rising US interest rates as well as growth in the number of loans.
"The US consumer remains healthy," said JP Morgan chief executive, Jamie Dimon.
"Loans and deposits continue to grow strongly and card sales and merchant processing volumes were up double digits."
US banks had been expected to benefit from the recent increases in interest rates. The US Federal Reserve's target range for its key rate is now between 1% and 1.25%, whereas a year earlier it was between 0.25% and 0.5%.
Mr Dimon said the decline in revenue at its trading division reflected "lower volatility and client activity". A year earlier trading revenues had been boosted by the increased volatility generated by the UK's vote to leave the EU.
Citigroup reported $17.9bn in revenue, up 2% year-on year.
Chief executive Michael Corbat said the bank's retail division and investment banking business had strong quarters.
Wells Fargo saw a decline in car loans, after it implemented tighter lending standards.
25 November 2015 Last updated at 10:31 GMT
Jessy McCabe, 17, says Edexcel, one of Britain's biggest exam boards, contacted her to apologise and pledged to change its course for next year.
"They gave me no clear reason why there was an omission of women," says Jessy, who is one of the BBC's 100 Women 2015.
"Yes - there were fewer female composers but it doesn't mean to say there weren't any," she tells the BBC's Joe Inwood.
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However, their hopes of moving closer towards a first title since 1993 may depend on the rain that is forecast in Birmingham on Saturday.
Sam Robson made 74 and Stevie Eskinazi 53 as Middlesex moved their overnight score on from 63-0 to declare on 267-7.
Set 338 to win, Warwickshire closed the third day on 74-3, with home skipper Ian Bell at the crease on 12.
He was joined for the final six overs by nightwatchman Chris Wright, who 10 not out against his former county.
On a turning pitch on which Bears leg-spinner Josh Poysden took his haul of wickets in the game to eight, Middlesex look to be in a commanding position but for the poor weather forecast.
Middlesex began the match five points clear of second-placed Yorkshire, who are on top against Hampshire but were restricted to only 19 overs of play on Friday because of bad weather.
If both games are drawn, Yorkshire would edge a point closer, having picked up one more batting point.
Warwickshire captain Ian Bell told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire:
"Today was about character and fighting and about how much it means to us and we showed all that. The bowlers were exceptional, they ran in really hard and made it hard for Middlesex to push on.
"It is going to be extremely hard for us. I haven't won a toss in the Championship this year, which doesn't help, and we are playing on a used pitch, so it was a hell of a good toss to win and we are on the back end of that.
"We have got to show some character and bat as long as we can. There might be a bit of bad weather around but we can't rely on that. We have just got to look to bat for 96 overs.
"No excuses. I don't think we have been good enough again in this game. It's been a common trend this season and probably the back end of last season as well.
"It hasn't been quite right for a while and we need to address that. It's a question of consistency. On paper we are a fantastic side but one day we are fantastic and the next day we don't back it up. We need to get that consistency you need to win championships."
Middlesex batsman Sam Robson told BBC Radio London:
"We've had a good day. We were in a strong position this morning, so it was just a matter of having a good first session and going from there.
"It was tough work most of the day and a bit of a grind on that wicket, but to get the score we got and then take three wickets was very pleasing.
"We had a target we wanted to get to before we accelerated because we knew that it's the sort of pitch where if you lose one wicket you can lose two, three or four quickly.
"There is a little bit of weather around so that had a little bit of a bearing. We feel we have got enough runs. But they are a really good side and, with Ian Bell at the crease, we are going to have to bowl very well."
Protesters threw stones and petrol bombs, and police fired tear gas. A number of people were injured and at least 10 buildings were set on fire.
PM Lucas Papademos urged calm, saying violence had no place in a democracy.
MPs are voting on a bill to introduce the measures, which are being demanded in return for a 130bn-euro ($170bn; £110bn) bailout to avoid default.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says the violence is the worst the city has seen for many months.
Protesters hurled flares and chunks of marble torn up from the square. Some tried to break through a cordon of riot police around the parliament.
Several historic buildings, including cafes and cinemas, were in flames.
Syntagma Square - in the heart of Athens - is cloaked in a hail of tear gas, our correspondent adds.
Ioannis Simantiras, 34, said the protesters were boxed in by the police.
"Nobody could get away from the gas," he told the BBC.
"When it engulfed everybody, and everybody was choking the police drew back and opened up a corridor for us away from the parliament - that's when everybody made a run for it."
In pictures: Greek protests
Mr Papademos said Greece did not have the luxury of such protests in such difficult times.
"Vandalisms, violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country and won't be tolerated," he said in a speech in parliament before the vote.
Running battles with police are still continuing in parts of the capital.
Earlier, tens of thousands of people voiced their anger over the proposed bill in what was the second consecutive day of mass protests.
Some reports say as many as 80,000 people joined the demonstration in Athens, with another 20,000 protesting in Thessaloniki.
A number of lawmakers have threatened to vote against the bill, but analysts say it should still have enough support in parliament to pass.
Pasok, the largest party, and its coalition ally New Democracy - which have both backed the bill - account for more than 230 deputies out of a total of 300.
Lawmakers are also due to vote on a deal with private banks which could see 100bn euros of Greek debt written off.
If the measures are not approved, other eurozone nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) say Greece will get no money from them and will face bankruptcy in March.
Athens has to repay nearly 14.5bn euros in maturing debt on 20 March.
The debate began in the early afternoon on Sunday, but the vote did not begin until after midnight (22:00 GMT).
In a TV address on Saturday, Mr Papademos warned that Greece was "just a breath away from Ground Zero".
"The social cost of this programme is limited in comparison with the economic and social catastrophe that would follow if we didn't adopt it," he said.
Savings would be lost, the government would be unable to pay wages or salaries, and imports of fuel, medicine and machinery would be disrupted, he added.
The austerity measures include:
They were presented to eurozone ministers in Brussels on Thursday evening.
The Greek cabinet has approved the measures but five government ministers resigned.
The eurozone bloc wants a further 325m euros in savings for this year and also insists that Greek leaders give "strong political assurances" on the implementation of the packages.
Greece cannot service its huge debt, and there are fears that a default could endanger Europe's financial stability and even lead to a break-up of the eurozone.
But many Greeks feel they are already squeezed almost to breaking point and cannot take any more cuts, our correspondent says.
Some are even saying Greece should leave the eurozone to be able to devalue its former currency, the drachma, and ease the debt stranglehold.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust agreed to balance its books after a critical report by NHS watchdog Monitor.
The trust was put in special measures over a predicted deficit of £9.4m for the year 2015/16.
Chief executive Michael Scott said savings would be made while maintaining the quality of patient services.
The trust breached its licence by predicting the £9.4m deficit and not having an adequate recovery plan.
Enforcement action by Monitor since February included special measures to improve patient services.
An improvement director was appointed and the trust was partnered with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Laura Mills from Monitor said: "These steps should enable the trust to balance its books and ensure patients are able to receive quality services."
Mr Scott called the trust's plan "robust" and said £44m of savings had already been achieved over the past four years.
"The focus for us is not only on balancing the books; it is on balancing cost savings against maintaining safe and high quality services.
"We are doing this over a longer period to protect our staff and our service users from further cuts."
The trust has spent £2.6m recruiting more staff for inpatient units and £950,000 for additional community workers.
"We do all of this in the face of chronic under-funding of mental health services, and these life-saving services remain the 'Cinderella' of the NHS.
"We are determined to continue to campaign for increased funding," he said.
The County Antrim village scooped the accolade at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Britain in Bloom awards.
Ahoghill was one of only six areas from across the UK chosen to compete in the champion of champions category.
The RHS said its success "confirms its position as arguably the cleanest, greenest and most beautiful small town in the United Kingdom".
Congratulating Ahoghill, DUP MLA Phillip Logan, who is from the village, said: "This is a massive achievement for the village.
"Ahoghill has won many awards since the community got together to transform the village.
"Ahoghill has done Northern Ireland proud, allowing us to compete at such a high level and showcasing what is great about Northern Ireland."
Also winning an award was Castlecaulfield, County Tyrone, whose entry was disrupted by vandalism in July.
It scooped a gold award and was named joint category winner in the village category.
It was was also awarded the first ever Britain in Bloom award for overcoming adversity following the vandalism.
Bernie McKenna, chairperson of Castlecaulfield Horticultural Society, said: "We are absolutely over the moon with this result for Castlecaulfield.
"We are delighted; this was the first time we've been an RHS Britain in Bloom finalist and we enjoyed the experience very much.
"We are very proud as this was a real community effort and we can't wait to take part again next year."
Other Northern Ireland Britain in Bloom winners were Belfast, Coleraine, Hillsborough, Londonderry, Newcastle and Whitehead.
6 January 2016 Last updated at 13:18 GMT
The victim, a 20-year-old architecture student, was taken to hospital for emergency dental treatment.
He had been taking photographs in East India Dock Road in Tower Hamlets, east London, when he was attacked on the afternoon of 23 December.
The CCTV shows the attacker try to take the camera and, when the victim refuses to hand it over, pull him to the floor and kick him repeatedly in the face before jumping on a moped ridden by another person.
Montagner drowned in the river where the crew had been recording scenes for Brazil's most popular soap opera.
His death has caused shock and consternation in the country, where millions watch TV soaps every evening.
The 54-year-old played the leading role in Velho Chico, which was named after the Sao Francisco river where he died.
He was swimming with fellow actress Camila Pitanga when he got dragged away by strong currents.
She cried for help but local residents in the north-eastern state of Sergipe initially believed the drowning was a scene in the soap opera.
But the authorities said there was nothing anyone could have done.
"They thought they had chosen a safe spot to swim but that is one of the most dangerous areas in the town of Caninde and usually avoided by locals," police chief Antonio Francisco Filho told O Globo.
Montagner was buried in his native city of Sao Paulo.
"The show must go on and we will carry on for him," said Montagner's brother, Francisco.
Ms Pitanga and other Globo TV actors attended the funeral, which took place at a local theatre.
"I first thought it was a rumour. It looked like they had mixed up fiction and reality," actress Dira Paes told the G1 website.
"We also need to be there for Camila [Pitanga]," she added.
Ms Pitanga is said to be very distressed after watching Montagner drown next to her.
She said she held his hand twice as he struggled with the strong currents but could not save him.
Montagner had been married for 14 years to actress Luciana Lima, with whom he had three children.
His family asked fans to respect their privacy and stay away from the funeral.
But thousands prayed and sang outside the theatre where he was laid to rest.
They lined the streets to see the coffin as it was taken to a local cemetery.
Montagner had a career in the circus before becoming a television actor, in 2008.
This was his 12th role on TV. His first significant soap opera role was in 2011, and he had his film debut in 2012.
As a soap opera actor, he became a household name in Brazil.
In 2012 Globo TV said one of its most successful soap operas was watched by 38 million people daily.
He is one of the most recognisable faces in British politics: a former minister in the coalition government, a ballroom dancing enthusiast who did Strictly before Ed Balls, a financial guru noted for predicting the economic crash and now, at the age of 74, the leader of what used to be known as the third force in British politics.
As someone who was a leading player during the coalition years, and who paid the price for it by losing his Commons seat in 2015, he will know better than anybody the scale of the task facing him.
The Lib Dems have just 12 MPs. Sir Vince has conceded that the party's decision to campaign hard for a second referendum on the terms of the Brexit deal did not "cut through" at the general election.
But he believes the party's time will come again, when it begins to dawn on the public that leaving the EU is a terrible mistake and has harmed the economy. He aims to lead the charge in Parliament against what he sees as Theresa May's reckless pursuit of a "hard Brexit," joining forces with Remainer Tories to frustrate the passage of key pieces of legislation.
His mild manner - impressionists have compared his voice to that of the soft-hearted prison officer Mr Barrowclough in the 70s sitcom Porridge - masks a shrewd and steely operator, with a knack for generating publicity.
Even before easing into the seat vacated when Tim Farron felt compelled to resign as leader, he was grabbing column inches and stirring up social media controversy, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr show he thought Brexit might never happen.
It was this tendency to speak his mind, with one eye on the headlines, that drove some of his Conservative coalition colleagues to distraction during his years in government.
At times, Sir Vince, or plain old Mr Cable as he was known then, gave the impression of a man being held captive by enemy forces.
He baffled Tory MPs with his first Lib Dem conference speech as business secretary, in which he attacked capitalism, accusing it of killing competition.
He branded the Conservative stance on immigration "nasty" and "ugly" and fought a long-running battle with then Home Secretary Theresa May over immigration curbs on students and non-EU workers, which he believed would be disastrous for the UK economy.
But it was comments he never meant to be heard publicly that landed him in the most trouble, when in December 2010 he told undercover reporters he could bring down the coalition at any point by walking out - and how he had to "battle" to curb Tory excesses and promote his own party's agenda.
He called the coalition's attempts to push through changes in the health service, local government and other areas a "kind of Maoist revolution", which was "in danger of getting out of control".
Most damagingly, he told the undercover Daily Telegraph reporters he had "declared war on Rupert Murdoch" and planned to block the media baron's efforts to take full control of BSkyB.
The remarks led to him being stripped of his powers to make a decision on the BSkyB bid - and were criticised by Downing Street as "totally unacceptable and inappropriate".
But the fact that he remained business secretary may have proved his point about being unsackable.
Date of birth: 9 May 1943
Education: Grammar school, Cambridge university
Family: Father of three grown-up children by his first wife, Olympia, who died in 2001. Remarried in 2004. Eldest grandson, Ayrton Cable, launched the Humanitarian Water and Food Youth Award at the age of 11, in front of 12,000 young people at Wembley
Job before politics: Economist, lecturer and adviser to the Kenyan government and senior Labour politicians. Chief economist at oil giant Shell.
Political career: A Labour councillor in Glasgow in the 1970s, who joined the SDP in 1982 and then won his Twickenham seat for the Lib Dems at the second attempt in 1997. Stood in as Lib Dem leader when Sir Menzies Campbell quit in 2007, was business secretary in the coalition government between 2010 and 2015, before losing his seat. Returned to the Commons in June. Knighted in 2015.
Off duty: Ballroom dancing and writing - he is about to publish his first novel, a political thriller about a post-Brexit future called Open Arms.
Sir Vince was a contemporary of Ken Clarke, Michael Howard and Norman Lamont - some of the Tory "big beasts" of the 1990s - while at Cambridge University.
But he did not follow them on the fast track to Parliament.
A grammar school boy from York, he initially joined the Liberal Party but, after university, defected to Labour. He fought for the Glasgow Hillhead seat at the 1970 election, losing. As a Labour councillor in Glasgow he contributed to The Red Paper on Scotland, edited by Gordon Brown in 1975.
In 1982, Sir Vince changed party once more, this time opting for the newly formed Social Democratic Party. He made failed attempts to run for Parliament in 1983 and 1987.
After the SDP and the old Liberal Party merged to form the Liberal Democrats in 1988, Sir Vince was unsuccessful in another bid to become an MP in 1992.
It was not until the anti-Tory landslide of 1997 that he finally won the seat of Twickenham, south-west London.
Along the way, he worked as an economics lecturer, at the Foreign Office, as a special adviser to future Labour leader John Smith, an official in the Kenyan government and as chief economist for the oil company Shell.
Once in Parliament, his political career went comparatively smoothly, with promotion to the Lib Dem front bench in 1999 and to Treasury spokesman in 2003.
In this influential role he made pronouncements on the unsustainability of Labour's long economic boom - comments which saw his reputation rise following the arrival of the credit crunch. He was also one of the first senior politicians to call for Northern Rock to be nationalised.
Sir Vince helped to oust Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy in 2005, but it was after Mr Kennedy's successor, Sir Menzies Campbell, resigned after two years in the job, that Sir Vince became a household name.
Having been elected deputy leader, he stood in at prime minister's questions and in a memorable exchange mocked Gordon Brown, remarking on the then prime minister's "remarkable transformation in the last few weeks from Stalin to Mr Bean, creating chaos out of order rather than order out of chaos".
Laughter rang around the Commons chamber and a man previously seen as a rather dry figure was instantly transformed into a budding media star.
By the 2010 election he was a familiar face on the nation's TV screens, cultivating a reputation as one of the few front-ranking politicians who had warned about the looming financial crisis in 2008.
When David Cameron failed to win an overall majority, there were suggestions he might become chancellor under the Tory-Lib Dem government that emerged from coalition talks.
However, the job went to George Osborne and Sir Vince was given the business brief - in charge of a department he had previously suggested should be abolished.
Sir Vince's most controversial task was to oversee the rise in university tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year.
This came despite the Lib Dems signing a pre-election pledge to oppose any such move, which made him and party leader Nick Clegg the focus of much anger.
Sir Vince voiced doubt about whether he should back the plans in Parliament. Eventually he and all his Lib Dem ministerial colleagues did so, in the face of a large rebellion by the party's backbench MPs.
The Lib Dems have still not recovered from the reputational hit they took over tuition fees, although Sir Vince continues to defend the policy to this day, telling Sky News earlier this month that scrapping fees would be a "cheap populist gesture" that would create an unfair system, adding that the "40% of students" who go to university should not be subsidised by the "60% who don't"
He also oversaw the controversial privatisation of the Royal Mail, which was criticised by the National Audit Office as being sold off too quickly and cheaply, after shares soared 70% above their original price.
Sir Vince insisted the sale had delivered "value for money" for taxpayers.
His political career appeared to have come to an end in 2015, when he was ejected from Parliament by the voters of Twickenham.
Never one to rest on his laurels, he threw himself into his hobby of ballroom dancing - in 2010 he had taken part in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special - entering the British National Dance Championships, after taking lessons at the dance studio of his Strictly dance partner Erin Boag.
He also started work on a novel, after previously hitting the best seller lists with The Storm, an explanation of the 2008 world financial crash and how Britain should respond to it.
Sir Vince is the father of three grown-up children by his first wife, Olympia, who was from Kenya. It was a mixed-race marriage, which saw Sir Vince defying his father, who told him such unions "didn't work".
After Olympia was diagnosed with cancer for a second time in the 1990s, he combined the roles of being an MP and her carer until her death in 2001.
Sir Vince remarried in 2004, to Rachel Smith, a farmer from the New Forest who had been at Cambridge with him. He wears the wedding rings from both of his marriages.
He won back his Twickenham seat in June's snap election and when Tim Farron unexpectedly announced he was quitting as Lib Dem leader, saying he could not reconcile the role with his Christian faith, Sir Vince decided to stand for a job he had long coveted.
When potential rivals ruled themselves out, it became clear that he would be crowned leader without a contest.
Sir Vince has brushed off concerns about his age by referring to Sir Winston Churchill, who led his party in his late 70s, and William Gladstone, who was prime minister in his 80s.
"Some of the brightest and most interesting people in British politics recently have been relatively old," he said when quizzed about it.
"You remember Bernie Sanders in America as well? I don't feel old, I feel young and energetic."
He had always regretted not standing for the party leadership in 2007, when Sir Menzies Campbell was effectively hounded out of the job for being too old, at the age of 66.
Sir Vince, who was then 64, apparently feared that he would also be judged too old, but with his opposite numbers in the Conservatives and Labour both in their 60s, age is less of an issue now.
He bristles at the suggestion that he is merely keeping the leadership seat warm for his 38-year-old deputy Jo Swinson, who had been the runaway favourite to be the party's next leader before deciding not to stand.
"I've made it very clear I wasn't signing up to be a caretaker, I was signing up to do the job and do it properly and whatever that involves," he told The House magazine, including leading the party into the next election, whenever that might be.
A report into HMP Moorland said almost half of all prisoners claimed it was easy to get drugs compared to 28% at the last inspection.
Inspectors said the availability of new psychoactive substances (NPS) was undermining recent progress.
Prison bosses said more work needed to be done to tackle the problem.
The report follows an unannounced inspection of the prison, near Hatfield Woodhouse, in February.
It found the number of violent incidents, fights and assaults had increased since the last inspection in 2012 and levels were also higher than at similar prisons.
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Peter Clarke, Chief Inspector of Prisons, said: "There are real opportunities at Moorland to make progress, but the issues of NPS... have such a negative impact on prisoners' experiences.
"In particular, there is a real opportunity to make progress in embracing the prison's new role as a resettlement prison, and in delivering treatment programmes for sex offenders."
Responding to the report, Michael Spurr, Chief Executive of the National Offender Management Service, said: I am pleased that the inspector has highlighted the real progress being made at Moorland in purposeful activity as well as successfully introducing and managing sex offenders."
He said: "We are not complacent about safety and there is clearly more work to do to address levels of violence and tackle increasing availability of NPS at the prison."
A spokesperson for the Howard League for Penal Reform said: "The report uncovers a number of problems, not least the reality that one-in-three prisoners has nothing to do during the working day.
"People turn to drugs when faced with idleness and despair."
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The Victorian sewage tunnels which carries waste water and sewage from your homes and schools are struggling to cope.
When they were made, over 150 years ago, four million people lived in London. This has since doubled and so has the waste.
When the system can't cope the extra waste runs straight into the River Thames... urrghhh!
So a new super-sewer is being created to tackle the problem. A tunnel running under the city will transport the waste from your home to a treatment works.
It's going to take seven years to complete the project and will cost a lot of money, but when it's finished no more sewage will be running into the Thames!
He told the BBC that a number of factors had led to Somali pirates being "contained and restrained", and that a combined naval forces raid on one of their land bases back in May had had a profound effect in discouraging pirates from putting to sea.
But he warned that progress against piracy was fragile and still reversible.
The statistics show a dramatic reduction in pirate attacks off Somalia.
In 2011, according to EU Navfor Somalia, there were 151 verified attacks on sizable ships, with 25 vessels being successfully pirated.
So far this year, the number of attacks has shrunk to 31, with just five ships captured, the last one in May.
"October and November would normally be two of the busiest months for maritime piracy as they come between the two monsoon seasons," said Admiral Potts, "but this year they have been surprisingly quiet."
He puts the drop in piracy down to four factors:
On 15 May, EU Navfor conducted their first and only raid on a Somali pirates' land base.
It lasted just a few minutes, with a helicopter crew launching from a ship just offshore and raking beached and unmanned pirate speedboats - known as "skiffs" - with machine-gun fire.
Fuel stores and other equipment were also fired on, but EU Navfor says there were no casualties on either side and there were no European "boots on the ground".
"Surveillance by our reconnaissance aircraft shows this had a significant psychological effect," said Admiral Potts.
Somali pirates are probably now under more pressure than at any time in the last five years and the risk-reward ratio for putting to sea and raiding commercial shipping is now far less favourable than it used to be.
But Admiral Potts is under no illusion that the problem is already solved and knows it could still return.
In fact, there have been signs of renewed activity this week.
As ever, the source of the problem is on land, and until Somalia can reach a certain level of stability and prosperity, the spectre of piracy is likely to hover over its coast for years to come.
Two new reports indicate that across the continent, the numbers of elephants being killed for ivory has slowed.
But the picture is mixed as the slaughter in Central and West Africa shows no sign of moderating.
Some experts believe that the decline in deaths could be down to fewer elephants being alive to poach.
The BBC investigated the war on elephants earlier this year and how it is fuelled by demand for ivory from Asia.
Now there is new data on the sources of the illegal killings from the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, better known as Cites.
They run two important elephant monitoring records that are seen as reliable indicators of what's happening on the ground.
A few months ago, the Mike programme (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) showed that number of deaths, which started to grow in 2006, peaked in 2011.
Even though the trend is moving in the right direction, there were still over 14,000 elephants killed in the period from 2003-2015.
The BBC also investigated the war on elephants this year and how it is fuelled by demand for ivory from Asia.
New data has also been published for the ETIS programme (Elephant Trade Information System).
This shows that while trading in illegal ivory reached its highest levels in 2012 and 2013, it had levelled off by 2014.
But while there are some positives in the overall picture for Africa, the regional differences are stark.
Southern Africa is the area where poaching levels have remained consistently the lowest. It remains the only sub-region that has not seen illegal killings exceed natural deaths since monitoring began.
Poaching remains high, however, at the Niassa Reserve in Mozambique and there has been a "troubling spike" in killings at South Africa's Kruger National Park.
East Africa has also seen a decline in poaching for the fourth year in a row.
Central and West Africa continue to show the most serious levels of poaching, with illegal killings far exceeding natural deaths.
"There are some encouraging signs, including arresting the overall upward trends in poaching, the decline in poaching trends in some sites in East Africa and the overall trends in Southern Africa," said Cites secretary general John Scanlon.
"This shows what is possible through a sustained and collective effort with strong political support, but much more remains to be done."
However others say that there may not be much comfort in the relative stability that the new figures indicate.
"It needs to be understood that poaching levels may be down but in some cases that is due to the fact the populations are severely depleted," said Dr Susan Lieberman from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
"If you look at some of the Central African populations that have lost up to 70% of their elephants you may see poaching stabilise or decrease but that is because the elephants are harder to find."
The future for elephants will be a major topic of debate when 182 countries gather at the Cites triennial Conference of the Parties in Johannesburg at the end of September.
At present all commercial, international trade in ivory from African elephants is prohibited.
A one-off commercial sale of ivory from Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa took place in 2009.
Both Namibia and Zimbabwe are now proposing changes at the upcoming meeting that would allow ivory from these two countries to be internationally traded subject to permit. They argue that that these sales would help boost their conservation efforts.
Critics of these moves are concerned that any permitted trade would be used as a cover for illicit ivory and would boost poaching across the continent.
"As long as there is some signal that there may be a legal ivory trade, these speculators, traffickers and crooks are going to take advantage of it," said Dr Lieberman from WCS.
"We've got China now saying its going to close its domestic ivory market, the very worst thing that could happen would be for the Southern Africans to get a nod that maybe you can trade in the future.
"That would be the death knell of elephants in Central, West and East Africa."
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Here are just a few of their concerns - focused in particular on the idea, put forward by the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, that there perhaps could and should be a temporary exit of Greece from the euro.
So the first rather chilling thing I've learned, from well-placed bankers, is there have been no conversations between the Bank of Greece, the government or regulators and Greece's commercial banks about the technicalities of leaving the euro and adopting a new currency.
This is astonishing - and some would say pretty close to criminal - given that on Wednesday night the president of the European Council, former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, was explicit that this weekend's negotiations were all about whether Greece would stay in the eurozone.
"There have been absolutely no talks with the authorities on what we would do if we leave the euro - no technical preparations, nothing that we are aware of," said one senior banker.
He added, just in case I was in any doubt about the impact of leaving the euro on the Greek banks: "If it does happen, well I have no idea how and whether we would ever reopen".
So Greek exit from the euro would be hideous for banks.
It would also be nightmarish for the European Central Bank (ECB).
Here is one reason why.
It currently holds €50bn of Greek loans to companies and residential mortgages - as part of the collateral on the €120bn of Emergency Liquidity Assistance it and the Bank of Greece have provided.
If Greece were to adopt a new drachma, Greek households and businesses would start to receive income in this new currency - which would collapse in value relative to the euro.
But the debts to the ECB of these households and businesses would almost certainly still be in euros.
So with their income collapsing in real terms, they would be unable to keep up the payments on the debts.
And the ECB would face colossal losses - perhaps €35bn of losses on the €50bn.
That is just one of the many headaches it would face.
Finally, an influential investor said that Mr Schaeuble's suggestion of temporary exit from the euro for Greece was a serious existential threat to the single currency - in the sense that there would demonstrably be a less painful and humiliating way out of the euro than permanent withdrawal.
At that point investors would start betting on which member nation would next run into difficulties paying debts or coping with a strong euro - and therefore which would be next to seek a temporary exit.
Investors would then withdraw capital from the nation perceived to be economically and financial vulnerable - reinforcing that vulnerability, in that the capital flight would increase the cost of money there, and undermine prosperity.
In other words, just as the European Exchange Rate Mechanism turned into an economic disaster because it was not seen as forever, the notion of temporary exit from the euro would almost certainly accelerate its breakup - or so some of those who control the world's trillions warn me.
Which is perhaps why, here at a few seconds before midnight, just perhaps Eurogroup finance ministers and government heads will find some kind of messy compromise to keep Greece in the euro (for a while at least).
But I am not betting large on it quite yet.
Six-year-olds have to read aloud 20 real words and 20 made-up words in the check, testing their ability to sound out words using the phonics system.
It is meant to test knowledge of the system's 85 letter combinations, but looks at only two-thirds of them.
Pupils also needed vocabulary knowledge to read the test words, the study said.
The research, presented at the British Educational Research Association conference by Dr Jonathan Solity and Dr Cat Darnell, is a detailed analysis of the words pupils have been asked to read in the check between 2012 and 2014.
The controversial test was introduced in 2012 to ensure all children at the end of Year 1 had what the government believed was sufficient phonics knowledge to develop their reading skills.
And so it was designed to check only how well children were deploying their knowledge of the letter combinations or "graphemes", rather than using their knowledge of vocabulary to read.
Hence the inclusion of 20 so-called "pseudo words".
But the researchers said, because of the complexity of the English language, children needed to use vocabulary knowledge to work out how to pronounce 40% of the words in the test.
For example, the word "brown" was included in the 2014 test.
But as the "ow" sound can be pronounced in two different ways - to rhyme with "cow" or "slow", the researchers said it was only by knowing the meaning of the word "brown" that children would be able to pronounce it correctly.
They also said children could get high scores in the test even if they were able to read only words made up of simple sounds such as the sound "d" in "dog".
Ministers strongly advocate the teaching of systematic synthetic phonics in schools.
This is where children use only their knowledge of graphemes in order to sound out simple words - before they go on to tackle more irregular words that they simply have to remember how to pronounce.
The researchers said schools may be wasting their time teaching more complex graphemes of little use to children in reading.
And the children, particularly those who are disadvantaged and from less "language rich" homes, would benefit more from efforts to build vocabulary.
This undue focus on the rarer language sounds could leave pupils struggling to read, the researchers said.
Dr Solity, an honorary research fellow at University College London, said: "This is not an anti-phonics argument. It is absolutely clear that children need to be taught phonics, and systematic synthetic phonics in particular.
"What we are questioning is whether it is worth teachers spending a great amount of time making sure pupils learn all 85 , rather than concentrating on the most frequent ones and then building pupils' vocabulary."
The government has insisted that its test works well to pick up the children struggling to read using phonics and enables interventions to be put in at an early stage.
A Department for Education spokesperson said the research was misleading.
"We test a wide range of phonics knowledge from a range of content, but it would be impossible to test every aspect that is taught in a single check.
"Over time, as more tests are carried out, they will cover the full breadth of knowledge required under the curriculum."
Oleg Anashchenko, military chief of Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), was reported to have died instantly.
The incident was described by rebel spokesman Andrey Marochko as an "act of terrorism".
It follows the bloodiest week of clashes between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed insurgents since 2015.
Mr Marochko said "Ukrainian secret services" were suspected of being behind the attack, which he said was aimed at "destabilising the Republic".
"We will track down the perpetrators of this monstrous act and they will receive the appropriate punishment," he said.
Officials in Kiev have denied any involvement in Saturday's bomb attack.
This week has seen an escalation in the violence in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, with a number of attacks that have reportedly left at least 35 people dead. There are fears that the actual death toll could be much higher.
Each side blames the other for the upsurge in violence.
Meanwhile US President Donald Trump is due to hold talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko.
A scheduled call is due to take place on Saturday in which Mr Poroshenko is likely to seek assurances that Washington will continue to provide diplomatic support to Ukraine.
Earlier this week, the government-held frontline town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine was hit by heavy shelling. The town, whose population is estimated to be about 22,000 people, was left without water and electricity in freezing conditions.
Russia and Ukraine, along with the rebels on Wednesday, signed up to calls for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from Avdiivka by Sunday.
But Ukraine says it is preparing a possible evacuation of the town to avoid a humanitarian crisis.
The conflict in eastern Ukraine erupted after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula in March 2014.
A ceasefire was eventually agreed in February 2015 but there have been frequent violations. The latest truce began on 23 December.
The US and EU imposed sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
Russia has repeatedly denied sending troops and weapons into eastern Ukraine, but admits that Russian "volunteers" fight alongside the rebels.
There are currently 38 cancer drugs available to patients elsewhere in the UK that are not readily available to critically ill people in Northern Ireland.
This is despite the fact that research and clinical trials for some of the drugs have been carried out at Queen's University, Belfast.
Una Crudden, who has ovarian cancer, said getting treatment should not be a postcode lottery.
"There is no point in having a top research centre if the use of it is not going out to the people in Northern Ireland," she said.
Spanish voters are traditionally unadventurous, always voting for the same party - centre-left or centre-right - often depending on the side their family supported during the Spanish civil war. Those rifts still run deep in Spain.
But Sunday's regional vote changed all that. The centre-right Popular Party (PP), in government at national level, received a passionate slap in the face.
Its popularity has been corroded by corruption scandals - not unknown in Spain, but deemed unacceptable by many in times of recession and austerity measures. And it was the austerity that had voters really riled.
They have swallowed the medicine Greek voters seem so keen to spit out.
The economy is on the up, but ordinary people say they do not feel the benefits.
Like voters in many parts of Europe, Spaniards are angry with the powers that be. And so they punished the opposition Socialist Party, as well as the PP.
Spanish newspapers scream a headline now familiar across the continent: "The era of the two-party system is over!"
The fresh-faced leaders of alternative parties Citizens (Ciudadanos) and Podemos are rubbing their hands with glee. Expect Spain's general election later this year to be explosive.
Eurotunnel earlier warned its timetable had been disrupted following migrant activity and went on to advise day return passengers to reschedule.
The Foreign Office has also warned travellers about industrial action and migrants in Calais.
In Kent, lorries are queuing to cross the Channel on the M20.
Operation Stack, where lorries waiting for crossings have to park on a closed section of the motorway, is now in place from junctions 8 to 11 on the coastbound M20.
Junctions 12 and 13 are also closed to help with traffic management in the area but not to queue lorries, and only tourist traffic for the Channel Tunnel is allowed to join at junction 11.
Kent Police said Operation Stack was expected to remain in place into Wednesday.
The latest M20 closure comes amid a row about a proposed contraflow system that was suggested as a way to keep the route open while Stack was in place.
Kent Police said the emergency measure had been brought in because of a large amount of freight heading towards Dover and Eurotunnel and continued disruption in Calais.
Home Secretary Theresa May earlier met her French counterpart to discuss the ongoing disruption.
A government spokesman said it was continuing "to work very closely with the French authorities over the need to stop blockades and maintain port security.
"There does remain a possibility of further disruption and travellers should check travel advice with their operators," he said.
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Both the Port of Dover and P&O Ferries have said they remain open for business.
In a statement, the Port of Dover said: "The port and the ferry operators are together working hard to serve all customers travelling to and from the continent.
"We apologise for any delays or inconvenience as a result of traffic congestion."
P&O said it was aware of Foreign Office advice and it wanted to make clear that Calais at present was both safe and open for business.
P&O's commercial director Janette Bell said traffic could access the Port of Calais freely and cars and lorries were queuing safely and efficiently.
She added: "There is no point at which illegal migrants come into contact with our passengers."
DFDS Seaways had suspended its crossings on the Dover-Calais route because of an incident with a flare, but resumed the service on Tuesday.
Foreign Office advice to passengers is to check with operators and plan journeys to avoid disruption.
It has warned of industrial action by farmers, continuing strike disruption to cross-Channel services and large numbers of illegal migrants.
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Men who cannot afford more than one wife are the catalyst for these reforms.
The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi, suggested that polygamy among the poor was linked to the rise of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has been behind a violent insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria.
But it has managed to find recruits from all over the mainly Muslim north of the country.
"Those of us in the north have all seen the economic consequences of men who are not capable of maintaining one wife, marrying four," the Emir said over the weekend.
"They end up producing 20 children, not educating them, leaving them on the streets, and they end up as thugs and terrorists."
It was a brave statement that anyone who has visited the north will find hard to deny.
In many northern towns and cities groups of small children, known as "almajiris", crowd around cars stuck in traffic, begging for small change.
Marrying multiple wives is a lot less common among educated people in Nigeria but polygamy still happens in rural areas, especially in the Muslim north.
It is legal. Though the official marriage registry only allows for one wife, it also has a clause that allows for marriage under "customary" law. These rules will differ depending on the community.
One man from central Niger state, who died last month, famously had at least 86 wives and at least 170 children.
But according to Islamic law, a man is not allowed to have more than four wives at the same time. It also states that a man should treat his wives fairly and equally - otherwise, he should remain in a monogamous marriage.
The Emir was not clear on where he gleaned his research but a study published by the Royal Society scientific journal in 2012 said that polygamous societies were more prone to war, rape and theft.
The cause was not an abundance of uneducated children but a surplus of poor, young men with no prospects of marriage.
The proposal has been submitted to a council of Islamic scholars for "validation" and then it will be presented to the Kano state legislature in two weeks' time.
If passed it will be enforced through the Islamic family courts.
Kano is one of several northern states that have introduced Sharia after the end of military rule in 1999 - and the Islamic courts operate alongside secular courts.
In Kano most cases of family law are decided through Islamic courts.
But the problem is that many marriages in Nigeria are not registered with the government or the courts.
It would only apply in Kano state, but the Emir has a lot of influence and the law could be adopted in other Sharia states.
The bill is part of a series of reforms Muhammad Sanusi hopes to introduce as part of his mission to modernise the north, which has higher levels of poverty and illiteracy than the south.
The bill also deals with other marriage rights, education and inheritance.
It would see a ban on domestic violence - giving women the option to seek compensation for any bodily harm and the right to divorce if they can prove domestic abuse.
Domestic violence is already illegal in Nigeria but, as family lawyer Ik Nwabufo says, "human elements" get in the way of those laws being enforced.
From the police station to the courtroom it is a male-dominated system and many of these cases will be dropped along the way.
"What the Emir is trying to do is to close the loopholes," says Mr Nwabufo.
"He is trying to make the Sharia courts stricter on these issues and to make these laws more relevant to religion and culture."
The law would also prohibit forced marriage, meaning a woman would have to give her consent before a marriage is legal.
Though there are exceptions - if a woman's father can prove with medical records that she is mentally disabled, he would have the right to decide her marriage for her.
But as educational attainment and literacy levels in the north are also woefully low - especially for girls - it is unlikely that many women will be aware of these rights even if they are enshrined in law.
The Emir does have four wives himself and has been quick to say there is nothing wrong with polygamy if the status of each wife is equal and the husband can afford to maintain all of his wives and children.
But he seems to be on a mission to modernise Kano where he came to the throne in 2014.
Before his royal career he was a well-known public figure - a banker, politician and businessman with a reputation as a reformer.
He was head of the Central Bank of Nigeria during the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan, when he blew the whistle on wide-scale corruption in the oil industry. He was fired from that job for speaking out.
Last week in a speech at the conferring of teachers in his state, he suggested that mosques in the north be converted into schools.
He publicly criticised the failure of education in the north and pointed to similar successful schemes in Morocco.
But challenging the practices that have reigned in the north for centuries will be an uphill battle.
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The British heavyweights were involved in a brawl following Chisora's defeat by Vitali Klitschko in Munich in February.
The pair do not have licences to fight in Britain but the bout has been authorised by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation.
BBC Sport looks at how and why the fight has been allowed to happen.
Chisora had his licence withdrawn by the British Boxing Board of Control because of a number of controversial incidents before and after he lost his fight to Vitali Klitschko in Munich in February.
The scuffle with Haye was the third controversial incident involving Chisora to occur in two days in Munich.
The first was when he slapped Klitschko at the weigh-in, and then, moments before the fight, he spat water in the face of his opponent's brother Wladimir inside the ring.
He has appealed against the decision to withdraw his licence, although that hearing has been put back to July.
Haye relinquished his licence when he retired in October 2011, three months after losing his WBA title to Wladimir Klitschko in Hamburg.
"Dereck Chisora's appeal against the removal of his licence has been delayed and Frank Warren is furious at how the British Boxing Board of Control have dealt with the whole matter.
"That Chisora and David Haye should ultimately benefit from the shame in Munich is difficult to stomach for many but it's the nature of boxing that such controversy will build the fight into the biggest of the year in this country."
Because European Union freedom of trade laws permit the fight to be held in the United Kingdom and they have been given licences by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation.
"It is a way of dancing around the regulations," said BBC boxing commentator Mike Costello.
Chisora's manager Frank Warren said: "I have legal obligations to Chisora and I won't have these compromised by the British Boxing Board of Control. They said he was able to apply for a licence in another jurisdiction at the hearing and that is what he has done."
The organisation was set up in 1922, and is affiliated to the European Boxing Union.
Warren said it is regulated by the Luxembourg government, and was one of a handful of offers he had received to licence Chisora.
"Why Luxembourg? Why not? They are a member of the European Boxing Union and have been around for a long time," he said.
"I've had a number of offers, some from within Europe and some outside. It could be that Dereck goes into the ring with three or four licences from different organisations."
"They will be given a sanction fee for the big fight," Costello said. "One of the reasons why the sport is in such confusion worldwide is because there are so many different bodies funded by percentage of purses - which is why fights are sanctioned."
The fight is not being promoted directly by Frank Warren, but by BoxNation and a top German promoter, Sauerland Promotions - they promote some fights under the auspices of the Austrian Boxing Federation.
"This is a huge challenge for them," Costello said. "It is a dent to their authority and fundamentally undermines their control. There is little legally that can be done."
The pair brawled following Chisora's defeat by Klitschko in Munich. Warren had initially said he would not organise a fight between the two but now says he has changed his mind because Chisora's appeal was put back from May.
He was annoyed that Klitschko's brother Wladimir was in the Briton's dressing room before the fight and feels the BBBofC should have done something to stop it.
Costello said: "As much as many people will find it unedifying, there's a big enough audience for this to happen. I would expect most of the tickets to be sold. There is so much controversy, a back story and two heavyweights who are almost having a rematch. This will probably be the biggest fight in this country since Ricky Hatton fought Juan Lazcano. While some people won't like it, I think it will take off."
"Frank Warren has been at or near the top of the game in this country for 30 years and wouldn't be doing this unless he thought everything could happen and he would emerge unscathed. He will have thought deeply about this and all the legal implications," Costello said.
The ONS said businesses used 1.5 million zero-hours contracts to employ staff in January this year, compared with 1.4 million a year earlier.
The data, collected in January, is the first that can be directly compared to a previous point in time, the ONS said.
But it added the rise in contracts was "not statistically significant".
Zero-hours contracts do not guarantee a minimum number of hours of employment and many argue they offer greater flexibility in working patterns.
But the contracts have proved controversial with the Labour party promising to ban them earlier this year if it won the general election.
The ONS said there had also been a rise in the number of people employed on zero-hours contracts.
It estimated that 744,000 people, or 2.4%, of those in employment between April and June 2015, were employed on zero-hours contracts up from 624,000, or 2%, for the same period a year earlier.
That represented a 19% rise year-on-year but the ONS again warned that it was impossible to say how much of the increase was due to greater recognition of the term "zero-hours contracts" rather than a rise in new contracts.
People on zero-hours contracts were more likely to be women, in full-time education or in young or older age groups compared with other people in employment, the ONS said.
Of those working on zero-hours contracts, 54% were women, while 34% were aged 16 to 24 and 6% aged 65 and over.
A further 20% of people on zero-hours contracts were in full-time education.
On average, someone on a zero-hours contract usually works 25 hours a week, with around 40% of them wanting more hours, most from their current job, rather than in a different or additional one, the ONS added.
The survey asked a sample of 5,000 businesses how many people were employed on contracts that do not guarantee a minimum number of hours. More than 2,700 responses to the survey were received - a response rate of 55%.
Companies with more than 250 employees were more likely to employ some of their workforce using zero-hours contracts, the figures showed.
Jon Ingham of employment analysts Glassdoor said: "It's no great surprise to see the number of people on these contracts is on the up. The fact that many of those surveyed in the ONS study might not know what a zero hours contract is could mean the scope of the problem is far greater than the figures indicate."
He added one in four unemployed adults had "been offered one of these contracts and almost half has turned them down".
"It's safe to say that employees who accept a zero hours contract do not do so as a career choice. For most it's because they have limited options. For some it might be beneficial to have the flexibility to fit around their lifestyle but for others it's a substandard contract which offers little in the way of benefits or security."
But James Sproule, director of policy at the Institute of Directors, said zero-hours contracts formed only a very small proportion of the total workforce despite having drawn significant political attention.
"Zero hours contracts offer businesses and employees an important degree of flexibility. For skilled professionals, a degree of flexibility can boost their earning power, while flexibility also suits students and older people - the main users of zero-hours contracts - who cannot commit to a set number of hours each and every week," he added.
Hackers claiming to belong to Islamic State targeted the TV network.
TV5Monde said all 11 of its TV channels, its website and social media accounts were hit.
"It's not the first time people claiming to be part of Islamic State are targeting websites," said Jean Charles Brisard, an expert on terrorism and terrorism financing.
"Usually they take control of a website and change its home page.
"But now we see a different scale with cyber-attacks targeting a TV network. Regarding the scale of the attack it's totally new."
The French government has condemned the attack.
The prime minister, Manuel Valls, called it an "unacceptable attack" on freedom of information.
Earlier, French government ministers visited the channel's Paris headquarters in a show of solidarity.
"We are analysing and we are working with experts and specialists from the French government to try and find out where from, how, and who did that, and for what purpose was TV5Monde especially targeted," said the company's director, Yves Bigot.
A message posted by the hackers on TV5Monde's Facebook site read: "The CyberCaliphate continues its cyberjihad against the enemies of Islamic State."
They also posted documents purporting to be ID cards of relatives of French soldiers involved in anti-IS operations.
France is part of the US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against IS in Iraq and Syria.
TV5Monde's digital director, Helene Zemmour, called the hack "unprecedented and large-scale".
The Paris prosecutor's office says it has opened a terrorism investigation into the attack.
Hackers claiming to work on behalf of the Islamic State have seized control of the Twitter accounts of other media organisations before, such as Newsweek.
In January they hacked into the Twitter page and YouTube site of the US military's Central Command.
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In an unprecedented move, Attorney General John Larkin QC said a case being brought by a cross-party group of MLAs should skip NI's Court of Appeal.
A British government lawyer warned it could be a "treacherous shortcut".
Two NI-related cases against Brexit were heard together and then dismissed by a Belfast judge last month.
One case was taken by victims' campaigner Raymond McCord and the other by the group of Stormont politicians, which includes Alliance MLA David Ford, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, Sinn Féin MLA John O'Dowd and Steven Agnew of the Green Party.
While Mr McCord and the politicians have the right to take their cases to the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal, both are asking the judge to refer them directly to the Supreme Court, the final court of appeal in the UK for civil cases.
At the outset of Tuesday's hearing in Belfast, Mr Larkin informed the legal parties he intended to refer part of the politicians' case to the Supreme Court.
He said his powers as Stormont's chief law officer enabled him to refer devolved matters to the court.
Mr Larkin said he believed it was the "first such invocation" of the power in any of the devolved regions.
A lawyer for the government said that if the politicians' case was fast-tracked, then Mr McCord's challenge would be left to "lag behind".
He said the government did not want to arrive at the Supreme Court with other matters outstanding in other courts.
"What appears to be a shortcut could be a treacherous shortcut in terms of the overall resolution of the issues," he said.
The lawyer for Mr McCord, whose son Raymond Jr was beaten to death by the UVF in 1997, expressed concern at the attorney general's decision.
He said: "We say the case made by Mr McCord goes much further and is potentially much more significant and harmful."
The judge noted he had no power in respect of a direction by the attorney general.
However, he said he wanted to be satisfied that the referral itself was lawful. He gave parties 24 hours to lodge further written applications.
The UK voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48% in June's referendum, though Northern Ireland voted to remain by a 56% majority.
In October, the judge dismissed bids by Mr McCord and the MLAs to halt the UK's planned departure from the EU.
They argued the Good Friday Agreement and peace process meant there must be a Parliamentary vote if Northern Ireland was to leave the EU.
But the judge ruled there was nothing to prevent the government triggering Article 50, the formal legal process for leaving the EU.
However, last week the High Court in London ruled that Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process.
The government will appeal the decision at the Supreme Court, and the case is expected to be heard in December.
Speaking to the BBC, Hawk-Eye inventor Dr Paul Hawkins said he had already agreed a deal with another European league, but he did not name it.
The Premier League deal is expected to bring the company millions in extra revenues.
Dr Hawkins, who is a director of the firm, called the deal "a proud moment".
"It's a new sport and it's the biggest sport in the world," he said. "With the Premier League alone we'll be doing 380 matches a year.
"It's certainly been [a deal] we've been working towards for a long time. We started talking to the Premier League over six years ago."
The Hawk-Eye camera system, which Dr Hawkins invented more than ten years ago, will be used to judge whether the ball has crossed the goal line in contentious incidents.
The system is already used extensively in cricket and tennis, both in assisting referee decisions and to enrich television analysis.
More recently the BBC has also used Hawk-Eye in its analysis of snooker matches.
Hawk-Eye was bought by electronics giant Sony in 2011, but remains a relatively small company. In 2009 it made profits of £1.1m on the back of sales worth £3.6m.
It would not say how much the Premier League deal is worth, but reports suggest it could bring in as much as £10m over five years.
This would include the cost of installing the camera system at all 20 of next season's Premier League grounds, as well as at Wembley Stadium.
The deal gives Hawk-Eye the opportunity to expand into football, despite missing out on the contract to supply the goal-line technology for this summer's Fifa Confederations Cup.
Its German rival GoalControl was selected instead, making them the favourite for the 2014 World Cup.
Other leagues and organisations have expressed a desire to introduce the technology. The chief executive of Spain's La Liga has said he hopes to bring it in within the next two or three years.
But despite the promise of expansion Dr Hawkins acknowledged that Hawk-Eye's application in football is limited, and that the company would continue to develop its presence in other sports, both as a tool of adjudication and analysis.
Unlike tennis or cricket, Hawk-Eye's use in football is limited to the rare occasions when there is a disputed goal.
There is also less opportunity for using Hawk-Eye for in-game analysis - the original use of the system when it was launched as parts of Channel 4's cricket coverage in 2001.
Also positive were weekly jobless claims, which fell to a seasonally adjusted 264,000, near a 15-year low.
The S&P 500 index gained 22.59 points to 2,121.07, while the Nasdaq rose 69.10 points to 5,050.80.
The Dow Jones rose 191.75 points, or 1.06%, to 18,252.24,
There were no losers on the Dow Jones. On The S&P, Kohl's Corp dipped 13% after reporting quarterly revenue and same-store sales figures that failed to meet analysts' expectations.
Analysts cited cheap US and European money amid record-low interest rates and a bond-buying programme in Europe.
The 36-year-old British actor previously played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and has starred in films such as Inception, Lawless and Bronson.
Rocketman is being made with the co-operation of Sir Elton, 66, who is an executive producer on the project.
It will begin shooting in late 2014, Focus Features said.
The screenplay has been penned by Lee Hall, who was Oscar-nominated for Billy Elliot, and recently worked on the film adaptation of War Horse.
It follows Reginald Dwight's journey from childhood piano prodigy to global superstar, under his stage name Elton John.
Hardy is respected for his wide-ranging talent, but his brawny, tattooed frame makes him an unconventional choice to star as the flamboyant musician.
He is not the first actor to play Sir Elton. In 2001, Justin Timberlake appeared as a "young Elton" in the video for the latter's This Train Don't Stop There Any More.
Last month, Sir Elton John played live at the Emmy Awards ceremony for the first time.
He performed a tribute to Liberace, the American pianist and vocalist whose life was told in the recent biopic, Behind the Candelabra.
The duo have come in for Barry Ferguson, who resigned as manager last month with the Bully Wee sitting eighth in the table.
"We're both confident in our abilities and we played at a decent level," MacDonald told Clyde's website.
"I think we've got the respect of the boys and we're coming from a player background," McGovern said.
The Cumbernauld side, who are 14 points behind fourth-placed Annan Athletic, have not won a league match since November and have lost nine of their last 11 games in the division.
Defeat by Montrose in midweek saw the Bully Wee slip to ninth in the table.
"The main thing we're going to ask for is hard work, because we will structure the players in the way we think is needed," added MacDonald.
"We're asking for a willingness to change, even just for themselves, to get three points on the board."
Clyde host Forfar Athletic on league duty at Broadwood on Saturday.
Second-row Jack Conan scored a hat-trick of tries for the dominant hosts.
Full-back Ica Nacewa, winger Adam Byrne, scrum-half Luke McGrath, replacement prop Cian Healy and centre Garry Ringrose also touched down.
Montpellier had fly-half Frans Steyn red-carded for a high challenge on Johnny Sexton when the score was 14-3.
Leinster, bottom of their group last season, can clinch a home quarter-final by beating Castres on 20 January.
There seemed to be little doubt over referee JP Doyle's decision to send off South African Steyn for taking out Sexton high and with force on 26 minutes.
The official reviewed the challenge and consulted assistant Wayne Barnes before producing the red card.
Montpellier's third sending-off in as many European games and, under the new regulations, the French club had little room for complaint.
Relentless Leinster took full advantage by securing a crushing victory over the 14 men to move nine points clear at the top of Pool Four.
Nacewa and Conan had already scored tries by the time of Steyn's dismissal and winger Byrne snapped up another before the break.
Conan got his second try soon after the restart, Sexton's conversion taking the Ireland fly-half past the 500-point mark in Europe.
Montpellier, who won October's home fixture 22-16, seemed to switch off and Luke McGrath spotted a gap to burst through for try number five.
Further tries followed from Healy and Ringrose, with Conan's hat-trick score in between.
Leinster: Nacewa, A. Byrne, G. Ringrose, Henshaw, O'Loughlin, Sexton, L. McGrath, J. McGrath, Tracy, Furlong, Toner, Triggs, Conan, van der Flier, Heaslip.
Replacements: R. Kearney for Nacewa (42), R. Byrne for Sexton (28), Gibson-Park for L. McGrath (65), Healy for J. McGrath (53), Strauss for Tracy (56), Bent for Furlong (56), Molony for Triggs (64).
Not used: Leavy.
Montpellier: Michel, Nagusa, Martin, Tomane, Nadolo, Steyn, White, Nariashvili, Mamukashvili, J. du Plessis, Willemse, Mikautadze, Ouedraogo, Qera, Spies.
Replacements: Mogg for Martin (72), O'Leary for White (60), Watremez for Nariashvili (53), Geli for Mamukashvili (41), Kubriashvili for J. du Plessis (53), Battut for Mikautadze (41), Galletier for Ouedraogo (64).
Not used: Immelman.
Sent off: Steyn (27).
Referee: JP Doyle (England)
Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas dismissed applications to reduce the jail terms of Freddy Kendakumana, Roheez Khan and Chola Chansa.
Abdul Huk had his appeal against both conviction and a four-year sentence for sexual activity with a child dismissed.
The girl, who had been in care, was given vodka and drugs in exchange for sex.
Kendakumana, 27, Chansa, 33, Khan, 27, and Huk, 37 were jailed in December last year at Manchester Crown Court.
A fifth man, Mohammed Rafiq Abubaker, was also found guilty of sexual activity with a child and did not lodge an appeal against his two-and-a-half-year sentence.
The offences took place in 2008 and 2009.
The four men appealed against their sentences, ranging from between four and eight-and-a-half years, on the grounds they were overly harsh.
But Lord Thomas, at the Court of Appeal sitting at Manchester Crown Court, said the judge during the trial had given them the correct sentences.
He told them: "It is a serious aggravating factor that she was exploited as a vulnerable person.
"And the judge was right to make clear that the courts must take every step open to them to protect vulnerable young girls from exploitation of this kind in whatever part of the country they live."
In a separate trial, nine men who ran a child sexual exploitation ring in the Heywood area of Rochdale were jailed in 2012.
On the same day the five men were jailed, a report was published highlighting a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation in the town.
Konta, ranked 11th to Watson's 108th, struggled for rhythm in the first set but dominated the second to lead 5-1.
Watson served nine double faults before fighting back but Konta came through.
In the men's event, Kyle Edmund beat Portugal's Gastao Elias 6-1 6-3 to set up a second-round meeting with world number two Novak Djokovic.
British number three Dan Evans registered a 6-1 6-1 win over Germany's Dustin Brown in just 53 minutes.
He will face Kei Nishikori, ranked fifth in the world, in the second round on Sunday while Konta goes on to face Caroline Garcia in round three..
"It was definitely a brilliant experience for both of us as Fed Cup team-mates and I am very happy to have come through it," said Konta, who was playing her first match in a month after a foot injury.
It was the first meeting on the WTA Tour between Britain's two leading women.
Their only previous contest was at a second-tier tournament in Barnstaple in 2013 when Watson retired after losing the first four games.
Watson broke serve first but then gifted the advantage back as she made three double faults in the third game.
With both players making errors, the pair traded serves again before Konta, who received a bye in the first round, struck the decisive blow by winning the ninth game.
She went on to hold her serve to love to take the first set.
Konta won eight points without reply at the start of the second set and looked on course for a quick victory.
Watson, who threw her racquet in frustration after making three more double faults in the sixth game, found herself 5-1 down before she rallied.
Konta served two double faults in the seventh game and won only two points as Watson, 24, won three consecutive games.
But the 11th seed composed herself to seal her place in the next round after 94 minutes.
The think tank said the project was "exceedingly poor value for money".
But the claims were rejected by Transport Minister Keith Brown, who insisted the line would provide a major economic boost to the Borders.
The railway link between Edinburgh and Tweedbank in the Borders is due to be completed by 2015 and will cost £294m to construct.
The IEA's criticism is focused on the benefit cost ratio (BCR) for the project contained in Transport Scotland's own business case.
The figure is 0.5, which means that for every pound of taxpayers' money invested in the scheme, there will be a return of only 50p.
Dr Richard Wellings of the IEA told BBC Scotland: "Even looking at the official figures, this is just about the worst value project you can find.
"The whole project's insane. The average strategic road scheme has a benefit cost ratio of around five, which is ten times higher than the Borders railway, so this is a gross misallocation of resources, particularly when there are still huge problems on the road network in Scotland."
The transport minister, Keith Brown, described the IEA as a "right-wing think tank", arguing the benefits to the wider economy generated by investing in public transport would outweigh the costs.
He said: "I think the clue is in the extreme language which is being used.
"In my view (the IEA) tend to put a price on everything, but don't understand the value of these things. We think there are far wider benefits and values to this project.
"Although the BCR is important, and we have to have regards to the return on investment, I think we also have to understand the wider benefits which we have."
There is already some evidence of an upturn in the property market along the route of the new railway, with buy-to-let investors showing interest in the type of homes which would appeal to commuters travelling to Edinburgh for work.
Carolyn Bowick of the property company, Orchard and Shipman, said: "Even with the railway a couple of years from completion, we're already having inquiries from landlords who're looking for portfolio investments in the Borders.
"There's a really strong demand because of the opportunities here to buy maybe 10, 12 or 15 properties and see an excellent return on your investment."
Transport experts have urged caution on claims that schemes like the Borders railway do provide a wider economic boost than the official calculations suggest.
Prof Tom Rye of Lund University in Sweden, who has given evidence to the Scottish Parliament on the subject, said: "It is immensely difficult to show empirically that investment in transport schemes leads to economic growth overall.
"It may redistribute growth towards certain areas by changing patterns of accessibility, but that depends on whether poor accessibility is the biggest constraint on economic growth in the area.
"Since the new railway will not radically improve the accessibility of the Borders, except to central Edinburgh perhaps, but not to other major employment locations such as West Lothian and West Edinburgh, then it is difficult to see how it will improve the Borders economy, even if accessibility is a major constraint on the area's economic growth."
But rail industry commentators have praised the Scottish government's transport policies, arguing it is important for politicians to look beyond benefit cost ratio calculations.
Nigel Harris, the managing editor of Rail magazine, said: "Wherever you get decisions made closer to the people, you get better railways and better transport.
"In Scotland you have a fantastic record on being bold on railway re-openings. You've built it and they have come.
"Scotland has been bold in the past and it should continue being so."
The Campaign for Borders Rail said it was "extremely sceptical of this grossly pessimistic forecast".
Chairman Simon Walton said: "I cannot think of any region or community that has failed to benefit from a rail project, and I cannot think of a rail project that has not gone on to greatly exceed expectations of patronage.
"The railway has overwhelming support in the Borders - business and community groups already express great anticipation."
Some parents in Strabane said the closure of Melvin Sports Complex meant their children are missing out.
Derry City and Strabane District Council had said that it needed to ensure appropriate supervision before any changes to opening hours.
On Thursday, the council voted to carry out a report into the cost of Sunday opening.
The original proposal, brought forward by independent councillor Paul Gallagher, was to have the park opened immediately on Sundays. He said the amendment to the motion by the health and community committee was 'shameful'.
"There will be a lot of disappointed people who want access to these facilities and the council is hiding behind this umbrella of saying we need a feasibility study on the numbers who will use it and the staff costs.
"Yet we've seen this council bring forward proposals giving £3m to the airport. It's only a matter of opening up and extending the facilities."
Sinn Féin councillor Karina Carlin asked officials to compile the report before taking a final decision.
"If we're looking at Sunday opening then we have to be realistic and sensible about the matter.
"We simply can't table a motion like that and expect council staff, unions, ratepayers and everyone else to pick up the tab and the implications of that."
Organisers are not beating around the bush either with the subject top of the agenda on the opening day.
Among the many questions we would all like the answer to is when the official negotiations will begin, firing the starting gun on the UK's withdrawal.
Another is whether tariff-free trade is something the prime minister would ultimately be prepared to sacrifice if it meant it was the only way to limit the unrestricted free movement of people.
Theresa May will inevitably respond to these with the familiar line that she is not prepared to give a running commentary on the negotiations, but conference is bound to lift the lid on some of the cabinet-level thinking.
It may also give a sense of the early thinking on what should be done with funding for agriculture and economically-deprived communities, both particularly relevant for Wales and both set to be changed fundamentally by Brexit.
Westminster will in future provide the money for agriculture but we do not know whether the cash will be handed over to the Welsh Government to be distributed via a system designed in Cardiff, or whether Whitehall would like to have more of a say.
If it is the latter then expect an almighty tussle with the Welsh Government who will resist anything other than complete control.
And then there is the replacement for EU structural funds for areas such as the south Wales valleys.
It is too early to get any indication of whether the UK government would replace this - never mind how - but there have been some strong comments from Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns about the need for this kind of aid to undergo major change.
Elsewhere on the policy front, the interesting question for the party is whether it tries to move into the centre ground in response to Jeremy Corbyn's dominance of Labour, or whether it looks to maintain its traditional ground to the right with policies like the reintroduction of grammar schools in England.
The Welsh Tories are gathering after a disappointing year which saw them go backwards in the assembly elections and lose their status as the main opposition.
What made it worse was the fact it followed the party's best result in Wales in 30 years at the 2015 general election.
There has been an internal review carried out into what went wrong but I am told it is not the kind of report that could put the leader in Wales, Andrew RT Davies, in any difficulty.
In fact, it appears he has nothing to worry about having found himself on the right side in the referendum campaign as a high-profile Brexiteer.
He is also being helped by the lack of any obvious candidates to challenge him for the top job in Wales.
But this is a party, and a current leadership, that will be defined by Brexit - and applies as much in Leave-supporting Wales as anywhere else.
A verdict on a third defendant, a 31-year-old Israeli man, was postponed for a mental health review.
Mohammad Abu Khdair, 16, was killed in apparent revenge for the murders of three Israeli teens in the West Bank.
The killings were part of an escalating cycle of violence, culminating in a war between Israel and militants in Gaza.
The story of two brutal killings
Interview with Mohammad Abu Khdair's mother
Mohammad Abu Khdair's body was found in a forest in West Jerusalem on 2 July 2014, two days after the bodies of the Israeli teenagers abducted and murdered by Hamas militants that June were found.
The two minors, whose names have not been released, and 31-year-old Yosef Haim Ben David were subsequently charged with Abu Khdair's murder.
On Monday, the panel of three judges at the Jerusalem District Court found the minors guilty. They will be sentenced in mid-January.
The judges found that Mr Ben David, who was portrayed as the ringleader, had participated in the abduction and murder, but said a formal verdict would be postponed until a psychiatric evaluation had been carried out.
Mr Ben David's lawyer, Asher Ohayon, submitted at the last minute a psychiatric opinion which stated that he was not responsible for his actions at the time of the murder. Prosecutors had presented evidence they said showed he was.
In their ruling, the judges determined that the three defendants abducted Abu Khdair at random as he stood on a road in the Shufat district of East Jerusalem.
The two accomplices, who were 16 at the time, then beat the Palestinian unconscious in the back of a car being driven by Mr Ben David, the judges said.
One of the minors helped douse Mohammad Abu Khdair with petrol while he was still alive, before Mr Ben David lit a match and set him on fire, they added.
The two teenagers confessed to the abduction in court, though one testified that he was not involved in the killing. Mr Ben David chose not to testify.
Mohammad Abu Khdair's father, Hussein, said Mr Ben David was trying to mislead the court.
"How can the defendant, two days ago, a year-and-a-half after the crime, bring a document claiming insanity?" he told reporters. "It's all lies and I worry that the court will free them in the end."
Prosecutor Uri Corb vowed to contest any insanity plea.
"When we try to claim that we are better than our enemies - and I think that we are better than them - we should look at this event as a mirror," he said. "As a society we will continue to fight all avengers and lynchers, as we did in this case."
Two Palestinians suspected of the murder of the three Israeli teenagers - Naftali Fraenkel and Gilad Shaar, both aged 16, and 19-year-old Eyal Yifrach - were killed by Israeli forces in a gun-battle at their hideout in Hebron in September 2014.
A third man, Hussam Qawasmeh, was sentenced to three life terms in prison in January after being found guilty by an Israeli court of several charges including three counts of accessory to murder.
Around 1.5 million devotees have turned out for a huge annual Roman Catholic procession in Manila.
Each year, a centuries-old wooden statue of Jesus Christ, called The Black Nazarene, is paraded through the Philippine capital.
This year, police and foreign embassies advised attendees to be on alert for possible terror attacks.
It was found during an excavation over the Easter holidays during works for a new classroom building at St Mary's RC Primary School in Leith.
It is thought it is the site of a historical unmarked grave of what could be a plague victim.
The area has been fenced off but the school is open for pupils.
John Lawson, City of Edinburgh Council archaeologist, said: "The skeleton was uncovered as part of a carefully planned excavation.
"This seems to be the site of an unknown, unmarked grave dating to the 17th Century.
"It is thought the burial, outside the original Edinburgh town borders in Leith, may be a plague victim but further analysis needs to be undertaken."
Richard Lewis, City of Edinburgh Council's culture convener, said: "Edinburgh has such a rich history and the skeleton at St Mary's is yet another astonishing archaeological find."
Mary Bainbridge, acting head at the school, said: "The school is very excited about the educational opportunities that the archaeological work on site may present and I have already been in discussion with the council's archaeologist about the different ways the pupils will be able to engage and the experiences that can be offered."
The shelter in the village of Walkhampton, Devon first had a comfortable chair installed last year.
Since then there have been regular makeovers, as the Plymouth Herald reported last week.
The identity of the reclusive renovator is unknown, prompting some to liken it to the work of graffiti artist Banksy.
Read more about the mystery bus shelter makeover and other Devon and Cornwall stories
The rector of the West Dartmoor Mission Community and village resident, the Reverend Nick Shutt, said: "Walkhampton's own Banksy is on the loose.
"It's a great thing and has brought a real sense of cheer to the community."
The changes started last summer when the shelter was transformed overnight with a new comfortable chair and cushions, and it has been added to over the months.
Mr Shutt said: "For Halloween it was 'spookified', and for Valentine's it was 'loved-up'.
"We genuinely have no idea who is doing this but it just makes it better than it was."
The bus shelter was vandalised in 2013 and had to be repaired by Burrator Parish Council.
The charity found 37,283 dogs were left unclaimed in local authority kennels between April 2015 and March 2016.
One in eight were pets that could not be returned as their microchips had not been updated by their owners, it said.
In April, it became a legal requirement for all pet dogs to be microchipped with current contact details.
The results come from the organisation's annual survey of local authorities, which also revealed 3,463 stray dogs had been destroyed in the last year.
Jon Gerlis from the Dogs Trust told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We took a poll which found that only 9% of people saw updating their dog's microchip as a priority when they move home - that compares, unfavourably, to updating their digital television set."
"When you move home, a dog doesn't know its surroundings, but it naturally wants to go home, so it's probably the most crucial time in actually making sure that your chip details are up to date - especially if you don't have secure borders in your garden," he added.
Staffordshire bull terrier Dingle was picked up as a stray in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, around 10 September.
He was kept in a local authority pound for seven days before Dogs Trust Merseyside took him in.
Dingle, aged 12, was microchipped but the contact number registered on the database was no longer in use.
He is now up for rehoming at the centre.
Dogs Trust found the total number of stray dogs handled by councils had decreased by 21% - from 102,516 to 81,050.
Of those handled by councils, 16,447 were microchipped - 9,052 of which were reunited with their owners due to either a chip or ID plate.
The charity said the decline in stray dogs taken in by local authorities could partly be attributed to the change in the law relating to microchipping.
Owners who fail to microchip their pets with up-to-date contact details face a fine of up to £500.
Adrian Burder, the charity's chief executive, said: "To discover that the number of stray dogs in the UK is down from last year is promising, but with over 37,000 dogs remaining unclaimed in council pounds last year, it's clear we still have work to do.
"Local authorities work tirelessly caring for stray and abandoned dogs each year, but sadly they just don't have the resources or man power to care for every stray dog in the UK.
"Stray dogs that find themselves at Dogs Trust are the lucky ones, as we will never put a healthy dog to sleep, but not all of the unclaimed dogs are so fortunate."
Dogs Trust said it hoped the new law would significantly bring down the number of stray dogs taken in by councils next year.
Sgt Olaf Schmid, 30, from Truro in Cornwall, died disarming a bomb - the 65th device on his tour of duty - in 2009.
He was posthumously awarded the George Cross.
Now a police operations team have named a new German short-haired pointer after the sergeant in recognition of the work he carried out while on duty.
The new puppy's registration name is Calverkeys Olaf Schmid and he will be known as Oz.
Insp David Eddy, who is in charge of the dogs on Tri Force Operations for Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Avon & Somerset Police, said naming the puppy after Sgt Schmid was appropriate.
"Olaf Schmid was suggested as soon as we identified the puppy as a potential explosives search dog.
"In the circumstances, naming a bomb detection dog after a decorated bomb disposal officer seemed to be the most appropriate choice and we were able to contact Olaf's mother and she agreed to us naming Oz in honour of her son."
The 23-year-old joins the National League outfit for an undisclosed fee.
He helped Dulwich Hamlet reach the Isthmian Premier League play-off final in May, but they missed out on promotion to National League South, losing 3-1 to East Thurrock United.
He scored 13 goals for Dulwich Hamlet in 204 first-team matches, having made his debut in 2010 at the age of 16.
Joseph McKeever, 54, from Walton was found by fire crews in Whitehaven Road, Everton, on 15 June.
Karl Kelly, 31, of Snaefell Avenue, Old Swan and Darren Colecozy, 22, of no fixed abode, are due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court.
They also face charges of kidnap and false imprisonment.
State-owned news agency Sana said troops killed 37 "terrorists" in one operation alone and several others in other attacks.
UK-based activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 45 rebels were killed.
Syria's civil war has left at least 100,000 people dead.
The army's siege of rebel-held areas in Homs's Old City has lasted more than a year.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the number of dead could be higher.
"They were killed as they tried to launch an operation to end the siege of Homs. They were ambushed by regime forces near the Khaldiya neighbourhood, which is under government control," he told AFP news agency.
Several thousand civilians are believed to be trapped by the siege.
In October, activists reported severe food and energy shortages in the besieged areas and warned that residents faced starvation.
The UN has expressed grave concern over reports that over half a million people remain trapped in rural areas around the capital Damascus and there are cases of severe malnutrition among children.
On Thursday the observatory also reported that a car bomb in Kafat in the central province of Hama killed at least 18 people.
State TV also reported the "terrorist" blast, saying 16 people were dead and many more wounded. Much of the province is still under government control.
Meanwhile in the embattled city of Aleppo, government warplanes reportedly carried out fresh air strikes on the rebel-held district of Sheikh Maqsud.
An aerial offensive against rebels in Aleppo using barrel bombs and Scud missiles started last month and has killed hundreds, mostly civilians.
On Wednesday, Russia blocked a UN Security Council statement condemning the air strikes.
Diplomats said Russia put forward amendments to the UK-sponsored statement that removed reference to what had happened in Aleppo.
Wessels and Brett Hutton shared a 197-run seventh-wicket stand before the latter fell to Scott Borthwick for 74.
Borthwick's first five-wicket haul since 2013 saw Notts all out for 534, with Wessels finishing unbeaten on 159.
Bird then ripped through Durham's top order as the away side closed on 193-4, trailing by 341 runs at Trent Bridge.
After the hosts resumed the second day on 353-6, in a chanceless first session, Wessels and youngster Hutton ensured maximum batting points for their side.
Borthwick then wrapped up the tail before Durham openers Mark Stoneman (39) and Keaton Jennings batted with ease.
But Jennings was caught at midwicket by Samit Patel off Bird, Stoneman fell in identical fashion and Jack Burham was then trapped lbw next ball for a golden duck as the away side crumbled.
Bird was denied a hat-trick but soon sent Michael Richardson's off stump tumbling to put the home side in the driving seat.
However, Borthwick made 59 and captain Paul Collingwood 38 in an unbroken 72-run fifth-wicket stand which kept Notts at bay for the remainder of the day.
Firefighters were called to a terraced house in the Lower Bennett Street area of the city on Wednesday morning.
The woman was the only occupant of the house at the time.
The living room was damaged by the fire and there was smoke damage to other rooms. The police are investigating how the blaze started.
There has also been an arson attack on a flat in Glenview Avenue in Limavady.
The property was significantly damaged in the fire, which started on Tuesday night.
Almost 70 passengers on Sunday's 14:25 BST to Stansted were delayed for about five hours after the incident.
Northumbria Police said four businessmen from London who were among a stag party were removed and spoken to by officers.
Flybe apologised for the delay, adding it had a "zero tolerance" approach to unruly behaviour on its flights.
A Northumbria Force spokesman said: "We were called by airport staff to help remove a group of drunk and disorderly passengers from a plane at Newcastle Airport.
"The group was escorted off the plane and spoken to."
No arrests resulted from the incident, but a 30-year-old man was reported for an offence under the aviation act.
A airline spokesman said: "Flybe sincerely regrets the inconvenience experienced by passengers.
"This resulted from the threatening and overly abusive behaviour exhibited towards the cabin crew immediately prior to departure, initially initiated by four members of a 13-strong stag party.
"As such, and in line with a zero tolerance policy with any form of on-board behaviour that might in any way compromise the safe operation of any flight, the captain reported the situation to the police who took the necessary immediate action.
"All 68 passengers were offloaded and those not involved in the incident were accommodated on an alternative flight."
Some passengers later took to social media claiming the incident had been overblown.
How many five-a-side footballers have described their own moment of breathtaking quality as "doing a Zlatan"?
Indeed, Ibrahimovic is so good he has his own verb in the Swedish dictionary - "zlatanera", which translates as "to Zlatan" and means "to dominate".
But sport is not just sublime beauty and outrageous ego. We asked BBC Sportsday readers to add to our sporting dictionary.
Nathan Arnold: "To be Skrtled" - to have your shirt consistently pulled at corners.
AJ: "To Liverpool" - to never win the Premier League.
Liam McCann: "To Liverpool" - meaning it's our year this year, haha.
Steve Ballinger: "To take a Suarez" - ie "He really took a big Suarez out of that burger."
Oliver Wicks: "To Istanbul" - to pull off a huge turnaround. "I started this exam badly but in the last 20 minutes I absolutely Istanbuled it".
Andrew Barry: "To Liverpool" - to be the pre-eminent and dominant team/person in your sport and then to fade off into mediocrity, while still holding to the delusion that success is just around the corner. And this from a Liverpool fan.
Paul Hawkins: "To Villa" - to perpetually disappoint fans and consequently buoy the opposition.
Cal Gibson: "To Toon" - to cling onto a 'big club' status while fighting for relegation. See also "to Villa".
Mike Sullivan: "To Martinez" - to frustrate immensely by talking only in soundbites ('Phenomenal', 'Unique', Character').
Matt Parry: "To Martinez" - to watch a completely different game to everyone else.
James Rooney: "To Martinez" - to underperform whilst having the potential to achieve much more.
MIDG 247: "To Wenger" - to try the same thing repeatedly and expect different outcomes.
John Gray: "To Wenger" - to say you're going shopping without actually buying anything.
Gary Pilkington: "To Wenger" - convincing your bosses you're the man for the job when you're consistently not hitting your targets.
Craig: "To Arsenal" - to look on course to pass everything with flying colours, then end up scraping through with a D.
Jamie Davenport: "To Van Gaal" - to disappoint.
Alerick: "The Van Gaal" - a philosophy that no-one but yourself understands.
Jo: "To Van Gaal" - the act of trusting youths and giving them a chance.
Jed Shaw: "To Klopp" - to go crazy when something superb happens.
Victor Ekpo: "To Mourinho" - to win without "Zlataning".
Josh Jones: "To Leicester" - to perform consistently and unbelievably well, above the standards expected of you, possibly creating history.
Mojopin: "To be Spursy" - to promise so much but to perennially fail at the last hurdle.
Dan Pattenden: "To Scholesy" - to avoid a booking despite a challenge being so late it is posthumous.
Neil Raymond Fulton: "To Thiago" is to absolutely slay a dropping ball with a saucy first touch under intense pressure in the middle of the park.
Euan Cowie (suggesting Hibernian are not the most mentally strong team) "Hibsing" - bottling it in a completely catastrophic fashion. Example: "England Hibsed that T20 final pretty hard".
Aaran Kendall: "To Boateng someone" - fake a shot resulting in the defender tripping over his own feet. Also to be "Boatenged".
Kofi Tawiah Quansah: "To pull a Tevez" - to go on holiday without permission.
Matthew Squires: "To Kante" - tackle, mark and break down anything that gets in your half.
Josh BW: "To Earnshaw"- To have an amazing goal celebration only to be on the losing side more often than not.
Ryan Callanan: "To West Ham" - to bring up the 1966 World Cup as a trophy your club has won by having players in a large squad.
Itz Tinny David: "To Ozil" - 1. To assist: Ozil me with your car." 2. To Lend: To Ozil a helping hand to someone.
Matt O'Neill: (In tribute to former Manchester City and Middlesbrough midfielder Jamie Pollock) "To Pollock" - score the best goal you'll ever score, alas in the wrong net.
Milan Delmelle: "To Torres" - to have both a massive positive impact and a massive bad impact on a game.
Ben Morton: "To Payet" - to score a stunning free-kick every single time.
Paul Adams: In our billiards and snooker league "to be Nuggeted" - To be utterly crushed! Nickname for Steve Davis in the 80s when he was beating everybody."
Read more at #bbcsportsday or on BBC Sport's Facebook page.
Metaverse Mod Squad, is establishing an operations centre at the Old City Factory building on Patrick Street as part of its European expansion plan.
The company, which has offices in Sacramento and New York, provides managed digital engagement services.
It is seeking to employ people with technical and marketing experience as well as new graduates.
Announcing the investment, Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister, Jonathan Bell, said: "I welcome the decision by Metaverse to choose Northern Ireland as the location for its new European operations centre.
"This is a good news story for Derry as the 100 new jobs will offer employment to a wide range of people, from those with technical and marketing experience to new graduates.
"Invest Northern Ireland has offered the company support of £250,000, to help with initial business priorities, including creating new jobs.
"This support, along with the quality pool of talent available here, helped Northern Ireland secure these new jobs against competition from the Republic of Ireland."
Amy Ryan Pritchard, founder and CEO of Metaverse Mod Squad, said: "Digital engagement is critical to a company's success and it's an area that is set to grow significantly over the next few years.
"While we have been successfully operating in Europe with our distributed network of Mods since 2008, our clients and prospects want us to have an even larger and more involved presence.
"Derry is the first and essential step in this plan.
"With a talented and skilled workforce, a vibrant tech community and a supportive business environment, Derry is the right choice for Metaverse."
SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan said he hoped the announcement would act as a magnet to attract further positive investment for the city.
The Scottish government is seeking views on recommendations by an independent expert panel to introduce a "no-fault" scheme in Scotland.
The group has recommended changing the current system for the handling of claims to one of no-fault compensation.
The system would be similar to schemes in place in other parts of the world.
A change would mean patients who have suffered loss, injury or damage as a result of treatment could be compensated without going to court to prove negligence.
The No-Fault Compensation Review Group, headed by law and medical ethics expert Professor Sheila McLean, was set up in 2009 by the health secretary.
The proposed new system would still require proof that harm was caused by treatment but would remove the need to prove negligence.
Minister for Public Health Michael Matheson said: "We know that the vast majority of the care delivered in our NHS is of the highest quality, but it is important that people who have suffered as a result of clinical mistakes should have some form of redress.
"It's in no-one's best interests to have that redress delayed because a compensation claim can take years to go through the courts.
"Nor is it in anyone's interests to have precious NHS resources spent on expensive legal fees."
He added: "It is important that we seek wider views in order to help in our understanding of what the practical implications would be."
No-fault systems are already in place in countries such as Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and New Zealand, and parts of the US.
Welcoming the move, the BMA said the system should speed up the process, but cautioned that it should not increase costs to the NHS and take money away from patient care.
The match was all-but won in the first half, as Brian Mujati and Josh Beaumont tries either side of a penalty try gave Sale a commanding 24-0 half-time lead.
Danny Cipriani capped a fine display by putting Nev Edwards over before Ashton Hewitt scored a Dragons consolation.
Full-back Mike Haley added a late fifth try for Sale, who were always on top.
Dragons, who had already qualified for the knockout stages, will now face an away tie in the last eight.
Sale fly-half Cipriani, who was overlooked by England boss Eddie Jones in his first Six Nations squad, impressed with a flawless kicking display that delivered 11 points as well as his classy assist for the fourth try.
Cipriani kicked the resulting penalty after Dragons' Hallam Amos was shown a yellow card for a deliberate knock-on after 10 minutes and South Africa prop Mujati crossed in the corner soon afterwards.
Sale then took control when they were awarded a penalty try after several Dragons infringements at the scrum, before captain Beaumont - who won the man of the match award to cap off a fine few days which has seen him included in England's Six Nations squad - powered over just before the break.
Cipriani's fine grubber kick and raking pass to set up wing Edwards' second-half try secured the bonus point for Sale and mathematically ensured a home tie in the first knockout phase.
Dragons' first well-executed set-piece led to Hewitt's consolation try, but Geraint Rhys Jones missed the conversion.
Sale pressed for a fifth and were rewarded late on as Haley had time and space to touch down to complete a dominant win.
Sale Sharks: Mike Haley; Will Addison, Sam James, Johnny Leota, Nev Edwards; Danny Cipriani, Peter Stringer; Eifion Lewis Roberts, Tommy Taylor, Brian Mujati, Bryn Evans, Andrei Ostrikov, Cameron Neild, Magnus Lund, Josh Beaumont (capt.)
Replacements: Neil Briggs, Ross Harrison, Vadim Cobilas, Jonathan Mills, Mark Easter, James Mitchell, Joe Ford, Mark Jennings
Dragons: Geraint Rhys Jones; Ashton Hewitt, Adam Hughes, Adam Warren, Hallam Amos; Jason Tovey, Sarel Pretorius; Phil Price, Thomas Rhys Thomas (capt), Brok Harris, Cory Hill, Rynard Landman, Lewis Evans, Nic Cudd, Taulupe Faletau.
Replacements: Elliot Dee, Boris Stankovich, Shaun Knight, Matthew Screech, Ed Jackson, Charlie Davies, Angus O'Brien, Nick Scott.
Referee: Andrew Brace (Ireland)
Touch Judges: David Wilkinson (Ireland), Sean Gallagher (Ireland)
TMO: Seamus Flannery (Ireland)
Citing Commissioner: Eddie Wigglesworth (Ireland)
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Michael Lee, 55, of Worlington, Suffolk, denied raping and assaulting one woman in 2012.
Mr Lee, world champion in 1980, also pleaded not guilty to two sexual assaults on another woman in 2011.
After being being found not guilty at Ipswich Crown Court, he said: "I can't remember the last time I slept."
Mr Lee rode for teams including King's Lynn, Poole and Boston.
Speaking outside the court, he said: "It's been 15 months of sheer hell and it's had a big impact on my life.
"I feel exhausted, emotional and relieved - I feel pleased justice has been done and I can get back on with my life again.
"A lot of people have supported me and I can't thank them enough.
"Everyone who knows me knows I'm not the person I've been portrayed to be."
A jury found him not guilty of one sexual assault on Thursday and then the remaining counts on Friday.
Mr Lee had been a co-promoter of the Mildenhall Fen Tigers until last season and remains a shareholder in the club.
He said he would be at the club's National League Knockout Cup meeting at home to Cradley on Sunday.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboats were called to reports of a man, 22, in a dinghy near Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth on Thursday afternoon.
He did not have any paddles when he was found. He was taken to Gorleston.
Lifeboat crews said it was a "prank gone wrong", and Coxswain Paddy Lee added: "He is a very lucky man".
"This could have easily been a different outcome. He was being blown offshore into wind farm traffic and shipping lanes.
"The dinghy was losing air. The sea is still very cold," he said.
In tests on mice, they discovered that sprucing up their living space, with a running wheel, toys and a colourful box, did wonders for their T cells.
These cells are essential for immunity and help to protect against disease.
The Queen Mary University of London researchers said the same approach should be tested on humans.
In their study, the mice living in the enriched surroundings of a larger cage with lots of stimulation - as opposed to a plain, old cage of sawdust - were found to be better prepared for fighting infections.
Higher levels of molecules which are good at responding to infections were found in their white blood cells.
Prof Fulvio D'Acquisto, lead study researcher from QMUL, said: "This effect is remarkable because we haven't given them any drugs.
"All we've done is change their housing conditions.
"You could say that we've just put them in their equivalent of a holiday resort for two weeks and let them enjoy their new and stimulating surroundings."
In another study on mice with disease, he discovered that very small changes in bedding had an impact on their health.
Giving them better quality blankets and more comfortable sleeping conditions meant their illness was shortened from four days to two days.
When it comes to the human immune system, how the environment we live in influences the body's primary defence against disease is not known.
But it is thought that factors such as pollution, location, psychological state and social status could all play a role.
Prof D'Acquisto says research shows that there is a link between emotional response and immune response.
No-one yet knows how this works but one theory is that heightened emotion makes bone marrow perform better, which in turn receives more nutrients, boosting the body's immune system.
He says we should all be thinking about what we can do to moderate our own emotions - and not pretend we are all the same.
"We shouldn't flatten out personality.
"We should acknowledge the differences and ask - what can I do to make me happier? Should I change my living conditions?
"We should really ask what's best for us."
Whether it's a walk on the beach, listening to a piece of music or more comfortable bedding in hospital, Prof D'Acquisto wants to find out if patients' health and well-being could be improved by making small changes to our environment.
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Jamille Matt's strike put Argyle ahead and Reuben Reid added to the lead from the penalty spot after Matt was fouled.
Will Boyle's own goal should have put the game out of reach, but York's Russell Penn pulled one back with a drilled finish after the break.
Luke Summerfield's late penalty ensured a nervy finish, but Argyle held on to close the gap on Oxford to two points.
Plymouth also have a game in hand on second-placed Oxford, who drew with Cambridge United.
York have still not won away since 5 September and are seven points from safety with seven games to go.
York City manager Jackie McNamara told BBC Radio York:
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"I thought we played well, that's the frustrating thing.
"We started the game well with a few chances and a few blocks and came close.
"Three-nil at half time, obviously was a test of character and I thought in the second half we were fantastic.
"It's probably the best we've played for a while."
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The Met Office said a large band of rain will move slowly over the country during Monday and will be heavy in some areas.
It said there is the possibility of up to 80mm of rain falling in some places with localised flooding and difficult driving conditions.
It has issued a yellow "be aware" warning which runs from 06:00 BST on Monday to the same time on Tuesday.
Conservative Sir Henry Bellingham said there was "clear evidence" of students saying they voted at their home and university addresses.
"Surely this is straightforward electoral fraud," he said.
Cabinet Office Minister Chris Skidmore promised to raise the "completely unacceptable" allegation with the Electoral Commission.
Similar allegations about the 8 June election have been made by another Conservative MP, Sir Peter Bone, last week, as well as by ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage.
Speaking during Cabinet Office Questions in the Commons, Sir Henry, the MP for North West Norfolk, said: "Is the minister aware that there is now clear evidence that many students boasted on social media of voting twice - once at university, and once by post at home? Surely this is straightforward electoral fraud."
Mr Skidmore said this would be "nothing less than an abuse of our democracy" and promised to raise it with the Electoral Commission "as a priority".
"Let all of us in this House be clear: this is a crime. If anyone has any evidence of people voting twice, they should report it to their local returning officer and the police, who must take this issue seriously," he added.
According to the Electoral Commission, it is possible to be legally registered to vote in more than one place, if someone is properly resident in each.
Where this is the case, they are allowed to vote twice in local government elections - provided they live in two different council areas - but it is illegal to do this in a general election or referendum.
Investigating such an offence would be a matter for the police, it said.
The current operator Manx2.com has secured the Cardiff-Anglesey contract along with its partner FLM Aviation.
But Liberal Democrats say it is an "environmental and financial outrage".
Anglesey AM and Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones said the decision reflected the assembly government's determination to maintain the link.
"This air link joining north and south Wales has proved itself to be an efficient, reliable and popular service," said Mr Jones.
"This service is well used, it is well utilised, and it's a wide range of people - there are business people, people visiting friends and families, people going for tourism opportunities, as well as of course as people from the public sector.
"I think it is justified, simply because we need to maintain good communications between north and south of our country."
Clive McGregor, leader of Anglesey council, welcomed the subsidy, saying it was "good news and brings us certainty for another four years".
He added that Manx2's record has been "excellent so far".
"The hope is that together we can develop the service from Maes Awyr Môn and that destinations such as Dublin and the Isle of Man will be offered in the future," Mr McGregor said.
Isle of Man-based Manx2.com took over running of the route in May after the airline Highland Airways went into administration in March.
It was awarded the new contract after the assembly government out the service out to tender in July.
Manx2.com chairman Noel Hayes said: "As a Celtic neighbour, Manx2.com is delighted to have been chosen to continue the connection between Cardiff and Anglesey.
"With our home base just 50 miles away across the Irish Sea, we're excited about continuing our award-winning Manx service into the future."
The decision was criticised by Welsh Liberal Democrats, who have long opposed the service, which has been dubbed "Ieuan Air" by some after the Anglesey AM and Plaid Cymru leader.
The party's transport spokesperson, Jenny Randerson said: "At a time when families and business are cutting back, it beggars belief that the Labour-Plaid government can waste another £4.8m of taxpayers' money subsidising the Ieuan Air airlink.
"It is an environmental and financial outrage."
The party said it was "simply scandalous" that the new deal also tied in any future assembly government to the service for the next four years.
"The Welsh Liberal Democrats will now look to see what can be done to ensure a future government is free to scrap this wasteful and polluting subsidy," added Ms Randerson.
However, the assembly government has defended the increase in subsidy for the service, which jumps by 50% to £1.2m a year.
A spokesperson said it reflected changes since the first north-south airlink agreement in 2007.
"Since then the costs of operating the service has increased, for example increases in fuel, salary costs, landing charges, etc, the current budget limit reflects these increased costs," added the spokesperson.
The government is to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU by the end of 2017.
The prime minister is attempting to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership and the committee said it would examine the potential impact.
Other topics include the effect on the free movement of people and goods.
MPs will also look at the terms under which the UK could leave the EU, and "the likelihood of it securing continued access to EU goods, services and capital markets," it said.
Another area of interest will be the impact of a "Brexit" on the UK's trade in the service industry, and financial services "in particular".
No date has yet been set for the referendum but David Cameron has promised to hold the vote by the end of 2017.
The prime minister has said he will campaign for Britain to remain in the EU if he secures the reforms he wants.
The committee's chairman, Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie, said: "This inquiry will be wide-ranging, dealing with all the economic and financial consequences of the UK's EU membership, and the impact of departure.
"The committee's job will be to attempt to marshal the evidence on this important question into a coherent form, enabling the electorate to make a more informed decision. It welcomes evidence from all those with views and expertise."
It has been announced that Lord Stuart Rose will lead the In Campaign, which wants the UK to remain in the EU.
And Vote.Leave, made up of Conservative, Labour and UKIP MPs and donors, has launched a cross-party campaign to take the UK out of the EU.
Pettway, 51, was arrested last year after the victim, Carlina White, discovered she had been kidnapped.
She pleaded guilty in February to kidnapping the three-week-old Ms White from hospital.
Prosecutors increased their recommended sentence to 20 years, saying they had uncovered new facts about the case.
They specifically challenged the defence's contention that Pettway had provided a "stable, loving and happy home", for Ms White for 23 years. She was raised as Nejdra Nance in Connecticut and later in Georgia.
Pettway was convicted of five crimes while Ms White was in her custody, according to a probation department, and had used cocaine from 1983 to 2005.
Ms White's biological mother, Joy White, also told probation officers that her daughter told her that Pettway had once hit her with a shoe, leaving an imprint on her face.
In a letter ahead of the sentencing hearing, Pettway apologised and said the kidnapping would have never occurred if she had sought professional help after her failed pregnancies.
"Because of my actions so many lives were hurt," she said, adding that she had raised "a wonderful bright young woman".
In her plea agreement, Pettway told the court how she had caught a train from her home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to New York, where she snatched the 19-day-old from Harlem Hospital, after the baby was brought there with a fever by her parents.
"I went to the hospital," said Pettway. "I took a child. It was wrong.''
As part of her plea bargain, prosecutors originally recommended a sentence of 10 to 12 years in prison.
Joy White told reporters afterwards that Pettway should serve 23 years in jail, one for every year she had been separated from her daughter.
Joy White said she remembered Pettway, posing as a nurse, consoling her before picking up the baby and waking away.
After being unable to shake off a sense that she did not belong to the family that raised her, Carlina White began her own inquiries.
Pettway then admitted that she was someone else's daughter, but claimed she had been abandoned by a drug addict.
Ms White traced her true mother after finding a photo of herself on the website of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
DNA tests last year confirmed her as the daughter of Joy White and Carl Tyson.
The case made headlines internationally and solved a mystery that had baffled police for more than two decades.
Amir was suspended for five years and served three months in prison after being found guilty of spot-fixing during the 2010 Lord's Test.
The 24-year-old will return to the same ground next month as part of the Pakistan team for the first of a four-Test summer tour of England.
"I fully back that fixers should be banned for life," he said.
"If fixing is still happening, then it's really alarming."
Left-arm fast bowler Amir said he felt "seriously lucky" to be able to resume his Test career.
"I was all excited for Test cricket because that is where my career was held back and I still can't believe that this is happening," he said.
Amir and new-ball partner Mohammad Asif were found to have bowled deliberate no-balls for money.
The duo, and then Test captain Salman Butt, were found guilty of corruption by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in February 2011, and sent to prison in November of the same year following a criminal trial at Southwark Crown Court.
Cook said he had "no problem" facing Amir as he has "served his time".
He added: "In my opinion - because it's become a bit more prevalent - the ICC should come out and say that if you are caught match-fixing you are banned for life."
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The doctor's extraterrestrial arch-enemy has been constructed by cutting more than 6 miles (10 km) of pathways in a field of maize plants in Elvington.
The attraction was opened by actor Colin Baker who played the Time Lord in the 1980s.
The pop star won best male, best North American act, best collaboration for Where Are You Now?, with Skrillex and Diplo, biggest fans and best look.
One Direction won the prize for best pop, Taylor Swift's Bad Blood won best song and Rihanna was named best female.
Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran hosted the ceremony in Milan on Sunday - and took home the prize for best live act.
He also won the best world stage award for his performance at last year's V Festival.
Accepting his best male award, Bieber said: "It's been a long couple of years, um, I just feel like this is pretty awesome to be recognised for my music."
He has had a number of legal run-ins, including being arrested last year on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Sydney pop punk band 5 Seconds of Summer scooped the best worldwide act (Australia/New Zealand) award for the second year in a row.
The She's Kinda Hot singers, who supported One Direction on their Australian tour, thanked their fans via video message.
Ruby Rose, fellow Australian export and star of Orange is the New Black, opened the MTV EMAs alongside Ed Sheeran.
Veteran pop stars Duran Duran were honoured with the inaugural MTV Video Visionary Award.
"When we started there was us and MTV and we blazed a trail and we were there for each other," said singer Simon Le Bon as he collected the award.
A surprise winner in the best video category was hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
"I had no idea we were going to win an award," said Macklemore.
"We're not on a major label; we don't have a big budget. What you guys give to us, we give back to you in the art we make."
That represents a substantial gain on alternatives that can struggle to run longer than a day.
The Geak Watch 2 models achieve the feat by using a hybrid screen that switches between a "high definition" LCD colour display and a "standby mode" battery-saving e-ink one.
One expert said this was "very clever".
"One of the big challenges that smartwatch manufacturers have had is that people stop using the devices, and one of the reasons they do so is that they have to be charged on a regular basis, whereby they are being taken off constantly," said Ben Wood from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.
"Anything that enhances the battery life is a big win.
"That's why we've seen people who have Pebble devices typically using them longer than some of the rivals with daily charging requirements."
Pebble smartwatches also promise "up to seven days" between charges thanks to the use of a black-and-white e-paper display, but lack the ability to switch to a colour LCD screen or run Android, restricting the amount of apps they offer.
The new smartwatches are made by Shanda, a Shanghai-based company that helped pioneer the sector with its first Geak Watch in 2013.
Reviews at the time indicated that the first-generation device lasted between 10 and 15 hours.
Early adopters are being rewarded with an offer to trade in the old watch for a free new one.
Shanda says:
Owners can alternate between the two display modes by pressing a power button.
Both watches feature a circular 1.3in (3.2cm) display offering a resolution of 254 pixels per inch when the LCD is in use - roughly the same specifications as LG's G Watch R, which does not include the e-ink component.
Shanda's Pro model features a metal, rather than plastic, bezel and also includes a built-in heart rate monitor.
The models are powered by Geak Watch OS, a proprietary "skinned" version of Android 4.3 that has its own app store and user interface, rather than Google's Android Wear software.
This helps it overcome the fact that Google Now - the anticipatory search service that provides much of Android Wear's functionality - is blocked in China, where the Geak devices are sold.
Mr Wood said it was not yet clear whether the hybrid screens matched existing watches in terms of display quality, but said that if they did other companies might follow with similar products made available worldwide.
"We're seeing a tremendous amount of innovation in wearables coming out of China," he said.
"It's amazing how all of the different manufacturers quickly follow successful ideas.
"But China is not only the epicentre for innovation, it's also the source of extreme price erosion, which is making things challenging for the established players."
Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sony and Asus are among other companies to offer smartwatches that typically last about a day per charge.
Many analysts have speculated that Apple's Watch - a smartwatch to be released in 2015 - would boost sales across the sector.
But there has been concern about Apple's admission that battery life will be constrained.
"I think given my own experience, and others around it, that you're going to wind up charging it every day because you're going to use it so much," Apple's chief executive Tim Cook said at the WSJD Live conference, according to a transcript by the Verge news site.
While improvements in the efficiency of computer processors are helping compensate for the relatively slow pace of battery tech advances, they can go only so far.
But research elsewhere in China might offer an alternative to falling back on e-ink.
Researchers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have reported that they have created a new type of LCD screen that can hold a static image for years without requiring power.
This could be suited to smartwatches that change only a single digit every minute to show the time when not running more complex apps.
Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd was raided over the Easter weekend.
Lionel Wiffen told Woolwich Crown Court he found the fire escape open twice and "crept around" but found nothing unusual, blaming the caretaker.
Three men deny conspiracy to commit burglary. A fourth denies conspiracy to conceal or transfer criminal property.
Mr Wiffen said he visited his office on the morning of 3 April and found the fire escape ajar, which had never previously occurred.
He said he "crept in" to "have a look around" but found nothing unusual and made sure he locked it when he left.
But the following morning he said he found it "open again".
"I thought I'll have a go at the caretaker, and find out who he's given a key to," he said.
Previously Det Con Jamie Day, the first Flying Squad officer to arrive on the scene, said the only CCTV camera in the building caught footage of a man, identified only as "Basil", allowing access to the building via a fire escape from the inside.
Shortly afterwards other men could be seen entering the building carrying tools, wheelie bins and other equipment.
Mr Wiffen also told the court "there seemed to be a lot of cars parked with people in it...looking over" in the months before the burglary.
The trial continues.
Defendants and charges
Previously John Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington; Daniel Jones, 58, of Park Avenue, Enfield; Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield and Reader, of Dartford Road, Dartford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.
They will be sentenced at a later date.
Writing in the Radio Times, Suzy Klein said suggestions the BBC was "teetering worryingly at the top of a slippery slope" were "a load of old cobblers".
"Electronic dance music is dazzling in its primal energy," the presenter of Radio 3's In Tune programme continued.
"Great music festivals must embrace great music, in its many guises."
The late-night Prom on 29 July will see Radio 1 presenter Pete Tong celebrate 20 years of the Ibiza dance scene in a concert with Jules Buckley and the Heritage Orchestra.
This year's Proms season also includes a BBC Radio 1Extra Prom on 12 August featuring leading hip-hop and grime artists from Britain's urban music scene.
Klein promised that the latter concert would be "mind-blowing" and could hardly be seen as "the tip of the iceberg for Proms armageddon".
"I love dancing to an addictive club anthem as much as I adore listening... to a Brahms symphony," the broadcaster wrote. "Who says you're not allowed to enjoy all of it?"
The 2015 BBC Proms season runs from 17 July to 12 September and will comprise 92 concerts in total, mainly at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Klein is a regular presenter of Radio 3's daily afternoon music show and will be one of the presenters of the BBC's Proms coverage.
Between 2011 and 2016, nuclear power operators made payments of more than 6bn euros (£5.2bn) to the government.
The Constitutional Court has ruled the tax was "unconstitutional and void".
E.On, RWE and EnBW have been hit hard by Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to abandon nuclear power by 2022.
The policy was drawn up following the disaster at Fukushima in Japan in March 2011.
Germany's environment minister Barbara Hendricks said that the court ruling was a "colossal irritation".
Ms Hendricks is a member of the Social Democrats (SPD), who are the junior partner in Chancellor Merkel's governing coalition.
She said the 2009-2013 government, which was made up of Mrs Merkel's conservatives and the Free Democrats (FDP), had caused "chaos" in nuclear policy.
"The fact that this bodge [referring to the previous government's decision] means a payout to the nuclear power companies years later makes the Constitutional Court's ruling a colossal irritation," Ms Hendricks said.
The verdict overrules a decision by the European Court of Justice last year saying the tax did not breach European Union laws.
Second victory
The decision marks a second victory for energy utilities challenging Germany's nuclear policy.
Last December, another court ruled that shutting down all the country's plants violated their rights.
E.ON said Wednesday's ruling meant it could claim a refund of 2.85bn euros plus interest of 450m euros, boosting its share price.
RWE expects a refund of 1.7bn euros in addition to about 200m euros in interest payments.
In the aftermath of Fukishima, E.On and RWE separated their conventional power plant businesses from operations such as renewables.
The fuel rod tax required firms to pay 145 euros per gramme of nuclear fuel each time they exchanged a fuel rod, which usually happens about twice a year.
Sean Cleathero died in October 2012 at the Apollo Gym in High Wycombe after taking dinitrophenol (DNP).
Peter Purkins, 48, of Hazelmere and Jason King, 43, of Great Missenden, were found guilty of conspiracy to produce and supply class C steroids.
The are due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey in London on 24 July.
King was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice following the month-long trial.
DNP is an industrial chemical not suitable for human consumption, but it is sometimes used as a fat-burning substance, the court heard.
Following the verdict, Mr Cleathero's mother Sharon Ayres said she took "some comfort" with the convictions.
"I hope this highlights the dangers and deters other people from supplying class C anabolic steroids and also DNP," she said.
Det Sgt Paul Quinton, from Thames Valley Police, said: "I hope this [conviction] will act as a deterrent to those who may consider supplying similar substances and they understand there can be very serious consequences for all those involved.
"I hope similar tragedies can be avoided in the future."
Purkins and King were cleared of the manslaughter of Mr Cleathero at a trial in 2014.
Two other defendants were sentenced in connection with the case last year at the Old Bailey.
Jamie Chivers, 35, of Spring Gardens Road in High Wycombe, was also found not guilty of manslaughter in 2014, but sentenced to three years in jail after admitting to perverting the course of justice and production and supply of class C drugs.
Laura Hague, 24, of Gerrards Cross, was jailed for two years after being found guilty of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to supply class C drugs.
Shauna Hoare told the court Nathan Matthews also stabbed himself with a fork in anger, dragged her by the hair across a bed and made her beg for food.
But Ms Hoare told Bristol Crown Court there had been both "good times and bad times" in their relationship.
Ms Hoare and Mr Matthews deny murder and conspiring to kidnap Becky.
Ms Hoare told the court Mr Matthews would scream and shout at her, and also on one occasion pushed her against a door.
Ms Hoare described the experiences as terrifying.
"He would be shouting, clench his fists and would step forward and throw something, but he wouldn't actually hit me," she said.
Ms Hoare also described an incident in which Mr Matthews lost his temper at a doctor's surgery and punched a wall - breaking his fingers.
She said she had talked to a friend about leaving Mr Matthews but could not go through with it.
"I had nowhere to go. I had no-one else. He would find me. It would just go back to normal if he found me," she told the court.
She denied watching pornography with Mr Matthews and said she did not know anything about a pornographic film found on his laptop about the rape of a young girl.
Asked about her boyfriend's attitude to teenage girls, Ms Hoare said it was not just teenagers but was "mainly people younger than him".
She said Mr Matthews would occasionally make inappropriate comments about them, such as "I would give them a go".
Mr Matthews, of Hazelbury Drive, Warmley, South Gloucestershire, admits perverting the course of justice, preventing lawful burial and possessing a prohibited weapon.
Ms Hoare, 21, of Cotton Mill Lane, Bristol, denies murder and conspiracy to kidnap, a weapons charge, perverting the course of justice and preventing a burial.
Two other men, Donovan Demetrius, 29, and James Ireland, 23, deny assisting an offender.
The trial continues.
In its security advisory, Adobe said one of the bugs was being actively exploited in a "limited number of targeted attacks".
In total, the patch closes 23 separate security bugs in the Flash player.
Attackers abusing the security holes would be able to take over a computer to steal useful data or spy on the machine's owner.
The update urges people to apply the patch as soon as possible because many of the problems are rated as critical - the highest level.
The holes are found in Flash as well as versions of other Adobe programs used on many different platforms and devices. At risk devices include Windows machines, Macs and Linux computers as well as phones running Android and iOS.
Adobe was alerted to the problems with its Flash player by many different security researchers including experts at Google, Microsoft, Kaspersky Labs and Alibaba.
Many security firms now recommend that people uninstall the Flash player to avoid falling victim to malicious attachments or booby-trapped webpages. A lot of web firms have now stopped using Flash in a bid to thwart attackers.
Several other companies issued big security patches this week. Firefox's update closed 40 separate vulnerabilities, more than half of which were rated as critical.
In addition, Google issued an update for Chrome that, among other things, closed three security holes rated as "high" severity. It paid bug bounties totalling $13,000 (£9,000) to the two researchers who uncovered the loopholes.
On Tuesday, Microsoft issued its regular monthly security update that tackled 13 problems in several different programs including the Internet Explorer and Edge browsers.
The literary prize started accepting novels by US authors in 2014, having previously been restricted to the UK, the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe.
Barnes won in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending. "I don't agree with opening up the Booker for the Americans," he said.
"I think that's straightforwardly daft. The Americans have got enough prizes of their own."
Last month, Paul Beatty became the first American author to win the Booker, triumphing with his racial satire The Sellout.
But Barnes told the Radio Times: "The idea of [the Booker] being Britain, Ireland, the old Commonwealth countries and new voices in English from around the world gave it a particular character and meant it could bring on writers.
"If you also include Americans - and get a couple of heavy hitters - then the unknown Canadian novelist hasn't got a chance.
"Which American prizes are open to Brits? In theory I think only the National Book Award is. I don't think any Brit has won a major American award for years."
The £50,000 Booker Prize is now open to writers of any nationality writing in English and published in the UK.
Every shortlist for the past three years has included two US authors.
Fellow Australian Peter Carey, who has won the Booker twice, has previously criticised the decision to open up the award.
"I find it unimaginable that the Pulitzer or the National Book award people in the United States would ever open their prizes to Brits and Australians," he has said. "They wouldn't.
"There was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that... I suppose I'm not generally in love with the notion of global marketing."
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Launching her party's campaign in Bristol, Natalie Bennett said councils "desperately need a new green broom".
The party is standing more than 1,500 candidates on 5 May.
It received a record vote share of 3.8% in the 2015 general election. However, its increase in support did not result in another parliamentary seat.
A guide to May's elections
Ms Bennett said Green membership had more than trebled. "We got more than 1.1m votes in the general election - we are aiming to turn that green surge into green seats."
She said she hopes to increase the party's presence on councils where it has representation - like Bristol, Liverpool, Norwich, Sheffield and Oxford - but also make inroads into those which currently have no Green councillors.
She said her councillors had "fought tooth and nail" to protect services and the vulnerable from spending cuts by "challenging the destructive budget priorities of councils led by the old parties that have run out of ideas".
"We are a party very much on the up. We offer policies that work for local communities, that work for the common good within the environmental limits of our one planet."
The Green Party currently has 168 councillors in England. They gained 10 seats overall in the 2015 local elections but lost minority control of Brighton and Hove - which in 2011 became the first UK council to be led by the party.
As well as the local authority elections in England on 5 May, polls are being held for the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations as well as to elect a London mayor and police and crime commissioners in England and Wales.
Speaking on national television, she said some civil liberties might have to be suspended.
The Ebola outbreak has also hit Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, killing more than 930 people.
World Health Organization (WHO) experts are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss a response to the outbreak.
The two-day meeting is expected decide whether to declare a global health emergency.
Ebola, a viral haemorrhagic fever, is one of the deadliest diseases known to humans, with a fatality rate in this outbreak of between 50% and 60%. It is spread through contact with the bodily fluids of Ebola patients showing symptoms.
Already reports are reaching Monrovia that a military blockade is stopping people from western regions of Grand Cape Mount and Bomi, where Ebola is prevalent, from entering the capital.
These counties largely rely on Monrovia for their goods - and the blockade means that the cities of Robertsport and Tubmanburg are now cut off. One Tubmanburg resident phoned into a radio show to complain that rice, the national staple, was already in short supply in the market.
The head of the National Health Workers Association said while the state of emergency was necessary, people should have been given time to prepare. Fear has prompted hospital workers to abandon clinics - meaning many are now shut.
President Sirleaf said this meant many diseases prevalent during the rainy season, such as malaria and typhoid, are going untreated and may lead to unnecessary and preventable deaths.
A WHO statement on Wednesday said 932 patients had died of the disease in West Africa so far, mostly in Liberia, where 282 have died.
Announcing a 90-day state of emergency, President Sirleaf said the government and people of Liberia required "extraordinary measures for the very survival of our state and for the protection of the lives of our people".
She said "ignorance and poverty, as well as entrenched religious and cultural practices, continue to exacerbate the spread of the disease".
Observers say the Ebola crisis in Liberia has got worse because many people are keeping sick relatives at home instead of taking them to isolation centres.
Amid international concern, US President Barack Obama said the illness "can be controlled and contained very effectively if we use the right protocols".
"The countries affected are the first to admit that what's happened here is the public health systems have been overwhelmed. They weren't able to identify and then isolate cases quickly enough.
"As a consequence, it spread more rapidly than has been typical," he added.
Mr Obama said that the US was working with Europe and the WHO to provide resources to contain the epidemic.
In other developments:
Nigeria's Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu described the outbreak as a national emergency, adding that "everyone in the world is at risk" because of air travel.
In a surprise move, the WHO said on Wednesday it would convene a meeting of medical ethics specialists next week to decide whether to approve experimental treatment for Ebola.
Some leading infectious disease experts have been calling for experimental treatments to be offered more widely to treat the disease.
The aim of the WHO's emergency committee meeting is to focus solely on how to respond to the Ebola outbreak.
If a public health emergency is declared, it could involve detailed plans to identify, isolate and treat cases, as well as impose travel restrictions on affected areas.
There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola - but patients have a better chance of survival if they receive early treatment.
Ebola has initial flu-like symptoms that can lead to external haemorrhaging from areas like eyes and gums, and internal bleeding which can lead to organ failure.
Ebola: Experimental treatments
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Rebecca Evans said the use of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPED) for "image reasons" was a growing problem, particularly in parts of south Wales.
She was speaking at a meeting of charities and sports authorities at Cardiff's Principality Stadium.
Ms Evans said:"[It's] not just a problem in sport - it is a wider societal issue.
"There are a worrying number of young people, especially men, purchasing and taking illicit substances for image reasons and some then participating in community sport.
"We must reverse this culture of IPED use if we are to protect a generation of young people from the serious side effects they can cause."
The Welsh Government said IPED use had been linked to heart disease, liver damage and mental health issues and it invested almost £50m a year to tackle substance misuse.
Pedal on Parliament was billed as Scotland's largest demonstration for safer streets.
A number of politicians joined the cycle through the heart of the capital, from the Meadows to Holyrood.
A similar satellite event was held simultaneously in Aberdeen, where cyclists rode from Hazelhead Park to Marischal College.
Since its inception five years ago, organisers claim it has been successful in putting active travel on the political agenda.
Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections, Pedal on Parliament has now joined calls to press for 10% of the transport budget to be invested in active travel.
Organiser Sally Hinchcliffe said: "This election is about the sort of Scotland we want to live in.
"With obesity rising, pollution choking our cities and increasingly destructive storms battering our shores, it's clear that we cannot continue simply building more roads and increasing our car dependency.
"Our politicians need to choose a different path and follow countries like Denmark and the Netherlands in creating people-friendly towns and cities where everyone can walk or cycle if they want to, something that will benefit us all.
"Pedal on Parliament's manifesto offers a clear path towards that end and we encourage politicians of all parties to adopt its aims."
The Edinburgh event was led by a tandem club which pairs visually-impaired stokers with sighted captains.
Having ridden a round trip of 40 miles to attend the event, The Fife Talking Tandems cycling club left the Meadows at noon.
Mike Young, secretary of the Talking Tandems, said: "Our presence on Saturday amongst so many other likeminded people will demonstrate that visually impaired cyclists - and those who suffer from other disabilities - love getting out on their bikes for all the reasons that sighted and able bodied cyclists do.
"But like them, we need a safe environment in which to cycle, and sometimes this requires different approaches and additional investment."
Mies Knottenbelt, of Lothians cycle campaign group Spokes, said: "Many different kinds of cyclists come together to make it known that cyclists need some space on the roads to be able to cycle safely.
"There are lots of kids here and lots of parents who feel strongly that unless we make the roads a bit safer we can't cycle."
Eleven rugged oil beetles, which are believed to be in serious decline, were counted at the Elliott nature reserve on Swift's Hill near Stroud.
The Stroud valleys have been a stronghold for the beetle, as have reserves in Somerset and Wiltshire.
A Buglife spokesman said the beetles were usually found in low numbers, so to find 11 in one go was "impressive".
The beetle species was first recorded at the Elliott reserve in 2007 by entomologist Jon Mellings, from Dursley.
He returned to the site last November and recorded seven specimens which he reported to Buglife as part of their autumn rugged oil beetle survey.
Mr Mellings, said: "The beetles were feeding on various herbs and grass stems but were initially difficult to spot even with torchlight."
Subsequently a Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) ecologist visited the same spot a month later and recorded 11 beetles.
Kathy Meakin, from the GWT, said oil beetles were parasites of solitary mining bees and added that this particular species was "fascinating".
"It's a very good sign we are getting our habitat management right if we can find rare, specialised parasites," she said.
The rugged oil beetle - meloe rugosus - is one of four types of oil beetle believed to have suffered drastic decline in the UK, with another four oil beetle species now thought to be extinct.
Andrew Whitehouse, from the Buglife conservation charity, said the Stroud valleys were a "national stronghold" for the species.
"Somerset and Wiltshire are also 'hotspots' - we have historical records for a good number of sites," he said.
But he said they had fewer records in the past 10 years so wanted people to let us know if they see any of these brilliant beetles.
South Africa beat Sudan 3-1 to book their place from Group B with Senegal defeating Cameroon 2-0.
The Amajita of South Africa opened the scoring in the 15th minute against Sudan in Lusaka through Phakamani Mahlambi but Sudan bounced back nine minutes later courtesy of Khaled Osman.
South Africa regained the lead in the second half when Grant Mergeman was set up by substitute Kobamelo Kodisang to hit home the second goal.
Man-of-the-match Sobobgakonke Mbatha completed the rout in the 66th minute to send the Sudanese packing.
Senegal dumped the Cameroonians out of the tournament after beating their fellow West Africans 2-0 in Ndola thanks to goals from Ibrahima Niane and Krempin Diatta.
Senegal will now face Guinea in the semi-finals on Thursday in Ndola at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium.
Before that, home hopes will be pinned on Zambia when they face South Africa in the first semi-final on Wednesday at the Heroes Stadium in Lusaka.
The final will also be held in Lusaka on Sunday.
All four semi-finalists - Zambia, Guinea, South Africa and Senegal - will represent Africa in South Korea in May.
The draw for the 2017 Fifa U-20 World Cup will be held on 15 March.
A massive international collaboration has now doubled the number of genes linked to the dementia to 21.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Genetics, indicate a strong role for the immune system.
Alzheimer's Research UK said the findings could "significantly enhance" understanding of the disease.
The number of people developing Alzheimer's is growing around the world as people live longer.
However, major questions around what causes the dementia, how brain cells die, how to treat it or even diagnose it remain unanswered.
"It is really difficult to treat a disease when you do not understand what causes it," one of the lead researchers, Prof Julie Williams from Cardiff University, said.
The genetic code, the instructions for building and running the body, was scoured for clues.
A group - involving nearly three quarters of the world's Alzheimer's geneticists from 145 academic institutions - looked at the DNA of 17,000 patients and 37,000 healthy people.
They found versions of 21 genes, or sets of instructions, which made it more likely that a person would develop Alzheimer's disease. They do not guarantee Alzheimer's will develop, but they do make the disease more likely.
By looking at the genes' function in the body, it allows researchers to figure out the processes going wrong in Alzheimer's disease.
Prof Williams, the head of neurodegeneration at Cardiff University, told the BBC: "We've doubled the number of genes discovered and a very strong pattern is emerging.
"There is something in the immune response which is causing Alzheimer's disease and we need to look at that."
The way the body deals with cholesterol and the way cells in the brain deal with big molecules in a process called endocytosis also seem to be involved.
It now needs other research groups to pick up on the findings, work out exactly what is going wrong and develop treatments.
This could include drugs, genetic therapies or changes to lifestyle.
Dr Eric Karran, the director of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "By mapping the genetics of the most common, late-onset form of Alzheimer's, these findings highlight new biological processes that could significantly advance our understanding of this devastating disease.
"While this new discovery holds real potential, the true value will come from pinpointing the exact genes involved, how they contribute to Alzheimer's, and how this could be translated into benefits for people living with the disease."
Dr James Pickett, head of research at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "This exciting discovery of genes linked with Alzheimer's disease opens up new avenues to explore in the search for treatments for the condition.
"We now need continued global investment into dementia research to understand exactly how these genes affect the disease process."
Department of Immigration and Border Protection secretary Michael Pezzullo criticised media coverage of the case as "advocacy parading as journalism".
The Australian Broadcasting Corp has apologised for a reporting error.
The case was widely reported last week as the High Court ruled Australia's offshore asylum policy was legal.
The ruling meant more than 260 asylum seekers in Australia - including dozens of children - were expected to be deported imminently to Nauru.
There was widespread anger among activists at the prospect of the boy being returned, but Mr Pezzullo said on Monday there was "no five-year-old child, it's a figment".
The ABC has issued an apology, saying it misreported comments made by a paediatrician on two separate cases.
The doctor had referred to one case involving a five-year-old who was allegedly sexually assaulted and another about a 10-year-old who was allegedly raped in Nauru.
The ABC said its story "incorrectly used quotes about the older child in referring to the younger child".
Paediatrician Karen Zwi said the information she had given the ABC was "factually accurate".
"A child is a child. I stand by the statements I have made with regard to children in detention," she said.
The Human Rights Law Centre has also confirmed the younger boy was not among the children linked to the High Court ruling.
All immigrants trying to reach Australia illegally by boat are detained. They are taken to Nauru and Papua New Guinea for processing, with those found to be genuine refugees resettled in Papua New Guinea, Cambodia or Nauru itself.
The government says the policy deters people smuggling and stops people dying at sea
But critics say Australia is ignoring its international obligations, and there are repeated allegations of abuses and poor conditions in the camps.
A national vigil is to be held on 30 June at Westminster Abbey, London, with overnight events being held in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Co Down.
There will also be a commemorative service the following day at Manchester Cathedral.
More than 600,000 British and French troops died during the WW1 battle.
Announcing the commemorations, Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said: "We must never forget the scale of what happened at the Somme.
"More died on the first day of battle than any other day of the First World War. Almost every family in the country was touched by the devastating losses.
"I hope people of all generations up and down the country will have the chance to attend an event and honour the bravery of those who sacrificed so much."
The overnight vigils on 30 June will take place at:
There will also be a programme of overnight events at the Imperial War Museum in London that night.
The commemorative service will be held on 1 July at Manchester Cathedral, followed by a procession through the city to Heaton Park.
And further events will take place at Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries and memorials.
The government had already announced plans for an event on 1 July at Thiepval in northern France, where a memorial holds the names of 72,000 fallen soldiers who have no known graves.
Around 10,000 people are expected to attend next year's event at the memorial, with 8,000 selected by ballot.
The Battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916 and did not end until 18 November that year.
The aim of the offensive was to achieve a clear victory for the British and French, but the campaign turned into a stalemate, with soldiers struggling to gain any ground after heavy rains in October.
The Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in France on Tuesday, leaving no survivors.
The Foreign Office said Paul Bramley, 28, from Hull, and Martyn Matthews, 50, from Wolverhampton, died in the crash.
It said seven-month-old Julian Pracz-Bandres and his Spanish-born mother Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio, from Manchester, also lost their lives.
Mr Hammond said: "We cannot rule out the possibility" that other British people were involved in the crash.
Families of those from the UK known to have been killed have been contacted, the foreign secretary said.
In a statement released by the Foreign Office, Mr Bramley's mother Carol, who lives in Majorca, said: "Paul was a kind, caring and loving son. He was the best son, he was my world."
His father Philip Bramley, also from Hull, said they were both deeply shocked.
Mr Bramley had just finished his first year at the César Ritz College in Lucerne, Switzerland, where he was studying hospitality and hotel management.
Due to start an internship on 1 April, he had been flying back from a few days' holiday with friends in Barcelona and was due to stop in Duesseldorf on his way to meet his family in the UK.
Mr Matthews, a senior quality manager thought to be travelling to Germany for a meeting, was married with a son, and daughter.
His family said in a statement: "We are devastated at the news of this tragic incident and request that we are allowed to deal with this terrible news without intrusion at this difficult time."
Margaret Goodyear, a neighbour and former colleague of Mr Matthews, said he was a "lovely, lovely man".
Yesterday Pawel Pracz, whose wife Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio, 37, and son Julian died in the crash, said he was "devastated" at the loss.
He explained that his wife had bought last minute tickets to visit her family in Spain for her uncle's funeral.
Originally from Jaca in the Spanish Pyrenees, Ms Bandres met her Polish husband at the Futureworks School of Media in Manchester and went on to become an editor and colourist in post-production for film and video.
The couple had graduated together in 2009 and had lived together in the city for seven years.
Mr Pracz said: "I'm with my closest family in Manchester, and in close contact with our family in Spain at this very difficult time. "
Richard Hellawell, Ms Bandres' former tutor at Futureworks School of Media, Manchester, described her as a "model student" who was "exceptionally talented and hard-working."
He said: "One of the nice bright lights of the world has gone out."
Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband have offered their condolences to the families of those affected by the air crash.
Germanwings and Lufthansa staff stood in silence in Cologne on Wednesday morning to honour the dead.
Mr Cameron described the crash as "heartbreaking".
He told the Commons: "I know the whole House will wish to join me in offering our deepest condolences to the family and friends of all those killed in the yesterday's airbus crash in France.
"It is heartbreaking to hear about the schoolchildren, the babies, the families whose lives have been brought to an end."
Germanwings chief Thomas Winkelmann said 72 of the 144 passengers were German citizens and 35 were Spanish, the remainder included citizens of the UK, Australia and Belgium, among others.
The German victims included 16 pupils returning from an exchange trip.
French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy visited the crash scene on Wednesday.
Mr Rajoy declared three days of national mourning in Spain.
Bereaved relatives are expected to visit the scene. The mayor of Seyne-les-Alpes, the town nearest the crash site, said local families were offering to host them.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Mr Winkelmann said the airline would provide financial support and transport for any relatives wanting to visit the scene from overseas.
A day of mourning is being held at the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium school in Haltern-am-See, north-west Germany, where the pupils were from.
Analysis: Richard Westcott, BBC Transport Correspondent
The cockpit voice recorder "black box" is pretty battered but the devices are bomb-proof, literally, so investigators should still be able to listen to what happened on board.
The large, orange cylindrical part in the middle holds the memory boards that record the pilots' voices, and that looks intact to me.
The critical question now is, were the pilots speaking during those lost eight minutes when the aircraft dropped from 38,000ft to the ground?
If they're quiet, investigators will know they were unconscious, and that suggests a major decompression took place on board.
That's when a hole in the fuselage lets all the air out. It's not necessarily fatal, if the pilots can get their oxygen masks on in time, something they train for, but if they were knocked out, it would explain the lack of a mayday call or any obvious attempt to steer the stricken aircraft to the nearest runway.
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The plane's "black box" cockpit voice recorder is believed to be damaged but has been sent to Paris where officials still hope to retrieve data from it.
Remi Jouty, from the French investigating organisation BEA, said initial examinations had found usable sounds and voices, but that it was too soon to draw any conclusions.
He said they hoped to have the first "rough ideas" within a few days, but a fuller understanding could take weeks or even months.
Investigators are still searching for the second "black box" - the flight data recorder.
Investigators said the plane hit the ground in the French Alps at great velocity, suggesting no explosion in flight.
Siddle joined Notts on a two-year deal ahead of last season, but did not play last summer because of a back injury.
And the 32-year-old has now withdrawn from playing in the 2017 county season.
Pattinson, 26, has taken 70 wickets in 17 Test matches for Australia, with his last appearance coming against New Zealand in February 2016.
He took his first five-wicket haul in first-class cricket since December 2015 in Victoria's Sheffield Shield win over Western Australia on Saturday, a result which secured the Bushrangers a place in the final.
"I feel for Peter in particular because he's had absolutely no luck in recent years when it comes to injuries," Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell said.
"We certainly didn't imagine, when we signed him on a two-year contract for 2016 and 2017, that he wouldn't play a single game for us during that time."
Nottinghamshire were relegated from Division One of the County Championship last season, having won just one of their 16 games.
The hosts collapsed after lunch on the fourth day and were bundled out for 103 in just 37 overs, with Mitchell Johnson taking 3-27.
None of England's recognised batsmen made more than 17 runs as Stuart Broad top-scored with 25.
Australia had earlier reached 254-2 declared in their second innings, leaving England to bat 155 overs to save the game.
That they fell so woefully short raises serious questions about the calibre and make-up of a team that only a week ago stunned Australia by winning the first Test in Cardiff by 169 runs.
And after England's top order once again crumbled, the selectors will surely ponder changes before the series resumes at Edgbaston on 29 July.
For Australia, such a swift and categorical riposte to the defeat in south Wales will bolster their belief that they can pull off their first Ashes win in England since 2001.
The relative calm with which Alastair Cook and Adam Lyth negotiated three overs before lunch offered no indication of the pandemonium that was to follow the interval.
Lyth, Cook and Gary Ballance were all caught behind, the captain to a particularly frivolous swing away from his body.
Ian Bell led a charmed life as he ground out 50 balls for 11 runs before poking forward at Nathan Lyon and popping a catch to short leg.
The real nadir arrived when the in-form Ben Stokes threw his wicket away in diabolical circumstances.
Running through for a comfortable single, he had made up his ground by the time Johnson's throw shattered the stumps.
Crucially, however, Stokes neglected to slide his bat into the crease and was in mid-air when the ball hit, meaning he had to go.
The tea interval ostensibly gave England a chance to gather their thoughts and steel themselves for a plucky fight to the close.
In theory, but not in practice.
In the space of five balls from Johnson, five wickets had become seven as Jos Buttler nicked behind before Moeen Ali flinched at a bouncer and looped a catch off the splice to short leg.
Broad briefly flung the bat to collect five boundaries but when he chipped Lyon to cover, England were 101-8.
Only two further runs were added before Josh Hazlewood bowled Joe Root and James Anderson in successive overs to send Australia into raptures.
England's frenzied showing on a placid pitch contrasted with the serenity of Australia's performance in the morning session as they added 146 runs to set England a notional 509 to win.
David Warner made 83 and Steve Smith 58 after Chris Rogers had been forced to retire on 49.
The left-handed opener, 37, suffered a sudden dizzy spell and was escorted to the dressing room, where he rested for the remainder of the match.
Rogers missed two Tests in West Indies in June and was struck on the head by Anderson on the morning of the second day.
England captain Alastair Cook: "When you get bowled out for 100, it isn't good enough. Australia put us under pressure and we weren't able to deal with it.
"We came up short this week. We have to take this on the chin. Now it's about the character we need to show to bounce back."
Australia captain Michael Clarke: "I couldn't have asked for a better performance.
"We didn't play our best at Cardiff, but now we can look in the mirror and say we played some good cricket here."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "Australia couldn't have dominated any more from the moment they won the toss."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "Brutal...The changes have worked for Australia...They have looked an energised, ruthless unit."
Former England opener Geoffrey Boycott: "Some of the batting was pretty poor and the attitude to saving the game was poor. We helped Australia blow us away.
"If it was a boxing match we would have got knocked out in the first round. We got knocked down and we stayed down. We never made a fight of it."
Ex-England batsman Ed Smith: "I can scarcely remember an innings where a wicket looked less likely to fall than Australia's innings. I can scarcely remember an innings where wickets looked more likely to fall than this England innings."
Former Australia seamer Glenn McGrath: "Mitchell Johnson looked lethal and England just capitulated. They'll take a lot of scars into the next game."
Actor, writer and presenter Stephen Fry: "The worst thing about England's batting today is that it allows teachery people to use words like "disgrace" and "shameful".
They were issued with a second winding-up petition by HM Revenue & Customs in October and they did not receive proposed investment.
London Welsh now hope to reform as a semi-professional side in 2017, playing at their current Old Deer Park ground.
The club can continue to play during the liquidation process, but they will be deducted 20 points.
They are due to face Doncaster in the British and Irish Cup on Saturday, but it is not yet known if the fixture will go ahead.
A Rugby Football Union spokesperson said: "The RFU are working with the club to find a way to fulfil their fixtures this season."
London Welsh will have to put together a sustainable business plan to the RFU - and raise a bond of £300,000 - in order to exist as a phoenix company.
If this is approved by the RFU then they will be able to keep their place in the Championship, or National League 1 if they are relegated.
If the plan isn't approved and they can't raise the bond, then they will drop out of the leagues altogether.
The club had a winding-up petition dismissed in September after agreeing a takeover with a United States-based investment group, but the deal was never completed.
Founded in 1885, the club still holds the record for the most players selected in a British and Irish Lions squad, when seven were picked for the 1971 tour to New Zealand.
The Exiles were in the Premiership as recently as the 2014-15 season, when they were based at the Kassam Stadium in Oxford - but were relegated after losing all 22 matches.
"Due to a playing budget of £1.7m and gates at games numbering as low 400, the club's current business model is totally unsustainable," chairman Gareth Hawkins said.
"Having to break the news to 40 staff members yesterday was extremely difficult.
"In the New Year, it is the hope and intention of the board that London Welsh will be able to return to playing at Old Deer Park.
"However, it will first be necessary to change the club's business model to a semi-professional set-up and form a new company, and then raise £300,000 so that the club can regain a position within the Championship."
Chris Jones, BBC Radio 5 live rugby union reporter
This is a sad day for one of Britain's oldest and most famous rugby clubs, but a salutary lesson of the harsh financial realities of professional rugby.
In hindsight, London Welsh should never have chased the Premiership dream without the backing, management or the infrastructure to be sustainable.
Premiership clubs are able to lean heavily on central revenues - especially from television - but this is not the case in the Championship, and unless clubs in the second tier have a wealthy backer they simply cannot support a professional set-up.
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The 30-year-old has won 26 Tour stages and the 2011 road race world title but is yet to claim an Olympic medal.
Competing on the track will be the Manxman's best chance of winning one in Rio this summer, as the road race route is not suited for pure sprinters.
"Cav won't do three weeks of the Tour," British Cycling's technical director Shane Sutton said.
"If he wants to medal, he's aware that he wouldn't be going to Paris."
This summer's race begins on 2 July with a flat stage that Team Dimension Data rider Cavendish will be targeting for victory.
The race ends in the French capital on 24 July.
Cavendish won his first four Tour stages in 2008 before leaving early to prepare for the Olympics in Beijing, where he finished ninth in the madison and was the only member of Great Britain's squad not to win a medal.
He also competed in the Olympic road race on the opening day of London 2012 but finished 29th, 40 seconds behind winner Alexander Vinokourov.
The weapons, which included AK-47 rifles, were used in violent crimes in the capital, Maputo, police alleged.
Mr Dhlakama's Renamo party condemned the raids as an "invasion".
Renamo fighters and government forces have been involved in clashes since disputed elections in 2014, raising fears that a civil war could resume.
The 17-year conflict ended in 1992 with a peace deal which led to the former rebel group turning into an opposition party.
Mr Dhlakama was not at his Maputo home during the police raid, reports the BBC's Jose Tembe from the city.
He is based in the remote Gorongosa mountains in central Mozambique, which was his headquarters when he was a rebel leader.
Police commander Julio Jane said military uniforms and communication equipment had also been seized during the raids.
"At Mr Dhlakama's house, we found 38 AK-47 rifles and seven pistols," he said.
For its part, Renamo accused police of "stealing" about $4,000 (£2,800) from its properties during the operation.
Mr Dhlakama would respond "politically" to the raids, it added.
Renamo has carried out a spate of attacks on civilians and government targets since the disputed election, as it insists on the right to govern six of Mozambique's 10 provinces.
The victim, 26, was kidnapped at gunpoint and taken to a garage, where he was bound, gagged and beaten.
Five of the 10-man gang received life sentences for charges including kidnapping, false imprisonment, blackmail and GBH at Warwick Crown Court.
Police said the victim's family had been "distraught".
West Midlands Police said the man, from Coventry, was abducted in Milverton Road, Woodend, in September and taken to a lock-up garage. He was left in a van, bound and gagged without food or water, and beaten with a metal bar.
The gang demanded a £20,000 ransom from his family but, when they felt his relatives had not responded quickly enough, the victim's little finger was cut off and left under a brick on a garden wall.
After the family paid the ransom, the victim was thrown out of the back of the van in McDonnell Drive, Coventry.
The money was recovered after police raided a house in Dovedale Avenue, Longford.
Three of the defendants - Ralph McLeod, Lewis Poyser and Yusuf Akbar - were found guilty of false imprisonment, blackmail and grievous bodily harm.
Seven other men had pleaded guilty to charges including kidnapping, blackmail, false imprisonment, and grievous bodily harm.
Det Ch Insp Simon Wallis said: "The family were understandably distraught at the thought of what else could happen to their loved one."
Four of the defendants, Anthony McLeod, Kofi Poyser, Lewis Poyser and Lamar Grant, were also sentenced for their part in an assault on a man outside a Coventry nightclub in June.
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Lynne Neagle has expressed worries that young people will be prevented from having access to education and training.
MyTravelPass, which offered a third off bus travel, ended 18-months after it launched.
Labour Economy Secretary Ken Skates said he was hoping to launch a replacement for the pilot scheme.
Ms Neagle said it was encouraging that Mr Skates wanted a "legacy scheme" after Mytravelpass ends on 31 March.
Torfaen AM Ms Neagle told the Senedd earlier this week that she was "very disappointed that the Mytravelpass scheme was not going to be continued".
A reason given for ending the scheme was that young people were not using the pass to travel outside their immediate areas.
Ms Neagle told the chamber it was not "particularly surprising" that young people were using it to travel locally.
"My concern is that young people will be prevented from having access to education, training and youth services," she said.
Mr Skates responded: "The fact of the matter is that uptake was not as high as we would've wished, which is why I'm very keen for the successor programme to reach more young people across Wales."
He said he would want to see more than the 10,000 young people who used the pass to use the new scheme, which he promised to announce in coming weeks.
Ms Neagle told BBC Wales that she will seek assurances from the Welsh Government that any new scheme "is at least as good as the pilot scheme and that it is funded by Welsh Government and not by local authorities, who are already struggling because of UK government cuts".
Bus operators' body CPT Cymru have previously said the scheme was not well publicised and take-up had been low.
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The attacker blew himself up in a crowd gathered for a funeral in western Baghdad's affluent Harthiyah area.
Dozens have been killed in similar attacks in recent weeks that have been widely blamed on Islamic State (IS).
IS militants, who control territory straddling Syria and Iraq, were engaged in battles with Kurdish fighters around the Syrian town of Kobane all weekend.
Earlier this week, the Kurds in Kobane said they had beaten back the Islamists.
But IS apparently launched a renewed effort to retake the town over the weekend.
Kurdish commanders said they had again repulsed the Islamists, thanks to help from US air strikes.
And Reuters news agency reported that the Iraqi army had launched an operation to retake the city of Baiji, near Iraq's biggest oil refinery.
However, the operation had to be aborted after a military vehicle reportedly exploded as part of an ambush by IS that killed four soldiers.
"The attacker surprised our forces as he was driving a military armoured vehicle. We thought it was our vehicle," an army officer told Reuters.
IS has caused chaos across the region, forcing many thousands to flee from their homes and cracking down on anyone who disagrees with their interpretation of Islam.
The US is leading a coalition of countries providing air power and technical support to Iraq's forces.
Australia, one of the biggest contributors to the coalition, announced earlier that a 200-strong special forces group could now be deployed in Iraq after a legal wrangle was resolved.
In addition, the US is also carrying out air strikes over Syria - although this is controversial because the Syrian government has not given permission.
A senior garda officer told RTÉ News that he communicated with Nóirín O'Sullivan on official business through a commercial email account when she was deputy commissioner.
Gmail accounts are set up by the garda's IT section on official garda phones and iPads but should not be used for official business.
The senior officer told the Irish broadcaster that he sent Ms O'Sullivan an official report on at least one occasion.
The officer said on another occasion he received an email from Ms O'Sullivan from the same email address on a separate garda matter.
The Sunday Times first reported that Ms O'Sullivan had been using a private email account to send and receive official correspondence.
When Ms O'Sullivan was deputy commissioner in charge of operations, she was responsible for all crime and security matters as well as state security and intelligence.
RTÉ News said it had seen a print out of an email from 2013 when Ms O'Sullivan was deputy commissioner but said it did not appear to relate to any of these sensitive matters but to another area of garda policy.
When contacted by BBC News NI, a garda spokesperson said: "An Garda Síochána has strict security controls in relation to the use of and access to Garda IT systems.
"Devices issued to the commissioner are secured by secure connections and utilise strong encryption technologies.
"Access to the Pulse database on any Garda Síochána devices is segregated by secure containers which does not store any garda data on the device. This is coupled with strong users password policies and strong authentication."
The Pulse (Police Using Leading Systems Effectively) system used by Irish police is intended to store all the information available to the force and to track the progress of crime investigations.
The Department of Justice said it had nothing to add to the garda statement.
The Policing Authority said while it had not received any information from An Garda Síochána it would follow this up with the force and brief itself during the week.
Cyprus joined the EU in 2004. Yet the island's breakaway, Turkish-controlled north is not internationally recognised, and EU laws don't apply there.
The UK's sovereign military bases in Cyprus are also outside the EU and have a special status.
The EU showed flexibility for Cyprus. It might do the same for Scotland and Northern Ireland, where majorities voted Remain (62% and 55.8%, respectively).
The EU managed to find a way to admit the Republic of Cyprus, even though Turkey occupied the north in 1974 and the authorities there created the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
Cyprus country profile
Cyprus adopted the euro as its currency in 2008, yet the north uses the Turkish lira. And the massive body of EU law - called the Acquis - does not extend to the occupied north.
A UN buffer zone - the Green Line - divides the island. But in recent years peace efforts have facilitated contacts between the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot communities.
Free movement of people - as British voters well know - is a thorny issue in the EU. It is one of the EU's cherished "four freedoms", enabling workers to move easily to another EU country. But it is problematic because it sets no upper limit on immigration.
And it does not operate across the Green Line.
The other three EU single market freedoms are: free movement of capital, goods and services.
To control the movement of people and goods in Cyprus the EU adopted the Green Line Regulation. The Republic of Cyprus has to check the IDs of everyone crossing the Green Line, and check all goods entering the EU from the island's north.
Cyprus and the UK are not in the EU's Schengen passport-free zone, where border checks are generally minimal.
Cyprus aims to heal its great divide
The UK government says it will not trigger the two-year exit procedure - EU Article 50 - until next year.
But when the formal exit negotiations begin, "some lessons can be learnt" from Cyprus's experience, as parts of the island required new agreements with the EU, Cypriot centre-left MEP Costas Mavrides told the BBC.
Because of the size of Scotland's Remain vote, Scottish resistance to Brexit appears stronger than that in Northern Ireland.
But constitutionally neither nation can stop the UK - as a state - going ahead with Brexit.
The UK's constitutional wrangling over Brexit and its consequences looks likely to be complex and take years.
But if pressure for Scottish independence grows, the Cyprus model could help serve as a transitional arrangement, according to lawyer Nikos Skoutaris.
The EU Law lecturer at the University of East Anglia says in an analysis that Scotland and Northern Ireland might reach separate arrangements with the EU as "a tangible alternative to secession [from the UK]".
The UK might then become "almost a confederation, but it will still be one recognised state".
How could Scotland stay in the EU?
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That is the UK government's position - and EU politicians have also stressed that the formal negotiations will be with the UK. So, no "Brexit lite" for Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Under the Sewel Convention, the Scottish Parliament should be asked to give consent to any UK legislation that affects Scotland - and that would clearly be the case with Brexit.
But Scotland cannot veto Brexit. According to Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, "Scotland cannot delay Brexit - it can only pass resolutions.
"Westminster can overrule the Scots on this issue, it's a matter of sovereignty," he said.
The EU will negotiate Brexit only with the UK, because "traditionally EU institutions are strongly opposed to separatism, as a destabilising force in the EU," he told the BBC.
Spain, worried about the strong independence campaign in Catalonia, does not want Scotland to create a precedent in the EU.
Mr Grant is on an expert panel advising the Scottish government on EU relations, as is MEP Alyn Smith of the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Mr Smith insisted that "everything is on the table, all options are to be explored". "[EU] membership is one thing, status is another, involvement in EU programmes is another," he told the BBC.
While he admitted that Westminster could overrule Scotland on Brexit, he said he was "loath to talk about vetoes or delays".
"But there is recognition that Scotland is looking for something different - the Brussels people know there's a plurality of interests in the UK."
Yes - there are many different EU arrangements to accommodate national differences.
As part of the Brexit process the UK will have to re-examine its sovereign bases in Cyprus.
The Cyprus government voiced concern about Brexit's impact on the 15,000 Cypriots living in the Sovereign Base Areas. They are EU citizens, living in British territory.
"Living in areas exempted from the EU, now their status is not very clear," Mr Mavrides said.
Mr Smith says Scotland's SNP government is looking at the status of territories contained in other EU member states. Among them: the Aland Islands (Finland), the Faroes (Denmark) and Guadeloupe (France).
But dealing with small overseas territories is one thing - Brexit quite another.
The only territory to have left the EU is Greenland, part of Denmark. Its exit, in 1985, came after three years of negotiations. A fishing dispute triggered it - and Greenland's population is just 57,000.
The reality is that no existing model matches the Brexit case, as the UK is one of Europe's biggest economies.
Players at the Golden Oldies World Rugby Festival joined members of the public at the University Fields in the Llanrumney area.
The previous record of 1,198 was set at Twickenham during the Rugby World Cup.
Welsh referee Nigel Owens, who started the bid, also received a Guinness World Records award for refereeing the most international rugby matches.
On receiving his certificate, Mr Owens said: "It's obviously an honour and privilege to get a Guinness World Record.
"I didn't referee to get any awards, I started refereeing because I enjoyed the game.
"When people do attempt records it's a challenge. But refereeing is a challenge in itself."
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said 36 stalled projects in oil, gas, power, road and railways sectors were cleared.
"The message we are sending is that the investment cycle has restarted, and we are pushing it," he said.
The announcement came on a day the rupee hit a new record low, touching 65.6 against the US dollar.
Recent attempts to reduce volatility in currency markets have so far failed to have any result.
The finance minister told reporters on Tuesday that the rupee had "overshot its true level", but said that India was not the only country facing problems.
"As I said in parliament, every emerging market is challenged today. So India is also challenged, and the impact is felt both on the equity market as well as the currency market," news agency Reuters quoted him as saying.
"I think we'll simply have to be patient, be firm, do whatever is required to be done, and the rupee will find its appropriate level.
"What I said a few days ago, I still maintain it. The rupee has overshot its true level, it's undervalued.
"Others have confirmed it. And we have to be patient and we have to be firm and we have to do what requires to be done," he said.
Mr Chidambaram also tried to allay fears over the impact of the Food Security Bill on the country's finances.
The bill, which was approved by the lower house of parliament on Monday night, is aimed at providing subsidised food to two-thirds of the population in an effort to eradicate the widespread hunger and malnutrition plaguing India.
But the ambitious legislation will cost 1.3tn rupees ($19.76bn; £12.75bn) a year. Critics say it is a profligate plan that will hurt India's economy.
However, the minister said it would not lead to the government overshooting its fiscal deficit target.
"After providing for the Food Security Bill, we will remain within the limit I have set for myself in the budget," he said.
The country has already been hurt by a slowdown in growth and a widening current account deficit.
Its economy, Asia's third-largest, grew at an annual rate of 5% in the 2012-13 financial year, the slowest pace in 10 years.
The former Great Britain and England half-back started his career with the club and returned for the 2017 season, becoming the first player to commit to the reformed outfit after Bradford were liquidated.
Pryce also had spells with St Helens, Catalans and Hull FC.
He won four Super Leagues, five Challenge Cups and three World Club Championships in his career.
Pryce made 11 appearances in all competitions for the Championship side this season.
He said: "After playing rugby since a young boy I am finally done. I wished to have one more year at Bradford but I just couldn't do it."
Callum O'Dowda and Kemar Roofe have been sold in the space of a week for what could rise to a combined £4.6m.
And Appleton says finding a replacement for Republic of Ireland midfielder O'Dowda is now his immediate priority.
"We've lost the best part of 40 goals in the last week, so we need some more additions," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
O'Dowda, 21, joined Championship Bristol City on Thursday in a three-year deal while Roofe moved to Leeds United last week for £3m.
"Callum has ambitions to play in the Championship," Appleton said. "He made that pretty clear.
"The irony is I've had conversations with a number of players over the last couple of months on a similar subject and I believe we as a club can match those ambitions.
"That's the frustration from my point of view. I was going to build a team this season around Callum."
O'Dowda scored 10 goals for Oxford United last season during their automatic promotion from League Two and run to the Football League Trophy final.
Appleton, who has already brought in eight players this summer, has plans in place to further bolster the squad.
Among his targets had been Bristol Rovers striker Matt Taylor, before the 26-year-old agreed a new deal with Rovers on Friday.
"It's an interesting one as without speaking too much out of turn, I did think we'd shook hands on an agreement," he said.
"But I'm being told by his representative that he hasn't got a desire to play for his hometown club.
"They'll be players out there who will become available," Appleton added. "That might not be until later in the window or it could be as quick as the next 24 hours."
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The world number 10 from Antrim produced a best break of 58 to level the game at 2-2 in the Motorpoint Arena on Thursday afternoon.
But his Chinese opponent knocked in breaks of 55 and 50 to win the next two frames and the match.
Allen enjoyed a 4-0 win over England's Sydney Wilson in the opening round before beating Boonyarit Kaettikun 4-1.
The militants' activity is not limited to attacking Western capitals, bombing planes or shooting peaceful citizens.
But when fighting such radical groups, governments may also, intentionally or not, strengthen authoritarian regimes and undermine democratic values.
A vivid example of this is Uzbekistan. This Central Asian nation is considered to be one of the most repressive states in the world.
Independent watchdog organisation Freedom House ranks it in the same category as North Korea - the "worst of the worst" when it comes to political rights and civil liberties.
Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov has warned that IS is approaching the country's borders, raising the threat of "belligerent extremism and religious radicalism" in the region.
According to the estimates of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, about 500 Uzbekistan citizens, from a nation of just under 30 million, have joined militants in Syria and Iraq.
But other than some isolated attacks, the threat IS and other jihadist groups pose for Uzbekistan seems to be very limited. Their ideology does not appeal to almost the entire population of Central Asia, where Islam is very secular, a legacy of the atheistic Soviet past.
Many people know next to nothing about the Sunni-Shia split and this sectarian divide is largely absent there.
The growing number of mosques and increased observance of Islamic rituals are often mistakenly taken as signs of radicalisation.
But as John Heathershaw, associate professor at the University of Exeter, and David Montgomery from the University of Pittsburgh argue in a research paper published by the Chatham House think tank, Islamisation does not mean radicalisation and "there is little or no evidence of significant levels of Islamic extremism and political violence" in Central Asia.
Yet a whole campaign focusing on IS has been launched in Uzbekistan, clearly with permission, or perhaps a direct order, from the president's office.
Muslim clergy and government officials discuss the threat of terrorism and religious extremism on TV talk shows. Films and plays illustrate the evils of jihadism. Community leaders appeal to the youth not to join militant groups like IS.
This is all odd because Uzbekistan's government never acknowledges any problems it faces. "Uzbekistan is the state with a bright future" is its main propaganda slogan, so discussing social problems is a taboo.
Uzbekistan country profile
There are no films or plays depicting poverty in the country. There are no talk shows discussing corruption in state institutions. There are no community leaders who openly talk about the use of forced child labour.
So why did the government launch a whole campaign about IS?
It is simple. The government is creating in people's minds an image of the only possible alternative to the existing regime. After watching a video about IS fighters, one Uzbek citizen told me: "If our president leaves, then these crazy Islamists will come to power in Uzbekistan."
This threat from IS justifies tightened security measures. It allows the state to spy on citizens, make illegal arrests and use torture to crush any dissent. It also discourages citizens from challenging the government's actions.
Uzbek police have been increasingly raiding houses to question residents. In November, rights activists in Uzbekistan reported that more than 200 people had been arrested on suspicion of IS membership.
These arrests are not a new development, says Steve Swerdlow from Human Rights Watch. "There is a well-documented pattern of security services of Uzbekistan arresting largely peaceful independent Muslims and sentencing them to incredibly lengthy jail sentences without any evidence of wrongdoing."
What is new, Mr Swerdlow says, is the name of the group they are accused of belonging to - IS.
Indeed, the phrase "Islamic extremism" has been widely used in Uzbek propaganda before. But none of the organisations that appeared in the news until recently were as savage as IS.
And the bigger the danger in the eyes of the population, the easier it is to control them.
The threat of radical groups is not completely imaginary and some of those who were detained last month may indeed be connected to IS. But since Uzbekistan is so closed and does not allow any independent media or human rights organisations to assess the situation "we are left to make conclusions based on the overwhelming evidence of the past", says Mr Swerdlow.
Population 28.1 million
Area 447,400 sq km (172,700 sq miles)
Major languages Uzbek, Russian, Tajik
Major religion Islam
Life expectancy 66 years (men), 72 years (women)
Currency Uzbek som
However, why would the state arrest so many people under fake charges? It is unlikely that all these people were opposing the government, so they could hardly be dangerous for the regime.
Again, these mass arrests help to create fear. The government is trying to convince its people that those jihadists are posing an imminent threat, that they have reached the country's borders and even infiltrated society.
People may not be happy with their impoverished lives and the repressive state but when they believe that the alternative is IS, they accept the existing order. As a result, they do not protest against illegal arrests, rampant poverty or daily problems such as the absence of heating.
And this is exactly what authoritarian regimes want.
It is important to note that fear can corrupt not just authoritarian states but mature democracies too.
It creates an environment where it seems logical to abandon some democratic principles for the sake of national security. But as history shows, this method only creates more problems than solutions.
The 29-year-old, from Cardiff, was collecting the MBE she was awarded in the New Year Honours list.
Mills won gold at the Rio 2016 games with Saskia Clark in the women's 470 class.
She said Princess Anne asked her "if I had had any luck finding a new partner" following her crewmate's retirement.
Cyclists Laura and Jason Kenny and showjumping champion Nick Skelton were among the other sports stars to collect their accolades.
Mills said the ceremony was "nerve-wracking" but she got a warm reception.
Since Rio, she has changed boats and said: "This year is about learning as much as we possibly can - so for me a new boat is exciting, it means I'm upping my skill level - whatever boat I end up sailing I'll be a better sailor for it.
"It's just a new challenge and I'm loving it, and I think this first year if you can still be loving your sport and enjoying the training and excited to get fit and everything again then it's a good place to be because it's a long cycle - you can't expect everything to happen in year one."
MPs voted to give the Immigration Bill a second reading by a margin of 49, after Labour's bid to block it was rejected by 40 votes.
It proposes a new offence of illegal working and requires landlords to carry out checks on prospective tenants.
The plans now face detailed committee-stage scrutiny from MPs.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the measures embodied in the bill would mean "greater fairness to British citizens and legitimate migrants".
Its objective, she told MPs, was to protect those who "play by the rules".
But her Labour counterpart, Andy Burnham, branded the bill "unpleasant and insidious".
The shadow home secretary said it was "driven by a desire to generate headlines" and would do nothing to bring the government closer to its target of reducing net migration from more than 300,000 currently to the tens of thousands.
The debate came after Mrs May was criticised by business groups and political opponents for an uncompromising speech to Conservative Party conference in which she pledged to crack down on immigration, warning that high migration made a "cohesive society" impossible.
Under the Immigration Bill, people who work illegally in England and Wales would face up to six months in prison, and the police would be given the power to seize wages as the "proceeds of crime".
A Right to Rent scheme will require landlords to carry out checks on prospective tenants, such as seeing their passport or visa, to ascertain their immigration status.
Failing to do so would be a criminal offence leading to a fine or a jail sentence.
It would also become an offence for businesses and recruitment agencies to hire abroad without first advertising in the UK - a policy which featured prominently in Labour's election manifesto.
And it would introduce a duty on public authorities to ensure that public sector workers in public-facing roles can speak fluent English.
Opening the debate, Mrs May told MPs that the capacity to work illegally was one of the "pull factors" encouraging people to come to the UK, where they often ended up working in "depressing and dangerous conditions" and being exploited by organised criminal gangs.
Illegal working was affecting "reputable businesses", she added, by depressing pay and conditions in different industries and parts of the country.
She also defended plans to require landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants, saying they were not "expected to become immigration experts" but would be able to call a new helpline where they would be given a "very simple message" about what to do.
The legislation was welcomed on the Conservative benches with Damian Collins, the MP for Folkestone and Hythe, telling MPs that it was right to give enforcement agencies more powers and "those who have most to fear from the bill are the exploiters".
Labour supports certain aspects of the bill - including greater sanctions against employers of illegal immigrants and the English-speaking requirement - but opposes other measures, including new requirements on private landlords which Mr Burnham claimed would make the UK a "more hostile and unwelcoming country".
"Landlords are not border or immigration experts," he told MPs. "They are not trained in reading official paperwork...They are not experts in spotting forged documents. On what basis are we planning to outsource immigration control to them?"
He insisted that immigration had had a net positive impact on the British economy but there needed to be "rules that make immigration work for everyone" - including a new "rapid migration fund" - paid for out of EU structural funds - to ensure poorer areas of the country with disproportionately high levels of immigration had the ability to provide extra school places and GP appointments.
He also questioned why the government should be given "sweeping powers" to deport migrants and asylum seekers before they had the chance to appeal, saying it would prevent people "exercising their legitimate rights".
For the SNP, spokesman Stuart McDonald described the bill as "regressive, illiberal, ill-considered and inhumane" and said the party would be voting against it at second reading.
And Lib Dem spokesman Alistair Carmichael said there had been seven immigration bills in the last eight years and 45,000 changes to the immigration rules since Mrs May became home secretary in 2010, but decision making by border agencies did not seem to have improved.
"This immigration bill is not fit for purpose," he said. "With the refugee crisis showing no sign of slowing down, not one of the bill's 56 clauses looks at finding a solution or easing the pressure on Europe's borders."
The bill was given a second reading by 323 votes to 274, majority 49, meaning it can progress to the next stage. But there is still a long way to go before it becomes law.
There will be the committee stage in the Commons, where MPs undertake detailed scrutiny of the plans. The bill will then return to the Commons for MPs to consider any changes, Once that is completed the bill then goes to the House of Lords, where parts of it may face considerable opposition.
The technology giant reported quarterly sales of $50.56bn (£34.39bn) down from $58bn last year - the first fall in sales for the company since 2003.
Apple sold 51.2 million iPhones during the quarter, down from 61.2 million in the same quarter of 2015.
China was a particular weak spot - sales there fell 26%. Results were also hit by the impact of a stronger dollar.
Apple shares fell 8% in after hours trading. Its shares have fallen close to 20% over the last twelve months.
Apple's chief executive Tim Cook said the company performed well "in the face of strong macroeconomic headwinds".
Slowing sales in established markets hasn't been too much of a problem for Apple, as China has always been there to prop up its earnings and keep it posting quarter after quarter of record breaking profits.
But with revenues in China taking a hit, the whole company suffers.
The iPhone - the most successful technology product in history - is now officially in decline. The company had warned as much three months ago, but to see the numbers for real will give investors cause for concern.
Some have been calling recent events a sign that we're coming to the end of a golden age for hardware makers. The smartphone boom is past its extraordinary peak.
Apple, perhaps more than any other company, needs the next blockbuster category to come along. The Apple Watch is bringing in an estimated $1bn each quarter, but that's not enough. It needs another smash like the iPhone. But there's no sign of one coming any time soon.
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Apple's quarterly profit slipped to $10.5bn from $13.5bn.
Nevertheless, it announced it would return $50bn to shareholders through an increase in share buybacks and a 10% increase in quarterly dividends.
Back in January the company warned that it was experiencing its slowest-ever increase in orders for iPhones and that this would cut into second quarter earnings.
Declining growth in smartphone sales has had an impact on the entire industry and companies are struggling to find the next area of innovation.
"The industry is in a lull between the mobile boom and what comes next in automotive, the connected home, health and industrial applications of the internet of things," said Geoff Blaber, from CCS Insight.
One bright spot for Apple was its services unit, which includes App Store downloads, Apple Pay and Apple Music. The division experienced a 20% growth compared with the same quarter in 2015.
However, growth at that unit could be threatened by a new law in China passed in March. It requires all content shown to Chinese people to be stored on servers based on the Chinese mainland.
As a result Apple's iBooks and iTunes movies service were shut down in the country.
Apple said it hoped access to the services would be restored soon.
Apple was recently in a standoff with the US government over whether the company should help the FBI unlock an iPhone.
The FBI wanted Apple to build a program to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.
Apple refused, calling the government's order a violation of its rights. The FBI eventually turned to outside hackers to break into the phone.
He is only required to be present at certain key parts of the case, a majority of judges ruled.
Mr Kenyatta has argued that attending the trial in The Hague would prevent him from governing the country.
Both Mr Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto deny charges of organising violence after the 2007 election.
Q&A: Kenyan leaders at The Hague
Friday's ruling states that the Kenyan president must be physically present during the opening and closing statements, hearings where victims "present their views and concerns in person," the verdict, and any other sessions determined by the court.
The judges said that the exemption was granted "to accommodate the demanding functions of [Mr Kenyatta's] office as President of Kenya".
The decision was by a majority vote as presiding judge Kuniko Ozaki did not agree with the other two judges.
Last week, the African Union urged the UN Security Council to delay Mr Kenyatta's trial, which is due to start on 12 November.
African leaders accuse the ICC of unfairly targeting the continent; all the court's current cases are from Africa, and two serving presidents, Mr Kenyatta and Sudan's Omar al-Bashir, have been indicted.
By Anna HolliganBBC News, The Hague
The ruling comes with conditions; if President Kenyatta violates those, the court could issue an arrest warrant.
In granting the defence request, the judges made clear that their decision was designed to accommodate the demanding functions of his office as president of Kenya - and not merely because he holds such a powerful position.
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On Thursday a spokesman for the Kenyan presidency, Manoah Esipisu, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that there "needs to be a balance between the legal process and his right to govern".
An estimated 1,200 people were killed in the ethnic bloodshed which swept across Kenya after disputed elections in December 2007. Around 600,000 fled their homes.
Mr Ruto's trial began in September. He too was granted an exemption from attending parts of his trial, but the prosecution lodged an appeal against that decision, which is currently suspended.
The BBC's Anna Holligan, in The Hague, says the uncertainty over Mr Ruto's exemption means there is no guarantee that Mr Kenyatta's will be granted.
Mr Ruto's trial was adjourned for a week to allow him to return to Nairobi in the aftermath of the Westgate mall siege.
But as the official report of their debate shows, they were somewhat in the dark about what this would mean for the future overall size of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The politicians exchanged estimates that varied from a 75-strong chamber to one with 90 legislators.
The day after the debate we got a bit more certainty, with the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland announcing a new review that will reduce the number of parliamentary seats from 18 to 17.
That was a bit of a surprise because the commission is engaged on the same job it began back in 2011, namely to cut the overall number of MPs in the House of Commons from 650 to 600.
However, last time that meant Northern Ireland was projected to lose two parliamentary seats, not one.
The last review suggested cutting one of Belfast's four seats and another on the north coast.
The Social Democratic and Labour Party's Alasdair McDonnell in South Belfast and Gregory Campbell of the Democratic Unionist Party in East Londonderry were seen as potentially losing out.
But that review was aborted due to a fall-out between the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats in the old Westminster coalition.
Now the Conservatives are beginning the same exercise again.
But a Boundary Commission source indicates the electoral maths has changed.
The electorate in Great Britain has reduced while the number of voters in Northern Ireland has increased, which is why we are losing only one seat.
Where the axe will fall is not clear.
The new commission may draw on the detailed work done in the last aborted review.
But since then we have adopted a new council structure, and, with a 17-seat model to create, the new team is working from a clean slate.
During this week's debate, the independent unionist MLA John McCallister mused about the possibility of Stormont introducing a "top-up list" in addition to its constituency MLAs.
But assuming this idea does not gain traction, we are now on course for an 85-member assembly in 2021, based on five MLAs representing each of the new 17 constituencies.
Campaign Against The Smell (CATS) claims odour from AB Produce PLC in Leicestershire is strong enough to make eyes water and throats sore.
The smell is caused by waste water from the vegetable preparation process.
AB Produce is now investing £2.2 million in equipment to treat the water so it does not smell.
Source: The House of Commons Register of Members' Financial Interests
Mr Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire, said: "The company has got plans in to sort the whole issue out.
"This is a plan the company has been working on for over a year."
The MP formed AB Produce with his brother Paul Bridgen, and they are both directors of the company.
CATS, which formed in 2010, has been logging the "bad odour" through its online Stinky Reports page.
Measham parish councillor Michael Williams, campaign coordinator for CATS, said the smell can be "really quite caustic" at times.
"It's down the back of the throat, it makes people nauseous. Eyes can water. It really is a pretty nasty experience," he said.
Paul Bridgen, managing director of the company, said: "I really do want to move the company forward and do more work and employ more people, but over the last two years I've actually reduced the amount of work we are doing to help the situation."
He hopes the equipment will be running by the end of the year, and is meeting the Environment Agency on 28 April to discuss getting a permit for it.
North West Leicestershire District Council said its investigations had not yet found the odour to be a statutory nuisance, but advised residents to log complaints with the council.
Zeid Raad Al Hussein condemned "the repeated failure" of the coalition to prevent deadly incidents.
He said air strikes had caused almost all the coalition's civilian casualties.
More than 6,000 people, about half of them civilians, have been killed since Saudi Arabia launched a multi-national campaign against rebels in March 2015.
Saudi Arabia has denied causing large-scale civilian deaths, saying it is making every effort to avoid hitting civilian targets.
Mr Hussein's comments come three days after some 106 civilians were killed in what medics and witnesses said was an air strike on a market in Mastaba, north-west Yemen, in one of the deadliest incidents of the war.
The UN said staff who had visited the scene of the attack said, apart from a check-point about 250 metres (820 ft) away, there was no evidence it was a military target.
"Looking at the figures, it would seem that the coalition is responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as all other forces put together, virtually all as a result of air strikes," Mr Hussein said.
"They have hit markets, hospitals, clinics, schools, factories, wedding parties - and hundreds of private residences in villages, towns and cities including the capital, Sanaa."
"Despite plenty of international demarches, these awful incidents continue to occur with unacceptable regularity."
Saudi Arabia said it was investigating the attack on Mastaba, adding its forces had targeted a "gathering area" for Houthi rebel fighters about six miles (10km) away.
Zeid Raad Al Hussein however said coalition forces appeared not to have taken proper steps to distinguish between military and civilian targets, adding both they and the rebels might have committed "international crimes".
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's chief military spokesman, Brig Gen Ahmad al-Assiri, said the military campaign was "in the end of the major combat phase".
The coalition launched its offensive last March with the aim of repelling the rebels and restoring exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to power.
The only points available for public use are along the M4 in south Wales and the A55 in the north.
Shadow Economy Secretary Russell George said ministers needed to recognise that funding help is needed.
The Welsh Government said it is committed to helping the low carbon vehicle sector grow in Wales.
Latest figures show the number of electric cars in Wales has increased significantly in recent years.
There were 1,725 fully electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles on Welsh roads from July to September 2016 according to official vehicle records, compared to just 70 during the same period in 2012.
But campaigners believe more progress on low-emission vehicles is being hampered by the charge-point infrastructure.
Back in 2015, a report by a group of experts appointed by Welsh Government made a string of recommendations, including installing charging points at all government premises and encouraging local authorities to do the same.
Russell George, the Conservative assembly member for Montgomeryshire said it was now time for Welsh Government to act on the report's findings.
"The trouble is it's a chicken and egg situation - people want to use electric vehicles but they can't because the infrastructure's not there - and the infrastructure's not going to be built until the demand is there," he said.
"I would like to see government recognising that it does need some grant and funding support for this - in order for anyone in Wales to make sufficient use of electric vehicles you've got to have charging points in rural areas as well."
Richard Burrows, who runs a plumbing and heating supplies business in Newtown, Powys, said he found it "very difficult" to travel long distances in his electric van.
He bought the vehicle to try and reduce his overheads, but is now questioning whether it is a viable alternative to his old diesel model.
"I think Wales has been a bit slow to adopt electric vehicles, unlike England and Scotland where lots of local councils have got on board," he said.
"Here, the top and bottom of the country are covered in terms of charging points, but throughout the middle it's very difficult to go anywhere."
Mr Burrows has now installed his own medium-strength 7kW charger at his premises, which allows him to charge the van in about four hours.
A rapid charger could do the same job in around 20 minutes.
"A big difference," adds Mr Burrows.
Professor Peter Wells of Cardiff Business School said that more rapid charging points could make electric car use "a default, no worry option" for people.
"The government can't do everything - they haven't got the resources simply to but a lot of infrastructure and put it in place. But I think government has to do its best to provide a framework, to provide a regulatory target and to encourage local authorities and those within the whole government system in Wales to really get behind this idea and support it."
One organisation that is trying to improve the network of charging points in rural Wales is the National Trust, which has installed just under 40 slow and medium-strength chargers at its properties in Wales.
It has plans to install a further 30 over the next 18 months.
Keith Jones, environmental adviser for the National Trust, said it made environmental and business sense, with visitors spending time at the charity's properties as they waited for their cars to charge up.
"I think we need to look at ourselves as a country and ask what will ten years look like and what do we need to put in place. At the moment this is still a cottage industry - it's not at the infrastructure level."
"Some grown up chats need to take place."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are committed to exploring opportunities to reduce emissions from transport and maximise the low carbon vehicle sector's opportunities for growth and jobs in Wales.
"We are considering the recommendations of the Low Carbon Vehicle Expert Steering Group in the wider context of our decarbonisation duties under the Environment (Wales) Act."
The rights group says the most deadly incident happened in Bahir Dar, where at least 30 people died on Sunday.
The authorities have said seven died in Bahir Dar and that security forces were reacting to violence from protesters.
There has been an unprecedented wave of protests in Ethiopia in recent months.
People in the Oromo and Amhara regions have been complaining about political and economic marginalisation.
Amnesty says that 67 people died when "security forces fired live bullets at peaceful protesters" in different towns and cities in the Oromo region over the weekend.
There were clashes between security forces and protesters on Sunday in Bahir Dar, the Amhara regional capital.
Opposition activists have given similar figures for the number of people killed.
The government has blamed "nearby and distant foreign enemies and social media activists" for defying warnings about holding unauthorised protests, the government-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) reports.
The authorities have said that the demonstrators were destroying government and private property and "inflicting deaths on innocent citizens" and arrests were made as people were trying to spread the violence, FBC adds.
The United States, a close ally of the government, said it was "deeply concerned" by the violence and said the people's rights to demonstrate should be respected.
The unrest was sparked last November by a plan to expand the capital into Oromia. This led to fears farmers from the Oromo ethnic group, the largest in Ethiopia, would be displaced.
The plan was later dropped but protests continued, highlighting issues such as marginalisation and human rights.
New York-based Human Rights Watch says that more than 400 people have been killed in clashes with the security forces since protests began. The government has disputed this figure.
The Amharas are Ethiopia's second biggest ethnic group and used to form the country's elite.
He is alleged to have broken rules about notifying authorities ahead of laying off workers at a warehouse.
Sports Direct declined to comment.
The government's Insolvency Service said: "We can confirm that criminal proceedings have been commenced against David Michael Forsey."
"He is charged with an offence contrary to section 194 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. We will not be commenting until the criminal proceedings have been concluded," said the Insolvency Service.
Chesterfield Magistrates Court is due to hear the case on 14 October and the maximum penalty for the offence is £5,000.
Earlier this year, Parliament investigated how Sports Direct laid off 83 staff at the USC distribution depot in South Ayrshire.
Almost immediately after it went into administration, the fashion retailer was bought by another part of Sports Direct, through a so-called pre-pack administration. It is now trading again, but with less debt, according to the committee, which met in March.
Keith Hellawell, the company's chairman, told the Parliamentary committee he and the board had not known anything about the collapse of USC until the day before it folded.
But, he said, Mr Forsey had begun "consulting" with administrators Duff and Phelps as early as 14 November. Dr Hellawell insisted the firm "didn't want" USC to fold.
Workers were given even less notice, 15 minutes, before they heard they had lost their jobs, the committee was told.
The Owls took the lead when Steven Fletcher's shot from outside the box took a deflection and found the left-hand corner of Jason Steele's goal.
Marvin Emnes could have equalised for Rovers before half-time, but his shot was saved by Keiren Westwood.
Emnes did put the ball into the net in the second half, but the goal was ruled out for offside.
Kieran Lee also had a chance to double the visitors' lead late on after being played through by Barry Bannan, but his shot was saved by Steele.
The result means Wednesday have now won four of their past five league games, having ended a run of seven away fixtures without a win going back to last season.
Blackburn mustered only two shots on target as they slumped back into the relegation zone with eight points from their opening 10 league matches under manager Owen Coyle.
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 0, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 0, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Gordon Greer tries a through ball, but Marvin Emnes is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner from a direct free kick.
Foul by Gordon Greer (Blackburn Rovers).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday).
Foul by Tommie Hoban (Blackburn Rovers).
Tom Lees (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Foul by Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Atdhe Nuhiu replaces Steven Fletcher.
Attempt saved. Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Liam Palmer with a cross.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Darragh Lenihan tries a through ball, but Marvin Emnes is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Barry Bannan with a through ball.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Liam Feeney replaces Jason Lowe.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Derrick Williams tries a through ball, but Danny Graham is caught offside.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Fernando Forestieri replaces Gary Hooper.
Hand ball by William Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday).
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Darragh Lenihan replaces Danny Guthrie.
Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Jones (Sheffield Wednesday).
Foul by Gordon Greer (Blackburn Rovers).
Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers).
Glenn Loovens (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. William Buckley (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Gary Hooper.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Glenn Loovens replaces Sam Hutchinson because of an injury.
Delay in match Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by David Jones with a headed pass.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Danny Graham replaces Sam Gallagher.
Foul by Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers).
Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Danny Guthrie (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Jones (Sheffield Wednesday).
Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Rooney, 31, has had his future questioned by several newspapers after being dropped from the starting line-up by Jose Mourinho.
"He is a great player, and he has still not finished his career," said Koeman.
Mourinho, however, has insisted that Rooney - currently three goals shy of being the club's leading goalscorer - is part of his plans.
Koeman added: "I do not know how his situation is, and I need to respect that situation. That's not my problem.
"But even when we get one time the possibility that Rooney is an option for Everton, I'm very pleased."
Rooney joined United from Everton for £27m in 2004, since when he has scored 246 goals in 532 games for the club.
City were in front inside three minutes as keeper Jason Steele brought down David Cotterill and Lukas Jutkiewicz converted the penalty.
Rovers levelled in first-half stoppage time when Danny Graham swept in from 10 yards after Derrick Williams' cut-back.
Both sides had chances to win it, but Sam Gallagher fired over and Jason Steele superbly denied Ryan Shotton.
The visitors could not have wished for a better start, with Jutkiewicz's spot-kick conversion meaning he has now scored four of his side's five goals since Zola took charge.
And Birmingham would have been two goals up had Steele not partially atoned for his penalty concession by saving well from Cotterill.
Rovers gradually began to get back into the game and Hope Akpan saw his header saved at the second attempt by Tomasz Kuszczak.
Graham should have scored on the stroke of half-time when he headed wide from eight yards but almost immediately found the net for his 11th of the season after a fine Blackburn move.
Blues lost keeper Kusczak at half-time because of blurred vision but both sides showed plenty of appetite to find a winner in the second half.
Jutkiewicz was relieved to see an offside flag after missing a sitter and Akpan blasted too high for Rovers, but both teams had to settle for a point in the end.
The Blues have now failed to win any of Zola's first eight games in charge, while Blackburn remain in the Championship relegation places.
Blackburn manager Owen Coyle: "It's not the start anybody envisaged. I think it's such an avoidable penalty to give away and, of course, that plays into Birmingham's hands.
"At 10 minutes in, given we'd started with two strikers, we had to change to match up. From that point on, we dominated the game and really took charge of it.
"The equaliser was no more than we deserved at that point and in the second half we were the aggressors again, but always accepting Birmingham would be dangerous on the counter attack."
Birmingham manager Gianfranco Zola: "I'm disappointed because I think we created our own problems. We went one up, were in total control, had a great chance to get the second goal and then we stopped.
"We started making silly mistakes in the passing - something that has been very good so far. We stopped and we allowed them to come back. We fed their confidence by making those silly choices.
"Then it's been an open game in the second half. They had one good chance and we had two great chances. The disappointing thing for me is we let them come off the hook."
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Birmingham City 1.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Birmingham City 1.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Ryan Nyambe.
Offside, Birmingham City. Craig Gardner tries a through ball, but Lukas Jutkiewicz is caught offside.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Danny Guthrie replaces Hope Akpan.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) because of an injury.
Foul by Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City).
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Jason Steele.
Attempt saved. Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Craig Gardner with a cross.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Derrick Williams.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Ryan Nyambe.
Hand ball by Che Adams (Birmingham City).
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Ryan Nyambe.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Craig Conway replaces Sam Gallagher.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Derrick Williams tries a through ball, but Danny Graham is caught offside.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Kerim Frei replaces David Cotterill.
Attempt missed. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Liam Feeney with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Jonathan Grounds.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Maikel Kieftenbeld replaces David Davis.
Michael Morrison (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers).
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Michael Morrison.
Foul by Josh Cogley (Birmingham City).
Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Gleeson (Birmingham City).
Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Craig Gardner.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Jonathan Grounds.
Offside, Birmingham City. Che Adams tries a through ball, but Lukas Jutkiewicz is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Liam Feeney.
Attempt missed. Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Elliott Bennett.
Attempt missed. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) right footed shot from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jonathan Grounds with a cross.
Foul by Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City).
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Josh Cogley.
Attempt blocked. David Davis (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Gardner.
Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The points have been removed from the club's total with immediate effect, meaning they drop outside the Super League play-off positions.
Bradford now sit in ninth position, two points below Hull KR, who occupy the final play-off berth.
A consortium submitted a conditional bid for the Bulls last week and this was passed to the RFL on Tuesday.
The six-point penalty is two points more than Wakefield and Crusaders were given when they went into administration and is the largest the RFL could have handed out.
Bulls interim chief executive Gary Tasker said: "We expected a deduction of points by the RFL and we of course accept that penalty. We are not yet in a position to be able to offer any recompense to our creditors and as such a six-point deduction was what we expected.
"We are still in the competition and a place in the top eight - and with it the ability to make the play-offs - is still within our grasp and we will be travelling to Warrington on Sunday in a confident and determined mood."
Centre Chev Walker responded to the news of the points deduction by tweeting: "6 points of hard work on the field taken because of sloppy work off it!! Play-offs are still in reach long as we get our heads down."
Administrator Brendan Guilfoyle revealed last week that the bid put forward by the consortium would be conditional on the Bulls being allowed to continue in Super League and lease back Odsal, which is owned by the RFL.
"The best the RFL will get is a conditional bid," he told BBC Look North.
"The consortium I'm dealing with won't move forward with the club in the second tier. It would be a totally different business model.
"If this bid isn't accepted by them then this club will cease to exist and I will have failed."
Bradford Bulls entered administration on 26 June after attempts to raise £1m to keep the club running were unsuccessful.
Hundreds of people had to leave their homes after officers were alerted to a suspicious car in Fishponds at about 04:00 BST on Saturday.
A bomb disposal team carried out a number of controlled explosions on the car. No explosives were found but the car had been "doused in fuel".
Avon and Somerset Police said the man was in custody for questioning.
A police spokesman said they were "continuing to support the local community" and said 13 police cadets had taken part in "reassurance foot patrols" in the Cassell Road area on Wednesday.
The footage begins just after 18:36 local time on Monday 17 August. All timings have been adjusted by Thai police to account for discrepancies in the clocks of individual cameras, so the timestamp on the image may differ from the time given by police.
Thai police say this image shows the tuk-tuk (largely obscured) doing a U-turn and pulling up outside the hotel, near the shrine.
18.37.12: Tuk-tuk parks and suspect gets out
18.37.35: Suspect gets backpack out of tuk-tuk
Twelve minutes follow in which the suspect is not caught on CCTV.
The young man is wearing a yellow T-shirt and glasses, and carrying a backpack.
Several cameras track his journey after he leaves the shrine, retracing his steps along the front of the Hyatt Hotel before travelling on the back of a motorcycle.
This is 30 seconds' walk from the previous CCTV image showing him at the Hyatt, but more than a minute later, suggesting he paused around the time the bomb went off.
Police believe he picked up the bike at Soi Mahatlek Luang 1.
Timecode adjustment may be wrong for this image.
After this image police lose track of the suspect.
Some 40,000 people have been affected by the torrential rain and several hundred left homeless.
The authorities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul have declared a state of emergency in seven cities.
Among the dead were seven family members whose homes in the town of Igrejinha were buried by a landslide.
Other victims included three children who died when their house in Novo Hamburgo was engulfed by mud.
Rescue workers have been evacuating areas thought to be at risk from landslips.
There was also flooding in and near Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, which suffered power cuts.
Drier weather is forecast for the next few days but more rain is likely towards the end of the week.
Fifa said it had evidence that Camila Maria do Carmo Nobre de Oliveira used two passports with different birth dates and two birth certificates showing different parental information.
De Oliveira played in the preliminary competition of the 2016 Olympics.
Equatorial Guinea Football Association has been fined £28,000 and the player banned for 10 matches.
De Oliveira has also been fined £1475.
Fifa says it is investigating the eligibility of several other players on Equatorial Guinea's team.
On Sunday, Equatorial Guinea booked their place in the finals of this year's women's Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon after a 2-1 win over Mali in Malabo.
The result took them through 3-2 on aggregate.
The snooker supremo, Matchroom Sport mogul and boxing promoter-turned-Leyton Orient chairman, claims to be the "best in the world" at what he does.
Since his return to his first sporting love nearly four years ago, even his harshest critic would struggle to argue that Hearn has not made a significant impact.
At the time, Hearn said snooker was in desperate need of salvation.
"It was much too cosy," he told BBC Sport. "It was dying, it was dormant, it was moribund.
"It was a part-time sport and in today's world you can't be a part-time sport.
"When I took it over I said I would blow it up and start again and that is effectively what we have done - and it's working.
"To me, the opportunities were so obvious and crystal clear that the job was easy. This is what I do for living. I have done it for 40 years and I think I am the best in the world at what I do.
"It has been fantastic. When I looked at it four years ago I saw a sport where the management was non-existent, and everyone was going through the motions built around a BBC contract. They had settled for a slow decline."
Slow decline was never going to lie comfortably with Hearn and the progress has been clear. Snooker is once again enjoying something of a boom period.
Much of that is down to the the sport's new-found worldwide appeal - which has tapped into the explosion of interest in China, India, parts of Europe and other destinations around the world.
"The globalisation is the biggest success without a doubt," Hearn added.
"We all knew China was going to be big and we have made it bigger. We thought we should have an event in Australasia and we did. We thought we should try South America and we did - and we may return there.
"We think the biggest breakthrough is potentially the Indian Open. The Indian sub-continent is a massive potential market for us.
"The overseas audience is bringing new players to the table.
"We haven't got a major event in the Middle East at the moment, so is that the next one?
"India has gone really well. Do they just want one a year? China is a massive market but we can't be complacent. We will be more a global sport."
Television and online "exploitation" has meant the prize money has more than doubled from £3m to more than £7m.
"In a recession market. It is difficult to criticise," Hearn said.
The snooker calendar is also stacked to such an extent that players now pick and choose events.
Current world number nine Mark Allen warned that travel expenses could decimate player numbers, while there has even been talk of snooker burnout, with world number two Mark Selby blaming his early exit from this year's World Championship on fatigue.
Former world champion Peter Ebdon was against Hearn's takeover of the sport from the start.
And snooker's biggest draw and current world champion, Ronnie O'Sullivan, pulled out of the 2012-13 season because of "personal issues" after previously refusing to sign World Snooker's official players' contract earlier in 2012 because he felt it was "too onerous".
Hearn gives the dissenting voices short shrift. The UK Championship's new format is the perfect example of what he believes is the right way forward.
The tournament at York's Barbican Theatre features 128 players in the first round, with the top seed playing the number 128 and so on. No longer are the world's top 16 guaranteed places in the latter stages of most ranking events.
"It's one of those opportunities in the 'Brave New Aldous Huxley World of Snooker' where ability is the only criteria and you find out how good you are," Hearn said.
"Players will only ever look at a system and ask the question 'How does this affect me?' That is a natural reaction from human beings - selfish, but natural.
"My responsibility is to ask how will it affect the game. This is competition in its purest sense. It is absolutely on merit, on the day.
"The fascinating thing will be round one. Of the top 64 seeds in the world, playing the next 64 in the world, how many upsets will we get and how many people will grasp the opportunity?
"Then you really see who you are dealing with and who is the best."
Hearn expects 10-16 shocks in the first round at "top whack". But says surprises and a shake-up are exactly what was needed.
"The old system was so protective of the top players," the 65-year-old said.
"They were guaranteed a certain amount of money and ranking points. To my mind life is not about guarantees, and sport is not about guarantees. It is about the unexpected.
"This system is so brutally fair that it will cause some ripples - and that's what I want to do."
The ripples have been felt. But most appear to have slowly warmed to the new regime. The financial rewards have clearly helped appease some of those who doubted.
Hearn knows he cannot please everyone but, unsurprisingly, he does not care anyway.
"Sport is about giving players opportunities, it's not about giving them money," he explained.
Money talks:
"Sport is about money. All the glories are down the road. Initially it is all about cash. How do you get the top players? Easy. Push the money up. If you want the top players in golf, snooker and tennis you have to come up with the top prize money and if you don't you get what is left."
Winning the player battle:
"Life's tough but the rewards are great. In any industry where the rewards are good it comes at a price. The players have to trust me and I think I have won over the trust of most of them."
Overkill:
"There is always a danger of overkill and I think I did it myself in the late 1980s and 90s. We learnt from it. It wasn't a colossal mistake, but I am aware of it much more now. You have to make sure the product is at a premium. If you supply more than the demand you will devalue the product."
The 1985 World Championship final:
"Our global audience is at a level we have never seen before but people get parochial and say 'When are you going to get 18m again on the BBC?' (viewing figures for Steve Davis v Dennis Taylor). Answer? Never. The world has changed and we have to change with it."
"If they are good enough to take their opportunity they deserve the money they win. First-round losers get nothing, no matter who you are.
"They either improve or they get another job. I have no sympathy with them. Once I give them the opportunity, my job is over.
"There will always be a few because their life has changed. It's not peaceful and getting yourself ready for a tournament every two or three months. If they are not prepared to join me, get off at the next stop."
Hearn has no intention of slowing down just yet.
A "bloody nuisance" of an Achilles injury sustained in the gym may have hindered his movement and temporarily scuppered his own golfing exploits, but nothing seems to have affected his passion for what he does in the 31 years since Matchroom was a tiny operation run out of a small office in Romford and he had his hands on everything.
He has learned to let go a little bit. Son Eddie is now the main man for Matchroom's boxing arm, and Hearn says it is an interesting adjustment.
"It's tough to let go," he admitted. "But when you appoint someone to manage, you have to let them manage.
"My son is a better promoter than me, though I would never tell him, but it does not stop me having my opinions.
"I have opinions about football, but if [Orient manager] Russell Slade started being influenced by my opinions, I would sack him. And the same with Eddie."
Hearn is still involved in the boxing as well as darts, and with his boyhood football team. Even ping pong got the Hearn treatment in January.
He has not finished with snooker yet either.
"We are a class sport and I think we provide entertainment, but we have not exploited ourselves properly," he said. "That has changed massively but there is still more change to come.
"The world has changed and we have to change with it. The answer is to push on and be as big as you can be. We are on that way."
Hearn believes he will know when he is no longer the man to lead from the front and it is time to completely relinquish control.
"In my dotage, they still give me a free ticket," he added.
"One day my son will probably charge me. Then I will know the end of the empire is nigh."
The HGV went down the embankment on the A82 at Stuckgowan in the early hours of Friday morning.
Police Scotland said the driver was uninjured in the incident.
Traffic was queued between Tarbet and Stuckgowan throughout Friday while the rear of the lorry continued to block one carriageway.
Witnesses said the cab was stopped from entering the loch by a tree, about 3ft from the water's edge.
Temporary traffic lights have been put in place to manage Easter traffic on the popular bank holiday route.
The HGV is due to be removed early on Saturday morning when both carriageways will need to be closed.
Eddie Ross of BEAR Scotland said: "Roads are busier due to the Bank Holiday weekend. Rather than close the road to recover the vehicle, Police Scotland have arranged for temporary traffic lights to remain in place.
"We've made the area around the HGV safe for road users to get past until full recovery can be arranged."
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Carter was part of the Jamaican quartet that won the 4x100m in Beijing in 2008.
His was one of 454 selected doping samples retested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year, and has been found to contain the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine.
Bolt, 30, completed an unprecedented 'triple triple' in Rio last summer.
He won gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay to add to his successes in the same events in 2008 and 2012.
Carter, 31, was also part of the squad that won the event in London five years ago and helped Jamaica win at the World Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2015.
He ran the first leg for Jamaica's 4x100m relay team in Beijing, which also included Michael Frater, Asafa Powell and Bolt.
The team won in a then-world record of 37.10 seconds, ahead of Trinidad and Tobago and Japan, who could have their medals upgraded. Brazil would then receive bronze.
Russia's Tatiana Lebedeva has also been stripped of her Beijing long jump and triple jump silver medals after dehydrochlormethyltestosterone was found in one of her samples.
Carter was tested on the evening of the Beijing final in 2008 but that was found at the time to contain no "adverse analytical finding".
More than 4,500 tests were carried out at those Games, with nine athletes caught cheating.
An anomaly was discovered in Carter's submission following the IOC's decision to retest 454 samples from Beijing using the latest scientific analysis methods.
Carter and the Jamaican National Olympic Committee were told of the adverse finding in May - before the Rio Games - and told his B sample would be tested.
It was reported by Reuters in June that Carter's A sample had been found to contain methylhexanamine, which has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) prohibited list since 2004.
It was reclassified in 2011 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.
Speaking in June, Bolt said the prospect of having to return the gold was "heartbreaking".
He told the Jamaica Gleaner: "For years you've worked hard to accumulate gold medals and you work hard to be a champion, but it's one of those things.
"I'm more concerned about the athlete and I hope he gets through it."
Britain's two-time Olympic silver medallist Roger Black on BBC Radio 5 live
It takes the shine off Bolt's achievement. Eight doesn't have the same ring - 'double treble, plus two'.
It will be really frustrating for him. You can only account for yourself, you cannot account for your team-mates.
We know it has nothing to do with Usain Bolt - it will not damage his reputation - but it will affect it, take shine off it and he won't be a happy man.
When I hear stories like this, a part of me does celebrate. If athletes think they have got away with it, then with retrospective testing they can never sleep peacefully.
It has to be the strongest deterrent the sport now has. Even when athletes retire they can still have their medals taken away.
Marlon Devonish, 40, was part of the British 4x100m relay team which lost the silver medal at the World Championships in 2003 following Dwain Chambers' failed drugs test. He went on to win Olympic relay gold with Britain at Athens 2004.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, he said: "With relays you work together, you build a relationship, but you never know what goes on behind closed doors and clearly Carter was taking drugs.
"Carter has tarnished the team. It's a massively selfish act and I'm sure Bolt and the rest of the team are bitterly disappointed.
"The relationship between me and Dwain, we get on, we are cool. He apologised to me I and accepted it. Dwain has to live with it for the rest of his life, it was a sincere apology.
"I was devastated when I found out, but you have to move on."
Peter and Sylvia Stuart, who were last seen on on 29 May, were reported missing on 3 June.
Mr Stuart, 75, was found dead near their home in Weybread, Suffolk, later that day. He had been stabbed. Mrs Stuart, 69, has not yet been found.
Ali Qazimaj, 42, who was detained on a European Arrest Warrant, will appear at Ipswich Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Talent Works Ltd is owned by an associate of Katrina Percy, the trust's former chief executive.
The training services firm was paid more than £5m over four years for a contract valued at less than £300,000.
Southern Health staff were informed in a letter that Talent Works had served notice it was terminating its contract.
Ms Percy, who stepped down as chief executive of the troubled trust last month, and Talent Works owner, Chris Martin, had worked together in previous posts.
In July, BBC News revealed it was paid nearly £5.4 million over a four year period despite winning a contract valued at less than £300,000 - an overspend approaching 2,000%.
It had been awarded a new £3.5m three-year contract in March 2015.
The trust's interim chief executive announced that Talent Works had served notice that it wanted to terminate its contract in a letter on Friday.
The trust said it was unable to provide further details on when the contract would formally end.
Talent Works has not yet responded to a request for a comment.
At the time of the original revelations, Southern Health said: "We fully accept that the original contract for Talent Works was for a sum far less than the eventual spend," adding it was "not unusual" for Ms Percy to have worked with Chris Martin due to the "specialist services they provide to the NHS".
The trust said it took its financial responsibilities "very seriously".
Southern Health has been under intense scrutiny since an NHS England-commissioned report in December found it failed to investigate the unexpected deaths of hundreds of patients.
A failure of leadership and governance at the trust was blamed for the problems, a conclusion a subsequent CQC report in April agreed with.
2006 - Management consultant Chris Martin and Katrina Percy start working together while she was chief operating officer at Surrey and Sussex Hospitals
2009 - Ms Percy becomes chief executive of Hampshire Community Health Care and Mr Martin follows her, providing coaching and leadership support
2010 - Mr Martin starts a firm of organisational psychologists called Talent Works Ltd, whose website says they are "experts in culture and behaviour change"
2010 - In December, Southern Health advertises for management development support. The tender has a value of £288,000, and the contract is to last three years, with an option for a one year extension
2011 - Ms Percy joins Southern Health as chief executive and the work is awarded to Talent Works Ltd
2014 - The initial three year contract ends and the firm is paid £5.365m. The trust chooses to exercise its option for a one-year extension
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) will pay 30m yen ($265,000; £185,00) for financial losses and poor health.
It is thought to be the first time Tepco has been found liable for people outside the mandatory evacuation area.
In 2011 the plant suffered multiple meltdowns after a quake and tsunami.
After that people who lived within 20km (12 miles) of the plant were ordered to evacuate, but thousands of others voluntarily left their homes and businesses over fears of radiation
Analysts say Thursday's ruling could pave the way for many more compensation claims from such evacuees.
In April 2014 some residents started to return to their homes in the exclusion zone, but many areas remain ghost towns with their former residents in temporary housing.
The sum awarded to the couple, who have not been named but are in their 40s, is also far greater than the 11m yen proposed by a government-established centre to mediate settlements for compensation cases.
According to the written submission, the husband became depressed and developed pleurisy after the evacuation and their children were stigmatised for their association with the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Tepco has already been embroiled in a number of compensation claims. In 2011, the government ordered Tokyo Electric to pay 1m yen to every family within 30km of the plant.
The 31-year-old - Olympic champion at 63kg in 2004, 2008 and 2012 - lost to Mongolian student Orkhon Purevdorj, 21.
The loss, in the final of the 58kg category at the Golden Grand Prix event in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, gives rivals for the 2016 Games hope.
"There's enough time to put things right," said Japan national team director Kazuhito Sakae.
"I'm relieved it wasn't the Olympics. I believe she can win her fourth-straight Olympic title," added Sakae.
Icho did forfeit a match in 2007, but last lost a contest on the mat in 2003.
Facebook did not exist and Twitter was three years away from arriving online when the 10-time world champion last walked away from a bout as a loser.
After the 10-0 technical fall loss to Purevdorj she said she had not been allowed to wrestle her way and wanted to use the defeat as a chance "to grow".
The sides were level four times before a James Doyle hat-trick helped Carlow to a 3-12 to 1-7 half-time lead, with Eoghan Campbell netting for Antrim.
Carlow remained in control with Martin Kavanagh and Doyle netting while Ciaran Clarke (2) and Neil McManus scored the Antrim goals.
The win sees Carlow progress to an All-Ireland qualifier against Laois.
Carlow posed a strong threat to Antrim's rear-guard, and following their opening goal from Doyle after 22 minutes, the Barrowsiders failed to trail in this game.
Doyle pounced for his side's second goal six minutes later, to push his side 2-8 to 0-6 ahead.
Antrim responded from the resulting puck-out, as Campbell finished to the net past Carlow keeper James Carroll, after a goalmouth scramble.
Carlow responded well, and tagged on 1-4 without reply, with Doyle completing his treble in the 34th minute after sending an unstoppable shot past Saffrons keeper Chris O'Connell.
Eleven points ahead at the interval, Carlow pushed 13 clear on the restart, following a brace of John Michael Nolan scores.
Antrim failed to give up with Clarke netting in the 38th minute, but Carlow's fourth goal arrived eight minutes later, with captain Kavanagh firing to the net.
Again the Ulster side responded to a Carlow goal with one of their own, this time McManus ploughed a close-range free past a crowded goalmouth.
Ten points separated the sides at this stage, and while Antrim cut the gap to seven points, with Clarke netting his second goal in the 56th minute, Carlow drove on.
Antrim were outscored by 1-4 to 0-1 over the next 11 minutes, with Doyle firing his fourth goal to help Carlow to a 5-22 to 4-12 lead.
The Saffrons finished strongly with three of the final four points, but it wasn't enough as Kavanagh accepted the cup from GAA president Aogan O Fearghail after the game.
WEEKEND HURLING RESULTS/FIXTURES
Saturday
Lory Meagher Cup Final
Warwickshire 0-17 0-11 Leitrim, Croke Park
Nicky Rackard Cup Final
Armagh 2-15 3-23 Derry, Croke Park
Christy Ring Cup Final
Carlow 5-23 4-15 Antrim, Croke Park
Leinster SHC semi-final
Wexford v Kilkenny, Wexford Park, 19:00
They met in Turkey, after "Leen" - Said did not want to use her real name - fled her university in Syria when the war broke out.
They were engaged for a year, married in 2015, then spent only one week together as husband and wife before Said had to return to Virginia on his J-1 visa, a non-immigrant visa commonly given to scholars and doctors.
In the meantime, the couple applied and were approved for a J-2 visa for Leen, which is a permit reserved for spouses and dependents of J-1 holders.
Finally, on Saturday 28 January, Leen boarded a flight in Istanbul bound for Dulles International Airport in Virginia, about 45 minutes outside of Washington DC. It was supposed to be a happy day.
"It was supposed to be, but I don't know what's going to happen," 29-year-old Said said, not long after arriving at Dulles.
Almost exactly 24 hours earlier, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled, "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States". It shut down the US refugee programme for 120 days, indefinitely suspended the resettlement of Syrian refugees, and halted all immigration to the US from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Sudan and Yemen for 90 days.
The order led to chaos at airports all over the world. Travellers were prevented from boarding planes abroad and, in some cases, were pulled off flights. They were detained at US airports. And there seemed to have been little instructions given to US Customs and Border Patrol on how to handle refugee and immigrant arrivals under the new rules.
Earlier that morning, Said's friend's wife also attempted to enter the country with a J-2 visa, but he says she was immediately stopped and sent back.
So, instead of flowers, Said brought Rob Robertson to the airport, a tall, burly immigration lawyer. Said had found him just hours earlier after putting out a desperate plea for help on social media.
"They've done everything they need to do. It's already clear she's not a threat," said Mr Robertson.
"It worries me that they're just going to turn around and send them back, pursuant to an executive order that is not law, that does not override the Immigration and Nationality Act," he said, referring to the 1965 law that bans discrimination against immigrants based on "nationality, place of birth, or place of residence".
Mr Robertson was one of roughly 30 volunteer lawyers who showed up to Dulles on Saturday afternoon. They deployed en masse following news that two Iraqi men with valid visas were detained at John F Kennedy Airport, in New York, and faced deportation.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued on their behalf and they were later released. Rumours spread that more were trapped in legal limbo at other airports around the country - including Dulles.
"This is not the country I was born in. This is not the country that I loved," said lawyer Lena Albibi, who was moved to tears. "It's very painful seeing this happen… They're breaking families apart."
Reaching prospective clients was a tricky errand for the lawyers, since anyone who needed legal help - travellers being detained in the "secondary inspection" area of US Customs and Border Patrol at Dulles - had no way to communicate with lawyers waiting outside.
"We cannot get the information that we need so we can figure out how we can assist them," said immigration lawyer Sari Long. "We're trying to do our best to canvas family members."
Dispersed in the waiting area near baggage claim number 15 were people like Elmira Tayary, who had no idea she would need a lawyer to collect her 63-year-old mother, a green-card holder. Just hours earlier, Department of Homeland Security officials had revealed that the executive order would extend to permanent residents of the US coming from the seven banned countries.
Tayary said her mother splits her time between the US and Iran, and has for years.
"I'm very, very sad, but I'm hopeful she may show up any minute," said Elmira. "This is very disappointing."
As hours ticked by, and more and more protesters arrived carrying signs that read "Refugees Are Welcome" and "Love Your Neighbour", it became clear that something like 50 to 60 people, including green-card holders, were being held at customs. Lawyers were still not permitted to speak to them.
However, there were small acts of rebellion. Employees of the airport itself managed to ferry information to family members who were waiting, including Elmira, to tell them that green card holders would soon be on their way.
Immediately soothed, Elmira bought her mother a red-white-and-blue balloon.
One by one, the permanent residents were released, walking down a corridor now teeming with demonstrators shouting "Welcome home!" and singing "This Land is My Land".
Ali and his wife Yassen wore weary smiles as they pushed their luggage through the gauntlet of well-wishers, their 11- and 7-year-old boys in tow. Someone handed Yassen flowers.
Ali worked for three years as an interpreter for the US Army and gained admittance to the US through a Special Immigrant Visa, reserved for Iraqi and Afghan nationals who face threats of violence for working for Americans during the conflicts there.
He now has a green card, and returned to Iraq for his father's funeral, only to be delayed for hours for questioning at Dulles.
"We are not terrorists. We are not bad people," said Ali. "It's so hard. I hope they will change their minds on this position."
US citizen Alaa was finally able to connect with his wife Jinan, a green-card holder, only after she answered a series of questions about her family and her husband's business.
"That's way over the limit. She's got a green card," Alaa said.
"Are we going to blow up our system because we are afraid? Then, you know, whoever we are afraid from are winning."
Just then, a thin man carrying a sign that read "This Veteran Stands With You" stopped Alaa, told him he is an Iraq veteran, and with little explanation fastened a Purple Heart medal to Alaa's jacket.
"That's a great thing, that's a great thing!" Alaa cried, elated. "This is what America is all about!"
As the green-card holders began to depart, more good news arrived - first a judge in Brooklyn declared that deporting refugees and valid visa holders who'd already arrived in US airports would cause "irreparable harm", thereby blocking the deportations. Next, a judge in Virginia issued a temporary restraining order to stop the expulsion of green card holders.
Each time the news arrived, the lawyers huddled together and then broke out into rowdy cheers.
"We are optimistic that pretty soon all those people back there will be allowed to come through," said lawyer Dan Press.
By the time some detainees made it through, they were so exhausted that several fell weeping into the arms of loved ones - to the frenzied glee of the now-enormous protest group.
It wasn't all good news. Rumours that deportations took place continued to swirl, though it is unclear how many. The Virginia court decision lasts only a week and Trump's executive order still holds for anyone who did not make it to US shores in time for this brief, legal reprieve.
By 11 pm, Said still had no definitive answer about his wife, Leen. She called to say she was being sent back to Turkey, but then later was shuffled off to another room in customs.
"She may come walking out of there for all I know," said Said's lawyer.
So Said leaned against a wall, eyes fixed on the path out of customs, and waited, as patiently as the previous year.
The first phase of year-long leases were offered on an online auction site earlier this year - 21 sold but three failed to reach the reserve price.
The unfurnished buildings, all in pastel shades of blue, green and lilac, are on the promenade at Royal Sands.
The first lease sold online in April for £2,650.
Darren Fairchild said permission was initially granted for 97 huts this year, but it may now change.
"I think the reality is we're always trying to strike a happy balance between the residents' views and the open areas that we like to create," he added.
"I don't think we're going to go for 97 [beach huts]. I think there maybe another phase next year.
"We'll see at the end of the year how popular they are again, how many people want to renew, and how many new applications we'll get."
In March, North Somerset Council granted permission for more than 100 beach huts - 28 at Marine Parade and a further 97 on The Promenade - each with no fixed price.
One man from Bristol, who has already picked up the keys to his hut, said: "When we saw that the beach huts were available it seemed like a great thing - to be on the beach, have the views, and the ability to pop inside when it rains a bit too much."
Beach huts were first introduced in Weston-super-Mare in the 1930s, in exactly the same place as the huts are now, Mr Fairchild said.
Kezia Dugdale said that she, rather than the party's UK leader, was "in charge" of Scottish Labour.
She said Mr Corbyn "doesn't need an invite and did not decline to come".
The UK leaders of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have both addressed their Scottish conference is recent weeks.
Scottish Labour will be holding a one-day conference at the Glasgow Science Centre on Saturday in what will be the party's last major gathering before the Holyrood election on 5 May.
There will be full live coverage of the conference on the BBC Scotland news website, and Ms Dugdale will be answering readers' questions in a webcast ahead of the event.
Neither Mr Corbyn nor Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell will be attending - despite Mr McDonnell having other engagements in Glasgow over the weekend.
Mr Corbyn did address the Scottish Labour conference in October, and the party has said he will be campaigning in Scotland ahead of the election.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Ms Dugdale told presenter Gary Robertson he was "looking for problems that don't exist" when he asked her about Mr Corbyn's non-attendance.
She said: "I lead an autonomous Scottish Labour party - I am in charge. I work very closely with Jeremy Corbyn, we are good friends, but he doesn't need to be there to offer support to me or indeed to the Scottish Labour campaign."
Ms Dugdale said there was a "new age" for the Scottish Labour party which meant "the Scottish Labour leader is in charge of what happens in Scotland", with the party "putting Scotland first".
She added: "I am incredibly supportive of Jeremy Corbyn, very loyal to him. We are a good team and part of being a good team is knowing when to take your place.
"And this weekend I am going to lead the Scottish Labour party towards the Scottish Parliament election. It is really that simple."
Opinion polls have suggested the SNP is on course to secure another majority in the Scottish Parliament, with Labour and the Conservatives battling for second place.
Labour was left with just one MP in Scotland after last year's general election - but Ms Dugdale declined to make any predictions about how many seats it would win at Holyrood, saying only that she was "committed to renewing the Scottish Labour party".
The party has said it will have a "clear 50:50" split between men and women in the 108 candidates it fields in the election.
Ms Dugdale has sought to put clear political ground between her party and the SNP and Conservatives by proposing a 1p increase in income tax rates in Scotland - a position also backed by the Liberal Democrats.
The party - like the SNP - has also said it would not follow George Osborne in raising the threshold for paying the 40p top rate of income tax to £45,000, a measure which the Chancellor announced in his Budget on Wednesday.
The Treasury has said a typical higher rate taxpayer would be about £400 better off under the plans, which will come into force in April next year - when new powers over income tax are due to be handed to Holyrood under the Scotland Bill.
Scottish Labour has also proposed a 50p top rate of income tax for those earning more than £150,000 in Scotland, which Ms Dugdale said would raise "between £70m and £110m a year" towards closing the attainment gap in the country's schools.
But she said a pledge made by previous leader Jim Murphy last year to use money from a proposed UK-wide Mansion Tax to pay for 1,000 extra nurses in Scotland would not be included in its manifesto for the Holyrood election.
Senegalese Walliou Ndoye gave the hosts a ninth-minute lead and Karim Aouadhi converted two penalties before half-time.
Further goals from Alaa Marzouki and Ndoye served notice that Sfaxien are aiming to emulate the title-winning teams of 2007, 2008 and 2013.
Sfaxien are now guided by Argentina 1986 World Cup winner Nestor Clausen (pictured) - who joined the club last November after spells with clubs in his homeland, Bolivia, Switzerland, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Ecuador.
The Tunisian club's last appearance in this tournament was a massive disappointment as they failed to win any of six 2015 group games and lost four.
Click here for Confederation Cup fixtures and results on the Caf website
Elsewhere in Africa's second tier club competition, JS Kabylie of Algeria, the most decorated of the 32 contenders with six African titles, were grateful to goalkeeper Malek Asselah for a 0-0 away draw at Etoile of Congo Brazzaville.
He saved a second-half penalty and left the "Canaries" in a strong position to reach play-offs next month against the African Champions League last-32 losers.
Vipers of Uganda celebrated opening a new stadium in Kampala by edging Platinum Stars of South Africa 1-0 thanks to a Milton Karisa header just after half-time.
Brazilian Fabricio Simoes bagged a brace as Recreativo Libolo of Angola beat Platinum Ngezi of Zimbabwe 2-1 in Calulo, south of Luanda.
Liberty Chakoroma scored a potentially crucial away goal for African newcomers Platinum, who host the return match next weekend.
Sanga Balende of the Democratic Republic of Congo,Kaloum of Guinea and Onze Createurs of Mali established 1-0 advantages at home in other first legs.
Pedro Kungemena scored for Sanga Balende against Al Hilal Al Obeid of Sudan in Lubumbashi and Aboubacar Sylla was the Kaloum match-winner in Conakry against Ittihad Tanger of Morocco.
On Friday, Smouha of Egypt made a dazzling Confederation Cup debut by trouncing Ulinzi Stars of Kenya 4-0.
Ahmed Raouf scored an early goal in the 85,000-seat Borg El Arab Stadium and Islam Mohareb doubled the lead before half-time.
With the visitors threatening to reduce the deficit, Smouha grabbed a disputed third goal through Mahmoud Abdel Aziz with Ulinzi claiming Saruni was fouled.
Raouf turned creater for the final goal four minutes from time and Mohareb applied the finishing touch via a volley.
Smouha are coached by Moamen Soliman, who guided Cairo club Zamalek to the African Champions League final last season.
Zesco United of Zambia and Mouloudia Alger of Algeria used home advantage to build 2-0 leads in their matches.
Goals from Jackson Mwanza and Kondwani Mtonga brought 2016 Champions League semi-finalists Zesco victory in Ndola over Le Messager Ngozi of Burundi.
Democratic Republic of Congo club Renaissance contained Mouloudia for 57 minutes in Algiers before Sid Ahmed Aouadj scored and Rachid Bouhanna added a second goal.
Several sportswomen have raised the issue, including tennis player Heather Watson who blamed "girl things" on her exit from the 2015 Australian Open.
Dr Richard Burden, senior physiologist at the English Institute of Sport, told the BBC in January that menstrual cycle research in sport was "limited".
The new study has been conducted by two London universities.
The Female Athlete Health Group - a collaborative project between St Mary's University and University College London - worked on two surveys, including one of London Marathon competitors.
Of the 1,862 women surveyed, including 90 who were considered elite level, 41.7% said their menstrual cycle affected their performance.
Nearly 44% met the criteria for heavy menstrual bleeding, but only 22.3% had sought help for period problems.
PhD student Georgie Bruinvels, who is leading the study, told BBC Sport: "We feel like there are many unanswered questions when it comes to periods in sport.
"As a female athlete myself, I can see how much it impacts. So many elite coaches are male and it's hard for them to understand.
"It's this big taboo. I found that awareness is so poor and people don't know anything about it.
"By doing this research, we hope to raise more awareness and to encourage further examination of the subject."
Bruinvels is using crowdfunding to aid the next stage of her research, which will focus on heavy menstrual bleeding and the possible increase of iron deficiency.
During a routine check at the Kiefersfelden border crossing, police found "explosive-like" materials in a Polish-registered car. The discovery triggered a major security operation.
The police detained the Polish driver and his three African passengers, from Ivory Coast and Guinea.
The A93 motorway was later reopened.
Three pipes were found in the car which police suspect were intended for pipe bombs. They also found a large amount of gunpowder in the car, as well as connecting wires and several mobile phones.
The Polish driver's intentions remain a mystery. He is suspected of trafficking the Africans into Germany illegally.
German police have stepped up checks on vehicles entering from Austria since last year's unexpected influx of 1.1 million migrants and refugees.
The security forces raised the alert level after a number of gun, bomb and machete attacks in Germany during the summer, including a mass shooting in Munich.
A coastguard search and rescue helicopter was called out following a report that a man had injured his ankle on the mountain's Tower Ridge at about 14:30 on Wednesday.
Both climbers were eventually winched to safety.
Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team and the Scottish Ambulance Service were also involved in the rescue operation.
The new technology at Welsh Water's plant in Tremorfa will produce electricity for onsite use.
It captures gas from wastewater and will cut the company's reliance on the national grid by 45% and produce 75% of the gas it needs at Tremorfa.
Welsh Water said the anaerobic digestion (AD) unit was one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
It is part of a £75m investment by the company in renewable energy sources at its own facilities to reduce its carbon footprint.
Chairman Robert Ayling said: "We have invested heavily for more than a decade in wastewater treatment to bring widespread environmental benefits, including vastly improved water quality in our rivers and on the coastline of Wales.
"However, the downside is that the water industry is very energy-intensive, which has been reflected in our £30m annual bill."
Welsh Water is investing £30m on a similar AD facility at its Afan Wastewater Works in Port Talbot.
Mr Ayling added: "We will focus on energy efficiency and produce our own sustainable energy where we can, thereby reducing our reliance on power from fossil fuels while also cutting costs and helping to keep down customers' bills.
"The Cardiff Wastewater Works is itself a £220m investment in delivering great benefit by improving coastal waters, and the opening of this AD Facility is a leap forward in our strategy to benefit the environment further."
First Minister Carwyn Jones is at the official opening.
As the world's finest athletes are celebrated in London, few people know their older counterparts are returning from competition in Denmark. But while the two sets are totally opposed in age, they are matched every step of the way in passion, joy and determination. Photographer Alex Rotas, 68, is determined to prove it.
"I'm half in tears and half in awe watching these amazing athletes and what they achieve in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and just marvelling at their athleticism," said the Bristol-based photographer.
She has just returned from the European Masters Athletics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark - a trip described as "incredibly intense, incredibly wonderful and jaw-dropping".
She took up photography several years ago and has spent much of her time since then looking through the lens at older sportsmen and women.
"Retirement is a word I skirt around and try not to use," she said.
"I started when I was 60, which is when I realised there weren't any images of older sporty people and being an older sporty person I knew they were out there. I did an internet search and once you put the word 'old' in you just get those pictures of older people slumped in chairs. So I thought 'wow, there's a gap worth filling'."
Education has formed much of her career. In Greece she worked with with pre-school deaf children, through to studying a PhD for herself and now she says she is spreading the word, in picture, that the ageing human body is capable of greatness.
"I was watching these people aged in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s just achieve the most incredible athletic feats that I never imagined were possible.
"I found it very moving and it made me recalibrate my own sense of what the ageing body can do.
"It's not only their athleticism that comes through, it's their joy. These people are so full of life that it's inspiration on every single level."
She spent much of her youth playing tennis but the track and field has now captivated her, travelling throughout the UK with her camera and to championships in France, Finland, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Hungary and most recently Denmark.
"There's something really naked about track and field athletics. In tennis you have a racket and you can hide your fitness, or lack of it, if you can do a really good drop shot as you get older.
"But in athletics you've just got your body. You take your body to the starting line, the gun goes bang and you're off. "
"Some have carried on, meaning they have been athletes all their life, and some have come to it very late in life.
"Some were good in school but gave up when they had jobs and family and they take 50 years out and then come back. It's quite remarkable."
"Everyone has a story and everyone's story is different," said Alex, who hopes to inspire others with the pictures she displays and talks she gives around the world.
And although she's nearing 70 herself she's committed to maintaining her love for starting things - "I love being a beginner," she says with delight.
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The 28-year-old posted a photograph of her ring finger with a heart-shaped jewel on it.
The caption with it reads: "He gave me his heart on Valentine's Day, and I said YES!"
She has been going out with the actor and model Taylor Kinney, 33, since 2011, after they met on the set of her video for You and I.
She had used social media on Saturday to say that she was "ready for my Valentine" and it seems he didn't disappoint.
In December, Gaga told the American DJ Howard Stern that she knew "Kinney is the right guy."
It's been a busy time for the singer she recently sang on stage at the Grammys and announced last week that she's been invited to perform at the Oscars.
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An incident involving a woman and three children happened outside Griffin Courtyard on Leg Street, Oswestry, at about 16:00 GMT on Friday.
Two men received minor injuries, but the woman and three children were not believed to be hurt, West Mercia Police said.
Four men from West Bromwich, aged 38, 36, 31 and 27, are due at Telford Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The 38-year-old man and the 27-year-old man have been charged with four counts of kidnap.
The other two men have been charged with four counts of kidnap and one count of assault.
Mirza Malick, 64, and Paul Hayward, 55, from Bradford, died at the scene of the crash on the Shipley Airedale Road in January.
Ismail Miah, 23, of Springfield Place and Muhammed Sikder, 27, of Sylhet Close, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving at Bradford Crown Court.
They will be sentenced next month.
Protesters gathered on Queen Street at 13:00 BST for the event organised by the Cardiff's People Assembly,
It follows a similar rally two days after the general election, which saw singer Charlotte Church launch an attack on the Conservative party.
Church joined the march for the second week running.
Warning against a "Tory ideology of greed and money", Saturday's protest was also supported on Twitter by Welsh actor Michael Sheen.
Police estimated over 500 people were at the event, whilst organisers put the figure closer to 1,000.
The Conservative Party has been asked to comment on the march.
Organiser Jamie Insole said: "I am thrilled that Michael has chosen to support this event.
"With 74% of new Welsh jobs below the living wage, the weeping sore of the bedroom tax and communities confronting record cuts, we need a grass roots movement to push back."
Fellow organiser Adam Johannes said: "In 1945, Britain was bankrupt, in debt, with a higher deficit than now and yet the government built half-a-million council houses, founded the NHS, launched the welfare state.
"We do not accept a government that less than quarter of people actually voted for can take that away from us."
Parents Bob and Emma Gwinnett-Davies joined the rally after what they called a "devastating general election result".
Speaking to BBC Wales, Mrs Gwinnet-Davies said she was concerned about her son's future concerning the NHS and free healthcare.
She added they were "not happy about the changing face of this country and the cuts that are happening".
Although at the forefront of the previous march, Ms Church chose a less prominent role on Saturday and decided to stay among the crowds.
At the first march the mother of two addressed around 200 campaigners on Queen Street and carried a placard which read she was "mad as hell".
Welsh Conservatives leader Andrew RT Davies hit back at Ms Church's comments, calling them "unfortunate and unbecoming", and describing her as "champagne socialist".
The 22-year-old, who had a spell on loan at St Mirren in 2014, was released this summer after 11 years at City.
"He is a boy with a massive point to prove," Well boss Steve Robinson told the club website.
"There were high hopes for him when he was younger but he has had injury problems, so we hope to give him a platform to get back to where he was."
Plummer can play a number of positions in defence and has also featured as a holding midfielder.
"I'm delighted," he said. "I was desperate for a new challenge and I think this is the perfect place for me.
"I had a taste of Scottish football from my time at St Mirren and I really enjoyed it. It's very competitive but I think that suits me."
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In 2008 and again in 2012 a liberal coalition of minorities, college-educated whites and single women gave Barack Obama more than enough votes to comfortably win the presidency. Can it hold fast after he exits the stage next year?
A two-term presidency can paper over a host of fissures within a political movement. The longer a party stays in power, the more competing interests are liable to grow dissatisfied with their share of the governing pie.
Sometimes the centre holds. In 1988, for instance, George HW Bush rode to power on the strength of the Ronald Reagan governing coalition. By 1992, however, the foundation had given way, as fiscal and social conservatives revolted, ushering in eight years of Democratic rule and pushing the Republican Party farther to the right.
At the Netroots Nation conference of left-wing activists in Phoenix, Arizona, last week, the fault lines within today's Democratic Party were on full display. And while Mrs Clinton was more than a thousand miles away, honouring "prior commitments" in Iowa and Arkansas, the events that transpired in the desert this weekend should give her pause.
There's no question, for instance, that the enthusiasm and support for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' insurgent presidential campaign is real. He's climbed in polls over the past few weeks, and on Saturday night 11,000 turned out to hear the firebrand socialist give one of his 60-minute stem-winders.
On the menu was a heavy dose of liberal red meat - including condemnation of the "billionaire class" and calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, expanding government-run healthcare programmes, raising the minimum wage and tuition-free college education.
"Bernie Sanders stands up for what's just and right," says conference attendee Jean Devine of Phoenix. "He's for the Democratic ideals of equality for all people and for the rich not being able to buy elections."
While in Arizona, campaign supporters hoisted banners and toasted their man at a local nightclub with cleverly named cocktails like "Weekend at Bernie's" and "Vermont Treehugger" (with maple syrup-infused whiskey).
There was a point in time when Mrs Clinton was the cool Democrat. She had her own internet meme. She was near universally beloved by party faithful. Now, however - at least among the rank and file at Netroots Nation - Mr Sanders is the candidate of the hour.
The Vermont senator has given voice to the frustration and anger that some on the left feel over the current state of US politics. They helped elect Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but their goal of enacting a full progressive agenda seems to them far from realised.
"Bernie's looking pretty good," says Hanna Roditi of Connecticut. "He's the only one who doesn't cater to corporations. The policies that he supports have more to do with people's needs."
The most common adjectives used to describe Mrs Clinton in Phoenix, on the other hand, were "calculating," "cautious" and "corporate".
"I won't vote for her," Roditi says, adding that if Mr Sanders doesn't win the Democratic nomination she'll write in his name on the general election ballot.
The establishment - whether in the government or the Democratic Party - was a source of anger time and again at the conference. During a Thursday afternoon panel discussion, EJ Juarez, director of Progress Majority Washington - singled out Democratic campaign managers in particular for betraying their party's progressive ideals.
"We ceded a lot of the soul of our values off to contractors who don't often adopt the equity principles we talk about," he said. "They aren't talking the same language."
On Friday morning Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, a champion of the left, used her keynote address to rail against an "insider Washington" that ignores the liberal priorities of the nation at large - on issues like gun control, income inequality and tighter Wall Street controls.
"The American people are progressive, and our day is coming," she said.
After calling out the financial behemoth Citigroup by name, she said the US government - even during the Obama administration - has been dominated by Wall Street insiders. She then offered some advice for candidates seeking the presidency.
"I think that anyone running for that job - anyone who wants the power to make every key economic appointment and every key nomination - should say loud and clear we don't run this country for Wall Street and mega-corporations, we run it for people," she said to cheers.
It was likely a barb aimed at Mrs Clinton - who has been criticised by some on the left for being in the thrall of big-money donors - and set the stage for the Saturday's presidential town hall forum featuring Mr Sanders and fellow candidate Martin O'Malley.
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, however - evidence of yet another frayed fibre in the Democratic electoral quilt.
Mr O'Malley took the stage first, and about 20 minutes into his question-and-answer session a group of several dozen protesters from the group Black Lives Matter interrupted the proceedings with chants, songs and shouts.
Tia Oso, leader of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, commandeered a microphone and asked the former Baltimore mayor what he would do to "begin to dismantle structural racism in the United States".
Mr O'Malley was met by boos when he said: "Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter." (He would later apologise, saying he did not want to "disrespect" the passion and commitment of the protesters.)
The demonstrations continued for Mr Sanders. At one point the senator snapped: "If you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to outscream people". He would later cancel previously scheduled afternoon meetings with conference attendees, including one with the Black Lives Matter group.
By evening, however, the Bernie show was back. The Phoenix conference centre was packed with the campaign loyalists in a display of grass-roots support outpacing even the 10,000 who turned out just weeks earlier in Madison, Wisconsin.
Unlike that Mid-west liberal bastion, however, Arizona is decidedly conservative - an indication that the senator is drawing power across the country.
The true-believing left does have a history of rallying behind unvarnished candidates like Mr Sanders, however, and they have met with limited success. Paul Tsongas in 1992, Bill Bradley in 2000 and Howard Dean in 2004 are but a few of the men who failed to translate big crowds and energetic support into primary victories.
Mrs Clinton must hope that the Sanders campaign meets with a similar fate - and when it does, that progressive loyalists like conference attendee Pam Miles of Huntsville, Alabama return to the fold.
"Bernie Sanders says everything that I feel," Miles says. "He's a dynamo, he is a truth-teller, he speaks truth to power. I love Bernie."
She adds, however, that she'll be happy to back Mrs Clinton if she gets the nomination. She says she's keen to avoid the kind of intra-party discord that marred the Clinton-Obama battles of 2008.
"In '08 it was absolutely horrible," she says. "It broke friendships, it hurt feelings. I'm not going to do that this time."
As for the Black Lives Matters activists who became the surprise story of Phoenix, Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post asked Mrs Clinton how she would have responded to the protesters during a Facebook question-and-answer session on Monday.
"Black lives matter. Everyone in this country should stand firmly behind that," she replied. "We need to acknowledge some hard truths about race and justice in this country, and one of those hard truths is that that racial inequality is not merely a symptom of economic inequality. Black people across America still experience racism every day."
She went on to recommend body cameras for US police officers, sentencing reform, voting rights and early childhood education.
Unlike her Democratic competitors, Mrs Clinton had the luxury of time to respond to this latest challenge. Whether it will be enough to weather what could be a coming storm, however, remains to be seen.
Samuel Carson, 91, died after a fire in the garage of neighbour's house at Thorndale Park caused his home to go up in flames on Tuesday.
Police are now treating it as suspected arson as a result of new information.
The 57-year-old woman has been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).
On Tuesday, firefighters responded to a call of an oil tank on fire at Mr Carson's neighbour's house at about 01:00 BST.
They brought the pensioner out of his home on the nearby Hillsborough Road, but he died at the scene.
Deputy Defence Minister Nikolay Pankov said it was too early to speak of defeating terrorism, after a campaign that has bolstered Syria's government.
Russian forces started leaving Syria on Tuesday after Monday's surprise announcement by President Vladimir Putin. Some have now landed in Russia.
A second day of peace talks is being held aimed at resolving the conflict.
UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is mediating in the talks, welcomed the Russian decision.
"The announcement by President Putin on the very day of the beginning of this round of Intra-Syrian Talks in Geneva is a significant development, which we hope will have a positive impact on the progress of the negotiations," he said.
Russian defence ministry video showed the first group of aircraft taking off from Hmeimim air base in Syria on Tuesday morning and in flight.
Hours later, Russian TV showed planes arriving in the southern Russian city of Voronezh, where they were greeted on the tarmac by priests and crowds waving balloons.
Su-24 tactical bombers, Su-25 attack fighters, Su-34 strike fighters and helicopters were returning home, the TV said.
But Mr Pankov said a Russian air group would remain.
"Certain positive results have been achieved... However, it is too early to talk about victory over terrorism. A Russian air group has the task of continuing to strike terrorist facilities," he was quoted by Ria news agency as saying.
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Another senior official, upper house defence committee head Viktor Ozerov, said as many as two battalions - some 800 servicemen - could remain in Syria after the withdrawal to guard Hmeimim and the naval base at Tartous, Interfax news agency reported.
Military advisers training Syrian government troops would also stay, he added.
Meanwhile Kremlin chief-of-staff Sergey Ivanov said Russia would keep its advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile system in place.
"We are leaving completely reliable cover for the remaining contingent... To effectively ensure security, including from the air, we need the most modern air defence systems," Russian media quoted him as saying.
The Russian force reduction was announced during a meeting on Monday between Mr Putin and his defence and foreign ministers.
Russia is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and his office sought to reject speculation there was a rift between the two countries, saying the move was mutually agreed.
It has received a guarded welcome from Western diplomats and the Syrian opposition.
The Russian air campaign started last September, tipping the balance in favour of the Syrian government and allowing it to recapture territory from rebels, but on Tuesday the defence ministry announced the withdrawal.
It is not clear how many military personnel Russia has deployed, but US estimates suggest the number ranges from 3,000 to 6,000, AP reports.
Russia had long insisted its bombing campaign only targeted terrorist groups but Western powers had complained the raids hit political opponents of President Assad.
In a statement, the Syrian government said the plan was agreed between the two countries.
Most participants in the Syria conflict agreed to a cessation of hostilities, which has been largely holding despite reports of some violations on all sides.
Meanwhile, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has presented its report on war crimes committed by all sides in Syria's war to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Its chairman Paulo Pinheiro said the task of pursuing war criminals should not wait for a final peace agreement as there was now "hope of an end in sight".
Russia is one of President Bashar al-Assad's most important international backers and the survival of his government is critical to maintaining Russian interests in Syria. Russia has a key naval facility which it leases at the port of Tartous and has forces at the Hmeimim airbase in Latakia.
In September 2015, with rebel forces advancing on Latakia, Russian forces launched an air campaign which President Vladimir Putin said was aimed at "stabilising" the Syrian government and creating conditions for "a political compromise" that would end the five-year conflict.
In March 2016, Mr Putin ordered the "main part" of Russia's forces to withdraw from Syria, saying their mission had "on the whole" been accomplished.
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russian aircraft had flown more than 9,000 sorties over almost six months, killing more than 2,000 "bandits" and helping Syrian government forces regain control of 10,000 sq km (3,860 sq miles) of territory, including 400 population centres.
The claims have not yet been independently verified, but it is clear the air campaign turned the tide of the war in favour of Mr Assad, allowing Syrian government ground forces to regain territory around Latakia, in the southern province of Deraa and around the divided northern city of Aleppo.
Moscow stressed that its air strikes only targeted "terrorists", but activists said Russian aircraft had mainly bombed Western-backed rebel groups and civilian areas.
In December, Amnesty International said Russian aircraft appeared to have directly attacked civilians by striking residential areas with no evident military target, which it warned might amount to war crimes. Russia's defence ministry dismissed the report as containing "fake information".
However, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported in early March that 1,733 civilians, including 429 children, had been killed in Russian air strikes, along with some 1,492 rebels and members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, and 1,183 Islamic State (IS) militants.
He also signed an action to strip funds from US cities that are sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants.
Mr Trump said in a TV interview with ABC News that Mexico would "absolutely, 100%" reimburse the US for his wall.
But Congress would have to approve funding for the structure, which is estimated to cost billions of dollars.
Building a 2,000-mile barrier along the Mexican border was one of Mr Trump's key pledges in the election campaign.
He spoke of a "crisis" on the southern US border as he signed the directives during a ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday.
The orders also called for hiring 10,000 immigration officials to help boost border patrol efforts.
"A nation without borders is not a nation," he said. "Beginning today the United States gets back control of its borders."
Mr Trump said relations with Mexico - whose President Enrique Pena Nieto he is scheduled to meet at the end of the month - would get "better".
The executive orders are among a flurry expected on national and border security this week.
Mr Trump is next expected to announce immigration restrictions from seven African and Middle Eastern countries, including Syria, Yemen, and Iraq.
The term applies to cities in the US that have policies in place to limit the assistance given to federal immigration authorities.
It is not a legal term so the way it is implemented can vary, but the policies can be set in law or just part of local policing practices.
It got traction in the 1980s after Los Angeles told its police force to stop questioning people solely to determine their immigration status in 1979. And in 1989, San Francisco passed an order that prohibited the use of city funds to enforce federal immigration laws.
Now there are hundreds of these areas - they are not always cities - and they include San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Austin and Boston
Trump's order to block federal grants could cost these cities millions of dollars. But the administration may face legal challenges, given that some federal courts have backed cities that say they cannot hold immigrants beyond their jail term at the say-so of federal authorities.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump was joined by parents whose children, he said, had been "horribly killed by individuals living here illegally".
He read out their names and invited the parents to stand.
"For years the media has largely ignored the stories of Americans and lawful residents victimised by open borders," he added.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Trump told ABC News he would recoup costs of the wall from Mexico.
"There will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form," he said.
Mr Trump has previously estimated the wall would cost $8bn (£6.4bn), but critics have said it could be nearly double that sum.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Trump also promised a "major investigation into voter fraud".
He tweeted that the inquiry would focus on those registered to vote in two states and dead registered voters.
This week he claimed that between three and five million illegal immigrants had voted for Hillary Clinton, but offered no evidence.
Mexicans might disagree about a lot - especially on the political and economic direction of the country.
But if there is one thing around which almost all of Mexico can coalesce, it is their profound opposition to the US border wall.
From the Mexican side of the border, it is seen as a policy which is intended to break up families and prevent ordinary people from looking for seasonal work in the north - the kinds of jobs, they note, which prop up the US economy.
Others go further, and consider the entire border wall to be a racist and xenophobic policy.
Either way, Mexicans from the president's office to the factory floor agree that the country will not pay for a wall they don't want and didn't call for.
They say they won't finance the project either at the time of building or in the future.
That's not to say some Mexicans aren't in favour of change in terms of bilateral immigration.
Many are aware of the risks that their countrymen take by crossing illegally into the US, especially through dangerous border regions such as the Arizona desert.
Rather than a wall with their neighbour to the north though, they want to see comprehensive immigration reform including guest worker programmes and temporary work visas.
President Trump's Great Wall faces formidable legal, diplomatic and logistical obstacles.
Even some border patrol agents say privately that they are not sure that the project is possible.
They do, however, welcome planned increases in resources and staffing.
But here in San Diego on the southern border of the United States, there is much fear in the shadows.
President Trump's action on immigration is bold, sweeping - and intensely divisive.
The Nobel Committee said it was in honour of the OPCW's "extensive work to eliminate chemical weapons".
The OPCW, based in The Hague, was established to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
OPCW director general Ahmet Uzumcu said the award was a "great honour" and would spur it on in its work.
He said the deployment of chemical weapons in Syria had been a "tragic reminder that there remains much work to be done".
The OPCW recently sent inspectors to oversee the dismantling of Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons.
It is the first time OPCW inspectors have worked in an active war zone.
The watchdog picks up a gold medal and 8m Swedish kronor ($1.25m; £780,000) as winner of the most coveted of the Nobel honours.
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The OPCW has been working to rid the world of chemical weapons for the past 16 years. For the most part, this task has been laborious and unheralded.
A staff of about 500, working from its headquarters at The Hague, is charged with making sure that the 189 signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention are abiding by its terms.
But it is only in recent weeks, following the use of chemical weapons in Syria, that the OPCW has become a household name.
It is facing its biggest challenge ever - to verify and destroy Syria's entire chemical weapons programme by the middle of next year. The Nobel committee clearly feels it needs all the support it can get.
It is not uncommon for organisations to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It has happened 24 times since 1901. Non-proliferation has been an occasional theme, with campaigners for nuclear disarmament and against land mines among those recognised.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised the award, saying the OPCW had "greatly strengthened the rule of law in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation".
Announcing the award in Oslo, Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said it wanted to recognise the OPCW's "extensive work".
"The conventions and the work of the OPCW have defined the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law," he said.
"Recent events in Syria, where chemical weapons have again been put to use, have underlined the need to enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons."
The Nobel Committee also criticised Russia and the US for failing to meet an April 2012 deadline to destroy their chemical weapons arsenals.
The OPCW's Ahmet Uzumcu said the organisation had been working "with quiet determination to rid the world of these heinous weapons", away from the spotlight, for the past 16 years.
He said the Syria mission was the first time the OPCW had worked to such a short timeframe and in an ongoing conflict, and that it was "conscious of the enormous trust" placed on it by the international community.
Praising the commitment of his staff and the support of member states, he said the Nobel Peace Prize would "spur us to untiring effort, even stronger commitment and greater dedication" to bring about a world free of chemical weapons".
The head of the OPCW inspection team in Syria, Ake Sellstrom, said: "This is a powerful pat on the back that will strengthen the organisation's work in Syria."
The OPCW is made up of 189 member states and the principal role of its 500-strong staff is to monitor and destroy all existing chemical weapons.
It draws on a network of some of the best laboratories and scientists in the world to help it in its work, the BBC's science correspondent Pallab Ghosh says.
The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention has contributed to the destruction of nearly 80% of the world's chemical weapons stockpile.
Syria is expected to sign the treaty in the coming days.
French President Francois Hollande said the Nobel prize was a "vindication" of the international efforts in Syria and pledged continued support for the OPCW's work there and elsewhere.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the "Nobel Committee has rightly recognised [the OPCW's] bravery and resolve".
European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, EU President Herman Van Rompuy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel all congratulated the OPCW.
There were a record 259 nominees for this year's Peace Prize, but the list remains a secret.
Pakistani schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai and gynaecologist Denis Mukwege of the Democratic Republic of Congo had been tipped as favourites to take the award.
Malala praised the work of the OPCW after the announcement and thanked those who had offered her encouragement.
"I would like to congratulate them on this much-deserved global recognition," she said in a statement.
"I would also like to thank the people and media in Pakistan, and those from all over the world, for their support, kindness and prayers. I will continue to fight for the education for every child, and I hope people will continue to support me in my cause."
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Others who had been listed as contenders were Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning), the US soldier convicted of giving classified documents to Wikileaks and Maggie Gobran, an Egyptian computer scientist who abandoned her academic career to become a Coptic Christian nun and founded the charity Stephen's Children.
But an hour before Friday's announcement, NRK reported the award would go to the OPCW.
The European Union won the prize in 2012 in recognition of its contribution to peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
Previous Nobel Peace Prize laureates include anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, US President Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The Nobel Committee has in the past publicly regretted never awarding the prize to Mahatma Gandhi, the pacifist leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, even though he was nominated five times.
Sevil Shhaideh would have been Romania's first female and first Muslim prime minister. President Iohannis has given no reasons for his decision.
But Ms Shhaideh has been criticised for lacking political experience, only serving once as a regional minister.
The Social Democrats (PSD) won the vote, and hope to form a coalition.
"I have properly analysed the arguments for and against and I have decided not to accept this proposal," Mr Iohannis said in a televised statement.
"I call on the.... coalition to make another proposal," he said.
The president did not explain the factors he considered in making his decision but there have been allegations that Ms Shhaideh would be PSD leader Liviu Dragnea's "puppet" if she became prime minister.
The PSD nominated her after its resounding election win on 11 December when its pledges to raise pensions and implement tax cuts secured it about 45% of the vote.
Mr Dragnea was forced to withdraw his bid to become prime minister because of his conviction for election fraud, for which he received a two-year suspended jail sentence.
The PSD's election win comes after public outrage over a nightclub fire in November 2015 which killed 64 people and triggered the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta.
Many Romanians saw the fire, at Colectiv club in Bucharest, as the tipping point.
The tragedy prompted a nationwide attempt to clean the country up.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will also require manufacturers to submit products to the agency for review.
Cigars, pipe tobacco and hookah tobacco are also subject to the new rules.
On Wednesday, California introduced new anti-smoking legislation that also regulates e-cigarettes.
E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that turn flavoured nicotine liquid into an inhalable vapour.
They lack the chemicals and tars of tobacco and are widely used by smokers trying to kick the habit. However, the nicotine is addictive.
In a statement, US secretary of health and human services Sylvia Burwell said the announcement was "an important step in the fight for a tobacco-free generation".
"It will help us catch up with changes in the marketplace, put into place rules that protect our kids and give adults information they need to make informed decisions," she said.
The FDA said that a recent survey showed e-cigarette use among high school students had risen from 1.5% in 2011 to 16% in 2015 and that the use of hookah tobacco had also increased significantly.
It said the new rules, which come into effect in 90 days, will require retailers to ask buyers for proof of age and will ban the sale of the products in vending machines. Free samples will also be barred.
Public health advocates welcomed the news.
"Ending the tobacco epidemic is more urgent than ever, and can only happen if the FDA acts aggressively and broadly to protect all Americans from all tobacco products," said Harold Wimmer, president of the American Lung Association.
In California, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed a total of five bills to restrict tobacco use in various ways, including regulating e-cigarettes and expanding funds for anti-smoking programmes.
The rules raise the legal age for buying tobacco products in the state from 18 to 21, except for active military personnel.
Electronic cigarettes, like traditional ones, will be banned in public spaces across the state.
The arrest is linked to an incident at Glendara in the city on Tuesday, 3 January.
Part of the Foyle Road between Lone Moor Road and Bishop Street was closed off on Tuesday in connection with the arrest.
Georgina Tranter, 26, from Narberth, was staying with William Harman at the Premier Inn in Haverfordwest after the Pembrokeshire Hunt Ball in January.
Swansea Crown Court heard police took her home after she became abusive but she took her mother's car, returned to the hotel and started the fire.
Tranter admitted arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
The judge told her: "It is clear you were not thinking rationally."
The court heard Mr Harman ended the relationship because she was getting too "clingy".
He told her to go home and said they would speak in the morning.
When he returned to the hotel, she was already there and was getting abusive with reception staff and the police were called.
They took her home but she returned in the early hours of the morning to start the fire and 133 hotel guests had to be evacuated.
The court heard she sent a text to a friend which said: "I've poured petrol on the Premier Inn. I'm in deep trouble. I'm on the run."
She was seen by the police at a nearby petrol station where she was arrested.
James Jenkins, defending, said: "An arsonist cannot return to testing petroleum spirit."
Tranter also admitted taking a car without consent.
Judge Peter Heywood told her: "You were clearly unhinged at being jilted."
Filming for Transformers: The Last Knight, which stars Mark Walberg and Anthony Hopkins, will take place in Radcliffe Square until 23:00 on Sunday.
Scenes were also reportedly shot at Blenheim Palace, which has previously provided a backdrop for the BFG and James Bond film Spectre, on Wednesday.
The county council said driving scenes would briefly disrupt city traffic.
Academy Award-winner Sir Anthony Hopkins said it was a pleasure to be back in the city, 23 years after filming Shadowlands, in which he played CS Lewis.
He said: "I'm very excited about it, I'm very, very pleased."
It said Turl Street, High Street and Catte Street would be affected and on Sunday Broad Street, Catte Street, Holywell Street, New College Lane and part of Parks Road will be closed.
It has been suggested the fifth outing of the franchise about giant battling robots has a connection to the legend of King Arthur.
The film is due to be released in cinemas next June. Scenes have already been filmed on the Isle of Skye and also at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.
It is produced by Paramount Pictures and directed by Michael Bay.
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The current figure of 70% leaves hundreds of millions of people speaking other languages, the government says.
It also wants to improve Mandarin speaking among teachers, especially those from ethnic minority regions.
China has numerous local dialects and the government wants to close the gap between different regions and groups of people.
In some cases the residents of one rural village may be unable to understand the locals living just two villages away, correspondents say.
The Chinese government wants to remedy this, admitting that despite the majority of people in large cities understanding the language, only 40% of people in some parts of China are able to speak the national dialect.
The Chinese authorities said that they would ensure that all new teachers passed a standard Mandarin speaking test, adding that online remote teaching would also be used to ensure teachers of different Chinese ethnicities were able to learn.
China is the world's most populous nation with 1.35 billion people living in the country, which covers an area of 9.6 million sq km (3.7 million sq miles).
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Her friend June Gable said the actress died from complications after a fall she sustained two months ago.
Drummond's other film credits include Doubt, which starred Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, and Awakenings, with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
She also played Ross and Monica's grandmother in an episode of Friends.
Drummond was born Alice Elizabeth Ruyter on 21 May 1928.
In 1950, she married Paul Drummond, with whom she moved to Manhattan. The couple divorced in 1976.
She became known as a theatre and television actress before landing her first feature film role in the 1970 comedy Where's Poppa?
Drummond went on to appear in films such as Synecdoche, New York and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective alongside Jim Carrey.
Her most recent film appearance was in the 2010 comedy Furry Vengeance, which starred Brendan Fraser and Brooke Shields.
But it was her appearance in the original Ghostbusters film, released in 1984, which she is likely to be best remembered for.
In the opening scene, Drummond is seen as a librarian who is terrified by a spook among the bookshelves before being questioned by Bill Murray's character.
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More than 100 people have already arrived from refugee camps and are living in Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees, Calderdale, Sheffield and Hull.
All 21 councils have agreed to accept refugees as part of UK plans to house 20,000 people from Syria.
The government will meet the cost of housing and supporting the refugees.
Migration Yorkshire is the group tasked by the Home Office to establish which local authorities in the region will take Syrian refugees.
Its head, Dave Brown, said: "Every single local authority has signed up to this. That's quite a staggering agreement.
"I think the people of Yorkshire should be quite proud that we are doing this collectively."
Councils have provided a breakdown of how many refugees they will be accepting after being contacted by the BBC.
1,500
refugees in total
225 settling in Leeds
110 to 130 arriving in Kirklees
100 coming to East Yorkshire
Leeds - 225
Kirklees - between 110 to 130
Wakefield - 100
Bradford - 50
Calderdale - 50
East Riding - 100
Hull - 80
North East Lincolnshire - 10
North Lincolnshire did not supply information.
Barnsley, Rotherham and North Lincolnshire councils did not provide figures.
Migration Yorkshire said details with some authorities were still being finalised but the total number would be around 1,500, with the majority arriving over the next three years.
Mr Brown said each individual authority had decided how many refugees it would take based on factors such as housing, school availability and public support.
He said it was up to councils to decide how best to house them, whether that was in council properties or private rented accommodation.
York - 60
Harrogate - 50
Scarborough - 34
Hambleton - 28
Selby - 26
Craven - 18
Ryedale - 16
Richmondshire - 16
Sheffield - 50
Doncaster - fewer than 10
Barnsley and Rotherham did not supply information.
In Leeds, 50 refugees have arrived in the city so far.
The council said the majority of these had be given homes in the private rented sector.
One family from Syria said they were happy to be safe and had received a warm welcome from their children's school.
Imad and his family fled after bombing in Qunaitra which injured one of his three young children.
He said: "In Syria the kids were frightened, they can't even sleep because of all the noise of the bombs.
"If you go to work they (warring factions) stop you and ask where are you going."
He said eventually he took his family to Lebanon but after four years of living in tents, he concluded "there was no work, no education and no services".
Imad said his family had been treated well in the UK and the children were being given an education.
He said he did not think it would be possible to return to Syria in the short term
"Look at Iraq, it's been over 15 years and look at the situation over there and how destroyed it is," he said.
Mr Brown said the resettlement programme had gone well so far.
"I was at the airport last week when people came in and you can't help wonder what's going through their minds after they've been through so much," he said.
"The overwhelming memory for me is they're just normal people. They're coming through thinking what they want for their family, how they're going to get on with their lives.
"They don't want to talk politics... they just want to be in a safe place to bring up their children and be normal like the rest of us."
The PM claimed a Labour government would not be "unequivocally committed to the nuclear deterrent".
Shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith rebuked her colleague Emily Thornberry for suggesting Trident could be subject to a review, if Labour won power.
Jeremy Corbyn said Labour's manifesto was "very clear" and the party was committed to Trident's renewal.
But Mrs May said: "They would not be able to defend this country. A Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour government could not be trusted with the defence of our country."
The Conservatives said it showed Labour had a "chaotic and divided team" who would make "a mess ... of our Brexit negotiations".
Labour's manifesto included support for renewing Trident, even though Mr Corbyn is a long-standing opponent of nuclear weapons.
The Commons backed the renewal of Trident in 2016, by 472 votes to 117, approving the manufacture of four replacement submarines. Labour was split over the issue, with 140 of its 230 MPs going against their leader and backing the motion in a free vote.
The issue resurfaced on Friday following an interview with Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry on LBC radio, in which she said she was "sceptical" about Trident.
When asked to confirm that it would remain Labour policy after a defence review, she added: "Well no, of course not, if you are going to have a review, you have to have a review."
But shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith told BBC Newsnight: "With all due respect, Emily is not the shadow defence secretary. I am."
She said the party was "fully committed" to having a nuclear deterrent and that the defence review would look at how a Labour government would spend money.
"What it is not about is actually questioning whether we would have a Trident nuclear deterrent because we settled that last year," she added.
Asked if Ms Thornberry was wrong, Ms Griffith went on: "Indeed. Last year we looked at it, in particular, at the national policy forum and it was decided that we would keep the nuclear deterrent."
BBC political correspondent Mark Lobel said Ms Thornberry's team had since said there was no difference between the two shadow ministers in terms of party policy and she had been expressing her personal view about Trident's viability and costs.
Mr Corbyn, campaigning in Birmingham ahead of the 8 June election, told reporters: "The manifesto makes it very clear that the Labour Party has come to a decision and is committed to Trident.
"We're also going to look at the real security needs of this country on other areas such as cyber security, which I think the attack on our NHS last week proved there needs to be some serious re-examination of our defences against those kind of attacks."
Pressed again, he said: "I've just made it clear and included in our manifesto is an absolute commitment which is given by party and which is given by me that we will also pursue multilateral disarmament through the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and that is a position that has been held for a long time by the party."
Labour's backing for Trident was agreed by a vote at its party conference but Mr Corbyn has previously suggested the party would carry out a strategic defence review if it won power and that Trident would be part of that.
The authorities said Jason Paul Smith, 42, told emergency services that he was a "terrorist" and planned to blow up the New York City monument.
He has also been accused of making other calls threatening attacks on Times Square and the Brooklyn Bridge.
The authorities later determined Mr Smith's threats were not credible.
More than 3,000 tourists were evacuated from Liberty Island on 24 April as a precaution after the call was made.
Officials said Mr Smith used an iPad to make the calls to emergency services.
Federal authorities arrested Mr Smith on Wednesday in Lubbock, Texas. He faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
Using animals as a source of organs for transplantation into humans was once one of medicine's next big things - a solution to transplant waiting lists.
However, there have been problems with rejection - and recently stem cells have been grabbing the spotlight.
But some researchers are now saying that transplants from animals "could soon become a reality", but not necessarily as originally expected.
There is still a pressing need for organs. In the UK there are 8,000 people on the waiting list - three die every day.
Several technologies are trying to meet the demand. In August, a patient from London was the first in the UK to have his heart replaced with a mechanical one while stem cells have been used for simple structures such as the windpipe.
However, using stem cells to build more complicated organs such as a heart is a long way off and mechanical body parts are used in the short term before an actual transplant.
Using animals as a source - known as "xenotransplantation" - is another potential solution.
Pigs have been used as a source of heart valves, which control the flow of blood around the heart. Here the pig cells are chemically stripped away and when the remaining structure is transplanted, human cells grow around it.
Stripping away the living material would not work for most transplants - nobody would want the heart that did not beat.
However, that living material has a big problem, namely rejection. The human immune system attacks the pig tissue, which it recognises as foreign.
Dr David Cooper from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre is one of a group of researchers arguing in the Lancet that the problems with organ rejection are being overcome.
Some pigs - GTKO pigs - have been genetically modified. They no longer produce a pig protein, galactosyltransferase, which the immune system would have attacked.
The authors say that this kind of rejection is "not the main cause of graft failure", however, "other issues have become more prominent".
Problems such as damaging blood clots and inflammation will require further genetic modification.
As a result they say that: "Overall, clinical pig organ xenotransplantation will probably not be undertaken in the next few years."
While therapies are distant on the whole organ level, they believe researchers are getting closer to transplanting small numbers of cells.
In patients with type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks islet cells in the pancreas, which control sugar levels.
Transplanting organs from animals fit uncomfortably into medicine. They are not the present, but neither are they necessarily the future.
At the moment the best treatment for organ failure is generally a human organ transplant. With a shortage of available organs and long waiting lists in many countries, there is a need for another solution. Yet animal organs do not have a proven safety and effectiveness record so cannot meet the demand.
In the very distant future, the attention is likely to move away from transplanting and towards growing your own. Doctors would like to use personalised stem cells to make replacement organs, which would match the body's tissue and have no chance of rejection. Animal organs would struggle to compete with that.
What happens between now and then is still up for grabs. Animal organs do have considerable potential, but only if they can be proved safe, effective and if nothing better comes along first.
Most people can manage the condition with insulin, but some have therapy to replace the lost cells. Around one in 500 patients with type 1 diabetes have unpredictable low sugar levels and only those are currently suitable for the treatment.
However, in the UK there is a waiting time of up to 18 months and the number of cells which can be transplanted to each patient is limited.
The authors argue that using pigs as a source for these cells is "much more encouraging", than using whole organ transplants.
They write: "Because pig insulin was given to patients with diabetes for decades, and because a diabetic monkey survived for more than one year supported only by pig islets, clinical pig-islet xenotransplantation will almost certainly be physiologically successful."
Clinical trials are underway in New Zealand to test that theory.
Dr Martin Rutter, senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, said he was "interested, but cautious".
He warned that: "It is still not clear whether it is an effective treatment or a safe treatment.
"If it proves safe and effective it could be an amazing development."
It has also been suggested that some cells in the brain could be transplanted to ease neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's or that pigs could be a source of corneas.
"With regard to pig tissues and cells, as opposed to organs, it would seem that clinical xenotransplantation could soon become a reality," the researchers conclude.
NHS Blood and Transplant said organs from animals had huge potential for the future to fill the gap between availability and demand, but there were "many complex issues still to overcome" and that there was "still a long way to go".
It says until then, getting more people to donate organs would be the most successful strategy.
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150 tonnes of ripe tomatoes were brought in for the festival.
The food fight only lasts about an hour, but more than 22,000 people turned up, from all around the world to take part.
This year the town will launch its first ever tomato-based obstacle course, the Tomatina race.
Elizabeth LaBau has filed a lawsuit against the Food Network after they allegedly copied her idea for the sweet treats.
But it is not the recipe itself which Ms LaBau is fighting them over. In fact, it is almost impossible to claim copyright over a list of ingredients.
Instead, her claim is against their how-to video.
In her filing Ms LaBau - who runs the website SugarHero - says the cupcakes have become her "signature recipe" since they went viral in 2015.
And so she decided to create a video to show people exactly how to make the cupcakes, complete with edible globes made of gelatine, in December 2016.
However, three weeks later, another, similar video appeared on Food Network's Facebook page.
According to the court papers, after a number of attempts to get the television channel to remove the video, or attribute SugarHero as its inspiration, Ms LaBau decided to launch legal action, citing losses in advertising revenue.
"Disappointingly, rather than come up with their own ideas and content, Food Network released a video shortly after hers which copied Elizabeth's creative proprietary work shot-for-shot in order to profit from her creativity and hard work without investing the same time, effort, and thought," William Bowen, her lawyer, told the BBC.
The Food Network told the BBC it had only just learned of the complaint, and had nothing more to say at this time.
"We hope Food Network will recognize their error and take steps to address this wrongful misappropriation," said Mr Bowen.
Mr Wong, who became the face of the 2014 Hong Kong street protests, had been hoping to speak to Thai students.
But the 19-year-old was detained on arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport and then flown back to Hong Kong.
He said there had been "no explanation for his detention", but activists attributed the decision to intervention from Beijing.
Mr Wong was at the heart of the mass demonstrations against Beijing that brought parts of Hong Kong to a standstill in late 2014.
The protesters were calling for free elections for Hong Kong's leadership. The protests failed to achieve their goal, but several of their leaders have since entered politics.
Mr Wong had been invited by Thai student activist Netiwit Chotipatpaisal to address students at Chulalongkorn University to mark the 40th anniversary of a massacre of students in 1976.
Mr Netiwit had told the South China Morning Post newspaper ahead of the visit that it could inspire Thai students to speak against the military leadership.
But when he arrived in Bangkok in the early hours of Wednesday, Mr Wong was detained.
"They forced me to stay inside the police station and stay in prison for 12 hours," Mr Wong said at a news conference back in Hong Kong.
"When I asked what's the reason for them to detain me at Bangkok, they just say that 'we will not give any explanation'."
Thailand's military leaders, in power since a 2014 coup, denied any role in the detention.
But Mr Netiwit said on Facebook that police told him they had received a letter from China regarding the visit, without providing proof of his claim.
The Nation newspaper also quoted an immigration official as saying a request to blacklist Joshua Wong came from China.
Nathan Law, a fellow Hong Kong protest leader who has since been elected to parliament, told local radio Beijing was worried Mr Wong "would bring (his) influence to other countries".
Hong Kong authorities said they had asked Thailand to respect Mr Wong's rights. China's foreign ministry, meanwhile, said it respected Thailand's immigration control.
Rights groups condemned the move. Amnesty International said it underscored government willingness to suppress freedom of expression and raised serious concerns "about how China is using its influence over Thai authorities".
Last May, Mr Wong was denied entry to Malaysia where he had been set to take part in talks about democracy in China.
In recent years, Thailand has faced criticism for its co-operation with Beijing.
Last year, Hong Kong publisher Gui Minhai disappeared while on holiday in Thailand.
He later appeared on Chinese state TV, saying he had voluntarily handed himself over to the authorities over a drink-driving fatality years ago.
There was widespread speculation that he had been deported to China at Beijing's request because of his involvement with a publishing house which published material critical of China's leaders.
The UN condemned Thailand last year for deporting two Chinese dissidents it had given refugee status. The men had been in detention for illegal entry and rights group believe they were returned to China.
Several gunmen attacked a hotel where officers stay, in the tourist area Las Playas on Sunday evening.
Dozens of people had to shelter in shops while shooting continued, until after 23:00 local time (04:00 GMT).
One suspected gunman was killed when police returned fire. Officers then chased other gunmen through the streets before securing the area.
At the same time, a separate group of gunmen attacked a federal police base in the city.
Mexico's federal authorities have called an emergency meeting with the local authorities to discuss the incident.
Guerrero state Governor Hector Astudillo Flores told Imagen radio that the gang members were taking revenge for the arrest of their leader, last Friday.
Freddy del Valle Berdel, known as "The Donkey," is the presumed leader of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel in Acapulco.
"We have information that this is a retaliation for his detention. It was the federal police who arrested him and the attack was against federal police officers," said Mr Astudillo.
Some universities in Acapulco have cancelled classes for Monday but local media (link in Spanish) report that according to education authorities, schools will still be open.
The US department of state has warned American consular staff not to travel to Acapulco, saying that Guerrero was the most violent state in Mexico in 2015.
Tens of thousands of people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico in the past decade.
Cardiff Blues agreed the 26-year-old's release from his contract to make the switch.
Knoyle has previously played for Scarlets and Gloucester and will rival Charlie Davies and Sarel Pretorius at Dragons following Luc Jones' move to Harlequins.
"I am delighted to be joining the Dragons," said Knoyle.
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He added: "I am also looking forward to working hard, contributing to the ongoing development of the squad and challenging for a place in the starting XV."
Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones said Knoyle "is someone who will certainly make selection for the scrum-half slot even more competitive".
Knoyle made the first of his Wales appearances on tour against New Zealand in 2010 and his last cap came against Japan in 2013.
Ilija High attacked two of the women on a secluded footpath in Spondon, Derby, and the other near a nature reserve in the city's Darley Abbey.
He was caught following a high-profile appeal, which saw thousands of leaflets handed out. One of the attacks was also featured on the BBC's Crimewatch.
The 23-year-old from Chaddesden was told to expect a significant jail term.
At Derby Crown Court, High admitted three counts of rape, three attempted rapes and assault by penetration.
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In the first attack, on 27 September 2014, he tried to rape a teenage girl on a footpath between West Park Road and Acorn Way in Spondon.
A year later, on 7 September, he raped a woman three times and tried to rape her a fourth time in Darley Abbey.
And on 22 December that year, he returned to the same area of Spondon, where he tried to rape another woman.
After High admitted the charges, Judge Robert Egbuna called for a psychiatric report and warned him to expect a "significant" sentence.
He was remanded in custody to appear at Derby Crown Court in June.
The Foreign Office has said it was "aware of reports of the death of a British national in Iraq".
There has been no confirmation of the death of Ahmed, also known as Abu Sammyh Al Brittani, who is from Derby.
Islamic State (IS) militants named him as being among the bombers who killed a senior Iraqi police official in Baiji, north of Baghdad.
The attack took place on Friday when a truck packed with explosives was driven into the convoy of Lt Gen Faisal Malik Zamel, who was inspecting forces in the town.
He was killed along with seven other police officers. Fifteen people were wounded.
Shiraz Maher, from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College in London, which monitors social media accounts of alleged jihadists, said Ahmed was a 32-year-old father of two.
He wrote on Twitter: "British suicide bomber in Iraq, Abu Sumayyah (Kabir Ahmed) originally joined Jund al-Sham in Syria and then moved to Islamic State."
Earlier this year Ahmed told the BBC's Panorama programme that he was on a "waiting list" to be a suicide bomber, adding: "Everybody's got their name on the list... everybody wants to fight."
He had been jailed in the UK, alongside two others, in 2012 after being found guilty of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation.
He had handed out a leaflet calling for homosexuals to be executed, saying he was doing his "duty as a Muslim".
Fareed Hussein, a cousin of Mr Ahmed's mother, said he was a "likeable person" while at school but his world view became "much narrower" while at university.
"People began to expect he had been taken in by extremist ideology," he said. "There was a general concern about the direction in which he was heading but nobody thought he would go as far as he seems to have gone."
Mr Hussein, a former mayor of Derby, said he held a couple of meetings with Mr Ahmed but it was "difficult to anticipate he would become a suicide bomber".
"It is difficult to divert a person once they get on a track of this nature," he added.
"They so staunchly believe in the views they hold, that they are right 100% and everyone else is wrong. It's difficult to have rational conversations."
Friends of Ahmed in Derby said he was "easily led" and may have been "brainwashed" into joining militants.
Aleem Sheid, 33, who knew Ahmed, said: "Nobody's born bad, it's people around you that make you behave bad [sic] and push you down a certain way.
"The million-pound question is where did he get radicalised? I don't know - it's the people who were around him."
Another resident, who declined to identify himself, said: "I can honestly say, no disrespect, that he was not the brightest of lads.
"He was a follower, not a leader. You could ask him to do something and he would do it, he was that sort of guy.
"What I read that he had said about foreign policy, I just thought that must have been a script because he couldn't speak like that."
If Ahmed's death is confirmed, he would be the second British jihadist suicide bomber.
Abdul Waheed Majeed, a father-of-three from Crawley in West Sussex, died in February when he drove a truck bomb at the gates of Aleppo prison in Syria.
Britain is strengthening its military role in Iraq to help local forces trying to halt the advance of IS.
The United States is sending 1,500 more non-combat troops to Iraq to boost local forces fighting IS.
British military trainers will be sent within weeks to work at a US headquarters in Baghdad.
Large swathes of Syria and Iraq are currently under the control of IS.
The UK has been carrying out air attacks against IS targets in Iraq since 30 September - four days after Parliament approved military action.
Ferrari last won the drivers' title in 2007 with Kimi Raikkonen. Their last constructors' title was in 2008.
Marchionne said: "If we were to somehow fail to win a title over a 10-year span, it would be a tragedy."
He also hinted at a potential Formula 1 entry by Alfa Romeo and criticised Red Bull's behaviour towards engine partners.
The remarks came in an interview with Italy's Gazzetta Dello Sport newspaper.
The 63-year-old said Ferrari's improved performance in 2015, when Sebastian Vettel won three races following a winless season in 2014, had "helped bring back credibility to the brand".
Marchionne is chief executive officer of the Fiat Group, which has both Ferrari and Alfa Romeo under its umbrella.
Alfa Romeo, which won the very first F1 world championship in 1950, last raced in F1 in the 1980s but Marchionne said he believed it could be time for the brand to return.
"In order to restore their name they must consider returning to Formula 1," he said.
"They would probably work with Ferrari."
He added: "Alfa Romeo are capable of making their own chassis, just like they are capable of making their own engine."
Ferrari last year held talks with Red Bull about supplying the former world champions with an engine for 2016 but these foundered when Ferrari said they could only supply a 2015 power-unit.
Red Bull were looking for a new partner following the collapse of their relationship with Renault, following the team's heavy criticisms of the French company.
Red Bull also failed to secure an engine supply from F1's other manufacturers, Mercedes and Honda, and have ended up continuing with Renault, although the engine will be branded a Tag Heuer.
Marchionne said: "People criticise me for not giving them an engine. I agree with people that say that Red Bull were too tough on their engine suppliers, but in the end this sport must continue.
"The important things is to have other large manufacturers enter the sport."
The elite US Marine Corps HMX-1 squadron, which provides air support to US Presidents, thundered over the cities, along with RAF Military helicopters and police air support.
Perhaps the most dramatic sight were the Osprey MV-22 aircraft, which can land and take off like a helicopter but then tilt their rotors to become conventional planes.
The Ospreys, which visited both the Celtic Manor summit venue and Cardiff city centre, were accompanied by Sikorsky VH-60N helicopters, a VIP version of the US Blackhawk.
The VH-60N, known as a "Nighthawk", will change its callsign to "Marine One" but only when the President is on board.
The Ospreys, operated by the same HMX-1 squadron, provide logistical support and carry members of the US Secret Service.
Members of the US Marine Corps squadron and several aircraft have been flown to a temporary base at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire from Quantico, Virginia.
It's understood Monday's operation was a familiarisation flight for the US crews.
RAF Merlin helicopters, which can carry 25 fully armed troops, were also training in the area at the same time.
Police had earlier advised the public not to be alarmed by the helicopter activity.
People took to social media as the aircraft circled.
Rhian Lewis tweeted: "Not every day your desk starts to shake because of the giant helicopters buzzing around."
James Knight posted: "The amount of helicopters I have heard today makes it sound like were at war, not having a NATO summit."
The four Ospreys and two VH-60N "Nighthawks" - all painted in a distinctive olive green and white - later returned to their base at RAF Fairford.
They will take to the skies again when Air Force One carrying President Obama to the UK arrives on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old made his Premier League debut against Burnley in October.
He made his first Saints start against Inter Milan at the San Siro in the Europa League four days later and has now agreed new terms until 2021.
"The last couple of months have been amazing for me and this new contract really just rounds that off," said McQueen.
Southampton's executive director of football Les Reed said: "Having come through the club's academy alongside James Ward-Prowse and Harrison Reed, Sam is yet another example of our philosophy to bring players through from the academy and into the first team."
It says the UK "is not offering proportional asylum" in comparison with its EU counterparts, amid a surge in migrants trying to reach the continent.
Petitions on Parliament's website that exceed the 100,000 threshold are eligible to be considered by MPs.
A cross-party group of MPs will decide whether to allow time for a debate.
The petition, which had attracted 320,829 signatures by the end of Thursday, states: "There is a global refugee crisis. The UK is not offering proportional asylum in comparison with European counterparts.
"We can't allow refugees who have risked their lives to escape horrendous conflict and violence to be left living in dire, unsafe and inhumane conditions in Europe. We must help."
It comes as David Cameron faces pressure at home and from abroad for the UK to do more to help refugees fleeing to Europe from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Calls intensified after publication of a picture of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy lying on a Turkish beach.
The prime minister has argued that more needs to be done to tackle the problem by bringing peace and stability to the parts of the world migrants are travelling from - adding that just taking more and more people was not the answer.
Ministers say the UK has spent more than £900m in humanitarian aid to help with the Syrian crisis - more than the rest of the EU put together, according to ex-International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell.
The petition.parliament.uk site is designed to help people get issues on the political agenda and open up a "new dialogue" with MPs and ministers.
More than 40 petitions passed the 100,000 signature threshold during the last Parliament, and a number were subsequently debated in Parliament, but critics say not enough were given parliamentary time.
News site Eurogamer suggested popular gamers on sites such as YouTube and Twitch, who may be less critical than journalists, were sent games early.
Bethesda says it sends journalists games to review one day before release.
Eurogamer's reviews editor Martin Robinson said: "What publishers do with their code is their prerogative."
The company has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.
Many games studios send their software to so-called influencers - people with big followings on social networks and video streaming sites - to play and review, before release to the general public.
Robinson suggested some publishers approached influencers rather than journalists, as they were less likely to be critical.
"Why should a publisher hand over its most prized asset to us well ahead of the rest of the world and risk us kicking its face off?" he wrote.
But he argued studios should have enough "faith" in their games that they make them available ahead of release for "honest critical analysis".
In a blog, Bethesda said it "valued" reviews in the media but wanted everyone - both players and journalists - to experience new games "at the same time".
But Mr Robinson said it was inconsistent and "anti-consumer" to send games to social media stars before professional reviewers.
"Bethesda claims it wants you to get the game the same time as everyone else - at the same time as announcing a pre-order bonus that lets people play a day early," he wrote, adding that its new game Skyrim Remastered had been "in the hands of many 'influencers' and has been for some time".
Earlier in 2016, Bethesda sent journalists a copy of its highly-anticipated title Doom one day before its general release.
Many reviews were sceptical about the quality of the game, but it became a commercial success, and Bethesda said it would continue its policy of sending media copies a day before release.
The Families for Justice group represents people whose loved ones have died in violent or unsolved circumstances.
They believe Irish police failed to investigate the deaths properly.
They have already lobbied MEPs in Europe and spoken to MLAs in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
On Tuesday, they took their campaign to Westminster with the support of Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Jeffrey Donaldson.
All the families have lost loved ones in violent circumstances.
They believe the Irish police (An Garda SÃochána) failed to investigate the deaths properly and that their fundamental right to justice has been breached.
The London delegation included Lucia O'Farrell, mother of Shane, 23, who was killed in 2011 in County Monaghan by a hit-and-run driver who should not have been on the road; Ann Doherty, twin sister of six-year-old Mary Boyle, who was murdered in Donegal in 1977; and Anne-Marie Cullen, mother of four-year-old Clodagh, who was killed in a mysterious car crash in Kilkenny in 2007.
Shane O'Farrell was out cycling near his home in Monaghan when he was knocked down and left to die on the road.
The driver was a Lithuanian national who had more than 40 convictions, including some in Northern Ireland.
He had received an eight-month jail sentence that was suspended on condition that he left the country.
"We live 10 minutes' drive from the border, and this man came and went across with no consequence or deterrent for him - he came into Ireland six years before as a criminal who was known to Interpol," Shane's mother, Lucia, said.
"He continued until he killed - the judicial system failed us hugely and this was avoidable."
She has travelled to Brussels, Belfast and now is heading for Westminster in her battle for justice for her son.
In December, she met Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford.
Mrs O'Farrell has accused the Irish government of "putting loyalty over honesty".
"We are hoping to put the spotlight on these cases and to discuss cross-border policing. Our fellow Europeans need to be aware of human rights breaches in Ireland. Families have nowhere else to turn," she said.
"Shane deserves justice and we deserve peace. We cannot have that peace until we get justice for Shane."
The detention of Alexander Shprygin and his fellow fans has prompted an angry response from the Russian government, which has called in the French ambassador in protest.
Mr Shprygin's All-Russia Supporters Union is backed by the Kremlin. He is reported to hold far-right views and has been photographed giving a Nazi salute.
The fans were taken in for questioning after police stopped their bus as it left Marseille en route to Lille. The group had been planning to watch Russia face Slovakia, a game that ended in a 2-1 Russian defeat.
Dozens of Russian fans were held after clashes with England supporters before and after the two national teams played in Marseille on 11 June.
Mr Shprygin, who is accompanying the official Russian delegation at Euro 2016, defended the Russian fans' behaviour and denied that they had provoked the clashes that broke out when their team equalised in the dying moments of the England game.
"The English provoked our supporters by throwing beer glasses, making obscene gestures and shouting insults," Mr Shprygin said in one interview. According to him, up to 10 Russia fans were involved but were stopped by security officers, while the England fans fled before any clashes could erupt.
A hardcore supporter of Dynamo Moscow, he played a key role in the football club's fan movement in the 1990s. He then joined the LDPR, a pro-Kremlin nationalist party, and became an aide to one of its MPs, Igor Lebedev.
Pictures circulating on the internet show Mr Shprygin performing a Nazi salute at a concert given in 2001 by Korrozia Metalla, a heavy metal band also known for its extreme views. Some of its songs are banned in Russia for "inciting ethnic hatred".
Mr Shprygin later spent almost a year in detention for assaulting the Korrozia Metalla frontman known as Pauk ("Spider"). He was given a two-year suspended sentence along with a policeman also involved in the attack.
He has expressed controversial views in interviews, such as that the Russian squad should be represented by "Slavic faces" at the World Cup due to be hosted by the country in 2018. He later denied having any far-right leanings, saying that he was "100% anti-fascist" and that he didn't have "anything against Jews".
As head of the All-Russia Supporters Union, Mr Shprygin has been involved in his country's preparations for the 2018 World Cup.
He has taken part in a number of meetings chaired by President Putin. At one such meeting in Moscow in January 2012, attended by then FIFA President Sepp Blatter and then UEFA President Michel Platini, Mr Shprygin delivered a speech that included criticism of Russian oligarchs for "bulk-buying leading foreign clubs".
He also called for the lifting of a ban on beer sales at Russia's World Cup venues. At the meeting, Vladimir Putin referred to Shprygin as "Sasha" - a diminutive for Alexander - suggesting a degree of familiarity.
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World number four Sharapova hit nine double faults in the match, but broke twice in the second set, while Pliskova squandered three break points.
Earlier, world number six Petra Kvitova came from a set down to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 2-6 6-1 6-1.
Kvitova, who helped the Czechs win the 2014 title, faces Sharapova on Sunday before Pliskova meets Pavlyuchenkova.
Should the teams still be level, a doubles rubber will decide the tie.
"I was nervous throughout and made some errors at inappropriate times, but overall I'm really happy," said five-time Grand Slam winner Sharapova.
"I didn't serve my best and that's something that I'll definitely need to improve."
Hodgson, 69, will mentor coaches across all age groups at Melbourne City in the country's A-League.
It is his first job since standing down as England manager in the wake of the Euro 2016 last-16 defeat by Iceland.
The arrangement has come about through Hodgson's friendship with City Football Group executive officer Brian Marwood.
Melbourne City are currently being managed on a caretaker basis by Michael Valkanis, following John van't Schip's departure in January.
However, Hodgson is not in consideration to become the permanent boss for next season.
Former Switzerland, Internazionale, Liverpool, Fulham and West Brom boss Hodgson had recently been linked with vacancies at Leicester and Middlesbrough.
On Wednesday, it was announced that Manchester City's owners had bought Uruguayan second division side Atletico Torque.
The City Football Group already owns MLS outfit New York City, A-League Melbourne, and Japanese J-League side Yokohama F Marinos.
The 23-year-old has opted to miss this year's Games and last week made his bow at Challenger Tour level in doubles.
"Things like the Island Games will have to take a back seat," Clayton said.
"That's not me undermining the Island Games at all. I think it's a great event, it's fantastic to be part of a big team and have the camaraderie."
He told BBC Radio Jersey: "I'm sure I'll play it in years to come, but when my next one will be I don't know."
Clayton is ranked 253 in the world in doubles and narrowly suffered defeat alongside partner Jonny O'Mara in the first round of the second-tier Aegon Open event in Nottingham on Tuesday.
In November he said he would aim to reach the doubles main draw at Wimbledon this summer.
"I think it's a great opportunity for me to be around these kind of players and to play at this level," Clayton added.
"Ultimately right now I need to focus on my individual career, and what it can do for me."
The Volvo hit two men, believed to be aged 18 and 20, and then struck a man and a woman before smashing into a telegraph pole at about 05:00 GMT.
Two men and the woman were taken to Southmead Hospital where the 18-year-old died. The man he was with is in a critical condition.
The driver is being held on suspicion of drink driving, police said.
The fourth person hit by the car - a man who was walking with the injured woman - was treated at the scene but not admitted to hospital.
Avon and Somerset Police said the two groups of two people were walking along Clevedon Road near the fire station.
"The woman in her late 20s was also taken to Southmead Hospital - she is not believed to have suffered life threatening injuries," the force added.
"The man she was with was allowed home after treatment at the scene."
The road has been shut as part of the police investigation and is likely to remain closed for most of the day.
Police have asked anyone who was in the area at the time to make contact.
North Wales Police said the incident took place on Thursday evening at Llandudno, in Conwy county.
The flat was above a shop on Ffordd Las in the seaside town.
Police say they want to trace two men seen acting suspiciously in the area at about 23:00 BST.
"We are carrying out a joint investigation with North Wales Fire and Rescue Service and are treating this incident as arson," said Det Insp Chris Bell.
The woman and child in the property escaped uninjured, while a male occupant suffered minor burns and needed hospital treatment.
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The 24-year-old, who was on the team's books in 2013 and 2014, also said he had severe depression after independently using the controversial painkiller Tramadol.
Edmondson said the pressure of his selection for a major race in 2014 led to him breaching the UCI's 'no-needle' policy "two or three times a week" for about a month.
Team Sky say legal vitamins and a needle were found in Edmondson's room, but they did not report the incident because he denied using them, and over concerns he "could be pushed over the edge".
Edmondson says he confessed to Team Sky at the time but there was "a cover-up" by senior management.
Team Sky are renowned for their robust, no-needle, no-Tramadol stance.
In a wide-ranging and emotional interview, Edmondson told the BBC:
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"In 2014 I was under a lot of pressure, not just from the team but from myself," said Edmondson.
"You want to renew your contract for one thing, and for me the bigger thing was not letting anyone down - this team had given me a chance by signing me and a bigger chance by letting me go to a Grand Tour [the Vuelta a Espana].
"I think it was just before the Tour of Austria, I went to Italy to buy the vitamins that I was going to later inject. I brought them all back to Nice. I bought butterfly clips, the syringes, the carnitine [a supplement], folic acid, 'TAD' [a supplement], damiana compositum, and [vitamin] B12, and I'd just inject that two or three times a week maybe. Especially when I wanted to lose weight, I'd inject the carnitine more often because it was very effective."
The vitamins Edmondson bought are legal, but the UCI - the sport's governing body - brought in rules in 2011 banning cyclists from using needles.
"It dawned on me while I was doing it how extreme it was, putting the needle in and making sure there are no bubbles because if there is air in it, it can give you a heart attack and people can die from that," he said.
"It is a very daunting thing to be doing, especially as I was sat in a room in a foreign country alone at night. It's just a very surreal thing you do. It's not something you take lightly. You're doing it out of necessity really."
Edmondson admits he was tempted to dope, adding: "But this was my way of closing the gap a little without doping. Some people think there is a grey area, and that's why there is a no-needle policy, but people across sport have been injecting vitamins for years and it is an alternative to doping.
"It's not the same - if you were doping, you are getting massive gains. This is just freshening what you do naturally."
Edmondson says he is prepared to now talk to the anti-doping authorities about his past.
While Edmondson was racing at the Tour of Poland, his secret was exposed when a team-mate took photographs of the vitamins and equipment he had bought, and reported it to team management.
"I got back from that and noticed all the vitamins which had been hidden in my room were on top of this chest of drawers - and I realised I'd been caught out," said Edmondson.
"At that point I was panic-stricken. I'd never known anything like it. You just go weak and I had no idea what to do."
Edmondson said Team Sky's then head of medicine, Dr Steve Peters, informed him of the discovery of the evidence.
"He said 'there's been an incident' and I broke down. I was crying, I was in shock. And he said, 'somebody has sent us some photos of this intravenous equipment and the vitamins'."
Dr Peters confirmed to the BBC that a member of Team Sky who shared a house with Edmondson had found "a needle and some vials", and had taken a photograph of the evidence.
But Team Sky say the incident was not reported, after Edmondson told Dr Peters via Skype that he had not used the equipment.
"He fell apart at the seams quite dramatically. A number of things I asked him during that interview really alarmed me," said Dr Peters.
"I was now in a position where I can say the welfare of the athlete was number one. Obviously, I'm working with the team and anti-doping is a secondary issue but a really important one, and we have to address it, so Josh explained that he had never used needles before.
"He was in a very stressful situation. He was aware that his role in the team was in jeopardy. We sent off the vials, there was only one that was open, the rest were sealed. They turned out to be vitamins which you can buy over the counter, so I asked him 'why on earth would you?' And he had not done any injection, he said he did not know how to use it. All he said was: 'I did not know what to do so I left it.'
"This didn't quite ring true to me. I felt this is very odd from what I've experienced in the past when I've been involved with anti-doping issues. So I said to the team: 'I want to stop here.'
"Wearing my hat as a doctor, for somebody to be culpable they cannot be ill and I suspect he was ill. If he's not able to give informed consent to what he is doing and say, 'I understand this', then in my world, as a psychiatrist, you are not culpable, because your illness is talking.
"The second point from me is, let's say we went ahead at that point because obviously I do not want to cover anything up - there is no way I'm going to do that. But what is the consequence of him suddenly being exposed if I'm right and he's not well? The reason I stopped it in its tracks is my concern has always got to be for the welfare of the individual."
Dr Peters said he then met Edmondson on 2 September 2014, when supervision and a behavioural programme was set up until the end of his contract.
"Once a week he reported to one of the team managers, and she would check on how it was going. She would report back to me, because I can't forcefully get people to speak to me. I don't know what happened to him after that because he did not want to engage with us."
Team Sky say they took legal advice at the time of the incident and say that, although Edmondson had been in breach of team rules by possessing the equipment, they were under no obligation to report the case to the authorities.
Asked whether Team Sky should have handled the case differently, Dr Peters said: "We could have reported it. We could have made a different decision. We'll never know in hindsight. I suppose if I'm looking at safety issues I did think there was a really big risk this lad would be pushed over the edge. I stand by my decision.
"I think I'd definitely have told them if I thought this young man was trying to cheat, but I don't think he was doing that. I think it was a panic reaction. He is making very poor decisions because he is not well, and therefore we need to treat him first of all and then get to the bottom of it. But actually to put him through some kind of investigation or disciplinary at that point could've been very serious and damaged this lad's health.
"I'm not saying that we shouldn't have reported him. We had to make a judgement call which was difficult. I don't think you could go back and think maybe we should've done it and took that risk. I don't think it was easy and I think the problem is if you look at it in black-and-white terms it makes it so that there is a right and a wrong.
"There are shades of grey. Let's be honest, none of us were comfortable but we had a lot of discussion around this and one thing we could say was he violated our rules. On the UCI technicality, he had not violated because he told us very clearly at the time that he had not done the injection because he did not know how to use the needle. This is what he told us at the time."
When asked if there were members of Team Sky's senior management who wanted to report it, Dr Peters replied: "Yeah. We had a lot of debate and discussion. It wasn't just something we decided that we won't bother saying anything. That did not happen. It was a lot of agonising.
"We've got this in the minutes. I'm named as the person saying: 'Please stop until I make sure this young man is OK.' I was involved right from the beginning and I'm trying to explain it is a difficult one. We could have judged differently. I could've done it. I'm saying take it to me, not the team.
"We did it on good faith and decided on two counts. One, we didn't think he'd violated any rules and second and, most important, he was not in a good place."
Edmondson now claims he did tell Team Sky's senior management he had self-injected at the time, but that there was a "cover-up".
"I think that would have meant a bigger admission for them," he said.
"They'd have had to say publicly a kid was injecting. Injecting anything's bad. It's not like they were banned substances but injecting is against the rules - to self-administer anything, I believe."
Team Sky firmly deny the claim. Dr Peters said: "It's not a cover-up. Once you use that word you are saying there was an intent behind us to conceal and that was never the case."
Edmondson also told the BBC he had severe depression after independently using controversial painkiller Tramadol.
He said: "I was depressed sometimes, because if you use it in a race and you come out of the race afterwards you're just absolutely battered.
"Tramadol makes you feel 'dead' the next day. I felt hungover. The withdrawal from the Tramadol made me feel depressed. It feels like you're hungover, so you need to to just get through and I think the withdrawal from that... just immediately after a race, I was just depressed. I felt like someone had thrown me down some stairs for a few days.
"The dangerous thing about it is you don't know when you're coming to your limit. It's not a performance-enhancing drug, it doesn't make you any better, you're not getting any more from your body, you are just pushing yourself a bit harder.
"When you're young and you are facing some kind of depression and it might be linked to some sort of drug you are definitely in denial about what that problem is - I just saw it as the stress of doing that job and training hard. I wouldn't have ever acknowledged that Tramadol was doing that.
"It was a serious problem for me especially towards the end of 2014. I didn't leave the house for two months. It doesn't get much worse than that."
Tramadol has been blamed for causing crashes in cycling by making riders drowsy, and there are concerns it may have addictive side-effects. The Mouvement pour le Cyclisme Credible, and both the UK and US Anti-Doping Agencies have called on the World Anti-Doping Agency to ban it.
In 2014, former Team Sky rider Michael Barry said he and some of his team-mates had used Tramadol between 2010 and 2012.
Team Sky responded by saying: "None of our riders should ride while using Tramadol - that's the policy of this team. This has been our firm position for the last two seasons." The team have also called for it to be banned.
When asked why he chose not to tell Team Sky about his difficulties, Edmondson said: "I was just really worried how it would look and it was a naive thing to do because I know now that if I'd gone to someone, like Dr Freeman or Wiggo [Bradley Wiggins] or anyone really, someone I'd trusted, they would have helped me, and there'd have been no problem.
"It just seemed at the time that if I'd gone to them and told them, 'I'm having this too much, I might be abusing it a little', I didn't think they would help me, just see it as a negative thing.
"I'm not trying to pass the buck. I realise I made that mistake. It was something I was doing and I don't want to be that guy moaning about how they didn't pick up on it, but if there was another rider in that position now I would want to help them and I would want there to be a system in place to help someone like that. You'd have thought there'd be a system in place to pick up on someone who's depressed, regardless of drug use."
In a statement, Team Sky said: "We are confident we have mechanisms in place which encourage a rider to bring any issues they may be experiencing to staff in confidence.
"We are also satisfied that staff are equipped and able to raise any concerns they may have regarding a rider's welfare, and for the team to offer support."
Last year, former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke told the BBC he had been offered Tramadol at the 2012 World Championships in the Netherlands when riding for Great Britain.
He retired recently after serving a two-year doping ban for a biological passport infringement prior to his spell at Sky.
Additional reporting by Pat Nathanson and Eoin Hempsall.
The 70,000 sq ft facility at Newhouse will recycle material from 17 Scottish local authorities.
It is hoped the new plant will reduce the need for industries such as Scotch whisky to import glass.
A total of 30 jobs have been created at the recycling centre, which will have the capacity to recycle 200,000 tonnes of glass every year.
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Julie Hesketh-Laird, from the Scotch Whisky Association, said: "The opening of Newhouse assists the Scotch whisky industry by increasing the availability of high-quality recycled glass.
"As glass accounts for the vast majority of the packaging of Scotch we welcome this supply chain innovation at Newhouse which advances glass recycling.
"Such developments help the industry in its commitment to sustainability and delivering on its environmental strategy."
Opening the new plant, Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "I welcome this significant investment in modern recycling infrastructure.
"Glass packaging is important to a number of Scottish food and drinks manufacturers and glass recycling makes sense for our economy and the environment."
The Newhouse plant is part of a £357m recycling and renewable energy investment package announced by Viridor in Scotland over the last 18 months.
Projects include a £177.4m Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Oxwellmains in East Lothian and a £154m Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre.
"Sacred Art" will display paintings, sculptures and prints.
Event co-curator and artist Nick Taylor said it would include ingredients long celebrated in art, such as "transformation, magic, meditation and exuberance".
The exhibition will launch on Friday at Aberglasney Gardens in Llangathen.
City of London Police detectives believe 680 people made purchases from a UK-based eBay account found to be selling counterfeit airbags and covers.
A 34-year-old man was arrested in Blandford Forum, Dorset, and is being questioned by officers.
Police have warned the airbags could pose a danger to drivers and passengers.
City of London Police, which is co-ordinating the investigation, has also found more than 100 suspected counterfeit airbags of various makes at an address in Poole.
Bomb squad officers were called to the premises to ensure there was no risk of the airbags exploding.
The airbags have been been taken to a Ministry of Defence facility for safe storage.
The inquiry, Operation Landguard, was launched in January after Honda UK conducted test purchases on airbags sold through eBay.
Two airbag units and an airbag cover for the Honda Accord and Honda CRV bearing the Honda badge were found to be fake.
Detectives discovered that fake airbags had been supplied by the eBay seller to at least 148 individuals or businesses since September 2013.
Officers are also looking into another 532 purchases to see if they concern other counterfeit manufacturer car parts.
The airbags were being sold for £170, about half the cost of genuine Honda airbags.
Police say the fake airbags are made differently from the real ones and there is a "significant risk" they will not inflate in an accident, or that the metal Honda emblem will fly off.
They have advised car owners with concerns about their airbags to contact car manufacturers.
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The WRU said it was "surprised" Marler escaped punishment.
That came after both Wales head coach Warren Gatland and Lee described it as banter, although Gatland later apologised, while assistant Rob Howley criticised the England prop.
"Maybe the WRU don't know whether they are Arthur or Martha," said Jones.
Marler apologised after making the comment during England's 25-21 Six Nations win over Wales on Saturday.
Campaigners from the Traveller community - and figures inside the sport - had been critical of Marler and called for a ban.
At a news conference on Thursday, Jones refused to say whether the comment was racist, but said he had spoken to the 25-year-old, telling the player he had acted inappropriately.
"There was a decision made, that is what we have these judiciary committees for. I said I would let the process run its route - it has run its route," he added.
Marler also also avoided a sanction for striking Wales' Rob Evans during the Twickenham win.
Jones has dropped the loose-head to the bench, replacing him with Mako Vunipola for Saturday's Grand Slam clash with France in Paris.
But the Australian says the decision was not made as a punishment for Marler.
He added: "We were always going to start Mako. We've got a certain game plan we want to play against France and it suits us starting with Mako and Joe will come off the bench and do a great job for us".
Opposition parties are bidding to have the legislation, which is aimed at tackling sectarianism, repealed.
SNP MSP John Mason said the chaotic scenes at Hampden showed that "this would not be an appropriate time to relax the law" in relation to football.
But Labour's James Kelly said it showed up the "inadequate nature" of the act.
Former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill said the legislation could be "reviewed and refined" in light of the Hampden disorder.
All four opposition parties pledged to repeal the act in their manifestos, with only the minority SNP administration backing it.
Mr Kelly has started work on a Member's Bill to repeal the "hated" legislation, which was introduced in 2012.
Critics say there is already sufficient legislation in place to tackle sectarianism and other football-related offences including disorder at matches, and say the act unfairly targets law-abiding fans.
However, Glasgow Shettleston MSP John Mason said the scenes of disorder at Hampden, when supporters clashed on the field after Hibs beat Rangers 3-2, showed this was not the time to roll back the law.
The Clyde FC fan's motion notes that parliament "shares widely the disappointment at the scenes felt following the game", which saw mounted police deployed as fights broke out and fans tore up the turf and broke a set of goalposts.
He said that while "football can be a great opportunity for fans to let off steam...there have to be limits as to what behaviour is acceptable".
The motion further states that parliament should "note calls to change the law in relation to football, including repealing the ban on alcohol and relaxing the rules on offensive behaviour, and, in light of the recent situation, considers that this would not be an appropriate time to relax the law in either of these areas".
Mr Kelly said that, on the contrary, the "unacceptable scenes" at Hampden were evidence that the act was "not adequate".
He said: "Charges brought against those involved are likely to be for breach of the peace or assault.
"This underlines the inadequate nature of this legislation, which has caused distrust between football fans and police. I will therefore be pressing ahead with my plans to repeal the discredited football act."
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has updated the Scottish government cabinet on the police and Scottish Football Association investigations into the incident.
He has urged the SFA to come back with a report on the matter before the new football season begins, so that any lessons can be learned before more matches are played.
Meanwhile, Mr Matheson's predecessor Mr MacAskill, who retired as an MSP at the election earlier in May, said the legislation could be improved.
He said: "I think it has to be retained, but I think it could perhaps be improved to make sure that some who have not been prosecuted can be.
"Scotland still has an issue. Saturday could have been catastrophic - albeit a lot of it was done with the good intentions of [fans] enjoying themselves.
"Let the SFA, let Police Scotland do the work. I have no doubt parliament will review this, but what we can't do is go backwards in the legislation - we've maybe got to go forwards in making it better."
Labour MSP Iain Gray has also lodged a motion about the final, congratulating Hibs on their first Scottish Cup win since 1902.
His motion, supported by Edinburgh Northern and Leith's SNP MSP Ben Macpherson, said parliament should "congratulate both teams on an exciting and close-fought final".
It further said parliament should "commend what it sees as the hard work, commitment and perseverance of the players and staff in delivering the historic victory and ending the 114-year wait to lift the cup again".
Rangers hit out at First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for tweeting her congratulations to Hibs without making any reference to the disorder which followed the match.
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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.
Mr Hofer is aiming to win a rerun of the presidential election on 2 October after his Freedom Party won a court challenge over voting irregularities.
After UK voters backed Brexit, he said Austria might also hold a referendum.
However, he has now made clear he thinks leaving would be a "mistake".
"I'm not in favour of an Austrian exit from the European Union; I've been annoyed for days that people have assumed I am," he told Die Presse newspaper (in German).
Mr Hofer was recently narrowly beaten by Alexander Van der Bellen, a Green Party-backed candidate, in a presidential election - but the vote was overturned a week ago after the Freedom Party (FPOe) argued that postal ballots were illegally handled in 94 out of 117 districts.
The far-right leader distanced himself from French National Front leader Marine le Pen, saying he did not share her clear anti-EU policy.
Mr Hofer's party hopes the rerun will boost his chances on 2 October, but the entire process has been overshadowed by the UK referendum vote to leave the EU.
Although latest polls give him a lead over Mr Van der Bellen, a Gallup poll of 600 Austrians suggested 60% opposed any referendum and only 30% favoured an "Oexit".
Another survey by the Austrian Society for European Politics suggested that only 23% wanted to leave the EU, a decline of eight percentage points since its last poll in late April and early May.
Mr Van der Bellen said on Thursday that his opponent and the FPOe were playing with fire if they "fantasised about an Austrian exit from the EU".
The far-right leader had appeared to back a referendum late last month when he said that Austrians should be given a vote "if within the next year the [EU's] course is towards centralisation".
But in his interview for Die Presse, Mr Hofer made clear he thought that leaving the EU would "undoubtedly be damaging" for Austria.
Leaving the EU would be a "last resort", he stressed, if Turkey joined the bloc or if there were new, centralised EU treaties.
Austria's outgoing president, Heinz Fischer, finally stood down on Friday after 12 years in office, leaving the country without a ceremonial head of state until late November at the earliest.
In his final address to parliament, he spoke of the UK's decision to leave the EU as "very regrettable and short-sighted".
Councils spend £60m a year removing trodden-in gum from streets, said the Local Government Association (LGA).
The LGA, which represents 370 councils in England and Wales, has for years urged producers to help remove what it called a "plague" on pavements.
Wrigley, Britain's leading gum manufacturer, said it was investing in campaigns to discourage littering.
More than 95% of the UK's main shopping streets are gum-stained, according to Keep Britain Tidy.
The campaign group said 64% of all UK roads and pavements are "stained" by chewing gum - where chewed gum has been squashed into the street.
Councils have repeatedly asked for financial help to get rid of the problem, insisting gum manufacturers should take more responsibility.
Councillor Judith Blake, the LGA's environment spokeswoman, said it was "ugly, unsightly and unacceptable".
"Chewing gum is a plague on our pavements," she added. "This is a growing cost pressure councils could do without."
Cllr Blake said the chewing gum industry "needs to go a lot further, faster, in tackling this issue" by contributing to the clear-up costs and switching to biodegradable gum.
"Councils have no legal obligation to clear up the gum," she said. "They do it for the benefit of their shoppers, town centre users, businesses and residents."
Wrigley, which makes Extra, Hubba Bubba and Airwaves gum, said that it was making a "significant investment" in anti-litter campaigns.
This includes a "Litter Less" campaign in some schools, as well as research into tackling gum-dropping using behavioural science, Wrigley said.
"Only changing individual attitudes to littering will keep our streets clean," a company spokesman said. "We are committed to playing our part in making that happen."
The LGA claims that gum costs 3p per piece to buy, but that it costs councils £1.50 to clean up each square metre of pavement.
It said the £60m annual bill for eliminating gum could be used to fill "more than a million potholes" instead.
A number of local councils have launched initiatives to cut down on gum littering.
These include posters advertising fines for littering and flyers which double as a wrapper for used gum.
The 29-year-old was taken off on a stretcher in his third appearance since joining from Fiorentina in January.
In an Instagram post, Zarate said scans revealed an "anterior cruciate ligament rupture plus an injury grade one of [the] medial collateral ligament".
The typical recovery period for a cruciate ligament injury is six months.
However, it can be longer if surgery is required on the knee.
"Thank you everyone for all the messages in this horrible moment," former West Ham and QPR striker Zarate added.
"I will face this with all my strength and will be back stronger than before."
Watford are 12th in the Premier League with 12 league matches remaining.
League leader Van Gerwen took three points from his two games, drawing with Dave Chisnall before whitewashing Adrian Lewis 7-0.
Wright beat Phil Taylor 7-3 to stay second in the table.
Gary Anderson and Taylor are third and fourth, but Lewis' qualification chances were damaged by two defeats.
Having lost 7-4 to James Wade in Thursday's opening match, Stoke-on-Trent thrower Lewis had no answer to an imperious performance by defending Premier League champion Van Gerwen.
Anderson's 7-4 victory over Raymond van Barneveld left the veteran Dutchman one point outside the top four.
However, with each player having only two matches left in the group stage, only four points separate third-placed Anderson and Wade, who stayed bottom of the table despite his victory.
James Wade (Eng) 7-4 Adrian Lewis (Eng)
Dave Chisnall (Eng) 6-6 Michael van Gerwen (Ned)
Phil Taylor (Eng) 3-7 Peter Wright (Sco)
Gary Anderson (Sco) 7-4 Raymond van Barneveld (Ned)
Adrian Lewis (Eng) 0-7 Michael van Gerwen (Ned)
The Farc leader, known as Timochenko, said he was prepared to review and "fix" the agreement, after many in the "no" camp said it was too lenient.
Talks between rebel leaders and government negotiators were due to take place in Cuba on Monday.
The deal was signed last week after nearly four years of negotiations.
It is not yet clear what can be done to save the deal. President Santos earlier said there was no "Plan B" for ending the conflict, which has killed about 260,000 people.
"I will not give up, I will keep seeking peace until the last minute of my term," he said in address after the results were announced.
The chief peace negotiator for the government, Humberto de la Calle, offered to resign on Monday, saying he took "full responsibility for any errors in the negotiation". He was earlier ordered back to the Cuban capital of Havana to work with rebel leaders on modifying the deal.
Former President Alvaro Uribe, who led the "no" campaign, is demanding prison sentences for rebel leaders found guilty of crimes and wants them banned from politics.
Colombians were asked to endorse or reject the peace agreement in a popular vote.
The "yes" campaign had the backing not just of President Santos but of a wide array of politicians both in Colombia and abroad. But there was also a vocal campaign for a "no" vote, led by Mr Uribe.
Pre-election polls had indicated a strong victory for the 'yes' camp.
But in a surprise result, 50.2% of voters rejected the agreement compared with 49.8% who voted for it.
The difference was about 54,000 votes out of almost 13 million ballots. Turnout was low with fewer than 38% of voters casting their votes.
Colombia was divided regionally with most of the outlying provinces voting in favour of the agreement and those nearer the capital and inland voting against it.
In Choco, one of the provinces hardest hit by the conflict, 80% of voters backed the deal. The capital, Bogota, also voted "yes" with 56%.
But in the eastern province of Casanare - where farmers and landowners have been extorted for years by the Farc - 71.1 % rejected the deal.
Most of those who voted "no" said they thought the peace agreement was letting the rebels "get away with murder".
Under the deal, special courts would have been created to try crimes committed during the conflict.
Those who confessed to their crimes would have been given more lenient sentences.
Many Colombians also balked at the government's plan to pay demobilised Farc rebels a monthly stipend and to offer those wanting to start a business financial help.
"No" voters said this amounted to a reward for criminal behaviour while honest citizens were left to struggle financially.
Many also said that they simply did not trust the rebels to keep their promise to lay down arms for good, pointing to previous failed peace talks when the rebels took advantage of a lull in fighting to regroup.
Others were unhappy that under the agreement, the Farc would be guaranteed 10 seats in Congress.
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President Santos said that the ceasefire between government forces and the Farc would remain in place.
The Farc leader known as Timochenko says he is ready to review the peace deal.
"There are various ways to read (the referendum result) and we must analyze them to see what needs to be fixed," he said in a radio interview on Monday.
Government negotiators are travelling to Cuba to consult Farc leaders on the next move.
Following the vote Mr Uribe, the main opponent of the deal, insisted that he was not opposed to peace but that it needed "corrections".
His demands include:
One of surprise, as even Mr Uribe had predicted that the "yes" vote would win.
Some of those who had gathered to watch the result on giant screens expressed their disappointment.
One woman in Medellin told Caracol radio: "I never thought I could be this sad (...) I think of my country, of the young people and my heart breaks into a thousand pieces."
Farc leader Timochenko expressed his disappointment, and blamed the result on "the destructive power of those who sow hatred and revenge".
Opponents of the agreement, however, took to the streets to celebrate. One Colombian woman told BBC Mundo that Colombians had not forgotten that the path of the Farc was "paved with kidnappings, killings and drug trafficking".
"There was so much panic and fear that a friend of mine jumped from the university building," an unnamed student told Reuters.
"The building is very high, yet he jumped from it because he was so scared."
Another student also spoke of somebody jumping from the building.
"We saw three terrorists shouting, 'Allah is great!' and rushing towards the stairs of our department," he told the AFP agency.
"One student jumped out of the classroom through the window.
"We never saw him get up."
Geology student Zahoor Ahmed said his chemistry lecturer Syed Hamid Hussain warned him not to leave the building after the first shots were fired.
He told AFP: "He was holding a pistol in his hand. Then I saw a bullet hit him. I saw two militants were firing. I ran inside and then managed to flee by jumping over the back wall."
Witness Farooq Khan survived the attack.
"I saw three terrorists, one was on the roof, he was firing from there," he told AFP.
"I saw four university security guards, they were injured and we took them to ambulances."
Shabir Khan, a lecturer in the English department, told Reuters:
"Most of the students and staff were in classes when the firing began. I heard one security official talking on the phone to someone and he said many people had been killed and injured."
An unidentified witness told the local channel GeoTV:
"I personally heard two explosions near hostel number one. We don't know if they were suicide bombers or grenades. I personally saw two explosions and smoke was rising."
Botany teacher Mohammad Ishtiaq told the AP agency that he jumped out from the second floor of the building and broke his leg when he heard gunshots.
Two attackers were on the first floor and three on the ground floor, he said, and both were using automatic assault rifles.
He said: "I locked myself in a washroom.
"I jumped out when I saw one of the attackers coming toward me and shooting straight ahead of him."
Student Aiziz Khan escaped unhurt. He told Reuters that he stayed inside to avoid the shooting:
"We heard firing from the back of the campus. We thought maybe some people were fighting. Then the shooting got worse.
"We said 'get in the rooms, don't go out'. Then the security forces came.
"They showed great bravery."
The TV entertainer is currently on trial on four counts of alleged indecent assault against three teenagers between 1971 and 1983 - but has been appearing via video link.
Mr Harris, who denies all charges, will attend the trial at Southwark Crown Court in person from Monday.
Jurors have already been told that Mr Harris, 87, was convicted and sentenced following a trial in 2014.
The current trial, which began on 15 May, is not sitting on Friday.
The former England captain's 78-run first-wicket stand with Suzie Bates saw the Vipers chase down 141.
Despite a middle-order wobble, seasoned internationals Sara McGlashan and Lydia Greenway powered the Vipers home with seven balls left at Chelmsford.
Current England skipper Heather Knight - who starred in the semi-final - could only score six as Storm posted 140-5.
Bates and Edwards have spent the summer living with each other, while playing county cricket with Kent Women before the start of the Super League.
With the pair having also batted together for Women's Big Bash League side Perth Scorchers, they looked at ease and reassured together at the crease as they picked off the Storm bowlers.
Edwards played second fiddle to the attacking Bates and, having made a classy 24 off 18 balls, the ex-England international was bowled by Jodie Dibble.
Bates reached her half-century off 43 balls but Georgia Adams' disastrous decision to call for a quick single saw the New Zealand captain run out.
However, McGlashan and Greenway remained calm as they took their side to victory in front of the 1,353 spectators in Essex.
With player of the tournament Stafanie Taylor and Rachel Priest threatening to propel Storm is a huge first innings score, former England all-rounder Arran Brindle induced a collapse as she had West Indies captain Taylor caught at mid-off.
Despite playing no professional cricket since 2014 prior to the Super League, Brindle continued her impressive form in the competition, having Knight caught at square leg.
The experience of the Vipers' senior players told with Bates removing the dangerous Priest to stunt Storm's progress as they lost 4-32.
Warwickshire all-rounder Georgia Hennessy blasted nine off three balls to give some late impetus to the innings but the total would prove to be little trouble for the impressive Vipers.
Southern Vipers captain Charlotte Edwards: "It's been a really special few months.
"It's been brilliant to be part of this group for the last three or four months, and watch them grow and develop as people and players.
"We'll all enjoy celebrating what was a brilliant win. You couldn't have made up my summer so far really, with getting knocked on the head and missing the Lancashire game.
"But everyone's shown a lot of faith in me and I've kept backing myself and I actually really enjoyed today. This is what I miss playing in, these sort of occasions."
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The blaze at Llandow Industrial Estate started on Thursday and is continuing to burn under supervision.
Residents are being advised to keep windows closed.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the risk to health is thought to be low but the smoke could cause nose and eye irritation, and coughing.
On Friday night, three crews were still on site and the fire is expected to continue through the weekend.
The service tweeted "slow progress being made due to poor water supply".
Vale of Glamorgan council said a minor road leading to the site had been closed but others had reopened.
Nearby schools were advised to open as usual and there is no impact on the water supply.
Public Health Wales (PHW) experts said they were monitoring the situation.
Andrew Kibble said: "If you live in an area affected by smoke, stay inside and close all doors and windows. This will greatly reduce your exposure to the smoke.
"If you have to go outside, try to keep away from the areas affected by visible smoke or ash."
He added motorists should keep their windows shut, turn off air-conditioning and keep air vents closed.
He said PHW was not aware of any reports of people experiencing ill-effects from the fire as yet.
The council's emergency planning team is also working to limit disruption.
In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine (FP), Mr Hagel described long, tedious policy meetings that often concluded without decision.
The moderate Republican served as Mr Obama's defence chief for two tumultuous years from 2013 to 2015.
His tenure ended, he said, with backstabbing and character destruction.
Mr Hagel believes that a coherent US strategy for Syria still has not been fleshed out.
"The administration is still struggling with a political strategy, but Secretary Kerry is making some progress toward the right strategy," Mr Hagel tells the magazine, in reference to talks with Russian, Iranian and Arab leaders.
Mr Hagel's tenure in the Obama administration was marked by contention from the start.
Some of Mr Hagel's criticisms come across as minor or personal. "There were way too many meetings" at the White House, he says. And people there said mean things about him behind his back, "vilifying me in a gutless, off-the-record kind of way".
But his criticism of Mr Obama's strategy towards Syria and the fight against the Islamic State group is sharp - and is likely to resonate. In short, says Hagel: "We don't have a policy."
As Washington prepares to enter another election campaign, his remarks will provide fellow Republicans with yet more proof - from a trusted insider- that Mr Obama is a weak leader without a Middle East strategy.
Among those Mr Hagel had the worst relationship with was National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
He alleged that meetings chaired by Ms Rice, were long, frequent and fruitless.
"We kept kind of deferring the tough decisions. And there were always too many people in the room," he is quoted as saying.
He contrasted these meetings with those run by President Barack Obama, which he said were more effectual.
However, Mr Hagel seemed to be most critical of Mr Obama's Syria policy.
Joining his boss in opposing a large troop deployment to Syria or Iraq, he insisted however on a clearer diplomatic stance.
In particular, he pointed to an embarrassing Senate hearing, where he was grilled over whether the US would defend the rebels it was training and equipping in Syria from attacks by Assad forces.
"We had never come down on an answer or a conclusion in the White House," Mr Hagel told FP. "I couldn't say 'No'. Christ, every ally would have walked away from us in the Middle East".
In a memo penned a month later, Mr Hagel called on the administration to formulate a clearer policy. He said memo was not well received.
A month later, Mr Obama accepted his resignation amid reports of differences over policy.
Some have suggested that those antagonistic relationships may have led to Mr Hagel being pushed out.
The White House has declined a BBC request for comment on this story.
According to a report from the World Cancer Research Fund, half a glass of wine or a small beer a day increases the risk of breast cancer.
It also backs up research showing that regular intensive exercise can reduce the risk of the disease.
Breast cancer is by far the most common cancer in women in the UK with one in eight women developing the disease during their lifetime.
But scientists say they can't explain why the cancer occurs in some people and not in others.
There are numerous causes and lots of factors to take into account, including lifestyle, hormone levels and other medical conditions.
Basically, it's a complex picture and there's no point focusing on one factor only.
For a start, there are some factors you cannot control such as your sex, age, height, genes and when you started your periods.
Being a woman, over 50 and past the menopause, and having a history of breast cancer in your family, all increase your risk of getting the disease.
Being tall and starting periods before the age of 12 are thought to increase the risk too.
Cancer Research UK lists 18 different factors which could cause breast cancer to some degree. Alcohol is only one of them.
It says there are ways women can lower their risk of breast cancer by focusing on factors they can control, like diet, weight and exercise.
After analysing more than 100 studies that examined the medical history of 12 million women, the report backs up current advice to be aware of alcohol consumption.
The report found evidence that drinking an extra small glass of wine every day (10g of alcohol) increases a woman's risk of breast cancer after the menopause by 9%.
It means that in a group of 100 women, around 13 would be likely to develop breast cancer anyway.
And if they all drank an additional small glass of wine every day, one extra case might develop among the original group.
When it comes to exercise, the report found that doing more vigorous exercise, like cycling or running, cut the risk of post-menopausal breast cancer by 10% compared to the least active women.
Breastfeeding was also found to lower the risk of the disease before and after the menopause.
And there was limited evidence that eating more leafy vegetables, such as cabbage, spinach and kale, decreased the risk of a less common kind of breast cancer.
We already know that regular physical exercise, eating a balanced diet and maintaining a healthy weight are important for reducing the risk of lots of diseases, including cancers.
But scientists say all these factors interact with each other and that makes it difficult to tease out which ones are driving the cancer and to what extent.
New guidelines were introduced in 2016 which said that men and women should drink no more than 14 units a week - equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine - and some days should be free of alcohol altogether.
The UK's chief medical officers' advice was based on research which showed that any amount of alcohol can increase the risk of cancer.
Pregnant women are advised not to drink at all.
Cancer experts say the findings don't tell us anything new about the link between alcohol and breast cancer, which is already well known.
But if you can, to stack the odds in your favour, they say it is a good idea to have some alcohol-free days during every week and not to increase your drinking.
However, Cancer Research UK says there is no need be alarmed and "go teetotal".
It is also important to look at the bigger picture.
Drinking alcohol has a greater effect on the risks of several other cancers - including mouth, liver and bowel - than it does on breast cancer, so there is no reason to become fixated on alcohol.
Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics at the Open University, says the risks have "to be set against whatever pleasure women might obtain from their drinking".
The report does not provide absolute risks and as such, Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, from the University of Cambridge, said it did not seem a good basis for recommending that women give up alcohol completely.
However, Dr Anne McTiernan, lead report author and cancer expert at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, said the evidence regarding breast cancer was clear.
"Having a physically active lifestyle, maintaining a healthy weight throughout life and limiting alcohol are all steps women can take to lower their risk."
Leicestershire Police, which used facial recognition technology on revellers at Download, said it had now destroyed the information it gathered.
It was believed to be the first time the software had been used at an outdoor event in the UK.
The trial was criticised by campaign group Big Brother Watch as "worrying".
Images of people were compared against a database of criminals who target music festivals across Europe, the force said.
Ch Supt Chris Haward said no one who came to the festival to enjoy themselves had anything to worry about.
"The software provided an efficient and effective way of picking known offenders out of a crowd - something that officers would previously have been done using paper briefings," he said.
"While it is too early to give definitive crime figures, early indications are that it has remained low."
Officers would "use their discretion appropriately" in the unlikely event of someone being wrongly identified, police said.
But Renate Samson from Big Brother Watch said the way police went about the scheme was "a great worry".
"We're very keen for bad people to be caught but we're also keen for innocent people to go about their day-to-day business, have a good time at festivals they've paid good money for, and not feel as though they're being surveyed by police," she said.
A cashless payment system was put in place for the first time in a bid to cut crime.
Thousands of revellers braved the rain at Download, held at Donington Park, to see headliners Slipknot, Muse and Kiss.
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The 41-year-old Northern Irishman, who retired in April after a record-breaking career, was honoured at a star-studded ceremony in Belfast.
He joins a list of winners that includes Pele and Seve Ballesteros.
"It's a huge honour and I'm thrilled to be accepting it so close to home in Belfast," McCoy told BBC Sport.
The former jockey, from Moneyglass in County Antrim, joked: "Like the main award, it's very prestigious, only with the lifetime award, you aren't going to win any more after that. That is the only disappointing thing about it."
McCoy, who rode more than 4,300 winners, revealed he had put on nearly two stone in weight after retiring but had come to terms with a decision he took reluctantly.
"I got pretty heavy but I've lost a bit of weight in the last six weeks or so. I'm about just over a stone above my riding weight now," said McCoy, who is 5ft 10in tall, but wasted down to as low as 10 stone during his career.
"I'm quite a stubborn, forward-thinking person so I don't really ever look back.
"It happens to everyone, it's time to move on. Sure, I'd like to be riding and some days I go to the races and I'd like to be having a go, but my time has been. I'm fine. I'm over it."
McCoy was the first jockey to be crowned Sports Personality of the Year, after winning the Grand National at the 15th attempt on Don't Push It in 2010.
He was champion jockey every year of a professional career that saw him overcome a succession of injuries, including puncturing his lungs twice.
"A previous Sports Personality of the Year winner and widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys of all time, AP was the biggest superstar of racing until his retirement this year," said Barbara Slater, BBC director of sport.
"It's an honour to celebrate his illustrious career in Belfast, Northern Ireland, his home nation, with the lifetime achievement award."
As well as his Grand National success, McCoy won the Cheltenham Gold Cup twice, three Champion Hurdles and the Champion Chase.
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"It's great to receive the lifetime achievement award. There's some fantastic names on the trophy, like Sir Alex Ferguson and George Best," he said.
The Sports Personality awards, hosted by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan in front of a crowd of 7,500 at the SSE Arena, was held in Northern Ireland for the first time.
"It will be nice to receive the award there," said McCoy, who finished third in the main category in both 2002 and 2013. "Sport has done a lot for Northern Ireland.
"I'll be very proud. I'm going to have four Sports Personality of the Year trophies in my house so that's kind of a nice thing to have.
"The main award is voted for by the public and it's nice to have that respect for what you've achieved.
"I felt very lucky that the racing public got behind me, and it was pretty much down to them that I was able to win it. It's a great occasion and a great trophy and the best sportspeople have won it."
Time away from racing has given McCoy, a father of two and occasional TV pundit, more time with his family, to follow his beloved Arsenal and play golf.
"I run and still ride out, and I'm still involved with [racehorse owner] JP McManus and school his horses some mornings. My golf handicap is probably down to 12 now," he said.
However, suggestions McCoy might take up competitive amateur cycling appear to be wide of the mark.
"I've been cycling a few times, but I had a friend who was cycling and was knocked off his bike by a lorry. I like the idea of cycling, but it's the dangers of it that I'm not too sure about," he added.
Thistle fought back from a goal down to draw with champions Celtic on Wednesday and can secure a top-half place by beating Motherwell on Saturday.
Edwards' side have a four-point lead over seventh-placed Kilmarnock with two games until the league splits.
"We need to focus on Saturday's game and put it to bed," he said.
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"Four points in between sixth and seventh, six points to play for, anything can happen in this league.
"Three points from fifth, you have to say, 'we have to look up'. We have to be really positive and say, 'yeah, why not? Why can't we go catch them?'
"But first and foremost, we have to win on Saturday."
The Firhill side are three points behind Hearts, eight points off St Johnstone and 14 behind Rangers.
Thistle were promoted to the top flight for the inaugural season of the Premiership - previously the Scottish Premier League - and have finished tenth, eighth and ninth.
"When we missed out [on the top six] last season, it hurt a lot so we'll be giving everything to make sure it's in our hands and that we get the job done and make sure we win the game," said Australia Under-23 cap Edwards on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"The way this league's gone this season - us being last at Christmas and now we're sixth, Dundee being way off it and then they were pushing for the top six - it's never over until it's over.
"We've shown that we can take points from Celtic. Kilmarnock can do it on Saturday.
"Rangers and Hearts showed that they're beatable now, they're not world beaters like they used to be so it's far from over but it's in our hands and it's important to go to Firhill on Saturday and beat Motherwell."
The man, in his 20s, got into difficulty at Alton Water reservoir in Tattingstone at about 20:00 BST. His body was later recovered from the water, police said.
The fire service has issued a warning to take care swimming in open water.
"We are asking people to stay safe following a tragic incident at Alton Water near Ipswich last night," they said.
"The best way to stay safe in or near the water is to take some sensible precautions and prevent accidents from happening," the force said on its Facebook page.
"Water is often a lot colder than you expect and it can impact on your physical capabilities. Just because you can swim well in a warm water pool doesn't mean you'll be able to swim well in cold water."
Suffolk Police said the man's death was currently being treated as unexplained "as is standard procedure".
"At this stage there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances," a spokesman added.
Alton Water is a man-made reservoir and water sports centre offering sailing and windsurfing courses.
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Figures from 2016 show that just over 33% of top-flight players are English.
"The more English players we have in the Premier League, and at the highest level, gives us the best depth to pick from," Southgate said.
He also said youth players need more games in the league, on the back of England Under-20s' World Cup win.
"It's key, you can have the best education system going but if people don't have the opportunity to display what they can do, then it's difficult for them to develop onto the next bit," said Southgate, speaking at an FA sponsor event in Milton Keynes.
"Hopefully the clubs have seen this summer that our young players are as good as any from across Europe and the rest of the world."
Southgate was appointed England manager on a four-year contract in November last year, after a spell as caretaker boss.
He says a change in mindset is needed for England to play better at major tournaments.
"Over 25 years we've only won three knockout matches, so that shows the size of the task ahead of us," he said.
"That's what we're working towards. Trying to get the players to think a bit differently, work a bit differently."
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Watford 1-1 Everton
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Five from 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment and one from 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment had been on patrol in Kandahar province on Tuesday. Their families have been told.
It is the biggest single loss of UK life at one time in Afghanistan since a Nimrod crash killed 14 in 2006.
The explosion is thought to have been caused by a very large Taliban bomb.
The number of British military deaths in Afghanistan since 2001 is now 404.
By Caroline WyattDefence correspondent, BBC News
This is the worst single loss of life in one incident due to enemy action for UK troops in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2001.
The last time a similar number of UK casualties was caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) was in the summer of 2009, when five British soldiers died in an IED blast.
The device remains the deadliest weapon in the Taliban's arsenal. It is effective on a psychological level, as well as causing deaths and severe injury, and is relatively cheap and simple to manufacture.
The level of suspected casualties suggests a large amount of explosives were used.
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Prime Minister David Cameron said it was a "desperately sad day for our country".
"Every death and every injury reminds us of the human cost paid by our armed forces to keep our country safe," he said, at the start of Prime Minister's Questions.
In a statement, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)said the six soldiers were on a security patrol in a Warrior armoured fighting vehicle when it was caught in an explosion in Kandahar province.
Brig Patrick Sanders, commander of Task Force Helmand, said it suffered "catastrophic damage".
They had been travelling as part of a two Warrior patrol when the vehicle was hit at the junction of a road travelling east from Gereshk and another heading north to Lashkar Gah, the MoD said.
The BBC's Orla Guerin, in the Afghan capital Kabul, said there must have been a "massive explosion" to damage such a robust and heavily protected vehicle.
The area, she said, was sparsely populated and particularly unstable, according to Afghan officials, and insurgents were known to have planted roadside bombs there.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul said a police official in Lashkar Gah named IEDs as the biggest threat to his forces and told him insurgents were now planting them on key roads in a clear change of tactics.
Meanwhile, BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt said the six soldiers had been in the country for less than a month, having flown out of the UK on Valentine's Day.
She added that the ongoing operation to recover the bodies would have been slowed down as rescuers would have faced the risk of being injured themselves by further bombs.
News emerged earlier on Wednesday that the six were missing, presumed dead. It is understood the MoD has not formally identified them.
Most of the 9,500 UK troops in Afghanistan are expected to be withdrawn by the end of 2014, when 13 years of combat operations in the country are set to cease.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the timetable for withdrawal remained on track despite this "cowardly attack".
"This will not shake our resolve to see through the mission - I believe we owe that to all the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives and put themselves at risk over the last few years," he told the BBC.
In the Commons, Mr Cameron told MPs "every possible support" had to be given to a political settlement in Afghanistan.
He said a clear message had to be sent to the Taliban that - whether UK troops or Afghan troops were there - they "will not win on the battlefield - they never win on the battlefield".
Mr Cameron said he had spoken to the UK's leading military officers, who had stressed the commitment of troops to "getting the job done".
He also said he would discuss the Afghanistan situation with President Barack Obama on his visit to the US next week to ensure they were "in lock step" about the importance of training up the Afghan army and police, and making sure all Nato partners had a properly co-ordinated process for transition.
Labour leader Ed Miliband expressed his "profound sadness" over the latest deaths and said the UK owed those who put themselves in harm's way for our benefit "an immense debt of gratitude".
Chief of Defence Staff General Sir David Richards said he was "deeply saddened" by the news.
"The courage, fortitude and determination of those servicemen and women currently in Helmand is inspirational," he said.
The Archbishop of York John Sentamu said his heart went out to those affected, and we owed a debt of gratitude to our "brave soldiers".
The last British soldier to be killed in Afghanistan was Senior Aircraftman Ryan Tomlin, of 2 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment, who died from gunshot wounds in Helmand on 13 February.
The Hear'Say star claimed the tax would hit "little grannies" in modest London homes rather than the super-rich.
But the Labour leader insists the tax on homes worth ??2m or more would help fund more NHS doctors and nurses.
Accusing the PM of failing the NHS, he said: "If you've got big money you've got a friend in this prime minister."
He added: "If you haven't - you couldn't care less."
The clash came just two days after Ms Klass attacked Mr Miliband on ITV's The Agenda for proposing a tax that conjured up thoughts of "Barbie-esque houses", when really the homes she claimed it would affect were often "like a garage".
Six-point plan
"When you do look at the people who are going to be suffering this tax, it's true a lot of them are grannies who have had these houses in their families for a long, long time," she said.
"The people who are the super-super-rich who are buying their houses for ??140m, this is not necessarily going to affect them because they've got their tax rebates and their amazing accountants.
"It's going to be the little grannies that have lived in those houses for years and years."
This prompted Mr Miliband to outline a six-point response on Twitter, using a play on Hear'Say's biggest hit: "Here's why our NHS needs a mansion tax. It's Pure and Simple."
The Labour leader returned to the subject during a rowdy PM's question time by asking Mr Cameron why he backed a bedroom tax, but was against a mansion tax.
The PM said a spare room subsidy was not available in the private sector, so should not be available in public sector accommodation.
No 'Klass-act'
This prompted Mr Miliband to ask if the PM believed a person living in a ??140m Hyde Park penthouse should pay the same property tax as others.
Mr Cameron argued that his government had taken measures to address the differential, by putting up stamp duty and charging foreigners who invest, adding: "What you've had in the last week is a pasting from a pop star."
Mr Miliband hit back: "That's exactly what I expect from this prime minister - you only feel the pain of people struggling to find a ??2m garage.
"We need a mansion tax because the NHS is going backwards on your watch."
The PM taunted Labour MPs by quipping: "They are certainly not seeing a Klass-act opposite."
He said there were more nurses and doctors under his government and accused Labour of missing NHS targets in Wales.
"This was the week when Myleene Klass wiped the floor with you on TV and this is the week when a poll in Scotland showed more people believe in the Loch Ness monster than in your leadership. The only problem for the Labour Party is you actually exist."
Earlier, Mr Miliband told his 358,000 followers on Twitter that the mansion tax would contribute ??1.2bn towards Labour's goal of raising ??2.5bn a year for the NHS to help pay for thousands more doctors, nurses, midwives and homecare workers.
It would also "guarantee that patients in England will wait no longer than one week for cancer tests and results by 2020", he said.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he backed the plan, adding that treating higher value properties in the same banded way as lower value ones was a policy the Liberal Democrats "had advocated for a long time".
UKIP are opposed to the idea, describing it as an attack on aspiration.
The deal, agreed at talks in Tunis, is intended to lead to a single government and elections within two years.
It needs to be endorsed by both the internationally recognised parliament in eastern Libya and the Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC).
The agreement is separate from UN efforts at mediation in Libya.
The United Nations special envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, called it a very good basis for going forward.
In October, the UN submitted its own blueprint for a deal leading to a unified government, but neither side has endorsed it.
The UN is due to host peace talks between the two factions next week in Rome.
Libya has been unstable since long-serving strongman Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in October 2011, with militias ruling various parts of the country.
"This is a historic moment the Libyans were waiting for," Awad Mohammed Abdul-Sadiq, the first deputy head of the GNC, said after the deal was signed on Sunday.
"If this solution receives real Libyan support - from the people and institutions - we will surely arrive in no more than two weeks or a month to a solution to solve the political crisis," he told reporters.
Under the "declaration of principles" agreed in Tunis, the two sides would set up a committee to nominate a prime minister pending elections, while another panel would review the constitution.
The GNC is supported by a loose alliance of armed groups, including Islamists, that seized the capital in August 2014.
This forced the existing, internationally recognised government to flee to the eastern city of Tobruk.
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Officers found the body on the central reservation. The circumstances of the man's death are unclear but officers believe there had been a crash.
The victim's identity has not been confirmed and no-one else was reported injured, police said. Some traffic restrictions are in place.
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Lauren Jeska, a transgender athlete, admitted trying to murder Ralph Knibbs at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium.
The "cool, calculated attack" came amid a dispute over her eligibility to compete as a female.
Birmingham Crown Court heard that Jeska, 42, stabbed Mr Knibbs in the head and neck, leaving a 2cm hole with "blood pumping out".
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Jeska also pleaded guilty, in September, to causing actual bodily harm to Kevan Taylor and Tim Begley, who tried to intervene during the attack, and two counts of illegal possession of a knife.
Running as a woman, Jeska, of Wesley Terrace in Machynlleth, Powys, was England's champion fell-runner three times between 2010 and 2012.
Prosecuting, Richard Atkins QC told the court she became embroiled in the dispute with UK Athletics and failed to produce samples of her testosterone levels.
As a result, her racing results had been declared null and void, the court heard.
A week before the attack, Mr Knibbs, who was UK Athletics' head of human resources and welfare, went to meet Jeska at her home to discuss the "long-term" issue with the sporting governing body.
On 22 March last year, she drove from her home in Wales to Birmingham with two knives hidden in a rucksack and walked into the open-plan UK Athletics office before launching her attack on Mr Knibbs.
One eyewitness said Jeska looked "as though she were trying to skewer meat".
Julie Warburton, for Jeska, told the court she feared further blood tests would reveal her transgender status publicly.
She added that Jeska "feels awful" and was "extremely shocked to hear of the effects of her actions".
Judge Simon Drew QC said before passing sentence he had considered various psychiatric reports and the nature of the attack.
But he said it had been planned and executed with "chilling precision", meaning Jeska posed a "serious risk in the future".
The court heard how Mr Knibbs, a former rugby player with Bristol, suffered a stroke at the scene which temporarily blinded him in one eye.
He now has limited vision in both eyes, rendering him disabled, his movement is restricted and he has difficulty eating due to severed nerves.
Mr Knibbs said he was in a "constant battle with his emotions".
Accountant Tim Begley was stabbed in the ribs but the blade did not penetrate deeply, while finance director Kevan Taylor was cut on his left hand and fingers as he restrained Jeska.
Jeska, who was a member of Todmorden Harriers, Aberystwyth Athletics Club and another club based in Snowdonia, must also serve five years on extended licence and will not be eligible for parole for 12 years.
Speaking after the case, her parents Pauline and Graham Jameson said they were praying for the full physical and emotional recovery of Mr Knibbs.
During Jeska's "mental health crisis" they said she "felt traumatised and had flashbacks which caused fantasies of doing something drastic" and had "twice asked for help from the NHS but was not referred for psychiatric help".
"Whatever the technical psychiatric diagnosis, it is clear to us as parents that the assault is only understandable as the consequence of a mental health crisis precipitated by the affair with UK Athletics," her parents said.
Prosecutors say Eric Sloan Parker, 26, used unreasonable force against Sureshbhai Patel, a 57-year-old grandfather who recently moved to the US.
Mr Patel suffered injuries in February including partial paralysis when Mr Parker pushed him to the ground.
Mr Parker, who maintains his innocence, also faces state assault charges.
Mr Patel was walking outside his son's home on 6 February in an Alabama suburb when police said they received a call from a neighbour about a suspicious person.
Footage from police cameras showed Mr Patel - who speaks no English - trying to walk away when the officers approached him. They detained him and eventually shoved him to the ground.
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley apologised to the Indian government for the treatment of Patel, calling it a case of "excessive force". Mr Parker lost his job.
Hank Sherrod, an attorney for Mr Patel, said he is recovering but remains in a rehab centre in Huntsville.
He said three alleged gang members claimed the students were handed over to them by police.
They said some were already asphyxiated and they shot the others dead, before setting fire to all the bodies.
A total of 43 students went missing after clashing with police on 26 September in the town of Iguala.
A spokesman for their families said they would not accept they were dead until it had been officially confirmed by Argentine forensic scientists working on the case.
The suspects from the Guerreros Unidos drug gang were recently arrested in connection with the disappearances.
Relatives of the missing said they had been told that six bags of unidentified human remains had been found along a river near where the students vanished.
Mr Murillo warned that it would be difficult to identify the charred remains and that authorities would continue to consider the students as missing until DNA tests confirmed the identities.
Previous searches have uncovered mass graves in the area, but initial tests suggested they did not contain the remains of the students.
Mr Murillo showed videotaped confessions by the suspects who said they had loaded the students into dumper trucks and taken them to a landfill site in Cocula, a city near Iguala.
About 15 of the students were already dead when they arrived and the rest were shot, according to the suspects.
Mr Murillo said the bodies were then burned with petrol, tyres, firewood and plastic in an inferno that lasted for 14 hours.
"The fire lasted from midnight to 2pm the next day. The criminals could not handle the bodies (for three hours) due to the heat," he said.
He said that the suspects then crushed the remains, stuffed them into bags and tossed them in a river.
Mr Murillo showed videos of investigators combing through small pieces of burned remains that were found in black plastic bags.
The suspects said they were not sure how many students they had taken but one said there were more than 40, Mr Murillo added.
"The high level of degradation caused by the fire in the remains we found make it very difficult to extract the DNA that will allow an identification,'' he added.
In what was at times a very graphic press conference, Attorney General Jesus Murillo laid out his office's findings into the disappearance of the students.
When they were handed over to the gang, around 15 of the students had already died from asphyxiation, he said. The remaining students were shot dead near a rubbish dump.
At that point, members of the gang - according to their own testimony, video clips of which were shown by the attorney general - burnt the students' bodies in a pyre.
Human remains from the river are now to be identified by experts in Austria, but Mr Murillo said it wasn't clear how long the process would take.
However, relatives of the missing remained sceptical. The families have been highly critical of the investigation into the students' disappearance.
"As long as there are no results, our sons are alive," Felipe de la Cruz, the father of one of the disappeared, said in a statement.
"Today they're trying to close the case this way... a blatant way to further our torture by the federal government."
The case has shocked Mexico. Thousands have staged protests over what they say is collusion between officials and organised crime, along with government inaction.
President Enrique Pena Nieto has faced widespread criticism and on Friday he vowed to hunt down all those responsible for the "horrible crime".
The students from a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa, in Guerrero state, had travelled to nearby Iguala to protest against what they said were discriminatory hiring practices, and to collect funds for their college.
But they went missing after clashes with the police.
Six people were also killed after police opened fire and witnesses described seeing the students being bundled into police cars.
More than 70 people have been arrested in connection with the disappearances, including the Mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, who were detained in Mexico City on Tuesday.
Mexican officials accused Mr Abarca of ordering police to confront the students to prevent them from disrupting a public speech given by his wife.
26 Sept: Students from a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa travel to Iguala to protest and raise funds
Night of 26 Sept: Police stop the students, 6 people are shot dead, 43 students disappear
30 Sept: Iguala mayor Jose Luis Abarca asks for leave from his post, which is granted
4 Oct: Mass graves are found near Iguala containing 28 bodies
19 Oct: Federal police are deployed to Iguala and replace the municipal force
22 Oct: Mexico's prosecutor general says an arrest warrant has been issued for Mr Abarca, his wife and the town's police chief
23 Oct: Guerrero state governor Angel Aguirre resigns
29 Oct: President Enrique Pena Nieto meets the relatives of the missing students and promises a "renewed search plan"
4 Nov: Mr Abarca and his wife are arrested in Mexico City
7 Nov: Three gang members confess to killing students and burning their bodies, according to Mexico's attorney general
The figures were part of a display on top of a post box in Rayleigh High Street, installed by members of Craft Club on 17 December.
Member Helen Thomas said whoever removed the two figures had unpicked them "very carefully".
The 20cm (8in) high Mary took "more than a week to make" and her theft has left her creator "very upset".
"Perhaps somebody saw them and thought they'd make nice toys," Mrs Thomas said of the characters, who were first noticed missing on 19 December.
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This year, Craft Club placed four Christmas-themed yarn bombs on post boxes around south Essex, including in Leigh-on-Sea and Chalkwell.
The club also made a 4.5m (15ft) high Christmas tree made from squares donated from around the world.
The yarn bombs are raising money for the Castle Point Association for Voluntary Services.
Rhodes, 21, who made his List A and T20 debut for Yorkshire in 2013, will go straight into the Essex squad for their game against Derbyshire on Saturday.
"He is highly thought of at Yorkshire but they are keen for him to get out and play some red-ball cricket," Essex head coach Chris Silverwood said.
"We are pleased he has decided to join the club."
Coromoto, in the city of Merida in the Venezuelan Andes, is the latest to fall victim to the country's economic woes.
The shop is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for having 863 different exotic-tasting ice creams.
Venezuela has been hit by acute shortages of certain staples, such as milk and toilet paper, in recent years.
The economic slowdown, high rates of inflation and strict controls on foreign exchange are all seen as contributing factors that have led to the crisis.
"We are closed during the season due to shortage of milk," the ice-cream store announced (in Spanish) on its Facebook page.
Eukaris Castillo, one of the employees, told BBC Mundo that the decision was made after customers complained that the flavours on offer were not as many as advertised.
Manuel da Silva, the shop's owner, decided it was best to close the parlour during the holiday season, because he does not want the reputation of his store to be affected, Ms Castillo said.
She said that it was hard to find milk in ordinary shops and the price on the black market had increased six-fold in recent months, making it unprofitable for Coromoto to offer all its usual flavours.
Coromoto, which offers ice-cream flavours ranging from beer to beans, hopes to re-open in mid-January.
President Nicolas Maduro has seen his popularity ratings fall over the shortages, which he blames on political opponents waging an "economic war" against him.
The opposition, however, accuse the socialist government of Mr Maduro and that of his predecessor in office, Hugo Chavez, of mismanaging the economy for the past 15 years they have been in office.
Demi Wylie organised a small team to liaise with the couples and guests during industrial action that affected CalMac sailings in June last year.
Some travel plans for the more than 600 people involved were adjusted so they could reach the Western Isles weddings.
Ms Wylie, 23, has been put forward for a Scottish Transport Award.
She will find out if she has won the Frontline Employee of the Year category at a ceremony in Glasgow on 16 June.
Ms Wylie is based in CalMac's contact centre in Gourock which handles calls across the company's services.
Ferries had been key to getting brides, grooms and many of their guests to ceremonies and venues for the weddings across the Hebridean islands chain.
The industrial action came amid a row over tendering process for the Clyde and Hebrides Ferries Network.
Bayer said it was in advanced talks with Monsanto, but warned there was no guarantee a deal would result.
Its initial offer of $122 a share in May was rejected by the US firm for being "financially inadequate".
The record all-cash offer valued Monsanto at $62bn (£43bn at the time).
Bayer raised its offer to $125 a share in July but was again rebuffed.
Combining Bayer and Monsanto would create the world's biggest agricultural supplier and be a market leader in the US, Europe and Asia.
Bayer's farm business produces seeds as well as chemicals to combat weeds and insects, but it is better known for its healthcare products such as Aspirin and Alka-Seltzer.
Monsanto is primarily known for its genetically modified seeds for crops including corn, soybeans, cotton, wheat and sugar cane. Such seeds have attracted criticism from some environmental activists.
The higher offer comes amid a wave of mergers in the agriculture sector.
Rivals including Dow Chemical, DuPont and Syngenta have all announced tie-ups recently, although some have yet to be cleared by regulators.
The drop in commodity prices has put pressure on companies such as Monsanto, with farmers' cutting orders for supplies.
However, a Bayer takeover of Monsanto could raise US competition concerns because of the sheer size of the combined company and the control it would have over the global seeds and sprays markets.
Farming groups have raised concerns that such mergers could lead to fewer choices and higher prices.
Insiders said that although the two companies were close to reaching an agreement on price, they had yet to agree on a strategy on how to deal with potential regulatory hurdles.
Shares in Bayer have fallen by close to a fifth this year and ended at €94.24 on Monday, valuing the company at €78bn.
Monsanto has risen 9% since the start of the year and closed on Friday at $107.44, making it worth just over $47bn. Wall Street was closed on Monday for the Labor Day holiday.
The collision happened on the Dromore Road at about 22:00 BST on Saturday.
Mr Mills was 49 years old and was from the Omagh area.
A 40-year-old woman was taken to hospital for treatment to non-life threatening injuries.
Police said she has been arrested in connection with the collision.
Theresa May keeps saying that an independent Scotland would be out of the EU.
However much she might wish that to be otherwise, I have not heard Nicola Sturgeon dispute the prime minister's claim.
Indeed, her timescale for a second independence referendum seems to acknowledge that as a possibility at the very least.
The first minister wants the vote between autumn 2018 and spring 2019 - just before or just after Brexit negotiations end.
If Scotland voted for independence at that time, the UK as a whole might already be out of the EU or be just about to leave.
That would mean that SNP ministers need to change their policy on EU relations from what they proposed in 2014.
Then they promised "a smooth transition to independent EU membership".
They said this could be agreed in the 18 months between a "yes" vote and the date of independence.
And they said a traditional membership application under Article 49 of the Treaty of the European Union would not be required.
They proposed using the general provisions of Article 48 instead.
You may remember this special arrangement was rejected by - among others - Jose Manuel Barosso, the then President of the EU commission.
Anyway, how might the SNP approach be different in the context of Brexit?
I do not think Nicola Sturgeon will formally drop her policy of seeking full EU membership.
But I do think she might propose a step-by-step route to achieving that.
In other words, an independent Scotland could initially seek a Norway-style relationship with the EU.
That is, membership of the European Economic Area (the single market) through membership of the European Free Trade Association.
Nicola Sturgeon previously said she would accept Brexit and not call for an independence referendum if Scotland could achieve this status *within* the UK.
Membership of the EEA would require the approval of all EU member states.
It would be far less contentious than full EU membership for countries like Spain, keen to discourage their own nationalist movements.
EEA membership might also be easier to sell to independence supporters who voted to leave the EU in 2016.
From this position, an independent Scotland could then choose to apply for full EU membership.
What is less clear is whether or not the Scottish government would propose deciding this through a further referendum.
Conradh na Gaeilge (CnG) has produced an implementation document detailing what an act would entail.
It estimates that such an act would cost £2m a year to run, in addition to the £8.5m one-off cost.
The group said the intention would be to make implementation of an act "as practical and workable as possible".
The document, which has been seen by the BBC, states that an act should gradually be introduced over a five-year period.
The power of words
It proposes 11 different sections as part of an act covering elements such as use of Irish:
The document estimates that it would cost £100,000 to establish a central translation department at Stormont.
A further £50,000 would be spent installing a simultaneous translation system in the assembly.
CnG has estimated it would then cost £500,000 a year to run the translation department, including the cost of employing 10 staff.
Among other estimated costs, £372,000 per year would be spent training workers in public bodies to speak Irish.
About £750,000 - £1m would initially be spent translating public websites, forms and documents.
A further £1.5m a year would be used to enable bilingual road signs to be provided.
The document also recommends that a language commissioner is appointed to ensure the act is being complied with.
It says a commissioner's office would cost between £300,000 and £400,000 per year.
"It is a very reasonable cost, especially if the act is implemented properly and willingly," says CnG.
The document also calls for the BBC to spend £10m on Irish language services.
This would ensure that there would be more Irish language included among the services of the BBC and that costs for this would come from the current budget of the BBC," it states.
"The majority of parties and recently elected MLAs support an Irish language act."
"We now have a unique and historical opportunity to settle this long-running issue."
A consultation document on an act produced by the Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) in February 2015 did not estimate how much it might cost to implement.
Sinn Féin and the DUP have subsequently disagreed over the cost of Irish language legislation.
DUP leader Arlene Foster has previously said the party would never agree to an Irish language act.
Dr Niall Comer, President of Conradh na Gaeilge, said they wanted to inform people of what an act involved.
"Already, five parties alongside a majority 50 of the 90 newly-elected MLAs support protective legislation for the Irish-language in the form of an act, " he said.
"We are calling on the parties now to come together and support these proposals, and to implement Irish language legislation, as recently recommended by both the Council of Europe and the United Nations, and as was promised over ten years ago in the St Andrew's Agreement."
The organisation's National Council will vote on new reforms at Saturday's extraordinary general meeting.
The reforms are needed to meet a new code of conduct for sport governing bodies - and those which fail to adopt it could lose their funding.
"We must decide how we want our sport to look in the future," added Howden.
"We can choose to be a sport which has a leading role in the public life of this country, or we can choose to turn the clock back 30 or more years."
His statement comes after former British Cycling chief executive Peter King told the BBC that he expected the proposals to be rejected by the National Council, which represents 130,000 members.
King says the board now faces a fight secure a 75% majority required to vote through the changes.
To date, the government has had mixed results persuading sports to adopt its Code for Sports Governance, designed to improve governance standards across sport.
In May, the Football Association's council finally approved reforms, having been threatened with a £15m funding cut.
But earlier this month, the national governing body for table tennis became the first to reject the government's standards and had its full £9m Sport England funding award suspended as a result.
Funding agency Sport England has allocated £17m to British Cycling to boost grassroots participation, while UK Sport is set to invest £26m for its Olympic and Paralympic teams' preparations for Tokyo 2020.
British Cycling is one of the country's best-funded and most successful sports governing bodies and has been the driving force behind the country's unprecedented success in recent Olympic and Paralympic Games - Britain won a combined 33 medals across the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics.
But its continued funding now hinges on complying with sports minister Tracey Crouch's governance code.
From November, boards of governing bodies must be more independent and diverse, and be "the ultimate decision-making body and exercise all of the powers of the organisation".
British Cycling executives - including Howden and chairman Jonathan Browning - have been attending a series of regional meetings in a bid to convince members to support a package of reforms designed to meet the new standards.
These include:
This year's pay rise will be back-dated to April.
The deal was reached in September but Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, sought approval from its members before accepting the offer.
It also includes a written commitment on attempting to manage teachers' workload.
Education secretary Angela Constance said: "Reaching this agreement on a pay increase demonstrates the benefit of government, employers and unions working together positively, particularly in the current challenging financial climate."
EIS salaries convener Tom Tracey said: "In a difficult financial context this deal was the best that could be achieved through negotiation.
"We are aware that teachers in England have no right to salary progression and have pay linked to performance.
"This offer exceeds the pay policy that is applied by the Westminster government and while teachers in Scotland continue to pay the price of austerity, a modest pay uplift is welcome at this time."
Teachers are employed by councils but pay and conditions are agreed nationally.
The offer also covers teachers employed by councils, including Glasgow, which are no longer members of the council umbrella body Cosla.
"When I got the part of a princess in this goofy little science-fiction film, I thought: it'll be fun to do. I'm 19! Who doesn't want to have fun at 19?
"I'll go hang out with a bunch of robots for a few months and then return to my life and try to figure out what I want to do when I grow up.
"But then Star Wars, this goofy, little three-month hang-out with robots did something unexpected.
"It exploded across the firmament of pop culture, taking all of us along with it. It tricked me into becoming a star all on my own."
"Drugs made me feel normal. They contained me."
"I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day.
"This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic."
"I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
"I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that."
"I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and on to paper.
"So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did."
"Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually."
"You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well."
"He's not a big talker. You know, he wasn't Mr Chuckles."
"I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish."
"I Googled myself recently and I came across this posting: 'Whatever happened to Carrie Fisher? She used to be so hot. Now she looks like Elton John.'
"Well this did hurt my feelings, partly because I knew what this person meant. Yes, it's all too true. I let myself go. And where did I go to? Where all fat, jowly, middle-aged women go to - refrigerators and restaurants."
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Belgium, Sweden and hosts France are Wales' opponents in their pool this weekend.
Wales are hoping to qualify for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
Squad: Sian Williams, Shona Powell-Hughes, Dyddgu Hywel, Gemma Rowland, Jodie Evans, Rhiannon Parker, Keira Bevan, Elinor Snowsill, Hannah Jones, Philippa Tuttiett, Sinead Breeze, Jasmine Joyce.
The series is 1-1 after two matches, with Friday's game in Kingston the first of three that count towards the Women's Championship.
England sit fourth in the Championship, with the top four teams qualifying for the 2017 World Cup in the UK.
"Winning 3-0 is realistic, but it will be hard," Knight, 25, said.
"They are a very good team, with world-class players and in their own conditions, they are probably favourites," she added. "The first two games have shown we are evenly matched."
If England fail to qualify in the remaining matches in Jamaica, they will have another chance in Sri Lanka in November.
After winning the first ODI in Montego Bay by five runs, they were on course to win the second at 93-3 chasing 149 for victory.
But Knight's dismissal was the first of seven wickets for 17 runs, including four wickets in 10 balls for West Indies' pace bowler Deandra Dottin, to give the hosts victory by 38 runs.
"We gave them a sniff and they broke the door down," Knight told BBC Sport. "Seventeen runs for seven wickets wasn't ideal and we have to find a way to combat that.
"Myself and Nat Sciver were disappointed that we got in, then got out. If we're ever in that situation again we have to adapt and find a way to stop the rot."
Pace bowler Anya Shrubsole, England's vice-captain, was ruled out of the first two ODIs because of a side strain, but bowled during the interval of the second match and looks likely to be fit for Friday's match at Sabina Park.
Her return would give an England a decision to make on the balance of an attack that included three specialist spinners in Montego Bay.
"Hopefully Anya will be ready to go soon," Knight said. "She's a key player for us and we've missed her in the first two games.
"She's one of the best bowlers in the world, so you find a way to get her into the team. Someone might be hard done by to be left out."
The anomaly about Anomalisa, however, written and co-directed by four-time Oscar nominee Charlie Kaufman, is that it's a stop-motion animation - "an animation truly intended only for adults", he says.
The New York-born screenwriter, who won an Academy Award for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in 2004 and is also the writer of 2002's Adaptation and Being John Malkovich, first created Anomalisa as a radio play more than a decade ago.
British actor David Thewlis and Jennifer Jason Leigh, recently the star of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, took the parts of Michael Stone, a self-help speaker who is suffering within, and Lisa, a socially awkward sales rep, who meet at a conference.
Kaufman says he didn't really know who David Thewlis was 10 years ago, adding: "I just liked his work, and the same for Jennifer Jason Leigh.
"I wrote David a note asking him if he'd come over to the States and do this sound-only play for me and he did. I couldn't imagine casting any other voices for the movie either."
Anomalisa was first performed in 2005, but Leigh says she "was in love with Lisa from the very first minute".
"When we did the plays, I was so sad when it was over, it felt like an all-too-brief moment. The film treatment was proposed quite soon afterwards though, so I suppose she's stayed with me all these years.
"It's quite a challenge for an actor - it's sound only, no interaction between us, even when we were standing on stage reading the script for the play.
"But an animation feels like precisely the right treatment because the focus of the film really is on voices - how difficult it is to hear a different one in a crowd, one that means anything to us."
Anomalisa is co-directed by Kaufman and TV producer Duke Johnson, but it was eventually brought to life by funding from Kickstarter. Kaufman describes being surprised and relieved to get the money to make the film.
"We've been working on it for three years under the radar, with very few people knowing about it and it was a struggle," he says.
"We didn't know whether we'd get any positive reaction at all."
At its debut at the Venice and Telluride film festivals last year, Anomalisa was described by Rolling Stone magazine as a "masterpiece", while Empire claimed "it has more heart and soul… than 99.9% of live action movies."
The Guardian also predicted: "Kaufman and co-director Duke Johnson offer images so moving and yet also so filthy, Anomalisa might just make the first R-rated best animation Oscar winner"- a reference to the sexually explicit scenes in the film.
The film was nominated in the best animation film category at this year's Oscars, but the statuette itself went to Pixar's Inside Out.
Kaufman maintains he's glad he took the risk of making an animation, saying what he calls "the central conceit of the film - the lack of ability to make connections with other humans that Michael Stone struggles with - would be difficult to accomplish with live action.
"The emotional connection audiences are having to Anomalisa is unique to the animation," he continues. "It seems to have this special power that people are reacting to.
"I'm told that with non-human actors you can identify more with the characters as you're not blinded by who the actors are in real life. It allows you to be immersed in them."
"You identify in a deeper way, although I keep forgetting that they are puppets," says Leigh."Also, I think the themes of the film - how hard it is to make a connection, to hear a unique voice in a crowd - I think everyone can relate to it.
"The screenplay is set right before texting became normal, and I used to spend a lot of time... on the phone to my friends. Hearing voices was the way we connected.
"Who bothers with calling someone now? How often do we really hear someone's voice speaking into our life? I think we yearn for it."
Much of Charlie Kaufman's work - from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Synecdoche, New York, his 2008 directorial debut - features male protagonists enduring internal suffering, but under darkly funny circumstances. Anomalisa continues in that vein.
"If you're a writer, you are always looking in the mirror. You are always trying to be honest about what worries you, what frustrates you," says Kaufman.
"I have to use my personal feelings or else it's just not going to work. So there are always elements of me in my films.
"I think what's the relief about this though is that even though Michael Stone is a middle-aged man, I've had 20-year-olds coming up to me and saying how much they related to him.
"I think the lack of ability we have to form meaningful connections is the struggle of the human soul at any age."
Anomalisa is out in the UK and Ireland on 11 March.
It is believed two men were cut off by the tide at Mwnt on Sunday afternoon, with one falling into the sea.
Coastguard teams searched the coastline at low tide on Tuesday before suspending the search after three days.
Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that the missing man is a 23-year-old from the West Midlands.
Rio Andrew, 15, who attended Holland Park School, in Kensington, died on Monday after falling ill in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The event at a disused sorting office on Cherry Orchard Road, in East Croydon, was attended by 1,300 people.
Police believe Rio's death was drug-related but are awaiting test results.
The school said it "deeply regrets this sad loss of a much respected student".
"Rio was an able scholar, destined for academic success," the school's statement said.
"He was also an exceptional sportsman and due to be awarded this Friday, a prestigious sports award.
"The school wishes to send its collective sympathies and respect to all of Rio's family and friends. He will be greatly missed by the school community."
Rio, who was a member of the Thames Valley Harriers athletics club, was the English Schools under-15 shot put champion in 2013. The club said it was in "great shock" at the news of his death.
Commander Simon Letchford, of the Met Police, confirmed that police believed Rio had taken drugs before his death.
He said: "We've got a number of lines of inquiry that we're following but we believe he's taken some sort of drug that's had an adverse effect on him."
The force has also launched an inquiry into the handling of intelligence about the party after information was received, but not acted upon.
In a statement, the Met Police said: "We received a single piece of intelligence on 5 June to suggest that an event may take place at the location on 14 June, although no time was indicated when this would take place.
"The information was reviewed by a local intelligence officer, but no further action was taken. We are now conducting an internal review into how this intelligence was handled."
The leader of Croydon Council, Tony Newman, said: "The understanding in Croydon is that information was not passed on to the local police.
"We need to understand the information flow that is taking place in the Met - whether it's Croydon or anywhere else - we simply can't have a similar event taking place."
A 19-year-old man, who was also taken ill at the event, remains in hospital in a stable condition. Six other people who were taken to hospital have been discharged.
Mr Newman said the Royal Mail, which owns the disused sorting office, had a responsibility to secure it.
A spokesperson for Royal Mail said the company had contacted the police after squatters entered the building last week.
"Given events over the weekend, we yesterday sought an emergency court order to remove the squatters, and this has been granted," it said.
He added that all the squatters had left the building and the premises had been made secure.
A total of 14 people have been arrested in connection with the event, police said.
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Roy Hodgson's side begin their campaign against Russia on 11 June, before facing Wales and Slovakia.
"Forget who's going to cost us," Owen, who represented England at five major tournaments, told BBC Sport.
"There's almost a fear of being 'the one' - and that then turns into a selfish attitude. You can't be expressive, you can't be creative."
In an interview with BBC Sport's David Ornstein, the 36-year-old added: "There will be one person that everyone's going to gang up on - the press, the media, whatever - but you've got to be bigger than that, not bothered about that and actually just do what's best for the team.
"There's been a fear over the years because we all see someone missing a penalty or someone getting sent off and costing the team.
"The whole country then almost gangs up on that player.
"There's a fear amongst the squad - or there certainly was in my time - whereby you just didn't want to be that person everybody castigates, gets vilified, and you're the one that misses a penalty and they make a pizza advert about you."
Gareth Southgate featured in an advert for Pizza Hut after Euro 96 following England's semi-final exit to eventual tournament winners Germany.
The host nation went out after the then Aston Villa defender was the only player to miss a penalty in the shootout after the game at Wembley had finished 1-1 following extra time.
At the 1998 World Cup in France, midfielder David Beckham was sent off against Argentina for kicking out at Diego Simeone before England exited on penalties at the last-16 stage.
Then in 2006 at the World Cup in Germany, striker Wayne Rooney was dismissed for stamping on Ricardo Carvalho as England went out in the quarter-finals, again after a penalty shootout.
Everton's John Stones - one of only three recognised centre-backs in England's 23-man squad - has faced criticism for the way he plays the game, often preferring to dribble his way out of trouble rather than clear the ball.
But Owen has strongly defended the 22-year-old and said: "This kid could play for Barcelona.
"He's probably the only player in the England squad who could walk into Barcelona's team at the moment.
"He's absolutely brilliant. Get behind him, believe in him."
Owen said some of the negativity surrounding Stones was because he is "so much better than most other players".
The former Liverpool, Newcastle United, Real Madrid and Manchester United forward added: "People just don't realise that a lot of it is under control. He will make the odd mistake but so will everyone - everyone just goes on and on and on about mistakes.
"Eventually someone might start getting into his head and he might not be the player he should because of this negativity that surrounds our country so often."
Striker Marcus Rashford, 18, only made his Manchester United debut in February but has enjoyed a meteoric rise since then.
Owen, who was just 18 when he played in the 1998 World Cup, thinks Rashford will cope at Euro 2016 but says it will be hard for him to escape the hype and expectation.
"Every game that I played I scored - and I just thought it's not going to be any different going to a World Cup," said Owen.
"That naivety is the best attribute you can have. People that are scarred, that have failed maybe at a big tournament, have always got a niggling doubt. That naivety is almost priceless.
"The problem now is we're living in a different day and age.
"Glenn Hoddle was the manager in 1998 and we were locked down, bolted down. We didn't know about anything in newspapers and if mobile phones were invented I didn't have one.
"We knew nothing. No-one was allowed to visit our hotel.
"Nowadays, someone like Rashford will be on his mobile phone in his room, reading all of social media, all the newspapers, all of what everybody is saying. He's going to be aware of good, bad and indifferent.
"I was oblivious to it all. It's going to be very different for him, but it doesn't matter. When you can do something really well, you don't get nervous."
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Its wider policies towards Libya are more controversial, however.
Egypt has been intervening in Libya for months, backing one of the two rival coalitions that claim to represent the country's legitimate government.
As militants in both countries develop closer ties, Egypt has become increasingly concerned about instability in Libya spilling over to its own Sinai peninsula.
Support for Egypt from European countries was underscored this week when Egypt announced it had concluded a deal to buy 24 Rafale fighter jets from France, at an estimated cost of $5.9bn (£4bn). And the US has been keen to emphasise the role of Sunni Arab nations like Egypt in combating jihadists in the region.
In terms of politics, Egypt's policies towards Libya reflect the attempts by the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's to undermine political Islamist movements - whether violent or peaceful - across the region.
This follows the ousting of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi as Egypt's president in 2013, and the failure of Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party to win parliamentary elections in 2014.
Unlike its Western allies, Egypt's leaders emphasise the view that all forms of political Islam are a threat to international security.
Since overthrowing Mr Morsi, they have banned the Muslim Brotherhood, calling it a terrorist organisation.
By contrast, the US and Europe differentiate between forms of political Islam that they can potentially work with, and more radical violent groups.
Both in Egypt and in Libya, a variety of groups seek to claim legitimacy based on religious values. Rather than representing a single bloc, they are often competing fiercely with each other for the same audience.
The Muslim Brotherhood says it is a non-violent movement that can act as a counterweight to violent forms of political Islam.
It has condemned the IS killing of the Christians in Libya, though many Egyptian Christians feared the Brotherhood too.
Meanwhile, IS has tried to stoke sectarianism in Egypt by linking their killings to the reported murders of Egyptian Christian women who had converted to Islam, even though these reports have proven to be false.
In Egypt, most of those killed around the time of the coup in 2013 died when security forces violently dispersed two sit-ins by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo.
But there has been a sustained campaign of violence by jihadist groups since then, particularly by those based in the Sinai peninsula.
These groups contend that the coup in Egypt shows peaceful means of achieving Islamic government do not work.
In Libya, the political situation is extremely fragmented. Since the 2011 ousting of Muammar Gaddafi, no government has managed to establish control over the whole country.
Why is Libya lawless?
Two military coalitions claim to represent the legitimate government.
One is Libya Dawn, a grouping of militias that includes various Islamist groups as well as forces from the east of the country, which supports the former elected parliament, the General People's Congress.
It vehemently opposes any role for former members of the Gaddafi regime in politics, and is backed by Qatar and Turkey.
The other is Dignity, headed by a general, Khalifa Haftar, which supports the more recently elected (and internationally recognised) parliament, the House of Representatives.
It would prefer to include some members of the previous regime in politics, and is backed by Egypt and the UAE. The leaders of each side have limited control over their supporters, and many areas of the country are in effect autonomous.
Egypt backs the Dignity coalition because of its stance against political Islam.
In August last year there were reports that the Egyptian and UAE armies had co-operated to bomb Libya Dawn militants, and in January, Gen Haftar said his forces were receiving arms and training from Egypt and the UAE.
Some analysts argue this international involvement is making it more difficult for Libyans to resolve the internal conflict, and adding to the proliferation of arms there.
With these latest developments, as with the recent killing of a Jordanian pilot, IS' targeted violence has prompted cross-border military action by Arab armies.
This is a marked contrast with al-Qaeda, which was targeted primarily by international forces or, within specific countries, by the domestic security services.
The enhanced role of Arab air forces may be seen by some as a step towards dealing with security issues on a regional basis.
But ultimately, IS is thriving on the failure of states, in countries where there is an absence of effective or legitimate government.
Tackling the group requires local and international efforts to be better directed towards both ending conflicts and rebuilding the states.
Mills experienced the Nottingham derby for both Forest and Notts County and also played in East Midlands derbies.
The former Leicester City player recognises derby matches are special occasions for both sets of supporters.
"For a manager it's only three points but for the fans it's a little bit more," he said.
"Living in the area, if you don't win you're reminded of it and if you do you've got a big smile on your face walking down the high street.
"The fans have been magnificent for us this season so we've got to try and repay them on Saturday and get them the win."
Wrexham have received international clearance for new loan signings Joe Quigley and Jon Nolan.
Chester beat Wrexham 2-1 in last season's corresponding fixture with the Dragons winning the return at the Racecourse in March.
Fulham and Forest both exceeded Financial Fair Play limits of permitted maximum losses of £6m for a season.
Bolton failed to submit their required accounts and are unable make transfers until they comply with FFP obligations.
Premier League Bournemouth face a fine after also exceeding the permitted sum.
The Cherries were promoted to the top flight after winning the Championship last season.
Millwall also exceeded the allowance but have not been punished after they were relegated to League One.
Fulham and Forest will have the opportunity to have the embargoes lifted in June.
To do so, they will need to prove they have stayed within an operating loss of no more than £3m, with a maximum of £3m of shareholder investment for the 2015-16 season.
The ban for Forest is an extension on their current one, having been unable to sign players since December 2014 because of FFP restrictions placed on them.
Bolton, who have £172.9m of debt, said they were confident they would achieve FFP, but said they would be unable to sign and submit their accounts "until both the short and longer term funding issues the club are currently facing are resolved".
Meanwhile, the Football League said it is also in discussions with a number of other clubs over their FFP submissions, with any further embargoes "to be announced in due course".
One of those clubs is understood to be Premier League leaders Leicester.
Bournemouth said they were hopeful of a satisfactory outcome after confirming they were in discussions with the Football League about their sanction. Their fine has not been revealed.
QPR breached FFP rules in 2013-14 - the season they were promoted to the Premier League - and face a fine of up to £58m.
They announced their intent to challenge the legality of the Football League's FFP rules on 11 May, the day after they were relegated back to the Championship. That process is still ongoing.
Ryan Lannon, Jake Bibby and Josh Griffin went over inside the first 10 minutes for the Super League club.
Griffin, Josh Wood and Robert Lui crossed to stretch the lead before half-time, despite tries from Hunslet's Jack Lee and George Flanagan.
Lui and Bibby added their second tries, and Griffin completed his hat-trick after James Duckworth's try for Hawks.
Widnes also advanced to Round Six by beating League One leaders Rochdale, while Halifax thrashed Lock Lane 80-4 in their fifth-round tie.
Hunslet: Watson; Duckworth, Faal, Mvududu, Barnett; Thomas, Ansell; Haley, Lee, Reed, Crane, Normington, MacKay.
Replacements: Flanagan, Bell, Robinson, Williams.
Salford: O'Brien; Evalds, Sau, Griffin, Bibby; Lui, Dobson; A Walne, Wood, Joseph, J Walne, Sarsfield, Lannon.
Replacements: Krasniqi, Hauraki, Jones, Haggarty.
Referee: James Child
South Wales Police said a bottle containing an unknown liquid "erupted and slid across the floor" on 15 June.
Three of the men are under investigation while one will face no further action. The incident only came to light when a prison worker contacted South West Wales AM Bethan Jenkins.
Ms Jenkins wrote to UK Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah who confirmed it.
Mr Gyimah told Ms Jenkins it was not believed to be related to terrorism and the director of public sector prisons in south Wales was satisfied measures were in place to prevent it happening again.
In Ms Jenkins' letter to the minister she wrote: "I was informed by the staff member in question that prisoners recently made a bomb out of tea whiteners, which are very flammable.
"I understand that the bomb was stopped from going off in this instance, but that staff rely on prisoners behaving so that no serious incidents take place.
"I was told that if they rose up, they would be able to take over in less than 10 minutes, and that this was close to actually happening recently.
"The staff member implied that they were very short staffed also and so they are worried that they would not be able to react sufficiently in an emergency situation."
Ms Jenkins queried staffing levels at the site and asked if more support would be given to Cardiff prison as a result.
In his response, Mr Gyimah said HMP Cardiff had 165 prison officers and 35 operational staff - 18 employees short of its target staffing level.
South Wales Police said it had been a "minor incident".
The Ministry of Justice confirmed an incident had taken place and no prisoners or staff had been hurt.
A spokesman added: "The matter was referred to the police and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage."
For the City, one of the biggest events of the year will be HSBC's decision on whether it wants to change the location of its headquarters and leave London.
One very senior banking executive I spoke to yesterday said that he thought a move was very unlikely.
The political risk in Hong Kong - likely to be the leading alternative candidate for HSBC's new home - is just too high, the executive went on to argue.
And others very close to the bank agree that George Osborne's Budget announcement that the banking levy - which disproportionately affects HSBC - will be phased out has certainly "softened attitudes" to staying in Britain.
I have also gained some insight into how the process of making the decision on whether to stay or go will be made.
And it seems that Stuart Gulliver, the chief executive, has decided that the decision is not one for him alone.
At HSBC's results announced on May 5, Mr Gulliver said that the managers of the bank would look at the evidence and then make a recommendation to the board, backed by him directly.
That thinking has now changed.
It now appears that HSBC's management committee will compile a list of options which will then be put to the board with no preference expressed.
Positives and negatives for each option will be detailed.
What's important about the change is that it puts far more power in the hands of Douglas Flint, the bank's Scottish chairman, and far less power in the hands of Mr Gulliver, a fan of Asia who made his banking career in Hong Kong.
And as such, some might view the move as subtly tipping the balance in favour of London.
Each board member will have one vote. And Mr Flint will lead the discussion.
The decision will then be announced before the end of the year and put to investors.
The change of heart on the process came after the management committee realised that the issue was an incredibly complicated one.
And that a single recommendation from Mr Gulliver could be seen as unreasonably tying the hands of the board - particularly if the board did not agree, a situation that would put Mr Gulliver in a tricky position.
Teams of external advisors and lawyers have already been hired by HSBC to interrogate the options. And I am told that London and Hong Kong won't be the only options in the "data pack" presented to the board.
Singapore and New York are also likely to be on the list.
One source told me that the bank was making a decision not for the next 3-5 years, but for the next two to three decades.
Many in the City believe that the political risk for HSBC in the UK has decreased just as the gyrations of the Chinese stock exchanges and the willingness of the Chinese government and central bank to intervene in markets has become all the more obvious.
Of course, there is still the small matter of the referendum on whether Britain remains within the European Union, an issue that weights heavy in HSBC's mind.
There is no done deal and HSBC insists that the bank is still months away from making a final decision. But, as far as many in the City are concerned, London has just edged ahead.
Scotland has built up a specialism in that, with Edinburgh one of Europe's main asset management centres.
It can seem removed from the retail market.
Jointly having £660bn of assets under management, the two firms heading towards merger are huge, but not all about the super-rich.
Much of the money put aside in small-scale investments, insurance and pensions is placed with such specialist firms.
But an increasing share of it is going to funds that are passive, investing across the market so as to track it.
Companies such as Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset are under pressure to cut the higher costs of actively managing funds.
Standard Life, aged 192, is strongly rooted in the Scottish capital, and has been transformed in 11 years from a mutual to a significant plc, as a fund manager and also as a pensions, savings and life assurance company.
It has ventures in the Indian and Chinese household savings and investment markets.
Aberdeen Asset Management is closer to a pure-play asset managing firm, which has focused its efforts on emerging markets.
That has made its performance more volatile than others, and in the past three years more funds have been withdrawn than placed with it.
It is a relative newcomer, founded in 1983, and its growth has been the personal mission of chief executive Martin Gilbert.
Much of that is through acquisition, including the investment arm of Scottish Widows, which it bought from Lloyds Banking Group in 2013.
Gilbert has a different style to Standard Life's old-schooler Keith Skeoch, and it will be interesting to watch how a chief executive job share works out between them.
The logic of putting the firms together is to build investment clout, in competition with US-based giants such as Blackrock.
They want to assert that active management of funds can work for clients.
With those passive funds growing, this offers "significant synergy potential", which is likely to mean duplicate roles being shed.
At present, the companies employ around 9,000 people.
That clout as a shareholder can also be applied to shaping the decisions of companies in which the asset managers have stakes.
Both Standard Life and Aberdeen have sought to be active and responsible shareholders - with a close interest, for instance, in the incentives behind other firms' boardroom pay.
North Wales Police said two others were treated for smoke inhalation following the fire in Pen y Graig, Denbigh, on Saturday.
Emergency services were alerted to the blaze just before 15:30 BST.
A joint investigation between the police and fire service is under way. The woman's next of kin have been informed.
Teresa Sant, 58, was found guilty of causing the deaths by dangerous driving of the friends in Plymouth last May.
The city's crown court heard she ploughed into Victoria Hodge, 42, and Marie-Helene Gieblen, 60, in a car she had bought just four days earlier.
The victims had got off a bus in Torr Lane and were saying their goodbyes when they were killed.
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Plymouth Crown Court heard that Sant had told police she had dozed off at the wheel before, once on a trip while with her husband and at other times when waiting at traffic lights.
However, she had not told her GP or the DVLA about these episodes.
Jason Beal, prosecuting, said Sant crossed into the opposite lane and mounted the kerb and pavement.
He said she drove along the pavement for "some metres".
"As she did so she ran over two women who were standing on the pavement having got off the bus.
"Both of those women died from injuries sustained from being run over by Mrs Sant," he said.
Sant told police: "I think I dozed. I heard a bang. I think I just panicked.
"I tried to brake and slipped off the brake on to the accelerator. I only had the car since Sunday."
The 58-year-old was bailed for sentencing on Wednesday.
Devils beat Nottingham Panthers 4-3 to briefly regain top spot.
But Steelers, who had faced off 30 minutes later, won 3-1 at Fife Flyers to take the glory.
Had Devils won and Steelers lost, the Welsh team would have celebrated being at their new home in style on a weekend on which they also won 5-2 at Manchester Storm.
Roy Allen, 72, and Roy Lovatt, 71, assaulted pupils at Thorp Arch Grange residential school, near Wetherby.
Housemaster Lovatt was jailed at Leeds Crown Court for 28 years after being convicted of nine offences. He pleaded guilty to a further 25 offences.
Allen, the school's director of education, was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of 12 charges.
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The offences took place at the school in the 1970s and 80s. The 25 similar offences Lovatt admitted were not committed at the home.
Lovatt, from Redcar, and Allen, from Burnley, abused their positions to rape and assault the boys, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Lawyer Caroline May said: "These vulnerable young boys were in need of compassion, care and support, but Thorp Arch Grange was not a place of safety for them.
"Far from being caring professionals, these two men were cynical sex offenders."
Three others who were on trial at Leeds Crown Court - Anthony Poles, 78, of Wetherby, Mark Wylie, 60, of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, and Paul Schoon, 59, of Otley, were found not guilty of a series of alleged sexual offences.
Arrests were made as part of Operation Polymer, an inquiry into abuse at children's homes in Leeds in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Thorp Arch Grange residential school closed in the 1980s.
A huge wall of red sludge descended on the village of Bento Rodrigues when the dams collapsed on Thursday afternoon.
The authorities in the state of Minas Gerais have confirmed the death of one person.
Many residents managed to save themselves by running to higher ground.
But hope is fading for 13 mine workers and 15 residents, including five children, who are still missing.
"When I went outside, there were already people running uphill saying the dam burst,'' recalled resident Joaquim Dutra.
"All I did was close my house and run to the top," he told the AP news agency.
More than 500 people lived in Bento Rodrigues, which lies about 7km (four miles) south of the burst dams.
It is part of Mariana, an old colonial town and a major tourist attraction in Brazil.
Mariana Mayor Duarte Junior said some 500 people were taking part in the rescue effort.
"The search goes on. We are doing what we can" he said.
"The sludge is still moving, but the worst is over."
Firefighters say they are finally managing to walk where the mud has started to dry out.
But the only life found there now are stranded animals like dogs and cattle, reports the BBC's Julia Carneiro, in Rio de Janeiro.
The thick red mud surge engulfed cars and lorries, and destroyed homes.
The floodwaters and mud have now reached towns up to 70km (40 miles) away, local media report.
The mine is owned by Vale and BHP Billiton and is operated by Samarco.
There are fears that the iron ore residue in the mud poses a health risk.
The company does not have information on the environmental impact of the dam bursts, a Samarco spokesman told the Reuters news agency.
The cause of the breach is not yet known.
The authorities are investigating whether low-intensity tremors registered in the area on Thursday could have played a part in the tragedy.
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HS2 Ltd, the company responsible for the project, said its new premises would house up to 1,500 staff.
It is expected to include engineers and designers responsible for track, signalling and station plans, as well as support staff.
While some jobs would move from London, the company said, many would be new roles.
Chairman David Higgins said he expected the first staff to move into the new premises in April or May 2015.
He said the fact HS2 had chosen to base its construction HQ in Birmingham rather than London showed the firm's "long-term commitment" to the city.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said it would bring skilled job opportunities to the area.
Birmingham City Council announced it would create a company to lead the redevelopment around Curzon Street station, which will become the Birmingham hub for the first phase of HS2.
In February, the council first announced plans to regenerate the area by building offices, a hotel and about 2,000 homes to both improve the city's "welcome" to HS2 travellers and stimulate the local economy.
Under the plans, the Grade I-listed facade of the currently derelict station would form the centrepiece of the new development, extending into nearby Digbeth and the surrounding area.
Source: Birmingham City Council
When it is completed, the new station will be the biggest building in Birmingham, according to the city council.
Council leader Sir Albert Bore, said: "Since the industrial revolution, Birmingham has been a national capital for engineering, so it is only natural that the HS2 construction HQ be based in Birmingham."
Mr Mcloughlin said he hoped Curzon Street would repeat the "success" of London's King's Cross and St Pancras stations.
"If you think what those areas were like 20 years ago and what they're like today, I want to see that emulated in Birmingham," he said.
The Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) said it would be investing £30m to support plans for the 141 hectare site.
LEP chairman Andy Street, who is also the head of John Lewis, said the announcement was a sign the project was moving "away from the 'if and when'" and towards action.
"I'm absolutely convinced businesses across the West Midlands share the view this is good for the region," he said.
"It's not just about a station for Birmingham."
Earlier this month, the LEP was awarded more than £350m over three years through the government's Growth Deal.
Much of the investment was for HS2 related projects, such as extending the Metro tram line to Curzon Street.
Funding was also earmarked for a new construction training centre in Dudley, as well as facilities at Birmingham's South and City College, to help equip local people for jobs connected with the building of HS2.
Ian McLoughlin stabbed Graham Buck, 66, to death in Hertfordshire in July 2013.
A report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick said his release from HMP Spring Hill in Buckinghamshire was "indefensible".
Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said the system had become "far too lax" and the rules were tightened last year.
McLoughlin was serving a 25-year term for killing two men.
After being released from Spring Hill, he travelled to the home of Francis Cory-Wright in Little Gaddesden and carried out a robbery.
Mr Cory-Wright's neighbour, Mr Buck, heard screams but when he went to investigate, was dragged inside by McLoughlin, who slashed his throat.
The report - commissioned by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling - also draws on information about the early release of two other inmates from open prisons in 2013 who went on to commit serious offences.
Al-Foday Fofanah robbed a bank in Borough High Street, south London, while on day release from HMP Ford. A third man is alleged to have committed a further serious offence and is currently awaiting trial.
"These three men should not have been given temporary release," said Mr Hardwick. "The risks they posed were not accurately assessed or managed. The system failed the public it was supposed to protect with awful individual consequences."
Mr Hardwick said there was a general presumption in favour of granting day release.
Ministry of Justice figures show the number of prisoners serving indeterminate sentences given day release had risen from 38,000 in 2008 to 90,000 in 2012.
But they suggest that fewer than 1% of cases where prisoners are given day release are recorded as failures.
Mr Selous said: "Last year we introduced major changes to the policy for allowing prisoners out on temporary licence, tightening the rules...
"Under this government absconds have fallen to historically low levels and, since we introduced the new policy, temporary release failures have also significantly decreased."
After the 3-3 draw last week, Storm looked in control as Connor Varley and Taylor Dickin put them 2-0 up.
Steve Saviano quickly replied but Cody Cartier restored Storm's two-goal lead.
After a goalless second period, two Chris Higgins goals ensured overtime before Alex Foster struck with eight seconds left as a shootout loomed.
Varley put Manchester ahead on 6:00 at the SSE Arena and it was 2-0 only 1:43 later as Dickin netted to put them 5-3 up in the tie.
Saviano replied on 11:26 as he finished well from a James Desmarais pass but Cartier restored Manchester's two-goal advantage on 13:42.
As tempers flared, Belfast's Michael Forney was handed a two plus two roughing penalty as well as a five plus game misconduct penalty for fighting before the end of the first period.
Belfast's Matt Towe and Varley then dropped the gloves during the goalless second period as passions continued to run over.
However, Higgins netted for the Giants only 14 seconds into the final period after being set up by David Rutherford and he scored again in a superb solo effort on 48:58 to ensure that the tie went to overtime.
The home side piled on the pressure in overtime before Foster finally broke Manchester's resistance with eight seconds left.
Belfast will face either Cardiff or Dundee in the semi-finals with the Devils leading 4-1 heading into Wednesday's second leg in the Welsh capital.
Next up for the Giants are back-to-back home games on Thursday and Friday against the Edinburgh Capitals.
Elections are being held at Hampshire County Council and Isle of Wight Council.
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In a speech, he urged his party to "remain united", and not to "give up".
Labour lost the seat of Copeland, in Cumbria, to the Conservatives last week - the first by-election gain by a governing party in 35 years.
Tory chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin said it had been a "fantastic result" for Prime Minister Theresa May.
Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, accused some of Mr Corbyn's "cheerleaders" of "peeling away from him" during a difficult time.
While the party lost in Cumbria, the party managed to hold off a challenge from UKIP in a by-election, in Stoke-on-Trent Central, on Thursday.
In his speech to the Scottish Labour Party conference in Perth, Mr Corbyn said: "The policies and ideas we are setting out are policies whose time has come. But to win that fight we need to remain united."
But Mr Corbyn, Labour leader since 2015, said: "The scale of how hard our task is to persuade people of our message was underlined just this week in Copeland.
"Whilst we stood up to hatred and division in Stoke, I cannot lie and say the result in Copeland was what we wanted. But now is not the time to retreat, to run away or to give up."
Mr Corbyn called losing Copeland - which had been held by the party since its creation in 1983 - "deeply disappointing" and added that he took "my share of responsibility".
Questioned about his future after the speech, Mr Corbyn said: "I'm carrying on as leader because I'm determined that we will deliver social justice in this country."
Asked if he would still be in place in 2020, when the next general election is expected to take place, he replied: "I've given you a very, very clear answer - yes."
Speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Patrick McLoughlin said: "Copeland was a fantastic result for the prime minister."
He added: "It shows that all seats are seats that we will look at, and we are going to challenge hard at the general election."
Meanwhile Tom Watson, told ITV1's Peston on Sunday the team who got Mr Corbyn elected for a second time "seem to be peeling away from him" and he queried where Unite union general secretary Len McCluskey was at this "difficult time".
He said it should not just be up to him to defend Mr Corbyn, but a Unite spokesman said that as Labour's deputy leader it was "his job to address the issues facing the party in the wake of the by-elections."
"Len McCluskey's job is to address the issues that are the foremost priorities for Unite's members," he added.
The hosts had striker Conor Wilkinson sent off for good measure as their search for a goal in the campaign goes on, while Poleon will be relieved his glaring miss just before half-time did not prove costly.
Bradford broke through when Alex Jones got to the byline and cut the ball back, with Poleon passing his shot first time into the bottom corner.
Having struggled to create openings, Gillingham finally threatened when Josh Parker forced Colin Doyle into a smart save from a tight angle on the left.
Poleon then somehow missed an open goal after dispossessing Max Ehmer and rounding Tomas Holy while at the other end Parker was just as wasteful, as he stabbed wide from Luke O'Neill's cross.
The Gills' cause was not helped by Wilkinson's dismissal with 15 minutes left for a poor challenge on Timothee Dieng and substitute Liam Nash headed their last chance over.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Gillingham 0, Bradford City 1.
Second Half ends, Gillingham 0, Bradford City 1.
Liam Nash (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City).
Attempt saved. Dominic Poleon (Bradford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Dominic Poleon (Bradford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Liam Nash (Gillingham) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Liam Nash (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Timothee Dieng (Bradford City).
Attempt saved. Lee Martin (Gillingham) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Gabriel Zakuani (Gillingham).
Jake Reeves (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Gillingham. Scott Wagstaff replaces Josh Parker.
Substitution, Gillingham. Liam Nash replaces Mark Byrne.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Gabriel Zakuani.
Attempt saved. Nicky Law (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Gabriel Zakuani.
Attempt blocked. Paul Taylor (Bradford City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked.
Lee Martin (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Timothee Dieng (Bradford City).
Conor Wilkinson (Gillingham) is shown the red card.
Foul by Conor Wilkinson (Gillingham).
Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Josh Wright (Gillingham) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Timothee Dieng.
Foul by Tom Field (Bradford City).
Conor Wilkinson (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Bradford City. Paul Taylor replaces Omari Patrick.
Substitution, Gillingham. Tom Eaves replaces Alex Lacey.
Foul by Conor Wilkinson (Gillingham).
Nicky Law (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Tony McMahon (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tony McMahon (Bradford City).
Connor Ogilvie (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Josh Parker (Gillingham) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Timothee Dieng.
Substitution, Bradford City. Alex Gilliead replaces Alex Jones.
Attempt missed. Max Ehmer (Gillingham) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Gabriel Zakuani.
He missed Scotland's 5-1 World Cup qualifying win over Malta on Sunday but returned to training earlier this week ahead of Saturday's game with Rangers.
"He's looked good in training but obviously he didn't train today," said manager Brendan Rodgers.
"Once we get the scan through, we need to look at what the risk will be for him playing in the game."
Left-back Kieran Tierney also dropped out of the national squad but Rodgers said the teenager "will be fine" to play at the weekend.
Griffiths scored 40 goals last season and has started this campaign impressively, finding the net seven times in nine games.
"He obviously wasn't able to go away with the international team he suffered a little bit in the last home game," added Rodgers.
"He had a week's rest, then he's been training with us this week.
"It was a light training day today so there was no need to risk him on that
"He was having a scan just to see how the injury had reacted over the past 10 days and we'll see how that is over the next 24 hours or so.
"But he's been in a great form. But if for whatever reason he didn't make it you've seen with the squad and what I said at the beginning of the season was that we need to have goals all round the team and that's how it's been for us."
Patrick Roberts missed a golden chance in last season's Scottish Cup defeat to Rangers and the winger is looking forward to an opportunity to make amends.
The on loan Manchester City player could not find an open goal when Celtic were leading 1-0, with Rangers going on to win the semi-final on penalties.
But Roberts is confident he won't slip up if he has another good chance on Saturday.
"For myself I know it was a bad miss," he said. "I tried to be too perfect and it didn't come off. Next time it will be in the back of the net!
"I'm all excited for this game. They beat us the last time and it wasn't the best of performances from us so we hope to put that right at Parkhead.
"Games like this is what I came up here to do, big games and big performances are needed."
Wrexham's Grove Park School was listed in August after an appeal by campaigners who wanted it preserved.
But Wrexham council, which wants to clear the site for a new school, won a High Court challenge.
Now, the building has been relisted on the grounds of "special architectural interest".
The council, which wants to build a new school, said it was "very disappointed".
The school closed in 2003 following a shake-up of secondary school education and Wrexham councillors agreed the building should be demolished.
On November 21, Economy Secretary Ken Skates agreed to a High Court order to quash the listing on the basis he failed to provide adequate reasons.
The Welsh Government was then asked to reconsider a fresh listing application by 30 November.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "The cabinet secretary for finance and local government has been asked to decide whether or not to list the former Grove Park School, Wrexham as a building of special architectural or historic interest.
"His decision is to list the building, with its historical dimension, on the ground of its special architectural interest due to its aesthetic visual quality, craftsmanship and decorative detail."
Elaine Guntrip-Thomas, chairwoman of Wrexham's Save Our Heritage group, said the group "knew the worth of the building all along".
She added: "We believe that we have been vindicated in our decision to campaign to save this important building.
"The next step will be to ensure the building is used to educate future generations."
Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said: "We are very disappointed with this decision and will take legal advice on the way forward.
"I can assure everyone that the council remains committed to providing 21st-Century education in Wrexham on this site and this decision will not detract from our commitment."
County got off to a dream start with a goal inside two minutes.
Exeter's Luke Croll missed his tackle, Alex Rodman ran through on goal and unselfishly squared for Stead to roll the ball into an empty net.
The Grecians were struggling to do anything of note, with County containing them easily, and the away side doubled their lead on 34 minutes.
A free-kick into the box was not dealt with by the Exeter defence and Stead was on hand to poke home the loose ball from close range.
Jake Taylor turned and shot wide for Exeter, while Reuben Reid saw a deflected shot gathered by Adam Collin as Exeter toiled, but they were struggling to break down a well-drilled County backline.
Reid almost bagged a consolation for Exeter, but his free-kick was brilliantly saved by Collin.
The Magpies were happy to sit in and soak up pressure and the win was enough to see John Sheridan's men move into the top seven. For Exeter, they slip ever closer to the bottom two.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Exeter City 0, Notts County 2.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 0, Notts County 2.
Attempt saved. Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Adam Collin.
Attempt saved. Reuben Reid (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Liam McAlinden (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael O'Connor (Notts County).
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Pierce Sweeney.
Attempt blocked. Michael O'Connor (Notts County) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Carl Dickinson.
Substitution, Exeter City. Liam McAlinden replaces Robbie Simpson.
Substitution, Notts County. Jordan Richards replaces Alex Rodman.
Aaron Collins (Notts County) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt blocked. Reuben Reid (Exeter City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Elliott Hewitt.
Lloyd James (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Haydn Hollis (Notts County).
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Matt Tootle.
Richard Duffy (Notts County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Exeter City. David Wheeler replaces Luke Croll.
Substitution, Exeter City. Ethan Ampadu replaces Jack Stacey.
Substitution, Notts County. Aaron Collins replaces Jon Stead.
Substitution, Notts County. Vadaine Oliver replaces Jonathan Forte.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Haydn Hollis.
Attempt blocked. Robbie Simpson (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Lloyd James (Exeter City).
Richard Duffy (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Adam Collin.
Attempt saved. Reuben Reid (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Carl Dickinson (Notts County) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Lloyd James (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Elliott Hewitt.
Attempt saved. Lloyd James (Exeter City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Carl Dickinson (Notts County) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Second Half begins Exeter City 0, Notts County 2.
First Half ends, Exeter City 0, Notts County 2.
Attempt missed. Jack Stacey (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Alex Rodman (Notts County).
Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Robert Milsom (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Murray decided to part company with the ex-world number one before his run to the Madrid Masters final, citing a lack of time together as a chief concern.
Prior to Mauresmo, Murray, 28, worked with Ivan Lendl, who guided him to US Open, Wimbledon and Olympic success.
"It doesn't have to be, but it's definitely possible it could be an ex-player," the Briton told BBC Sport.
He said coaches who had played at the very top can "help around the Slams, in the big moments, the big matches".
The world number three added: "They've been there and done it and they understand that."
Murray said he was unlikely to appoint a new coach before the French Open, which starts on 22 May.
Lendl, who won eight Grand Slam singles titles, worked with Murray for just over two years before the partnership ended in 2014.
In that time, Murray became Olympic champion in 2012 before claiming his first Grand Slam - the US Open - later that year.
The Scot added the Wimbledon crown the following year.
Murray is playing at the Italian Open this week but will begin the process of finding a replacement immediately, through talks with his team and via agents.
He recently brought in former player and long-time friend Jamie Delgado to work with him for 35 to 40 weeks of the year, but he still wants a head coach for 25 weeks of the season.
"There's a week after the French Open finishes and before Queen's, so possibly at Queen's I could try something out," Murray said.
"I'm not going into a full-time relationship with a coach without having tested it and trialled it.
"I've done that with all of my coaches over the years and you do need a bit of time on the court together to see how the practice and the communication is going."
Having spent just one week together since the Australian Open in January, Murray said his partnership with Mauresmo "just wasn't working".
After teaming up with the former Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, 36, at Queen's Club in June 2014, Murray's ranking dropped to a low of 12 before rising to a career-high of two.
He also won his first clay-court titles in an impressive run last spring but failed to add to his two Grand Slam titles.
"Although I didn't win a major while working with her, I got back up to number two in the world and had a positive time," he said.
"It wasn't perfect, obviously we would have loved to have won a Grand Slam, but some good things happened as well."
Asked if they had a proved a point about the ability of female coaches on the men's tour, Murray added: "Not so much me, I think that was more her."
A BBC local radio survey suggests it is getting more difficult to persuade newcomers to take the practice up.
Three-quarters of delegates to the annual conference of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers said it had got harder in the past 10 years to attract new members.
About eight out of 10 delegates said it was difficult to recruit under 21s.
Tower captain at St James Garlickhythe in London Dickon Love said bell-ringing tended to get bracketed with Morris dancing as a pursuit for old men with beards, but that was misleading.
"Bell-ringing is exciting for the mind," he said.
"It's the best of form of heavy metal; it's a big loud noise, it keeps you fit, there's a competitive element as well. And it's a very social thing to do - after each practice without fail you can find us down the local pub."
They have been able to lure in some new recruits and have a new set of eight bells, installed four years ago, and a newly-recruited band of ringers, including a professor of astrophysics and the art director of a well-known magazine.
Pete McCoy, the tower captain at St Mary's Church in Walkley in Sheffield - who met his wife Judith bell-ringing - said teenagers today have more distractions than when he was young.
He said: "There weren't so many things for a teenager or young person to do as there are today.
"And is it cool to ring bells? I think it is. But does everyone else?"
Although there are nearly 40,000 ringers in the UK, just over half of the 180 delegates questioned at the conference in May in Portsmouth said they thought declining church attendances have made it harder to recruit.
54%
Agree
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Kate Flavell, of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers, says the 66 affiliated societies need to do more to promote their hobby.
They have teamed up with the Heritage Open Days initiative to ring bells for the public at 500 sites including at St Peter Mancroft in Norwich, where the first "full peal" was staged in May 1715.
Saturday's 3-0 win against Swansea, another side battling to stay in the top flight, put Boro four points above the bottom three after 17 games.
Fellow strugglers Burnley are the Teessiders' Boxing Day opponents.
"We just have to win our games and not look too much at the teams around us," De Roon told BBC Tees.
Boro's position was boosted at the weekend by defeats for Hull, Crystal Palace and Burnley, although Sunderland and West Ham both won.
The trip to Turf Moor is a potentially daunting one for Aitor Karanka's side, as none of the bottom 10 teams have won as many home games this season as the Clarets.
However, victory would put Boro on 21 points, and importantly stretch the gap between them and Sean Dyche's side to four points.
"We have to give ourselves a really big Christmas gift which would be three points," De Roon added.
"The teams around you, to win those games are the most important and we will be ready for next Monday."
The incident took place on Gartloch Road, between Easterhouse and Gartcosh, at about 16:45 on Saturday.
A 17-year-old male passenger was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital with serious head injuries. His condition was described as critical.
The male driver, also 17, was in a stable condition in Monklands District General Hospital.
A 19-year-old back seat passenger, who suffered injuries to his foot, was being treated at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Another male passenger, aged 16, was taken to Wishaw General Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. He has since been released.
Police said they were keen to hear from anyone who who may have seen the car before the crash.
The "dance party", as described by organisers, was meant to be held on Friday in Tacloban, the worst-hit area.
Critics said its slogan - "Party like it never happened, remember because it did" - made light of the tragedy.
The super typhoon left more than 7,000 people dead or missing and millions without homes.
Haiyan, known as Yolanda in the Philippines, hit on 8 November last year sending huge storm swells into inland areas and destroying wide swathes of central Philippines.
Organiser Calai Cinco, herself a survivor of the storm, said the event had aimed to "provide a place for people to connect with other survivors and celebrate life, while raising funds for educational scholarships, to be donated to a local NGO".
"Our lives, like all survivors, were changed forever by November 8th, 2013," she said in a statement from the organisers released to announce the cancellation.
Promotional material around the event, which had the slogan "party like it never happened: remember because it did," had been accused of being inappropriate. It also sold T-shirts bearing the words "Eat, Pray, Loot", in an apparent reference to the aftermath of the storm.
One comment on the Facebook page of the event said : "Don't you think a party is insensitive on your death anniversary?"
Another person said: "How can you pretend that it never happened and party because you are alive when people are still homeless?"
The organisers apologised in the statement to "those that misinterpreted the meaning of their event".
"The #FYolanda event is not about drinking and partying. It is an expression of life and celebration of survival. We must show everyone that Tacloban is still alive. And we must join together as survivors to help support the next generation."
The organisers said they would continue to sell a T-shirt that read "not even the strongest typhoon could bend the strongest people" to keep raising funds.
In the open letter, the group said the government crackdown on the population amounted to "ethnic cleansing".
More than 34,000 Rohingya have been forced to flee military operations in Rakhine state, according to the UN.
Ms Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, is accused of failing to protect the minority group.
"A human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar," the group, which includes South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, wrote in a letter to the UN Security Council.
"If we fail to take action, people may starve to death if they are not killed with bullets," it added.
The group, consisting of Nobel laureates, politicians, philanthropists and activists, said it was "frustrated" that Ms Suu Kyi, herself a Nobel laureate, "has not taken any initiative to ensure full and equal citizenship rights of the Rohingyas".
At least 86 people have been killed in operations in Rakhine state, launched after armed militants attacked border posts in Maungdaw on 9 October, killing nine policemen.
Earlier this month the government of Myanmar was criticised by the UN over its treatment of the minority Rohingya Muslim population.
Myanmar's government said it was conducting counter-terrorism operations in the region and has denied reports of killings and other abuses.
Most of the displaced Rohingya have fled across the border into Bangladesh.
On Friday, director general of Myanmar's ministry of foreign affairs, Kyaw Zaya, told Reuters news agency that Myanmar recognised that 2,415 of its citizens were in Bangladesh, adding that they were welcome to return.
The estimated one million Muslim Rohingya are seen by many in mainly Buddhist Myanmar as illegal migrants from Bangladesh. They are denied citizenship by the government despite many having lived there for generations.
Communal violence in Rakhine state in 2012 left scores dead and displaced more than 100,000 people, with many Rohingya still remaining in decrepit camps.
They face widespread discrimination and mistreatment.
Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Rohingya are estimated to live in Bangladesh, having fled Myanmar.
Holyrood's Infrastructure Committee has heard a seized pin caused the crack which led to the shutdown of the bridge for almost three weeks in December.
MSPs heard that the response to the fault by the bridge's operator was "entirely appropriate".
And efforts to repair and reopen the bridge were described as "remarkable".
The bridge reopened to all vehicles except HGVs on 23 December - almost two weeks ahead of schedule.
The committee took evidence from experts who have managed other bridges around the UK as it continued its inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the closure.
Peter Hill, bridgemaster of the Humber Bridge, said: "I can only say, knowing the competencies of the team under Barry Colford (former Forth Road Bridge bridgemaster), I can't see that this incident could have been otherwise determined or pre-warned in any other practical way.
"As to the subsequent actions of the team that are now looking after the bridge and reacting to this emergency, it seems to have been entirely appropriate."
Richard Fish, an independent engineering consultant, said the cause of the fault would have been very difficult to predict.
And he said he would not question the decision to close the bridge, which he said had to be governed by public safety.
John Evans, a consultant for civil and structural engineering firm Flint and Neill, described the efforts to reopen the bridge as a "remarkable achievement".
He added: "I don't think you would have foreseen what the particular failure was, but the idea of having contingency measures in place for when something catastrophic happens might be looked at in the future."
Mr Evans said such measures could include pre-planned diversion routes.
Between 1947, when the country won independence, and Mr Sharif's ousting on Friday, Pakistan has had 18 civilian prime ministers.
All have been forced out prematurely.
This is Mr Sharif's third removal from office, and things do not appear any worse for him now than in 1999 when he was toppled in a military coup.
Back then, he was briefly imprisoned and then sent off into exile to Saudi Arabia.
This time the axe was wielded by the Supreme Court because he failed to declare "his un-withdrawn receivables" from a UAE-based company, Capital FZE, as required under election rules.
Mr Sharif has said his position as chairman of the company was an honorary one, receiving no salary or benefits, and that he agreed to keep the position because it made it easier to obtain a UAE visa as and when it was required.
Many believe, however, that is not reason enough to remove an elected prime minister.
Veteran journalist, Imtiaz Alam, likened it to "the theft of a goat" - a reference to a ruse used by the country's establishment back in 1948 to sack a provincial chief minister.
More significantly, Capital FZE is not linked to the Sharif family's offshore companies or their London property - matters which were at the centre of the Supreme Court's investigations.
The matter of his involvement in those companies and properties, which were originally revealed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in its Panama Papers leaks last year, has been sent for a separate trial by a special anti-corruption court.
Earlier, the Supreme Court hearings were marred by controversy on several counts.
It was said that the case belonged in a criminal court, and the Supreme Court, which is an appellate body, initially refused to hear it. But then the court not only admitted the petition for hearing, it also took the unusual step of instituting its own investigation into the case, with a dominant role for the military intelligence services.
The answer may lie in Pakistan's sustained history of struggle for supremacy between the military and the political class.
Soon after independence in 1947, the government under the watch of the country's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, sacked two provincial governments - both elected in the 1946 elections in undivided India - thus setting the tone for things to come.
Between 1951 and 1958, the combined military-civil bureaucratic establishment sacked as many as six prime ministers one after the other. The era culminated in the first military coup.
Pakistan's first ever election was held in 1970, and the first ever elected prime minister, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto - who assumed power in 1973 - was ousted in a military coup in 1977 and hanged on a murder charge in 1979.
Since then, the military establishment has alternatively used constitutional manipulation and direct takeovers to keep the civilian leaders in line. In this, it has invariably been supported by the top judiciary.
During this period, the military has developed a huge business and industrial empire which it runs from within, with little or no interference from the state authority.
Many believe this empire can only last as long as the military is able to control some crucial domestic and foreign policy areas, such as relations with India, Afghanistan and the West, or the political narrative and propagation of a particular type of patriotism at home.
For this, they say, the military has often raised and protected politicians who agree with its world view.
But politics has its own dynamics. Once leaders have entered the mainstream, they feel more compelled to increase economic and other opportunities for their voters. This has often forced successive Pakistani leaders to try to normalise relations with India and other neighbours in the region.
Nawaz Sharif started out as the protégé of a military dictator, Gen Zia ul-Haq, back in the late 1970s, and played a major role in the military establishment's various plans to destroy the PPP party of the former prime minister, the late Benazir Bhutto.
That was also the period, according to the Supreme Court-led investigators, when his family wealth multiplied several times over.
The government of the PPP, a left-wing party, was believed in the late 1980s to have opened channels of communication with India and had helped Delhi subjugate a separatist movement in Indian Punjab, which had started during the Zia regime and was believed to have Pakistani support.
But by 1999, having emerged as a popular political leader himself, Mr Sharif followed the same path as Benazir - inviting the then Indian prime minister to Lahore, where they signed the famous Lahore Declaration.
Months later, the Pakistani military started the Kargil war with India, and soon afterwards Mr Sharif was overthrown in a coup.
In the 2013 elections, one of Mr Sharif's main slogans was to improve trade ties with India. Months after winning the election, his government was paralysed by a six-month blockade of the capital Islamabad by the new kid on the block, former cricketer Imran Khan.
Some who sided with Mr Khan during the 2014 blockade of Islamabad have publicly accused his party of receiving instructions from elements in the intelligence service.
Earlier, Mr Khan was accused by a respected social worker, the late Abdus Sattar Edhi, of conspiring with a former chief of the military intelligence agency, the ISI, to overthrow the government of Benazir Bhutto in the mid-1990s.
Edhi, who was approached to join the campaign and says he was threatened when he refused, had to leave the country for some time until the storm blew over.
Since 2013, Mr Sharif is seen to have conceded much policy space to the establishment over Pakistan's relations with India, but his woes have kept multiplying.
And Mr Khan's petition in the Supreme Court over the Panama Papers has finally pulled him down.
Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) intends to merge its Sandown Bay and Ryde academies.
Councillors called an extraordinary meeting on 17 May following protests against the plan.
AET had said falling numbers and the consequent impact on finances had prompted the merger decision.
The head teacher of Sandown Bay resigned and the board of governors was replaced earlier this year.
Four members of staff - one teacher and three support staff - currently face compulsory redundancy.
Five Isle of Wight councillors have backed a motion calling for AET to be banned from managing any school on the island.
It also seeks to find an "accountable new local body" to take on the running of the school.
AET previously said it understood it was "an uncertain time for the students and their families".
It added the current public consultation on the proposed merger would "allow full opportunities for everyone to have their say, and will ensure that views on all aspects of the proposed merger...can be put forward and considered before any decision is made".
It has not yet commented on the extraordinary meeting.
A final decision on the proposed merger will be made by the government after the general election.
Sandown Bay Academy came out of special measures two years ago, but is still seen as underperforming.
Pupil numbers have fallen to fewer than 1,000 from 1,252 in 2012.
8 February 2017 Last updated at 16:37 GMT
He is a copy of one of the world's first ever robots, and has now gone on display at the Science Museum in London.
Eric was originally built in 1928, but mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again.
That is until 2016, when the Science Museum launched a campaign to raise money to build a copy of Eric.
Take a look at Eric's journey from bolts to built...
Friday's opening ceremony will be the first chance to experience the service, with action from the athletics, boxing, basketball and other events to follow.
The 360-degree coverage can be viewed via a headset and the BBC Sport 360 app or on the BBC Taster website.
Some of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was shown in 360 video.
The technology has also provided new perspectives on television shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and The Voice.
Friday, 5 August: 0000-0330 - Opening Ceremony
Saturday, 6 August: 1400-1750, 1930-2020, 0100-0450 - Beach Volleyball
Sunday, 7 August: 1400-1750, 1930-2020, 0100-0450 - Beach Volleyball
Monday, 8 August: 1500-1800, 2100-0000 - Boxing
Tuesday, 9 August: 1500-1715, 2100-2315 - Boxing
Wednesday, 10 August: 2000-2245 - Artistic Gymnastics
Thursday, 11 August: 2000-2210 - Artistic Gymnastics
Friday, 12 August: 1300-1930, 2100-2350 - Fencing
Saturday, 13 August: 1330-1650 & 0000-0315 - Athletics
Sunday, 14 August: 0020-0230 - Athletics
Monday, 15 August: 1330-1610 & 0015-0250 - Athletics
Tuesday, 16 August: 1330-1640 & 0015-0250 - Athletics
Wednesday, 17 August: 0200-0505 - Beach Volleyball
Thursday, 18 August: 0200-0505 - Beach Volleyball
Friday, 19 August: 1930-2130 & 2300-0100 - Basketball (Men's semi-finals)
Saturday, 20 August: 1500-1650 & 1930-2200 - Diving
Sunday, 21 August: 1530-1730 & 1945-2205 - Basketball (Men's final)
Sunday, 21 August: 0000-0330 - Closing Ceremony
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Yeovil were closest to opening the scoring during a poor first half on a difficult pitch, with Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro hitting the outside of the left post with a low shot two minutes into time added on.
Tin Plavotic also had to clear off the line after a low ball in from Tom Eaves caused real problems for Cheltenham.
But it was big defender Plavotic who opened the scoring in the 48th minute with the first goal of his loan spell from Bristol City.
He nodded James Rowe's free-kick powerfully past Artur Krysiak to give Cheltenham the lead.
The hosts doubled their advantage in the 63rd minute when Kyle Wootton was caught in the box by a high foot from Matt Butcher and referee Darren England pointed to the spot.
Billy Waters made up for missing a good chance nine minutes earlier by sending Krysiak the wrong way and netting his 14th goal of the season.
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Match ends, Cheltenham Town 2, Yeovil Town 0.
Second Half ends, Cheltenham Town 2, Yeovil Town 0.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Jack Barthram.
Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Storer (Cheltenham Town).
Attempt saved. Omar Sowunmi (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town).
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Kevin Dawson.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Kevin Dawson.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Matthew Dolan.
Hand ball by Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town).
Scott Brown (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Omar Sowunmi (Yeovil Town).
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Manny Onariase (Cheltenham Town).
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Matt Butcher.
Foul by Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town).
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town).
Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Delay in match Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town) because of an injury.
Delay in match Darren Ward (Yeovil Town) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. William Boyle (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Jack Barthram.
Attempt saved. Tin Plavotic (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town).
Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Darren Ward (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town).
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Omar Sowunmi replaces Tom Eaves.
Attempt missed. Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Ben Whitfield replaces Alex Lawless.
Goal! Cheltenham Town 2, Yeovil Town 0. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
The Venture has supported youngsters in the Caia Park in Wrexham for more than 30 years, playing a part in cutting youth crime in the area.
But it has been told that Communities First cash from the Welsh Government is only guaranteed until June.
It follows a move to reconsider the future of the anti-poverty scheme, but no final decision has been made.
"It's such an important part of so many people's lives. It is extremely worrying," said the Venture's co-founder and manager, Malcolm King.
"We've built up a reputation nationally and internationally for the work we've done and we've achieved results that pretty much no-one else has ever achieved, in terms of reducing crime and reducing young people failing at school."
Since it opened in 1978, the Venture has seen thousands of young people pass through its gates for after school play, homework clubs and reading groups.
It also runs early years groups as part of the Flying Start Welsh Government programme as well as accommodating jobs clubs for adults.
It has faced closure before - when council funding was cut as part of the authority's overall budget savings in 2013. But it remained with 60% of its £310,000 annual budget coming from the Communities First funding.
Youth worker Jodie Humphreys grew up on the estate and like virtually every child that attended the Venture, she went on to college - and in her case - university.
"It made me feel really resilient - it gave me the confidence I needed," she said.
"I want to give that back to theses children of today. I want to see them do well and make a difference, and we'll keep that legacy going - hopefully."
The Welsh Government said it was still seeking views on how to engage with and strengthen communities as it considers phasing out the Communities First scheme.
The government added it was unable to set out funding for 2017-18 until a final decision on the future of the Communities First programme was taken.
Brazilian researchers from Recife, the city at the centre of the Zika epidemic, describe seven suspect cases in the journal The BMJ.
The virus, which has been spreading across much of the Americas and has deterred some people from visiting the Olympic host country, is already known to cause a serious baby brain defect.
Mothers-to-be are urged to be vigilant.
Pregnant women should not travel to areas with Zika, and those living in Zika zones should avoid the biting mosquitoes that carry and spread the disease.
Experts now agree that Zika is capable of causing lasting brain damage to babies in the womb. The virus can cross the placenta from the mother to her unborn child.
And there is growing evidence that it can trigger a rare, weakening condition of the nerves, called Guillian-Barre syndrome, in adults.
Dr Vanessa van der Linden and her team in Brazil say they are now seeing limb joint problems in newborn babies that might be caused by Zika too.
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The seven babies with suspected Zika infection that they studied in hospital had been born with hip, knee, ankle, elbow, wrist and/or finger joint problems that fit with a medical diagnosis called arthrogryposis.
The deformities of arthrogryposis, or crooked joints, are caused by faulty muscles - some too tight or contracted and some too flaccid - that have pulled and held the baby's growing body in unnatural positions.
Dr Linden's team suspect the Zika virus attacks brain nerve centres supplying the muscles around the joints, rather than the joints themselves. Scans of the babies' brains appear to support this idea.
All of the seven babies they examined tested negative for other congenital (pre-birth) infections, such as rubella and HIV, that might have been a possible cause of their deformities. Most had microcephaly as well as the limb deformities.
Dr Linden says that, since writing up her findings, she has seen 14 more babies with similar problems and is running more tests.
Prof Jimmy Whitworth, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that while not concrete proof, the evidence that Zika might be to blame was "pretty compelling".
"Microcephaly is the most obvious sign of congenital infection with Zika, but it's becoming clear that's just part of the whole spectrum of damage that can be caused by the virus."
He said the challenge was stopping the spread of the infection and caring for those who will be affected in the long as well as the short term.
"Studies suggest the current epidemic could go on for three or four years," Prof Whitworth said.
"We think there's going to be tens of thousands of babies who could be affected by Zika.
"Meeting their physical and psychosocial needs will be the real challenge."
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In a statement, Prince Andrew said the police had a difficult job and sometimes they "get it wrong".
Scotland Yard confirmed it had stopped the prince and said the force had "apologised for any inconvenience".
The incident happened two days after a man was arrested on suspicion of burglary inside the palace.
The duke said: "The police have a difficult job to do balancing security for the Royal Family and deterring intruders, and sometimes they get it wrong.
"I am grateful for their apology and look forward to a safe walk in the garden in the future."
Police said no weapons were drawn in the incident involving the duke, who is the Queen's second son and has an apartment and office at Buckingham Palace.
The Sunday Express earlier reported officers pointed their guns and ordered him to "put your hands up and get on the ground" after mistaking him for an intruder.
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement: "In light of media reports we can confirm that the man spoken to by officers was the Duke of York. We are making this public with HRH's permission.
"We are grateful to the duke for his understanding and have apologised for any inconvenience caused."
The Express said an internal inquiry into the incident was being carried out, but the palace has made no comment.
The duke had earlier attended an engagement in Piccadilly, central London, supporting new business ventures.
Security is being reviewed at the palace after Monday's suspected break-in, in which an intruder was able to scale a fence and get inside the palace.
Police said a man was arrested inside the palace on suspicion of burglary, trespass and criminal damage at about 22:20 BST.
He was found "in an area currently open to the public during the day".
A second man was arrested outside on suspicion of conspiracy to commit burglary. Both men were bailed.
"A review of the specific circumstances of this incident is being carried out," a Met spokesman said.
The Queen and Prince Philip have been at Balmoral Castle since the beginning of August and they are not expected to return to the palace until October.
Buckingham Palace is the best known of the Queen's three official residences, serving as a family home and the administrative headquarters of the monarchy.
Security has been breached on a number of occasions at the palace, most famously in 1982 when Michael Fagan broke into the Queen's bedroom.
The monarch woke to find Fagan, 30, sitting on her bed.
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service was called to the West Course on Sunday evening.
A total of six pumps attended the scene, with the final crews leaving at 0845 BST on Monday. Fire investigation officers were due to visit the site.
A spokeswoman said the fire was being treated as deliberate.
No-one was injured in the blaze, which affected undergrowth and timber next to the 10th and 11th greens.
The West Course is one of three championship golf courses at Wentworth in Virginia Water.
It hosts the annual the BMW PGA Championship in May.
Johnson is thought to have joined for a club record fee of around £6m, while Butterfield also moves for an undisclosed fee, that is around £4m.
Butterfield, 25, and Johnson, 28, have both signed four-year contracts.
Head coach Paul Clement said bringing in Johnson was a "major "coup" and his experience will prove "invaluable".
Clement added: "He knows how to get out of this division and is a leader."
Johnson scored 15 goals in 45 appearances for the Canaries as they won promotion to the Premier League last season and featured in all five games so far this term.
Both players will provide cover for Will Hughes, who has been ruled out for six months with a knee injury.
Clement added: "Jacob is a very talented player that is experienced at Championship level."
Butterfield signed for Huddersfield from Middlesbrough in August 2014 as part of a swap deal for Adam Clayton.
The 25-year-old made 52 appearances for the Terriers, scoring seven goals and was their player of the season in 2014-15.
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Junaid Khan (3-40) and Hasan Ali (3-43) impressed for Pakistan as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 236, losing four wickets for six runs.
Pakistan also struggled with the bat before captain Sarfraz Ahmed's unbeaten 61 saw them to a memorable victory.
India will face Bangladesh in the other semi-final at Edgbaston on Thursday.
Despite making hard work of Monday's win, it is a remarkable comeback from Pakistan after they lost their opening game of the tournament to rivals India.
If they can overcome England in Cardiff, Pakistan will contest their first Champions Trophy final on Sunday.
It is a disappointing end to the tournament for Sri Lanka, who failed to build on their stunning win over India last week.
After losing Danushka Gunathilaka, Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal before the end of the 16th over, Sri Lanka recovered to 161-3 with captain Angelo Mathews looking settled at the crease.
However, in a spell of left-arm seam bowling which at times was reminiscent of Wasim Akram, Mohammad Amir and Junaid turned the game on its head.
Amir took the wicket of Mathews (39), who bottom-edged a pull shot to send the ball crashing into the stumps.
Dhananjaya de Silva, making his first appearance of the tournament, was caught behind for just one after a fine delivery from Junaid found some movement off the turf.
As his team-mates faltered, opener Niroshan Dickwella had provided some stability for Sri Lanka. He paced his innings nicely, scoring four boundaries before he departed for 73 courtesy of a tremendous one-handed diving catch by Sarfraz behind the stumps off the bowling of Amir.
Then Thisara Perera (1) edged Junaid to slip after swinging wildly and Sri Lanka had collapsed to 167-7.
Aside from that game-changing spell in the middle overs, it was a professional performance from Pakistan's other two seamers.
Debutant Faheem Ashraf picked up two Sri Lankan wickets, while Hasan Ali produced another terrific bowling display.
As Sri Lanka looked to be heading towards a score of around 250, Hasan - the pick of the bowlers in Pakistan's win over South Africa at Edgbaston - took the wicket of Suranga Lakmal (26) with a superb slower-ball off-cutter which just clipped the bail.
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Pakistan crawled over the line thanks to a competition-record eighth-wicket partnership of 75 between captain Sarfraz and Amir.
Their openers were on the charge in the first 10 overs of the run-chase, Fakhar Zahman scoring his maiden one-day half-century off just 36 balls.
Fakhar's entertaining knock came to an end when he hooked Nuwan Pradeep to deep square leg.
His wicket sparked a period of panic for Pakistan as Azhar Ali (34), Babar Azam (10) and Mohammad Hafeez (1) soon followed.
The experienced Shoaib Malik (10) gave his wicket away, advancing down the track and trying to pull a slower-ball bouncer from Lasith Malinga, only to glove it to the wicketkeeper Dickwella.
At 162-7, Pakistan looked to be heading towards a somewhat humiliating loss before Sarfraz played an important and steady knock, with the help of Amir who finished unbeaten on 28.
Sarfraz was reprieved twice thanks to some woeful fielding by Sri Lanka - the Pakistan captain was dropped on 38 and 41 - but he hit the winnings runs with a ramp shot to the third man boundary.
Analyst Simon Hughes on Test Match Special: "Pakistan's bowling attack made this possible. Sri Lanka were primed for a big score and the turning point in the innings was when Angelo Mathews was clean bowled by Mohammad Amir.
"Sri Lanka never really had enough and, although they bowled well, their fielding was flawed and they didn't deserve to win."
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed: "All credit goes to the bowlers, Junaid and Amir played very well. I'm very impressed with Fakhar too. He is a good prospect."
Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews: "It was a see-saw game. Pakistan held their nerve, so credit goes to them. They deserve it.
"It was a funny wicket - the ball was stopping. We knew we hadn't got the runs but that we could bowl well. Our bowlers were brilliant. Unfortunately we dropped catches and that cost us the game."
The successor to Hubble, due for launch in 2018, is going to be put inside the giant thermal vacuum chamber where they tested the Apollo spaceships.
For 90 days, JWST will get a thorough check-up in the same airless, frigid conditions that will have to be endured when it eventually gets into orbit.
The telescope's aim will be to find the first stars to shine in the Universe.
To achieve this goal, the observatory is being given an enormous mirror and instruments that are tuned to detect some of faintest objects on the sky.
More than two decades in development, JWST is currently passing through the most critical phases on its construction timeline.
Any major technical hiccups now would seriously derail its launch readiness.
The past year has seen the assembly of the main telescope structure, with its 18 beryllium-gold mirror segments, at the US space agency's (Nasa) Goddard centre in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Attached to this structure are Webb's four observing instruments, which sit inside a cage on the rear of the big reflector.
The whole edifice has just gone through vibration and acoustic testing at Goddard. This has simulated the shaking and the roar of the carrier rocket. This will be an Ariane 5 provided by project partner, the European Space Agency.
One vibration run had to be stopped early when unexpected accelerations were detected in the region of the telescope's secondary mirror, but the analysis concluded it was not an issue of significant concern. So far, so good.
Now, JWST must fly to Nasa's Johnson centre at the end of April, or perhaps the beginning of May.
There, it will enter the famous Chamber A. This is the largest testing facility of its kind in the world, and the only one capable of housing an orbiting telescope on JWST's scale.
Engineers want to know that Webb's mirrors and instruments will function in unison when they are sitting out in space.
The chamber will provide important evidence of that by going super-cold (it can go as low as minus 260 Celsius).
An artificial light source shone on to Webb will ensure everything lines up as it should.
"When we are at temperature, we will unfold the mirrors and move them," explained JWST instrument systems engineer Begoña Vila.
"On orbit, not only do they have to unfold, you have also to confirm the focus for the different instruments.
"If you think about it, with those 18 segments we start with 18 different images of a star, and so we have to move all those images until we have a single one and it is in focus. It's that process that we have to practise," she told BBC News.
This work should complete in the autumn, but there will be no hiatus in the schedule. Webb will immediately go to Los Angeles to the aerospace company Northrop Grumman.
It is in California where the final elements of the observatory are being put together.
These are the satellite bus, which incorporates the computers, the power and propulsion systems, etc, needed to control Webb in space; and a tennis-court-sized sunshield.
JWST will look at the cosmos in infrared light and so needs to be shaded from the glare and heat of the Sun.
Bus and shield are in their end stages of assembly. Some final components still have to be attached, such as a boom that will deploy the shield once in space, but Northrop Grumman anticipates everything being in position to receive the telescope structure and instruments when they turn up for final integration.
The finished observatory's journey from LA to the Ariane launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, will be made by boat.
This is earmarked to begin about six months before the currently slated November 2018 lift-off.
"At this point we are in good shape," confirmed Eric Smith, JWST's programme director and programme scientist.
"We have about five months of scheduled reserve. That's more than is typical for a programme at Nasa but we recognise that this programme is very large and so we know we need to have a little more.
"It's amazing how fast everything is going at this point. But I keep telling people this is the part where you're going to keep finding problems because even though you've tested things all the way up, when you finally put it together some of those things behave just a little bit differently to how you were expecting.
"It's exciting but, boy, it's moving fast," he told BBC News.
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Initially commissioned as a two-episode series, the unscripted and unrehearsed show debuted last week with Gogglebox's Scarlett Moffatt presenting.
A second episode fronted by comedian Jack Whitehall will now not go ahead.
"We're brave enough to take risks with innovative programme ideas but also to acknowledge they don't all work and move on," a spokeswoman said.
Thursday's episode saw Moffatt front the show, with no idea what was going to happen.
She took part in a number of sketches, including one as a Channel 4 news presenter, and guests included Blue singer Duncan James and Steps.
However only an average of 400,000 viewers tuned in to watch the programme live - a third fewer than usual in the 21:00 timeslot for the channel.
Viewers were generally left unimpressed, with one tweeting it was "unwatchable".
Another commented: "Absolutely awful TV. Won't be watching that again!"
Channel 4 initially announced it had commissioned three episodes, but the broadcaster told the BBC it had only ever scheduled two.
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A 40-year-old unemployed man was arrested for allegedly attacking the victims at a farmstead early on Monday morning, according to police.
Japanese media have named the attacker as Tatsuhiko Hirano. Reports say he was found with blood on his clothes and initially admitted to the killing.
The motive for the attack was not immediately clear.
Police found the bodies of two women in their 50s and 60s and the body of a man in his 60s at one house at the site.
A couple in their 80s were found dead in another building nearby.
The attacker lived in the neighbourhood with his father and grandmother, reported Jiji Press. Locals said he had rarely left home.
The city of Sumoto is located on Awaji island, in the Hyogo prefecture.
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Relegated Norwich City recorded an emphatic 4-1 win at Blackburn to go top of the Championship, while Millwall and Luton rose to the summit of the fledgling League One and League Two tables respectively.
Here, BBC Sport rounds up five pieces of action you may have missed from the first round of EFL fixtures.
Every player dreams of netting on their debut - but Ipswich Town's Grant Ward must be pinching himself following his first appearance for the Tractor Boys.
The 21-year-old winger moved to Portman Road on Monday from Tottenham Hotspur and had to settle for a place on the bench against Barnsley.
Introduced at half-time, Ward scored with his first touch after just 39 seconds to put Ipswich 1-0 up.
After the Tykes had equalised, Ward put Town back ahead with his second just after the hour mark, before completing his hat-trick with a low drive six minutes before full-time.
Bagging three goals on debut in a 4-2 win is not a bad way to introduce yourself to a new set of fans.
Ched Evans made his first professional appearance for over four years on Saturday after joining Chesterfield this summer.
The 27-year-old was sent to prison in 2012, but had his rape conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in April.
Evans, who has always denied the charges against him, faces a retrial in October but signed a one-year deal with the Spireites in June.
The Welshman started their League One fixture at Oxford and overcame the jeers of the U's supporters to score the equaliser from a second-half free-kick as the game ended 1-1.
Evans, who netted 35 goals for Sheffield United in 2011-12, has now scored 11 goals in his last eight club appearances.
A new campaign means two new arrivals from the National League, and this season Cheltenham Town and Grimsby Town are back in the EFL.
The Robins got off to the worst possible start at home to Leyton Orient, conceding the first goal of the afternoon inside four minutes.
However, Gary Johnson's side fought back and substitute Billy Waters rescued a point with 14 minutes remaining.
Grimsby's return to the League was more impressive as the Mariners recorded a 2-0 win over Morecambe at Blundell Park.
Kayden Jackson put the hosts ahead early on and a free-kick from Ben Davies doubled their lead. Not even a red card for Josh Gowling with 19 minutes left could spoil their day in front of over 6,000 supporters in Cleethorpes.
The transfer window proves to be a hive of activity for clubs in League One and League Two, but nobody has topped Crawley Town for signings this summer.
The Reds have brought in 17 new players since the end of last season, and included eight debutants in their starting XI for their League Two opener against Wycombe Wanderers.
It did not seem to affect the West Sussex club though, as skipper Jimmy Smith struck the only goal to give Dermot Drummy a first win as Crawley head coach.
Drummy handed two other players their debuts from the bench late on, while new Chairboys striker Adebayo Akinfenwa was unable make an impact as a substitute.
Reading staged a tribute to former academy coach Eamonn Dolan ahead of their Championship match against Preston.
The Irishman, who passed away aged 48 in June after a battle with cancer, had a stand at the Madejski Stadium officially named after him before kick-off.
Dolan's nine-year-old son Seamus led the teams out and there was a minute's applause ahead of the match, which Reading went on to win 1-0.
Dolan brought 32 players through the youth academy to make their debuts for the Royals during more than a decade with the Berkshire club.
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The 24-year-old was one of three uncapped players called up for Scotland's summer tour.
However, he did not feature in the Tests against Italy, Australia and Fiji, with Ross Ford and Fraser Brown sharing the number two shirt duties.
Turner made his Edinburgh debut in 2014 but has only started once in 11 appearances.
"I've seen Fraser Brown develop over the last few years after he came here (from Edinburgh) and hopefully I can do the same," said Turner, who had a loan spell at London Scottish last season.
Turner will provide cover for Brown, who is facing up to four months out after surgery on an injured ankle.
Kent Police were called to the Port of Ramsgate at 05:00 BST due to concern for the welfare of a person in the sea.
An air and sea search was carried out by the coastguard and the body was recovered shortly after 07:45 BST. The girl's next-of-kin have been informed.
Det Ch Insp Nick Gossett said the 21-year-old arrested man, from Ramsgate, remains in custody.
The latest recalls come just a day after rivals Toyota and Nissan said they would be recalling 6.5 million vehicles over the same issue.
So far, the six deaths linked to Takata airbags have all been in Honda cars.
In April, Honda cut its profit growth forecast after missing the mark last year on recalls and other issues.
Honda said that the models affected included the Fit subcompact and would not affect its cars sold in the US, where most of the deaths occurred.
It plans to use replacement parts supplied by Sweden's Autolive, Japan's Daicel and Takata in the recalled cars.
Daihatsu, meanwhile, said it would recall the Mira minicar.
Other than Honda, all other carmakers said the recalls were precautionary and no accidents or injuries had been reported.
But investigations did show that Takata airbag inflators were not properly sealed and could be damaged by moisture. It is alleged that the airbags can burst under pressure, spraying shrapnel inside the car.
The latest announcements bring the total number of cars recalled because of Takata's airbags to about 36 million since 2008.
The car equipment maker faces multiple class action lawsuits and criminal and regulatory investigations in North America.
Following the latest recall, Takata's shares were down 5.6% in Tokyo.
It follows concerns raised by the news that American firm Fluor was no longer seeking to be part of the project.
A spokeswoman said the company was part of one of three bidders for the £230m construction scheme.
She said it was not unusual for a consortium member to pull out and works were still expected to start in 2011.
Fluor was part of the New Borders Railway group, one of three bidders invited to submit tenders for the contract earlier this year.
The others were BAM and IMCD.
The Transport Scotland spokeswoman said it hoped to hear from New Borders Railway soon on a "potential replacement" for Fluor.
"The competition for Borders railway remains on track and we expect to begin construction in 2011 and have an operational railway up and running for communities in Midlothian and the Scottish Borders in 2014," she said.
"We are aware that the New Borders Railway consortium - one of the three consortia chosen from an original shortlist of five - is currently considering the replacement of one of its grouping and we expect to hear from it shortly.
"It should be noted that change to the commercial priorities of individual bidders during procurement is not uncommon, particularly on large scale projects where the timescales for tendering and construction are lengthy."
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale Lib Dem MSP Jeremy Purvis said the situation was "concerning" and urged the Scottish government to move quickly to secure a contractor for the line.
"Under the current schedule there is still a very long wait of a full year before there is a final contractor in place and that does leave the door open to further concern," he said.
"The Scottish government wants to have the main contractor in place for the new Forth crossing before the Holyrood elections in May and I want them to do the same for the Borders railway.
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Bruce's side won the first leg 3-0 before losing 2-0 in the second leg on Tuesday to edge through to Wembley.
"We handled the occasion really well on Saturday but we couldn't put one front in foot of the other on Tuesday," he told BBC Radio Humberside.
"It was a really difficult evening but we've got through."
Bruce has led Hull to Wembley three times in the last four seasons and achieved promotion to the Premier League in his first season in charge.
They were relegated to the Championship in 2015 but Bruce has led them steadily up the table, finishing the season in fourth place.
"It could have been our most embarrassing night but it's not, thank the lord," he continued.
"(Tom) Huddlestone clearly wasn't fit. That was a gamble, where he played with a knock, and I shouldn't have took that gamble."
Never in play-off history has a team overturned a three-goal first-leg deficit but Derby came close on Tuesday through Johnny Russell and Andrew Robertson's own goal.
Despite continued pressure from Derby, Hull were able to hold on and secure their spot to face Sheffield Wednesday in an all-Yorkshire final on 28 May.
"I won't try and mask it up any more - we did enough at Derby, where we put in a good performance," Bruce added.
"We know we will perform better than that because we can't be any worse. Let's make sure now that we try our upmost because we have just seen our Achilles heel."
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Which pop band did Olympic diver Tom Daley audition for?
And who thought it was a good idea to send their mum on a weight-loss course for their birthday?
The two sporting idols spoke to Clare Balding for her new BBC Two show - and here's 10 things you probably didn't know about either of them.
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Tom Daley misses British food
"The food in Dubai is great, but you know things like bangers and mash - I just miss all that kind of stuff.
Lewis Hamilton was stopped by police... for thinking he was Lewis Hamilton
"I've been pulled over by the police one time just because my car was making too much noise and he pulled up alongside me and goes, 'Who do you think you are? Lewis Hamilton?'. He got to the window as he was saying it and he was like, 'Oh, have a good night'."
Whereas Tom isn't driving at all
"Since I moved to London my mum's got my car. I just get on the Tube, get on my way and just go. I read a book. At the moment I'm reading The Hunger Games in Spanish."
Lewis can dive from the top board
"My mum used to work at the local pool and for my eighth birthday we had a pool party. And then this professional diver came over and took me to the top. I'd have to hug him, hold on and he did a back flip with me on him.
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"It was sick! It was so cool. I never did it again, obviously."
And he had a Blue Peter badge at the age of five...
"I was racing radio-controlled cars in the garden, but I've been on since."
While Tom is less of an all-rounder
"PE at school - I was terrible. Literally, anything with hand and eye coordination, funnily enough - terrible. I can't throw, catch, kick a ball in a straight line. Terrible."
...although he came close to musical fame and fortune
"Yeah, I auditioned for S Club Juniors. I did, I was only like nine when I did. I think I sang Reach For The Stars."
Lewis pushes his rivals to bizarre behaviour - team-mate Nico Rosberg wore a sanitary towel on his head
"Very, very weird. I wouldn't usually defend that kind of thing; I would never use it no matter what. But in the Malaysian Grand Prix it is so hot, it's like you're doing a work out in the sauna for almost two hours - it's a killer. But after five laps sweat was coming down in my eyes and it was stinging."
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Tom buys rubbish presents
"It was my mum's birthday so I went back down to Plymouth to surprise her. This is going to sound really bad, but I got her a four-day weight loss boot camp. She appreciated it, I think."
And Lewis isn't much smoother at birthday celebrations
"I was lucky enough to get invited to Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday in London and it was really cool because I arrived and I was on his table.
"I was two spots away from him. I had Oprah sitting here, which is crazy. But I noticed that Will Smith was there and I'm a big fan of the Fresh Prince, so I was like, 'I want to meet Will.'
"When everyone starting standing up I was rushing to go meet Will and as I was barging past people. I stood really heavily on someone's foot, I turned back and it was Bill Clinton. I didn't even apologise - I just kept going."
Watch The Clare Balding Show - featuring Daley, Hamilton and England cricket captain Charlotte Edwards - on the iPlayer.
The rig ran aground off Lewis on Monday and has lost more than 12,000 gallons (56,000 litres) of diesel oil from fuel tanks.
Eight experts scaled the rig with ropes on Sunday in order to begin a full assessment of damage.
Earlier attempts to board the structure had been hampered by bad weather.
So far, salvors have only been able to make a short assessment of its condition.
On Sunday, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said rope technicians had created "a safe alternative access" to the rig.
Work was also being done to provide a supply line so the team could get equipment and supplies on board.
The salvors will examine how fuel might be transferred from the rig's diesel oil tanks to other unbreached tanks before any operation to refloat it begins.
Survey work will also be carried out to identify the safest route to move the rig when the time comes.
The MCA said a full assessment would help salvors draw up a more detailed salvage plan.
A 300m (328 yards) exclusion zone remains in place around the rig covering both sea and air, which means no drones will be permitted in the area, although another aircraft has been brought in to help with the work.
The Transocean Winner was being towed from Norway to Malta from where it was to be moved to a yard in Turkey to be broken up.
A tow line between the rig and a tug broke during stormy weather and the structure ran aground at Dalmore at about 07:30 BST on 8 August.
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Players must be voted for by a 40-strong panel of journalists, broadcasters and experts that rewards the best players for each position.
BBC Sport's rugby league experts have revealed their choices, as the team is officially announced on Monday, 28 September.
See who made the team here.
Zak Hardaker (Leeds); Joe Burgess (Wigan), Kallum Watkins (Leeds), Michael Shenton (Castleford), Jermaine McGillvary (Huddersfield); Danny Brough (Huddersfield), Danny McGuire (Leeds); Alex Walmsley (St Helens), James Roby (St Helens), Andy Lynch (Castleford), John Bateman (Wigan), Adam Cuthbertson (Leeds), Sean O'Loughlin (Wigan)
Hardaker is quite simply the best full-back in Super League at the moment by a distance. On the wings, Burgess has had a couple of injury disruptions and a shaky start to the season, but remains an outstanding finisher, while McGillvary is big and powerful, no winger is harder to tackle.
Watkins is not just one of the best centres in this Super League season, but is up there as one of the best in the Super League era. Shenton is playing as well as he's ever done, and that's some standard. In the halves, Brough is the best about, McGuire has had a renaissance year for a real Leeds legend.
Prop Walmsley is the rock on which so much of Saints' good stuff can be built on. Lynch is reaching the veteran stage, but he still grinds out the metres and doesn't seem to stop even when he hits the defensive line. At hooker I was tempted to go for Paul Aiton at Leeds or Michael McIllorum at Wigan, but Roby remains the "go to" man.
Behind them, Bateman played a lot at centre latterly, but the kid's a natural back-rower. He's a great mix of grunt and class. Alongside, Cuthbertson had a shout to get in at prop, loose forward or even hooker. He had to get in. O'Loughlin is a truly outstanding performer.
Zak Hardaker (Leeds); Jermaine McGillvary (Huddersfield), Kallum Watkins (Leeds), Joe Wardle (Huddersfield), Joe Burgess (Wigan); Danny Brough (Huddersfield), Luke Gale (Castleford); Chris Hill (Warrington), James Roby (St Helens), Adam Cuthbertson (Leeds), Zeb Taia (Catalans), Ben Currie (Warrington), Sean O'Loughlin (Wigan)
I've tried to base my 13 as far as possible on individual performance rather than team position in league - some such as Zak Hardaker, Kallum Watkins and James Roby, who would be my Man of Steel, have been outstanding.
I've picked three Huddersfield players as they have shown a tremendous consistency with only four losses in their last 19 league games but never got the credit from some quarters, and in Jermaine McGillvary there is a player whose form must have caught the eye of England coach Steve McNamara.
Anyone surprised by two Warrington players in my 13 shouldn't be. Chris Hill's performance levels are astonishing, while Ben Currie is the most skilful all-round young player in the competition and a tremendous talent.
Like many, loose forward was the problem position but in that case you pick the best and even in only half a season, Sean O'Loughlin's presence in Wigan's side was the catalyst for Warriors' improvement performance-wise in the second half of the campaign.
Zak Hardaker (Leeds); Jermaine McGillvary (Huddersfield), Kallum Watkins (Leeds), Michael Shenton (Castleford), Denny Solomona (Castleford); Luke Gale (Castleford), Danny Brough (Huddersfield); Andy Lynch (Castleford), James Roby (St Helens), Adam Cuthbertson (Leeds), Jack Hughes (Huddersfield), Stevie Ward (Leeds), Ukuma Ta'ai (Huddersfield)
Hardaker's one of the best all-round players - a constant threat. McGillvary's 27 tries reflect only part of his worth to the team, while Denny's injuries have restricted his appearances but he's scored some sensational Tigers tries.
In the centres, Kallum is collecting Dream Team shirts for fun - the perfect centre. And Shenton is 'Captain Fantastic' for the Tigers - he leads by example. Gale, after a slowish start, found his feet to orchestrate some big wins. He has to be in the reckoning for England, while Brough possesses the best kicking game in Super League but has the hands also to open up defences.
Lynch is a modern day freak of a prop who plays better the more minutes he plays, while fellow prop Cuthbertson has proved himself to be the best signing of 2015 across Super League. Hooker could have been Paul Aiton had his season not been ended prematurely through injury but Roby continues to prove himself to be England's first choice.
Hughes is in ahead of Giants' team-mate Joe Wardle, who's been a revelation playing in the back row. Ward has taken on a more senior role within the Leeds team and squad and has flourished as a result. Ta'ai has to be the most improved player in Super League.
Zak Hardaker (Leeds); Ryan Hall (Leeds), Kallum Watkins (Leeds), Michael Shenton (Leeds), Jermaine McGillvary (Huddersfield); Danny Brough (Huddersfield), Danny McGuire (Leeds); Jamie Peacock (Leeds), James Roby (St Helens), Alex Walmsley (St Helens), Ben Currie (Warrington), John Bateman (Wigan), Adam Cuthbertson (Leeds)
When putting together my potential Dream Team this year I found certain positions had a very long list of candidates, while others only had a couple of names worthy of consideration. With the exception of one player (Ben Currie) I have selected a side from the top five teams in the competition, who in my opinion have been a class above the rest.
Man of Steel candidates Zak Hardaker, Adam Cuthbertson (but in which position?) and Alex Walmsley are obvious inclusions, Ryan Hall continues to be the most complete winger in Super League and Jermaine McGillvary's try-scoring form have seen them included as my outside backs.
Danny McGuire is my scrum-half. I believe 2015 has been a great year for the Rhinos stalwart. Ben Currie and John Bateman could be an international second-row pairing in a few years' time and Danny Brough, Jamie Peacock and James Roby have continued to perform at the top level.
Castleford trio Grant Millington, Andy Lynch and Luke Gale, plus Huddersfield's Ukuma Ta'ai, all just miss out for me and would therefore probably be the basis of my bench.
Zak Hardaker (Leeds); Joe Burgess (Wigan), Kallum Watkins (Leeds), Michael Shenton (Castleford), Jermaine McGillvary (Huddersfield); George Williams (Wigan), Luke Gale (Castleford); Adam Cuthbertson (Leeds), James Roby (St Helens), Jamie Peacock (Leeds), Carl Ablett (Leeds), Ben Currie (Warrington), Sean O'Loughlin (Wigan)
Selecting a squad that reflects the best of each position was a lot tougher in some areas than others, I could almost have picked a team of props with Alex Walmsley, Chris Hill and Grant Millington unlucky to be omitted.
Others like Hardaker, O'Loughlin and Roby were the overwhelming stand-outs in their position. I am also firmly behind a centre partnership that could do fine job for England this autumn in Shenton (injury permitting) and Watkins - classy, solid and smart.
I found the halves and back-rowers a tough call too, For example I left out Giants dynamo Danny Brough, but in Williams I have seen a quality, a spark that warranted selection. It was a real 50-50 call. Danny McGuire for Gale perhaps too - but the Tigers half was my gut-instinct pick for his marshalling and running game.
Zeb Taia and Elliott Whitehead could also feel hard done by but Currie has been superb and prolific, while Ablett sets a high standard and has brought best out of Stevie Ward. O'Loughlin, for me, was the best lock - closely followed by Nathan Massey and NRL-bound Tyrone McCarthy.
The Scottish Professional Football League has announced that the Premiership will stop for 19 days from 1 January 2018.
However, the SPFL say a majority of Championship clubs were against the introduction of a mid-season hiatus for the second tier.
The SPFL season across all four divisions will begin on 5 August 2017.
Prior to that August date, the League Cup first round - repeating this season's group stage format - will take place over the last two weeks in July.
And the final of that tournament will again take place in November, with this term's showpiece being played in the autumn after 17 seasons of spring finals.
The Championship and Leagues One and Two will conclude on the weekend of 28 April 2018.
The Premiership season will come to an end on Sunday 13 May 2018, with the Premiership play-off final second leg the following Sunday.
This season, top-flight clubs played their first league fixtures of 2017 over the weekend of 27-29 January, though they had Scottish Cup fourth-round ties the previous weekend.
"The volume of fixturing slots required for international and European football dates continues to represent a great challenge for leagues across Europe, however we have managed to maintain a large degree of consistency for next season in line with the current campaign," said SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster.
"Following overwhelmingly positive feedback regarding this season's winter break, most notably during a recent meeting with Premiership club managers and coaches, we've worked to retain this for season 2017-18. We also asked clubs in the Championship if they would like to see this introduced in their league, however the clear majority of feedback was against this."
League Cup first round group stage - 15, 19, 22, 26 and 29 July 2017
Start of Premiership, Championship, Leagues One and Two - 5 August 2017
League Cup second round - 9 August 2017
League Cup quarter-finals - 19 and 20 September 2017
League Cup semi-finals - 21 and 22 October 2017
League Cup final 26 November 2017
Premiership winter break - 1-19 January 2018
Championship, League 1 and League 2 final fixtures - 28 April
Premiership final fixtures - 12 and 13 May 2018
Premiership play-off final first leg - 17 May 2018
Premiership play-off final second leg - 20 May 2018 (subject to contingency for a club also in the Scottish Cup final)
Analysis of official data reveals that 5.6% of women only stopped working after the age of 70 in 2012. This had risen to 11.3% in 2016.
Worries over pension income and a motivation to stay active have pushed up working ages.
An estimated 15.5% of men stopped work in their 70s in 2016.
Changing laws and workplace regulations, such as the end to age discrimination and the right to request flexible hours, have also helped people to work for longer as longevity increases.
An estimated 150,000 women in the UK are working into their early 70s.
Among them is Ann Green, who runs a fabric stall called Avon Textiles in Bristol's St Nicholas Market. She points to a lack of savings through pensions as the main reason for working on.
"We always invested our money into the business and into property to help us feel secure - so no other security at all," the 70-year-old said.
"It would certainly be a struggle, and life would have to change, if we stopped work."
Women tend to have much smaller sums invested in private pensions, so have less to supplement their income in later life.
Despite changes to the state pension for new retirees, many women have not qualified for the full payout owing to gaps in their national insurance contributions during career breaks to bring up children or other reasons.
Elaine Weston, a 74-year-old former social worker, is one of those who does not receive the full state pension.
Although her jewellery and furniture shop, Bliss, is a labour of love, she too says she needs the extra money.
"Women are getting younger! It is good to keep your brain and yourself active," she said.
"I just need a bit extra [money] to keep going. If I did not do this, I would just try to get a job. They talk about rich pensioners, but a lot of pensioners are not rich."
She said that her house was her financial security, but she would have to sell up and move to a cheaper area if she stopped working.
Nathan Long, senior pension analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown - the investment company that analysed the official figures - said: "This jump in those leaving work over 70 may simply be through individual choice. Workers should be encouraged to work as late in life as they are able and feel is desirable.
"However it is also a reflection of the increasing strain on the pension system. The best days of well-funded early retirement are behind us.
"The risk to employers is of a workforce trapped in jobs they don't want to do, which will inevitably impact on productivity. The government has already set out their vision for fulfilling working lives, but its success requires employers to embrace flexible working, re-education of employees and the transfer of a lifetime of knowledge."
Earlier in the year, the government launched a strategy aimed at encouraging the over-50s to consider a second career to extend their working lives.
"Staying in work for a few more years can make a significant difference, not only to someone's income but also their physical and mental health," said Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green.
"I urge all businesses to reassess the value of older workers. Nobody should write off hiring someone due to their age and it is unacceptable that some older people are overlooked for roles they would suit completely."
Tinkler, 20, joins the Tynesiders for the first part of the season having had experience of the division with North Ferriby United last term.
The Teessider played 15 games and scored four goals at Grange Lane.
He has also played Premier League Two, Premier League Cup and PL International Cup matches for Boro's development squad at under-23 level.
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The My Life, My Death, My Choice campaign has handed in a 2,500 signature petition to the Scottish Parliament.
The group claimed support for a change in the law was at an all-time high.
But opponents of the bill said supporters of assisted suicide were losing the battle of public opinion.
Sheila Duffy of My Life, My Death, My Choice, said: "The petition handover today demonstrates the level of support there is for the bill across Scotland.
"As our campaign has progressed it has become increasingly clear that public support for a change in the law is at an all-time high and this issue is very much something that needs to be looked at closely."
My Life, My Death, My Choice was launched on the back of a poll that suggested that 69% of Scots wanted the Assisted Suicide bill to become law.
The group's petition in favour of the bill is the latest stage in a campaign that began at the start of the year.
Ms Duffy said: "Over the last few months we have spoken to people across Scotland, people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds, from across the political spectrum, of different social and ethnic groups and of different religious beliefs.
"They have all told us the same thing: they want to have this choice should they ever find themselves in this intolerable position.
"We want to ensure that people are provided with appropriate information to make their own, individual, choices and, in certain limited circumstances, given assistance to end their life."
But a spokesman for the umbrella group Care not Killing said that the petition showed "only a fraction of 1% of the population backs the idea - hardly a groundswell of support".
He added: "Allied to this, their own recent poll showed fewer people - 4% less - support the concept now than when they launched a similar bill in 2010, the last time MSPs discussed assisted suicide.
"The current law we have is clear and right. Through its blanket prohibition of assisted suicide it provides a strong disincentive to abuse and exploitation whilst allowing prosecutors and judges discretion in hard cases."
The Green MSP Patrick Harvie will take the legislation forward after the public consultation finishes on Friday.
A previous attempt by Ms MacDonald to pass a right-to-die bill was voted down by MSPs in 2010.
It is not the first time Scotland has hosted the championships, but they are returning to the home of curling after a seven-year absence.
The tournament, which runs from 19-26 November, will has 26 nations represented, with the competition split into two divisions.
Scotland will compete in the elite Division A, with both the men's and women's team battling it out with nine other countries to be European champions.
Bob Kelly, a former Scottish curling champion, helped play a part in bringing the tournament to the Braehead Arena.
As chairman of the local organising committee, he admits this is a ''very proud moment'' for him.
Speaking to BBC Scotland on the eve of the championships, he said: ''I played in the world championships in Braehead in 2000, so it's great to be back, albeit in a different capacity.
''We're hoping for good crowds and we're hoping for great things from our Scottish teams to give the fans plenty to cheer about.''
Both home sides, the men's team led by Tom Brewster and the women's by Eve Muirhead, should be up there challenging come next weekend, but there's stiff competition.
In the men's event, Sweden are the current European Champions and skip Niklas Edin is confident they can defend their title.
''We played our first European championship here in 2009 and we won it, so we've got some good memories and good feelings coming back here," said Edin.
Edin believes his team are in ''the form of their lives''.
"We've just won a couple of grand slam events, so I think we're definitely the favourites going in," he said.
"We need to focus on what we're here doing and if we can do that we have a good chance.''
However, the Swedish captain is also wary of other nations, including Tom Brewster's rink, especially as the will have the home support behind them.
That is a sentiment echoed by Norway skip Thomas Ulsrud, although he admits that playing in front of a home crowd can go either way.
''A couple years ago, we had the European Championships in Norway and that was a different pressure, so it's going to be different for the Scottish boys," said Ulsrud.
"A lot of friends, family and fans are going to show up. If you get off to a good start, it's the best weekend ever, but if you get off to a bad start, it's no advantage to play on home soil."
Ulsrud admits he has a soft spot for Team Brewster.
''I hope they do well," he said. "As long as we beat them in the final, it's okay.''
The Norwegian team are hoping to continue an impressive record in this tournament. They're going for their 10th consecutive European medal.
As well as European glory, the teams next week will also be eyeing potential places at next year's world championships.
The European event acts as a qualifier, with the top seven teams, plus the host nation (Canada for the men), reaching the worlds.
''You want to finish top seven," said Ulsrud. "Our goals are shooting for a medals here, so we should make that."
However Norway fare on the Braehead ice, they certainly will not go unnoticed given their recent tradition of donning rather colourful trousers on the ice.
''For the Olympics in 2010 in Vancouver, we decided to put on colourful pants and, ever since, that has pretty much been our trade mark," Ulsrud added.
"Usually curlers play in black pants, but if we tuned up in black pants, that would be unusual.''
The European Curling Championships get underway at the Braehead Arena on Saturday the 19th of November. Selected group and the concluding deciding final matches featuring the Scottish men's and women's bid for European glory will be streamed live on the BBC Sport website.
The review will be overseen by majority shareholder Mike Ashley, who also owns Newcastle United Football Club.
The company defended itself against recent accusations about its employee practices, denying it "named and shamed" workers over a warehouse tannoy at its Shirebrook site.
It also denied penalising ill staff.
Earlier this month, the sports goods retailer admitted that it searched staff leaving its warehouses, but said it had reduced the amount of time these searches took.
A report in the Guardian suggested the extra, unpaid time taken for "rigorous" compulsory searches meant workers were paid less than the minimum wage.
The Guardian sent undercover reporters to work at Sports Direct's warehouse in Shirebrook in Derbyshire last month.
Sports Direct said it employed a number of its Shirebrook staff through two agencies, which had both told the firm they did not use controversial zero-hours contracts. These are agreements that do not guarantee a minimum amount of work.
In October, a BBC investigation found that ambulances or paramedic cars were called out to Shirebrook 76 times in two years.
Many of the calls were for "life-threatening" illnesses. Former workers said some staff were "too scared" to take sick leave because they feared losing their jobs.
Sports Direct said it did not penalise its staff for being ill. It added: "Sanctions may be applied if workers fail to follow the company's reasonable sickness absence notification procedures, which are in line with industry best practice."
In addition, the company said:
It did admit to using a "strike" system to warn workers of underperformance, but said it would review the practice.
The Guardian reported six strikes in six months would mean a worker would be dismissed.
The retailer also hit back at suggestions it has staff league tables.
The company uses "an anonymous ranking system to monitor performance", it said. A staff number known only to the employment agencies, the company and the worker "benchmarks staff against the anonymised data of their peers" and workers can check their performance "should they wish to do so", it added.
Earlier this week, Business Minister Nick Boles suggested the tax office could take enforcement action if a company was paying less than the minimum wage.
Mr Boles said HM Revenue and Customs "will be listening to this debate".
He was responding to a question from Labour MP Chuka Umunna, who said the company was a "bad advert for British business".
Unite regional officer Luke Primarolo said the union looked forward "to participating fully with Mike Ashley's review".
"Unite has repeatedly raised concerns with the board and Mike Ashley directly about the use of Victorian work practices," he said.
It is made from off-the-shelf technology and is based on equipment used to track pallets in warehouses, said its creator Dr Mark O'Neill.
Readers, used to pick up a signal from the kit, are connected to Raspberry Pi computers, which log the readings.
The device has a reach of up to 2.5m (8.2ft). Previously used models were restricted to 1cm (0.4in).
The tracker consists of a standard RFID (radio frequency identification) chip and a specially designed aerial, which Dr O'Neill has created to be thinner and lighter than other models used to track small insects, allowing him to boost the range.
The engineer, who is technical director at the Newcastle-based tech firm Tumbling Dice, is currently trying to patent the invention.
"The first stage was to make very raw pre-production tags using components I could easily buy", he said.
"I want to make optimised aerial components which would be a lot smaller."
"I've made about 50 so far. I've soldered them all on my desk - it feels like surgery."
The average "forage time" for a worker bee is around 20 minutes, suggesting they have a forage range of around 1km (0.6 miles) , Dr O'Neill explained.
The idea is to have readers dotted around a hive and flower patch in order to track the signals as the bees move around freely in the wild.
The tiny trackers, which are just 8mm (0.3in) high and 4.8mm (1.9in) wide, are stuck to the bees with superglue in a process which takes five to 10 minutes. The bees are chilled first to make them more docile.
"They make a hell of a noise," acknowledged Dr O'Neill.
He told the BBC he hoped that the trackers - which weigh less than a bee and are attached at their centre of gravity so as not to affect their flight - would remain attached for their three-month expected lifespan.
They have only been fitted to worker bees, which do not mate.
"If an animal ate one, I guess it would have a tracker in its stomach," Dr O'Neill said.
"But the attrition rate for field worker bees is very low. Most die of old age - they are very competent, and good at getting out of the way."
Dr Sarah Barlow, a restoration ecologist from Kew Gardens, was involved in testing the as-yet unnamed trackers.
"These tags are a big step forward in radio technology and no one has a decent medium to long range tag yet that is suitable for flying on small insects," she said.
"This new technology will open up possibilities for scientists to track bees in the landscape.
"This piece of the puzzle, of bee behaviour, is absolutely vital if we are to understand better why our bees are struggling and how we can reverse their decline."
In future, such reviews can only come via the online store's own program, Amazon Vine.
A recent study suggested that those who received free or discounted items were much more likely to write a favourable review.
Having product reviews that shoppers can trust has been a huge factor in Amazon's success.
The online retail giant has always prohibited compensation for reviews but had made an exception for reviewers that disclosed that fact.
"These so-called 'incentivised reviews' make up only a tiny fraction of the tens of millions of reviews on Amazon, and when done carefully, they can be helpful to customers by providing a foundation of reviews for new or less well-known products," Chee Chew, vice-president of customer experience at Amazon, wrote in a blog post.
But now it has decided to ban them completely - other than through Amazon's own program, Vine.
"Creating, modifying, or posting content in exchange for compensation of any kind (including free or discounted products) is not allowed," read the updated community guidelines.
A recent study of more than seven million reviews by analysis site ReviewMeta found that the average rating for products with incentivised reviews was higher than those for non-incentivised ones.
Amazon's Vine program invites trusted reviewers to post opinions about new and pre-released items to help shoppers make informed purchase decisions.
"Vine has important controls in place and has proven to be especially valuable for getting early reviews on new products that have not yet been able to generate enough sales to have significant numbers of organic reviews," said Mr Chew.
Reviewers are chosen by Amazon and tend to be people who have developed a reputation for expertise in specific products.
Last year, Amazon sued four companies that it said paid people to produce reviews.
It is also taking legal action against more than 1,000 people it says have offered to submit positive reviews to the site in return for payment.
He has pledged no "gimmicks" but newspaper reports have suggested he is considering tax cuts and could have as much as £5bn for a pre-election "giveaway".
Pre-election Budgets are invariably controversial with many entering political folklore, although former Chancellor Ken Clarke has claimed that no Budgets "in living memory" have changed the outcome of a subsequent election.
How have some of Mr Osborne's predecessors dealt with the twin pressures of securing the nation's finances while trying to deliver their party an election victory?
2010: Alistair Darling (24 March)
What was announced: In the run-up to his third Budget, Mr Darling ruled out any pre-election giveaways, saying his package would be "sensible and workmanlike".
With the UK having recently emerged from recession and with the annual budget deficit running well in excess of £150bn, Mr Darling said his priorities were to get borrowing down and secure the economic recovery.
He announced plans for a number of tax rises on the better-off, saying he would curb personal tax allowances for those earning more than £150,000.
With one eye on May's election, he vowed to phase in planned rises in fuel duty, promised an extra £600m for winter fuel allowance and offered to suspend stamp duty on home purchases by first-time buyers of up to £250,000.
Among the more eye-catching proposals was a planned 10% rise in duty on cider.
There was no increase in VAT despite speculation in advance that it had been considered and rumours of a disagreement between Mr Darling and then Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
What happened next? Mr Darling stood down as chancellor five days after the general election when the Conservatives and Lib Dems formed a coalition government, although he remained as shadow chancellor for a further five months.
In his "emergency" Budget in June, the new chancellor George Osborne reversed some of his predecessor's measures, including the 10% tax on cider - although Labour had already effectively ditched the plan due to opposition.
However some other measures in Mr Darling's Budget - including a four-year freeze on inheritance tax thresholds - survived the change of government.
Mr Osborne also chose not to reverse a rise in the top rate of tax from 40p to 50p, announced by Mr Darling in 2009 but which only came into force in April 2010.
The main announcement in Mr Osborne's first Budget was a rise in VAT from 17.5% to 20%, something Labour had flirted with but decided against a few months earlier.
1996: Ken Clarke (26 November)
What was announced: Although the 1997 general election was held in May, the Conservatives - trailing Labour badly in the polls at the time - opted to announce their final Budget nearly six months earlier, at the end of November 1996.
In his speech, Chancellor Kenneth Clarke said the UK was experiencing a "Rolls-Royce recovery - built to last" and predicted economic growth of 3.5% in 1997.
He cut the basic level of income tax from 24p to 23p and raised inheritance tax thresholds to £215,000.
Mr Clarke, the last Chancellor to sip alcohol during his Budget address, reduced duty on spirits but announced a 40% increase on tax on so-called alcopops.
What happened next? Following Labour's landslide, Mr Clarke stood for Conservative leader but was defeated by William Hague and had returned to the backbenches by the time Gordon Brown delivered his first Budget in July 1997.
Labour had already said it would stick to Conservative spending plans for the first two years and it left a number of other measures in Mr Clarke's final Budget untouched.
However, Mr Brown increased tobacco duties by 2p on top of what the Conservatives had done and announced an inflation-linked rise in alcohol duties pending a review of taxation on the industry.
Mr Brown also outlined plans to introduce a 10p "starting rate" of tax on incomes - which took effect in 1999 - and, in the most headline-grabbing move, confirmed the long-trailed £3.5bn windfall tax on the profits of the privatised utilities.
1992: Norman Lamont (11 March)
What was announced: Norman Lamont delivered his second Budget as chancellor on 11 March, less than six weeks before the general election.
Branding it as a "Budget for recovery" after the 1990-1991 recession, Mr Lamont announced a £2bn tax giveaway, halving the sales tax on new cars, cutting betting duty and introducing a new 20% income tax band on the first £2,000 of taxable income.
Labour attacked the package as a "panic-stricken pre-election sweetener" while some economists questioned the lack of action to reduce double-digit interest rates.
What happened afterwards: The Conservatives narrowly won the 1992 election but Mr Lamont's joy was short-lived as the UK crashed out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism and interest rates rose briefly to 15%.
The government's reputation was tarnished by the debacle but Mr Lamont survived to deliver the next Budget in March 1993, where he began a major fiscal consolidation to deal with rising deficit levels.
Mr Lamont' decision to introduce VAT on domestic fuel bills - initially at 8% but rising to 17.5% - was attacked as "shameful" by Labour which said it directly contradicted election promises. He was replaced as chancellor by Ken Clarke two months later and although the economy bounced back the party lost heavily in 1997.
1987: Nigel Lawson (17 March)
What was announced: His Budget speech may have been the shortest for more than 100 years but Nigel Lawson's package - delivered weeks before the general election - was one of the most political of the Thatcher era.
The Budget contained across-the-board tax cuts worth billions.
In what Labour described as a "bribes Budget", Mr Lawson cut the basic rate of income tax by 2% to 27%, froze excise duties, abolished the tax on on-course betting, cut the duty on unleaded petrol and further reduced so-called "death duties".
What happened next? The Conservatives were comfortably re-elected, albeit with a smaller majority than four years earlier.
A year later, Nigel Lawson continued his tax-cutting push, cutting the basic rate of income tax to 25% and increasing personal tax allowances by double the rate of inflation - moves which critics said helped contribute to the inflationary boom which followed.
1979: Denis Healey (April 3)
What was announced: Known as the "caretaker Budget", it came shortly after Labour government lost a vote of confidence in the House of Commons, triggering an election.
Prime Minister Jim Callaghan still had to keep the business of government going and Chancellor Denis Healey's statement was designed to ensure taxes continued to be raised until a new administration was elected.
Mr Healey had limited room for manoeuvre politically and economically, significant net tax cuts having been agreed the year before, and critics said the whole episode was little more a Finance Bill in disguise.
Although child benefit was increased, Labour MPs complained the Budget, which was framed with the co-operation of the Conservatives, was not political enough.
What happened next? After Labour's defeat, the new Conservative government delivered an emergency Budget in June, marking a major change in economic direction.
Chancellor Geoffrey Howe raised VAT from 12.5% - on luxury items - and 8% on most other goods to a single rate of 15%, a move strongly criticised by Labour.
The basic rate of income tax was cut from 33% to 30% and the top rate was reduced from 83% to 60% on "earned income".
1970: Roy Jenkins (April 15)
What was announced: Labour Chancellor Roy Jenkins pledged a "modest stimulus" to an economy that was still recovering from the devaluation of sterling three years earlier.
New tax reliefs worth £220m were announced as was a cut in interest rates to 7%.
But by proceeding, in his words, "fairly cautiously", Jenkins incurred the wrath of some Labour MPs who believed the Budget was not generous enough while the package was labelled in the media as a "non-election" Budget.
What happened next: Labour surprisingly lost the election to the Conservatives. In the 1971 Budget new Chancellor Anthony Barber announced a new value added tax (VAT) would come into force in 1973.
The eastern side of Aleppo has been pulverised.
Running water and mains power are a memory. It is hard to find a building that is not badly damaged. Many look as if they could collapse at any time.
Rubble from the buildings that were flattened by artillery fire, barrel bombs or air strikes block many of the streets.
Dozens of bulldozers have been working for more than a month to clear a path through the debris.
East Aleppo remains a deeply inhospitable environment.
But the UN estimates that 40,000 people so far, and more every day, have decided to come back here. They are moving into their old homes or unoccupied buildings that look as if they might do, for a while at least.
Abu Hussein, a man in his 50s, was remarkably cheerful as he stood with his wife Umm Hussein and looked down from their balcony on to the rubble that makes his street impassable for any vehicle.
"Nothing is better or more beautiful than our home," he said. "It's the place to be in good times or in bad."
His family's flat is in Shaar, one of the poorest quarters in East Aleppo. The area is made up mainly of cramped concrete tenements five or six stories high - at least those still standing.
In Abu Hussein's street, some buildings have collapsed in on themselves.
Others have had the fronts ripped off, like dolls' houses in a nightmare, exposing beds still made up with sheets and blankets, and sofas teetering close to falling into the street.
Abu Hussein said he was happy because he was home, even though his flat was dark and cold.
His wife cooks on a small charcoal grill on the stairwell.
The glass in the windows has gone. It is so well ventilated that the dank mist of a winter's evening seeped in.
He had spent much of last year with his in-laws, he said, and the sooner they tried to make a go of it back home the better.
Abu Hussein and his wife have a two-year-old son who is still with her parents. They have no jobs, and the small amount of money they had saved went long ago.
"Of course we have hope," Umm Hussein said. "We'll rebuild and we'll find a solution."
They left East Aleppo two days before the start last year of the major offensive by the Syrian army, backed by Russia and Iran, which by Christmas had beaten the rebels and reunited the city.
During the years when the east was isolated, then besieged, it was possible to cross to government-controlled West Aleppo.
Abu Hussein said the trip, which now takes 15 minutes, was possible for anyone who was prepared to take a 17-hour journey through territory controlled by Syria's galaxy of armed groups, including the rebel Free Syrian Army, Kurdish militias, the jihadists of so-called Islamic State, and the armed forces of the Syrian government.
The United Nations, which spent more than $200m (£162m) on relief work in Aleppo last year, is particularly concerned that the poor in Shaar have come back out of desperation to a place that is still dangerous.
Relief agencies have put water tanks in the streets. Children struggle through mud and rubble to help their families by carrying water home.
Aleppo has changed since the government and its allies won the battle for the city last month.
It no longer feels like a wartime city. Outgoing artillery fire is still a steady drumbeat, aimed at rebel front lines that are not far away.
The country is at war. But Aleppo's war is over. In the ruins, people are thinking about the future.
Slowly but steadily, some of Syria's millions of displaced people are returning, desperate or optimistic, or both.
Large areas of the east side of the city are ghost towns, but there is every chance that more returnees will come back looking for a home once the weather gets warmer in the spring.
The battle for Aleppo was the most decisive of the war.
It is a long time since the war was merely a contest between President Bashar al-Assad and armed groups who wanted to destroy the regime.
So many foreign powers have intervened that this has become an international conflict. Syria has layers of war and not all of them are about the future of the Assad regime.
The intervention of Russia and Iran tipped the balance in Aleppo. Mr Assad and his allies can, for the first time, smell victory.
Foreigners, not Syrians, are setting the pace. And at the moment it looks as if foreign powers will dictate how the war ends.
Mr Trump tweeted that Mr Lewis was "all talk" and should focus on his constituents, after he said Mr Trump was not a legitimate president.
But Mr Lewis' supporters reacted with anger, saying he was a hero and icon.
Mr Lewis was a leading figure in the 1960s civil rights movement.
He is the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington, led by Martin Luther King.
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The row came as civil rights activists led by Rev Al Sharpton began a week of protests ahead of Mr Trump's inauguration on 20 January.
Several thousand protesters braved near-freezing temperatures to march to the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington DC, chanting "No justice, no peace".
In a separate development on Saturday, African American Broadway star Jennifer Holliday pulled out of performing at the inauguration after pressure from followers, many of them from the LGBT community.
Holliday, who has sung for both Republican and Democrat presidents, apologised for her "lapse of judgement" and said she did not realise her participation would be seen as expressing support for Mr Trump.
Mr Lewis, a Democrat, said on Friday he would not attend the inauguration on the grounds that he did not see the Republican as a legitimate president.
"I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected," he told NBC's Meet the Press. "And they helped destroy the candidacy of [Democrat] Hillary Clinton."
Mr Trump responded in tweets on Saturday: "Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime-infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad!"
But Mr Lewis' supporters were quick to rally round.
California Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat, said it was wrong to treat him in this way.
"John Lewis is an icon of the Civil Rights Movement who is fearless in the pursuit of justice and equality," she tweeted. "He deserves better than this."
Others mentioned Mr Lewis' bravery and the fact that the exchange had taken place on the eve of Martin Luther King Day, on 16 January.
Many of them linked to photos of the two men, or to the 1965 so-called Bloody Sunday march in Alabama, in which Mr Lewis received a fractured skull as the protest was violently broken up by police.
Republican Senator Ben Sasse tweeted his support, saying Mr Lewis' "talk" had changed the world. However, he said he disagreed with his decision to boycott the inauguration, adding: "It isn't about a man. It is a celebration of peaceful transfer of power."
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That is according to a report by the Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers.
Donna Murphy has been a social worker for 20 years and says her job has become increasingly complex.
They want to sample rock from the planet's mantle - its deep interior.
In the process, the researchers hope to check their assumptions about the materials from which the crust itself is made.
It will probably take several years to drop the full 5 to 5.5km, says co-team leader, Prof Chris MacLeod.
This is in addition to the 700m of water between the drilling ship, the Joides Resolution (JR), and the seabed.
"In total, we think it will take three expeditions," the Cardiff University geologist told BBC News.
"The science is approved and we have funding for this initial two-month investigation. But we will need to come back and we may not complete the task until the 2020s."
There have been several attempts to drill into the mantle, but none has yet succeeded.
This latest effort may fare better, however, because faulting and erosion have already thinned the crust at the targeted drill site, known as Atlantis Bank on the South West Indian Ridge of the Indian Ocean.
The project, which is running under the auspices of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), would give scientists access ultimately to fresh, unaltered peridotite - the rock, rich in olivine minerals, that, because of the size of the mantle, makes up the bulk material of the planet's interior.
This is a worthwhile goal in itself. But as they sink deeper and deeper, the researchers want also to test current models for how the crust is constructed and constituted.
In particular, Prof MacLeod is keen to probe the so-called Moho boundary.
This is the famous "discontinuity" where seismic waves from earthquakes abruptly change speed.
The textbook explanation is that the Moho draws the line between the crust and the mantle: a demarcation between familiar igneous surface rocks - such as granites, basalts and gabbros - and those of the interior peridotites.
But Prof MacLeod suspects the discontinuity could also describe in places the depth to which water has managed to penetrate into the peridotites to produce a different type of rock known as serpentinite.
Given that the seismic signature of this material is essentially the same as crustal igneous rocks, there is no way of telling - other than to drill and sample everything between the seabed and the top few hundred metres of unadulterated mantle.
If proven correct, the more sophisticated Moho description would have a number of far-reaching consequences for our understanding of how the planet is put together.
For a start, it would mean the igneous ocean crust is far more variable in thickness and in structure than previously recognised.
"The Moho is pretty uniform everywhere across the ocean basins, and because of that everyone has assumed that the ocean crust is very uniform and therefore, by inference, very simple," explained Prof MacLeod.
"But if we're right here, it changes the game completely. If the Moho seismic boundary is actually an alteration boundary from water penetration into the mantle, it means we know a lot less about the ocean crust than we did."
And it might also say something really quite profound about life on Earth, because the process of making serpentinites (serpentinisation) is a huge draw for microbes.
The hydrogen and methane produced as the peridotites' olivine minerals are altered in contact with water can be metabolised by single-celled organisms. If serpentinite is shown to be more extensive than current models accept, then it means assessments of the scale of the biology occurring inside the Earth has also been greatly underestimated.
"If there's far more serpentinite down there, goodness knows how much of it has microbes in it," said Prof MacLeod.
Tuesday sees the IODP Expedition 360 team board the Joides Resolution in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The ship should put to sea later this week.
Because Atlantis Bank has been drilled before, and its condition is known, fairly swift progress is expected on this first outing, with the hole being opened to a depth of perhaps 1.3km below the seabed.
Assuming all goes well, the next opportunity to drop the hole further still may come in 2018. This would be dependent on funding and of a capable ship like the JR being available.
Expedition 360 can be followed live on the web, here and here.
Schools and the public are also being encouraged to contact and interact with the science team directly.
Expedition members will also be tweeting using the hashtag #exp360.
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A beautiful sunny day greeted the first Saturday of the English Football League season, just 68 days after the 2015-16 campaign came to a close with the League Two play-off final at Wembley.
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The head of its South Korean division was attacked by angry relatives as he apologised at a Seoul hotel.
Reckitt Benckiser is among several firms whose products are blamed for the deaths.
It has offered compensation to the families of those who died, as well as the hundreds more who were injured.
Reckitt Benckiser withdrew its product from the market after South Korean authorities suggested a link between chemicals to sterilise humidifiers and lung conditions in 2011.
"This is the first time we are accepting the fullest responsibility, and we are offering a complete and full apology. We were late, five years have passed," Ataur Safdar said.
He added that the company was setting up a multi-million dollar humanitarian fund for the victims and their families.
Many are said to be children or pregnant women.
His apology was rejected by relatives at the news conference, at least one of whom hit him shortly after he took to the stage, and he was jostled and heckled.
About 500 people are reported to have died or been injured after inhaling poisonous chemicals used in humidifier disinfectants manufactured and sold by several companies in South Korea from 2001 to 2011.
Sources: RB website, financial statements
Reckitt Benckiser has been criticised for previously refusing to take responsibility.
Patty O'Hayer, a spokesperson for Reckitt Benckiser, told the BBC that the South Korean government had so far linked 177 cases to its product.
But the process of identifying possible victims was not yet complete.
She said the firm would compensate those who were "likely or very likely" to have been made ill by its humidifier steriliser.
The company, which also makes painkiller Nurofen, was fined last week in Australia for misleading customers.
A court ruled that products marketed as targeting specific pains, such as migraine, were actually identical.
Not surprisingly it was the home side who dominated against the basement strugglers, striker Michael Mandron had to be marshalled effectively for Gary Mills's men to hang on in the first half.
Normal service was resumed soon after the interval as Mandron rose to glance in Andy Drury's cross and put the Spitfires in front.
But Simon Heslop had clearly not read the script as he controlled a long ball over the top superbly on his chest, and slid a shot low under the despairing Ryan Clarke to secure an unlikely point for the Minstermen.
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Match ends, Eastleigh 1, York City 1.
Match ends, Eastleigh 1, York City 1.
Second Half ends, Eastleigh 1, York City 1.
Richard Brodie (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Jai Reason replaces Andy Drury.
Michael Green (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Eastleigh 1, York City 1. Simon Heslop (York City).
Substitution, Eastleigh. Ryan Bird replaces James Constable.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Jamie Cureton replaces Alefe Santos.
James Constable (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, York City. Callum Rzonca replaces Daniel Galbraith.
Substitution, York City. Shaun Rooney replaces Alex Whittle.
Substitution, York City. Richard Brodie replaces Charlie Cooper.
Goal! Eastleigh 1, York City 0. Mikael Mandron (Eastleigh).
Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, York City 0.
First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, York City 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The Uthukela municipality in KwaZulu-Natal province introduced the bursaries to reduce Aids and child pregnancies.
But the Commission for Gender Equality ruled that a bursary "contingent on a female student's virginity is fundamentally discriminatory".
The scheme caused an uproar when it was unveiled earlier this year.
In a ruling made after rights groups referred the scheme to it, the commission said: "It goes against the ethos of the constitutional provisions in relation to dignity, equality and discrimination."
"Virginity is not intrinsic to the task of studying," it added.
The municipality, which is in a socially conservative part of South Africa, has not yet commented.
The commission has given it 60 days to respond to its recommendation that the scheme should be closed, the AFP news agency reports.
An estimated 6.3 million people in South Africa are HIV-positive, with more than one in 10 people living with the virus.
Teenage pregnancy are also on the rise in South Africa.
In 2013, a government-backed survey found that teen pregnancies had risen to nearly 100,000, up from 68,000 just two years earlier.
When the scheme was unveiled, Uthukela mayor Dudu Mazibuko said the virginity tests would not be carried out by the municipality or universities.
Instead, schoolgirls who had already undergone the tests as part of an annual ceremony hosted by the Zulu king would qualify for the bursaries, she said.
Teenage pregnancy in South Africa
Source: Human Sciences Research Council, World Bank; Stats SA 2013
Education Scotland said there were "significant and important areas for improvement" at Argyll and Bute Council.
It highlighted a series of weaknesses, including low morale among staff and head teachers and their "poor relationships" with elected members.
The council said "changes for the better" were already happening, but it had concerns about the report.
It insisted children were getting a "good foundation for learning" at schools in Argyll and Bute.
The report comes as the government considers the role councils across Scotland should have in education.
Argyll and Bute has 89 schools, with many serving isolated or rural communities. Of its 78 primary schools, almost half have a roll of 25 or less.
Individual schools were not singled out for criticism by the watchdog. Among a number of concerns it outlined were:
It also criticised the relationship between some councillors and education staff.
The report read: "Poor relationships between some centrally-based staff, head teachers and a few elected members remain an ongoing issue and present challenges to improvement.
"Relationships with a few councillors and other elected representatives are strained and, at times, unnecessarily adversarial.
"There is still significant room for improvement in relationships and in the morale of staff, overall."
It went on: "Whilst there are a few areas of strength, there remain significant areas for improvement in how well the education authority has achieved positive outcomes for its children and young people ."
However, Ann Marie Knowles, the council's executive director of community services, defended the education service.
She said: "Our children are getting a good foundation for learning when they start their education in Argyll and Bute. They are leaving us well-equipped to build happy, prosperous lives.
"Our service already boasts a number of key strengths and we are already taking action to progress improvement where needed. Change for the better is happening already.
"We will continue to work with Education Scotland as part of our drive for excellence.
"However, we have concerns about the process and outcomes of this inspection which took place in September last year.
"We will hold a special meeting of the community services committee in April to fully discuss this report and outline those concerns. Education Scotland will be invited to attend."
The Scottish government is currently reviewing arrangements for school governance around Scotland.
It is looking at what powers to give head teachers, what councils should remain responsible for and what planned new regional boards should do.
Some in local government fear they will be sidelined although the government has stressed councils will still have an important role to play.
Details of the government's plans are expected in June.
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Hodgson quit after England suffered a shock defeat by Iceland in the last 16 of Euro 2016.
"It's not something I think I would get offered, but I would never rule it in to be honest," said Coleman, who has guided Wales into the semi-finals.
"I'm a Welshman through and through. At international football, it was only Wales and it would only ever be Wales."
Coleman, who is under contract for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, said his next job will probably be abroad, with a club competing in the Champions League.
"I quite fancy the chance of going abroad again, because I think that's my best chance of managing in the Champions League," said the former Fulham, Coventry, Real Sociedad and Larissa boss.
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"When you're talking about Champions League football in the Premier League, you're talking about the top clubs.
"It's not something I think I'd get linked with, so my best chance of managing Champions League football would be abroad.
"It's an ambition of mine. But to manage another country? No, I wouldn't. That's not something I would consider."
Wales are the first home nation to reach the semi-finals of a major tournament since England at Euro 1996.
Having beaten Belgium 3-1 in Friday's quarter-final, they face Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal in Lyon on Wednesday.
It is widely regarded as the biggest ever game for the country, but Coleman insists there is no pressure on his side.
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"The bigger countries have got to get into the quarter-finals, semi-finals, final," said Coleman.
"We didn't. We had to come and perform for us.
"I thought we had a good chance of getting to the quarter-final, but I never came out and said to the players: 'That is what we can do'.
"Other countries who've been there before... the pressure is different for them."
Angel Road Infant and Junior schools, in Norwich, have given their backing to the volunteer wardens, who speak to drivers and take down number plates.
Parent Michelle Shepherd said: "People parking illegally put children's lives at risk, so it has to stop."
Offenders face a £100 fine and three penalty points if police take action.
Mother-of-two Ms Shepherd said: "The parking has been absolutely atrocious for the past year.
"We approached the school and said something needs to be done drastically before someone is hurt.
"Anyone parking on double yellows, yellow zigzags, dropping off, picking up, they are being noted down and spoken to."
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She added: "I am sympathetic. It's hard to get to children to school, but they need to leave earlier."
She said number plates of repeat offenders are sent to police if drivers do not heed repeated warnings.
Chris Read, head teacher of both schools, said it was happy to support the wardens.
Asked if reporting offenders to police was elevating the issue too quickly, he said: "I don't think we are elevating anything, if people are parking illegally... the rules are there to keep children safe."
Norwich City Council said it tried to send its parking enforcement team to all 40 schools in Norwich as regularly as possible.
"When a particular parking concern is brought to our attention, we aim to follow up with a visit and will take action where necessary."
Norfolk Police is yet to comment.
RMT members at Southern Railway, Merseyrail and Northern (Arriva Rail North) will walk out on 30 May.
The 24-hour strike is the latest in a bitter dispute over staffing and plans to introduce new driver-operated-only (DOO) trains.
It will be the 32nd day of industrial action by Southern workers, who started holding strikes a year ago.
Talks on Monday between the RMT and Southern were adjourned for both sides to "consider their positions".
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), which owns Southern, replaced conductors with "on-board supervisors" (OBS) to work across different services but without the responsibility of closing doors - which has switched to train drivers.
The union said its decision to announce fresh industrial action comes in response to Southern revealing during Monday's negotiations that more than 8,000 trains a year will run without an OBS.
Mick Cash, RMT general secretary, added: "That represents a serious safety and accessibility risk and short of the guarantee of a second safety qualified member of staff."
Andy Bindon, a director at GTR, said it was "hugely disappointed" with the strike, and added: "The RMT's proposals would mean cancelling trains and reducing service levels to our passengers.
"Our service levels are stabilising at the highest we've seen in years and we cannot agree to anything which will jeopardise running trains and the service to our passengers."
In its dispute with Northern, Mr Cash said the union was "angry and frustrated" with the company's planned policy of a minimum of 50% DOO trains.
Richard Allan, deputy managing director of Northern, said changes needed to be made to the on-board role as the railway is modernised.
He added: "We believe we would keep a second person on many of our services and, at some locations, we may choose to staff the station to give better support to customers."
The company is also offering to protect workers' jobs and pay, and offer annual pay reviews for existing conductors if a deal is agreed.
The RMT said Merseyrail's "pig-headed attitude" had forced its hand to strike for a third time.
The union claimed that during talks Merseyrail had refused to set up a "safety working group", alongside external safety bodies and the train manufacturer Stadler, on the principle that a second safety-critical person would be retained across all services.
Jan Chaudhry-van der Velde, Merseyrail's managing director, said the region was becoming a "pawn in the RMT's national game".
He added: "We had several meetings with the RMT. In the last one, Merseyrail put forward a number of initiatives, which we were willing to explore through a series of working groups.
"These included having a second member of staff on trains after 8pm. Unfortunately, the RMT would not talk about these things unless we committed to a second safety critical person on every single train."
Members of drivers' union Aslef - also involved in a row with Southern over the same issue - rejected a deal with the train operator in February, and again last month.
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The 38-year-old has set off from Dakar in Senegal to swim to Natal in Brazil. He's hoping to raise £1m for charity and to finish the challenge in March.
Other people have attempted the swim but were not ratified by Guinness World Records.
The Tories took control of Bath and North East Somerset Council from the Lib Dems and Gloucester City Council, which was under no overall control.
The party held on to Cotswold, Mendip and Sedgemoor district councils, North Somerset and Swindon Borough councils.
The Lib Dems lost overall control of South Somerset District Council.
In the Forest of Dean District Council the Conservatives are the largest party but the district council remains under no overall control, as does Bristol City Council and Stroud District Council.
Conservatives took control of Taunton Deane Borough Council from no overall control and retained Tewkesbury Borough Council and West Somerset Council.
At South Gloucestershire Council, the party also increased its numbers, but it was just shy of a majority.
The Royal Mint designed the coin and carried out research which found support for the concept.
The idea was recommended to Chancellor George Osborne to commemorate the Queen's 60 years on the throne.
But papers from the Royal Mint Advisory Committee show the plan was shelved as the commemorative coin programme was already "sufficiently comprehensive".
The plan came to light following a Freedom of Information request to the committee by the Press Association.
The Royal Mint has not released an image of the proposed coin, which would have been a commemorative collectable, rather than in general circulation.
The letter to Mr Osborne, dated 24 February 2011, said an event of "huge national importance" should be marked with more than one type of coin.
"The proposed coin would be a six-sided bi-colour coin with round of nickel-brass and a shaped outer of cupro-nickel," it read.
The recommendation, which also included a Diamond Jubilee kilo coin, added: "It is judged that the issue of these new United Kingdom coins will be free from any risk of controversy and will, in fact, meet with wide general appeal."
But the 60p piece was not included in the coins released for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, which sold thousands and included different versions of a £5 coin.
Gerry Buddle, a specialist at the London Numismatic Club, said the 60p coin would have had a "certain curiosity interest" but he suspected it was rejected by senior staff at the Mint for being "too gimmicky".
Last month, the signals intelligence operation opened a Twitter account - "Hello World," was its first offering - and last night its director spoke for an hour at an event where he even took questions from members of the public.
Mind you, this was friendly territory - the Cheltenham Science Festival in GCHQ's home town.
The session had been billed as an interview between the Times journalist Ben Macintyre and "a senior GCHQ official", but the level of security in the town's Imperial Gardens was an indicator of just how senior that official might be.
So the audience - some of whom probably worked for him - cannot have been surprised when Robert Hannigan walked on to the stage.
The GCHQ director - a career civil servant who cut his teeth negotiating with paramilitaries during the Northern Ireland peace process - was frank about his motives in making this rare public appearance.
"Over the past few years we've been talked about by people who are not necessarily our greatest fans", so it was important for a democracy to explain a little more about how the agency operated, he said.
So what did we learn? We heard a robust defence of the agency's methods - in particular its use of bulk data to track terrorist targets identified by MI5 and MI6.
All recent counterterrorism operations, including seven attacks frustrated in the UK over the past 18 months, had depended on GCHQ's access to this kind of data, Mr Hannigan said.
No, Edward Snowden had not sparked a global debate about privacy - that had been under way already - but terrorist targets GCHQ had been tracking had learned from his revelations with heavens knows what consequences, he said.
Ben Macintyre pointed to an article this week about a leaked document suggesting UK intelligence agencies were sweeping up far more data than they could possibly analyse. Was GCHQ being swamped?
Mr Hannigan would not comment on the article but said it was a fallacy to suggest that "just by having less data you will stumble across the thing you want".
"What you absolutely need to do is to be very ruthless and clever in selecting the data you need," he said.
He reached back into GCHQ's history for an example to reinforce his argument.
At Bletchley Park, the wartime code-breaking centre that had broken the German Enigma system, there had been no way even the very large numbers of staff could look at the huge volume of messages, Mr Hannigan said.
"The clever thing was to work out which messages we needed to put the effort into decrypting," he said.
"So this is not a new problem for us."
And the problem was about to get harder as data went through another explosion with the so-called internet of things.
The GCHQ boss referred to a BBC News report this week about security problems with a wi-fi-enabled car, and said his agency would have to get even better at discarding most of the vast ocean of data that would flow across the world as every object was connected to the internet.
We learned a little about life inside the GCHQ building, which, with its branches of Starbucks and Costa Coffee and pizza for late-working engineers, was made to sound a bit like any tech company.
We were told the agency could not pay as well as Google but offered other satisfactions - climbing a tower in Iraq to fix a communications dish, helping catch terrorists and child abusers.
Mr Hannigan negotiated a couple of mildly tricky questions from the audience.
Asked about the threat to its secrets from quantum computing, he said it was some way away but GCHQ was working on that and was a big supporter of strong encryption.
On the EU referendum, he laughed nervously and said the government's position was clear, that we were safer in, but people had to make up their own minds.
It was a deft performance - intriguing nuggets rather than Earth-shattering information handed out by a man who seemed more confident on a public stage than you might expect from someone who spends his working life in the shadows.
But critics of GCHQ will point out that the Investigatory Powers Bill, which they believe gives his and other agencies far too much access to our private data, has made its way through the Commons this week with the support of much of the opposition.
It is an irony that while Mr Hannigan was pulling back the curtain just a little on Britain's spying operations, the politicians who oversee him have changed the rules with barely any public debate.
Thai-based SSI took over the former Tata Steel complex in Redcar after it was mothballed in 2010.
The company said preparations were under way to cut production during the day and cited ongoing issues with the supply of raw materials and services.
A spokesman said the announcement was made with "great regret" but a union leader described it as "devastating".
Operation of the South Bank Coke Ovens, which employs 150 people, will cease first before production stops.
Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, Tom Blenkinsop, said: "I know unions will be working closely with those workers to offer all the support they can but my heart goes out to those workers and their families."
The Redcar Coke Ovens and the Power Station will continue to operate but at a reduced level.
Chief operating officer Cornelius Louwrens, said: "We are deeply aware of the concern it will give to our employees and their families.
"Our parent company and other stakeholders have given great support to the business, and the decision to pause our iron and steel production has been taken reluctantly and in a scenario where no other practical options are available at present.
"Discussions will be held as soon as possible with our trade unions and employee representatives to clarify the effect the production pause will have on our employees."
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of steelworkers' union Community said: "This is devastating news. Our first thoughts are with the workers who will be affected by today's announcement.
"We will be seeking urgent talks with SSI management to find out the full extent of the impact this will have on both SSI employees and contractors.
"In the coming days we will do all we can to support our members."
MP for Stockton South and Northern Powerhouse Minister, James Wharton, said: "It's not necessarily the end of the story for steel on Teesside...but it's clearly a difficult time."
He added: "There's no denying it's significant and it's not good news. We have to make sure the impact is minimised and we do everything we can to try to mitigate what the knock-on effect could be on the economy on Teesside and in the UK."
Last month the company warned the plant's future was at risk, citing a slump in demand for steel in China and Russia for its problems.
Mr Louwrens said the price paid for slab steel had plummeted from $500 (£318) a tonne to below $300 (£191) over the past year.
Business Minister Anna Soubry, said: "This is disappointing news. The government stands ready to assist workers where needed.
"The steel industry is going through a tough time. The price of steel has plummeted as worldwide production rises and sales fail to pick up.
"Government can't fix the price of steel but we are doing what we can to help."
Gareth Stace, director of UK Steel, said the time for "warm words" from the government had passed and its promise to "hold a crisis summit" about the industry "cannot happen soon enough".
He said the government needed to act decisively otherwise "the damage to one of the most important industries underpinning our entire manufacturing industry will be irreversible".
At full capacity the Redcar plant produces up to 400 slabs of steel a day, each weighing up to 33 tonnes.
About £1bn has been invested in reopening the blast furnace.
A lifeboat crew was called to help the 13-year-old boy who was stranded on the pontoon off Portsmouth Harbour at about 20:30 BST on Wednesday.
The crew said it found the "exhausted" boy curled up, unresponsive to the shine of a spot lamp or their calls.
He was taken to paramedics on the shore and treated after he showed signs of the onset of hypothermia.
It is believed the boy had been swimming from a pier near Portchester sailing club with a group of friends at about 17:00 BST. His friends had left with only one remaining to call for assistance, the RNLI said.
The charity urged people to use its Respect the Water campaign which aims to halve the rate of drownings by 2024.
Moran made 379 appearances for Liverpool between 1952 and 1966 and was the club's longest-serving employee when he retired in 1998.
He joined the coaching staff in 1966 and twice filled in as caretaker manager - after Kenny Dalglish's resignation in 1991 and following Graeme Souness' heart surgery in 1992.
His son confirmed he had passed away on Wednesday after a short illness.
Moran worked under nine different managers during his time in the dugout.
He famously led Liverpool out at Wembley in the 1992 FA Cup Final while caretaker manager while Souness was recovering from surgery.
The Crosby-born defender won 44 trophies during nearly five decades with the club.
A left-back in his playing days, Moran signed for Liverpool as a schoolboy in 1949 before turning professional in 1952 and making his debut in November that year.
He won seven major honours as a player, including leading the club to the Football League First Division title in 1963-64 and 1965-66 and the FA Cup in 1964-65 as captain.
After being offered a role on the backroom staff by Bill Shankly in the pre-season of the 1966-67 season, Moran was involved as the Reds won 11 league titles and four European Cups.
Working under Shankly, Moran was known as one of the 'Bootroom Boys' alongside Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Kenny Dalglish and Reuben Bennett.
Moran was assistant to Roy Evans during much of his spell as manager of the club.
Evans told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast: "I joined in 1964 and he was playing in those days, then he became a coach. He was one of those guys, Mr Liverpool.
"Any player will tell you they've had a spat with Ronnie. He'd be the first to tell you off and the first to be on your side to become a better player. He will be remembered with great love and affection. Ronnie Moran is one of the greats of Liverpool."
Former Liverpool midfielder Ray Houghton described Moran as "a key member" of successful coaching teams at the club.
"He would have done anything for the club," Houghton told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.
"I learned so much from him and he nurtured so many good players. A very humble man and a very honest one."
Joe Corrigan, who arrived at Anfield as goalkeeper coach in 1994, said Moran was a "fantastic" and "private" man.
"He helped me so much, showed me what Liverpool Football Club was all about and he was a great asset to the club," Corrigan told 5 live. "His knowledge was second to none.
"He had done everything at the club, even washing the kit. I don't think the players feared him, he wasn't that type of person. He had respect from players as they responded to his knowledge of the game."
Former Liverpool goalkeeper Ray Clemence described Moran as a "driving force in the dressing room", while the club's former defender Gary Gillespie said his record "speaks for itself".
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Current Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson said Moran was "as humble and down to earth as anyone".
"The reason being captain of Liverpool Football Club is such a huge honour is because legendary figures like Ronnie Moran held it before I did," Henderson wrote. in a tribute on Wednesday.
"I wasn't lucky enough to work with Ronnie but I had the great fortune of being in his company on the occasions when he came to Melwood to walk around the training pitch.
"And although we all regarded him as a true great, he was as humble and down to earth as anyone you could ever come across.
"I know I speak for all of the current players when I say that we are all deeply saddened by Ronnie's passing.
"The greatest tribute we can pay to him is to give everything we've got for Liverpool Football Club just as he did each and every single day during the 49 years he spent here."
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The Nikkei index ended up 0.8% at 19,890.27.
The latest official figures showed that machinery orders rose 2.6% in March from a year earlier, and were up 2.9% from the previous month.
A weaker yen has helped to drive the country's exports and has boosted its manufacturing orders.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 1.3% at 5,659.20.
Mining giant BHP Billiton's shares led the commodities sector lower after its spin-off company South32 began trading on Sydney's stock exchange.
South32 is the result of one of the largest corporate break-ups in the industry's history and holds Australian and South African assets including aluminium, nickel and manganese mines.
Shares in the firm closed at A$2.09, at the lower end of forecasts, while BHP's shares closed down more than 7%.
South32's chief executive Graham Kerr said the sector was facing challenging times, but that the new firm would "start life with a strong balance sheet, along with high-quality, well maintained, cash generative assets and highly talented people".
In China, shares fell after showed that house prices on the mainland had fallen further.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was down 1.1% at 27,508.03 in afternoon trade. The Shanghai Composite had risen initially, but then went into reverse and was down 0.24% at 4,297.01.
After trading flat for most of the day, South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed up 0.34% at 2,113.72.
The men stripped down to swimwear emblazoned with the Malaysian flag after the Australian driver's win.
The group - branded the "Budgie Nine" - have arrived in a Malaysian court and are expected to be charged.
They face up to two years in jail if found guilty of intentional insult and public indecency.
The men have been held in Kuala Lumpur since their arrest on Sunday.
Under Malaysian law, the men can be held for four days, after which they attorney-general's office can either seek to extend their detention, charge or release them.
Malaysia has strict rules on any display of public indecency and foreign offenders are typically issued a fine before being deported.
Mr Ricciardo told the Herald Sun newspaper: "It sounds like they have learned their lesson and I don't think they will be doing that again any time soon in Malaysia."
"I see it as pretty harmless. I respect the laws in Malaysia but beyond that I don't think they deserve any further punishment."
The men were photographed standing in front of crowds at the Sepang track on Sunday, wearing swimwear known in Australia as budgie smugglers.
Abdul Aziz Ali, the Sepang assistant police commissioner, has said they were "caught in the act" and that he believes there is enough evidence to charge them.
The group includes the son of Australia's trade commissioner in Fukuoka, Japan, and an adviser for cabinet minister Christopher Pyne.
They have been visited by representatives from the Australian high commission and a local lawyer.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told the Nine Network that what may be seen as a foolish prank in Australia could be interpreted very differently in other countries.
"I don't know that it will be seen as a lapse of judgment," she said.
"It was clearly premeditated. They were wearing the budgie smugglers and had bought them in Australia."
The ambulance and fire services were called to the McNeill Court complex in Larne shortly after 10:00 GMT on Thursday.
None of the residents required medical treatment and they have all now returned to the building.
Police are not treating the blaze as suspicious.
Gregg McKeen, a Democratic Unionist Party councillor for the area, said: "Some of the residents were put up in some shops for a short period of time."
The father-of-four passed away at the Erskine Home for ex-servicemen on Monday. His funeral is expected to be held in West Lothian next week.
Former first minister Mr Salmond said it was a "very sad week" for all the family.
Mr Salmond also paid tribute to staff at Erskine Hospital for their care in his father's final years.
He said: "Dad passed away peacefully on Monday night at Erskine and now will be taken home to Linlithgow where he spent all of his days, apart from his wartime service in the Royal Navy.
"Dad, a passionate SNP supporter for more than half a century, always took a keen interest in elections. However, he was really proud of all of his children's achievements.
"All four of us, Margaret, myself, Gail and Bob, are enormously grateful to the Erskine staff whose kindness to our father over these last few years has been beyond measure.
"It is a very sad week for all of the family and Gail and I have taken some time out from our campaigns to help with the arrangements.
"However, we both know exactly what Dad would be saying to us right now - for goodness sake dust yourself down and get on with it.
"That is what we all intend to do."
Robert Salmond was in the Royal Navy during the war.
As a petty officer he served on two aircraft carriers, and was responsible for repairing radios on the planes.
He was on the Fleet Carrier, HMS Indomitable, when she was torpedoed supporting the invasion of Sicily in 1943.
When the Indomitable sailed for Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs, Mr Salmond senior and his team were transferred to the newly commissioned escort carrier HMS Hunter and he saw further action in the Salerno landings, before being diagnosed with TB and confined to hospital for the remainder of the war.
On his 90th birthday in 2011 Mr Salmond senior climbed the gantry to the controls of the big crane at Rosyth dockyard in Fife as work began on the new 65,000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier.
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It shows that there's still a place in the £40bn video games industry for independent makers, or indies, working alone.
And it's easier than you may think to build your own game that could potentially become a global hit, thanks to a growing number of marketplaces for off-the-peg games templates.
It turns out you don't even have to know how to write a single line of code to make a living selling mobile games on sites like Apple's App Store or Google's Play Android store.
Code marketplaces, like Binpress, Apptopia, Chupamobile and CodeCanyon, are offering game templates for a few hundred pounds.
These templates provide the program code required for a basic game, which buyers then flesh out by adding their own graphics, music and overall theme to make an app which is ready to be sold.
These types of games are usually offered as free apps, generating money through advertising included in the game. Even the code to display the ads, which are provided by online advertising networks, is included in the game template, so the buyer needs only add an account number with each network to start earning money.
"What you are buying with a template is a simple game mechanic - something like pressing on the screen to shoot something, or swiping the screen to slice," says Jonathan Kay, one of the founders of US-based code marketplace Apptopia. "That forms the basis of your app."
Buyers of a "swipe to slice" template could then create a fruit-slicing game similar to the popular Fruit Ninja app, or something with a different theme, like slicing the heads off leaping zombies, he says.
"If you have some design skills, then the only programming experience you need is knowing how to drop the graphics you create into the code."
"There are definitely still opportunities for independent developers in the mobile market because the barriers to entry are much lower," says Richard Wilson, chief executive of Tiga, the UK games industry association.
"People are not prevented from developing their own mobile games in the way that they are prevented from developing for games consoles," he adds.
Games for Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox consoles can cost tens of millions of pounds to make and involve teams of 300 or more developers.
Templates enable entrepreneurs to create "copycat apps" that cash in on the latest app trends. Currently there is a plethora of Flappy Bird-like templates with names like Flappy Penguin, Flappy Crocodile and Flappy Fish, all explicitly offering similar "tap to flap" mechanics.
Since so many games are similar, good graphic design can make all the difference between success and failure, Kay believes.
"There is definitely a correlation between good design and how long people use an app - 40% to 50% of apps get deleted within 45 seconds of being downloaded," he says. "But good design buys your app extra time when it can earn advertising revenue."
Another key to an app's success, Mr Kay believes, is the ease with which it can be found in online app stores.
"App store optimisation - choosing the right game title, keywords and so on - is incredibly important," he says.
Translating these keywords into other languages is also crucial, he adds.
"If someone in Korea feels like shooting some flying pigs and you have a shooting flying pigs app but haven't translated your keywords into Korean then they are simply not going to find it."
There's a more fundamental reason why so many apps are derivatives of each other: the short shelf-life of most mobile games makes it hard to create original games profitably, according to Jaime Enriquez, founder of games company, Inode Entertainment.
"When I started I developed a bunch of games from scratch, and that cost me about $10,000 per game. But the economics just didn't work," he says.
"Now I buy a game template for $500, change the theme and maybe add a feature or two, and end up with a game that could generate $10,000."
As well as enabling Mr Enriquez to create games at a far lower cost, templates allow him to get them to market quickly, often in a matter of days - important when popular themes can change by the week.
And with Google and Apple app stores both taking 30% of revenues, high download volumes are essential if indie mobile developers are to make money.
"If you understand the trends, that's probably 80% of what you need to succeed," he argues. "The other 20% is buying the right template."
So what's trending right now in the mobile app world?
Mr Enriquez says that apart from Flappy Bird clones, popular themes include winter sports, pixel art and cute-looking animal characters.
"If you bought the right template and produced a game with a cute, ski-ing flappy kitten with 1980s-style graphics, it would probably do rather well," he concludes.
But former Slavia Sofia centre-back Plamen Krachuno continues his stint training with the Perth club.
Saints boss Tommy Wright said: "Julien has had a couple of offers, I believe one in America and another offer.
"I fully understand why he has gone. Maybe warmer climates are more attractive."
Wright said that the France-born Martinique international, who left Bordeaux in the summer, had impressed while at McDiarmid Park, playing in a reserve game against Hearts.
"He did extremely well here, a really good professional," said the Saints boss, who is looking to add to his defensive options after captain Dave Mackay was ruled out for the rest of the season.
Faubert, who once had a loan spell with Real Madrid, watched St Johnstone beat Motherwell 2-1 in the Scottish Premiership on Saturday at McDiarmid Park.
However, he has become the second player to cut short a trial spell with St Johnstone within a week.
Nigerian defender Daniel Adejo, who left Greek Superleague club Kalloni in January, reportedly had an offer from a club in Serie B, where he previously performed for Reggina.
"Plamen Krachuno is here for another couple of days, which he was originally booked in for," added Wright of the 27-year-old who played the first half of the season in Bulgaria's top flight.
The driver died in the incident. Police found a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles in the car.
Police say the situation is now under control, and neither law enforcement officers nor civilians were injured.
France is under a state of emergency after being hit by a wave of deadly terror attacks in recent years.
A policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in an attack on the Champs Élysées in April, just days before the first round of the presidential election.
The latest incident comes a day after the end of parliamentary elections in France, which saw President Emmanuel Macron's party win a landslide majority.
A white car could be seen standing in the middle of the empty avenue with one door open and sniffer dogs were sent in, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
Our correspondent says there are always many police and gendarme vehicles near the spot, as it is next to the local police station.
Reports say officers had to smash the windows of the car - a Renault Mégane - to pull the driver out.
The man was known to intelligence services, the BFMTV news channel reports.
Police earlier warned people to respect a security cordon around the area.
The anti-terrorist section of the prosecutor's office has opened up an investigation into the incident, which happened close to the Élysée presidential palace and the US embassy.
Now, a group of parents who are aged over 60 and look after disabled children are calling on the assembly to change that.
Sherol Matthews, from Bangor, County Down, has been the main carer for her son William since he was knocked down by a car in 1990.
He was six years old. "Life just changed in a second," she said.
"It was a long haul after that. He was unconscious in hospital for nearly five months.
"It was traumatic. We didn't know if he was going to make it or not, but thankfully he did.
"It was difficult to register that we had actually lost the William that we had, but we had got a new one in his place with lots of different character qualities.
"But, we're so thankful that he's still with us - he's a different character than he was but there's still the rascal side to him and he has a great sense of humour."
What Sherol was not prepared for was the additional battle over the years with social services for help in caring for her son.
She said the most frustrating aspect was dealing with different people every time the family needed help and that, even after filling out multiple forms, there was no guarantee that help would be available.
"I think if they see you managing, then you're left to manage," she said.
"You have to go through such a ream of forms and, even then, it's often turned down.
"I'm not alone in this and it's awful always feeling that you have to beg and battle for each little thing."
The last five years have been especially hard with no respite, Sherol said.
"There was a place that I'd battled for years to get him into but because he was a wheelchair user, it wasn't readily available to him."
Finally, after telling her story at a conference two months ago, William was offered four days a month in a respite facility.
"He loves it, he's very happy there. And it means I can go to bed when I want and get up when I want on those four days.
"And I can even go out some night after tea time because I don't have to do the night-time routine."
Sherol's biggest concern is what will happen to William when she can no longer look after him.
He is getting bigger and heavier, and Sherol said she is struggling morning and evenings after the personal care she has carried out for over 25 years.
The charity Positive Futures has been helping Sherol, and many other families, put together a proposal for a Carer's Charter.
"The charter asks for things like the simplification of process, the simplification of paperwork" said Agnes Lunny, the charity's chief executive.
"We're asking for a single point of contact for families with health and social services and, above all, we're asking for joined-up government."
Sherol is hopeful that future carers will not face the battle she has faced.
"There have been many times when I've reached crisis point and I've had to walk away and go into a room and cry.
"But, we got over it.
"I never want to put him into care because William is very much a sociable person but he's happiest in his own surround so that's why I want his future care to be in his own home where he's happiest."
Tim Thomson has an advanced form of the illness and has been deteriorating rapidly over the last three months.
He is to undergo stem cell transplant therapy, usually used to treat cancer, said to "reboot" the immune system.
His family has set up an online fundraising page.
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Mr Thomson, from Pudsey, West Yorkshire, was diagnosed with the illness 10 years ago.
He said he feared that if he did not undergo the treatment he would be using a wheelchair by Christmas.
"My rate of decline over the past few months has been so significant," he said.
"Each time I have had a decline I've had no reversal from those symptoms."
Around 100,000 people in the UK have MS, an incurable neurological condition. Most patients are diagnosed in their 20s and 30s.
In MS the protective layer surrounding nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord - known as myelin - becomes damaged. The immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin, causing scarring or sclerosis.
The damaged myelin disrupts the nerve signals - rather like the short circuit caused by a frayed electrical cable. If the process of inflammation and scarring is not treated then eventually the condition can cause permanent neurodegeneration.
The treatment - known as an autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplant (AHSCT) - aims to destroy the faulty immune system using chemotherapy.
It is then rebuilt with stem cells harvested from the patient's own blood. These cells are at such an early stage the have not developed the flaws that trigger MS.
The therapy is being tested at Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital, but only for patients with the early stages of the disease.
As Mr Thomson's illness is more advanced he does not qualify for the NHS trial.
According to the MS Society's website, AHSCT is usually used for cancer treatment but has shown some promising results in trials for treating MS.
However, the charity urges patients seeking treatment overseas to carefully check the credentials of any treatment centre.
The five locations are on a shortlist for the title, but six other bidding towns and cities missed out.
The five left in the race will hope to emulate the success of Hull, which is UK City of Culture this year.
The title is awarded every four years and the winner for 2021 will be the third UK City of Culture.
It's the birthplace of Philip Larkin, one of England's finest poets, and the home of the 2 Tone ska movement through bands like The Specials and The Selecter.
Venues would include Warwick Arts Centre, the Belgrade Theatre and the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. It's not just about the existing culture - it is, as the bid organisers say, "about changing the reputation of a city".
This Renfrewshire town, population 76,000, is perhaps most famous for the Paisley print - the intricate, colourful designs that were inspired by Kashmiri patterns in the 18th Century and popularised in the psychedelic 1960s.
It was also home to Gerry Rafferty, known for his hit Baker Street. Former Doctor Who star David Tennant grew up in the city, while Paolo Nutini's dad runs a fish and chip cafe there. There are plans for Paisley Museum to have a £42m revamp - though it's not due to reopen until 2022.
Stoke is most famous as the capital of the English ceramics industry, which it is trying to revive, with designers like Emma Bridgewater there and Keith Brymer Jones from the BBC's Great Pottery Throwdown about to move into the old Spode factory.
It can also claim Robbie Williams, the Staffordshire Hoard - a treasure trove of Anglo-Saxon gold - and, in nearby Newcastle-under-Lyme, the pioneering New Vic theatre.
Sunderland's claims to fame range from Middle Ages chronicler Venerable Bede and England's first ever stained glass window to a fertile indie music scene that spawned bands like Frankie and the Heartstrings and The Futureheads.
It also has The National Glass Centre, the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art and Sunderland Empire. And a new £10m cultural quarter is in development, including a music and arts hub in the old fire station.
Swansea Bay was on the shortlist last time and the city has now come back again.
It is the home of poet Dylan Thomas - as well as a permanent exhibition that opened on his 100th birthday in 2014 - not to mention Catherine Zeta Jones and TV writer Russell T Davies.
Its Glynn Vivian Art Gallery reopened last year after a £6m facelift, and the council says being City of Culture would kick-start its longer-term plans for "culture-led regeneration".
The places that didn't make the shortlist include Perth, which had been the bookmakers' favourite.
All the bidding cities are particularly keen to win the title after seeing the example of what's been achieved in Hull.
Recent research suggests nine out of 10 local residents experienced a City of Culture event in the first three months of the year, while being City of Culture has boosted the local economy by an estimated £60m.
Arts minister John Glen said: "The strength of the competition showed us how valuable our cultural assets are to our towns, boosting tourism and jobs in local communities.
"I have seen first hand how Hull has embraced its status as City of Culture 2017, and how beneficial it has been for the area. I am looking forward to seeing what will come in 2021."
The UK City of Culture scheme is separate from the European Capital of Culture, a title shared this year by Aarhus in Denmark and Paphos in Cyprus.
A British city is expected to be European Capital of Culture in 2023 - despite Brexit - with Leeds, Dundee and Milton Keynes among those interested.
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The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT) has been awarded the funds from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Sites in and around Aberdeen, in the central Lowlands and in southern Scotland will be targeted.
The project aims to provide training to hundreds of people and land managers to help protect the squirrels.
The Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels (SSRS) developing community action project will run over the next five years in the three key areas.
Scotland is home to under 120,000 red squirrels, three quarters of the UK population.
The main threat to native squirrels is said to come from competition with grey squirrels and the spread of the deadly squirrelpox virus.
SSRS Project Manager Dr Mel Tonkin said: "Our work since 2009 shows that through targeted control of grey squirrels it is possible to reverse the decline of our native reds and help them to return to former territories.
"Red squirrels are one of Scotland's most-loved species.
"Thanks to National Lottery players we will be able to empower communities to help protect not just their local red squirrels, but major populations of the species in Scotland, and ensure that future generations can continue to see these special animals."
Environment secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the investment was "very welcome" to help a priority species.
"SSRS has led important work to conserve them since 2009 so it is fantastic that players of the National Lottery will help to mobilise communities to take practical action to protect one of our best-loved animals," she said.
Lucy Casot, head of the HLF in Scotland, said: "Many of us have a soft spot for red squirrels and sighting one in the flesh is an exciting, but sadly increasingly rare experience.
"Thanks to National Lottery players' support, we're helping organisations and communities protect and care for Scotland's red squirrels, which represent three-quarters of the UK's dwindling population."
She said they had been impressed by the SWT's "collaborative approach" to saving the species.
The work in the three key areas includes:
The project also hopes to create "widespread understanding and appreciation" of the current risks to red squirrels and demonstrate the methods used to successfully protect them.
The 24-year-old, who joined Forest for £1m from Iraklis Thessaloniki, smashed in Forest's opener in their 2-2 draw at Aston Villa on Sunday.
Vellios told BBC Radio Nottingham: "Yes, it was a special moment for me to score my first goal.
"I am very happy also as the goal helped us take an important point from an away game."
Vellios picked up the ball with his back to goal before turning to fire in from 22 yards and the former Everton forward had a special mention for the travelling 3,000 Forest supporters at Villa Park.
"The fans were brilliant," he added. "All of them helped us and this was an important point for us."
Forest return to action on Wednesday when they travel to Rotherham in the Championship and manager Philippe Montanier revealed striker Britt Assombalonga, who has been out of action since limping off against Wigan on 20 August, will miss out again.
"I don't think Britt will be fit," said Montanier. "I am not sure how long Britt will be out, perhaps it will be very quick but at this moment it is a little early for him."
Andrew Bow, 36, was found dead at a house in the city 10 days ago.
A call about his wellbeing was handled by Bilston Glen - the same centre that dealt with a call about the M9 crash in July.
The police response is being examined by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc).
An investigation will look at how officers responded to initial concerns about the occupant of the house, who was understood to be vulnerable.
A Pirc spokesman said in a statement on Friday: "The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner has been instructed by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to carry out an independent investigation after the body of Andrew Bow, 36, was discovered at a residential address in Edinburgh on 23 March 2016.
"The investigation will focus on the initial police response leading up to the incident, which included a report of concern about the welfare of the occupant of the property.
"A report on the commissioner's findings will be submitted to the COPFS in due course."
Staffing shortages at Bilston Glen were highlighted after an HM Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC) report into the M9 crash near Stirling in July in which Lamara Bell and John Yuill died.
Ms Bell, who was discovered critically injured in the crashed car, had been in the vehicle next to her dead partner Mr Yuill for three days. She died later in hospital.
Police Scotland admitted they did not investigate a report they had received about the crash until three days after it happened.
Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died in hospital on 12 April after becoming unwell.
Police said the tablets were believed to contain dinitrophenol, known as DNP; an industrial chemical.
The inquest in Shrewsbury concluded the death of Ms Parry was as a result of an accidental drugs overdose.
Coroner John Ellery heard she sent a text message apologising to her university lecturer for "being so stupid" about four hours before she died.
In the text message, read to the court by Detective Sergeant Andy Chatting, Miss Parry said: "I screwed up big time. Binged/purged all night and took four pills at 4am.
"I took another four when I woke and I started vomiting soon after. I think I am going to die.
"No one is known to survive if they vomit after taking DNP. I am so scared."
Ms Parry's mother said she knew her daughter was receiving prescription medicine but had not realised she was self-prescribing.
Giving evidence, Fiona Parry said her daughter - known to her family as Ella - had suffered from bulimia.
The coroner asked her: "Did you consider that Eloise was suicidal?"
Mrs Parry replied: "Personally, no. I did not believe she was suicidal."
A post-mortem report read at the inquest revealed the cause of death as dinitrophenol toxicity.
Mr Ellery said he would be writing to the Government urging a review of the classification of DNP, which is marketed online as a "fat burning" pill.
Glyndwr University student Ms Parry initially attended A&E after taking more than the recommended dose of the tablets.
Her mother has previously told the BBC she had "absolutely no idea" her daughter was taking the pills until after she died.
After the hearing, Mrs Parry said her daughter knew of the dangers of DNP but had decided "being slimmer was worth the risk".
She said Eloise had looked at "the pros and cons and made a bad choice" and she urged others not to make the same mistake.
"I would implore anyone even considering taking DNP, or something similar, not to do so," she said.
"These substances are sold by people who don't care about your health; they just want your money.
"You can't know whether or not you're getting what you paid for, and probably you're not. It will almost certainly be impure and the impurities could be really nasty.
"Looking good should never cost you your health or your life."
Andy Moll, 59, was part of a three-man team exploring a dive vessel six miles south of Swanage on Sunday 24 May.
The body of the father-of-four, from North Curry, near Taunton, was recovered near the site of the wreck, on Friday night, Dorset Police said.
A large search operation covering around 10 nautical miles was carried out after he failed to surface.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency called off the six-hour search for Mr Moll at 23:00 BST on the Sunday.
Mr Moll had been a diving instructor trainer and also served nationally with the British Sub-Aqua Club.
Aryan Patel, from Leicester, died from internal injuries after the larger boy landed on him at Megazone Laser Tag.
The teenager told Leicester Coroner's Court he did not realise Aryan was there because of his slight build and the dark lighting in the room.
An inquest jury concluded Aryan's death in April was accidental.
The laser tag session included 33 other people who were above the age of six and taller than 3ft 7in (1.1m).
Aryan was carried into the arena's reception after the collision with the other player and was taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary.
He died nearly an hour after arriving at hospital from a liver injury and subsequent blood loss.
Leicester City Council told the court it will be taking no action against Megazone because it was satisfied with the company's health and safety procedures.
After the jury delivered its conclusion, coroner Lydia Brown praised the Patel family for their "quiet dignity" shown during the two-day hearing.
Ms Brown also offered her "sincere condolences" for what she described as an "unexpected and tragic outcome from a fun activity".
Speaking after the hearing, the Patel family said in a statement they hope Megazone will implement a number of changes to improve safety.
The BBC has contacted Megazone for a comment but the company is yet to reply.
The purchase of Affinity Systems is First Derivative's third acquisition in 2015.
Affinity, which is based in Ontario, employs 45 people and has clients across a range of industries.
Brian Conlon, chief executive of First Derivatives said Affinity was "a natural fit" for First Derivatives.
The Newry company has its roots in managing and analysing the vast quantities of data produced by financial services firms.
It is now trying to use that expertise in "big data" applications for other industries.
Big data refers to the massive quantities of data produced from sources like the web, mobile, social media and customer contacts.
Companies are trying to find ways to use that data in useful and profitable ways.
Affinity's big data expertise includes working with power companies to create systems that allow customers to access their smart meter data.
Brian Conlon said the purchase would give First Derivatives expertise across a number of new sectors.
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The Castlebawn development was to include a 20,000 sq metre shopping centre, business park, hotel and care home.
The first phase of the scheme has already been built.
The investment fund Cerberus appointed KPMG as administrators to Castlebawn Ltd last week.
Castlebawn is a joint venture between Eastwood Property and R&A Developments.
The firm's director Fearghal Eastwood said the administration was a consensual arrangement and that he was continuing to work with Cerberus in an advisory capacity.
The shopping centre element of the development had received planning permission, but that was quashed last year following a judicial review.
That planning application is now being reconsidered but Cerberus may make fresh applications.
It is possible that housing may form part of any revised scheme.
Castlebawn's most recent accounts, for the year ending August 2013, indicate that it had assets valued at just over £17m and debts of more than £26m.
The bird, which hatched in April, was taken from the site in the Anston area of Rotherham on 8 May.
After stills emerged, officers are trying to identify the person and the RSPB are offering £1000 reward for information leading to a conviction.
It is thought the bird may have been sold on. Trading in protected species carries up to five years imprisonment.
Ch Supt David Hartley, South Yorkshire Police's lead for wildlife crime, said: "Peregrine falcons are an iconic part of our countryside and this crime sees a premeditated exploitation of this for criminal profit.
"We seek the public's help in identifying those that are profiting from the wild birds we cherish."
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Helmand's governor, Mirza Khan Rahimi, insisted the authorities were still in control but his own deputy said that Sangin had been overrun.
The Taliban said they controlled most of the town and the main administrative building had been abandoned.
In the east, a Taliban attack near Bagram killed six US soldiers.
It was one of the deadliest attacks on foreign forces in Afghanistan this year.
Some 12,000 foreign soldiers are deployed as part of the Nato-led Resolute Support international coalition, which is meant to underpin Afghanistan's own security forces.
The battle for Sangin comes a little over a year after the end of UK combat operations in Afghanistan, in which at least 450 soldiers were killed.
During its deployment in Helmand, the British military suffered its heaviest losses in Sangin.
Governor Rahimi gave a news conference in Helmand's provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, after his deputy, Mohammad Jan Rasulyar, said Sangin had been overrun by the Taliban late on Sunday.
Fierce gun battles were going on between the Taliban and the Afghan security forces, Mr Rahimi was quoted as saying on Afghan TV, and the government had sent back-up forces.
But Mr Rasulyar had told AFP news agency: "The Taliban have captured the police headquarters, the governor's office as well as the intelligence agency building in Sangin."
Quoted separately by the Associated Press, Mr Rasulyar said casualties among Afghan security forces were high, without giving figures. Only some army facilities had not been taken, he added.
Sangin was once the centre of operations for international forces in Afghanistan, a key district that linked Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, to the province's northern districts.
Regaining full control of Sangin would increase the Taliban's mobility in parts of northern Helmand and cut a key supply line for Afghan forces with Lashkar Gah. Sangin is also a rich opium production centre - meaning potential tax revenue for the Taliban from the drugs trade.
The big question now is whether the Taliban can maintain their recent territorial gains in the district. Keeping control of the centre of Sangin will not be easy, but resentment of government troops is high in the district following military operations earlier this year which locals say wrought unwarranted destruction to property.
If the government wants to wrest total control of the area from the militants, they should look to win hearts and minds - a strategy once trumpeted by the foreign forces which controlled this part of the country.
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Police officers and soldiers inside the Sangin police headquarters had appeared to be still holding out as of Monday morning.
The district police commander, Mohammad Dawood, told the BBC the Taliban had completely cut the facility off from the rest of the province, and food and weapons supplies were running low.
"For the past two days we have been surrounded inside the police headquarters," he said.
"No one can move out because the checkpoints along the roads are gone. The roads between the district and Lashkar Gah and other districts are closed. We also have a number of injured troops and bodies here. In the last two days the fighting has been very heavy."
Mr Dawood added that, over the past month, security forces in the district had sustained 365 casualties, both dead and injured.
Meanwhile, reports say the Taliban are also close to overrunning the neighbouring district of Gereshk.
The head of Helmand's provincial council, Muhammad Kareem Atal, was quoted by AP as saying that "around 65%" of Helmand was now under Taliban control.
In September, the Taliban briefly overran the northern city of Kunduz in one of their biggest victories in 14 years of war.
The attack at Bagram, the biggest US military facility in Afghanistan, happened at around 13:30 local time (09:00 GMT).
A bomber mounted on a motorcycle reportedly attacked a patrol in a village near Bagram.
US officials identified the six dead soldiers as Americans, and said another two had been wounded along with one Afghan.
The Taliban said it had carried out the attack in statements to media.
In the Afghan capital Kabul, a US woman was killed at a gym, with her suspected attacker, a mullah, arrested. The woman was named as Lisa Akbari.
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The 21-month-old, from Sheffield, went missing on the Greek island in 1991.
Police said on Monday they believed he died as a result of an accident on the day he disappeared.
Ben's sister, Leigh-Anna Needham, told ITV's Good Morning Britain the car had been shown to them and her grandmother thought it could have been Ben's.
"She is 90% sure, it is similar but we cannot be 100% sure," she said.
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New searches on Kos, where the Needham family were renovating a farmhouse in 1991, were prompted by fresh information given to South Yorkshire Police.
A friend of a digger driver, who was clearing land with an excavator on the day the toddler went missing, said the man may have been responsible for Ben's death.
The driver, Konstantinos Barkas, died of cancer in 2015.
The yellow car is believed to have been found shortly before the searches concluded on Sunday.
Det Insp Jon Cousins, who is leading the inquiry, said after 21 days of searching it was his "professional belief" Ben had died in an accident.
Leigh-Anna Needham said she understood why the police had come to that conclusion but she was not completely convinced.
"Without definite proof there is still hope," she said.
"We were told to prepare for the worst. We thought they were going to find him and bring him back and we would have to deal with the grieving process.
"But there is still hope and I will fight tooth and nail to get to the bottom of this.
"It has destroyed my family and I am determined to find out what happened on that day."
South Yorkshire Police said the investigation remained open and any further leads in the case would be fully investigated.
Ms Needham told BBC Look North: "Every time the phone rings your heart sinks, you don't want to actually admit that they were ever going to find anything to suggest that Ben may no longer be alive.
"I can't say the word [dead], it makes me feel physically sick.
"There's not enough evidence for me as yet to give up and to believe that he died that day. Until I have solid evidence, ie remains, that's when the grieving process will start."
Everton loanee Conor McAleny poked home the only goal of the game midway through the second half after Yanic Wildschut's initial effort hit the bar.
Rochdale played for almost an hour with 10 men after Ian Henderson was sent off for kicking out at Jason Pearce.
Henderson's red card was his second in three games, having been sent off in Rochdale's win at Oldham.
Dale goalkeeper Josh Lillis kept the score goalless with a string of fine saves until McAleny, who came on as a half-time substitute, was left with the easiest of finishes into an empty net.
The striker should have made it 2-0 late on but struck the ball straight at Lillis when clean through.
Second-placed Wigan are now just one point behind leaders Burton Albion who travel to Millwall on Monday evening.
Wigan Athletic manager Gary Caldwell told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"The score reads 1-0 and that's the most important thing at this stage, that we are winning games.
"I thought we showed great desire and determination in a game where both teams didn't look at their best, but we managed to grind it out and get over the line.
(On the red card) "I think Jason Pearce has tried to win the ball and clearly fouled him. That's a yellow card in anybody's book. I'd be very disappointed if any of my players reacted the way their player reacted. You can't do that in football, everybody knows that. I think the referee got it spot on."
Rochdale boss Keith Hill told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"It's difficult enough with 11 players against Wigan, but when you're down to 10 men, unfairly as well, it probably gives Wigan more of an opportunity to win the game.
"The way the referee came to decision with the fourth official is beyond me, because I don't think the referee saw anything.
"Wigan have got a very good squad of players and are capable of winning the league, but I thought we were a fair match today, even with 10 men.
"I think we're in great form. We haven't had a good result today, but if we take our form into the next seven games, we'll pick up points."
The individual, who does not want to be named, said: "G4S have been appalling."
He claims those in charge of Locog's security were "amateurish" and it was a mistake using one company to supply staff.
Newsnight put these allegations to Locog and they have not responded.
The insider says Locog's event services division used a number of contractors to supply thousands of stewards and that has worked well but the security division put all its eggs in one basket.
"It was the wrong strategy, to use only one company."
He also says that there was inadequate scrutiny.
"They couldn't spot when contractors were cutting corners."
The insider who has worked in security for many years asserts that "at the top level" the management of security at Locog was "thoroughly amateurish and incompetent".
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April Reeves, seven, was hit by a car on the A371 while out cycling with her mother and brother in Locking, North Somerset, two weeks ago.
Campaigners said the road through their village was "petrifying" and the 60mph speed limit should be reduced to 40.
North Somerset Council declined to comment during the current police investigation into the collision.
Amy Saul, whose children went to school with April, said the A-road "divided most of the village".
She said: "The road divides the village school, also the post office, the village shop, the park and the town. So no-one can walk to anywhere safely."
Campaigners said the existing footbridge across the A371 had no ramp and could only be accessed by steep steps, making it difficult for buggies and wheelchair users.
Mother-of-four Shelley Adams-Bordon uses the road every day and cannot use the footbridge with her six-month-old baby in a buggy.
Ms Adams-Bordon said: "This needs to change, we need to make our community safer. We hope our local councillors will listen to us, meet with us and we can then discuss whatever we want to happen.
"Primarily we would like to see the speed restricted. We'd like to see the cycle path and footpath moved over closer to the hedge so it's not running alongside the road. And obviously new crossings to keep our children safe."
The £5.7m extension will see Sodexo continue to provide catering on match days at Pittodrie Stadium, as well as operate the cafe and public retail units.
It will also sell and operate all conference and banqueting events.
The contract builds on a 23-year relationship between Sodexo and the club.
In January last year, officials at Aberdeen FC held talks with Sodexo after complaints from fans at Pittodrie.
Complaints were understood to have been made about the quality of catering offered and products running out
David Trotter, from Sodexo Sports and Leisure, said: "Our partnership with Aberdeen Football Club has spanned more than two decades and is an excellent example of how our team works alongside a venue to source and serve quality, locally-sourced produce to thousands of football fans, while also using our events and conferencing expertise to drive non-match day business."
Christopher Chisholm, 31, is accused of acting in a racially aggravated manner towards the SNP politician.
It is alleged that Mr Chisholm, from Gartcosh, shouted and made racist remarks on 7 February outside Queen Street station.
A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf at Glasgow Sheriff Court and a trial was set for May next year.
Mr Yousaf, 29, was elected in 2011 as a SNP member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow.
Since September 2012, he has been Minister for External Affairs and International Development.
This is why Egyptian football fans are some of the most passionate in the world, renowned for religious-style devotion to their teams.
The visual and vocal displays they put on during matches are very much part of the culture of the Egyptian game, intimidating many an opponent through the years.
Yet while Egyptians may have the rightful reputation as one of the world's most passionate fans, they also have a dark side which inevitably manifests itself when things do not go their way on the pitch.
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Fan-related violence is even more pronounced when it comes to fans of the country's most successful club al-Ahly.
Their behaviour on the terraces remains one of the most talked about issues in Egyptian football.
The great Cairo club, known as the Red Devils, has a hardcore element known as Ultras, and they have a particular reputation for violence.
Much of this violence can be traced to hostilities between al-Ahly Ultras and rival factions of clubs like al-Masry and Zamalek.
The rivalry between al-Ahly and the smaller al-Masry can be traced back to the fact that, in al-Masry fans' eyes, al-Ahly have "everything" - money, support, sponsorship, and are arrogant as a result.
The fact that al-Masry's former coach Hossam Hassan is an al-Ahly legend does not help matters.
Mayhem threatens almost every match involving these teams, and police usually respond in large numbers.
When you speak to Egyptian football fans, particularly those of an al-Ahly or al-Masry persuasion, they exude a sense of ownership over their team.
Not only do al-Ahly and al-Masry supporters hurl crude insults at each other during matches, they also dislike each other intensely.
I experienced first-hand the dark side of Egyptian football back in 2003 when covering the final of the African Champions League, the continent's most prestigious club tournament.
Within seconds of Nigerian club Enyimba defeating local side Ismaili, missiles rained down on the pitch as fans vented their anger at their team's performance.
As there were hardly any visiting supporters, the Ismaili fans picked on anyone they suspected of not being one of them, namely the police.
Being black, I stuck out like a sore thumb in a sea of Arab faces. One shirtless fan started shouting obscenities in my direction, thinking I was a Nigerian journalist.
From that moment, the crowd grew even more frenzied, and another supporter grabbed a small BBC satellite on the edge of the VIP stand and threw it at police officers trying to arrest another fan.
Before I knew it, an officer in riot gear had whisked me away to the safety of the dressing rooms.
I was to stay there for the next five hours as we waited for the orgy of violence which had shifted away from the terraces into the streets of Ismailia to end.
When things eventually calmed down, I saw a scene outside the ground that resembled the aftermath of a bomb blast - cars with smashed out windows and all kinds of debris strewn everywhere.
The tragic loss of life during Wednesday's match further tarnishes the image of a country that has produced African legends like Mahmoud El-Khatib, Mahmoud El-Gohary and Hossam Hassan.
In Chicago police shot an alleged shoplifter; a robber shot a shopper in Las Vegas; and a California police officer was injured in a fight.
Black Friday, the day following the Thanksgiving holiday, is the biggest shopping day of the year in the US.
This year it began even earlier amid a trend for Thanksgiving openings.
Twelve national chains opened their doors on Thursday, advertising aggressive discounts.
Some 15,000 shoppers stormed the flagship Macy's in New York City as it opened for the first time ever on Thanksgiving evening.
Pointing at the mobbed department store, Brazilian tourist Luis Figueiro told Reuters news agency: "This is madness.
"There are so many people here, you can't see any of the things on sale."
There were several incidents of retail-related disorder across the US:
Workers' groups have protested that the trend towards Thursday opening means retail employees can no longer spend the day at home with their families, which is supposed to be the point of Thanksgiving.
Some retail analysts have begun to dub the holiday Black Thanksgiving, or Grey Thursday.
Workers held demonstrations on Friday outside Walmart stores in the city of Ontario, California, and in Elgin, Illinois, demanding better pay and conditions.
There was anecdotal evidence that the Thursday openings have led to an easing off in consumer footfall on Black Friday itself, though the increased popularity of online shopping could be another factor.
By late Friday morning, the number of shoppers in many stores was more typical of a normal Saturday than the usual frenetic start to the holiday season.
Downtown Manhattan, for example, was busy, but not at saturation level.
The US celebration of Thanksgiving is always marked on the fourth Thursday in November.
The day after is known as Black Friday because that was the time of year when retailers began making a profit, or moved out of the red and into the black.
Some 97 million Americans hit the shops on Black Friday, according to the National Retail Federation.
Last year on the day Americans spent $11.2bn (£6.8bn).
They are gathered at Sword Beach in Normandy, one of five landing points for the Allies, where scenes from the 1944 invasion will be recreated.
The Queen earlier laid a wreath at a cemetery in Bayeux during a ceremony attended by about 400 veterans.
The landings were the first stage of the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.
By the end of D-Day on 6 June 1944, the Allies had established a foothold in France - an event that would eventually help bring the war to an end.
As the sun rose over Normandy shores this morning, a veteran watched, lost in memories, from the deck of HMS Bulwark. The Royal Navy flagship had sailed the English Channel overnight at the head of an international task group of ships.
For former Royal Marine Corporal Bill Bryant, 89, the sight of the beaches brought back emotional recollections of the same time exactly 70 years ago, as he prepared to drive his landing craft to the shores - carrying his colleagues to their fate on land, amid a barrage of noise and chaos.
The contrast with today could not have been greater as he joined many other veterans on "Gold" Beach, amid a festival atmosphere. The sunshine sparkled on the waves, and French families and tourists from across Europe gathered to watch military bands on the main square at Arromanches.
This doughty but dwindling band of brothers know this may be the last time they meet on these shores. For the veterans, and those who've come to honour them, the ceremonies at Bayeux cemetery are a poignant but powerful reminder of courage and endurance, as D-Day slowly passes from living memory into history.
A 21-gun salute and a flypast also formed part of proceedings at the Sword Beach ceremony, which is being attended by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
A Lancaster bomber, regarded as the workhorse of the RAF, flew over the crowds below, flanked by two Spitfires.
During a speech delivered earlier at a US war cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer near Bayeux, French President Francois Hollande said every man who took part in D-Day was a "hero".
He said France would never forget what it owed them, nor would it forget its solidarity with the US.
And in a speech at Ouistreham, which was drenched in warm sunshine, Mr Hollande paid tribute to "the courage of all these young men who came from all over the world to conquer - metre after metre, inch after inch - the beaches and the dunes".
Earlier at Colleville-sur-Mer, US President Barack Obama said: "America's claim - our commitment to liberty, to equality, to freedom, to the inherent dignity of every human being - that claim is written in blood on these beaches, and it will endure for eternity".
Elsewhere, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall attended a Royal British Legion service at Bayeux Cathedral.
And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are attending events in Arromanches, near Gold landing beach where thousands of British troops came ashore on D-Day.
Following a service at Bayeux Cathedral, many veterans left to walk to the nearby military cemetery where nearly 2,000 are now gathered.
The BBC's Becky Kelly reported that crowds have been bursting into applause as the veterans walk past, some people shouting "thanks".
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How was the D-Day invasion launched
D-Day timeline: The beginning of the end
How close did D-Day come to failure
On 6 June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of northern France in Normandy.
The landings were the first stage of Operation Overlord - the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe - and were intended to end World War Two.
Portsmouth's D-Day Museum says as many as 4,413 Allied troops died on the day of the invasion - more than previously thought.
By the end of D-Day, the Allies had established a foothold in France. Within 11 months Nazi Germany was defeated, as Soviet armies swept in from the east and captured Hitler's stronghold in Berlin.
The 20-year-old will end his 18-month stint at Celtic on loan from Manchester City at the Scottish Cup final on 27 May, when his team play Aberdeen.
"We've had a brilliant season so far," said Roberts of the treble-chasers.
"In such a special year for the club I want to be part of everything here."
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Roberts called the chance to help add the Scottish Cup to the Premiership and League Cup trophies "a once in a lifetime opportunity".
"I spoke to the gaffer and this is just something I really wanted to do," he told the Celtic website.
"I have a great relationship with everyone around the England squad and I wish all the other lads and the management and backroom team the very best for the World Cup in South Korea."
The couple who live at the farm - both in their 60s - were assaulted while the three men searched the property.
A large amount of cash and jewellery was stolen before the robbers discovered the farmhouse's gun room.
The victims, who were locked in the gun room, required hospital treatment following the raid in West Handley, near Chesterfield, on 14 March.
Crimestoppers, which has offered the reward, said the theft of the guns was a "serious cause for concern".
The crime-fighting charity confirmed the robbers also stole a large amount of shotgun cartridges.
Lydia Patsalides, from Crimestoppers, said: "This violent burglary was immensely distressing for the victims.
"Not only was cash and valuable jewellery stolen, but the theft of such a large number of shotguns is a serious cause for concern.
"These people need to be found and the shotguns traced, before any further harm can be done."
The Gran Fondo is run by RCS, the organisers of the Giro cycle race that visited Northern Ireland in May 2015.
It began at Belfast's Titanic Quarter, with two routes: A 173km route taking in the Mourne Mountains and a shorter 58km one that passed Strangford Lough.
Roads were closed along the course, and police thanked motorists who faced delays for their patience.
"This was a significant event for Northern Ireland and yet again we have proved that we are more than capable of hosting international events and doing them well," said ACC Alan Todd.
"Thank you to everyone who worked behind the scenes to make the event a success including the many volunteers and marshals."
Northern Ireland rider Mark Kane was the first to cross the finishing line on the Mournes route, in a time of just over five hours. His brother Paul came in second.
The event for amateurs and professionals is being held in Northern Ireland until 2017 as a legacy of the Giro d'Italia.
Organisers said it was the largest ever mass participation sporting event to be staged in Northern Ireland.
The 23-year-old former Middlesbrough trainee has scored seven goals in 44 matches for the Iron, but has started just one league match this campaign.
He missed three months of this term through injury.
Williams comes in following the season-ending injury to Sam Hoskins and Alex Revell's calf problem.
"I think he is a player who will fit perfectly into the style of play we are implementing," said manager Justin Edinburgh.
"He has some good experience of this level and above, he is a very gifted footballer with plenty of natural ability and he will be a good fit."
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The area will hold up to 230 vehicles - in effect a two-and-a-half mile queue.
Mrs May said 8,000 migrant attempts to cross the Channel to the UK were foiled between 21 June and 11 July, when ferry strikes in France exacerbated problems.
Transport bosses said migrant numbers in Calais had risen from 600 in January to 5,000 - and that figure was growing.
Mrs May told the Commons hauliers had been subjected to "repeated attempts by illegal migrants who attempt to stow themselves away in their vehicles".
The new zone should provide protection for lorries and their drivers by "removing them from the open road where they can become targets for migrants", said Mrs May.
She said the security zone should "transform protection" for hauliers.
Her announcement came as transport bosses appeared before the Home Affairs Committee to answer questions about the crisis.
Kent Police Chief Constable Alan Pughsley told MPs there had been a "significant increase" in the number of migrants found hiding in vehicles in the UK over the past month.
He said:
Mr Pughsley said he believed strike action by French ferry workers during that time was a "contributing factor" to the numbers because it meant "easier access" for people to trains or lorries.
John Keefe, director of public affairs at Eurotunnel, said the 5,000 figure had grown from an estimated 600 migrants in January, and the rise was "continuing apace".
"We have never seen numbers like this before and we have not in the past seen the degree of organisation that goes with the numbers either," he said.
He said a secure zone would not solve the issue, adding: "As soon as you remove an opportunity, the organised criminals who are managing the migrant attacks are moving to the next opportunity - to the next weak spot."
Road Haulage Association chief executive Richard Burnett said the situation was "out of control" and criticised the fact the secure zone would not be in place until the autumn.
"This isn't fast enough. We've got drivers being threatened with bars and knives. We've had an example of a driver being threatened with a gun," he said.
"We've got a problem right now. This is unprecedented and it's escalating. We need action now."
The "write-off" of products due to contamination by migrants entering vehicles could be £1bn a year, he said, adding: "There are full loads that are being destroyed."
Last week a migrant from Eritrea died attempting to board a freight shuttle headed to Britain. The death came days after about 150 migrants tried to storm the Channel Tunnel terminal in France.
The strike by French ferry workers at the end of last month forced the suspension of Channel Tunnel services. It closed the Port of Calais and resulted in thousands of lorry drivers being stuck on the roads into Calais. This led hundreds of migrants to try to board UK-bound lorries.
Mrs May said British and French authorities had been working together for months to improve security at Calais.
Some £12m will spent on work to reinforce security in northern French ports, including new fencing and work to improve traffic flow and Border Force controls, which would be completed next month, she said.
Other security measures already announced include a £2m upgrade of detection technology, £1m extra for dog searches and new fencing in Calais.
UKIP's migration spokesman, Steven Woolfe, said the government was "waking up to the crisis" but called for more UK border personnel in Calais and said the UK should negotiate a scheme where migrants can be returned immediately to France if they have entered the UK illegally.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Britain's border was the scene of a "terrible crisis" where lives were being lost and people were being injured.
Lyn Prosser, 44, from Pontypridd, died following an incident outside O'Neill's pub in St Mary Street on Sunday night.
Police say a row broke out just after 23:00 GMT inside the pub and there was a further altercation outside.
Mr Prosser, was taken to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, but died. The ages of the arrested men range from 24 to 48.
A forensic team from South Wales Police were taking evidence inside and outside the pub, which remained closed on Monday.
A post-mortem examination is ongoing.
Det Supt Paul Hurley said: "I am particularly keen to speak to anyone who was in St Mary Street at the time that may have witnessed an altercation involving a number of people outside the pub."
He added: "Our thoughts are with Mr Prosser's family at this very difficult time.
"I would urge anyone who was in the area and witnessed what happened, either inside or outside O'Neill's, to please contact us."
Police are appealing for witnesses to call 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
A spokesman for O'Neill's in St Mary Street said: "A serious incident took place late yesterday evening.
"The police are currently investigating and we are co-operating fully."
A statement on the Beddau RFC website said: "Lyn was a huge character in the village and was well known by many from not just our community but from far and wide.
"He was a larger than life character and a friend to so many.
"He starred in the back row for both the Beddau and Llantrisant clubs and will be so sorely missed by all.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this sad time."
Campaigners hoped 3,000 children would come into the UK under the so-called Dubs amendment, but last week the home secretary said it would be 350.
The commissioners for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland said they have "deep concern" after the decision.
The government said it was committed to resettling 3,000 vulnerable children.
A spokeswoman said resettling children under the Dubs amendment was "just one way we area helping."
"We have also committed to resettle up to 3,000 vulnerable children and family members from the MENA [Middle East and North Africa] region and 20,000 Syrians by the end of this Parliament."
The Dubs amendment, designed by the Labour peer and former child refugee Lord Dubs, aimed to help some of the estimated 90,000 unaccompanied migrant children across Europe.
The commissioners wrote that the number of children who had come in under the scheme so far "falls significantly short of expectations" and, as a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, the UK should "play a far greater role".
The letter, signed by Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England, and Tam Baillie, Sally Holland and Koulla Yiasouma - her counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - called on Home Secretary Amber Rudd to "consider carefully the plight of the many thousands of lone child refugees in Europe who are currently at risk of exploitation and trafficking".
"We urge the Government to act humanely and responsibly, and to maintain a positive commitment to the Dubs scheme within a comprehensive strategy to safeguard unaccompanied child refugees within Europe," it read.
The letter has received praise from Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee.
She said: "This is a very serious response from the children's commissioners. They make clear that far from avoiding traffickers, by ditching the Dubs scheme, the government risks pushing more children back into the arms of smuggler gangs.
"The government should listen to this call from the commissioners whose very purpose is to protect the welfare of vulnerable children and reopen the Dubs scheme now."
Ms Rudd has defended the decision in the House of Commons, saying it had been made after France raised concerns that the amendment could be encouraging more children to make the perilous journey to Europe.
"I am clear that when working with my French counterparts they do not want us to indefinitely continue to accept children under the Dubs amendment because they specify, and I agree with them, that it acts as a draw," she said.
"It acts as a pull. It encourages the people traffickers."
A statement from a government spokeswoman added: "We have a proud history of offering protection to those who need it and children will continue to arrive in the UK from around the world through our other resettlement schemes and asylum system."
But critics, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, and the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, have called for a reversal of the decision.
A legal challenge against ending the scheme is expected to reach the High Court in May.
Nothing else was taken in the robberies, which happened six days apart in Oxford.
Groups of young men targeted VCR Food and Wine store in Oxford Road, Littlemore, on 24 November, and a Londis in Marston Road on 30 November.
Det Sgt Kevin Parsons said no one was injured but that staff had been left "concerned" after the robberies.
Land Rover Bar, who started the day as leaders, won the first race before defending champions Oracle Team USA claimed victory in the second.
The Britons' second-place finish in a closely fought final race was enough to secure a one-point victory.
The result means that Ainslie's team are top of the 2016 series leaderboard.
Ainslie, who raced with Oracle at the last America's Cup in 2013, is leading the team's bid to become the first ever British winner of the America's Cup.
"I think that for a new team to be leading the World Series now is a good indication of how far we've come, but there's still a long way to go," Ainslie said.
"The guys did an incredible job with the boat handling and that's what really got us out of some of the tough situations."
The Philae spacecraft's touchdown on comet 67P was named as the year's most significant advance by Physics World.
It was singled out for its "fundamental importance to space science".
The first detection of neutrino particles from the main reaction that powers the Sun and a new holographic memory device also made the shortlist.
Dr Hamish Johnston, editor of physicsworld.com, said: "As well as looking forward to the fascinating science... we also acknowledge the technological tour de force of chasing a comet for 10 years and then placing an advanced laboratory on its surface."
Philae landed on its quarry on 12 November, following a seven-hour descent to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Of the runners-up, Dr Johnston explained that each "represents an important step forward made by a team of creative and talented researchers".
In no particular order, the nine other breakthroughs chosen by Physics World are:
Light on the cosmic web (January): Researchers used the radiation emitted by a quasar as a "cosmic flashlight" to illuminate the hidden tendrils of dark matter that underlie the visible Universe.
Neutrinos from the Sun (August): The Borexino experiment in Italy detected neutrino particles from the main nuclear reaction that powers the Sun. The number of neutrinos it saw agrees with theories, suggesting we do understand what's going on inside our parent star.
Laser fusion milestone (February): Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California made a breakthrough in the long road to self-sustaining fusion when they managed to get more energy out of fusion reactions than was deposited in the fuel by NIF's powerful laser.
Acoustic tractor beam (May): Once the preserve of science fiction, tractor beams are now a reality - at least in the lab. Physicists built a device that can pull objects by firing sound waves at them. The beam could have medical uses, such as manipulating objects within the body.
Supernovas in the lab (June): The Vulcan Laser Facility in Oxfordshire was used to recreate miniature star explosions, offering a window into some of the most powerful and unpredictable events in the cosmos.
Electron magnetism (June): Researchers in Israel were the first to measure the extremely weak magnetic interaction between two separate electron particles.
A better fibre for images (March): Scientists in the US used a physical effect called Anderson Localisation to develop a better optical fibre for transmitting images.
Holographic memory (February): American and Russian physicists built a new type of holographic memory device that stores data in the form of magnetic "bits".
Quantum compression: (September): The ability to compress quantum information was demonstrated for the first time by physicists in Canada and Japan.
The defendants were accused of membership or association with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), an al-Qaeda affiliated group.
The IMU is especially active in the Afghan-Pakistani border areas.
The convictions and sentences of various lengths relate to the find last year of car bombs near government buildings in the city of Khojand.
Human rights groups have accused the Tajik authorities of a harsh clampdown on independent Muslims.
One of the defendants received a 10-year sentence for sheltering suspected IMU members.
The defendants are all aged between 18 and 55, the Russian Interfax news agency reported.
They were sentenced for periods between eight and 28 years for terrorism, murder and attempting violently to overthrow the government.
Interfax said that all were residents of the northern Tajik region of Isfara - "where followers of various extremist movements are regularly detained".
In 2010 Tajikistan - an impoverished country that shares a long and poorly secured border with Afghanistan - saw a rise in militant activity leading to the deaths of dozens of troops.
Officials in the authoritarian former Soviet nation argue that hardline Islamism constitutes a genuine threat to stability.
But some observers say the clampdowns on followers of conservative Islam is an attempt to smash dissent.
The IMU has been blamed for much of the violence and battle hardened fighters are thought to have gone to Tajikistan from Pakistan, where they came under pressure from American drones and the Pakistani military, correspondents say.
The movement fought in the region to establish an Islamic state or entity across the populous Ferghana valley before being displaced during the US-led attacks on Afghanistan in 2001.
Observers say that official corruption and widespread poverty have radicalised young men with little prospects in a country where more than a million have gone to Russia as working migrants.
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Lauren Winfield (51), Heather Knight (53) and Natalie Sciver (51) all hit half-centuries as the tourists were bowled out for 295 in their 50 overs.
Sri Lanka, never in the hunt, were bowled out for 173 in 48.5 overs.
England join Australia in qualifying for the World Cup, which takes place in England in June and July next year.
The top four teams in the eight-team ICC Women's Championship table qualify automatically, with the bottom four joining six other sides in a qualifying tournament, to be held in Sri Lanka early in 2017, to determine the final four World Cup qualifiers.
West Indies will become the third side to qualify automatically if they beat India on Sunday, while New Zealand and South Africa are battling for fourth place.
After Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field, England made best use of the conditions at the R Premadasa Stadium as three of their top four passed 50, though none of them passed 53.
Captain Knight struck three sixes, while the free-scoring Sciver's 51 came from only 27 balls.
When she fell, England were 198-5 in the 36th over - but while the lower order was occasionally prone to folding in their recent series in West Indies, this time Georgia Elwiss (46) and Danielle Hazell (29) marshalled the tail well, as the last five wickets added 97 in 15 overs.
It set up what would have been a record run chase for Sri Lanka, whose record ODI score of 282-5 against India at the 2013 World Cup was the only occasion on which they had made more than 251.
That never looked likely as off-spinners Hazell (3-38) and Laura Marsh (2-35) put the brakes on, five Sri Lankans were trapped lbw and two others run out as England cruised to victory, claimed a 2-0 lead in the series - and the two points to guarantee qualification.
Opener Tammy Beaumont donned the wicketkeeping gloves, which she had not done for England since 2011, as keeper Amy Jones was forced to miss the game through illness.
England captain Heather Knight: "We're really chuffed. It's been a long road to get here which started two years ago. We have the best fans in the world, so to get the opportunity to play in a World Cup on home soil is really exciting.
"A few of us got out for fifties, ideally you'd like one of those to go on and get a big score. Katherine Brunt had a bit of a niggle, so we were a bowler down.
"But with Sri Lanka having nine left-handers, having two world-class off-spinners and seeing them bowl in tandem was brilliant."
Top four teams qualify automatically for 2017 World Cup
The man, in his 40s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was acquitted in 2015 at a retrial after claiming the alleged victim had consented.
An interim sexual risk order, initially imposed in December, has been extended for four months by magistrates in York.
It requires the man disclose any planned sexual activity to the police or face up to five years in prison.
The order - which was drawn up by magistrates in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, and extended in York - reads: "You must disclose the details of any female including her name, address and date of birth.
"You must do this at least 24 hours prior to any sexual activity taking place."
It also contains restrictions on his use of the internet and mobile phone devices and requires him to inform officers of any change of address.
A further court hearing in May will decide whether the interim order should be made into a full order, which has a minimum duration of two years and can last indefinitely.
Sexual risk orders were introduced in England and Wales in March last year and can be applied to any individual who the police believe poses a risk of sexual harm, even if they have never been convicted of a crime.
They are civil orders imposed by magistrates at the request of police.
David Harker said he had addressed speculation that Durham faced administration at a team meeting.
"Hopefully I persuaded them that the rumours were nonsense," he said.
"We are not running out of money. Work is in hand to sort our long-term future and we looking at ways to continue sustaining cricket in the north east."
He added: "We are not facing administration in the near future."
It is no secret that Durham have been facing financial problems over the past year, with several players receiving offers from other counties.
Opening batsman Mark Stoneman recently agreed to join Surrey for 2017, but it is understood Durham had offered him a six-figure contract to stay.
Batsman Scott Borthwick has also been offered a new deal and is considering remaining, while captain Paul Collingwood recently penned a one-year contract extension.
On Wednesday, Durham will announce that one of their senior players is signing a new contract, with the county still in the running for their fourth County Championship title in nine seasons.
According to Harker, this is a clear sign that they are not going out of business.
"You always get rumours stated by some agents with ulterior motives," he added.
The two-day event, which started on Saturday, features aircraft including the MiG-15 UTI in honour of Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
In 1961, Mr Gagarin became the first person to journey into outer space.
Other displays include the Breitling Wingwalkers, the Tigers parachute team and the Red Arrows.
Robert Francis-Davies, of Swansea council, said: "It's great news for Swansea people and Swansea businesses, helping pump millions of pounds into the local economy over the course of a single weekend."
Alex Harris' pace helped set up Joe McKee for the opener before Nathan Austin curled in the Bairns' second.
Kyle Lafferty scored twice for Hearts in a 3-0 win over East Fife in Group B.
But the Jambos trail high-scoring Dunfermline, who were 5-1 winners against Peterhead, as Declan McManus and Joe Cardle each scored two goals.
Falkirk beat Stirling Albion in their opening match of the tournament and, even with a game in hand, look down on John Robertson's second-placed Highlanders after the win at the Caledonian Stadium.
Elsewhere in the group, 18-year-old Callum Morrison's brace helped Stirling Albion to a 3-1 win away to Forfar Athletic.
His two strikes gave the Binos a 2-0 half-time lead before Ross Kavanagh added a third, while Mark Millar scored in added time for the hosts.
Dunfermline's comfortable win over Peterhead means they have won two and drawn one of their three Group B ties.
They could not find the net away to East Fife in midweek, though they earned a bonus point in the penalty shootout, but Saturday's five-goal haul followed the six they put past Elgin City last week.
McManus, the summer signing from Fleetwood Town, shot home in seven minutes prior to Cardle's rapid double.
After the break McManus lobbed Peterhead keeper Greg Fleming for his team's fourth ahead of Rory McAllister's penalty for the visitors after Lee Ashcroft had handled inside the box.
However, an own goal by Scott Ross re-established the Pars' four-goal margin.
While Allan Johnston's team have eight points from three games, Hearts are second in the table with two wins from as many ties.
In their match against East Fife, played for spells in torrential rain, Northern Ireland striker Lafferty nodded home Don Cowie's cross to break the deadlock midway through the first half.
Hearts goalkeeper Jack Hamilton turned a Paul Willis header round the post before captain Christophe Berra headed home Malaury Martin's corner.
East Fife's Ben Gordon was sent off for a second bookable offence as he brought down Isma Goncalves inside the penalty area and Lafferty converted the penalty.
In Group C, Highland League champions Buckie Thistle were the stronger team for the first 20 minutes against Premiership Dundee, but the Dark Blues had the greater goal threat.
Faissal el Bakhtaoui lashed in the opening goal from outside the box and Paul McGowan curled an effort over Thistle's crossbar prior to Sofien Moussa going close with an overhead kick.
El Bakhtaoui set up Moussa to score from six yards for Dundee's second as they moved just behind group leaders and city rivals Dundee United on goal difference.
Arbroath moved ahead of Hibernian in Group D with a 4-0 win over Montrose in the Angus derby.
David Gold pounced when the visitors failed to properly clear a corner kick and Danny Denholm scored twice in five second-half minutes to put the result beyond doubt.
In added time, Kane Hester set up Steven Doris to shoot past Montrose goalkeeper Allan Fleming.
Ross County lead Group D with eight points from their three games, but the Staggies have played one tie more than second-placed Arbroath on five points and Neil Lennon's Hibs on four points.
The eight group winners and four best runners-up progress to the knockout stage where they are joined by the four teams in European competition - Celtic, Aberdeen, Rangers and St Johnstone.
Darren Manley stocked products with names such as King B, Cherry Bomb, Blow and Charly Sheen at his shop Red Eye on Oxford's Cowley Road.
They were described as research chemicals and herbal incenses.
He has now been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence by a judge at Oxford Crown Court, who also ordered £120,000 in fines and costs to be paid.
Oxfordshire County Council's trading standards team said the way the products were sold without health risk warnings was illegal.
The council started investigating the business in 2014 after doctors raised concerns about the products' effects upon people using them as drugs.
Jody Kerman, a trading standards manager, said the way the supposedly legal highs were sold meant they were not legal.
He said: "The products were labelled incorrectly and contained dangerous substances with no appropriate warnings or instructions for their safe use.
Manley, 36, of Curlew Place, Portishead, and his firm RAD Trading Limited each admitted eight counts of breaching the General Product Safety Regulations 2005.
Both were fined £20,000 and told to pay £40,000 in prosecution costs. Manley also had to forfeit all the illegal products and pay an £80 victims' surcharge.
Kahilli gave birth last Tuesday but the first twin died the next day and the second, initially thought to be doing well, died on Saturday night.
Head of Mammals Dominic Wormell, said the gorillas were all grieving.
"Kahilli still has the dead baby with her - it is normal for gorillas to carry an infant that has died for some time," he said.
The second infant was initially thought to have been doing well but survived for just three days after the first death.
Mr Wormell said he was confident Kahilli would go on to have other births.
"We will retrieve the tiny body at the appropriate time, but we feel it is important for Kahilli to have the chance to grieve for her loss," he said.
"We know that Kahilli is a great mother and Badongo is a gentle and caring father, and we are confident there will be successful births in the future."
The twins would have been the second and third born to silverback Badongo and Kahilli. Their previous child, Indigo, was born in September 2012.
Western lowland gorillas are classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
Mr Ramaphosa was at one point seen as the man likely to succeed Nelson Mandela as president in 1999 but he instead entered the world of business.
He told reporters that the deal would help to create jobs locally.
McDonald's opened its first South African restaurant in 1995.
But analysts say it has struggled due to tough competition from existing fast-food chains.
Chris Gilmour, an analyst in Johannesburg, said he believed McDonald's had also misread the local market when it opened restaurants that were too large and expensive for potential franchise-holders to operate, the AP news agency reports.
Mr Ramaphosa has been awarded a 20-year agreement to run the 145 McDonald's restaurants in South Africa.
McDonald's and Mr Ramaphosa did not say how much the deal is worth.
The former activist headed the African National Congress delegation which began talks with the apartheid regime - leading to the end of minority rule in 1994.
He is now one of South Africa's richest businessmen.
As former chairman of the Black Economic Empowerment Commission, he was closely involved in the government programme to transfer wealth and economic assets to the black population.
Mr Ramaphosa said he was honoured at the opportunity and would "focus on satisfying our customers, developing our people and maximizing business opportunities".
McDonald's believes Mr Ramaphosa could turn round the company's fortunes in the country, saying he is a businessman familiar with South Africa's dynamics and market conditions.
"We are excited about the new relationship between McDonald's and Cyril Ramaphosa," said Dave Murphy, division president Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa.
McDonald's is said to be is the largest fast-food business in the world.
Mr Jones said the deal, announced by UK ministers on Friday, was "no more than a staging post" to a better system.
The prime minister has argued the plan removes the "remaining barriers" to a referendum on tax powers.
But, on Tuesday, Mr Jones said the proposals were a "missed opportunity" on issues such as funding.
He has already rejected David Cameron's referendum call, saying a minimum funding offer for the Welsh government was merely a "vague promise".
In addition to the prison sentence, Hugh Robertson, 33, of Thornhill, was told his name would remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
He carried out the attack in Dumfries in November 2014.
Last month a jury at the High Court in Glasgow deleted a charge of raping the woman but convicted Robertson of a violent sexual assault.
The court previously heard how he turned up at the house where he carried out the attack in an "angry and frustrated state".
The jury was told that the woman was struck with a belt and was "crying and very upset" during her ordeal. She suffered bruising and swelling.
Robertson tried to "barricade" himself in when police arrived but was eventually discovered hiding in the attic.
Susan Duff, defending, told the High Court in Livingston where he appeared for sentencing that he had gone to the woman's home in a bid to restart a relationship.
She said: "He did not, at trial or before - and still does not - accept the sexual element of which he's been convicted, but he accepted that he physically assaulted her.
"The events of that night have completely altered the course of Mr Robertson's life.
"He first consulted me in January 2015 when his distress was painfully obvious and he has continued to struggle emotionally with what has happened."
She said a social worker's report noted that he expressed "regret" for hurting his victim.
Ms Duff added that he was regarded as being at low risk of reoffending and at medium risk of sexual offending.
"Mr Robertson finds himself in a position he never thought he'd be in," she said.
"This was a tragic end to a relationship he'd still rather be in than out of."
Passing sentence, judge Lord Bannatyne told Robertson that he noted his age and the fact it was his first court appearance.
"I think it's fair to say you've led a reasonably useful and law-abiding life," he said.
"The charge of which you've been convicted is reduced in its seriousness, however, the charge does remain a serious one and there is no appropriate sentence other than a sentence of imprisonment.
"I believe that - taking into account all of the mitigatory factors in this case - the appropriate sentence is one of three years imprisonment."
The sentence was backdated to 14 June.
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The former Swans boss also questioned whether Paul Clement was the correct appointment at the Liberty Stadium.
"I don't like to be negative but I don't really see signs of Swansea pulling out of there," he said.
The ex-Liverpool striker also told BBC Wales Sport he believes the Anfield club have the most chance of catching Premier League leaders Chelsea.
Toshack, who managed Swansea from 1978-83 and guided them from the Fourth Division to the summit of the First Division, is concerned his former club will be unable to pull themselves out of the relegation zone.
"It (Premier League survival) is going to be very difficult," he said.
"Usually you can count on one team dropping in there.
"At the moment it looks like three from the bottom four, but maybe a Middlesbrough or a Watford will drop down."
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Toshack also questioned the credentials of Clement, who succeeded Bob Bradley to become the Swans' third manager this season.
"The new manager, they talk a lot about him being at Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Chelsea or whatever, but the managerial experience is nine months as Derby so we are still a little bit uncertain," Toshack said.
"But hopefully he will be able to turn things around. It wasn't the best of starts last week (4-0 against Arsenal).
"You look at the fixtures at the moment and they are very difficult but that might not be a bad thing.
"He will find out a lot of things about his players during those matches, and when the opposition that are not so strong comes around, hopefully that will benefit him.
"We wish him all the best anyway."
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Toshack says instability throughout the club, including off the field, has hurt Swansea's prospects.
Swansea are under new ownership this season following a takeover by American investors Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien.
"When you have three different managers, or coaches as they call them these days, it's very difficult at Swansea as well what has happened at boardroom level," he said.
"They have done a terrific job there through Huw (Jenkins) and Martin (Morgan).
"It's a difficult situation at the moment at Swansea at all levels.
"We just hope they can get themselves sorted out in an intelligent manner right through the club and dig in and stick in there. They still have got possibilities."
Toshack, who made 246 appearances for Liverpool between 1970-1978, winning the First Division title three times, believes his former club can still catch Chelsea, even though Antonio Conte's side are currently seven points ahead of Liverpool and second-placed Tottenham Hotspur.
"The manager they have got at the moment has certainly got them all going there and they are within a realistic chance of winning the championship this year," he said of Jurgen Klopp's men.
"Since Chelsea changed their system... they have done very well.
"I think it's Chelsea's to lose but when you get to the last 10 or 12 matches, strange things can happen and I don't think it's completely over by any means.
"If anyone can challenge Chelsea and pinch it from them, I think it's possibly Liverpool."
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Sailendra Nath Roy, 48, was performing the feat on the Teesta river in West Bengal when he suffered a heart attack.
Hundreds of spectators watched his last moments in horror.
In March 2011, Mr Roy was named a Guinness World Record holder for travelling the farthest distance on a zip wire using hair.
He worked as a driver for the police.
Mr Roy was trying to cross the Coronation Bridge over the Teesta river near Siliguri town suspended from a zip wire 600ft (180m) long at a height of 70ft (20m).
A large number of people had gathered on the bridge to watch the feat.
Witnesses said that Mr Roy appeared to make no progress after covering about 300ft (90m).
"He was desperately trying to move forward. He was trying to scream out some instruction. But no one could follow what he was saying. After struggling for 30 minutes he became still," said Balai Sutradhar, a photographer, who was covering the stunt.
Police said he was hanging for nearly 45 minutes before he was brought down.
Doctors at the hospital said he had suffered a "massive heart attack".
Mr Roy had arrived at the riverside on Sunday morning and set up the zip wire from the bridge with help from friends.
He was wearing a life jacket, but there were no doctors or emergency services on the spot.
Police said that Mr Roy had not got permission to do the stunt.
A friend, who preferred to remain anonymous, said: "His wife used to urge him to quit doing dangerous stunts. Mr Roy convinced her that crossing the Teesta river would be his last. Unfortunately, that became his last stunt."
In 2008, Mr Roy pulled the Darjeeling toy train with his ponytail.
And in 2007, his ponytail tied to a rope, he flew from one building to another in front of television cameras.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the "truly momentous" decision would support trade and create jobs.
Gatwick airport said it was disappointed with the decision, which was "not the right answer for Britain".
The issue has split the Cabinet, with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson saying a third runway was "undeliverable".
The Education Secretary, Justine Greening, whose Putney constituency in southwest London is near the airport, has also been a vocal critic of Heathrow expansion.
The Department for Transport said a new runway at Heathrow would bring economic benefits to passengers and the wider economy worth up to £61bn and create as many as 77,000 additional local jobs over the next 14 years.
Heathrow said the expansion would allow it to offer more direct flights to UK destinations as well as up to 40 new cities abroad such as Wuhan, Osaka and Quito.
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A public consultation will now be held on the effects of airport expansion before the government makes a final decision as part of a national policy statement on aviation.
MPs will then vote on that decision in the winter of 2017-18. It is unlikely that any new runway capacity would be operational before 2025.
Construction is not likely to begin until 2020 or 2021, the Airports Commission has said.
Mr Johnson, the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London, doubted whether construction would ever start: "The day when the bulldozers appear is a long way off, if indeed they ever materialise."
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, also said expanding the west London airport was the wrong decision for both London and the UK.
"There are more people affected by noise because of Heathrow than people affected by the airports in Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Munich and Madrid combined," he said. "The air in London is a killer. It makes you sick and it's unlawful."
Greenpeace UK chief John Sauven said a third runway at Heathrow would increase air pollution and "be a waste of time, money and lives".
Andy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, said opposition from predominantly Tory-controlled councils, communities and MPs meant "the chances of a toxic third runway being built are vanishingly small".
However, a wide range of unions and business groups welcomed the decision to expand Heathrow. TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said it was "absolutely vital for Britain", while CBI chief Paul Drechsler said it would create jobs and boost economic growth.
Heathrow management said the airport was ready to deliver a third runway that was "fair, affordable and secures the benefits of expansion for the whole of the UK".
Expanding airport capacity in the South East of England has been a political hot potato for many years, which is why successive governments have attempted to duck the issue.
Although Heathrow has always been the favourite among businesses, it has attracted the most opposition from MPs with constituencies near the airport or under flight paths.
A study last year led by Sir Howard Davies recommended a third runway at Heathrow, but other options included a new runway at Gatwick or extending one of Heathrow's existing runways.
Zac Goldsmith, the Tory MP for Richmond Park, has resigned in protest against the decision, which he called "catastrophic".
The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, whose Hayes and Harlington constituency includes Heathrow, said the announcement was the start, rather than the end, of the process.
"It beggars belief that it has taken ministers over a year since the publication of the Davies report to even make that start," he said. "There is no justification for dithering on this scale."
We have a long way to go before we see the proverbial shovels in the ground - there will be legal and planning challenges aplenty to come. However, with today's decision to recommend a third runway, this government has arrived at a point its predecessors failed to, with a real prospect of action. From beating ourselves up for not being able to build anything, the UK is suddenly building everything.
Heathrow was chosen because of the extra boost it gives to the UK economy, but it is not the only mammoth project out there. After a last-minute wobble, the £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear power station was given the green light, while the biggest project of them all is coming down the track fast.
Construction on the £42bn HS2 is scheduled to begin next year - and that is probably not all. Chancellor Philip Hammond has hinted he may reveal some moderate borrowing to fund targeted infrastructure spending in his Autumn Statement next month. It's enough to make the Victorians sit up and take notice.
If projections for a fairly sharp post-Brexit slowdown in the economy next year are correct then we may need this spending boost. If these projects proceed on time, there is something else we will need: people to build all this stuff. With unemployment close to historic lows, it's not clear we have enough. Like the Victorians did, it seems very likely we will need to look abroad to find the workers for our golden age of infrastructure - and that, post-Brexit, will present a political rather than an engineering challenge.
Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways owner IAG, welcomed the decision to expand Heathrow but added: "The government's directive to cap customer charges at today's level is fundamental. Heathrow is the world's most expensive hub airport so it's critical that new capacity is affordable."
His counterpart at Virgin Atlantic, Craig Kreeger, described the announcement as an exciting opportunity to radically transform airline competition at the UK's main airport". The airline would strive to ensure that passengers were not "overburdened by paying for runways and facilities that won't be open until the mid-2020s".
The image showed the two royals with members of the Privy Council after a meeting at Buckingham Palace in 1981.
It had a guide price of £1,000 but it was sold for £1,600 by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Gloucestershire.
The frame is signed by George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, who is pictured second on the right in the front row.
The meeting on 27 March 1981 marked the Queen giving Prince Charles consent to marry Princess Diana, who is not pictured, under the Royal Marriages Act.
Chris Albury, auctioneer and senior valuer, said it was the first time he had seen something signed by more than one member of the royal family.
Tries from Zak Davidson and Niall Armstrong helped the holders to a 12-0 advantage at the break.
The Belfast team surged clear in the second with Armstrong adding two more tries while Yasser Omar, Michael Lowry and Callum Reid also touched down.
Ballymena did manage to register a try through Azur Allison.
RBAI will play the winners of the second semi-final between Methodist College Belfast and Belfast Royal Academy at the same venue on Tuesday.
Belfast Royal Academy were awarded a walkover in the quarter-finals after opponent Friends' were unable to field a team, with 17 of the their squad on a skiing trip in Austria.
South Oxfordshire District Council's scheme for the new Didcot Gateway was approved by its own planning committee.
Council leader John Cotton called it a "really important step in making Didcot a bigger and brighter place".
But a member of a group opposing the scheme said Didcot did not need or want iconic buildings or a vanity project.
Penny Dakin Kiley, member of the group Local Voice For Didcot Gateway, said while she was not against redevelopment in principle, she wanted to see housing sympathetic to the existing buildings in the area.
"We believe this is a vanity project on behalf of the council," she said.
"They're talking in terms of iconic gateway buildings. We don't believe Didcot needs or wants iconic gateway buildings, or that they'll make any difference to the visitors here."
There have been 29 objections by residents concerned about the height of buildings, noise from increased traffic, and the lack of parking.
But Mr Cotton said it was a "really exciting scheme".
He added: "It's always tricky when it looks like something quite enormous could be built in front of your house. We're sensitive to that.
"There's more work to be done with residents to get it exactly right."
The council said it hoped to start construction on the site within two years.
The 2013 Young Sports Personality of the Year won 2015 European skeet gold and is in the Rio 2016 Olympic squad.
"When I first started, my technique was horrendous. I don't know how I managed to shoot," Hill, 18, said.
"That's why in 2014 we decided to strip things back. My scores went back, but it's made me a stronger athlete and I'm a lot more consistent with my scores."
She became the youngest winner of a senior World Cup in skeet shooting at the age of 15 in 2013, and finished that season ranked number one senior in Great Britain and number five in the world.
And after changing her technique with coach Joe Neville, last year Hill won the skeet title at the inaugural European Games in Baku and also claimed victory at the World Cup final in Cyprus.
Windsor-born Hill, who trains in Buckinghamshire, is part of a six-strong Team GB squad for Rio 2016.
"You've got to go for gold (at Rio), otherwise why are you there?" she told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"As long as I go there and know I've done everything possible to make it happen on the day and enjoy myself I'll be happy.
"There's a lot of nerves in it but it's all about keeping mentally strong and relying on everything you've done in the past. You've just got to trust yourself."
Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died last month in northern Punjab.
Her former husband Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel, who is accused of murder, has confessed to strangling her with a scarf, local police have told the BBC.
He and her father Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid were remanded for a further five days by a Pakistani judge.
Mr Shahid is being held as an accessory to murder.
Both men were remanded for four days at their first court appearance on Saturday.
Police in Pakistan have told the BBC that Mr Shakeel, who is also Ms Shahid's cousin, has confessed to her murder.
Ms Shahid had been visiting relatives in the village of Pandori when she died and her relatives had initially claimed she died of a heart attack.
Her second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, believes she was the victim of a so-called honour killing as her family did not approve of their marriage.
A post-mortem examination has since confirmed she died as a result of being strangled, police say.
Like last time Ms Shahid's father and former husband had their faces covered as they went into the court although the media were allowed inside the courtroom this time.
In court they uncovered their faces and both men appeared calm and did not speak as the judge remanded them in custody for another five days - a period of time requested by the investigating officer.
Police told me on Monday that Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel had confessed to Samia's murder.
However, her second husband said that held little legal weight and that he was more concerned with what Mr Shakeel would say in court.
Two police officers were injured when a Vauxhall Vectra hit the marked car in Pilgrim Street, Newcastle just before 22:30 BST on Wednesday.
The 44-year-old man ran off but was found nearby and arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, Northumbria Police said.
He is under investigation for driving under the influence of drink or drugs.
The officers were taken to hospital for treatment. The road was closed but has since reopened.
Dorian Murray, 8, from Rhode Island in the United States, is fighting cancer and has chosen to stop treatment.
An 11 January post on a Facebook page run by his family said that before Dorian died he wanted to be "famous in China", because it had the Great Wall.
It asked people in China and other countries to send pictures so Dorian knows "he is internationally famous".
Dorian has been battling rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of soft tissue cancer, since the age of four.
He recently told his parents he wanted to be famous on "the bridge in China" - a reference to the Great Wall of China, local media reported.
"I'm just thinking before I go to heaven to try to be famous as much as I can," Dorian told local broadcaster WPRI.
Not long after his family made the Facebook appeal, the first few posts from the Great Wall started pouring in - despite Facebook being blocked in China.
The appeal has also been shared thousands of time on social media.
On China's microblogging site weibo, Dorian Murray started trending with thousands of users sharing his story.
"Cancer is already a terrible thing to go through, what's more, a young boy? He is so courageous and innocent and I hope we can make his dream come true. Let's make it trend," said Kara_ Star 289.
Weibo users have also been uploading and sharing photographs, carrying signs reading #D-strong, taken at various locations around Beijing including the Great Wall.
Staff of state-run newspaper China Daily have also shown their support.
Dorian's mother has written that she is "amazed and completely in awe of the response to Dorian's request".
"Dorian has brought so much inspiration to people, around the world! I couldn't be more proud of my son."
The striker was left with a simple finish from eight yards after substitute Gwion Edwards had got past Tom Lockyer to deliver a low cross from the left.
Rovers took the lead when Matt Taylor hit his 11th goal of the season from the penalty spot following a foul by Shaquille Coulthirst on Dan Leadbitter.
Coulthirst made amends five minutes later, firing home the equaliser from close range after Michael Smith's effort, following a calamitous error by Rovers keeper Kelle Roos, had been blocked.
Roos spilled a seemingly straightforward cross and his mistake turned the game.
Rovers had the better of few first-half chances, top scorer Taylor seeing a low 40th-minute shot deflected narrowly wide.
Luke McGee made a diving save to deny Charlie Colkett, while Rory Gaffney shot too close to the Peterborough keeper from a good opening just before the interval.
Posh's best first-half effort was a low 25-yard drive by Nichols after he turned his marker on 23 minutes, but Roos saved, diving to his right.
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Match ends, Bristol Rovers 1, Peterborough United 2.
Second Half ends, Bristol Rovers 1, Peterborough United 2.
Goal! Bristol Rovers 1, Peterborough United 2. Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gwion Edwards.
Attempt missed. Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Jack Baldwin.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Jack Baldwin.
Attempt blocked. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Jake Clarke-Salter (Bristol Rovers).
Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Delay in match Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) because of an injury.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Marcus Maddison.
Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Nichols (Peterborough United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Gwion Edwards replaces Leonardo Da Silva Lopes.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Paul Taylor replaces Shaquile Coulthirst because of an injury.
Delay in match Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) because of an injury.
Foul by Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers).
Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Jermaine Easter replaces Ollie Clarke.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Ellis Harrison replaces Rory Gaffney.
Attempt missed. Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card.
Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United).
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Chris Lines.
Foul by Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers).
Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers).
Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Ryan Tafazolli.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Andrew Hughes.
Attempt blocked. Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked.
Goal! Bristol Rovers 1, Peterborough United 1. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
The meeting will be used to agree the guidelines for the EU's negotiating team headed by Michel Barnier.
European Council president Donald Tusk said the priority would be giving "clarity" to EU residents, business and member states about the talks ahead.
Prime Minister Theresa May will officially notify the EU of the UK's intention to leave on 29 March.
She told her cabinet on Tuesday that triggering Article 50 would be an "historic event" and the start of a "bold new chapter... as a prosperous open and global nation".
The letter which she will send to Mr Tusk, will be "one of the most important documents in the country's recent history" and it will set the tone for a new relationship with the EU, she told her senior team of ministers.
April's meeting, which the UK will not attend, will be held just days after the first round of voting in the French presidential election.
Mrs May has said she hopes that talks will get under way as soon as possible although it is thought that they will not begin in earnest until after April's meeting and the final outcome of the French contest is known on 7 May.
In a statement, Mr Tusk said he regretted but respected the UK's decision to leave the EU and wanted the "process of divorce" to be as "painless as possible" for the European Union.
A majority of Leave and Remain voters want Theresa May to secure restrictions on immigration from EU countries in Brexit talks, new research suggests.
The survey - by pollster Professor John Curtice - suggested 82% of Leave voters want EU migrants to be treated the same as those from outside the EU.
More than half of the Remain voters surveyed - 58% - agreed.
The National Centre for Social Research Survey of 2,322 people was carried out in February and early March.
It suggested 88% of those who voted to come out of the EU in last June's referendum wanted to maintain free trade with the EU, with 91% of Remain supporters backing that policy.
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"Our main priority for the negotiations must be to create as much certainty and clarity as possible for all citizens, companies and member states that will be negatively affected by Brexit, as well as our important partners and friends around the world like Japan," he said.
British ministers have said the EU's draft guidelines, which are expected to be published within 48 hours of Article 50 being triggered, will be a "very important" moment of "choreography" in the Brexit process.
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Once talks start, they are expected to focus initially on the rights of EU nationals living in the UK and Britons living on the continent as well as what, if any, payments the UK will have to make to the EU's budget to cover current and future liabilities.
Mr Barnier, a former European Commission official, has called for talks to be completed by October 2018 to give time for any agreement to be ratified before the UK leaves, expected on March 29 2019 under the two-year Article 50 process.
Within days of April's meeting, he is expected to make recommendations to EU leaders on how the talks should be structured to achieve this.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs is to move some jobs away from London and expand its European presence, a senior executive said on Tuesday.
The US bank's European chief executive, Richard Gnodde, said it would begin the process before the UK leaves the European Union but said the numbers involved were "in the hundreds of people as opposed to anything greater than that".
Another senior executive at the bank said last week that London would remain a significant financial hub after Brexit.
Dr Saleyha Ahsan, an emergency doctor at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Gwynedd, said £220,000 has been raised by crowd funding to help those affected by the civil war.
The support was "staggering", she said.
"This act in itself has been a massive display of solidarity with these doctors who are risking their lives."
Dr Ahsan was part of a convoy supported by a number of human rights organisations who responded to a call from the doctors to build a unit to serve 66,000 children near Aleppo where thousands have been evacuated.
They handed over the equipment to members of Syria's Independent Doctors Association at the border.
Dr Ahsan returned to north Wales on Friday in time for her Christmas weekend shifts at the hospital.
Tyrone Dorsett, 34, struck five times at the Bangla Bazaar store in Leonard Road, Lozells, Birmingham, between 29 December and 16 January, police said.
They recovered a can that CCTV showed him drinking from and discarding before another shop robbery in Burbury Street.
He admitted 15 robberies and one count of assault with intent to rob.
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During the five robberies at the same store Dorsett, who wore a mask, made off with cash and packets of cigarettes.
He committed four robberies against the same 66-year-old man in Newtown, West Midlands Police said it discovered.
PC Sherrie Watkins, from the force's High Harm & Vulnerability Team, said: "Dorsett is a dangerous man…a bully who thinks nothing about carrying a knife in public and using it to threaten vulnerable people."
He was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court after admitting the 15 robberies and the count of assault with intent to rob between 10 November and 5 February.
The 74-year-old has been criticised for her beliefs on same-sex marriage, with 18-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova calling for the Margaret Court Arena to be renamed.
I have 35 cultures in my church and I love them all. I think it's very sad and sick it's being brought up now
"They have a lot of money behind them," Court told 3AW radio.
Court won 24 Grand Slam titles, 11 in the Open era, which began in 1968.
Regarding calls for the stadium in her honour to be renamed, she said: "I think I've won more Grand Slams than any man or woman and if it is [renamed], I don't believe I deserve it.
"They could probably get 100,000 petitions in 24 hours because that's how they work. There's a lot of money behind it, and it's coming from America."
And asked about a possible conspiracy, she added: "Yes, I believe there is... I think the [gay] lobby, yeah."
Tennis Australia and the operator of the Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne and Olympic Parks, have distanced themselves from Court's views on gay marriage. There are currently no plans to rename the venue.
The recent furore started following Court's open letter to The West Australian, when she declared she would not fly on Qantas "where possible" in protest at its support of same-sex marriage. She then told a Christian radio station "tennis is full of lesbians".
Navratilova responded: "It is now clear exactly who Court is: an amazing tennis player, and a racist and a homophobe.
"Her vitriol is not just an opinion. She is actively trying to keep LGBT people from getting equal rights (note to Court: we are human beings, too)."
In 1970, during Apartheid in South Africa, Court said: "South Africa has the racial situation rather better organised than anyone else, certainly much better than the United States."
Court denied allegations of racism, stating that she had played tennis with compatriot and seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley in South Africa.
"Evonne and I went in there and played for the black people," she is quoted as saying in The West Australian. "I have 35 cultures in my church and I love them all. I think it's very sad and sick it's being brought up now."
Ollie Daniel, 25, fell through snow while walking in the area of Coire Sputan Dearg on Sunday.
A major rescue operation saw him airlifted to safety. His injuries included nine broken ribs.
Mr Daniel, of Cambridge, thanked the rescue teams - and vowed to return to the mountains.
He had been with two other men - including his father.
Speaking to BBC Scotland at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Mr Daniel said: "We were navigating in near zero visibility in a white-out.
"As I was navigating I put my foot out and onto nothing, and fell down about 800ft of sheer cliff.
"You figure you have had it."
He described sections of sliding, as well as free-falling.
"There was one really big hit, that seems to have done most of the damage," he said.
"It felt like I was falling for quite a long time before it stopped."
Mr Daniel then found a more sheltered spot and took cover in his sleeping bag as he waited for help.
He said about two hours later he heard an RAF helicopter, which was a "big relief", but also "quite demoralising" when he realised it was in the wrong area.
He was later found by mountain rescuers.
Mr Daniel said he felt "lucky" for two reasons.
He said: "You could not reasonably expect to fall down that cliff and survive, then mountain rescue to find me and rescue me. It's credit to them."
Asked if he planned to return to the mountains, he confirmed: "The whole point of the trip was preparation for a bigger trip."
Mr Daniel suffered nine broken ribs, a broken wrist, and liver and lung injuries, as well as cuts and bruises.
He added: "I have felt better certainly - but luckily I do not feel worse."
His father James Daniel recalled: "We were walking in a three, Ollie was at the front and I was at the back.
"He put his foot down, let out a shout, and disappeared.
"We got as close as we dared. We started to think 'Oh no, something serious has happened here'."
They managed to raise the alarm.
"I did not know if he was alive," he said.
He added that his son's rescuers, including Braemar Mountain Rescue Team, were "brilliant".
Joseph Webb committed the offence at Southampton's St Mary's Stadium during the Championship game with Brighton and Hove Albion on 19 November.
Webb, 26, of Field Close, Romsey, admitted at Southampton Magistrates' Court to a charge under the Public Order Act.
He was also fined £100 and ordered to pay £100 costs.
Rikesh Sakaaria, 28, from Bassett Avenue, in Bassett, Southampton, was also charged under the same offence but the case against him was withdrawn.
A Hampshire Constabulary spokeswoman said: "Homophobia within football is currently the subject of national debate, and the ban given today highlights the fact this type of behaviour will not be tolerated.
"Thousands of people pay each week to watch sport and enjoy themselves, and they should not have to hear offensive language and abuse while they do so. We will continue to take action against those who behave in such a way at football matches."
The year-on-year growth rate is also below the government's 7% target.
Though slightly above expectations, the data is expected to raise pressure on policymakers to step up monetary policy to stem the slowdown.
China's economy has been hit by extreme stock market volatility over the summer and weak economic data, causing concern on markets around the world.
Most analysts were expecting growth figures of 6.8% for the July to September period.
The latest growth figure comes after a slew of disappointing data out of China. Earlier in the month, manufacturing data suggested the sector continued to contract for September.
Imports saw a sharp fall for the past month while inflation eased by more than expected, adding to fears of a rapid slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
China has been attempting to shift from an export-led economy to a consumer and services-led one.
Beijing set an official growth target of "about 7%" for the overall year but Premier Li Keqiang said a lower growth rate was also acceptable, as long as enough new jobs were created.
"In order to restructure, the economy will face some downward pressure," Sheng Laiyun, a spokesman for the Chinese statistics agency, told reporters.
But despite a slowdown in the industrial sector, Mr Sheng said the services sector is expected to grow rapidly.
"All this indicates the restructuring and upgrading of the Chinese economy are going steadily."
However, analysts say the steep fall in imports suggests domestic demand is not as strong as the government would have hoped.
Any Chinese growth, if real, now has a disproportionate impact on the global economy.
And the corollary, of course, is that any slowdown beyond what's expected by client economies all over the world - manufacturers like Germany, commodity producers like Brazil - engenders disproportionate pain.
The point is that China, on the purchasing power parity measure which attempts to assess physical output undistorted by exchange rate movements, is the world's biggest economy, according to the World Bank - representing 16.7% of global GDP or output, compared with 16% for America (which is still the number one economy on the conventional GDP measure).
This means that if its current GDP growth is accurate, China is actually contributing a little bit more to global growth at its new putative expansion rate rate of 6.9% than it did in the boom years of 2003-7, when its economy was growing at the hair-raising rate of 11.7%.
Or to put it another way, China today is in theory contributing more than one percentage point of global GDP expansion compared with almost exactly one percentage point just before the 2008 debacle.
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The slowdown comes despite repeated interest rate cuts and other stimulus measures introduced by Beijing.
"The government's measures helped dampen the downside pressures but the problem is that these pressures on growth are actually pretty severe," Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics told the BBC.
They could be seen in the industrial production data, in heavy industry and other sectors, he explained.
"What keeps China going at the moment is consumption but this can not fully offset those negative pressures on growth and therefore - even though we see some stimulus coming from the government and we see that having some impact - it's not enough to prevent growth from sliding further."
In the second quarter, growth did beat expectations, coming in at 7% from the previous year, matching growth in the first three months of the year.
Economists are, however, continuing to call for more government action, as volatility in the stock markets sparks concerns of financial turmoil and potential social unrest.
Some central European states have resisted calls for EU members to accept mandatory quotas.
Whatever is decided, the UN says the EU's plans will not be enough.
The migrants are part of 500,000 to have arrived by sea this year so far. Germany says it expects at least 800,000 this year.
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The arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants has created deep EU divisions.
Home affairs ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday are hoping to reach agreement which would be ratified by EU leaders on Wednesday.
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Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic all oppose the idea of obligatory quotas, promoted by Germany which has accepted large numbers of migrants.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said two weeks ago that obligatory quotas were "a first step" towards a more permanent scheme to deal with the influx.
But mandatory quotas have now been dropped, diplomats say, and a voluntary relocation scheme is now on the table.
Refugees and migrants have been walking over the border from Hungary. The young men come first, waving and asking: "Is this Austria?"
There are cheers when they are told where they are.
The families follow, a father holding the hands of his two young children, a mother carrying her baby, then a man pushing a boy in a wheelchair.
Many are from Syria - others say they are from Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Some walk to the reception centre where the Red Cross has food and clothes for them. But others go straight to the queues for the buses which will carry them away from the border.
Some apply for asylum in Austria but most say they want to go on to Germany.
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Most of those arriving in the European Union are from war-torn Syria, the European Commission says.
The relocation scheme would prioritise migrants recognised as "in need of international protection" - those from Syria, Eritrea and Iraq, according to EU data.
The 120,000 would be transferred from Hungary, Greece and Italy - the states where most migrants have been entering the European Union.
The UK, under an opt-out, would not be part of the relocation scheme but has already agreed to take 20,000 migrants directly from countries bordering Syria over the next five years.
The Irish Republic and Denmark, with similar opt-outs, have agreed to take part in the EU scheme.
The UN Refugee Agency has warned that the relocation scheme will be insufficient given the large numbers arriving in Europe.
"A relocation programme alone, at this stage in the crisis, will not be enough to stabilise the situation," spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.
The number of those needing to be relocated will probably need to be revised upwards significantly, she said.
Newcomers continued arriving in southern Europe on Tuesday in the hope of making their way north to Germany and Scandinavia.
Hundreds are crossing the Hungarian border into Austria - and about 4,000 are reaching the Greek island of Lesbos every day.
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.
For five weeks, groups of armed, former Ukrainian soldiers and members of small, nationalist political parties have blocked rail lines.
The Ukrainian government has condemned the action, which has stopped trains from transporting coal and other industrial goods.
The blockade has cut off vital links between industrial plants on either side of the conflict's frontline and is greatly damaging Ukraine's economy.
As a result, operations at three steel and coal plants on the separatist side have been suspended.
If the blockade were to continue for a whole year, it is estimated it would cost the Ukrainian economy a staggering $2.5bn (£2.04bn).
Thirty thousand jobs are said to be at risk, as well as Ukraine's energy supply, and more industrial plants could close if the blockade does not end.
The man who employs all those people is Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov.
In the past at least, Mr Akhmetov was a political power broker in Ukraine.
He had particular influence in the Donbass region in the east and was born in the region's main city of Donetsk.
When the war broke out in the spring of 2014 he faced criticism for failing to publicly condemn the Russian-backed separatists for several weeks.
However, Mr Akhmetov claims that he has always worked for the unity and prosperity of both Ukraine and Donbass.
Now though, Mr Akhmetov is the biggest loser in the fallout from the economic blockade.
Not only are his businesses on the Ukrainian side being starved of natural resources, such as coal, but the separatist authorities have begun seizing his assets.
Perhaps the most symbolic building is the stadium of Shakhtar Donetsk, the football club, which he owns.
However, the internationally unrecognised separatist authorities have also taken control of infrastructure belonging to his telecoms company, Ukrtelecom.
The firm said 200,000 people were left without telephone and internet coverage.
The separatists have threatened to "nationalise" all businesses that are still under Ukrainian control if the blockade is not ended.
Industrial plants belonging to Mr Akhmetov remain open, but armed men have appeared outside some buildings.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed the confiscation of Ukrainian assets was further proof of Russia's "occupation" of the Donbass.
Russia in turn has defended the action of the separatists, arguing that it is a justified response to the blockade.
Taras Berezovets, who used to sit on Ukraine's National Security Council, said internal politics and power games were probably the cause of the blockade.
According to him it's a disaster for Ukraine's economy, and "the real winner is Russia".
The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality, said many young women were relying on their partner for financial security in retirement.
It said many women in this age group were taking on the full cost of childcare.
The government said free childcare was being doubled.
The Fawcett Society said that student debt, childcare costs, and a break from work were preventing women from saving for later life.
Sam Smethers, chief executive, said: "The gender pay gap becomes a pensions gap in retirement. In particular, women are taking a big hit on their pensions when they have children, but are not aware of the impact this will have on them in the long-term.
"Women are putting everyone else's needs before their own, especially when it comes to who pays for childcare. Their baby becomes her childcare bill."
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: "We want all women to have a financially secure retirement, which is why we introduced wide ranging reforms to make pension saving easier and clearer, including through the introduction of the new state pension and automatic enrolment.
"We are also committed to supporting mothers by making childcare more affordable and more accessible, and we are doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents of three and four-year-olds from 15 to 30 hours."
The Pensions Policy Institute recently warned that the new state pension, introduced this month, will leave more than 11 million workers now aged their 20s and 30s worse off than they would have been under the previous system.
A BBC News investigation in 2010 revealed how pensions had fallen down the priority list for many young women.
Police said Christopher Welsh Jnr and his father Christopher Welsh Snr "flooded" Glasgow with drugs with a street value of more than £100m.
The Merseyside gang leaders were jailed last year along with several other men.
At a Liverpool hearing, Welsh Jnr was told to repay £275,000 in six months or face three extra years in prison.
The 36-year-old, of Anfield, is already serving a 16-year sentence.
His 56-year-old father, of Regal Walk, Liverpool, was told to repay £150,000 or face an extra 27 months on top of his original 15-year sentence.
Det Supt Jason Hudson, of the North West Organised Crime Unit, said: "This should serve as a stark warning to other criminals operating across the North West that we will catch you, we will prosecute you and we will strip you of your ill-gotten gains".
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At their trial, police revealed Welsh Jnr enjoyed lavish holidays in Greece, Spain and Holland.
Police said he paid £57,000 in cash to take 40 relatives and friends to his stag do and wedding in Mexico.
Detectives have already seized Rolex watches, platinum jewellery and cash from Welsh Jnr and Snr and other gang members.
These will now be disposed of to partly repay the court order.
She described Michael McGibbon's widow Joanne as "incredibly brave".
The father-of-four died after being shot in north Belfast on Friday night.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Ms Villiers said the circumstances of Mr McGibbon's murder were "deeply tragic and heartbreaking".
In reply to a question from the DUP's Nigel Dodds, Ms Villiers said everyone should join Mrs McGibbon in condemning the murder.
She said it was "utterly unacceptable that in modern Northern Ireland there are still people who believe they can take the law into their own hands and administer this violent and brutal treatment".
Michael McGibbon, 33, was shot three times in the leg in what the PSNI described as a paramilitary attack.
He was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, where he later died.
Police said Mr McGibbon was not known to them and they did not know why he had been murdered.
Speaking at a vigil held at Holy Cross Church in Ardoyne on Tuesday, Joanne McGibbon said the Ardoyne community is stronger than those who carried out Michael's killing.
"The strength of this community will overtake anything that anyone who wants to destroy it has to do.
"If we all stay strong, we can stop these people. They can't beat us and it's not fair that families should have to go through this. They are not judge and jury."
In a tweet, the PSNI said a loyalist protest, which had been planned for Tuesday night, was cancelled out of respect for Mr McGibbon's family.
The Rector of Holy Cross, Fr Gary Donegan, said the vigil sent out a strong message to Mr McGibbon's killers.
"We're a proud community here. A community that has suffered and endured loss like no other in the history of this country," he said.
"We have the home of Michael in the shadow of this church, but it was people who came from the shadows who chose to take his young life.
"We will not let those who live in the shadows empty us of our courage.
"This young widow showed more courage, compassion and mercy than you'll ever know."
The Englishman's third-round 71 puts him at nine under par and in contention for his first victory since 2012.
His countryman Andy Sullivan shot the lowest score of the day, a five under par 67, to leave him two shots adrift.
"It was brutal at times," said Poulter, who recently qualified for the Open.
Halfway joint-leader Padraig Harrington fell out of contention after struggling to a 79 in conditions that reminded Poulter of the final round of the 2008 Open at Royal Birkdale, where the pair finished first and second.
He said: "Days like today don't come around very often and I can think back to Birkdale on that Sunday, which were some of the toughest conditions I've ever played in. This would slide along right with it.
"It's just nice to be in a good position. I feel energised and excited about the golf I've been playing. There's life in the old dog yet and I'm relishing the opportunity to go out and get stuck in.
"My whole family are up here, which is really nice. The last trophy I handed to [eldest son] Luke was on his birthday. I told him before I went out to play I'd hand him a trophy and I did."
Poulter's last tournament victory was the WGC Champions in Shenzhen, China, in November 2012.
He added: "It would be awesome to win again. I've got 18 good holes to play and try to do that and I'm looking forward to the opportunity."
Ireland's Paul Dunne, Sweden's Johan Carlsson and New Zealand's Ryan Fox sit in a group on six under, well within striking distance of victory at the Ayrshire course.
Shinkwin carded a third round of 72, the highlight of which was a tap-in eagle on the 14th.
"It's the first time I've played with Ian and we dragged each other along, which was good fun," he said.
"I don't think I've played in wind and rain like that before. It was coming down at a really bad angle, especially the mid-part of the round, but I managed to grind it out and get through level par."
Shinkwin and Dodt are in pole position to claim two of the three Open places up for grabs for non-exempt players who finish in the top 10, but that would require a major change of plans for the Australian.
Dodt, 31, and his wife Ashleigh have a five-day holiday booked in New York, starting on Monday, but he said: "My wife only flew in from Sydney this morning but I'll be quite happy to cancel the holiday for a spot in the Open, my first major."
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The case has been raised by four of his constituents in Orkney and Shetland.
They argue he misled the electorate over a memo claiming SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon would rather have seen David Cameron become prime minister.
The case is due in court next month with more than £60,000 already raised but now more is being sought.
Mr Carmichael had initially denied leaking the confidential memo to the Daily Telegraph.
He said that the first he had heard of it was when he received a phone call from a journalist.
The MP later admitted full responsibility for sanctioning its release, and accepted that the "details of the account are not correct".
The official cabinet office inquiry into the leaking of the memo found that Mr Carmichael had given permission to his former special adviser Euan Roddin to hand details of the memo to the newspaper.
Campaigners raised £60,000 in crowd-funding to lodge the legal challenge to his election under the Representation of the People Act 1983.
In November 2013 Wales became the first UK nation to require food outlets to display their inspection ratings.
In the two years since, the share of firms getting the top five-star rating has risen from 45% to just under 61%.
Vaughan Gething said the measure had resulted in clear benefits for food providers and their customers.
Nearly 26,000 food businesses are covered by the ratings, up from just over 22,000 when the mandatory system was launched.
The ratio of firms rated satisfactory or better (scores 3 to 5) rose from 86.9% to 94.4%, while the number of outlets with a zero rating halved from 134 to 61, around one in 500.
Mr Gething said: "The introduction of a statutory food hygiene rating scheme has been a big success story for Wales, helping to drive up standards in restaurants, pubs, cafes and other food business right across the country."
Nina Purcell, director of the Food Standards Agency in Wales, added that the scheme had gone "from strength to strength".
The first wave of trains costing £155m will be in service by next May between Stansted Airport, Cambridge and London.
National Express East Anglia has also refurbished 68 carriages for the line from Norwich to London Liverpool Street through Suffolk and Essex.
Mark Phillips, from National Express East Anglia, said the new trains will be in service for the Olympic Games.
"This is tremendously important because visitors coming here for the games will want to get a really good impression of the UK and our transport network.
"This is an opportunity for us to showcase what we can do and we're delilghted that the trains will be in service for that."
BlaBlaCar is the French online ride-sharing company that pairs people travelling between cities with drivers who have empty seats in their car.
When it was set up in 2006, founders Nicolas Brusson and Frederic Mazzella found it difficult to persuade customers or investors of the idea.
"People thought we were crazy. At the beginning they would say, 'it's interesting but you're doing hitchhiking online and no-one's going to do that,'" Mr Brusson says.
The popularity and success of BlaBlaCar today is likely to make any investor who turned them down 10 years ago cry into their cornflakes. Mr Brusson confirms to the BBC that the latest round of funding values the company at more than £1.2bn ($1.5bn; €1.4bn).
The company makes its money by taking a percentage of the cost of the journeys taken by its 35 million members in 22 countries. It says four million people use BlaBlaCar every month.
The company's big break came in 2007 when the French train network was shut down by a strike and passengers were looking for alternative ways of travelling.
BlaBlaCar saw a massive boost, not only in its usage but also to its profile as media companies lined up to cover the strike-busting solution.
"It was the first time I realised it was very useful," Mr Brusson says. "After this spike the passenger numbers went down but to a much higher level than before, a lot of people came back."
Today one in five adults in France are members of BlaBlaCar.
"We didn't wait to be successful in one market before moving into another," Mr Brusson says. "If we were going to work in France we could work across Europe."
In 2009 it went into Spain, while a year later an explosion of ash from a volcano on Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier grounded planes across Europe, giving BlaBlaCar the second "fortunate, unfortunate" event, which boosted its popularity again.
The company began to grow across Europe, either by moving in or acquiring competitors.
"We are a French company," says Cyrielle Callot, Blablacar's head of growth, "but our main language is English."
It has an office in London but the main hub is in the very chic "#Cloud" building in Paris - BlaBlaCar takes up the first three floors, while Facebook is a close neighbour.
These two offices link up a global staff of 550 employees who stretch across Europe from Portugal to Russia, the Ukraine and Turkey, and since 2014 they have expanded into India, Brazil and Mexico.
Some countries have taken off more than others, Russia and India in particular have seen what the company describes as "phenomenal growth", the UK has reportedly seen slower growth.
One evening in Paris we watched as three female BlaBlaCar passengers got into the cars of drivers they had never met.
"I always choose a driver who has his picture on the site and good reviews from former travellers," says one of the women, Lucienne Nault.
Ms Nault had just been dropped off in Paris having travelled from Brussels, and was waiting for her second BlaBlaCar driver to pick her up on her way home to the Loire Valley.
"I make sure when I travel there are always other passengers," she says. "After all, in a train one sits next to perfect strangers."
Jessica Ekholm, research director for Gartner, the information technology research company, sees the trust issue as one of the company's biggest ongoing challenges.
"Trust is paramount," she says. "You need to know who's driving you. Is this a good driver? They have their scoring, but can you really trust it? Can you trust the people who have recommended them? Who else is going to be travelling in the car?"
"We collect a lot of information," says BlaBla Car's Cyrielle Callot in response.
"Name, age, gender, profession. More and more we ask people to Facebook Connect. We have peer-to-peer ratings, so whenever you're going to be using Blablacar as a driver or a passenger, each person is going to rate the other. And we have a feature called Ladies Only, so that they can choose rides where only women are travelling."
BlaBlaCar hopes to avoid many of the issues faced by the ride-hailing app Uber. Drivers on the BlaBlaCar platform can only charge for the cost of the journey.
They do not have to change their insurance or pay tax on the money they receive from passengers as they are technically not making a profit.
Mr Brusson says that companies like Uber and Airbnb have strayed from the original ethos of the sharing economy, as they are offering a business service to consumers, not a sharing service between one consumer and another.
He claims that the "global transport network" BlaBlaCar has built has been based on the insight that the average car occupancy in most countries in the world is around 1.5 seats per car.
"The biggest mode of travel all over Europe and all over the world is the car, " he says. "When you think of the volume of the available seats you have in cars and the fact that they're not occupied, it's absurd, it's like running an airline company with your aircraft three-quarters empty."
Friends of George "Johnny" Johnson, 95, have criticised the honours system after he was left off this year's list.
Mr Johnson was 22 when he took part in the 1943 air raid on German dams using experimental bouncing bombs.
Campaigner Paul Walmsley wanted the recognition for the man who retired as a squadron leader. The campaign featured in Tuesday's Sun newspaper.
He said he felt "shocked and angry" and would be writing to the prime minister to complain.
The Cabinet Office said it could comment on individual applications.
Bomb aimer Mr Johnson, of Bristol, was one of 34 awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for his part in a raid on the Sorpe dam.
Mr Johnson said he would feel "honoured if I did get it". He said: "But it won't just be for me. It won't be for me at all.
"It would be for the squadron and for those who gave their lives on the dams raid.
"I shall make it quite clear, if it comes off, I shall ask with due humility of Her Majesty, if I can dedicate it to the 55,573 bomber air crews that gave their lives during the war."
Codenamed Operation Chastise, eight of the 19 planes were lost, 53 men died and three were captured.
A 1955 film cemented its place as one of the most famous episodes of World War II.
Mr Walmsley, from Reading, said: "There's no reason given why he hasn't received an honour.
"I was told about four or five months ago that they would expedite his honour because of his age and received a personalised letter from the Queen saying she was very touched at the application and had great admiration for those involved in the operation.
"I thought by that he would get an honour with new year and was really shocked and angry when he didn't.
"It does feel like a snub when younger people who have done far less than he has are honoured instead."
He said that although Mr Johnson was "laid-back" he was "very disappointed" to be left off the list.
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Barker, who was part of Team GB's successful women's team pursuit quartet, said Davies would volunteer "so much of his own time" at the Cardiff club.
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Sheffield City Region (SCR) said the money will fund the redevelopment of about 34 hectares of land and has the potential to create 4,500 jobs.
Funding for the project, which is expected to start later this year, will come from the SCR and private investors.
SCR leader Sir Steve Houghton described the plans as a "huge opportunity".
He said: "This £17.1m investment will open up all that land for future business investment, as well as solving the congestion problems that we've got at Junction 36.
"The infrastructure work will take about 18 months to complete; then we'll be talking to businesses about coming and relocating to this part of the region and hopefully providing those much-needed jobs."
They have been coming since Monday - some with family in the UK and others without relatives here, but judged to be vulnerable.
French officials say around 200 children have left the so-called Jungle migrant camp for the UK this week.
The camp is due to close on Monday and its estimated 7,000 occupants moved.
About 10,000 leaflets are being handed out by the French authorities, telling people to report to a reception point where they will be taken to other parts of France and given the opportunity to claim asylum.
But there is concern that some migrants will refuse to go because they still want to get to Britain.
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There have been scenes of violence as some attempt to board lorries bound for the UK, clashing with drivers and police in the process.
Of those children who have arrived in Britain, about 50 to 70 are expected to be taken to a hostel in north Devon on either Sunday evening or Monday morning.
Devon County Council said its purpose was to offer a safe and welcoming place for them to stay before being reunited with family members or moved to other parts of the country.
Councillor James McInnes said they would be "vulnerable" young people who would be "frightened" and "exhausted".
Children who have family links have been admitted to the UK under the Dublin regulation - which requires evidence that they have relatives here who can care for them.
Others, without family ties, have arrived under "Dubs amendment" rules which allow particularly vulnerable children - such as girls and those under 13 - refuge in the UK.
The Home Office has refused to comment on claims in the Observer newspaper that some children are being held in an immigration detention unit near Gatwick airport and others placed in foster care.
The arrival of migrant children in the UK earlier this week prompted controversy in newspapers and criticism from Monmouth MP David Davies, with suggestions that some of them looked older than 18.
He said migrants should have their teeth tested to verify their ages. The call was rejected by the government which pointed out such examinations have been described as "inaccurate, inappropriate and unethical" by dental experts.
Chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Saira Grant, said the process to get children out of Calais had been "shambolic".
She condemned the controversy over the ages, saying: "It creates an artificial distinction which suggests that all the others who fled war, atrocities and persecution are not worthy of our help because they are adults."
But UKIP leadership candidate Raheem Kassam said the government should publish records of the migrants allowed in to the UK.
He told Sky News' Murnaghan programme: "We don't want their faces, we don't want their names attached to these things, but we can show these tests have been done."
Lord Dubs successfully campaigned for an amendment to the Immigration Bill in April allowing for unaccompanied child migrants to be brought to the UK where they do not have family links but are considered to be at risk.
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In a letter, Mr Obama said "further borrowing is required to meet existing (spending) commitments".
Congress has 15 days to vote on the proposal, which would raise the debt ceiling to $16.4 trillion.
Last year the government came close to default in a row over the debt ceiling.
An uneasy truce between was agreed last year over long-term plans to reduce the nation's deficit.
Although the president is expected to be able to increase the debt ceiling, the issue will still give the Republicans more ammunition to claim Mr Obama is failing on deficit reduction.
Mr Obama hoped to increase the limit by 30 December, but the House and Senate requested a delay until they were back in session.
It meant that in order to pay its bills, the administration had to dip into its Exchange Stabilization Fund, a pot of money normally used by the US Treasury to maintain currency stability.
A Treasury official said other measures, such as suspending the daily reinvestments of assets in a government pension fund, may also be needed until the debt-limit increase is secured.
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Swansea University student Liam Stacey, 21, from Pontypridd, admitted inciting racial hatred over remarks about the Bolton Wanderers player, who collapsed during a FA Cup tie at Tottenham.
A district judge in Swansea called the comments "vile and abhorrent".
Muamba, 23, who suffered a cardiac arrest, is still in intensive care.
Sentencing Stacey at Swansea Magistrates' Court, District Judge John Charles told him: "In my view, there is no alternative to an immediate prison sentence.
"It was not the football world who was praying for [Muamba].... everybody was praying for his life."
Stacey broke down in tears as he was led away to begin his jail term.
As he passed the public gallery, he was briefly embraced by friends and his parents.
A second year biology student at Swansea, Stacey was arrested after his comments on the social networking site were reported by other users.
A number of people challenged Stacey on Twitter following his first comment, and he responded with a number of offensive posts aimed at other Twitter users.
Last week the court heard how Stacey posted the offensive comments shortly after the former England Under-21 star collapsed during the FA Cup quarter-final at White Hart Lane on 17 March.
Magistrates were told police forces across Britain received complaints following the comments.
'Disciplinary'
Stacey tried to "distance himself" from the tweets by claiming his account had been hacked, the court was told.
He later tried to delete his page but was arrested the following day at his student house in Swansea.
When interviewed by police, Stacey said he had been drinking since lunchtime on Saturday and was drunk when he made the comments.
Stacey was initially released on bail pending sentence and was ordered not to use Twitter and other social networking sites.
Jim Brisbane, chief crown prosecutor for CPS Cymru-Wales, said: "Racist language is inappropriate in any setting and through any media.
"We hope this case will serve as a warning to anyone who may think that comments made online are somehow beyond the law."
A Swansea University spokesperson said: "The student remains suspended from the university pending the conclusion of our disciplinary proceedings."
Stacey has also been de-registered as a player with Treorchy rugby club, where he has turned out for the second team on occasions.
Club chairman Andrew Jones said: "We haven't met as a committee yet but we recognise the need to respond at the earliest possible opportunity and we've taken the decision to de-register him as a player at Treorchy Rugby Football Club as of today."
He added: "Like other members of the public, we as a club in no way support the comments made and the last thing we would want would be to associate ourselves with them.
"I sincerely hope he takes time to reflect on his actions."
The sentencing has sparked rigorous debate on internet forums and social network sites debating the sentence comments that are made online.
Writing on Twitter, Lord Sugar - former Spurs chairman - saying "Be warned idiots!," while Gary Lineker posted "Let it be a warning to all you immature souls. #thinkbeforeyoutweet".
Also on Twitter, Mervyn Barrett of crime reduction charity Nacro said he could not help but think the sentence was "manifestly excessive".
Meanwhile, Muamba remains in intensive care in a London hospital where his condition is described as serious but stable.
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Jay McEveley hooked in a shot to give Ross County a half-time lead.
Hearts hit back with a scruffy Bjorn Johnsen strike before Callum Paterson forced the ball in from close range.
Liam Boyce levelled with an 86th-minute spot-kick and then Walker had a chance to win it after he was felled but could not beat Scott Fox.
Hearts, unbeaten in their last nine meetings with County, drop to third, two points behind Rangers.
The hosts have won just once in their last 13 league games but are now unbeaten in their last four.
The late penalty miss will pain Hearts but defeat would have been harsh on either side.
Both showed attacking desire throughout and deserve credit for producing a really entertaining encounter.
McEveley's opener for County contained real quality, not just in the finish.
Chris Routis produced one of several great deliveries, Andrew Davies headed the ball into a busy penalty area and, with his back to goal the former Scotland defender produced a brilliant scissor-kick which dipped under the crossbar.
Spurred on by the goal shortly before the interval, County started the second half strongly, with Jack Hamilton making an impressive double save to deny Michael Gardyne and pushing away a Boyce header.
Hearts persevered though and showed real desire to suddenly surge ahead, although they were aided by some sloppy defending.
Johnsen tried his luck from 18 yards and his weak shot made its way through a packed area, with Arnaud Djoum deflecting it past Fox from close range.
Soon after, Hearts were in front when Paterson took advantage of hesitancy from Davies and Fox to slide in powerfully and hit the net from six yards.
The visitors were almost gifted a third when Fox dallied on the ball from a back-pass, allowing Johnsen to nip in, but the Hearts striker somehow screwed his shot wide when a goal seemed certain.
County rallied again, with Hamilton producing another great save to thwart Boyce.
But the hosts were back on level terms when Hearts substitute Alim Ozturk was penalised for handball, with Boyce emphatically finishing the resultant spot-kick.
The action continued to flow from end-to-end and Hearts could not have wished for a better opportunity to snatch maximum points.
Davies lunged into a challenge on Walker, upending the Hearts midfielder, who took the penalty looking for his fourth goal in four games. However, Fox pulled off a good diving save to make it three home draws in a row for County and three away draws on the trot for Hearts.
Ross County's Jim McIntyre: "We're disappointed that we've not managed to capitalise once we went 1-0 ahead. We had a couple of great opportunities to further our lead.
"We showed great spirit. A crucial save by Fox as you think at that stage it's going to be one of those days again where you've put so much into the game and you're walking away with nothing.
"I was delighted for the players because the effort that we put in and the quality we showed was pleasing. To come away from that game with no points would have been very harsh on us."
Hearts interim coach Jon Daly: "It was definitely an entertaining game. Dingwall is always tough but, as they have done all season, the players have shown great character.
"We're obviously disappointed that we haven't won the game but in saying that, Jack Hamilton has made a few good saves.
"With the week that the players have had and all the speculation that's gone on [about a new manager], to come up here and get a point, we're relatively happy.
"Whoever does come in is going to get a really strong team that should be challenging at the top end of the league."
Match ends, Ross County 2, Heart of Midlothian 2.
Second Half ends, Ross County 2, Heart of Midlothian 2.
Foul by Alim Ozturk (Heart of Midlothian).
Andrew Davies (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Scott Fox.
Penalty saved! Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
Penalty Heart of Midlothian. Jamie Walker draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Andrew Davies (Ross County) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Liam Boyce (Ross County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Arnaud Djoum (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Gardyne (Ross County).
Callum Paterson (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Alim Ozturk.
Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kenny van der Weg (Ross County).
Andrew Davies (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Prince Buaben (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Andrew Davies (Ross County).
Goal! Ross County 2, Heart of Midlothian 2. Liam Boyce (Ross County) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Alim Ozturk (Heart of Midlothian) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Prince Buaben replaces Don Cowie.
Substitution, Ross County. Ryan Dow replaces Tony Dingwall.
Substitution, Ross County. Martin Woods replaces Tim Chow.
Conor Sammon (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andrew Davies (Ross County).
Attempt missed. Bjorn Johnsen (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Conor Sammon (Heart of Midlothian).
Tim Chow (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Alim Ozturk replaces Igor Rossi because of an injury.
Foul by Faycal Rherras (Heart of Midlothian).
Liam Boyce (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Jack Hamilton.
Attempt saved. Liam Boyce (Ross County) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Arnaud Djoum (Heart of Midlothian).
Michael Gardyne (Ross County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Alex Schalk (Ross County) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian).
Liam Boyce (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Ross County 1, Heart of Midlothian 2. Callum Paterson (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie Walker with a cross.
Substitution, Ross County. Alex Schalk replaces Craig Curran.
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Jamie Walker's stoppage-time penalty was saved as Hearts lost second place in the Premiership following a dramatic draw in Dingwall.
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Sohaib Qureshi from Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, is thought to have made £1.2m from trafficking cocaine from Colombia and the Caribbean to Scotland.
He was jailed in March 2012 after being caught along with two other men.
Qureshi originally had £70,000 seized. A judge has now granted a confiscation order for a further £91.000.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, advocate depute Barry Divers said that an application was being made to change the confiscation order previously made against Qureshi.
He said the new order would confiscate pounds £161,000 from the 40-year-old, who had already paid £70,000 towards the figure.
Laura Reilly, counsel for Qureshi, told the judge, Lord Kinclaven, an agreement had been reached in the action after negotiations between the Crown and defence.
The businessman, who was once described as a millionaire property owner, denied the charges against him but was convicted following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
The court heard how officers from the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) targeted the drug smuggling operation which sourced high-purity cocaine in Colombia and the Dominican Republic.
As part of Operation Klaxon, undercover officers carried out surveillance on a house in Springburn, Glasgow, in April 2009.
Qureshi was seen at the house, along with Ronald Augustine, from the city's Maryhill area and David Byrne, from Springboig, Glasgow.
When officers later stopped Qureshi and Byrne in a car, they found scales and other items used to cut and distribute drugs.
A raid was then carried out at the house in Springburn, where officers found 4.5 kilos of cocaine with a possible street value of £180,000 together with 5.5 kilos of benzococaine, which could be used to bulk out the drug.
Qureshi was later jailed for 12 years, with Augustine sentenced to seven years for providing a "safe house" for the cocaine operation and courier Byrne jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Two men were also jailed in the Caribbean and two Colombians were arrested in the country's capital Bogota after police were tipped off by their counterparts in Scotland.
In a one-season trial, 16 Premier League and Championship under-21 sides were added to this term's competition, which was traditionally for teams from the bottom two divisions.
The decision was met with fan boycotts of matches.
Clubs will vote on keeping the academy teams, reverting to the previous format or ending the competition entirely.
Some clubs have been fined this season for fielding "weakened teams", while Bradford changed their goalkeeper after three minutes to comply with the selection rules and Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth selected himself to play in a group match against Northampton.
At a meeting between League One and League Two clubs on Tuesday, English Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey discussed concerns around the "full-strength" policy.
Current competition rules state EFL teams have to field five players who started the previous game, or go on to start the following game, or five who had made the most appearances during the current season.
Sides that did not put out "full-strength" teams were liable to a fine of £5,000 for each group match by the EFL, with Luton and Portsmouth both breaching the rule in their opening three games of the competition and 10 other sides fined.
The rules are different for the academy sides, with six of the starting XI having to be aged under 21.
On Tuesday, Harvey proposed a relaxation of the rules to four first-team players per match, with goalkeepers not included, and a change regarding those players who qualify as a "first-team player".
Under the proposals, these would be any player who met the same full-strength criteria as are currently in place, was on loan from a Premier League club or one with a Category One academy, or had made 40 first-team appearances.
Other proposals include a "significant" increase in prize money, regionalisation until the quarter-final stage, and flexibility of fixture dates to allow teams to schedule games outside of international weeks.
Harvey said following the meeting: "We committed at the outset of this season's competition to conduct a full and comprehensive review of the competition and, importantly, give our clubs the ability to ensure they make the key decisions regarding where we take the competition in 2017-18 and beyond.
"After asking clubs in advance for some initial thoughts on the competition, Tuesday was the next stage of the process and I'm delighted we were able to have such a full and frank exchange of views that will now assist the executive in refining a final proposal that our clubs will now vote on."
The personal thank you letter from General Dwight D Eisenhower was written to Sir Stewart Menzies, wartime chief of the Secret Intelligence Service.
In the letter, Eisenhower said intelligence gathered saved thousands of British and American lives.
The letter from the future US president is to go on display at Bletchley.
Dated 12 July 1945, Eisenhower expressed his "heartfelt admiration and sincere thanks" in the letter, stating that the intelligence from Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire had been "of priceless value to me".
He added the work had "saved countless British and American lives" and had "contributed to the speed with which the enemy was routed and eventually forced to surrender".
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The letter was in the office of the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service during the tenure of Sir John Scarlett.
He said: "I was proud of this letter, but only came to appreciate the full significance of Eisenhower's words after taking over as chairman of the Bletchley Park Trust in 2012."
Dr David A Hatch, a historian with the US National Security Agency, said: "Within five years of this letter, Dwight Eisenhower became the first commanding General of NATO and within two years after that, he became the President of the United States.
"He used intelligence well (and) made improvements. It all traces back to the time of Bletchley Park that this letter represents."
The letter is on display in museum's visitor centre in Block C.
The incident happened as the Labour leader arrived at the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London for a party meeting to discuss the draft general election manifesto.
Mr Wooltorton was said to be in good spirits while waiting for an ambulance.
By the evening, he was on his way home with two broken toes and bruising.
Mr Corbyn was driven to the meeting by officers from the Metropolitan Police's royalty and specialist protection unit.
A Met Police spokesman said the incident had been referred to the directorate of professional standards, which is responsible for the conduct of officers in the force.
In a statement released shortly after the incident, the BBC said: "An experienced BBC cameraman has been injured while filming at the Labour Party manifesto meeting.
"He has been taken to hospital for assessment and treatment. At the moment the BBC are focusing on their duty of care, making sure that he is OK."
Police have interviewed witnesses and a senior Labour source said the party was "looking into" the incident.
The Fed has been buying bonds to lower long-term interest rates and boost growth since September 2012.
A end to stimulus efforts indicates the Fed believes the US economy can continue to grow without its support.
Currently, the bank is buying $35bn (£20bn) of bonds monthly.
That is down from a high of $85bn in January, when the US central bank first began trimming its monthly bond purchases by $10bn a month.
The minutes from the 17-18 June meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) revealed that the central bankers planned to continue their $10bn cuts until one final $15bn trim in October.
"If the economy progresses about as the Committee expects...this final reduction would occur following the October meeting," the minutes said.
US markets - which had been trading up for the day - shed a few points in the wake of the announcement, which many investors and analysts had long been expecting.
Investors had been unsure about the pace of the Fed's cuts, and had put the end of the stimulus programme at either October or mid-December.
By naming an exact date, the Fed has attempted to relieve that uncertainty.
Now, the speculation on Wall Street will be when the central bank will raise its short-term interest rate - known as the federal funds rate - which has been at 0% since the 2008 financial crisis, when it slashed rates to boost growth.
Critics of the bond-buying stimulus programme - which is known as "quantitative easing - have argued that by keeping rates extremely low for a long period of time, the Fed has forced investors into riskier areas like stocks or corporate debt.
That has led to fears of a bubble, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 17,000 points for the first time last week.
However, Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen recently sought to allay fears about increased risk in the financial sector.
In a speech last week in front of the International Monetary Fund, Ms Yellen said that while she did "see pockets of increased risk-taking across the financial system", the Fed still had many tools at its disposal to act should certain sectors begin to overheat.
The weather vane, which was given to the MCC in 1926 by the architect of the Lord's Grand Stand, Sir Herbert Baker, has been bent to a 90-degree angle from its original position.
Specialists are working to repair the damage as soon as possible.
This is the second time Father Time has fallen foul of the elements after it was struck by lightning in 1992.
It was also damaged during World War II, when it was wrenched from its original perch after becoming entangled in the steel cable of a barrage balloon before being re-attached to the top of the Grand Stand.
It was moved to its current location at the top of the Mound Stand in 1996.
Following the incident, the Lord's Twitter account tweeted: "I was felled by high winds last night! Ouch!"
Prisons can't be closed unless there is appropriate prison capacity elsewhere or unless the overall jail population is falling - and there is no sign that it is.
It is currently 85,884 - but it is not rising as quickly as predicted a year ago, when the last official population projections were published.
It was estimated then that by June this year the population would be between 87,100 and 88,900. In fact it was around 86,000, which may have given ministers more confidence that their plans can be achieved.
The projections said that by 2020 the population could be anything between 81,400 and 98,900, with the "central scenario" - the most likely - suggesting it would be 90,200.
If the population did edge towards the upper estimates it would be extremely hard for the government's plans to work. They would need to build thousands of extra places, as well as replacing old ones.
New prison population forecasts are due to be published this month.
As for the closures, it's long been speculated that Pentonville, in north London, might be closed. It was heavily criticised by inspectors earlier this year.
Other possible candidates for closure in London include Wormwood Scrubs, Brixton and Wandsworth. Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool are all old prisons, which are known to be very expensive to run.
Dartmoor Prison has already been earmarked for closure. As well as Reading - which the Treasury has said will be first to be sold - several jails are currently unused and could also be sold off.
They include Dover, which was until recently an immigration removal centre, and Downview Prison, in Surrey, which was a women's prison.
But building prisons takes many years.
Plans for a new prison in north Wales were first made public in January 2013, but the proposals were under consideration before that. The new jail, in Wrexham, is not due to open until 2017.
Sites have to be identified and planning permission has to be granted before construction work can even start.
These are ambitious plans.
The two sides did not issue a joint statement or action plan after the meeting and cancelled scheduled press conferences.
The US was critical of China's trade surplus and demanded "more fair" trade arrangements.
Separately, US President Donald Trump indicated that tariffs on Chinese steel were still a possibility.
In his opening remarks to the annual US-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross criticised China's $347bn (£266bn) trade surplus with the US, saying it was not the product of market forces.
In a brief statement after the talks, Mr Ross and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin offered few details and little indication of any progress on contentious issues.
"China acknowledged our shared objective to reduce the trade deficit which both sides will work cooperatively to achieve," the statement said.
The contentious issue of steel tariffs was expected to be a difficult topic at the talks, but the two sides did not issue any statements on this.
The US blames Chinese excess capacity for a global steel glut that is hurting US producers, and has threatened to impose tariffs.
US Steel stocks were sharply higher as investors interpreted silence on the issue as an increased likelihood of US action on Chinese steel.
After the market closed, President Donald Trump told a reporter that steel tariffs "could happen", according to Reuters news agency.
Experts thought it was unlikely that the talks would produce any significant agreements on the most thorny issues.
In addition to steel, the US was expected to push Beijing on its subsidies for state-owned enterprises.
China was expected to focus on US refusals to sell Beijing advanced technology products.
It was unclear whether the talks covered US demands for China to put more pressure on North Korea over its nuclear and missile program.
Mr Trump has previously signalled that China might obtain improved trade terms in exchange for help on North Korea.
In May, the US and China reached a trade deal that opens the Chinese market to US credit rating agencies and credit card companies.
China also agreed to lift its ban on US beef imports and accept US shipments of liquefied natural gas.
Issa Qaraqe, head of detainees' affairs for the Palestinian Authority, warns of a "new intifada" if any of them die.
The strike is being led by Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader jailed by Israel for life for five murders.
Israel had previously said there was "no reason" to negotiate with them.
Barghouti has been touted as a possible future successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
He has been placed in solitary confinement for calling the strike, now in its third day.
Mr Qaraqe said 1,500 inmates had now joined the hunger strike. Israeli officials have not confirmed that number; the latest estimate by the country's prison service was that 1,187 detainees were involved.
There are fears that the hunger strike could fuel tensions across the Palestinian areas.
Mr Qaraqe warned that if prisoners die, "that could lead to a new intifada".
"If their demands are not met, more prisoners will join the strike," he was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.
"We have asked the international community and the UN to intervene immediately."
On Tuesday, Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told Israeli public radio that Barghouti was "instigating mutiny and leading the hunger strike and that is a severe violation of the rules of the prison".
"They are terrorists and incarcerated murderers who are getting what they deserve."
The issue of Palestinians held in Israeli jails is an ongoing source of tension between the two sides.
Palestinians regard the detainees as political prisoners. Many have been convicted of attacks against Israelis.
Others are detained under so-called Administrative Detention, which allows suspects to be held without charge for six-month intervals.
There were about 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails at the end of last year, according to Palestinian prisoners' groups.
They will discuss how to co-operate on counter-terrorism and in the fight against so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, UK officials said.
Earlier Mr Cameron hailed a universally approved UN Security Council resolution to "redouble" action against IS.
IS has said it carried out the Paris attacks, which left 130 people dead.
Monday's meeting will begin a week of diplomacy in which Mr Hollande will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama.
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A French-drafted UN document asking countries to "combat by all means this unprecedented threat" from IS received universal approval on Friday night.
The resolution is a call for countries to take action rather than a legal authorisation to use all necessary measures, the BBC's UN correspondent Nick Bryant said.
However France - which is already carrying out air strikes against Islamic State in Syria - argues that military action is legally justifiable because of the right of countries to defend themselves, he added.
Mr Cameron said the UN vote was an important moment which "shows beyond doubt the breadth of international support" to "eradicate" IS.
He is seeking to build cross-party support in the UK for British air strikes against IS - also known as Isil, Isis or Daesh - in Syria, though there is no timetable for a Parliamentary vote.
On Saturday, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said the country was ready to discuss UK involvement in air strikes in Syria.
Mariya Zakharova told state television news programme Vesti: "Our position is absolutely clear: there should be co-operation, so that any (actions) are not targeted at destroying the Syrian state."
Russia and the UK have different views on how to solve Syria's long-running civil war.
Two years ago, MPs voted against possible UK military action against President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria.
Parliament later approved British participation in air strikes against IS extremists in Iraq, which have been ongoing ever since.
On Saturday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would support "every necessary measure" to protect people in the UK, but warned people "must not keep making the same mistakes" when responding to acts of terror.
It was "vital" during a time of tragedy "not to be drawn into responses that feed a cycle of violence and hate", he said.
The recent events in Paris have won round some MPs, who had previously stated their opposition to action in Syria, to the idea of bombing IS targets in the country.
But Defence Select Committee chairman, Conservative MP Julian Lewis, said he was standing firm in his belief that air strikes were not the answer.
"I am in favour of effective military action to destroy Daesh, Isil, (but) bombing alone, without credible ground forces, is ineffective action," he told the BBC.
"There is little, if any, evidence in history of a successful bombing campaign unless there were ground forces to take over."
The SNP said the prime minister should not take the UN resolution as an authorisation for UK military action.
The UK government had not made a case that Britain "adding to the bombing of Syria will make any material difference", a spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, Belgium has raised its terror alert in the Brussels region to the highest level, warning of a "very serious" and "imminent" threat. The Brussels metro network has been closed for the weekend.
The UK Foreign Office has updated its travel advice for Belgium, advising people to avoid busy places, including concerts, stations, airports, and shopping centres.
At Premier League football matches this weekend, the French national anthem - La Marseillaise - will be played in a show of support.
A choral version will be played after the coin toss, with players from both teams coming together with match officials in the centre circle.
The international team compared entries in these medieval annals with ice core data indicating volcanic eruptions.
Of 38 volcanic events, 37 were associated with directly observed cold weather extremes recorded in the chronicles.
The report is published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
In the dim light of the Dark Ages, the Irish literary tradition stands out like a beacon.
At monastic centres across the island, scribes recorded significant events such as feast days, obituaries and descriptions of extreme cold and heat.
These chronicles are generally known as the Irish Annals and in this report, scientists and historians have looked at 40,000 entries in the texts dating from AD431 to 1649.
The researchers also looked at the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP2) ice-core data.
When volcanoes erupt, they produce sulphate aerosol particles which down the centuries have been deposited on and frozen in ice sheets, leaving an extremely accurate temporal record of the event.
Scientists say these particles reflect incoming sunlight and can cause a temporary cooling of the Earth's surface. In a country with a mild maritime climate like Ireland, these colder events would have a significant impact.
The Hekla volcano in Iceland had a major eruption in AD1104. This clearly registers in significantly elevated sulphate levels in the Greenland ice at the time, and is reported in the Annals of Inisfallen as: "Heavy snow this year, and a great loss of cows, sheep and pigs in the same year." And then again in AD1107, it is reported that "Snow fell for a day and a night on the Wednesday before the feast of St Patrick, and inflicted slaughter on beasts in Ireland."
"When the weather that is cold enough to allow you to walk over a lake in Ireland, it is pretty unusual," lead author Dr Francis Ludlow, from Harvard University, told BBC News.
"When it happened, it was remarkable enough to be recorded pretty consistently."
The scientists in the team identified 48 volcanic eruptions in the time period spanning 1,219 years. Of these, 38 were associated closely in time with extreme weather events identified in the Irish texts.
"These eruptions occur and they override existing climate patterns for a period of two or three years," said Dr Ludlow.
"And it is clear from the sources that they cause a lot of devastation among societies at the time - whether it was the mass mortality of domestic animals or humans, or indirectly by causing harvest failure."
The research team believe the texts are accurate as the annals also record solar and lunar eclipses which can be compared with other contemporary sources.
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The keen recording of weather though had another motivation.
"A lot of these scribes are working in monasteries, in some time periods they are interpreting these weather events as divine omens or portents as signals of the coming of the last days," said Dr Ludlow.
"That was one of their motivations so we are able to use the records that were created for a completely different purpose that the scribes would never have conceived."
The researchers say that one expected effect of volcanic eruptions that occur in tropical regions is to make for milder winters in northern latitudes.
But in this study, they found several instances of these type of eruptions causing extremely cold winters in Ireland. The team believes their work shows the complex nature of volcanic impacts on climate, and they say there are lessons for the future in the ancient texts.
"That tells us a lot about what sort of weather we might expect in the British Isles when the next big eruption goes off," said Dr Ludlow.
"We might want to buy a bit more salt for the roads."
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Ms Williams, 34, competed in Sydney against finalists from Australia, Canada, Israel and Russia for the Elizabeth Connell Prize.
Ms Williams did not win but said: "The standard was extremely high."
Originally from Llanberis, Gwynedd, she currently lives and works in Cardiff.
The prize is worth £11,300 ($20,000 Australian dollars) and also includes the chance to audition at the Royal Opera House, London.
She said: "I started singing at the Eisteddfod with my grandmother when I was younger and then I had singing lessons at age 17, which was when I discovered I had an operatic quality.
"It's a big honour to be representing not just Wales, but the UK and Europe.
"It's a huge thing, run by people I really respect.
"Just being recognised in the top five of my voice-kind in the world is amazing."
South African soprano Elizabeth Connell died in 2012 leaving a legacy to create a scholarship in her name for the aspiring dramatic sopranos of the world.
It was her wish for the scholarship to be administered by the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation and held in Australia.
Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members are set to hold a 24-hour strike from 17:00 BST on 4 June and a 48-hour strike from 17:00 BST on 9 June.
On Thursday the union rejected a fresh pay offer by Network Rail.
Both sides had met again on Saturday with conciliation service Acas to try to resolve the issue.
The workers, including signallers and maintenance staff, are also planning to ban overtime from 6-12 June.
Saturday's talks followed earlier discussions on Friday.
Mick Cash, general secretary of the RMT, had said in a message to members on Friday: "Your negotiating team was invited to further discussions at Acas on the Network Rail dispute at short notice this afternoon."
He said the union's full team would be in London on Saturday to take the negotiations forward.
"RMT is fully committed to achieving a negotiated settlement and will be available in London for discussions for the whole weekend and beyond in order to achieve a settlement."
The RMT's 16,000 members at Network Rail work across the company's operations and maintenance departments.
A planned strike over last week's bank holiday was suspended after Network Rail tabled a revised pay offer to workers.
Network Rail originally offered a four-year deal of a single £500 payment followed by three years of rises in line with RPI inflation.
But the revised offer was for two years, with a 1% rise this year, and a rise of about 1.4% next year. It was also established that there would be no compulsory redundancies for the duration of the agreement.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has previously said he considered strike action "unnecessary and unreasonable".
The main pro-government dailies, the Harare-based Herald and the Bulawayo-based Chronicle, are tightly controlled by the Information Ministry. The private press, which is relatively vigorous in its criticism of the government, has come under severe pressure.
Newspaper cover prices are beyond the reach of many readers and publishers have been hit by escalating costs.
Draconian laws and institutions, along with prison sentences for "publishing false news", are used to clamp down on critical comment. Journalists who fail to register with a government body risk imprisonment.
Radio is the main source of information. Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) operates TV and radio stations under the umbrella of state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH).
Two national private FM radio stations are licensed - one to a company owned by a supporter of Mr Mugabe, the other to a majority state-owned publisher.
Overseas-based radios transmit into Zimbabwe: Voice of the People, set up by former ZBC staff with funding from the Soros Foundation and a Dutch organisation, leases a shortwave transmitter in Madagascar.
From the US, government-funded Voice of America (VOA) operates Studio 7, which aims to be a source of "objective and balanced news".
Radio broadcasts by foreign stations deemed hostile to the government have been subject to deliberate interference.
There were around 6.7 million internet users by November 2015 (Internetworldstats.com). US-based Freedom House says the internet is nominally free from government interference. However, the medium is relatively expensive and prone to disruption because of power cuts.
Production fell by 0.4%, mainly due to a 0.6% drop in manufacturing output, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showed.
That was largely due to a 3.6% fall in the production of transport equipment, including motor vehicles.
Car production fell by 6.7% from May to June, the sharpest drop since December 2013.
Construction output also fell in the second quarter by 1.3%, with less work on new projects as well as repairs and maintenance.
The figures underline the British economy's dependence on services, which makes up about four-fifths of the UK's economic output.
There was some upbeat news towards the end of the quarter. In June, production output picked up, beating most economists' expectations, because oil producers had postponed seasonal maintenance work until later than normal.
And although the construction sector had the worst three months in five years, June saw a slight improvement, with just a 0.1% fall in output.
Separately, a report from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said that UK economic growth in the three months to the end of July had slowed to 0.2%, compared with 0.3% growth in the second quarter of the year.
However, it predicted a "modest" recovery in the second half of the year as a result of improving global growth and the weaker pound.
The disappointing car production numbers in the ONS data chime with gloomy statistics from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders last month, which showed in car production in June was down 13.7% from a year earlier.
The number of exported cars was also sharply down, disappointing hopes that the relatively weak pound would help UK car manufacturers offer competitive prices to foreign buyers.
That contributed to a weakening picture on trade overall. Between May and June the UK exported £4.6bn less in goods and services than it imported, the ONS said.
Over the second quarter of the year, the trade deficit widened slightly by £0.1bn to £8.9bn.
Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said: "With sterling's deprecation and a healthy world economy supporting exporters, one would hope that the gap between the two will narrow in a favourable direction. That said, there was little sign of this in June's trade numbers.
"A fall in exports and rise in imports caused the monthly trade deficit to nearly double. And, a deficit of £8.9bn in Q2 suggests that net trade made no contribution to growth in the quarter. Evidence of rebalancing, at least in the 'hard' data, remains absent."
The show will chart her rise from West End chorus girl to one of Hollywood's most photographed stars and also document her later humanitarian work.
Classic images of the Breakfast at Tiffany's actress will be displayed alongside rarely seen family photos.
It includes work by photographers such as Sir Cecil Beaton and Richard Avedon.
Some of the most famous images in Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon are taken from the Oscar-winning actress's film posters, vintage magazine spreads and publicity shots.
Many were taken behind the scenes on her films, including those by photographer Mark Shaw who was given exclusive access to the set of 1953's Sabrina for Life magazine.
Other highlights include Hepburn in her Broadway dressing room when she starred in Gigi, and family shots of Hepburn performing ballet as a young girl.
The exhibition also marks the 65th anniversary of Hepburn's career-changing performance at a leading West End night-club called Ciro's, in the same building that now houses the National Portrait Gallery's public archive.
The Oscar-winning actress' performances in revues at the club in her early twenties helped launch her career and led to her being scouted for British films, including 1951's Laughter in Paradise.
Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon runs from 2 July until 18 October.
Vettel and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen were separated by just 0.053 seconds, with Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas in third, 0.371secs adrift.
Lewis Hamilton was fourth, 0.172secs behind his Mercedes team-mate, but made a mistake on his fastest lap.
Hamilton ran wide at the hairpin, losing a few tenths of a second.
However, Hamilton was also 0.3secs slower than Vettel in the middle sector of the lap, where most of the demanding corners on the Shanghai International Circuit are situated.
Williams driver Felipe Massa was fifth, a second behind Hamilton, just ahead of the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo. The Red Bulls were 1.6secs off the pace.
Jolyon Palmer was an encouraging ninth fastest for Renault, two places clear of his team-mate Nico Hulkenberg.
It was a dispiriting session for McLaren-Honda, with two-time champion Fernando Alonso only 17th fastest as the team battle with the poor performance, reliability and fuel consumption of the Honda engine.
There was no repeat of the damp weather on Friday that had prevented any meaningful running because the medical helicopter could not operate.
The session took place in dry weather and almost-sunshine in perpetually smog-grey Shanghai.
However, further rain is predicted overnight ahead of the race on Sunday.
Even if it remains damp and cloudy at the time of the race, governing body the FIA has taken action to avoid the problems of Friday, when three hours of practice sessions were reduced to only about 15 minutes of running.
If the medical helicopter cannot fly, organisers have arranged for a police escort so, in the event of a driver being hospitalised, he can be transported quickly by road to the main hospital which is more than 30km away.
During the incident on 17 January, the group shouted racial abuse at a member of the mosque and tied a St George's flag to the fence of the Jamia Mosque.
Kevin Crehan, 34, of Knowle, was jailed for 12 months and Mark Bennett, 48, of Patchway, for nine months.
Both had admitted religiously aggravated public order offences.
At the Bristol Crown Court hearing, 46-year-old Alison Bennett - the wife of Mark Bennett - was given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, while Angelina Swales, 31, from Brislington, was handed a four-month sentence, suspended for two years.
The two women also admitted religiously aggravated public order offences in relation to the targeting of the Totterdown mosque.
All four were given a restraining order preventing them from going within 100m of a mosque anywhere in England or Wales for the next 10 years.
Insp Nigel Colston of Avon and Somerset Police paid tribute to the way the community responded to what happened.
He said: "The way local people came together with overwhelming support for the mosque made me proud to be associated with Bristol.
"There can never be any excuse for hate crime in any shape or form and this criminality will not be tolerated.
"All of our communities have the right to live and worship peacefully without fear of being targeted for their race or religion."
It was the first alcoholic drinks reception the DUP had ever organised at a party conference and it attracted widespread interest on social media.
Under the late Ian Paisley's leadership the DUP had a tee-total reputation.
Mrs Foster brushed off suggestions the event had embarrassed the party, saying she was pleased with the large turnout.
The lunchtime reception was held in an art gallery at the International Conference Centre in Birmingham.
It was packed and it proved so popular there were long queues to get inside.
Mrs Foster was joined at the reception by DUP MPs Nigel Dodds, Gavin Robinson, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Ian Paisley - the party founder's son - and many party activists.
A number of senior Conservative MPs also attended the event.
The DUP leader told the BBC the event was not originally meant to be billed as a champagne reception but something had been "lost in translation" during the booking.
She said she was pleased with the amount of people who attended and said it "was all good PR".
Robert Amoroso, 64, who now lives in Hampshire, lived on the Clifton estate between 1979 to 2013, when the offences were alleged to have taken place.
He faces 16 charges including seven indecent assaults, three sexual assaults and six of sexual activity with children aged between 11 and 15.
Mr Amoroso denies the charges. The trial is expected to last two weeks.
On Monday, the jury was shown two videos of interviews filmed by Nottinghamshire Police in 2013.
In the film, one victim, then aged 11, told officers how he visited Mr Amoroso's home with a friend.
He went on to give a graphic account of sexual activity he witnessed.
Two boys claim the abuse allegedly continued into adulthood.
The trial continues.
"Moaning Myrtle's full name was Myrtle Elizabeth Warren," the author tweeted on Monday.
A fan had inquired via Twitter about the ghostly witch who appeared in the books.
Ms Rowling quickly denied that the namesake had anything to do with Ms Warren, a well-known Democratic senator from Massachusetts.
Fans asked on Twitter whether Rowling made up the name on the spot. She replied that she already knew Warren was Myrtle's last name, but she said Elizabeth because it is a "classic British middle name".
Rowling said she laughed at the idea that Myrtle would be named after Ms. Warren.
Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said after the Ottawa meeting more "hard facts" need to be gathered before a full response is developed.
Mr Goodale also said many of the refugee claimants had been in the US on legal visas before crossing to Canada.
John Kelly was the first of President Donald Trump's cabinet to visit Ottawa.
A growing number of asylum seekers have been making the dangerous winter journey to Canada, crossing the border illegally in the provinces of Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia.
Mr Goodale said it appeared some of the refugee claimants began planning the voyage months ago.
He said there was no current evidence human smugglers were involved in the illegal crossings, but added both governments were monitoring the situation for that type of activity.
The two nations need more information on the nature and the causes of the migration before they can develop an appropriate and humane response, the minister said.
"The issue becomes how do you cope with this human migration you are suddenly confronted with," Mr Goodale told journalists during a news conference on Friday.
"No one is suggesting the construction of a wall along the Canadian border. No one is saying the RCMP should line up along the border and join arms and shoo people away."
Mr Kelly's visit also came as Canadians are feeling apprehensive about how President Trump's tough stand on borders and trade will affect the international boundary.
Three issues in particular have been in the spotlight in Canada:
Mr Goodale said he received assurances from Mr Kelly that the US was committed to making the border "thinner" for trade and travel.
The minister also said the two agreed that travellers crossing the joint boundary should be treated respectfully and that Canada would monitor for any trends suggesting otherwise.
Mr Kelly met a number of senior ministers in the Trudeau government on Friday, including Mr Goodale, Transport Minister Marc Garneau, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.
The Department of Homeland Security has a wide-ranging mandate with responsibilities related to national security and terrorism, immigration and cybersecurity.
The agenda was full, with the ministers discussing traveller screening, trade, co-operation on border security and infrastructure, and immigration, refugee and visa policy.
Canada and the US have a long history of collaborating on trade, travel and security along the 8,890 km (5,525-mile) - the longest international border in the world.
Border issues also came up during a news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday.
Speaking to journalists in Houston, Texas, where he was participating in an international energy conference, the prime minister defended Canada's "strong and rigorous system" for screening immigrants and refugees.
"We do not compromise on security," he said, adding that Ottawa was committed to continued collaboration with the US while protecting Canadian rights.
The Welsh Government has said it will invest £3m in Yr Egin, with another £3m coming from the Swansea Bay city deal.
First Minister Carwyn Jones previously told AMs that S4C had promised the move would be at no cost to the taxpayer.
S4C chairman Huw Jones told AMs it was "always clear to us" that the University of Wales Trinity St David as developers would be seeking grants.
The channel's relocation from Cardiff to Carmarthen is at the centre of the university's plan for a creative industries hub.
However, in October, Economy Secretary Ken Skates told AMs it was "disappointing" a funding gap of £6m had appeared, although the university denied it.
Giving evidence to the assembly's culture and Welsh language committee on Thursday, S4C chief executive Ian Jones defended the request for government support.
"If the development makes an economic impact, a linguistic and social impact in the area, that it ticks all the boxes for the Welsh Government, then it follows on naturally that the university would ask the Welsh Government for a contribution," he said.
Mr Jones also defended S4C's decision to pay the university rent in advance for the next 20 years at a cost of £3m.
"We looked at seven or eight different options including taking an equity stake in any building," he said.
"But we decided after scrutinising the project internally and externally that it would give greater assurance to S4C to make a rent-in-advance payment.
"The reason for that is there won't be any rent increases for 25 years - there's no effect in terms of inflation over that period and so we know how much were going to pay."
Meanwhile, University of Wales Trinity St David management have been summoned to give evidence to MPs on the Welsh Affairs committee on 13 March.
Its chairman, the Monmouth MP David Davies, said: "The funding issues surrounding S4C's new headquarters are a concern for the Committee.
"We hope this session will allow Trinity St David to clarify any questions we may have.
"It is essential that public money is spent wisely."
Tim Gilson, of Malmesbury School in Wiltshire, said parents should "understand the implications" of the government's schools funding changes.
He said they could also mean fewer textbooks and a smaller range of subjects being taught to pupils.
The Department for Education wants to see a fairer redistribution of funding.
Mr Gilson said he wrote the letter to help parents "understand the implications" of how the change in funding would change how the school is run.
He said: "A number of schools are taking the opportunity at the moment to make their case for additional government funding, and I felt it was important that our voice was heard and parents knew where we sat within that.
"I'm confident we can maintain our standards but we will have to do less, and we have all got used to being able to do something that we're just going to have to stop."
Malmesbury School has been recognised as "outstanding" by the education standards watchdog Ofsted.
The Department for Education said its new national schools funding formula would end the postcode lottery in school funding.
The system is designed to support deprived areas by reallocating existing funding.
Education Secretary Justine Greening said schools were currently receiving record levels of cash.
However, Valentine Mulholland from the National Association of Head Teachers said school funding was "at breaking point".
She said the government's new funding plan could lead to a reduced curriculum in some schools, which is "regrettable if we want an education that is very well-rounded".
Auctioneers Seel & Co are offering the highest bidder the chance to acquire the title The Lord/Lady of Wedlock after their name.
The listing has a guide price of £2,000.
The title may be used on passports, driving licences and other official documents.
The ousted president faces charges including bribery, abusing state power and leaking state secrets.
In her first appearance in public since her arrest in March, she arrived at court handcuffed in a prison van.
The maximum sentence for corruption in South Korea is life.
Ms Park is accused of colluding with her friend, Choi Soon-sil, to extort money from some of South Korea's biggest companies, including Samsung, in return for political favours.
Ms Choi Soon-sil, who is also facing charges, sat alongside Ms Park at the opening of the trial. She also denies wrongdoing.
As the trial opened in Seoul, the ex-president's lawyers said there was "no reason for President Park to force companies to donate money which she was unable to use for herself".
At the start of the trial which will determine whether she completes a transition from the presidential palace to a prison cell, Park Geun-hye was asked what her occupation was. She replied "unemployed".
She now faces months of trying to persuade the judges that she didn't pressure companies into giving millions of dollars to the life-long friend who sits alongside her in court number 417, the two separated only by a lawyer. They did not greet each with either a word or even a glance.
Ms Park wore a black suit rather than her prison garb. On her chest, worn like a broach: a badge with the number 503 - her prison number. She had a hairclip provided by the prison because her normal hairpins were taken away as potentially dangerous.
Ms Park is facing a total of 18 charges, with the charge sheet running to about 120,000 pages, South Korean media report.
Prosecutors say she allowed Ms Choi to use her presidential connections to pressure companies to give money to a foundation she established, earning them tens of millions of dollars.
In exchange, the companies would receive favourable treatment from the government, it is alleged.
Ms Park is also accused of leaking state secrets by giving Ms Choi access to her work - including asking her to edit her speeches - and of running a blacklist of media figures who were to be barred from receiving state support because they had been critical of her government.
Ms Park is the third South Korean leader on trial for corruption but the first democratically elected one.
The two previous cases involved former military dictators imprisoned on corruption in the 1990s.
Ms Park's hearing takes place in the very same court room as the previous trials.
Dozens of people have now been investigated or arrested in connection with the scandal. All have maintained their innocence.
Ms Choi, who also denies wrongdoing, has been on trial since December, while her daughter, Chung Yoo-ra - alleged to have received help getting a university placement - was arrested in Denmark in January.
The acting head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-Yong, and four other Samsung executive are on trial for allegedly giving bribes to Ms Park and Ms Choi in exchange for government support for a controversial merger.
Former health minister Moon Hyung-pyo and the chief investment officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) Hong Wan-seon are on trial for allegedly pressuring the NPS to accept the merger.
And last week, two plastic surgeons who treated the image-conscious former president - including one who injected her with human placenta extracts - were convicted of lying about having treated her.
The firm has raised its forecast for underlying earnings in 2016 to £390m-£405m, a big upwards revision from its original forecast of £365m-£385m.
The weakened pound contributed to that, by adding £28m to the value of overseas earnings converted back into pounds.
A "strong conclusion" to the Euro 2016 football tournament also helped, according to Paddy Power.
In morning trade, shares in Paddy Power were the best gainer on the 100 index, rising more than 3%.
In February, Paddy Power merged with Betfair in a deal worth £5bn and it said the process of combining the two firms was "ahead of plan".
"This was another good quarter for Paddy Power Betfair," said Breon Corcoran, the chief executive of Paddy Power Betfair.
"Work is underway to combine the best of Betfair and Paddy Power's technology into a multi-brand, multi- channel, multi-jurisdictional platform that will start to unlock the full potential of the group's scale and will lead to increased pace of development and faster roll out of new products," he said.
Sales in the third quarter rose 25% to £404m and underlying operating profit rose by two thirds to £95m.
The company owns 600 betting shops in the UK and Ireland, two of Europe's biggest online betting operations, and significant businesses in Australia and the US.
Junead Khan, 25, used his job to scout US bases for potential victims.
He intended to stage a road accident outside the Lakenheath base and attack people who came to help, a court heard.
Khan had also been found guilty, along with his uncle, Shazib Khan, 23, of preparing to go to Syria to join so-called Islamic State (IS).
Shazib Khan, 23, was given a custodial sentence of eight years, with an extended period of five years on licence.
Junead Khan also exchanged online messages with an IS fighter in Syria.
Prosecutors claimed the man Khan exchanged messages with, who used the name Abu Hussain, was British-born Junaid Hussain.
Hussain was killed in a US drone strike in the IS stronghold of Raqqa just weeks after his link with the planned UK attack was discovered.
One message described an attack on military personnel, which they compared with the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013.
Sentencing Khan at London's Kingston Crown Court, Mr Justice Edis said: "Junead Khan was not far from the commission of the murder to be committed by horrifying method in the street in order to create terror and terrorist propaganda in this country.
"His offence was so serious that a life sentence must be imposed."
Police arrested Junead Khan last July and discovered pictures on his phone of him posing in his bedroom with an IS-style black flag later found in the attic.
His computer was also found to contain an al-Qaeda bomb manual and Amazon searches for a large combat knife.
Police officers had visited Khan as part of the national anti-extremism programme Prevent.
But the court heard Khan mocked the programme in a series of scathing WhatsApp messages.
Mr Justice Edis said the two men, who are of Bangladeshi backgrounds, had rejected the values and opportunities Britain gave them.
He added: "They both believe that Sharia law is the only legitimate law and both reject democracy, because it involves law being made by people and not by God.
"They have rejected the protection of the law of this country and education they have received by becoming committed supporters of Isis (IS) - an organisation which wishes to control the world and which will stop short of no barbarity in order to do so."
Barry Sheene in 1981 was the last British rider to win an elite-class GP.
Seven-time champion Valentino Rossi took second with championship leader Marc Marquez of Spain in third.
"It's the best day of my racing career," said the 30-year-old, who started 10th on the grid in Brno and took the lead with seven laps to go.
Marquez leads Italy's Rossi in the riders' championship by 53 points, with Crutchlow moving up to 10th.
Meanwhile John McPhee became the first Scotsman to win a motorcycle GP since 1962 with victory in MotoGP3.
Germany's Jonas Folger won the MotoGP2 race.
The next race is the British GP at Silverstone on 4 September.
Czech GP result:
1. Cal Crutchlow (GB) Honda 47 minutes 44.290 seconds
2. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 47:51.588
3. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 47:53.877
4. Loris Baz (Fra) Ducati 47:56.848
5. Hector Barbera (Spa) Ducati 47:57.383
6. Eugene Laverty (Ire) Ducati 47:58.102
7. Danilo Petrucci (Ita) Ducati 48:07.704
8. Andrea Iannone (Ita) Ducati 48:08.852
9. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 48:08.871
10. Tito Rabat (Spa) Honda 48:21.421
MotoGP standings
1. Marc Marquez (Spain) Honda 197 points
2. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha 144
3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha 138
4. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda 109
5. Maverick Vinales (Spain) Suzuki 100
6. Andrea Iannone (Italy) Ducati 96
7. Pol Espargaro (Spain) Yamaha 81
8. Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Ducati 79
9. Hector Barbera (Spain) Ducati 76
10. Cal Crutchlow (Britain) Honda 66
The naming of the park in Newry after Raymond McCreesh has been controversial since the park opened in 2001.
In 2012, Newry and Mourne District Council reviewed the move and decided the name would remain.
But the Equality Commission has now rescinded its approval of that review.
It said the council, which has since been expanded and renamed as Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, failed to fully comply with its recommendations on the review process, specifically on transparency.
McCreesh, from Camlough in south Armagh, was one of 10 IRA prisoners who died in a hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
His convictions included attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, possession of firearms with intent to endanger life and IRA membership.
The council owns the park named after him and has debated its naming on several occasions.
Last year, the Equality Commission said it was disappointed by the council's decision in 2012 to retain the park's name.
But it accepted - at that stage - that the council had complied with its recommendation on the review process that should be used.
A short time later, a woman, whose son was murdered by the IRA at the Kingsmills massacre in County Armagh in 1976, launched a legal challenge against the council's decision.
Bea Worton was granted leave for a judicial review of the move.
That has resulted in the Equality Commission issuing a new directive to the council.
Dr Michael Wardlow, the chief commissioner, said the council's debate and vote on the matter should be conducted in public and properly recorded to ensure its transparency.
Dr Wardlow also said councillors should be provided with analysis of the consultation responses prior to the debate and vote.
The Equality Commission said it is now up to Newry, Mourne and Down District Council to look again at the issue.
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Murray, who helped Britain win the Davis Cup in November, is ranked second, behind Brazil's Marcelo Melo.
"The Davis Cup last year gave me a lot of trust in myself, confidence in my game," said the Scot, 29.
"I got to number two so why not get to number one? It's one final step to try to get to number one."
Murray became the first Briton to win the Australian Open men's doubles title in 82 years when he and Soares, 33, beat Daniel Nestor and Radek Stepanek 2-6 6-4 7-5 in Saturday's final.
The Brazilian only teamed up with Murray in January, and the man from Dunblane has been pleasantly surprised how quickly their partnership has taken off.
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"It was only our third tournament together so I guess it was unexpected that it clicked so fast but it's been brilliant," Murray said.
"Obviously you go in with the best intentions. You want great things to happen but it can take time or sometimes it doesn't happen at all.
"We played our first match in Doha at the start of the year and we felt really good on court with each other. We understood what each other was trying to do on the court."
Brother Andy Murray lost his fifth Australian Open singles final against Novak Djokovic in straight sets on Sunday.
However, the elder Murray believes his younger brother's exploits in recent years - which include two Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal - have driven him to push his own career to greater heights.
"Seeing how hard Andy has worked to get to where he is in the game and all the successes that he had, that motivated me and inspired me to work hard and dedicate myself further to my sport," added 2007 mixed doubles champion Murray.
"I think the last 18 months or so, that has really started to pay dividends. Being brothers as well, you want the best for each other but there's still a part of you that wants to be doing the same stuff he's doing.
"I'm watching him on TV or live at tournaments playing in semi-finals [and] finals of these amazing events and I wanted to be parted of that too."
The 34-year-old had only been on the field for five minutes when he fired in a low 25-yard free-kick which took a deflection before beating keeper Fraser Forster.
He's had an interesting life and today was another strange twist in his interesting life
Southampton were the bigger threat for most of the match, and the Clarets also had Tom Heaton to thank for their eighth home league win of the season.
The England keeper had to be alert to pat down James Ward-Prowse's first-half header, and then in the closing moments made two outstanding one-handed saves to deny ex-Claret Jay Rodriguez and Josh Sims.
For Saints, who slip to 13th, it was fourth consecutive loss in the Premier League; Burnley climb to 10th after a third win in four.
Burnley could be considered lucky to come away with all three points. They were weak in attack and had three shots on target in the entire match, with only Barton's deflected strike troubling Forster.
Without the disciplined defending and brilliant keeping of Heaton, Southampton might have ended their streak of three matches without a win.
Defender Ben Mee was on hand to clear off the line from Dusan Tadic and Jeff Hendrick placed his body in front of a fierce Shane Long effort that appeared goalbound.
And when the backline was beaten, Heaton was a brick wall as the last man. He reacted quickly to block Ward-Prowse's header before making two superb diving stops to prevent Rodriguez and then Sims, with the follow-up, from equalising. The second save was truly exceptional.
With 24 points from a possible 36 at home, Burnley are 10 points clear of the bottom three and appear a good bet to avoid a relegation battle.
Southampton fans should not be too disheartened by the result.
Four league defeats in four makes for bad reading, but there was little to fault in the display at Turf Moor.
They were competent in defence and a handful in attack, with Tadic, aside from the effort cleared by Mee, going close with an angled shot before Long's header rippled the side netting after the break.
And had Heaton switched off in the final few moments, visiting manager Claude Puel would have been heading back to Hampshire with a deserved point.
As it is, the Saints continue to head down the table. They will now focus on arresting this losing run at home to champions Leicester next Sunday.
Match-winner Barton - making his first Premier League start since May 2015 - said he wanted to prove to Burnley boss Dyche he made the correct decision in bringing the English midfielder back to Turf Moor.
Barton had been training with the Clarets after leaving Rangers in mid-November. He had his contract terminated by the Scottish Premiership club following a training-ground altercation in September and was given a one-match suspension for breaking Scottish Football Association rules on gambling.
He has also been charged with misconduct, with the English FA claiming the midfielder has placed 1,260 bets in the past 10 years.
"It was an incredible thing for him to bring me back - to what he did and the circus that goes on around me," said Barton.
"Hopefully displays in the coming weeks will repay that faith."
Burnley boss Sean Dyche:
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"It's a good story with Barton today. He's worked hard since he came back. I know what Joey offers. He's had an interesting life and today was another strange twist in his interesting life.
"Every coach has a doubt but it's about conquering your doubts. He's only one player - we have a group of players here that give every inch.
"Southampton are a good side without a shadow of doubt.
"I thought the defensive unit in general was great. I praised Heaton on his focus and I praised him for keeping in the latter stages of the match."
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"We wasted many chances and the keeper made strong saves.
"It was a strong game for us. There was a good attitude and it was a good display. It was difficult to play against the long ball today.
"We showed the same spirit as we had showed in recent games. It was incredible to lose this game.
"It's important to continue this good work."
Burnley have an FA Cup third-round replay against Sunderland on Tuesday and are then at Arsenal next Sunday (14:15 GMT). Southampton are at home to Norwich in their FA Cup third-round replay on Wednesday and follow that up with Sunday's midday kick-off against Leicester.
Match ends, Burnley 1, Southampton 0.
Second Half ends, Burnley 1, Southampton 0.
Attempt missed. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Josh Sims with a headed pass.
Attempt blocked. Sam Vokes (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by George Boyd.
Attempt saved. Josh Sims (Southampton) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Virgil van Dijk with a headed pass.
Maya Yoshida (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Vokes (Burnley).
Attempt saved. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse with a cross.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by George Boyd.
Substitution, Burnley. James Tarkowski replaces Andre Gray.
Attempt missed. Sam Vokes (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Andre Gray following a set piece situation.
Foul by Shane Long (Southampton).
Joey Barton (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Shane Long (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Lowton (Burnley).
Attempt saved. Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
Substitution, Southampton. Josh Sims replaces Nathan Redmond.
Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by George Boyd (Burnley).
Goal! Burnley 1, Southampton 0. Joey Barton (Burnley) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Foul by Oriol Romeu (Southampton).
George Boyd (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nathan Redmond (Southampton).
Jeff Hendrick (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Burnley. Sam Vokes replaces Steven Defour.
Substitution, Burnley. Joey Barton replaces Dean Marney.
Shane Long (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jeff Hendrick (Burnley).
Attempt missed. Shane Long (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by George Boyd.
Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ashley Barnes (Burnley).
Substitution, Southampton. Jay Rodriguez replaces Dusan Tadic.
Oriol Romeu (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Oriol Romeu (Southampton).
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Dusan Tadic (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Attempt saved. Steven Defour (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jeff Hendrick.
Danish striker Simon Makienok completed his hat-trick in extra-time as the Lilywhites won 3-2 to reach round four.
Three days earlier, Preston conceded three late goals to lose 5-0 at Brentford in the Championship.
"It showed there was a reaction from the squad after a crazy 15 minutes on Saturday," said Grayson.
He told BBC Radio Lancashire: "I thought we played well, we deserved the victory over the course of the game. We created some good chances but had to withstand some pressure and then with five minutes to go, we've showed the spirit and character to get back into it again.
"A lot of those players have been chomping at the bit to come into the team and show what they are capable of, full credit to them."
Forward Makienok, who is 6ft 7ins tall, moved to Preston on a season-long loan from Italian Serie A side Palermo in June.
The former Brondby man scored five goals on loan at Charlton last season and his goals at Bournemouth were the first since his move to Deepdale.
"It's my first ever hat-trick and scoring a left foot, right foot and a header, it couldn't be any better," he said.
"We were playing a strong side even though they changed a lot of players. You get a lot of confidence from this and now I want to push on and take my chances when they come."
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The Palestinian Authority has criticised Israel's refusal to talk to more than 1,000 Palestinian detainees who are on hunger strike against conditions in Israeli jails.
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Prime Minister David Cameron will meet French President Francois Hollande in Paris on Monday to discuss the fight against terror.
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Researchers have been able to trace the impact of volcanic eruptions on the climate over a 1200 year period by assessing ancient Irish texts.
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Aspiring Welsh dramatic soprano Mari Wyn Williams was the only entrant from Europe to make it through to the final five in a world-wide contest to win an operatic scholarship on Saturday.
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Talks aimed at averting strike action by rail workers in a dispute over pay have been adjourned until Sunday.
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All broadcasters transmitting from Zimbabwean soil, and many of the main newspapers, toe the government line.
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UK industrial production shrank in the second quarter of the year, according to the latest official figures.
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A photography exhibition celebrating the life and career of British actress Audrey Hepburn will open at London's National Portrait Gallery in July.
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Sebastian Vettel led a Ferrari one-two in final practice at the Chinese Grand Prix as Mercedes appeared to struggle to keep up.
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Two men have been jailed and two women have been given suspended sentences after rashers of bacon were tied to door handles at a Bristol mosque.
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A champagne reception hosted by the DUP at the Conservative Party conference has been hailed as a success and "all good PR" by DUP leader Arlene Foster.
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A man has gone on trial accused of sexually abusing seven boys over a 30-year period in Nottingham.
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A Harry Potter character shares the same name as a prominent U.S. senator, author JK Rowling has revealed.
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The issue of asylum seekers illegally crossing the Canada-US border topped the agenda as Canadian officials met with the US Homeland Security chief.
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It was "natural" to ask for public funding towards S4C's new headquarters in Carmarthen, the channel has said.
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A head teacher is urging parents to write to their MP about a possible reduction in funding that could lead to larger class sizes in his school.
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An ancient Pembrokeshire manorial title is due to go under the hammer on Tuesday.
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South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye has pleaded not guilty at her trial for corruption, the latest stage in her dramatic fall from grace.
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The Euro 2016 football tournament and the weakened pound have contributed to a bumper year for Paddy Power Betfair.
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A delivery driver from Luton has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 12 years, for plotting to kill US personnel outside an air base.
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Cal Crutchlow dominated a rain-hit Czech Republic Grand Prix as he became Britain's first MotoGP winner in 35 years.
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A council should debate and vote again on the naming of a public play park in County Down after an IRA member, as a previous process was not transparent, an equality watchdog has said.
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Jamie Murray has set his sights on topping the world doubles rankings after partnering Bruno Soares to the Australian Open doubles title.
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Substitute Joey Barton scored the second-half winner on his league return for Burnley, who saw off Southampton in a tight contest at Turf Moor.
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Preston manager Simon Grayson has praised the way his side responded to a heavy defeat in the league to knock Bournemouth out of the EFL Cup.
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Bedfordshire University, which makes about £25m a year from fees from foreign students, says it lost £10m last year due to a two-month freeze on student visas.
The university said it had started a voluntary severance scheme, giving staff up to 20 April to apply to leave.
A union called for the university to find "alternative" savings.
University vice-chancellor and former Labour minister Bill Rammell, who receives a remuneration package of £251,000, said he did not think there would be a need for compulsory redundancies.
"By making planned and sensible reductions, the university aims to continue to drive forward enhancements to facilities, to the benefit of students," said a unversity spokeswoman.
The university has campuses in Luton and Bedford.
A spokesman for the University and College Union (UCU) said: "The University of Bedfordshire needs to continue working with UCU to identify alternative savings and avoid redundancies where possible."
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Rabbits Require Rights Scotland's 2,044-name petition was first discussed in Holyrood earlier this year.
It calls for rabbits to be given the same protection as cats and dogs as well as regulations on breeding and the minimum size of housing.
The campaigners describe rabbits as the "UK's most neglected pet".
In August, it emerged that hundreds of pet rabbits have been abandoned in Scotland.
The Scottish SPCA said it rescued 728 rabbits in 2014 and had taken 550 into care so far this year.
The blockage, at Buttercrane Quay, was caused by fat, oil and grease mixing with rubbish such as baby wipes and sanitary items.
NI Water said such blockages can cause out-of-sewer flooding, odour problems and rat infestations.
The company appealed to the public and businesses to dispose of fat, oil and grease properly.
"Fat, oil and grease in its liquid form may not look harmful, but it becomes a major problem once in our drains," NI Water's Jim McElrath said.
"Even when hot water or soap is poured down the sink - the fat, oil and grease will still harden. Detergents and bleach may also appear to work, but this is only temporary.
"Each year, NI Water spends valuable resources fixing avoidable problems."
He added: "We are doing our part by investing in the network, however, we will never win this battle alone; upgrading sewers will not stop blockages if the public are going to continue flushing inappropriate items such as wipes and disposing of fat, oil and grease down the drain."
The US book chain is marketing the device as the "first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading", based on its inclusion of pre-installed Nook apps and homescreen shortcuts.
However, its screen is lower resolution than Kobo's Android-powered Arc 7HD.
One analyst said it would be an "uphill struggle" to sell the new device.
"There is growing consumer apathy to this growing class of low-cost tablets," said Ben Wood, from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.
"Although there is the Nook angle on this, it goes into the melting pot with numerous other tablets that will appear in this price point as we run up to Christmas.
"Amazon has pretty much locked out the market in reading-focused tablets anyway, the only thing I'd applaud here is the fact that Barnes & Noble has gone to Samsung, which can give it scale and quality."
The advantage that the 7in (17.8cm)-screened Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook has over Amazon's Fire tablets is that it can easily access the Google Play marketplace. Amazon's tablet uses a proprietary store with fewer apps available.
Costing $179 (£107), the new Nook is also cheaper than the Kindle Fire HDX and Kobo Arc 7HD.
However with only 216 pixels per inch, text will appear less sharp on its screen. Likewise, magazines and movies sold from the included Nook Newsstand and Nook Video apps will present less detail than similar purchases on either the two other Android machines or Apple's bestselling iPad Mini, which also has its own dedicated ebook store.
Even so, one market watcher said the tie-up still made business sense. Samsung should benefit from the exposure of having its machine promoted in Barnes & Noble's stores and website, while the retailer gets to cut its costs after posting a $47m (£28.2m) net loss for its last financial year.
"It's very hard to make money out of mobile devices," said Ian Fogg, from the IHS consultancy.
"But by having this partnership, Barnes & Noble can have its own content and services pre-installed so that they are not just front-of-mind but also front-of-eyes for consumers.
"If it wants to get its apps used on other people's devices it has to persuade people to install them instead of a Kindle app or another competitor - that visibility is very important."
At the moment the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook is only available in the US.
Barnes and Noble will continue to sell e-ink readers, including the Nook GlowLight, which was launched in the UK earlier this month.
Macy Hogan was found in a house in Packett Street in Stoke-on-Trent on Monday. More tests will be done after a post-mortem examination did not reveal a clear cause of death, police said.
Cody-Anne Jackson, 19, from Packett Street, appeared at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on Thursday.
She is next due to appear at Stafford Crown Court on Monday.
Staffordshire Police said a 22-year-old man arrested in connection with the death and subsequently freed on bail had been released from bail without charge and was no longer part of the investigation.
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Saints parted company with club legend Cunningham on Monday after 24 years as a player and then coach.
The 40-year-old ex-hooker had been in charge for just over two years.
His assistants Long and Lolesi, as well as Under-19s coach Traynor, were placed in temporary charge of the side.
"There is a lot of emotion within the club but there is no time to sit around and feel sorry for ourselves," Lolesi, 36, told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"Keiron rang me to give me the news. It's disappointing but it is a measure of the man that he just wanted to get on with the game and get a win, that's more important than his situation which is the way he has always been.
"We're paid to make sure we do our best with the group we have got and we will continue to do that until the powers that be bring in a new head coach.
"The chairman asked us to stay on and steer the ship for the time being and we'll try and do our best job."
The brothers, aged 31 and 28 and born in Kosovo, were detained early on Friday in Duisburg.
Germany is on high alert after Monday's attack in Berlin, which left 12 dead.
A Europe-wide manhunt continues for Anis Amri, the Tunisian man suspected of driving a lorry into the Breitscheidplatz Christmas market.
Police said the Oberhausen attack had been intended to target the CentrO shopping centre.
Officers dressed in civilian clothing had been sent to patrol the centre and a nearby Christmas market after a tip from intelligence services, police said in a statement.
It is not yet known how advanced the preparations for the attack were, or if others were involved, the statement said.
There is no indication so far that Friday's arrests are linked to the Berlin attack.
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German officials have confirmed Anis Amri's fingerprints were found inside the truck that was used to kill 12 people and wound 49 others in Berlin on Monday evening.
His family in Tunisia have urged him to give himself up to police.
Breitscheidplatz market in Berlin reopened on Thursday, with dimmed lights and no music.
Candles and flowers have been laid for the victims, who include at least six Germans, an Israeli tourist, an Italian woman and the truck's Polish driver. Police have installed concrete barriers to prevent a repeat attack.
"If my brother is listening to me, I want to tell him to surrender, even for our family. We will be relieved," Abdelkader Amri told reporters from the family home in Tunisia.
"If he did what he is suspected of having done, he will be sanctioned," he went on.
But he added: "I am sure that my brother is innocent. I know why he left home: he left for economic reasons... to work, to help the family, he didn't go for [terrorism] reasons."
Both Abdelkader, and another brother, Walid, admitted that Anis had got into trouble in Europe and came out of a three-and-a-half year jail term in Italy with a "totally different mentality".
But Walid said he had spoken to Anis just 10 days ago, and he had said he hoped to return to Tunisia in January. "He was saving money so he could come here, and buy a car and start a business. That was his dream."
The German federal prosecutor's office said Amri's fingerprints had been found in a number of places around the lorry's cab. "At this point in the investigation, we assume Anis Amri drove the truck," said spokeswoman Frauke Koehler.
She also confirmed police raids had been carried out "in various locations" in Berlin and in North Rhine-Westphalia state where the suspect "was living and staying for some time".
Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier said she was hopeful for a "quick arrest", and said she was "very proud of how calmly most people" in Germany had reacted to the attack.
Amri was named as a suspect on Wednesday after his identification papers were found in the truck.
A Europe-wide arrest warrant has been issued amid warnings he may be armed and dangerous. The German authorities have offered a reward of up to €100,000 (£84,000; $104,000) for information leading to his arrest.
There is growing criticism of Germany's security services as details emerge about Amri and his alleged links to Islamist extremists, the BBC's Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin.
The 24-year-old, who arrived in Germany in 2015, had been under surveillance by the German authorities this year on suspicion of planning a robbery to pay for automatic weapons for use in an attack.
But the surveillance was reportedly called off after it turned up nothing more than drug-dealing in a Berlin park and a bar brawl.
He is also believed to have moved in the same circles as extremist preacher Ahmad Abdelazziz A, known as Abu Walaa, who was charged last month with supporting so-called Islamic State (IS).
Amri was also on a US no-fly list, had researched explosives online and had communicated with IS at least once via the Telegram messenger service, the New York Times reported.
He had been due to be deported from Germany in June but stayed because there was a delay in receiving paperwork from Tunisia.
IS has said one of its militants carried out the attack but has offered no evidence.
Hoban joined the U's from Irish side Dundalk in November 2014, but scored only six goals in 53 games.
The 24-year-old had spells on loan with Stevenage and Grimsby Town last season, but failed to find the net in 13 combined appearances for the two clubs.
"His hold up-play and link-up play is exceptional for this level," Stags manager Adam Murray said.
"He is someone who will help us keep the ball in the final third for longer periods and bring our other attacking players into play."
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10 December 2016 Last updated at 11:39 GMT
But now the show is in its 13th year, can the show still produce big music stars year after year?
The debut single from last year's winner, Louisa Johnson, only reached number nine, making it the lowest charting X Factor winner's single.
Ricky caught with Matt Terry and 5 After Midnight a few weeks ago to see what they thought.
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Police discovered the weapons after they were called to the house in Hatherop Road, Hampton, over concerns for the safety of a resident.
A 60-year-old man was arrested under the Firearms Act and taken to a south London police station, the Met said.
Roads have been closed and a cordon has been set up around the home while specialist officers assess the items.
They were part of an "organised paedophile network" with "tentacles around the world" that arranged the rape of young children, some of them babies.
Three young victims - a baby, a toddler and a child under five - have been identified from thousands of images seized as part of the inquiry, but police believe there are more.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the offences were "as vile and depraved" as it had ever come across.
Detectives said the group were "incredibly skilled" at grooming victims, families and each other in order to find children to prey upon, and went to great lengths to plan the abuse without being caught.
One member even developed a relationship with a pregnant woman "with the sole intention" of abusing her baby after its birth.
The gang was "more than happy" to drive for three to four hours across the UK, spend less than half an hour with a victim, and then return to their jobs.
The NCA's Deputy Director of Investigations Graham Gardner said "on the face of it", the men operated as individuals in communities where no-one would suspect them.
But they were, he said, "monsters in disguise."
"They have groomed women who were pregnant, they've groomed families and people who can get them access to children," he said.
"Only when they come together and commit these horrific crimes does it become very apparent what their endeavours were."
The men first contacted each other and openly discussed their intentions on adult sex websites, social media and online conferencing sites - there is no evidence they used the so-called anonymous "dark" web.
Senior investigating officer at the NCA, Adam Robinson, said: "They were all promiscuous and all involved in online sex forums for their own gratification
"They used terms like 'paedo' - that's how they introduced each other."
Mr Robinson said one of the men described himself as a "nepiophile", meaning someone sexually attracted to children under two.
On one chat log uncovered by detectives, two of the offenders discussed their preferences.
When asked: "How small you like mate?", the other replied [the] "smaller the better buddy."
As well as carrying out abuse themselves, the men also arranged to meet to view live images of sexual abuse streamed over the internet from abroad.
Mr Robinson said the images that he and his colleagues viewed were "horrendous" and some needed to have breaks from work because the material was so distressing.
"It was the most disgusting material you've ever read or seen," he said.
Those who could get access to victims were granted "elevated" status within the network.
Officers said online conversations between the men also contained references to using drugs against victims - both controlled substances and over-the-counter medicines.
They openly discussed what dosages were needed to induce a particular state in a child of a certain age.
The NCA was called in last September when one of the men, Adam Toms, approached Avon and Somerset Police.
Two men had previously been arrested as part of separate inquiries by other police forces, and it is thought Toms, 33, felt the net was closing in.
He admitted various offences and the investigation, codenamed Operation Voicer, was launched when the NCA discovered Toms and the other suspects were part of a UK-wide network with global links.
As well as the NCA, the inquiry has involved four police forces - Avon and Somerset, Bedfordshire, Humberside and Wiltshire, nine local authority child protection teams, the Crown Prosecution Service, the EU law enforcement agency Europol and child abuse investigation teams across the UK.
In total 11 people have been arrested, four of whom are on police bail.
Material which could lead to the arrest of other paedophiles has been sent to police abroad, via Europol, to north America, South America, Scandinavia, Australia and Africa.
Seventeen "packages" of material have also been sent to police in UK forces for them to pursue their own investigations.
The seven men are all said to be in work, but not in occupations that allowed them unsupervised access to children. One of them is a father.
Three of them - Robyn Harsley, David Hollyson, and Matthew Stansfield - had previous convictions for accessing child abuse images and were registered sex offenders.
Stansfield and John Denham were found guilty after a trial at Bristol Crown Court which ended on Wednesday; five other members had earlier admitted various offences.
All the men are due to be sentenced at a later date.
Protection and safeguarding measures have been put in place for the three known victims, together with 21 other children who were thought to be at risk.
Chief executive Bill Winters, who took over from Peter Sands last year, described the performance over 2015 as "poor".
The bank will take a $4bn charge on writing down the value of its loans, driven by falling commodity prices and deterioration of Indian markets.
Shares in the bank tumbled by 4% to a record low of 418.7p.
Standard Chartered was forced to raise £3.3bn in a rights issue last year and announced a major cost-cutting drive which includes the loss of 15,000 jobs from its 86,000-strong workforce.
Sir John Peace, Standard Chartered's outgoing chairman, said: "While our 2015 financial results were poor, they are set against a backdrop of continuing geo-political and economic headwinds and volatility across many of our markets as well as the effects of deliberate management actions.
"Our share price performance has also been disappointing, underperforming the wider equity market, which has seen broad declines driven largely by the same macroeconomic concerns."
It is the first time since 1989 that Standard Chartered has reported a full-year loss.
Mr Winters announced that he and other members of the management team will not receive a bonus for 2015 and that Standard Chartered will introduce a new incentive programme that will only pay out if targets are met.
Mr Winters will be paid $2.4m for last year but could earn $8.4m by 2018 if he hits the new targets.
The chief executive was one of 200 business leaders who signed a letter calling for Britain to remain in the EU.
Mr Winters said that while he did not think Britain staying in or leaving the EU would impact Standard Chartered "one way or the other", he said: "We think the UK is an integral part of Europe."
27 October 2015 Last updated at 14:17 GMT
Nine pupils from Portadown College, County Armagh, aged between 14 and 17, were assaulted on Sunday.
Five were treated in hospital but the school's principal said none of them was seriously injured.
The students had travelled to the city as part of the school's annual trip to attend football matches in Manchester, as Gordon Adair reports.
There is a handful of private radio stations.
The media are considered to be able to operate freely.
By December 2011 there were more than 87,000 internet users (Internetworldstats.com).
The council said renewed fighting was having a "severe impact" on civilians.
Fighting in the frontline town of Avdiivka has left thousands of residents without water or power in freezing conditions.
Ukraine says it is preparing a possible evacuation of the town to avoid a humanitarian crisis.
Each side blames the other for the upsurge in violence.
"The members of the Security Council called for an immediate return to a ceasefire regime," the Ukrainian-drafted statement said.
The text did not raise objections from Russia, a permanent member of the council, which has in the past routinely blocked statements put forward by Ukraine.
More than 9,700 people have died in the conflict which erupted in 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Pro-Russian rebels later launched an insurgency in the east.
The US and EU imposed sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in eastern Ukraine. Russia has denied backing the rebels.
Ukrainian forces say the latest outbreak began when rebels launched an attack on the government-held town of Avdiivka, which borders land controlled by the separatists.
The rebels say government forces attacked them first.
Seven soldiers and a number of rebels have been killed in recent days, and there have been civilian casualties although precise numbers are unclear.
Ukraine say that if the evacuation goes ahead, up to 8,000 people could be moved each day from the town.
"Everything is going bad," a resident in Avdiivka, who identified herself only as Nadiya, told the BBC.
"People are scared and try to go out. It's very cold. There are bread queues. Only a few shops are open."
The population of the town is believed to range between 16,000 and 22,000.
Officials say the evacuation will go ahead if the fighting escalates further. About 10 tonnes of food will soon arrive in the city, they add.
GDP growth shrank to 0% in the second quarter compared to 0.3% in the first quarter.
Germany's economy also slowed in the second quarter, albeit less markedly than had been expected.
Europe's largest economy expanded by 0.4%, down from 0.7% in the first quarter, but above forecasts of 0.2%.
Overall, a second estimate of GDP across the eurozone confirmed that growth halved to 0.3% from 0.6% in the first three months of the year.
GDP also fell across the 28-nation European Union to 0.4% from 0.5% between the first and second quarters.
In Italy, analysts had expected GDP to grow by between 0.1% and 0.3%.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Renzi, is battling to reduce the bad debt in its banking sector, which is currently buried under €360bn worth of bad loans. Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Italy's third largest bank and the world's oldest lender, is saddled with €46.9bn of bad debt.
Alberto Bagnai, economic policy professor at the University of Chieti-Pescara, said: "There is no way to solve the banking problem without economic growth. If the whole nation doesn't start earning more it can't pay back its debts - public or private."
The government expects the country to grow by 1.2% this year. However, the International Monetary Fund recently reduced its economic growth from 1.1% to 1%.
The new data means that growth in the Eurozone's three biggest economies - Germany, France and Italy - has either slowed or completely stalled between the first and second quarters.
France recorded no growth between April and June after GDP rose by 0.7% in the first quarter, boosted by business from the Euro 2016 football tournament.
In contrast, Greece reported a rare rise in GDP - which increased by 0.3% compared to a 0.1% fall in the first quarter. Holidaymakers are choosing the likes of Greece and Spain over politically volatile Turkey.
Nikos Magginas, an economist at National Bank of Greece, said: "Domestic demand was probably better than expected because of tourism. The numbers point to a positive turnaround in the economy in the second half of the year."
In Germany, exports and consumer spending were stronger than forecast but investment in construction and machinery slowed.
Commenting on "Europe's engine room", Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DiBa, warned that Germany must increase investment to support growth.
However, he said it could be hampered by ``increased uncertainties after the Brexit vote, continued structural weaknesses in many eurozone countries and a renewed global slowdown''.
Joerg Zeuner, economist at KfW, said: "The decision to leave the EU will hit the British economy, and the slowdown will spread to Germany through muted exports.
"The UK is an important market, especially for German car makers, but also for our chemical and pharmaceutical industries."
New data also revealed that German inflation rose in July, up by 0.4%, fuelled by rising food and services prices.
Inflation was tempered by the falling cost of energy and clothing. Destatis, Germany's statistics office, said stripping out energy, inflation would have been 1.3% in July.
The extra money could be used to help countries in the eurozone struggling to pay their debts.
But the IMF said it may need up to $1tn "in the coming years".
The $500bn includes the recent European commitment to commit 150bn euros (£125bn; $194bn) to the IMF, the 187-nation body said.
"Based on staff's estimate of global potential financing needs of about $1tn in the coming years, the Fund would aim to raise up to $500bn in additional lending resources," the IMF said.
"At this preliminary stage, we are exploring options on funding and will have no further comment until the necessary consultations with the Fund's membership have been completed."
The IMF currently has a a total borrowing capacity of about $590bn, and the Fund's lending commitments are at a record $250bn.
With Europe pledging the bulk of the extra funding, the IMF will have to discuss with its other members how to get the remaining resources.
European funding
At a summit in December, most of the European Union vowed to add about 200bn euros to the IMF's resources - which in turn could be lent to stricken nations such as Greece or to the eurozone bailout fund.
But the UK decided not to take part in the scheme to support the eurozone, so the EU failed to reach their target.
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Last year, UK MPs voted to increase the UK's annual subscription to the IMF from £10.7bn to £20.1bn as part of an overall increase in the IMF's funding base agreed in principle in 2009.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said it is "in our interests" to support the IMF but has stressed that additional money would not support a eurozone bailout.
And the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has said: "The UK has always been willing to consider further resources for the IMF, but for its global role and as part of a global agreement,"
On Tuesday, IMF head Christine Lagarde said that she welcomed the "commitment of European members to contribute to the Fund's resources".
"To this end, Fund management and staff will explore options for increasing the Fund's firepower, subject to adequate safeguards," she said in a statement.
It's a malicious virus that locks the user out of their computer and demands a fee to return their files.
A report published by the Australian government claims 72% of businesses surveyed experienced ransomware incidents in 2015.
The figure was just 17% in 2013 .
It's also a growing threat for mobile devices as it can be hidden in an app, says Gert-Jan Schenk, vice-president at internet security company Lookout.
"For the most part, we've seen ransomware delivered through drive-by downloads - it pretends to be a popular app, increasing the chances that you'll click on it," he explains.
"To avoid these threats, users should be very careful about what apps they install, and where they come from - read the reviews on Google Play, and avoid side-loading from untrusted sources."
Like most computer viruses, ransomware often arrives in the form of a phishing email, or spam, or a fake software update - and the recipient clicks a link or opens an attachment.
The virus then sets to work encrypting the user's files.
Once the computer is effectively locked down, it demands a fee - often in bitcoins because it is less easy to trace - for the return of the files.
The fee is generally one or two bitcoins - the equivalent of about $500 (£330).
It is less common now, but in the earlier days of the malware - about five years ago - the ransom note could take the form of a law enforcement notice.
The user was directed to a web page that appeared to be from, for example, the FBI, falsely claiming illegal images of children had been been found on the machine and a fine was payable.
There is generally a time limit to comply, after which the ransom increases.
Sometimes it is just a threat, but mostly the virus really does encrypt files.
The only way to retrieve your files without paying the ransom is to go to a backed-up version.
Neil Douglas, from Edinburgh-based IT company Network Roi, has just helped a small business client whose server was hit by ransomware.
"We had to recover everything from back-up. We'd had a back-up two minutes before the infection, so the timing couldn't have been any better - but it did result in quite a bit of downtime," he says.
"You could risk paying them - but it's a bit like paying a blackmailer. We would only recommend it as a last resort.
"You don't know whether they'll come back for more, you don't know that they'll clear the infection."
Cybersecurity expert Prof Alan Woodward says paying also leaves you vulnerable to further cybercrime.
"As soon as you pay up, you get on a suckers' list and you'll probably get contacted again," he says.
"It's low-hanging fruit for the criminals."
While all the expert advice is, of course, not to pay, plenty of people do - even those you would least expect to.
Tewksbury Police, in the US, admitted they had paid up when their main server had been attacked and locked down at the end of last year.
"Nobody wants to negotiate with terrorists. Nobody wants to pay terrorists," Police Chief Timothy Sheehan told the town's local paper.
"We did everything we possibly could.
"It was an eye-opening experience, I can tell you right now. It made you feel that you lost control of everything.
"Paying the bitcoin ransom was the last resort."
Ransomware is lucrative for criminals because so many victims pay rather than face the shame of false accusations - or like the police department, they just desperately need their files.
"Some companies have set up bitcoin accounts in case it happens to them," says Prof Woodward.
"I would recommend that nobody ever pays up.
"The only way to deal with it is to be sure you have a virus checker and back up."
"It tends to be organised crime," says Prof Woodward.
"They do make millions out of it. It's opportunistic... they just try it on everybody. You keep third parties out of it - the bank isn't involved."
Recent research by Palo Alto Networks and industry partners suggested one family of ransomware known as Crypto Wall had generated about $325m (£215m) for the gang behind it.
"In the volume cybercrime space, ransomware is one of the most prolific problems we face," Greg Day, chief security officer for Europe at Palo Alto Networks, told the BBC last month.
"Credit card theft is getting to the point where the value of each card is very low. As a result, ransomware has stepped into that gap and gives a higher value for each victim."
The structure, found in woodland in Brackla, contained a "dealing table" carved into the trunk of a fallen tree, South Wales Police said.
Officers targeted the wooded area after reports of people acting suspiciously nearby.
Two men were arrested and cautioned for cannabis possession in connection with the investigation.
The government of Sudan gave its blessing for an independent South Sudan, where the mainly Christian and Animist people had for decades been struggling against rule by the Arab Muslim north.
However, various outstanding secession issues - especially the question of shared oil revenues and the exact border demarcation - have continued to create tensions between the two successor states.
Sudan has long been beset by conflict. Two rounds of north-south civil war cost the lives of 1.5 million people, and a continuing conflict in the western region of Darfur has driven two million people from their homes and killed more than 200,000.
Sudan's centuries of association with Egypt formally ended in 1956, when joint British-Egyptian rule over the country ended.
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Independence was rapidly overshadowed by unresolved constitutional tensions with the south, which flared up into full-scale civil war that the coup-prone central government was ill-equipped to suppress.
The military-led government of President Jaafar Numeiri agreed to autonomy for the south in 1972, but fighting broke out again in 1983.
After two years of bargaining, the rebels signed a comprehensive peace deal with the government to end the civil war in January 2005.
The accord provided for a high degree of autonomy for the south, and an option for it to secede. South Sudan seceded in July 2011, following a vote.
However, the grievances of the northern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile remain unaddressed, as provisions laid out for them in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement were never fully implemented.
In Darfur, in western Sudan, the United Nations has accused pro-government Arab militias of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against non-Arab locals.
The conflict has strained relations between Sudan and Chad, to the west. Both countries have accused each other of cross-border incursions. There have been fears that the Darfur conflict could lead to a regional war.
The economic dividends of eventual peace could be great. Sudan has large areas of cultivatable land, as well as gold and cotton. Its oil reserves are ripe for further exploitation.
Scores of people fell ill with a sickness bug after the party at Splashes in Rainham, a report said.
Medway Council said it had had to lower the amount of chlorine in the water for the dye to work, but within guidelines.
Public Health England (PHE) said in a report the bug was likely to be linked to the lower chlorine levels.
It said chlorine checks that day at the pool had failed.
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A PHE spokeswoman said: "Our investigation revealed failures in pool maintenance procedures on the day of the outbreak, in relation to monitoring and recording of chlorine levels."
Medway councillor Howard Doe said: "We have worked closely with Public Health England to look into how customers could have become ill after visiting Splashes. I would like to say again on behalf of the council that we are sorry to those who felt unwell after enjoying the pool party."
The council said it would no longer use dye in its pools, as a precaution.
The report said it was not possible to say how many people became ill, but 93 people responded to a questionnaire and 68 people met the outbreak definition.
It said the outbreak had a "moderately high attack rate".
Investigators said it was not possible to work out how or where the norovirus was introduced or spread.
But they said people who put their head in or swallowed the water were at higher risk and the outbreak ended "abruptly" after the chlorine returned to normal which suggested it was "linked to reduced chlorine levels" on 28 October.
Recommendations included that the council should take remedial actions, review risk assessments over dye use, consider additional training and look at improving customers' "low compliance" over showering before and after swimming.
Deputy Chief Constable Neil Richardson's contract expires soon and he will not seek to have it renewed.
The head of Police Scotland, Phil Gormley, said his deputy's "contribution has been outstanding".
DCC Richardson has worked in Scottish policing for more than 30 years and helped oversee the service become one single force.
Last year he competed for the top police job in Scotland, but Mr Gormley was chosen above him and colleague Iain Livingstone.
Amid much controversy, Police Scotland was created in April 2013.
Its first boss was Sir Stephen House who stepped down from the role in December 2015.
Most recently DCC Richardson has had to defend to politicians the behaviour of Police Scotland's Counter-Corruption Unit which he headed.
The unit breached rules on intercepting phone calls when it tried to obtain details of a journalist's sources.
Following news of his impending departure, DCC Richardson said: "I am extremely proud of what we have achieved in Police Scotland and privileged to have been able to play a part in what has been an historic change to policing in this country."
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The 32-year-old batsman was dropped in August for sending "provocative" text messages to opposing players during the Test series against South Africa.
31 May 2012: Announces retirement from international limited-overs cricket
11 Aug: Commits to all forms of international cricket in a YouTube interview
12 Aug: Dropped for third Test against South Africa for sending "provocative texts" about team-mates to opposition players
21 Aug: Left out of England squad for World Twenty20
7 Sept: Not awarded ECB central contract
18 Sept: Omitted from England Test squad for winter tour of India
3 Oct: New four-month contract announced
"It's been a horrible situation for all those involved," said Pietersen.
"I believe, all being well, I will be back in an England shirt as soon as possible."
Pietersen, who now has a central contract which could be extended until September 2013, apologised to former captain Andrew Strauss and the ECB accepts the texts were not derogatory about him.
"I'm fairly happy we're able to move forward. I'm happy we're able to draw a line under it and move on for a better result for England cricket," added Pietersen.
Pietersen was not named in the starting next month. Asked if he could still be part of the England party, he said: "I hope so. I want to play for England as soon as I can."
England's two-part tour to India ends with the fifth and final ODI on 27 January, and Pietersen's new four-month central contract covers all forms of the game.
Any decision over an extension - to make it a full-year contract - will be made by team director Andy Flower, who will also decide when the "reintegration" process is complete.
"I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to my team-mates, all England supporters and the ECB for the situation that has arisen over the last couple of months," said Pietersen.
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"Thankfully we have drawn a line under it and can move forward. Although it has been made clear in the statement, I'd like to make it clear that at no time did I share tactical information with any of the South Africans.
"I'm committed to completing the reintegration process we have agreed and representing England in all formats, hopefully until the World Cup in 2015 if my body allows.
"I want to see my son grow up seeing me play for England and hope one day he will put an England shirt on himself."
The statement said Pietersen had not retained the text messages, but gave a "binding assurance that, to the best of his recollection", they did not "convey any messages which were derogatory about the England captain, the England team director, the ECB or employees of the ECB".
ECB chairman Giles Clarke said he spent an "excellent" and "thoroughly constructive" two-and-a-half hours with Pietersen on Wednesday.
England's troubled genius - Kevin Pietersen profile
"There's lots to be done, lots to be worked out, but, in the end, we want this process to work," said Clarke.
"We wouldn't start it if we didn't want it to work immensely successfully and for England to do very well moving forward."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Sport Pietersen would need to rebuild his relationships with team-mates.
"The issue is can Kevin Pietersen be allowed back in that dressing room?" said Vaughan.
"Now he has got a four-month trial period the only way to find out is to go into the dressing room, make a speech, get round with some of the players he has had issues with, have a beer, and try and iron it all out because you want to see the best players playing."
Pietersen averages almost 50 in Tests and, at his best, is one of the world's most prolific batsmen.
The dispute has been dragging on for more than four months after he announced his retirement from international limited-overs cricket in May before reversing that decision in August.
Discussions between the player and the ECB have been going on behind the scenes since the second Test against South Africa at Headingley, when the Surrey batsman cast doubts on his England future,a claim he later backtracked from.
Flower acknowledged Pietersen's absence has affected the team's fortunes, notably at the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.
England, the defending champions, were knocked out of the tournament by the hosts on Monday.
The first Test between England and India gets under way in Ahmedabad on 15 November.
England then tour New Zealand from 9 February to 21 March.
The noise has been described as a 'pinging' sound and is thought to be keeping animals away from an area of water surrounded by ice.
The Canadian armed forces sent a crew to check it out. They performed lots of different searches using scanning technology but they didn't find anything unusual.
The crew did spot two pods of whales and six walruses though!
Because nothing dangerous was found officials say no more searches will take place.
So the mystery of the pinging sound continues,,,
This was the outcome of decades of political and military efforts to secure self-rule by the Kurdish minority, who are estimated to number more than 6 million and make up between 17% and 20% of the population of Iraq.
Kurds, who number 30-40 million in total, live in a compact area that reaches from Syria in the west to Iran in the east and Iraq in the south, north through Turkey, and into the states of the former Soviet Caucasus.
Only in Iraq have they managed to set up a stable government of their own in recent times, albeit within a federal state.
However, the increase of sectarian tensions within Iraq as a whole from 2013 onwards, culminating in a campaign of violence launched by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, meant that by 2014 the unity of Iraq was under severe threat.
In July 2014, Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani announced that his government planned to hold a referendum on independence later in the year, given that Iraq was already "effectively partitioned". The announcement triggered alarm among Iraq's neighbours, who feared that it could set a precedent for their own restive Kurdish minorities.
But a change of leadership in the Iraqi government was followed by improved relations with Iraqi Kurdistan. The two sides agreed to work together to defeat the common enemy of Islamic State and plans for an independence referendum were put on hold.
The Kurds of Iraq came under British colonial rule after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. Frustrated in their hopes for independence, Kurdish leaders launched a series of rebellions against British and subsequent Iraqi rule.
These were put down ruthlessly, most notoriously in the late 1980s when Saddam Hussein attacked the Kurds with massed armed forces in the 'Anfal' campaign.
This involved the deliberate targeting of civilians with chemical weapons, most notoriously in the town of Halabja in 1988.
Various Iraqi governments promised autonomy to the Kurds after the 1958 revolution, but none came to fruition until the anti-Saddam international coalition established a partial no-fly zone in northern Iraq in 1991 after the first Gulf War.
This allowed Kurdish leaders and their Peshmerga armed forces to consolidate their hold on the north after Iraqi forces withdrew, and provided the basis for the 2005 constitutional settlement.
The immediate tasks facing the Kurdish government were great, and included rebuilding infrastructure, creating an administration and absorbing hundreds of thousands of displaced people after years of war and destruction.
Overall its efforts exceeded all expectations. Iraqi Kurdistan largely escaped the privations of the last years of Saddam's rule and the chaos that followed his ouster in 2003, and built a parliamentary democracy with a growing economy.
Major problems remain, nonetheless. The landlocked Kurdistan Region is surrounded by countries unsympathetic to Kurdish aspirations, like Turkey and Iran, and by states approaching internal collapse - Syria and the rest of Iraq.
It is also in dispute with the Iraqi government over several territories, in particular the historic city of Kirkuk. No agreement has been reached over Kirkuk, but in the summer of 2014, when the city was in danger of falling to the hard-line Sunni Islamists of ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), Kurdish Peshmerga forces pre-empted this by seizing Kirkuk themselves.
Tension between the main political parties - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party - erupted into a civil war that almost destroyed the autonomous government in 1994-97, and some differences remain.
Clifford Warde, from Clackmannanshire, was caught after the mother of the second victim intercepted messages he sent to her 14-year-old daughter.
Police discovered videos on Warde's phone of the 50-year-old having sex with the younger girl.
Warde will be sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on 7 December.
He committed the offences between November 2014 and March 2016.
Prosecutor Mark McGuire told judge Lord Boyd that the messages sent to the 14-year-old girl were "too graphic" to read in open court.
Warde targeted his other victim when she turned 13 when he began by texting graphic sexual messages to her.
The court was told that on a number of occasions Warde recorded himself having sex with the girl and sexually abusing her.
Mr McGuire added: "At no time during this abuse did the accused ever use contraception."
The girl told police she had felt embarrassed about the video recordings being made.
Warde admitted making arrangements for the 14-year-old girl to travel to meet him with the intention of taking part in unlawful sexual activity.
He also pleaded guilty to having sex with the other girl and sending her sexually explicit messages.
A new study finds that for thousands of years the rocks were being beaten back by the waves at perhaps 2-6cm a year.
The past 150 years has seen this retreat accelerate 10-fold, to more than 20cm a year.
The speed-up was clocked with the aid of a smart technique that tracks changes induced in rocks when they are exposed to energetic space particles.
The research, led from the British Geological Survey and conducted by Martin Hurst and colleagues, is reported in the leading American journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The group believes the findings will help us understand some of the coming impacts of climate change.
"Our coasts are going to change in the future as a result of sea-level rise and perhaps increased storminess, and we want this work to inform better forecasts of erosion," Dr Hurst, currently affiliated to Glasgow University, told BBC News.
The research was centred on East Sussex and its towering cliffs at Beachy Head and Hope Gap.
Originally laid down 90 million years ago, these soft chalk faces are now being eaten away by the relentless pounding they get from the sea.
Dr Hurst's team was able to estimate the pace of this reversal by examining the amount of beryllium-10 in nodules of flint embedded in the eroded platform in front of the cliffs.
The radioactive element is produced when cosmic rays - that constantly shower the Earth - hit oxygen atoms in the flints' quartz minerals.
The longer the nodules have been exposed, the greater their build-up of beryllium-10.
At Beachy Head and Hope Gap, the gently sloping platform, which is only uncovered at low tide, extends seaward several hundred metres.
It represents all that is left after millennia of cliff removal.
"The lower rates of erosion that we report - about 2.5cm at Hope Gap and around 6cm at Beachy Head - are averaged over that timeframe - through about the past 7,000 years of the Holocene," explained Dr Hurst.
"But comparing that to observations based on topographic maps and aerial photography of the last 150 years - the difference is quite stark. These historical observations from 1870 to the present suggest erosion rates of 20-30cm a year at the two sites."
The estimates of change in the deep past are tricky because the platform appears younger than it really is.
This stems from the fact that its surface continues to erode downwards, removing its oldest exposed flints. The regular tidal covering of water also has to be considered because it will restrict the flux of cosmic rays reaching the platform, thus limiting the amount of beryllium that can be induced in the nodules.
But the team is confident in its analysis and puts forward some ideas to explain the recent big up-tick in erosion.
These concern the available gravels at the foot of the cliffs that constitute the beach.
Ordinarily, this material acts as a buffer, limiting the energy of crashing waves.
But there is good evidence that the beaches in this region of the south coast have got thinner through time and perhaps therefore offer less protection today than they once did.
In the modern era, groynes and sea walls have been erected further down the coast and these may have interfered with the along-shore transport of gravels. And further back in time, several hundred years ago, it is possible also that there was a phase of more storms. These could have removed significant volumes of gravel and pushed the rates of erosion into a new, more aggressive regime that persists even now.
Co-author Dr Dylan Rood from Imperial College London told BBC News: "The coast is clearly eroding, and Britain has retreated fast. A nearly tenfold increase in retreat rates over a very short timescale, in geological terms, is remarkable.
"The UK cannot leave the issue of cliff erosion unresolved in the face of a warming world and rising sea levels. Cliff erosion is irreversible; once the cliffs retreat, they are gone for good."
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Karachi Vynz wrote and filmed an Urdu version of the Marathi language song Sonu, to speak about the resignation of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
Their parody celebrates opposition politician Imran Khan for pursuing corruption charges against Mr Sharif.
Mr Sharif quit after the Supreme Court disqualified him from office in July.
The songs lyrics "Immu hame aap pe bharosa sahi thaa" translate from the Urdu to "we were right to trust you Immu".
Immu, of course refers to Imran Khan, the former captain of the Pakistan cricket team and now president of the political party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)
"We aim to make people happy," band founder Mansoor Qureshi told the BBC on the phone from Karachi.
Mr Qureshi says he formed Karachi Vynz with a group of friends in 2014. They describe themselves as a group of freelance comedians who want to make videos go viral.
"We keep tabs on what is happening on social media to get something exciting. We then play with it to make funny, interesting and amusing content for our viewers," he added.
And despite the references to Imran Khan, Mr Qureshi said they were not supporting one politician over another, explaining that Mr Khan's popularity on social media made him a good subject for the song.
The song had gained more than a million views on You Tube and Facebook at the time of writing.
Supporters of both politicians have left thousands of comments on the video, which was posted days after the Pakistani Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office last week.
The ruling came after a probe into his family's wealth following the 2016 Panama Papers dump linking his children to offshore companies.
Their latest offering is inspired by the Marathi (language spoken in Maharashtra) folk song 'Sonu' which has gone viral in various local Indian languages.
In one version, a popular radio presenter used the song to highlight the problem of Mumbai's potholed roads.
The party says the new ministers would be accountable to the assembly and not to Westminster.
TUV leader Jim Allister set out his "Plan B" as he launched the party's manifesto on Wednesday for the assembly election next month.
The party is standing 15 candidates in 14 constituencies.
Mr Allister described the current structures at Stormont as "a shambles" and insisted voluntary coalition with an opposition was the only way to make government work.
"There must, there has to be surgical change, root and branch change, to the abysmal failure of the present arrangements," he said.
"We can't go on as we are, we need to abandon mandatory coalition and move to voluntary coalition with a real opposition."
But Mr Allister said if the parties could not agree on voluntary coalition, then his plan B would prevent the collapse of the Assembly.
"Executive functions would be exercised by British ministers under the scrutiny of the Assembly," he said.
"Then when our politicians grow up and agree to voluntary coalition, they could then replace the British ministers and in that way we build durable and workable devolution."
The TUV leader said his party had "shone the bright light" into the corners of Stormont and exposed squander and failure.
He also hit back at those who claim he is a one man party.
The TUV's 43 page manifesto called "Straight Talking, Principled Politics" set out how it would tackle problems in the health, education and housing sectors.
It also outlined how it would turn the economy around.
The Scot, who also played for Rotherham and Burnley, made 445 appearances for Bristol City, becoming a club legend, before joining Manchester City in 1981.
After making his debut in 1970, Gow helped Bristol City win promotion to the old First Division in 1976.
He scored twice in Manchester City's run to the famous FA Cup final of 1981.
"Everyone at the club sends its condolences to Gerry's family and friends at this sad time," a Bristol City statement said.
Gow ended his playing career as player-manager at then non-league Yeovil Town, where he was in charge from 1984 to 1987.
A statement from Manchester City said: "Everyone at Manchester City FC is saddened to learn of the passing of Gerry Gow at the age of 64 following his brave battle with illness.
"A cult hero in his short spell at Maine Road in the eighties, Gow made 36 appearances for the Blues between 1981 and 1982."
Gow joined Rotherham after leaving Maine Road in 1982 before a short spell at Burnley.
A statement on the Millers' website added: "Rotherham United are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former midfielder Gerry Gow. Once a Miller, always a Miller."
If you wanted to start a modern art museum, these paintings would be high on your list of acquisitions as between them they tell the story of modern art's emergence, as the BBC arts editor Will Gompertz explains here.
Henri Matisse's Pastoral has the hallmarks of the Impressionists - painted outside or "en plein air", with loose brush strokes and an everyday, realistic subject.
What marks it out from the work of the early Impressionists is the bright, unnatural colours, which he has used to express the scene as he sees and feels it.
This was called Fauvism.
Georges Braque was inspired by the work of Matisse and developed his own Fauvist style which can be seen in the painting Olive Tree Near L'Estaque.
What is of particular interest about this work is the date Braque painted it - 1906.
That is the year Paul Cezanne died, and it was his later paintings that inspired Braque to develop one of modern art's most famous movements.
By 1907, Braque was painting similar scenes but his style had changed.
Together with Picasso they had started to define Cubism.
Picasso's Dove with Peas makes sense as the next painting to have, as it is a classic example of Cubism in its pomp.
By this stage Braque and Picasso had been joined by Fernand Leger as the other great exponent of Cubist art and techniques.
But Leger became disillusioned with the increasingly abstract nature of the Cubists' work.
During World War I, he chose to renounce abstraction and instead focus on painting common objects in bold colours.
As you can see in the next painting that was stolen - Still Life with Candlestick - Leger has retained the influence of Cubism while incorporating the saturated colours of the Fauves.
But by combining the two and adding his artistic developments the work moves towards modernism.
Amedeo Modigliani was the fifth artist to be targeted by the thieves.
They chose a work he painted in 1919, Woman with Fan.
He died a year later at the age of 35, having contracted tuberculosis.
Modigliani's portrait of his friend shows him using restrained colours out of respect for her and using "S" shapes to accentuate her graceful pose.
As Matisse used colour to express his feelings for his subject, so Modigliani used distortion.
Both fit within the expressionist movement inspired by the work of Vincent Van Gogh.
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Yarnold, 28, completed her first run in 52.29 seconds, just 0.02secs outside the medal places, but had fallen to 13th after her second run.
However, the second run times will now not count towards the final standings.
Fellow Briton Laura Deas, 28, had moved up to a provisional second but will now resume on Saturday 13th in Konigssee.
Run three will begin at 07:30 GMT, with run four to follow from 09:30 GMT.
Yarnold is competing in her first World Championships since taking a year-long sabbatical.
The 2015 world champion, starting 15th, held on to fourth after the first round before a slide of 54.02 in round two saw her fall down the standings as conditions worsened.
Deas improved from a first run of 52.76 to post a total time of one minute 45.29 seconds after two completed runs, putting her into the silver medal position until the results were annulled.
Germany's Jacqueline Loelling is first with a time of 52.02, with compatriot and 2016 champion Tina Hermann 0.06secs behind and Canada's Elisabeth Vathje in third place.
Briton Donna Creighton is 22nd out of the 31 sliders.
In the men's competition, sliders were able to complete both runs on day one - Dominic Parsons the highest-placed Briton in ninth, 1.93 seconds behind leader Martins Dukurs of Latvia.
Fellow Britons Jeremy Rice and Jack Thomas are in 18th and 21st respectively, with the men's event set to conclude on Sunday.
Women's standings:
1 Jacqueline Loelling (Ger) 52.02 seconds
2 Tina Hermann (Ger) +0.06 seconds
3 Elisabeth Vathje (Can) +0.25 seconds
4 Lizzy Yarnold (GB) +0.27 seconds
5 Kim Neylemans (Bel) +0.33 seconds
Men's standings:
1 Martins Dukurs (Lat) 1 minute 41.95 seconds
2 Nikita Tregybov (Rus) +0.76 seconds
3 Axel Jungk (Ger) +0.86 seconds
4 Alexander Tretiakov (Rus) +0.90 seconds
5 Alexander Gassner (Ger) +0.97 seconds
The UK has been going through an "equine crisis" with large numbers of horses abandoned across Britain, the RSPCA has said.
The charity received 22,046 complaints about horse welfare in England in 2014.
New legislation to make it easier for animals to be seized came into affect in May last year.
The Control of Horses Act 2015 - introduced to deter owners from "fly-grazing" (illegally grazing) or abandoning their horses on public and private land - has made a difference in certain parts of the country, the RSPCA said.
Local authorities have the power to seize horses grazing illegally.
But animal lovers in Berkshire said they have had to step in to help "keep horses alive".
One Berkshire resident, who did not want to be named, said she has supported more than 60 horses in the past 12 months, including the rescue and rehoming of a number of animals.
She said she complies fully with the Control of Horses Act.
"I take it upon myself to feed and water the horses... to keep them alive.
"There are little pockets of people like me who do this because we don't want to see them dead." she added.
In March 2015 a small group helped rescue 20 abandoned horses from a field in Binfield.
Volunteer Kim White, who assisted with the rescue, has started Saving Abandoned Fly-grazing Equines (SAFE) - a group rescuing abandoned horses.
She said the current situation has "gone mad over the past month".
SAFE currently has seven rescued horses but wants to do more, Ms White said.
The group relies on donations from the public.
"We get calls from across the country, but we can't rescue them all" she added.
Tony Tyler, deputy chief executive of World Horse Welfare, said the charity's centres were at "bursting point" but urged caution to anyone thinking of taking a horse they believe had been abandoned.
Anyone with a horse welfare concern should get in touch with their local authority, Sean Murphy from West Berkshire Council said.
Julie Morgan, who chairs the Assembly's cross-party group on haemophilia and contaminated blood, said 70 Welsh people died and many were "still suffering".
Thousands of NHS patients were given infected blood products from abroad.
It has been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.
The blood products were infected with hepatitis C and HIV.
The inquiry has been launched by the UK government and a spokesman for the prime minister said it would establish the causes of the "appalling injustice" that took place in the 1970s and 1980s.
Many of those affected and their families believe they were not told of the risks involved and there was a cover-up.
Julie Morgan, the Labour AM for Cardiff North, said: "Seventy Welsh people have died in what has been called the 'biggest national tragedy ever in the NHS'.
"Two hundred and seventy three people were infected by contaminated blood in Wales, many of them are still suffering and the pain still continues for them and their families."
She added: "This is a scandal that I have been campaigning on, along with Haemophilia Wales and members of the Cross-Party Group on Contaminated Blood which I chair, since I was an MP in the late 1990s.
"The announcement of a public inquiry is fantastic news for the families affected. I hope this will finally help them get the answers they need."
Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth also welcomed the inquiry, saying: "It has become clear to me from talking to the families of those affected by this contaminated blood scandal that we must be given answers once and for all.
"As one of a cross-party group in the Assembly that proposed a motion calling for an inquiry, I was pleased to hear this announcement today.
"It is the pressure from the families that has counted and it has been good to be able to help to ensure that their voices are heard."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We welcome the prime minister's confirmation that an inquiry will be held into the contaminated blood scandal.
"It is also right that the families of those who died will be consulted about the form the inquiry will take.
"Last year, the health secretary added his support to the call for an inquiry and we are pleased that at last the UK government has recognised the strength of feeling of those affected by this scandal."
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Assembly Members have welcomed the decision to launch a public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal which left 2,400 people dead.
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The 16-year-old took third place after a phenomenal routine in the women's floor exercise competition.
So here are 16 things you might not know about the sensational gymnast...
1. Amy's the first British woman ever to win an Olympic medal in the gymnastics floor exercise.
2. She's the only British woman to win an artistic gymnastics medal in Rio 2016.
3. She's the third British woman to win an individual gymnastics medal. Beth Tweddle was the first, with a bronze on the uneven bars in London 2012. The second was Bryony Page, who won trampoline silver in Rio last week.
4. Amy's just missed out on the title of youngest ever British Olympic medal winner. That title's held by swimmer Sarah Hardcastle - she won a silver in the Los Angeles Olympics 32 years ago, aged 15 years, three months and 22 days. Amy won hers at 16 years, nine months and 20 days.
(However, even Sarah Hardcastle seems pretty old compared to Team GB's youngest summer Olympian ever - Margery Hinton swam in the Paris Olympics 1924, aged 13 years and 43 days.)
5. Amy says she first started doing gymnastics when she was just two years old.
6. And the talent runs in the family - her mum was a gymnast too, and was her first coach.
7. Her local gymnastics club in South Durham is known as the "Pink Gym", because everything in it is pink! And they're pretty proud of of Amy's achievement.
8. She now trains for up to 31 hours every week, which is a lot to fit in alongside school work!
9. Speaking of which... Amy only finished taking her GCSEs about a month before the Rio Olympics kicked off, and she'll find out her results when she gets back. Good luck, Amy!
10. Her school gave her special permission to do her GCSEs over three years instead of two, so that she could fit in her training as well.
11. Amy won her first national medal when she was just nine years old. She bagged a silver in the British Championships.
12. She's been representing Britain in international competitions since she was 11.
13. She's been crowned British floor champion for four years in a row.
14. Her final score at Rio was 14.933 - just 1.033 below champion Simone Biles who won the gold with 15.966.
15. Rio is Amy's first Olympics, and she wasn't expecting a medal. She told the BBC: "I wasn't thinking about winning a medal. My coaches said I had nothing to lose and just to go out and enjoy it. I could hear a lot of cheers from the crowd and that helped me a lot."
16. And this was her face after she'd heard she'd won bronze...
Congratulations, Amy!
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Team GB's youngest Olympian in Rio, Amy Tinkler, is celebrating a bronze medal.
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The incident happened at about 17:20 on Friday at a newsagents on the corner of South Trinity Road and Cargil Terrace.
Two men entered A&A Stores and demanded money, before attacking the shopkeeper and then running from the scene empty-handed.
Police described it as "a cowardly attack". The shopkeeper's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Officers are hunting for the two suspects, who were last seen running along Cargil Terrace.
The first is described as being 20 to 25 years old, of medium build, with a pale complexion and unshaven.
The second man is described as 35 to 40 years old, of slim build, with a pale complexion and gaunt features. He was also unshaven.
Both suspects were wearing dark clothing and dark woollen beanie hats. One was wearing a dark body warmer.
Det Sgt Todd Rutherford said: "This was a cowardly attack, and the shopkeeper bravely fought off the attackers despite a shocking level of violence and the serious injuries he sustained.
"At the time of the incident, it is likely there would have been pedestrians and drivers in the Cargill Terrace area and we know the suspects were loitering nearby the shop before the incident took place.
"If anyone has seen these men before, during or after the attack, please contact us."
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A shopkeeper was seriously injured as he fought off two attackers during an attempted robbery in Edinburgh.
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The measure is the most controversial change to the constitution drawn up after the 13 November attacks in Paris.
France's National Assembly is due to vote on Wednesday on all the measures proposed by the government.
Emergency powers currently in force would be given a new status under the constitution.
The proposal to strip citizenship from offenders was carried by a margin of 162 to 148, after the government removed a reference to dual nationals born in France. That had aroused considerable opposition and prompted the resignation of Justice Minister Christiane Taubira.
If the overall package is approved in Wednesday's formal session, it will then go to the Senate. It will then require approval from a joint session of parliament by a three-fifths majority, a process likely to take weeks.
President Francois Hollande outlined the changes in the aftermath of the gun and bomb attacks by Islamist militants who targeted a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars - leaving 130 people dead and hundreds more wounded.
But elements have been vociferously opposed by leading figures, including members of his own Socialist party.
With the country united in grief and anxiety, the president said it was important to take tough action in what he called a "war" against terrorism.
Three months on, his vision of constitutional reform has run into the reality of partisan politics.
On the left - even within his own Socialist party - there is opposition to the proposal to strip terrorists of their French citizenship.
In practice, these critics say, that could only apply to bi-nationals - people with a second nationality - which would make two tiers of citizenship.
On the right there are voices saying the reforms are a meaningless diversion, giving the impression of government action against terrorism, where there is none in reality.
Ms Taubira stood down a fortnight ago, citing a "major political disagreement" with the government over its plans for removing citizenship from those convicted of terror offences.
Even without a reference to bi-nationals, opponents say in effect it singles out dual-nationality French Muslims, as under international law, governments cannot make citizens stateless.
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French MPs back emergency powers in law
On Monday, lawmakers voted in favour of the other key measure in the package, the move to enshrine the state of emergency in the constitution, giving the security forces greater powers.
Under the terms of the state of emergency, police are allowed to raid homes and hold people under house arrest.
It expires on 26 February but the government wants the powers extended.
In Wednesday's vote, under Article 1 of the constitutional reform proposals, MPs will have to approve a state of emergency beyond 12 days. This rule is already observed, but including it in the constitution is intended to protect it from legal challenges.
Government whips say they are confident of a majority in the lower house on Wednesday - but even if they are correct there is still a long parliamentary battle ahead.
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French MPs have narrowly approved the first stage of a proposal to enable people convicted of terrorism offences to be stripped of their nationality.
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Mr Brewster, 29, died of stab wounds in the Llanedeyrn area of the Welsh capital on 12 June.
South Wales Police said a 23-year-old man from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, had been arrested in Norfolk on suspicion of murder and was being brought to south Wales for questioning.
Two other men have already been charged with murder.
Robert Lainsbury, 22, originally from Kidderminster, and Dwayne Edgar, 29, from Llanedeyrn, have both been remanded in custody until a further hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on 5 September.
A 19-year-old man from Cardiff previously arrested in connection with this investigation is on police bail.
No further action is being taken against a 35-year-old Cardiff man who was also previously arrested.
The two parties held talks almost six weeks after a general election produced a hung parliament, in which no party won enough seats to govern alone.
Fine Gael, led by acting Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny, remains the biggest party with 50 seats.
Mr Kenny said Fianna Fáil's refusal of the offer was a "serious mistake".
The Fine Gael leader claimed the rejection was "driven by narrow party interests rather than the national interest".
"Ireland needs a stable and lasting government to meet the many national and international challenges facing the country," Mr Kenny added.
"Fine Gael's preferred option of a full partnership is the best option for providing the necessary stability and it is very regrettable that Fianna Fáil has rejected this historic opportunity."
However, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin told a press conference "the best interests of the Irish people are not served by a government made up of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael".
"We made this promise consistently in advance of the election, we made it very clear to the Irish people and to those who were voting for us that we would not go into government with Fine Gael and we're remaining consistent and true to that commitment," he added.
Both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael trace their origins in the Irish Civil War, when their founding fathers were on opposite sides of a bitter dispute over the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, which partitioned the island of Ireland.
The historic political rivals are both centrist parties but have never shared power in a state where coalition governments are the norm.
Irish state broadcaster RTÉ has reported that Fine Gael's offer of partnership government remained on the table, but added that no further talks are planned between the two largest parties.
It also said Mr Martin has told his party that he was in favour of a Fianna Fáil minority government.
Fianna Fáil had a successful election and more than doubled the number of seats they held in the last parliament, but still have six fewer elected members (known as Teachtaí Dála or TDs) than Fine Gael.
Sinn Féin is the third largest party with 23 seat, the Labour Party has seven TDs while smaller parties and independents make up the other 34 seats.
Played out on a purpose-built site the size of the golf course which was previously there, it sees around 1,000 volunteer performers and crew members gallop through two millennia in around 90 minutes, stopping off for set pieces involving William Shakespeare, William the Conqueror and Sir Winston Churchill.
But the scale of the show is nothing compared to the ambition behind it - to reinvigorate the town of Bishop Auckland, which gazes down the flood plain upon which Kynren stands.
Nestled in the heart of County Durham, the town peaked during the Victorian era, but the decline of coal mining has left it and the villages that surround it lacking both employment and funds.
Kynren, the name of which is derived from the Saxon for family, is based on Puy du Fou, an attraction near Nantes in France's western Loire region which in the past 40 years has entertained almost 30 million visitors with historical shows, bringing additional prosperity to the surrounding region.
It is philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer's attempt to change the local community's fortunes.
Ruffer has used the wealth he accumulated during a career in investment management to take a significant stake in Bishop Auckland, planning galleries and museums, taking over the town's castle and purchasing the land on the banks of the River Wear where Kynren is based.
He says his interest in the castle "was the mouth, but Kynren is the trousers".
"This is the thing that's going to do it.
"What I want to see is people energised into a single community. I saw that in Puy du Fou and I thought what they were doing there would work well here."
Puy du Fou's president Nicolas de Villiers has served as Kynren's artistic director, bringing his team of French creatives with him to produce the event.
He says the show will definitely improve prospects in County Durham, just as his attraction has in the Loire region.
"When someone spends one euro in Puy de Fou, they will spend between two and three euros outside.
"So it's economically very profitable for a lot of people - for hotels, restaurants and all the tourism jobs which are linked to our activity."
The event, which will run annually, is being run by Ruffer's charitable trust, Eleven Arches - named after the viaduct that towers over the Kynren site.
A spokeswoman for the charity says Ruffer's plans are "brave, radical and transformational", and will give those living in the area "what they badly need - opportunity".
The charity predicts the show will bring £4.75m a year into the local economy, a figure which Ruffer says is "not at all pie in the sky".
"I'm used to analysing figures and they are very robust.
"Simply in terms of the show, it will employ over 200 people - and the multiplier in terms of bed and breakfast, hotels, meals in France is five times that, so we're looking at some really big numbers."
The show's own profitability is tied to that cast of 1,000 volunteers.
Vanessa Pearson, a locally-based credit controller, is one of those who has given her time free of charge to be part of the show.
She says she is glad to be taking part "in something that's going to bring excitement, joy and life back to Bishop Auckland".
"There's loads of negativity that's going on and people are like 'is this going to work?' But it will.
"Yes, we're not being paid to do it, but we see the vision and it's going to be an amazing project."
Spectacular and idiosyncratic, Kynren is an often thrilling romp through English history, delivered at a breathless pace.
It is an England told through a prism of the North East and comes with more than a passing nod to Jonathan Ruffer's evangelical Christian beliefs.
The story sees a bishop guide a young boy through an individualistic choice of English and North-Eastern highlights - the Battle of Stamford Bridge gets equal billing with the one at Hastings, St Cuthbert follows on the heels of Joseph of Arimathea and the pits replace the usually-seen mills of the Industrial Revolution.
Brought to life by hundreds of talented volunteers and a supporting cast of horses, sheep, goats and geese, it is a vibrant spectacle that will leave an Englishman's head dizzy from the historical whirlwind.
Fellow performer Carl Howe, who plays the Viking chief King Harald Hardrada, agrees it can only be good for the area.
He also says it has given the people of Bishop Auckland the chance to try out their performing skills.
"I drive buses for a living so this is the polar opposite of it.
"I sit down all day and on a weekend, I get to dress up like a Viking and run around with a big axe.
"I've done bands, I was a wrestler for a while, and this is just the next thing."
He says he had no idea what to expect when he volunteered to take part, but is impressed with the result.
"I'm supposed to be a big scary Viking, but at the end, after the finale, I just can't get the smile off my face.
"From start to finish, it flies by."
The "epic tale of England" has been put together by de Villiers' French team, a move that might seem odd, given the nature of the content.
The Puy du Fou president does not see it as a problem.
"We are French and we are proud of being French - we know that we are not English.
"But we have put all our hearts and all our energy into making a great English show, so that people will be proud of being English when they leave the show.
"That's the main purpose."
Ruffer is firm on what he wants the result to be for the locals.
"We have over 1,000 volunteers - why are they doing it? They're not doing it for me or for Bishop Auckland - they're doing it because they're having a great time in meeting with one another.
"It's bringing people together, that's the very heart of the regenerative spirit.
"It's a truism but people are the investment of a region.
"This is a game-changer for the area and it's marvellous to see that we're on the eve of something wonderful."
Kynren's first season opens in Bishop Auckland on 2 July and runs until 17 September.
Those interviewed were speaking to BBC Breakfast and BBC Look North.
Lisa Nandy said plans for new selective schools were a "particularly backwards looking approach".
She said it was "pitiful" that ministers appeared to have given up hope of making every school a good one.
But Education Minister Nick Gibb said the government was committed to improving standards for all students.
Announced in September, the proposals to allow new grammar schools have prompted strong criticism from politicians and the teaching profession.
Leading a backbench debate on the issue in the Commons on Tuesday, Ms Nandy said: "The idea that in 2016 in Britain that we are better off as a country, or that any child is better off by being segregated and branded a failure at the age of 11 seems to me to be a particularly backwards looking approach."
"This government appears to be set on a path that will pit children against one another, and make losers of all of us."
Ms Nandy cited a whole range of studies and statistics that questioned the benefits of selective education.
She said the plans, set out in a consultation document, were based on "precisely no evidence".
MPs heard that grammar schools were under-represented at Oxford and Cambridge universities, given their selective intake, and grammars did not increase the number of high achieving students.
But Mr Gibb told MPs there was evidence that the grades of children in selective areas who did not get into grammar schools fell by only a fraction of a grade.
He said: "What this consultation document seeks to do is to find a solution to that problem, by requiring all new grammar schools that are established, all grammar schools that want to expand, to help raise the academic standards in those non-selective schools in those areas."
Ms Nandy responded by saying no other countries were pursuing selective education and that good comprehensive schools deserved just as much praise from the government.
There were also concerns about the increased cost of school transport, given children would travel from further afield, as well as the lack of funding among local authorities to implement the plans.
"The answer to his problem is surely to make every school a good school. The fact the government appears to have completely given up on this, in 2016 in Britain, is pitiful for young people in this country," she said.
Neil Carmichael, the Conservative chairman of the Commons Education Committee, described the grammar school plans as a "distraction".
He said other education issues, such as fairer funding and support for primary school pupils making the transition to secondary school, needed greater attention.
"I do think that we have to focus on what matters and therefore I repeat this issue about grammar schools is something of a distraction," Mr Carmichael said.
"The question we have got to ask ourselves all of the time is what about all of the other schools? That's actually at the heart of this matter because we do have 3,500 secondary schools.
"The question is what do we do about the 3,400 or so schools which we do depend on for the vast majority of our teaching."
Concerns have been expressed about pupils from wealthier families receiving private tutoring in order to pass exams to get into a grammar school.
"The evidence suggests it would be extremely difficult to create a tutor-proof test," Mr Carmichael said.
Labour's former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell also criticised the plans.
"I can't quite believe that in 2016 Britain we are seriously contemplating a return to selection at 11, given all the progress that we have made in education over the last 20 years," she said.
"What a damning verdict of our country if we went back to an era where we told four in every five children at the age of 11 that there was a cap on their potential and it was only the grammar school kids who could get far."
Coach Florent Ibenge named a 36-man squad for what will likely prove decisive games at the Stade Olympique in Rades on 1 September and then Kinshasa's imposing Stade de Martyrs five days later.
The two countries share top place in Group A with two wins out of two on the road to Russia.
The 23-year-old Masuaku, who was born in Lille and played for France at junior level, reportedly switched his international allegiance to the Congolese in June.
He is one of five newcomers, joined in the squad by Kevin Mbabu, who moved back to Switzerland from Newcastle United last month and now plays for early season league leaders Young Boys Berne.
French-born midfielder Tanguy Ndombele, 20, who last weekend made his Ligue 1 debut for newly promoted Amiens against Paris St Germain, is also included along with 24-year-old Vital Nsimba from Ligue 2 outfit Bourg-en-Bresse.
Chadrac Akolo, who has just signed for VfB Stuttgart in the German Bundesliga after 15 goals for FC Sion in the Swiss league last season, is also called up for the first time.
The 24-year-old Middlesbrough striker Britt Assombalonga is also in the squad again although he has turned down several previous call-ups and is yet to win a cap.
Also new is 26-year-old AS Vita Club defender Padou Bompunga, who plays under Ibenge at club level.
There is a return to the squad for Jordan Botaka, Elias Kachunga, Neeskens Kebano, Nicaisse Kudimbana, Paul-José Mpoku, Arnold Issoko and Marcel Tisserand after missing June's African Nations Championship (CHAN) derby against Congo in Kinshasa.
But Youssouf Mulumbu, Yannick Bolasie and Dieumerci Mboikani continue to be sidelined.
DR Congo are the first of the 20 counties who all play in World Cup qualifiers to name their squad for September's key games.
Squad:
Goalkeepers: Joel Kiasumbua (FC Lugano, Switzerland), Nicaisse Kudimbana (Union Saint-Gilles, Belgium), Ley Matampi (TP Mazembe Englebert)
Defenders: Yannick Bangala, Padou Bompunga (both AS Vita Club), Jordan Ikoko (En Avant Guingamp, France), Arnold Issoko (Vitoria Setubal, Portugal), Christian Luyindama (Standard Liège, Belgium), Arthur Masuaku (West Ham United, England), Kevin Mbabu (Young Boys Berne, Switzerland), Issama Mpeko (TP Mazembe Englebert), Glody Ngonda (AS Vita Club), Fabrice Nsakala (Alanyasport, Turkey), Vital Nsimba (Bourg-en-Bresse, France), Marcel Tisserand (FC Ingolstadt, Germany), Gabriel Zakuani (Gillingham, England)
Midfielders: Chadrac Akolo (VfB Stuttgart, Germany), Merville Bokadi (Standard Liège, Belgium), Neekens Kebano (Fulham, England), Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City, England), Chancel Mbemba (Newcastle United, England), Wilfred Moke (Konyaspor, Turkey), Remi Mulumba (Gazelec Ajaccio, France), Tanguy Ndombele (Amiens, France), Yeni Ngbakoto (Queens Park Rangers, England)
Forwards: Benik Afobe (Bournemouth, England), Britt Assombalonga (Middlesbrough, England), Jeremy Bokila (CFR Cluj, Romania), Jonathan Bolingi (Royal Excel Mouscron, Belgium), Cédric Bakambu (Villarreal, Spain), Jordan Botaka (St Truiden, Belgium), Junior Kabananga (FC Astana, Kazakhstan), Elias Kachunga (Huddersfield Town, England), Gael Kakuta (Amiens, France), Paul-José Mpoku (Standard Liège, Belgium), Firmin Mubele (Stade Rennes, France).
Cannabis with an estimated value of over £100,000 was found in Limavady on 16 March.
The man has been charged with conspiracy to cultivate cannabis, dishonestly using electricity and assisting offences in relation to the cultivation of cannabis.
He will appear at Limavady Magistrates Court on 9 June.
Two other men, 46 and 53, were charged in March in connection with the drugs find.
Robert and Christianne Shepherd, from Horbury, Wakefield died in Corfu in 2006.
The brother and sister were on holiday with their father and step-mother at the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel, booked by Thomas Cook.
A sixth of the way to Mars, to the Moon and back three times, around 250 circuits of the equator, or, to put it another way… an awfully long way.
That is roughly how far narrow gauge steam locomotive Palmerston has travelled during her 153 years on the Ffestiniog Railway.
But now she is getting a well-earned week's rest, as she returns to London for the first time since she was built, to go on display in the ticket office of King's Cross Station.
The visit is to mark the launch of Big Train Meets Little Train, a UK government-funded free guide to Welsh narrow gauge railways and how to visit them by rail.
Chris Parry of the Ffestiniog Railway explained: "Palmerston was built at George England's Hatcham Iron Works in East London and was completed in March 1864.
"She was named after Viscount Palmerston, Liberal prime minister and chairman of the Welsh Slate, Copper & Lead Mining Company's quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog.
"The George England engines are the oldest surviving narrow gauge locomotives in the world. Remarkably, after more than 150 years, four of the six built still survive, two of them in regular use and a third being restored for a return to service later this year."
Palmerston saw extensive use on both the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways until withdrawal from service in 1937.
Despite being deemed "beyond repair", she was the subject of a long restoration and eventually re-entered service on the railway in 1993.
Her sister engines were Prince and Princess - named to mark the marriage of the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark - and Mountaineer, reflecting the rugged terrain over which the railway operates.
The world's oldest large-scale narrow gauge system, The Ffestiniog and its sister railway the Welsh Highland form the longest heritage line in the UK - stretching 40 miles coast to coast from Caernarfon to Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog - and carrying nearly 400,000 passengers each year.
The little engines rack up about 63,500 miles annually, meaning that - allowing for her 56-year-enforced layoff - Palmerston has somewhere in the region of six million miles on the clock.
While they may look quaint nowadays, when they went into service in 1864 they were the cutting edge of technology.
The Ffestiniog was the first railway in the world to adopt and make regular use of steam locomotives on a very narrow gauge, on a public railway and over a significant distance.
They demonstrated that steam technology that had evolved on the main lines from 1829 onwards could be applied to railways built on a much smaller scale and at much lower cost.
Attracting engineers from around the globe, The Ffestiniog proved the blueprint for narrow gauge railways the world over, including France, India, the USA, Hungary, South Africa, Namibia, Venezuela, New Guinea and Morocco, as well as the railways built to serve the trenches of the First World War.
Throughout her visit until 25 February, staff and volunteers from The Ffestiniog will be on hand at King's Cross to answer enthusiasts' questions.
Thomas was shortlisted for ex-Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson's 'most influential leader' award of 2015.
A "new approach," to community sport will be among Thomas' priorities.
The Welsh Government wants people to "become hooked on sport for life".
Skates said: "We want to break down the barriers to participation in sport and physical activity and create opportunities for people of all ages and abilities."
A Welsh Government statement said Thomas has more than 30 years experience working in community development, strategic leadership and sport inclusion roles, "often in socially disadvantaged areas".
Skates added: "I am confident Paul's qualities, experience and commitment will help the Welsh Government deliver a more physically active and successful sporting nation."
Thomas said: "Having grown up in the south Wales valleys and played sport most of my life I am certain of the benefits sport and physical activity can have on people's health and wellbeing."
McAllister's time as chair was due to end in January, 2016 at the end of her second three-year term.
But four applicants were deemed unsuitable and she remains in place until the end of March when Thomas will take charge.
Staff had to wear formal business wear, arrive at 9am, use the titles Mr and Mrs, couldn't look at social media and weren't allowed to make personal calls.
"It was a horrible experience for everybody," says Sir Richard Branson, one of the UK's best-known and wealthiest entrepreneurs.
The purpose of the exercise, he says, was to give its people "a taste of what a lot of the world is still run like".
As founder of the firm, which has gone from a mail order record company to having businesses in telecoms, travel and financial services, Sir Richard himself has never followed a conventional path to business success.
He left school at 16 and didn't go to university. And at the Virgin parent company, staff are able to work flexibly and take as much holiday as they like, for example.
His belief is that making work a more pleasant place to be, by offering more flexibility; such as the ability to dress down, work from home or part-time, and take unpaid leave if they wish, will attract people and encourage them to stay and fulfil their potential.
"Hopefully that'll be the world of the future and that's something that we're working towards trying to get more flexibility in the workforce generally," he says.
While there is no universally accepted definition, the term "millennial" is typically applied to those born between 1980 and 1999, the largest age group to emerge since the baby boom generation, and a group that accountancy firm Deloitte predicts will make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025.
As a generation that came of age after the 2008 financial crisis and have never known a world without the internet, they have very different expectations about jobs and money.
Several surveys suggest that these younger workers aren't motivated by the same factors as previous generations, such as a job for life, but instead value a good work life balance and a sense of purpose beyond financial success.
It's a drastically different outlook from the generations before who are used to the more traditional hierarchy of large corporate firms - staying at the same firm and working a set number of years in a particular post before progressing.
But as this group grows as a proportion of the workforce, employers will have to shift their working practices to attract and retain staff from this generation.
Firms which get it right can create a competitive advantage in securing the best staff, says China Gorman, a HR executive with over 20 years' experience.
"No matter where in the world, no matter what industry, no matter the size of the company - trust is the foundation for creating a great workplace culture," she says.
But she admits it doesn't come easily to many, particularly those more used to a hierarchical structure.
"For some in the baby boomer generation knowledge is power.
"They operate on a need-to-know basis and 'I'll tell you what you need to know'."
Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder of room sharing website Airbnb, which has over 2,000 employees, says in the technology arena in which they operate the competition for staff is very intense.
In a bid to attract more millennials he says the firm makes it very clear what, its core values are to help make it stand out to would be employees.
"Millennials are known to be more purpose-driven, so as a company both internally and externally we're always communicating what our values are and trying to be true to those things," he says.
Accordingly, the firm has weekly Friday meetings in each of its offices, then an all company meeting every fortnight that is streamed live to its 20 offices around the world where it talks about the most important things to the company.
On top of this, it holds an annual three-day meeting in San Francisco where all employees are flown in so everyone can meet and communicate face-to-face.
He says the firm has also worked on creating a relaxed office environment where staff feel as comfortable there as they do at home.
"We're constantly trying to remind our employees of what business we are in, in creating an environment where they can be totally comfortable and where they actually want to hang out after work," he says.
Ryan Holmes, the founder of Hootsuite, which provides social media management tools, has also worked hard to avoid the traditional hierarchies of larger firms.
Rather than having a layer of management which dictates to their team below, the firm has instead tried to give individual teams more power.
It's also created a so called "guru track" to enable those in the company who don't want to become traditional leaders still achieve some kind of recognition.
Instead of trying to ram a round peg into a square hole, "[It's about] how can we help this person progress through their career as an amazing engineer, instead of the only track is to become a leader or a manager".
For companies adapting the way they work to millennials' strengths, is a direction which CEO coach Steve Tappin believes will be effective.
"If CEOs try and over control in the old way then millennials will walk but if you can harness their ideas, passion and energy then that's going to power the future success of the company," he says.
This feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig.
PC Hassan Ali, 44, died in hospital on 6 February 2015, a week after being hit by a car on Staniforth Road, Sheffield.
Waqas Khan, 23, of Balfour Road, Sheffield, was found not guilty of causing death by careless driving after a trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
At the time of his death, Mr Ali was under investigation for his alleged role in the Rotherham abuse scandal.
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The jury at the three-day trial was not told that Mr Ali was a police officer, nor that there was an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) inquiry into his alleged connection to the Rotherham child sexual abuse investigation.
Jurors were shown CCTV footage of Mr Khan's Vaxuhall Corsa "drifting" across from the left-hand side of the carriageway before hitting Mr Ali at about 10:00 GMT on 28 January 2015.
The court was told Mr Khan had taken five attempts to pass his driving test and had only had his licence for six months.
The 23-year-old student said he had never driven in snow and "was being more cautious", reducing his speed to 20mph in a 30mph area, and struck Mr Ali as he was facing right for a "few seconds" to check for traffic emerging from a junction.
Describing the impact, Mr Khan said: "I saw, when I put my eyes back on the road, it was making contact. He was there in front of me.
"I put my brakes on and just flung my door open and ran out because I knew I had hit someone."
The crossing, which involved the building of new bridges, roads and cycleways, was opened last month.
The infrastructure provides a third crossing over the river in Aberdeen.
The figures cover 9 June to 9 July and include 240,772 vehicle journeys, 2,798 cycling trips, and 4,272 pedestrian treks.
Monday was found to have been the busiest day for cyclists' use of the crossing and Thursday and Sunday for pedestrians.
The former rebel chief's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) is ahead by five percentage points, according to latest results.
For the first time since Kosovo's self-declared independence in 2008, Serbia encouraged ethnic Serbs to vote, to help both countries' EU bids.
However, turnout was 42% nationally and even lower in majority Serb areas.
The elections follow last year's agreement to normalise relations between Belgrade and Pristina as a pre-condition for their bids to become members of the EU.
Kosovo: At a glance
With the votes of 94% of polling stations counted, the opposition Democratic League of Kosovo was on 26.12% while Mr Thaci's PDK had 31.22%, the Central Election Commission said.s
All parties support Kosovo's ambition to join the EU.
Kosovo's last national election in 2010 saw a turnout of 47.8%.
There have been no instances of the violence that blighted Kosovo's last two national polls.
Almost 30,000 monitors were in action to prevent a repeat of the fraud which also marred the last election, the BBC's Balkans correspondent Guy De Launey reports.
In 2010, diplomats and election monitors witnessed ballot-stuffing and other irregularities, and voting had to be held again at more than 20 polling stations, our correspondent says.
Kumrje Sahiti, an Albanian voter from Pristina, told the Associated Press she just hoped the best candidate would win.
"I am hoping for progress in economy, agriculture and education,", she said.
Agron Bajrami, a local newspaper editor, said it was impossible to predict the outcome.
"Today's elections in Kosovo are all about the economy," he said.
"It is maybe the first time since we declared independence that we are talking only about the wellbeing of people and the unemployment, which is very high."
About two out of three under-25s are currently jobless, and nearly 50% of Kosovo's 1.8 million people are considered to be poor.
Although Belgrade still rejects Kosovo's independence, it is encouraging the ethnic Serb community to take part in the elections.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said it would be "unwise" for ethnic Serbs to abstain.
The man, who was in his 20s, was taken to Raigmore Hospital following the incident but the extent of his injuries were unclear.
He was hit by the VW Passat on Tower Road, close to the junction with Murray Road, at 06:20.
Police investigating the crash closed Tower Road between Barn Church Road and Murray Road for several hours.
The male driver and passengers in the Passat were not injured.
The journalist, who has presented Channel 4 News since 1989, gave the MacTaggart Lecture at the annual Edinburgh TV festival.
He said Facebook's inaction was a "threat to democracy".
Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg says the company is "experimenting" with ways to support the news industry.
In a 50-minute speech, Mr Snow said Facebook had helped Channel 4 News find a wider audience for its reports, but left publishers at the mercy of the social network.
"Facebook's principles are seldom explained in detail and can change overnight at Mr Zuckerberg's whim," said Mr Snow.
He also criticised the company's reputation for allowing false stories to spread unchallenged.
"Facebook enabled the story, 'Pope endorses Trump for President'," he said.
"That engaged more than a million people during the US elections. That same algorithm that prioritised many amazing reports of ours, also prioritised fakery on a massive scale.
"Facebook has a moral duty to prioritise veracity over virality. It is fundamental to our democracy."
Mr Snow also said Facebook had paid news publishers a "nominal rate" for their stories, which was not enough to support truthful, investigative journalism.
"Facebook feasts on our products and pays all but nothing for them. This cannot last," he told the audience.
Channel 4 has posted a transcript of the full lecture.
On Wednesday evening, Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook was exploring new ways to support journalists.
In a post on his Facebook profile, he said: "As more people get more of their news from places like Facebook, we have a responsibility to create an informed community and help build common understanding."
He said the social network was testing a way to make it easier for people to subscribe to publishers they liked, and Facebook would not take a cut of the subscription money.
He also described changes to help people check the authenticity of articles.
"Eventually, our goal is to put a publisher's logo next to every news article on Facebook so everyone can understand more about what they're reading," he wrote.
"Giving people a voice is not enough without having organisations dedicated to uncovering new information and analysing it. We're going to keep experimenting with different ways to support the news industry and make sure reporters and publishers everywhere can keep doing their important work."
The post was not a direct response to Mr Snow's speech.
"I'm a fan of Facebook," Mr Snow said in his lecture.
"It's great, it's terrific - but I'm not a fan of playing fast and loose with the products that we in this room generate at great expense.
"It cannot be beyond the bounds of human understanding to come up with a way of ensuring that these mega-entities have to pay to play."
Glasgow has the largest number of black and white sets at 200, followed by Edinburgh with 55.
TV Licensing Scotland revealed the figure as it reminded viewers they need a licence, however dated the model.
Regular colour broadcasts began on BBC Two in July 1967.
Britain became the first country in Europe to offer regular programming in colour, weeks ahead of Germany.
Yet almost 10,000 black and white licences are still in force across the UK.
The cost of a black and white licence is £49 compared with £145.50 for a colour licence.
Some black and white TVs may require a colour licence if they can receive and record programmes in colour.
TV Licensing Scotland spokesman Jason Hill said: "It's astounding that more than 550 households in Scotland still watch on a black and white telly, especially now that over half of homes access TV content over the internet, on smart TVs.
"Whether you have the latest 4K TV or a black and white set from the 1970s, if you are watching or recording live television, then you do need a TV licence."
Jim McLauchlan from the Museum of Communications in Burntisland, Fife, said there are an increasing number of collectors of old black and white sets.
He said: "It is now some years since I have come across anyone using a black and white television, though the occasional person has one tucked away in their attic.
"We certainly get them donated now and then to the museum and there are an increasing number of collectors throughout the UK collecting black and white sets from as early as the 1940s onwards, with some now fetching good prices.
"In general, younger visitors to the museum show very little interest in the black and white televisions but the occasional senior visitor will comment in a nostalgic way."
The 740m-euro (£620m) observatory lifted off from the Sinnamary complex in French Guiana at 06:12 local time (09:12 GMT).
Gaia is going to map the precise positions and distances to more than a billion stars.
This should give us the first realistic picture of how our Milky Way galaxy is constructed.
Gaia's remarkable sensitivity will lead also to the detection of many thousands of previously unseen objects, including new planets and asteroids.
Separation from the Soyuz upper-stage was confirmed just before 10:00 GMT.
The satellite is now travelling out to an observing station some 1.5 million km from the Earth on its nightside - a journey that will take about a month to complete.
Gaia has been in development for more than 20 years.
It will be engaged in what is termed astrometry - the science of mapping the locations and movements of celestial objects.
To do this, it carries two telescopes that throw light on to a huge, one-billion-pixel camera detector connected to a trio of instruments.
Gaia will use this ultra-stable and supersensitive optical equipment to pinpoint its sample of stars with extraordinary confidence.
Gaia - The discovery machine
By repeatedly viewing its targets over five years, it should get to know the brightest stars' coordinates down to an error of just seven micro-arcseconds.
"This angle is equivalent to the size of a euro coin on the Moon as seen from Earth," explained Prof Alvaro Gimenez, Esa's director of science.
Gaia will compile profiles on the stars it sees.
As well as working out how far away they are, the satellite will study their motion across the sky.
Their physical properties will also be catalogued - details such as brightness, temperature, and composition. It should even be possible then to determine their ages.
And for about 150 million of these stars, Gaia will measure their velocity either towards or away from us.
This will enable scientists to use them as three-dimensional markers to trace the evolution of the Milky Way, to in essence make a time-lapse movie that can be run forwards to see what happens in the future, or run backwards to reveal how the galaxy was assembled in the past.
And because Gaia will track anything that passes across its camera detector, it is likely also to see a colossal number of objects that have hitherto gone unrecorded - such as comets, asteroids, planets beyond our Solar System, cold dead stars, and even tepid stars that never quite fired into life.
"It will allow us, for the first time ever, to walk through the Milky Way - to say where everything is, to say what everything is. It is truly a transformative mission," said Prof Gerry Gilmore from Cambridge University, UK.
By the end of the decade, the Gaia archive of processed data is expected to exceed 1 Petabyte (1 million Gigabytes), equivalent to about 200,000 DVDs of information.
This store is so vast that it will keep professional astronomers busy for decades.
"To think that you see individual scientific papers coming out now that talk about just a single object - a single star or exoplanet. And very soon, because of Gaia, we will have information on a billion objects. What will the scientific literature look like then?" pondered Dr Michael Perryman, the former Gaia Esa project scientist now affiliated to Princeton University, US.
"Of course, there will be big statistical projects you can tackle with this data, but it is clear the scale of Gaia means this information is not going to be superseded for a very long time," he told BBC News.
It will though offer ample scope for citizen scientists to mine Gaia's data to make their own discoveries, and a number of crowdsourcing projects to facilitate this activity will get under way next year.
Gaia is the result of an enormous industrial effort led by Astrium satellites in Toulouse, France. "For this masterpiece, for this jewel of space hardware, Astrium gathered and led an industrial consortium made up of 50 companies - 47 European, three North American," said CEO Eric Beranger.
"Coming to [French Guiana] and seeing our satellite lifting off brings me huge emotion. So much effort, dedication and ingenuity captured in just a few minutes."
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The revelation comes after performances in California in which he forgot his words and appeared physically unstable.
The 66-year-old star, a teen idol in the 1970s with hits like How Can I Be Sure?, has told People magazine that he will stop touring as a musician to focus on his health.
"I was in denial, but a part of me always knew this was coming," he said.
His mother also suffered from the disease.
"I want to focus on what I am, who I am and how I've been, without any distractions... I want to love. I want to enjoy life," he told the magazine.
Videos on social media of performances by the singer over the weekend at Agoura, west of Los Angeles, raised concerns about his health.
Cassidy, whose hits include I Think I Love You and Cherish, has struggled with drinking and financial troubles recently.
In 2015, he filed for bankruptcy. And between 2010 and 2014, he was arrested three times for drunken driving, and was ordered to rehab as part of his sentence in 2014.
She told listeners she had had "a staggering response" since last week's seven-way leaders' debate with tourists from England telling her they wished they could vote for a similar party.
Jason asked about newspaper coverage of her appearance in the debate, with Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail suggesting she had strayed from the cast of Gavin and Stacey. Ms Wood said she welcomed the fact Fleet Street papers were now writing about Plaid Cymru
She also defended her party's candidate in Ceredigion, Mike Parker, who has made headlines in the last 24 hours over comments he wrote in Planet magazine in 2001. The story was broken by the Cambrian News and followed up by, among others, Sky News, the Western Mail and the BBC.
Many Plaid members - at least, if you can judge from Twitter - think that comments made in 2001, before he contemplated a political career, are not news, despite yesterday's row. Editor Beverly Thomas said: "The Cambrian News stands by the story's newsworthiness and relevance."
Mr Parker wrote: "It is a sad truth that many English migrants into rural Wales are out-and-out racists.
"Their principal reason for leaving English cities was to get away from the multi-cultural society, from black and Asian people in particular, and they see rural Wales, with its largely white population as a safe haven."
He added: "To some extent, rural Wales has become the British equivalent of the American mountains, inhabited by a sprinkling of paranoid conspiracy theorists, gun-toting Final Solution crackpots and anti-government obsessives."
Today, Ms Wood said: "He's an excellent candidate. He's somebody who unites people, he abhors racism.
"He didn't use the word 'Nazi', he used two words he accepts are problematic which he accepts he wouldn't use now [Final Solution]. The article needs to be put in context it was written in 2001.
"Mike is an Englishman. He's from Kidderminster, he's moved into Wales and he was raising concerns that he had discovered after conversations with his fellow countrymen.
"The article was speaking out against racist attitudes that he had come across. It looks like a deliberate attempt to smear our candidate in Ceredigion. His campaign's going very well and he's proving to be a real threat to the Liberal Democrats there."
She added: Racism is a growing problem in Wales and it is right to speak out against racism....what Mike was saying in this article back in 2001 was a statement against racism. He should be commended for speaking out against racism in such a strong way."
"It's a deliberate attempt I do believe to smear Mike Parker....he will not apologise for being a strong anti racist. And I'm proud of him for that."
Suggestions about who was behind the sudden re-discovery of the article - which made news at the time - have ranged from MI5 to the more prosaic Google. Beverly Thomas said: "The story was born from a journalist doing a journalist's job - gathering information on all 7 of Ceredigion's candidates".
Ms Wood was also asked about Plaid's hopes for the election. "We're not making predictions, that's a fool's game but of course we're going all out as hard as we can."
(Plaid campaign co-ordinator Lord Wigley has suggested Plaid hope to win six seats)
The candidates so far declared to be standing in Ceredigion are: Henrietta Hensher (Conservative), Jack Huggins (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition), Gethin James (UKIP), Mike Parker (Plaid Cymru), Huw Thomas (Labour), Daniel Thompson (Green Party), and Mark Williams (Liberal Democrats).
One woman chose to "suffer on [her] own" through chemotherapy for fear of her family's reaction, and questioned whether God was punishing her.
Experts said others were seeking help too late, causing preventable deaths.
In one case a woman sought treatment only when her breast was rotten. She later died as the cancer had spread.
Pravina Patel, who told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme about her own experience, stumbled upon a lump in her breast when she was 36.
She grew up in a strict Indian community where even talking about the disease was considered shameful. When she was diagnosed, she decided to hide it.
"I just thought if people hear the fact that I've got cancer, they're going to think it's a death sentence," she said.
She remembered worrying that people would say she had lived a "bad life" and God was punishing her for it.
Ms Patel continued to keep the disease a secret when seeking treatment, saying she felt "extremely lonely" during chemotherapy.
"I was going through chemo sessions on my own... I had some very dark days," she explained.
Pooja Saini, the lead researcher at CLAHRC North-West Coast, a research arm of the NHS that looks into health inequalities, said her own review into the issue "really surprised" her.
"Some women went to the extent of not even having treatment because, if they went, people would know as they'd lose their hair," she explained.
She added others "feared it might affect their children because no-one would want to marry them".
It is difficult to say how widespread the problem was, because little information has been collected on ethnicity and mortality.
But in 2014, research from Bridgewater NHS found Asian women between 15 and 64 years old had a significantly reduced survival rate for breast cancer of three years.
Ms Saini said her research suggests the influence of men in the family and elders in the wider community may be contributing to the issue.
"If they didn't think women should go for screening, then they didn't go," she said.
The stigma surrounding cancer in South Asian communities spans different forms of the disease.
Ms Patel said there was a reluctance for women to go for a smear test because they did not want to be "defiled" or be considered "no longer pure".
She has now completed her chemotherapy and is in remission.
Ms Patel and her husband got divorced during her treatment - something she says was partly because of cultural expectations about how a wife should be.
Some experts are concerned that women are suffering unnecessarily.
South Asian women are more likely to be from poor, deprived backgrounds, meaning their levels of awareness of cancer are likely to be lower.
National screening statistics show people from ethnic minority communities do not go for screening as much as their white counterparts.
Madhu Agarwal, a cancer support manager who has worked in the field of cancer for more than 30 years, fears this is leading to South Asian women dying unnecessarily.
"Because of the ignorance of not presenting early, not examining the breasts... the disease has already spread [when they do seek help] and it's very difficult to manage it with treatment.
"Then the mortality is high, so there is a stigma attached - that when you get cancer you're going to die."
She said one of her patients had come for treatment so late that her breast was "fungating" and "rotten".
She recalled: "It was smelling so much that you couldn't even sit next to it."
The woman - who had young children - died because the cancer had by then spread to other parts of her body, Ms Agarwal explained.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme has heard several other accounts of the effects the stigma surrounding cancer can have.
Samina Hussain said one of her family told her to wear hijab to hide her cancer, saying "you can cover this up now".
Iyna Butt said her aunt refused chemotherapy as she felt "God had given [cancer] to her".
Ms Saini is now calling for more data on screening uptake by ethnicity to be recorded, so findings can be used to provide more tailored support to communities.
Public Health England's screening director Anne Mackie said when Ms Saini's research is published it will look to implement its suggestions.
"We've got every reason to believe that will help save women from [South] Asian backgrounds' lives as well as others from deprived backgrounds," she said.
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
The Swans parted company with manager Garry Monk during a slump that has seen them win once in their past 13 Premier League games.
They are in the relegation zone having finished eighth last season.
"We're searching for a striker," said Curtis, who says he will not be directly involved in recruitment.
"Everybody is looking for players who can improve the squad and improve the team."
Swansea's leading scorer, Frenchman Bafetimbi Gomis, has five goals in 18 appearances in all competitions this season.
Eder, who is injured going into the festive period, has not scored in 14 games, 10 of which he started on the bench.
Mid-table Stoke City and bottom club Aston Villa are the joint-lowest scorers in the Premier League table with 14 each.
Swansea are next lowest with 15 goals while West Brom (17) and struggling Newcastle United (19) - who are two points ahead of the Welsh club in 17th - are also yet to reach 20 goals for season.
Curtis added: "When a striker was mentioned, there are areas that we need improving or else we wouldn't be where we are.
"There will be some movement and you could probably throw a blanket and say that we need strengthening everywhere."
Swansea are home to West Brom on 26 December and away to Crystal Palace two days later before a trip to Manchester United on 2 January.
The focus of spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - a network of roads, railway and pipelines between the long-time allies.
They will run some 3,000km (1,800 miles) from Gwadar in Pakistan to China's western Xinjiang region.
The projects will give China direct access to the Indian Ocean and beyond.
This marks a major advance in China's plans to boost its influence in Central and South Asia, correspondents say, and far exceeds US spending in Pakistan.
"Pakistan, for China, is now of pivotal importance. This has to succeed and be seen to succeed," Reuters quoted Mushahid Hussain Sayed, chairman of the Pakistani parliament's defence committee, as saying.
Pakistan, for its part, hopes the investment will strengthen its struggling economy and help end chronic power shortages.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said ties with China had "remained robust" despite political changes and "major regional developments" over four generations.
"Our relations are based on the shared ideals and principles of mutual trust, mutual benefit and mutual respect," he said.
Is Pakistan on the verge of becoming the Asian Tiger Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said it would become when he was last in power in 1997?
China plans to inject some $46bn - almost three times the entire foreign direct investment Pakistan has received since 2008. Many say Mr Sharif's penchant for "thinking big" and China's increasing need to control maritime trade routes may well combine to pull off an economic miracle in Pakistan.
But there are questions over Pakistan's ability to absorb this investment given its chronic problems with militancy, separatism, political volatility and official corruption.
China is worried about violence from ethnic Uighurs in its mostly Muslim north-western Xinjiang region and fears hard-line separatists could team up with Uighur militants fighting alongside members of Pakistan's Taliban.
In Pakistan, a decade-old separatist insurgency in Balochistan province, where the economic corridor starts, makes that area extremely volatile. Many observers believe however that the incentive of an economic miracle may make Islamabad work harder to stabilise the situation.
China prestige projects around the world
Mr Xi will spend two days holding talks with his counterpart Mamnoon Hussain, Mr Sharif and other ministers.
He was expected to discuss security issues with Mr Sharif, including China's concerns that Muslim separatists from Xinjiang are linking up with Pakistani militants.
"China and Pakistan need to align security concerns more closely to strengthen security co-operation," Mr Xi said on Sunday.
Under the CPEC plan, China's government and banks will lend to Chinese companies, so they can invest in projects as commercial ventures.
Some $15.5bn worth of coal, wind, solar and hydro energy projects will come online by 2017 and add 10,400 megawatts of energy to Pakistan's national grid, according to officials.
A $44m optical fibre cable between the two countries is also due to be built.
Pakistan, meanwhile, hopes the investment will enable it to transform itself into a regional economic hub.
Ahsan Iqbal, the Pakistani minister overseeing the plan, told AFP news agency that these were "very substantial and tangible projects which will have a significant transformative effect".
Pakistan's neighbour and rival, India, will be watching developments closely. Delhi is wary of China's regional ambitions, despite relations improving markedly in recent years.
President Xi visited Delhi last year, after postponing his visit to Islamabad because of anti-government protests. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due in China next month.
The 19-year-old, who has been on trial with Blues for a month since leaving the German Bundesliga side, has signed up for the rest of the 2015-16 season.
"He'd been at Dortmund a while," Blues boss Gary Rowett told BBC WM 95.6.
"He felt his opportunities were limited given the huge powerhouse of a club they are. But he fills a gap. We think he's different to what we have."
Mbende, who has played for Cameroon at youth level, has made three appearances for Birmingham's development side and will initially be part of their Under-21 squad rather than the first team.
Rowett added: "We've had a look at Emmanuel for two or there weeks and we've taken him on a development contract.
"He's about six foot four wide and six foot four high. There's a lot to work on because of his attributes. He's technically very good and we haven't got an Under-21 defender of that size and power.
"Obviously he's got a good pedigree at Dortmund. It's a case of us giving him an opportunity to see if we can push him into the first team group."
The visitors took the lead on 11 minutes as Robbie Muirhead collected Harvey Barnes' ball over the top and lashed a fierce low finish past Walsall goalkeeper Craig MacGillivray from 15 yards.
Walsall went close to a leveller on 27 minutes as George Dobson's free-kick caused confusion in the Dons box, but Kory Roberts' close-range header was tipped over by Lee Nicholls.
Dons doubled their advantage on 33 minutes with another sweet strike, Ben Reeves cutting inside and curling a fine 20-yard left-footed effort into the bottom corner from the right-hand edge of the box.
They added a fortunate third goal 20 minutes from time, Stuart O'Keefe credited with it as he unwittingly deflected Ben Tilney's long-range strike past a stranded MacGillivray.
Erhun Oztumer pulled one back for Walsall on 84 minutes, drilling home his 15th of the season from 20 yards, but Barnes rounded off the rout with a deflected strike from 12 yards a minute later.
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Police believe three men who knew each other were involved in the clash near the Piccolino restaurant in London Road, Virgina Water, at 17:00 BST.
One man fled the scene and is believed to have stopped a number of cars to try to get away.
A 46-year-old man and a 25-year-old man have been arrested and remain in police custody.
Two men are believed to have caused damage to a vehicle using metal poles.
A third man is then thought to have attacked one of the others with a machete, causing a significant hand injury which required surgery.
He then fled the scene, and is believed to have stopped a number of cars, including a red Ferrari.
Det Sgt Andy Jenkins, who is leading the investigation, said: "There would have been a lot of people around and we are really keen to speak to anyone who witnessed any of the events so we can build a clear picture of what has taken place.
"We would especially like to talk to the drivers of the cars the third man has stopped."
The ex-shadow business secretary, who is considering a challenge for the leadership, said the UK was in "crisis" and needed "strong opposition".
It comes as former Labour leader Lord Kinnock said MPs were "fundamentally alarmed" by the party's prospects.
But James Schneider, from grassroots movement Momentum, said Mr Corbyn still had "enormous support".
Events have been taking place in support of the Labour leader, including in Leeds and Liverpool - where more than 1,000 demonstrators attended.
Mr Corbyn has come under increasing pressure from Labour MPs following the EU referendum, resulting in a host of shadow cabinet resignations.
On Tuesday, a motion of no confidence in the Labour leader was passed by the party's MPs by 172-40 votes.
Ms Eagle and shadow secretary of state for work and pensions Owen Smith are both considering a challenge to Mr Corbyn.
Renewing her call for Mr Corbyn to resign, Ms Eagle said: "He's lost the confidence of the parliamentary party.
"He's losing confidence in the party. And let's face it the country's in a crisis and we need strong opposition."
Earlier former Labour leader Lord Kinnock said he supported the moves to remove Mr Corbyn.
"I totally understand and I completely support the members of Parliament who voted in the no-confidence motion," he told BBC Radio 5 Live,.
"They were doing the clear, honest thing when they are so fundamentally alarmed by the prospects for the party."
BBC Newsnight understands shadow cabinet members are drawing up plans to encourage Mr Corbyn to resign.
A delegation of MPs tried to meet Mr Corbyn on Thursday to put forward their plan, but were unsuccessful, the BBC has learned.
Under the plan, potential leadership contenders would agree to pursue some of Mr Corbyn's key policies on issues including tackling inequality and making the party more democratic.
Mr Corbyn has previously said he would not "betray" party members who elected him last year by standing down.
Momentum spokesman Mr Schneider told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Corbyn had shown "incredible steel" in remaining leader, and he accused other MPs of trying to "subvert democracy in the party".
"If they are unhappy with Jeremy Corbyn's leadership or the policies which he is standing for, they need to get 51 signatures, they need to find a candidate, they need to find a platform and they need to go for it," he said.
"But they don't have a candidate who can beat Jeremy Corbyn."
He said there was a "reasonable amount of evidence" to suggest people who had joined the Labour Party in a recent surge had joined to support Mr Corbyn, as 60% of the first 13,000 members had put this on their joining form.
Meanwhile, former Welsh Secretary Lord Hain told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme he had never been as concerned as he was now about the party's prospects ,saying it was "much more serious" than the "early 1980s strife".
Mr Corbyn has faced a series of walkouts by shadow cabinet members and mounting calls for him to resign, following the EU referendum.
In the Commons last week Prime Minister David Cameron, told him: "For heaven's sake man, go."
Mr Corbyn's predecessor, Ed Miliband, also told BBC Radio 4's The World at One the Labour leader's position was "untenable".
But senior allies of Mr Corbyn, who has strong support among the party's members, are determined to keep him in place.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has said he is confident Mr Corbyn would see off any challenge to his leadership.
Alaa Esayed, 22, an Iraqi national from Kennington, south London, admitted encouraging terrorism and dissemination of a terrorist publication.
She posted more than 45,000 tweets in Arabic to her 8,240 followers, with many encouraging violent jihad.
Posts were published on Twitter and Instagram between 1 June 2013 and 14 May 2014, the Old Bailey was told.
Her Twitter account, which bore an image of a woman in a burka with one finger raised and holding a Kalashnikov gun, even came to the attention of al Qaida, which listed it as among the 66 most important jihadist accounts.
After she was arrested, Esayed claimed to police she was merely interested in learning about Muslim struggles in Iraq, Syria and Palestine.
But in April, she pleaded guilty to charges of encouraging terrorism and disseminating a terrorist publication.
In mitigation, her lawyer Tanvir Qureshi said: "Yes, she is a Twitter terrorist but she is a Twitter terrorist who lacked creativity.
"She did not have a blog. She was blindly cutting and pasting."
Jailing her, Judge Charles Wide said: "This material and its dissemination is an important factor in the encouragement of young men and women to travel abroad and engage in acts of terrorism.
"It is a matter of great and justified public concern," he added. "You were disseminating such material on a massive scale over a period of just short of a year."
Judge Wide said it was a feature of the case that Esayed continually changed her story after she was arrested and even up until the time she pleaded guilty.
He told her she knew "perfectly well" all along what she had been doing.
Because of her "blatant untruthfulness", the judge said he had difficulty in accepting anything she said through her lawyer.
Following sentencing, Metropolitan Police Cdr Richard Walton, who leads the force's counter-terrorism command, said: "We will prosecute anyone using the internet and social media in this way."
The oil paintings belonged to Cambridgeshire businessman Tony Thompson, who had collected Lowry's work since 1982, and died last year.
A painting of Piccadilly Circus in London, for which Mr Thompson paid £5.6m in 2011, was the biggest draw of the night - selling for £5.1m.
Thirteen paintings were sold, but two failed to meet their reserve price.
Mr Thompson was born in 1945 in Trumpington, on the outskirts of Cambridge, and lived in the surrounding area all of his life.
He started his recycling business when he was 14 and went on to become a millionaire.
He began collecting paintings by Lowry in his late thirties, when he made his first purchase at auction.
Entitled Street Musicians, the work portrays a scene in Thurso, Scotland, and was painted in 1938. It cost £17,600 32 years ago, but sold for £842,500 at Sotheby's.
The auction house said Mr Thompson had become the first person to bid more than £500,000 for a Lowry painting, when he bought the smaller of two pictures of Piccadilly Circus in 1998.
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He secured the larger version in 2011, when he broke the record for a Lowry.
His sister Dawn Saddler, said his love of the Manchester artist's work began in childhood.
"He just loved Lowry - the man and the paintings," she said. "As the obsession grew he collected and collected.
"He was a simple man, just like Lowry."
Frances Christie, Sotheby's head of modern and post-war British art department, said Mr Thompson was a "collector who truly understood Lowry's vision".
"He had a real instinct to hone in on the very best examples of the artist's work," she said.
"When it came to Lowry, he knew everything."
Proposals for the project in Duns were lodged with Scottish Borders Council last year.
It has now given planning permission for the £1.65m scheme to proceed.
A £300,000 crowdfunding campaign has been launched to complete the financial package required to take the project forward.
Scottish Borders Council has pledged £620,000 towards the museum with a similar sum being sought from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
It is hoped the public can supply the remaining funds necessary to meet the total costs of the scheme.
Concerns were raised about the new building being out of keeping with the area and the increased pressure on parking it would produce.
However, a council planning officer concluded it would have a "positive impact" on the town centre and not detract from its character.
Planning permission has been given subject to the work starting in the next three years.
It is hoped the development could be completed by 2018 - the 50th anniversary of Clark's death at Hockenheim in Germany, aged just 32.
The driver was born in Kilmany in Fife, but raised in the Borders, and was crowned Formula One world champion in 1963 and 1965. He won a total of 25 grand prix races.
Police said 30-year old Farzana Parveen died on the spot after being attacked with bricks and sticks.
Her father handed himself in, but police say her brothers and former fiance, who also took part in the attack, were still free.
Correspondents say hundreds of girls and women in Pakistan are killed every year by family members.
However, many more killings are believed to go unreported.
Farzana Parveen's parents accused her husband, Muhammad Iqbal, of kidnapping her, and had filed a case against him at the High Court.
However, she testified to police that she had married him of her own accord. Police said the couple had been engaged for a number of years.
As she arrived at the court building for a hearing, police said about a dozen family members pulled her aside and began to attack her and her husband, who managed to escape.
Police official Umer Cheema told Reuters that all the family members escaped after the killing, apart from her father, who has admitted his role in her death.
The BBC's Shumaila Jaffery says marriage against the wishes of relatives is culturally unacceptable in some parts of Pakistan.
Under Pakistani law, the victim's family is allowed to forgive the killer. However, in many cases family members are themselves responsible for the killing.
The flag appeared over Parliament Buildings for a time on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the assembly said it was aware that "two flags were flown without permission from the roof" and it was investigating the incident.
DUP assembly member Peter Weir said he had been assured by the assembly that "these were rogue actions and are being fully investigated".
The roof and the fourth floor of Parliament Buildings are currently a construction site under the control of building contractors.
The assembly said that the flags were removed as soon as it was made aware of them.
Mr Weir said he had written to the assembly speaker Mitchell McLaughlin and chief executive Trevor Reaney to demand an explanation.
TUV leader Jim Allister said it was "a serious breach of protocol and absolutely unacceptable".
"The incident demands an immediate and through investigation by the Assembly Commission, and given the provocative nature of the stunt there should also be a police investigation," he said.
The assembly spokesperson said the speaker would hold a briefing on Thursday for members of the Assembly Commission where the chief executive would "update them on any initial findings surrounding the incident".
"The Speaker is clear that the commission needs to be able to consider this matter in full possession of the facts of the situation," the spokesperson said.
"A full meeting of the commission will then be held on Monday when all commission members are available and when it is anticipated that more information will be known."
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said the reaction by unionist politicians to the incident "can only be described as hysteria".
"This for some unionist politicians is a bigger crisis than anything that has happened over the past weeks," Mr Kelly said.
Milon Sarkar and another man, Ahidul Islam Babu, were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) late on Wednesday, CNN-IBN reported.
It is not yet clear what role Sarkar is alleged to have played in the case.
The 74-year-old nun was attacked in March during a burglary at her convent in a case which shocked India and led to street protests in many cities.
The number of alleged attackers in the case arrested now stands at five. Four men who were held in April over the attack have since been released.
Senior West Bengal police official Dilip Kumar Adak has previously said eight alleged attackers have been identified so three more remain to be tracked down.
Both of the men arrested on Wednesday, Milon Sarkar and Ahidul Islam Babu, are reported to be Bangladeshi citizens who had fled to Bangladesh.
During the attack in Ranaghat town on 14 March, money was stolen from the convent school and the building ransacked, before the nun was raped in the convent itself.
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Substitute Nathan Redmond looked to have won it for the visitors with a low strike, before Kouyate pounced.
Robbie Brady had given Norwich the lead early on, seizing on Mark Noble's mistake before calmly slotting in.
Diafra Sakho levelled for the hosts by sliding in Dimitri Payet's cutback, as John Ruddy pulled off saves from both Sakho and Payet.
Relive the entertaining Premier League draw between West Ham and Norwich
It was an entertaining encounter in east London, with both sides having opportunities to win the game.
The Hammers have had an impressive start to the season, winning three games on the road, but they seem to have problems in front of their own fans, collecting just four points from a possible 12.
If they have ambitions of finishing in the top six, they will need to improve their form at Upton Park, in their last season at the ground before moving to the Olympic Stadium.
And having gone behind, they were always playing catch-up in the match.
Norwich's goal came against the early run of play, gifted to them by Noble's misjudged pass across his defence, but they gained confidence from the strike.
Hammers dangerman Payet struggled to exert his influence on the game, losing the ball 19 times in the match - the most of any home player - as he tried to do too much on his own. He did, however, provide an assist for West Ham's first equaliser, cutting the ball back for Sakho to signal a home resurgence.
Visiting skipper Russell Martin, who earned the Canaries a point against Liverpool last week, led from the back, winning the ball back seven times as well as making seven clearances, but ultimately left disappointed.
Having looked like snatching all three points through with seven minutes remaining, Redmond rounding off a period of sustained pressure with his goal, Norwich conceded late in injury time; Ruddy tried to punch the ball away but it ricocheted off Andy Carroll allowing a grateful Kouyate to stab home.
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Norwich midfielder Nathan Redmond: "I thought we had played well and gave ourselves a great opportunity to win the game. I thought we secured it with my goal but we are disappointed to concede late on."
Norwich boss Alex Neil: "When you concede with a minute to go, it is always disappointing but we will take encouragement from how well we played."
West Ham boss Slaven Bilic: "I am happy that we showed the character at the end and we deserved it. A draw is a fair result and they are probably gutted because of the timing of the last goal."
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The group played 16 songs including classics such as 2 Minutes to Midnight, Fear of the Dark and The Number of the Beast.
It was also the final night of their Maiden England world tour at Knebworth.
"Three years of touring comes to an end tonight," said lead singer Bruce Dickinson.
"This is the culmination of those three years. We should be pretty good by now, if we don't get it right tonight then we never will."
Dickinson finished by hinting at a new album: "What's coming in the next few years is going to make it more real for you guys, believe me."
Long-time mascot Eddie made several appearances through the band's set including a giant version that walked across the stage during Run to the Hills.
Earlier in the evening, Bruce Dickinson took part in a mock dog fight above the grounds of Knebworth House to commemorate the start of World War One.
Dickinson flew one of the planes in the display, which lasted for 15 minutes and ended with the Band and Bugles of The Rifles playing the Last Post just before Deftone's set on the main stage.
Slayer paid tribute to former guitarist Jeff Hanneman during their final track Angel of Death on the second stage.
Hanneman died of liver failure last May.
There was also a big crowd for former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach in the main tent.
All the entrances were shut about 20 minutes before the performance with the area at full capacity.
One group of angry festival-goers tried to push a security barrier over during the set after being denied access.
Festival favourite Frank Turner played on the main stage and said his friends had asked him if he was nervous about playing a heavy music festival.
"I said 'Of course I'm not nervous because this is where I come from; rock, punk and heavy metal.'
"By the way, for those of you who don't know what this is, it's an acoustic guitar," he told the crowd.
"It might be an acoustic guitar but I'm going to die with a BC Rich Warlock in my hands."
Amber Paul, 18, Nino, 17, Megan, 16, Summer, 16, Hannah, 17, and Ashley Wiggans, 18, all met on Twitter a few years ago.
They're camping for the weekend and said they enjoyed the way the stages were set out.
"It's a small site, so there's less walking," said Hannah. "And there are no clashes."
There are two main stages at Sonisphere and as a band finishes on one, another act starts on the other.
One of the more surreal moments of the festival was provided by Japanese metal outfit Babymetal, who were playing their first gig in the UK.
The group is made up of three teenage, female singers and a backing band who were dressed in white robes and facepaint.
In an introduction video called Metal Resistance: Episode II, a parody of the opening credits of Star Wars, the band revealed they were the self-styled saviours of heavy metal.
They also paid tribute to "metal gods" Iron Maiden and later in their set, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett.
There were also performances from Blitz Kids, Vodoo Six, The Sisters of Mercy, Anthrax, Ghost and The Virginmarys.
Sunday is headlined by Metallica, whose set By Request has been chosen by fans, with performances elsewhere from Alice in Chains, Mastodon, Airbourne and Krokodil, the band featuring Radio 1 rock show host Daniel P Carter.
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And ministers say the other governments are "pretty clear" about what the UK actually wants. But speak to EU leaders at this summit, and you get a rather different picture. Two of them suggested to me that the UK is yet to put proper details on the table.
The Finnish Prime Minister Joha Sipila says he has not seen any concrete proposals from the UK. And the Estonian Prime Minister too, Taavi Royvas, has said they'd talked about "directions" but are yet to focus on detail.
Both countries want the UK to stay in the European Union and want to help but if the talks are going as well as Number 10 claims, doesn't it seem a bit surprising that other leaders aren't sure yet precisely what's being asked?
Norway though have been supporting David Cameron's claim though that a looser relationship, like the one they have, would not be right for Britain.
They are not in the EU, but instead in a trading agreement and still have to abide by Brussels' rules. Their PM, Erna Solberg, told me that wouldn't be right for a "big country" like Britain. Norway, she said can "live with it" but, Britain, certainly not.
Instead, unlike her Icelandic counterpart, who told us yesterday that Britain should look at an alternative to being part of the EU, the Norwegian leader believes strongly Britain should stay in.
This debate is proving very tricky for David Cameron, but that's one message he'll be pleased to hear.
The deal allows the BBC to show video clips, end-of-day round-ups, digital preview programming features and archive material in the UK.
Major events will include the World Twenty20, Champions Trophy, Women's World Cup, and the 2019 World Cup.
Video will be used to enhance coverage on all digital platforms, mobile alerts and on an enhanced live page.
Other International Cricket Council tournaments covered include:
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Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "We're very pleased to announce this new agreement with the ICC, which is all about free-to-air accessibility and bringing the best of cricket to as wide an audience as possible across the UK.
"The online rights will complement our live radio commentary portfolio and popular online offering, giving UK audiences video of the best of the action wherever they are."
ICC finance and commercial affairs committee chairman Giles Clarke said: "The ICC is delighted to partner with BBC Sport in the United Kingdom, which is widely respected and followed due to its ability and resources to produce high-quality cricket content."
The 2017 Champions Trophy and Women's World Cup, as well as the 2019 World Cup, will all be staged in England and Wales.
Ms Taylor oversaw the "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) section of the site that interviewed celebrities, politicians and other newsworthy figures.
About 100 chat sections, or sub-reddits, that together have millions of readers are believed to have been shut.
Reddit's only comment about the issue has been to say that it did not talk about "individual employee matters".
The protests were led by the volunteer moderators of the AMA section, which said in an explanatory posting that they needed Ms Taylor to keep the sub-reddit functioning. Ms Taylor helped organise guests for AMAs and worked to verify that people due to answer questions were who they said they were.
There had been no explanation of why she was suddenly sacked, said the moderators.
"We all had the rug ripped out from under us and feel betrayed," said one of the AMA moderators in a separate message.
Later on, protesters said the chat rooms were closed "due to underlying resentment against the admins for running the site poorly".
Reddit staff were "being uncommunicative, and disregarding the thousands of moderators who keep the site running", they said.
The closures have snowballed and have made large sections of the site unreachable.
There have been suggestions that Ms Taylor was sacked following an AMA with American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.
Ms Taylor said she was "dazed" by the swiftness of her departure in a very brief response to a message asking her about the sacking.
The protest follows another "Reddit revolt" that took place in June when the site decided to ban some sub-reddits it said were involved in harassing and abusing people in real life.
Many people have pledged to abandon the site for rivals such as Voat and Frizbee.
Reddit is one of the most widely used sites on the web with more than 7.5 billion page views a month.
Since Poland joined the EU in 2004, about two million Poles have left in search of higher paid jobs, many of them heading to the UK, where they can earn up to four times as much doing the same job here.
It is estimated 850,000 Poles now live in the UK, making them the largest non-British nationality. Poland's National Bank reckons Poles send home more than $1bn (£728m) a year, driving consumption in many parts of the country.
For Poles in the UK, especially those who have not lived there for the five years needed to apply for permanent residency, the future is uncertain.
"People here [in the UK] feel that after Brexit there may be some restrictions on working. It's uncharted waters, we've got a home here and a mortgage," says Rafal Rozycki, who lives in Manchester with his partner Katarzyna.
Rafal and Katarzyna left Lodz in 2004 after graduating because the job market in Poland then was "very difficult". Rafal now works for an aerospace company.
"I'm waiting to see what's going to happen. I am not worried to the extent I'm thinking I might be kicked out but I am apprehensive it could affect me in a year or two. I'm going to apply for a passport," Rafal said.
During the next two years, Britain will negotiate a new relationship with the EU and that will affect the working conditions for Poles in the UK.
In recent weeks Polish newspapers have been asking whether Poles will need work permits or visas to work in Britain in future.
Under a headline, "The great cost of Brexit", Wednesday's front page of the daily Rzeczpospolita, listed 10 possible disadvantages including work permits, higher fees for Polish students, the end of cheap flights between the UK and Poland and more expensive Scotch whisky.
Politically speaking Poland is losing a powerful ally in the EU, one with a similar outlook towards the single market and towards retaining sanctions against Russia.
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski recently named Britain as Poland's number one partner.
"This is bad news for Europe, for Poland. This is a great dilemma for the eurocrats, we all want to keep the EU, the question is in what shape," he told TV Republika.
Poland's President Andrzej Duda said efforts must now be made to prevent other countries from leaving.
Poland is the biggest beneficiary of EU funds, which are transforming the country. Warsaw wants to remain, but it will use Brexit to push for a looser EU based on the single market.
"The conclusion is obvious: We need a new European treaty," said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the governing PiS party and the country's most powerful politician.
Andrew Hennells, 32, posted a comment on his profile which read: "Doing. Tesco. Over" at 19:25 GMT on 13 February.
Just 15 minutes later, after he had held up the King's Lynn store, police caught Hennells with a knife and £410.
He admitted robbery at Norwich Crown Court.
A member of the public had reported seeing a man demanding cash at the Tesco store before he fled to a nearby pub, Norfolk Police said.
Sgt Pete Jessop said Hennells's Facebook confession had made it easier to secure a guilty plea.
"It was a bizarre and unusual case," he said. "The pictures and posts on Facebook helped us confirm what we already knew.
"None of this takes away from the seriousness of the crime or the trauma experienced by the victims of the robbery."
Hennells, of Riverview Way, Gaywood, Norfolk, also admitted carrying a knife as an offensive weapon.
He is due to be sentenced on 8 April.
The country's Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) fell to a lower-than-expected 50.8, from 51.1 in the previous month. Any score above 50 represents growth.
Analysts had forecast a small rise in the pace of growth.
Recently released figures showed the wider Chinese economy growing at its slowest pace for more than five years.
Growth between July and September was 7.3% compared with a year earlier, down from 7.5% in the previous quarter.
"There remains downward pressure on the economy, and monetary policy will remain easy," said analysts at China International Capital after the PMI data was published on Saturday.
Beijing recently unveiled measures designed to stimulate consumer spending, including relaxing limits on home purchases and injecting billions of dollars into the country's biggest banks.
China's central bank has also cut certain inter-bank interest rates.
The government aims to achieve 7.5% economic growth this year, although many analysts believe it will struggle to meet this target. There is speculation it may take further steps to boost growth.
Such high levels of growth are needed to ensure enough jobs are created for China's huge and increasingly-educated population.
But the growth ambitions are much higher than expected rates in more developed economies - latest figures show the US economy growing at an annual rate of 3.5%.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service warned flood water can pose a "serious threat" to people, as well as causing serious damage to cars.
Firefighters had to attend 14 flooding incidents and four rescues last week.
Meanwhile, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said a band of heavy rain could bring further flooding to parts of Wales on Monday night.
Chris Margett, the fire service's corporate head of protection and prevention, said: "In the event where there is no road closure sign, don't drive through deep water.
"If you are unsure of the water depth just don't do it, you are putting yourself and others at unnecessary risk.
"Flood water can be deceptively powerful - it can literally rip up the road surface and dislodge manhole covers and kerbstones - and its depth and flow rate can quickly change with the weather."
NRW issued nine flood warnings and 22 alerts on the weekend, with two flood warnings remaining in place for the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Wrexham and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
Resident Maria Eales, from Llechryd, Ceredigion, has described how she became marooned in her home after the River Teifi burst its banks on Sunday.
Ms Eales only moved to the area in July and said this is their "first experience of this kind of weather".
"We can't get through to Cardigan and the rain continues. Fortunately all our Christmas food is in the freezer. We're pretty self sufficient so we'll be okay," she said.
NRW has warned people to prepare for possible flooding, with more warnings expected to be issued on Monday.
The highest rainfall is likely on high ground in the Cambrian Mountains, Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons.
A spokesman said drains may struggle to cope with the volume of water and roads could be closed, while swollen rivers could also cause disruption in the south Wales valleys.
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Farah pulled away from American Dathan Ritzenhein in the last mile in his first race since retaining his 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic titles in Rio.
In the women's race, Olympic 5,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya won in her first half marathon.
Scotland's Mark Telford took the men's wheelchair crown, a second ahead of fellow Briton Bret Crossley.
The Great North Run is the world's biggest half marathon and there were more than 41,000 runners taking part in this year's event from 178 nations.
Farah, 33, was taken on a fast pace by former American 5,000m record holder Ritzenhein, but powered away with a mile to go and even had time to do a cheeky heel flip before he crossed the line in one hour and four seconds, the slowest of his three wins.
Belgium's Emmanuel Bett, who ran the second half of the race almost on his own, crossed in third.
Farah told BBC Sport: "To be honest with you, I'm knackered.
"I knew I had to work hard because Dathan is a former training partner and was running a great race.
"He put his foot down and tried to get rid of me because he knew I have amazing pace.
"It's good to finish the year on a high, what a year I've had. I just want to go home now, chill out, see the kids, get up to no good."
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The women's race was billed as a shoot-out between middle distance greats Cheruiyot and three-time Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba.
Dibaba failed to keep pace with Cheruiyot and fellow Kenyan Priscah Jeptoo in the closing stages of the 13.1-mile course. It was Cheruiyot who took victory, producing a sprint finish to clock 1:07.54, just one second ahead of Jeptoo.
Cheruiyot said: "I'm so happy because it's my birthday. I found it tough with one kilometre to go but it's fantastic for me to end my season this way."
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The image shows the Queen and Prince Charles with members of the Privy Council after a meeting at Buckingham Palace in 1981.
Both royals have signed it.
Auctioneers said it was bought by a member of the public for "about £20" but is expected to fetch up to £1,000 at auction.
The meeting on 27 March 1981 marked the Queen giving Prince Charles consent to marry Princess Diana, who is not pictured, under the Royal Marriages Act.
It will go under the hammer with Dominic Winter Auctioneers Ltd, of South Cerney, Gloucestershire, next month.
Chris Albury, auctioneer and senior valuer, said it was the first time he had seen something signed by more than one member of the royal family.
"A guy saw it in the window of the shop and wasn't entirely sure if the signatures were authentic," he said.
"I did a double take when I saw it, I thought I better not get too excited until I check it out properly."
Mr Albury initially thought the signatures might have been autopen - ink signatures made by a "robot", which the royals use to sign Christmas cards - but further tests showed they were "genuine".
"What I like about it is that, when it comes to royal autograph collecting, the key is to collect the monarchs, it is the gold standard," he added.
"With Prince Charles next in line, it could become an item that has not one, but two, monarch signatures.
"Whether it's a one-off, I don't yet know. The next part of my research is to find out exactly why they both signed it."
The frame of the photograph has also been signed by George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, who is pictured second on the right in the front row.
It will go under the hammer on 5 April.
Brazil is at the centre of an outbreak of the virus, which has been linked to a surge in babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
The country has 462 confirmed cases of microcephaly, and is investigating another 3,852 suspected cases.
President Dilma Rousseff said the crisis would not "compromise" the Olympics Brazil is hosting in August.
Brazilian troops are going door to door, handing out four million leaflets advising people about the risks of the virus, carried by mosquitoes.
The BBC's Wyre Davies, in Rio de Janeiro, says the exercise is aimed at boosting morale.
But critics have said the move would not helping reduce mosquito numbers or stop the spread of Zika, our correspondent adds.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global public health emergency over the possible connection between Zika and microcephaly, a condition marked by abnormally small heads in newborn babies that can result in developmental problems.
The link with Zika has not been confirmed, but the WHO and other public health bodies have said it is strongly suspected.
On Friday, the WHO said it expected that a link would be established within weeks between Zika, microcephaly and another neurological disorder, Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The microcephaly cases have been centred in north-east Brazil, but the Zika outbreak has affected people in more than 20 countries in the Americas.
Colombia said on Saturday that 5,013 pregnant women were infected - out of a total of 31,555 cases.
Some governments have advised women to delay getting pregnant. Already-pregnant women have been advised not to travel to the countries affected.
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Aircraft targeted rebel positions in the southern city of Aden overnight, despite a UN call for the truce to be extended to allow in more aid.
Yemeni parties are in negotiations in Saudi Arabia on how to end the crisis.
But the rebels, who reject the return of exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, are boycotting the talks.
Mr Hadi fled the country at the end of March after rebel forces and allied army units loyal to ousted former president Ali Abdullah Saleh advanced on Aden.
He had taken refuge in the city the previous month after the Houthis consolidated their control of Sanaa and placed him under effective house arrest.
The new UN envoy to Yemen opened talks with the country's various factions in the Saudi capital on Sunday urging all sides to "renew their commitment to this truce for five more days at least".
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed also said they should "refrain from any action that disturbs the peace of airports, main areas and the infrastructure of transport".
Despite the appeal, coalition air strikes reportedly resumed after the ceasefire expired at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) on Sunday, with warplanes bombing the rebel-held presidential palace in Aden on Monday, as well as the city's international airport.
1,820
people killed since 19 March, a week before start of Saudi-led air campaign against Houthi rebels
7,330
injuries recorded
545,719 people displaced between 26 March and 7 May
273,411 received food aid for a month during first four days of truce
12,000,000 food insecure
On Monday morning, Yemen's foreign minister told Reuters news agency that his government would not consider a new ceasefire offer, blaming it on the Houthis who he said had violated the terms of the truce.
"That's what we said before - that if they start again, we will start again," Riad Yassin said.
But, he continued, the air strikes would avoid the main airport in the capital Sanaa and the western Red Sea port of Hudaydah to allow aid to be brought in.
The coalition air campaign, which began on 26 March, has so far failed to achieve its stated aim of restoring President Hadi.
Despite some clashes the five-day ceasefire largely held, allowing aid agencies to deliver desperately-needed food, water, medicine and fuel. However, the agencies said they were only able to reach a small number of those in need.
Unicef's representative in Sanaa said on Sunday that while it was able to deliver aid to affected people across the country, "humanitarian assistance cannot replace the needs of 26 million people who have been cut off from a regular supply of commercial imports of food and fuel".
"Hundreds of adults and children have already died during this conflict," Julien Harneis said, "many of whom could have been saved had we got supplies to them on time".
Iran has sent a cargo ship carrying humanitarian aid, due to arrive in Hudaydah on Thursday, state media report.
More than 1,800 people have been killed in air strikes and fighting on the ground since the Saudi-led military intervention began, with up to 545,700 people displaced by the violence, according to the latest UN figures.
The pilots' union, Vereinigung Cockpit, said the walkout would affect short-haul flights on Tuesday, and both short and long-haul flights on Wednesday.
It is the 15th strike since April. with 2,800 flights cancelled last week due to a four-day walkout by pilots.
Lufthansa spokeswoman Bettina Volkens said: "We have to talk."
She added "I hope very much that [Vereinigung Cockpit] finally changes its uncompromising stance. This cannot be forced via strikes."
Joerg Handwerg, board member at Vereinigung Cockpit, said: "Unfortunately, high-level talks held today at short notice failed to lead to an agreement on the wage contract.
"It is completely incomprehensible that (Lufthansa) has refused to put forward an offer that can at least form the basis of a negotiation."
Vereinigung Cockpit wants an average annual pay rise of 3.7% for its 5,400 members in Germany, backdated to 2012.
On Friday, Lufthansa offered to increase wages by 2.4% in 2016, with an additional 2% rise in 2017. It said it would also provide a one-off payment of 1.8 months' pay. The airline had previously offered a 2.5% pay rise.
But the union rejected the offer.
More than 350,000 passengers were affected by last week's action. The airline has estimated that the strike is costing it about 10m euros (£8.5m) a day.
Carsten Spohr, chief executive of Lufthansa, has said that the future of the airline would be threatened if it met the pilots' demands because it would make many routes unprofitable.
"We stand no chance to survive," he said. "There is no more leeway for even better offers when escalation is what is wanted, as opposed to a solution."
Despite a record profit last year, the company said it was forced to cut costs to compete with budget rivals such as Ryanair in Europe and the likes of Emirates on long-haul routes.
Merseyside Police said the 19-year-old fled from a Ford Fiesta after it was in collision with a parked car in Liverpool at about 15:00 GMT.
The man was then hit by the police vehicle and taken to hospital.
He was subsequently arrested on suspicion of burglary, aggravated unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle and driving while banned.
Merseyside Police said following normal protocol its professional standards department had been notified of the incident.
They have appealed for witnesses, saying a second man also left the scene of the first collision at the junction of Buckingham Road and Ellerslie Road in Tuebrook.
While I regularly go bare faced, I do feel more put-together and ready to face the world when I wear make-up. Wearing it, for me, is no different from ironing a shirt or brushing my hair.
But a key facet of second wave feminism between the 1960s and 1980s was the suggestion women should discard any adornment, believing it served only to subjugate them in the eyes of men.
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And in 1991, writing in The Beauty Myth, author Naomi Wolf argued just at the moment women freed themselves from the shackles of domesticity and gained political and social advancements, the pressures to conform to unattainable standards of beauty increased through the subliminal messages of advertising.
She said: "I wouldn't go to a meeting without makeup. If you want to project control, you have to look like you are some way in control.
"You feel more attractive so you feel more confident."
She added: "I was never really allowed to wear makeup.
"I'm having this thing with my daughter, who is 13 now, trying to explain it doesn't really change who you are. I see some people and it looks like a beautiful painting - you become addicted to that."
She said: "I think it's an empowering thing. I use my glasses as a way of projecting a different image and you can use makeup in the same way.
"It is all part of an arsenal of things you can use to empower you. It is just wanting to look like the best version of yourself."
These arguments go back centuries. In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft argued in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, beauty is presented as a "woman's sceptre" but is, in reality, only gilding the cage of womanhood.
Simone de Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex in 1949 "when [a woman] has once accepted her vocation as sexual object, she enjoys adorning herself".
Such contentions put the use of make-up down to patriarchal pressure alone, but archaeological evidence from Ancient Egypt - 6,000 years ago - shows both genders wore kohl eyeliner.
In Ancient China and Japan, around 3000 BC, men and women stained their nails and up until the French Revolution in 1789 men in Europe routinely wore wigs, powdered their faces, and drew on beauty spots.
Make-up has at times been associated with female power, rather than subjugation.
In the 1920s, the flappers rebelled against the idea of demure femininity. After asserting themselves during the war, they promoted their newfound independence and sexual yearning by brazenly applying rouge and lipstick in public.
It was a rallying cry for equality, not a submissive acceptance of subjugation.
And although second wave feminism dismissed makeup as objectification by the male gaze, the so-called lipstick-feminism of third wave feminism in the 1980s and 1990s rejected this.
The movement held that psychological and social empowerment could be gained through cosmetics - allowing women to unashamedly embrace their sexuality.
The beauty industry can be criticised for perpetuating an impossible ideal of perfection but this is merely a symptom of society's wider biases, not an inherent problem with make-up itself.
Harriet Hall edits the Ask a Feminist column for Stylist.co.uk
Welshman Jones, 42, in his first permanent managerial role, succeeds John Still, who was sacked last month.
Luton, on a run of one win from their last nine games, sit 15th in the table.
"We believe we have found the best man to lead the club's footballing aspirations forward," chief executive Gary Sweet told the club website.
"Nathan is a professional, disciplined, strong and open-minded character who is going to install a hard-working team ethic and, importantly, the prospect of fast-flowing football to Kenilworth Road.
"The board believe Nathan will modernise our club's football culture, blending the elements of our footballing heritage with a modern, forward-thinking philosophy.
"As a club we realise a change of thinking will not happen overnight, but we are already excited at the prospect of Nathan's ideas and vision for Luton Town."
Jones returns to the club where he signed his first professional forms, having moved to Kenilworth Road from Merthyr Tydfil in 1995, but he failed to make a first-team appearance before moving to Spain.
He also featured for Brighton, Scarborough and Southend on his return to England, finishing his playing career in 2012 following a spell with Yeovil Town.
Jones then took charge of Charlton's Under-21 side before moving back to the Seagulls as a coach in 2013.
He has also served as interim manager during his time at the Amex Stadium.
Brighton chairman Tony Bloom said the club "understand that this is an opportunity he feels he must take to progress his career".
Former England goalkeeper David James had been reported to be in the running for the job.
The 45-year-old was a boyhood Luton fan and had been coaching with the club under previous boss Still.
It was the warmest December since records began in 1910 - and the wettest of any calendar month on record.
Mean temperatures were about 4C (7.2F) above the long-term average.
The Met Office says there is a direct link between the warmth and the record rains that brought widespread floods across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.
Stormy December 'was wettest on record'
Storms propelled by the jet stream were mainly to blame, it says, with contributions from the El Nino weather phenomenon and man-made climate change.
December was something of a freak month, it acknowledges.
It says climate change has raised UK temperatures by around 1C (1.8F) so far, so it will be many decades before this level of extreme weather becomes the new winter norm.
Other scientists say that with climate change, there will be no "normal" weather.
Meanwhile, the unseasonal warmth has disrupted the natural world, and affected the way we live and the amount of cash we have to spend.
People in T-shirts have been out in the gloom of winter, fuel bills are down, and the winter deaths total is likely to be lower than usual.
Plants are also flowering at bizarre times. In Kew Gardens, in south-west London, a magnolia tree is in full bloom alongside daffodils.
A currant bush - Ribes sanguineum - came into flower before Christmas when it is normally expected in March.
My own garden in London still has a rose in flower and a strawberry on its bush.
Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at Kew Gardens, said the recent jumbling of seasons was causing problems in the natural world.
"The plants are really mixed up, they don't know what season they're in. They think spring is on the way, and they need to flower and grow leaves to make food.
"The seasons are normally quite short so they do it as soon as time allows.
"The downside is is that we could get a frost, and all these young leaves are very tender and not used to temperatures below freezing, and they won't flower again in spring.
"And it's a food source for insects that won't be around when insects need it."
The Met Office does not expect the exceptional warmth to continue.
We will be heading for colder, drier weather in late winter, it says - although it is loath to offer a hostage to fortune by predicting exactly when.
Prof Adam Scaife, head of medium-term prediction at the Met Office, said: "The mild, wet weather is coming to an end - not this week but in a while.
"This December has really been out of the ordinary. We think climate change has played a part in the extreme temperature and rainfall - but only a minor one.
"It's not feasible for climate change to have increased temperatures as high as they have been - the jet stream has been the main driver of conditions, bringing winter storms.
"Warmer air can hold more moisture, and we expect winters to become warmer and wetter with climate change - especially in the North. But we wouldn't expect the sort of weather we've had in December to become normal in the UK for many decades."
Prof Myles Allen, from Oxford's department of atmospheric physics, said this was too cautious.
"There is no such thing as a new normal with climate change," he said.
"Climate change is not a transition to a new normal. It's a trend. Decembers like this will be what we expect in a couple of decades' time."
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Here an Afghan woman breastfeeds her baby at the Greek port of Piraeus, in Athens.
On the Greek island of Lesbos, a man collapsed as he waited to be registered by police outside a new registration centre.
Some eventually made it onto ships chartered to ferry people to the Greek mainland.
After arriving in Piraeus, families were bussed to a local metro station.
From Greece, many make their way north through the Balkans, before reaching Hungary, where Budapest's Keleti station has seen thousands of migrants passing through. Here, a young girl plays among donated shoes.
In the Hungarian village of Roszke, tensions ran high on Monday as a group of some 1,500 people waited for hours at a migrant collection point near the Serbian border to be picked up to be taken to a registration camp.
On Tuesday there were more scuffles as migrants tried to break free from police lines and were restrained.
Later, however, several hundred managed to leave the collection point and make their way along railway tracks towards the town of Szeged, accompanied by police officers.
For many, the goal is to reach Germany, which has said it can cope with large numbers of arrivals but also called for other EU states to play their part.
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Philby then fled to Russia in 1963 and when he died in 1988, he was given a burial in a Moscow cemetery with full military honours.
Now, the BBC has uncovered previously unseen footage of Philby describing his career as a Soviet agent to the Stasi, the East German Intelligence Service, in 1981.
And in terms of donations as a proportion of national income, the UK is in the top five, behind countries such as Sweden and Norway.
The amount given in international aid remains politically charged - with arguments such as whether the UK government should be spending money on flood barriers at home rather than trying to tackle poverty in other countries.
There have also been debates about whether the right people are receiving overseas aid, with worries it might be subsidising corrupt or coercive regimes.
Or should we see aid as not just a humanitarian responsibility, but a form of enlightened self-interest, with long-term, soft-power benefits from helping to shape emerging economies?
The OECD figures, comparing levels of overseas development aid, shows that by any measure, the UK is among the biggest donors, ahead in cash terms of countries such as Germany, France and Japan.
This is government aid - not voluntary donations through charities - and it shows that for many countries, the cash donated does not keep up with the promises.
There is a United Nations target that countries should give at least 0.7% of gross national income.
But only Sweden, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark and the UK reached this in 2014.
Countries such as the United States, Germany, Switzerland and Australia give much less as a proportion.
As global economies have grown, there has been a substantial long-term overall increase in overseas aid - more than trebling in value since the 1960s.
It is now at its highest ever level in cash terms, worth $137.2bn (£93bn).
But as a proportion of combined national incomes, less is given in aid now by developed countries than in the 1970s and 1980s.
While the UN calls for 0.7% to be spent on "development assistance", the overall average within the OECD is 0.3% of national income.
Unlike this global trend for preferring warm words to cold cash, the UK is now giving a higher proportion of national income than ever before.
In 1999, the UK was giving 0.24%, the amount having fallen steadily for 20 years. The figure has now climbed upwards to 0.71%.
In sharp contrast, the US is now giving 0.18% of its national income in aid, and has not given more than 3% since the early 1970s.
The biggest recipient of international aid was Afghanistan, followed by Vietnam, Syria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Egypt and Turkey.
The OECD analysis shows to what extent funding can be driven by events. Provisional figures had forecast an overall drop in aid, but the emerging Syrian refugee crisis reversed that, leading, for example, to a sum of $600m (£408m) in extra spending by the Italian government.
With conflicts in the Middle East drawing more on aid budgets, the very poorest countries, many in sub-Saharan Africa, saw a 9% decline in aid compared with 2013.
These figures show international aid from OECD member countries, but the report highlights that some non-OECD countries give a higher proportion of their income, headed by the United Arab Emirates.
There has also been a rise in spending through international organisations. European Union institutions are now major donors, with a bigger aid budget than individual countries such as France.
According to figures published in December, the UK government aid budget is £11.7bn, not including the voluntary fundraising of charities.
In terms of bilateral aid, the biggest recipients of UK funding are Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, with the Ebola crisis prompting more support for Sierra Leone.
But what should be the funding priority? How should basic humanitarian assistance be balanced against investment in education and infrastructure?
It's often shaped by short-term emergencies, rather than such long-term questions.
A report from MPs on the Syrian refugee crisis, from the International Development Committee, says that as recently as 2011, the Middle East only received a tiny fraction of the UK aid budget, but this has now grown to £1.1bn.
While the UK is paying its "fair share" of relief funding, it warns of a "shortfall" in support from countries such as France, Japan and Italy.
The funding gap means a lack of basic support for what has been described as the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War Two.
The direct consequence, says the cross-party report, is that more refugee families are driven towards the shores of Europe.
Rather than the UK giving too much, the MPs argue that others are giving too little: "The government should use all available channels to press other donors into making adequate contributions to the fund."
The BBC's Great Debate featured almost two hours of questions on immigration, the economy and sovereignty.
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson repeatedly clashed with Boris Johnson in front of an audience of thousands and accused his Leave side of "lying".
Mr Johnson said Remain "keep talking down our country".
Voters go to the polls from 07:00 BST on Thursday, to decide whether the UK should stay in or leave the European Union.
Ms Davidson, who gave the closing statement for Remain, told the Wembley audience they had to be "100% sure" adding that there was "no going back on Friday morning".
Her side "refused to dismiss the experts" who all agree that "Britain is better-off in", she argued.
The former London mayor got a standing ovation from his supporters after his closing statement, in which he declared: "Thursday can be our country's independence day" if Britain votes to leave.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said voting Leave would allow the UK to "begin the process of extracting ourselves from this burdensome and anti-democratic system of governance".
Mr Johnson, who is taking part in a whistlestop tour of England on the final day of campaigning, said: "The ideal position for us is to take back control tomorrow - of huge amounts of money, so we can spend it on our priorities. Take back control of our immigration system, take back control - fundamentally - of our democracy."
Among other referendum developments as the final day of campaigning begins:
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the Leave side had the most "emotional enthusiasm" at the televised debate but Remain were able to display the passion some feel has been missing from their campaign.
New faces - to many people at least - Ruth Davidson and Sadiq Khan worked together to make arguments for the EU rather than excuses for it, she added.
The debate, the biggest of the EU referendum campaign, represented a final chance for the two campaigns to get their points across ahead of Thursday's poll.
There were heated exchanges throughout between Mr Johnson and his Remain-backing successor as London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, who accused Leave of running "project hate".
The lively audience - split between Leave and Remain supporters - applauded each time their side landed a blow as subjects including Turkish EU membership, trade deals and the power of EU courts were debated.
Also on the panel for Leave were energy minister Andrea Leadsom, who attacked the Brussels "gravy train", and Labour MP Gisela Stuart. Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, completed the line-up for Remain.
The first skirmishes were on trade and the economy, with Conservative and Labour Party colleagues trading blows.
Mr Khan and Mr Johnson clashed as the London mayor accused his predecessor of changing his mind over the benefits of the EU to businesses.
Mr Johnson said Remain "keeps talking down our country" and that the EU held back the UK's trading progress with the rest of the world.
Responding to the opening question from the owner of a small business, Ms Davidson said she knew people found the EU "frustrating and fussy", but said it provided "a level playing field" for small businesses. She said if the UK leaves, the rest of the EU would impose tariffs and taxes.
She read out previous quotes on job losses from key Leave figures including Mr Johnson, who hit back by saying the Remain campaign was "back to project fear".
He said it was "extraordinary" to suggest tariffs would be imposed on the UK, saying Germany would be "insane" to do so.
Ms Leadsom, for Leave, said the UK had led the way on workers' rights, not the EU. "We do not need unelected, bureaucratic European leaders to tell us what our workers' rights can be."
But Ms O'Grady said EU "red tape" as described by Leave backers really meant "getting rid of workers' rights".
As the debate moved onto immigration, Mr Khan said the Leave side - which has campaigned hard on the subject - had not been "project fear", it had been "project hate".
Brandishing a Vote Leave leaflet, he accused the rival side of "lying" and "trying to scare people" by saying Turkey was set to join the EU.
"Turkey isn't about to join," he said.
Ms Stuart said the UK government was actively trying to "accelerate" Turkish membership. She also said it was "simply a statement of fact" that uncontrolled immigration put pressure on services.
Also on immigration, a man in the audience asked how many people arriving per year the UK could "reasonably cope with".
Ms O'Grady said it was important to "manage" migration but said she was "fed up" with migrants being blamed for government shortcomings.
Ms Leadsom said the Bank of England had said uncontrolled immigration put "downward pressure" on wages.
The final section focused on sovereignty and the UK's role in the world.
Ms Leadsom attacked the Brussels "gravy train" which she said controlled 60% of UK laws and regulations.
She said the UK had been voted down every time it had tried to object to an EU imposition.
"How is that making our own decisions?" she asked.
Her Tory colleague Ms Davidson said the 60% figure was a "blatant untruth". She accused the Leave side of "lying" on this and other subjects including Turkish membership.
Mr Johnson said the home secretary was unable to deport serious criminals because of European laws, saying it was "absolutely amazing how the Remain side have the cheek to tell us we improve our security by staying in this organisation".
But Mr Khan challenged him to name one of the UK's Nato allies that supported a vote to leave the EU.
As well as the main panellists there was a smaller stage featuring campaigners from other political parties, business and journalism.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said immigration "goes two ways", adding that it was an "amazing gift" for Britons to be able to work and study overseas.
UKIP's Diane James defended a recent poster from her party showing a long queue of migrants in Slovenia, saying similar images had been used in the media to show the problems with EU free movement.
Also on the second panel were former Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King, who backs remaining in the EU, and founder and chairman of the Wetherspoons pub chain Tim Martin, who supports Brexit.
EU Referendum: The Great Debate is available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.
Michael Taggart is alleged to have asked about buying houses built by his firms with reduced deposits.
This made "a mockery" of attempts to improve corporate governance, counsel for the Ulster Bank said.
A fellow director claimed in an internal email his inquiries came when the construction business was in a "very precarious position".
Mr Taggart and his brother, John, are suing Ulster Bank for alleged negligence and improper conduct, which, they said, contributed to the fall of their house-building empire.
The Taggart group was decimated by the 2007 property crash. A year later it went into administration.
The brothers, from County Londonderry, claim they were kept in the dark about credit concerns within the bank.
Had they been warned, they contend, assets could have been sold to offset loans.
In a counterclaim, Ulster Bank is seeking £5m and 4.3m euros it said the Taggarts owe in personal guarantees over land purchases in Kinsealy, County Dublin and in Northern Ireland.
On day 13 of the legal battle, a judge heard details of internal Taggart correspondence in August 2007.
In one e-mail, Mr Taggart's personal assistant asked Maurice McHugh, the firm's managing director and financial director, if he and his brother could buy houses built by the company with a maximum £15,000 deposit, the court heard.
Mr Taggart agreed in evidence this was about £10,000 less than required from outside purchasers.
A barrister for Ulster Bank claimed concerns had already been raised at board level the previous year about the "phenomenon" of directors buying houses in England and Ireland.
He set out how Mr McHugh reacted to the request by writing to the group's chairman: "This is making a complete mockery of any attempt to introduce proper corporate governance into the group at a time when it's in a very precarious position."
The barrister said it showed the brothers were trying to get a personal advantage.
Rejecting his claims, Mr Taggart said: "No, I don't believe it's John or myself trying to obtain any benefit having invested millions in the group."
With his PA's inquiry having also referred to an investor being due a £25,000 "finder's fee" discount on an apartment purchase, the businessman argued that the concerns were about setting a possible precedent.
The barrister pressed him by saying Mr McHugh was trying to protect his own professional reputation.
"He didn't want to be involved as the managing director or financial director of a group that was guilty of this sort of inappropriate corporate governance," he said.
Mr Taggart stressed the issue was resolved with the deposit being increased by £10,000 per unit.
The barrister put it to him that he was told his initial inquiry would not be allowed.
"Can you explain why it didn't occur to you that it was contrary to good corporate governance, to stop you asking that which you shouldn't ask?"
Mr Taggart said: "I have no idea. I asked the question at the time and Mr McHugh gave me the answer and I was satisfied."
He added that he had sold thousands of houses over the years where the bank accepted deposits of as low as £1,000.
It was suggested, however, that the issue "goes to the very heart of your competence as a director".
Disputing the assessment, Mr Taggart told the court: "I had over 80 companies and I don't recall any issues when the final reports were completed for the conduct of the directors in the companies."
The case continues.
But Darrell Clarke's side will wonder how they failed to turn a sixth successive draw into victory at the Macron Stadium.
Apart from 15 minutes at the start when midfielder Josh Vela fired Wanderers in front with his eighth goal of the season, Rovers bossed their high-flying hosts.
Ellis Harrison missed an open goal after a blunder by goalkeeper Mark Howard. And Rovers had two penalty appeals for handball rejected in the opening period by referee Jeremy Simpson.
Bolton, who lost skipper Jay Spearing to a suspected injury at half-time, could not break out of their own half in the second period.
Howard saved from Cristian Montano and David Wheater booted substitute Luke James' effort off the line.
Eventually Moore, a 72nd-minute replacement for Montano, netted a deserved equaliser three minutes later from Billy Bodin's pass.
Ryan Sweeney then hit a post with Howard stranded and Wanderers' night to forget ended with Chris Long's 90th-minute red card for a second bookable offence.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Bristol Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Bristol Rovers 1.
Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers).
Attempt saved. Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Second yellow card to Chris Long (Bolton Wanderers).
Ryan Sweeney (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Long (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Luke James (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Adam Le Fondre replaces James Henry.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Andrew Taylor.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Liam Trotter.
Derik (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Derik (Bolton Wanderers).
Goal! Bolton Wanderers 1, Bristol Rovers 1. Byron Moore (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Billy Bodin.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Byron Moore replaces Cristian Montaño.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Viv Solomon-Otabor replaces Reece Wabara.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Mark Beevers.
James Clarke (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Reece Wabara (Bolton Wanderers).
Chris Long (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Chris Long (Bolton Wanderers).
Ryan Sweeney (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Reece Wabara (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. James Henry (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.
Foul by Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers).
David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Sweeney (Bristol Rovers).
Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers) because of an injury.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Derik.
Foul by Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers).
Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luke James (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Up to 50,000 people are due to attend a dawn service at the Australian War Memorial on 25 April, said director Brendan Nelson.
Another 30,000 are expected at a National Service later in the day.
This year's Anzac Day commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in Turkey.
Anzac Day is probably Australia's most important national occasion.
It marks the anniversary of the first bloody battle on the shores of Gallipoli - the first campaign that led to major casualties for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) during World War One - and commemorates all the conflicts that followed.
Special commemorative events will be held around the country for the centenary, as well as at Gallipoli.
The prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand will be joined at Gallipoli by Prince Charles and Prince Harry.
Dr Nelson said an Aboriginal navy serviceman would play the didgeridoo at the start of the dawn vigil, known in Australia as the Dawn Service and enacted every Anzac Day around the country.
"That is the first thing Australians will see," said Dr Nelson.
The Turkish side of the Gallipoli story has often been ignored by Australians but at this year's Canberra service, a senior officer from the Turkish military will tell the story of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Ataturk was a Turkish commander whose actions at Gallipoli were decisive in thwarting Allied plans to capture the peninsula, and who later became Turkey's first president.
The Canberra commemoration will also include a military parade with a fully-restored military gun and horses.
From Wednesday, images from the war memorial's archives of serving men and women will be projected on to the building and on Saturday six large screens will be erected so as many people as possible can watch the ceremony, Dr Nelson added.
The award is worth €315,000 (£271,184) split between four recipients.
The White Helmets were recognised for "outstanding bravery, compassion and humanitarian engagement in rescuing civilians".
The group has almost 3,000 volunteers, and claims to have saved 60,000 lives in the Syrian conflict.
The three other recipients sharing the prize, dubbed the "alternative Nobel Prize", are Mozn Hassan, an Egyptian feminist; Svetlana Gannushkina, a Russian human rights activist; and Cumhuriyet, a Turkish newspaper.
The White Helmets are internationally recognised for their rescue efforts, and have been nominated for the "real" Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced in October.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, however, downplayed the importance of the organisation's work.
In an interview with the APTN news agency, Mr Assad asked: "What did they achieve in Syria?
"How unpoliticised is the Nobel Prize? That's the other question," he said.
"I would only give a prize to whoever worked for the peace in Syria first of all by stopping the terrorists from blowing war on Syria, only."
In a statement announcing the laureates, the award's organisers said the Syria Civil Defence's "deep commitment to humanitarian action" had "drawn international attention to the plight of Syria's citizens and the devastation caused by barrel bombs".
Speaking about all four recipients, executive director of the prize, Ole von Uexkull, said: "We do not only celebrate their courage, compassion and commitment; we also celebrate the success of their work, against all odds, and the real difference they are making in the world today."
In response to the award, the group tweeted that it was "humbled" and "proud".
The White Helmets are also the subject of a documentary film released on streaming service Netflix earlier this month.
Previous winners of the Right Livelihood Award include US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, Alan Rusbridger, editor of UK newspaper The Guardian, and Gino Strada, an Italian war surgeon.
Emergency services were called to Ferry Road at about 02:00 on Tuesday.
A man rescued by firefighters was rushed to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, while a child from another property was taken to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
Police officers were working with fire crews to establish the cause of the blaze.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Police in Edinburgh are carrying out a joint investigation with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service following a fire in Ferry Road in the early hours of Tuesday January 3.
"A man was taken to the ERI for treatment, where he remains in a critical condition.
"A child from another property was taken to the Sick Kids hospital as a precaution."
She added: "Inquiries to rule out any suspicious circumstances are ongoing and at an early stage."
A woman from County Clare was taken by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick last week.
But her family said it was more than a day before she was given a bed.
At Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, another 101-year-old woman was left on a trolley for 26 hours.
The hospital is reviewing that case.
Mary Fogarty, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, called for a review at University Hospital Limerick.
Davies Vet Specialists is holding the blood collection session at its practice in Higham Gobion.
The charity, Pet Blood Bank, collects the blood which is then stored and supplied to veterinary practices across the UK for use in transfusions.
To date, the charity has collected blood from almost 3,000 dogs.
Vanessa Ashall, veterinary surgeon at Pet Blood Bank, said: "Many people don't know about dog blood donation, but it is vital in helping to save the lives of dogs across the UK.
"One blood donation can save the lives of up to four dogs. So we would encourage dog owners who think that their dog may meet the required criteria to register their dog and come along on Saturday.
"It doesn't hurt the animal, most dogs don't even realise that they are donating blood," said Ms Ashall.
"We use local anaesthetic cream to prevent discomfort, and we find that by making lots of fuss and giving reassurance the dogs are very happy."
Not all dogs are suited to giving blood. A good temperament is essential, as the dog will need to sit quietly for about 10 minutes while the procedure takes place.
The size and weight of the dog is also important.
"You want a fit and healthy dog of a reasonable weight - a little Yorkshire terrier isn't going to donate a lot of blood," Ms Ashall said.
"We like the dogs to weigh more than 25kg (four stone)."
The charity is particularly calling for owners of negative blood type breeds such as greyhounds, boxers, Doberman pinschers, German shepherds, flat coated retrievers, Rottweilers, Wiemaraners and bull mastiffs, to register their dog to give blood.
Hilary and Nick Jones, from Hertfordshire, will be taking two of their dogs, Jethro, a rare working English setter and Amos, a show-bred English setter, to the donation session.
It will be Jethro's fourth time giving blood but a first occasion for Amos.
Ms Jones said: "It's very important to us to support the Pet Blood Bank. Many years ago our setter needed major surgery as a young dog and this also involved a blood transfusion.
"If blood hadn't been available at the time we would never have had the joy of owning him for a further 12 years."
Any owners with potential dog donors can register their dog for the session on Saturday, 26 March 2011 between 1230 GMT and 1830 GMT at Pet Blood Bank UK.
Lord Justice Goldring said the jury at the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans will have to consider whether the changes were ordered to deflect criticism or blame fans.
The disaster took place in April 1989 during an FA Cup semi-final.
The coroner added none of the 96 should be blamed for their deaths.
As he set out some of the topics which will arise during the hearing, he asked the jury to consider the "conduct of the fans, or some of them, excluding those who died".
Lord Justice Goldring added: "I phrase it in that way because I don't believe anyone will suggest that the conduct of those who died in any way contributed to their deaths."
Lord Justice Goldring set out "some of the issues that may arise" during the inquests, including:
The jury was told senior ranks and lawyers at South Yorkshire Police reviewed all self-taken statements by officers present at the disaster and amended some of them before forwarding them on to West Midlands Police, who were investigating the events.
The coroner said since the disaster it had become known that statements had been amended, with the changes "varying in type and significance".
Lord Justice Goldring said: "Some simply involve corrections of language and factual error. Others involve removing expletives.
"A number involved the removal of comments criticising the police leadership on the day of the disaster. A small number were amended to remove comments which were critical or even abusive of the fans at the match."
He added some comments about "poor and defective radio communications" were also removed or changed.
The coroner told the jury they would have to consider whether the amendments affect their view of the "reliability" of early written statements given by the officers.
He added they would have to ask why they were amended, if it was an "innocent" alteration or "part of a policy of blaming fans in order to deflect criticism from the police".
The jury, consisting of seven women and four men, were also told about previous inquests in 1990.
Lord Justice Goldring said: "The hearings were brief, few questions were asked of the witnesses, the bereaved families and their representatives were not given disclosure of the source documents in advance."
The inquest heard the coroner in the previous hearings took the decision that all of the victims were beyond help after 15:15.
On this point, the jury at the fresh inquests were told: "From the start this was a highly controversial decision which many of the bereaved families very strongly disputed. We shall not follow that course."
The coroner has concluded his opening statements, with the hearing due to continue on Thursday.
It follows a case in which a nurse with terminal breast cancer was quoted a minimum of £2,800 for travel insurance for a trip to Dubai.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that sufferers can sometimes find travel insurance more expensive than the rest of their holiday.
It has asked the industry to come up with ideas for helping such consumers.
The woman with breast cancer eventually found insurance for £800, through a specialist provider.
Such providers can sell insurance cover "at a fraction of the cost", the FCA said.
But they are not well known and rarely appear on mainstream price comparison sites, it added.
"Financial services need to be able to adapt to the changing circumstances that life throws at people, rather than being designed for the perfect consumer who never experiences difficulty," the FCA said.
The FCA worked with the Macmillan cancer charity to gain an insight into the difficulties faced by patients trying to access financial services.
"Every day we hear from people who are having trouble accessing travel insurance," said Lynda Thomas, chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support.
"They may have been quoted sky-high prices, had their cancer excluded from cover or had to deal with endless phone calls or mountains of paperwork in order to apply for a policy."
Industry bodies such as the Association of British Insurers and the British Insurance Brokers Association already operate a code of practice for vulnerable and disabled customers.
However, the FCA said it expected more to be done to help them.
The ABI advised people to approach specialist firms to get the best deals.
"Travel insurance is widely available for people who have long-term and serious health conditions, including people who have cancer," said the ABI's head of conduct regulation, James Bridge.
"For customers that are struggling to find cover, we would advise approaching a specialist provider, who should be able to offer insurance based on their particular circumstances, including what type of illness they have."
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Mr Aspinwall had been diagnosed with cancer and passed away at his home in Willsbridge near Bristol, surrounded by his family earlier on Tuesday.
He represented the former Kingswood constituency from the May 1979 general election until his retirement in 1997.
Mr Aspinwall had previously stood as a Liberal Party candidate but changed his political allegiance in 1979.
He had represented Kingswood between 1979 and 1983 and, after a boundary change, the then Wansdyke constituency between 1983 and 1997.
The seat was lost to Labour's Dan Norris in 1997 before the constituency, which again became Kingswood, was regained by the Tories in 2010 by Chris Skidmore.
Paying tribute, the Conservative MP said Mr Aspinwall inspired him to enter politics.
"I first helped out leafleting for him when I was 11, and he chaired my selection as the Conservative candidate in Kingswood in 2008," he said.
"He was delighted that Kingswood had a Conservative MP once more, and was always there to help, to pass on his wisdom and experience that I was so grateful for.
"My thoughts go out to Brenda, and Jack's family, but I am sure that they will be proud of a remarkable life, lived to the full in the selfless dedication to public service".
The former Labour MP Terry Walker, who held the Kingswood seat between 1974 to 1979, said: "Jack made a considerable contribution to the life of Kingswood and the surrounding area and he will be remembered with affection."
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When people say mental health, they are talking about how people think and feel, and how they are coping with things that are happening in their life.
It is completely normal to feel sad, angry or worried from time to time. But when those feelings won't go away and they start to really affect day-to-day life, that is when there can be a problem.
Many people can find it difficult to open up when they are struggling with their mental health.
Read this guide to find out more about why it's really important that people feel they can talk about mental health problems, and to get advice if you feel that it is something that's affecting you.
Coleraine's Peter Chambers will compete in the lightweight single sculls.
Fellow Coleraine man Joel Cassells will race in the lightweight pair with partner Sam Scrimgeour.
Enniskillen's Holly Nixon will stroke the women's quadruple sculls and Belfast's Rebecca Shorten will do likewise for the women's eight.
Chambers returns after missing the second World Cup in Poznan but takes part in the lightweight singles sculls rather than the double sculls as Englishman Will Fletcher is currently injured.
Lightweight men's pair duo Cassells and Scrimgeour continue their partnership as they fine tune their race plan ahead of September's World Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida.
Illness to Jess Leyden forced the women's quadruple sculls to miss Poznan after they'd won a bronze medal at the European Championships in May.
Leyden is replaced by Alice Baatz and she joins regulars Nixon, Beth Bryan and Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne.
Shorten will once again stroke the women's eight in Lucerne as they hope to continue their progress that saw them claim a silver medal in Poznan.
The pudding was donated to the microbiology department to see if it was still fit to eat.
University of Nottingham's Christine Dodd was convinced it posed no threat to her students as it was steamed for five hours first.
The verdict: "It tastes amazing - honestly!"
The pudding, which contains fruit, bread crumbs and brandy among other ingredients, was located in the kitchen of a house.
Mrs Dodd said the results from laboratory tests will not be ready until after Christmas - but the tasters all agreed it was "a little bit dry but very good flavour".
She said any bacteria in the pudding would not have survived the five hours of steaming - and the potent combination of alcohol and fruit.
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The researchers were told the pudding was made for the wedding of a relative in 1969 and has the date marked on it.
"We were interested to see just how well it had kept," Mrs Dodd said, adding they wanted to see "whether there was anything still 'live' in there and what condition it was in".
The laboratory results will take several weeks to complete and will be put on the university website.
Keith Boots, 55, who was a West Yorkshire Police officer for more than 20 years, allegedly stole drugs from police stores to supply others.
They included cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and cannabis.
Prosecutors described his home in Eccleshill, Bradford, as resembling "a warehouse of controlled drugs".
Leeds Crown Court heard the large store of drugs was found when colleagues raided Boots's home in Norman Lane, in December 2014.
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Prosecutor Paul Greaney QC said: "He was stealing and storing drugs so that they could then be supplied unlawfully to others.
"In other words, the Boots operation did not just involve the theft of drugs that had been removed from the streets by the police, it also involved putting them back on to those same streets and the person principally responsible was Keith Boots, a police inspector."
The drugs were in different places, including his washing machine, and ammunition was also found, the court heard.
Mr Greaney described it as "a unique case", adding that it was as "simple as it was wicked".
Mr Greaney said that in December 2014 Boots was stationed at Trafalgar House station in Bradford.
He said the raid on Boots's home happened after a colleague noticed cocaine missing from the station store.
Keith Boots went on trial on Wednesday with his son Ashley Boots and a third defendant, Ian Mitchell.
He denies theft, possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply, possessing ammunition, conspiracy to supply controlled drugs, conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Ashley Boots, 29, of Weatherhouse Terrace, Halifax, denies possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply, possessing ammunition, conspiracy to supply controlled drugs, conspiracy to steal andconspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Ian Mitchell, 27, of no fixed address, denies conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
The trial continues.
Mr Trump said he held back "because he didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings".
In a Fox News interview, he also accused moderator Lester Holt of being tougher on him than on Mrs Clinton.
Overnight polls with small samples were split on who won, but more rigorous surveys are due in the coming days.
Research firm Nielsen said 84 million Americans watched Monday's debate at home.
It fell short of the 100 million viewers some had predicted, but broke the record of 80.6 million viewers who tuned in for the 1980 presidential debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
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Asked how he felt about the debate on the television news programme Fox and Friends on Tuesday, Mr Trump said it had gone well, but complained that Mr Holt had not pressed Mrs Clinton on her "scandals".
"He didn't ask her about the emails, he didn't ask her about the scandals, he didn't ask her about the Benghazi deal. He didn't ask her about a lot of things he should have asked her about. Why? I don't know," he said.
He said he felt tempted to bring up "the many affairs that Bill Clinton had", but held back because the Clintons' daughter Chelsea was in the audience.
"I may hit her harder in certain ways. I really eased up because I didn't want to hurt anybody's feelings," he added.
Asked whether Hillary Clinton had got under his skin, Mr Trump said "at the end maybe, at the very last question".
Mrs Clinton had brought up the case of Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe, saying Mr Trump called her "Miss Piggy" after she gained weight.
But Mr Trump brushed away her accusation said Ms Machado had "gained a massive amount of weight" making it a problem for the Miss Universe pageants, of which he was the owner.
After the debate, Mrs Clinton posted a campaign video in which Ms Machado describes how she had been treated by Mr Trump.
I don't subscribe to the theory that Mr Trump overwhelming lost the debate last night. But he may well have lost it this morning. Mr Trump should sue his campaign for political malpractice.
Why on earth was he allowed to go on morning TV and say former beauty pageant winner Alicia Machado had "gained a massive amount of weight. It was a real problem."
That, or, better, he should look in the mirror and have a long hard think about his obsession with the way women look.
No woman likes to be told her own weight is a problem and most women don't really like men telling other women that their weight is a problem either.
Weight is an intensely personal, sensitive and often tricky issue for women and it is something women talk about a lot among themselves, usually with empathy and support.
So we circle the wagons when a man talks disparagingly about a girlfriend's weight. "Miss Piggy" is about as bad as it gets.
Mr Trump also said his microphone was "terrible" and crackled, and that his volume was lower than Hillary Clinton's microphone. He blamed this for what some listeners thought were sniffles by Mr Trump during the debate.
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A CNN/ORC poll taken after the debate found that 62% of voters who had watched the head-to-head thought that Mrs Clinton came out on top, with just 27% giving it to Mr Trump.
This is based on interviews with 521 registered voters chosen as part of a random national sample. But only 26% identified themselves as Republicans while 41% identified themselves as Democrats.
An informal CNBC poll on its website found that 61% of people thought that Mr Trump won while 39% went for Mrs Clinton, but as CNBC itself points out, the poll is not scientific - anyone, including people outside the US, appears to be able to vote.
A post-debate survey by Public Policy Polling of 1,002 debate-watchers found that 51% of national voters thought Mrs Clinton had won, with 40% choosing Mr Trump and 9% undecided.
New York Times - The editorial board was unimpressed with the debate, saying "when just one candidate is serious and the other is a vacuous bully, the term loses all meaning". Opinion writer Nick Kristof said Trump had "hurt himself", others said Mrs Clinton had "crushed" her opponent.
Fox News - Pundits said Mr Trump had "struggled", "never took control" and "failed to exploit" the issue around Mrs Clinton's emails. "It helps to be prepared," one writer told the Republican candidate.
Breitbart - Writers at the hard-right news website said Mr Trump had "bludgeoned" Mrs Clinton on trade and accused Lester Holt of "shilling" for Mrs Clinton. Some 75% of readers said Mr Trump had won.
New York Daily News - The tabloid's verdict: "A grumpy loser! Trump pesters, interrupts Hillary throughout debate - but Clinton gets the last laugh."
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The much-vaunted role of fact-checkers in this debate was perhaps not as central as many expected it to be.
Mrs Clinton's denial that she had called the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership the "gold standard" of trade agreements was called out by fact-checkers, as was Mr Trump's denial that he had called climate change a hoax invented by the Chinese.
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Archer, 22, took a maiden first-class five-wicket haul in a devastating spell of 7-67 to combine with Ajmal Shahzad (3-91) and dismiss the away side.
Opener Sean Dickson scored a patient 68 before a 123-run stand between Darren Stevens (68) and Wayne Parnell (51 not out) earned Kent a third batting point.
Chris Nash fell lbw to Matt Coles as Sussex reached stumps at 11-1 in reply.
Playing in just his eighth first-class match, fast bowler Archer was outstanding, sending Kent opener Daniel Bell-Drummond's middle stump cart-wheeling and later dismissing Dickson and Adam Rouse in successive balls to expose the middle order at 152-6.
Kent had the partnership of Stevens and Parnell to thank, with the two all-rounders counter-attacking well before Archer returned to clean up the tail.
Hong Kong topped the rankings followed by London and Beijing.
JLL said it costs $262 per square foot per year for top-quality office space in the Chinese territory because of strong tenant demand and short supply.
Shanghai, Tokyo and Delhi also made the list, with the city state of Singapore missing the top ten by just one spot.
"A large part of the global growth is now driven out of Asia and international businesses will continue to be keen to set up their presence in the region," Chris Archibold, head of markets at JLL Singapore said.
"We are in a new era of city competition, where cities are fighting to secure the world's most dynamic corporations, attract the best talent and pull in capital, both of which are highly mobile," added Megan Walters, JLL's head of capital markets research in Asia Pacific.
"Nowhere is this intense competition between cities better epitomised than in the demand for premium office buildings in the world's most prestigious commercial office districts."
The report examined 24 global cities and occupancy costs including rent, service charges and property tax.
The child was thrown across the car's bonnet when she was hit at about 16:15 GMT in Oxford on 22 February, police said.
She was struck in Mortimer Road, near to its junction with Nowell Road.
A 19-year-old Oxford man has been charged with perverting the course of justice and failing to stop after an accident.
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The accused has also been charged with four counts of driving without a licence, four counts of driving without insurance, and failing to report an accident.
He has been remanded in custody, and ordered to appear before Oxford Magistrates' Court on 1 April.
The girl received cuts, bruises and abrasions and was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital and has since been discharged.
Karim Benzema gave the European champions the lead with a clipped finish after a Toni Kroos pass.
Cristiano Ronaldo sealed the win - and a place in Sunday's final against Kashima Antlers - by drilling a second in added time amid some confusion.
Referee Enrique Caceres briefly asked for a video assistant consultation before allowing the goal to stand.
This year's Club World Cup is the first tournament to use video assistant referees. A pitchside monitor is available to referees to review decisions.
However, Caceres did not view the incident on the monitor before restarting the game and awarding the goal.
In the other semi-final, referee Viktor Kassai stopped the game after being alerted to an incident by his assistant, then viewed footage on a monitor and gave a penalty to Kashima Antlers in their win over Atletico Nacional.
The Club World Cup features champion club sides from each of Fifa's six continental confederations.
Before Real Madrid's match began, there was a minute's silence at the Yokohama Stadium, in tribute to the victims of the air crash on 28 November that killed 71 people, including 19 players and staff of Brazilian team Chapecoense.
Ronaldo, who won the Ballon d'Or for a fourth time earlier in the week, had hit the post with a glancing header from Lucas Vazquez's cross before Benzema scored.
The Portuguese then had a shot blocked and headed wide before scoring.
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said that the uncertainty surrounded Ronaldo's late strike needs to be ironed out as new uses of technology are trialled.
Referee Caceres initially called for a video review, before independently deciding that there had been no infringement in the build-up to the goal.
"Things have to be clearer. We can not control what they want to do to improve things with technology but things have to be clearer," the former France international said.
The tournament is the first time that a pitch-side monitor has been available for referees to view footage to help them make "match-changing decisions"..
Match ends, América 0, Real Madrid 2.
Second Half ends, América 0, Real Madrid 2.
Offside, América. Rubens Sambueza tries a through ball, but Oribe Peralta is caught offside.
Goal! América 0, Real Madrid 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Rodríguez.
Nacho (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nacho (Real Madrid).
Carlos Quintero (América) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcelo.
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by José Daniel Guerrero (América).
Attempt missed. Michael Arroyo (América) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by William Da Silva.
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paolo Goltz (América).
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Pablo Aguilar.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Álvaro Morata replaces Karim Benzema.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
William Da Silva (América) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by William Da Silva (América).
Attempt saved. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.
Substitution, Real Madrid. James Rodríguez replaces Toni Kroos.
Substitution, América. Michael Arroyo replaces Silvio Romero.
Attempt missed. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carlos Quintero (América).
Foul by Marcelo (Real Madrid).
Silvio Romero (América) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, América. Carlos Quintero replaces Renato Ibarra.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Paolo Goltz.
Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.
Hand ball by Karim Benzema (Real Madrid).
Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.
Substitution, América. José Daniel Guerrero replaces Ventura Alvarado.
Attempt missed. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a cross following a set piece situation.
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Miguel Samudio (América).
Offside, Real Madrid. Luka Modric tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside.
Foul by Raphael Varane (Real Madrid).
Oribe Peralta (América) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Luka Modric (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Writer and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge will appear in the two-week run at the Soho Theatre in December.
Tickets for the 13 performances sold out within about 10 minutes of going on sale on Friday, the theatre said.
Fleabag was born when Waller-Bridge performed a series of short plays at the theatre before taking the character to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013.
It then returned to Soho before being commissioned as a television series by BBC Three. It later moved to BBC Two and the series has received more than a million iPlayer requests this year.
Fleabag is a dark comedy in which Waller-Bridge plays a sarcastic, sex-obsessed young woman attempting to navigate modern life in London.
Waller-Bridge told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the show's stage origins helped her develop the TV series.
"I essentially had two months worth of build up to that performance you see on the screen, which is a luxury that few screen actors have," she said.
"In the show, people would laugh, so I'd go, 'Tick, that's staying in, I know how to perform that'. I was testing material and creating the right performance.
"The moment it was just me talking to a camera, I had to keep bringing back the echoes of that audience reaction because otherwise I wouldn't have known how to pitch it so specifically I guess."
The TV version received warm reviews from critics, with The Guardian describing it as "utterly riveting", while the Radio Times praised its "unusual, clever and brave depiction of a female world in disarray".
The Telegraph described the show as "a gloriously rude, and far funnier, update of Bridget Jones".
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But how much influence do the front pages, social media and broadcasters have on the way we will vote?
The Sun and The Times have both taken different sides in the Brexit debate, while Welsh titles are among those that have hinted at an allegiance.
Politicians have long courted a supportive front page but one newspaper veteran is sceptical of the practice.
Mario Basini covered countless elections for the Western Mail, although he has confessed his memories of the 1975 European referendum are hazy.
Nevertheless, he has been in the business long enough to form the opinion that a newspaper's endorsement is over-egged.
"I've always been extremely weary about whether or not the printed press actually leads public opinion," he said.
"It has always seemed to me that the most practiced, professional exponents have always been able to tune in to what the public want very, very quickly and take the argument on from there."
Mr Basini added that the current referendum campaign has needed little encouragement from hard-nosed newspaper hacks.
"This time it seems to me the difference is you don't need the hyperbolic sub-editors or the hyperbolic headline writers to create hot air and sensationalism, because all of that is coming from the politicians themselves," he said.
"In this case it's the politicians who are leading the journalists."
So if the printed press is not influencing voters, who is paying attention? The answer is the rest of the media, according to Dr Mike Berry from Cardiff University.
"The press doesn't just influence public opinion, it also has an impact on other news outlets, particularly the broadcasters," he said.
"Newspapers have a direct influence on the audience, they have an influence as well in terms of setting the agenda in other parts of the media, and they also have an effect on policy makers and politicians themselves.
"Alistair Campbell, famously, was very interested not so much in the broadsheets but in how things were reported in the tabloids, because there was an expectation that the tabloids were very significant in influencing public opinion."
Talking about the influence of the press may seem outdated when circulations have plunged since the famous front pages of the past.
While the newspapers' online sites are generally matching their printed coverage of the referendum, the furnace of the online debate is fired by social media.
Thousands of messages flood Twitter during every hour of the referendum campaign. Short statements argue one side or the other, sometimes sharing the latest campaign image or publicity stunt.
The fog of comment can be hard to penetrate. But one Welsh company has been wading through the messages in an attempt to present a clearer picture of social media's reaction to the EU referendum.
Cardiff-based Blurrt has worked with Twitter and the Press Association to convert millions of tweets into graphs and visualisations that show the strength of feeling, and the personalities getting the most attention.
Blurrt chief executive Jason Smith said its research showed Vote Leave was "getting more traction on Twitter than the Remain campaign".
"They probably see themselves as the underdog, so for them to overcome the natural obstacles that are in place, they and their supporters will promote themselves a lot more on social media than perhaps the Remain campaign, where it's more of a status quo," he said.
Mr Smith said there were "spikes in conversations" on social media in reaction to campaign events reported by the mainstream press, but that its research showed much of the online debate was tinged with negativity.
"We measure not just the sentiment but the emotions that people are expressing. What's quite striking is the very strong negativity that's being expressed, in terms of fear and anger."
With just a few days to go, both sides will be shouting even louder in print, online and on air as polling day approaches.
The woman was confronted in her bedroom in Colne, Lancashire, by a man who had got into the house through a window, police said.
The offender grabbed the victim by the face and tried to remove her clothes before committing a serious sexual assault early on Sunday morning.
A 25-year-old man from Nelson has been arrested on suspicion of rape.
The attacks happened outside the BetFred bookmakers in Hecla Square, Drumchapel, on 8 April.
Two 38-year-old men were taken to hospital with stab wounds.
The arrested man is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.
In his first broadcast interview, Kweku Adoboli told the BBC that banking was still riven by conflicts of interest.
He added that traders were pushed to make profits "no matter what".
Asked if the crimes he committed - booking fictitious trades to cover up gambles in the hunt for profits - could happen again, he said: "Absolutely".
Adoboli - the biggest rogue trader in British history and described by the prosecution at his trial as a "master fraudster" and "sophisticated liar" - now faces deportation to Ghana, where he was born.
He said he is fighting the order as he is as "British in culture" as anyone living in the UK and could help the finance sector to reform by sharing his experiences.
After coming out of prison a year ago, 36-year-old Adoboli, who has lived in Britain since he was 12, said he had been prevented from taking paid work.
He is living with friends in Edinburgh and speaks for free at banking compliance conferences.
I asked him if behaviour in banking had changed since he was found guilty in 2012 of two counts of fraud and sentenced to seven years in prison.
"No, certainly not," he answered.
"I think the young people I've spoken to, former colleagues I have spoken to, are still struggling with the same issues, the same conflicts, the same pressures to achieve no matter what.
"And this goes back to the structure of the industry. People are required to take risk to generate profit, because yields in the industry are consistently compressed.
"And if investment banks continue to chase the same level of profitability as they have in the past, the only way to generate those profits is to take more risk.
"But from a politics angle, the desire is to limit that risk taking, to limit the profitability, but you have these conflicted goals.
"And where the conflict comes is where people fall into this grey zone, and so I think it can absolutely happen again.
"Especially as we go into what could be the next phase of the great financial crisis over the next 12 to 24 months."
Adoboli said that he was sorry for his actions, which at one stage had the potential to undermine the whole operation of UBS after his possible losses rose to over £8bn ($10.6bn).
His actions included setting up secret internal slush funds and booking fictitious deals to hide the amount of risk he was taking.
Multi-million pound bets on movements in the stock markets also failed to come off.
He claimed others at the bank knew of his actions and he was put under enormous pressure to make high levels of profit.
UBS has denied that anyone else knew what Adoboli was doing and no charges have been brought against any other UBS traders.
A number testified in court that Adoboli had been operating alone.
I asked him if he should apologise.
"Absolutely," he said.
"I am devastated not for myself but for my institution and the people I have worked with.
"The very first thing I did when I was arrested was say I'm sorry beyond words and I said it through my lawyers, but that is what I said.
"During my trial I said it repeatedly.
"And these are not just devices. It's how I feel, I failed. I made mistakes.
"People around me made mistakes too, but that's not the point.
"I unreservedly apologise for what happened - it was a huge failure and part of the redemption is about that.
"Part of rehabilitation is about facing up to your choices, what was wrong with them, and how do you move forward.
"The only way to move forward is to face it with full honesty.
"I went to prison for it. I was asked to pay a price, to accept my dishonesty.
"To accept that I was charged and found guilty of a criminal offence."
Adoboli is one of the few bankers to be jailed in the UK since the financial crisis.
I asked him if more people in the finance sector should face prison after fraudulent behaviour was found in a number of different markets including foreign exchange and the setting of inter-bank interest rates, known as Libor.
"I think people need to be held to account for their failings but I'm not entirely sure - and this is a rather controversial view - I'm not entirely sure blame and sending people to prison is the answer," he said.
"It might help society to know people are being held to account but it doesn't solve the problems.
"This is why I say blame is not the answer.
"People do need to be held to account. I went to prison. I learned from it."
I asked Adoboli if he thought of himself as a criminal.
"I don't think of myself as a criminal," he answered.
"It's a label I have.
"A lot of work has been done through my time in prison and with my friends and family to make sure I'm not left with this sense of - you are [only] a criminal.
"[Yes] you made a terrible mistake.
"You made a sequence of terrible choices, but your intentions were always in the right place.
"I accept I was found guilty of a crime that had dishonesty central to it."
Marine Jonathan Crookes from 40 Commando Royal Marines was killed in an explosion while on foot patrol in Sangin on Friday.
Sgt David Monkhouse, 35, from Royal Dragoon Guards, died on Saturday after an explosion in Nahr-e Saraj.
Airman Kinikki Griffiths, 20, died in a road accident near Camp Bastion.
The three were among four UK servicemen killed in Afghanistan in 24 hours.
Marine Crookes, 26, from Halesowen, West Midlands, was a reservist on his third deployment to Afghanistan, having volunteered for service in 2007 and 2009.
His fiancée Danni Davies said: "I can't explain how much I loved him but I am so very proud of him."
Marine Crookes' mother Sue Crookes said: "Jon was a caring, thoughtful son, full of life. If he made up his mind to do something he always achieved it to a high standard."
Outside of the Royal Marines he was studying for a degree in International Relations and worked as a tree surgeon and labourer.
Exceptional soldier
Sgt Monkhouse, a medical technician from Aspatria, Cumbria, was described as a devoted father, an "exceptional" soldier and a "character".
He leaves his mother, Bobby, sister Deborah and daughter, Daisy-Twinkle.
In a statement, his family said: "He was an exceptional soldier and loving and devoted parent. He would not have changed his life for anything."
Based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, Senior Aircraftman Kinikki Griffiths was selected as his flight commander's signaller and driver and he died while carrying out those duties near Camp Bastion in Helmand, according to the Ministry of Defence.
Wing Commander Paul Weaver Smith said: "Kinikki was the consummate professional gunner and, even at this early stage, had much promise; he will be sorely missed by all who knew him in the RAF Regiment.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and girlfriend at this very difficult time."
Squadron Leader David Crook said: "He loved his job, took pride in his work, and gave his all to every task he was given.
"But more importantly, Kinikki was an affable, modest and thoughtful young man, who was a pleasure to know, and whom I had the privilege to command."
She met State Duma (lower house) Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and his deputy Pyotr Tolstoy.
German officials have warned that Russia could try to influence voting in September's general election.
The AfD campaigns against what it calls the "Islamisation" of Germany.
Firebrand nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky - a fierce critic of Nato and Western liberals - was among the MPs who met Ms Petry. His Liberal Democratic Party is politically close to United Russia, the pro-Putin party that dominates Russian politics.
Who is Frauke Petry?
What does Alternative for Germany (AfD) want?
The AfD opposes Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal immigration policy and her tough stance on Russia, instead calling for a new rapprochement with Moscow.
That echoes the French National Front (FN) position towards Mr Putin. FN leader Marine Le Pen has also forged links with pro-Putin Russian MPs.
Recent opinion polls suggest that the AfD could get about 11% in the September Bundestag (parliament) election. In the 2013 election the party did not reach the 5% threshold required to win seats.
The AfD is especially strong in Germany's former communist east, where many remain suspicious of liberal Western capitalism.
There is also growing concern about possible Russian interference in Western elections after US intelligence sources accused Russian hackers of breaking into Democrat and Republican computer systems.
Dutch officials have said they will count all votes in their general election next month by hand to counter the threat of hacking.
Russia was also accused of spreading fake news on influential social networks.
The Kremlin has strongly denied the US allegations.
A Duma statement about Ms Petry's talks said they covered "inter-party co-operation and developing contacts between youth organisations".
Gina Hauenstein, who came from a small village in northern Switzerland, had been listed as officially missing since 2000.
In January this year her son Marco, who spent his childhood with foster parents in another part of the country, posted a Facebook appeal for information about the mother he last saw as an infant.
His story captured attention across Europe, prompting new enquiries - until Swiss police confirmed that the remains of Gina Hauenstein had actually been found just across the border in Germany in 2013.
Marco did not have an easy start in life.
He knew very little about his birth family, but he did know that his mother had been a drug addict, and is believed to have spent time during the 1990s in Zurich's then-notorious Platzspitz drugs scene, where addicts bought heroin in a city centre park and injected it openly.
When Marco was born in 1997, he was already addicted, and had to spend the first months of his life in hospital withdrawing and recovering.
Although his mother visited him from time to time, he never lived with her, and when Marco was just three, she disappeared.
Although Marco describes his childhood with foster parents as happy, he says questions about his birth family were "always on my mind".
His search first started when he was around 16, and he began by asking local town councils in the region of Switzerland his mother had come from. He also made enquiries with the police.
No information was forthcoming. Police told him that despite a search both within Switzerland and across Europe, no trace of her had ever been found.
Only when an appeal Marco made on Facebook began to attract attention - it was shared thousands of times in just a few days - did Swiss police look again at their records.
They discovered that in 2013 they had been contacted by German police, with news that human bones had been found in a village just across the border from Gina Hauenstein's home town in Switzerland.
The results of a forensic examination by Swiss investigators confirmed the bones were Gina's.
Local police in her home town were informed in 2015, but inexplicably that information never reached either Gina's family or the German authorities investigating the remains.
This week, Swiss police visited Marco and broke the news, apologising for a mistake they admit should never have happened.
Marco, who patiently gave many interviews when he first launched his Facebook appeal just four weeks ago, is now taking time for himself to digest the news.
He has not posted on Facebook since January. While not quite the happy end he had hoped for, there was at least one positive development.
"Danke! Thank you! Merci!" he wrote. "Thanks to your help, on 20 January, I was able to meet my uncle and my grandmother for the first time. It was a very emotional moment.
"At last, I have part of my family back."
Stirling farmer Martyn Steedman bought the Sea King helicopter in an online MoD auction for £7,000 and decided turn it into accommodation.
It will cater for a family of five and will have a dining area in the cockpit, a mini kitchen and an en-suite shower.
The helicopter retired from active service in 1994 and was used in naval training until 2002.
The idea for the conversion came to Mr Steedman during the Sea Kings' final fly past over Stirling earlier this year, which marked the end of active service for the entire fleet.
He said: "We couldn't bear to see these much-loved helicopters go on the scrapheap and thought 'why not give one a new life in the country?'
The 17m (56ft) long Sea King ZA127 aircraft was driven 320 miles by road from Grantham, Lincolnshire, to Mains Farm Wigwams, Thornhill, Stirlingshire, on Tuesday before a crane lifted it into position at the campsite.
That's a line from Naomi Alderman's book The Power, the only novel to appear on this year's longlist for the Orwell Book Prize for political writing.
It imagines a world in which almost every woman suddenly develops the ability to electrocute people at will - "from a tiny tingle all the way to full electro-death".
On her website, Alderman says her "feminist science-fiction" novel explores what would happen if women had the power to cause pain and destruction.
Fourteen books in total - including works on Brexit, FGM and the impact of the Hillsborough disaster - are in the running for the £3,000 award.
The prize is named after George Orwell, whose dystopian classic 1984 re-entered the book charts earlier this year.
Other books on the list include All Out War, Tim Shipman's contemporary history of the EU referendum campaign; and Black and British, in which David Olusoga charts the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa.
Also in the running is Hibo Wardere's memoir Cut, about female genital mutilation in Britain.
Revealing the longlist, the judges said it offered "a clear and calm perspective on Britain and its place in the world".
The shortlist will be announced on 15 May, and the winner on Thursday 8 June.
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James Boyce told the High Court in Glasgow he was getting a facial and massage at Blythswood Hotel.
The 31-year-old was giving evidence at the trial of William Burns and Alexander Porter, who deny attempting to murder Ross Sherlock.
Mr Boyce has been named as the gunman in a special defence of incrimination lodged by Mr Burns.
Mr Burns, 56, and Mr Porter, 48, both from Paisley, deny attempting to murder Mr Sherlock by repeatedly discharging a handgun at him on 24 September 2015 at Dornoch Place and Ronaldsay Drive, Bishopbriggs.
In evidence, Mr Boyce told prosecutor Richard Goddard that he went to the hotel with his partner because there was a special deal on.
The jury was shown an appointments book from the spa which showed the couple checked in at 14:07.
Mr Boyce: "We went earlier, there was a swimming pool, a steam room and a sauna."
The court heard that Mr Boyce was interviewed by police in relation to the shooting after DNA matching his was found on a taping taken from three gun cartridges discovered at the scene.
Mr Boyce was questioned and released without charge after telling detectives he had an alibi.
Mr Goddard asked Mr Boyce: "It may be suggested to you you were at the shooting and you pulled the trigger, and he said: "I don't want to answer that in case I incriminate myself."
He was asked if he knew Ross Sherlock and replied: "I don't want to answer that."
Mr Boyce also refused to say when he was asked how DNA matching his was found on one or more of the cartridges.
The jury heard that the treatments were originally booked for 15:15, but that was changed to 15:45.
Defence counsel Thomas Ross, representing Mr Burns, asked who had changed the appointment and Mr Boyce replied: "I've not got a clue."
Mr Ross said: "That puts the appointment back a further half hour from the shooting at Bishopbriggs," and Mr Boyce replied: "Yes."
Before giving evidence, Mr Boyce was warned by judge Lord Matthews that he did not need to answer questions which might incriminate him.
Mr Ross asked Mr Boyce if he remembered the murder of Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll in 2010 and he confirmed he did.
The defence counsel then asked: "Do you remember Ross Monaghan was charged with this," and he replied: "Aye, it was a big story."
Mr Boyce was then asked if he knew Ross Monaghan and replied: "I don't want to answer that."
Mr Ross went on: "Do you know if Ross Monaghan is friends with Ross Sherlock," and he replied: "I don't want to answer that."
Earlier the court heard from forensic scientist and firearms expert Colin Murphy who said that in his opinion three shots were fired in Dornoch Place, Bishopbriggs, on 24 September 2015.
Another forensic scientist Martin Fairley told the jury that a burned-out silver Volkswagen Golf which was found in Bishopbriggs shortly after the shooting had DNA matching that of Mr Porter on the driver's door handle.
Defence counsel Susan Duff, representing Porter, asked Mr Fairley: "You can say there is DNA on the door handle, but you can't say when or under what circumstances it got there," and he replied: "That's correct."
Mr Burns and Mr Porter also deny assaulting journalist Russell Findlay to the danger of his life at his home in the west end of Glasgow on 23 December 2015 by throwing sulphuric acid in his face.
Mr Burns has lodged a special defence of alibi in relation to the attempted murder of Mr Sherlock, claiming he was working at Guinea Enviro in Maryhill, Glasgow, at the time.
He has also lodged a special defence incriminating James Boyce for the shooting.
The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.
Ecila Henderson stabbed 69-year-old Rosemary Armstrong 22 times when her mother came to visit her at her flat in Pokesdown, Bournemouth, in August 2010.
Henderson, who is detained in a mental health unit, claimed more than £300,000 from the trust, saying the death arose from inadequate care.
Her barrister said he hoped to appeal against the ruling.
Following the stabbing, Henderson was disarmed by a police officer after being spotted carrying a bloodstained knife in the street.
An independent inquiry later criticised the care she received from her health trust.
The inquiry said a health worker had reported Henderson's condition had deteriorated before the killing, but steps to recall her to inpatient care were inadequate.
Henderson was later convicted of manslaughter by way of diminished responsibility.
She sued Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust for a range of losses, including her inheritance from her mother and her time incarcerated.
Legal firm DAC Beachcroft, defending the trust, said Henderson, now aged 45, was seeking to overturn a legal principle which prohibits a person from recovering damages for the consequences of their crimes.
It said it successfully argued that the principle, known as illegality, still applied where claimants had any degree of criminal responsibility in the case.
The former Manchester United man, who took charge following John Sheridan's sacking, could not stop his side crashing to a 10th-straight defeat.
The Shrimps had the perfect start as they took the lead after just two minutes. Lee Molyneux received the ball on the right and cut inside before firing a low left-footed effort that beat Scott Loach low to his right.
The home side continued to be a threat with Molyneux wasting a glorious chance for a second when he skewed a free shot wide before Paul Mullin forced Loach into a fine save with a shot from the edge of the box.
The pressure paid off for the hosts with Mullin adding a second on 27 minutes when he was in the right place at the right time to slot home the loose ball after Loach could only parry a Kevin Ellison cross back into the danger area.
Four minutes later it was 3-0 when the Shrimps were awarded a penalty for a Richard Duffy foul on Mullin, and Michael Rose stepped up to send Loach the wrong way from the spot.
The Magpies were given a lifeline when Morecambe midfielder Andy Fleming received a straight-red card for a tackle on Curtis Thompson on the stroke of half-time.
Despite dominating the possession in the second half, the visitors rarely threatened the Morecambe goal.
Barry Roche produced one superb save to deny Adam Campbell before the visitors pulled one back nine minutes from time with a neat finish by Jonathan Forte from a Jon Stead lay-off.
As the visitors pushed forward the home side added a fourth at the death when Kevin Ellison slotted home the rebound after substitute Luke Jordan hit the woodwork following a fine run and shot.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Morecambe 4, Notts County 1.
Second Half ends, Morecambe 4, Notts County 1.
Michael O'Connor (Notts County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luke Jordan (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Michael O'Connor (Notts County).
Goal! Morecambe 4, Notts County 1. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Luke Jordan (Morecambe) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Attempt missed. Elliott Hewitt (Notts County) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Dean Winnard.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Peter Murphy.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Barry Roche.
Attempt saved. Jon Stead (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Morecambe. Peter Murphy replaces Luke Conlan.
Attempt missed. Robert Milsom (Notts County) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Jon Stead (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Liam Wakefield (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Morecambe 3, Notts County 1. Jonathan Forte (Notts County) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jon Stead.
Attempt saved. Adam Campbell (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Aaron Collins (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Morecambe. Luke Jordan replaces Paul Mullin.
Substitution, Notts County. Aaron Collins replaces Curtis Thompson.
Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Dean Winnard.
Attempt blocked. Adam Campbell (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Morecambe. Alex Kenyon replaces Aaron Wildig.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Forte (Notts County) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Jonathan Forte (Notts County) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Notts County. Jonathan Forte replaces Samuel Osborne.
Attempt blocked. Jon Stead (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Liam Wakefield.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Dean Winnard.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Liam Wakefield.
Attempt blocked. Adam Campbell (Notts County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Carl Dickinson.
Attempt missed. Stanley Aborah (Notts County) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Luke Conlan.
Around 53% agreed that those convicted of crimes ranging from murder to benefit fraud should be deported.
Fabrice Moscheni, of the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), which drew up the measure, said "people we welcome in Switzerland should respect the rules of this country".
But opponents said it was another example of increasing xenophobia.
The SVP was behind last year's referendum that imposed a ban on the building of Islamic minarets. That decision was condemned by human rights groups and foreign governments.
The SVP says immigrants to Switzerland are disproportionately responsible for crime. It points to the fact that more than 60% of prison inmates do not have Swiss nationality.
But opponents say the measures go too far. The children of immigrants do not automatically get Swiss citizenship, so the rule would mean sending some people who were born and brought up in Switzerland to countries they know nothing of.
Convicts would serve their sentence in Switzerland first and then be deported without appeal.
The Swiss government believes mandatory deportation could violate Switzerland's obligations under international law not to send people to countries that practise torture or execution.
It advised voters to reject the proposal, and it put forward an alternative system which would allow deportation for certain crimes, but which would assess cases individually. That was defeated.
The SVP has been accused of using racist posters that depict certain ethnic groups as criminal.
The Swiss political analyst Georg Lutz says the SVP's wider strategy is to capitalise on Swiss worries that the foreign population is too big.
"This vote is not about some complex legal issues about how to deal with certain types of criminal foreigners," he says.
"What most people will want to do in this vote is make a statement against foreigners, and that is the central motivation."
A second referendum, which asked the Swiss to approve a minimum tax rate of 22% for people earning more than 250,000 francs (£160,000; 190,000 euros), was rejected.
The Socialist Party said it would be more just, but the government and centre-right parties said it would harm the economy by making the country less appealing to foreign businessmen.
Cardiff council leader Phil Bale said the authority was "really excited" after the draw for the competition's group stage.
World football's biggest club game will be played at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on 3 June.
Mr Bale said: "It's a great opportunity for Cardiff to further enhance its reputation for hosting major events."
The women's Champions League final will be played at the Cardiff City Stadium on 1 June.
Wales forward Gareth Bale starred as Real Madrid beat city rivals Atletico in the 2016 final at the San Siro stadium in Milan.
On Thursday, his side were drawn against German outfit Borussia Dortmund, Portugal's Sporting Lisbon and Legia Warsaw of Poland in the group stage.
The role of the hormone in helping children with autism has been debated, with studies showing conflicting data.
Brain scans, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hint that there is an effect.
The National Autistic Society said research on oxytocin as a treatment was still in its infancy.
Oxytocin is naturally produced by the body, triggers labour and is involved in mother and baby bonding.
Seventeen children with autism, aged between eight and 16, were given two nasal spray - one containing oxytocin, the other no drugs at all.
After taking each one, the impact on brain activity was recorded in a scanner while the children were shown "social" pictures of human faces or "non-social" pictures of cars.
The parts of the brain normally associated with social situations appeared more active after the children had been given oxytocin.
One of the researchers, Prof Kevin Pelphrey, told the BBC: "We are very excited by the findings, all 17 showed a response, although the response was variable.
"There's still lots of questions about oxytocin, but this suggests it enhances social brain functions and decreases non-social functions - helping kids to focus on socially relevant information."
Larger trials are taking place to see what the side-effects and benefits of oxytocin might be in children with autism.
Exactly how the drug should be used is still up for debate, with some suggestions that it would be best used as an aid during current behavioural therapy rather than as a daily medication.
Prof Pelphrey said some parents were giving the drug to their children without medical advice and this was a "terrible idea".
"It might have no effect or it might cause damage," he said.
However, he added: "The most exciting finding is not oxytocin, but that you can show changes in the brain by a compound.
"It changes how we think of autism and how treatable it might be."
Carol Povey, director of the National Autistic Society's centre for autism, said: "Research investigating the impact oxytocin can have on people with autism is still in its very early stages.
"While the findings of this particular study are interesting, no hard and fast conclusions should be drawn.
"Autism is a very complex disability and can present a variety of challenges that extend beyond social difficulties.
"It's crucial that those living with the condition have all their needs assessed so that they can access the appropriate support."
Both sides looked low on confidence in a first half where the goalkeepers remained untroubled.
But the game did begin to liven up after the interval thanks to County's introduction of on-loan Wolves teenager Aaron Collins.
The youngster showed why he is so highly rated by the Championship side as he forced Ben Garratt into a save thanks to his persistence chasing a long ball.
He then volleyed over the bar, before a neat exchange of passes with Adam Campbell saw the latter miscontrol when in a terrific position.
Campbell then turned provider when his cross into the box was poorly defended, allowing Jonathan Forte to nip in and put the Magpies ahead in the 80th minute.
But Crewe were level just 60 seconds later when George Cooper teed up Kiwomya, on loan from Chelsea, to score with a superb finish as both sides settled for a point.
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Match ends, Notts County 1, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Second Half ends, Notts County 1, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Attempt missed. Louis Laing (Notts County) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Alex Kiwomya.
Attempt missed. Adam Campbell (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Jonathan Forte (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Genaro Snijders (Notts County) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Notts County. Elliott Hewitt replaces Thierry Audel because of an injury.
Jordan Richards (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra).
Aaron Collins (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt blocked. Louis Laing (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Genaro Snijders (Notts County).
Goal! Notts County 1, Crewe Alexandra 1. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by George Cooper.
Goal! Notts County 1, Crewe Alexandra 0. Jonathan Forte (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Adam Campbell.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Collins (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Adam Campbell (Notts County) right footed shot from very close range is just a bit too high.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Alex Kiwomya.
Attempt saved. Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Thierry Audel.
Substitution, Notts County. Genaro Snijders replaces Alex Rodman.
Attempt missed. Aaron Collins (Notts County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Richards (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Aaron Collins (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Jon Guthrie.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Alex Kiwomya replaces Tom Lowery.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. James Jones replaces Billy Bingham.
Attempt missed. Oliver Turton (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Robert Milsom.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Tom Lowery.
Attempt saved. Aaron Collins (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Oliver Turton (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Richard Duffy.
Second Half begins Notts County 0, Crewe Alexandra 0.
The Lionesses' third-place finish in Canada makes them the second most successful England team ever, only behind the men's victory in 1966.
Sampson replaced former boss Hope Powell in August 2013.
"It's been instilled in us over the last 18 months, that family atmosphere, the togetherness," said White.
"It's 23 players, we're all in it. You can't win it without 23 players or the backroom staff as well."
During Powell's 15-year reign as manager, the Lionesses never progressed beyond the World Cup quarter-finals - and former players have since criticised the negative feeling among the team during her time in charge.
However, speaking to BBC Radio Three Counties, 26-year-old White says it has been a different story under Sampson.
"He's changed a lot in the team, he's brought in new people," said White. "I always think it's good to have a change.
"He's definitely brought that togetherness, that fire, that passion. Everyone was on board with everything.
"We all stuck together and we're definitely like a little family."
Five men from Victoria were held for three weeks after being seen buying ice cream while on holiday on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Under anti-association laws it is illegal for more than two alleged bikers to be in public together.
The charges were reportedly dropped due to a lack of evidence.
Daniel Lovett, Bane Alajbegovic, Dario Halilovic, Kresmir Basic and Darren Haley were charged under the Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act (VLAD) laws.
The VLAD was brought in in 2013 to help dismantle organised crime groups.
The men did not appear at Southport Magistrates Court on Monday.
Their lawyer, Bill Potts, addressed the media saying A$500,000 ($351,000; £230,000) in taxpayer funds was spent prosecuting the case.
"Their only sin, their only crime, was to buy an ice cream in a public place," Mr Potts said outside.
"The great controversy here was whether it was going to be choc top or vanilla. There was no crime, there was no planned crime.
"Quite frankly, it has been a political stunt right from the beginning to make the people feel safe, rather than give them the actuality of safeness."
A new state Labor Government was sworn in this year, and a review into the VLAD laws - which were introduced by a previous state government - is expected in December.
Michael Carberry, 34, of Dumfries, was also made the subject of a community payback order.
It came with conditions that he be under supervision for 18 months and carry out 120 hours unpaid work.
Carberry, who resigned from his post following the incident, admitted one charge of sending the text message.
At Dumfries Sheriff Court, he also admitted causing the woman to look at a sexual image on her mobile phone in February last year.
In a speech to the party's conference in Liverpool, Mrs Rayner said selection by ability "entrenches division and increases inequality".
"No child should be left out or left behind," she said.
PM Theresa May has said the ban on new selective schools has been in place too long and has held many pupils back.
She says 1.25 million pupils are currently in schools which are "failing, inadequate or in need of improvement" and that the government's plans will give every child the high-quality education they deserve to enable them to go as far as their talents allow.
Grammar schools are state secondaries whose pupils are selected by examination at age 10 to 11. There are currently about 163 in England - out of some 3,000 state secondaries - and a further 69 in Northern Ireland.
Under the government's plans, grammar schools would be allowed to expand and all schools in England would be given the right to apply to select pupils by ability.
In her first major speech since being promoted in July, Mrs Rayner said Mrs May had produced "no evidence" that grammar schools boosted social mobility, and pledged to fight the proposals "with every breath in my body".
"Selection - or segregation as it should be called - entrenches division and increases inequality," she said.
And she accused the prime minister if "telling fairy tales" about social mobility and opportunity.
"Selection is toxic. It tells a clever child they are stupid, strips a child of self-esteem and embeds inequality. Every child has potential. Every child can succeed. No child should be left out or left behind.
While former Labour PM Tony Blair had talked about "education, education, education", she said Mrs May wanted "segregation, segregation, segregation".
"And our Labour Party will fight it, starting on Saturday when we launch our nationwide campaign against more grammar schools.
"We're going to take the fight to the Tories and I appeal to all my Labour colleagues to help lead this fight. Because together, we can defeat this," she told the party's conference.
Under the slogan "education, not segregation", Labour says it will be contacting one million residents of marginal seats in towns and cities such as Swindon and Norwich to highlight the party's opposition to expanding grammar schools.
The campaign will also focus on the increase in university student fees and the scrapping of student grants.
Ms Rayner also announced plans for a taskforce, chaired by Unison official Liz Snape, to "transform early years provision for every family in the 21st century".
The shadow education secretary said every parent should have the right to quality, affordable childcare and told the party that its mission must be to ensure no child's life chances are blighted by lack of support.
She drew on her own personal experience to argue the closure of 800 Sure Start Centres since 2010 had "shut the door in the faces of our children and their parents".
"I left school at 16, pregnant, with no qualifications," she said. "Some may argue I was not a great role model for today's young people. The direction of my life was set. "
"But something happened. Labour's Sure Start centres gave me and my friends, and our children, the help and support we needed to grow and develop. They changed the lives of three million children and their parents."
"Unlike the Tories, Labour will never turn our backs on our children and their families."
Ms Rayner also said Labour would bring back Educational Maintenance Allowance for students in further education and maintenance grants for low and middle income students.
Elsewhere on the third day of the conference, Sadiq Khan congratulated Jeremy Corbyn on his re-election and said the party must focus on getting into government, not internal battles, in his first speech to conference since his election as London mayor in May.
"Labour in power. Not just talking the talk, but walking the walk too. Never sacrificing or selling out on our ideals but putting them in action every single day," he said.
Mr Khan - the party's most powerful elected official in England - said Labour must use its success in London and its strong representation on councils across England as a springboard back to national government.
Meanwhile, shadow health secretary Diane Abbott vowed to "renationalise" the NHS by removing private provision and curbing the internal market which she said had "ripped" patients off.
And deputy Labour leader Tom Watson will launch an independent commission into the future of work, to look into the challenges of new technology and automation.
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Scuffles broke out between the police and some protesters in the northern cities of Milan and Turin. Rallies took place in all major cities.
Trade unions say the government's reforms would endanger job security by making it easier to dismiss workers.
But Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says Italy needs mobility of labour.
The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader will have to find a way to overcome the striking unions' opposition - something his many predecessors failed to do, the BBC's James Reynolds reports from Rome.
Mr Renzi is under pressure from his European partners to revive the Italian economy - Europe's fourth largest - which is mired in recession and laden with debt.
His flagship reform is a "Jobs Act" aimed at loosening workplace restrictions and reducing Italy's 43% youth unemployment.
The unions say existing regulations are necessary to protect workers from being sacked by unscrupulous companies. They fear the spread of a "hire-and-fire" culture.
Angelo, a metal worker, told the BBC in Rome: "If there are demonstrations every day in Italy it's not because people are stupid, but because they're tired that the government always takes it out on the most vulnerable groups."
Thousands of union members took to the streets on Friday, from Milan to Palermo in the south.
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Correspondents say it is a sign of internal discord within Mr Renzi's own party, with some members of his Democratic Party joining the marches.
In recent years, a series of Italian governments have tried and failed to reform the country's employment laws.
GDP has fallen by 0.4% in the past year, and in the decade to 2010 only two countries had lower GDP growth than Italy - Haiti and Zimbabwe.
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She was speaking after the UK voted by a narrow margin to leave the EU., although Northern Ireland voted to remain.
Ms Villiers said the circumstances in which a border poll would be called did not exist.
Nothing indicated that such a poll should be called, she said.
"The Good Friday Agreement is very clear that the circumstances where the secretary of state is required to have a border poll is where there is reason to believe there would be a majority support for a united Ireland," she said,
"There is nothing to indicate that in any of the opinion surveys that have taken place.
"Again and again they demonstrate that a significant majority of people in Northern Ireland are content with the political settlement established under the Belfast Agreement and Northern Ireland's place within the United Kingdom."
Mrs Villiers said she was "delighted" with the Brexit result.
"It is a fundamental question about do we become an independent, self-governing democracy again. I am really delighted that the people of the UK have voted for that outcome. This is a good day for our country," she said.
She was very positive about how the border system between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland would operate.
"With common sense between us, the UK and Ireland can maintain a border which is just as open after a Brexit vote as it has been for many years," Ms Villiers said,
"It's important that it will."
Lee Jae-yong denies charges of embezzlement and perjury.
Prosecutors say he gave 43bn Korean won ($38m; £30m) to President Park Guen-hye's friend for political favours.
Ms Park is suspected of colluding with Choi Soon-sil to get conglomerates to donate to Ms Choi's foundations.
Ms Park was arrested last week, after being impeached, and sent to a detention centre, although she has not yet been formally charged.
Mr Lee, who appeared in court in handcuffs, has denied the bribery allegations, saying Samsung was coerced into handing over the funds.
Another four Samsung executives have also appeared in court in connection with the scandal. They also deny the accusations.
- Grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul, son of current chairman Lee Kun-hee.
- Also known as Jay Y Lee, the 48-year-old has spent his entire career in the company.
- Is vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and was nominated to join the firm's board in October 2016.
- Despite his arrest, still widely expected to take overall control of Samsung.
- Critics say his rise through Samsung has been due to his birth, not his business experience.
Mr Lee's case is "one of the most deep-rooted and typical cases involving unhealthy relations between politicians and businessmen," said Special Prosecutor Park Young-Soo in his opening statement in Seoul's Central District Court.
Mr Lee, the 48-year-old vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, has been the parent company Samsung Group's de facto head since his father Lee Kun-hee suffered a heart attack in 2014.
He was arrested in February.
On Friday, the chairman of the powerful Lotte conglomerate, Shin Dong-bin, was also being questioned by prosecutors in connection with the widening corruption probe.
They are investigating whether donations given by Lotte to foundations allegedly controlled by Ms Choi were bribes connected to the firm's bid for a lucrative duty-free business.
There are hopes that whoever replaces Ms Park will push for real reform in the biggest conglomerates, known as chaebols. But how realistic are those reforms in a country where the top 10 chaebols own more than a quarter of all business assets?
Samsung's sales alone make up a fifth of South Korea's gross domestic product.
In the run-up to presidential elections in May, candidates have made chaebol reform a major pillar of their campaign promises.
But unpicking the complex and powerful hold these family-run firms have over the South Korean economy will take more than just rhetoric.
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She was found after emergency services were called to a flat on Dixon Avenue at about 07:00 on Saturday.
Police said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene and that they were following a definite line of inquiry in the case.
A post-mortem examination is due to take place to establish the exact cause of the woman's death.
Ken Rogoff said a calamitous "hard landing" for one of the main engines of global growth could not be ruled out.
"China is going through a big political revolution," he said.
"And I think the economy is slowing down much more than the official figures show,"
Mr Rogoff added: "If you want to look at a part of the world that has a debt problem look at China. They've seen credit fuelled growth and these things don't go on forever."
Last week, the Bank of International Settlements, the global think tank for central banks, said that China's credit to GDP "gap" - which analyses the amount of debt in an economy relative to annual growth - stood at 30.1%, increasing fears that China's economic boom was based on an unstable credit bubble.
The figure was described as "very high by international standards" by the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England, which will now test British banks' exposure to a Chinese slowdown.
British banks have $530bn worth of lending and business in China, including Hong Kong. That is about 16% of all foreign assets held by UK banks.
"Everyone says China's different, the state owns everything they can control it," Mr Rogoff, now Professor of Economics at Harvard, said.
"Only to a point. It's definitely a worry, a hard landing in China.
"We're having a pretty sharp landing already and I worry about China becoming more of a problem.
"We've taken it for granted that whatever Europe's doing, Japan's doing - at least China's moving along and there isn't really a substitute for China.
"I think India may come along some day but it's fallen so far behind in size it's not going to compensate."
Mr Rogoff said that European economies and the US had to ensure they were "on their feet" before any slowdown started to bite.
"The IMF has marked down its forecasts of global growth nine years in a row and certainly the rumour is they're about to do it again," he said.
Beyond China, Mr Rogoff said there was a good deal of uncertainty in the world over issues such as whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will win the US presidential election.
He argued it was difficult to judge what Mr Trump would do if he won, and that a victorious Mrs Clinton might have her plans for infrastructure spending, for example, blocked by the Republican House of Representatives.
"I am certainly nervous, probably much more about a Trump victory, just because of not knowing what's next," Mr Rogoff said.
"I don't like the [protectionist] trade policies of either candidate. I think free trade has benefitted the States immensely in its leadership position. So watching as an economist, this has been a painful election."
Mr Rogoff said it was unclear what the impact of Brexit would be on the UK economy as it was not yet possible to define the trade model that would be agreed or judge how well the European economy would be performing at the time Britain leaves the European Union.
Despite praising the Bank of England's pro-active response to the referendum result, Mr Rogoff said that central banks were in an increasingly invidious position.
"Monetary policy has its limits - it is not a panacea," he said.
"It is a little bit the fault of central bankers for allowing themselves to take too much credit when things are good, and [then] getting blamed too much when things are bad.
"But monetary policy doesn't make an ageing economy young, it doesn't make an economy which is having little innovation suddenly innovate, it doesn't make an economy with a Zombie banking sector somehow miraculously healthy.
"I have a concern about monetary policy at the moment - that it is being asked to take on roles that it's not built for. It is being asked to do helicopter money where you just print money and hand it out to people.
"In Europe, central banks are buying up a significant proportion of the corporate debt market - that's what you do in China, in India, they're doing that in Japan also.
"There are all sorts of other pressures and I worry in the long run that central banks are losing their independence."
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The qualifier took three of the four frames played on Saturday and his seven century breaks was a record for the most centuries in a Crucible match.
He beat the record held by Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry.
In the other semi-final, world number one Mark Selby beat Hong Kong's Marco Fu 17-15.
That match featured the longest frame in Crucible history and delayed the Ding-McManus encounter by 37 minutes.
But the 29-year-old from China wasted little time extending his overnight lead from 14-10.
World number 17 Ding shared the first two frames with his fellow qualifier McManus - at 45 the oldest player to play in a Crucible semi-final since Ray Reardon in 1985.
He moved to within a frame of victory with the 10th ton scored in the match, which also further extended the record for most centuries in a World Championship game.
And he wrapped his seventh win since beginning his qualifying campaign in early April, taking a scrappy 28th frame.
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The closing stages of the last-four meeting were always unlikely to provide the same drama and excitement of Friday's two sessions.
Ding was eager to stay calm, saying: "I wanted to make the final but I feel normal. The tournament hasn't finished yet.
"I want to keep focused. Last season and this season, I didn't play good but in March and April I started to play well.
"Now I am confident to play any matches and play anybody."
McManus took comfort from his remarkable run to the last four, the first time he managed that feat since 1993.
His performance at the Crucible will also see the world number 29 climb back into the top 20 in the world when the rankings are finalised at the end of the tournament.
McManus said: "The best man won and you have to face that. The scoring Ding produced was up there with anything I have ever seen before.
"He was pretty hot. I expected that. I felt I could really give him a game because I felt good, but I didn't take enough chances.
"I felt last night I should have been 13-11 at the worst, not 14-10.
"Being four behind and then having a couple of setbacks, he was just too strong."
The best-of-35-frames final gets under way at 14:00 BST on Sunday.
It will be the first time the home ground of Queen of the South Football Club has hosted a live concert.
Status Quo have had 64 British hit singles, more than any other band in UK chart history.
Club chairman Billy Hewitson said: "We are delighted to have a band of Status Quo's stature for our first concert, but we hope it's the first of many."
He added: "First and foremost the name Queen of the South will be recognised as a football club, but Palmerston Park is an asset that the football club have and we have to utilise the facility."
The concert is being staged in partnership with Dumfries and Galloway Council and Worldwide Events.
Councillor Colin Smyth said: "Having successfully delivered events such as Youthbeatz and world championship sports competitions for a number of years our staff have developed expertise in developing and staging major events.
"We are happy to share our knowledge with partners because events such as this are not only fantastic for the local community to enjoy but they can bring significant benefits to the local economy."
Tickets for the gig on 5 June will go on sale on Monday at 09:00.
The victims were between 14 and 18 years old, police said. Six were burned to death.
Police used tear gas to control the riot in Caruaru, in Pernambuco state. Part of the building was set on fire by the inmates.
There are 205 inmates currently in the prison, which has capacity for only up to 90, reports say.
Police say they are still investigating the causes of the riot, but local media reported that the incident was sparked by clashes between rival gangs.
Many Brazilian prisons are poorly resourced and overcrowded and riots are frequent.
Since January 2012, 17 Kenyan athletes have been suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs compared with only two between 2010 and 2012.
The issue is to be discussed at Wada's world conference on doping in sport in Johannesburg next month.
Although Wada has no powers to directly sanction Kenya's sports authorities it can rule that they are non-compliant with its code.
However, ultimately it is up to the International Olympic Committee to decide whether a nation's athletes should be banned from competing at future Olympic Games.
Compared to other countries we do not have a serious problem
That measure looks extremely unlikely at this stage, but Wada's director general David Howman is known to be frustrated and concerned at the lack of action in Kenya since the doping problem was first highlighted last autumn.
He is expected to name Kenya as one of the major problems facing the organisation in his report to the conference in South Africa.
According to Kenyan Athletics head Isaiah Kiplagat, Wada had given the Kenyan Olympic Committee (Nock) and the country's sports ministry a deadline of November to produce a report on their progress. Sources have told the BBC that with only two weeks to go to the Wada conference, no correspondence has been received.
It is also understood that a special committee set up by Kenya's sports bodies to look into the rash of positive tests has not met once since it was formed last year.
Rodney Swigelaar, director of Wada's Africa office, said: "We are very frustrated. It's more than a year now since we went there and even longer since the rumours started to spread.
"The procrastination has been frustrating. Officially I cannot say where they are at with their investigation.
"We have been extremely patient. Wherever these things happen, it's our role to go in there and ask what is wrong and why people are not complying with the code."
But Kiplagat told the BBC: "I can assure everyone that the government commission will start its work soon. We are hoping to start work before the Wada conference."
He added: "I don't think there is really a problem with drugs in Kenya. All our top athletes were tested before London and then again before the World Championships in Moscow this year.
"Compared to other countries we do not have a serious problem."
Despite Kiplagat's remarks, Wada could decide to set up an independent audit of Kenya - similar to the one being carried out in Jamaica this week.
A three-man team arrived on the Caribbean island on Monday to carry out an independent investigation into its anti-doping programme after serious concerns were raised about testing procedures in the run-up to London 2012.
But the situation in Kenya - a powerhouse of middle and long-distance running - is potentially much more significant.
The increase in bans has been accompanied by allegations of a widespread doping culture in Kenya.
Last October, a German TV investigation claimed that doctors in Kenya were supplying athletes with banned drugs in return for a percentage of their winnings from races.
Then in February this year, one of Kenya's greatest distance runners, Moses Kiptanui, said he believed the country had a major problem.
One of the biggest problems for Kenya has been the lack of a Wada-accredited blood testing laboratory in the country. The nearest facility is in South Africa, which means collecting, transporting and analysing blood samples is extremely difficult.
Earlier this year, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) sent in a special team to carry out blood tests on more than 40 athletes as part of their biological passport programme. The results were analysed locally but also sent to the Wada lab in Lausanne.
IAAF statistics for 2013 show that their anti-doping teams have carried out 725 tests on Kenyan athletes - 307 in competition and 418 out of competition - which represents a big increase in the scrutiny of the country's top runners.
But the IAAF wants to do more and had hoped to set up a permanent blood-testing facility in Eldoret in the Rift Valley where so many training camps are based. The BBC understands those plans have been scrapped and an alternative lab in neighbouring Ethiopia is now being considered.
Kenya's authorities say elections in March and the terrorist attack on the Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi have contributed to the delays in addressing the doping problem.
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) also found poor record-keeping and environmental issues.
Overall across services, it found people with learning disabilities were treated with dignity and respect and access to services was good.
It surveyed all seven health boards in Wales and inspected teams and residential services.
The National Learning Disability Thematic Review said health communication passports, to help hospital staff know about a person's individual needs, were in place for many people.
It praised the fact specialist learning disability liaison nurses were in place in some health boards.
But it said residential services required "significant improvement", and made 22 recommendations.
HIW chief executive Kate Chamberlain said: "It is pleasing to see the good care being provided to people with learning disabilities by community health teams.
"However, we noted that NHS-provided residential care for people with learning disabilities is in need of significant improvement.
"We discovered issues around management, staffing and environment, which health boards should have already known about and resolved.
"It may be that social care is better placed to provide these residential services and we are aware that some health boards are beginning to work with local partners to explore this further."
Here is a full list of candidates running, in seven District Electoral Areas (DEAs), for 41 seats on Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon.
John Spincken died after leaping off the 100-foot high (30m) bridge into a wooded area, state police said.
His sons, who are aged one and three years old, were found conscious nearby and are expected to make a full recovery.
Local police called it "nothing short of a miracle".
The children are being treated in hospital for serious but not life-threatening injuries.
"If there's a silver lining, it's that the kids are OK," said Pequannock Township police captain Christopher DePuyt.
New Jersey State Police said in a statement a preliminary investigation showed the father intentionally jumped from the bridge.
John Spincken had been arguing with his wife when he threatened to hurt both himself and the children before leaving with them, media reports say, citing authorities.
Police tracked him to the bridge by his mobile phone and found his vehicle there. He had scaled a high fence designed to stop people from jumping off the bridge before doing so himself, Mr DePuyt said
It is believed that the children were saved by tree branches.
The 37-year-old father had regularly posted photos and loving comments about his family on social media.
Police in Pequannock say they did not have a history with the family, although they had lived elsewhere in New Jersey in the past.
The League Two play-off hopefuls have signed Ricardo Almeida Santos, 21, for £100,000 from Peterborough United.
They have also brought in fellow 21-year-old defender David Tutonda from Cardiff City on a two-year deal.
And they secured a third signing on New Year's Eve when striker Simeon Akinola, 24, agreed to move from National League side Braintree Town for £40,000.
Santos, who has signed on an undisclosed-length deal, drops a division to join the Bees after making 75 appearances for League One side Posh.
Tutonda, who failed to make a senior appearance for Cardiff, has previously spent time on loan at Newport and York.
All three deals will be formally completed on Sunday when the transfer window opens.
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The hooker is in line to feature for Northampton against Gloucester in the Premiership on Saturday.
"He's done a full week and has been going through the return-to-play protocols," said coach Alan Dickens.
"He's bouncing around the place and back to his usual self."
If 30-year-old Hartley does return from the replacements bench, it will be a significant boost for England before the summer tour to Australia.
England boss Eddie Jones says Hartley will lead the side down under if he proves his fitness for the three-Test series.
Meanwhile, Hartley has been seeking advice over his recovery from his club team-mate George North. The Wales wing took a period away from the game in 2015 because of his own concussion problems.
"Dylan has been around the house a few times for a few coffees and a few chats," North told BBC Radio 5 live. "Anyone who has had concussion, or a number of concussions back-to-back, can really sympathise.
"People don't see a cast on his head or strapping around his brain - it's not like an injury where you have a physical issue like a limp - so it's very difficult to come to terms with.
"You only have one head so make sure you take care of it. If it takes you two or three weeks longer [to recover] then take your time. There is no point rushing it."
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The 31-year-old pedestrian was knocked down by a blue car on Marfleet Lane, at about 16:45 BST on Wednesday.
She remains in a critical condition at Hull Royal Infirmary.
A 28-year-old man was arrested on Thursday and a second man, also 28, has now been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop.
The first man was arrested on suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident and other motoring offences. He has been released on police bail until October, while the second 28-year-old is being held in custody and is due to be interviewed.
Centene Corporation said it was conducting an internal search for six hard drives containing the information.
Customers' names, addresses and dates of birth were included, as well as their social security numbers, membership details and health information, Centene said.
But no financial or payment details of customers were on the drives, it said.
"While we don't believe this information has been used inappropriately, out of abundance of caution and in transparency, we are disclosing an ongoing search for the hard drives," said Centene's chief executive, Michael Neidorff.
"The drives were a part of a data project using laboratory results to improve the health outcomes of our members."
Centene said the hard drives contained the personal health information of about 950,000 people who had received laboratory services between 2009 and 2015.
It said it would notify those affected and offer them free healthcare monitoring.
The company also said it would reinforce and review its procedures.
The BBC asked whether the information on the hard drives was encrypted and how they were had been lost, but Centene did not respond.
"The stakes are high because Centene handles sensitive health information relating to its members. It is, therefore, highly likely that they will have to make a report to US regulatory authorities and will be fined for any data loss," Alison Rea, a lawyer at Kemp Little, told the BBC.
She said that, while Centene's "upfront" approach to the issue was commendable, it meant that some people may launch damages claims before the full extent of the data loss was known.
"If the data has been lost within the organisation, the potential damage suffered by Centene's members will be minimal. However, if the data has been taken offsite and is now in the public domain, the damages claims Centene faces could be much higher," she said.
"As Centene provides health insurance solutions for the under-insured and uninsured public in the USA, the release of details of who their members are and their medical information could be highly damaging.
"Not only will it cause personal distress to the individuals involved if their friends and families find out about their medical history, but also because it could make it harder for those people to secure medical health insurance with other providers in the future."
Paul Farringdon, of the security company Veracode, said: "If this data was found and accessed, it could lead to fraudsters piecing together a bigger picture of information on individuals that could be used to trick users into giving away money, power and information to people who would do harm.
"Information already available from other breaches on the dark web can be used to provide an enriched view on patients."
One of the largest similar breaches took place in 2014 at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions, which handles medical billing and collections.
According to reports, nearly 340,000 people were affected when eight computers were stolen during a break-in.
In 2015, the US health insurer CareFirst admitted the information belonging to 1.1 million of its customers had been exposed in a hack in June the previous year.
Similar attacks on Anthem and Blue Cross in 2015 saw 80 million and 11 million records lost, respectively.
Damon Smith put his homemade device into a rucksack and left it on a Jubilee line train in October.
The 20-year-old had admitted perpetrating a bomb hoax but claimed it was a prank.
Had it worked, the bomb would have exploded just as commuters were leaving the North Greenwich station platform.
Former altar boy Smith built the device with shrapnel and a £2 clock from Tesco after Googling an al-Qaeda article on bomb-making.
The Old Bailey was told the student, who has an autistic spectrum disorder, had a keen interest in guns, bombs and other weapons, which may have been a function of the condition.
His lawyer told the trial he was no "hate-filled jihadi" and never meant to harm anyone.
However, the jury convicted him of making or possessing an explosive substance with intent to endanger life after two hours of deliberations.
The Met said he was not charged under the Terrorism Act because there was not enough evidence that his crime was politically motivated.
On 20 October, the defendant - then aged 19 - left the rucksack containing the bomb on the train.
Passengers handed it to the driver who then realised as he was approaching the station it contained explosives.
Smith then went to university and when he returned home that evening, checked the internet for news reports about what he had done.
When he was arrested, he admitted making the bomb, but said he had meant for it to have been a Halloween prank and that he had been inspired by a YouTube video.
Jurors were also told Smith had professed an interest in Islam as he felt it was "more true" than Christianity.
He "did not really practise Islam, although he read the Koran and sometimes prayed in the morning when it was convenient but did not hold extreme views", lawyers said.
Jurors heard he had posed next to an image of the Brussels-born Islamic terrorist alleged to have masterminded the attacks in Paris in November 2015, but had denied being an extremist.
His lawyer, Richard Carey-Hughes QC, said there was "no evidence that he changed from clinging to his mother's apron strings to a soldier of Islam and a would-be soldier".
The court heard Smith had been interested in making bombs since the age of 10 and said it was "something to do when he was bored".
He was also shown the Anarchist Cookbook at 14 by a friend.
During a search of his home in Rotherhithe, south London, officers found a shredded article on how to build a bomb and a "shopping list" of bomb materials was found on his iPad.
A blank firing pistol, a BB gun, a knife and knuckleduster were also discovered.
Cdr Dean Haydon, from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said: "It is hard to believe that leaving what has been described as an improvised explosive device on a Tube train, on a weekday morning, can be construed as anything but an attempt to endanger life.
"It is fortunate that the device failed to work and that no-one was injured."
Smith will be sentenced on 26 May.
The retiring representatives include former first minister Alex Salmond, Presiding Officer Tricia Marwick and former Conservative party leader Annabel Goldie, along with a host of other front-bench figures.
Many of those choosing to leave were elected to the first Scottish Parliament in 1999.
Adam Ingram (SNP, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley)
Kenny MacAskill (SNP, Edinburgh Eastern)
Fiona McLeod (SNP, Strathkelvin and Bearsden)
Alex Salmond (SNP, Aberdeenshire East)
Malcolm Chisholm (Labour, Edinburgh Northern and Leith)
Hugh Henry (Labour, Renfrewshire South)
Duncan McNeil (Labour, Greenock and Inverclyde)
Richard Simpson (Labour, Mid Scotland and Fife)
Alex Fergusson (Conservative, Galloway and West Dumfries)
Annabel Goldie (Conservative, West of Scotland)
Jamie McGrigor (Conservative, Highlands and Islands)
Mary Scanlon (Conservative, Highlands and Islands)
Tricia Marwick (Presiding Officer, Mid Fife and Glenrothes)
Rob Gibson (SNP, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross)
Richard Baker (Labour, North East Scotland) (resigned 2016, prior to election)
Nanette Milne (Conservative, North East Scotland)
Dave Thompson (SNP, Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch)
Margaret McDougall (Labour, West of Scotland)
Gavin Brown (Conservative, Lothian)
Marco Biagi (SNP, Edinburgh Central)
Margaret Burgess (SNP, Cunninghame South)
Graeme Pearson (Labour, South of Scotland)
Drew Smith (Labour, Glasgow)
Cameron Buchanan (Conservative, Lothian) (replaced David McLetchie in 2013)
The Latics parted company with Dunn on Tuesday after a run of seven league games without a win.
Former Plymouth and Chesterfield boss Sheridan, 51, had been in charge of League Two Newport since 2 October.
He was previously Oldham manager for nearly three years before leaving Boundary Park in March 2009.
"Everyone knows how much I love this club," he told the club website.
"I was here for a long time as both a player and a manager so I'm really chuffed and excited to be back.
"I feel like I've got unfinished business from last time and I'm looking forward to the challenge. It's a big one, but I'm really excited about it."
Sheridan's assistant Warren Feeney and first-team coach Michael Flynn will take charge of Newport for the rest of the season.
In his three-month spell in charge at Rodney Parade, Sheridan led Newport from the bottom of the table to 20th, with five wins, seven draws and five defeats from 17 games in all competitions.
The Welsh club suggested they might take action against the Latics.
"The board of directors would like to put on record their thanks for the work John has done during his brief spell at the club," County said in a statement.
"Whilst John leaves with our best wishes, we are disappointed with the way that Oldham have conducted themselves during this process and are considering our position."
Oldham were 19th in League One when Dunn first took charge on a temporary basis in September, before being confirmed in the role after a month, but they have since fallen to 22nd, five points adrift of safety.
The 36-year-old, who joined the Latics as a player last summer, won just three of his 20 games in charge.
The team failed to win a home league match under his management, and have not done so since beating Fleetwood in August.
Dunn's assistant Dean Holden and first-team coach Keith Brown have also left the club.
Gary Hutch, from Dublin, was chased and shot a number of times by a masked gunman at an apartment complex in Miraflores on Tuesday morning.
Irish police are working with Spanish authorities on the case and believe the murder is connected to a disagreement with a criminal gang.
Mr Hutch, who was 34, was a convicted armed robber had lived in Spain for the past eight years.
Irish state broadcaster RTÉ has reported that he moved to the country after his release from prison and linked up with an organisation that Spanish police have said controls property and assets on four continents.
But he was believed to have fallen out with the group, RTÉ has added.
Mr Hutch survived a number of previous attempts on his life.
Zhang Chunxian vowed to use "iron fists" on separatists in the region, Xinhua news agency says.
The warning comes on the anniversary of deadly ethnic riots that saw almost 200 people killed in 2009.
Rights group Amnesty International has accused China of intimidating the ethnic Uighur minority.
Xinjiang province is the country's most westerly region and borders former Soviet states.
China witnessed its worst ethnic violence in decades when riots erupted between the majority Han Chinese and the minority Uighurs in the capital city of Urumqi, says the BBC's Martin Patience.
The Turkic-speaking Uighurs, who have lived in China's shadow for centuries, accuse Beijing of religious and political persecution.
Mr Zhang, who is Communist Party secretary of the Xinjiang committee, urged soldiers to remain vigilant against hostile forces and strike separatists, terrorists and extremists with ''iron fists'', Xinhua says.
"We should leave terrorists no place to hide," he said, adding that the region was stable but faced "severe challenges".
London-based rights group Amnesty International (AI) issued a statement saying that Chinese authorities "continue to silence those speaking out on abuses" in the region.
"The general trend toward repression that we see all over China is particularly pronounced in Xinjiang," Catherine Baber, AI Asia-Pacific director,
said in a statement
.
She urged the Chinese government to reveal the whereabouts of those who have disappeared and end the persecution of family members seeking answers.
On Monday, there were reports that two Uighur men who allegedly tried to hijack a plane in Xinjiang had died.
The Criminal Bar Association said it was taking the move "with deep regret".
Barristers will continue with cases that began before the rules came into effect earlier this month.
Stormont Justice Minister David Ford says his new legal aid rules are essential and fair.
The barristers' move follows the withdrawal last week by the largest criminal law firm in Northern Ireland from all major cases.
Kevin Winters & Company last year carried out more legal aid work than any other law firm in Northern Ireland and received payments of just over £2m.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Criminal Bar Association, which represents independent barristers, said it was "committed to providing the highest standard of representation to those members of society who face the most serious and complex criminal cases in the Crown Court".
It said those standards "cannot be achieved under these amended rules".
It described the cuts as "substantial and unjustified".
"Whilst the Criminal Bar Association recognises the financial restriction occasioned by pressure on public spending, these latest proposals represent cuts of almost 50% from levels previously set by the Department of Justice in 2005," its chairman Gavan Duffy said.
"These rules will inevitably dilute the quality of representation available to some of the most vulnerable members of society and to the victims of crime."
Last week, it emerged that the Law Society and bar council were joining forces in legal action, taking the justice minister to court in an attempt to have his new rules overturned.
Sharon Wood, mother of Christi and Bobby Shepherd, said it was "abhorrent" Harriet Green had tried to use their memory to gain public sympathy.
Ms Green said on Wednesday she would donate a third of her shares to a charity chosen by the parents.
She was said to be "deeply saddened that Ms Wood feels this way".
Ms Wood said: "If Harriet Green feels the need to offload some of that money to salve her conscience, that is her decision to make, but to try and gain public empathy by attaching her donation to the memory of my Christi and Bobby I find abhorrent."
Ms Green was not running the company at the time of the deaths but ran Thomas Cook for more than two years during which time Ms Wood said the holiday firm "refused to speak to us, engage with us or apologise to us".
It has been reported that Ms Green could receive about 6,000,000 shares next month (currently valued at £8.7m or $13.3m) and she said she would give a third to charity.
Ms Wood said the family had had no involvement in that decision.
A series of letters from Mr Shepherd to Ms Green have been released to show how the family have been made to feel "secondary" by Thomas Cook's continued failure to consult them, Ms Wood said.
On 21 May it was announced the family were to receive a "financial gesture of goodwill" from the travel agent.
The amount of money was not disclosed, but Mr Shepherd said it was planned to make donations to a series of charities.
Peter Fankhauser, Thomas Cook's current chief executive, recently made a public apology and admitted the firm "could have done better in the past nine years" in the way it had responded to the tragedy.
The company has donated half its £3m payout from its insurers to children's charity Unicef.
An inquest in Wakefield ruled the children were unlawfully killed.
The pair, from Horbury, near Wakefield, were on holiday with their father Neil Shepherd and his now wife, Ruth, when they were poisoned by a faulty gas boiler at the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel in 2006.
Thomas Cook has yet to respond to a request to comment.
Anna Kalynchuk's promotion has provoked consternation among some Ukrainians who say she is unqualified and too young.
She will direct Ukraine's department of "lustration", which aims to purge officials tainted by corruption.
Corruption was a key complaint of protesters who forced President Viktor Yanukovych from power in February 2014.
Ms Kalynchuk's appointment comes days after Anastasia Deyeva, 24, was named by Interior Minister Arsen Avakov as deputy minister, one of Ukraine's top police and security posts.
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That announcement was met with anger, which only intensified when nude photos of Ms Deyeva were shared on social media.
As well as the private photos shared on social media, she has also been the subject of a more tasteful photo-shoot in Ukrainian lifestyle website Style Insider.
Interior Minister Avakov defended the appointment as a breath of fresh air, but that has not satisfied those who wonder whether there were other factors behind her appointment.
Kiev political analyst Vadim Karasyov told Associated Press that Ukrainian politics increasingly resembled "a circus show in which clowns come to succeed frustrated professionals".
The majority of Ukraine's ministers are now in their thirties, ever since a reshuffle in February. The Prime Minister, Volodymyr Groysman, is only 38.
In a country as ridden with corruption as Ukraine, the promotion of younger talent could be seen as an antidote to the wasted decades associated with older politicians.
Despite the outcry in the social media about age and lack of experience, these two young women are well suited to their posts.
Anna Kalynchuk was already deputising for the previous head of the anti-corruption department, Tatiana Kozachenko.
As a freshly qualified lawyer, two years ago she was engaged in setting up the very institution she now temporarily heads. On her Facebook page, she said she was prepared for claims that she was too young and inexperienced for the post.
Anastasia Deyeva was appointed on 11 November, having acted as an assistant to the former deputy minister, a Georgian who resigned from her position earlier this year.
In a recent interview, her predecessor as deputy minister was full of praise for her abilities as a negotiator.
At the heart of the storm is the frustration of ordinary Ukrainians at the pace of the drive to clean up Ukrainian politics. Perception of corruption is worse in Ukraine than in Russia, according to Transparency International.
Little more than two weeks ago, the charismatic governor of the Odessa region, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, resigned, accusing Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko of backing corrupt officials who, he said, were undermining his reform efforts in Odessa.
His resignation followed that of the Odessa police chief, fellow Georgian Giorgi Lortkipanidze.
Only days before, top officials were forced to reveal their huge wealth - hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and collections of luxury items - under new anti-corruption rules. None was accused of criminality, but it was a stark illustration of the trappings of power and the gulf between some officials and the mass of Ukrainians.
The lustration department says hundreds of officials have been forced to resign over corruption, but Ukraine's corruption problem clearly still remains crippling.
The Scottish champions faced Barcelona, Manchester City and Borussia Monchengladbach after reaching this year's Champions League group stages.
They drew three and lost three games and Davies says they would love to face the likes of Real Madrid next season.
"The Champions League is a better place with Celtic in it. Everyone would agree with that," he said.
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"It would be great to play against one of the big teams again next year and measure ourselves in terms of where we are at as a team against them.
"That's the aim, we want to be at the highest level, representing Celtic, making our fans proud on the biggest stage and that is what we're aiming for."
Celtic clinched a sixth straight domestic title on 2 April and could break a host of records in the final two games - away at Partick on Thursday, home to Hearts on Sunday - of what could be the first undefeated Scottish Premiership season.
Having already beaten their own previous record of 32 league matches without defeat from 2003-04, Brendan Rodgers' side could set new marks for the most goals, most points, most wins and fewest defeats in one campaign in the modern era.
Currently 30 points clear of Aberdeen, Celtic could also beat the 31-point winning margin Paris Saint-Germain set in Ligue 1 last season for the most comprehensive title triumph in any of Uefa's member countries.
"That would be great," Davies added. "I'm aware that 31 points is the European record margin win that's been set by PSG.
"At Celtic, with the history and tradition, to open up a gap like that is still something very special.
"We have set a high standard. There is an awareness that what we are doing is something incredible. In terms of 44 games unbeaten [domestically, in league and cups] everyone in football and out of football acknowledges how good that is."
It is almost a year since Davies arrived in Glasgow with Rodgers. With three games left to play, including the Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen on 27 May, he says it has already been a memorable 12 months.
"It's been brilliant," he added. "We knew what a big club Celtic was before we came and it hasn't disappointed. We've had a brilliant year here, personally, professionally, everything. And there's still a lot more to come.
"Obviously we've got a big couple of weeks coming up, we know that. What we want to do is give the fans a team they are proud of.
"A year ago seems a long time. I'll never forget the day we came up to see Brendan getting unveiled. It was my first time at Celtic Park and I just knew what an amazing club it was."
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The local history group in Llanfair Clydogau, near Lampeter, has secured £9,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
"It is quite rare for a community like ours not to have a memorial but this funding will help us put things right," said Alan Leech from Hanes Llanfair.
Members are searching national and local archives for the project.
Mutually-owned, locally-based and ethically-run, they provide low-cost loans for those who are least well-off - so saving them from the clutches of payday lenders.
Yet despite such high-profile support, they have not caught on.
Across the UK, just 2% of the adult population is a member of a credit union.
In the United States they are used by 46% of consumers.
There is one apparent reason: Although they offer good value loans, most of them offer a very poor deal to savers.
And unless more people can be persuaded to save with them, credit unions will never get more cash to lend to needy borrowers.
Despite changes in the law, most credit unions still do not tell their savers what rate of return they will get.
Only when a dividend is declared at the end of the year, do people know how their money has worked for them.
In most cases they get less than 1.5%.
Kate Haywood, a university lecturer from South Wales, got a return of 0.25% from her local credit union last year. So for every hundred pounds she invested, she received the princely sum of 25 pence. Before tax, that is.
Luckily money is not her motive.
"Overall, the benefits to me are not in that return; they are in the fact that I know that money is being used to support other families that need it more," she says.
But in the district of Torfaen, where she lives, there are few who can afford such altruism.
In fact her local credit union is a path-finder in trying to improve returns for savers.
When the law changed in 2012, credit unions were allowed to advertise fixed-rate savings for the first time.
Yet in Wales only two credit unions are now doing so, and in Britain as a whole there are still fewer than 30 offering such products.
That is out of about 400 credit unions in total.
But when the Gateway Credit Union, based in Pontypool, opened a savings account offering 1.75% last year, they were swamped.
The amount of money they took in doubled, and eventually they had to close the offer to new subscribers.
"It was a transformation for us," says John Richards, Gateway's general manager.
"All of a sudden we had the capital that we needed to lend out to grow the credit union," he adds.
In the meantime, there are other high-profile supporters determined to make credit unions more popular.
The former Dragon's Den participant Theo Paphitis has put money into RetailCURe - a new credit union designed to appeal to the 4.8m people who work in Britain's retail industry.
Many earn less than £10 an hour, and he believes they need help to sort out the peaks and troughs of a monthly income.
During filming for a recent BBC documentary, he met a family who depended on payday loans to make ends meet.
"Seeing what I can only describe as the cancer in our society, and this is payday lenders, at first hand - then there's obviously a requirement out there," he says.
"At the moment we are seeing payday lenders charging up to 17,000% APR to lend a couple of hundred quid for a month. It's ridiculous."
The new credit union, when approved, will help staff in New Look, Next, Rymans, Robert Dyas, Superdrug, and many other High Street shops.
However, while it will offer good value loans to help its staff, some will not find the savings rates particularly attractive.
Like most credit unions, it will work on the old dividend principle - declaring the interest rate in retrospect at the end of the year.
But the aim is to make the returns at least as good as easy access accounts at banks or building societies.
"It is our intention to make sure they are highly competitive," says Richard Boland, the chief executive of the Retail Trust, the charity behind RetailCURe.
Nevertheless he admits that the interest rate is likely to be "south of 2%".
Compare that with current accounts in banks and building societies that now offer 3% or more.
On the other hand, many banks pay less than 1% on some accounts, so credit unions can offer a better deal.
Nevertheless, John Richards of the Gateway Credit Union believes fixed savings rates are the best blueprint.
"We have to offer higher interest rates on savings, and lower interest rates on loans," he asserts.
While the accountants may find that a difficult challenge, few consumers would disagree.
The 25-year-old Republic of Ireland international fractured a metatarsal in the closing stages of the 3-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
Centre-back Duffy, who has made 31 appearances since joining the Seagulls in August, is expected to have an operation on Tuesday.
Duffy will also miss the Republic's World Cup qualifier against Wales.
Martin O'Neill's side face Wales in Dublin on 24 March and Duffy will also be ruled out of the home friendly against Iceland four days later.
Albion are second in the Championship, six points ahead of Huddersfield.
Duffy adds to Brighton's defensive absences, with fellow centre-back Connor Goldson out for the rest of the season with a heart issue and left-backs Gaetan Bong (knee) and Sebastien Pocognoli (groin) currently sidelined.
However, full-back Liam Rosenior made his return to first-team action at Forest after six months out with an ankle injury.
Many focus on the impressively colourful display used to highlight Brazil's history, culture and natural beauty.
The Washington Post also emphasises the "high appeal" of the ceremony, despite the "gutted budget" the organisers had to work with.
And the Wall Street Journal hails the "flair" that marked the opening ceremony, even though this was "less grandiose" than the ones staged for recent Games in Beijing and London.
In the Russian media, there is applause for what Brazil has managed to achieve on such a limited budget.
The R-Sport news agency declares that Brazil has found "Happiness from poverty", while the news website Lenta.ru says that though the opening ceremony was modest compared to those for previous Games, "it was imbued with a carnival atmosphere and a Brazilian flair".
In Brazil itself, the media expresses its pride in the way in which the opening ceremony was handled.
O Globo hails the sheer beauty of the event, while the Veja news magazine says the ceremony "showcased a modern, confident and colourful country".
A more sombre political note is sounded by the Folha de S. Paulo website, which notes that the ceremony engaged with social causes and was an uncomfortable experience for Brazil's interim president, Michel Temer, who was booed by some in the crowd as he declared the Games open.
Elsewhere in Latin America, there is also considerable excitement over the event.
Argentina's La Nacion highlights an "emotional opening ceremony", while Colombia's El Espectador focuses on the colourfulness of the event and singles out one of its main themes: concern for environmental issues.
In Spain, El Pais says that the ceremony celebrates Brazil's diversity and vitality, and notes that the country finally has a reason to feel proud of what it can achieve.
Two contrasting approaches are offered by the French press. Le Figaro hails the festive atmosphere at the Maracana Stadium, while Le Monde focuses on the uncertain political situation in Brazil.
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It comes days after Italy's civil protection agency said it had found remains that could belong to the last two missing victims of the disaster.
All the remains have been sent for DNA testing.
The cruise ship ran aground and partially sank off Giglio island last year with the loss of 32 lives.
It was raised upright last month in a major salvage operation.
"Other remains have also been found and are currently undergoing DNA tests," the agency's chief Franco Gabrielli told reporters on Wednesday.
"We are waiting for the results of the analysis," he added.
The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, is on trial over the disaster.
He is accused of manslaughter, causing the shipwreck and abandoning ship, but says he is being made a scapegoat for the errors of others.
Two people were reported missing, presumed dead, after the disaster - Indian waiter Russel Rebello and Italian passenger Maria Grazia Trecarichi.
It was thought they had been trapped beneath the ship and the rocks, correspondents say.
As much as rugby league remains 'the greatest game' to its thousands of devotees, there is a sense that the sport at the top level needs some of its flair back.
And it's up to the players and coaches to act on their licence to thrill as the new campaign arrives.
There has been a growing grumble in recent years that Super League has lost its zip - that the skill factor has often been missing.
Rugby league has always evolved to mirror success and Australia's NRL is the market leader on the field with its adherence to highly disciplined structure and low-risk plays.
But should that be the English way?
The game over here used to pride itself on its risk-takers and chance-makers. But percentages, position and possession have been the prevailing mindset of late.
But at least two Super League coaches will buck the trend in 2017.
And both have a chance to lead their sides to silverware to re-establish the prototype of invention and entertainment as a way of winning matches and competitions.
Castleford Tigers have already courted plenty of admirers with their approach to the game under coach Daryl Powell.
And Powell will remain fixed on putting smiles on faces when he sets up his side for a much-fancied crack at success this year.
"I think sport should be entertaining," says Powell. "When you talk to players, you want them to be excited about how you play. For me it's a crucial part of coaching.
"It needs to be effective, don't get me wrong, but I want the players to show what they can do.
English football has lost its identity
"We work so hard on skills on such a consistent basis that there's no point working so hard on those skills if you don't try to exploit them to break defences down.
"We work our backsides off to be able to create things and look like we're an entertaining team.
"All coaches have their own different opinions and that's fine - we're all different. But for me, I think there's a way the game should be played.
"I genuinely enjoy watching us play."
And with England heading to the World Cup at the end of this year, Powell also firmly believes that putting adventure ahead of conservatism is the only way to tame the Kangaroos and Kiwis.
"We're different to Australia. We're not going to beat them at their own game, there isn't a chance. So for me I think we could be a blueprint," he added.
'Entertainment First' is a philosophy that Warrington coach Tony Smith is also keen to expound.
The Wolves have been catching the eye with their fluency in recent years - a style that won them the League Leaders Shield and got them to two finals in 2016.
And he would love to see more clubs playing the same way.
"The styles that us coaches bring in, or influences from other competitions, maybe stifle our game," said Smith.
"I think we've got to understand what we want as an entertainment and we've got to make our rules and regulations fit to that standard.
"We need to make sure we produce something that people out there in the stands want to watch and enjoy.
"It isn't just about winning, it needs to be done in a certain style. We're trying to be a bit more expansive this year and hopefully we've got a bit more creativity in our ranks."
Mimicking the NRL is not the only way to success. Even the Aussies would agree.
Former coach and Channel 9 pundit Phil 'Gus' Gould recently tweeted: "English football has lost its identity. It has spent the last 30 years trying to play like Australia. How's that plan working?"
Maybe 2017 could be the year the Super League regains its identity, with some breath-taking thrills and spills along the way, and gets us all smiling all the way to the Grand Final.
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So-called "citizen scientists" from across the world are being urged to listen to and help classify sounds made by the mammals.
The St Andrews Sea Mammal Research Unit is part of the Whale Project - a global effort to categorise whale calls.
It aims to establish whether calls vary between different groups of whales.
The Whale Project website site displays calls from both killer whales and pilot whales.
"Citizen scientists" who log on are presented with a whale call and shown where it was recorded on a map of the world's oceans and seas.
After listening to the whale call, members of the public are then asked to listen to a number of potential matching calls from the project's database.
If a match is found the results are stored.
Prof Peter Tyack of the University of St Andrews said: "By asking hundreds of people to make similar judgements, we will learn how reliable the categories are, and they get the fun of hearing these amazing sounds."
"Only a few researchers have categorised whale calls."
Scientists hope to address a number of questions about whale communication.
Biologists studying killer whales have reported that each group of whales has its own distinctive dialect of calls, with related groups having dialects that are more similar.
The Whale Project asks "citizen scientists" to test these results by making their own judgements of similarity between calls.
Much less is known about the calls of pilot whales than of killer whales.
Researchers from St Andrews and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts want to know the size of the pilot whales' call repertoire and whether call repertoires vary between groups, as in killer whales.
"Most mammals have a fixed species-specific repertoire of calls, but killer whales are thought to learn their calls from their group," said Prof Tyack.
The Whale Project is co-sponsored by science magazine, Scientific American.
Those interested in taking part should go to the Scientific American website to set up a login and password.
Wang Yang, one of China's four vice-premiers, said the "uncivilised behaviour" of some Chinese tourists was harming the country's image.
Among problems he singled out were talking loudly in public and spitting.
However, the BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing says some Chinese complain they are treated badly abroad.
Foreign travel is becoming ever more popular among China's increasingly affluent citizens.
By Celia HattonBBC Beijing correspondent
Chinese people make an estimated 83 million trips outside China every year, so it is not a surprise that a minority sometimes clash with their foreign hosts.
Just a few years ago only the richest people in China could afford to travel abroad but now millions of people from China's second- and third-tier cities are applying for passports in order to gain their first glimpse of the outside world.
However, many in China also complain they are treated like second-class citizens abroad. Chinese internet forums were flooded with protests earlier this year when news emerged that a hotel in the Maldives had removed kettles from rooms occupied by Chinese tourists.
Apparently, the hotel's manager was upset that some Chinese tourists were using boiling water to eat instant noodles in their rooms, instead of spending money in the hotel's restaurants.
Still, there's little chance that the occasional clash between Chinese tourists and the outside world will stop China's booming tourism industry.
Chinese tourists spent $102bn (£67bn) overseas last year, up 40% on the year before, and the UN World Tourism Organisation says China is now the single biggest source of global tourism income.
Mr Wang's words were published on the website of the People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party's main newspaper.
"Improving the civilised quality of the citizens and building a good image of Chinese tourists are the obligations of governments at all levels and relevant agencies and companies," he said.
Mr Wang advised authorities to "guide tourists to conscientiously abide by public order and social ethics, respect local religious beliefs and customs, mind their speech and behaviour... and protect the environment".
Mr Wang's criticism has brought a mixed response on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, our correspondent reports.
"It's time to send a warning to ourselves," one user posted. "As Chinese people get richer, our behaviour gets worse."
However, others argue that a senior member of the Communist Party - which is dealing with a raft of corruption scandals - is not in a position to judge the behaviour of others.
Many in China say they are treated like second-class citizens when they travel abroad and local media is full of stories of Chinese tourists who have been robbed, our correspondent adds.
Earlier this year, officials in China's eastern province of Jiangsu warned citizens against carrying large amounts of money with them or flashing expensive jewellery.
The Exiles are bottom of the league but have not lost since their 3-1 defeat at Stevenage on Saturday, 7 January.
After a run of seven straight defeats, Westley's side have drawn four times and won once in their last five games.
"We've taken ownership of the problem and we're fighting to put it straight," Westley told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
Westley continued: "Five unbeaten is a great initial statement from the squad and we'll look to make it six unbeaten [against Grimsby Town].
"We are very focussed with digging ourselves out of the hole we find ourselves in and push the club on to highs rather than lows.
"There's 51 points to be won and provided we keep building on what we're doing at the moment, we're confident we can win a lot of those 51 points."
The Exiles face a Grimsby side on Tuesday who lost their last game 5-0 against Crewe Alexandra, but Westley does not underestimate their midweek opponents.
"I went up and watched the game on Saturday and in fairness, it was very much a game of two halves. They just got it wrong and in the second half they tidied themselves up and they looked a decent outfit so I'm sure one heavy defeat isn't going to kill them," Westley said.
"We expect them to come full of intention and full of renewed motivation and we know that we're going to have to be as good and better than we were on Friday if we are to secure the three points."
In 2012, Angharad Rees, 18, was thrown from the trap her horse was pulling. She hit her head on a tree and sustained a fatal injury.
She was not wearing a helmet.
A coroner declared her death "accidental" but concerns were raised about the suitability of the route.
Now her family have demanded the event organisers are prosecuted.
The event, called the Marathon, took place on 27 May 2012 at Afan Argoed Country Park in Port Talbot.
The inquest heard how there were difficulties in getting medical help to her due to the location of the accident and she later died in hospital.
At the time, a report into the incident by Neath Port Talbot council's environmental health team raised serious questions about the route's suitability.
And after a three year battle, the family have reiterated their demands for the organisers of the event to be prosecuted.
Miss Rees's father Gavin said the route that had been chosen was unacceptable for the event.
"I've walked it on numerous occasions and in my opinion to take a horse and trap down there is beyond belief," he said.
"I'm not saying it couldn't be done if you're a cross country rider... but not on a fun day event."
But the organiser of the event, British Driving Society (BDS), said it had been a tragic accident which they say was supported by the coroner's verdict of "accidental death".
It said around 10 others had descended the slope without incident before Miss Rees and participants were clearly warned that the tracks were single-track, and to expect uneven terrain and tree roots, plus uphill and downhill slopes.
The society added that participants of the event were advised to wear hard hats but Miss Rees had chosen not to. At the inquest, the coroner said that it was unclear whether the outcome would have been different if she had been wearing one.
The coroner also wrote to the society suggesting hard hats be made compulsory for participants at similar events but BBC Wales understands that no change has been implemented for those who are more than 14 years of age.
The family's solicitor Peter Davies said there were more questions to be answered.
"A number of issues have issues have come to light since the inquest and I am wondering, had that information been made available and the proper questions asked, whether the verdict would have been the same?" he said.
Although the family knew another inquest was not a possibility, Mr Davies said they still wanted answers.
Neath Port Talbot council said it would be restarting its investigation and would not comment on the matter.
The CPS told the family on Friday it would not be pursuing two of the three potential offences it had been asked to consider but would continue to review a third.
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The mournful fluctuation of air-raid sirens echoed across the sunny streets and squares of big cities.
And teachers shepherded well-drilled groups of children briskly down school corridors.
Mock radio news bulletins made no effort to disguise the source of the imaginary attack - it was Hezbollah, the heavily-armed proxy army which Iran equips and maintains in southern Lebanon.
The drill may have been routine but the timing leant it a greater sense of urgency - it came as the US-led world powers built up to the deadline for a diplomatic deal with Iran offering a reduction in crippling economic sanctions in return for a verifiable cap on Iranian nuclear ambitions.
Israeli leaders are worried that those world powers just don't "get" Iran in the way that they do.
Israel is implacably determined to stop the Iranians acquiring a nuclear weapon and sees it without question as the greatest danger facing the Middle East, and perhaps the world.
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For a whole variety of reasons they fear that the US-led world powers negotiating with the Iranians don't feel the fear as deeply or the determination quite as adamantly.
Europe, they worry, is too quick to see the replacement of the stridently hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the more emollient Hassan Rouhani as evidence of real political change rather than a simple piece of political window-dressing designed to fool them.
They may be ready to risk making a deal, in the Israeli analysis, to help consolidate a political change that was never really real.
And there's a fear that Barack Obama sees the potential in the rehabilitation of Revolutionary Iran for a kind of personal international legacy - his equivalent of a "Nixon in China" moment.
But above all there's a real and immediate fear that Israel is the likeliest target for an Iranian bomb.
It's worth pointing out of course that Iran denies absolutely that it's attempting to acquire nuclear weapons and insists that its uranium-enrichment programme is intended for peaceful civilian uses, like electricity generation or cancer treatments.
Ronen Bergman, who's one of Israel's best - and best-briefed - writers on defence and intelligence matters, says it's easy to gauge how deep and how real that concern is for ordinary Israelis.
"At the height of the tensions with Iran," he says, "as someone who was seen to know something about this issue, I had people stopping me in the street every day, every hour, asking me not if but when President Ahmadinejad would press the 'red button' once he had a red button to press...
"I don't think he would have, but that's the Israeli mindset, that once the Iranians get their hands on a nuclear warhead they would launch it at Israel."
Israel is not a party to the talks between Iran and the world powers but it has been working desperately behind the scenes to stiffen the American and European positions, and arguing that a harder bargain could - and should - be driven.
The points of detail are important - should international nuclear inspectors, for example, have the right to make unannounced visits to Iranian military bases and to industrial facilities in remote stretches of desert to ensure that Tehran isn't cheating.
A retired officer from Israel's secret service, Mossad, told us that issues related to Iran take up most of the time and energy of Israel's intelligence services.
That calculation would include not just Iran's nuclear programme but its support for Israel's enemies like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza.
So Israel sees Iran as a determined, energetic and dangerous enemy - but not an unstoppable one.
The former Israeli Intelligence Minister, Dan Meridor, believes that the tough current sanctions in place against Iran have been working because they include such tough financial measures as the denial of access to payment systems for international trade.
Iran's goal now is to get those sanctions relaxed or revoked, but Mr Meridor says the US-led negotiators should be careful not to underplay their hand.
"They [the Iranians] are serious and they are smart," he told us, "but they also understand what the Germans used to call Realpolitik.
"When there was heavy pressure on their economy by the European Union and the Americans and others, you saw a change of face and maybe a change of behaviour on the Iranian side. So I don't think we are that weak and I don't think they are that strong.
"If we act smartly we can slow processes and hopefully move things in a better direction."
Israel's many enemies in the Middle East scent hypocrisy in all of this. No-one in the region doubts that the Jewish State itself has had nuclear weapons for years and no-one is fooled by its long-standing policy of simply declining to comment on the issue.
The Israeli case is that Iran is different.
Some Israelis certainly think there's a possibility that the country's religious leaders want The Bomb so that they can carry out their threat to wipe Israel off the map.
But others fear that Iran's ambition is to consolidate itself as a regional superpower - one that no-one will dare to try to push around.
As a revolutionary power it already sees itself as an exporter of revolution - or an exporter of terrorism, as Israel and the United States would see it.
And as the major force in the world of Shia Islam, it feels it has the right to arm and protect Shia communities across the Middle East - as it does in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
Israel's nightmare is that those assertive interventionist policies would be a lot more assertive and interventionist if Iran had the extra strategic confidence that comes with The Bomb.
That's why for many years debate on this issue was dominated by speculation that Israel was preparing to launch pre-emptive air strikes against the Iranian nuclear infrastructure.
That speculation has receded in the last couple of years - apparently because Israel was prepared to give new, tougher sanctions time to work.
But the intelligence expert Ronen Bergman says that threat remains part of the overall equation.
Israel has already attacked nuclear facilities in Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007 and remains committed to the doctrine articulated by former Prime Minister Menachem Begin that Israel would never allow an enemy committed to its destruction to acquire the means to carry out that threat.
"This is why," says Mr Bergman, "any Israeli prime minister would order the bombers to take off against the Iranian nuclear project if he receives reliable intelligence that Iran is getting too close to a bomb."
Any such attack would trigger an Iranian response - delivered either directly through Iran's own Missile Forces or through Hezbollah on Israel's northern border.
Those recent civil defence exercises in Israeli cities were part of the war-gaming for that "Day After" scenario.
You can find on the internet a startling Israeli-made home movie with disturbingly powerful special effects which portrays an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel - it's called The Last Day.
Israel has to rely on those American-led negotiators to ensure that such an attack remains the stuff of dark and remote fantasy.
But as this process comes down to the wire they remain sceptical and fearful.
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Candystripes keeper Gerard Doherty denied Sean Maguire before Garry Buckley's clever flicked finish put the Leesiders in front on 34 minutes.
Karl Sheppard slotted between Doherty's legs to double the lead before Maguire rifled home after 64 minutes to give Cork an eighth win from eight games.
Aaron McEneff came closest for Derry with a late strike against the bar.
It's a second straight defeat for Derry since the tragic death of their captain Ryan McBride last month.
Maguire burst clear on 10 minutes but his low shot was blocked by the onrushing Doherty.
Cork keeper Mark McNulty saved efforts from Nathan Boyle and McEneff but the incisive attacking football came at the other end.
Doherty tipped over a curling Kevin O'Connor free-kick before Buckley netted from a Stephen Dooley cut-back.
Sheppard struck 10 minutes into the second half, racing through and sliding in from 14 yards to make it 2-0.
The dominant Leesiders added a third when Derry failed to clear and the ball broke kindly for Maguire, who sent a fizzing shot past Doherty.
McEneff was denied by the woodwork with two minutes left in what was a rare highlight for the visitors.
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Seventy-two models, including many famous buildings, are on display in a new exhibition in Scotland.
All of the models at the exhibition in Paisley are created by Edinburgh artist, Warren Elsmore.
Mr Elsmore used to work in IT, but is now a full-time Lego artist. The exhibition took him two years to make.
"I started in the same way as everyone else, when I was three or four, getting Lego sets for Christmas and building them", he said.
All of the models in the exhibition are created from ordinary rectangular bricks: the bricks are not glued together and nothing is custom made.
The curved roof of St Pancras station is created by the tension of the bricks. If they are placed at the right angle, they form a curve.
Mr Elsmore had a tour of the clock tower at St Pancras station, which helped him build the structure.
"I got right inside the clock tower which gives you a real sense of how the building fits together", he said.
There will be a section of the exhibition where visitors can build themselves.
Craig Elliot from Renfrewshire Museums said: "It's not just going to be about looking, there will be a hands-on section of the exhibition where they can make something of their own, or contribute to making a local landmark..."
Mr Elsmore said that when the exhibition closes, the Lego models are packed up very carefully, put into boxes and will sit in a warehouse... until the next time.
The 72 models on display all feature in his book Brick City, which demonstrates how he made the structures.
Liam Laverick, of Beeford Grove, appeared at Hull Magistrates' Court on Wednesday charged with the manslaughter of Tommy Lee Laverick-Whitworth.
The baby boy died at Leeds General Infirmary on 25 September after an ambulance was called to an address in Anlaby Road, Hull two days earlier.
Mr Laverick was remanded in custody and will appear at Hull Crown Court on 3 June.
The app, which is being designed by the university's dementia centre, will also recommend changes that could be made to the building.
Lighting, colour, contrast and noise in the home can all affect people who are living with dementia.
The university said it would take about 20 minutes to assess a two-bedroom home using the free app.
Users will be asked questions about their surroundings and will be asked to take photographs.
The dementia database - called Iridis - will then recommend changes that could be made, which could range from changing a light bulb to reconfiguring whole bathrooms.
Stirling University said it was the first app if its kind in the world.
Lesley Palmer, from the university's Dementia Services Development Centre, said: "This is a unique opportunity to revolutionise how we improve day-to-day life for older people and people living with dementia around the world.
"We are creating a simple way for anyone to assess how dementia-friendly their environment is, and find out how to improve their surroundings.
"With around 50 million people estimated to be living with dementia worldwide, there is an immediate need to invest in our aging population and provide improved services and facilities."
Dementia is one of the main causes of disability later in life, ahead of cancer.
The app, which will be available to download in September 2017, is being designed in collaboration with construction experts Space Group.
The agonising wait goes on. Almost two weeks after they were driven away from their boarding school in the town in the middle of the night, parents are desperate for news of their daughters.
A resident of the small town of Gwoza in the remote north-east said on 25 April she saw a convoy of 11 vehicles painted in military colours carrying many girls.
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This will be of little comfort to the parents as it suggests at least some are now even further from home, close to the Cameroonian border.
The fact that Islamist fighters from the Boko Haram group are still able to move across parts of Borno state in convoys points to the severe limitations of the current military strategy.
With thousands of extra troops deployed in the main cities of the north and with the emergence of civilian defence forces or vigilante groups especially in Maiduguri, Boko Haram was under pressure and was forced to change tactics.
But this has instead brought the deadliest phase of the conflict with incessant attacks on poorly defended rural villages and smaller towns.
About 1,500 people were killed in the first three months of 2014, according to Amnesty International.
And the Maiduguri barracks attack last month, as well as the Abuja bomb blast on the same day the girls were abducted, show that the insurgents are not entirely confined to rural areas.
Even for those girls who managed to escape during the first few hours of the abduction there is no peace of mind.
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"I'm so sad now because when I'm at home I think about all my school friends who are there in the bush," one 18-year-old told me from her home in Chibok town, where the abductions took place.
"I hope they are set free. We are all praying for God to release them so they come back home."
The attack is an eerie echo of a mass abduction in northern Uganda back in 1996. A total of 139 girls aged between 11 and 16 were seized from dormitories at St Mary's School in Aboke.
They were tied together with rope and were taken away by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), which says it is fighting for a state based on the Biblical 10 Commandments. So, same terror tactics, different religion.
In an extraordinary act of bravery the headmistress, Sister Rachele Fassera, followed them into the bush and managed to rescue 109 of them.
The rest were forced to become so-called wives of the rebel commanders. Most of the "Aboke Girls" escaped and returned years later as young mothers. But at least four of them never came home.
In Nigeria there was such utter confusion and terror after the attack on Chibok School that several days later it was still not clear how many girls were missing.
There cannot be many countries where the political leaders stay as silent following such a tragedy. So far, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has said more about the Chibok attack than Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan.
On Friday, a presidential advisor told the BBC the incident was "unfortunate, embarrassing and evil".
"The fact that some of them have been rescued raises our hope that with more effort, the objective of bringing them to safety and to their parents will be achieved," said Reuben Abati.
But they were not rescued by the military. They escaped.
Mr Abati said the security forces "deserve continuous motivation for them to do even more".
Few would disagree with that thought but there are doubts over whether the soldiers tasked with fighting Boko Haram are getting the support they need from their own bosses.
"We are in a difficult situation. We are underequipped we do not have the required weapons," a soldier deployed to Borno State told the BBC last month.
"This problem is not from us at the front line but from our superiors. We, the soldiers, have the courage to confront Boko Haram but we do not have sufficient weapons."
"You cannot confront someone with more sophisticated weapons than you. It is not our superiors doing the fighting - we are the ones at the front line," he said.
"So we have to consider our families our parents and when we go there and get killed, what becomes of our families?"
As has been the case with the long war against the LRA in Uganda, some analysts in Nigeria question whether the possibility of making vast amounts of money from the opaque security funds is a hindrance to ending the bloodshed.
Nigeria's budget for security this year is more than $6bn (£3.5bn) - double the allocation for education.
"The budget for defence is increasing but we don't see that translating into better kit and security personnel…. so in a lot of ways the question is asked whether the resources that are budgeted for security are actually going into equipping the military to be prepared for this," said Clement Nwankwo, a policy analyst.
The police are also supposed to play a key role in protecting civilians. If they were well resourced, the streets might not be plagued at night by policemen waving torches and begging for handouts from motorists.
Nigeria's Premium Times newspaper has just done an expose on how poorly looked after the police are.
"Only through black magic could anybody feed his wife and four children for 30 days with the kind of salary the Nigeria Police pays me," the online publication quoted a policeman as saying.
The same article says the Police Training School in the north-eastern state of Bauchi quotes officers saying they no longer get issued with a uniform but have to buy them from the local market.
The violence in the north-east has been relentless this year but the kidnapping of the girls from Chibok and the focus on their plight has definitely caused more Nigerians, wherever they live, to question their own safety.
"If they can't protect them up there in the north-east, why would they be able to protect us here," is how one Lagos resident put it.
This is a religious country but for some the insecurity is now beyond prayers.
"Nigerian citizens have been waiting in vain for an effective decisive action from the presidency beside the usual: 'We condemn this act…' But the president is waxing strong in his Pentecostal polemics and total reliance on prayers to solve the country's security failings," says Nigerian writer Victor Ehikhamenor.
"Nigeria is a highly spiritual country and its past and present leaders know this and have manipulated it to their benefit," he says.
"However, the current administration has taken it to a new height where God is expected to actually physically solve all the country's debilitating problems from terrorism to corruption to fixing dilapidated infrastructures."
Many of the politicians are more focused on the blame game than coming up with solutions and with elections due early next year, the violence could have political consequences.
The north-east is an opposition stronghold - the states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa, where an emergency has been declared, are all under the control of the All Progressive Congress.
"Not holding polls in the north-east, or reducing their scope, could create political chaos, with the opposition rejecting a close unfavourable national tally. It is also feared that Boko Haram could escalate attacks to undermine the elections," says the International Crisis Group (ICG) in its latest report on the insecurity plaguing Nigeria.
"It overstretches federal security services, with no end in sight, spills over to other parts of the north and risks reaching Niger and Cameroon, weak countries poorly equipped to combat a radical Islamist armed group tapping into real governance, corruption, impunity and underdevelopment grievances shared by most people in the region," says the ICG.
People are trying to ensure that the tragedy of the abducted school girls is not yet another attack that is swiftly forgotten hence the trending of #BringBackOurGirls and #WhereAreOurGirls on Twitter.
But given the current insecurity in the north-east it is not a question of "if" but "when" and "where" the insurgents will strike next.
The second seed maintained his 100% record against the Belgian with a 6-2 6-2 win in one hour 35 minutes.
The Scot will play Frenchman Gilles Simon, a 4-6 6-4 7-6 (7/5) winner over American Jack Sock, next.
"It was a tough match. I struck the ball really well and created a lot of chances on my return game," he said.
The 29-year-old Wimbledon champion squandered six break points in the second game of the second set, a battle that lasted over 15 minutes, and with the score at 2-2 had to save two break points on his own serve.
But Goffin failed to convert any of his opportunities in that crucial period and Murray went on to break his opponent in the fifth game.
World number one Novak Djokovic suffered a major scare against world number 110 Mischa Zverev before fighting back to reach the semi-finals.
The top seed came back from a set and a break down to win 3-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 in two hours 20 minutes, setting up a last-four tie against Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.
Djokovic, 29, made a number of uncharacteristic errors against Germany's Zverev - including two double faults and 14 unforced errors in a nervy 62-minute second set - but was far more comfortable in the decider, breaking early as the qualifier ran out of steam.
The Serb said he hummed a tune while waiting to return Zverev's serve in the latter stages of the match.
"You're trying to reach that balance between being concentrated but at the same time being kind of calm and relaxed and enjoying the moment," he said.
"I was always trying to keep that optimal state of mind. Instead of the occasional tantrum that I used to have, I (switched) that vibration and transformed it in a tune."
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William James Ritchie from Ballsalla, Isle of Man, died last February after taking alpha-methyltryptamine or AMT.
Isle of Man Coroner John Needham said the drug was "either the cause of death" or "a significant contributing factor to Mr Ritchie's death".
Mr Needham added: "I find the evidence sufficiently strong to recommend such a substance be made a controlled drug."
Mr Ritchie, 45, died at his flat in Ballasalla on 2 February.
At Douglas court house, an inquest heard he died either directly because of the toxic effects of AMT, or in combination with an underlying liver condition.
Mr Needham said: "I will refer my findings in this case to the Isle of Man Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs Act to consider whether AMT should be included on the list of controlled drugs in the island.
"For my part I find that the evidence is sufficiently strong to recommend under rule 34 that such substance is made a controlled drug so as to perhaps deter its casual possession and consumption in the Isle of Man and thus helping to prevent others from taking it and potentially suffering similar fatal consequences as suffered by Mr Ritchie."
New rules to tackle the rise in the use of the drugs were announced by the European Commission earlier this year.
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Ainslie led Oracle Team USA to victory in last year's America's Cup and later formed Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR).
Red Bull's chief technical officer Adrian Newey will be available as an advisor to the project.
"BAR are really excited to be partnering with Red Bull Advanced Technologies (RBAT)," said Ainslie, 37.
"RBAT will apply its simulation and modelling skills to assist Ben Ainslie Racing in various areas of their campaign.
"We are in a unique position in this country, and this campaign is about assimilating the very best of British in design and engineering - RBAT epitomises this."
Earlier this year, four-time Olympic champion Ainslie said he wanted Newey involved in the America's Cup project having met the designer at the 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Newey designed the Red Bull cars which Sebastian Vettel drove to win the world championship in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
However, he is now combining his time in F1 with other projects, of which the America's Cup is one.
Since then, the company has agreed to pay substantial compensation to people in the US who bought cars equipped with illegal software, capable of disguising their true emissions levels.
But Volkswagen has not yet made any payments to buyers in the UK or elsewhere in Europe, even though millions of cars sold in the region were also fitted with similar software.
Nor does it have any plans to do so.
However, efforts are now being made to force the company to change its mind, orchestrated by the European Commission. The Department for Transport has been involved in the discussions.
The scandal first became public in the US in September 2015.
It emerged that roughly 600,000 diesel vehicles had been fitted with "defeat devices" - software which could recognise when a car was being tested, and turn on its emission controls systems.
They could then be turned off again when the car was being used on the road. That would improve its performance, but also dramatically increase the levels of harmful nitrogen oxides it produced.
The software had been developed by VW's engineers because they realised that their cars were not capable of both passing strict US emissions tests, and offering high levels of performance.
But the scandal was not confined to the US. It soon became apparent that cars sold all around the world had also been fitted with defeat devices - including about eight million in Europe.
They included cars sold under the Audi, Skoda, Seat and Porsche brands, as well as Volkswagens.
News of what Volkswagen had been doing prompted angry reactions from buyers, many of whom demanded compensation.
In the US, they got what they wanted.
Under the terms of a $10bn settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, VW agreed to buy back or repair all of the affected vehicles, and provide their owners with a cash sum of at least $5,000.
Buyers in Canada received a similar settlement, but only after taking out a class action lawsuit against the company.
In Europe, things have been rather different. Although Volkswagen is in the process of recalling the affected vehicles and modifying them, it has refused to provide any recompense for buyers.
There is a good reason why Volkswagen has made payments in the US. It simply had no choice. What it was doing was clearly illegal.
The company has admitted that it deliberately set out to circumvent the emissions testing process, and designed its defeat device accordingly. It also lied to regulators about what it was doing.
The US authorities take a very dim view of this kind of thing. As a result Volkswagen is facing a total bill in the US of $21bn.
That includes large criminal and civil fines, as well as the cost of buybacks and compensation. If VW had decided to fight the charges rather than settling, it could have been even bigger.
It has also pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and obstruction of justice.
In the UK and other European countries, the situation is more complicated.
Although it is in the process of recalling millions of vehicles fitted with software capable of cheating emissions tests, Volkswagen denies actually doing anything illegal.
It says, for example, it "does not accept that a defeat device prohibited under UK law was fitted to any of the affected UK vehicles".
It also insists: "This issue has not caused any loss of engine performance or any increase in running costs. Nor has it changed fuel economy figures, CO2 emission figures or the vehicles' tax status.
"In addition the value of the vehicles has not been negatively affected by this issue."
So no compensation, it argues, is needed. Similar arguments are used in other European countries.
Put simply, Volkswagen doesn't believe that in Europe the "defeat devices" were actually defeat devices - in the strictest legal sense.
It also maintains that the software wasn't actually needed to pass emissions tests in Europe, which were less stringent than those in the US.
Nevertheless, efforts are under way in Brussels to force Volkswagen to pay up.
Last week the European Commission hosted a meeting of 22 consumer protection authorities from across the continent.
They agreed to prepare collective action against the company.
It is understood this could involve individual authorities imposing co-ordinated fines on Volkswagen for alleged breaches of consumer law, as well as taking a joint "administrative decision", which could be used to support litigation against the company in national courts.
According to people within the Commission, the main aim is to put pressure on the carmaker, in the hope that it will voluntarily provide compensation.
A spokesman for the Department for Transport said afterwards that the government took "the unacceptable actions of VW extremely seriously" and was "pushing them to compensate the UK consumer".
Even if these efforts fail, VW could yet be forced to make substantial payouts.
It is facing a range of class action lawsuits, representing hundreds of thousands of disgruntled buyers - and if it loses, the bill could be very steep indeed.
Simon Thomas said it would be "political folly" to strike such a deal while Labour was "ripping itself apart", but he said a special party conference could decide differently.
Party leader Leanne Wood had previously said that she was not ruling it out.
Her comments sparked opposition from some Plaid politicians.
Speaking at the party's weekly press conference Mr Thomas, Plaid AM for Mid and West Wales, said: "Labour are in such a shocking state of affairs, and so poorly led, that I think it would be counterproductive in the Welsh context for Plaid to go into any kind of formal coalition with Labour.
"We maintain the informal relationships we set up at the time we appointed Carwyn [Jones as first minister]. Those committees that we talked about are meeting, they are negotiating, they are talking."
"We're not interested in forming a coalition," he said.
Mr Thomas said Ms Wood "was right to say that it wasn't being ruled out because the party hadn't discussed it at that stage".
"The group has discussed it, the group is not interested in that", he said.
Mr Thomas said the "party will discuss it potentially when we have our special conference" on 16 July.
"If the party decides different to the group then things could change again," he said.
He added: "The reality of the Labour party ripping itself apart, leaderless at a national UK level, so divorced from the realities of people's lives today - to support that I think would be political folly for us."
Ms Wood had told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme after the referendum: "What happened on Thursday night has changed everything really, so I would not be prepared to close anything down."
But in response, South Wales Central AM Neil McEvoy, who was newly elected in May, said on Twitter: "I'm absolutely opposed to propping up a toxic Labour Party."
Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards was also critical of any support for Labour while Jeremy Corbyn was facing challenges to his leadership.
He tweeted: "Labour today is defined by chaos, dissent and disunity. Now is the time for @Plaid_Cymru to challenge not endorse them."
Paul Clarke, 71, from East Sussex but now living in Manchester, entered the pleas at Lewes Crown Court.
He had been charged with possessing an indecent image of a child, possession of prohibited images and making a total of 3,100 indecent images of children.
He is due to be sentenced on 5 February.
Clarke, of Redclyffe Road, Urmston, Greater Manchester, but formerly of Watchbell Road, Rye in East Sussex, was arrested after a search of his Rye address - the residential presbytery attached to St Anthony's Church - in November 2014.
Police said the charges all related to images taken from the internet.
Gwent Police had issued an appeal for information after the incident involving a red van on St John's Crescent, Rogerstone, just after 19:00 BST on 20 May.
The man, from Newport, has been remanded in custody and a van seized.
Anyone with information has been asked to contact police on 101.
The strategy has been developed following a critical report from the Care Inspectorate.
It concluded that youngsters were not being adequately protected.
Former chief constable, Pat Shearer, who is interim chairman of the child protection committee, said no time was being wasted in making improvements.
Inspectors warned earlier this year that they were "not confident" that vulnerable children and young people in Dumfries and Galloway were being kept safe.
Their report called for urgent action to ensure that they were protected and their needs met.
Mr Shearer said: "We have reviewed every plan for every child on the child protection register and we are going deeper than that.
"Modifications are taking place every day in that respect.
"We are clear about the key issues."
He said it was important that the initial process when a concern came in worked as well as possible.
Mr Shearer said the NHS, police and social services had to work together to ensure they had a "proper picture" of each situation.
He said that process was now working.
"That said, we have got to continually focus it and make sure it is working right," he said.
"Because if you don't start off properly then you are always challenged in the future."
Images of Dylan Voller cuffed to a mechanical restraint chair drew widespread condemnation after they were aired on television.
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday convened a royal commission to examine treatment of juvenile inmates in the Northern Territory.
In a public letter, Voller said he wanted to make up for his past actions.
"I would just like to thank the whole Australian community for the support you have showed for us boys as well as our families," Voller wrote.
"I would also like to take this opportunity to apologise to the community for my wrongs and I can't wait to get out and make up for them."
The Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s Four Corners programme this week showed footage of teenage offenders stripped naked, assaulted and tear gassed at the Northern Territory's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.
Voller, who has been convicted of crimes including car theft, robbery and assault, was targeted in a number of incidents.
One of the guards who worked at the juvenile detention centre revealed that Voller had been placed in the restraint chair on multiple occasions.
"I know of three times he was in the restraint chair," said youth detention guard Ben Kelleher.
"Dylan was never so still, he was never so sheepish as he was when he was in that chair. I think he had admitted defeat when it happened.
"I turned up for one shift and Dylan was in the chair and the other two times they were on incident reports I read once I got to work," he said.
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In the letter released by his lawyers, Voller also thanked Four Corners for "helping to get the truth out there".
He is eligible for release in August. It will be the first time he has experienced freedom as an adult.
His lawyer called for the young man's immediate release and said his client was "scared for his safety".
The prime minister has refused to widen the scope of the proposed royal commission beyond the Northern Territory, despite pressure from Indigenous groups to do so.
Youth detention rates are three times higher in the Northern Territory than elsewhere in Australia, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Although the institute does not break down Indigenous youth incarceration rates specifically for the Northern Territory, young Indigenous people across Australia are 26 times more likely to be in detention than non-Indigenous youth.
The Northern Territory's attorney-general, John Elferink, has been stripped of his corrections portfolio in the wake of the scandal.
Steven Kirkwood, who denies murdering the 45 year old at HK Autotek garage in Stevenston on 25 July, was giving evidence at the High Court in Glasgow.
Mr Kirkwood said he had not confessed to killing Mr O'Hanlon, and he did not think he had struck him with a knife.
The 44 year old has lodged a special defence of self-defence.
The court had been told that Mr O'Hanlon, whose nickname was Musk, had gone to the garage with his friend Forbes Cowan to speak with Mr Kirkwood.
Prosecutor Richard Goddard said to Mr Kirkwood: "You claim after the incident at the garage you didn't notice the blood and didn't think Mr O'Hanlon had a scratch on him," and he agreed with that.
The court was previously told that Mr Kirkwood drove to his stepson Derek Kirkwood's shop in Paisley after leaving the garage.
In the shop at the time were his stepson and customer and friend Fraser Reid, 23.
Mr Goddard said: "Why then less than 45 minutes later did you tell Fraser Reid : 'I set about Musky. I stabbed him. I think I've killed him'."
Mr Kirkwood replied: "I don't know what was said in the shop. I wouldn't have said I set about anybody. When I left the garage I didn't know what had happened.
"Musk was having breathing difficulties. I didn't think I had struck Musk with the knife."
Mr Kirkwood said: "I never attacked them. They attacked me so why should I tell Fraser Reid, someone I barely know, that I've just attacked him."
He added: "I didn't know until 15 minutes after I left the shop that Michael had been stabbed and I didn't know until 3.45pm in my lawyer's officer that he had died."
Mr Kirkwood claims he was acting in self defence after being attacked by the pair.
He told the jury that he had seen a knife on the floor while he was being pinned down. He said he had picked it up and swung it behind him.
Mr Goddard said: "You stabbed a man, even on your own account, four times while he was unarmed."
Mr Kirkwood replied: "I couldn't see him. I couldn't see Forbes Cowan. All I know is they were attacking me.
"That knife wasn't on the floor when it first started. I saw the knife and panicked. It wasn't my knife.
"I didn't know he was unarmed and I didn't know I'd struck him with the knife in the first place."
Prosecutors allege that Kirkwood struggled with Mr O'Hanlon, punched him and repeatedly struck him on the body with a knife or similar item.
Mr Kirkwood also denies separate charges of having a knife in a public place and attempting to defeat the ends of justice by disposing of it.
The trial before judge Lady Rae continues.
The face of the so-called Beachy Head Lady was recreated using craniofacial reconstruction.
Eastbourne Borough Council's museum service was awarded a grant of £72,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Eastbourne Ancestors project.
The aim was to identify the gender and age of each skeleton in its collection.
Detailed scientific analysis of more than 300 skeletons of people who lived in the south of England thousands of years ago has undertaken by scientists and archaeologists.
Testing of the bones and teeth has identified the national or regional origins, age, gender, state of health, diet, and in some cases, how they died.
Most of the skeletons are Anglo-Saxon, from about 1,500 years ago, but some are Neolithic and more than 4,000 years old.
The Beachy Head Lady was discovered in the East Sussex beauty spot in 1953, and she is thought to have lived around AD245.
Jo Seaman, heritage officer at Eastbourne Borough Council, said: "This is a fantastic discovery for the south coast.
"We know this lady was around 30 years old, grew up in the vicinity of what is now East Sussex, ate a good diet of fish and vegetables, her bones were without disease and her teeth were in good condition."
The Beachy Head Lady forms part of an exhibition at the Eastbourne Museum which is opens on 1 February at the Pavilion.
Horse Rheidol Petra, ridden by Iola Evans, won the Llanwrtyd Wells event on Saturday in two hours and 30 minutes.
The first runner, Owen Beilby, finished the course 20 minutes later.
In 37 years of the Whole Earth Man V Horse race, only two runners have ever emerged victorious - Huw Lobb in 2004 and Florian Holginger in 2007.
The idea for the annual race was born from a bet in the back room of the Neaudd Arms in 1980 after an argument over whether a man could ever beat a horse in a long-distance race.
The pub is still the starting point for the race.
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR) currently runs between Cheltenham and Laverton but wants to extend to Broadway in Worcestershire.
A public share scheme raised more than £500,000 in 2014 and GWSR said "over £35,000 per day" was coming in.
It is hoped funding will enable the opening of a station in Broadway in 2018.
Ian Crowder, from GWSR, said money was "coming in at an unprecedented rate".
He said investments had come from a "mixture of supporters and local people as well as railway enthusiasts".
"We've come to the end of the era of the trainspotter image, this is a serious business and a significant contributor to the tourist economy of the Cotswolds," Mr Crowder said.
The public share offer - called "Broadway: The Last Mile" - aims to raise funds to buy rail and ballast, complete civil engineering works, and install the infrastructure.
It would enable trains to be run into Broadway for the "first time in more than half a century".
The pet, named Chubbs, returned to his home in Cupar with a wire wrapped around his neck.
The incident, which took place on 7 June at Buchanan Park, came just weeks after another cat was snared on the same street.
The Scottish SPCA said it was a frightening ordeal for the animal and described the setting of snares as "unacceptable".
Steven Gray, of the charity, said: "No one expects their cat to be deliberately harmed like this."
He added: "Obviously this was incredibly distressing for Chubbs' owner.
"Chubbs had gone outside between 21:00 and 22:00 that night and returned with the snare wrapped round his neck.
"Luckily, he hasn't suffered any severe injuries but he's clearly had a bit of a fright and has since been more clingy and reluctant to go outside.
"This homemade snare was set illegally and only a month ago the same thing happened to a cat owner on the same street."
Sir James Munby's comments came after the case of seven couples who had assisted reproduction by sperm donor.
Consent forms, which give legal parental status, were not properly completed by clinics, it emerged.
Sir James also questioned the oversight of regulator the HFEA.
If couples are not married or in a civil partnership they need to sign written consents - known as WP and PP forms - before treatment begins, to ensure they have legal parental rights.
Sir James, president of the family division of the High Court, said the failure to properly complete such forms painted an "alarming and shocking" picture.
The case itself involved five heterosexual couples and two same-sex couples, but the BBC understands 85 other couples could have their parentage called into doubt because of inaccurate paperwork.
Imagine this: You have a baby with your partner assisted by sperm donation.
You have the treatment at one of the 109 clinics around the country licensed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
You fill in all the critical forms you're asked to fill in to ensure you have legal parental rights. You go off happily assuming you are the parents.
Then, out of the blue, you get a letter saying that due to errors in the form filling, you aren't the legal parent. You then have intensely personal matters raked over as you go to court to try and get a declaration that you are the parent.
That is what happened to seven families.
Sir James Munby, the most senior family judge in the country, gave judgment granting those declarations, but rounding on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, citing "widespread incompetence across the sector".
Following an earlier court judgment in 2013, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) required all 109 licensed clinics in the UK to carry out an audit of their records.
In his judgment Sir James revealed that in 51 cases clinics discovered "anomalies" in their records.
"The picture revealed is one of what I do not shrink from describing as widespread incompetence across the sector on a scale which must raise questions as to the adequacy if not of the HFEA's regulation then of the extent of its regulatory powers," Sir James said.
He said that because of the sector's "incompetence", couples had been forced to come to court and reveal "intensely private" details in public.
In a statement the HFEA said it recognised the situation had been "been very stressful for the families involved".
It added: "They rightly assumed that legal parenthood was beyond doubt; finding out that it was not must have been very upsetting."
The 45-year-old, who is appearing at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics, is politically close to Prime Minister David Cameron and is a popular and well-regarded figure on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons.
But his career is hanging in the balance over claims that he privately supported attempts by News Corporation to take full control of BSkyB when he was meant to be acting in an impartial "quasi-judicial" way.
The culture secretary is accused of being a "cheerleader" for the Murdoch empire and of having a cosy relationship with its executives.
His special adviser, Adam Smith, has already been forced to quit over emails, released by the Leveson Inquiry, which revealed close contacts between Mr Hunt's office and News Corp when the firm was bidding to take over BSkyB.
And the release of dozens of text messages, some of them in a chatty and familiar tone, between Mr Hunt and News Corp lobbyist Fred Michel has caused further embarrassment.
Mr Hunt insists he acted with "total integrity" during the bid process and even asked Lord Justice Leveson if he could bring forward his scheduled appearance before the committee in order to put his side of the story.
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He has already been forced to explain himself to MPs - with Labour leader Ed Miliband calling for his resignation.
Before the Murdoch allegations surfaced, Mr Hunt had led an almost charmed political life.
The only previous hint of embarrassment was when James Naughtie, presenter of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, slipped and, instead of using the culture secretary's correct surname, let out an expletive which rhymes with it.
Mr Hunt laughed off the faux pas, proclaiming on that most modern of forums - Twitter - that he had found the incident highly amusing.
The eldest son of Adm Sir Nicholas Hunt, Jeremy Hunt was brought up in the Surrey town of Godalming.
He was educated at Charterhouse School, where he became head boy and was known for his love of cross-country running.
He went to Oxford University, gaining a first-class degree in philosophy, politics and economics, and serving as president of the Conservative Association.
He later taught English in Japan, a country whose language he now speaks fluently.
He is married to Lucia, who is from China, and they have two children.
Mr Hunt had a successful career as an entrepreneur before entering Parliament, setting up the educational publisher, Hotcourses, which, as the name suggests, puts prospective students in contact with universities, colleges and other educational institutions.
It now employs more than 230 people and has made him a wealthy man.
But politics was always his paramount interest and, in 2005 he was elected as Conservative MP for the safe seat of South West Surrey, replacing former cabinet minister Virginia Bottomley.
After becoming Tory leader, David Cameron, a contemporary at Oxford, made Mr Hunt the shadow disabilities minister.
In a reshuffle in 2007 he was promoted to shadow culture secretary.
When the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition entered government in 2010, Mr Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, media and sport - a key role in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics.
In October 2010, following negotiations led by him, the government froze the BBC's licence fee for six years, prompting the corporation to make large-scale cuts.
In late 2010, secretly recorded comments made by Business Secretary Vince Cable that he had "declared war" on Rupert Murdoch, led to his removal as overseer of the mogul's proposed takeover of broadcaster BSkyB.
The issue landed on the desk of Mr Hunt, who had never made a secret of his admiration for the Murdoch empire, but insisted in public that he was maintaining an impartial stance when it came to ruling on the planned takeover of BSkyB.
But emails released by the Leveson inquiry suggest there were back-channel communications between Mr Hunt's office and Fred Michel, the chief lobbyist for James Murdoch, who was leading the bid for BSkyB.
Some of the emails and texts from Mr Michel appear to suggest Mr Hunt was secretly backing the bid and "shared" the Murdochs' objectives.
Mr Hunt insists the material provides a very one-sided account of what was actually happening at the time and he is determined to set the record straight.
The 67 text messages between Mr Hunt and Mr Michel, sent during the period before Mr Hunt took over responsibility for judging whether the BSkyB takeover should go ahead, reveal a personal closeness between the two men, whose wives gave birth in the same hospital during May 2010.
In one text Mr Hunt referred to French-born Mr Michel as "mon ami" and, in another, as "daddy". Separately, in December 2010, he told Mr Michel there was "nothing u won't like" in a forthcoming speech.
The culture secretary is sure to be asked at the Leveson Inquiry whether there was an inappropriate level of contact between himself, his advisers and News Corp, before and during the takeover process, which was eventually stopped when Mr Murdoch decided to discontinue it following the phone-hacking scandal.
Mr Hunt was left free to concentrate on making a success of the 2012 London Olympics. He promised that the event would not be a short-lived showcase for elite sport, but one which would leave a legacy for grassroots sport and of urban renewal in some of east London's most deprived areas.
He also pushed ahead with his plan to set up a network of US-style local TV stations in towns and cities across the UK. The government hopes to license the first stations from this summer.
But these and other plans have had to take a back seat for Mr Hunt, while he fights for his political survival against accusations of collusion with the Murdoch empire.
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated near Leipzig in October 1813 by forces from Russia, Austria, Prussia and Sweden.
Tens of thousands of spectators are attending the reconstruction, described as a "reconciliation".
However, Church leaders object to the battle being turned into a game.
They see Sunday's event as tantamount to glorifying the carnage of war, the BBC's Damien McGuinness reports.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
In pictures: Battle of the Nations
An ecumenical service was held in the town of Roetha on Saturday to mark the 200th anniversary of the event - also known as the Battle of Leipzig.
The night before, European Parliament President Martin Schulz gave a speech at a memorial to the battle warning of a resurgence of nationalism.
An estimated 600,000 soldiers took part in the series of battles from 16-19 October 1813 and almost 100,000 of them lost their lives.
The victory of the allies - including a small British contingent - over Napoleon marked the end of his control of German territory.
Organisers say their controversial re-enactment is intended to be peaceful and to bring history alive. Many of the thousands taking part have grown period-style moustaches to match their 19th Century replica uniforms.
The role of Napoleon is being played by a 46-year-old Parisian lawyer, Frank Samson, who taught himself the Corsican language in an attempt to give a more authentic performance as the French emperor.
Local TV is reporting live from the scene as if the battle is actually being fought today.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has long said she would step down after Mr Obama's first term.
Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner are expected to leave their current positions sometime in early 2013.
Who are the runners and riders for the top jobs?
In the running for: Secretary of Defense
Experience: The Republican from Nebraska served two terms in the US Senate.
Mr Hagel, 66, fought in Vietnam and was given two Purple Heart awards for being wounded in action. He worked as a broadcaster in Omaha, Nebraska and later was an investment banker and chief executive officer of the G7 organisation in Washington.
In the Senate, he rose to chairman of a subcommittee of the foreign relations committee, and was chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
After leaving the Senate in January 2009, Mr Hagel became chairman of the Atlantic Council, a prominent Washington think-tank on trans-Atlantic co-operation and international security issues.
Why Obama would want him: Mr Hagel is a Republican, giving Mr Obama's administration a bipartisan veneer. The two men have travelled together. Like Mr Obama, Mr Hagel opposed the war in Iraq and was a frequent critic of George W Bush's foreign policy.
"He's known for throwing elbows at members of his own party and at conservative media figures," Politico reported.
In the running for: Secretary of State
Experience: The Massachusetts Democrat is a veteran senator who is currently chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee. In 2004, he was the Democratic presidential nominee.
Mr Kerry served as a naval officer in Vietnam, where he commanded a small riverboat on dangerous patrols.
After a career as a lawyer and two years as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, he was first elected to the Senate in 1984.
Why Obama would want him: Mr Kerry is a senior foreign policy hand within the Democratic party. He is highly respected among his colleagues in the US Senate, and Republicans have assured him a smooth confirmation.
One major potential drawback: If Mr Obama nominates Mr Kerry, that opens his Senate seat in Massachusetts. Former Republican Senator Scott Brown, who was defeated for re-election in November, is considered a strong contender to win Mr Kerry's seat in a special election.
In the running for: Secretary of State
Experience: Mr Donilon, Mr Obama's security adviser, has long experience in Democratic politics, working early in his career in President Jimmy Carter's White House. Under President Bill Clinton, Mr Donilon was chief of staff to Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
Later, he became wealthy as an executive at Fannie Mae, a government-sponsored mortgage company. He joined the Obama administration as deputy national security adviser to Gen James Jones.
Why Obama might want him: Mr Obama trusts him: he is said to have the president's ear on almost all foreign policy and security matters. Vice-President Joe Biden has called him "the most important person in the mix" in any debate.
In the running for: Secretary of the Treasury
Experience: As Mr Obama's chief of staff, Mr Lew is a powerful and trusted confidante to the president and the gatekeeper to the Oval Office.
Before taking that post, Mr Lew was director of the White House office of management and budget, a position he also held under President Bill Clinton. During the Bush years, Mr Lew held a top administrative post at New York University and held a high-level position at Citigroup.
During Mr Obama's first two years in Office, Mr Lew was a deputy secretary of state to Hillary Clinton.
Why Obama would want him: Mr Lew is known as a low-key "numbers guy" with a long background in Democratic politics. The New York Times called him "the most unassuming power broker in Washington".
In the running for: Secretary of Defense
Experience: Until January 2012 she was former under-secretary of defence for policy, the highest-ranked woman in the Pentagon, briefing Secretary Leon Panetta on military operations and the strategic shift to Asia.
She is also co-founder of a defence think-tank, Center for a New American Security, and was a research professor at the National Defense University. During the campaign Ms Flournoy acted as a surrogate for the Obama team on foreign policy.
Why Obama would want her: Ms Flournoy's CV is impressive and her brief at the defence department covered much of what will become upcoming challenges at the Pentagon.
Republicans have also signalled that Ms Flournoy has an easier path to confirmation than Mr Hagel, because of the latter's views on Israel.
"If the president wants a messy fight, send us Hagel; if he wants smooth sailing, send us Flournoy," one Senate Republican aide told Buzzfeed.
She would also have the distinction of being the first female defence secretary.
In running for: Secretary of Treasury
Experience: Mr Chenault, has run American Express as CEO since 2001, and guided the company through a rough patch. He is a long term Obama supporter and a member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Why Obama would want him: Mr Obama has had a rocky-relationship with the business community, and bringing in a friendly face among top-level executives could repair those connections.
Austen Goolsbee, the former chairman of Mr Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, told Bloomberg News that the president saw Mr Chenault as an "important outside voice from the business world".
Greek police say the men - two British citizens and a UK resident - were hiding 22 firearms and 200,000 rounds of ammunition in caravans.
Officials suspect the men - who are of Kurdish origin - were trying to smuggle the weapons to Kurdish fighters in Syria and Iraq, via Turkey.
The UK Foreign Office says it is providing consular assistance.
Two of the men were detained by Greek authorities over the weekend at the entrance to the Greek port of Alexandroupolis - near the border with Turkey.
Another man was arrested near the Kipoi border point on the Evros river.
Appearing in front of the public prosecutor in Alexandroupolis, the men were given 48 hours to prepare statements in their defence.
No names have been released.
BBC correspondent James Reynolds says Greece wants to show it is controlling its borders and it is not "a weapons smuggling highway between Europe and the wars in the Middle East".
A 33-year-old man was winched to safety in Llandygai near Bangor, and a woman was helped by firefighters from her stranded car in Beaumaris, Anglesey.
Meanwhile, a river in Llanrwst, Conwy, burst its banks leaving engineers unable to access cables.
Scottish Power is trying to reconnect 700 homes.
Elsewhere, Arriva Trains Wales cancelled services to Chester after a bus shelter blew on to the tracks in Llanfairfechan, Conwy.
Trains have also been cancelled between Bangor and Holyhead because of flooding at several locations, particularly at Bodorgan on Anglesey.
An inspection of the track will be carried out at 08:00 GMT on Sunday, the company added.
North Wales Police said the driver in Llandygai raised the alarm at about 13:15 GMT on Saturday.
He had been swept downstream near the A5 and was found by the coastguard helicopter on the roof of his car and clinging to a tree.
Meanwhile, wind gusts of 83mph were recorded in Capel Curig, Snowdonia.
Scottish Power said engineers were working to restore supplies, with the worst affected areas in Conwy county and Corwen, Denbighshire.
But he added winds were very high, which was making it difficult for engineers to carry out the repairs in some places.
Faults in the electricity supply have also been reported at Bala, Gwynedd, and Trefriw and Llanrwst in Conwy county.
Natural Resources Wales has issued flood warnings and a Met Office yellow "be aware" warning for wind and rain runs until 09:00 GMT on Sunday.
North Wales Police had to close a number of streets surrounding Mostyn Champneys Retail Park, Llandudno, Conwy, after wind damaged Currys and Home Bargains.
The A477 Cleddau Bridge, Pembrokeshire, remains closed to high-sided vehicles and Arriva Trains Wales has warned of possible disruption on routes including Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog and Shrewsbury to Machynlleth on the Cambrian Line.
The bad weather follows on from Thursday night when fire crews attended a number of flooding incidents across Wales.
In one incident, a man was rescued from the roof of his car after getting stuck in flood water in Swansea, while flooding had closed the A490 in Welshpool, Powys, in both directions.
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The dairy worker agreed to undergo a partial amputation at Dumfries Infirmary in order to return to work as quickly as possible.
A different operation, with a longer recovery time, was carried out instead.
The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman has told NHS Dumfries and Galloway to apologise for the failings it found.
A report concluded the health board's records of the consent process were "inadequate" and that the operation performed had not been the one the patient - named only as Miss C - had consented to.
Instead of a partial amputation, a "terminalisation" had been carried out which involved the surgical shortening of the finger and closure of the wound with stitching.
"The board were unable to explain this, instead maintaining that Miss C had undergone the appropriate surgery," the ombudsman said.
The SPSO also found that the board's investigations of her complaint had been inadequate.
It had failed to identify the lack of records supporting her consent as a concern and failed to obtain a statement from the doctor involved.
In addition, the board's complaint response was found to have misrepresented records of Miss C's interactions with staff and failed to address her concerns about the financial impact of the surgery.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway was ordered to review its processes for obtaining consent and provide training to improve one doctor's communication skills.
It was also told to ensure another doctor reviewed his understanding of the consent process and the definition of a finger terminalisation procedure.
The SPSO sought evidence that both doctors had "reflected on the failings identified" as part of their appraisal process.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway was told to review its handling of the complaint and apologise for its failings.
Simon Brown, 45, was reported missing at 17:00 yesterday after he failed to return to HMP Castle Huntly near Dundee.
He is described as being 5ft 11in tall, bald, of slight build and has brown eyes. He walks with a stoop and a limp.
Brown was last seen in the King Street area of Dundee wearing a black jacket and trousers and a white T-shirt.
He was also carrying a black and grey holdall with a white Puma emblem.
Police Scotland said Brown should not be approached and have urged the public to contact them with any information.
The Toomebridge rider is making the switch after his Aspar Ducati team signed Alvaro Bautista.
Bautista will compete in a GP16 model next year while Laverty faced the prospect of racing the older GP15.
Laverty, who is poised to sign a superbike deal with SMR to ride a new factory Aprilia, said he has "unfinished business" in WorldSBK.
The 30-year-old is currently 11th in the MotoGP standings with 63 points from 11 rounds.
Laverty, who was runner-up in WorldSBK in 2013, had hoped to continue in MotoGP beyond this year but feels he would not be competitive in 2017.
"I kept pushing to try and get a GP16," Laverty told Crash.net.
"But when I knew that my team-mate was going to be on a GP16 and there was just going to be a GP15 [for me] it was a case of head over heart.
"Ultimately it was the competitiveness of the machinery that tipped the balance for me.
"I would really be up against it in MotoGP if I was to continue riding a two-year-old bike, whereas in World Superbikes I will have a bike and team capable of winning races each and every race weekend.
"At the end of the day the very reason I go racing is to win.
"Perhaps I could return to MotoGP one day as World Superbike champion, that really would be something very special."
The Welsh county have signed the 25-year-old fast bowler as their second overseas player for the T20 Blast.
Parnell has played four Tests, 46 one-day internationals and 33 T20 matches for South Africa.
"I know that he will really contribute to our environment and hopefully he can put in some big performances," said Rudolph.
The left-arm seamer's move to Glamorgan is subject to clearance from Cricket South Africa and a successful visa application.
He is due to arrive in Wales ahead of Glamorgan's T20 Blast fixture against Surrey at the Oval on Friday, 15 May.
Parnell will be available for an initial spell of 10 group stage fixtures ending against Somerset at Taunton on 28 June.
He has featured in two World Cups and three World Twenty20 campaigns for the Proteas and played for Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League,
"For a young guy he's got a lot of international experience and he's got a bit of X-factor about his bowling," Rudolph added.
"He's someone that can bowl quickly if he really wants to on his day.
"As a bowling unit he will definitely contribute a lot. He'll take the pressure off some of the other bowlers and he's the perfect fit for us.
"Another bonus is he's opened the batting for his own team back in South Africa in one-day cricket and he's scored hundreds there.
"It's nice to have that kind of balance at the back of our batting line-up as well."
The public service broadcasters TVP and Polish Radio - which have a huge audience - would be controlled by a national media council close to Poland's new conservative government.
The change would enable the government to appoint or dismiss media executives.
There has also been much criticism of changes to the constitutional court.
In October the Law and Justice Party (PiS) won enough votes to govern alone - the first party to achieve that since democracy was restored in 1989.
The public broadcasters would be re-designated as "national cultural institutes" under the new media bill.
The measure was condemned by media freedom organisations, including the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in a joint statement on Wednesday.
They said they were "outraged by the proposed bill, hastily introduced... for immediate adoption, without any consultation, abolishing the existing safeguards for pluralism and independence of public service media governance in Poland".
They said the bill would allow a government minister to "appoint and dismiss... the supervisory and management boards" of public broadcasters.
The European Commission has asked the Polish government to explain the proposed changes, stressing the importance of safeguarding media freedom, in a tweet.
In an open letter to Polish Culture Minister Piotr Glinski and his deputy Krzysztof Czabanski, the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) urged the government to shelve the media bill and delay reforms "until the issues have been fully and publicly aired in an inclusive public debate".
The AEJ said the bill might enable the PiS to make media appointments in line with the party's "priorities and wishes".
The EBU - an alliance of European public broadcasters - has also written to the Polish government, saying it fears that the bill will harm Polish public media and "reduce, rather than enhance the independence of its governance".
According to the EBU, Poland's public TVP has a market share of 30%, "which is significantly higher than the average market share of public service media in Europe", and reaches more than 90% of the Polish population every week.
TVP has two national channels, operates regional services and the satellite network TV Polonia.
Public Polish Radio reaches just over half of the population, with more than 200 radio stations.
On Monday, Poland introduced controversial changes to the constitutional court.
A new law requires the 15-strong court to reach a two-thirds majority with at least 13 members present, in order to pass most of its rulings. The PiS also appointed five judges to the court.
Critics say the changes will undermine democratic checks and balances.
Wallace, 21, has been with the League One side since January and has scored once in 14 appearances.
"We have watched Jed closely at Millwall, and he has enjoyed a very positive impact on the team with his performances," Wolves head coach Kenny Jacket told the club's website.
"We're now keen to get him back and make the step up and bridge the gap to the Championship."
Wallace began his career with Portsmouth before signing for Wolves last May. He will return to Molineux on Thursday having made seven appearances for the club so far.
The company has designed three keyboards in different sizes, with 47, 94 and 120 emoji characters.
There's a special button on the keyboard which you hold down to use emojis.
However these keyboards are only availible in America, and only work with Apple products and Windows 10 at the moment.
It's also unclear how future emoji updates would be included on the keyboard or whether you'd have to buy a new one.
You can however use emojis on Macs and PC's using Windows already.
On a Mac you press Command, Control and the Space Bar and a pop-up should appear with lots of different characters.
And on Windows, press the keyboard symbol in the bottom right of the screen and an emoji keyboard will replace the normal alphabetical one.
The body of the juvenile whale washed ashore on a beach near Bacton on Wednesday.
North Norfolk District Council said it was looking at how to remove the whale, which is beneath the Bacton Gas Terminal site.
The council said its environmental services team hoped to remove the whale "when the tide allows".
A spokeswoman said: "The location of the whale beneath the Bacton Gas Terminal site has caused some difficulty in terms of access, but working with local contractor Renosteel, the teams will be able to use specialist equipment which will be drafted in to bring an end to this sad situation."
Minke whales have a worldwide distribution, travelling vast distances and are the most common cetacean seen around the UK. They can grow up to 10m (33ft) long.
Wildlife officers for marine conservation group ORCA who regularly survey the North Sea saw a total of 39 minke whales in the sea between Britain and the Netherlands from March to September this year.
Germany rejected a Greek request for a six-month extension to its loan programme without austerity reforms, calling it a "Trojan horse" proposal.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 and broader Topix both closed 0.3% up at 18,321 and 1,499.28 respectively.
Trading in the rest of Asia was quiet over the Lunar New Year holiday.
Markets in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam remain closed.
In Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 ended 0.4% lower at 5,881.50 because of a decline in mining and energy stocks. New Zealand stocks rose 0.4% to finish at 5,748.95.
Andrew Kenningham, senior global economist at Capital Economics said a Greek exit from the eurozone would be felt primarily through the financial markets.
"The shock of 'Grexit' finally taking place would be likely to dampen global risk appetite, leading to a sell-off in global equities and some emerging market assets," he wrote in a report.
"On the other hand, there would be an increase in demand for safe havens, including non-euro government bonds and gold."
Gold prices rose by more than 1% and the metal was trading at about $1,208.70 an ounce in the US spot market overnight.
The gallery shut for the £6m revamp in 2011, shortly after celebrating its centenary.
But upgrading the building has been beset with delays.
Swansea council said the gallery will reopen on 15 October, with an exhibition of 10 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.
Problems started after the original contractors tasked with the renovations, Opco Construction, went into administration in 2013.
The gallery's Grade II-listed status and difficulties working on a busy city centre site also caused further delays.
Funded by the Arts Council of Wales, the Welsh Government, the Heritage Lottery Fund, conservation body Cadw, and Swansea council, the project includes a new lecture theatre, library, exhibition and areas for the conservation of delicate artwork.
An extension will link the 1970s and 1911 sections of the gallery, with a new entrance making the building fully wheelchair accessible for the first time.
The first pieces to be exhibited will be 10 priceless Da Vinci drawings from the late 15th and early 16th centuries, loaned by the Royal Collection.
It is hoped the new-look gallery will attract about 90,000 visitors a year.
Robert Francis-Davies, Swansea council's cabinet member for enterprise, development and regeneration, said: "The completion of this redevelopment and restoration project will make the Glynn Vivian a destination gallery of international significance, right at the heart of a regenerated city centre."
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Satirist Jan Boehmermann said he doctored the video, which caused controversy after airing on German TV.
But he later said the clip had been taken out of context.
Mr Varoufakis denies making the sign. The row comes ahead of crucial talks between Greece and EU leaders.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet leaders on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday as the risk of Greek bankruptcy rises.
Mr Varoufakis praised Mr Boehmermann for mocking the row after the comedian released a satirical video apparently showing his team doctoring the footage.
"We politicians need you badly," Mr Varoufakis said on Twitter.
The footage from 2013 shows him saying that Greece should announce that it is defaulting and "stick the finger to Germany", while he makes an offensive gesture.
Mr Varoufakis denied using the gesture and said the footage was a fake after it was shown during the Guenther Jauch weekly talk show on Germany's ARD channel on Sunday. He called for an apology.
Mr Boehmermann, host of satirical programme Neo Magazin Royale on public broadcaster ZDF, later released a video claiming to have doctored the footage using 'green screen' technology and editing software.
But later in the video he says Mr Varoufakis was incorrect to say the footage was a fake and that it had been taken out of context.
Addressing Guenther Jauch, he says: "You simply took it out of context and gave him the run-around, so that the average German could pursue their passion for being angered."
Mr Boehmermann's video sparked contrasting media reports and fierce discussion on social media, with the hashtag #varoufake trending worldwide.
Broadcaster ZDF said on Thursday it was considering highlight the satirical nature of the Neo Magazin Royale show in the future.
Meanwhile Mr Varoufakis has posted a link on Twitter to what he said was "undoctored" footage of him speaking at a 2013 event in the Croatian capital, Zagreb.
In the 57 minute-long discussion, he talks about the eurozone crisis talks in 2010, and says he had suggested at that time that Greece should "stick the finger to Germany", while using the offending gesture.
Earlier in the week, the man who said he filmed the event also said the clip had been taken out of context.
Martin Beros said German television stations and other mainstream media channels had sensationalised the incident.
"The serious political and economic situation is being presented as if it is reducible to gestures and posturing."
The dispute between Greece and its international creditors is not on the formal agenda of the EU summit in Brussels this week, but talks are expected to take place on the sidelines.
The country's new leftist PM needs EU support for reforms to unlock vital funds, avoid possible bankruptcy and a eurozone exit.
He has pledged to end austerity - but his plans have met resistance from Greece's EU creditors, with Germany among the most critical.
Greece negotiated a four-month extension to its bailout last month after tense talks.
Eurozone leaders say they are are ready to extend help on Greece's €240bn (£176bn; $272bn) bailout until the end of June.
Kerber went down 6-2 6-2 in one hour and 22 minutes, leaving her number one status in the balance.
Both Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova have the chance to take top spot for the first time with good runs in Paris.
However, Halep is recovering from injury and Pliskova fell in the first round last year.
That is symptomatic of the uncertainty in the women's draw that led Halep to claim up to 15 players are in with a chance of winning the title.
Kerber, a first-round loser last year as well, barely figured among the favourites on the eve of the tournament.
Although her defeat might have been a shock in terms of rankings, with Russia's Makarova at number 40 in the WTA standings, it was no great surprise.
The 29-year-old from Bremen has been struggling for form this year, reaching just one final and winning only three matches on clay heading into Roland Garros.
Kerber only regained the number one ranking from Serena Williams after the American stepped away from the tour as she awaits the birth of her first child.
I have to try to forget the clay-court season as soon as possible
While Kerber fully merited that status last year, when she won the Australian and US Opens, the German arrived in Paris ranked 13th for the year so far.
The superb footwork, tenacity from the baseline and all-round aggressive defence that took her so far in 2016 have deserted her in 2017.
That has left her old frailties exposed, with a weak serve broken six times by Makarova on Philippe Chatrier Court.
After falling 5-1 down on her way to losing the first set, Kerber rallied late in the second, but the clinical edge has also gone from her game.
A final tally of just two break points converted from 16 illustrated that lack of certainty in the key moments.
"Last year was a completely different year," said Kerber. "The pressure is always there but this year the expectations are much bigger, especially in the big tournaments and the Grand Slams.
"And the expectations are also from me really big, of course, because I know what I can do, what I did last year.
"But right now I think I have to find myself again and just try to forget the clay-court season as soon as possible and then reset and start from the grass courts again."
Makarova, 28, goes on to face Ukraine's Lesia Tsurenko in round two, and will feel she has as good a chance as anyone to feature in the latter stages.
American Venus Williams beat China's Wang Qiang 6-4 7-6 (7-3) on the 20th anniversary of her debut at Roland Garros.
The 10th seed hit 44 unforced errors in an untidy display but goes on to face Japan's 90th-ranked Kurumi Nara.
Nara beat American wildcard Amanda Anisimova who at 15 years and nine months is the youngest player in the women's main draw since France's Alize Cornet in 2005.
Anisimova, ranked 267, won the first set but Nara fought back to win 3-6 7-5 6-4.
When Venus lost her only French Open final appearance in 2002 to sister Serena, Anisimova was just nine months old.
Amesbury-based Mears Care Limited was criticised in a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report after it made unannounced visits in June and July.
The report found standards were not being met in five areas including medicine management, staff training and support and quality of service.
Alan Long, from Mears, said it had put in an action plan to improve standards.
Mears took over the contract, from Careline, in May, to look after the elderly in their homes.
Mr Long said an unexpected number of staff then left, leaving Mears "unable to operate properly".
He said the company "sincerely apologised" to the service users and their families who had seen "their service deteriorate since May".
He said: "The office staff left without notice and the majority of care staff left with them, leaving us with very poor cover."
Adrian Hire, whose 92-year-old mother died last month, said he could "not help wondering" if his mother "may have lived longer" if Mears had not been responsible for her care.
"Her health slowly diminished when Mears got involved," he said.
Councillor Christine Crisp, from Wiltshire Council, said they were looking "very carefully" at the action plan submitted by Mears.
She said: "What Mears have to do now is answer the criticisms of the CQC. The CQC will have to re-inspect to make sure Mears have lived up to their promises.
"At the same time, Wiltshire Council will be looking to ensure that our patients and people requiring care are getting it."
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Christine Ohuruogu, Annika Onuora, Eilidh Child and a strong final leg from Seren Bundy-Davies, 20, saw the women finish behind Jamaica and USA.
The men took third from Jamaica by four thousandths of a second, as USA claimed gold ahead of Trinidad and Tobago.
Martyn Rooney, who anchored the team, told BBC Sport: "I knew I had got him."
Croydon runner Rooney, who became a first-time father during these championships, was given the baton with USA and Trinidad and Tobago in front of him, but found himself down in fourth when Jamaica's Javon Francis surged past him.
However, Francis tired in the final 20 metres as Rooney snatched bronze on the line.
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"It has been a special week having my first child," said Rooney.
"I did not want to go home empty handed, I wanted to bring something back to my wife to make it worthwhile. Hopefully she is proud of what I have done. I can't wait to meet him."
Earlier, the women produced a superb performance to comfortably win bronze.
Child, who was sixth in the 400m hurdles final and on the third leg, said: "I didn't have a great championship individually but to come out with these girls, they pick you up and you get another chance to get a medal."
Genzebe Dibaba's hopes of a double at these championships were blown away by Ethiopian team-mate Almaz Ayana.
Ayana made a devastating break with three laps remaining to win the women's 5,000m final in 14 minutes 26.83 seconds.
Dibaba, who won the 1500m, was also denied a silver by another countrywoman, Senbere Teferi, who caught her in the final 50 metres and pipped her on the line. The pair finished almost 18 seconds behind Ayana.
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Briton Steph Twell finished 15th in 15:26.24.
Kenya's Asbel Kiprop won his third men's 1500m world title with a brilliant sprint finish. The 26-year-old produced a kick from near the back of the field with 250 metres remaining to eventually win in 3:34.40. Compatriot Elijah Manangoi claimed silver from Morocco's Abdalaati Iguider.
Great Britain's Charlie Grice, in his first major championships, finished ninth in 3:36.21.
Canada's Derek Drouin won the men's high jump following a jump-off. Drouin, China's Guowei Zhang and Ukranian Bohdan Bondarenko all failed at 2.36m in the sudden-death, but the Canadian was the only one to clear 2.34m. Zhang and Bondarenko shared silver.
Germany's Katharina Molitor denied China's Huihui Lyu with a final-round throw of 67.69m to take javelin gold. The Chinese athlete took silver with 66.13m, with Sunette Viljoen claiming bronze with 65.79m.
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In the first event on the final day, Ethiopian Mare Dibaba won the women's marathon by one second from Kenya's Helah Kiprop after a thrilling finish.
The 25-year-old outsprinted her rival, 30, on the home straight to win in two hours, 27 minutes and 35 seconds and give Ethiopia their second gold.
Bronze went to Bahrain's Kenya-born Eunice Kirwa, 31.
Kenya's Edna Kiplagat, who won the last two World Championships marathons, came fifth, having dropped off the leading group about 2,000 metres from the finish.
Demonstrators erected dozens of tents in Chisinau's national square where tens of thousands took part in a mass rally on Sunday.
They called for action after living standards were damaged by the fraud.
The state was forced to bail three banks out last year after $1bn (£655m) vanished from their coffers.
A leaked report said a 28-year-old businessman, Ilan Shor, was the main co-ordinator and beneficiary - but in an exclusive BBC interview he proclaimed his innocence. Much of the money passed through UK companies.
The missing money caused a rapid depreciation of the national currency, the leu, and a decline in living standards.
Protesters have demanded resignation of President Nicolae Timofti and other officials, including the governor of the national bank, and early parliamentary elections.
Organisers from the Dignity and Justice movement said supporters would stay camped out near the government building in the city's main square until their demands were met.
Tens of thousands took part in one of the largest protests ever seen in the ex-Soviet country on Sunday.
Many directed their criticism at Moldova's super-wealthy oligarchs - a source of much anger in one of Europe's poorest country.
Sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, Moldova signed an association agreement taking it closer to European Union membership last year, despite opposition from Moscow.
The Russian returned from a 15-month doping ban last month and could yet qualify directly or receive a wildcard when they are confirmed on 20 June.
Wimbledon's qualifying event will be ticketed for the first time this year.
All England Club chief Richard Lewis is "absolutely confident" Roehampton could cope with Sharapova's presence.
"We're used to organising events where there's a lot of pressure on our facilities, so it would be nothing unusual for us," he told BBC Sport.
Lewis said Sharapova, the 2004 Wimbledon champion, has not yet requested a wildcard and there have been no discussions, either formal or informal, with her or her team.
Former world number one Sharapova, 30, reached the semi-finals in Stuttgart on her return to action last month.
As a result she is currently ranked 262nd - but she needs to be closer to the top 100 to qualify directly for the main draw at Wimbledon, or the top 200 for the qualifying tournament.
She has wildcards at this month's events in Madrid and Rome, where she can pick up more points before the Wimbledon main draw entry deadline of 22 May and the qualifying deadline of 5 June.
Wimbledon's qualifying tournament takes place from 26 to 29 June at the Bank of England Sports Grounds, and until this year has been an unticketed event with limited media facilities.
This year there will be 1,000 tickets for sale at £5 each, with proceeds going to the Wimbledon Foundation, along with video coverage of one court, inflatable covers on two courts and an improved player lounge.
Asked whether the changes were made with Sharapova's possible presence in mind, Lewis said: "I know it does seem very convenient timing but it is actually unrelated, genuinely unrelated, and we know that qualifying needs to continue to be improved, just like we improve facilities here at the Championships. It's part of an ongoing process."
Sharapova was initially banned by the International Tennis Federation for two years after testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.
It was later reduced to 15 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who found that she was not an "intentional doper".
The issue of whether the French Open and Wimbledon, as Grand Slam events, should offer wildcards to a player returning from a doping ban has divided opinion.
Andy Murray and Caroline Wozniacki have been among those opposed to her receiving wildcards, while Venus Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova were among the more supportive players.
The French federation will make its decision known on 16 May, while Wimbledon's Tennis Committee meets to discuss who will receive wildcards on 20 June.
The committee will be made up of former British number one Tim Henman, three club members including club chairman Philip Brook, Debbie Jevans and Richard Stoakes, tournament referee Andrew Jarrett and two LTA members, Martin Corrie and Cathy Sabin.
"Wildcards are what they say that they are," Lewis added.
"There's a wide range of criteria that any tournament would consider and from our point of view it could be playing record, it could be whether they are British or not.
"And to pre-empt the next question, who knows what they will consider on the 20 June? That's a matter for the committee and not something we can speculate on at this stage."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
Improvements to the Roehampton site have been on the All England Club's agenda for a while, but I think it would be fair to say progress was given an extra sense of urgency by the possible appearance of Sharapova and all those her presence would attract.
The 2004 champion could well play herself into the main draw by reaching the semi-finals in either Madrid or Rome, which allowed Richard Lewis to answer questions about wildcards as purely hypothetical for now.
Past Wimbledon form and success in tournaments leading up to the championships, especially those on grass, are factors the committee will consider. Sharapova will score highly in at least one of those categories, and Lewis also told me that views expressed by some other players are not likely to prove relevant.
But he would not be drawn on how much weight Sharapova's anti-doping violation would carry. That is the crux of the matter, and very much down to the seven people who will file into the All England Club on Tuesday, 20 June.
Most of these men, who we were not allowed to photograph, have spent the last 15 years of their lives incarcerated in US military detention in Guantanamo Bay. The most recent arrived here in April.
They were picked up on the battlefield in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2007 and eventually released by the US to Saudi custody, on the understanding they would be deradicalised here before re-entering society as free men.
So what, I asked them this week, did they make of President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia and his speech on Islam and the need for religious tolerance which they watched on TV? There were smiles and knowing glances exchanged.
"I don't know if he was being sincere," said one, touching his chest. "I would have to check his heart to see if he was telling the truth!"
"There were many words," said the oldest amongst them, his grey, wispy beard trailing down to his chest, "but we will judge him by his actions."
Another made the point that there was now a different US administration in the White House from the one (George W Bush's) that sent them to Guantanamo Bay.
It was of course, a somewhat unnatural encounter. The Yemeni returnees looked uncomfortable, having been shepherded into the tent to meet our delegation of Western academics and journalists, watched over by the Saudi staff.
Every one of them would have been all too aware that their words were being carefully monitored for any hints of violent intent. Their imminent release depended on it.
Even when that day comes, they will only be released into the city of Riyadh since their own country, Yemen, is in the grip of war and it would be all too easy for them to be swept back up into the waiting ranks of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
The Saudi authorities are keen to show the world this rehab centre for jihadists, known officially as the Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef Centre for Counselling and Care.
Founded in 2004, following a series of devastating al-Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia, it is intended to be a halfway house between prison and open society.
Most of its inmates are Saudis, convicted under anti-terrorist laws. It prepares ex-convicts for life on the outside and tries to purge them of any violent ideas.
So does it work? Mostly.
There is certainly no other such rehab centre anywhere in the world that is attempting this kind of psychological detoxification on such a large scale.
More than 3,300 inmates have "graduated" from the centre since 2005, according to the staff, including 123 who have been in Guantanamo Bay. The success rate, they said, is 80% with the remaining 20% returning to violence. (A similar scheme I visited in Yemen in 2003 had a significantly lower success rate).
Inmates spend a minimum of three months at the centre before being assessed to see if they ready for release, Their overall programme is divided into three parts:
"Welcome to the oasis of wisdom," said Dr Hamid Al-Shayri, a sociologist from King Saud University. "This is where we try to steer them away from their deviant path so they no longer present a danger to society."
He said his staff sit with the inmates for several hours a day, but added: "It's not an easy task to get people to stop hating society and their families."
Art therapy plays a big role in their rehabilitation, according to their art teacher, Dr Badr Al-Razin. He told me that when they first arrive, many of the ex-convicts want to paint crude, violent images, often in red, but over time their images soften and become gentler.
Religious scholars are on hand at all times, men with a profound knowledge of Islam, who try to use this to explain why the aims and actions of violent jihadists are "haram" (forbidden).
So how, we asked the Yemeni returnees from Guantanamo Bay, do they feel about re-entering society after all this time?
"We have changed," said the oldest one. "We consider ourselves as new individuals now, thanks to this place.
"Sure, we hated the people who mistreated us in Guantanamo Bay but through the programmes here we were able to overcome these feelings. My worry now is that people in the community will not accept us.
"And meanwhile the world has changed so much since we've been away, we may not recognise it."
Danny Ward gave the hosts the lead just before half-time as he volleyed in from Joe Mattock's cross.
Brighton improved after the break, but Matt Derbyshire increased the Millers' lead by stabbing home from close range.
Tomer Hemed hit the post late on for the Seagulls, but the visitors - who slip to sixth in the table - could not find a way past keeper Lee Camp.
The result means Rotherham move up to 20th in the Championship table while Brighton have now gone six games without a goal and are winless in eight games in all competitions.
The hosts went ahead when Mattock sent in a left-wing cross which had Seagulls defender Lewis Dunk fooled as Ward volleyed from close range.
Rotherham doubled their lead late in the second half as Bruno Saltor headed into the path of Derbyshire who easily tapped home from six yards.
Brighton came close to finding a consolation when Hemed hit the post from close range, but they could not find a breakthrough.
Rotherham boss Neil Redfearn:
"We deserved it, I don't think anybody could doubt that.
"Brighton played their part, but I thought the difference was the front two. I thought the front two were magnificent and they were a real threat for 90 minutes.
"The fact that you have got that energy up front helps you defend from the front. It's a long season, we haven't got to look too far ahead, we have got to keep chipping away.
Brighton manager Chris Hughton:
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"In the second half we gave ourselves opportunities to get back in the game. I think we were well off it in the first half, they got a rhythm.
"At the minute, most defensive mistakes we are getting punished for and you can't win football games if you don't score and we are struggling at that.
"Arguably there's stuff we're not getting away with at the minute that we were in our good run. We are getting punished for mistakes."
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Everton play Manchester United in the semi-finals at Wembley.
They go into the game after a 4-0 defeat by Liverpool, which manager Martinez described as "horrific".
Rideout, scorer of Everton's winning goal in 1995 FA Cup final, said: "I think he knows he is in trouble."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, he added: "I like the way he plays the game. I just think you have to have a little bit of the other side and I don't think he has shown that.
"You have to realise that it isn't working after several games and change it. As soon as Everton concede it is like 'oh, it is going to be one of those games'."
Everton travel to London hoping to win their first major piece of silverware since that 1995 final.
As on Saturday, the Toffees played Manchester United at Wembley that day, having just avoided relegation. The Red Devils, meanwhile, had missed out on the Premier League title to Blackburn.
"It was a great day," said Rideout. "I am still living off it after all these years.
"We were happy to avoid relegation and we were enjoying our day out, but we knew we had a chance and went there in a confident mood.
"After we scored we knew we would be in for a tough 60 minutes but we hung in there."
Transport, care for family and friends, and volunteering are all included in the so-called household satellite account, calculated by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
With a total value of just over £1 trillion in 2014 - that is the equivalent of unpaid work valued at £38,162 per UK household over the course of a year.
The ONS says the calculations are important because they show the value of activity carried out unpaid by householders, which could have been contracted to the market.
In other words, it shows the value of all those chores and family responsibilities that people do themselves rather than pay somebody else to do.
So what would this mean for the UK economy were this extra, unpaid, work to be given a value and included in the national accounts?
The total value of unpaid work in UK homes was estimated to be £1.019 trillion in 2014, according to the latest figures from the ONS.
That is the equivalent of 56.1% of the UK's national output, as measured by GDP. That is a higher proportion than the estimated 52.5% of GDP in 2005.
Including unpaid work at home in the national accounts would have pushed up economic output faster than has otherwise been the case between 2005 and 2014, by an extra 0.3 percentage points.
The main growth in unpaid work at home is childcare, owing to an increasing child population and that the equivalent cost of childcare in the private sector has risen. In other words, the price of having somebody professional looking after your children has risen, so that means the equivalent "value" of parents, for example, doing it themselves has also risen.
Overall, informal childcare accounts for 31.5% of this unpaid work at home.
The value of household transport services - such as, perhaps, driving to work or taking the children to school - has also risen sharply between 2005 and 2014, owing to the increasing price of transport per mile.
Transport accounts for 23.1% of the total.
Providing and maintaining a home is next on the value list, accounting for 14.7% of this unpaid work.
This area is growing, despite a general decline in the time spent cleaning, doing DIY, and gardening per person between 2005 and 2014, because it would have become more expensive to get someone else in to do the work.
The remainder is accounted for by giving social care to adults, the preparation of meals, as well as clothing and laundry.
The hours spent on formal and frequent unpaid volunteering fell by 6% between 2013 and 2014, but was still valued at £23.3bn for the year by the ONS.
The surprise announcement was made by Zack Snyder, who directed the most recent Superman film Man of Steel.
But speaking at a comic convention in San Diego, California, Mr Snyder said the script was still being written.
Production is expected to begin next year and the film is scheduled for release in the summer of 2015.
Warner Bros confirmed that the two superheroes would team up for the first time.
British actor Henry Cavill - who starred in Man of Steel - will again play Superman.
However, an actor for the new Batman is yet to be cast.
"They're both alpha males," fan Benjamin Ha was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. He added that he expected fireworks in the new film.
For many comic book enthusiasts it is a dream come true in what promises to be the ultimate superhero adventure, the BBC's Peter Bowes in Los Angeles reports.
The enduring popularity of Superman and Batman has seen the latest films featuring the two characters earn revenues of more than $1bn (£655m) between them.
A 20-year-old man sustained a serious head injury in the knife attack at a house on Antrim Road at about 23:00 BST on Wednesday.
Two men, aged 51 and 74, were chased from the house and attacked close to a local petrol station, sustaining cuts to their hands.
The teenager was arrested at the scene.
In addition to the attempted murder charge, the 18-year-old has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assaulting police and other offences.
He is due to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Geoffrey Mark Ball has a history of sexual assaults on women and is due to be released from prison.
The 44-year-old, who has lived in Middlesbrough and Wales, defrauded his victims and lied about his identity.
Cleveland Police applied for the sexual harm prevention order "due to the risk he poses to vulnerable females", they said.
Ball was convicted of indecently assaulting a woman in 1989 and jailed for six months.
He was sent to prison for four years in 2006 for grievous bodily harm.
Following a prison sentence in 2010 for sexual assault he was was put on the sex offenders register until 2017.
In 2013 a police manhunt was launched for Ball after he breached the requirements of the Sexual Offences Act.
He is due to be released from Holme House Prison in County Durham.
The ex-Worcestershire skipper, who spent 17 years at New Road until 2012 when he joined Surrey, played 51 ODIs.
Solanki hit 18,359 first-class runs, his 34 tons including a career-best 270 against Gloucestershire in 2008.
He also played in three Twenty20 internationals for his country, two of which were at the 2007 World T20.
He also twice hit tons for England among his 16 limited-overs centuries.
"Whilst the realisation that my playing days are coming to an end is naturally difficult to come to terms with, the decision to retire is one that I have had some time to think about," he said.
"I have been very fortunate to have played for two wonderful clubs, as well as for England, and would like to thank everyone that has played a part in my career for their help and support over the years."
After leaving Worcester at the end of the 2012 season, Solanki spent his final three seasons with Surrey, playing alongside his former New Road team-mates Gareth Batty and Steven Davies.
But the Wolverhampton-born player has made just one Championship appearance in 2015, once in the One-Day Cup and five times in the T20.
"I would like to congratulate him on an outstanding career," said Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart. "He has set very high standards throughout his time in the game, is a model professional and should be immensely proud of everything he has achieved."
"From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia," she said. "He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous."
The 35-minute speech was largely a recitation of Mr Trump's most controversial statements and actions over the years - his "Mexican judge" comments about Gonzalo Curiel, his questioning of Barack Obama's birth status, his campaign ties to the "alt-right" movement and a 1973 Justice Department lawsuit that accused him of refusing to rent apartments to minorities.
Mrs Clinton also took a few swipes at what she characterised as her opponent's unpresidential temperament.
"Don't worry, some will say, as president, Trump will be surrounded by smart advisers who will rein in his worst impulses," she said. "So when a tweet gets under his skin and he wants to retaliate with a cruise missile, maybe cooler heads will convince him not to."
It was a reprise of criticisms she had made in a June speech in which she targeted the Republican's foreign policy views, prompting an angry response from Mr Trump. Thursday's speech was no different.
"Just watched recap of #CrookedHillary's speech," Mr Trump tweeted. "Very short and lies. She is only one fear-mongering!"
The campaign also released statements from several political advisers and business associates denouncing Mrs Clinton's speech.
"Today proved to the American public what we have known all along - Hillary Clinton has no hope, no vision and no ideas for the future of our country," campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said. "We're living in her head rent-free, and that must terrify the political insiders who want to keep things exactly the way they are."
Outside the confines of Mr Trump's campaign team, however, the Republican Party establishment's reaction has been the political equivalent of crickets chirping.
According to Frank Thorp of NBC News, press representatives of both Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell - the highest-ranking Republican officeholders in the US - said the two men probably did not watch Mrs Clinton's speech.
The Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, who has laboured to smooth relations between the Trump campaign and the party apparatus, also has gone dark - as has the party's media office.
It's a telling development - and one that plays directly into a rapidly unfolding Clinton campaign strategy to drive a wedge between mainstream Republicans and their presidential candidate. Instead of trying to hang Mr Trump's current unpopularity around the neck of establishment officeholders and their rank-and-file supporters, the Democrats have offered their counterparts an olive branch.
Mrs Clinton's speech on Thursday, in fact, was a natural extension of Mr Obama's address during the Democratic National Convention last month, in which he portrayed Trumpism as not "particularly Republican" or conservative.
"I think it's fair to say, this is not your typical election," he said. "It's not just a choice between parties or policies; the usual debates between left and right. This is a more fundamental choice - about who we are as a people."
If this is now the official strategy of the Democratic Party, its adoption was far from certain. According to hacked party emails made public by Wikileaks last month, officials in the Democratic National Committee debated the merits of - and expressed unease with - drawing distinctions between Mr Trump and the rest of Republican Party.
"We would basically have to throw out our entire frame that the GOP made Trump through years of divisive and ugly politics," Democratic Party communications director Luis Miranda writes to a colleague. "We would have to say that Republicans are reasonable and that the good ones will shun Trump. It just doesn't work from the party side."
From the Clinton campaign side, however, the strategy has obvious appeal. It may make it easier for the former secretary of state to negotiate with Republicans if she is elected president - and ensure that election is more likely.
Mrs Clinton has a lead in both national and swing-state polls, but Mr Trump is currently in the middle of attempting - sometimes awkwardly - to smooth out some of his sharper rhetoric and back away from controversial stances.
He has a new campaign team and has replaced his occasionally meandering, inflammatory rally speeches with scripted addresses that focuses on what he describes as Mrs Clinton's ties to the corrupt establishment.
Earlier this week, Mr Trump said he was open to "softening" his hard-line position on deporting the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the US, for instance.
Mrs Clinton may have decided this was opportune moment to unload her trove of opposition research in hopes of turning up the heat on her opponent and solidifying her current advantage.
At least so far, it appears that many mainstays in the Republican Party are happy to let their nominee - the supposed standard-bearer of their party - endure the flames on his own.
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Officers said he was approached by two men as he was out jogging near the married quarters at RAF Marham in Norfolk on Wednesday.
He was threatened with a knife and both men tried to drag him into a car but the serviceman managed to fight them off, said Norfolk Police.
The victim was unhurt, and the two men drove away in a dark vehicle.
Norfolk Police are working with the RAF and have been carrying out searches for the knife and the car.
The girl was attacked on disused land off St Michael's Street on 11 April.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of rape and one of attempted rape.
At a hearing at Shrewsbury Crown Court, he was told he would spend four years in custody.
The Ministry of Justice said a Youth Justice Board would decide whether that sentence would be spent in a Young Offender Institution, a secure training facility or a secure children's home.
Det Ch Insp Neil Jamieson, who led the investigation for West Mercia Police, described it as an "extremely disturbing case".
He said the boy had lured the girl to an isolated spot by asking her to help search for something he claimed to have lost.
"It quickly became apparent that her assailant was also fairly young, probably someone of secondary school age," he said.
"He was a dangerous individual and fortunately, was identified and arrested before posing any further risk to the public. It also allowed for the effective recovery of vital evidence".
Mr Jamieson praised members of the public who responded to appeals.
"Our prime suspect was caught on CCTV cameras carrying a fishing rod and fishing tackle box which made him conspicuous and we received a number of calls from people who had seen him at the relevant time," he said.
"We also established he had been in the area for some time prior to the assault which was carried out in daylight off one of the busiest approaches in and out of Shrewsbury."
The 2000 Olympic super-heavyweight champion says he now suffers from vision and balance problems, moodiness and irritability.
His decision was prompted by research into concussion and brain injuries, and after seeing medical specialists.
"After years of denial and sticking to my guns, I'm finally getting out of my own way," said Harrison, 43.
"I've suffered a few traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and will have to work hard to reverse some of the effects taking punches to the head has brought about to my overall health.
"I have vision problems, vestibular injuries that lead to balance disturbances, and have bouts of serious irritability and moodiness that come with TBI recovery."
Harrison also revealed he is now "likely to file for bankruptcy".
Harrison, who suffered seven defeats in his 38 professional fights, first quit the sport in April 2013 after losing to American Deontay Wilder in 70 seconds, only to make a U-turn shortly after. But he has not fought since.
The Londoner had challenged for the world title against fellow Briton David Haye in 2010 but lost in the third round.
And his career looked to be over in October 2012 when he was knocked out in the first round by another Briton, David Price.
But he won a Prizefighter tournament the following year to briefly revive his hopes of one day winning a heavyweight world title.
Rebecca Wilkinson, who has undergone a double mastectomy, dismissed the craze for posting black and white "selfies" with the phrase "#challengeaccepted".
In response, the 36-year-old from Lancaster uploaded a topless photo of herself to show cancer's effect on her, The Huffington Post reported.
The mother-of-two was diagnosed with Stage 2b breast cancer in 2013.
Ms Wilkinson, who has had reconstructive breast surgery, also had to have her ovaries removed after tests revealed there was an 80% chance of her breast cancer returning.
She told the BBC: "This latest craze just makes me mad.
"Having cancer is scary, knowing you could die and be taken from your children.
"It is not the subject for some fake selfies as if it's some fun activity.
"People think just because they stick a black and white photo on Facebook they are supporting people with cancer.
"But I've spoken to a lot of people in the cancer community, and it's upset most people as well.
"They are not supporting people with cancer - they should really visit people in hospital with cancer or hold their hand while they're going through the trauma of chemo.
"It's just so fake and these people are just Facebook narcissists."
Her own internet post read: "Everyone on Facebook is aware of cancer, so you cannot play the awareness card. Particularly as this time it's not even a *type* of cancer. You're not raising money. You're not showing support either."
Ms Wilkinson, who also has bipolar disorder, tested positive for the BRAC1 cancer gene after her own mother Sheila died aged 43 from breast cancer.
Hollywood film actress Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with the same gene.
There is a 50% chance that Ms Wilkinson's two children Connie, eight, and six-year-old Freddie might have the gene, but they will have to wait until they are 18 to be tested.
She added: "Having cancer is scary, knowing you could die and be taken from your children.
"It is not the subject for some fake selfies as if it's some fun activity."
The #challengeaccepted trend was very popular in India early in the summer and arrived in the UK last week.
Not all cancer sufferers share Rebecca's view of the trend.
Grandmother Jean Haines, 72, of Heald Green, Greater Manchester, who has had breast cancer twice, said: "I think any support for cancer sufferers is welcome.
"It can be such a frightening time... it's nice people are thinking of those suffering from this terrible disease."
Cancer charities approached by the BBC declined to comment.
Windsor and Maidenhead Council, in Theresa May's constituency, teamed up with Hillingdon, Richmond and Wandsworth councils to fight expansion.
The Cabinet is expected to make a decision on whether to expand Heathrow or Gatwick later this month.
Overall, the four councils have pledged £200,000 to the legal challenge.
Conservative leader of the Berkshire authority Simon Dudley, said £50,000 was a small amount to pay to try and "protect a million people".
He said plans to build a second runway in Gatwick was "more deliverable", adding: "We want a better not bigger Heathrow Airport, and if the legal analysis shows that government is making an unsound decision then the judicial review, if it was granted and successful, would stop an expansion of Heathrow airport."
The legal challenge will be discussed at a Maidenhead and Windsor council meeting on Thursday.
Leader of Richmond Council Lord True, said: "Making Europe's most polluting and worst located airport even bigger offends just about every environmental and security principle you can think of and will unite armies of campaigners in fierce opposition. It will never be built."
Neither Mrs May nor No 10 has outlined an official position on the proposal for a third runway at Heathrow.
The 28-year-old Englishman, who won his first major at Augusta in April, is preparing for the US Open at Oakmont, which starts on Thursday.
Willett will play alongside 2011 winner Rory McIlroy for the first two rounds.
He said: "The last couple of months, I can't remember a practice session or a tournament that's not being filmed or where a microphone is not nearby."
After winning the opening major of the year, victory for Willett at Oakmont would put him halfway to becoming the first man to win all four major tournaments in a calendar year.
"I am relatively surprised that no-one has done it, but for the rest of the time I'm going to be playing golf, I honestly can't see it happening too much, just purely because of the strength and depth of the field," he said.
Willett has played only three times since the Masters - missing the cut at the Players Championship, sharing 23rd place at the Irish Open, and finishing third at the PGA at Wentworth.
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In McIlroy and Rickie Fowler, Willett will spend the first half of the US Open with two of the top five players in the world rankings.
He said: "I played with Rory when we were amateurs and it should be fun on Thursday and Friday. He's a fantastic example of how athletic golf is these days."
Oakmont, last used for this tournament when Angel Cabrera won in 2007, when five-over par was the winning score, is a typically brutal US Open course, a 7,219-yard par-70 set-up with 210 bunkers and a 288-yard par three.
McIlroy believes repeating his success in 2011, when he took advantage of a rain-softened course at Congressional to win with a record 16-under-par total, would rank among his career highs.
The 27-year-old Northern Irishman, who has won four majors, said: "You know you're going to be put under a lot of pressure on every single shot you hit out there.
"To be able to win on a course like this, with the conditions the way they are, it would be maybe my biggest accomplishment in the game.
"It definitely would make me feel like a more complete player."
Justin Rose, winner of the 2013 US Open, is expecting to face "the toughest greens in golf".
But the 35-year-old admits he is just glad to be playing after overcoming a back injury.
Rose said: "It's been a race against the clock for me to be fit and ready to play here. Since the Players Championship I have been recovering from a flared-up disc.
"I have done everything humanly possible to be here from a recovery point of view, from a fitness point of view, from a practice point of view.
"It's been a tight timetable but I'm confident I've done a lot of the hard work.
"I'm coming in fresh, which is the great news. That could be an advantage come the end of the week."
World number two Jordan Spieth said on Monday he intended to play at the Rio Olympics this summer, despite concerns over the Zika virus.
Australians Marc Leishman and Adam Scott have already withdrawn because of Zika - an infection linked to brain deformities in newborn babies - but McIlroy expects to play.
Willett said he would "love to go".
He added: "It's still up in the air. There's obviously a bit of a worry as you've seen from the guys that have pulled out.
"Hopefully the threat is a bit less and we can go there."
The problem is exacerbated by a perception among young people that manufacturing is an unsecure, badly-paid career choice, according to the Engineering the Future group.
Adding to the negative reputation is the way courses are taught, it said.
It has called upon the government for help bolstering manufacturing.
"There are a lot of misconceptions about manufacturing among young people: that it is badly paid, has high redundancy rates and is dirty, physically demanding work," said Engineering the Future, which includes the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
"The lack of career advice and the national curriculum losing modules in design and technology at secondary level will have a negative impact on future manufacturing," it said. Engineering graduates are "taught to pass exams" rather than being given useful skills, it added.
It said the government ought to consider making the curriculum more relevant to "real world applications".
The group added that the changes should be taken soon, as experienced technical staff with 30 or more years behind them are nearing the ends of their careers "in large numbers".
Evans, 24, of Cardiff, admitted unlawfully wounding Michael Wilson at a Gloucestershire pub, breaking his jaw.
He is the current Olympic silver medal holder at welterweight, after ending as runner-up at the London 2012 Olympics.
He was given a two-year sentence, suspended for two years, at Gloucester Crown Court on Thursday.
Judge Jamie Tabor QC gave Evans the sentence after hearing a custodial term would be "devastating" for his career.
The judge described the offence, in October 2014, as an "enigma".
Addressing Evans, he said: "Why on earth you lost your self-control and punched your good friend, breaking his jaw, seems impossible to unravel.
"There must have been an undercurrent in your relationship with Michael Wilson which you and he are not saying anything about.
"To get where you have in the boxing world, you must have shown great dedication, self-discipline and self-control.
"But there is no excuse for what you did and you richly deserve a prison sentence - but I feel able to suspend that sentence."
Evans, who is training for next year's Rio Games, struck Mr Wilson, of Ledbury, Herefordshire, when they were out together at the Inn, in Redmarley, near Newent, Gloucestershire.
The attack put Mr Wilson in hospital for four days with a broken jaw.
The boxer's coach, Nigel Davis, made an impassioned plea for him to be spared a jail term.
He told the court: "I met him at the gym in Port Talbot when he was only four. It was near a travellers' site and it is well known that travellers use bare-knuckle fighting to settle disputes.
"But the moment I saw Fred box I could not believe what I saw - the kid was so special and I realised then he could become a world champion."
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Two British Somali MPs were among those killed in the 12-hour attack, which was declared over on Thursday morning.
Seventy British troops will soon be based at the heavily fortified airport working alongside the UN and Amisom forces and supporting the Somali security services.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead reports.
Huge, yellow diggers are lined up on the edge of a cavernous building site, ready to start construction if and when this mega-deal between the government, the French energy giant, EDF, and two Chinese state nuclear companies is signed.
I understand that moment could come next month during the official visit of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, to Britain.
David Cameron would certainly like that to be the case. As would EDF.
Hinkley Point C certainly has its critics.
Its monumental cost; the fact that the government has guaranteed a price for the electricity provided that is more than double the present wholesale price; the constant risk of cost over-runs and delays - as has been experienced in similar new nuclear projects run by EDF in France and Finland - weighs heavily.
Vincent de Rivaz, the UK chief executive of EDF, told me that new nuclear plants were essential for the UK and Hinkley C would be delivered "in time, not too late, not too early".
Relying on gas - even via new lower-carbon plants - would leave the UK dependant on energy imports and vulnerable to volatile global energy prices, he said.
And renewables - wind and solar - can only be relied on intermittently. A low carbon energy future will need nuclear power to provide the "base load", Mr de Rivaz argued.
"The reality is that we have to replace our old polluting power plants - and our nuclear power plants won't last forever," he said.
"We have lost, in the UK, 20% of the electricity generation in the last five years.
"We're going to lose 30% more by 2030, so nuclear energy is about having reliable round-the-clock energy.
"It will save customers at least 10% on their bills and above that, it will create 25,000 jobs up and down the country.
"It will boost the industrial stamina of this country. All in all it is worth it, believe me."
What is becoming clear is Britain's increasing reliance on Chinese investment for major infrastructure projects.
On his visit to China today, the chancellor has called for Chinese bids for more than £11bn of contracts to build HS2, the proposed high speed rail link between London, Manchester and Leeds.
Mr de Rivaz said that China was now an essential partner, and that safety and security were the top priorities.
"We know these companies, we have been working with them for 30 years building nuclear power plants in China," he said.
"We are building two nuclear power plants in China with them. They are committed, as we are, to put safety as our priority.
"They are committed, as we are, to openness and transparency.
"We rely, all of us, on private investment to avoid taxpayers paying for these investments.
"The chancellor and government have a policy which is absolutely clear. Taxpayers money is for schools and the NHS and defence.
"Chinese investment in nuclear, at Hinkley, at [other future nuclear developments at] Bradwell, in Sizewell, means thousands of jobs here in the UK."
Micheál Martin called Brexit "one of the biggest mistakes of modern European democracy".
Ireland now faces "a profound threat" and needs EU solidarity, he said.
And he called on London to acknowledge that Northern Ireland is "a special case", and must be treated accordingly.
Addressing a meeting at Queen's University, Belfast, Fianna Fáil leader Mr Martin claimed the continued failure to have a proper civic dialogue on Brexit was a clear breach of commitments under the Good Friday Agreement.
He told Thursday's audience that there was "no evidence whatsoever" of a credible plan from the UK government for what happens next.
The period from now to March 2019 would define the future direction for decades to come, he added.
Everyone would lose if, post-Brexit, the UK "drifts off into the night", he said.
"The EU also needs to show more urgency and ambition in reforming its own workings."
On the Republic of Ireland's position, Mr Martin said: "We are faced with a profound threat because of the actions of another state on which we had no influence.
"We are showing solidarity with the European Union and it must show us the same."
Businesses in the republic were already suffering because of the dramatic fall in sterling, he pointed out.
Mr Martin said imposing the full impact of a hard Brexit on Northern Ireland was "unacceptable".
"Dublin must promote and support special status for Northern Ireland in whatever way possible," he said.
He pointed out that Northern Ireland would contain the largest concentration of EU citizens living anywhere outside the boundaries of the EU.
A clear majority of Northern Ireland voters opting to Remain could not be lightly dismissed, he argued.
He said he would oppose any proposal to force people in Northern Ireland to choose between EU and UK citizenship.
Mr Martin was highly critical of the exclusion of the Northern Ireland secretary from permanent membership of the UK's Brexit key negotiations committee.
Speaking about the current situation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, he said: "The continued failure to have a proper civic dialogue is a clear breach of commitments under the Good Friday Agreement and it is at moments such as this that its absence is most felt.
"Northern Ireland is a divided and increasingly diverse society," he said. "A complex challenge such as this needs the legitimacy of ongoing civic engagement - something even the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister would admit has been lacking."
The Irish opposition leader said: "The scale of the direct economic, social and political threats posed by Brexit far outweighs its opportunities."
This is "one of the most important challenges ever faced by governments on these islands," he added.
Douglas Henshall won the television actor award and the show clinched the TV drama category.
Producer Rebecca O'Brien, writer Paul Laverty and Ken Loach - filmmakers behind hits like Sweet 16, The Angels' Share and My Name Is Joe - received an outstanding contribution award.
A BBC Scotland investigation Britain's Puppy Dealers Exposed won the current affairs category.
Edith Bowman hosted the event, held at Glasgow's Radisson Blu hotel, with James McAvoy and Bill Paterson among the stars handing out awards.
Shetland - an ITV Studios production for BBC Scotland based on the Ann Cleeves novels - was nominated in four categories.
Douglas Henshall won the best TV actor award, beating off strong competition from Outlander star Sam Heughan and Peter Capaldi who was also nominated for his Dr Who performances.
Heughan's Outlander co-star Caitriona Balfe triumphed over Ashley Jensen and Annie Wallace to win the TV actress prize, delighting the many Outlander fans who had gathered outside the venue.
Peter Mullan received the film actor award for his role in Hector, while Couple In A Hole's Kate Dickie won this year's film actress award.
Sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys won the Comedy/Entertainment category for the second year in a row, beating off competition from Scot Squad and Two Doors Down.
Britain's Puppy Dealers Exposed, a BBC Scotland investigation by Samantha Poling, Sandeep Gill and Liam McDougall, was honoured in the current affairs category.
The award for best single TV documentary went to Dunblane, Our Story, an STV production for the BBC.
Martin Compston, who shot to fame after he was picked from obscurity to play the lead role in the Ken Loach film Sweet 16, presented the outstanding achievement to film award to screenwriter Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O'Brien for their work with Sixteen Films.
"I owe my entire career to Ken, Rebecca and Paul," Compston said.
"Apart from being possibly the most important film makers Britain has ever had, they're just three lovely people who have taken a chance on people like myself and they deserve to be honoured in this way."
Hair and make-up artist Christine Gant's work in the industry over 35 years was also recognised with an outstanding contribution award.
Bafta Scotland director Jude MacLaverty said: "This has been another incredible year for Scotland's film, television and gaming industries and we're honoured to be celebrating this tremendous mix of talent tonight.
"Once again, we offer our warmest congratulations to all our worthy winners."
The winners at Bafta Scotland 2016
Actor Film - Peter Mullan, Hector
Actor Television - Douglas Henshall, Shetland
Actress Film - Kate Dickie, Couple in a Hole
Actress Television - Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Animation - No Place Like Home, Cat Bruce, Neil Jack - KoLik
Children's Programme - All Over The Workplace, BBC Scotland/CBBC
Comedy/Entertainment - Mrs Brown's Boys 2015 Christmas special
Current Affairs - BBC Scotland Investigates: Britain's Puppy Dealers Exposed, Liam McDougall, Samantha Poling, Sandeep Gill
Director Film/Television - Douglas Mackinnon, Sherlock, The Abominable Bride
Factual Series - This Farming Life, BBC Studios/BBC Two
Feature Film - Tommy's Honour, Gutta Percha Productions, SellOutPictures
Features/Factual Entertainment - Supershoppers, Firecrest Films/Channel 4
Game - Glitchspace, Space Budgie
Short Film - Isabella, Ross Hogg, Duncan Cowles
Single Documentary - Dunblane: Our Story, STV Productions/Berriff McGinty Films/BBC One
Specialist Factual - Imagine... Richard Flanagan: Life After Death, BBC Studios/BBC One
Television Drama - Shetland, ITV Studios/BBC One
Writer Film/Television - DC Moore, Not Safe for Work
Outstanding Contribution to Craft - Christine Cant
Outstanding Contribution to Film - Sixteen Films, Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien, Paul Laverty
Akhtar Javeed, 56, from east London, was shot outside the building in Digbeth, Birmingham on 3 February.
West Midlands Police said the suspect was detained at a property in Leicester on Friday evening.
A 19-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and an 18-year-old man arrested in Derby remains in custody.
Police said on the day of the shooting two masked men in a silver Renault Megane entered Direct Source 3 Ltd on Rea Street South.
Five staff members were handcuffed with cable ties and it is believed Mr Javeed was shot while fighting off the attackers.
He was found outside his business premises with a "major neck wound" and pronounced dead in hospital.
The robbers escaped empty-handed, detectives said.
Farquhar Kennedy, 54, and Rimas Kuskys, 43, who both live in the north east of Scotland, were involved in a collision involving their lorries and a car.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash which happened on the A90 Foveran to Belmedie road near Hatterseat at about 13:20 on Monday.
The female car driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
The firm - which sponsors British tennis star Andy Murray - forecast revenue for this year would be below analysts' estimates as well.
It also said its finance chief was standing down for personal reasons.
In the final three months of 2016, revenues rose 12% to $1.31bn, but that was the slowest growth for eight years.
Profits fell to $104.9m from $105.6m a year earlier.
Under Armour founder and chief executive Kevin Plank said on a call with investors the company needs to "become more fashionable".
For 2017, the company expects revenues to rise by between 11% and 12% to nearly $5.4bn, but this was below market forecasts of more than $6bn.
Under Armour shares sank 23% to $19.22 on the news, marking its biggest fall in nine years, and wiping out more than $3bn in market value.
The Dow Jones fell 107 points, or 0.5%, to 19,864 by close of trading on Wall Street.
The S&P 500 index dropped 2 points to 2,279, while the Nasdaq pulled back from earlier losses to rise 1 point at 5,615.
UPS shares fell 6.75% after the delivery company predicted full-year profits below market expectations, saying its results would be hit by the strength of the dollar.
Healthcare stocks were among the biggest winners after President Donald Trump said he would cut taxes and regulation in a meeting with pharmaceutical bosses.
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Top prosecutor Marianne Ny said his arrest warrant was being revoked as it was impossible to serve him notice.
Mr Assange, 45, has lived in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012. He fears extradition to Sweden would lead to extradition to the US where he is wanted over leaks.
Ecuador has called on the UK to allow him safe passage out of the country.
However, police in London said they would still be obliged to arrest him if he left.
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said Mr Assange still faced the lesser charge of failing to surrender to a court, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine.
But the UK has not commented on whether it has received an extradition request from the US, where Mr Assange could face trial over the leaking of hundreds of thousands of secret US military and diplomatic documents.
Mr Assange's Swedish lawyer, Per Samuelson, said the prosecutor's decision on Friday represented "a total victory" for his client.
But the Wikileaks founder responded angrily in a tweet: "Detained for 7 years without charge... while my children grew up and my name was slandered. I do not forgive or forget."
The plaintiff in the rape case was "shocked" by the decision, her lawyer said, and maintained her accusations against Mr Assange, Agence France-Presse reported.
The decision coincided with the release by Wikileaks of another tranche of documents about the CIA's technical capabilities.
At a press briefing on Friday, Ms Ny said that by remaining in the embassy in London Mr Assange had evaded the exercise of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) that would have seen him extradited to Sweden.
She said that under Swedish law a criminal investigation needed to be conducted "as quickly as possible".
Sweden did not expect Ecuador's co-operation in formally notifying Mr Assange of the allegations against him, a necessary step in proceeding with the case, she added.
But she said: "If he were to return to Sweden before the statute of limitation on this case expires in August 2020, the preliminary investigation could be resumed."
She said it was "regrettable we have not been able to carry out the investigation", and added: "We are not making any pronouncement about guilt."
A source at the Ecuadorean foreign ministry told the Press Association that Ecuador had "fully co-operated with the Swedish justice system".
The source criticised the Swedish prosecutor for "unnecessary delays" in the case but welcomed the latest decision.
The source added: "Ecuador will now be intensifying its diplomatic efforts with the UK so that Julian Assange can gain safe passage in order to enjoy his asylum in Ecuador."
The rape allegation followed a Wikileaks conference in Stockholm in 2010. Mr Assange always denied the allegations against him, saying sex was consensual.
He also said the case was politically motivated, as it followed massive Wikileaks dumps of secret US military reports that year.
Later that year he was arrested in London after Sweden issued an international arrest warrant against him.
Then, in June 2012, after exhausting legal avenues to prevent his extradition, Mr Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy, where he remains to this day.
After the news was announced on Friday, Wikileaks tweeted that the "focus now moves to the UK", but Mr Assange's fate still seems unclear.
The MPS issued a statement saying that its actions had been based on a response to a "European Arrest Warrant for an extremely serious offence".
It went on: "Now that the situation has changed and the Swedish authorities have discontinued their investigation into that matter, Mr Assange remains wanted for a much less serious offence. The MPS will provide a level of resourcing which is proportionate to that offence."
The MPS said it would "not comment further on the operational plan".
Last month, Mr Samuelson filed a new motion calling for his client's arrest warrant to be lifted.
He cited a comment by new US Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the arrest of Mr Assange would be "a priority".
Mr Samuelson told Agence France-Presse: "This implies that we can now demonstrate that the US has a will to take action... this is why we ask for the arrest warrant to be cancelled."
The "unique" underground shelter stands in the Woodside Road industrial estate on the outskirts of Ballymena, County Antrim, and can house up to 235 people.
It was commissioned by the government during the latter stages of the Cold War and construction began in 1987.
It contains dormitories, kitchen facilities, decontamination chambers, and has been kept in a "fit and ready state" for emergencies since 1990.
The bunker is in the ownership of the Office of the First and deputy First Minister (OFMDFM), which hopes to raise about £575,000 from the sale of the 3.74-acre site.
BBC News NI reported the existence of the bunker in 2007, after submitting a Freedom of Information request.
The following year, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) questioned Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness about an alleged list of people "to be taken there in a moment of peril".
Mr McGuinness replied that he knew nothing of the bunker and hoped he was not on the list.
The then Environment Minister Arlene Foster, who has since become first minister of Northern Ireland, joked at the time that she had not granted it planning permission.
The shelter is one of almost 1,600 nuclear monitoring posts built across the UK since 1955.
The property agent Lambert Smith Hampton said the Ballymena bunker was "believed to be one of the last and most technically advanced buildings of its kind ever built in the UK".
It has "interlocking double blast doors", a BBC audio visual broadcasting facility, bathrooms, conference rooms and storage facilities.
The firm's surveyor, Andrew Fraser, described it as a "one of a kind property".
"This is an extremely rare listing and offers a unique opportunity for potential buyers," he said.
The agents suggested it could be used for tourism, media or storage purposes.
Speaking to a packed audience at his annual dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Soros said he was confident Mr Trump's powers would be limited by Congress.
"He won't be able to get away [with being a dictator]," he added.
Ultimately, Mr Soros said he expected Mr Trump to fail.
"The ideas that guide him are fundamentally contradictory. He has three chiefs of staff instead of one and his cabinet are very fragmented and fighting with each other," he said.
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Mr Soros has been unrelentingly critical of Mr Trump since his shock election victory, and the pair have a history of friction.
During the 2016 campaign, Mr Soros donated around $10m to Trump rival Hillary Clinton.
The hedge fund manager, who initially became famous for having made $1bn by betting on the devaluation of the pound in 1992, is reported to have lost close to $1bn after the stock market rallied following Mr Trump's win.
Mr Soros attributed the rise in the markets to Mr Trump's pledge to cut regulation and taxes, but said when Mr Trump takes office - in under 24 hours - "reality will prevail".
He also said that it's impossible to predict exactly how Mr Trump will act because he hadn't expected to win, and had only started thinking seriously about what he would do after he was elected.
He also warned that Mr Trump would also divide the US further.
"Anyone who disagrees with him is not part of the people," he says.
Asked what advice, he would give to businesses preparing for the impact of the new presidency, he said, "I'd keep as far away from it as I can."
Mr Trump's team was approached for comment by the BBC.
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Hamilton made breaks of 135 and 98 but Bingham won in style with a clearance of 143 at York's Barbican Centre.
World number 48 Jack Lisowski, 24, is also through to the last 32, coming back from 5-2 down to beat Scotland's 2006 world champion Graeme Dott 6-5.
And Tom Ford, ranked 52, rallied from 5-3 down to beat Mark Williams 6-5.
Ford made a clearance of 66 in the deciding frame to defeat the two-time world champion, now ranked 13th in the world, for the first time in seven meetings.
John Higgins, 40, winner of four world titles and three times a UK champion, made two centuries in beating China's Tian Pengfei 6-2, finishing the match with a 103.
The Scotsman made a total of five breaks in excess of 50, but said: "I didn't play well, I missed too many easy balls, but I'm pleased to win."
Elsewhere, Martin Gould beat fellow Englishman Gary Wilson 6-4, China's Liang Wenbo saw off Jimmy Robertson 6-2, Hong Kong's Marco Fu thrashed Yu De Lu of China and England's Mark Davis defeated Ireland's Ken Doherty 6-3.
In the evening session, last season's beaten world finalist Shaun Murphy made two centuries in the first three frames as he ousted 17-year-old Zhou Yuelong from China 6-1.
The 2008 UK champion Murphy quickly built a 4-0 lead by the interval, Zhou claiming his only frame with the fifth after a 92.
Both Northern Ireland players in action saw their matches go to the final frame, Joe Swail beat amateur Adam Duffy, who shocked two-time winner Ding Junhui in the opening round, but Gerard Greene lost out to England's David Gilbert.
Kyren Wilson won five frames in succession to beat Mike Dunn 6-2, Robbie Williams saw off world number 10 Joe Perry 6-3, Jamie Burnett beat Alan McManus 6-3 and Ben Woollaston defeated Ross Muir 6-5.
Last week, the Pentagon said forces loyal to the Syrian government were beginning "to mass and concentrate combat power around Aleppo."
The US spokesman said: "It is primarily [the] al-Nusra [Front] who holds Aleppo, and, of course, al-Nusra is not part of the cessation of hostilities. So it's complicated. We're watching it."
As so often with recent Russian military campaigns, the media message has been at variance with the reality of events on the ground.
In mid-March, President Vladimir Putin announced Russia was to begin withdrawing its forces from Syria.
Some fixed-wing aircraft - up to about half of the deployed jets - did depart from the Russian air base near Latakia.
But their departure did not mark an end to Russian military operations. Far from it.
Russian strike missions continued; now bolstered by the arrival of some of the Russian military's latest attack helicopters - the Ka-52 and the Mi-28N.
So what is going on? What changed if anything after Russia's partial withdrawal? And why are the Russians apparently gearing up for a new offensive?
For the moment, Russia's support for President Assad remains firm. But that is not necessarily an open-ended proposition.
Russia wants to consolidate the Syrian government's position - but it doesn't want to remain engaged in combat in Syria forever.
Thus Russian policy operates on a number of tracks. Moscow has backed the diplomatic process. It may be failing for now, but the diplomatic effort will have to be resumed at some point.
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The Russian "withdrawal" signalled a shifting of gears in the campaign; a signal of a job at least part-done - the consolidation of the Syrian government - and a step that helped give space for a renewed diplomatic effort.
The US has repeatedly criticised Russia's air campaign for largely striking at Western-backed groups fighting the Syrian government, rather than so-called Islamic State (IS).
Russia, of course, has said it is largely striking at IS and al-Nusra "terrorists".
This is another example of the gulf between Russian rhetoric and reality.
But, as Michael Kofman, a US-based analyst with the CNA Corporation, says, about a week before the "withdrawal" announcement, the Russian air effort switched to largely striking IS in and around Palmyra, yielding "a political prize and an important public victory for the Syrian regime and the Russian forces".
This, then, created the context for the partial withdrawal, and IS subsequently became the primary target for Russian air power - a point confirmed by recent US briefings.
Russia's air wing in Syria has undoubtedly been scaled back.
Indeed, analysis of satellite imagery by IHS Janes shows one of the two runways at the Humaymim air base, near Latakia, appears to have been closed.
Janes suggests damage may have been caused by over-use and this "may have contributed to Russia's decision to withdraw some fixed-wing aircraft from Syria and deploy additional helicopters".
Nonetheless, a sizeable Russian force still remains in Syria.
There is an air wing of some 20 aircraft, including about a dozen Su-24M strike aircraft and a handful of Su-30M and Su-35 fighters.
And there are still a variety of ground elements deployed to protect the air base, including highly capable surface-to-air missiles.
Indeed, as Mr Kofman says, the arrival of more attack helicopters means "Russia's military presence has expanded to several bases, since helicopters need forward operating bases to fly from".
US and other sources have detected Russian artillery units moving towards the Aleppo front, and teams of Russian special forces are thought to be operating alongside both Syrian government and allied Hezbollah units.
So, for now, all eyes are on Aleppo.
But if Russia has shifted gears in its approach, so too have the Americans.
President Barack Obama's decision to double down on IS - not least by deploying up to 250 additional special operators in Syria to train and assist a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters - indicates that key outside players are already gearing up for an upsurge in the fighting.
Syria's multiple wars show no sign of ending.
Source: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, quoted by Russian media
The figures, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Liberal Democrats, include a rise in unexpected deaths and suicides.
The NHS logs events as "serious incidents" when the consequences for patients and staff are so significant they warrant investigations.
The NHS said transparency had improved.
Trusts are left to decide for themselves what constitutes a serious incident, working under guidelines from NHS England.
Apart from unexpected deaths, a serious incident investigation might also be triggered by events that could undermine public confidence in an organisation's ability to deliver acceptable healthcare services - such as security concerns or the misuse of information.
The aim is to prevent future tragedies.
The Freedom of Information data from NHS England shows there were 8,139 serious incidents recorded by the 58 mental health trusts in England in 2014-15.
This compares with 6,074 in 2012-13 and 7,345 in 2013-14.
Two trusts failed to provide full information for 2012-13. Taking account of this, there was an underlying increase of 31% over the whole period.
Of the serious incidents, there were 1,714 unexpected deaths in 2014-15, an underlying increase of 20%.
These death figures include 751 suicides - up 22% from 2012-13.
It is possible that a more open culture has encouraged a higher level of incident reporting - with a greater emphasis on safety since Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust was heavily criticised for failings of care that may have led to unnecessary deaths.
But the Liberal Democrats say the figures generate further concerns about mental health services in England, following December's revelations about Southern Health.
The trust, which provides mental health services in the south of England, was found to have failed to investigate the unexpected deaths of hundreds of patients, many with mental health conditions and learning disabilities, since 2011.
The Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, a former health minister in the coalition government, said: "These findings raise really serious concerns. I believe they should trigger a full investigation by the government and by NHS England.
"On the face of it, they show a dramatic rise in unexpected deaths and suicides - at a time when real terms funding provided by commissioning groups has gone down."
An NHS England spokesperson said: "Reporting of incidents is intentionally up right across the NHS, including mental health, as part of our national effort to encourage transparency and a culture of learning.
"That's the lesson from the airlines - openness is a precondition for safety and improvement. That's as true for mental health services as it is for maternity care or surgical operations."
Stephen Dalton, chief executive of the Mental Health Network, said: "We all need to make sure more people feel able to talk about mental health problems openly and get access to the support they need by reducing the stigma that surround mental illness."
The 22-year-old has failed to recover from a neck injury which has seen him start just once since last November.
The former England Under-20 international joined the Pirates from Bath in 2014 and made 26 appearances for the Championship club.
"It's a huge shock and a tough pill to swallow, as I never thought I would be in this position at just turning 22," said Jamieson
"There have been positives that I'll take from my rugby experiences, including making real friends for life, and my best wishes are expressed to the Pirates for the future.
"Hopefully one day I will be able to watch them play at the Stadium for Cornwall."
Director of rugby Ian Davies said: "We are devastated that Adam has been forced to retire so young.
"Adam was a player who we were looking to re-contract for next season as his willingness to learn, his strong work ethic and general positive attitude on and off the field are the traits that we value strongly when choosing a squad."
It was not clear who was behind the attack in Khansaa in Hassakeh province, which left between 30 and 80 dead.
The Local Co-ordination Committees and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian military helicopters had dropped barrel bombs on a market.
But some residents alleged that warplanes from the US-led coalition battling IS had fired missiles.
Syrian government officials have so far not commented on the incident.
Activists and witnesses concurred that the target of the strike in Khansaa, south of the Kurdish-held city of Qamishli, was a busy livestock market.
Resident Khair al-Obeidi told the Reuters news agency that the Syrian air force had bombed a part of the market where cattle were traded.
"There are at least 65 bodies - mostly charred bodies - that were counted by local medics in Tal Hamis," he said, referring to a nearby town.
The LCC, an opposition activist network, said at least 77 people had been killed in the attack and dozens wounded.
The Syrian Observatory put the toll at 27, but said it was likely to rise because many of the wounded were in a critical condition.
"Some of the bodies were so mutilated by the strikes that people couldn't tell the human from the animal remains," said the UK-based group's director, Rami Abdul Rahman.
An activist named Siraj, who lives in the nearby city of Hassakeh, told the Associated Press news agency that he was given the names of 70 people presumed killed, and said another 13 bodies were too badly burnt to be identified.
He said he got the list from wounded survivors taken to a local hospital.
Siraj said some of them told him that Syrian government aircraft had dropped barrel bombs on the market, but that others blamed US-led coalition aircraft for the attack.
Mr Abdul Rahman said there were daily government and US-led coalition air strikes on IS positions in Hassakeh province, which borders Iraq.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory reported that at least 12 people had been killed in a series of Syrian government air strikes in the town of Saraqeb and the village of Sheikh Mustafa, in the western province of Idlib. Both areas are under the control of jihadist groups.
The 26-year-old did not feature in Albion's defeat at Rochdale on Saturday as transfer negotiations progressed.
El Khayati moved to Burton in January 2015, when R's head coach Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was in charge at the Pirelli Stadium.
He has scored 11 goals in 44 appearances for Burton.
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Noreen McPolland, 54, told the High Court in Glasgow that Ronnie Coulter made the alleged confession when she visited him in Barlinnie Prison.
She said the conversation took place in 1998 or 1999 when he was on remand awaiting trial for Mr Chhokar's murder.
Mr Coulter denies murdering Mr Chhokar and blames two other men.
The 48-year-old, from Wishaw, denies stabbing the 32-year-old in Garrion Street, Overtown, North Lanarkshire, on 4 November 1998.
Mr Coulter has lodged a special defence blaming his nephew Andrew Coulter and another man, David Montgomery.
At the High Court in Glasgow, prosecutor Alex Prentice QC asked Ms McPolland whether Mr Coulter had ever said anything about the death of Mr Chhokar.
She replied: "He said 'I stabbed him'."
Ms McPolland, who was married to Mr Coulter's brother, Andrew, for 15 years, told the jury that she visited her brother-in-law in prison with his sister Margaret Chisholm when he made the remarks.
She added: "Margaret told him to own up to what he had done and he told us he had stabbed Mr Chhokar."
Mr Prentice asked: "What was your reaction?" She replied: "I got up and went to the canteen and I bought some stuff. I didn't want involved in it."
The prosecutor then asked if Mr Coulter had said anything else and Ms McPolland said he had when he visited his brother just days after the death of Mr Chhokar.
Mr Prentice said: "Did he make any reference to the death of Chhokar," and she responded saying: "My husband asked him if if he had stabbed Mr Chhokar. He said he had stabbed Mr Chhokar.
"He said Mr Chhokar was shouting after he had stabbed him. He was shouting 'Liz, Liz they've stabbed me.'
The jury has heard that Ronnie Coulter, his nephew Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery went to see Mr Chhokar on 4 November 1998, in a row over a £100 Giro cheque.
After an altercation, Mr Chhokar collapsed dying in the street in front of his partner Liz Bryce.
In evidence given earlier in the trial Andrew Coulter admitted hitting Chhokar on the arm with a home-made lead-filled bat, but denied stabbing him. Mr Montgomery also denies stabbing him.
Pathologist Dr Marjorie Turner revealed that Chhokar was stabbed in the chest three times and died from massive blood loss.
The jury earlier heard that Ronnie Coulter was tried and acquitted of murdering Mr Chhokar in 1999.
The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.
Taxi drivers in South Africa have had a fierce reputation dating back to the days of apartheid and have often resorted to violence to protect their routes.
The dispute with Uber drivers began a week ago but tension has been simmering for months.
In the posh business area of Sandton, a passenger was pulled out of an Uber car a week ago and the driver was threatened with whips and batons.
The meter taxi drivers say they are angry with Uber for taking their customers, and making business difficult for them.
"Uber must go," said Lucas Seale, a spokesman for the body representing metered taxi owners in South Africa's economic heartland of Gauteng province.
It may sound ridiculous to bring in apartheid into a 21st-Century taxi service which is largely run by a smart-phone application.
But let me explain: Under apartheid the white minority government had neglected to provide reliable public transport for the majority of South Africans.
Mostly black individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit took it upon themselves to start an informal taxi service. They have been running it for decades.
Now the government wants to regulate it and it is finding it difficult to penetrate the multi-billion dollar industry. Minibus taxis ferry millions of people every day to and from work. They provide an essential service.
And it is under this tense climate that the innovative Uber business idea has arrived.
Uber customer Melinda Bason told South Africa's private Eyewitness News site that her Uber driver was too scared to pick her and her husband up from Sandton after being harassed by the metered taxi drivers.
"They grabbed the keys from the ignition, intimidating him. There was a gun involved and intimidation with that weapon," she said.
Passengers say Uber prices are cheaper and its cars are much cleaner.
In Cape Town, an online petition has been launched after 200 of its cars were impounded for operating without licences. By Monday, it had gained 20,000 signatures.
Charlotte, a regular Uber customer who did not want to give her surname for fear of reprisals, told me that she has found ways of using the service, undetected by metered taxi drivers.
"I ask them to pick me up away from designated pick-up spots in order to enjoy the cheaper service without being intimidated."
She adds that because she sees the name and picture of the driver on her smartphone application, she can pretend she knows them personally.
"I greet them as if they are my long lost friend," Charlotte says.
Uber, which is headquartered in San Francisco in the US, said it was aware of similar incidents where taxi drivers refused to share routes.
Its Johannesburg general manager, Alon Litz, said in statement that intimidation was getting worse.
"We are in constant communication with the drivers assuring them that their safety is our number one priority. We're looking into ways to reduce cases of intimidation," he said.
Uber has appealed to the Johannesburg metropolitan police to protect their drivers. Its spokesman, Superintendent Wayne Mienaar, told me they were monitoring the situation.
"Our role is to ensure the safety of both passengers and drivers," he said.
I spent some time outside the Gautrain station in Sandton with metered taxi drivers. They were all wearing their customary uniform, white shirts and red ties. They looked somewhat agitated but elegant.
I asked 70-year-old Peter Moloi what problem he had with Uber?
He replied, in a soft and dignified voice, that Uber annoyed him because it had jumped the queue for operating licenses.
Mr Moloi, who was retrenched from his job as a credit controller in 1999, said: "We are tired of being treated like third-class citizens in our own country."
He said the foreign-owned firm received its taxi licence quickly, compared with some of his colleagues who had waited for years.
Uber in South Africa had one million rides in 2014 - in the first half of this year it has already reached double that.
This means the incidents of violence and intimidation we are witnessing are still in the minority. There are fears though, that the fighting might escalate.
Pistorius killed Ms Steenkamp in February 2013 after firing four times through a locked toilet door.
A manslaughter verdict was overturned last month and a murder verdict introduced in its place.
The athlete's defence has lodged papers at the Constitutional Court, urging a review of his murder conviction.
He is currently under house arrest after spending one year of his original five-year sentence in jail.
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled in December that the lower court had not applied correctly the rule of dolus eventualis - whether Pistorius knew that a death would be a likely result of his actions.
Last month, Justice Eric Leach said that having armed himself with a high-calibre weapon, Pistorius must have foreseen that whoever was behind the door might die, especially given his firearms training.
Pistorius has always maintained he believed he was shooting at an intruder.
His lawyers say the appeals court made fundamental errors, claiming in appeal papers that the court "acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally when it rejected the factual finding of the Trial Court and replaced it with a contrary factual finding of its own".
Pistorius's lawyer, Andrew Fawcett, says the appeal is now in the hands of the director of public prosecutions, who must decide whether there are grounds for appeal. If so, the case will go before the Constitutional Court.
The South African made history by becoming the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics, in London in 2012. He competed in the 400m, wearing carbon-fibre blades to run against able-bodied athletes.
Comic founder and writer Pat Mills and artist Kevin O'Neill have co-written Serial Killer, the first in a planned series of books.
Mills started his career with Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson in the 70s.
He said Scots he met during his time there and later while working in London inspired the novel's character, Joy.
While at DC Thomson, Mills worked on the publisher's girls' titles Romeo and Jackie.
After he left the Dundee publisher, he created the girls' mystery comic Misty and co-created the war stories comic Battle and science-fiction/fantasy comic 2000AD, which is 40 years old this year.
With O'Neill, who illustrated 2000AD's Nemesis the Warlock stories and Alan Moore's famous graphic novel The Extraordinary League of Gentlemen, Mills has written Serial Killer, the first in a series of novels entitled Read Em and Weep.
Mills said: "The novels are set in the eccentric 'Life on Mars' world that was the 1970s and features classic 1970s comics, including fictional versions of Battle, Action and 2000AD.
"It's a story of revenge for a lost childhood, of flawed and eccentric characters, strange passions and arrested development."
Joy, a journalist, is one of the book's main characters.
Mills said: "She's inspired by a number of female journalists I worked with at DC Thomson as well as Scottish women I know in London.
"One chapter in the novel comes to mind. It was inspired by a time when I worked on Romeo.
"The female journalists on Romeo and Jackie were quite outraged by the awful female hygiene products that were being aimed at teenage girls. This would have been in the early 70s.
"I'm pretty certain they won and the adverts were withdrawn which is admirable. The products quoted in the chapter of the novel, though fictional, are close to reality.
"What was difficult on teenage magazines was how to handle real teenage girl problems and I recall the editor of the Romeo problem page telling me that she wasn't allowed to deal with serious issues and she found that very frustrating. Once again, Joy mirrors this subject."
Mills also recalls how working at DC Thomson gave him a "love of popular culture which has stayed with me my entire life".
Describing Scotland as having a "supportive atmosphere" for comics, he said he found DC Thomson's comic strips "so much funnier" than other mainstream British comic publishers.
Among those who made the comics funny was the late Manchester-born artist Ken Reid, the inspiration for another character in Serial Killer.
Mills said: "DC Thomson's fun comics were so much funnier than others and Kevin and I tackle that subject with gusto in another chapter.
"We mention Ken Reid - referred to as Ken Royce - who was a protégé of DC Thomson and was behind comic characters Jonah and Rodger the Dodger.
"Both Kevin and I are huge admirers of his wonderfully subversive material which I do think has a Scottish satirical, almost dour, element."
The bird of prey went missing from private premises near Stratford St Mary, Suffolk, on Wednesday morning.
Suffolk Police said the eagle had been fed recently but warned it might "prey on small animals".
The bird, which had a ring and tethers on, was spotted by a member of the public and has been returned to his perch.
Source: BBC Nature
Charnley, who will join Sale from Wigan at the end of the current Super League season, has made seven appearances for England's rugby league side.
"His ambition is to play at the highest level and his first obstacle is to get picked here," he told BBC Sport.
"If he does that and consistently plays well, then I'm sure the new England set-up will look at players like him."
Diamond continued: "We're getting an established international finisher. His strike rate is one try a game over 150 games, which is unbelievable.
"He'll fit in well. If he doesn't make it after a year or two, then he could always go back and be a top-class rugby league player."
Jason Robinson made a successful transition when he crossed codes to play for Sale in 2000, after making 302 appearances for Wigan in rugby league.
Robinson played for England in their loss to Australia in the rugby league World Cup final in 1995, but later won the rugby union World Cup with England against Australia in 2003.
He earned 51 England caps in rugby union, as well as featuring five times for the British & Irish Lions, while at club level he captained the Sharks to a Premiership title in 2006.
"Nobody can compare anybody to Jason, but Josh comes with a fantastic try-scoring record and he's an unbelievable goal-kicker," said Diamond.
"He comes with the things we are looking for. We haven't had to break the bank, the money is the right money. It's all about ambition.
"He's got to get that switch in his brain, but we've done it with rugby league players before and we did it with Jason."
Following Sam Burgess' short-lived and unsuccessful switch from league to union, Diamond is planning to play Charnley at full-back and on the wing - both positions that the 24-year-old has filled in rugby league with Wigan.
"He's got a bit of work to do on the conversion to playing rugby union," Diamond added. "If he can work hard and make the transition, then we've got a gem on our hands.
"He's got a full skill set, we know he kicks goals but we'll not go down the path that other rugby union teams have done and try to play them in different positions.
"What happened with Sam was nothing short of a disgrace. He was played in one position by England and another by his club, you just can't do that."
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He told children: "When I was a pilot, it was the same in terms of flying above the ground and watching the beautiful woods and the sea. However, it was only when I became an astronaut that I realised how small Earth is.
"The Space Station goes around the Earth in around 90 minutes... you can tell how small the Earth is, and we have to look after it.''
He also said that studying and helping your parents clean up could help them become astronauts one day.
The Space station orbits 200 miles above our planet and Kimiya is staying for 5 months.
Former BBC designer Ray Cusick died of heart failure in his sleep on Thursday, Claire Heawood added.
The Daleks became the iconic villains in cult science fiction series Doctor Who, which is due to mark its 50th anniversary with events this year.
Mr Cusick, from Horsham, West Sussex, leaves two daughters and seven grandchildren, his family said.
The official Doctor Who Magazine tweeted: "It's with great sadness that we report the death of Ray Cusick - the designer of the Daleks. Half a century on, his iconic design lives on."
Doctor Who actor and writer Mark Gatiss tweeted: "Farewell to the great Ray Cusick. His passing is especially sad in this anniversary year but his creation remains immortal. Daleks forever!"
The designer gave form to the concept of the Daleks, created by Doctor Who screenwriter Terry Nation and which first appeared in series one of Doctor Who nearly 50 years ago.
In the show, the race of Daleks was said to have been developed by a scientist to survive a war on their home planet of Skaro. However, the scientist was later killed by his own creation.
The Daleks, mutants encased in studded, tank-like machinery that appear to glide over the ground, became a cultural sensation, with generations growing to love their famous electronic command of "Exterminate".
In a 2008 episode of BBC Three's Doctor Who Confidential, Mr Cusick visited the BBC props department and explained his inspiration for the design of the Daleks, which has changed very little over the years.
"People do say I was inspired by a pepper pot - but I always think 'If that's all it takes to become a designer then it's a doddle'."
He explained that, in fact, the pepper pot detail came from a lunch with Bill Roberts, the special effects expert who would make the Daleks, when Mr Cusick picked up a pepper pot and moved it around the table, telling him: "It's going to move like that - no visible means."
"Ever since then people say I was inspired by a pepper pot - but it could have been the salt pot I picked up," he said.
He went on: "When I'm asked what I was inspired by I suppose it was really a system of logic because I realised that you've got to have an operator to operate them. If you had anything mechanical, 10 to one on the take it would go wrong, so you've got a human being in there who would be absolutely totally reliable...
"I then thought 'Well, the operator's got to sit down', [so I] drew a seat, ergonomic height, 18in, got the operator down, and then drew round him. That's how the basic shape appeared."
David Graham, who created the original voice of the Daleks, said the villains' success in frightening generations of viewers was a combination of "brilliant design" and the synthesised voice added to it.
He said Mr Cusick was responsible for "one of the most iconic designs of television sci-fi".
"They captured the imagination of so many people. It was a wonderful thing," he told BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan show.
Nicholas Briggs, who voices the modern Daleks, said the show would not be the same without them.
"Extinction is not an option - If you say Doctor Who to someone in the street about the second thing they're going to say is 'Exterminate'," he said.
"Lots of my friends who are not Doctor Who fans think that the programme is 'Doctor Who and the Daleks' - that surely the Daleks are in it all the time - which isn't true but that is the impression.
"That's the brilliance of the creation of the Daleks. They've made an indelible stamp on the series really."
Emergency services were called to Kilburn High Road at the junction with Netherwood Street at about 17:20 GMT after reports of a shooting.
Paramedics treated the man, who was his early 20s, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Scotland Yard said no arrests have been made and enquiries continue.
The man's next of kin have been informed.
Roads have been cordoned off while police investigate, with witnesses describing the area as "mayhem".
Captain Sharp, who scored 30 goals to help achieve promotion from League One last season, has signed a two-year deal with midfielders Coutts and Basham.
Full-back Freeman, 25, has penned a three-year deal after scoring 11 goals in 46 appearances in 2016-17.
"We cannot underestimate how important it is to have them on board," Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder said.
"We are looking for all four to step up a level and enjoy the challenges of the Championship."
All four players made over 40 league appearances each last season as Wilder's side finished on 100 points to move back into the Championship after six seasons in the third tier.
A deal with the National Aeronautical Centre (NAC) in Wales will see aircraft tested for military or civilian use.
The NAC, which has authority to fly drones, said it was attracted to Newquay because its 3,000m runway is bigger than in Wales.
Testing will take place in a 3,000 sq mile segregated area for unmanned aircraft over the sea.
Ray Mann, from the National Aeronautical Centre, said: "We fly about three or four missions a day in west Wales.
"We have a 1,200m runway, but Newquay has one of the longest runways in the UK which is a huge advantage."
The NAC's agreement could see a number of its clients, which include the Ministry of Defence and Thales, operate their aircraft from Newquay.
Mr Mann said the firm was attracted by the prospect of office, hangar and security at the Aerohub enterprise zone, launched there in 2012.
He predicted huge growth in the sector with demand for drones in fisheries protection, air sea rescue and border controls, as well military use.
"We have to recognise where the sector is going," he said.
"We know there is demand and we have to be prepared to meet that."
Al Titterington, managing director of Newquay Cornwall Airport, said: "The UK aerospace industry has a major opportunity in the UAS (Unmanned Air Systems) market but first it must develop, demonstrate and prove that systems and sub-systems can contribute to ensuring safe and reliable operations, whilst being properly regulated."
The blast comes a day after 17 people died in another suicide attack at the central station in the city.
Security has been tightened at railway stations and airports across Russia.
Moscow is concerned that militants could be ramping up violence in the run-up to the 2014 winter Olympic Games in the city of Sochi in February.
The Olympics venue is close to Russia's volatile north Caucasus region, and the BBC's Moscow correspondent Daniel Sandford says it was always risky staging the Games so near to the troubled republics of Chechnya and Dagestan.
By Artyom LissBBC Russian
For most Russians, these attacks came as a huge shock. Despite public assurances that the troubles in the Caucasus were coming under control, clashes between extremists and government troops, and some small-scale attacks, have continued.
More disturbingly, extremism has recently started to flare up further north, in some of Russia's central regions, much closer to Volgograd.
This industrial and transport hub is of huge symbolic importance to most Russians. The attacks there, just weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympics, have created unease across Russia. Many are now asking why the country's powerful security services failed to stop the bombers, accusing them of complacency and unprofessionalism.
The threat to the games in Sochi may not be so great: there are hundreds of police officers and military personnel deployed around the area. But the fear is that the bombers may strike elsewhere.
These bombs have been a brutal reminder of that, he says.
In a statement, Russia's foreign ministry did not blame any particular group but called for international solidarity in the fight against "an insidious enemy that can only be defeated together".
Regional Governor Sergei Bozhenov said the bombings were a "serious test" for all Volgograd residents and all Russians.
The president of the International Olympic Committee has expressed full confidence that Russian authorities will deliver "safe and secure" Games in Sochi.
The latest explosion took place near a busy market in Volgograd's Dzerzhinsky district.
Maksim Akhmetov, a Russian TV reporter who was at the scene of the blast, said the trolleybus was packed with people going to work in the morning rush hour.
He described the scene as "terrible", adding that the bus was "ravaged" and that there were "bodies everywhere, blood on the snow".
The figures given for the number of dead and injured are still fluctuating, but investigators and the Russian health ministry told a news conference that 14 people had been killed.
At least 20 others were injured, and Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said the patients were in "a bad condition with burns, with multiple injuries typical of blast-induced wounds".
She said the injured include a pregnant woman, two 16 year olds and a baby aged about six months whose parents are assumed dead.
The regional governor has announced five days of mourning for all the victims.
The force of the explosion removed much of the bus's exterior and broke windows in nearby buildings.
"It is now possible to preliminarily say that the explosive device was set off by a suicide bomber - a man whose body fragments have been collected and sent for genetic testing," the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said identical explosives were used in the two bombings, suggesting they were linked.
In response to this second blast in less than 24 hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered security measures to be tightened across Russia and in particular in Volgograd.
Local resident Polina Goncharova said the whole city was in shock.
"This is the first time in my life that I have experienced anything like this. I have been crying since I heard about the first bombing, and now the second one today," she told the BBC.
"There are very few people on the streets. I am staying at home myself as I'm worried there will be more attacks."
The first blast rocked Volgograd-1 station at around 12:45 (08:45 GMT) on Sunday, at a time of year when millions of Russians are travelling to celebrate the New Year.
No group has yet said it was behind the blast.
Volgograd was also targeted in October, when a suspected female suicide bomber killed six people in an attack on a bus.
An Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus region has led to many attacks there in recent years.
Insurgents have also attacked major Russian towns.
Volgograd lies about 900km (560 miles) south of Moscow, 650km north of the North Caucasus and 700km north-east of Sochi.
An evacuation order has been issued for an area home to more than 82,000 people, just east of Los Angeles.
The Blue Cut fire, as it has been named, has destroyed homes and disrupted transport links between California and Nevada.
Some people have been running for their lives just ahead of the flames.
On Thursday morning California fire authorities assessed that the Blue Cut fire had grown overnight by almost 5,000 acres (2,025 hectares), and is only 4% contained.
The fire is continuing to grow again, as temperatures increase throughout the day.
The blaze first ignited on Tuesday in a drought-ravaged mountain pass and spread at an "explosive" pace, authorities said.
The flames have advanced, out of control, despite the efforts of over 1,500 firefighters.
Authorities are urging people to evacuate from more than 34,000 homes, but fear that up to half of them have not heeded their advice, a US Forest Service spokeswoman said.
Commander Mike Wakoski said he had never seen such extreme conditions in 40 years of service.
"There will be a lot of families that come home to nothing," said San Bernardino County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig.
"It hit hard. It hit fast. It hit with an intensity that we hadn't seen before," he added.
There are no known fatalities but dogs are searching the ruins for bodies.
Authorities have been unable to say how many homes have been destroyed, but some fear it will be in the hundreds.
Wrightwood, a tourist resort surrounded by pine trees in the San Gabriel Mountains, feels like it is besieged by fire. Huge flames whipped by a strong breeze are advancing down a mountain ridge and along a forested valley towards the town.
Although it falls within the mandatory evacuation zone some residents have remained, keeping one eye on their homes and another on the fire.
There is no sense of panic here. The Grizzly Cafe is open and serving food to police officers and journalists.
Half of the sky is a beautiful blue but in the other direction it is ominously thick with smoke as the Blue Cut Fire rages over vast tracts of forest and desert plains.
Even for California's firefighters, experienced in tackling wildfires, this blaze - or rather series of blazes - is proving very difficult to tackle. With temperatures high and humidity low, nothing here is safe from this massive fire.
"No joke, we were literally being chased by the fire," said a tearful April Christy, sitting in a van with her mother Vi Delgado at an evacuation car park in Fontana.
Moments after first smelling the smoke, she said the flames were suddenly surrounding them.
"You've got flames on the side of you. You've got flames behind you," she said.
They grabbed their four dogs but were stopped by police from trying to rescue nine more shelter dogs and three cats, because there was no time.
Her escape involved a harrowing race down a mountain road, led by one police patrol car in front and one behind her, with firefighters battling flames alongside her.
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More than 250 arts and entertainment events took place, including art installations, dance, drama and music performances and family activities.
Other towns and cities across Northern Ireland also put on Culture Night events.
BBC News NI's arts correspondent Robbie Meredith reports.
The Scottish government's standard is that patients should be waiting no longer than six weeks for one of eight diagnostic tests - including MRI scans.
Scottish Labour has looked at recent statistical data.
It said "more and more patients" were waiting longer for procedures aimed at ensuring early detection of problems.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said waiting times were at "historically low levels".
The eight tests are upper and lower endoscopy, colonoscopy, cystoscopy, CT scans, MRI scans, barium studies and non-obstetric ultrasounds.
The official figures highlighted by the party are contained in a recent statistical publication from ISD Scotland.
According to the data, the total number of people waiting more than six weeks in Scotland across all eight tests was 5,314 at the end of March this year.
This was up from 2,472 at the same time last year, a rise of 115%.
When it came to CT scans alone, nearly 10 times as many people had been waiting more than six weeks compared to last year, up from 22 to 200 in the same period.
Scottish Labour's health spokeswoman Jenny Marra called for the matter to be addressed urgently.
She said: "These targets are there to ensure that people with potentially serious conditions get the benefit of early detection and have the best possible chance of a full recovery but more and more patients are having to wait longer than the six weeks.
"Our NHS is being overwhelmed because there simply aren't enough resources going in to cope with the targets being set by the Scottish government.
"They took the decision to squeeze the NHS budget even harder than the Tories and the consequence has been people being made to wait longer and longer."
Health Secretary, Ms Robison said the SNP Government has increased Scotland's health budget to a record high of more than £12bn.
She added: "Waiting times are at historically low levels in Scotland, and the latest figures show that more than 750,000 people have now been treated in under 12 weeks under this government's treatment time guarantee.
"Our hard working NHS staff ensured that 91.2% of patients had one of eight key diagnostic tests within six weeks according to the latest figures. This is against the background of increased demand and a challenging winter period.
"However, we know we must do more to cut waits, which is why we are targeting funding at boards and areas that need it most."
Keshi said an un-named agent submitted his name without his knowledge for a job as Ivory Coast coach.
For his part Enyeama says he thought his case closed after apologising for his "uncomplimentary remarks" about security in Kaduna.
His comments came ahead of of June's Africa Cup of Nations tie against Chad.
The NFF felt his comments breached a code of conduct signed by all players earlier this year.
Keshi, who signed a new two-year deal with the NFF in April, was on a list of 59 applicants published recently by the Ivorian federation to succeed Frenchman Herve Renard.
Top NFF official Chris Green has been widely quoted in the local media as saying they may travel to Abidjan to enable them 'reach a reasonable conclusion' on the matter.
Enyeama believed his issue had already been dealt with.
"I was told to apologise for my comments, which I did immediately and they told me that's fine," Enyeama told BBC Sport.
"Personally, as it was resolved in-house I thought that was the end of the matter.
"I only received a letter to cautioning me about it [my comments] and to avoid a repeat of such."
The 32-year-old, who is the Super Eagles most capped player with 101 appearances, denies he failed to reply to messages from the NFF seeking an explanation for his comments.
"But I only found out about a disciplinary hearing in the media but I didn't get any letter to that effect," he explained.
"As the captain I only raised our concerns about the venue before our game which didn't go down well with the football authority.
The Lille player could face a lengthy ban for his comments which the NFF feels broke its recent code of conduct signed by the players as well as his failure to attend Tuesday's hearing.
The NFF executive board will have the final say on any punishments, on a date yet to be decided.
It has also been confirmed that the Super Eagles will play their next home 2017 Nations Cup qualifier against Egypt in Kaduna next March.
Spanish media are reporting the 70-year-old is in a "serious but not critical" condition in hospital after the quad bike he was riding collided with a car on Wednesday.
Nieto won 13 titles and 90 Grands Prix in a 22-year career between 1964 and 1986.
"All our thoughts today are very much with Angel Nieto," said MotoGP.
The Derby Telegraph and Nottingham Post are owned by Northcliffe Media, which said the move would allow the publications to be printed earlier.
The firm claimed the decision was good news for readers and advertisers.
But The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said the papers risked damaging their local reputations.
Northcliffe Media said the move was part of their strategy to reduce costs and increase sales.
The decision has been taken so the publications can have an earlier print slot and therefore arrive at newsagents earlier in the day, according to the firm.
Nottingham Trent University media lecturer Dr Matt Ashton said: "It reflects the fact that a lot of the print industries in this country are in decline and are having to make economies of scale.
"Problems they've got going forward include inflation, the rising cost of printing the paper, the rising cost of journalism and their audience is getting older."
Reporters and staff will remain in the three cities but the Nottingham Post could move from its base at Castle Wharf.
Northcliffe Media wants the newspaper to find cheaper premises, the BBC understands.
Northcliffe Media director Steve Auckland said: "The new print site and earlier print times allow us to get the papers to market and into the hands of readers earlier, so the change is good news for advertisers and readers alike.
"The new location does not affect the content or the credibility of the papers, as all staff and reporters will remain in their current offices.
"We believe this change will help the Derby Telegraph and the Nottingham Post grow and meet the current challenges of the regional newspaper market."
Last week, Northcliffe title the Lincolnshire Echo was relaunched as a weekly edition.
Daily production of the newspaper came to an end after 118 years, in response to a drop in circulation.
The UKIP interim leader told Fox News the remarks were "ugly" but something "if we are being honest that men do".
Mr Trump's remarks, made 11 years ago, have led at least 33 senior Republicans to withdraw their support from his presidential bid.
Labour MP Tom Watson said Mr Farage's defence of Mr Trump was appalling.
Mr Watson, who was recently made shadow culture secretary, said: "Nigel Farage seems to be enjoying his new job as the UK cheerleader for Trump but in so doing he devalues himself and his party in the minds of the decent people of our country."
On Friday, The Washington Post released a video from 2005 in which Mr Trump makes lewd remarks about women. The video led to Speaker of the House and the Republican party's most senior elected official, Paul Ryan, withdrawing an invitation given to Mr Trump to a campaign event on Saturday.
Mr Ryan is one of a number of high-profile Republican figures to denounce Mr Trump's comments.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and senator John McCain have both withdrawn support from Mr Trump's campaign.
In the video Mr Trump is heard speaking on a bus off-camera, where he says "you can do anything" to women "when you're a star" and is heard saying "grab them by the pussy".
On Saturday Mr Farage said Mr Trump was running to become President of the US, "not the Pope".
He said: "Look, this is alpha male boasting. It's the kind of thing, if we are being honest, that men do. They sit around and have a drink and they talk like this.
"By the way, quite a lot of women say things amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox News, or the front page of a newspaper. I'm not pretending it's good - it's ugly, it is ugly."
Mr Trump later apologised for his comments, but said defiantly that he would not drop out of the presidential race,.
On Sunday evening he is due to take part in a second television debate with Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, in St Louis.
Mr Farage returned as interim leader of UKIP after Diane James stood down as head of the political group after only 18 days, claiming she did not have "sufficient authority" to lead.
The country's Chamber of Deputies had already approved the legislation.
The vote in the Senate, which backed the bill by just six votes, came after 14 hours of at times heated debate.
The law, which also allows same-sex couples to adopt, had met with fierce opposition from the Catholic Church and other religious groups.
The legislation, backed by President Cristina Fernandez's centre-left government, passed by 33 votes to 27 with three abstentions.
Outside Congress, as the debate continued into the early hours of Thursday, supporters and opponents of the bill held rival demonstrations.
"Nearly every political and social figure has spoken out in favour of marriage equality," said Maria Rachid, president of the Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals.
"And we hope that the Senate reflects this and that Argentina, from today forward, is a more just country for all families," she told the Associated Press.
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Ines Frank, from a group called Argentine Families Argentina, said opposition was not discrimination "because the essence of a family is between two people of opposite sexes".
There have been several gay marriages recently in Argentina, some of which were annulled by the Supreme Court, creating a legal controversy.
Civil unions between people of the same sex are legal in Buenos Aires and in some other provinces but there was no law to regulate it on a country-wide level.
Argentina's capital is widely considered to be among the most gay-friendly cities in Latin America. It was the first Latin American city to legalise same-sex unions.
Same-sex civil unions are also legal in Uruguay and some states in Brazil and Mexico, while gay marriage is legal in Mexico City.
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Since 15 August - India's Independence Day - Padmini appears every evening at 19:00 to present a news show on the Tamil-language Lotus TV based in the city of Coimbatore.
And she is thrilled with her new job - not only because she is on air at prime time, but also because it is making a world of difference to her and her community.
"I am so happy. The message has gone all over India and the internet," she says.
According to one estimate, India has about two million transgender people and most live on the fringes of society, often in poverty, ostracised because of their gender.
Most make a living by singing and dancing or by begging and prostitution.
It was only recently that the Supreme Court recognised transgender people as a third gender in a landmark ruling.
Padmini's life has not been very different from others in her community.
"I had a troubled childhood," she says.
Disowned by her family when she was 13, she left home and attempted suicide, but was saved by some people.
"After leaving home, I travelled all over. I enrolled into an undergraduate programme in commerce through distance education, but I had financial problems so I dropped out after two years," she says.
But, she was not disillusioned. "I learnt Bharatnatyam [classical Indian dance form]. I took part in transgender beauty contests and won them. I then acted in a television serial."
Lotus TV says the idea of hiring a transgender anchor was proposed by programme executives Sangeeth Kumar and Saravana Ramakumar.
The two men were returning home after work a few months ago when they came across some transgender people being treated badly. They felt the negative social attitudes had to change and discussed it with their management.
"Our chairman GK Selva Kumar accepted our idea to give an opportunity to a transgender to be a news presenter," Mr Kumar said.
Padmini's name for the job was suggested by Rose, India's first transgender to host a talk show on TV. "I recommended her name to the network when they contacted me," says Rose. "Padmini is doing a very good job and she has been well received," she adds.
"We got in touch with Rose who introduced us to Padmini. She was well aware of news and we gave her two months of voice modulation training," said Mr Ramakumar.
He denies that appointing a transgender news anchor is "a stunt to increase the channel's TRP" - television rating points. "This is done only to give transgender people respect in society," he says.
The move has been welcomed by campaigners.
"Padmini's assignment carries a message about this neglected community. Since they are not socially acceptable, they cannot display their talent. Such is the situation today that some of them are in the sex trade or forced to beg on the streets," says Coimbatore-based activist Anjali Ajeeth.
Akkai Padmashali of Sangama, a group fighting for the rights of sexual minorities in the southern city of Bangalore says: "It's a good move. For the first time, there is an effort to bring transgenders into the mainstream. There are very few right now in mainstream professions."
The audiences too seem to approve of Padmini.
"Her performance is really nice. She not only looks like a woman but her voice modulation, her pronunciation and her over all presentation is very good," homoeopathic doctor U Sreekumar told the BBC.
"Honestly, I could not find any difference between her and any other woman anchor on other television channels,"' said housewife Vaijanthi.
Padmini says she is happy that she is finally being "recognised".
"People look at me with some respect now," she says.
"I am really so happy. More such opportunities should be given to other transgenders too. The social taboo should go," she adds.
Her late son, Triston, was not physically present at the Alaska ceremony on Friday, but his heart was.
Triston died unexpectedly in 2015, aged 19.
Her groom had organised the surprise, giving Becky the chance to meet Jacob Kilby, the young man carrying her son's heart, for the very first time.
Kelly told the BBC: "I began planning her surprise with Jacob about four to five months earlier. He is an amazing young man.
"We encourage everyone to please become an organ donor. It saves lives and changed ours forever," he added.
Becky, 40, also heard her son's heartbeat on the day, holding a stethoscope to Jacob's chest in the heart-warming images captured by Love Adventured.
Jacob told the BBC that the experience been "so unrealistic, so heart-warming and incredibly emotional".
"But overall, it has been all love and two families joining together. Becky and I remain in touch and I am actually still in Alaska visiting here now," he added.
On Facebook, Becky said that her wedding day was the best day of her life.
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Addressing Jacob, she added: "Hands down the best gift... most amazing surprise ever. Thank you for caring for Triston's heart. Thank you for being here."
An empty seat had been reserved at the celebration for Triston, with a message that read: "I'm in heaven for your wedding, so what shall I do? I'll come down to Earth to spend it with you. So save me a seat, just one empty chair. You may not see me, but I will be there."
Jacob made the journey of more than 3,000 miles to Alaska from California to be one of the groomsmen and surprise Becky.
The images from the wedding were widely shared online and touched the hearts of other donor families.
"Thank you for giving life to other families. I'm a mom of a little boy who received a heart transplant," one Facebook user told Becky.
"I'm so very sorry that you lost your precious son. Truly, I cannot say in words what it means that you chose to give life and hope to others when your world was crashing down.
"From one mom to another, thank you."
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Daithí McKay said DFP has not co-operated with the committee regarding the inquiry since July.
The committee is investigating the sale of property loans by the National Assets Management Agency (Nama).
The inquiry was set up after claims a politician was set to profit.
The claim was initially made in the Irish Parliament in July, where an independent member, Mick Wallace, alleged a politician in Northern Ireland was in line to gain from the deal, via a £7m bank account in the Isle of Man.
Politicians, Nama officials, businessmen and companies involved in the deal have all denied any wrongdoing.
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The inquiry chairman told MLAs that the DFP has not responded to the committee's requests for information, nor has its permanent secretary returned to appear before its members to answer questions.
"I think its position, in regard to the Nama review, is totally untenable," Mr McKay said.
"The department is remarkably shy about issuing papers. If the department has nothing to hide they need to bring these papers forward," the Sinn Féin MLA added.
"The public will come to their own conclusions, whether they are right or wrong, the more the department continue to pull down the shutters in regard to our review."
The Stormont inquiry is one of five international investigations into the loan sale, known as Project Eagle.
Dave Heeley, from West Bromwich, hopes to raise £30,000 by running 160 miles through the Sahara Desert in the Marathon des Sables.
Mr Heeley, who set off at 08:00 BST, described the trip as "the adventure of a lifetime".
He is raising funds for the Albion Foundation who said Mr Heeley was "unbelievable".
Mr Heeley, who is known as "Blind Dave", has completed several gruelling challenges in the past few years.
In 2008 he ran seven marathons in seven days on seven continents, while in 2011 he ran 10 marathons in 10 days - travelling from John O'Groats to Land's End and cycling between each stage.
He said the Marathon des Sables, which is run in Morocco through the Sahara Desert in temperatures of about 37C, was the "biggest thing" he had ever done.
"It's the adventure of a lifetime," he said.
Rob Lake, director of the Albion Foundation, the charitable arm of West Bromwich Albion football club which provides educational and sporting opportunities to young people, said: "The guy is unbelievable".
"It's a phenomenal task he is taking on," he added.
So far, Mr Heeley said he had raised £20,000.
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The surgeon was convicted last month of unlawfully wounding patients during breast surgery at private clinics in the West Midlands.
He is due to be sentenced this month.
In an open letter, surgical leaders said they had concerns about the availability of patient safety information in private hospitals.
And they called for a stronger focus on patient safety initiatives, to match those in the NHS.
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) urged the next government to consider ensuring private hospitals had to report unexpected deaths and serious injuries in the same way as hospitals in the NHS.
And it repeated its call for better regulation of cosmetic surgery which is mostly carried out in private clinics.
The surgical group also said it wanted to understand why none of Mr Paterson's colleagues had challenged his malpractice.
RCS president Clare Marx said: "Ian Paterson wilfully abused the trust placed in him by patients at their most vulnerable.
"His actions and behaviour were appalling, and we must do everything in our power to prevent such a violation being repeated. "
Although the RCS argued against complacency, it added new checks and measures on doctors had been introduced since Patterson had stopped practising.
The bone is believed to be from the elbow of St Thomas, who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 after he fell out with King Henry II.
The fragment is the centrepiece of a week-long pilgrimage in London and Kent.
The pilgrimage starts with a Holy Mass at Westminster Cathedral in London.
Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Vincent Nichols will celebrate the Holy Mass with Hungarian President Janos Ader and the country's Primate Cardinal Peter Erdo.
The elbow fragment will be reunited with a fragment said to be from Thomas Becket's skull, normally kept at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.
Cardinal Nichols said the pilgrimage was a return journey for the Hungarian relic - 800 years late.
"It helps to solidify that growing sharing of life that takes place between Christian churches and it reminds all Christians that there comes a point where their loyalty to Christ becomes the overriding loyalty of their lives and they might have to pay a final price," he said.
King Henry II made his close friend Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury in 1161.
The friendship came under strain when Becket stood up for the church in disagreements with the king.
In 1164, Becket fled to France, returning in 1170.
On the 29 December 1170, four knights, believing the king wanted Becket out of the way, murdered him in Canterbury Cathedral.
Becket was made a saint in 1173 and his shrine in Canterbury Cathedral became a focus for pilgrimage.
The Hungarian relic will also be on display Westminster Abbey and St Magnus the Martyr Church in Lower Thames Street while in London.
It travels to Rochester Cathedral on Friday and Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday before being returned to Hungary.
It is not known how the relic arrived in Hungary but two prelates from Hungary were said to have been present in Canterbury Cathedral when Thomas Becket's body was reburied in 1220 and his tomb opened.
The shrine at Canterbury containing most of Becket's remains was destroyed during the reign of Henry VIII when the practice of venerating saints was condemned.
The Becket Casket loaned from the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum will be exhibited at the Museum of Somerset.
V&A curator, Kirstin Kennedy, said: "It's gives people the opportunity to share our objects and inspire people with them."
St Thomas Becket was killed in 1170 by knights from Somerset and Devon who were followers of King Henry II.
Head of museums for the South West Heritage Trust, Steve Minnitt said: "The casket has special significance for the West Country.
"Three of the four knights involved in Becket's murder had close West Country associations.
"Richard le Breton, who struck the fatal blow, held land at Sampford Bret and Reginald Fitzurse was a landowner in Williton where he lived for a time. William de Tracy was feudal baron of Bradninch, near Exeter."
The casket was made in France in 1180 and is about 30 cm high and 30 cm wide.
Becket rose in favour with King Henry II and was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162.
But his friendship with the king did not survive and on 29 December 1170 he was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral.
There was outrage throughout Europe over his murder and Becket's tomb became a place of pilgrimage.
His relics became highly sought after and some were placed in caskets - this particular object is the earliest and largest known casket that survives.
The casket will be on display until 2 April.
One hot air balloon ended up slightly off course and landed on a street in the Gortmore area of the town.
Owner Jeff Lawton admitted it was not exactly a scheduled stop, but he said there was never any sense of danger.
"The winds were light and we could see there was a big grassy area so we thought: 'Right, that'll work!'
"There were no power lines so we knew it was safe enough."
Mr Lawton, who lives in Gilford, was in County Londonderry for the Sperrins Balloon Festival which runs once a year.
He said a number of bemused residents came out of their houses to see what was happening.
"I'm sure it was an unusual sight to wake up to, but they seemed happy enough."
Patrick Bradley, an architect whose house was featured in the BBC programme Grand Designs, was equally welcoming when a balloon landed on his property.
"They landed on a field near my house. We were having a barbeque so I invited them in for a drink and in return, they offered to take me up for a trip the following day.
"I'm actually not great with heights - to be honest, I accepted the offer after a few drinks - so I had to psyche myself up for it!
"But they're very experienced pilots so I was in good hands and really enjoyed it - the view was amazing."
Jeff Lawton said the conditions for this year's festival were much better than those of previous years.
"The festival has been running for years now, but sometimes it turns into a bit of a drinking holiday because of the weather. This year, we were very lucky - it was fantastic."
Plymouth Crown Court was told the victims from the Czech Republic were brought to the UK and forced into compulsory labour.
The jury heard victims slept on a floor and in garages while the defendants pocketed their wages.
Five people deny trafficking and other charges.
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Judge Paul Darlow told the jury an earlier trial had to be stopped after concern about one of the interpreters.
Malcolm Galloway, prosecuting, told the court how the victims, some of whom worked as house servants, were sometimes threatened with violence or told their families at home were at risk.
The trial continues.
The singer's performance at the Mawazine festival in Rabat on 29 May was aired on the 2M public TV network.
Mr Benkirane said the airing was "serious delinquency", adding it contained "disgraceful scenes".
He added the "sexually suggestive" broadcast was in violation of the country's audiovisual law.
Last week, Morocco's minister of communication was criticised for allowing the gig to air on public TV, leading to calls for him to resign.
Local media also criticised Lopez for her "suggestive poses" and for being "scantily" dressed.
Writing to the president of Morocco's High Authority of Audiovisual Communication, Mr Benkirane demanded the authority "take legal measures against those responsible".
He said the channel had broadcast scenes "with sexual overtones and which were indecent and provocative to the religious and moral values of Moroccan society".
He said those responsible for the channel and its output "failed to intervene and stop the broadcast of the disgraceful scenes" as the concert was broadcast with a time delay.
Lopez has performed in Morocco before with no trouble, however it is the first time one of her concerts has been broadcast on television.
According to TMZ an educational group is also suing the singer over the performance, claiming she "disturbed public order and tarnished women's honour and respect".
In the event Lopez and her promoter are prosecuted, the sentence could be up to two years in prison.
Good Morning Britain launched on Monday, with exclusives from Paul O'Grady and One Direction.
The presenters sat at a glass table, rather than Daybreak's sofa, mirroring the style of US TV's morning shows .
Daily Telegraph writer Michael Hogan gave the show three stars out of five, saying: "BBC Breakfast might just have a viable rival".
"Recent big money BBC-to-ITV defectees, notably Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley, have struggled in their new home. On this evidence, Reid should settle in more easily," he added.
Digital Spy's Alex Fletcher called the launch show "quite dizzying" but added "everyone has their best smile on and has done their vocal warm-ups".
The Mirror's live-blogger Rob Leigh said: "They're smiling so much their faces will need planning permission for grinny extensions."
Alongside Reid, who is on a rumoured ??400,000 contract, the presentation team includes former Sky presenters Ben Shephard, Sean Fletcher and Charlotte Hawkins.
Andi Peters was also on the show, presenting a quiz feature called Wheel of Cash on location from Kirkgate Market in Leeds.
The first edition ran fairly smoothly, although there was a slightly sticky moment when the weather presenter referred viewers to the Daybreak website during the 07:45 update.
Good Morning Britain's main exclusive was with Paul O'Grady - giving his first interview since he was in hospital late last year with recurring heart problems.
Digital Spy's Fletcher wrote: "The first 'big guest' on Good Morning Britain is Paul O'Grady talking about his recovery from his latest heart attack. It's not exactly A-list and it's a strange shift from the fast-paced hard news style of the rest of the show. However, Ben and Susanna are more adept at switching between the desk and the sofa than any of the Daybreak hosts ever were."
Yahoo News said the programme had a "shaky start" and listed "teething issues" that included distracting graphics and quick camera cuts.
Reviewer Rachel MacGregor was particularly unimpressed with the opening sequence, noting: "Reid, Shephard, Fletcher and Hawkins each read a news story directly to the camera before the next presenter jumped in with another headline. The frequent handovers meant that we saw little interaction between the hosts to begin with, so any mention of their 'chemistry' seemed very forced."
However, she added, "as time went on the presenters seemed to become more comfortable with each other".
ITV This Morning presenter, Holly Willoughby, was impressed, tweeting: "Good Morning Britain is looking rather lovely... Good morning y'all!"
Regular viewers on Twitter had mixed feelings, with one writing: "#Good Morning Britain looks like loose women crossed with Nintendo Wii's version of Sky Sports News."
But former BBC Three and BBC London television presenter, Matt Cooke tweeted: "Very slick, fresh US look for @GMB - seems to have far fewer ads than usual ITV morning shows. And @andipeters is back too - hurrah!"
Another viewer, Andrew Trythall, tweeted: "#GoodMorningBritain was a great looking show, fast-paced, fresh and engaging. Great directing @errongordon. Well done to the whole team."
And Helena Cauldon also praised the programme on Twitter: "Loved the new-look Good Morning Britain today - great launch."
Kaine Milner wrote: "I'm definitely a fan of this new "#GoodMorningBritain show @GMB, faster paced news, less adverts and just generally better than dreary BBC."
But Patricia O'Neill wasn't impressed, tweeting: "Thought I was watching the wrong channel!! Bring back the sofa with Kate and Aled!!"
And Margaret Oliver tweeted: "@GMB sorry doesn't do it for me. Bring back Daybreak."
Several commentators likened the look of the new programme to ABC's long-running breakfast show Good Morning America.
"Good Morning Amer... sorry, Britain! Yes, with its four-strong team of presenters - the women clad in primary colours - seated around a big glass desk, and a weather expert who gets to add her two cents to the chat, ITV's new breakfast news show owes a lot to its stateside counterpart," wrote Paul Jones in his Radio Times review.
The Daily Mail, however, was not a fan of the desk, complaining it hid Reid's legs from view.
"Later on the show, however, Susanna moved from behind the desk, giving viewers the chance to catch a glimpse of her enviable pins," it reported.
Good Morning Britain replaces ITV's previous breakfast show, Daybreak, which launched to great fanfare in 2010.
The show, fronted by former One Show hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley, saw a temporary boost in viewing figures, but they soon settled back to previous levels and the presenters were sidelined. The show ran through four editors in its brief lifespan.
The name Good Morning Britain was previously used by ITV from 1983 to 1992, and is chiefly associated with Anne Diamond and Nick Owen.
Louise Minchin has been presenting BBC Breakfast alongside Bill Turnbull since Reid left - an announcement about a permanent replacement is expected in the autumn.
A player currently becomes eligible when they have lived in a country for three years.
But a campaign led by World Rugby vice-chairman Agustin Pichot is seeking to raise the level by a further 24 months.
RFU chief executive Ian Ritchie says it is "absolutely the route to go down".
He added: "In an ideal world there would be universality of regulation and there's a helpful way of dealing with this, and that's by moving the World Rugby regulation from three to five years."
Last autumn, England gave starts to Fiji-born Nathan Hughes and Semesa Rokoduguni, who had qualified for Eddie Jones' side having lived in England for three years.
An extension to the requirement would mean Auckland-born Denny Solomona would have to wait significantly longer to qualify for England, whereas under the current laws Sale's former rugby league winger becomes available in August.
France have declared they will only select players who hold a French passport in the hope it will reverse the national team's reliance on overseas-born players.
The sport's global governing body will vote on whether to change the rule at its council meeting in May.
Messages scrambled using the Enigma machine were cracked by devices largely designed by maths genius Alan Turing.
In addition, the Allies' preparations for D-Day were greatly helped by a pioneering computer called Colossus which helped to decipher messages passing between Hitler and his generals in hours. Without its help, reading those messages took weeks.
Colossus was kept secret for decades after the war and it is only recently that a full picture of its influence and engineering brilliance has become apparent.
But it was not the only code-cracking computer that Britain made. Steadily more details are emerging of the secret machines that came after Colossus and surpassed its ability to unscramble messages.
A total of 10 Colossi were made during WW2 and once hostilities ceased eight of them were broken up and the plans for them destroyed.
Two were kept and were used to help Britain's GCHQ keep cracking codes.
Bletchley veteran John Cane helped maintain the Colossi during the war and stayed on afterwards to oversee the two remaining machines move first to Eastcote in North London and then on to Cheltenham - where GCHQ is sited to this day.
Moving these delicate machines was a tense and nerve-racking experience, said Mr Cane.
"We called on the owner of an enormous crane and very gingerly the whole of this mass of switches and wiring was hoisted into the air and then lowered through a hole in the roof and then planted safely on the floor," he said.
Mr Cane told the BBC that the two Colossi, dubbed "Red" and "Blue", were extensively modified after 1945 to make them less prone to breaking down and to make it easier to input data.
Blue was kept true to its original purpose of targeting messages scrambled with the Lorenz enciphering machine that some nations were still using long after the war ended. The remaining machine, Red, was changed to be more general so it could be used against other targets.
But GCHQ's work on special-purpose machines did not stop with Colossus, said Mr Cane.
Between the end of WW2 and the early 1960s engineers at GCHQ finished work on machines called Aquarius and Robinson whose development had started in the huts at Bletchley. They also brought into being others called Colorob, Dragon, Johnson and Oedipus.
Prof Simon Lavington who has written extensively about early British computers said Oedpius was "quite a machine" in that it was probably faster and used more online storage than almost any other computer in existence at the time. It was one of the first to properly deserve the name of "supercomputer".
The first three letters of the machine's name, OED, gave a clue to its use, said Prof Lavington, in that it had a large dictionary at its core and was used to look up and compare words and phrases. It is thought this was used to target messages scrambled with systems that did not rely on machines to encrypt them.
Unfortunately the secrecy surrounding the machines had its downsides, said Mr Cane.
"What I do remember about Oedipus was that the two halves of the machine were built by two separate companies," he said, "and when they came to join them up they found that the interfaces did not match."
Despite this, GCHQ was a real centre of computer development and innovation, said Prof Richard Aldrich from the University of Warwick who wrote an unofficial history of the agency.
GCHQ's development of special purpose machines largely ended in the 1960s as powerful general purpose computers became available. As a result the development focus switched from hardware to software, said Prof Aldrich. Additional pressure to use such machines was added by the close relationship developing between UK and US spying agencies.
"Because essentially the story of GCHQ is that they wanted to co-operate with the US so they were pretty much the only government organisation that was allowed to buy IBM mainframes," he said. Other departments were mandated to buy from the government-backed computer company ICL in a bid to preserve home-grown technology.
GCHQ was also probably one of the first places in the UK to get a Cray supercomputer, he added.
That relationship with the US led GCHQ to become a place to store the huge amounts of telephone call data that American intelligence agencies were scooping up. This helped to cement the close relationship between GCHQ and the Post Office. For instance, he said, the two collaborated extensively on ways to automatically recognise who is talking during a phone call.
"It's not just about code-cracking," said Prof Aldrich. "Computerisation is fundamental to everything GCHQ does."
James Foley was unable to write letters to his family because they were confiscated by his jailers.
Instead he asked another hostage who was about to be released to commit his letter to memory.
When that hostage was freed he dictated the letter to James' mother, Diane.
The family posted the letter on Sunday evening, on a Facebook page they had set up to campaign for James' release.
Earlier they had attended a memorial mass for James in their home town of Rochester, New Hampshire.
James Foley, a freelance journalist was abducted in northern Syria in November 2012, while covering that country's civil war.
Last week, Islamic State militants released a video showing his beheading by a masked man with a British accent.
On Sunday, he British ambassador to the US told CNN that British officials were close to identifying the killer.
Dear Family and Friends,
I remember going to the Mall with Dad, a very long bike ride with Mom. I remember so many great family times that take me away from this prison. Dreams of family and friends take me away and happiness fills my heart.
I know you are thinking of me and praying for me. And I am so thankful. I feel you all especially when I pray. I pray for you to stay strong and to believe. I really feel I can touch you even in this darkness when I pray.
Eighteen of us have been held together in one cell, which has helped me. We have had each other to have endless long conversations about movies, trivia, sports. We have played games made up of scraps found in our cell… we have found ways to play checkers, Chess, and Risk… and have had tournaments of competition, spending some days preparing strategies for the next day's game or lecture. The games and teaching each other have helped the time pass. They have been a huge help. We repeat stories and laugh to break the tension.
I have had weak and strong days. We are so grateful when anyone is freed; but of course, yearn for our own freedom. We try to encourage each other and share strength. We are being fed better now and daily. We have tea, occasional coffee. I have regained most of my weight lost last year.
I think a lot about my brothers and sister. I remember playing Werewolf in the dark with Michael and so many other adventures. I think of chasing Mattie and T around the kitchen counter. It makes me happy to think of them. If there is any money left in my bank account, I want it to go to Michael and Matthew. I am so proud of you, Michael and thankful to you for happy childhood memories and to you and Kristie for happy adult ones.
And big John, how I enjoyed visiting you and Cress in Germany. Thank you for welcoming me. I think a lot about RoRo and try to imagine what Jack is like. I hope he has RoRo's personality!
And Mark… so proud of you too Bro. I think of you on the West coast and hope you are doing some snowboarding and camping, I especially remember us going to the Comedy Club in Boston together and our big hug after. The special moments keep me hopeful.
Katie, so very proud of you. You are the strongest and best of us all!! I think of you working so hard, helping people as a nurse. I am so glad we texted just before I was captured. I pray I can come to your wedding…. now I am sounding like Grammy!!
Grammy, please take your medicine, take walks and keep dancing. I plan to take you out to Margarita's when I get home. Stay strong because I am going to need your help to reclaim my life.
Jim
He was appointed envoy to the Vatican, with Mr Mursi's office giving no official reason for the switch.
But Mr Mahmoud later said he would stay in his post in defiance of Mr Mursi's order, state-run Mena news agency said.
The row comes a day after 24 supporters of ousted President Hosni Mubarak were acquitted of organising attacks on protesters during last year's uprising.
Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in the capital Cairo against the acquittals.
They accused the judges of "complicity" with the former Egyptian leadership and said they wanted to "purify justice".
The group on trial had been accused of sending men on camels and horses to break up a protest in Cairo in 2011.
In the incident, later called the Battle of the Camels, Mubarak supporters charged protesters in Tahrir Square.
It became one of the most notorious incidents of the uprising and left nearly a dozen people dead.
Some senior members of the old regime were among those accused.
They included Fathi Sorour and Safwat al-Sherif, former speakers of Egypt's two houses of parliament.
Prosecutors said Mr Sherif, who was also the secretary general of Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NPD), had "contacted MPs, members of the NDP and financiers of the party, inciting them to disperse the protests in Tahrir Square by force and violence".
Mr Mahmoud was appointed in July 2006.
Officials quoted by Reuters said that an assistant to the general prosecutor would take up the responsibilities until a new prosecutor general was appointed.
In his first comments since the arrest, Mr Kagame said it was a continuation of "colonialism" and accused the British of "arrogance and contempt".
Karenzi Karake was detained at London's Heathrow Airport on Saturday, in response to a European Arrest Warrant.
He is accused of ordering massacres in the wake of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
The president said that the British authorities "must have mistaken [Gen Karake] for an illegal immigrant. The way they treat illegal immigrants is the way they treat all of us".
He added that the British had been patronising, "wagging a finger at the African and telling him this is where you belong. We are no longer the African that belongs there".
Gen Karake, 54, appeared in a London court on Thursday and was greeted by cheers and clapping by supporters as he arrived in the courtroom.
A full extradition hearing will take place on 29 and 30 October.
Gen Karake, whose defence team includes Cherie Booth, former British prime minister Tony Blair's wife, said in court that he would fight his extradition.
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In Rwanda, protests have continued outside the British High Commission in the capital, Kigali.
Protesters have threatened to remain until the Gen Karake is released.
Accusations facing Gen Karake:
William Gelling, the UK's High Commissioner to Rwanda, addressed the crowd briefly on Wednesday.
"All I can say is that this was a legal decision as you understand, on behalf of the Spanish legal authorities.
"The UK is a very close partner with Rwanda,'' he said, as quoted by the AP news agency.
Spanish investigative judge Andreu Merelles indicted Gen Karake in 2008 for alleged war crimes, along with 39 other current or former high-ranking Rwandan military officials.
He is also accused of ordering the killing in 1997 of three Spanish nationals working for Medicos del Mundo.
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UK-led research suggests that the women do not join with the intention of becoming "jihadi brides", but often end up facing "harsh realities".
The report also says the recruits are increasingly younger and come from comfortable and educated backgrounds.
An estimated 4,000 Westerners have joined IS, including some 550 women.
The joint report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London says women are far from passive agents, with some involved in aspects of IS life including propaganda and recruitment.
But it suggests that, whatever women's reasons for joining IS, also known as Isis, their "first and foremost" responsibility will actually be "to be a good wife to the jihadist husband to who they are betrothed and to become a mother to the next generation of jihadism".
Researchers have monitored more than 100 of the women through social media platforms and analysed interviews with those who have been arrested by security forces.
The researchers say that although many young women join up with pre-conceived and often naive ideas, many are living with no electricity and little comfort and those who do marry jihadi men often face widowhood.
The report says that though many women post photographs of themselves carrying guns, they are not allowed to fight and are confined to their homes with few managing to escape.
Co-author Melanie Smith said: "It gives a unique lens into the daily lives of foreign women living in the so-called Islamic State.
"Often through social media, we are able to read and hear about the complaints of daily life for females, often domestically isolated in severe conditions, and the realities of living within a war zone in a terrorist-held territory."
The report also says programmes aimed at preventing girls from joining IS are "too few, ill-informed and under-resourced".
It concludes that the role of female mentors in prevention and de-radicalisation programmes is vital, but that more such mentors are needed.
Shiraz Maher, senior research fellow at King's College London, said: "Female recruits now make up a substantial part of those who have emigrated to join the Isis cause, but little has been done to properly investigate the reasons why they are joining and how to prevent them.
"This important piece of research will go some way to helping stem that tide."
Mr Collymore said he had been racially abused and sent death threats via Twitter between January and May.
Staffordshire Police said four juveniles were dealt with "through restorative justice which Mr Collymore was aware of and happy with".
It failed to find others because Twitter did not assist, the force said.
Ch Insp Steve Morrey said: "Despite repeated requests for information made to Twitter regarding a number of other users we wanted to speak to in connection with this matter, Twitter have not supplied it.... therefore all lines of inquiry have been exhausted."
In response, Mr Collymore, who now works as a pundit for radio station TalkSport, tweeted: "Cannock and Staffordshire Police have been exceptional.
"It's Twitter refusing to give info. Twitter, beyond UK law. For now."
But he later tweeted part of a conversation between himself and Twitter which said after initial communications, Staffordshire Police stopped responding to requests for information by the social media giant.
Staffordshire Police has yet to comment.
A spokeswoman for Twitter has said it could not comment on individual accounts "for privacy and security reasons".
"[We] have a clear process for working with the police and are in ongoing communication with relevant UK police forces to make sure they are aware of our policies," she said.
She said it was also taking action to eliminate online abuse.
Police Scotland said 33 flats in Gourlay Yard had been cleared and pedestrian access to the area in City Quay was restricted.
The fire service has temporarily secured some sections of the roof but permanent repairs are needed.
Dundee City Council was arranging accommodation for the residents.
A police spokesman said: "Barriers are in place at Gourlay Yard to prevent pedestrian access to the area and in the interests of safety, police would ask that members of the public do not approach the building."
The high-speed catamaran, carrying aid, wounded Yemenis and passengers, was passing through the Bab al-Mandab strait when it came under fire, a foreign ministry statement said.
It denounced the incident as "an act of terrorism".
The UAE is part of a coalition that has fought the Houthis and imposed a naval blockade on Yemen since March 2015.
The United Nations estimates that at least 3,800 civilians have been killed and 6,700 others injured in the fighting, while three million others have been displaced.
The UAE foreign ministry identified the ship attacked early on Saturday as an Australian-built HSV-2 Swift logistics catamaran, which it said was leased from the Abu Dhabi-based National Marine Dredging Company and "did not have any military capacity".
"The targeting of the civilian ship in an international channel has serious implications for freedom of navigation, and is an act of terror," it warned.
The Houthis said at the time that their forces had fired a missile that had destroyed a UAE military vessel that was approaching the Red Sea port of Mocha.
A pro-rebel TV channel broadcast a night-time video appearing to show an explosion and a burning ship.
The UN Security Council also condemned the attack and said that it took threats to shipping around Bab al-Mandab "extremely seriously".
The 20km-wide (12-mile) strait links the Suez Canal and the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Vessels carrying millions of barrels of oil pass through it every day.
The Security Council also called for necessary steps to be taken to de-escalate the situation, and reiterated their support for UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed's efforts to find a political solution to the conflict.
Peace talks in Kuwait between the warring parties were suspended in early August.
The show, which ran from 1998 to 2003, launched the presenting careers of Geordie duo Ant and Dec.
The pair floated the idea of making a 20th anniversary special, but said they might need to beg Deeley to return because "she's a big star" in America.
But Deeley said she was keen to "recreate the magic".
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On ITV's This Morning on Friday, Declan Donnelly said: "We are talking about maybe doing something if we can get Cat back from America.
"She's a big star out in America now so she might come back if we beg."
Deeley has presented the US TV show So You Think You Can Dance since 2006.
Speaking to the Press Association, she said she had not been "cordially invited" to the reunion, but admitted she had spoken to Ant and Dec about a reunion.
She added: "I think it would be a great idea. It's been 20 years.
"I think it's about time, isn't it, for all those with a mis-spent youth?
"It would be great and really fun. If we can all get back together at the same time, at the same place, let's recreate the magic."
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Centre for London said commercial property prices in the capital were already falling and a slow-down in the residential sector was predicted.
It said infrastructure works like Crossrail 2 were often dependent on property development.
A City Hall spokesperson said the mayor was "committed" to the projects.
In its report, Centre for London said: "Planned schemes like Crossrail 2 and the Bakerloo line extension are premised on developer contributions.
"On a smaller scale, parks, playgrounds and affordable homes are also funded by private developers as planning obligations, rather than being funded through government grants or borrowing."
There should be guaranteed investment in London's infrastructure "perhaps through government borrowing secured against future tax revenues," the report said.
A spokesperson for Sadiq Khan said the mayor was "committed to building a modern, world-class and affordable transport system, including pushing ahead with exciting schemes like Crossrail 2".
The report Strange Days: London after the EU referendum arose from discussions between a panel of industry experts, academics and researchers shortly after the 23 June referendum.
There are also warnings about the threat to London's economy from future restrictions on migration which might lead to a "haemorrhage" of 600,000 EU-origin workers.
"Mainland Europe does not just supply London's waiters and construction workers, but also many of our bankers, architects, designers, and lawyers."
The impact was being felt immediately, it is claimed.
"Anecdotal evidence suggested international candidates were already turning down job offers because of uncertainty, and there was a real danger that current EU workers would begin to look for opportunities elsewhere, voting with their feet before Brexit negotiations have brought any clarity to the situation."
The panel said there were strong arguments to explore special arrangements for the capital, including a "London-only" work permit, and more powers for London to meet its own skills and training needs.
"A global city's economy will always require immigrants as well as local skills, but devolution could enable the two to be better linked, through initiatives like matching permits for high skilled immigrants with a requirement for apprenticeships for Londoners."
While London voted 60:40 in favour of remaining in the EU, the proportion voting against indicated a strong sense of "exclusion" which raised concerns about social cohesion.
There was a "worrying poverty gap" in the capital, the report said.
"The city may create wealth, but many Londoners see little of it.
"London is a city where the implicit contract of modern social security is frayed - the city's employment levels are high, but one in five people in working families is poor, compared to 15% in the rest of England."
He was approved in a 52-46 vote in the Republican-run chamber, despite opposition from the Democrats.
Mr Friedman, who was once Donald Trump's bankruptcy lawyer, is critical of the US goal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He also supports Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and has backed moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.
The UN does not recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and the US embassy has been located in Tel Aviv for decades.
The Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of their promised future state - but Israel claims the entire city as its undivided capital.
During his confirmation hearing in February Mr Friedman, who was nominated by President Trump, apologised to lawmakers for his past harsh language and pledged to be "respectful and measured" if confirmed.
The 58-year-old advised Mr Trump on US-Israel issues during the election campaign.
J Street, the Washington-based pro-Israel Jewish group, opposed his nomination, saying he "lacks any diplomatic or policy credentials".
But America's conservative Jewish organisations backed Mr Friedman.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who did not have warm relations with President Barack Obama, welcomed Mr Friedman's nomination.
Two rangers were hurt during the battle in West Pokot county, said officials from Kenya's Wildlife Service (KWS).
They said 50kg (110lb) of elephant tusks and AK-47 rifles were recovered.
Kenya has recently taken a more aggressive stance against poaching as it combats a surge in demand for ivory from Asia, despite a long-standing ban on the international trade.
KWS spokesman Paul Udoto said on Saturday that rangers were determined to make poaching "a high-cost, low-benefit activity".
The KWS says about 100 elephants are killed each year in Kenya by poachers.
Ivory from elephants is often smuggled to Asia for use in ornaments, while rhino horns are used in traditional medicine.
The Christie hospital in Manchester admitted "historically [it] may not have met the required health and safety standards".
They stressed that there was "no evidence" patients, visitors and non-maintenance staff were put at risk.
The union Unite said it thought about 20 workers were exposed to asbestos.
The independent review, which was commissioned by the specialist cancer hospital, was carried out by Asbestos Contracting Limited (ACL) and completed in August when they found that:
Unite regional officer Keith Hutson said: "It is appalling that these workers have been exposed to the cancer-causing substance, especially as they were exposed in the world-renowned cancer hospital."
A spokesman from the Christie said there was "no reason to believe that anyone has been harmed by our historic management of asbestos in non-patient areas such as plant rooms and other maintenance areas".
He added the hospital had addressed the concerns of maintenance staff "with the exception of their demand for generous compensation on an ex-gracia basis".
"We have contacted the NHS Litigation Authority, which has advised that we cannot pay compensation to individuals where there is no evidence of recognised injury or ill-health."
The hospital had been working with independent advisors over the past 18 months to improve health and safety standards, he said, adding the Health and Safety Executive had "accepted the Trust has made good progress".
They have been making trucks at the factory, outside Detroit, since 1938, and you don't get much more American than the chunky, no-nonsense, big-tyred Dodge Ram 1500s that roll out from the 87-acre site every day.
So if I want to buy American, surely I can do no better than buy a Ram?
Well, no. Actually you'd be better off buying a Honda.
The Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington DC compiles an annual index of the cars Americans drive - and where they are made.
The Dodge Ram 1500 turns out, according to this index, to be only 59.5% made in America.
The Honda Accord, says Kogod, is 81% American.
Now this is partly because some of the Ram 1500s are made not in Detroit at all, but in Saltillo, Mexico.
And then there is the fiendishly complicated issue of components.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), which makes the Ram, has a huge supplier network that buys in parts and manufacturing from around the world from Cordoba in Argentina to Serbia and South Korea.
It's not just FCA, globalisation is in the lifeblood of the car industry, and its supply lines have become possibly the most complex and finely tuned of any business on the planet.
Now this model is under threat.
In the US, President Trump has pledged to hike tariffs on US cars made abroad, or as he succinctly tweeted: "Make in U.S.A. or pay big border tax!" This, he believes, will save American jobs.
Mr Trump may well have caught hold of a global zeitgeist. Before the US election, the World Trade Organization (WTO) reported a spike in trade-restrictive measures imposed by members, averaging 22 per month, the highest since 2011.
"In the current environment, a rise in trade restrictions is the last thing the global economy needs," director-general Roberto Azevedo said.
But the carmakers appear to be buckling under, and scrambling to polish up their Made in America badges. Ford, for instance, scrapped a plan to build a plant in Mexico and got tweeted a pat on the back from the president.
Despite the hype, Ford's decision to build in Michigan is a minor tweak in its global strategy. But if border taxes on car imports work their way from angry tweets to real legislation, the global motor industry is in trouble.
One firm ignoring President Trump's criticism is German car giant BMW, who recently announced plans to retool its factory north of Pretoria in South Africa to produce the X3 sport-utility vehicle outside the US for the first time. BMW is also building another Mexican plant in San Luis Potosi.
Ian Robertson, head of sales and marketing at BMW, points out that its Spartanburg plant in South Carolina in the US is the biggest of all its factories, and says its decision to build the San Luis Potosi plant simply reflects how the industry works.
"This is part of the normal business development of a company like BMW which has nearly 30 production facilities in 14 countries. And the Mexican investment is one in a plant which will produce a capacity that will ultimately supply many markets."
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In the UK, the making and selling of cars is similarly global. Last year, which was not untypical, the majority of cars made in the UK were exported, while most of those sold (86%) were imported.
Few UK politicians are making Trump-like calls for protectionism, but if the Brexit process ends up with the country pulling out of the EU single market, as Prime Minister Theresa May has indicated, it could still lead to tariffs on imports and exports, and hobble the car industry's cross-border supply chains and sales.
"Year-on-year exports have driven the car industry, and with so much content sourced internationally, we are massively dependent on zero tariffs and a customs union," says Tamzen Isacsson, communications and international director at the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
If tariffs based on WTO rules were applied to cross-border car and car part sales, the SMMT estimates the price of an average imported car would rise by £1,500, while overall costs would rise by at least £4.5bn ($5.6bn) a year.
But possible tariffs are not the only problem.
Modern car manufacturing is built around just-in-time manufacturing (JIT), developed over the last 60 years under various names like "lean manufacturing" and "quality circles".
They all have the same core purpose - to minimise waste by keeping inventory at very low levels, alerting suppliers at exactly the point when new parts are needed.
The flipside of JIT is that a delay can wreak havoc on the whole operation.
When a fire closed the Channel Tunnel in 2015, UK car plants, starved for just a few hours of their supplies, were forced to hire private jets to intercept trucks en route to the UK to make sure components arrived on time.
"Many manufacturers carry stock to last them no more than four hours, so they are utterly dependent on rapid, fast-flowing content from the EU," says Ms Isacsson. "If you have delays with tariffs and cross-border checks the costs mount up and in an intensely competitive environment you suddenly find you cannot compete."
While the possibility of doing a free trade deal with the EU for the car industry would keep the wheels of trade turning, identifying which imports and exports were for the car industry and which weren't would be difficult.
"It would be easy to identify an engine, a turbo-charger, but we also buy in steel, we buy chemicals, we buy glass, we buy engine control units. How would you be sure that those particular products are going to go into the automotive sector, rather than another sector?," says SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes.
Ultimately, unwinding the labyrinthine supply chain of the car industry to work out what to tax and where could prove the biggest deterrent to new tariffs.
The Frenchman raced onto a Hayden White flick and crashed in a dipping half-volley from 25 yards to send the home fans wild.
Mansfield, unbeaten in eight games, had not beaten Stanley in their previous 11 league meetings and twice the visitors earned two-goal leads.
In a rip-roaring first half, Stanley went ahead after only five minutes when Omar Beckles was allowed to steer home from eight yards from Sean McConville's free-kick.
More poor home defending in the 29th minute saw Lee Collins fail to clear and Shay McCartan turned to fire in number two.
Mansfield were back in it within two minutes as a Krystian Pearce header from a corner was blocked on the line and the referee ruled Rhys Bennett had forced the ball over before it was cleared.
The pick of the goals came in the 44th minute as Billy Kee beat Bennett out on the right and turned to send a spectacular dipping shot under the far angle of post and crossbar.
But the Stags stayed in touch in stoppage time as White headed home a Joel Byrom corner.
Beckles headed against the right-hand post but it was 3-3 after 64 minutes when Shaq Coulthirst sent the goalkeeper the wrong way from the penalty spot after Seamus Conneely had fouled Pearce.
Pearce then blocked off Kee to concede a penalty two minutes later and the burly striker sent Jake Kean the wrong way.
After both sides had hit a post it was left to Arquin to steal a late leveller.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Mansfield Town 4, Accrington Stanley 4.
Second Half ends, Mansfield Town 4, Accrington Stanley 4.
Foul by Janoi Donacien (Accrington Stanley).
Shaquile Coulthirst (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Sean Clare (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Sean Clare replaces Sean McConville.
Attempt missed. Shaquile Coulthirst (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Goal! Mansfield Town 4, Accrington Stanley 4. Yoann Arquin (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Shaquile Coulthirst.
Attempt missed. Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Shaquile Coulthirst (Mansfield Town).
Lee Collins (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lee Collins (Mansfield Town).
Attempt missed. Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Mark Hughes (Accrington Stanley).
Benjamin Whiteman (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Jonathan Edwards replaces Billy Kee because of an injury.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Collins (Mansfield Town).
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley).
Benjamin Whiteman (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Yoann Arquin replaces Danny Rose.
Attempt saved. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town).
Attempt missed. Mark Hughes (Accrington Stanley) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town).
CJ Hamilton (Mansfield Town) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Romuald Boco replaces Shay McCartan because of an injury.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Matt Green replaces Alexander MacDonald.
Attempt missed. Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Mansfield Town 3, Accrington Stanley 4. Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Accrington Stanley. Billy Kee draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Hayden White (Mansfield Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Krystian Pearce.
The 28-year-old, who was treated for a stress fracture to his ribs earlier in the year, felt discomfort during the recent Players Championship in Florida.
"I have been advised to take a conservative approach to my recovery," said McIlroy.
"It is disappointing, but I have to ensure I make a full recovery."
McIlroy won the European Tour's PGA Championship at the Surrey course in 2014.
The four-time major winner said he would now concentrate on preparing for the US Open in June.
McIlroy originally suffered the rib problem in the off-season after hitting a lot of balls in practice as he tried to decide on new equipment after Nike decided to stop producing clubs.
It flared up as he lost a play-off to Graeme Storm at the South African Open in January, and he did not feature again until the WGC-Mexico Championship in March, when he finished four shots behind winner Dustin Johnson.
The Northern Irishman then felt discomfort at the Players at Sawgrass.
The 24-year-old man was found in the undercarriage of a British Airways plane from Johannesburg on Thursday.
The Met Police said officers were investigating whether a second man, found dead on a roof in Richmond, stowed away on the same plane.
His death "remains unexplained", they said.
Police believe they know the identity of the dead man and said a post-mortem examination would take place this week.
He was found dead on the roof of notonthehighstreet.com's headquarters on Kew Road at 09:35 BST on Thursday.
Officers are set to speak to the man in hospital to ascertain whether the two incidents are connected..
British Airways said it was working with the authorities to "establish the facts surrounding this very rare case" while notonthehighstreet.com said it was also "co-operating with the ongoing police enquiry".
The 5,600-mile journey (9,012km) from Johannesburg to the UK usually takes about 11 hours.
There have been other cases where stowaways have fallen to their deaths in London after smuggling themselves onto planes and hiding in landing gear.
In September 2012, Jose Matada, 26, was found dead after falling from the undercarriage of a flight from Angola to Heathrow on to a street in Mortlake, west London.
An inquest heard he may have survived freezing temperatures of up to minus 60C (-76F) for most of the 12-hour flight, but it was believed he was "dead or nearly dead" by the time he hit the ground.
The Royal couple are the last high profile visitors to the school as it prepares to close.
After 400 years the school will be replaced by a new co-educational grammar school in the town.
The Duke and Duchess were greeted at the school by First Minister Arlene Foster.
Portora Royal School was established in 1618 following a decree by King James I. Notable former pupils of the school include Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and MP for north Belfast Nigel Dodds.
The Duke of Gloucester unveiled a plaque to the Old Portorans killed in the First World War.
Adam Paynter from the Lib Dems is the new leader following a secret ballot by councillors on Tuesday.
Independent councillor Julian German is to take on the role of deputy leader.
The Conservatives won the largest number of council seats with 46, while the Lib Dems won 37 and independents returned 30 in the local elections.
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Negotiations over who takes control of the council have been in progress since the election.
The Conservatives, as the largest party, had the first chance to try to form either a minority administration or a coalition but their proposal was unanimously rejected by the independent members.
Mr Paynter, former deputy leader, said his party would "seek to put people first" and "ensure that we deliver on the Cornwall Devolution Deal".
He added: "We will pledge to invest in excess of £200 million in building 1,000 council houses for fair rent. We will also extend the living wage foundations living wage, to all council contracts."
The council has been led by a coalition of Liberal Democrats and independents since 2013.
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The 62-year-old, who played for Bayern from 1970-1979 before retiring through injury aged 27, will not appeal against a three-and-a-half year jail sentence.
"Tax evasion was the biggest mistake of my life," he said in a statement. "Bayern Munich is my life's work and will also remain so."
Evading tax was the biggest mistake of my life - I accept the consequences of this mistake
Hoeness was found guilty of evading taxes worth £22.5m (27m euros).
Bayern's vice president Karl Hopfner, 61, looks set to succeed Hoeness as president, while Adidas chief executive Herbert Hainer has been appointed as the club's new chairman.
The European champions' board of directors voted unanimously to name Hopfner, who has spent more than 30 years with the club, to head the Bavarian giants and his appointment will be put to a vote at a meeting of the club's general assembly on 2 May.
He joined Bayern in July 1983 as managing director and eventually oversaw the club's transition to a joint-stock company in 2001 before taking a seat on the board.
Hainer, 59, was previously deputy chairman at the German champions and his appointment was unanimously approved by the Bayern board.
"Uli Hoeness has always devoted his leadership qualities, great personal commitment and outstanding lifelong effort to the best interests of Bayern Munich," said Hainer.
"He is very largely responsible for Bayern becoming one of the most successful and attractive clubs in the world both in sporting and financial terms. We offer him heartfelt thanks and gratitude for this."
Bayern Munich (1970-79)
Games: 346
Goals: 111
Honours: Bundesliga (1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74)
European Cup (1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76)
Germany (1972-76)
Caps: 35
Goals: Five
Honours: European Championship (1972) World Cup (1974)
As a player Hoeness won the 1972 European Championship and the 1974 World Cup with West Germany and three successive European Cups with Bayern.
Following his retirement, he was appointed general manager at German giants Bayern, who have reached three of the last four Champions League finals and won the tournament last year at Wembley.
He was elected Bayern president in November 2009.
He was initially charged with evading £2.9m (3.5m euros) in taxes but then admitted to another £12.5m (15m euros) and was found guilty of "seven serious counts of tax evasion".
In a statement on the Bayern Munich website he said: "After discussing the matter with my family I have decided to accept the judgment. This corresponds to my understanding of integrity, decorum and personal responsibility.
"Evading tax was the biggest mistake of my life. I accept the consequences of this mistake.
"Furthermore I hereby resign the offices of president and chairman with immediate effect. By doing so I wish to avert further damage to my club.
"I will continue to be associated with this magnificent club and its people in other ways for as long as I live. I wish to thank from the heart my personal friends and all followers of Bayern Munich for your support."
Seam bowler Carter, 27, joined from neighbours Nottinghamshire last September on a two-year deal.
He took 20 wickets for Derbyshire in 16 appearances across all formats.
Neither Knight, 23, nor Elstone, 26, who are both all-rounders, have made a first-team appearance for Derbyshire this season.
Meanwhile, former Derbyshire and England all-rounder Dominic Cork is to work with the current squad as a bowling consultant as they try to secure quarter-final places in the T20 Blast and One-Day Cup.
"Dominic is an experienced cricketer who knows how to win, claiming silverware with both Derbyshire and Hampshire during his playing career," cricket advisory director Kevin Dean told the club website.
Derbyshire are fifth in the T20 Blast North Group with one game to play, with only the top four progressing to the knockout stage.
They began Sunday's One-Day Cup match against Notts on top of their group in that competition.
The computers, which were in a carrier bag, were briefly left on the main concourse at Wolverhampton station.
Police said the equipment had been specially built for the children and their family were distraught.
British Transport Police (BTP) has released images of a man officers want to talk to following the theft on the afternoon of Sunday 14 May.
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The devices were briefly left on the main concourse at about 13:00 BST, a man watched this happen and he walked over to the bag and picked it up, police said.
He walked out of the station "right past the victims" and the machines were "not easily" replaceable, a spokesman added.
Police said a family had been "left distraught".
Investigating officer PC Jason Walters said: "Thieves may think that they're not harming anyone when they take things like phones or laptops - but in reality, it can cause untold upset and disruption to a person's life."
BTP said it believed the man on the images, with a "distinctive tattoo" on the back of his head, had information that could help the investigation.
The 15-month-old's dead body was found by fishermen the next morning.
Investigators tracked Fabienne Kabou down using CCTV in a northern seaside town. She is believed to be suffering from hallucinations and depression.
She said: "I put an end to her life because it was easier that way. It was as if I felt carried along, I just couldn't say stop."
According to court documents, the baby's father, Michel Lafon, did not take an interest in his child.
She was given the name Adelaide but was never officially registered, and nobody apart from the couple knew of her existence.
In November 2013 Ms Kabou travelled from her home in Paris to the town of Berck-sur-mer where she asked local people about the tide times, then left the baby near the water.
She has at times said she left her daughter there because it caused difficulties in her relationship with the baby's father. At other times she has said she was influenced by hallucinations and witchcraft.
One psychologist said her background of growing up in Senegal had given her "an individual history linked to witchcraft" in the West African country, and "radically altered her view of the world".
Her lawyer said before the start of the trial that Ms Kabou "sees her act as we all see it, that is to say, something utterly horrible, and she considers herself indefensible".
The technique involves binding the arms and legs with blankets and is used to help calm a baby and prevent crying.
But Prof Nicholas Clarke, of Southampton University Hospital, said swaddling was damaging developing hips.
The Royal College of Midwives and other experts advised parents to avoid tightly swaddling a child.
Swaddling has been widely used in many cultures globally. It is thought the blanket wrapping can simulate the feelings of being in the womb and calm the child.
But the technique holds the legs out straight and restricts movement, which can alter the development of the hip joint.
Writing in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, Prof Clarke argued: "There has been a recent resurgence of swaddling because of its perceived palliative effect on excessive crying, colic and promoting sleep.
"In order to allow for healthy hip development, legs should be able to bend up and out at the hips. This position allows for natural development of the hip joints.
"The babies' legs should not be tightly wrapped in extension and pressed together."
Jane Munro, of the Royal College of Midwives, said it was a "seemingly innocuous" thing to do, but it posed "significant problems" for the baby.
She said there was also the risk of the baby overheating and a raised risk of cot death.
She added: "We advise parents to avoid swaddling, but it is also crucial that we take into account each mother's cultural background, and to provide individualised advice to ensure she knows how to keep her baby safe, able to move and not get overheated."
Andreas Roposch, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: "Similar effects may be seen in all devices or manoeuvres that place the legs in a purely straight position for prolonged periods in this critical age of early infancy.
"Swaddling should not be employed in my view, as there is no health benefit but a risk for adverse consequences of the growing and often immature hips."
Rosemary Dodds, of parenting charity the NCT, advised against tight swaddling.
"It is helpful to raise awareness of hip dysplasia in relation to swaddling. Some parents and babies seem to like swaddling, but it is important that babies do not overheat and their legs are not restricted.
"Videos are available on the NCT website showing parents who want to swaddle their baby how to do so safely."
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Burns' 1792 song The Slave's Lament can be heard drifting through the rooms of the Palazzo Fontana on the Grand Canal.
The 16th Century palace was once the birthplace of a pope and this summer plays host to Fagen's exhibition for the Scotland + Venice project, an entirely new body of work devised for the rooms of this historic palazzo.
Fagen, whose work combines video, performance, photography, and sculpture with text and music, has been working with the composer Sally Beamish, the classical musicians of the Scottish Ensemble and the Jamaican reggae singer Ghetto Priest to bring new life to Burns' historical work.
He filmed and recorded the musicians at work in Glasgow's City Halls and British reggae producer Adrian Sherwood mixed the music.
Fagan says: "I suppose the essence of the exhibition starts with my own life."
The artist grew up in Irvine in Ayrshire and his Venice exhibition reflects the impact of reggae music on his life as well as his ambivalent feelings about Burns, who was such an important feature of local culture.
The Burns poem is a famous statement against slavery, but when he was young 18th Century Scottish poet had been driven by economic hardship to consider leaving for the West Indies where he would have worked overseeing slave labour on a plantation.
Burns published a volume of poems to try to raise money for his ticket to Jamaica. That book became the famous Kilmarnock edition. The success of his poetry meant he never left Scotland.
When you hear the Slave's Lament sung by Ghetto Priest with such conviction you realise the Burns was capable of great empathy with the character of the slave.
Fagen says that the vocalist "has a very strong affinity with the song".
Sally Beamish says she is "excited" to be collaborating with Fagen at a significant moment in his career.
She says: "Our collaboration highlights the impact Scottish folk songs has had on both of us - and I am honoured to take part in this extraordinary opportunity with so many inspirational artists and musicians."
The exhibition runs from 9 May to 22 November and is funded by Creative Scotland. It is supported British Council Scotland and the National Galleries of Scotland.
It links Venice with a much smaller port in Scotland - Arbroath.
Hospitalfield Arts in the Angus town came up with the proposal to commission Fagen and its Lucy Byatt has curated the exhibition.
The historic Hospitalfield House mansion was bequeathed to a trust by the 19th century painter Patrick Allan-Fraser and is now an arts venue.
The Arbroath connection is maintained in Venice by providing hospitality to the international press in the form of its best known export: the smokie.
Byatt says: "It's an opportunity to give Graham the platform that he needs at this stage and now I am really looking forward to inviting audiences in."
She will bring a version of the exhibition to Edinburgh in Spring 2016.
Byatt says: "When we bring the show back to Edinburgh it will be reworked and will resonate in a different way. Our aim at the moment is to find a space in Leith in the docks in a site that has a specific yet still maritime history and reinstall the show."
La Biennale di Venezia is the largest and most prestigious visual arts exhibition in the world.
This will be the seventh presentation from Scotland + Venice but Scottish artists have long been part of the Venice Biennale.
It was launched in 1895 and Charles Rennie Mackintosh was among a group of artists who exhibited in 1899.
There are 89 official national pavilions and more than 44 associated events. The whole event attracts more than half a million visitors.
Since 2003 the Scotland + Venice exhibition has had a regular presence at the biennale and it is seen by the movers and shakers of the art world as well as tourists and ordinary art lovers.
Artists who have exhibited include Simon Starling (2003) and Martin Boyce (2011) who both went on to win the Turner Prize. Duncan Campbell's film It for Others, commissioned by The Common Guild for Scotland + Venice in 2013, won the Turner Prize last year.
The Scotland + Venice learning team are 28 students and recent graduates who will each spend a month working at the palazzo venue.
Climbing the grand stairs up to the piano nobile, or first floor, of the palazzo this week, Fagen pointed out a little detail I never would have noticed.
Next to the grand entrance were a couple of wooden steps and tiny wooden door that would have served as the servants' entrance.
For all its grand frontage, life behind the public rooms of the Palazzo is more homely.
Staff from the learning team live in an apartment, carved out of these servants quarters.
They will get the chance to meet up with other teams from across the globe who are working at the biennale.
One of the invigilators from the Welsh exhibition has already set up a breakfast club for those staffing venues across the city.
Anna Danielewicz is a 23 year-old Polish student who came to Scotland to study medicine but ended up leaving her course. She now studies art at Edinburgh College of Art and believes Scotland is very supportive of young artists.
She says she is delighted to join the learning team at the Palazzo Fontana.
She says: "It has been a gradual process. But this week we were listening to Graham talking so eloquently about the work. We were all just stunned. I'm definitely happy to be sharing this with visitors."
At the heart of the exhibition is a large bronze tree that is cast from coir rope.
The sculpture reflects the maritime traditions of Venice as well as more ominous associations with slavery and death.
The building faces the Grand Canal and you can hear the boat traffic in the venue.
Like everything in Venice the work had to be delivered to the pink-fronted palace by boat.
The Rope Tree cast was produced by Powderhall Bronze Foundry in Edinburgh and was built to fit the dramatically sloping floor of the historic building.
Fagen said that the team at Powderhall "love a challenge and didn't blink". That might also be said of the artist himself.
Scotland + Venice is at the Palazzo Fontana until 22 November.
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The problem seems to be getting worse - according to the charity NSPCC, one in five children is now bullied online.
Meanwhile trolls, who send abusive messages to anyone they take an instant and often irrational dislike to, are now as established on the online scene as they once were in fairy tales.
It is time, says the UK's Anti-Bullying Alliance to call a halt to a trend that is "gradually chipping away young people's self-esteem".
"Cyberbullying increases isolation and impacts on mental health more than other forms of bullying," says Luke Roberts, national co-ordinator of the UK's Anti-Bullying Alliance.
Karthik Dinakar was a victim of bullying and knows how hurtful it can be.
"I was very nerdy and different and it was difficult going through high school," he says.
Shortly after Mr Dinakar joined MIT as a researcher at its Software Agents Group, a teenager jumped off a bridge in New Jersey as a result of slanderous comments on social media.
The incident cemented in the researcher a desire to do something to help.
"That had an impact on me and resonated with my own experience," he says. "I set to work on a couple of algorithms to detect when someone is being mean."
The computer code matches what you write online to a database of commonly used words. It learns as it goes, using natural language processing, meaning that it can become pretty sophisticated at spotting even very subtle bullying.
Mr Dinakar says the system could be used by social media sites to flag potentially hurtful messages before they are sent.
"My observation is that we say things when we communicate online without pausing and thinking. So imagine if a box could pop up before you post saying 'Do you really want to send this?'"
It is the digital equivalent of the little voice that everyone has in the back of their mind when they write something. Mr Dinakar calls it "empathetic computing".
Already the algorithm is being used by A Thin Line, an MTV website where teenagers share experiences of bullying.
So, for instance, if a visitor writes the words "girlfriend" and "dumped" in a message it can be identified as being about a relationship and placed in the relevant section. But if the post also includes terms such as "fatty", "slut" or "naked pictures", it can be flagged for review.
"A girl who has been harassed on Facebook can be matched to someone with similar experiences. It helps young people realise that they are not alone in their plight," explains Mr Dinakar.
He adds that the tool can also be used by moderators to sift through the content that needs the most immediate attention.
"These social sites have billions of users, and moderators have no way to prioritise the more serious cases of bullying."
Such tools could prove invaluable, thinks Mr Roberts.
"It sounds pretty amazing," he says.
"Studies have shown that there is a lower level of empathy for the target in cyberbullying so anything that helps people reconnect with the fact that there is a human being at the end of the message is a good thing."
As long as there are ways to communicate, bullies and trolls will exploit them but as we enter an age of all-pervasive network connection so too will calls for government, industry and community to act to limit the huge damage such people can do.
"Everyone has a piece of the puzzle. Industry can make safer online communities, young people can be educated better to deal with the issue, parents can offer better support rather than just banning their digital devices," says Mr Roberts.
"This is a solvable problem."
Recent experiences highlight the need for such a system.
Last month ex-footballer Stan Collymore accused Twitter of failing to deal with a torrent of abuse he had received.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme he claimed that Twitter appeared to be more interested in making money than protecting its users.
"I accuse Twitter directly of not doing enough to combat racist/homophobic/sexist hate messages, all of which are illegal in the UK," he said.
In response Twitter urged anyone plagued by abusive tweets to use its new "report tweet" button.
"We cannot stop people from saying offensive, hurtful things on the internet or on Twitter. But we take action when content is reported to us that breaks our rules or is illegal," the firm said in a statement.
Facebook is also regularly accused of not doing enough to protect youngsters from abuse and cyberbullying.
Late last year, it beefed up its anti-bullying policy, offering youngsters on the site easy ways to contact an adult in their network to talk about the bullying.
Its bullying prevention hub offers suggestions for teens, parents and educators on how to address bullies and how to take action on the site.
It insists that it has "some of the most effective reporting tools available on the internet today".
"If people see activity on Facebook that makes them feel uncomfortable there are links on every page to report it so that we can remove it," the firm tells the BBC.
Mr Roberts thinks that such sites could do more.
"They say that bullying is unacceptable but they also say that they don't want to interfere with user content. It is as if their online space has been created without reference to human relationships," he says.
And while the new reporting tools are useful, they could be more effective.
"Even if young people report abuse it is often not clear what happens next," he says.
"Will they get a response in 10 hours, 10 days, a year?"
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Hannah Smith, Izzy Dix, Rehtaeh Parsons - just a snippet of the tragic roll call of children who have committed suicide in the last year, with cyberbullying cited as a factor in their deaths.
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More than one in 10 people aged between 25 and 34 used notes and coins no more than once a month last year, according to UK Finance.
The trade body for financial providers said nearly three million people rarely used cash.
But, across all age groups, cash remains the most popular way to pay.
The figures show that 6% of the UK's adult population used cash no more than once a month last year, but this increased to more than 10% for 25 to 34-year-olds. The proportion drops to 2% for 55 to 64-year-olds.
At the opposite end of the scale, 5% of the UK adult population (2.7 million people) relied almost entirely on cash to make their day-to-day payments during 2016, UK Finance said.
This was relatively evenly spread across different age groups. However, people with lower household incomes were far more likely to rely mainly on cash compared with their more affluent counterparts.
More than half of all consumers who relied predominantly on cash during 2016 had total household incomes of less than £15,000 per year.
Cash accounted for 44% of all payments made by consumers across the UK last year.
They have written to pubs, nightclubs and off-licences in the city inviting licensees to a meeting on Tuesday in a bid to reduce drunken behaviour.
In the letter, City of York Council said anti-social behaviour had become "a major issue" for the police.
"The city is becoming a 'no-go area'... on a Saturday," it said.
The letter mentions the popularity of York with stag and hen parties from other parts of the country, particularly the North East and South Yorkshire.
Kay Hyde, from tourist authority Make it York, said problem drinking was becoming "a serious concern".
"It's an issue, I think, which has been developing for some time and it's something the city as a whole has to get to grips with," she said.
She added that a combination of education and penalties was needed to deter anti-social behaviour.
"It's a mix of using a carrot and a stick to deter people so they know when they are misbehaving there will be consequences."
Steve Waddington from City of York Council said that alcohol-related crime in the city's Alcohol Restriction Zone had fallen by 21% and that the aim of Tuesday's meeting was "to listen to and act on businesses' and residents' concerns about a minority of city centre users".
Martin Caffrey, operations director at the York-based Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations, said action was needed to stop revellers "loading up on alcohol" bought on trains and in supermarkets.
"They drink bottles bought from supermarkets and half an hour later the landlord gets the problem.
"Control does work," he said.
"It's a commitment to that control that's needed."
He's not the only party leader to face an attempted ousting. But can you recover from such a revolt?
In 2006, the Labour prime minister was the target of what became known as the "curry house conspiracy" - a coup to remove him and install his chancellor, Gordon Brown, as prime minister.
It would lead to several of the plotters' resignations - but not Mr Blair's. However, it was successful to a degree in that it forced the party leader into naming a departure date.
The move against him was reportedly masterminded by Tom Watson, a defence minister at the time, who was also rumoured to have had a secret meeting with Mr Brown on the eve of the revolt.
Apparently, Mr Watson and three fellow West Midlands MPs - Sion Simon, David Wright (both ministerial aides) and Khalid Mahmood - met over a biryani at a Wolverhampton curry house to discuss the PM's future, before dispatching a missive calling for him to quit.
The letter - which attracted the support of a number of normally loyal Labour MPs - was leaked to the press, and ultimately resulted in Mr Watson's resignation.
In his parting letter, the West Bromwich East MP took a shot at the prime minister, who he said should step down in the interests of party and country.
Mr Blair denounced his actions and branded the former minister "disloyal, discourteous and wrong", saying he would have sacked him if he had not resigned.
But Mr Watson's departure was swiftly followed by the resignations of six other junior members of government - who had also signed the rebel letter - in protest at the prime minister's refusal to say when he would step down as Labour leader.
The whole affair resulted in Mr Blair announcing his intention to step aside within 12 months - which he duly did, on 27 June 2007.
But it did nothing to quash internal dissent and speculation in the party over the future leadership of the party.
Labour prime minister Gordon Brown found his leadership under threat in 2009 after one of his cabinet ministers dramatically quit the government and called for him to resign.
Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell - a former aide to Tony Blair - resigned from his post after the polls closed in the local and European elections, in which Labour was forecast to do badly.
Explaining his decision to quit, Mr Purnell said the prime minister made a Conservative victory "more, not less, likely".
It was Mr Brown's first direct challenge from a cabinet minister - but it would not topple the Labour leader as senior members of government refused to follow Mr Purnell's lead.
Mr Brown was safe for the time being. But several months later, in January 2010, a fresh leadership challenge was mounted by two senior former Labour cabinet ministers.
Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt wrote to all Labour MPs, saying the party was "deeply divided" over Mr Brown's leadership and that the best way to resolve the issue was by way of secret ballot.
They insisted it was not an "attempted coup" but a necessary step to resolve divisions within the party.
But the duo could only muster the public support of a handful of backbenchers long-opposed to Mr Brown, with the majority of the party's MPs less than impressed by the move, which came just weeks before the general election.
As the day wore on, a succession of cabinet ministers came out to back the PM, suggesting there was little momentum behind the plot - although it was noted that several were not exactly gushing in their support of Mr Brown.
As history tells us, neither leadership challenge bore fruit but they reflected the internal doubts and divisions over Mr Brown at the helm.
As leadership toppling attempts go, this one in 2014 was regarded as a particularly "botched" and "shambolic coup". Indeed, former Lib Dem leader Lord (Paddy) Ashdown described the move as a "plot of deep malice".
Its instigator, Lord (Matthew) Oakeshott - a close ally of the-then Business Secretary Vince Cable - tried to unseat Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.
The peer was found to have commissioned secret polls suggesting the party would do better at the 2015 general election without Mr Clegg in the driving seat.
The man Lord Oakeshott had long had in mind to take Mr Clegg's place - Mr Cable, who was on government business in China at the time - was forced to publicly condemn his friend's actions and state his backing for Mr Clegg.
But Lord Oakeshott said the business secretary had in fact known about his polls and their findings.
Nevertheless, the peer - who was denounced by the Lib Dem leadership for spending money that could have been spent on campaigning - quit the party, and issued a warning shot on his way out about the Lib Dems' future prospects.
Mr Cable largely emerged unscathed but he faced questions about his loyalty to the leader. Although the two sought to put paid to reports of a rift with a (painfully awkward, 'nothing to see here, folks') stage-managed pint in a pub.
Although the revolt failed, and Mr Clegg remained at the helm, the Lib Dems did go on to suffer a trouncing at the general election, losing nearly 50 of its MPs - one of them, Mr Cable himself - prompting his leader to quit.
The Conservatives have a reputation for being more ruthless than their party rivals when it comes to getting rid of leaders they sense are no longer effectual.
But, in 1995, Prime Minister John Major - tired of persistent rumours of a leadership challenge - decided to take the bull by the horns and trigger a surprise leadership election to silence his detractors.
His own backbenchers had questioned Mr Major's ability to unite and lead the party, which was deeply divided over Europe.
So "put up or shut up", he told them as he tendered his resignation as Conservative Party leader but not prime minister.
But then stepped forward eurosceptic MP John Redwood, who resigned from the cabinet in order to contest Mr Major's leadership.
This was unexpected by many, as the PM had said there had been assurances from his cabinet that none would stand against him.
But Mr Major went on to win the ensuing election with a comfortable defeat over his challenger, who was not included in the PM's consequent cabinet reshuffle.
No further contested leadership election took place until after the Conservatives' defeat at the 1997 general election, paving the way for William Hague to take over the running of the party.
Not all attempts to oust a party leader end in failure: as Margaret Thatcher found out to her peril.
With three electoral victories under her belt, the Conservative prime minister's downfall would come at the hands of her own party - not the voters.
It was on 1 November 1990 when Geoffrey (now Lord) Howe - one of Mrs Thatcher's longest-serving ministers - resigned over differences with the party leader over Europe.
In his now infamous speech on the floor of the House of Commons, he attacked the PM's policies and leadership style, comparing being one of her cabinet ministers to opening the batting at cricket only to find his bat had been "broken... by the team captain".
It sparked the beginning of the end of the 11-year Thatcher reign.
Michael (now Lord) Heseltine seized on the opportunity to challenge the prime minister in the ensuing leadership contest, from which she would eventually withdraw and John Major emerge as her successor.
Reflecting on the revolt and its implications on the Conservative Party, Baroness Thatcher's biographer Charles Moore wrote: "Because the coup was unjustified, and so trust broke down, the politics of the next 15 years were those of civil war."
The region has taken the top spot in the Bank of Scotland's Happiness Index, knocking last year's winner, the Highlands, into second place.
In the past 12 months, Fife has jumped from a happiness score of +35.56 to +56.56, which is well above the Scotland average of +40.43.
Those aged 65 and over, and women, remain the happiest in Scotland.
The index attempts to quantify how happy people are in the communities in which they live.
Two fifths (41%) of Fifers said they were "very happy" living in their community, which is almost double last year's 23%.
The amount of residents in Fife saying they were unhappy living in their community reduced to 7% this year, from 13% last year.
The report authors suggest this could be because they are the region focusing most on spending time with family and are also taking time to focus on pursuing hobbies and interests, as well as progress their career.
Although now in second place, the Highlands' happiness score of +50.56 is still an improvement on last year's score of +47.73.
Dundonians are least happy living in their community, falling from a 2015 happiness score of +44.3 to +31.01 this year.
Overall though, Scots are generally happier than they were last year. There has been a slight increase in the overall happiness score for Scotland, which is now +40.43 compared to +39.02 last year.
Women were again found to be happier than men with both seeing a slight improvement on last year.
Although those aged 65 and over remain the happiest in Scotland, there was a slight dip in their score.
Those aged 18-24 are still the least happy.
Those on a household income of £25,000-£39,999 are the most happy in Scotland.
Rachel Bright, Bank of Scotland's head of customer service said: "This year, Fife's happiness score has increased over 20 points, putting them at the top of the Happiness Index and pushing the Highlands into second place.
"There has been a slight increase in the overall happiness score for Scotland as a whole, with women remaining happier than men. As we saw last year, happiness increases with age, and pensioners are once more the happiest age group in Scotland."
The research was compiled by YouGov and the findings are based on 3,056 online interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults aged 16 and over living in Scotland.
The index was created by assigning a score between 100 and -100 to people's responses to the question: "Taking everything into account, how happy or unhappy would you say you are living in your community?"
The average happiness score was then calculated using the values: -100 for a response of "Very unhappy", -50 for "Somewhat unhappy", a score of zero for "Neither happy nor unhappy", +50 for "Somewhat happy" and +100 for a response of "Very happy".
Happiest by age
Happiest by income
Interviews were conducted between 2 December 2015 and 9 December 2015.
Dominic Doyle, 21, died from stab wounds after a brawl outside a pub in Greater Manchester on 7 June last year.
Colin McDonald, described at Manchester Crown Court as "an extremely dangerous individual", is among six people sentenced over the attack.
McDonald, 42, of Acre Street, Denton, must serve a minimum of 15 years after being found guilty of manslaughter.
The court heard that McDonald, whose 15-year-old stepson was also involved in the attack, was convicted of manslaughter in 1997, and for causing death by dangerous driving in 2011.
The first conviction involved the death of accountant Jonathan Tripp, who drowned after McDonald pushed him into a canal in Manchester.
The second was a hit-and-run collision that killed Wayne Leary in Failsworth.
Five other people have been jailed for their part in the attack on Mr Doyle, which happened outside Hughes' Bar on Manchester Road, Denton.
The court heard Mr Doyle had been an innocent bystander during the brawl, which broke out at about 03:00 BST and involved two groups of men.
However, he was chased and attacked with teenager Mitchell Ingham using a knife to stab and slash "indiscriminately".
The court heard that without McDonald's leadership, Mr Doyle's death would not have happened.
He could have stopped his stepson taking a knife out after storming into their home in a rage, but instead he went to support the boy, the court was told.
An 18-year-old man was also treated for stab wounds in hospital.
After the sentencing, Det Ch Insp Ian Crewe, of Greater Manchester Police, said everyone sentenced had been "involved in extreme violence and time and time again we see these cases where a night out ends in tragedy.
"A young man has lost his life because of a senseless act of extreme violence and a family have to come to terms with that.
"Another person was extremely fortunate to survive this attack having been left unconscious in the street."
Organisers stopped the race after the first stage for safety reasons when conditions made access to Aberhirnant and Llangower "almost impassable".
More than 100 competitors were taking part in the event which starts and ends in Llandudno, Conwy.
Organisers said the snow had made it unsafe for marshals, competitors and spectators.
The event, which has been running for 62 years, is a round of the British Trials and Rally Drivers Championship and the Welsh Forest Championship.
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More than one in every three 11 to 18-year-olds said they asked their parents to limit their time on their phones.
One in five said using mobiles stopped their families enjoying each other's company.
We wanted to find out what you think.
The research was carried out by Digital Awareness UK, and the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
John Puttick Associates was picked as the winning bid from an anonymous shortlist of five entries.
Lancashire County Council wanted a design for a "vibrant public space" and new youth zone while preserving its unique "brutalist" architecture.
The site, which was under threat from demolition, was given Grade II listed status in 2013.
Jennifer Mein (Labour), leader of Lancashire County Council, said: "We always knew that the bus station had a global appeal, and the fact that the winning firm comes from New York reinforces this.
"We're delighted that a strong design has been chosen for the new Youth Zone Plus and we'll now be working hard to get it built."
The design competition was run by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), on behalf of Lancashire County Council and Preston Youth Zone.
Mr Puttick said his company was delighted at winning the bid, adding: "We hope to play a game of football on the roof once the project is complete."
He also said: "The three components of the project - the revitalisation of the modernist bus station, the new OnSide Youth Zone, and a large outdoor public space - offer a rich mixture of uses and the challenge of sensitively introducing contemporary design to the existing setting."
Previously, Mr Puttick has overseen a number of major schemes in China, major office development in London and also worked on Barcelona's City of Justice.
The blast - claimed by Islamic State (IS) militants - destroyed a rebel post in Sousian, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group.
The village is 8km (five miles) north-west of al-Bab, from which Turkish-backed rebels drove out IS on Thursday.
Turkey says the rebels now have "control of all neighbourhoods" there.
"Activities continue to clear areas under control of obstacles, mines and hand-made explosives," the country's military said.
IS claimed the car bomb attack, in a statement carried by its Amaq news outlet.
Many civilians were gathering to seek permission to return to al-Bab when the bomb exploded, the opposition-run Qasioun news agency said.
Situated just north-east of Aleppo, al-Bab has about 100,000 inhabitants in the centre and about 50,000 more living in the suburbs.
It fell to Syrian rebels in spring 2012 and was in IS hands by early 2014, when it became home to many foreign jihadists and their families.
Gen Hulusi Akar, Turkey's chief of staff, told troops on Friday that with the seizure of al-Bab, Turkey's incursion into northern Syria had achieved its objective.
"In the aftermath, support will be provided to normalise life and for the local people to quickly return to their homes," he said.
The rebels say they are now working to clear the heavily mined town.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last year that the capture of al-Bab, the jihadist group's last major stronghold in Aleppo province, would be the prelude to taking Raqqa, seen by IS as its capital in Syria.
Publisher Random House had reported to police it discovered a finished copy of the book had gone missing last Monday.
But Kent Police said it found no proof a crime had taken place.
The book, which re-tells the first instalment of the hit trilogy from billionaire Christian Grey's point of view, is due to be released on 18 June.
"Following a report that one book had been stolen after packaging was found to be damaged, there is no evidence at this stage to suggest that an offence has been committed," a Kent Police spokeswoman said.
"No more action will be taken unless further information is received."
In a statement, Random House said: "We are delighted that the book's theft does not appear to have been for any malicious intent or financial gain.
"We can however confirm that we will continue our investigations into this matter and that we will be reporting any findings to Kent police."
The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has sold more than 125 million copies worldwide since the first book's release in 2011.
The first book was released as a film earlier this year.
Billed as A Better Deal, their plan calls for infrastructure investment, tougher regulation of drug firms and creating new rules on monopolies.
The plan is the start of a "new version of the party", said Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer.
They hope the policy will be a winner in next year's midterm elections.
Democrats struggle to find a message
The Democrats' more populist tone comes in the wake of the party's humiliating defeat in the 2016 election, when President Trump's America First rhetoric connected with voters.
The plan's title echoes the language of self-described deal-maker Mr Trump, as well as Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal reforms.
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Democrats, who acknowledge failing to articulate a clear agenda last year, are also appealing to the faction of their party that backed socialist Bernie Sanders.
Senator Schumer of New York told a press conference in the Washington suburbs: "When you lose elections as we did you don't flinch. You don't blink.
"You look in the mirror and ask, 'what did we do wrong?'
"The number one thing we did wrong was not present a strong, bold economic agenda."
His remarks amount to an implicit criticism of Hillary Clinton, the party's standard-bearer last year.
Their ideas build on existing proposals, but many face fierce opposition from Republicans.
Democrats said corporate power has created a system that is "rigged" - and that its influence was growing under the Trump administration.
The plan calls for cracking down on price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, raising the minimum wage to $15 (£11.50) an hour and creating new standards on corporate mergers, among other proposals.
The blueprint does not directly address the debate over healthcare reform.
Senator Schumer acknowledged the policies themselves - some of which have languished as bills - face long odds.
But he said the party must start rallying support now.
The roll-out was promoted in a series of co-ordinated newspaper op-eds on Monday.
"Democrats will show the country we are the party on the side of working people," he said.
Geraghty only returned a fortnight ago after lung and rib injuries forced him to miss last month's Cheltenham Festival.
He was injured on Monday when his mount Minella Foru fell at the eighth fence.
The 37-year-old, retained rider for racehorse owner JP McManus, will have an operation on his arm on Tuesday.
Prior to his fall, Geraghty had landed the Grade Two juveniles' hurdle on Project Bluebook, trained by John Quinn.
After the Irish National, won by Our Duke, Geraghty missed the winning ride on the Joseph O'Brien-trained Slowmotion in the following race and was taken to hospital for X-rays.
Irish Turf Club medical officer Dr Adrian McGoldrick said: "It is the same injury he suffered last year, but on the other side. He is looking at three months out."
July 2016 - Out for more than two months after falling from Cernunnos at Market Rasen
February 2017 - Sidelined for five weeks following fall at Kempton; misses Cheltenham Festival
April 2017 - Facing three months out after Fairyhouse injury; misses Punchestown Festival
Ms Sturgeon's SNP won its third consecutive Holyrood election on 5 May, but finished two seats short of an overall majority.
Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie was the only MSP to stand against Ms Sturgeon.
Ms Sturgeon, who won 63 votes to Mr Rennie's five, is now the official nominee for first minister, to be confirmed by the Queen.
During the vote, 59 members abstained, backing neither candidate.
Despite the Liberal Democrats finishing fifth in the election after winning just five seats, Mr Rennie said he wanted to underline the fact Ms Sturgeon will lead a minority administration.
Ms Sturgeon became first minister on 20 November 2014, after Alex Salmond stood down in the wake of the independence referendum.
At the time, she defeated Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson - whose party is now the second largest in the parliament - by 66 votes to 15, with 39 abstentions.
Ms Davidson did not stand this time, after pledging during the election campaign to form a strong opposition.
Ms Sturgeon said she wanted to use the position of first minister to change Scotland for the better.
Calling on MSPs from all parties to support her nomination, she said the SNP had won an "overwhelming mandate to govern", and that she had a "mandate to continue as first minister".
She added: "I will lead a government that seeks to win votes, not simply by the force of our numbers, but by the strength of our arguments - and by the support we are able to build for our policies in the country as a whole.
"And we will not assume a monopoly of wisdom. Good ideas exist across the parliamentary chamber and I promise that we will always seek to judge them on merit, rather than on their party of origin.
"That is the open, inclusive and outward looking approach to government that I will endeavour to take."
Ms Sturgeon paid tribute to the "colourful" campaign Mr Rennie had run during the election, and joked that if the vote were tied, they would race down a "giant inflatable slide" to decide who got the job.
Mr Rennie said he had put himself forward to underline that Holyrood does not have an overall majority government, saying all the parties are minorities.
He joked that when he told his son that he was going to put himself forward for the post of first minister, he said "oh dad, you're not are you?"
The Lib Dem leader also took the chance to underline his party's top policy priorities, including education, mental health and civil liberties.
Each of the party leaders was given a moment to speak after the vote, with each congratulating Ms Sturgeon on her victory.
Ruth Davidson, speaking for the first time as the leader of the biggest opposition party after her Conservatives leapfrogged Labour in the election, said she would provide "strong opposition" to the SNP.
She said Scotland was about to "embark on a new chapter for devolution".
Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said she hoped Ms Sturgeon used her mandate as first minister to be bold. She said Holyrood had to "shape the future" and not be held prisoner by the past.
Patrick Harvie, whose Greens overtook the Lib Dems into fourth place, urged Ms Sturgeon to "look to those who oppose austerity" for support when deciding budgets, and called for the government to raise its game on climate change.
The SNP has said it will form a minority government after winning 63 of the 129 seats in the election, which also saw the Conservatives win 31 seats, Labour 24, the Scottish Greens six and the Liberal Democrats five.
The post of first minister has previously always been held by the leader of the largest single party in the Scottish Parliament.
But Liberal Democrat Jim Wallace, who was then the deputy first minister - stepped in on a temporary basis when Labour's Donald Dewar became ill, and again when Mr Dewar died in October 2000.
Mr Wallace also found himself in the hot seat when Labour's Henry McLeish quit as first minister in 2001 following a row over the sub-letting of his constituency office in Glenrothes.
Norbert Szoke, 28, and Rebecca Szoke, 22, are accused of four counts of fraud by false representation.
Police charged the pair after five patients at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, had bank cards stolen, or had the card details photographed.
Mr Szoke has also been charged with stealing medical equipment from the hospital.
The bank cards, which were used to withdraw cash and purchase goods fraudulently, were stolen between March 2015 and April this year.
Mr and Ms Szoke, both of Mount Lane, Bracknell, are due to appear at Slough Magistrates Court on 16 August.
Melbourne-based political satirist Huw Parkinson has used clips of the US Republican presidential candidate in a new video for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Insiders show.
In it, real quotes and speeches made famous by Mr Trump have been spliced with scenes from the hit HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.
The two-and-a-half-minute long video has already been viewed close to 200,000 times on YouTube and attracted more than 1,000 comments.
"Dirty politics, tension between nations and the pursuit of power - Trump would totally fit in on Game of Thrones," commented YouTube user Meredith Don.
Another user Gillian Walsh said: "Trump's political rallies fit in perfectly on such a violent show. Am I the only one who finds that scary?"
"Donald Trump is Joffrey all grown up," said another user referencing one of the most infamous villains on the show.
The mash-up begins with Mr Trump turning away lead character Daenerys Targaryen, played by British actress Emilia Clarke, and her followers from the fictional city of Qarth.
"We have a tremendous problem and we can't be the stupid country any more," he tells the Mother of Dragons, when she pleads for him to open his kingdom's gates to allow her people in.
The real-life quote came from a Republican debate in January when Mr Trump was asked about Mexican and Muslim migrants entering the United States.
A heated exchange between Pope Francis and Mr Trump was also featured prominently in the video, where he was seen blasting his critics.
Last week, the Pope questioned the US Republican presidential candidate's Christianity and condemned his call to build a border wall with Mexico.
"The Pope was in Mexico and he said negative things about me. Donald Trump is a very nice person," he tells a council of appointed advisors in the clip.
Wall politics continue with another central plot of the show featured in the video.
A group of men known as the Night's Watch who guard a magnificent giant wall built to keep out a supernatural threat known as the White Walkers.
Mr Trump also makes an appearance here, expressing the merits of the wall in keeping intruders away.
"We have no border, we have no control. People are flooding across - we need to build a wall and it has to be built quickly," a recycled recording of Mr Trump reads.
"The greatest builder is me and I will build the greatest wall you have ever seen.
"And in that wall, we're going to have a big fat door where people can come into the country but they'll have to come in legally."
Reporting by the BBC's Heather Chen.
Reginald Watson, who served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, died on 23 November aged 90.
The Reverend Mandy Bishop, of Ormesby St Margaret, Norfolk, made a social media plea for mourners to attend his funeral after learning that he faced a pauper's service.
She said she was "overwhelmed" by the response.
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Ms Bishop organised the funeral and burial and posted details on Facebook.
During the service, at St Margaret's Church in the village, she described Mr Watson as a "quiet, unassuming" man.
She said he had treasured his army certificate of service book and was a "perfect gentleman".
Mr Watson enlisted in Norwich in January 1945 at the age of 18. He was initially in the General Service Corps and then in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.
He served his country until 1948.
The funeral saw Royal British Legion standard-bearers line the path from the hearse to the church and bagpipes played.
Mr Watson's neighbour, Ernie Brown, told of his memories of "Reggie" before The Last Post was played.
Roy Medcalf, 76, of Smallburgh, attended the service after he saw details posted on Facebook.
He said: "You can't let an old soldier go on his own.
"They may fade away but they're never forgotten."
Mr Watson lived in the same house in Ormesby St Margaret, near Great Yarmouth, almost all of his life.
He spent his final six months at Carlton Court Hospital at Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft.
During his lifetime, Mr Watson worked on farms and at a corn grinding mill.
Ms Bishop said he never complained, despite his treatment for cancer.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek scored twice, and Solly March and Cauley Woodrow were also on target, as England swept aside another team to have qualified for June's tournament in Poland.
It followed Sunday's underwhelming 1-0 loss against Germany.
England face holders Sweden in their tournament opener on 16 June.
Chelsea midfielder Loftus-Cheek, a second-half substitute against Germany, was the central figure against the Danes.
He opened the scoring by slotting in Jacob Murphy's low cross, and completed the rout by finishing off a pass from Jack Grealish.
In between, March curled in a superb left-footed strike from the corner of the area, and Woodrow turned in Kortney Hause's knockdown.
"I didn't underestimate the opposition," coach Aidy Boothroyd told BT Sport. "They are at the European finals so it makes it even more special to get the result we did.
"Ruben was terrific. But the reason he was terrific is he had 10 other players who worked really hard for him.
"He still has things to do in certain aspects of his game, but they all do."
Match ends, Denmark U21 0, England U21 4.
Second Half ends, Denmark U21 0, England U21 4.
Joseph Gomez (England U21) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Rasmus Nissen Kristensen (Denmark U21).
Attempt missed. Kasper Junker (Denmark U21) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Mikkel Duelund.
Corner, Denmark U21. Conceded by Joseph Gomez.
Foul by Will Hughes (England U21).
Lasse Vigen Christensen (Denmark U21) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Lasse Vigen Christensen (Denmark U21) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Mikkel Desler.
Attempt missed. John Swift (England U21) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Demarai Gray.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (England U21) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jakob Blåbjerg (Denmark U21).
Substitution, Denmark U21. Emiliano Marcondes replaces Christian Nørgaard.
Attempt saved. Christian Nørgaard (Denmark U21) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Foul by Will Hughes (England U21).
Mikkel Desler (Denmark U21) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Demarai Gray (England U21) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is too high. Assisted by Will Hughes.
Substitution, Denmark U21. Patrick Banggaard replaces Andreas Maxso.
John Swift (England U21) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Nørgaard (Denmark U21).
Substitution, England U21. Tammy Abraham replaces Cauley Woodrow.
Attempt blocked. Mikkel Duelund (Denmark U21) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Nørgaard.
Goal! Denmark U21 0, England U21 4. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (England U21) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.
Corner, England U21. Conceded by Andreas Maxso.
Attempt blocked. Cauley Woodrow (England U21) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Denmark U21. Conceded by Kortney Hause.
Attempt saved. Jack Grealish (England U21) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Demarai Gray with a cross.
Corner, England U21. Conceded by Jakob Blåbjerg.
Substitution, Denmark U21. Kasper Junker replaces Mikkel Uhre.
Substitution, England U21. Demarai Gray replaces Solly March.
Goal! Denmark U21 0, England U21 3. Cauley Woodrow (England U21) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Kortney Hause (England U21) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Solly March with a cross.
Corner, England U21. Conceded by Andreas Hansen.
Attempt saved. Cauley Woodrow (England U21) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek.
Attempt missed. Solly March (England U21) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Jack Grealish (England U21) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jakob Blåbjerg (Denmark U21).
Corner, Denmark U21. Conceded by Angus Gunn.
Attempt saved. Mikkel Duelund (Denmark U21) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Nørgaard.
Foul by Jack Grealish (England U21).
Deliveries of soya and corn to one of Brazil's main ports, Paranagua, have slowed, the authorities said.
The protest has affected production in many rural areas and has led to localised shortages of fuel.
Farmers in the main meat, soya bean and milk producing regions of the country say their silos are full.
The road leading to Brazil's busiest port, Santos, is one of those blocked.
Police clashed with drivers, fired tear gas and arrested seven people, but failed to clear access to the port.
The government has invited the protest leaders for a meeting in Brasilia to try to reach an agreement.
The protest, which began last week, has now spread to many central and southern states: Rio Grande do Sul, Parana, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goias, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo.
The situation is particularly worrying in western Mato Grosso state, which accounts for most of the Brazilian production of soya beans.
Some 50% of the soya produced in the state has already been harvested, according to Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
But much of the output is waiting in silos or lorries to be transported to other parts of the country or exported.
Lee Casciaro's second-half goal did the damage, the Ministry of Defence police officer outfoxing Efe Ambrose to score.
Leigh Griffiths twice hit the bar, but Celtic could not salvage anything from Brendan Rodgers' first game in charge.
The second leg is at Celtic Park next Wednesday.
And while the Scottish champions remain favourites to progress to the third qualifying round, serious improvement will be needed.
The result was no more than Lincoln Red Imps deserved, a team containing a fireman, a policeman and a taxi driver having more than matched their illustrious opponents after completing shifts at their day jobs.
European performance will be the yardstick by which Rodgers is judged, with Champions League defeats against Malmo, Maribor and Legia Warsaw casting a shadow over predecessor Ronny Deila's two years in charge.
Rodgers spoke pre-match of his pride in taking charge of the former European champions for the first time but the reality is that this will rank as the most embarrassing result of his career to date.
A goalless first half perhaps gave some indication of the task facing Celtic.
The visitors dominated possession from the start but struggled to find their rhythm, on a less-than-ideal artificial surface and in the face of a tigerish Red Imps side who defended well, impishly swarming around Griffiths and Moussa Dembele at every turn.
The hosts had the first chance when Liam Walker forced a routine save from goalkeeper Craig Gordon after some tidy approach play, while moments later Celtic had a goal disallowed after Dembele jumped with goalkeeper Raul Navas to contest a Scott Brown free kick.
Celtic needed to up the ante in the second half but it was the Red Imps who struck.
Casciaro - who scored Gibraltar's first competitive goal, against Scotland at Hampden in March 2015 - got on the end of a long ball, turned Ambrose and prodded in.
Just two minutes later, a shell-shocked Celtic had a let off when Antonio Calderon scampered away from a quick free-kick but fired inches over Gordon's crossbar.
With Celtic facing what Imps captain and customs officer Roy Chipolina said would be the biggest shock in European football history, Griffiths smashed a shot off the crossbar.
Rodgers, who had earlier introduced James Forrest and Stuart Armstrong, went to the well for the final time and introduced Nadir Ciftci for the ineffective Dembele but the Turk found the lack of service just as frustrating.
Griffiths rattled the crossbar once more from a free kick, and Nir Bitton was denied a tap-in on the rebound by a superb Ryan Casciaro tackle.
Navas then denied Ciftci from a header, palming the ball away, but lacklustre Celtic were left humbled and humiliated by the effervescent underdogs.
Match ends, Lincoln Red Imps FC 1, Celtic 0.
Second Half ends, Lincoln Red Imps FC 1, Celtic 0.
Substitution, Lincoln Red Imps FC. Keneth Chipolina replaces Yeray.
Substitution, Lincoln Red Imps FC. Anthony Bardon replaces Liam Walker.
Substitution, Lincoln Red Imps FC. George Cabrera replaces Lee Casciaro.
Substitution, Celtic. Nadir Ciftci replaces Moussa Dembele.
Substitution, Celtic. Stuart Armstrong replaces Tomas Rogic.
Substitution, Celtic. James Forrest replaces Ryan Christie.
Kyle Casciaro (Lincoln Red Imps FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Lincoln Red Imps FC 1, Celtic 0. Lee Casciaro (Lincoln Red Imps FC) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.
Second Half begins Lincoln Red Imps FC 0, Celtic 0.
First Half ends, Lincoln Red Imps FC 0, Celtic 0.
Efe Ambrose (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The 67-year-old has agreed with his fellow shareholders a price at which he could take a majority shareholding if he can raise the necessary money.
Dennis owns 25% of the McLaren Group, long-time partner Mansour Ojjeh 25% and the Bahraini royal family's Mumtalakat investment fund the remaining 50%.
All parties will remain shareholders if the deal is finalised.
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A McLaren spokesman said: "No transaction has taken place, but the shareholders have had discussions on how to best facilitate and enhance the future growth of the McLaren Group.
"When and if a transaction takes place, it is not envisioned that the current shareholders will exit McLaren completely, and announcements would be made at the appropriate time."
Dennis has not yet raised the money required to buy the shares he would need to take his holding past 50%, and the other shareholders are not obliged to sell if he does.
McLaren refused to say how much Dennis needed to raise, but the company is said to be worth about £1bn so he would require at least £250m.
BBC Sport has learned the Bahrainis want to remain involved in McLaren, contrary to speculation.
It is widely known within F1 that there has been tension at board level at McLaren in recent months following the deterioration of the relationship between Dennis and Ojjeh.
The two joined forces in McLaren in the early 1980s and have been business partners ever since.
But they have been at loggerheads recently over professional and personal issues.
Ojjeh, 62, has been back to health since the summer after surviving two double lung transplants over the winter of 2013-14.
Diane James has not appeared at any hustings, saying she can answer more of activists' questions at her own events.
But her rival Philip Broughton said her stance was "bang out of order".
The winner of the leadership contest, triggered by the resignation of Nigel Farage, will be announced on 15 September.
MEP Bill Etheridge, councillor Lisa Duffy and activist Elizabeth Jones complete the line-up.
Mr Broughton, a former Conservative councillor and UKIP parliamentary candidate, said: "I'm not happy with the tactics of no debate; no communications, no openness - which is what a leadership debate should be all about.
"This is supposed to be about the future direction of the party and one candidate is stopping that from happening."
He added: "It's unopen, undemocratic and bang out of order".
Ms James, UKIP's deputy chairwoman and justice and home affairs spokeswoman, defended her absence from hustings in a recent BBC interview.
She said there was "no need" for her to debate with her rivals, saying her own programme of events around the country allowed her to take more questions from party activists.
"I am more interested in what will convince individual members and activists that I have got an answer to their direct questions."
Mr Broughton said he was not making a "personal attack" on Ms James, but added that "members need to know what's going on".
Mr Etheridge joined the criticism on Thursday, accusing Ms James of conducting a "coronation tour" rather than a campaign and telling her: "Get down off your thrown and have a debate."
As well as the UKIP-organised debates, Mr Broughton and Mr Etheridge both claimed they had been asked to be involved in two BBC hustings which were now not going ahead as planned after Ms James declined to be involved.
These were on the Victoria Derbyshire programme and on BBC Essex, Mr Broughton said.
The BBC said the Victoria Derbyshire programme hosted a UKIP leadership debate on 2 August 2016 and would continue to report developments in the contest as they happen.
It is understood that the programme had not confirmed or scheduled a follow-up hustings and any discussions about them were speculative.
BBC Essex is understood to have changed the format of its coverage after Ms James and another candidate declined to take part.
Ms James said she had not been notified that the hustings had been cancelled and declined to comment further.
Daniel Ritchie, 25, of Carrbridge, had earlier admitted causing Greg Anderson's death by driving dangerously on 6 July 2013.
Twenty-one-year-old Mr Anderson was from Kingussie.
Ritchie has also been disqualified from driving for five years. The crash happen on the C1119 near Carrbridge.
Judge Lord Boyd of Duncansby told Ritchie he had driven while his ability to control the car was impaired by the consumption of alcohol, and he drove at grossly excessive speed.
The judge said if Ritchie had been convicted of the offence after a trial he would have jailed him for five years.
Lord Boyd said that he took into account that Ritchie was a first offender, that the person who died was a friend, that he had shown remorse and was also injured in the incident.
The judge said: "You stand in the dock of the High Court because through your actions on 6 July 2013 you are criminally responsible for the death of Greg Anderson."
The judge said he had heard of the impact the death had on Mr Anderson's family and added: "In a small community however his death would have been keenly felt far beyond his family."
Ritchie had written a letter expressing his remorse and Lord Boyd told him: "I have little doubt that if you could turn the clock back you would do that."
The judge said the vehicle involved in the collision, a Vauxhall Corsa fitted with a two-litre engine, was a powerful car.
Lord Boyd said: "He owned it and he drove it. I accept he himself did not modify it."
Mr Anderson and his girlfriend had gone to Carrbridge to attend a 21st birthday party and spent the night socialising.
Ritchie was also at the party and during the course of it mentioned to one witness that he was "feeling quite drunk", the court heard.
One person at the event recalled that Ritchie had offered to show Mr Anderson his car. The two of them then left the party.
A witness noticed a light gold car passing on Carr Road, Carrbridge, at speed and another heard it accelerate.
Sirens were heard a short time later.
Ritchie lost control of the car on the single track road, struck a fence and hit a tree.
The Briton, 24, who has finished his degree since winning his light-heavyweight medal at the Games, has signed with promoters Matchroom Boxing.
"We have an outstanding talent in Joshua Buatsi," said promoter Eddie Hearn. "He'll be on all our major shows and we will push him to the top."
Buatsi will face an unnamed opponent at London's O2 Arena on his pro debut.
Buatsi follows fellow Rio Olympians Joe Cordina, Lawrence Okolie, Anthony Fowler and Josh Kelly in turning professional.
His bout will feature on the undercard of Frank Buglioni's British light-heavyweight title defence against Ricky Summers.
"It's the right move for me," said Buatsi. "My parents drummed into me about finishing my education. After Brazil I had a year left.
"Everything for me now is boxing. There's competition out there. We're all hungry. It's a brutal sport but I'm ready."
Half of the 10 men and both of the two women who competed for Team GB at the Rio Games have now turned professional, with super-heavyweight silver medallist Joseph Joyce expected to follow.
Buatsi impressed at the Olympics by stopping opponents in his first two matches before winning comfortably in the quarter-finals and eventually losing on points to Kazakhstan's Adilbek Niyazymbetov in the semi-finals.
Kyles maintained their charge with a 2-1 win at Kilmallie and Newtonmore, who have faltered slightly by their own standards this season, squeezed past newly-promoted Glasgow Mid Argyll 1-0 at Yoker.
In the preliminary round of the Camanachd Cup, Skye won the game of the day 4-2 at Beauly, Caberfeidh hammered hosts Inverness 7-2 and Kilmory beat visitors Glenorchy 5-1.
Andrew McCuish and Malcolm Clark put Oban 2-0 up by half-time. Daniel MacVicar and Aidan MacIntyre both scored early in the second half and McCuish got his own second and his team's fifth late on.
Gordon Whyte got Kyles' first at Kilmallie and Mark Graham levelled before half-time. Roddy MacDonald grabbed Kyles' winner three minutes after the restart.
Fraser MacKintosh scored for Newtonmore and Mid Argyll then managed to frustrate the title-holders for the remaining 70 minutes.
A Will Cowie hat-trick helped Skye surge back from 2-0 down at Beauly. Ross Forbes netted in the first minute and Colin MacDonald got Beauly's second.
It took Skye half an hour to respond, with all four goals - including one from Danny Morrison - then coming within 11 minutes.
Alastair MacArthur also contributed a treble as Kilmory swept Glenorchy aside while Caberfeidh's seven included two each from Kevin Bartlett, Martin MacDonald and Inverness own goals.
Newly promoted Strathglass recorded their first National Division win and moved into the top half of the table with a 2-1 success at Inveraray.
The hosts may well have had a penalty when Reid was wrestled to the ground by Javier Manquillo early on.
Dimitri Payet then drew a smart save from Sunderland keeper Jordan Pickford before firing a low strike against the post after some clever footwork on the edge of the box.
Wahbi Khazri had the visitors' best chance after Steven Pienaar's deflected pass put him through on goal, but his tame shot was easily saved by Adrian.
Sunderland must have thought they had earned a point, but Reid turned smartly on the edge of the box from a West Ham corner to fire left-footed past Pickford.
It leaves David Moyes' side bottom of the Premier League with just two points from their first nine games this season.
West Ham's tricky start to life at the London Stadium has been well documented, with Slaven Bilic's side only picking up four points from four Premier League games at their new ground before Sunderland's visit.
Payet's wonder goal salvaged a point against Middlesbrough last time out in east London and eased some of the frustration the home fans have expressed since their move from the Boleyn Ground.
Those claret and blue-clad supporters were growing restless as the Hammers looked to have been held by the division's bottom side, despite dominating in the first half.
Moyes and Sunderland looked content to return home with a point as the former Everton and Manchester United boss threw on defensive reinforcements and watched his side drop deep into their own territory.
But it was a moment of hesitation deep into injury time that caught the visitors out, as a short corner from West Ham was worked to Reid and his effort snuck through a maul of bodies in the box.
Bilic opted to start with three central defenders as the Hammers recorded only their second win of the season at Crystal Palace last week, but the hosts were missing suspended left wing-back Aaron Cresswell, influential to that system, against Sunderland.
The Croat stuck with a back three in Cresswell's absence, handing Edimilson Fernandes a first Premier League start, and the 20-year-old Swiss looked an adept attacking threat, managing four shots on goal and making a key pass for the hosts.
On the other flank was Michail Antonio, the club's top scorer this season, and his pace and energy caused problems for the visitors with the England hopeful managing six crosses, as did his second-half replacement Sofiane Feghouli.
Despite the ammunition, summer singing Simone Zaza was unable to open his West Ham account, though the Italy forward did watch an acrobatic overhead kick drop narrowly wide of Pickford's far post before the break.
Sunderland have staged miraculous escape acts in recent seasons, but with just six goals and two points to show for his tenure so far, Moyes needs his side's fortunes to change quickly if they are to repeat that trick.
They are now only the second team in top-flight history to fail to win any of their opening nine league games in consecutive seasons, with Bury the other in 1905 and 1906.
Jermain Defoe's 15 goals played a big part in the Black Cats' successful survival bid last term, and the former England international has scored four of his side's six goals so far this season.
But the 34-year-old touched the ball just once inside the opposition box in the first half against his old side at the London Stadium and cut an isolated figure.
Moyes, who got the backing of Sunderland chief executive Martin Bain this week, sent his team out with more intent early in the second half with Khazri and Duncan Watmore posing more of a threat, though to no avail.
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Sunderland manager David Moyes: "It was offside. It should be given offside. The referee thinks it is onside.
"You can tell by the referee's movement to the linesman that he is not sure, they weren't sure but it was not a goal.
"I thought the players played well. Not in the opening 20 minutes, they bossed us but we got through it and had good chances. I am very pleased with the performance but not the result."
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West Ham manager Slaven Bilic speaking to BBC Sport: "It was a dramatic end. The first 25 minutes it was by far our best 25 minutes, including last season.
"We were good, sharp, created chances and we deserved to be two up. Then they came back. And in the second half they had great chances and were dangerous on the counter attack but in the last 15 minutes we pushed more and we were looking to score.
"I cannot say it was a goal from the training ground. You expect Winston Reid to score a header but it was a great decision to come in on the edge of the box."
Former England midfielder Danny Murphy:
"David Moyes thought the winner should have been ruled out for offside - and it was tight. But ultimately if you're conceding lots of goals late in games, you have got a problem.
"Players switched off and were not concentrating. As Winston Reid hits it, you can see Jonathan Calleri is in line with Jack Rodwell. It's an inch or two inches but it's not a bad decision. I think the assistant referee has done well."
West Ham are back at the London Stadium in EFL Cup action on Wednesday, when they host rivals Chelsea. Slaven Bilic's side then visit Everton in the Premier League for the 13:30 BST kick-off on Sunday.
Sunderland go to Southampton in the EFL Cup on Wednesday, before Arsenal visit the Stadium of Light in the Premier League's early kick-off on Saturday.
Match ends, West Ham United 1, Sunderland 0.
Second Half ends, West Ham United 1, Sunderland 0.
Goal! West Ham United 1, Sunderland 0. Winston Reid (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dimitri Payet following a corner.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Lynden Gooch.
Attempt missed. Cheikhou Kouyaté (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dimitri Payet with a cross following a set piece situation.
Billy Jones (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card.
Dimitri Payet (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Javier Manquillo (Sunderland).
Sofiane Feghouli (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lynden Gooch (Sunderland).
Substitution, Sunderland. Billy Jones replaces Wahbi Khazri.
Substitution, West Ham United. Ashley Fletcher replaces Manuel Lanzini.
Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sunderland. Paddy McNair replaces Steven Pienaar.
Angelo Ogbonna (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland).
Mark Noble (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lynden Gooch (Sunderland).
Substitution, Sunderland. Lynden Gooch replaces Duncan Watmore.
Attempt missed. Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left.
Dimitri Payet (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Didier Ndong (Sunderland).
Foul by Jonathan Calleri (West Ham United).
Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, West Ham United. Jonathan Calleri replaces Simone Zaza.
Winston Reid (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Hand ball by Jermain Defoe (Sunderland).
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by John O'Shea.
Attempt blocked. Simone Zaza (West Ham United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dimitri Payet.
Mark Noble (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland).
Foul by Pedro Obiang (West Ham United).
Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Edimilson Fernandes (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Dimitri Payet.
Substitution, West Ham United. Sofiane Feghouli replaces Michail Antonio.
Offside, West Ham United. Dimitri Payet tries a through ball, but Simone Zaza is caught offside.
Offside, West Ham United. Adrián tries a through ball, but Simone Zaza is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the right. Assisted by Didier Ndong.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Michail Antonio.
Attempt blocked. Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Unbeaten India reached the final with an eight-wicket win over Sri Lanka, who beat England in the group stages.
But Dhoni said of Alastair Cook's team: "I think they are a very good side, like every side in the tournament.
"This means all of them are strong enough to beat anyone on that particular day and win the trophy."
Played: 86
India wins: 46
England wins: 35
Ties: 2
No-result: 3
The most recent meeting between the teams was a five-match series in India in January which the home side won 3-2.
"England are a very good side. We have played quite often in the last couple of years so we know the same amount about them and they know the same about us," Dhoni observed.
India's opening batsmen Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan have been in prolific form during the Champions Trophy, averaging 90 for the first wicket after partnerships of 127 v South Africa, 101 v West Indies, 58 v Pakistan and 77 against Sri Lanka.
Having restricted the Sri Lankans to 181-8 in the semi-final on an overcast day in Cardiff, Dhoni's team then reached their target with 15 overs remaining, Dhawan adding 68 to his two centuries earlier in the event, and Virat Kohli adding a fluent unbeaten 58.
"I think it is a well-written script, started well by the bowlers," Dhoni said.
"It was a good toss to win, but unfortunately for Sri Lanka they lost [Tillakaratne] Dilshan. We capitalised on that, then the bowlers bowled well - especially the spinners.
"I think it's always important to have good bowlers in your side.
"The bowlers have done really well but still there are a few areas we would like to improve and hopefully the bowlers will take up the responsibility in that area as well."
Although unemployment is lower than the Wales average, it does not tell the whole story about its rural economy.
When you talk to people, it is not about the number of jobs available but what some of them pay.
There are also issues like public transport, which those living in urban areas can easily take for granted.
The charts above show the employment picture in Powys. A higher proportion of people are in jobs than the Welsh average and more are self-employed too.
But it is the types of jobs that are the key - and that includes more part-time workers.
Wages are also lower. The median gross weekly full-time wage in Powys was £414 in 2014; across Wales it was £473.
SMALL BUSINESSES BUT LOWER WAGES
The old Lion works in Newtown used to make bikes after World War II but the shell of the old factory is now a maze of small businesses.
In Powys, nine out of 10 firms have fewer than nine workers.
Former cleaner Kim Gallagher started her laundry business Kim and Co in 2008 when she spotted a gap in the market to serve hotels, holiday lets and families. She employs five people - three part-time workers and two students on minimum wage.
Kim said of the business centre: "Behind all the doors you'll find a different business up and running; some are small, some are large. There are all sorts - one makes blinds, there's carpentry and joinery and plastic moulding.
"There's not really a lot of scope for more [than minimum wage] - a lot of people work for themselves or with a couple of people in the business.
"There are jobs out there if you want to find them - there's a KFC coming down the road, which brings job opportunities. A lot of the young girls are going into caring, I see a lot of that."
TRANSPORT ISSUES
Lack of transport is a big issue in much of rural Wales.
Before Bea Lloyd moved into town she struggled to get to work in Newtown by bus from her home five miles away.
"It depends on the buses and how they go. Sometimes they don't turn up at all, it can be difficult. I was living in Abermule so it was a long walk if there was no bus or I couldn't get a lift, and that was an hour-and-a-half walk."
TOURISM AND FARMING
Tourism is important to rural Wales - cafes, restaurants and hotels employ around one in six people in Powys. Agriculture too is much more important here, making up 11% of the workforce, compared to the Welsh average of 2%.
MANIFESTO HEADLINES FROM THE PARTIES:
MANUFACTURING STILL IMPORTANT
What is surprising is that manufacturing is as important to jobs here as for all of Wales. Those employed in manufacturing make up 11% of the workforce in Powys, exactly the same as the Wales average.
Amongst the hills and the sheep farms is a Welsh-owned company which exports to 80 countries across the world.
In 18 years, Invertek has gone from three local men in an old milking parlour to a firm employing 170 people in Welshpool with a turnover of £24 million.
Their electronic drives make motors more energy efficient and can be found in a host of different industries.
Edd Rayner, innovation projects manager, comes from a farming background and says he wants to see a "balanced economy".
"We don't want to forget our history but there are companies like Invertek showing it can be done and there's no reason we can't have big international companies doing really great things in mid Wales, in the rural economy.
"We need to make sure there are opportunities for those intelligent and knowledgeable people who come from the local area."
How do we help more Welsh firms develop into big players on a world stage?
Another farmer's son is Glyn Jones, one of the founders.
The company is about to open a factory in Shenyang in China.
"The biggest single thing we did was be outward looking," he said.
"I come from mid Wales and live in mid Wales - but we look out to the world, and export 90% of what we produce.
"The infrastructure's good - we're close to Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham airports - and with the internet we're one click away from anywhere.
"It's confidence to use the skills here of local people, there's no reason why others can't follow what we've done. It might look complex from outside what we do but it's electronic Lego."
He regrets the passing of the Welsh Development Agency, which had been a "good, outward looking organisation" but said the Welsh Government was providing generous assistance to let them expand the factory.
RAISING THE VALUE OF WHAT WE DO
The advantage to the Welsh economy of firms like this is they tend to pay higher wages, that get spent locally.
More of the better paid jobs will help raise the GVA of Powys - that is the gross value added to the local economy.
Powys had 65.1% of UK average GVA per head in 2014, lower than the Wales figure - 71.4%.
Invertek technician Daniel Evans told me he was happy with the money he got and said his friends were all in work.
Colleague Alison Jones said there was plenty of work in the area but not all of it was well paid.
"Higher paid jobs would keep younger people in the area," she said.
"Cheaper housing is also what they need. It's difficult to buy a house around here for the youngsters."
And that is the challenge. The more better paid workers there are in the community, the more high spenders, the better it is for a range of local business and the economy.
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The two people going for the job are very different, and the election has got people here and all around the world talking.
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One of the first things to strike Staffordshire's incoming PCC, Matthew Ellis, was the escalating cost to his force of dealing with people with mental illnesses.
He tells us: "When you get a couple of police officers taken off an entire shift simply to look after an individual who hasn't committed a crime and is simply ill, but still sees the inside of a police cell with two police officers checking them to make sure they're ok, it's not the right use of resources and it's certainly not something police officers are qualified to do."
What he is not saying is that it is never the job of the police to intervene, especially out of hours, when mental health-related incidents require urgent and decisive action.
But he is convinced that the police are all too often the agency of last resort when ideally other caring services might have prevented problems escalating to crisis-levels requiring the services of the police.
And inevitably at a time when the police are having to make ever more stringent savings, there is mounting concern about the cost of dealing with people who are mentally ill, estimated at nearly £1m in Staffordshire alone last year.
In 2012, the force attended 15,000 incidents and arrested 169 people solely for the purpose of mental health assessments.
But the cost argument works both ways. If Mr Ellis wants NHS teams to take more active roles upfront, they too would need to be funded to do so.
Would he and his fellow PCCs be prepared to contribute to a single pot of money to make this happen?
The North Staffordshire Combined NHS Trust tell us they work closely with the police in custody facilities to help officers deal with mentally ill detainees. But inevitably, they have strict budget limits of their own.
But it's not just the cost or the resources that worry Matthew Ellis.
His other big concern is that when mentally ill people fall through the gaps in the system and into the hands of the police, their paraphernalia of handcuffs and custody cells is not exactly the kind of therapeutic response these unfortunate people really need.
Staffordshire's Mental Health Review, commissioned by Mr Ellis, makes 12 main recommendations. Among them:
Mr Ellis will be with me in the studio for this week's Sunday Politics from 11:00 BST on BBC One.
This is by way of a co-production with our colleagues on Inside Out Midlands who have been out on patrol with Staffordshire Police to experience some of the challenging realities confronting them out on the ground.
See their findings exclusively on Inside Out with Mary Rhodes at 19.30 on BBC One on Monday.
The Blaenavon concert was two days before the first anniversary of the Swansea Valley Gleision disaster which killed four miners.
Mining in Wales has cost thousands of lives over the decades.
It was their contribution that was celebrated in poetry and song at Big Pit on Thursday.
A piano was lowered into the mine to accompany the performers as they sang underground.
One of them was Dan Curtis, whose great-grandfather was killed in the Senghenydd mining disaster, near Caerphilly, on 4 October 1913, when 439 miners died.
Mr Curtis was joined by writer, actor and musician Boyd Clack.
Former miners formed part of the underground audience, who included First Minister Carwyn Jones.
Of the memorial concert, Mr Jones said: "It was an opportunity, not just to remember those who've been killed underground and those who've suffered hardship through the mining industry, but also to remember the culture that mining communities inspired, the way of life and the mark that mining communities continue to make on Welsh life."
David Powell, 50, Charles Breslin, 62, Philip Hill, 44, and Garry Jenkins, 39, were the latest Welsh miners to lose their lives underground when they died at Gleision Colliery almost exactly a year ago.
Their bodies were recovered from the mine 24 hours later after initial hope that rescue teams might be able to find them alive.
Post-mortem examinations confirmed all four men died as a result of flooding in the pit.
More than £1m has been raised through a public appeal, which will be shared between the families of the four men.
It follows the death of a petrol-soaked man who burst into flames after he was shot by a Taser in Plymouth.
An inquest jury decided that the stun gun was the most likely cause of the fire which engulfed and killed him.
The IPCC recommended that the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing (CoP) revise their Taser training.
Andrew Pimlott, 32, died five days after he was shot by a Taser in the back garden of his parents' home in Plymouth, Devon in April 2013.
Two officers went to the address after Mr Pimlott's father called 999 reporting his son was breaching a restraining order imposed by magistrates to stay away from the house.
After they arrived Mr Pimlott poured petrol over himself and lit a match.
PC Peter Hodgkinson fired a Taser at Mr Pimlott, telling the inquest he was trying to prevent Mr Pimlott from harming himself.
The IPCC said: "Tasers should only be considered for use in the presence of flammable substances as a last resort, and after every other available option has been considered and discounted."
Mr Pimlott's family said after the inquest they had concerns about the use of Tasers near flammable substances and "that the officers did not attempt to try to resolve the situation by communicating with Andrew instead".
In October prosecutors rejected a criminal prosecution for gross negligence manslaughter and misconduct for PC Hodgkinson.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found there was a case to answer for gross misconduct, but in March an internal misconduct panel cleared the constable.
Defender Dickie, who returned to the club on loan from Reading this week, netted the opener as he turned in Dayton's low corner from the right in the 16th minute.
Dayton added the second six minutes later as he seized on a poor pass from Danny Hollands and applied a simple finish past Ben Garratt.
The home side were on top throughout the first half with James Rowe setting Billy Waters up for a good chance against his old club, but he curled his effort wide early on.
Crewe improved after the break without seriously testing Cheltenham goalkeeper Russell Griffiths, who had a quiet afternoon.
Waters sent another effort wide from Amari Morgan-Smith's pass in the 79th minute.
The closest the Alex came to pulling one back was when Callum Ainley's low effort deflected off defender Jordan Cranston and past the right post and Alex Kiwomya had a shot blocked in the six-yard box in the 84th minute.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
REACTION: Cheltenham manager Gary Johnson speaks to BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Match ends, Cheltenham Town 2, Crewe Alexandra 0.
Second Half ends, Cheltenham Town 2, Crewe Alexandra 0.
Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Danny Parslow.
Foul by Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town).
Oliver Turton (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Robert Dickie.
Attempt missed. Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Danny Parslow.
Foul by Jack Barthram (Cheltenham Town).
Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Amari Morgan-Smith replaces Daniel Wright.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Callum Ainley replaces Danny Hollands.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Jack Barthram replaces James Rowe.
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt missed. Danny Parslow (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Jon Guthrie.
Attempt missed. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Daniel O'Shaughnessy.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Danny Whitehead replaces James Dayton.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Harry Pell.
Attempt missed. Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Danny Parslow.
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra).
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra).
Second Half begins Cheltenham Town 2, Crewe Alexandra 0.
First Half ends, Cheltenham Town 2, Crewe Alexandra 0.
Daniel O'Shaughnessy (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra).
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. James Jones replaces George Cooper.
Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
David Slater, from Coleford in the Forest of Dean, said the web-based encyclopaedia had repeatedly refused to remove the image from its site.
He said there had been no interest from anyone in buying the image since it was declared to be in the "public domain".
The site said Mr Slater did not own the copyright as he did not take the photo.
Mr Slater told BBC News he relied on the income from his photographs to make his living.
"I made £2,000 [for that picture] in the first year after it was taken. After it went on Wikipedia all interest in buying it went.
"It's hard to put a figure on it but I reckon I've lost £10,000 or more in income. It's killing my business."
Mr Slater said he spent three days in Indonesia shadowing the monkeys in 2011.
"I became accepted as part of the troop, they touched me and groomed me... so I thought they could take their own photograph.
"I set the camera up on a tripod, framed [the shot] up and got the exposure right... and all you've got to do is give the monkey the button to press and lo and behold you got the picture."
A series of his images brought smiles to faces worldwide as the photos were published, and paid for, in magazines and news websites.
But they also ended up on the web encyclopaedia to illustrate the critically-endangered Macaca nigra - the crested black macaque.
Mr Slater said he had requested that Wikipedia either paid for the use of the image or remove it but neither happened.
The debate about the picture resurfaced on Wednesday as the Wikimedia Foundation published its first transparency report - following a similar practice by Google, Twitter and others.
Later the page containing the image had been "nominated for deletion" on the grounds it is "copyright David Slater", and "Wikimedia is displaying it unlawfully".
Their cause? The banning of Into the River, a teenage novel by New Zealand writer Ted Dawe about a Maori boy who faces bullying and racism and whose sexual encounters and experiences with drugs are described along the way.
Family First, a Conservative lobby group, objected to the novel's descriptions of sex and drug taking and New Zealand's Film and Literature Board of Review agreed, landing the title with an interim ban.
And so the book, which won top prize at the 2013 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, is now being pulled from libraries, schools, and bookshops around the country. Individuals caught distributing or exhibiting it face a fine of NZ$3,000 (£1,230), and companies NZ$10,000.
The small group of protestors in Wellington read Dawe's novel in plain sight, risking a fine for doing so, along with copies of other banned novels from history including Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn and JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
Dawe now joins Salinger in a long list of authors whose novels for children or young adults have been banned or challenged. Here are some other cases from history.
Salinger's famous coming of age novel was banned and challenged in states across the US from 1960 to as recently as 2009. Among the reasons for bans and attempted bans were claims the book is "anti-white" (Ohio, 1963); "communist" (Washington, 1978); "centred around negative activity" (California, 1993); and simply a "filthy, filthy book" (South Carolina, 2001).
Harper Lee's tale of racism in 1930s Alabama has been included on school reading lists for decades but has never been far from controversy. It was banned in Minnesota in 1977 for its use of profanity and challenged frequently in the subsequent decades for its use of an offensive racial epithet. And it remains controversial to this day - sitting at 21 in a list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 2000-2009.
The Harry Potter titles have the dubious honour of being first on the list of most frequently challenged books of 2000-2009, up from number 48 in the previous decade. That may have as much to do with their number and popularity as their perceived offensiveness, but the titles have been frequently challenged and banned by schools around the world.
In 2000 a primary school in Kent banned its pupils from reading the series and 60 Christian schools in Australia did the same the following year. Religious schools in various US states have sought to ban the book over its occult themes and in 2002 people in New Mexico went as far as to stage a public burning of The Philosopher's Stone.
One of the more unusual reasons for banning a book - gay penguins. In 2014 Singapore authorities withdrew library copies of And Tango Makes Three, an illustrated children's book based on the real-life story of two male penguins who hatched an egg at the New York Zoo, on the grounds that it promoted homosexuality. The country's library board said in a statement that it takes "a pro-family and cautious approach" to children's books.
An extended version of the world's most famous diary was in 2010 removed from the syllabus of a Virginia school system in the US after a parent complained that it featured sexually explicit material and homosexual themes.
Among the offending passages was a detailed description by the author of her genitalia which was not included in the original 1947 edition. In 2013 the same passage was accused of being "pornographic" by a mother in Michigan, who launched a formal complaint process to have the title banned but was unsuccessful.
Not the books, but the character of Winnie the Pooh was banned from a Polish playground in 2014 because of his "dubious sexuality" and "inappropriate" dress. The gentle bear was suggested as the face of a new play area in the small town of Tuszyn but was rejected by conservative councillors, one of whom accused the much-loved character of being a "hermaphrodite".
"The problem with that bear is it doesn't have a complete wardrobe," said Ryszard Cichy. "It is half naked which is wholly inappropriate for children."
It was talking animals that did for Lewis Carroll's much-loved 1865 novel, when in 1931 the governor of Hunan province in China said that it was "disastrous" to depict "animals and human beings on the same level" and promptly banned the book.
The adventure story had run afoul of censors as early as 1900, when it was suspended from classroom use at Woodsville High School in Haverhill, New Hampshire, because it contained expletives and sexual references. More recently it has been challenged in some US school districts by parents who feel the story encourages drug use.
Or Where's Waldo in this case, as it was the US version of the famous children's book that offended with a glimpse of a woman's breast. Hard as that sliver of naked breast may have been to find even when trying - it is approximately the size of a single letter in this sentence - it was spotted by eagle-eyed Waldo-finders in Long Island, New York and banned. View below at your discretion.
After the convicted rapist's move to Oldham collapsed, the Professional Footballers' Association chief executive was asked about Evans's insistence that he is innocent.
"He wouldn't have been the first person to be found guilty, maintained their innocence and been proved right. We know what happened with Hillsborough," Taylor told BBC Sport.
"It's now unravelling and very different to how it was portrayed at the time, indeed by the police at the time."
Following a long campaign by families, new inquests are being held to investigate how 96 Liverpool fans died as a result of the Hillsborough stadium disaster on 15 April 1989.
Click here to listen to Taylor's comments.
Taylor did not elaborate further on this point but said it would be "very difficult" for Evans, 26, to stay in football following the League One club's change of heart.
"This Oldham situation has not made things any better for him, so it may well now take some time," said Taylor.
More than 70,000 people signed a petition calling on Oldham not to sign Evans, while a number of campaigners and politicians voiced opposition to the move for the Wales international.
"Having done a sentence, he is entitled to return," said Taylor, adding that then player's cause might be helped now the public knows "he is genuinely apologetic for the consequences of what happened".
The former Manchester City and Sheffield United striker was jailed in April 2012 for raping a woman, 19, at a north Wales hotel in 2011. He was released in October 2014 after serving half of a five-year sentence.
On Thursday, Evans apologised for the "effects of his actions" but continued to maintain his innocence.
He later issued a further statement blaming "mob rule" for the deal's collapse, claiming "the more radical elements of our society" had the "desired influence on some sponsors".
Oldham chief executive Neil Joy said there had been "vile and abusive threats, including death threats, made to our fans, sponsors and staff" over the proposed signing.
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The 17-year-old is one of the youngest members of Team GB out in Rio.
Her three younger sisters, Lisa, Emily and Sophie, are supporting her from back home in the UK.
All three of them are interested in weightlifting too.
Lisa tells Newsround: "In our house it's really competitive - you can be having your breakfast and we're just trying to fit each other up!"
Rebekah finished 10th in the women's 69kg event on Wednesday.
Watch her sisters speaking to Newsround ahead of the competition.
It represents a big increase on the last numbers given by the company, which covered from February to August 2016, although the data overlaps.
Twitter has faced pressure to do more to stop groups such as so-called Islamic State from using its platform.
Last year, MPs said it had become a "vehicle of choice" for spreading extremist propaganda on the internet.
In Twitter's latest transparency report - which covers the period from 1 July to 31 December 2016 - it said internal measures to tackle the issue had improved.
It said that 74% of the accounts it had suspended had been "surfaced" by internal, proprietary spam-fighting tools.
That compares with a third in its previous figures.
It also said it had shut a total of 636,248 accounts for promoting terror since August 2015, when it first began tracking numbers.
That is up from a total of 355,000 reported last summer.
In August last year, the Home Affairs Committee accused Twitter - alongside Facebook and YouTube - of "consciously failing" to combat the promotion of terrorism and extremism on their sites.
The MPs also said Twitter had become a "recruiting platform" for terrorism, and that its rate of suspending accounts at the time was "a drop in the ocean".
Prof Tahir Abbas, a senior research fellow at the think tank Rusi, told the BBC: "Twitter is a powerful instrument in the hands of those who would wish to spread fear and hate but, crucially, mobilise and enable people to carry out actual acts of terrorism.
"But it is heartening to know that both effort and success rates are improving."
He added: "This is especially important, as it is clear that while there are takedowns of various sites... there is a tendency for them to re-emerge elsewhere."
The Department for Transport (DfT) said the tunnel, which would bore through the Peak District, could halve journey times between the two cities.
It described the scheme as "the most ambitious road scheme undertaken in the UK in more than five decades".
The Campaign for Better Transport described the scheme as a "folly" and claimed it would increase pollution.
Bridget Fox, from the group, said: "The enormous sums of money and expertise being spent on this speculative exercise would be better used on proven solutions and improving everyday travel."
The plans would link the M60 motorway east of Manchester to the M1 north of Sheffield.
A feasibility report published last year by Highways England said the project would include a tunnelled section, which could range between 20-30km (12 -19 miles), making it one of the longest road tunnels ever built.
These are very broad brush strokes at the moment, but by carrying out a second strategic study in less than a year the government is showing it is serious about looking at options for a tunnel.
The five routes would all involve motorists from Sheffield heading north up the M1 and then turning off somewhere between Junction 35 (Thorpe Hesley) and Junction 38 (Bretton). Drivers would then head west before entering a tunnel.
The new road would continue and connect up with either the M67 motorway near Tintwistle or at a junction on the M60 near Ashton-under-Lyne.
It would reduce journey times, but would also come at a huge financial cost. The government will set out more detail before the end of 2016.
The DfT said the tunnel "could provide an economic boost to the two cities as well as the surrounding area, as well as reducing traffic through the Peak District National Park".
Transport Minister John Hayes said: "I want people in the north of England to benefit from quicker, more reliable journeys.
"Today's study brings us a step closer to building a Trans-Pennine roads tunnel - it would be the most ambitious project since the construction of the first motorways 50 years ago."
A DfT spokesman said that no timeframe for building the tunnel had been decided, nor had the cost or sources of funding been identified.
A final report on the economic benefits of each route is expected by the end of the year.
Kelvin Loraine, from Durham, began an online relationship with the girl when she was 15, a disciplinary panel heard.
He encouraged her to send him explicit photos of herself, the National College for Teaching and Leadership was told.
The 31-year-old worked at Hetton School, near Sunderland, but the girl was not a pupil.
The panel concluded Mr Loraine, who received a caution from Durham Police in July 2014 for possessing an indecent photograph of a child, should never work in a classroom again.
He met the girl, who cannot be named, on an online chatroom in March 2013 when she was 15 years old.
He encouraged her to send him between 30 and 40 sexually explicit pictures of herself, but claimed they did not have sex until after her 16th birthday at a hotel in Plymouth.
The panel said the pair entered into the "slave contract" shortly after she turned 16.
It said Mr Loraine's behaviour amounted to serious sexual misconduct.
In its conclusion, the panel said: "The panel have judged the facts to amount to both unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute.
"The panel are satisfied that Mr Loraine's behaviour is incompatible with being a teacher.
"Despite his previous good history as a teacher and his expressions of regret, the panel have recommended that it is both appropriate and proportionate to impose a prohibition order."
Hetton School said Mr Loraine, who taught maths, was suspended when his police caution came to light. He resigned shortly afterwards.
The body of Indiga Daniel Wallace, known as Danny, was discovered in Fisher Street, Tipton, on 11 November.
A post mortem revealed he died as a result of head injuries.
A 30-year-old West Bromwich man was arrested on Wednesday evening on Stafford Road, Wolverhampton. Three men and a woman are on police bail while inquiries continue.
The elephant was found by veterinarians from Aware Trust Zimbabwe in Mana Pools National Park.
He is believed to have been living with the bullet in his head for between three and six weeks.
Mana Pools has long been a target of poachers who kill elephants for their ivory.
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The team sedated him, took an X-ray and cleaned the wound but judged it safer to leave the bullet in place, Dr Lisa Marabini told the BBC.
She said the elephant is believed to be around 25 years old and might require further treatment.
"We think he was shot outside of the park and came into the park for refuge," she said. Hunting areas exist near the park.
She said the elephant, nicknamed Pretty Boy, approached the veterinarians and showed no aggression.
"It's like he knew we were there with the intention of helping him."
If the shot had hit a few centimetres lower down it would have gone into his brain, she explained.
The elephant also had a shoulder injury.
"We suspect he was shot in head first and turned to flee and the poacher put a bullet in his side."
Earlier this year, an Italian father and son were killed by wildlife rangers in Mana Pool during an anti-poaching patrol in an apparent case of mistaken identity.
In April, the force set up Intervene to Protect a Child, to recognise the signs that someone may be sexually abusing or exploiting children.
It also helps officers to be aware of clues which may indicate a child is at risk.
Durham Police has been hosting events for other forces and health and education workers across the UK.
In April, the force set up Intervene to Protect a Child with Mentor Forensic Services to recognise the signs that someone may be sexually abusing or exploiting children.
The force said PCSOs had identified suspicious behaviour after attending the training and had "safeguarded children as a result".
Fans will be able to access club-branded apps to get news, social media content, highlights and betting.
However access to the wider internet would not be possible.
The Football League said "the majority" of clubs had signed up to participate in the deal.
A full list of confirmed participating clubs will be announced after 30 June.
British wi-fi provider Intechnology will implement the service.
In an online article, the Football League said the service would "deliver the complete digital match day experience to supporters".
The free wi-fi would come as a boon to fans who had been frustrated with overloaded mobile networks at half-time, according to Intechnology chief executive Peter Wilkinson.
Having to use 3G or 4G services could also be expensive, he added.
However, wi-fi at sports events does not always prove popular with fans.
In 2014, supporters at PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands protested against the introduction of wi-fi at their club's stadium, saying spectators should pay attention to what is happening on the pitch, not their smartphones.
The nearside wheels came off the William Tracey refuse vehicle on a slip road off the M8, near Paisley, on 31 December last year.
One of them hit and damaged the hearse on Renfrew Road. No-one was injured.
The Traffic Commissioner has now reduced the firm's vehicle licences from 144 to 121 for a 10-week period.
In a written decision issued after a public inquiry, Traffic Commissioner for Scotland Joan Aitken, said: "Had there been proper wheel security processes the loss of these wheels simply would not have happened."
The commissioner acknowledged that while there was no history of adverse incidents for the operator, there had to be some regulatory action as a result of the wheel loss.
She said the sanction imposed would "serve as a marker to the operator".
The order will come into effect at midnight on 19 June.
Even in the context of a long and dramatic history between the two sides that stretches back to 1881, it was an encounter of epic proportions.
On Saturday, they meet at Twickenham again in the Six Nations, Wales confident and with a strengthened team, England desperate for revenge and looking to move within one win of a Grand Slam.
It's the perfect scenario - old enemies, childhood friends and a Triple Crown to boot - but who is going to win?
Let England legend Jeremy Guscott and Wales great Jonathan Davies guide you through the issues.
Davies: The battle of childhood friends Billy Vunipola and Taulupe Faletau - the latter even lived with the Vunipolas while at sixth form - is one to relish.
But who comes out on top in the battle of the two number eights will be dictated by which of them gets the most secure platform from their team-mates.
At the moment Wales' Faletau is the best number eight in world. He's a total all-round player, as shown by his incredible stats in this Six Nations.
Billy Vunipola is a different sort of player, a big ball carrier who causes huge problems for defences - he gives England attacking options and gets them on the front foot.
We will see more of what Vunipola does because it is eye-catching, but while he is the best number eight carrying in midfield, Faletau is the best number eight overall - he has a wider skillset.
Guscott: I'm sure no quarter will be given by either Vunipola or Faletau. They have grown up playing against, as well as alongside, each other. They will look forward to a good tear-up on the pitch and a good catch-up afterwards.
Faletau is much more athletic and uses his feet to evade defenders, whereas Vunipola will draw on his power and weight to help him dominate the contact.
The difference continues in how they play the game.
Vunipola is involved more in attack than defence - getting his hands on the ball more than any other player in the tournament with 58 carries.
Faletau is the opposite, racking up a competition-high of 51 tackles.
If Wales can stop Vunipola they will believe they go a long way to stopping England.
Blind-side flanker Dan Lydiate is likely to be given the responsibility. It is a decent-enough theory, but Dan will have to tidy up his tackling technique after being heavily penalised for failing to wrap his arms in recent games.
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Guscott: The defeat by Wales at the Rugby World Cup in September should motivate England rather than plant any doubts in the minds.
I was part of the England team that lost a Grand Slam decider to Scotland back in 1990. A lot of our players would pull on the memory of that game to help motivate themselves for years to come.
If England lose on Saturday, some in the media will point at it being a hangover from the result six months ago.
However unless England get a decent lead and let it slip or give away too many penalties as they did in the World Cup, I don't believe we can reference it.
The latter of those two things is the more likely. England gave away 12 penalties against Ireland, 15 against Italy and 12 against Scotland - more than the defeated opposition in each match.
Prop Dan Cole has a fair few to his name, while captain Dylan Hartley and back-row pair James Haskell and Chris Robshaw need to be careful as well.
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Davies: Wales' win in the World Cup will be a huge motivational factor for England, but there's no doubt the visitors will go into the game full of confidence.
They had so many injuries before that game it is difficult to understand how they won.
Wales will be stronger on Saturday and a better all-round side - now they have all their players fit they will be more of an attacking threat.
But England are also looking better under Eddie Jones. They are more confident and feeling less pressure, as the new coach takes it off the team.
Davies: The breakdown is always key and Wales have the advantage.
Jones could have picked Maro Itoje at six, with the returning Joe Launchbury and George Kruis in the second row, to give his back row more dynamism.
Instead he has stuck with the industry and experience of Robshaw at blind-side and the physicality of Haskell at open-side.
If Wales can get parity in the scrum, it will play a huge part in the result.
We know Wales have an excellent power game but - and this is not criticism - I think they have the ability to play the game differently when required.
If Plan A is not working on Saturday then I'd like to see them look to go outside 13 and use the pace and guile of Liam Williams, George North and Alex Cuthbert out wide.
Guscott: England centre Manu Tuilagi may not have played for England since June 2014, but he can still have an impact, as part of a bench full of big ball-carriers.
Suddenly being required to keep quiet a player with his power after playing 50 or 60 minutes yourself is a tough ask.
I do not envy Dan Biggar, Jamie Roberts and Jonathan Davies.
England have the slightly stronger bench and Tuilagi can run home any England advantage or create the chance that decides a tight game.
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Guscott: Ultimately, I don't think they will.
I hope England can win playing the heads-up rugby we've seen so far from them, with their backs scoring good tries.
A win in that style would go a long way to changing our rugby landscape which is still too focused on defence.
However, I believe Wales will prevail because of their experience of seeing out these winner-take-all matches and the fine-tuning that defence coach Shaun Edwards will have done with his side.
Davies: I don't know if they will. If the scrum is good Wales will win because individually they are better players, but whoever goes best collectively will win it.
Home advantage is a huge factor and either way it will be very tight, but if Wales play to their potential they will win.
Guscott: Wales by two.
Davies: Wales by three or four. Unless the scrum doesn't go well, in which case England by six to nine.
The Edinburgh 22-year-old, likely to be on the bench, believes a good start is essential if the Scots are to build on their World Cup campaign.
"If we can get one over England, that gives us a huge confidence booster and we are right there in the mix.
"If we were to lose, that would obviously be a step back," he said.
"For us, that is not really an option at the moment. We have not really thought about losing."
Scotland have only won one of their last 12 Six Nations matches, have not beaten England since 2008 and not scored a try against them at Murrayfield since 2004.
But the half-back, who has won eight caps since his debut in last year's championship, believes the squad are better prepared mentally under head coach Vern Cotter.
"We have definitely developed as a squad and the mind-set had to change," he said.
"Tournaments are physically and mentally draining and you have to get your mind-set right.
"We need to start this tournament on a real high and go out with full confidence for this first game.
"We are at home, we have got a brilliant squad, a very settled squad and England are not by any means, so there is no reason why we can't."
Scotland may not have beaten England in their last eight attempts, but after taking Australia to the wire in last autumn's World Cup quarter-finals, Hidalgo-Clyne insists self-belief within the squad is strong.
"One thing Scotland hasn't had much success with previously is believing in ourselves," he added.
"But this is one of the most dangerous teams Scotland have had. There is huge confidence around the squad and we have to take that and believe in ourselves.
"The tickets were sold out months ago, the fans are going to be right behind us and we are really looking forward to next week."
Urooj Khan, 46, died suddenly as he was about to collect almost $425,000 (£264,000), but his death was initially attributed to natural causes.
The local coroner reopened his case after a relative came forward.
Chicago police confirmed they were now investigating Khan's death as a homicide.
"It's pretty unusual," Cook County Medical Examiner Stephen Cina said, commenting on the rarity of cyanide poisonings. "I've had one, maybe two cases out of 4,500 autopsies I've done."
Mr Cina's office found that Khan died shortly after ingesting a lethal dose of cyanide.
Urooj Khan said he had sworn off gambling after making a trip to Saudi Arabia for the Muslim hajj pilgrimage, local store employee Ashur Oshana told the Associated Press.
Khan, who owned several dry cleaning stores, was named as the lottery winner and presented with a giant cheque in an Illinois lottery ceremony days after purchasing his winning ticket.
"Winning the lottery means everything to me," he said on 26 June, adding that he would put some of his winnings into his business and donate money to a children's hospital.
He opted to take his winnings in a lump sum of just over $600,000, which amounted to about $425,000 after taxes.
Khan's winner's cheque was issued on 19 July, the day before he died, but was cashed on 15 August.
If a lottery winner dies, the money typically goes to his or her estate, a spokesman for the Illinois lottery said.
At the time, the medical examiner's office did not generally perform autopsies on those older than 45 unless the death was suspicious. A basic toxicology screening came back negative and Khan's death was ruled a result of the narrowing and hardening of his arteries.
Deborah Blum, a poisons expert, said cyanide would taste strongly bitter.
The poison, Ms Blum said, disrupts the ability of cells to transport oxygen around the body, causing a convulsive, violent death. A lethal dose can kill within five minutes.
"It essentially kills you in this explosion of cell death," she told AP. "You feel like you're suffocating."
The medical examiner's office reopened the case and tested for a range of chemicals after a relative asked authorities to look into the case further.
Mr Cina refused to identify the relative.
The new vessel had returned to service between the UK and the Channel Islands after being cancelled on Saturday because of engineering problems.
Eyewitnesses reported protests and police at the scene at the departure point after it was overbooked due to a "systems error".
The company said it would carry out a "thorough investigation".
In a statement it said: "Unfortunately Liberation's departure was delayed because a small number of passengers prevented other passengers from boarding the ship.
"Because of tidal restrictions in Jersey, the master had to make the difficult decision to sail before she was fully loaded.
"He is now trying to make up as much time as possible in order to maintain today's schedule."
The protests prevented a further 69 vehicles and their passengers from boarding the ferry.
Laurence Hall, who missed the ferry, said he had been told of passengers lying on the ground at check-in to Poole Harbour and cars lined up so nobody else could get through to the ferry.
"It's a form of protest, and as soon as three police cars turned up everybody fled.
"It's quite a surreal situation to be honest. You kind of expect to be delayed after the technical issues that Condor has experienced in the past week, but when you turn up and police cars drive through the check-in point with their lights flashing and then you hear rumours of a public protest it's not what's expected," he said.
"There are queues of passengers trying to get rebooked at check-in, one police car is still here, and Condor staff are trying to calm passengers."
The company has rebooked passengers on Monday's sailings and arranged accommodation in Poole.
Fran Collins, executive director of operations, said: "Whilst we understand and share customers' enormous frustration at the situation, it was disappointing that some of them took action in this way, thereby causing further inconvenience and delay."
She added: "I'd like to sincerely apologise for the disappointment and inconvenience this will cause to those passengers who are affected.
"Our port teams have been working flat out and moved swiftly to help affected passengers revise their travel plans and to book them accommodation.
"We will also conduct a thorough investigation to find out how this systems error occurred and ensure that we improve our processes to prevent it happening again."
The ferry is currently operating at a reduced speed following the repairs.
The initial problem with the exhaust system was discovered on Thursday and repairs were carried out.
The £50m Condor Liberation has been the only fast ferry between Guernsey, Jersey and the UK since March.
The draft agreement would improve energy, water and food security in poorer countries, phase out fossil fuel subsidies and boost ocean protection.
But with three days of negotiations left, only 20% has been agreed.
One source close to the talks told BBC News that negotiators had been talking about punctuation, not principles.
The summit is widely seen as a crucial opportunity for leaders to put the global economy on a more sustainable footing.
The draft agreement - titled The Future We Want - is riddled with deletions, many instigated by the US and many by the G77/China bloc of developing nations.
Russia, Japan, the EU and other parties have also objected to key clauses.
The draft has been criticised in some quarters as being too lenient on businesses, especially major banks and commodity corporations.
"The Rio Earth Summit will not bring about the Future We Want, it will provide a stark and distressing reminder of the present we have," said Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International.
"A world in which public health, human rights and sustainable development are subordinate to private profit, shallow national interest and 'business as usual'."
There is also a row over the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs), which would seek to relieve poverty and improve health, education and jobs in developing countries, but along environmentally and socially sustainable lines.
Some aid agencies fear this will result in a watering down of the key commitment to helping people out of poverty, contained in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
There is also a lack of agreement on whether the SDGs should commit rich countries to curbing their consumption of natural resources, in order to leave more for the poor.
In a widely-circulated editorial, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who now runs Green Cross International, contrasted the "optimism and hope" of the Rio Earth Summit 20 years ago with the "cynicism and despair" surrounding this one.
"I feel bitter when I look at the cavernous gulf between rich and poor, the irresponsibility that caused the global financial crisis, the weak and divided responses to climate change, and the failure to achieve the MDGs," he said.
"The opportunity to build a safer, fairer and more united world has been largely squandered."
The eight rounds of formal and informal preparatory talks since the beginning of the year have been bedevilled by problems of substance as well as of process.
Some Western nations, especially the US, appear unwilling to give ground on anything that would help rival up-and-coming economic powers, in particular China.
They, meanwhile, are reluctant to countenance any language that could put a brake on their development.
The summit also falls in a difficult political period, with the US presidential election due later this year, an impending change of Chinese leadership, and many nations struggling under various financial issues.
Following the close of the preparatory negotiations this coming Friday, there will be four days of informal dialogues and other meetings before heads of government and ministers begin the summit proper next Wednesday.
There is widespread disappointment among activists that scores of leaders including the UK's David Cameron, Germany's Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama have chosen to stay away.
The US has however confirmed that its delegation will be led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Hamilton is aiming for a third straight title with Mercedes but has been hit by problems that are likely to cause difficulties later in the year.
He said: "I think to myself every day: 'If you are to win this championship, you are going to have to dig deep.'
"And if you do it, it will feel greater than anything you have experienced."
Hamilton trails team-mate Nico Rosberg by 11 points heading into this weekend's British Grand Prix and was fastest in both sessions at Silverstone on Friday.
But engine problems, which left him down the grid in the early-season races in China and Russia, have meant he has used up more engine parts than planned by this stage of the year.
That means he is likely to receive grid penalties for using more than the permitted number of engine parts later in the season.
"I see it more down to the problems I have had," said Hamilton in an exclusive interview with BBC Radio 5 live. "If I had not had them, I might be in a different position.
"It has been a trying year, but there is no better time to have a difficult year than after two world championship years.
"I can only imagine it is going to get harder and harder."
He added: "Since I was eight years old, I have always believed I can win. I am not super-human.
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"There is never a moment when I doubt my ability. There are weekends when I am not quick enough. But then there are things from outside that could affect the end result and I just remind myself that all I can be is the best I can be.
"All the other stuff is out of my control. It is choice for all of us. I choose to want to be as great as I can be. That is what spurs me forward."
Hamilton was 43 points behind Rosberg after the first four races of the year, all of which the German won.
He closed the gap to nine points with consecutive wins in Monaco and Canada, only for it to open again to 24 points after a poor weekend in Baku, Azerbaijan, where Rosberg won again.
Hamilton's victory in Austria last weekend followed a last-lap collision with Rosberg, for which the German was penalised.
It was the third time in five races the two Mercedes drivers had touched - and their second crash - and team boss Toto Wolff has told them they are on their "final warning".
If they crash again, they have been told, they risk "sporting and financial penalties", which are likely to mean hefty fines - perhaps running into the millions - and suspension from future races.
Hamilton said: "It depends how you interpret what is said. When I sit in the meeting, the first thing I say is: 'I am not going to stop being the racing driver. It is what you hired me to do, what I have grown to be.' Like Ayrton [Senna] said: 'If you are not going for a gap, you are no longer a racing driver.'
"They always say: 'We don't want you to change that. However, there are rules of engagement and the team. All these people, over a thousand people, rely on us to navigate through whatever personal goals we have in the right way so both cars finish.'"
He added: "The good thing is they have not told us we can't race. It is in our hands, which it was before, but there are bigger implications if we allow what has happened a few times now to happen again.
"I want to win in the right way and will do everything in my power to bring it home this weekend and this year and if it doesn't work out there is always next year."
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Collingwood, 37, lifted Durham's third title in six years after their eight-wicket win against Nottinghamshire, with fit-again Cook in attendance.
Cook handed responsibilities to coaches Jon Lewis and Neil Killeen while undergoing recovery.
"All the players wanted to do it for Geoff," Collingwood told BBC Sport.
"When you lose someone people have got to put their hand up and everyone around the club did and kept fighting.
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"We won the title for a third year in 21, it's a great record for a coach who has been around Durham so long."
Collingwood's return to county cricket after an illustrious England career last term led to his appointment as captain toward the back end of the campaign - and a run of five wins from the last six matches.
That form was continued into the current season, with victory against Notts their fifth in succession and 10th in the championship, and adds club honours to the World Twenty20 title he collected as England skipper in 2010.
"It's very, very satisfying," Collingwood said.
"The county season is very gruelling, there's a lot of travel for which you need a lot of fitness."
Following the departure of senior professionals such as Liam Plunkett, Ian Blackwell and Michael Di Venuto last term, Durham were not expected to trouble the title contenders in 2013.
However, a youthful squad, peppered with senior professionals such as Collingwood and Graham Onions, has been potent with bat and ball and sealed the Championship with a game to spare.
The campaign began with the club going cap in hand to the county council for financial help. I don't have enough fingers to count how many national newspaper and website writers wrote them off.
In early August they were easily beaten at Lord's by Middlesex and captain Paul Collingwood had to issue a 'don't panic' warning.
The team pressed on and, with the dressing room galvanised, Durham have been simply breathtaking over the last five weeks.
They have now won a club-record five games in a row and could become the first side to win 11 in a season since the two-division split in 2000.
You can single out many players for praise, but ultimately it has been a team effort and every one of them deserves to celebrate this one to the full.
"For such a young group of lads to win the Championship it really does put us in good stead for the future.
"A lot of decisions that are made here at the club are made for the next five to 10 years, and for the guys to respond and take responsibility on like they have over the whole season really does put us in good stead."
This season's success is likely to bring an end to the Durham careers of several players from the 2013 squad, with Mitch Claydon already confirmed to leave, and uncertainty regarding the future of Steve Harmison and Will Smith.
"In many ways that's probably the real regret of the season. The financial situation at the club means we have to lose a lot of players and players we don't want to lose, players who have put their hands up at the right times and put in big performances for us," Collingwood continued.
"They've been absolutely magnificent for this club and they've been driven by their own personal pride in many ways.
"I do take my hats off to the guys who keep fighting for Durham and knowing that its probably going to be their last year for them.
"We've still got a strong core of good young players that are going to drive us on for the next 10 years.
"As long as we keep hold of them and as long as they have the ambition, which I am sure they will, this club will be safe and well."
The influential Institute for Fiscal Studies will scrutinise the chances of the deficit being cleared by 2019-20.
Mr Osborne said his Budget "puts the next generation first".
But Labour attacked the decision to save billions by 2020 with cuts to disability payments.
The Opposition did give a cautious welcome to the the chancellor's headline-grabbing announcement, raising £530m with a tax on the sugar content of soft drinks.
Other key Budget measures included:
Despite warning of a "dangerous cocktail" of global risks, Mr Osborne told MPs he was still on course to eliminate the deficit by 2020, by making extra spending cuts.
But BBC political correspondent Alex Forsyth said independent analysts were warning this could be "very difficult" and saying the chancellor was "shuffling money around" to meet his self-imposed rules.
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Mr Osborne is also facing a rebellion on the "tampon tax" from MPs across the House of Commons.
Currently VAT is charged at 5% on sanitary items, the lowest rate allowable under EU law.
But over 300,000 people have signed a petition calling for sanitary items to be exempted from tax altogether.
35g
The amount of sugar in a 330ml can of Coca-Cola (7 teaspoons)
30g
The recommended max. intake of sugar per day for those aged 11+
£520m The amount George Osborne expects the sugar tax to raise
In his Budget Mr Osborne said the proceeds of the tax would be distributed among women's organisations.
But many MPs are believed to be unhappy and could support an amendment pushing for the tax to be abolished.
The issue has also gathered the support of Eurosceptic Conservative MPs, with up to 50 Tory MPs said to back an amendment to the Finance Bill.
Mr Osborne said the proceeds from the tax on sugary drinks would be spent on primary school sports in England, with the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland free to decide how to spend their share.
The tax, which was welcomed by campaigning celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, will be levied on the volume of the sugar-sweetened drinks companies produce or import.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said it could result in a "pretty substantial price rise" on products - as much as 80% on, for example, a two-litre bottle of own-brand cola.
In other Budget announcements, Mr Osborne committed £300m for transport projects, and announced every state in England would be forced to become an academy.
The OBR also said the government was going to breach its own welfare cap in every remaining year of this Parliament.
The additional spending is mainly caused by more people than expected being eligible for disability benefits, with the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) scheme costing £3bn more than expected in July.
Responding for Labour, Jeremy Corbyn delivered the Opposition's response, describing Mr Osborne's Budget as "the culmination of six years of his failures" which had "unfairness at its core", while shadow chancellor John McDonnell described the scale of cuts to disability payments as "morally reprehensible".
Higher commodity prices and domestic demand were credited with pushing February's imports up 38.1% on a year earlier.
But exports unexpectedly fell 1.3%, giving a trade deficit of $9.2bn for the month.
China's monthly imports last exceeded exports in February 2014.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast China would have a monthly trade surplus of $25.8bn.
The country's economic data from January and February can be distorted by the long holidays, which see businesses slowing down and often cutting back operations or closing completely.
And most analysts agree that the latest data is just a blip, with a surplus inevitable again once the impact of the holidays tails off.
"The latest trade data suggest that, seasonal distortions aside, both exports and imports strengthened at the start of 2017," said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics.
"However we doubt that the current pace of import growth can be sustained. It is only a matter of time before we see a slowdown in domestic demand."
With the Chinese economy expanding at its slowest pace in 26 years in 2016, Beijing is likely to be heartened by the latest import figures, as it looks for signs of improvement.
Leaders are trying to rebalance the economy, reducing reliance on state investment and exports, and growing more through domestic consumption.
At the weekend, Premier Li Keqiang used his speech at the country's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC) to cut China's annual growth target to 6.5%.
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China's trade balance was thrust back into the spotlight by Donald Trump during the US presidential election campaign.
He ramped up his protectionist rhetoric accusing Beijing of not giving US firms access to key Chinese markets, and of making it impossible for US firms to compete with Chinese imports because the value of the Chinese currency was kept artificially low.
However, since coming to office, Mr Trump has held off officially calling China a currency manipulator.
Alexander Bain was given the honour for his pioneering work in the transmission of images.
The inventor was born at Watten in Caithness in 1810 and died in poverty in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, in 1877.
The Emmys are a series of awards for television excellence - the equivalent of the Oscars in the film industry.
Bain's invention is said to be one of the fundamental principles of television.
The honour was awarded at the 67th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas in January.
During his lifetime, Bain's achievements included the invention of the electric clock and important contributions to the electric telegraph, but he is perhaps best known as the inventor of the fax machine, which he patented in 1843.
The invention, which came 33 years before the patent was given for the telephone, contained the fundamentals of what would become television.
It was the first time an image had been scanned from one location to another.
His invention was so advanced that it would be another 80 years before the breakthroughs which led to modern television's development.
East Dunbartonshire Council, which maintains Bain's gravestone in the Old Aisle Cemetery in Kirkintilloch, has been chosen as custodian of the Emmy award.
Council leader Rhondda Geekie said: "Arrangements are now being made to have the Emmy put on public display in the Auld Kirk Museum in Kirkintilloch so everyone can have the opportunity to see this prestigious award and learn more about the work of Alexander Bain.
"Bain's achievements have gone relatively unnoticed in the 138 years since his death and it is important that we play our part in helping to bring his innovative work to the attention of a new generation of budding young engineers and help inspire them."
The council said Kirkintilloch and District Society of Antiquaries played a "key role" in ensuring the Emmy was awarded to Bain.
The society's president, Dr Ivan Ruddock, said: "It is no exaggeration to state that he can be considered the father of television, and is consequently worthy of the recognition that the award of this Emmy represents."
In its report on the Cancer Drugs Fund, the Public Accounts Committee said it was unacceptable that the benefit to patients was still not clear.
The fund was set up in 2010 to improve access to cancer drugs that would not be routinely available on the NHS.
The fund, which is expected to have cost £1.27bn by April 2017, has helped more than 80,000 cancer patients.
Before any drugs can be given to patients on the NHS, they have to be recommended by the health watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which looks at how well they work and whether they are cost-effective.
But if drugs are not recommended or have yet to be appraised by NICE, the Cancer Drugs Fund can step in and choose to fund cancer treatment.
The fund was initially managed by strategic health authorities. But since April 2013, it has been managed by NHS England.
The MPs' committee says there is no evidence the fund is benefiting patients, extending lives or a good use of taxpayers' money.
Money has had to be diverted from primary care to cover two years of overspends.
The £480m budget for the two years from 2013 to 2015 was overspent by £167m.
Its total budget, of £1.27bn, takes the fund to April, when the system will be overhauled.
The MPs recommend more thorough information is collected about how patients are benefiting from the drugs.
And they say tough decisions will need to be made about spending.
The fund has already had to drastically reduce the number of treatments it pays for, and the MPs' report questions whether it has done enough to fund medicines for rarer cancers.
A spokesman for NHS England said: "While we welcome the committee's support for a redesigned cancer drugs fund, we hope their explicit call for cuts to cancer drugs prices charged to the fund will be borne in mind as complex decisions on its future are taken in the next few months."
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The manager was stunned by his team's showing as defeat took Well into second bottom spot in the Premiership.
The Steelmen have gone six league games without a win, while Killie have moved out of the relegation zone.
"I'm really disappointed it didn't look anything like I imagined it was going to look after the way we prepared all week," said McGhee.
"I thought we prepared right, we had a way of playing in the first half which just didn't materialise at all; we really log-jammed, we had nowhere to go, we had nowhere to pass the ball.
"We changed it at half-time and at that point I thought we might just up our game little bit and go on and win the game because I knew we had so much more to come.
"It never materialised and we ended up losing the game deservedly.
"It's the poorest performance since I've been here and now we have to go away and work out what's caused us to be as poor as we were today.
"The performance was diabolical."
McGhee fears the result will dent the confidence of his players as they prepare to face bottom side Dundee United on Tuesday evening.
But he admits he knew the size of the task he faced when he landed the job for a second time in October.
"I would remind people I was brought here not because we were flying, but because work was needing doing and we are in that process," he explained.
"Occasionally we are going to have setbacks like that and setbacks like the run we've had recently but we have to as quickly as possible to find a way out of it.
"So it's up to me and the coaches and the players to dig ourselves out and prepare for Dundee United and go and have another go."
Kilmarnock caretaker boss Lee McCulloch was the opposite of his Motherwell counterpart as he assessed the impressive win courtesy of outstanding second-half goals from Greg Killie and Craig Slater.
"I'm obviously delighted with the performance, but I think the most important thing today was getting the points," said McCulloch.
"I was especially pleased in the second-half performance. We created chances and the Motherwell goalie's made a good few saves and we maybe could have had one or two more goals today.
"While I'm delighted with the performance it's only the start of the hard work.
"It's a pleasing day but we are in again tomorrow, we've had no days off for about two weeks, but we have a big game on Tuesday and it's just all about working hard and keeping everybody together."
As Killie still ponder the options for their managerial vacancy, McCulloch is likely to be in charge for the midweek Scottish Cup replay with Rangers, the club he left in the summer.
Were he to guide Killie to the last eight of the cup, the Rugby Park directors may well have to seriously consider McCulloch taking charge on a formal basis.
"Nothing's change for me it's just a day at a time," said the 37-year-old. "I don't know what will happen from now on, but I'm delighted with the players today."
Official figures show men earn 14.2% more per hour than women.
Equal Pay Day marks the point in the year when the average woman in effect stops being paid compared with the average man.
This year, it is five days later than in 2014, indicating that the pay gap between men and women is narrowing.
However, at the current rate of progress it will take 50 years to close the gap, says the Fawcett Society, which campaigns to promote women's rights in the labour market.
"There has never been a better opportunity to close the pay gap for good. Progress has stalled in recent years but with real commitment for government and employers, together with action from women and men at work, we could speed up progress towards the day when we can consign it to history," said Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society.
"It is time to have the conversation and ask your employer if they are ready for the new pay gap reporting requirements," she said.
The group wants employers to promote flexible working arrangements and the government to invest more in childcare.
Meanwhile, a report for the trade union body, the TUC, said that the pay gap was even more marked among high earners.
Among the top 5% of earners, men tended to earn 45.9% more than women and among the top 2% the gap was 54.9%, the TUC said.
"It is shocking the UK still has such a large gender pay differences at the top of the labour market after more than four decades of equal pay and sex discrimination legislation," said Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC.
"We need pay transparency, equal pay audits and a requirement on companies to tackle gender inequality - or face fines."
The product will be launched in 16 countries including the UK this summer, and will be available for free.
It contains a photosensitive blue dye, which changes colour when exposed to ultraviolet light.
But the wearer must take a photo of it and then upload it to an app to see the results.
It has been developed by the firm's tech incubator department, which is a team of 25 scientists and researchers working in several cities around the world, including New York, Paris and Singapore.
The My UV Patch, which is thinner than a plaster and lasts around five days, is disposable. It can be worn on any part of the body.
"Today all the wearables you see are jewellery or wrist bands - but not wearable in the sense that you wear them anywhere on your body," Guive Balooch global vice president of L'Oréal's Technology Incubator, told the BBC.
So-called flexible electronics caught Mr Balooch's eye a couple of years ago.
"Why would L'Oreal be interested in this? When you think about our products, the people apply them all over their body," he explained.
"Being able to have this technology to measure properties of the skin in real life anywhere you want allows us to develop really new testing methods for future products."
While there are other devices on the market for measuring UV exposure L'Oreal believes this is the first example of a flexible wearable.
"Stickers on the market today go from white to blue in minutes, and then that's it," he said.
"You can use ours for days and days."
However, Mr Balooch cautioned that the patch was not intended as a reminder to re-apply suncream.
"The issue is not when to reapply, the issue is how much exposure do I have," he said.
The idea is a "pretty amazing" one according to Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at the KWP Comtech research firm.
"UV is a different focus and one that makes a lot of sense coming from L'Oreal," she said.
However, Mrs Milanesi added that the need to keep taking pictures of the patch might become frustrating for customers.
"I wonder if rather than seeing the cumulative impact in an app I would prefer to be alerted when my UV exposure will cause sun burn or worse," she commented.
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Temporary traffic lights are in place on the A590, east of Lindal-in-Furness near Ulverston later until 06:00 BST on Monday and for the next three weekends.
Highways England said the road was vulnerable because of surface "dip" and engineers were working on a more "permanent solution".
New drains and gullies are being installed, a spokesman said.
Police called in the underwater team to help recover the weapon and ammunition, still missing after the shooting at Headley, near Epsom.
The 34-year-old victim, who is yet to be formally identified, is believed to be from the Croydon area.
Two suspects arrested after the shooting on Monday remain in custody.
A 38-year-old man from London is being held on suspicion of murder. A 30-year old woman is being questioned on suspicion of assisting an offender.
More than 400 people were at the private party at a hired house in the village.
The annual event had been organised by reggae dancehall artist Jason White and his girlfriend Summerlyn Farquharson.
He told BBC Newsbeat they used seven security staff with metal detectors to check all the guests as they arrived.
The divers, from Specialist Group International in Dorking, returned to Headley earlier and part of the village remains sealed off.
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Joe Ralls' second-half penalty put the hosts ahead, after Sean Morrison had been fouled by Ryan Shotton.
Birmingham salvaged a point in the 89th minute as Jutkiewicz bundled in a rebound after his header was saved.
They stay 17th in the Championship table but now only six points clear of the relegation zone.
Despite Jutkiewicz's late goal, Bristol City's win at Wigan means the Blues look increasingly like a team who could get dragged into the battle to avoid the drop.
This match was a tale of two managerial appointments - each with wildly contrasting results.
Birmingham had won only twice in 17 games in all competitions since sacking Gary Rowett in December, with Zola overseeing a slump from seventh place to 17th in the Championship table.
Meanwhile, following Neil Warnock's arrival in October, Cardiff had climbed from second from bottom to 13th.
The Bluebirds had won four of their last six home games in the league - keeping a clean sheet in each victory - and they looked likely to improve that record against a Birmingham side low on confidence.
The visitors barely threatened, with one of their few forays into the opposition box ending with a yellow card for Krystian Bielik for diving.
Cardiff had to be patient and, after a forgettable first half, they were awarded a penalty when Shotton wrestled Morrison to the ground.
Ralls was less than convincing from the spot, but Blues keeper Tomasz Kuszczak could only palm his low effort into the roof of the net.
The home side were in control for the vast majority of the match, but let their guard slip late on as keeper Alan McGregor saved Jutkiewicz's header, only for the ball to ricochet off the striker's shin and into the net.
Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock: "I can't fault the effort. We put a lot of energy in the second half, but once again we had the weakness of conceding late on.
"If I'm honest I expected a bit more from Birmingham with all the money they've spent, but they were quite content to play for the draw.
"It was a game we should have won."
Birmingham City boss Gianfranco Zola: "This was very encouraging because after such a poor performance there was a risk that the team could have had a bad reaction.
"But I didn't see that. I wanted to see the team fight and react to this bad moment, and I saw that. This is the thing which pleases me the most, and on personal terms it is very important as well.
"We need to be more consistent to get the momentum on our side because that is what has been lacking."
Match ends, Cardiff City 1, Birmingham City 1.
Second Half ends, Cardiff City 1, Birmingham City 1.
Craig Gardner (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Josh Cogley replaces Krystian Bielik because of an injury.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Kadeem Harris replaces Junior Hoilett.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Krystian Bielik (Birmingham City) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Junior Hoilett.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Nsue.
Goal! Cardiff City 1, Birmingham City 1. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) with an attempt from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Che Adams with a cross.
Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joe Ralls (Cardiff City).
Kerim Frei (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Peter Whittingham with a cross.
Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nsue (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Maikel Kieftenbeld with a cross.
Attempt missed. Maikel Kieftenbeld (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Craig Gardner (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Sol Bamba (Cardiff City).
Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Aron Gunnarsson.
Attempt blocked. Che Adams (Birmingham City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Offside, Cardiff City. Aron Gunnarsson tries a through ball, but Sol Bamba is caught offside.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Lukas Jutkiewicz.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Tomasz Kuszczak.
Attempt saved. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Peter Whittingham.
Jazz Richards (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Che Adams (Birmingham City).
Foul by Joe Bennett (Cardiff City).
Craig Gardner (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Ralls.
Attempt blocked. Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Ralls.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Kerim Frei replaces David Davis.
Foul by Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City).
Jazz Richards (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Che Adams (Birmingham City).
Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Aron Gunnarsson.
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Lukas Jutkiewicz's scrappy late equaliser earned Birmingham City a draw at Cardiff City to ease the pressure on beleaguered Blues boss Gianfranco Zola.
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But the rail firm said it was not prepared to talk unless the RMT was willing to discuss an eight-point plan, rejected last Friday.
Southern has cancelled 946 services each day since action began on Monday.
It has called the strike "pointless, needless and senseless".
The RMT is fighting plans by Southern owner Govia Thameslink (GTR) to turn conductors into "on-board supervisors" from 21 August, with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors.
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946 services cancelled per day
2,242 services would normally have run on a weekday
15 routes have no Southern service in either direction during the strike
5 further routes have limited services from 07:30 BST to 18:00 BST
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "The company [GTR] knows that prescriptive pre-conditions would not allow genuine talks to take place.
"In an effort to break the deadlock and get the talks process moving, RMT is prepared to suspend strike action set for Thursday and Friday if Southern agree to urgent talks without pre-conditions. The ball is now in their court."
But a Southern spokesman said: "We have made the RMT a fair and comprehensive eight-point offer and we'll meet them any time, any place, anywhere to talk about our offer on our network to settle this dispute.
"This strike has to stop and has to stop now."
Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald urged Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to persuade GTR to accept the RMT's offer.
"All he needs to do is pick up the phone to GTR and rail services can be restored in time for tomorrow's rush hour," he said.
"The long-suffering passengers will not understand why a government minister would do anything other than encourage all parties to embrace this opportunity."
Mr Grayling said on Tuesday that there was "absolutely no excuse" for the strikes, which he said were designed to stop essential improvements of passengers' journeys.
Conservative MPs in two of the areas worst hit by the strike appealed to the government, GTR and RMT to end their constituents' suffering.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who represents Hastings and Rye, which has no trains during the strike, said she had told GTR boss Charles Horton passengers had "suffered enormous disruption for far too long".
She said: "I hope the union will consider that it has been given a better deal than many of its passengers enjoy, many of whom are struggling to get to their places of employment."
Huw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and Battle, which has been similarly hit, has urged rail minister Paul Maynard to "bring his influence to the table" to resolve the outstanding issues.
Passengers are expected to join a protest march from London's Victoria station to the Department for Transport in central London on Wednesday evening.
The Campaign for Better Transport and the Association of British Commuters will present a 6ft-tall letter to Mr Maynard calling on him to attend a "passenger assembly" to answer questions and arrange better compensation for customers affected by the dispute.
Summer Dean, from Brighton, spokeswoman for the recently formed association, told BBC Sussex: "I would like to see some respect. Passengers are being held to ransom in this dispute and it's about time government stepped in."
Before the latest strike, Southern cut 341 services a day from its weekday timetable to improve reliability.
But Ms Dean said travellers were still "spending hours getting home, missing out on seeing family and friends and putting children to bed" and there was no date for the regular timetable to resume.
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Southern Mainline and Coast trains at terminus at least 5 minutes late
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Total trains late for England and Wales
12% Govia Thameslink Railway services cancelled or significantly late
4.4% Total England and Wales trains cancelled or significantly late
A rail users group in east Surrey has accused Southern of a "criminal, epic fail" by running eight trains an hour through Redhill each evening during the strike without any stopping.
The Reigate, Redhill and District Rail Users' Association said passengers were "forced to travel to Gatwick Airport then catch taxis, costing £15 to £20, back to Redhill".
Southern said routing a train to call at Redhill would take "enough extra time to cause a detrimental knock-on effect to the whole timetable" but said it would now "review what might be able to be done".
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Companies and websites are springing up to track and analyse the names, numbers and needs of the mega-wealthy, you can even get a daily update on who today's richest man (it's always a man) is.
So what can we tell from all of this analysis about the wealthy and the kind of world their rise is creating?
The number of billionaires is forecast to grow by 38% to 2,315 in the decade to 2023, according to Knight Frank's annual Wealth Report which is carried out by the research company Wealth Insight.
The crude number of billionaires may not be that high, but the report forecasts growth among those with $30m (£18m) or more, also known as "Ultra High Net Worth Individuals", to reach 215,000 by 2023, a rise of 28%.
While the numbers of the super-rich will swell in all regions of the world, the rate of growth in emerging economies is forecast to be much stronger in the coming decade.
Asia, according to the study, will have the most billionaires and the growth will be considerably greater than in North America and Europe. However it is also worth noting that this reflects a larger population in general. Another thing worth noting is that with inflation a billion today is not going to be worth the same as a billion in 10 years' time.
When you break it down country by country, the US is still expected to have the most billionaires in 2023 but China, Russia and India will be racing to catch up with far higher rates of growth.
One surprising result from the research is the number of self-made multi-millionaires far outstrips those who inherited their money or built a fortune on a substantial inheritance, by roughly two to one.
The dilemma for those who make their own fortune is whether to pass their wealth on to their children or to give the bulk of it away.
Multi-billionaire Edward Zhu, who moved to China from the United States two decades ago, says talented people should start from nothing and that is what he wants for his children.
When it comes to gender, almost nine out of 10 of all the individuals worth more than $30m are men.
And perhaps less surprisingly, the ultra-rich don't find it too hard to find a partner. Both men and women are almost guaranteed to already be hitched for life.
Leicestershire Police officers PC Andrew Munn and PC Bryan Moore were killed when a drunk-driver hit their car during a high-speed chase in 2002.
Both widows received their pensions, but PC Munn's wife Allison Charlton remarried before a change in the scheme in 2015 and lost her payments.
Mrs Charlton said: "I want it to be fair for everybody."
Police and Crime Commissioner Lord Willy Bach says it should be reinstated.
PC Moore's widow Sarah Everitt benefited from the pension as she remarried after the rule change.
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Since 1 April 2015, any police widow is treated as if the officer had opted for a "lifetime widow's pension".
Leicestershire's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Lord Willy Bach wants pensions to be reinstated to people whose partners died in the line of duty, regardless of when they remarry.
He said the rule change was unfair on Mrs Charlton, who remarried in 2009.
"The fact that PC Andrew Munn and PC Bryan Moore were both killed as a result of the same crime on the same day simply accentuates this unfairness of this disparity," he said.
Lord Bach is set to raise the issue in the House of Lords later.
Mr Munn left behind his wife and their two children, aged nine and three, while Mr Moore's left his wife and their three children aged 13, 11 and 10.
The Home Office said: "Any pensions already surrendered before 1 April 2015 will not be reinstated."
A spokesman added the government was "committed to ensuring that public service pensions are affordable, sustainable and fair".
Fans of The Walking Dead have been eagerly waiting for news of what's to happen to Rick and the Alexandria community when season eight of the zombie drama returns to screens in October.
That patience was rewarded with a five-minute trailer which was presented by the cast and creators at Friday's Comic-Con panel.
Ahead of the clip, the team began with an emotional tribute to stuntman John Bernecker, who died last week after falling 30ft (9m) onto a concrete floor during a fight scene on the set.
"We didn't really know if we should do this panel today, but we wanted to be here for you and we wanted to tell you about John and show you what we've all been working on," executive producer Scott M Gimple said.
After criticism from fans that season seven was slow paced and had lost its way, the trailer for season eight was packed with action.
Here's a few of the things we learned. Warning, some of the below images include zombies.
He appears to have been captured by Negan and has been locked in a room with zombies banging on the window outside. Negan says what will probably become one of the most quotable lines this season, but it has too many swear words to repeat here.
There's no dialogue for two minutes as we see a montage of people getting ready for the battle of their lives, accompanied by what sounds like those wooden blocks you used to play at school in music class if you couldn't play any other instruments.
He tells his crew: "When I first met him, Jesus said my world was going to get a whole lot bigger. Well, we found that world. We found each other. That bigger world is ours by right.
"Those who use and take and kill, we end them. Everything we've beaten, everything we've endured, everything we've risen above, everything we've become - no matter what comes next, we've won. We've already won!"
He's responsible for one of the three explosions in the trailer and he doesn't seem to mind that a zombie hoard is approaching, while casually taking a swig of water.
Even in the midst of war with blood on their faces, Jerry thanks King Ezekiel for "being such a cool dude". #BromanceGoals.
Huh?
At the end of the trailer we see Rick lying in a bed with a walking cane against the wall, complete with grey hair and beard.
Fans of the comic will know there's a big time jump storyline which this could be a nod to - although we hope it's not just Rick waking up and realising it was all a dream. We'll find out in October.
You can watch the full trailer on Fox UK's YouTube channel. Warning: Contains bad language from the outset and graphic scenes of zombies.
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They died on Saturday when the light aircraft they were travelling in crashed into a field near the village of Churchinford.
The family members, from Surrey, were a 56-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman, a 23-year-old woman and a man aged 20.
Supt Richard Corrigan said "our thoughts are with [the affected family] at this extremely difficult time".
Dave Manning, who lives at Higher Southey farm in Churchinford, said the plane came down on his land.
"Our next door neighbour came in and said a plane had come down. Then we went out and looked and there was basically nothing we could do."
The aircraft was heading from the Surrey area towards Dunkeswell Aerodrome in east Devon, five miles (8km) from the crash site.
Formal identification has not yet taken place and a joint investigation with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch is under way.
Supt Corrigan added: "The focus of the activity will be to investigative inquiries and then recover the aircraft.
"Road closures remain in place around the crash site."
The proposals near Carsluith attracted more than 1,200 representations against them and more than 100 in support.
Skylark Energy - a joint venture by Ecotricity and Skanska - had appealed over Dumfries and Galloway Council's failure to determine the application.
A reporter found no grounds to let the California scheme proceed.
"I do not consider that the undoubted renewable energy benefits of the proposal are sufficient to outweigh the adverse impacts on landscape, visual receptors and the cultural heritage," he concluded.
Galloway and West Dumfries MSP Finlay Carson welcomed the decision.
"Today's decision by the Scottish government is the right one," he said.
"Unlike the decision on Mochrum Fell last week, in this case it appears that the voices of local people have been listened to and concerns about the visual impact of the proposed development have been taken into consideration.
"In the end over 1,200 objections were received by Dumfries and Galloway Council against this development - a significant number indeed."
He praised the efforts of the Save Wigtown Bay action group which led opposition to the scheme.
"As the reporter states in his decision, the development would have had a significant adverse effect on views across the Wigtown Bay from Wigtown and the Machars," he said.
"This confirms the point that people made at the start - it was never the correct place for a wind farm to be situated."
Dumfries and Galloway MP Richard Arkless said he was "delighted" the development would not go ahead.
"Businesses in Wigtown are based almost exclusively on tourism related activities, the town attracts people seeking tranquillity in an unspoilt natural environment," he said.
"Wigtown Bay itself is Britain's largest local nature reserve - it was simply never the right place for such an imposing wind farm and I am both pleased and relieved to hear that the planning appeals board has supported this view."
He said the hard work had "paid off" for the Save Wigtown Bay group.
The Amen Break - a six-second drum solo in The Winstons' 1969 track Amen, Brother - has been sampled by artists including The Prodigy, Oasis and NWA.
But its writers never received any royalties from those recordings.
In an effort to correct that, fans set up a crowdfunding page which has now delivered a £24,000 cheque to The Winstons' frontman Richard Spencer.
"Thank you so much for this great contribution to my life," he said in a video statement on Facebook.
"Thank you very, very much. A-men!"
The campaign was set up earlier this year by British DJs Martyn Webster and Steve Theobald, whose initial target was just £1,000.
"If you have ever written or sold any music with the amen break, or even just enjoyed one of the countless hundreds and hundreds of tunes that contain it... please donate," Webster wrote on the fundraising page.
The campaign closed in March, but Webster said "transferring the money from the UK to Richard in America caused some big headaches, with my bank being a bit awkward!"
Spencer finally received the cheque this week, posting his thank you message on the campaign's Facebook page on Tuesday.
Webster was inspired to raise money for the musician by a 2011 BBC radio documentary, which tracked down Spencer and asked him about the famous drum break.
The musician expressed frustration that he was unable to pursue legal avenues in order to recoup the money the sample had generated.
The statute of limitations for copyright infringement is three years in the US - meaning civil and criminal cases must be filed within 36 months of the song being sampled.
Spencer told the BBC he wasn't even aware of his song's second life until 1996, when a British record label contacted him, seeking to buy the master tapes.
"I was still in Washington DC. I was attending university and working in the transit system," he recalled. "I felt as if I had been touched somewhere that no-one is supposed to touch. I felt invaded, like my privacy had been taken for granted.
He urged musicians who had used the Amen Break to "do the right thing".
"I'm flattered that you chose it but make it a legal interaction - pay me.
"The young man who played that drumbeat, Gregory Coleman, died homeless and broke in Atlanta, Georgia," he added.
According to whosampled.com, the Amen Break has been sampled 1,862 times - far ahead of other popular samples like James Brown's Funky Drummer, which appears in 1,136 songs; and Lyn Collins' Think (About It) which crops up in 1,324 tracks.
The firms are worried about the phrasing of proposals on encryption, bulk collection of data and openness.
The submission joins another, from Apple, which challenges the reach of the draft legislation.
If passed, the IP Bill would overhaul rules on how authorities access people's communications.
The five firms form part of a coalition called Reform Government Surveillance (RGS) which aims to promote a series of principles on how governments should collect communications data on their citizens.
"There are many aspects of the Bill which we believe remain opaque," the RGS companies state in their written evidence, citing the wording on judicial authorisation, encryption and technical requirements on tech firms among other things.
Their comments come in the form of written evidence submitted to a parliamentary committee considering the scope of the bill.
Currently, several of the corporations involved are standing by the provision of end-to-end encryption in some of their products - such as Apple's iPhones.
This allows people to communicate privately in a form that cannot be decoded, even by the company which makes the device.
The IP Bill would not outlaw encryption, but it would strengthen the power to force firms to give up decryption keys so that coded messages might be read.
On this issue, the tech firms rally behind comments made to the committee by Apple.
"We reject any proposals that would require companies to deliberately weaken the security of their products via backdoors, forced decryption, or any other means," the companies say.
There has been some question over whether companies could or should be compelled to insert "back doors" in their software - allowing intelligence agencies to access data which they transmit or store.
One key issue raised is that of extraterritorial jurisdiction - the extent to which UK authorities can compel foreign companies to comply with their laws.
"We have collective experience around the world of personnel who have nothing to do with the data sought being arrested or intimidated in an attempt to force an overseas corporation to disclose user information," state the RGS firms in their written evidence.
"We do not believe that the UK wants to legitimise this lawless and heavy-handed practice."
The submission notes that other countries around the world are likely to be influenced by what sort of laws are laid down in the UK and warns against "an increasingly chaotic international legal system".
There is also a comment on how surveillance might be made more transparent.
"As a general rule, users should be informed when the government seeks access to account data," the companies say.
"It is important both in terms of transparency, as well as affording users the right to protect their own legal rights."
If it is deemed necessary to delay notice in exceptional cases, the firms argue that the burden should be on the government to show that there is an overriding public safety case for doing so.
"I think it's very interesting how strongly the 'big players' of the internet have responded to the UK government's surveillance plans," said Paul Bernal, a legal expert at the University of East Anglia who also submitted evidence to the committee.
"The breadth of the intervention is remarkable - they haven't kept to purely technical matters, but talk about judicial authorisation, transparency and so forth," he told the BBC.
"This breadth shows how seriously they are taking the issue."
Dr Bernal also pointed out that the firms had raised the issue of "technical impositions" - the requirements that would be placed on communications companies by the bill should it become law.
Vodafone, in a separate submission, also commented on the obligation to obtain and generate data, saying: "There is nothing within the draft bill to indicate what this might mean, and could be used to require an operator to make changes to its networks and services simply to get more data — even relating to other companies' services — and to hold on to it for law enforcement."
Alongside the silicon valley firms expressing some anxiety over the draft IP Bill is the UK's own Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
In an 11-page submission to the parliamentary committee, the ICO praises some of the bill's proposals while questioning the reach of others, including the retention of internet connection records (ICRs).
ICRs are the domain names of websites visited by internet users, but not records of specific pages.
"Although these are portrayed as conveying limited information about an individual they can, in reality, go much further and can reveal a great deal about the behaviours and activities of an individual," the ICO says.
Among other concerns, the ICO also highlights a clause in the draft bill which enables the secretary of state to force the removal of electronic protections on communications data.
The consequences of this clause could be "far-reaching" and have "detrimental consequences to the security of data", the ICO warns.
"The Information Commissioner's comments will carry particular weight since he is a government-appointed official whose job it is to protect the public's information," commented the BBC's security correspondent, Gordon Corera.
"His concerns echo some of those of the tech companies that some of the language in the act - for instance on encryption and equipment interference - is unclear and could have a real impact on the security and privacy of individuals' data."
Wenger should also be involved in "planning the succession process".
"The club must retain its major symbol and main asset - manager Arsene Wenger," said the Russian businessman.
But despite the public backing, Usmanov added that Arsenal had been "haunted" by failure for many years and "cannot win" this season's Premier League.
Arsenal have been knocked out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage for the sixth season in a row and lost to Watford in the FA Cup quarter-finals.
They are third in the Premier League, 11 points behind leaders Leicester and have not won the title since 2004.
Wenger, who has been at the club since 1996, has had his position questioned and his team's performances criticised in recent weeks.
Usmanov, who has increased his stake in Arsenal above 30% said: "I believe that Arsene Wenger is a great coach and Arsenal have to give him the opportunity to plan the succession process and leave his legacy when he deems it necessary. Arsenal need Arsene Wenger."
Speaking to Rossiya24 TV channel he added: "Failures have been haunting Arsenal for many years now, they cannot become the EPL champions. This has led to some discontent with Wenger's position as a manager. "
A statement by Unicef and the World Health Organization says the number of suspected cholera cases in the war-torn country has exceeded 200,000.
So far more than 1,300 people have died - one quarter of them children - with the death toll expected to rise.
The two UN agencies say they are doing everything they can to stop the outbreak from accelerating.
"We are now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world," the statement says.
"In just two months, cholera has spread to almost every governorate of this war-torn country," it says, with an estimated 5,000 new cases every day.
Yemen's health, water and sanitation systems are collapsing after two years of war between government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, and the rebel Houthi movement.
The rebels control much of the country, including the capital Sanaa.
Hospitals are overcrowded and severe food shortages have led to widespread malnutrition, making Yemenis - especially children - even more vulnerable to cholera.
The UN says it is deploying rapid-response teams to go house-to-house telling people how to protect themselves by cleaning and storing drinking water. But clean water is in short supply.
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholera.
Most of those infected will have no or mild symptoms but, in severe cases, the disease can kill within hours if left untreated.
The war has left 18.8 million of Yemen's 28 million people needing humanitarian assistance and almost seven million on the brink of famine.
It will pay taxes on UK and some international sales through the hub.
The move is unusual for a US technology company, many of which set up international headquarters in Ireland or other European countries due to tax breaks.
However, the European Commission has been cracking down on some of the tech companies' tax deals.
In addition, the OECD has has been pushing for G20 measures on corporate tax avoidance.
Claire Valoti, general manager of Snap Group in the UK, said: "We believe in the UK creative industries. The UK is where our advertising clients are, where more than 10 million daily Snapchatters are, and where we've already begun to hire talent."
The messaging app parent company already had a UK office in London, but as of Tuesday, the office will operate as its international hub.
Revenue from sales made to UK customers will be booked in the UK. Sales staff in the UK will also handle clients in countries outside the US which do not have a Snap sales force, and those revenues will also be recorded in the UK.
Analysis: Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC technology correspondent
It's a great boost for London's global reputation as a hub for creative industries - but the economic impact of Snap Inc's decision to base its international hub in the UK may be limited.
At the moment, the firm's UK workforce is just 75 strong, and although that will expand, it's hardly the equivalent of a car plant in Sunderland - though baristas in Soho will be grateful for the opportunity to sell a lot more decaf skinny lattes.
But this does signal that post Brexit London, with its skilled workforce, its strength in advertising and its relatively low tax rates will remain a very attractive location for tech firms, especially those that aren't moving physical goods across borders.
And, as the EU cracks down on sweetheart tax deals in Ireland and Luxembourg, the UK may look even more attractive.
But there is one clear message from today's announcement - it really is time for ageing technology correspondents to get to grips with how Snapchat works.
The messaging app has been expanding its London operations, growing its office in the city from around six staff last year to more than 75.
The company says it has 150 million daily active users around the world, with 50 million in Europe.
Many US technology companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, have set up international headquarters in countries with lower corporate tax rates than the UK, such as Ireland.
However, a number of authorities, including the European Commission, have been investigating those deals.
In August last year, the European Commission said that Apple should pay Ireland €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes, a ruling Apple is appealing against.
The education secretary was speaking as schools in England and Wales were issued with a guide to identifying pupils in danger of radicalisation.
She said attacking core British values or being extremely intolerant of homosexuality were examples of behaviour that could raise the alarm.
The NUT said the guidance would cause teachers "nervousness and confusion".
The advice is designed to enable teachers to identify pupils who may have come under the influence of extremist organisations or being "groomed" by extremists.
Teachers would then be expected to alert senior staff, social services and the police.
The move has not been prompted by the massacre in Tunisia but follows David Cameron's call for people to become "intolerant of intolerance."
Ms Morgan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Radicalisation or the risk of children being drawn into non violent extremism is a very real threat in this country."
She said the advice - which will apply to all schools, including free schools and private schools - would ensure teachers were better able to identify children who had become radicalised by changes in their behaviour, or attitudes or remarks they made.
It would also help teachers identify pupils who were being "groomed" on the internet.
Ms Morgan said it was "a safeguarding" issue comparable to protecting children at risk from gangs or sexual abuse.
Asked to come up with an example of behaviour that might be a cause for concern, she said: "Sadly, Isis are extremely intolerant of homosexuality."
She was asked whether a pupil who said they thought homosexuality was "evil" would be reported to the police.
Ms Morgan said it would "depend very much on the context of the discussion" and schools were capable of using their judgement.
The government has defined extremism as: "Vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. "
The move is part of a wider obligation being placed on all public bodies from Wednesday to identify and report individuals at risk.
But NUT General Secretary of the NUT Christine Blower warned the guidance would be "counter-productive".
She said: "The jury is out as to whether extra statutory requirements are the most effective way to help young people stay safe, think critically, or reject engagement with groups who advocate violence.
"Already, in many schools, Prevent (the government's existing anti-extremism programme) is causing significant nervousness and confusion among teachers. If pupil well-being and safety is the aim, the Prevent strategy is felt by many teachers to be counter-productive and wide of the mark.
It risks closing down the very opportunities where the classroom can be used to develop democracy and explore human rights. "
A spokesman for Guinea's Ebola co-ordination unit said two tests on the patient - a baby - had been negative.
Guinea will be declared officially free of Ebola if no new cases are reported in the next six weeks.
The epidemic, which began in Guinea, has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa.
Neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia have already been declared Ebola-free.
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"The last confirmed case of Ebola has been released from a treatment centre," said Fode Tass Sylla of the Ebola co-ordination unit.
"We did two tests after his treatment and they came back negative."
The 19-day-old baby was born in the Nongo Ebola treatment centre but his infected mother did not survive, Reuters reported.
Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization earlier this month after 42 days without a single declared case.
Liberia was declared free of the disease in September.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported in March 2014.
Their new version of vancomycin is designed to be ultra-tough and appears to be a thousand times more potent than the old drug, PNAS journal reports.
It fights bacteria in three different ways, making it much less likely that the bugs can dodge the attack.
It is yet to be tested in animals and people, however.
The Scripps Research Institute team hope the drug will be ready for use within five years if it passes more tests.
Experts have repeatedly warned that we are on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", where some infections could become untreatable.
One hard-to-treat infection that has been worrying doctors is vancomycin-resistant enterococci or VRE.
It has been found in hospitals, can cause dangerous wound and bloodstream infections and is considered by the WHO to be one of the drug-resistant bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
Some antibiotics still work against VRE, but the 60-year-old drug vancomycin is now powerless.
The Scripps team set out to see if they could revamp vancomycin to restore its killing ability.
They made some strategic modifications to the molecular structure of the old drug to make it better at attacking bacteria where it hurts - destroying cell walls.
Three changes in particular seem to be important, increasing the strength and durability of the drug.
Lead researcher Dr Dale Boger explained: "We made one change to the molecule vancomycin that overcomes what is the present resistance to vancomycin. And then we added to the molecule, two small changes that built into the molecule, two additional ways in which it can kill bacteria. So the antibiotic has three different, we call them 'mechanisms', by which it kills bacteria. And resistance to such an antibiotic would be very difficult to emerge. So it's a molecule designed specifically to address the emergence of resistance."
The modified drug was able to kill samples of VRE in the lab and retained nearly full potency after 50 rounds of exposure to the bacterium.
Dr Boger said: "Organisms just can't simultaneously work to find a way around three independent mechanisms of action. Even if they found a solution to one of those, the organisms would still be killed by the other two.
"Doctors could use this modified form of vancomycin without fear of resistance emerging."
Prof Nigel Brown of the Microbiology Society said: "This development could be hugely important.
"Vancomycin is an antibiotic of last resort against some serious infections. There has been great concern that resistance has been emerging."
Manager Remi Garde took the decision following reports that the 20-year-old visited a Manchester nightclub after the 4-0 defeat at Everton on Saturday.
Villa, who are bottom of the Premier League, play Watford on Saturday.
"You have to behave as a professional and it was not the case this time for Jack," said Garde.
"He will not play with us, which is already a big punishment for a player. Now we will see the next step."
Garde refused to say how long Grealish would be with the under-21s, adding: "Jack knows, but it is staying private with him and with me."
Grealish was warned about his off-field behaviour in April by then Villa boss Tim Sherwood after he was photographed apparently taking nitrous oxide.
In June, Villa said they would speak to the player after photographs were published appearing to show him lying in the street while on holiday in Tenerife.
Grealish, a product of Villa's academy, made his first-team debut in the penultimate game of the 2013-14 season.
He helped the club narrowly avoid relegation last season as well as reaching the FA Cup final.
Grealish recently opted to play for England, despite having represented Republic of Ireland Under-21s.
After the defeat at Goodison Park, Grealish chose to stay in the north-west rather than return to the Midlands with the Villa squad.
"Sometimes, players in every country ask to stay in the city where we are playing," said Garde.
"It is not a problem for me; it can happen once or twice during a season. The problem for me was not him not being on the bus.
"Jack has got a lot of ability but he needs to improve his game and work at it."
For the first time since the system was introduced, the proportion has fallen below 90 per cent.
The worst-performing health board is Forth Valley, with only 80.8 per cent of patients starting their treatment within the target period.
Across Scotland as a whole, the figure for March is 89.6 per cent.
That compares to 90.8 per cent in December 2013.
As well as Forth Valley, the other NHS boards which did not meet the target were Grampian, Lothian and Western Isles.
NHS Highland - which recently switched to a new patient management system - submitted an estimated number which will be revised when the next figures are released.
The Scottish Government said the three mainland boards were already investing to improve waiting-time performance while NHS Western Isles expects to deliver the 18-week standard by the end of the next quarter.
NHS Scotland insist more than £22m is being spent to to deliver sustainable improvements in the time it takes to see a patient.
Health Secretary Alex Neil said: "Waiting times in our NHS have improved dramatically since 2007, when targets meant some people had to wait six months for a first appointment.
"But we must continue to cut waits and target areas where performance does not reach the standards we expect.
"That is why it is extremely encouraging that boards are able to invest in speeding up treatment times thanks to our decision to protect NHS funding.
"Already we have seen more than £22m of investment to increase capacity and I have no doubt that will increase over the year as plans are developed."
He added: "Overall, 11 of 15 boards have achieved the 18-week target while most boards continue to perform strongly against the 12-week legal treatment time guarantee.
"But we are seeing problems in certain boards which then affect the overall figures.
"Each of these boards already have clear action plans in place to ensure that they are working to address the reasons behind their poor performance so that they can treat patients faster."
Scottish Labour's Neil Findlay warned the figures should "raise alarm bells across our health service".
He said: "Large health boards are not meeting the target and it shows the NHS is simply not able to meet the capacity demands which it faces.
"We have also seen significant numbers of patients not being treated within 12 weeks under the treatment time guarantee.
"When these figures are put together with the struggling A&E waiting times, we see a health service which is struggling to cope and a Cabinet Secretary for Health who is more interested in abusing his office for his own political gain, than overseeing a properly-run, managed and funded health service across Scotland."
Mr Findlay said the figures showed the NHS was "breaking under pressure" and should be reason enough for Mr Neil to stand down.
He added: "Unfortunately for both patients and staff, Alex Neil will never accept responsibility for what is happening under his watch."
Meanwhile, the number of patients still in hospital six weeks after being judged ready to be discharged has risen dramatically over the past year.
There were 107 cases of so-called bed blocking in Scottish hospitals in April compared with 24 a year ago.
But the official figures, just published, showed the situation has improved over the past three months.
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Alex Danson opened the scoring for England only for Spain to level through Georgina Oliva with just over a minute of the third quarter remaining.
Lily Owsley scored the winner from close range eight minutes from the end.
England will play the Netherlands, who earlier defeated Germany 1-0, in Sunday's final at 16:00 BST.
The match will be shown live on BBC Two and the BBC Sport website, with commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
It is a second consecutive final for Danny Kerry's side, who will be looking to go one better than two years ago when they lost in a shootout to Germany.
England face a huge challenge on Sunday if they are to defeat the Olympic and world champions - and win the tournament for the first time since 1991, when they claimed their only EuroHockey title.
But Owsley vowed: "The Dutch are a fantastic team. We won't let them take the gold off us."
The hosts got off to a good start from a fourth-minute penalty corner when Danson scored her fourth goal of the tournament.
She pounced to volley home after Spain goalkeeper Maria Ruiz had blocked Kate Richardson-Walsh's shot.
Oliva brought the sides level when she unleashed a fierce shot that left England goalkeeper Maddie Hinch leaden-footed.
However, Owsley pushed the ball in to ensure victory for England and the player-of-the-match award for herself.
Excitement at the final whistle was mixed with relief that the game had been settled in regulation time and not with a shootout as was the case with the England men, who lost to Germany on Thursday night.
"To keep them out and not have to go to a shootout... it is the first semi-final in a while, apart from the World League, where we have done that," added Owsley.
"It's nice to win it that way."
Spain now face Germany in the bronze medal match which will precede Sunday's final at 13:30 BST.
Reflecting on defeat, Oliva said: "We lost the first quarter and they are a really good team, especially physically.
"I am proud of my team, but we are sad we are not in the final. I hope England win the tournament because they are the hosts."
Elsewhere, Scotland lost 1-0 to Belgium in Pool C, with Louise Versavel scoring the only goal early in the game.
A new poll indicates significant splits in gender and age when it comes to where Canadians draw the line at offensive behaviour.
Heavy social media users tend to be less shocked by online abuse. So do younger users and younger men.
Tech companies are under growing pressure to tackle online bullying.
In May, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey told the BBC that addressing abuse on the platform was a priority.
A new survey by the Angus Reid Institute looks into Canadian attitudes towards social media misbehaviour.
It found that one in four Canadians reported being subjected to behaviour ranging from the mean to the extreme - from unwelcome comments to violent threats and sexual harassment.
Among younger, heavy social media users, 50% reported being harassed. Almost 60% of LGBT users said they had experienced some form of online abuse.
That left many respondents calling on the companies to do more to curb abusive or bullying behaviour, including 49% who said they wanted to see the platforms proactively seek out and remove offensive material.
"Canadians do seem to have an expectations of social media companies they're not feeling is being met," said Shachi Kurl, executive director of the Angus Reid Institute, a Canadian not-for-profit research and polling organisation.
But she also noted there was a "diversity of views" on just how far social media companies should go to police content - and just what was considered acceptable.
The Institute showed respondents five examples of online interactions, ranging from an angry tweet directed towards a journalist to a racist tweet sent to Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones.
Respondents who had been personally harassed online had a higher bar for what they found unacceptable compared to other users.
"People who do say, 'Yes, it's happened to me' are more likely to also say 'this is okay,'" said Ms Kurl.
"There is almost a sense [that] exposure can numb shock or outrage, a sense of inappropriateness."
Despite men reporting being targeted just as often as women, young Canadian men were most likely to take a laissez-faire approach to online harrassment.
"There are some stark differences, no doubt about it," said Ms Kurl.
"You see a pretty big difference on age, full stop. And then when you look at what younger men think is OK versus what younger women think is OK, again there's some big differences. Both age and gender are drivers."
Elizabeth Dubois, an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa who researches online harassment, said abuse and misbehaviour has always been part of social media culture.
But it has become more of a concern as the use of social networks becomes more mainstream.
"You get to the point where the largest growth in social media - Facebook, Twitter, even Instagram - has been older people, boomers," said Ms Dubois.
"The alarm has been sounded by them."
Online harassment has also become more prevalent throughout the web, she said.
It makes the people she researches - journalists and public figures - more cautious about what they post online.
"They're rethinking what they post, rewording their comments, selectively using or not using hashtags," she said.
Ms Kurl said it is also having a chilling effect on average users.
"Basically three in five social media users say they often or at least sometimes self-censor," she said.
"If people are worried about saying what they really think or really feel for fear of trolls or harassment, it does lead to questions of how reflective of public opinion or social trends are these platforms."
The Angus Reid Institute conducted the online survey from 29 August to 2 September among a representative randomized sample of 1,530 Canadian adults who are members of the Angus Reid Forum.
The New Zealand-born forward picked up the injury in the closing stages of their semi-final win against Wasps.
The 33-year-old has scored 19 tries this season, the most in the league.
Meanwhile, scrum-half Will Chudley is free to play against Saracens after he was ruled to have accidentally kicked Joe Launchbury in the semi-final.
A Rugby Football Union commission said "on a balance of probabilities" an attempt to kick the ball resulted in "accidental contact" with Launchbury.
They added it "was not the result of a reckless or deliberate kicking action".
Exeter beat Wasps 34-23 on Saturday to reach their first Premiership final.
The RFU panel concluded that the contact with Launchbury's head was caused by Chudley's knee being deflected off the thigh of Wasps prop Matt Mullan.
Chudley, 28, was attempting to kick the ball out of the base of a ruck in order to disrupt a Wasps attack when the incident occurred.
The scrum-half has played a part in every one of Exeter's Premiership matches this season.
In September, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced housing associations should be considered part of the public, not private, sector.
But the Welsh Government promised to take "whatever steps are necessary" to reverse the change, following concerns.
Community Housing Cymru (CHC), which represents housing associations in Wales, welcomed its pledge to act.
The ONS decision led to concerns that housing associations would no longer be able to borrow the money needed to provide new houses.
At the moment not-for-profit housing associations are considered to be in the private sector and can borrow as much money as they can afford, within certain regulations.
But CHC fears if finances were overseen by the UK treasury, the associations' levels of borrowing could be restricted, meaning they would not be able to build as many houses.
The Welsh Government has promised to provide 20,000 affordable homes over the course of the current assembly term.
Housing associations have warned the target may be unachievable unless action is taken to reverse the changes.
Stuart Ropke, chief executive of CHC, said: "We're obviously delighted that Welsh Government have confirmed they'll do whatever it takes to get us back into the independent sector.
"We've got a pact with the Welsh Government that'll see us delivering 13,500 homes towards the 20,000 target.
"We're absolutely confident that can be delivered but we were very clear when we signed the pact that this is one of the pieces in the jigsaw."
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "All Registered Social Landlords (housing associations) in Wales can be confident any issues resulting from reclassification, including any regulatory reform required, will be resolved in conjunction with the sector.
"We will take whatever steps are necessary, including legislating, to protect Registered Social Landlords' ability to finance building and improvements."
The ONS decision was based primarily on the level of government control over housing associations.
Steffan Evans, from the Wales Governance Centre, said: "I think it's a concern but people shouldn't be too worried because, whilst Welsh Government may lose some controls in legislation, it's still likely to have some control over the sector through the work of a regulatory team."
Last year, the UK government brought forward legislation to deregulate housing associations in England following an identical decision by the ONS.
The Scottish and Northern Irish governments are considering similar moves in response to the more recent announcement.
The 25-year-old British number two beat the Czech 6-4 7-6 (7-3) despite going 4-1 down in the second set and being broken when serving for the match.
Watson will reach the first round if she beats Richel Hogenkamp on Friday.
Dutchwoman Hogenkamp, 25, won their only previous meeting in last year's US Open first round and is 13 places above Watson at 105 in the world rankings.
Watson missed out on direct entry to a Grand Slam for the first time in three years after slipping down the rankings.
But she has qualified successfully three times before for Roland Garros, reaching the second round five times.
Meanwhile, British number four Laura Robson is to work with the academy co-founded by Stan Wawrinka's coach Magnus Norman.
Robson, who has suffered injury problems over the last couple of years, returned to the world's top 200 by winning a tournament in Japan last week.
Unsubstantiated allegations say Russia has embarrassing information about him.
Without referring to the stories, the president-elect tweeted: "FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!"
Mr Trump is due to hold a news conference on Wednesday, nine days before he takes office.
It was meant to be about his attempts to separate himself from his business commitments, to address concerns about conflicts of interest.
But it now comes at an awkward time for the Republican president-elect.
As well as the allegations of a personal nature, the media reports also allege secret communications between the Trump presidential campaign and Moscow.
The US intelligence agencies reportedly presented the information to the president-elect and his predecessor at the White House, President Barack Obama.
They were said to be attached to a wider classified report into alleged interference by Russia into the US election.
But there has been nothing said publicly by the US intelligence community to support these unsubstantiated claims.
In recent weeks, Mr Trump has been under pressure to concur with the findings of US spy agencies who say Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic Party emails during the presidential campaign.
They say the order came from the Kremlin to sway the election for Mr Trump and away from his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
But so far he has failed to explicitly agree with the conclusions of the intelligence services.
And he has condemned those who oppose good relations with Russia as "fools".
Russia has denied any involvement in the hacks and accused the US of conducting a witch hunt.
Sources: New York Times, CNN
The fall of three places puts them in a slot they have not occupied since the aftermath of Kevin Keegan's tenure.
1 Spain 1514 (1)
2 Argentina 1263 (4)
3 Germany 1261 (2)
4 Italy 1199 (6)
5 Colombia 1180 (3)
6 Belgium 1159 (10)
7 Uruguay 1126 (12)
8 Brazil 1067 (9)
9 Netherlands 1058 (5)
10 Croatia 1051 (8)
Previous ranking in brackets
Despite a quarter-final exit at Euro 2012, Roy Hodgson's side reached third in August last year - an all-time high.
Wales are 52nd, the Republic of Ireland 59th, Scotland 63rd, all having slipped further down the list, while Northern Ireland rose 23 places to 86th.
The Northern Irish improvement is particularly ironic given their ignominious 3-2 defeat this week by Luxembourg, who sit 127th in the rankings and whose last home World Cup qualifying victory had been in 1972.
Spain - who won the last two European Championships and the 2010 World Cup - have now held top spot in the table since September 2011, while Argentina moved up two places to second.
Uruguay have jumped into the top 10 after rising five positions to seventh.
Belgium's rise continued as they moved up to sixth - a four-place improvement - but the biggest climbers of all inside the top 20 were the USA, who leapt from 19th to 13th.
The striker was wearing the red number 10 shirt as he scored his famous Wembley hat-trick against West Germany.
It was expected to fetch up to £500,000, but Sotheby's said the bidding failed to meet the reserve price despite "a great deal of interest".
The victory, 50 years ago, remains England's only World Cup win.
Hurst's third goal, scored in extra time, prompted Kenneth Wolstenhome's BBC commentary: "They think it's all over… it is now!"
Hurst was a prolific goal-scorer at club level, scoring 40 goals in 59 games for West Ham during the 1965-66 season, but he began the 1966 World Cup as a squad member.
He was awarded a place in the starting line-up only when the nation's top goal-scorer, Jimmy Greaves, suffered an injury ahead of the quarter-finals.
Hurst went on to score in the 18th minute of the final, and then twice again in extra time, in England's 4-2 victory.
Sotheby's estimated the shirt would sell for £300,000-£500,000.
It is believed to have been first auctioned at Christies in 2000, when it was sold for £91,750 to a private collector.
It was then bought in 2008 by an Oxfordshire-based property investor Andrew Leslau for an undisclosed sum on behalf of international investors.
Mr Leslau insured the shirt for £1m, calling it "the most important shirt in English football history".
Gabriel Heaton, from the auctioneers, said the shirt represented a "legendary moment in the annals of English football, and a sporting achievement that has never been repeated in half a century."
Carl Scott's body was found in Birch Court, off Thurmond Road, Winchester.
Mr Scott, from Winchester, died some time between 12 February and 22 March, when his body was discovered by a member of the public, a court heard.
David Gray, 35, of no fixed address, was remanded in custody until a case management hearing at Winchester Crown Court in August.
A provisional trial date was set for 4 December.
Prince Charles visited Stebonheath Primary School, Llanelli, where he was shown a water catchment system and was treated to a concert.
He later met the youth team at Llandovery Rugby Club, Carmarthenshire, of which he is a patron.
The prince also visited Aberdare's Prysmian Cables & Systems in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
And he was given a tour of parachute manufacturer Airborne Systems in Llangeinor, Bridgend county, where he met staff and apprentices.
The number of diverts was nearly double the level in the previous three winters and has prompted warnings about the pressures facing the health service.
Hospitals said closures were a last resort but had to be done to maintain safety in A&E.
But paramedics warned it had the knock-on effect of slowing their ability to get to the sick and injured quickly.
Ambulance crews have failed to hit any of their response time targets since May 2015, with latest figures showing that a third of the most critically ill patients wait longer than eight minutes for a 999 response.
Richard Webber, from the Royal College of Paramedics, said that while he was "sympathetic" to the problems hospitals were facing, the diverts were a significant cause of delays in reaching "seriously ill and injured patients".
"There is a double whammy in that not only do crews have to drive further away once a divert is implemented - [but] once that's happened, an ambulance crew will then also need to travel further to get back to their own area to respond to the next call."
The figures, compiled by the Nuffield Trust think tank from official NHS data, showed there were 478 diverts in December, January and February.
That compared to 265 the winter before, 258 in 2014-15 and 225 in 2013-14.
Prof John Appleby, of the Nuffield Trust, said tackling the issue should be an "urgent priority".
"The extra time crews are having to spend on the road is not helping the ambulance service's ability to meet its response time targets," he said.
He also said his research showed there was low morale among ambulance staff, which he said was worrying.
The diverts normally last only a couple of hours and are put in place to allow A&E staff to reduce the queues of patients waiting for treatment.
When a divert is put in place, ambulances are routed to other nearby hospitals.
Five hospital trusts accounted for nearly half of the diverts. These were:
Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said the trend was "stark".
"Diverting ambulances to other hospitals is disruptive for paramedics and bad for patients.
"The sharp increase in the number of diversions is very worrying. Further steps will be needed across health and social care to address these pressures."
NHS England pointed out many of the diverts would be to hospitals close by so patients were not being sent to hospitals a long way from their homes.
In a statement, the organisation added too many ambulances were being dispatched to simply try to hit targets - and it was now reviewing the system to see if there was a more efficient way of running the service to relieve the pressure.
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Azelle Rodney, 24, was killed in Mill Hill, north London, in April 2005.
Anthony Long told the Old Bailey he made the split-second decision to open fire as he thought his colleagues were in "imminent" danger.
Mr Long, 58, allegedly took just six hundredths of a second to open fire on Mr Rodney in a police operation to foil an attempted robbery.
The trial heard he fired off eight shots in 2.1 seconds, six of which fatally injured Mr Rodney, who was the back seat passenger of a Volkswagen Golf, which was boxed in during the "hard stop" by armed police in Hale Lane.
In making the split-second decision to open fire, the prosecution asserted Mr Long would not have had time to see whether Mr Rodney was doing anything that might pose a risk to the public and police.
But retired Mr Long, who was commended seven times during his distinguished 33-year career with the force, maintained he believed his colleagues were in danger.
Following the verdict, Mr Long said: "I am very grateful to the jury for returning a not guilty verdict.
"It has been very difficult facing trial for something that happened 10 years ago when I had acted to protect the lives of others as a part of my job and based on my training and experience.
"Police firearms officers do not go out intending to shoot people and, like me in this case, have to make split second life or death decisions based on the information available to them at the time.
"I want to thank my family and friends who have stuck by me and supported me during this difficult time."
Why was a former police firearms officer found not guilty of the murder of a suspect he shot six times - a shooting that occurred a split second after the target came into view?
A police officer can only justifiably open fire if he or she genuinely believes that the trigger must be pulled to protect either himself, his colleagues or the public.
But what if the officer was mistaken or acted in more complicated circumstances?
That rule of genuine belief remains key - and the law allows for genuine belief being the product of panic or misinformation.
But crucially, the jury, who watched complex forensic reconstructions of the scene, had to be absolutely sure that the officer knew that he didn't need to open fire - and that was a conclusion they ultimately could not reach - bringing this exceptionally long and controversial case to a close.
Police shooter evidence explained
Details of Mr Long's operational history, which included an incident in which he shot two other suspects dead, were not divulged in evidence.
At the conclusion of the inquiry, Mr Rodney's mother Susan Alexander had said of her son's "wholly avoidable" death: "The fact that he was strongly suspected of being involved in crime does not justify him or anyone else being summarily killed."
At the time, police intelligence had suggested the gang was armed with at least one deadly machine gun as they prepared to strike a gang of Colombian drug dealers in Edgware, north London, on the evening of Saturday 30 April 2005.
However, a search of the car later revealed that although there were three weapons, none were automatic and only one was loaded, the Old Bailey heard.
After deliberating for 12 hours and nine minutes the jury found Mr Long not guilty of murder.
The jury was not told the outcome of a judge-led inquiry in 2013 that concluded the shooting was not legally justified and Mr Long's accounts of what he saw in the seconds before opening fire should not be accepted.
After the verdict, Mr Rodney's mother Ms Alexander repeated her view that her son's death was "wholly avoidable" and she was still waiting for an unreserved apology from the police and Independent Police Complaints Commission.
"Almost exactly two years ago, I welcomed the thorough and excellent public inquiry report of Sir Christopher Holland published on 5 July 2013," she said.
"I said then that I hoped the report would be ground-breaking and cause a shift in thinking by the police.
"I am still unclear on whether the police fully accept the recommendations made two years ago and that similar deaths in the future have been made less likely."
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Danny Shaw said the verdict would be a huge relief to the Met Police, with there being serious concerns a guilty verdict would have led firearms officers to withdraw from the role.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Patricia Gallan said: "Police officers are not exempt from the law, and would not wish to be.
"However, standing trial for murder will have been a very stressful and difficult time for Tony Long, a police officer for over 30 years.
"This must also have been a difficult time for Mr Rodney's family. The Metropolitan Police regrets Mr Rodney's death, and we express our full sympathy to his family."
Sherwood MP Mark Spencer said the deaths of the cats in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, appear to be linked.
He has taken the issue to Parliament, where there will be an adjournment debate in Westminster Hall on Tuesday.
The RSPCA, which is investigating the cat deaths, said it was unusual to have so many in one area.
Mr Spencer, who has a cat called Parsnip, said: "If it is malicious then that is a very serious criminal offence.
"People are genuinely worried. They don't want to let their cat out in case they don't see them again."
The issue to be debated is the "control of antifreeze products and protection of animals".
Antifreeze contains ethylene glycol which forms crystals inside the animals, damaging kidney tissue and causing kidney failure.
Symptoms of poisoning include lethargy, vomiting and appearing groggy or drunk.
On Saturday, Mr Spencer called a public meeting about the Calverton cat deaths, which began in the summer.
Nick Lawlor, who was at the meeting, said the culprit needs to be caught.
His son's cat, Piper, died in a suspected poisoning.
"They've got to pay for what they've done. You can't kill kids' pets," he said.
"Her eyes were rolling around her head, she was fitting. She passed away within a couple of hours.
"Personally I'm not a cat person. I've got a Staffie [but] what I saw the cat go through hurt."
McNamara declared in midweek that he would resign if the Minstermen failed to get a "positive result" from the trip to Braintree, and was just moments away from York's first win in 30 away league games thanks to Simon Heslop's early strike.
But Lee Barnard tucked home an 88th-minute penalty to leave McNamara to ponder his future, with York winless in seven games and just above the drop zone.
The former Celtic player had made his win-or-bust call in the wake of a 6-1 defeat to lowly Guiseley on Tuesday night, and he was indebted to his goalkeeper Kyle Letheren, who saved a 12th-minute Simeon Akinola spot-kick and then made a string of saves before Braintree finally broke through.
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Match ends, Braintree Town 1, York City 1.
Shaun Rooney (York City) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half ends, Braintree Town 1, York City 1.
Goal! Braintree Town 1, York City 1. Lee Barnard (Braintree Town) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Lee Barnard replaces Oliver Muldoon.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Reece Hall-Johnson replaces Harry Lee.
Substitution, York City. Daniel Nti replaces Richard Brodie.
Chez Isaac (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Michael Cheek replaces Jack Midson.
Second Half begins Braintree Town 0, York City 1.
First Half ends, Braintree Town 0, York City 1.
Richard Brodie (York City) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by (Braintree Town). should be disappointed.
Goal! Braintree Town 0, York City 1. Simon Heslop (York City).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Graham Gregory, 80, of Brickfield Park Drive, York, is accused of assaulting a girl in 1990 on the Isle of Man.
Mr Gregory appeared at Douglas courthouse on Thursday and was released on bail until a hearing on 2 February.
Det Sgt Nick Haxby said the Public Protection Unit is "working closely with the diocese in relation to the allegation and investigation".
St Helens Council, which was originally sceptical about the deal, joined Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral, and Halton in Cheshire in ratifying the plan at a meeting on Thursday.
The deal secures nearly £1bn of extra funding over the next 30 years.
Like Greater Manchester, Sheffield, the North East and Tees Valley, it will have an elected mayor.
Former devolution sceptic Councillor Barrie Grunewald, leader of Labour-controlled St Helens, called for an interim mayor before voters elect a mayor in 2017.
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Mr Grunewald said council leaders had not discussed the option yet but added: "My personal view is that we do need to move to an interim mayor model.
"We've signed the deal, the hard work has been done, let's implement it, let's get capacity into the system and let's bring that economic regeneration to all of the city region," he said.
Baroness Doreen Lawrence headed the 10 women 'game-changers', which included activists and chief executives.
Home Secretary Theresa May, who appeared on the 2013 Woman's Hour Power List, branded her "an example" to all.
But Baroness Lawrence said she would give up all her achievements to have an ordinary life with family around her.
"I know I have worked extremely hard over the years to bring to the attention of the authorities what happened to my son," she said.
"But I would give all of those things up just to have an ordinary family life and to have my family around me. So it's fantastic that this is it, but I would rather not."
Baroness Lawrence's son Stephen was stabbed to death in an unprovoked racist attack in 1993.
He was 18 when he was attacked by a group of up to six white youths as he waited at a bus stop in Eltham, south east London on April 22.
It took more than 18 years to bring two of his killers to justice - in a fight largely fought by Baroness Lawrence.
The list of game-changers was compiled by a judging panel appointed by Woman's Hour.
The home secretary, who came second in the inaugural list last year, said Baroness Lawrence had been faced by a "terrible tragedy", yet picked herself up and carried on fighting to ensure that justice could be done.
"What is most striking about this woman is the great strength that she has shown over decades - strength to carry on, to keep on going, even in the most difficult times when all seemed impossible," Mrs May said.
"Also striking is the persistence that she has shown, because she has never given up. And finally, what is most impressive about this game-changer is that throughout it all, over the years, despite blow after blow, she has dealt with everything with absolute dignity."
The power list of 10 included women involved in issues such as child poverty, female genital mutilation (FGM) and internet safety.
The women, described as "game-changers", were revealed in a special live broadcast of Woman's Hour.
Accepting the honour, an emotional Baroness Lawrence said her fight for justice was not over. She urged young people to have the confidence to challenge racism and called for the Metropolitan Police to "hold up their hands" and admit their wrongdoings.
A public inquiry was launched last month following revelations that an undercover police officer spied on the Lawrence family during an investigation into Stephen's death.
An earlier probe by Sir William Macpherson had identified "institutional racism" within the Met. The Macpherson report found a collective failure to provide appropriate and professional service to people because of the colour of their skin.
Baroness Lawrence told Woman's Hour: "I'm satisfied in a way that at last I can say there are two people serving a sentence for his murder.
"But I think what I would like to see, even during the trial we found those individuals were still sticking two fingers up at the authorities, they thought no way would they have gone to prison.
"Even the others who were there, they are living their lives and getting on having families. That has been denied me and my children have been denied having an older brother.
"So to say that I'm satisfied with justice, partly. Because I think it is only partly done that I am. And I shouldn't have to keep fighting, I really shouldn't have to."
Journalist Emma Barnett, who chaired the judging panel, said it was "no easy feat" to come up with 10 women who "changed the game".
"The ambition for this year's list was to capture a snapshot of a moment in time - of those particular 'games' in 2014 that need changing and the women making a real difference in those fields," Ms Barnett said.
"FGM is now taken seriously by politicians, while internet safety and child poverty are among the biggest problems society faces, and we have highlighted the women leading the charge to make sustainable changes in these areas and seven others."
The rest of the judging panel comprised barrister and former council leader Heather Rabbatts, writer Reni Eddo-Lodge, journalist Rachel Johnson and campaigner Liz Bingham.
Here is the top-10 list they compiled:
The Scottish government announced in January it was imposing a moratorium on granting consents for shale gas and coalbed methane developments.
It said further research and a public consultation needed to be carried out.
The new group, SNP Members Against Unconventional Gas (SMAUG), wants a ban on all "unconventional" fossil fuels.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock by drilling down into the earth and using a high-pressure water mixture directed at the rock.
The Scottish government said at the start of the year it would not issue any new licences while work on the environmental and health implications of the controversial gas drilling technique were carried out.
A vote will be held at next month's SNP conference calling for it to be extended to include underground coal gasification.
One of SMAUG's founding members, Iain Black, from the SNP's Forth branch, said: "Scotland already has more oil and gas than it can burn if we are going to halt damaging climate change.
"We can burn North Sea gas or we can burn gas from fracking but we can't burn both. Why would we choose the one that pollutes our waterways, damages the earth under our homes and damages our health and damages our food and drinks industry?"
The Scottish Greens welcomed the new SNP pressure group, which also calls for the banning of underground coal gasification (UCG).
The party's economy and energy spokesman Patrick Harvie said: "Communities across central Scotland threatened by fracking and coal gasification are being left in limbo by SNP ministers trying to face both ways in the run up to an election.
"SMAUG is right to agitate for an outright ban. Ministers have the power to end this dangerous distraction right now."
Mr Harvie added: "The SNP only seem able to go so far as permitting a motion at their conference which merely invites ministers to consider extending their temporary moratorium to include coal gasification.
"This is far short of the permanent ban that our communities want.
Flick Monk of Friends of the Earth Scotland said : "It is clear that local communities do not want their health and environment damaged by energy companies aiming to extract gas at any cost.
"SNP branches from all over the country have proposed a range of resolutions for the party conference calling for a complete ban on all unconventional fossil fuels.
"All eyes will now be on the party conference as SNP members will get the chance to debate how to go beyond the current moratorium and ban unconventional fossil fuels outright."
An SNP spokesman said: "There are a range of views across Scotland on issues around unconventional oil and gas, which is why the Scottish government has put in place a moratorium on fracking to allow a full public consultation where all views can be heard and all evidence can be considered.
"This has been welcomed by people on all sides of the fracking debate - and stands in stark contrast to the gung-ho approach favoured by the UK government."
Labour said SMAUG has further exposed "the SNP's attempt to face both ways on fracking" after Ineos chief executive Jim Ratcliffe reportedly received assurances from the Scottish government that "they're not against fracking".
The party's environmental justice spokewoman Sarah Boyack said: "During the general election SNP MPs campaigned on an anti-fracking platform, but behind the scenes there are allegations that big businesses are getting nods and winks from senior SNP ministers that Scotland was open for business on fracking.
"Under Scottish Labour's plan, no fracking will take place in Scotland without the local community affected giving its approval in a referendum. We will give Scots a local veto over fracking. It is clear that the SNP will not."
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Des Raj Kapur died in October 2013 after he was found severely dehydrated and barely conscious at the Burroughs Care Home in Hillingdon.
A representative told West London Coroners Court it could not find records of any fluid and food given.
His son Deepak Kapur said he was "angry" at his father's treatment.
Mr Kapur said his father had been a "lovely man" who just cared about "tending to his family and his family's needs".
"There have been shocking failures in his care."
Prior to being admitted to the care home for the second time, Mr Kapur had become immobile and needed help washing, feeding and drinking, his son said.
Mr Kapur said: "They were supposed to look after him and tend to all his needs".
The coroner gave a narrative verdict which said a lack of fluid intake contributed to Mr Kapur's death in addition to the five illnesses he suffered from.
Care UK said it "apologised wholeheartedly".
The squad will prepare for the tournament at a training camp in Portugal.
Coleman will name his 23-man for the Euro 2016 finals in France at a later date.
Wales will face Sweden in their final friendly before Euro 2016 at Stockholm's Friends Arena on 5 June.
They face Slovakia in their opening match in Bordeaux on Saturday, 11 June.
The girl, Ruqayya Abu Eid, ran at the guard at the entrance to the Anatot settlement, prompting him to open fire, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
It was the latest in a near-daily series of attacks since October, mainly stabbings, on Israelis by Palestinians.
More than 180 people have been killed - 155 of them Palestinians.
Over the same period, 27 Israelis have been killed in attacks by Palestinians - stabbed, shot or hit by cars.
Israel says most of the Palestinians were killed as they carried out attacks - either shot by their victims or security forces.
Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Police spokeswoman Ms Samri said preliminary investigations suggested the girl had left home with a knife after a dispute with her family and had "intended to die".
But her mother, Reeda Abu Eid, contradicted this, according to Reuters news agency, saying there had been no trouble at home - a tent in the Palestinian village of Anata.
The teenager's father arrived at the scene shortly after the incident and was arrested, Ms Samri 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.
Last Sunday, a mother of six was stabbed to death at Otniel settlement in the West Bank. A 16-year-old Palestinian was arrested over the murder.
A day later, a pregnant Israeli was stabbed and wounded at Tekoa settlement.
A total of 187 men of all ranks died fighting in the Belgian town of in Gheluvelt in October 1914.
Wreaths were laid and a two minute silence held after the service at Gheluvelt Park in Worcester.
Former Lt Col John Lowells from Worcester said it was an important event for the city to remember.
"No doubt a lot of people will be thinking about the bravery of individual men and battalions during the war and this would be certainly one of the occasions that will be remembered in Worcester," he said.
"It they hadn't held the line and if the Germans had pressed on, there was nothing behind them to hold them from getting all the way to the Channel ports."
A metal memorial at the city centre park honours troops from the Worcestershire regiment who died in the Battle of Gheluvelt in Ypres, Belgium, in 1914.
Thirty-four men from Worcestershire were killed or wounded in the battle.
Lilesa has been living in the US on a temporary visa after making an anti-government gesture when he finished in second place in Rio.
He believes his life would be in danger if he returned to his homeland.
"I've always wanted to run for my country and for my people," the 26-year-old told BBC World Service.
"I would like to see myself in a country where the current government is removed and the people get freedom, so I can run for my country - not for a different country."
Back in August, Lilesa became the first Ethiopian to finish in the top two of a men's Olympics marathon since 2000, claiming silver behind Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge.
As he crossed the line, Lilesa lifted his arms in an X-shape above his head in solidarity with the Oromo people, the country's largest ethnic group, who have suffered a crackdown at the hands of the Ethiopian government.
The country's officials said the runner would be welcomed home from Rio as a hero, but Lilesa said he might be killed if he returned.
A funding campaign was launched to help pay his legal fees and support his wife and children back home, whom he has not seen since before the Olympics.
"I have no regrets about doing what I did in Rio," said Lilesa. "I would rather regret not doing anything. I know my family is living far away from me, and that might be a problem, but my family could have been one of those families who was shot dead in the street.
"I miss my wife and children but this is no more of a problem than the Oromo people face. Compared to other people, this is not a problem for me. She knows I might get killed if I went back so it's OK living far away from her."
A special visa was issued to Lilesa so he can live and train in the US, but he insists he has no plans to stay there permanently.
He added: "Since my wish is to one day go back to my own country, I will remain in this country as long as my visa allows. I have no intention to ask for asylum."
Iceland and Czech Republic both progress from Group A, with Netherlands now unable to advance automatically.
Cardiff's Aron Gunnarsson, the Iceland captain, who was dismissed late on, said: "It's unbelievable, I'm shocked."
The island nation is the smallest to qualify for a Euros, with an estimated population of just 317,000.
Before the match, manager Lars Lagerback said qualifying would mean more than reaching eight successive finals with his native Sweden, who he managed for nine years.
Iceland have moved up 100 places in the Fifa rankings since Lagerback took charge in 2011 and now sit in 23rd position, above the likes of France, Ukraine and Russia.
Match ends, Iceland 0, Kazakhstan 0.
Second Half ends, Iceland 0, Kazakhstan 0.
Attempt blocked. Samat Smakov (Kazakhstan) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Second yellow card to Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) for a bad foul.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland).
Aleksey Shchetkin (Kazakhstan) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kolbeinn Sigthorsson (Iceland).
Alexander Merkel (Kazakhstan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Iceland. Vidar Orn Kjartansson replaces Jon Dadi Bodvarsson.
Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland).
Islambek Kuat (Kazakhstan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alexander Merkel (Kazakhstan).
Substitution, Kazakhstan. Aleksey Shchetkin replaces Tanat Nuserbaev.
Alexander Merkel (Kazakhstan) is shown the yellow card.
Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Gurman (Kazakhstan).
Attempt missed. Jon Dadi Bodvarsson (Iceland) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross following a set piece situation.
Yuri Logvinenko (Kazakhstan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jon Dadi Bodvarsson (Iceland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Yuri Logvinenko (Kazakhstan).
Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Islambek Kuat (Kazakhstan).
Corner, Iceland. Conceded by Yuri Logvinenko.
Attempt blocked. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Iceland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ulan Konysbaev (Kazakhstan).
Gafurzhan Suyumbayev (Kazakhstan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Birkir Saevarsson (Iceland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gafurzhan Suyumbayev (Kazakhstan).
Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tanat Nuserbaev (Kazakhstan).
Attempt blocked. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Iceland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Gurman (Kazakhstan).
Ragnar Sigurdsson (Iceland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tanat Nuserbaev (Kazakhstan).
Offside, Iceland. Ragnar Sigurdsson tries a through ball, but Kolbeinn Sigthorsson is caught offside.
Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Repsol Sinopec said production had been shut down after a sheen was seen on the sea surface near the Montrose Alpha and Arbroath platforms on Saturday morning, 200km (124 miles) east of Aberdeen.
A spokesman said: "There has been no further evidence of any sheen in the area and the original sheen has now naturally dispersed."
A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is being used as part of the probe.
The 37-year-old is one of 22 referees invited to control matches at the tournament which kicks off in South Korea on 20 May.
The other African referees in South Korea are Grisha Ghead of Egypt and Cameroonian Alioum Alioum.
The under-20 assignment continues a rapid rise up the ranks for Sikazwe, a school teacher from the small town of Kapiri Mposhi.
Is it more difficult to get to the top when you come from a small town?
"We don't have a single stadium Kapiri-Mposhi and referees train at a school but the pitch itself is not that good," Sikazwe told the BBC just before flying out to Seoul.
"When you go out in front of thousands of people, it's a new experience but you just have to be strong."
Sikazwe's career has been on an upward trajectory since officiating at the 2015 Fifa under-17 World Cup in Chile.
He followed that up by taking charge of the 2016 Fifa Club World Cup final between Real Madrid and Kashima Antlers of Japan.
His stock rose even further when he handled the final for this year's Africa Cup of Nations between Cameroon and Egypt in Gabon.
Sikazwe has now set his sights firmly on the 2018 World Cup in Russia where he is hoping to be named as an African representative.
"That's my ambition and I have to go for it. Yes, I've done the under-17 [World Cup], the Club World Cup and I'm now going for the under-20 [World Cup].
"But there are two Fifa competitions that I'm looking for - the World Cup itself and the Olympics."
Wales head coach Warren Gatland favours Welsh-based players for his squad.
Priestland, 28, says he is happy with the move despite the expected adverse impact on his Wales chances.
"I'm comfortable with my decision, but I think it will have a negative effect on my international career. It's something I'll have to live with," said Priestland.
Priestland came off the bench to earn Scarlets a last-gasp win away against bottom-side Zebre in the Pro12 on Saturday with the final kick of the match.
He says leaving the region will be difficult, particularly seeing former outside-half rival Stephen Jones returning to Parc y Scarlets as attack coach next season.
"I'm not going to lie, I would have loved to have worked with Steve [Stephen Jones]," said Priestland.
"I think he's a very knowledgeable man, especially about rugby and he's a great guy as well.
"It was a shame when I found out he was coming back, but I'd already made my decision and I've just got to stick with that."
Priestland believes former Wales and British Lions fly-half Jones is the right man to take over from Mark Jones.
"I'm sure Steve will do a great job with the Scarlets," he said.
"There's a lot of quality players down there and I'm sure he's the right man to sort of mould them and get the team playing they way I know that they can potentially.
"Hopefully Steve has a lot of success as a coach as he did as a player down there."
The Scottish Premiership club announced their intention to redevelop the ground in December.
And now they have submitted a pre-application notice to Edinburgh City Council before an eight-week public consultation process.
The plans include space for a club shop and ticket office.
The current main stand has 4720 seats and has changed little since it was built in 1914, with some views obstructed by pillars.
The three other stands at Tynecastle were constructed between 1994 and 1997.
Sheerin is expected to hold talks with Inverness this week to discuss replacing Richie Foran.
The Irishman departed shortly after the Highland club were relegated to the Scottish Championship.
Sheerin is believed to be keen on a return to first-team management having previously been in charge of Arbroath.
The former midfielder played for Caley Thistle between 1998 and 2001 and scored in their famous Scottish Cup victory over Celtic 17 years ago.
The run on the bank started on Sunday, because of rumours that the bank was facing liquidity and legal problems in Estonia and Sweden.
The bank's chief executive in Latvia, Maris Mancinskis, has called the rumours "absurd".
He said Latvians had so far withdrawn 10m lats ($19.2m; £12m) from the bank.
The rumours, which were reportedly spread via social networks such as Twitter, come at a time of uncertainty in the country's banking system.
Customers of Latvia's 10th largest bank, Latvijas Krajbanka, were left without access to their money for days after the bank was put into liquidation. Regulators found large-scale fraud at the lender after its parent company in Lithuania was taken over by the government.
Swedbank said it was working to refill cash machines left empty by the withdrawals.
The Swedish bank has deposits of 1.6 billion lats ($3.1bn £1.9bn) in the Baltic state.
"These [withdrawals] won't impact our work in any way," Mr Mancinskis told LNT commercial television on Monday.
Police have reportedly launched an investigation into the source of the rumours.
Spreading false rumours which threaten the stability of the banking system is a criminal offence in Latvia, with a sentence of two years in jail.
Alan Barnes, 67, suffered a broken collarbone when he was attacked outside his old Gateshead home, in January.
An online appeal, launched by beautician Katie Cutler, led to donations to Mr Barnes from people around the world.
He said it was "hard to put into words" how "really grateful" he was.
Following the attack, Mr Barnes said he felt unsafe in his previous home.
He was born with disabilities after his mother contracted German measles while she was pregnant. He is visually impaired and stands 4ft 6in (1.21m) tall.
Mr Barnes said the new house was "very compact".
"Thank you doesn't seem to sum it up, but basically that is all I can say, I'm a bit overwhelmed and I'm just getting used to the idea of having a home of my own to live in," he said.
At Newcastle Crown Court earlier this month, Richard Gatiss, also from Gateshead, was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to assault with intent to rob Mr Barnes.
He had been desperate for money to buy legal highs but fled empty-handed when Mr Barnes shouted for help, the court was told.
The 25-year-old was traced by police after they recovered forensic evidence from Mr Barnes' jacket pocket.
On Saturday, the 34-year-old forward will board a flight to Gatwick Airport with the rest of his Guernsey FC team-mates for an FA Cup preliminary round tie against Phoenix Sports in Barnehurst, south-east London.
When Black's parents compromised on his unusual first name in 1981, little could they have known that he would go on to play alongside Romario, Leonardo and Adriano in the annual Amigos do Zico (Friends of Zico) charity match at the famous Rio venue.
Black, a non-league journeyman and author of a book detailing the reality of life as a semi-professional footballer, was invited by former midfielder Zico after his story was documented on Brazilian television.
The Guernsey-born player, whose list of former clubs include Morecambe, Bamber Bridge, Lancaster City and Rossendale United, flew to Rio and appeared on the same pitch as the scorer of 48 goals in 71 Brazil appearances, despite a last-minute scare.
"The night before the game my fiancee and I went to a restaurant and I had steak," Black told BBC Sport. "I woke up in the middle of the night feeling ill. My fiancee had to rush to the pharmacy the next morning for some tablets.
"There was no way I was going to miss out on playing at the Maracana in a match featuring Zico. It's the stuff of dreams. It was an unforgettable experience."
The Maracana is a world away from where Black plies his trade - for no pay - for Guernsey FC, nicknamed the Green Lions, in the eighth-tier Isthmian League Division One South.
"Guernsey FC are a new club, this is only our fifth season. A good FA Cup run would be great exposure for the team, fans and the island," he added.
Black has played for Guernsey FC from the very beginning, scoring the Channel Island club's first ever goal against AFC Wimbledon in a pre-season friendly four years ago at the 5,000-capacity ground they share with the local rugby union club.
They were accepted into the 10th-tier Combined Counties Football League Division One on the condition they pay the travel costs and overnight accommodation of all visiting teams and match officials.
It's a condition that still exists after two promotions in their first four full seasons.
"We have to raise £400,000 every season just to cover the running costs," Steve Dewsnip, chairman and co-founder of the club told BBC Sport. "We don't pay our players any money, we're a registered charity and the club is owned and run for the benefit of the local Guernsey community.
"We're fortunate to have support of so many different sponsors, over 100 different businesses or people provide sponsorship to the club."
One condition the club does impose on new signings is that they must live on the island, which has a population of around 66,000.
They were able to sign former Atletico Madrid youth player Guille Fernandez in July after he moved to the island to work in a hotel.
Dewsnip runs an investment fund business on the island and helped fund Black's trip to Brazil.
Black has Zico's signed shirt from when he captained Flamengo to a 3-0 win over Liverpool in the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo in 1981 as a souvenir of his unforgettable experience in 2013, when he received a hug from the great man himself.
"He spent a moment with me before the game," he recalled. "During the game he gave me a hug and asked me if I was glad I was there.
"He was on the opposing team and 60 at the time. I started in central midfield and then ended up at centre-back."
With Guernsey closer to France than England, Black and his team-mates will have to be out of bed at 05:00 BST to ensure they make their cup tie at the Phoenix Sports Ground on time.
After a one-hour flight to Gatwick Airport, the team face another one-hour coach trip to the ground after a team meeting and meal at an airport hotel.
Kick-off has been brought forward to 14:00 BST to ensure the Green Lions get back to Guernsey on the same day.
Win or lose there is a buffet in the clubhouse after the tie before departure back to Gatwick no later than 17:00 BST.
"A huge amount of planning goes into every away game," added Dewsnip. "The players are up at five o'clock in the morning to get an early plane off the island. Midweek games away from home involves the players staying in hotels.
"Our team is made up of amateur players so as soon they get back to Guernsey the morning after a game they are straight back into work."
Guernsey-born former Southampton and England midfielder Matt Le Tissier made an appearance for the club in April 2013. The 44-year-old came on for the last 10 minutes in a 4-2 defeat by Colliers Wood United.
Le Tissier, who made 541 appearances for the Saints, winning eight caps for England, was an honorary president of the Green Lions at the time but stepped down from the role in August 2014 because of work commitments.
His brother, Mark, is secretary and a founding director of the club.
Former Northern Ireland Under-21 international Black said: "I was once a mascot at Southampton and was on schoolboy forms there. Matt was a huge influence when I was growing up."
Saturday is the fifth FA Cup tie in Guernsey FC's short history.
After entering at the preliminary round stage in 2013-14, they reached the second qualifying round before losing to Dover Athletic. They were drawn at home but had to play the tie at the headquarters of the Sussex County Football Association at Lancing because a fixture clash with Guernsey RFU.
"We haven't played an FA Cup tie on Guernsey yet," said Dewsnip. "I will be a very proud man when we do.
"To host a tie in the world's most prestigious cup competition on Guernsey would be another milestone for the club."
Researchers say animals such as huge armadillo-like creatures would have distributed vital nutrients for plants via their dung and bodies.
The effects, still visible today, raise questions about the impact of losing large modern species like elephants.
The findings have been published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
A team of UK and US researchers developed a mathematical model to calculate what impact the sudden loss of megafauna - animals with a body mass of more than 44kg (97lb) - had on the Amazonia's ecosystem.
Results showed that the extinctions resulted in a 98% reduction in the dispersal of phosphorus (chemical symbol "P").
"This resulted in strong decreases in phosphorus availability in eastern Amazonia away from fertile floodplains, a decline that may still be ongoing," the scientists wrote.
"The current P limitation in the Amazon basin may be partially a relic of an ecosystem without the functional connectivity it once had."
In mammals, phosphorus is the second most abundant mineral in the body; calcium is the most abundant.
The vast majority is found in bones and teeth, but the nutrient also plays a vital role in functions such as filtering out waste in the kidneys, and how bodies store and uses energy.
Essential for life
Phosphorus is also a key mineral for plants. It is present in every cell and is vital, as it is in mammals.
There are a number of theories to explain the terminal demise of many of the planet's largest animals about 12,000 years ago.
These include increased hunting pressure as a result of the spread of early humans, climate change, the spread and evolution of diseases or the impact and aftermath of a massive space rock hitting the Earth.
Co-author Adam Wolf, from Princeton University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, explained: "On today's planet, the supply of nutrients in the soil is determined by river deposits or nutrients that are airborne."
But Dr Wolf added that their study suggested that things were once very different: "We believe that large animals once played a vital role in fertilising their landscape, so that the naturally occurring deposits in rock were less important.
This was the result of the megafauna's high rates of food consumption, combined with their "large daily ranges and their long gut residence times".
"If humans contributed to the mass extinction of big animals 12,000 years ago, this suggests that humans started to affect the environment at global scales before the dawn of agriculture," Dr Wolf observed.
The team estimated that following the mass extinction, the ranges of animals, and therefore the distribution of nutrients, fell from a mean distance of 61.8 km (38.4 miles) to 4.8 km (3.0 miles). They also calculated that the distance between eating and excretion fell from 9.1km to 2.1km.
The team said the study was the first of its kinds to look at the impact of the mass extinction on ecosystem nutrient biogeochemistry through the transport of dung and bodies.
Commenting on the findings, lead author Christopher Doughty, from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute, said: "Put simply, the bigger the animal, the bigger its role in distributing nutrients that enrich the environment.
"Most of the planet's large animals have already become extinct, thereby severing the arteries that carried nutrients far beyond the rivers into infertile areas.
"We can also predict the effects of further extinctions - a fate fast approaching many of the large animals that remain - and examine the likely impact thousands of years into the future."
The former Dundee United striker and boss credits manager Mixu Paatelainen for giving the Premiership's bottom team hope.
"Mixu has got a team together that believe they can win and that's crucial," said Brewster, assistant to Derek Adams at Plymouth Argyle.
"Suddenly they have put Kilmarnock under real pressure."
United are five points behind Lee Clark's Killie with one game remaining until the league splits into a top six and bottom six.
Thereafter both teams will have five games to avoid being relegated automatically or playing either Falkirk, Hibernian or Raith Rovers from the Championship in the Premiership play-off final.
In recent weeks the Terrors have drawn 2-2 with Dundee and enjoyed a 1-0 win over St Johnstone but they lost on Tuesday to Partick Thistle despite dominating the first half.
"If they can keep bringing Kilmarnock closer and closer then they've got to believe they can do it," Brewster, 49, told BBC Radio Scotland.
"It's not looking good but they have rallied very much of late.
"It was a disappointing result the other night, but Mixu has got points and they have given themselves a real lifeline.
"I think they've got it in their grasp. They were that far out of it everybody just expected United to go down so they had nothing to lose.
"As long as they are playing well and having the belief that they can overcome it, that's the major part."
Brewster, who played for United from 1993-96 and again in 2006 when he was also the manager, said the remaining match between United and Kilmarnock will be "massive".
"No-one wants to go down but having done so well over the last few years it is a big disappointment this year to find themselves down there," he added.
"I think the chairman has already said that they would have to cut major costs off their wage bill if they do go down.
"Nobody wants to see that so they've got from now until the end of the season to make sure that doesn't happen."
Jacob Jenkins was airlifted to hospital after he stopped breathing at Pizza Hut in Hartlepool on 9 October.
The two-year-old was put into an induced coma but five days later his parents turned off his life support.
Abigail Wilson and David Jenkins presented a fundraising cheque to the Great North Air Ambulance.
David Jenkins said: "If it wasn't for the air ambulance we wouldn't have been able to spend the last five days with Jacob.
"Abigail and I are both so grateful and even though our little boy sadly didn't make it, we would not have been able to say goodbye without them."
The £1,100 was raised during a charity night at Hartlepool Working Men's Club.
The star will start in Belfast next February and visit Dublin, Manchester, London, Glasgow and Birmingham before moving on to mainland Europe.
Tickets for the UK dates go on sale to members of her website on 1 December before going on general sale on 4 December.
Her third album 25 has sold 737,000 copies in the UK in just six days.
It has also sold almost three million in the US since its release on Friday.
In interviews, the singer has suggested she may not tour, blaming stage fright, her chequered vocal health, motherhood, and saying she finds touring lonely.
"There is something quite lonely about going on stage in front of loads of people and then everyone going home," she told BBC Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw.
"It sounds really silly. I'm sure they would hang out with me, if I invited them back to my hotel, but I feel quite on my own a lot on tour."
But in a short video posted to accompany the tour announcement, she said: "I have been bluffing this whole time and I'm so relieved to tell you I am of course coming on tour."
Her last tour, in 2011, ended prematurely due to the discovery of a haemorrhage on her vocal cord, which required surgery.
With huge demand likely for her gig tickets this time, her tour website carries a request that purchasers do not sell tickets on for a profit.
Reselling tickets at inflated prices is common for sold-out gigs and is not illegal. But it often causes consternation among genuine fans and the site says: "The resale of tickets will not be tolerated."
The tour announcement came after 25 set a new record for the most albums sold in a UK chart week, overtaking the previous record of 696,000 set by Oasis's Be Here Now in 1997.
However the Oasis album only went on sale three days before the end of the chart week, whereas Adele has notched up her total in six days.
Sales of Adele's third album far outstrip those of any other release in recent years. No other artist has even sold 100,000 copies in a single week this year.
One Direction came closest when their LP Made in the AM sold 93,000 last month - including more than 7,000 from streaming data, which Adele does not have because 25 is not available on streaming services.
Last year, Ed Sheeran's X sold 182,000 in its first week, Coldplay's Ghost Stories sold 168,000 and Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour shifted 101,000.
The payout was agreed as part of a settlement reached in Dr Cathy Armstrong's lawsuit over the accident in County Fermanagh in January 2011.
The consultant anaesthetist was treating a critically ill patient en route to hospital when their ambulance was in collision with a truck.
A court was told her serious back injuries may have ended her career.
She sued the driver of the other vehicle, with the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service later joining as a second defendant.
Earlier this month, the High Court in Belfast heard that Dr Armstrong, now aged in her 50s, lived for her work and planned to continue as long as possible, before what was a "life-changing event".
On the day of the crash, she was treating a swine flu patient being transferred by ambulance from the Erne Hospital in Enniskillen to Belfast.
A police car had been travelling ahead, clearing the route for their emergency journey.
It overtook the other truck as he was about to make a right turn on the main A4 road at Brookeborough.
The ambulance travelling behind was in collision with the truck, crashing off the road and overturning down an embankment.
It was claimed that the truck driver's manoeuvre was "foolhardy in its mildest form", as he should have realised an ambulance was approaching if he had properly used his mirrors.
Reports referred to in the case predicted Dr Armstrong may not make a return to work.
Proceedings were adjourned to allow out of court negotiations.
Dr Armstrong's barrister later announced that a settlement had been reached.
Although the exact terms are not being disclosed, legal sources have said she would receive a figure in excess of £1m, plus legal costs.
Mickey Harte's men next face Division One champions and All-Ireland holders Dublin on Saturday at Croke Park.
Dublin looked impressive as they ran out 0-18 to 0-11 winners over Cavan in front of a big crowd at Breffni Park.
A young Donegal side were outclassed by Kerry in Letterkenny although they managed to finish just three points behind.
Full-forward Paul Geaney scored both goals for the Kingdom who had corner-back Shane Enright carried off on a stretcher after he was injured in an early challenge with Donegal captain Michael Murphy.
Geaney's first-half goal was set up by young corner-forward Jack Savage who looks an exciting prospect for Kerry.
The visitors led 1-1 to 1-5 at half-time thanks to a run of five points without reply.
Geaney's second three-pointer had Kerry up by 2-14 to 0-8 but, with the visitors bringing on six subs, Donegal stuck to their task and in the end there was just a goal between the teams.
Ulster champions Tyrone were stunned by Niall Daly's early goal for Roscommon but recovered to win with ease.
Mickey Harte's men lost All-Star Mattie Donnelly early on, and he looks likely to miss the clash with Dublin due to concussion.
They moved into a four-point lead by the 25th minute, with Peter Harte, Darren McCurry and Niall Sludden making them tick.
Roscommon went 17 minutes without a score, before Donie Smith landed an excellent point.
Once again, a fast-moving Red Hand side got going, with wing backs Tiernan McCann and Johnny Munroe pushing forward to score, while Harte's fourth, and first from play, sent them in with a 0-10 to 1-2 interval lead.
Smith fired over two wonderful scores inside two minutes after the restart to kick-start Roscommon's challenge, but they continued to pay a price for indiscipline at the back, with Ronan O'Neill knocking over a couple of frees.
Tyrone's point scorers in the game were Harte 4, O'Neill 3, Sludden 2, McCurry 2, Mark Bradley 2, McCann, Munroe, Colm Cavanagh, Conor Meyler and Conall McCann.
Dean Rock landed eight points for Dublin as they ran out seven-point winners over Cavan in front of a crowd of more than 16,000.
Seanie Johnston, who finished with five points, helped Cavan take an early lead but scores by Rock, Kevin McManamon, Jason Whelan, Ciaran Kilkenny, Niall Scully, and Jack McCaffrey saw the Dubs enjoy a 10 points to seven interval advantage.
Dublin extended their lead to 0-16 to 0-10 and late scores by Brian Fenton and Cormac Costello saw them win with ease ahead of next weekend's showdown with Tyrone.
Cardiac patients are supposed to be seen within six months, but the Welsh NHS has not met that target for more than two years.
A report commissioned by the health minister said the service was still struggling but health boards had a "stronger focus" on easing delays.
Some patients will continue to be treated in England into 2015.
The report was ordered by Health Minister Mark Drakeford to tackle heart disease, a major killer in Wales.
Concerns about waiting times for heart patients emerged a year ago.
There was a rise in deaths of patients waiting for cardiac treatment at hospitals in Cardiff and Swansea while the Royal College of Surgeons warned of its concerns and that the situation was "dangerous".
Ninety-nine patients had died over five years waiting for surgery at either the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, or Morriston Hospital, Swansea.
To combat the problem, around 80 patients from Wales were sent for treatment in England in an agreement announced in February.
The report found the number of coronary heart disease cases in Wales are falling, but more than 4,300 people a year are still dying from it.
It said the NHS and health boards were working to help the most urgent patients and to cut waiting times "significantly".
It added, despite some improvements, there are big differences between health boards in how long patients have to wait for a diagnostic electrocardiogram (ECG).
In the Cardiff and Vale area, 100% of patients had access to one within eight weeks, but more than half of Aneurin Bevan health board patients waited longer.
Source: Together for Health - Heart Disease Delivery Plan, Annual Report 2014
Better detection and tackling unhealthy lifestyles had helped, said the report which flagged up a programme run by west Wales health board Hywel Dda.
The scheme has helped more than 1,000 people in the workplace at risk of heart disease in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
It found 77% had weight issues, 33% had high blood pressure, a quarter were given lifestyle and diet support and 18% were referred to GPs.
Mr Drakeford said there had been "significant progress" but more could be done.
"We will continue to invest in services, improve early diagnosis and prevent the causes of the disease, including cutting smoking levels and encouraging people to adopt healthier lifestyles," he added.
Meanwhile, Mr Drakeford has announced that extra forms of treatment for heart attack patients will be available in north Wales patients from early 2015.
Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) - more commonly known as angioplasty - is a non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowed (stenotic) coronary arteries.
Currently, patients have to travel to Chester or Liverpool for angioplasty and cardiac angiography.
He made the announcement on a tour of the new North Wales Cardiac Centre at Glan Clwyd hospital which will open to the public on 4 August.
Appliances currently owned by the brigade can only ascend up to 32m (105ft) and could not reach the upper floors of the block.
Commissioner Dany Cotton told the BBC it was "one of my priorities" to get taller fire trucks and "early conversations" had already been held.
But given how many tower blocks there are in the capital, how come the city's brigade do not already have access to such appliances?
"There's lots of anger in the fire services", Lucy Masoud, a firefighter and regional officer for the FBU explains.
"Those firefighters on the scene who had to make a choice about who they were going to save and who they had to let stay and die."
She believes taller aerial appliances would have been a "game changer".
"They give more accessibility and more options, and are safer for us as firefighters... Undoubtedly we would have been able to save more lives," she said.
The tallest aerial platform used in the operation at the north Kensington block was borrowed from Surrey Fire and Rescue Service.
Reaching up to 42m (138ft) in height, the fire truck, which is based in Leatherhead, is the tallest in the country.
Yet it was unable to reach the top floors of the 24-storey Grenfell Tower, which stands at nearly 70m (230ft).
The issue of whether LFB should have taller platforms has been brought up before at the inquiry into the 2009 Lakanal House fire in Camberwell, south London, in which six people died.
"We wanted to see a recommendation for platforms and ladders that could save people and also issue jets of water in high-rise tower blocks," victims' lawyer Louise Christian said.
She said a written submission by fire experts to lawyers for the Lakanal House inquest specifically mentioned aerial platforms built by Bronto Skylift, but no recommendation was ever made.
Bronto Skylift, based in Finland, develop aerial platforms which can reach heights of more than 100m (328ft).
According to managing director Harry Clayhills, the firm's fire platforms are used by more than 100 brigades in 16 countries around the world.
A 90m (295ft) appliance costs more than £1m each but can be used to rescue people from tower blocks and allow crews to spray water on a blaze from a height.
But it is not known if such a unit would have been able to get close enough to the tower for it to be used given the intensity of the fire and the layout of the surrounding streets.
It is London's road layout which partly explains why larger devices are not currently owned by London Fire Brigade.
A spokesperson for the brigade said the appliances they use have been "selected for their manoeuvrability and ability to access properties".
Higher ladders "require more room and carry more weight and so are often impractical in a city like London where streets and road ways can be narrow and traffic is often congested," the spokesperson said.
They added that high-rise fires were also usually fought by crews from within the building itself "to ensure the seat of the fire is attacked as quickly as possible", rather than from a height.
Ms Cotton said high platform vehicles were now available which could fit into London's narrow streets.
"We are fortunately just about to replace our aerial fleet so as part of that we will look at the new technology that will allow us to have taller aerial platforms," she said.
MP Jim Fitzpatrick, who was a firefighter in the capital for 20 years, believes the public inquiry into the Grenfell disaster will have to look at whether the brigade had the correct equipment for the job.
"These are genuine and realistic questions that the inquiry will have to answer," he said.
His family confirmed that he died on Friday morning in Edenvale hospital in Johannesburg.
The 38-year-old singer, loved for his energetic stage performances, had hits with Mphefumlo Wami and Ndixolele.
President Jacob Zuma led the tributes to the star, saying Tyamara was "one of the best gospel artists that the country has ever produced".
The BBC's Milton Nkosi in Johannesburg said the award-winning star brought gospel to a younger generation through his unique style and drew thousands of people closer to the music genre.
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His manager Tshepo Nzimande explained what made Mr Tyamara so popular: "He had energy on stage and he was very powerful."
Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa said there was "a deep sense of grief for losing such a young life. He is a success story that South African youth have a significant contribution to make in our society."
Popular evangelist pastor Paseka "Mboro" Motsoeneng who had visited the musician in hospital also described to local newspaper how shocked he was when he heard the news.
"It was a massive shock to me. I could not believe it at first but I was grateful that I could pray for him and bring him closer to the Lord."
The singer had been receiving treatment since being diagnosed in December.
A family statement, released on Friday, said that Lundi has passed away peacefully just after midnight.
Tyamara is the third young artist to die within the last six months, after the deaths of another gospel star Sifiso Ncwane and musician Mduduzi "Mandoza" Tshabalala, both also aged 38.
The PM is aiming for Britain to have the highest percentage of people in work of any developed nation.
Mr Cameron said it had been a "tough few years" but added that the country was "coming out the other side".
Labour said the Conservatives' promises would sound like "empty words" to the unemployed or those on low pay.
Mr Cameron's goal of "full employment" would involve the UK, currently 72%, overtaking Germany's 74% in terms of the percentage of people in work, said BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith.
There is no timescale, but it is an "aspiration which he wants to achieve", he added.
In a speech in Ipswich, the prime minister said full employment would mean that "anyone who wants a job is able to get a job in our country".
He outlined Conservative manifesto pledges on employment and enterprise, including an increase to 75,000 in the number of start-up loans provided by the government in the next parliament. The loans provide about £5,000 to young entrepreneurs founding a business.
He also pledged investment in infrastructure to attract businesses and creating three million new apprenticeships.
It had been a "tough few years", Mr Cameron said, adding: "We haven't solved all Britain's economic problems, but the plan is working."
He said it was a "myth" that the economic recovery was only benefiting the south, or that most new jobs were being taken by foreigners.
On immigration, where the government has failed in its bid to cut net migration to the tens of thousands, Mr Cameron said: "We have made some progress, but not as much as I would like."
He promised the "toughest possible welfare controls on people coming from the EU".
Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said average wages had fallen by £1,600 every year, while the number of people paid less than a living wage had risen to nearly five million.
She added: "David Cameron's talk of full employment will seem like empty words to working people after five years of talents wasted and opportunities denied."
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said full employment "should be a goal for any political party", adding: "But we also need to create decent jobs with good pay and prospects."
John Longworth, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "Full employment should be a goal for any government, but it can only be achieved when Britain's businesses are firing on all cylinders."
Racine, 25, and 26-year-old Murphy have both signed initial loan deals until January at the struggling Minstermen.
Ex-Southampton youth player Racine has made 117 appearances for Forest Green and is their current club captain.
Murphy began his career at Arsenal and has scored seven goals in 17 league games for Rovers this season.
York, who are 23rd in the National League and without a win in 15 games, signed Newport striker Jon Parkin on loan with a view to a permanent move on Wednesday.
Gaelic Athletic Association president Christy Cooney said her presence "does honour to our Association".
Earlier on day two of her visit to the Republic of Ireland, the Queen laid a wreath honouring Ireland's war dead.
At a banquet at Dublin Castle this evening, the Queen will make her only public speech of the historic trip.
She is the first British monarch to visit the country for 100 years.
The Queen was met at the main entrance of Croke Park by Mr Cooney and President Mary McAleese, who is hosting the visit.
A display of Irish set dancing was followed by a meeting with GAA officials.
Addressing the Queen, Mr Cooney said the visit would underpin and advance the peace process and "go down in the history of the GAA".
He said: "Your presence does honour to our Association, to its special place in Irish life, and to its hundreds of thousands of members."
By Conor SpackmanBBC News, Dublin
On Tuesday, the Queen had laid a wreath in memory of those who died fighting for Ireland against her own country's forces.
Less than 24 hours later, she was on the opposite side of Dublin for another memorial - this time, honouring Irishmen who fought and died for Britain in WWI.
Dignitaries, including the Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and many other representatives from the unionist community, looked on as the Queen laid a wreath of poppies.
A lone piper played a lament and the band the Last Post before the Queen went to look at the Roll of Honour - the names of 49,400 men who went to war for the crown and did not return.
He added that he was "deeply saddened" to attend the funeral of GAA member PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr last month.
The Queen was presented with a limited edition book outlining the GAA's history, and Prince Philip was presented with a hurley stick and a sliothar (hurling ball), with the aside that he should use it "in the back garden".
Dublin footballer Kevin Nolan, who was one of four players from across Ireland to meet the Queen at Croke Park, told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra it was a "great honour" to represent the GAA at the event.
On 21 November 1920, during the War of Independence, 13 spectators and one player were killed when British forces opened fire at a football match at the home of Gaelic sports.
Earlier that day, IRA assassination squads had shot dead 14 suspected British intelligence agents in Dublin.
The BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt said the Queen walking out on the hallowed nationalist turf at Croke Park represented "the once unimaginable becoming the norm".
Her speech at Wednesday's state dinner is likely to acknowledge past UK-Irish difficulties without offering an apology, he added.
The Queen and Prince Philip were shown how to pour a pint of Guinness on their first stop of the day, but declined a taste of Ireland's most famous export.
They then met Prime Minister Enda Kenny and were shown around government buildings in the capital.
The Queen then laid a wreath honouring almost 50,000 soldiers at the Irish National War Memorial.
The Queen's attendance at the ceremony honouring the Irish soldiers who died in World War I reflects an aspect of history that has been troubling for her hosts.
For decades, when the focus of admiration was on the rebels who fought and died in the 1916 Easter Rising, the soldiers' contribution went unrecognised.
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Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, who was among the dignitaries at the ceremony, said: "Everyone remembers the past but we have to look to the future, but there are clear indications as a society - in the UK and Republic - people are moving on.
"They want better relations and we are in a new era."
In Dublin Castle this evening, which used to be the seat of British rule, the monarch will deliver a speech in the same room where Queen Victoria once dined.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron will be present at the state dinner, after flying in and holding talks with the Taoiseach, Mr Kenny, on Wednesday evening.
Mr Kenny has said he wishes to discuss the release of UK government files on the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, in which victims' relatives believe there was British state collusion.
At prime minister's questions on Wednesday, Mr Cameron told MPs that the relationship between Britain and the Republic of Ireland "probably has never been stronger".
"I think the scenes on our television screen last night of the visits that Her Majesty made, to heal the wounds of the past, but also to look to a very bright future between our two countries, are remarkable and hugely welcome," he said.
The first day of the royal visit went smoothly, although there were some protests.
During the Queen's visit to the Garden of Remembrance, in Dublin, riot police officers jostled with demonstrators at two separate protests on streets several hundred yards away.
The garden is dedicated to people who fought for Irish independence from Britain.
As the Queen, with President Mary McAleese alongside her, laid a wreath in the garden, the sounds of protesters could be heard and black balloons were released by some demonstrators.
Broadcaster RTE reported that 20 men had been charged with public order offences on Tuesday night in relation to the afternoon's violence.
Early in the day it emerged that a pipe bomb found on a bus bound for Dublin on Monday had been made safe by the Irish army.
One of the country's biggest security operations is in place for the Queen's four-day visit.
Wednesday 18 May: Tour of the Guinness Storehouse; visit the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, at Government Buildings; wreath-laying ceremony at the Irish War Memorial Garden; Croke Park stadium to meet Gaelic Athletic Association; state dinner at Dublin Castle.
Thursday 19 May: Visit to National Stud at Kildare.
Friday 20 May: Tour of St. Patrick's Rock, Cashel and the English Market and Tyndall Institute, Cork.
Marshall believes that Jared Payne is a "makeshift centre" and that Ireland's attack has been "lacklustre" at times.
"They do not have a (centre) combo that really do challenge," said the 81-times capped Marshall on BBC Radio 5 Live.
"When you have that, spaces open up for the outside backs and inside backs that completely change the game."
Marshall, who won 81 All Blacks caps between 1995 and 2005, believes that the Ireland backline has struggled to fill the gap left by Brian O'Driscoll's retirement even though the Irish managed to retain the Six Nations title earlier this year.
Payne was among the try-scorers as Ireland notched seven touchdowns in Saturday's opening 50-7 win over Canada but the Irish will face much tougher World Cup tests including the concluding Pool D game against France on 11 October.
"When you go into a restructure like they have when you lose quality centres (like O'Driscoll and Gordon D'Arcy), you are trying to forge a way forward," added Marshall.
"You've got to be slightly conservative with the way you go about implementing your game plan.
"For me, Jared Payne is a back-three player so he's a makeshift centre. And a lot of their lacklustre attack is because they have not got a (centre) combo that really do challenge."
Former England centre Mike Tindall also believes that Ireland may "struggle creatively" when they face the stronger nations later on in the tournament.
"I think they are a bit one-dimensional in attack," added 2003 World Cup winner Tindall.
"They have a very structured game. They are incredibly good at getting their aerial kicks back and (Johnny) Sexton is one of the best tactical kickers in the game at the moment and Schmidt is one of the best tactical coaches.
"But I don't know if they go up against someone like New Zealand whether they will have the ability to score tries.
"That is my only question with them. Everything else they have got.
"It will be interesting when they play the big game against France whether they can muscle up against the French pack and also be creative enough."
After their opening win over Canada, Ireland are back in action against Romania at Wembley on Sunday and they face Italy on 4 October before the concluding pool fixture with France.
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The former Celtic and Southampton keeper joined Bournemouth on loan in 2014 when they won promotion to the Premier League and made the move permanent the following year.
His contract had been due to expire in the summer.
The 37-year-old Poland international has made 32 appearances this season.
"We're really pleased for Artur, he's been so consistent for us and in really good form. He's won us points this season," boss Eddie Howe said.
Bournemouth, who are 13th in the Premier League, play bottom side Sunderland at the Stadium of Light at 15:00 BST on Saturday.
They took a deserved first-half lead when Kebano lost his marker to head in Ryan Fredericks' cross from the right.
Fonte doubled the lead after the break, firing in the rebound from a narrow angle after Kebano had a shot saved.
Ipswich continued to struggle for possession and chances, as they fell to a first defeat in five league games.
The hosts only managed two shots on target, as they failed to make it five league wins from five at the start of a season for the first time in the club's history.
Fulham, meanwhile, were unfortunate not to score more, as Fredericks and Fonte both saw efforts hit by the woodwork in the first half.
Fonte's goal was his first for the club since arriving from Braga, but his afternoon was ended early when he went off with what appeared to be a groin injury 15 minutes from time.
Slavisa Jokanovic's side have now won three successive games against the Tractor Boys since a 2-1 home defeat at Craven Cottage in December 2015.
Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy:
"Sometimes you just have to take your hat off to your opposition. They were streets ahead of us. They absolutely bashed us up with and without the ball.
"We tried putting round pegs in square holes. We had players playing out of position due to injury and I didn't think it was right to go negative.
"There's no need to panic. We've had four good results without all of our squad available. You've got to remember that it's just one game, one result. We've won our other four league games."
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic:
"We didn't start the season like Ipswich did, but there's a huge number of games still in front of us.
"I expect we can start to be more positive now. We know we're not at our best level yet and we've made costly mistakes at the beginning of the season.
"We showed we didn't forget how to play good football. There is space for us to be better."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 0, Fulham 2.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 0, Fulham 2.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Tristan Nydam replaces Grant Ward.
Foul by Aboubakar Kamara (Fulham).
Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cole Skuse.
Substitution, Fulham. Denis Odoi replaces Stefan Johansen.
Foul by Ryan Fredericks (Fulham).
David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town).
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town).
Sheyi Ojo (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town).
Offside, Fulham. Tim Ream tries a through ball, but Aboubakar Kamara is caught offside.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Fulham. Oliver Norwood replaces Neeskens Kebano.
Sheyi Ojo (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town).
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Ryan Sessegnon.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town).
Offside, Fulham. Tim Ream tries a through ball, but Aboubakar Kamara is caught offside.
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Garner (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara replaces Rui Fonte because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Rui Fonte (Fulham) because of an injury.
Foul by Tom Cairney (Fulham).
Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Tomas Kalas (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Garner (Ipswich Town).
Neeskens Kebano (Fulham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dominic Iorfa (Ipswich Town).
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Dominic Iorfa.
Attempt blocked. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stefan Johansen.
Attempt blocked. Sheyi Ojo (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Bersant Celina replaces Freddie Sears.
Edmund had three match points but lost 2-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 to Jared Donaldson.
World number 43 Evans was given a point penalty for swearing midway through the final set of his 7-5 0-6 6-3 loss to American qualifier Ernesto Escobedo.
Watson, who reached the fourth round last year, was beaten 7-6 (7-4) 6-1 by Romania's Patricia Maria Tig.
The defeat means the Briton will drop from her current world ranking of 108 and is in danger of having to qualify for the French Open in May, with the entry deadline for the main draw on 17 April.
American Donaldson was serving at 0-40, 4-5 in the second set against Edmund, but the 20-year-old American held on to take the tie-break and dominated the decider.
Bedene was trailing Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff 7-5 4-0 when he was forced to retire from his match.
The British number four was playing his seventh match in as many days after winning a Challenger title in Irving last week.
Zach Clough opened the scoring, spinning on to Derik Osede's pass before drilling a powerful effort past Jak Alnwick from the edge of the box.
Josh Vela then doubled the lead, sweeping home from close range after Alnwick had spilled Sammy Ameobi's cross-shot.
And full-back Lawrie Wilson then sent the Macron into delirium as he hammered a half-cleared corner past Alnwick for his first goal of the season.
The home side had chances to go further ahead as Andy Taylor had one effort tipped over the bar and continued to dominate in the second half, with Gary Madine going close on three different occasions.
Vale recovered their poise and after defender Remie Streete was denied superbly by goalkeeper Mark Howard, the visitors finally punctured the Wanderers' defence when Sam Hart headed in from close range.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 3, Port Vale 1.
Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 3, Port Vale 1.
Attempt saved. James Henry (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Chris Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Anthony de Freitas (Port Vale).
Foul by Derik (Bolton Wanderers).
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Anthony de Freitas (Port Vale) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Port Vale. Chris Mbamba replaces Sam Kelly.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by David Wheater.
Attempt blocked. Anthony de Freitas (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. James Henry replaces Sammy Ameobi.
Attempt missed. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Jak Alnwick.
Attempt saved. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Kelly (Port Vale).
Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by David Wheater.
Attempt blocked. Sam Hart (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers).
Sam Hart (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Taylor (Bolton Wanderers).
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Chris Taylor replaces Josh Vela.
Goal! Bolton Wanderers 3, Port Vale 1. Sam Hart (Port Vale) header from very close range to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Mark Beevers.
Foul by Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers).
Remie Streete (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Mark Howard.
Attempt blocked. Sam Kelly (Port Vale) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Taylor (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Liam Trotter (Bolton Wanderers).
Paulo Tavares (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Liam Trotter (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sam Hart (Port Vale).
Attempt blocked. Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Port Vale. Martin Paterson replaces Rigino Cicilia.
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Tom Crosby, medical director of the Wales Cancer Network, made his comment as the Welsh Government launched its refreshed cancer delivery plan.
In it, the Welsh government has committed to continuing to improve survival rates for cancer and reduce early deaths caused by the disease.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said survival rates increased year on year.
The revised plan is focusing on delivering better results for lung cancer patients, improving early detection through better access to diagnostic tests and ensuring the highest standards of care.
The Welsh government is aiming to close the gap with the best providers of cancer care in Europe.
In October, the UK Lung Cancer Coalition said Wales needed "drastic improvement" to improve its five-year survival rates, which are the lowest in the UK.
Dr Crosby wrote in an introduction to the revised plan: "We must lead a relentless drive towards earlier diagnosis.
"We are aware that Wales performs less well in this compared to other developed countries worldwide. Diagnosing cancer early allows for a combination of less aggressive and less expensive treatment, improved patient experience and quality of life, and crucially, better survival."
Mr Gething said: "Sadly, cancer touches all our lives at some point. Most of us will know a friend or relative that has had the disease; some will have had a personal experience of it.
"Some will have lost the fight, but thankfully, many will have survived and gone on to live full and healthy lives.
"We're proud that here in Wales cancer survival rates continue to increase year on year. Early death through cancer has declined by around 14% over 10 years."
He said spending on cancer services had risen from £347m in 2011-12 to £409m by 2015 and the government had allocated £15m in the draft budget for better diagnostics.
Susan Morris from Macmillan Cancer Support in Wales welcomed the plan, saying: "We are pleased the plan aims to have outcomes and services that match the best in Europe and wants to tackle the inequalities which mean that people from our most deprived communities are more likely to develop cancer than those in our least deprived areas.
"A cancer diagnosis can affect so many parts of a person's life so we are pleased the plan commits to people being offered a key worker, a needs assessment and a care plan as well as information on where to access welfare benefits advice."
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It comes as Radio 1 has announced that the teenage cancer patient, who raised almost ??5m for charity before his death in May, will have an award presented in his name at this year's Teen Awards.
Jane Sutton added: "My son was courageous and inspirational.
"I'm immensely proud of everything he achieved."
The 19-year-old, from Burntwood, Staffordshire, died after launching an appeal in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.
He made a bucket list of 46 things he wanted to achieve and raised money during the process.
The charity recently announced ??2.9m of the ??4.96m raised through donations and gift aid would be invested in specialist cancer units for young people.
Jane Sutton said: "When he first started fundraising for Teenage Cancer Trust, never in his wildest dreams did he think he would reach ??5 million.
"As well as all the other ambitious goals on his bucket list, he really wanted to help other young people with cancer. He has certainly done that.
"He wasn't going to let his cancer stop him making the most of every minute and he often used to say, 'I may have cancer, but cancer doesn't have me'."
This year's Radio 1 Teen Awards will take place at Wembley Arena to honour some of the UK's unsung teenage heroes as well as music, online, sport and entertainment stars.
Radio 1 listeners have nominated friends and family aged 12 to 17 for the awards in recognition of their bravery, strength and selflessness.
Previous listener nominations have included relatives, work colleagues, friends and carers.
As well as the Teen Heroes, other prizes include best British group, British vlogger, British actor and British sports star, which will be voted for by Radio 1 listeners.
Stephen Sutton's mother added: "We will never forget Stephen, his spirit will live on in all that he achieved and shared with so many.
"His selfless fundraising and positive attitude to life touched countless hearts across the world and the huge outpouring of love and support he received in return helped him throughout his journey.
"Stephen found the kind words and messages of support from so many people he didn't know deeply humbling and I know that it made him really happy.
"He loved life and wanted to live every day to the full, preferring to measure life in terms of achievement and not time."
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The striker said on Twitter: "I will be back as a supporter alongside them one day. Every goal I scored in that famous number nine shirt was for them."
Cisse, 31, leaves for an undisclosed fee following a four-and-a-half year spell at St James' Park.
A Senegal international, he scored 44 goals in 131 games for Newcastle.
Cisse, who joined the Magpies from German club Freiburg, scored three times during the 2015-16 season, which ended with Newcastle being relegated to the Championship despite a late upturn in form under Rafael Benitez.
He added: "I hope that the team are quickly back in the Premier League.
"We had some great times together and hopefully under Rafa those times will return."
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Brazil forward Hulk recently joined Shanghai SIPG in a £46.1m transfer that eclipsed the £38.4m Asian transfer record fee that Jiangsu Suning paid for compatriot Alex Teixeira last February.
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Demba Ba, formerly of Newcastle and Chelsea, moved to Shanghai Shenhua in July 2015, while Jackson Martinez left Atletico Madrid to join Guangzhou for a then-Asian record £31m in early February 2016.
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A major search operation was started at about 17:20 when Marek Zoldak, 32, and a friend fell into waters at Eyemouth.
The other man managed to scramble to the shore and was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with minor injuries.
Mr Zoldak has not been found and police are asking anyone who was in the area on Sunday afternoon to contact them.
The two men were fishing just east of Killiedraught Bay when the incident occurred.
Emergency services were called and a search operation involving police, HM Coastguard, the RNLI and the RAF took place to try to find Mr Zoldak.
The search of the waters was called off on Monday morning at 08:00.
Insp Bryan Burns asked anyone who might have information about the incident to contact the police.
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But is it possible not just to survive, but also to eat a balanced and healthy diet on that sort of budget?
Over five days, I set out to see if it was possible to include sufficient fruit, vegetables, protein and carbohydrates in my food to do that, spending no more than £1 a day - while trying not to lose sight of the fact that eating should be a pleasure, not just a necessity.
Coffee, alcohol, cakes and even salad are just too expensive. But there are plenty of surprising goodies that are very much on the menu.
Did you know you can buy an egg for just 8.7p? It may not be an ethical egg, and of course you have to buy 30 to get that price.
But when you are on a real budget, it still gives you valuable protein and great vitamins.
So including one piece of toast, with margarine and a cup of tea, my breakfast costs me 14p.
Lunch is a ham sandwich, at a cost of 29p. Good protein, but that is nearly a third of my daily budget gone in just a few bites.
And come 3pm, a nasty thought is already beginning to insinuate itself. At first just a question mark, it develops more and more into a certainty. To start with it is mere peckishness. Then, undeniably, it reclassifies itself as hunger.
So I gorge on a value scone (5p) with jam (1p), and feel better. And I eat an apple.
Contemplating dinner, it is time to consult an expert.
Jack Monroe spent a year and a half out of work, and learnt to survive on next to nothing.
According to her blog, Oh My God Dinner is the result of surprise discoveries of anything left in the bottom of the fridge.
With cubes of melting Brie on top and scraps of bacon, it is full of varied flavours. We added peppers for extra colour and texture.
Breakfast, with porridge and two slices of bread and jam, comes to 18p.
So I splash out at lunchtime, and make myself a morale-boosting BLT. This is only possible with the price of cooking bacon (see above).
But lettuce at 4p for a single leaf, and a tomato at 5p, are real luxuries in this sort of diet, making lunch 26p.
And even more indulgent is a banana. All 14p of it.
Dinner is a true belly-filler, but with three vegetables, pretty healthy too.
Today, while walking the dog in our local woods, my wife and I have a brainwave.
The blackthorn is blooming, and everywhere bright green stinging nettles are pushing up through the undergrowth.
It is the perfect time of year for nettle soup.
Not quite free food though: the recipe has potatoes, butter and cream.
And you need plenty of patience to strip each plant of its leaves.
With two slices of value bread and margarine to go with it, lunch comes in at a below-average 17p.
And with dinner of carrot, kidney bean and cumin burger, I can almost believe I am eating meat.
Did I mention biscuits?
They are not only a significant morale booster, but cheap as well. A packet of value digestives costs 30p, and contains 30 biscuits.
And for a Brit, there can be no greater comfort food than a custard cream. With a cuppa.
Tea with three value custard creams will cost in the region of 4p (31p buys you 36 biscuits).
For anyone on a budget, this is surely a piece of heaven.
Jack Monroe's little tip is even cheaper. Have a lemon curd sandwich, for around 3p.
And talking of national favourites, what Brit wouldn't look forward to a curry?
Lentil and tomato curry, with a healthy dollop of Greek yoghurt and chopped coriander, is a delight to the taste buds as well as to the tummy.
The strains show when someone arrives in the office with several large boxes of free crisps. The expensive hand-made kind too. While I tuck into a cream-cheese sandwich, with four slivers of cucumber.
But my mission is to eat healthily, so I need to find cheaper fruit.
After scouring the supermarkets, the cheapest apple I have come across is 10.3p; the cheapest banana is 14p. Salad is out of the question.
I go to my local market an hour before closing time, where fruit and veg is sold by the £1 tub.
Surely they will be giving it away? No. Despite an attempt at bargaining, the cheapest apple is 14p.
"Fixed prices!" explains the vendor.
Time for a bowl of hearty but nourishing soup.
So after five days I have spent just £4.93.
I consult a dietician to see how well I've done. She is impressed by the variety of food I've eaten.
"Those dinners looked great," says Alison Hornby, of the British Dietetic Association. "But I would say they may have been slightly smaller than you required. You may have felt hungry at the end of a meal."
After some quick calculations, she confirms that I am well short on my calorie intake.
"You could have done with something a bit more substantial," she says.
While I end up feeling a little virtuous, this has, of course, been an entirely artificial exercise.
"You're doing this as an experiment for five days," says Jack Monroe. "But when it is your way of life, and you haven't got any choice over it, it's not a fun experiment."
In a letter to the Scottish government, Esther McVey said food bank use was increasing across a number of different countries.
She said there was "no robust evidence linking food bank usage to welfare reform", despite reports from the charities suggesting this is the case.
The SNP described her letter as "heartless".
Ms McVey also turned down a request to meet publicly with the Scottish Parliament's welfare committee, but said she would meet them informally.
In her letter, seen by the BBC, she stated "the rise in food banks predates most of the welfare reforms this government has put in place".
However, figures from the Trussell Trust have indicated an increase of more than 300% in the past year.
Ewan Gurr from the Trussell Trust said: "All the empirical evidence and research shows that welfare reform is the main force driving increasing demand for food banks.
"Food banks are responding to a need that has always existed but welfare reform has exacerbated that.
"The rising cost of food and fuel is also a factor driving in the need for food banks but all the research indicates the key factor is welfare reform.
"All we are asking is that the UK government takes note of this and provides some creative solutions. In 2012-13 the Trussell Trust supported 14,318 people. In the past financial year we supported 71,428. The numbers speak for themselves."
The letter from Ms McVey came after growing cross-party concern amongst MSPs about the increasing demand for food banks in Scotland.
Neil Couling of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) gave evidence to the Scottish welfare reform committee last month. After which Minister for Housing and Welfare Margaret Burgess wrote to Ms McVey to express her concerns. This letter was her response.
SNP MSP and member of the welfare committee Kevin Stewart said: "This heartless letter from Esther McVey shows that the UK government has washed their hands of the ever growing number of people being forced to rely on food banks.
"The extent to which the Westminster government will bend the facts in order to try dodge their responsibility on this issue is astonishing.
"The crux of the letter is that Ms McVey has refused to formally attend the welfare reform committee to answer questions about the very policies she is enforcing on vulnerable people.
He added: "The UK Minister has offered some form of informal meeting - but what has she got to hide?
"This offering is effectively her snubbing the Scottish Parliament and the people of Scotland - it is a gutless proposition."
A DWP spokesman said: "The truth is that we're spending £94bn a year on working age benefits and the welfare system supports millions of people who are on low incomes or unemployed so they can meet their basic needs.
"The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) say there are fewer people struggling with their food bills compared with a few years ago, and our reforms will improve the lives of some of the poorest families in our communities by promoting work and helping people to lift themselves out of poverty."
The court in Milan also sentenced his former deputy Marco Mancini to nine years in jail over the 2003 kidnapping.
Italy's courts have already convicted in absentia 22 CIA agents over the same case. The abducted Egyptian cleric said he was flown to Egypt and tortured.
Pollari and Mancini are expected to appeal against their convictions.
Defence lawyer Nicola Madia says he has not been able to properly defend his clients because the Italian government has declared the case covered by state secrecy laws.
The Italian trials, which began in 2007, were the first in the world to bring to court cases involving extraordinary rendition, the CIA's practice of transferring terror suspects to countries where torture is permitted.
Extraordinary rendition - launched by the administration of US President George W Bush in the wake of the 9/11 attacks - has been condemned by human rights groups as a violation of international agreements.
Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, an Egyptian cleric better known as Abu Omar, was living in Milan when he was snatched off the street in daylight and flown to two US bases in Europe before being transferred to Egypt.
He claims he was then tortured for seven months, and held for years before being released without charge.
Pollari was acquitted when the first trial ended with the conviction of 23 Americans - all but one of them CIA agents - in 2009.
The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Lady, was given an eight-year term, while the other 22 Americans convicted - one of them a US air force colonel - were sentenced to five years in prison.
All of them are believed to be living in the US and are unlikely to serve their sentences.
Pollari, who was head of Sismi military intelligence agency in 2003, insisted during the trial that he had known nothing about the kidnapping, but that documents proving he was not involved were classified under secrecy laws. He resigned over the affair.
Last September Italy's highest court upheld the guilty verdicts on the 23 Americans, and ruled that Pollari and four other senior Italian secret service agents be tried again for their role in the kidnapping.
Tuesday's hearing, in Milan's court of appeals, also saw six-year sentences handed to three other Italian agents.
All five are expected to appeal and are unlikely to go to jail until the judicial process has been exhausted.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union at Arriva TrainCare will walk out on 19 May.
The RMT said the company was not prepared to negotiate pay because it was not the recognised union for its employees.
In a statement Arriva TrainCare described the action as "wholly unnecessary".
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RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "RMT members at Arriva TrainCare delivered a massive 'yes' vote for action and the company should wake up and take notice of the anger amongst their workforce over the pay issue.
"Instead they have ignored their staff and offered an insulting increase that systematically undermines our members' standard of living.
"Our members are entitled to be represented by the union they are members of so we can get on with our job and negotiate decent pay and conditions on their behalf."
Arriva TrainCare said a pay award for employees had been accepted following positive negotiations with Unite - the company's recognised trade union.
"As such there is no dispute over pay, as the RMT suggests, and therefore no grounds to proceed with strike action," a statement said.
"Our priority now is to develop robust plans to ensure our customers can run close to normal services on the affected strike day, and we are confident our contingency planning will achieve this outcome for our customers.
"In the meantime, we urge the RMT to accept the outcome of the approved and recognised collective bargaining arrangements and allow Arriva TrainCare to continue to service its customers and their passengers uninterrupted by needless strike action."
But the event's secretary Sarah Comish said that may have been the case due to the vast majority timing their visit to avoid the dreadful weather on Sunday.
She said: "We experienced two extremes but Saturday was the busiest we have ever seen our show field."
Only about 100 visitors braved the driving rain on Sunday.
A ewe owned by the Kermode family from Orrisdale was crowned Supreme Champion.
The sheep was chosen ahead of hundreds of animals from all over the Isle of Man.
The two-day celebration of Manx agriculture was held at Great Meadow and saw the unveiling of a 10ft (3m) high sculpture of a bull crowned "supreme champion" during last year's centenary event.
Artist Darren Jackson's design, chosen by the public, is made from assorted "farming treasure".
As well as classes for traditional livestock, the weekend included local food and craft stalls, vintage machinery, children's entertainment and dog shows.
Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said the truce would cover the town of Zabadani, near the Lebanese border, and two Shia towns in the north-east.
He said the deal was reached under UN auspices and with Iranian mediation.
Hezbollah has long been fighting alongside President Assad's forces to secure the Syrian border with Lebanon.
The deal will see anti-Assad fighters allowed to withdraw from Zabadani, which been under siege from pro-government forces backed by Hezbollah.
In July, the UN envoy for Syria said government barrel-bomb attacks on Zabadani had caused "unprecedented levels of destruction and many deaths among the civilian population".
In return, the rebels will allow the evacuation of thousands of civilians from the two Shia villages of Kefraya and Fuaa, which have been under rebel siege in Idlib province.
Zabadani is the last major rebel stronghold along the Lebanese border. Rebel fighters have just about been holding out, but have faced almost certain defeat.
A similar situation has developed around Kefraya and Fuaa, but in reverse - the rest of Idlib province has all but fallen to a rebel alliance, the Army of Conquest.
Last month 48-hour ceasefires were agreed to allow food and medical supplies into the two areas.
The new agreement means that for once a bloody end to two battlefronts in Syria may be avoided while both sides will feel they have achieved useful territorial gains, says the BBC's Arab affairs analyst Sebastian Usher.
Localised ceasefires have occasionally been reached elsewhere in Syria, our correspondent adds.
At one point they were proposed as one of the few ways out of the bloodshed and stalemate - but they have failed to build any real momentum, he says.
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Massaro was taken to a final-game tie-break before beating Egypt's third seed Raneem El Welily 11-2 7-11 11-9 6-11 12-10 in a dramatic semi-final.
Massaro, 32, will look to emulate her 2013 success when she beat Egypt's El Sherbini to become world champion.
El Sherbini beat compatriot Nouran Gohar 11-5 11-5 11-5 in the last four.
The 20-year-old, who knocked out Malaysia's eight-time champion Nicol David in the quarter-finals, is attempting to become the first Egyptian woman to win the world title.
She has an 18-1 win-loss record this year, including a win over Massaro in the Windy City Open semi-finals in Chicago last month.
Speaking about her 61-minute semi-final win over El Welily, Massaro said: "She played well in patches, I played well in patches and in some ways it's a fair result.
"I've played two World Championship semi-finals on a tie-break against her so I guess that was going through my mind because, if I had done it before, I knew I could do it again."
Medical charity MSF said because the baby was born in international waters, his nationality was still under debate.
A midwife on board the ship MV Aquarius described the birth as "normal... in dangerously abnormal conditions".
Thousands of refugees and migrants risk the dangerous crossing from Libya to Europe in search of a better life.
Last year, more than 3,700 people are believed to have died attempting the journey.
MSF said that the baby's parents, Otas and Faith Oqunbor, had named him Newman Otas. They had been making the perilous crossing with their two other children, aged seven and five, and were rescued just 24 hours before the baby was born.
MSF communications officer Alva White reported the baby's birth in a series of tweets on Monday from the Aquarius - a search and rescue vessel run by the group SOS Mediterranee in partnership with MSF.
"Just over an hour ago a baby boy was born on board the Aquarius. Mum, bub, dad and 2 big brothers are all well," she said.
"The gorgeous little guy was born in international waters so his nationality is still under discussion."
Ms White told the BBC that such events were rare on rescue ships, although another baby was born on the Aquarius in May to a woman from Cameroon.
She said that the 392 people now on board the Aquarius included seven pregnant women.
Mrs Oqunbor said she had been "very stressed" on the rubber boat and had been having contractions for three days.
MSF midwife Jonquil Nicholl, who delivered the baby, said: "I am filled with horror at the thought of what would have happened if this baby had arrived 24 hours earlier - in that unseaworthy rubber boat, with fuel on the bottom where the women sit, crammed in with no space to move, at the mercy of the sea.
"And 48 hours previously they were waiting on a beach in Libya not knowing what was ahead of them."
The building in Crescent Gardens will be sold off and replaced with a four storey development at Knapping Mount.
The plan has come under criticism from the Liberal Democrats with all 15 of their councillors voting against the move at a meeting on Wednesday.
The council leader said the decision was one of the most important the authority had made in 40 years.
Lib Dem councillor Helen Flynn previously said the new office would be a "waste of local taxpayers' money".
She argued the council should focus on refurbishing the Crescent Gardens offices instead.
Council staff are currently split between five sites - Knapping Mount, Crescent Gardens, Scottsdale House, Victoria Park House and Springfield Gardens.
The new building would allow all 500 staff to work from a single office.
Richard Cooper, leader of the Conservative-run council, said the move to Knapping Mount would cost £8.7m but result in more than £1m savings a year.
It is being funded by council reserves and internal borrowing and the council said it would be paid back over a seven-year period.
The authority said a preferred bidder had been approved for Crescent Gardens and fears its "beautiful exterior" could be destroyed were "unfounded".
"Any alterations would have to be sympathetic to and in keeping with the existing building," a council spokesman added.
By 2022, more than 400,000 households in Wales will receive Universal Credit - a scheme which combines all benefits into one.
But Citizens Advice said it was already leaving people in pilot areas, like Flintshire, dependent on food banks.
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) said most claimants were "satisfied".
There are currently 22,000 people on Universal Credit in Wales, the UK government's troubled flagship welfare scheme, being rolled-out across Britain.
Introduced in 2013, its single payment replaces six benefits, including Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
Citizens Advice said the system was overly complicated and "already failing too many people", pushing them into debt and leaving them without the means to make ends meet.
A report highlights issues in Flintshire, Wrexham and Newport, where incorrect information and harsh sanctions are leading to payments being rejected or delayed for weeks.
The charity said the UK government should pause a planned acceleration of the roll-out programme to Job Centres until key issues are addressed.
Citizens Advice spoke to claimants including Amanda, from Newport, who said she has creditors calling at her house several times as day after her payments were stopped for eight weeks after she changed her claim when her partner moved in.
Harry, from Flintshire, said he was given incorrect information about which benefit to claim after being made redundant, and then left on hold for 40 minutes before being cut off by the service.
Lindsay Kearton, policy advisor for Citizens Advice Cymru, who helped 1,500 claimants for Universal Credit in Wales last year, said some parents had to give up work due to issues with paying child care under the new system.
She told BBC Wales: "Not only are people struggling to make ends meet, to pay their bills, have to resort to turning to food banks, going into debt, borrowing money from family and friends, as well as other credit providers, it's also having an impact on people's ability to pay their rent sometimes, in terms of delays in housing payments, which could potentially have serious consequences."
A DWP spokesman said under Universal Credit people were moving into work faster and staying in work longer than under the old system.
"Universal Credit is designed to mirror the way many people in work are paid and we have budgeting advice and benefit advances available for anyone who needs extra help," he said.
"The vast majority of claimants have told us they are satisfied with Universal Credit.
"We are rolling out Universal Credit in a gradual, safe and secure way and in the rare cases where issues arise, we work closely with local authorities and landlords to support people when they need it."
Kaden Gowers and his friend had been sitting in the front seats of the vehicle on St Austell Avenue, Macclesfield on 16 September last year.
Both boys jumped out but Kaden became "entangled" in the car's wheels.
Coroner Jean Harkin concluded he died through "misadventure" after releasing the handbrake.
His cause of death was recorded as acute asphyxia and acute chest compression.
The coroner praised the families for their strength.
A forensic police investigator told the hearing Kaden's friend may have tried to push him out of the way, but he tripped and fell under the moving car.
Paramedics were unable to revive him.
A vehicle inspector found the car and brakes were "serviceable".
South Asia, a volatile and unstable region, has been witnessing an escalation in military and nuclear rivalry, somewhat overshadowed by the understandable fears of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
This part of the world, according to analysts, is fast becoming a race for nuclear supremacy between three powers - India, Pakistan and China (while technically not classified as South Asia, the country shares borders with both India and Pakistan). This rivalry in the eyes of many analysts is dangerous in itself but is made even more complex by the mutual suspicions and historical enmities that bedevil the region.
First, take Pakistan. The country is plagued by economic and political insecurity but is locked in a fight for military bragging rights with India. The country is believed to have one of the world's fastest growing nuclear arsenals. A recent report indicated that it had tripled the number of warheads it had a decade ago.
Nuclear strength is a political and military strategy in the eyes of the Pakistani governing class, a way of countering India's political and military clout. Pakistan has no official nuclear doctrine, but official communiques speak of "restraint" and "deterrence".
The Pakistan government recently approved the purchase of eight submarines from China. It is not clear from reports whether they have the capacity to be equipped with nuclear missiles. The deal, said to be worth billions, is one of China's biggest arms deals. It also threatens to intensify a growing battle for military supremacy in the Indian Ocean, a stretch of sea that has long been a source of rivalry and tensions in the region.
The reported deal sheds light on one other area of conflict and rivalry. China has long been one of Pakistan's main arms suppliers, accounting for half of Pakistani weapons imports, according to a report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
China and Pakistan have been close for decades, based largely on their mutual suspicion of India.
In other developments, the Pakistanis are reported to have test-fired a missile recently that appears capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Pakistan possesses the medium-range Shaheen-III missile with a range of some 1,700 miles, leaving India easily within range. A recent leader article in the New York Times reported claims that Pakistan continues to develop short-range tactical nuclear weapons. Again, leaving India well within range.
No-one should underestimate the rivalry between the two countries, informed by their troubled history, which includes outright wars in 1947, 1965 and 1971.
India is estimated by analysts to have some 110 warheads but continues to expand its nuclear programme but at a slower pace, according to some reports. The country has a mixed strategy, combining short and long-range ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines and cruise missiles. It tested its first nuclear device in 1974.
India has a No First Use doctrine, recently confirmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Security is a key part of India's nuclear strategy. China's nuclear strength is a worry to India, as is its more advanced strategic weapons and its numerically superior military force. Also a worry is the traditionally close relationship between China and Pakistan, India's erstwhile enemy.
Informed analysis estimates that China's nuclear weapons number some 250 warheads - a mixture of short, intermediate, and long-range ballistic missiles. China's ambitions encompass land, air and sea-based nuclear delivery systems.
China's nuclear ambitions took off in the 1950s, in the wake of the Korean War. Its first nuclear test is believed to have been conducted in 1964. It is a view among informed commentators that the country's nuclear capability will continue to grow in the coming years. China has always maintained that its own No First Use policy is defensive. The country is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the NPT. It is also a signatory to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) but has yet to ratify it.
The fierce nuclear competition in South Asia is seen by many as a recipe for instability in a region already burdened with problems.
It is a potentially lethal addition to the cocktail of territorial disputes and cross-border terrorism. The capacity of other world powers to influence the situation is hampered by the fact that neither India nor Pakistan belong to the NPT.
Pakistan's economic and political instability also poses huge and troubling questions. The country is persistently challenged by militant groups and fears persist that these groups could get their hands on nuclear materials, despite strong insistence from Pakistani officials that its nuclear facilities are secure.
America and Russia still possess more than 90% of the world's nuclear weapons but South Asia, home to three nuclear states, remains a growing worry, perhaps one that will get more attention in the coming months.
O'Brien and Moore took both big races at Newmarket as Clemmie won the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes.
Wuheida, in her first start since October, was second behind Roly Poly.
Arabian Hope was third, with jockey Josephine Gordon looking to become the second female after Hayley Turner to win a Group One race.
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The day after retiring star filly Minding, the Aidan O'Brien/Coolmore team demonstrated what outstanding female talent they have to replace her.
Clemmie, a sister of Churchill (although named after Winston's wife), has been very much on-the-up since disappointing at Royal Ascot, and continued her progress here.
Quotes of around 8-1 for next year's 1000 Guineas seem perfectly fair after seeing off Nyaleti in a (probably wind-assisted) record time.
Roly Poly showed plenty of battling spirit as she defeated Godolphin's Wuheida, but Wuheida is maybe the one to note, racing for the first time since October.
Patricia Grainger was strangled, stabbed and sexually assaulted near her home in Parson Cross, Sheffield, on 10 August 1997.
Her body was dumped in a brook in nearby woodland and her killer has never been found.
Her son, Daniel, 23, said South Yorkshire Police is not doing enough to find his mother's attacker.
Mr Grainger told BBC Radio Sheffield: "I want the police to do more. It's not an active investigation.
"I don't want 100 officers looking at it, I just want someone to say, 'We're going to try to find this person'.
"My mother was murdered, she was a victim and the person [that did that] is still out there.
"I want that justice served."
Mr Grainger set up a website, whokilledmymum.com, when he was 16 years old appealing for information.
The force said the investigation is "subject to ongoing review" but it no longer has some of the evidence related to the case.
Ch Supt Rachel Barber said a complaint from Mr Grainger is being addressed and new lines of inquiry would be followed up.
"The items of clothing Mrs Grainger was wearing at the time of her death were submitted to the Forensic Science Service and were subject to a thorough examination. As a result, South Yorkshire Police is no longer in possession of these items," she added.
The BBC asked South Yorkshire Police if it had followed correct procedure in sending evidence to the FSS, which closed in March 2012, but the force did not provide a comment.
The 34-year-old was allegedly in Edinburgh Road, Penicuik, a part of the town he was banned from entering under the order, on Thursday.
Greens made a brief appearance in private before Sheriff Richard McFarlane. He was remanded in custody.
No plea or declaration was made on his behalf and the case was continued.
Earlier in the day, Greens was scheduled to appear with his solicitor at a procedural hearing in connection with the temporary order which allows police to monitor him.
His solicitor, Tony Kelly, claims the order is unfair and breaches his client's human rights.
A full hearing on the order is due to take place next month.
When the case was called in court, however, solicitor, Andy McGlone, representing the Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police, told Sheriff Alistair Noble: "There has been a development in relation to this case."
Greens, he said, had been arrested on Thursday in relation to allegations of a breach of the order.
He told the sheriff Greens was due to appear from custody in the court later.
Mr McGlone said there was a joint motion to adjourn the procedural hearing for a week in order to hear of any decision of the Crown about a possible recall of Greens.
He also asked for the Interim Order to be continued until the full hearing in November, if Greens was released on bail.
Sheriff Noble agreed to both motions.
The announcement from the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) comes in the run-up to crucial local elections in August - and in the aftermath of violent protests in the northern province of Limpopo in which more than 20 schools were torched.
"As the SABC, we are very clear that we are going to cover protests that are happening and we are going to make sure that we are going to do that without fear or favour," its statement said.
"When we are covering those protests where there are people destroying the property, we are not going to show that footage on our television. If there is sound that will encourage that behaviour then we will not use that sound on our radio stations."
South Africa has a history of violent demonstrations, going back to the days when people protested against white minority rule under the violent apartheid system.
The school burnings over the past month were prompted by villagers angered that moves to include their neighbourhoods into a new municipality would delay efforts to get them better housing and water.
The education ministry says hundreds of school children may miss their mid-year exams.
The government has provided more than 76 mobile classrooms but teaching has not yet resumed.
The SABC's ban has ignited wide condemnation from free-speech advocates, including the South African National Editor's Forum (Sanef).
"We would like to urge the SABC to review that decision because there is no evidence at the moment to prove that the broadcast of such incidents fuels them," Sanef chairman Mpumelelo Mkhabela said.
"Until such time that there is such research and concrete proof, I do not think such a drastic decision should be taken by the SABC."
Opposition parties, which regularly complain that the public broadcaster has turned into a state broadcaster, also weighed in.
Inkatha Freedom Party's parliamentary whip Liezl van der Merwe accused the SABC of flouting the Broadcasting Act.
She said the SABC, sometimes referred to by its critics as Fawlty Towers after the British sitcom because of its cash problems and boardroom battles, was required to "provide news and public affairs programming which meets the highest standards of journalism, as well as fair and unbiased coverage, impartiality, balance, and independence from government, commercial, and other interests".
The main opposition Democratic Alliance was also scathing.
Phumzile Van Damme, the party's shadow communications minister, alleged the governing African National Congress (ANC), which has its quarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg, was playing puppet master.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng, the corporation's chief operations officer, was hell bent on "fully turning the SABC into a propaganda portal for Luthuli House", she said.
Ms Van Damme called on the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to urgently intervene as it had been tasked with ensuring the upcoming elections were covered fairly.
Even the trade union movement Cosatu, an ally of the ANC, pointed out that the fight against apartheid had also been against censorship.
"We are not a nanny state and therefore do not need an overprotective public broadcaster to take care of us," the two million-strong workers' federation said.
"What we have seen and learned is that once censorship starts, it never stops because those who are empowered to censor and impose blackouts, start to develop bottomless sensitivities and discover more activities that they feel should not be flighted on television."
Predictably Communication Minister Faith Muthambi, often accused of being lethargic, welcomed the ban, saying the decision was taken to foster social cohesion and was not about self-censorship.
"We unequivocally condemn the destruction of public and private infrastructure," she said.
"It is our belief that the decision by the public broadcaster not to show footage of people burning public institutions, such as schools and libraries, in any of its news bulletins, will go a long way to discourage attention-seeking anarchists."
However, some senior staffers at the SABC, who wanted to remain anonymous, told me that the decision goes against every fibre in their being as independent broadcasters.
When I asked Mr Motsoeneng whether there was dissent in the newsroom following his decision, he said the SABC was not about individuals.
"All employees must adhere to the editorial policy of the leadership of the SABC. We don't need permission from our employees. We have a duty not to incite violence through our cameras," he told me.
"If you don't want to work for the SABC you can go. There are many people out there looking for work."
So despite the criticism, the ban is to remain - though the bickering is likely to continue.
And South Africans have been left wondering whether apartheid tactics have been reincarnated in a democratic era, with the public broadcaster becoming a government mouthpiece.
Illnesses associated with working in the construction industry are thought to kill more than 4,000 people across the UK every year.
Experts have warned that 2015 will see a peak in numbers.
The Clydeside Action on Asbestos charity said early detection would improve the life expectancy of patients.
Lynsey Innes, 40, told BBC Scotland how her father Gordon Roberts died of mesothelioma - a form of cancer most commonly caused by exposure to asbestos.
Mr Roberts had spent his working like as a joiner before retiring at the age of 62. He kept fit by swimming.
He had difficulty breathing last summer and eventually went to the doctor, where an X-ray examination found mesothelioma.
Mr Roberts was told he had only between nine and 12 months to live, and died at Easter of this year. He was 70.
Ms Innes said her uncle, who had been a plumber, also died of mesothelioma after discovering pains in his shoulder.
She said: "It was just a simple x-ray that picked up my dad's cancer. It doesn't cost a lot of money to give an X-ray to somebody. (Carrying out screening) within a certain generation, over a certain period of time, would be ample to try and catch it at an early stage.
"If you catch it at an earlier stage the chemotherapy may shrink the tumour, you may then not get nine to 12 months - you can get up to five years."
At its annual general meeting on Saturday, Clydeside Action on Asbestos - the biggest asbestos charity in Scotland - called for more investment in screening, either through routine X-rays or a simple blood test that would detect illnesses.
Phyllis Craig, the charity's chairwoman, said catching the disease at the earlier possible opportunity would allow patients to "start making plans for their life and their families and so forth, but also to receive any form of treatment that may be available."
A Scottish government spokesman said it took advice on national screening programmes from the National Screening Committee, and screening programmes are only introduced after a detailed assessment of clinical and cost effectiveness and public health benefit.
He added: "The National Screening Committee has not considered screening for asbestos exposure."
He encouraged anyone who has symptoms such as difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, coughing and chest pains and who has a history of working in occupations or industries associated with asbestos exposure to contact their GP.
The US removed 10 state-owned companies in the banking, timber and mining industries from the blacklist.
However, most restrictions on trade and investment with Myanmar's still-powerful army remained in place.
This year Myanmar, also known as Burma, swore in its first democratically-elected government in over 50 years.
Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent years under house arrest, won a landslide victory in what was considered a largely free and fair election in November. Although the constitution bars her from becoming president, she still wields considerable influence.
Analysis - Jonah Fisher, BBC News, Myanmar
There's no doubt that this nuanced easing of sanctions has been done with the approval of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Most of the restrictions that affect her new government directly have been lifted. So 10 state-owned companies and banks have been taken off the targeted sanctions list. It's also been made easier for Americans to live and work inside Myanmar.
But despite November's election and the smooth transfer of power that followed there's no reward here for the Burmese military. Army companies and dozens of individuals who've made millions from military contracts are still sanctioned. One of the so-called "cronies" has even had measures against him expanded.
US President Barack Obama was quick to visit Myanmar but at the urging of Ms Suu Kyi has been more cautious on the lifting of trade and travel restrictions.
The US said its latest move is aimed at improving trade with Myanmar and allowing more financial transactions to take place.
But the Obama administration is also trying to maintain pressure on the government to continue its democratic transition.
More than 100 individuals and companies are still on Washington's sanctions list, meaning US firms are barred from doing deals with them. The country's military retains significant stakes in many of Myanmar's businesses.
US officials also remain concerned about potential human rights abuses in the country, particularly against the minority Rohingya Muslims.
2010 - After decades of being an international pariah Myanmar holds its first elections in 20 years.
The main military-backed party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), claims resounding victory but opposition groups allege widespread fraud. The junta says the election marks the transition from military rule to a civilian democracy.
2011 - Thein Sein is sworn in as president of a new, nominally civilian government and that year the US begins loosening sanctions.
2012 - The European Union suspends all non-military sanctions against Burma for a year.
2013 - President Thein Sein visits Washington. President Obama praises Myanmar's political and economic progress, but criticises violence against Rohingya Muslims.
2015 - A draft ceasefire agreement is signed between the government and 16 rebel groups.
2016 - Htin Kyaw sworn in as president, ushering in a new era as Aung San Suu Kyi's democracy movement takes power after 50 years of military domination.
It's all to do with expertise. Now expertise within a business is taken to be a 'good thing', yet it can also become a problem if, say, one group of workers is not sharing key knowledge and skills with other teams.
Firms are often aware of this and are forever emphasising the need for teamwork. Yet, says the Financial Times' Gillian Tett, structural and other obstacles often crop up.
"What tends to happen in corporations is they start out small and they are very freewheeling and creative and everyone is united around a common mission.
"As they become bigger, they become more bureaucratic and people become subdivided into departments or 'tribes'," she tells BBC World Service's In the Balance programme.
People end up in their own little silos - places where specialist knowledge gets locked away or hoarded by individuals or teams.
The reason this happens is understandable. If knowledge is power, then if you know something your colleagues don't, it increases your value within an organisation.
The problem isn't just that Department A doesn't talk to Department B, so staff don't know one another, these subdivisions can get in the way of people actually doing their jobs properly.
The dangers aren't just theoretical, workers become beset by tunnel vision and "bright people end up doing really dumb things," says Ms Tett.
Many argue that the 2008 global bank crisis and subsequent economic slowdown was down to the so-called "silo-effect" of people not knowing what others were doing.
It's a point of view which former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Paul Tucker has some sympathy with.
"There was fragmentation in banks, central banks, universities and in newspapers - where the finance people were in one corner, the economic people in another and perhaps on another floor.
"They didn't know enough about each other's world; they didn't care enough about each other's world.
"It was incumbent upon us management to connect the dots, and we didn't do enough of that."
The real challenge is for firms and organisations to embed lessons learnt during the crisis "so they don't get forgotten", he says.
More recently, Volkswagen's emissions scandal is another disaster which has arisen from a lack of joined-up thinking, says Ms Tett.
"People were so beset by mental and structural silos, that they got trapped in this tunnel vision and they couldn't take a commonsense view of what was going on."
Karl Ludvigsen, who was vice president of Ford Europe in the 1980s, agrees that the motor industry is beset with issues arising from silos. The result, he says, is endless headaches for customers.
"Any dealership you go into has a sales, services, used-car and a finance department. These are all silos - each can use the problems of the others to say the finance guy didn't do his job or the used cars haven't come in this week."
Gillian Tett clear is that the risks with silos go beyond not feeling relaxed enough to chat at the water-cooler. If they get in the way of creativity and innovation in a company, then it's in trouble.
In her book, The Silo Effect, she highlights how Japan's consumer electronics giant Sony squandered the success of its Walkman music player, which had been a huge earner for the firm.
By the 1990s it had grown so large that a new boss broke it down into 25 sub-divisions. This worked and profits rose and efficiency improved, but it came at a huge price.
Internal competition halted collaboration and innovation slowed. Sony failed to adapt its Walkman for the digital era, because the different teams produced several players instead of just one.
"They couldn't collaborate and they ended up basically killing each other off," says Ms Tett.
Then along came Steve Jobs and the iPod and the rest, as they say, is profit-and-loss history.
It's a lesson that is not lost on today's tech industry - where firms are trying to institutionalise the breaking down of barriers to boost creativity and innovation.
At Facebook, for example, staff are constantly rotated between different teams and it runs all night hackathons that require computer engineers to work with new teams of people.
It has also tried to use the architecture of its buildings to increase the chances of people bumping into one another - corridors and lifts are expected to be social spaces.
Given no one team can know everything a business needs for its survival, the trick is to get the balance right.
The US-based author and business adviser Alvin Hall spends a lot of time in corporations, trying to train people out of their silos. He says we are all hard-wired to organise the world into boxes - and then to put ourselves and our talents into them.
"I often see corporations tear down walls and create open plan spaces. At first there is some collaboration, but then you watch as the same group of people start going out to lunch together, every day.
"It's human nature and it's hard to fight."
Perhaps the first step to defeating the silo mentality at work, is to recognise that many of us are already in them.
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Those wishing to bring poultry products or live birds into Northern Ireland must now apply for a specific licence.
The precautionary measure was announced after avian flu was confirmed on an egg production farm in Lancashire.
The H7N7 strain of the disease has been found on the farm.
It can infect humans but has only rarely caused severe illness.
Public Health England has said the risk to human health is very low.
The Food Standards Agency has said there is no food safety risk.
Restrictions have been put in place around the farm and the birds are being humanely slaughtered.
The agriculture minister Michelle O'Neill said her staff had been in contact with the Northern Ireland poultry industry to advise them of the situation and call for increased vigilance.
"While the situation will be kept under review, I would encourage bird-keepers, as a precaution, to revisit their own biosecurity," she said.
Northern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey said he had been liaising with his counterparts in England and his officials would assess the risk to establish whether other measures might be needed.
"We have informed our counterparts in the south [Republic of Ireland] of the situation and will continue to work closely with them to ensure that we apply consistent and proportionate measures to protect the island of Ireland," he said.
He is almost half-way through his 31-city tour of UK cities during which he is taking part in debates to encourage the public to vote to remain in the EU.
Izzard claimed a British exit (Brexit) from the EU could lead to a recession.
But his claims were rejected by Leave campaigner Sammy Wilson from the DUP who described them as "not factual".
The pair disagreed over a number of Brexit-related issues, including the consequences for the economy, border controls, freedom of movement and immigration.
Izzard, who lived in Bangor, County Down, from the age of one to five, visited Methodist College in Belfast on Thursday evening as part of his 'Stand Up for Europe' campaign.
Speaking to BBC Newsline, he said: "Immigration is an issue and people do get worried about it but if we change it - if we pull out then we'll go into recession.
"Then you're worried about jobs. Jobs will get even worse, You'll have even less opportunity for jobs because the economy will have gone down.
"So immigration is a thing that we need to control but I don't think Brexit - pulling out - is going to make the big difference."
However Mr Wilson told BBC NI's The View programme: "If you look at the countries which are in recession at the moment, they are the countries which are most closely tied into the EU and especially into the eurozone.
"If you look at the countries where young people don't have a chance for the future - 50% youth unemployment in Spain, Italy, the economy of Greece in ruins.
"Why? Because they tied themselves into the European project and they tied themselves into the Euro."
The referendum takes place on 23 June.
Jockey Jamie Spencer got the 11-1 chance up to win by a short head for trainer Nicky Henderson.
Henderson is more used to training horses over the jumps and No Heretic had his first run since September 2013 when third in a hurdle race last month.
His injuries have included one suffered jumping a fox in winning at Leicester in 2011, entailing a year off.
"Then he did a tendon and needed nearly 1,000 days off. We thought we'd persevere as he's got a lovely pedigree and it's paid off," said Alex Cole, racing manager to owners Jim and Fitri Hay.
Henderson, indicating the horse may run in the Ascot Stakes at Royal Ascot next month, said: "He was a wounded soldier but it is great to see him come back."
Earlier, the 8-15 favourite Somehow eventually prevailed, coming through late to win the Cheshire Oaks, under jockey Ryan Moore for trainer Aidan O'Brien.
Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell was speaking at an event in Belfast Metropolitan College (BMC) to encourage more girls to study STEM subjects.
The Lurgan-born scientist is credited with the discovery of radio pulsars.
The breakthrough is considered one of the most significant in astronomy and physics.
Speaking to the BBC at the seminar on Friday, she said: "If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering and science.
"It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world, about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes."
Over 100 post-primary schoolgirls attended the BMC event to take part in a number of workshops in science, technology, engineering and maths - collectively known as the STEM subjects.
They sampled classes ranging from plumbing and motor mechanics, to virtual reality and app design.
There has been a gradual increase in the number of girls taking STEM subjects at GCSE and A-level in recent years, although the subjects are still much more popular among boys.
Prof Bell Burnell, who is currently a visiting professor at the University of Oxford, also told the BBC a more diverse science workforce would be better for society.
"The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is and the better it succeeds," she said.
Prof Bell Burnell was overlooked for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, even though the award went to two male academics who worked alongside her.
She did not put that down to sexism, but says there is still a "stereotype" that science, technology and engineering are male careers.
She also recalled her own battle to study science as a schoolgirl at Lurgan College in the late 1950s.
"When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that," she said.
"When I told my parents, they hit the roof."
Her parents protested and the school relented, but she faced a similar struggle in the early stages of her academic career in the early 1970s.
"When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife," she said.
"It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her."
Melinda Fernando from Methodist College in Belfast was one of the schoolgirls who spent the day at BMC.
She said Prof Bell Burnell's visit gave her an important role model to follow.
"If you look at history, there are few accounts of women ever discovering anything," she said.
"There aren't very many role models in science for women to look up to - to think 'I want to be like that, I want to do what they do'.
"It's so male dominated."
Girls from a number of schools, including Methodist College, Bloomfield Collegiate, St Genevieve's High School, Victoria College and Colaiste Feirste attended the event.
Prof Bell Burnell is also speaking at Queen's University in Belfast as part of the NI Science Festival on Sunday.
Cardiff is projected to have 195,300 households by 2039, up 32% from 147,600 households in 2014.
But academics pointed out the rise is lower than previous projections.
The Statistics for Wales report has been based on population projections by the Welsh Government, along with household estimates by councils.
The biggest increase is in Cardiff, where earlier this month the council approved plans for a new £2bn "garden village" with almost 6,000 homes on the outskirts of the city.
This was followed by Swansea with a 17% rise - up from 105,600 households in 2014 to 123,200 by 2039.
Powys is the only council area where the number of households is projected to fall - down 2% to 57,600.
The report also showed one-person households will be the most common and are anticipated to rise by 27%.
It is estimated the average household size will drop from 2.29 people per household to 2.17.
Dr Neil Harris, senior lecturer at Cardiff University's School of Geography and Planning, said it showed urban areas were "buoyant and growing" while areas with lower projections were more "stable".
But he pointed out that the data was based on recent five-year trends continuing in the same way, and stressed that a rise in households did not necessarily equate to an increase in population.
"Nevertheless, in urban areas, there would be demand for more schools, better public transport, more investment in utility infrastructure," he said.
"However, in a city like Cardiff, the council is already planning for this scale of development.
"In stable areas, there would be potentially less pressure on housing stock but if there is a reduction in the population then certain services could face a challenge to sustain themselves."
Mr McKay, who was 36, was shot dead at his home on Longlands Road on 25 October.
Requiem mass was held at St Gerard's church on the Antrim Road for Mr McKay on Friday.
Fr Gerry Cassidy said Mr McKay had died "in the early summer of his life".
He said sympathy and prayers were also with the family of David Black who was murdered on the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland on Thursday.
Mr McKay, the father of a 10-year-old child, was shot several times as he sat alone on a sofa in his living room. He died at the scene.
At least two armed men were involved in the attack.
Police have asked anyone who saw a silver Volkswagen Bora, which had been stolen by five masked men in the New Lodge area shortly before the shooting to contact them.
The car was later found burnt out in Ardmoulin Place, west Belfast.
The International Kabaddi Federation said "this is not the right time to engage with Pakistan". The two-week-long event begins on Friday.
The neighbours last month accused each other of increasing hostilities along their de-facto border in Kashmir.
Kabaddi is a full-contact team sport which originated in India.
The championship in India's western city of Ahmedabad will feature top sides from Iran, Australia, South Korea, England, Poland, Kenya, Argentina and newcomers, the US.
The IKF chief, Deoraj Chaturvedi, told AFP news agency that Pakistan had been barred from the tournament due to an increase in tensions between the neighbours.
"Pakistan is a valuable member of the IKF but looking at the current scenario and in the best interest of both the nations, we decided that Pakistan must be refrained [from the championship," he said.
Pakistan's kabaddi officials said the tournament without Pakistan would be "just like a football world cup without Brazil".
"We have called a meeting to discuss this issue but let me tell you that a Kabaddi World Cup is no world cup without Pakistan," said the chief of the Pakistan Kabaddi Federation, Rana Muhammad Sarwar.
Source: World Kabaddi League
Relations between India and Pakistan have sharply deteriorated since last month, when militants carried out the deadliest attack on an Indian army base in Kashmir in years. India blamed the attack on Pakistan, which has denied the claim.
Last week, India said it had retaliated by carrying out "surgical strikes" against suspected militants along the de-facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir.
Pakistan denied that India had carried out any strikes and said two of its soldiers were killed in unprovoked cross-border shelling.
The first blast hit a bus carrying election officials in Bijapur district, police said, killing seven.
The second attack - half an hour later - killed five police in an ambulance in the Bastar district.
India began five weeks of general election polling last Monday.
Officials said the bus in Bijapur district was blown up by a landmine as it travelled between Gudma and the town of Kutru. Four people were injured.
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Several people were also injured in the separate attack on the ambulance, which took place in the village of Kamanar, election officials said.
Maoist rebels have staged frequent attacks over several decades across a swathe of India in their campaign for the poor to have a greater share of India's natural resources.
Chhattisgarh has seen some of the worst violence. Polling began in part of the state on 10 April and continues with two further rounds in the coming weeks.
Elsewhere, voting resumed in the fourth stage of the general election on Saturday in four states - Goa, Assam, Tripura and Sikkim.
Sikkim, a tiny Himalayan state, also held local elections, including the contest for a seat in the regional assembly which is reserved for a Buddhist monk.
The first key day of polling saw millions of Indians vote on Thursday in 14 states.
The governing Congress party, led by Rahul Gandhi, is pitted against the main opposition BJP, led by the Hindu nationalist, Narendra Modi.
However, the anti-corruption Aam Aadmi (Common Man's) Party, with its stronghold in the capital, Delhi, is mounting a strong challenge.
More than 814 million Indians are eligible to vote in the polls, which opened on 7 April.
A party or a coalition needs a minimum of 272 seats in the 543-seat lower house of parliament to form a government.
The comedian hit headlines over his involvement in a tax avoidance scheme which the former prime minister, David Cameron, called "morally wrong".
"When you're in the middle of that [it's] like, 'could this be a career-ender?'" he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
"I guess with something like that, that's the worst case scenario."
He added: "Even worst case scenario, I've had a pretty good run in showbiz terms. I've been at the same level for probably 12 years now - that's very lucky to have a long, sustained career in showbiz.
"So it's going to disappear at some point."
The star was widely condemned for taking part in the K2 tax avoidance scheme - something he said was "a terrible error of judgement".
At the time, Mr Cameron was attending the G20 summit when he broke off from discussions to comment on the affair.
"If the prime minister breaks off from the G20 summit in Mexico - in a meeting with the 19 most important people in the world - and he comes out and makes a press statement about your tax affairs, that is going to need dealing with," Carr said.
"You've got to get out in front of it, and also you need to own it.
"Sometimes when footballers are involved in these things, people go: 'Well he probably didn't know what was going on and he got advice'.
"I don't think anybody was buying that line with me, I think people thought: 'He probably knew what he was doing'."
Carr said a financial adviser had told him of the scheme: "If someone comes to you and says, 'Do you want to pay less tax? It's totally legal, you can do this thing, and if it ever comes up you just have to pay them' - you go, 'yeah, fine, great'.
"In the end you make good and say: 'Right I'll pay every penny of tax I ever owed.'"
The comedian said the whole incident taught him that "when you have a friend in trouble, call".
"That was the big lesson.
"If you have a friend and they're in the paper or they're having a problem with something and you don't know what to say, or someone's just died or someone's been diagnosed with something, call them."
Carr was thought to be one of more than 1,000 beneficiaries who sheltered some £168m from the taxman each year through the K2 scheme. He has since paid all the tax.
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Four workers were killed and five injured in the collapse in February, with one body recovered from the site.
RWE Npower said it knew controlled explosions at the site would be distressing for the missing workers' families.
The firm said it would ensure the remaining building falls away from the existing debris pile.
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The Health and Safety Executive is carrying out a joint investigation with police into the cause of the collapsed boiler house.
A spokesman for RWE Npower said: "The recovery work can only be completed safely once the unstable standing structure has been brought down.
"Having explored other manual options, our experts have made it clear that the quickest and safest way to bring the building down is by controlled explosive demolition."
The recovery mission began on 19 March and is being supported by forensic archaeologists and structural engineers, with drones and cameras gathering information.
The bodies of Christopher Huxtable, 34, from Swansea; Ken Cresswell, 57, and John Shaw, 61, both from Rotherham, have not yet been found.
The body of Michael Collings, 53, from Brotton in Teesside, was recovered from the site.
RWE Npower said the families of the missing have been told about the plans.
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The 36-year-old Lazio striker scored with his first touch after coming on as a second-half substitute as the Germans came from behind to snatch a draw.
The goal, scored from a yard out, means Klose is now level with former Brazil striker Ronaldo on 15 goals.
Germany were, however, fortunate to escape with a point.
The European side took a fortuitous lead through Mario Gotze's unorthodox header, but Ghana came roaring back to score twice in nine minutes through Andre Ayew and Asamoah Gyan, to the huge delight of the vast majority of the crowd.
Joachim Low, the Germany coach, turned to the experience of Klose and the veteran did not disappoint as he prodded in to keep his side top of Group G.
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The result means Germany, who move on to four points, have still only won their second game of a World Cup once since 1994. At Euro 2008, and at the 2010 World Cup, they followed up opening wins with defeats.
Ghana keep alive their chances of qualification for the last 16 but will have to beat Portugal in their final game to have a chance.
With temperatures in excess of 30C at the start, the tempo was understandably slow for much of the first half.
A series of pinball passing movements between Mesut Ozil, Thomas Muller and Mario Gotze threatened to create an opening for Germany.
But in the stifling heat of Fortaleza, Ghana restricted their most celebrated opponents to half chances and blocked shots in an underwhelming opening 45 minutes.
Ghana had won over the neutrals by the interval by creating arguably the best chances but, within six minutes of the re-start, Germany were in front.
Muller found a yard of space, looked up and picked out Gotze's run. The Bayern Munich forward did not make clean contact, heading the ball on to his knee, but the ball still deflected beyond Ghana goalkeeper Fatau Dauda.
Ghana rose to find hope and purpose. Three minutes later they levelled to send Estadio Castelao into raptures, Andre Ayew leaping to head home Harrison Afful's wonderful right-wing cross.
More drama was to come nine minutes later, as Ghana went ahead with a goal that stemmed from a rare mistake by Philipp Lahm.
Muntari pounced on the loose ball and slipped an inch-perfect ball through for Gyan, who fired firmly beyond goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.
"I said I didn't know if Ghana would come back if Germany scored first, but I was proved wrong. But Jordan Ayew had the chance to put Ghana 3-1 up and he didn't pass to his team-mates who were better positioned. We said at the time that Ghana would pay for that - and they paid."
Germany turned to the experience of Klose and Bastian Schweinsteiger to stem the flow, with Ghana sensing an upset.
It was a move that paid off almost immediately as Klose scored with his first touch to equal the World Cup scoring record and bring Germany level.
Benedikt Howedes headed a corner towards the net and, just as it was about to cross the line, Klose prodded in to breathe life into Germany's hopes.
Ghana began to tire as Germany pushed on. Toni Kroos found Muller but a brave block by Ayew denied him. Jonathan Mensah threw his body on the line soon after as Germany poured forward but Ghana went close themselves through Christian Atsu and Gyan.
Neither team deserved to lose but both might have had more than a point.
If made law, such access would occur via the Investigatory Powers (IP) Act, which includes provisions for the removal of encryption on content.
The paper was allegedly leaked to civil liberties body the Open Rights Group, which received the document on 4 May.
The Home Office denied there was anything new in the consultation.
Phone companies and internet service providers would be asked to provide "data in near real time" within one working day, according to one clause in the technical capabilities paper.
Such access would need to be sanctioned by secretaries of state and a judge appointed by the prime minister.
The paper also echoes the IP Act itself, noting that tech companies would be required to remove - or enable the removal - of encryption from communications as they would need to be provided "in an intelligible form" without "electronic protection".
Cryptographers often describe such access as a "backdoor" in the security of communications services.
The idea is controversial because some argue it could be exploited by hackers, endangering innocent users.
Under the terms of the Investigatory Powers Act, telecoms firms would have to carry out the requirements of any notices to these effects in secret, so the public would be unaware that such access had been given.
Simultaneous surveillance could occur in bulk, but be limited to one in every 10,000 users of a given service - a maximum of roughly 900 of BT's 9 million British broadband customers, for instance.
A consultation about the paper - due to end on 19 May - is allegedly under way at the moment, though this was not publicly announced by the government.
It does not have a legal obligation notify the public about draft regulations, which would have to be passed by both Houses of Parliament in order to become law.
However, the paper suggests that the regulations have already been seen by the UK's Technical Advisory Board.
A BT spokesman confirmed the company had received "a copy of draft regulations, to be made under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, in relation to technical capability notices" - but did not comment further.
"The public has a right to know about government powers that could put their privacy and security at risk," said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, explaining the decision to publish the document.
"It seems very clear that the Home Office intends to use these to remove end-to-end encryption - or more accurately to require tech companies to remove it," said Dr Cian Murphy, a legal expert at the University of Bristol who has criticised the scope of the IP act.
"I do read the regulations as the Home Office wanting to be able to have near real-time access to web chat and other forms of communication," he told the BBC.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has previously argued that the Investigatory Powers Act is necessary to curb "new opportunities for terrorists" afforded by the internet.
In March, Ms Rudd's comments that encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp should not be places "for terrorists to hide" caused much debate.
Surveillance of some mobile phone user data in "as near real-time as possible" has already been available to law enforcement authorities for many years, noted Dr Steven Murdoch at University College London.
The UK's Internet Service Providers' Association (Ispa), which represents BT, Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and others, said it would be "consulting its members and submitting a response to the draft regulations".
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Murray, seeded second, won 6-1 6-0 on the indoor hard courts to reach the quarter-finals, where he will play French 10th seed Richard Gasquet.
Belgium will host Britain in the Davis Cup final in Ghent from 27-29 November.
Murray now has a 2-0 record against Goffin, but if they meet in Ghent it will be their first match on clay.
"Obviously clay is seen as being my worst surface, but I still feel like I play well on that court," said the Scot.
"I don't know what speed the court's going to be. If it's quick, then I think that will help my serve a lot. If it's slow, then I feel like I can track a lot of balls down on the clay, which is positive.
"But it was good for me to get the chance to play him before the Davis Cup and see his game and the speed of his shots and where he maybe makes some mistakes from and things that he likes to do.
"Obviously with the result, that's a positive. I mean, mentally for me it's a positive win."
Goffin is the highest-ranked Belgian at 16 in the world and has had a fine year, but the gap to the world number three was quickly apparent.
Murray, 28, asserted his authority from the outset, winning 12 of the first 13 points and breaking twice as he clinched the opening set in 25 minutes.
The Scot made it seven games from eight when a deep backhand return followed by a rasping winner down the line gave him another break at the start of the second.
Goffin, 24, could only watch as two more blistering returns flew past him for a fourth break of serve at 3-0, and Murray completed the demolition job - for the loss of just one game - after 53 minutes.
"Andy was extremely efficient today," said Goffin. "This didn't help me to get into that match. This is why that match was the way it was.
"As far as I was concerned, I thought this would be my last match of the [ATP World Tour] season, so it's really tough to really put all your energy into it.
"I felt tired. My body was on the court, but there was nobody on the inside."
John Isner upset third seed and former champion Roger Federer 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 7-6 (7-5), the 6ft 10in American's second win in seven attempts against the 17-time Grand Slam champion.
Isner, seeded 13th, did not manage to break the Federer serve over the course of two hours and 16 minutes but the Swiss only made the breakthrough once and was edged out in two tie-breaks.
"Does indoors maybe help him there a little bit? Potentially," said Federer. "He's got the size, got the power, got the angles."
Isner, who finished with a 145mph serve, said: "It is like a pitcher with a fast ball, I guess, and is a shot I have hit a million times."
World number one Novak Djokovic extended his winning streak to 19 matches, and 26 consecutive sets, with a 6-3 7-5 victory over Frenchman Gilles Simon.
The Serb, 28, was broken when serving for the match, but closed it out at the second attempt and will next face Tomas Berdych or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Gasquet progressed when Kei Nishikori retired with an abdominal injury trailing 7-6 (7-3) 4-1, but the Japanese player was optimistic he will be fit for the ATP Finals, which begin in 10 days' time.
Rafael Nadal saved a match point in the second-set tie-breaker before beating South African Kevin Anderson 4-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-2.
The Spanish seventh seed next faces French Open champion Stan Wawrinka, who beat Viktor Troicki 6-4 7-5.
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Britain's Andy Murray swept past Belgian David Goffin at the Paris Masters - three weeks before their likely meeting in the Davis Cup final.
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British citizen Nicky Paul Mitchell claimed that being sent to the US would breach his human rights.
He argued that if found guilty, he could face indefinite detention as a sex offender and two decades in jail.
But two High Court judges rejected his case, two years after the US Department of Justice called for his extradition.
The allegations against Mr Mitchell relate to 2013 when he worked as a nanny to a family in Georgia with three children.
An undercover FBI officer used a peer-to-peer online network and observed that someone with the username Mitch287 had 897 files in a protected folder - containing images of boys exposing themselves or engaging in sexual acts.
In March 2014, after a federal grand jury hearing in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr Mitchell was accused of inter-state distribution of child pornography.
The charge does not involve allegations of "contact molestation" with any child, that court heard.
After the US requested his extradition to Atlanta in October 2014, Mr Mitchell was arrested in the UK and appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court, which referred his case to the then home secretary Theresa May.
In April 2015, she agreed to the extradition.
Mr Mitchell appealed on the grounds that if convicted, he faced the risk of a civil commitment order under which he would face indefinite detention as a sex offender, as well as a lengthy prison sentence.
But Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Nicol rejected his claim and he now faces extradition.
Mr Justice Nicol said an assurance had been received from the US Department of Justice that Mr Mitchell, if found guilty, would be deported from America "as quickly as possible" on completing any prison sentence.
Taylor, 23, joins the Clarets on a four-year contract.
The full-back turned down an offer to stay at Leeds, where he was out of contract, but Burnley will still have to pay a fee as he is under 24.
Republic of Ireland forward Walters, 33, is also heading for Turf Moor after Burnley agreed a fee with Stoke that could reach £3m.
Taylor, who made 104 appearances for Leeds, said: "I've been there since I was nine and I knew it was the right time. There were so many things that attracted me to Burnley; it ticks every box and it was a no-brainer really.
"That's the huge attraction of the Premier League, just everything about it. Week in, week out, you are playing teams like Chelsea and Manchester United, so I just can't wait to get started."
Burnley have so far been unable to agree a fee with Leeds for Taylor, and the matter is likely to be settled by a tribunal.
Walters has spent seven years at Stoke, scoring 43 goals in 226 Premier League appearances, and is thought to be keen to link up with Burnley manager Sean Dyche.
Clarets striker Andre Gray, who has reportedly rejected a new contract, has been linked with a £15m move to fellow Premier League side West Ham.
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Sylvia Baillie was left scarred for life after the attack by a Japanese Akita in Paisley on 13 July.
Patrick Maher, 45, and Leeanne McHugh, 35 appeared in private at Paisley Sheriff Court.
They were charged with breaking the Dangerous Dogs Act. They made no plea or declaration.
Maher faces two additional charges under the same section of the act.
Prosecutors claim he was in charge of the dog at a Keystore in Paisley's Glenburn Road on 26 June when it was again dangerously out of control.
And on 30 June it is said to have attacked another person in Paisley's Glenfinner Road.
The case was continued and the pair were released on bail to an address in Renfrew.
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Qasab, 21 at the time, was the only surviving member of the group that launched a bloody rampage across the Indian city, killing 166 people.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, security forces struggled to collect information about the young man.
Only after several months did Pakistan admit that he was one of their citizens, from the province of Punjab.
More specific details are hard to pin down. Indian officials originally portrayed him as a middle-class boy who spoke good English.
But subsequent reports suggested he came from a remote village called Faridkot, where his father sold food.
He had received little education, the reports said, and had spent his youth alternating between labouring and petty crime.
In an interview with Pakistani media, a resident of Faridkot identified Qasab as his son. He said that he had left home four years before the attacks.
"He had asked me for new clothes on Eid [the Muslim festival] that I couldn't provide him. He got angry and left," Dawn newspaper quoted the man as saying.
At some point, India says, Qasab came under the influence of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group. After training in one of several remote camps, they say, he was hand-picked for the Mumbai operation.
He was captured on camera at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a slight figure in combat trousers and a blue sweatshirt, clutching an assault rifle.
He "walked as if no-one can touch him", a photographer who took the picture of him told the court in June.
"Initially I saw two dark figures. They fired towards the ticket window. When they opened fire towards us it confirmed they were terrorists," Sebastian D'Souza said.
Captured after a shoot-out with police, Qasab was interrogated and then charged with 86 offences, including murder and waging war on India.
Prosecutors said he had confessed - but his lawyers then said his statement had been coerced, and it was retracted.
His trial began in March 2009 and at first, correspondents say, he appeared relaxed. He smiled periodically and occasionally joked with officials.
His defence had attempted to argue that he was under 18 and so a minor. Asked in May 2009 to confirm his age, he provoked laughter by stating that if prosecutors had believed him then he would not now be in court.
Later his demeanour grew more serious, even erratic.
When a 10-year-old girl injured in the attacks identified him in court, witnesses said he looked grave.
In May 2010 Qasab was sentenced to death by a special court which found him guilty of many charges, including murder and waging war on India.
Judge ML Tahaliyani said "he should be hanged by the neck until he is dead", adding that he had lost his right to "humanitarian treatment".
Qasab's lawyer called for leniency, saying his client had been brainwashed by a terrorist organisation and could be rehabilitated.
Qasab appealed against the sentence, and the High Court in Mumbai began hearing the case in October 2010.
He initially attended proceedings through a video link for security reasons.
But after two hearings he demanded to attend court in person. The request was refused and he was reprimanded for his outburst, following which he failed to appear by video link.
The Mumbai High Court rejected his appeal in February 2011 and in July of that year, Qasab took his appeal against his death penalty to the Supreme Court.
In a statement submitted in court, Qasab said that the prosecution had "failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the charges against me". He said he "may be guilty of killing people and carrying out a terrorist act but I am not guilty of waging war against the state."
On 29 August 2012, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal and upheld his death penalty. He then appealed unsuccessfully to the president for clemency.
He was hanged in prison in the city of Pune on 21 November 2012.
The average house price in cities rose by almost 3% to £186,000 in the past year, compared with 1% across Scotland.
The rise was steeper than average wage growth over the same period, according to a Bank of Scotland review.
As a result, average home affordability has worsened for the fourth year in a row - from 5.2 to 5.3 times gross average earnings.
Stirling remained the most affordable city for homebuyers in Scotland, and also regained the UK top spot after falling to second place last year.
At £173,848, the average property price there is 3.7 times average gross annual earnings, compared with a UK cities' average of 6.9.
Edinburgh was once again Scotland's least affordable city, with an average house price of £236,136 - six times annual gross average earnings.
Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee and Inverness made up the top five least affordable cities north of the border, but the latter three - plus Glasgow - were included in the UK's top 20 most affordable spots.
Perth has recorded the biggest price rise of any Scottish city over the past decade, with a gain of 31% compared with the UK cities' average of 21%.
Industry body Homes for Scotland said the deterioration in home affordability was "a worrying trend" for both those looking to purchase in Scotland's cities as well as for the industry as a whole.
Chief executive Nicola Barclay said: "Rents and house prices are continuing to rise as demand outstrips supply, meaning many individuals and families are facing growing pressures and aspirations are being stifled.
"With housing production having fallen by 40% since 2007, but the number of households rising, it is vital that we see the bold action and investment needed to provide enough homes of the right types in the right locations to meet the diverse housing needs of our growing population."
Rangers said it was aware of "the disgust" felt by fans who "were subjected to a sickening and shameful display of outright sectarian hatred".
Celtic said they would not get involved in a "tit for tat spat" on the issue.
They went on to thank "the overwhelming majority" of fans for their backing of the team in their 5-1 win over Rangers.
Rangers fans group - Club 1872 - said banners which read "kill all Huns" and "know your place Hun scum" were threatening and disgusting.
Supporters were also offended by two blow-up dolls - one wearing a Rangers scarf, the other an Orange sash - which were dangled by ropes from the upper tier of the stadium.
Directors at the south side club said they shared the anger of their fans.
After the first Old Firm league derby in Glasgow in four years, it emerged that extensive damage had been caused to a toilet block at Celtic Park.
Police Scotland said it was aware of the destruction in the away section of the ground but the club was dealing with it as an internal matter.
Following the lunchtime game, the police said that the majority of Celtic and Rangers fans had behaved responsibly and "appeared to heed the advice given in the run-up to the fixture".
However, Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins, of Police Scotland, added: "What is hugely disappointing and frustrating is that a minority of individuals behaved in a manner which has no place in our communities, football and modern society and which has resulted in Police Scotland carrying out investigations to identify those responsible."
An SPFL spokesman said: "The SPFL has a match delegate present at every Ladbrokes Premiership game. We will take time to study carefully the match delegate report from Saturday's Celtic v Rangers fixture."
The Wallabies led by a point at half-time courtesy of the boot of Bernard Foley, after Dan Cole and Mike Brown had crossed for England, and Foley and Dane Haylett-Petty for the hosts.
Michael Hooper and Israel Folau tries cancelled out a Billy Vunipola score.
But Owen Farrell's boot kept England in touch and Jamie George's try helped them to a record score and a 3-0 win.
It was England's biggest ever points total against the Wallabies, and earned them the first 3-0 series win by a touring side in Australia since South Africa in 1971.
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After their defensive heroics in the 23-7 second Test win last weekend the tourists were keen to show more of their attacking game in Sydney, and they duly delivered as what could have been a flat dead rubber turned in an epic encounter as both sides looked to move the ball at will.
It was not a day for the defence coaches as the sides shared nine tries between them, and in the end the difference probably came down to the narrow ascendancy of the English pack.
Shorn of the tackling machine James Haskell through injury, coach Eddie Jones turned to Teimana Harrison in his only change.
But the flanker was withdrawn after only half an hour, with Courtney Lawes coming into the second row, Maro Itoje moving to blind-side flanker and Chris Robshaw shifting to open-side.
And, with a steady supply of replacements reinforcing the visitors' eight, England finally killed the game off with five minutes remaining - the giant Taqele Naiyaravoro's try doing no more than applying late gloss to the scoreboard for the wounded Wallabies.
The game was tit for tat from the opening stages, with England prop Cole finishing off from short range a move started by front row colleague Mako Vunipola's barrelling run, before Australia hit back as the loping Folau beat Jack Nowell down the left wing and linked with Matt Toomua to send Foley cruising over.
Haylett-Petty soon strode over out wide on the right for the hosts but England went back in front as Brown raced on to Anthony Watson's classy chip.
With Farrell landing his kicks the visitors looked set to lead at the break, but a late Foley penalty made it 18-17 at half-time.
If the first half had been exciting, the second half was dizzying.
Billy Vunipola rampaged over from a five-metre scrum to put the visitors back into the lead, but Australia looked dangerous every time they managed to wrest the ball from England's grasp, and flanker Hooper stretched over before the Leicester-bound Toomua burst through in midfield and gave 6ft 5in Wallaby full-back Folau a run to the line.
Australia suddenly led by four points with 20 minutes to go, but replacement hooker George dotted down for England's fourth try to put them back in front, and Farrell's accurate kicking ensured the tourists finally pulled away.
His 79th-minute penalty gave them a decisive nine-point lead and although Naiyaravoro had the final word, the Wallabies had already had to accept they had been whitewashed for the first time by England.
England captain Dylan Hartley: "We have scored 44 points and not played the perfect game yet, so there is still a lot to work on. We can all be proud of what we have achieved down under. We are very happy with the tour."
Australia captain Stephen Moore: "To England's credit they deserve it. They've played well. They deserve to win the series."
England: Mike Brown; Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, Owen Farrell, Jack Nowell; George Ford, Ben Youngs; Mako Vunipola, Dylan Hartley (captain), Dan Cole, Maro Itoje, George Kruis, Chris Robshaw, Teimana Harrison, Billy Vunipola
Replacements: Jamie George, Matt Mullan, Paul Hill, Joe Launchbury, Courtney Lawes, Jack Clifford, Danny Care, Elliot Daly
Australia: Israel Folau, Dane Haylett-Petty, Tevita Kuridrani, Matt Toomua, Rob Horne, Bernard Foley, Nick Phipps; James Slipper, Stephen Moore, Sekope Kepu, Will Skelton, Rob Simmons, Scott Fardy, Michael Hooper, Sean McMahon
Replacements: Tatafu Polota-Nau, Scott Sio, Greg Holmes, Adam Coleman, Wycliff Palu, Nick Frisby, Christian Lealiifano, Taqele Naiyaravoro
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Justices said Oklahoma could not execute Richard Glossip, John Grant and Benjamin Cole by lethal injection using midazolam while the case is pending.
The men's lawyers argue that midazolam presents an unconstitutional risk of pain and suffering.
The drug was used in three executions seen as botched in 2014.
Richard Glossip's execution had been scheduled for Thursday night while the other two were scheduled for lethal injection in the coming weeks.
Correspondents say the court's brief ruling left open the possibility that Oklahoma could carry out the executions using different drug combinations.
However, Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said the state has not been able to find an alternative drug.
The case is now due to go before the Supreme Court in April and be decided by late June.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said: "I disagree with the necessity to grant Glossip yet another round of legal appeals. However, given that the US Supreme Court has decided to hear his case, it is entirely appropriate to delay his execution until after the legal process has run its course."
Lawyers for the three inmates argue that midazolam cannot achieve the level of unconsciousness required and is therefore unsuitable for executions.
They say its use amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment" which violates the US constitution.
Without the coma-like sedative effect, Oklahoma cannot ensure the prisoner does not experience intense pain when other drugs are injected to kill, lawyers argue.
The execution of Charles Warner on 15 January was the first in Oklahoma since the botched lethal injection of Clayton Lockett in April 2014.
Lockett's execution was stopped after 20 minutes when one of his veins ruptured, preventing the drugs from taking full effect. He writhed and shook uncontrollably after the drugs were administered and died of a heart attack soon afterwards.
Prison officials said Warner did not suffer before dying.
Sunderland Hospital is no longer taking new referrals and dozens of patients are having to be treated at other hospitals.
Sunderland's Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said it could no longer provide a consultant-led service.
But a spokesman added that patient treatment was not being compromised.
He said he hoped the service would resume soon, but it would take months rather than weeks.
Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust said it had had around 100 more referrals from the Sunderland area since the service was halted in December.
Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary said it used to have five referrals from Sunderland a month, but that had gone up to 50.
A spokesman for Sunderland Hospital said: "This difficult decision was made in the interests of patient safety as we cannot currently provide a consultant-led service for our local population, despite our best efforts.
"We continue to work to ensure local residents have access to a high quality local breast service.
"This is clearly not an ideal situation, but the quality and safety of the breast service that is provided to local residents is of paramount importance."
Hospitals taking on extra breast cancer patients include the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI), in Newcastle and Bishop Auckland General Hospital.
A spokeswoman for the RVI said the extra workload had not "compromised" treatment quality and waiting times were being met.
Judges at the Court of Appeal said the six year prison term that was imposed on James Richardson for killing Natalia Czekaj had been "unduly lenient".
The 35-year-old of Berridge Green, Edgware had admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
His sentence was increased to 12 years.
It is believed that both Richardson and barmaid Ms Czekaj, 34, were functioning alcoholics and had been drinking on the evening of the killing.
The court was told that while they celebrated, the jobless plumber took three knives from the kitchen and stabbed his girlfriend more than 20 times.
Richardson, who was found to be four times over the drink-drive limit, then called 999 to report the attack.
During the original trial, prosecutors had accepted James Richardson's alcohol dependency was a medical condition that substantially impaired his responsibility.
His defence lawyer had told the court although his client could not remember the killing, "his remorse and shock have been wholly genuine".
However, Solicitor General Robert Buckland said he had referred the sentence imposed at trial as he "felt that it did not properly reflect the severity of the case".
He said Ms Czekaj had been "stabbed in the back deeply enough to penetrate her heart" and her throat had been cut "so severely that all the structures of her neck were severed".
"I hope this increased sentence gives some comfort to the victim's family," he said.
An extended licence period of five years originally imposed at trial remains in place.
The Assembly's independent Remuneration Board is considering a change in the rules to allow AMs to claim more than £8,000 for Cardiff accommodation expenses if they live in England.
The idea has been criticised by Plaid Cymru AM Bethan Jenkins.
But the board said it is required by law to put in place financial resources to allow AMs to carry out their duties.
Mr Hamilton, the leader of the seven-strong UKIP group in Cardiff Bay and is AM for Mid and West Wales, lives in Wiltshire.
A consultation on the proposal is underway until 16 September.
Under existing rules, AMs who live in the "outer area" of Mid and West Wales and North Wales can claim up to £8,820 per year.
AMs are allowed several options which include claiming the cost of renting a furnished property in Cardiff, reimbursing expenses relating to a property in Cardiff used by a member, or claiming the cost of overnight stays in Cardiff.
Under the proposal, outlined in a letter to AMs from board chairwoman Dame Dawn Primarolo, this rule would be amended so those who live outside Wales would be eligible - extending the outer area.
The letter said the existing rules were based on the assumption all AMs live in Wales.
There is nothing in current legislation that says AMs should reside in any particular location "either when they are elected or subsequently", Dame Dawn said.
It is understood rules which reduce the expenses allowed if you live nearer Cardiff would remain under the proposals - effectively extending the outer area to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Currently, members who live in the "intermediate area" of Gower, Neath, Swansea East and Swansea West constituencies can get £3,420 for overnight stays.
Those in the inner areas of South Wales West, Central and East can get "overnight stays in exceptional circumstances".
But Bethan Jenkins, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West, criticised the proposals.
She said: "I genuinely believe that AMs should live and work in Wales if they are serious about representing their constituents.
"If you live outside Wales how can you possibly be as in touch and as close to your community?
"If there were interim proposals in place to help AMs who live outside Wales to move here then I would be relaxed about that, but I am worried immensely about the precedent this sets - that it will say to people, become an AM for Wales and live elsewhere."
Labour's Llanelli AM Lee Waters said on Twitter: "Remuneration Board plans to let AMs who don't live in Wales to claim for [a second] home in Cardiff.
"Shouldn't be allowed to stand, let alone claim."
Dame Dawn said: "The independent Remuneration Board is required by law to put in place financial resources that enable assembly members to carry out their duties as elected representatives."
She said: "No member should be impeded from undertaking the role they have been elected to do.
"The people of Wales decided who they wanted to elect on 5 May and they expect the board to ensure that those 60 members have appropriate and reasonable resource in place to represent them to the best of their ability."
She said she would welcome "any comments" the public and AMs may have.
At the time Mr Hamilton became group leader he said he lived "less than an hour from Cardiff".
"For the time being I'm living where I lived for the last ten years," he said, adding there was a "big logistical problem to solve" about where he based himself.
A spokesman for Mr Hamilton has been approached for comment.
Messi and his father Jorge, who manages his financial affairs, are accused of defrauding Spain of more than €4m (£3m; $4.5m) between 2007 and 2009.
The authorities allege that the two used tax havens in Belize and Uruguay to conceal earnings from image rights.
The Spanish tax agency is demanding heavy fines and prison sentences. They deny any wrongdoing.
The trial is expected to last for three days, with Messi appearing in court on Thursday.
The income related to Messi's image rights, including contracts with Banco Sabadell, Danone, Adidas, Pepsi-Cola, Procter and Gamble, and the Kuwait Food Company.
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Messi's lawyers had argued that the player had "never devoted a minute of his life to reading, studying or analysing" the contracts.
But the high court in Barcelona ruled in June 2015 that the football star should not be granted immunity for not knowing what was happening with his finances, which were being managed in part by his father.
Messi and his father made a voluntary €5m (£3.8m, $5.6m) "corrective payment" - equal to the alleged unpaid tax plus interest - in August 2013.
Messi is the five-time World Player of the Year and one of the richest athletes in the world.
Diego Simeone's side were without seven players because of injury and suspension but strikes by Koke and Filipe Luis sealed a deserved win.
Koke capitalised on good play by Fernando Torres to put Atletico ahead after 26 minutes, while Torres was also involved for the second as Filipe Luis chipped home his first of the season.
Defeat leaves Malaga six points above the drop zone.
"We didn't make mistakes and when we got our chance in the second half, Filipe finished it fantastically," said Simeone.
"The 2-0 [scoreline] makes it look like something it wasn't. I always felt there were difficulties and danger."
Atletico move on to 58 points, above Sevilla who host Sporting Gijon on Sunday. Leaders Real Madrid, who have 65 points, entertain Alaves on Sunday, while champions Barcelona, two points behind, visit Granada.
Also on Saturday, Real Sociedad's hopes of a top-four finish were hit by a 1-1 draw at home to Leganes, who went ahead through Alexander Szymanowski. Juanmi levelled for Sociedad in the second half.
Eighth-placed Eibar maintained their hopes of qualifying for Europe for the first time with an impressive 3-2 win at Villarreal, while Athletic Bilbao were 2-1 winners at bottom side Osasuna.
Match ends, Málaga 0, Atlético de Madrid 2.
Second Half ends, Málaga 0, Atlético de Madrid 2.
Foul by Federico Ricca (Málaga).
Koke (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Ignacio Camacho (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Juankar.
Attempt saved. Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gabi.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. José Giménez replaces Filipe Luis.
Attempt blocked. Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juankar.
Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gabi (Atlético de Madrid).
Attempt saved. Roberto Rosales (Málaga) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Recio.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Diego Godín replaces Antoine Griezmann.
Attempt missed. Michael Santos (Málaga) header from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Jan Oblak.
Attempt saved. Michael Santos (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez.
Attempt saved. Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Michael Santos.
Attempt missed. Diego Llorente (Málaga) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez with a cross following a set piece situation.
Michael Santos (Málaga) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lucas Hernández (Atlético de Madrid).
Attempt saved. Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roberto Rosales with a headed pass.
Sandro Ramírez (Málaga) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid).
Recio (Málaga) is shown the yellow card.
Juankar (Málaga) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Juankar (Málaga).
Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Málaga 0, Atlético de Madrid 2. Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernando Torres.
Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Fernando Torres.
Substitution, Málaga. Michael Santos replaces Keko.
Dangerous play by Pablo Fornals (Málaga).
Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Juankar (Málaga) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez following a corner.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Filipe Luis.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Stefan Savic.
Hand ball by Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid).
Substitution, Málaga. Recio replaces José Rodríguez.
Attempt missed. Roberto Rosales (Málaga) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by José Rodríguez.
Attempt saved. Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ángel Correa.
Attempt missed. Pablo Fornals (Málaga) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Stefan Savic.
Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from El Paso, and Will Hurd, a Republican from San Antonio, had their flights from Texas to Washington DC cancelled due to heavy snow in the capital.
The two men, who did not know one another well, decided to share a car and make the 30-hour drive.
They livestreamed much of the trip on Periscope and Facebook Live.
O'Rourke called it "the longest bi-national congressional live town hall in the history of the United States".
They used the time to interact with their constituents and share their views on hot button political issues, from immigration (both men live along the US-Mexico border) to the terrorist threat posed by the so-called Islamic State (Hurd is a former CIA analyst.)
It wasn't all high-level policy debates. The men sang along to Willie Nelson, The Clash and Buddy Holly, and made several stops for coffee, burritos and donuts.
Votes in DC were scheduled for 630pm Wednesday night. The men left San Antonio at 7am on Tuesday and stopped in Nashville at 3am the next morning, after a day spent on the road and on camera.
"The last couple hours were tough," O'Rourke told the audience.
"You stuck with us, kept us company, suggested songs for the playlist, gave us some good questions. Settled the pie v cake dispute," he said, referring to a battle of dessert supremacy that ignited a lively debate.
While travelling, they received phone calls from current and former members of congress, including House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore, and retired Majority leaders Bill Frist and Tom Daschle.
The current elected officials who called in were asked to talk about a programme they were working on in Congress - and who they would choose as a bipartisan road-trip buddy.
"Joe Kennedy would be a good one - he'd have some good Kennedy family history and is a great guy," said Republican Randy Webber.
Though O'Rourke and Hurd both oppose President Trump's plan to build a wall along the Texas-Mexico border, they differ on several key issues.
"Beto likes to get the tank down close to E before we fill up," Hurd, who had a more conservative petrol policy, told viewers.
O'Rourke also prefers to drive without stopping, while Hurd favours more pit stops.
"Will wanted to stop at every school house along the way," and engage the students, O'Rourke said, but school schedules and their tight timeline made such a request impossible.
"It would have been fun, man!" Hurd insisted.
The men were not above stunts to boost their ratings - or ease the monotony of the road.
"We're at 600 live views," O'Rourke said on Wednesday morning. "We peaked early at 750 when Will was doing 20 push-ups in the Pilot gas station parking lot in cowboy boots."
As the day went on, viewership grew to as many as 4,000 viewers, helped by interviews the men gave to news programmes and shares on social media. They attracted comments from India, the UK and Philippines.
With three hours and thirty minutes left before votes in the House, their GPS showed them three hours away from Capitol Hill - but they would be driving through Washington during rush hour.
At 5:51pm local time, they arrived in front of the Capitol building, having reached their destination ahead of schedule and together.
"We always talk about the things that divide us, when we could be talking about the things that unite us," Hurd said during the trip.
"Even if we do disagree, we don't have to be disagreeable,"
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Johns, 25, is undefeated in his 13 professional MMA fights, including his UFC debut in Belfast in November.
The Welshman takes on England's Entwistle at UFC Fight Night 107 at London's O2 Arena on Saturday.
"I'm feeling brilliant, it's an amazing atmosphere and I can't wait. It is a Battle of Britain," Johns said.
He added to BBC Wales Sport: "It's the first ever Wales v England fight and fingers crossed the Welsh will have that first win.
"It feels strange. This is a home fight for me but I'm behind enemy lines."
Johns had no problem making the bantamweight ahead of his fight, however his his opponent Entwistle came in 3 pounds over.
"I can't slate anyone for missing weight as I have done that in the past. It means that I get a bit of his money so I'm looking for a big pay cheque, now," Johns said.
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Johns is one of 12 British fighters on the bill for the event as the UFC arrives in London.
It is the first UFC event of 2017 to be held in Europe as the sport looks to win more fans, with around 15,000 people expected at the O2 Arena on Saturday.
"It's a massive stage and will only get bigger from here, but I'm not looking forward to the fight or Entwistle. This is going to be a hard fight. Stylistically this is going to be a different match up but I'm ready to gom" he added.
"I'm going to punch him in the head as that's the only trick I've got, but tomorrow it will be 14-0. I will stay undefeated and the journey goes on."
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An "administrative error" was blamed when the Trust claimed former director Leigh Dineen had been reappointed to the board without its consultation.
The club's new American owners had previously apologised to the Trust for a lack of communication.
Bradley hopes fans get behind the side for Saturday's visit of Crystal Palace.
"Supporters speak up and voice their opinions," he said. "It's all fair. They are the heart and soul of the club.
"But supporters also know that when that team steps on the field, for that 95 minutes, the only thing that matters is what happens with the result."
The Swans are bottom of the Premier League and five points from safety, having failed to win since the opening day of the season.
Bradley has not won in five games since succeeding Francesco Guidolin as manager while Palace have lost their past five games - conceding 13 goals - and are 16th.
"We're just focusing on making sure we put a bad stretch behind us and it's going to happen this week," added Bradley.
"There will be plenty of time for the other things to work themselves out. But let's make sure that the relationship between the team and the supporters carries us through this stretch.
"I want the players to feel that support and the supporters to know the players are going to give everything for them."
Swansea signed Borja Baston, Fernando Llorente, Alfie Mawson, Leroy Fer and Mike van der Hoorn in the summer, but Bradley will look to the January transfer window in order to turn his side's fortunes around.
"The discussions have been positive about identifying ways we can improve the team. The idea is that we are going to look to improve our squad," Bradley said.
"We have a road ahead that will require looking at all the possibilities and fighting like crazy.
"You can make cases for different parts of the field [where we need to strengthen]. Just before January we will make a decision."
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Shares in the Canadian firm, which has been investigated over its business and accounting practices, sank 14% in pre-market trading.
Valeant posted a loss of $373.7m for the first three months of 2016, against a profit of $97.7m a year earlier.
The company's new chief executive Joseph Papa said it had been a "difficult" period for the company.
It now expects full-year earnings per share of $6.60-$7, compared with its previous estimate of $8.50-$9.50.
"The first quarter's results reflect, in part, the impact of significant disruption this organisation has faced over the past nine months," said Mr Papa, in a statement.
"This has been a difficult period for Valeant and its stakeholders, and while there are some challenges to work through in certain business operations in 2016, such as our US dermatology unit, the majority of our businesses are performing according to expectations."
Sales at Valeant's dermatology business sank 43% to $228.6m in the first quarter.
Mr Papa took over from Valeant's previous head, Michael Pearson, in May.
Last week, it emerged that Mr Pearson would receive $9m (£6.2m) in severance payments along with thousands of dollars in consulting fees.
Valeant came in for criticism for buying older drugs and raising the prices without investing in research and development of new drugs.
Earlier this year, the company's financial results for 2015 were delayed while Valeant's board looked into its accounting practices.
"We have made progress toward stabilising the organisation over the past few months, and we expect to file our financial results in a timely manner going forward," Mr Papa said.
Shares in the company have fallen by nearly 90% over the past year.
The violence broke out in Turpan prefecture early on Wednesday.
Police opened fire after a mob armed with knives attacked police stations and a local government building, Xinhua news agency quoted officials as saying.
There are sporadic outbreaks of violence in Xinjiang, where there are ethnic tensions between Muslim Uighur and Han Chinese communities.
Confirming reports from the region is difficult because information is tightly controlled.
By Celia HattonBBC News, Beijing
China's state media have been quick to issue an official version of events regarding the latest round of violence in Xinjiang, but it will be tough to verify those reports.
Xinjiang lies on China's remote north-west border and it is difficult for foreign media to travel there. Many people on both sides of the conflict are reluctant to speak to visiting journalists for fear of reprisals if they dispute the government's stance.
Unfortunately Xinjiang usually hits international headlines when violence flares between the region's minority ethnic Uighur Muslims and the majority Han Chinese. Many Uighurs contend that their language and religion are being smothered by an influx of Han Chinese migrants.
Xinjiang is a large geographic area rich in oil and gas deposits. Soon it will also become a major supplier of coal to China's energy-hungry cities. The region's fertile land also grows produce that is shipped to the rest of the country. The Han Chinese who move to Xinjiang hope to benefit from the region's untapped resources.
The violence occurred in Turpan's remote township of Lukqun, about 200km (120 miles) south-east of the region's capital, Urumqi.
The Xinhua news agency report, citing local officials, said rioters stabbed people and set police cars alight.
Seventeen people, including nine security personnel and eight civilians, were killed before police shot dead 10 of the rioters, it said.
At least three others were injured and were being treated in hospital, it added.
The Xinhua report did not provide any information on the ethnicity of those involved in the riot or on what sparked it.
But Dilxat Raxit, a spokesperson for the World Uighur Congress, an umbrella organisation of Uighur groups, told the Associated Press news agency the violence had been caused by the Chinese government's "sustained repression and provocation" of the Uighur community.
In 2009 almost 200 people - mostly Han Chinese - were killed after deadly rioting erupted in Urumqi between the Han Chinese and Uighur communities.
In April an incident in the city of Kashgar left 21 people dead.
The government said the violence began when "terrorists" were discovered in a building by officials searching for weapons.
But local people told the BBC that the violence involved a local family who had a longstanding dispute with officials who had been pressurising the men to shave off their beards and the women to take off their veils.
Uighurs make up about 45% of Xinjiang's population, but say an influx of Han Chinese residents has marginalised their traditional culture.
Beijing authorities often blame violent incidents in Xinjiang on Uighur extremists seeking autonomy for the region. Uighur activists, meanwhile, accuse Beijing of over-exaggerating the threat to justify heavy-handed rule.
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Kenya missed a deadline last week to prove to Wada it was tackling cheating.
It comes after a spate of positive drugs tests among some of the country's athletes and allegations of corruption.
"We have to be much more proactive," said Coe, president of the sport's world governing body the IAAF.
Coe said he would impose serious sanctions on any nation guilty of attempting to cover up drug-taking.
Kenya is to be placed on a 'watch-list' of nations at risk of breaching Wada's code and could be banned from international competition if non-compliant, as happened with Russia's athletes.
"We know that a disproportionate amount of reputational damage is caused by a relatively few countries," he told BT Sport's The Clare Balding Show.
"If it means pulling them out of World Championships or Olympic Games then we will have to do that.
"I know the World Anti-Doping Agency has looked very closely at the Kenyan National Anti-Doping Agency. We, of course, monitor that through the IAAF, so that work is ongoing."
On Tuesday, the chief executive of Athletics Kenya said he wanted to step down temporarily amid allegations he asked athletes for bribes to reduce doping bans.
Isaac Mwangi denies wrongdoing but wants to leave his post for 21 days while the claims are investigated by the IAAF.
For several months, Wada has been trying to persuade Kenya to set up an effective national agency so more drug tests can be conducted, but progress has been slow.
The East African country, whose athletes are dominant in distance running, topped the medal table at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with seven gold medals.
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But since 2011, more than 40 of its athletes have failed drugs tests.
David Howman, Wada's director general, said "a fully functional" anti-doping agency is "a vital step for a country of Kenya's sporting stature" if it is to "effectively protect clean athletes".
He added that it must be established "at the earliest opportunity".
Meanwhile, former marathon world record holder Wilson Kipsang has urged Kenya's government to strengthen their fight against doping.
Kipsang, 33, is president of the Professional Athletes Association of Kenya and was among 80 athletes who met in Eldoret on Wednesday to formulate an appeal to Kenya's government to fast-track legislation criminalising doping.
He told the Daily Nation newspaper: "We must all step up the fight against doping because if we are banned, Kenya will never be the same again. This is a country which has made its name as an athletics giant."
Since 1945, the world's population has tripled to seven billion, and feeding that population has relied increasingly on artificial fertilisers.
Phosphates, among the most important fertilisers, come from an ore that is in limited supply. It is mined, processed and spread on to our fields, whence it is ultimately washed away into the ocean.
So what will happen if one day we run out of the stuff?
"Crop yields will drop very, very spectacularly," chemist Andrea Sella, of University College, London, told Wednesday's Business Daily programme on the World Service.
"We will be in very, very deep trouble. We have to remember that the world's population is growing steadily, and so demand for phosphorus is growing every year."
As Dr Sella explains, phosphorus is essential for life. The element - which is so reactive that it spontaneously combusts in its pure form - is used by plant and animal cells to store energy.
It also forms the backbone of DNA, and it is an essential ingredient of our bones and teeth.
Farming without it is not a realistic option.
While this may sound rather alarming, there are two important caveats.
First, the supply of phosphates is forecast to last for many decades, if not centuries, to come.
US Geological Survey
So humanity is at no immediate risk of running out of the means to feed itself, even at the current rate at which it is gobbling up phosphates.
Second, one of the biggest problems with phosphates over the past 60 years is arguably that they have been far too cheap and abundant.
There has been no incentive to use them sparingly.
Only a small fraction is actually absorbed by plants, and much is washed off by rain.
And this glut of fertilisers being washed into river systems, both phosphates and also nitrates, has created a nasty environmental problem - eutrophication.
This is where the abundant nutrients feed algae in rivers and ponds, creating blooms that turn the water green.
The algae then die, providing a feast for microbes, which in turn multiply and suck the oxygen out of the water, killing off all the fish and other animal and plant life.
It is a common problem in the lower reaches of major rivers such as the Thames and Rhine in Europe, and the Yangtze in China.
Similar algal blooms occur in our oceans, where large areas - notably the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Mexico - have become "dead zones".
Purely from an environmental perspective, the price of phosphates has clearly been too low.
Yet this now appears to be changing. The price of phosphate ores has risen fivefold over the past decade as demand, particularly from the developing world, has grown steadily.
Meanwhile, the cost of fertiliser production has also risen as the richest, cheapest phosphate seams have already been mined.
"Commodities are priced on the cost of extracting the next tonne that you need," says Jeremy Grantham, of US fund managers Grantham Mayo van Otterloo. "It is a hopelessly bad system.
"As long as we can mine a vital resource cheaply, we will price it cheaply, and run through the reserves until they become very expensive. And then we'll start to conserve."
There are various options:
And then there is the sewage option.
Why not just capture the phosphorus from our own waste and recycle it? Sweden and Germany have been leading the way.
There is also a cottage industry among the eco-friendly in Western countries of "compost toilets".
Now the UK's Thames Water is getting in on the act, launching a new "reactor" that turns sewage sludge into nice clean fertiliser pellets.
How much of future supply could ultimately be provided by recycling is open to debate - Thames Water says 20% using the current technology.
But perhaps the more important point lies in the fact that Thames Water and Canadian partners Ostara, which developed the technology, expect to make a profit.
This should come from selling the pellets as well as from saving the cost of cleaning and replacing pipes that have become blocked by a phosphorus-based sediment called struvite.
Any benefits, as far as the environment or the long-term sustainable usage of a limited resource are concerned, are but a happy by-product.
The important point is that it is the rising price of phosphates that has made it worthwhile to start recycling the stuff.
So should we welcome the higher price? Well, it depends who you are.
In general, the lower your income, the more of it you spend on food and therefore the more sensitive you are to the higher food bills that might come with more expensive fertilisers.
In other words, rising phosphate prices hurt the poor most, which is hardly a recipe for social cohesion.
And that goes for whole countries too.
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As Jeremy Grantham points out, many North African countries depend on food imports, and rising food prices contributed to the discontent behind the 2011 Arab Spring.
One of those countries is Morocco, which by a freak of geography controls about three-quarters of the world's remaining good-quality phosphate reserves.
"Morocco has the most impressive quasi-monopoly in the history of man," says Mr Grantham. "It makes oil look unimportant in comparison."
That could make Morocco a very rich nation in the future, one that the rest of the world will be keen to court.
And it gives the country a great responsibility in pricing its product in a way that eventually weans the world off it in a manageable way - much like Saudi Arabia and oil.
Ironically, the higher prices that monopolists like to set may actually be what the planet needs.
But Morocco's unique position could also make it a centre of intrigue.
For example, much of its phosphates are actually located in the territory of Western Sahara.
It is occupied by the Moroccan military, which currently has an uneasy ceasefire in place with the local Algerian-backed Saharawi resistance.
This poses moral questions for the multinational companies that mine the stuff there, as well as some obvious strategic issues for the rest of the world about securing future food supplies.
Mr Grantham points out that half of nearby Mali - admittedly the sparsely populated Saharan half - was recently briefly overrun by militants affiliated with al-Qaeda, and he warns that Morocco itself may one day become the scene of rising social tensions, terrorism or revolt.
"I would almost guarantee to you that the major militaries of this world are well aware of this problem.
"They would not allow Morocco to become a hopelessly failed state," he says reassuringly.
"You don't want to look forward to the great fertiliser wars of 2042."
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The document, photographed in Downing Street, proposes expanding current grammars before opening new schools.
It then raises doubts whether plans for more selective school places would pass through the House of Lords.
A government spokeswoman said it would be "inappropriate to comment on internal government documents".
"The cat is out of the bag," said Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.
Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said: "It looks like a desperate plan to avoid parliamentary scrutiny and their inevitable defeat."
The document, being carried into 10, Downing Street, seems to have been written by Jonathan Slater, permanent secretary at the Department for Education.
It refers to Conservative plans to "open new grammars", although with the provision that they would have to "follow various conditions".
Analysis: Education correspondent Sean Coughlan
What does this document tell us? And does it suggest that as well as more grammars, there could be a new style of grammar, admitting pupils on more than test results.
There have been concerns that grammars have a disproportionately affluent intake - and these "conditions" might suggest that new grammars might have obligations to admit more poorer pupils.
There are also hints at a difference in emphasis within Conservative ranks - with the education secretary wanting to expand the current grammars before opening any new schools.
A long-running dispute in Kent was resolved this year when an existing grammar school was allowed to open another branch in another town, on the basis that this was the expansion of an existing school, rather than opening an entirely new school.
Education Secretary Justine Greening is described as wanting new grammars to be presented in the consultation document "as an option" and "only to be pursued once we have worked with existing grammars to show how they can be expanded and reformed".
But the note says: "I simply don't know what the PM [prime minister] thinks of this."
And it says: "I simply can't see any way of persuading the Lords to vote for selection on any other basis."
Before opening any more grammars, the government would have to change the law, which at present outlaws the creation of new grammar schools in England.
If the government thought that this would face too difficult a path through Parliament, existing grammar schools could open such "satellite" campuses on other sites.
There have been suggestions that new grammars could be opened as part of the free school programme, which could be adapted to allow selection by ability.
The prospect of a return to grammar schools has had some strong support among Conservative backbenchers.
They have argued that admission by ability is more likely to promote social mobility, providing an opportunity for bright, poor pupils who do not live in the catchment areas of good schools.
But Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw said this week that the idea that poor children would benefit from a return of grammar schools was "tosh" and "nonsense"
Sir Michael said a return to selection at 11 years old would be a "profoundly retrograde step".
Labour's Angela Rayner said: "Behind closed doors the Tories are planning a return to the bad old days of grammars, ignoring all the evidence which has told us time and again that they do not aid social mobility."
John Pugh, of the Liberal Democrats, said: "This lays bare the desperate lengths the Conservative party are willing to go to deliver grammar schools through the cloak of expansion.
"The government should be ashamed of themselves. If they think this is the right thing to do, they should bring it to Parliament and win the argument."
But Graham Brady, a leading Conservative backbencher and prominent supporter of grammar schools said: "Grammar schools are popular wherever they remain and opinion polls suggest that 75% of people in Britain want more of them.
"It must be good news that the government is looking at repealing a statutory ban new grammar schools.
"Why ban something that is proven to work and popular?"
Mr Brady said grammar schools should be available as "part of the mix where parents and communities want them".
Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "Theresa May said on the steps of Downing Street that she wanted 'a country that works for everyone'.
"Yet now we hear of proposals to take education back to the 1950s, when children were segregated at age 11 and their life chances determined by the type of school they attended.
"Opening new grammar schools would not only be a backward step but is also a complete distraction from the real problems facing schools and education. For every grammar school there are three or four 'secondary modern' schools."
A government spokeswoman said: "The prime minister has been clear that we need to build a country that works for everyone, not just the privileged few.
"We are looking at a range of options to allow more children to access a school that lets them rise as far as their talents will take them.
"Policies on education will be set out in due course, and it would be inappropriate to comment further on internal government documents."
The epicentre of the tremor was detected near Reepham, about five miles (8km) east of Lincoln, at 14:15 BST on Monday.
"People in the area may have heard a bang or felt a shudder for a second or two," said seismologist David Galloway.
Maxine Soroka, of Langworth, said: "I heard it and the house shook, but I had no idea what it was until this morning."
"My parents who live in Reepham said they also heard and felt it," she added.
Lincolnshire Police said it did not receive any reports of damage.
About 250 to 300 earthquakes hit the UK each year, although most go unnoticed by the public, according to British Geological Survey seismologist Mr Galloway.
In 2008, a 5.2-magnitude quake hit Market Rasen - 32,000 times more powerful than the tremor on Monday.
A small number of specially-trained officers in the area have been routinely carrying side-arms since before April last year.
Police in the former Strathclyde and Tayside forces also allowed specialist officers to routinely carry guns before the launch of the new single force.
Police Scotland has adopted the approach across the country.
Fifty nine Highland councillors support a motion by the local authority's depute leader, David Alston, calling for the policy to be reviewed.
Earlier this month, the officer in charge of policing in the Highlands and Islands said he could have done more to make the public aware of changes to firearms policy.
Ch Supt Julian Innes said he "probably had not explained" the police tactic as well as could have.
He told BBC Radio Scotland officers had been carrying Tasers and holstered handguns for 13 months before it had become an issue.
A political row over specially-trained officers routinely carrying side-arms started in May when Independent MSP John Finnie raised concerns about the change in policy.
He said previously firearms officers had to retrieve their weapons from locked safes in armed response vehicles with permission from a senior officer.
Mr Finnie said following the change in policy there had been occasions when firearms officers had supported unarmed police on routine duties, such as dispersing late night crowds from outside pubs and clubs.
The search was part of an investigation into an allegedly fake job given to his wife. He denies any wrongdoing.
Mr Fillon has vowed to continue his presidential campaign, despite growing pressure for him to step down.
He was once seen as the favourite to win the election but his poll ratings have dropped since the scandal emerged.
The allegations circling around the Fillon family focus mainly on his Welsh-born wife Penelope, who is also reported to be facing an investigation.
The Le Canard Enchaine newspaper alleges she was paid €831,400 (£710,000; $900,000) over several years for working as a parliamentary assistant for Mr Fillon and his successor, but had no parliamentary pass - raising questions over whether she did the work she was paid for.
The raid on Thursday morning happened as the candidate visited winegrowers in southern France. His parliamentary office had already been searched last month.
Many on the right will see the operation as another sign of how the scandal has totally eclipsed Mr Fillon's ability to run a campaign, the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris reports.
For the first time since the affair broke out a month ago, there is open dissension in the ranks about his candidacy, our correspondent adds.
Senior Republicans have gathered support for ex-Prime Minister Alain Juppe, 71, who was defeated by Mr Fillon in the primaries.
On Thursday evening, thousands of supporters turned out to his rally in the town of Nimes. "You have a fighter before you," Mr Fillon told a cheering crowd. "I have no intention of giving in."
On Wednesday, Mr Fillon said he had been summoned to appear before a judge over the case.
He complained he was the victim of a "political assassination", and vowed to continue his run for president - despite previously pledging to stand down if his case was placed under formal investigation.
Following his announcement, several key allies resigned, including his foreign affairs spokesman and deputy campaign director.
Mr Fillon will appear in court on 15 March, just two days before the deadline for candidates to submit their final applications.
The first round of the election takes place on 23 April, followed by a run-off on 7 May.
Jan Jedrzejewski, 41, died in hospital after being found on Keene Street, Lliswerry, last Thursday at 23:00 GMT.
Richard Wallis, 43, Shaquile Crosdale, 18, and Callum Banton, 18, were charged with murder and remanded in custody at Newport Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
A boy, aged 17, appeared separately and was remanded in youth custody.
All four will go before the city's crown court on Wednesday.
Experts say many children do not get a proper workout which helps them develop coordination, strength and agility.
The British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine wants all schools to use a short exercise routine called "five-in-five".
But the government said PE was a matter for individual schools.
Specialists in sports and exercise medicine say that too often PE lessons focus on developing sports skills rather than encouraging flexibility and movement.
The British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) has endorsed a quick training programme designed to address this.
Five-in-five provides five exercises in five minutes. A leading international sports coach, Kelvin Giles, has devised more than 20 five-minute routines.
He has worked with elite sports men and women around the world, from athletics and rugby to football and tennis.
"Catastrophic" fitness
He also spends a lot of time in schools, and said PE lessons in the UK do not give children a proper workout.
Zoe Biggs started the programme with her class of nine and 10-year-olds at Camps Hill Primary School in Stevenage last year.
The children have been delighted as their fitness has improved.
"Some of them really struggled at the beginning, and once they worked at it and persevered they really came alight," said Ms Biggs.
"They looked so happy they could do it and they'd achieved it and done it themselves."
Progress was closely monitored through the academic year.
The improvements - in terms of flexibility, co-ordination and strength - were dramatic.
Children said they enjoyed it.
"It's quite hard at first but when you do lots it's actually quite easy," said one.
Another said it was fun, but confessed that it sometimes left him feeling "hot and bothered".
They have worked their way through several sets of exercises, many of them with catchy names such as "upside-down bug" or "hot-foot lizard".
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"Out of the 40 minutes there's eight minutes of activity going on. Very often the kids are standing around and just listening to the teacher talk. So heart rates aren't being raised. Mechanical efficiency isn't being looked at."
As a result, he says, the level of fitness in most children is "catastrophic".
The five-in-five routines involve squatting, lunging, pushing, bracing and rotating.
"You can get stronger, you can get more stable, you can have a much better posture, by exposing yourself to five minutes a day," said Mr Giles.
The initiative has won the backing of the UK's leading sports doctors. To mark its annual conference in London, the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine has called on UK governments to incorporate the programme in all schools.
The Association's chairman is former Olympic gold medallist rower, and chief medical officer for the London Olympics, Dr Richard Budgett. He is deeply concerned about PE in schools.
"If you're not a natural athlete, not attracted to sport and exercise, there is a real problem. It's very easy to drop out."
"By using a programme like five-in-five in schools we can get young people with the skills that they can then use as they get older. So they can keep fit, keep their joints working properly and prevent all sorts of diseases, from osteoarthritis through to diabetes and heart disease."
The Department for Education in England says it will be up to schools to decide if they want to adopt this.
It wants them to focus more on competitive sport. Sports physicians say five-in-five will help gifted children to excel, while ensuring all receive a proper physical education.
Webb, 27, has not played since injuring a foot during a World Cup warm-up match against Italy in September.
Wales begin their Six Nations campaign with an away match against Ireland in Dublin on Sunday, 7 February.
Ospreys will also be without back row Tyler Ardron for eight weeks because of a knee injury.
The 24-year-old, who was injured while playing for Canada at the World Cup, had surgery in October.
Ospreys had hoped Webb would make an early return from injury and be available this month.
But, though he has returned to training, he is still short of match fitness.
"His recovery is going well and we're now concentrating on getting him to the physical level he needs to be in order to perform as we want," said Chris Towers, Ospreys' medical performance manager.
"He has begun running again, starting doing some skills work, and the focus is on getting him available for selection at the end of February, which would be five months post-op."
Webb, capped 16 times by Wales, has renewed his national dual contract with Ospreys and the Welsh Rugby Union.
He turned down offers from elsewhere to stay at the region for whom he made his debut in 2007.
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Opinion is divided as to whether the best policy is to stand firm against North Korean threats or to seek to engage with the government.
Some writers hold the United States partly responsible for the tension, saying its joint military exercises with South Korea had provoked the harsh Northern response.
We welcome President Park Geun-hye's decision to call her first national security meeting, albeit a little belatedly... Despite the gravity of the situation, President Park has calmly yet resolutely responded to Pyongyang's provocations, which deserves our appreciation... President Park stressed the importance of not allowing the enemy to engage in provocations by emphasising that they will be met by relentless retaliation. Actions speak louder than words. The government must fully prepare for any emergencies.
The US has put on a massive show of force in recent joint exercises with South Korea, but Seoul and Washington are more than willing to talk to North Korea and provide economic aid if it abandons its nuclear ambitions. If the North really wants to develop its economy, the path it must take is clear.
The chances are slim that Pyongyang will launch an attack against the US... North Korea's threats are intended as bargaining chips with the US, and have had little effect. The North has to realize that what it has done cannot be the solution.
Mutual distrust is the fundamental reason for the deteriorating situation on the Korean peninsula. Every time the US and South Korea adjust policies toward the North, it results in nuclear threats from that country. Neither military confrontation nor sabre-rattling will lead to breakthroughs in resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula. All parties should stick to diplomacy and dialogue.
The US has practically given up on persuading Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear programme. China should not allow itself to become the first or greatest victim of a war on the peninsula. As long as China does this, it can still handle the peninsular crisis through a policy of non-intervention. China should strengthen its endurance in tackling the crisis and make a plan to deal with any emergencies, which is where China's initiative comes from.
Only North Korea/US dialogue can calm the situation and avert a war in northeast Asia. Both North Korea and the US are to blame, especially the joint US military drills with South Korea.
North Korea's disdain for China is growing by the day. Sober-minded Chinese scholars all know that China is being taken advantage of by North Korea and is the biggest loser in the North Korean nuclear issue.
Kommersant's informed sources in Moscow admit that, even though Russia is a participant in the six-party talks, it has long since lost any effective levers for influencing Pyongyang. Moscow is concerned that the West may try to use the crisis to boost its military presence in the region, and hopes that Beijing will make North Korea "come to its senses". Kommersant's sources say that the situation on the peninsula is "extremely tense, but there is no reason for extreme alarm at this point".
US experts attribute North Korea's threats to Pyongyang's aspiration to create a decisive public image for the 30-year-old leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. But recall that these threats were a response to the Foal Eagle US/South Korean drill... It is as though Washington is playing into the hands of the ambitious North Korean leader... It is time to stop the dangerous actions by both sides.
Washington understands that with these statements North Korea is mostly trying to deter, rather than frighten... The regime has one goal of truly vital importance: to get everyone to leave it alone... Russia's position remains the same as it has been for a long time: exerting pressure on Pyongyang is pointless. It is possible to find a way out of the dead-end only through the socialisation of North Korea, through its gentle involvement in international integration... Russia has an advantage in that it is not feared by North Korea and is neutral compared to other countries in the region.
The Korean peninsula has become a battlefield. But only of words. A real war is unlikely... Look at the USA. Whenever they plan something, they bring in a strike force into the region... Their presence is not enough for serious business... North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the North Korean army under no circumstances to open fire first, so as not to give their opponents a reason for revenge. The North Korean army, although large, is equipped with outdated equipment and will clearly not be able to withstand such a blow.
No actual conflict will break out and, in reality, the North Korean authorities are just pursuing their old tactic: they want to secure new international aid in exchange for stopping their belligerent rhetoric.
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Reg Foggerdy disappeared last week while pursuing a feral camel in a remote area of Western Australia state.
Police trackers found him sitting under a tree on Tuesday morning around 15km (9 miles) from where he became lost.
His family described him as an experienced bushman but have now told him to buy a satellite phone.
Mr Foggerdy's wife Arlyn told AP she had cried when she heard he had been found alive.
"How you can survive without water and food is a miracle,'' she said.
Wearing only a T-shirt, shorts, a cap and flip-flops when he went missing, Mr Foggerdy - a retired miner - apparently became disorientated in the fierce heat of the desert.
He was discovered "extremely dehydrated, a bit delusional, but he's received treatment, first aid on the ground, and it's fair to say he's now sitting up and talking," Police Supt Andy Greatwood told ABC radio.
Supt Greatwood also praised Mr Foggerdy's "fantastic" skills, saying that while more details of how he coped were likely to emerge, "most people would not have survived".
"The amazing news is his last couple of days of survival were achieved by lying down under a tree and eating black ants, so that's the level of survival that Mr Foggerdy has gone to," he said.
Mr Foggerdy's sister Christine Ogden told the West Australian she had not given up hope.
"When I went to bed last night, I said: 'Tomorrow's the day, they're going to find him.' I didn't know which way it was going to go, but I just had this feeling."
Campaigners want Thanet council to buy Manston Airport under a compulsory purchase order (CPO) so it can reopen.
South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay said a draft PricewaterhouseCoopers report had found no impediment to a CPO.
Thanet council will consider the report after it is published. The site owners said they would fight any CPO attempt.
"We have taken a great leap forwards today," said Mr Mackinlay after discussing the findings of the report with Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and Aviation Minister Robert Goodwill.
"The Department [for Transport] stands ready to assist with the reinstatement of a CAA licence as soon as a CPO process is completed and Manston Airport is ready to reopen and receive aircraft."
"To lose this type of strategic regional and national asset was always wrong," he added.
Chris Musgrave and Trevor Cartner, who have bought a majority stake in the site, set out a £1bn redevelopment plan on Wednesday.
Their 20-year plan for the site they have renamed Stone Hill Park includes 2,500 homes, a sports village, 200 acres of manufacturing units with 4,000 jobs, and a film production studio.
Under the proposals, a 200-acre park would be created with the former runway as a centrepiece.
In response to protesters' calls for the site to remain an airport, Ray Mallon, a spokesman for the owners, said: "My answer to them was simple. This airport has had more comebacks than Frank Sinatra."
He also accused Mr Mackinlay and North Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale of making "inaccurate statements" to the public, saying a "major impediment in the way of a CPO" was a lack of funding.
"It's now time for them to move on and stop wasting time and further public money."
But Thanet council's UKIP leader Christopher Wells said there was a group of people in office who will do everything they can to reopen Manston.
Conservative MP Mr Mackinlay said the CPO was supported by the government and the prime minister had taken an interest too.
Plans to reopen the airport have been put forward by US investment firm RiverOak, who Mr Mackinlay said remained "key players".
Campaign group, Supporters of Manston Airport, believe the airport failed because it had aimed at the passenger market but they believe it could succeed as a cargo airport.
Raheem Wilks, the 19-year-old brother of Leeds United's Mallik Wilks, was attacked near Too Sharps on Gathorne Terrace, Harehills, on 26 January.
A 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, while two men aged 28 and one aged 30 are being held on suspicion of assisting an offender.　
All four remain in custody for questioning.
Jaydn Manners, 23, of Louis Street, Chapeltown, and Keal Richards, 21, of Francis Street, Chapeltown, have both been remanded in custody charged with murder.
A 31-year-old woman arrested in Castleford on suspicion of conspiracy to murder has been released on bail.
Police were called to the street at 13:20 GMT and found Mr Wilks seriously injured. He was taken to hospital but was later confirmed dead.
A post-mortem examination revealed Mr Wilks died as a result of a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Southern operator Govia Thameslink (GTR) said it would implement a new role for conductors from 21 August, with guards no longer opening and closing doors.
The RMT union has said their current role is vital for safety reasons.
Members will be asked to walk out on Tuesday 21 June.
The union's southeast organiser Paul Cox said: "It is not just about operating doors. Conductors will save lives in the event of emergency."
Southern said the proposed strike would have a significant effect on services, with no service on many routes and only a limited service on others.
It has repeated its call for the RMT to engage in talks.
Meanwhile, rail minister Claire Perry has said the recent high level of sickness absence by Southern conductors amounted to a "work to rule", which was "outrageous and unfair".
Last month GTR said illness rates had doubled since the first strike in April.
But the RMT insisted there was "no unofficial action" and blamed staff shortages on "gross mismanagement".
"Trying to lump the blame onto hard-working, frontline staff, who take the full force of passenger anger for cancellations and delays, is cowardly and despicable," it added.
Performance figures released by operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) showed fewer than one in seven Southern mainline services arrived on time on Monday.
Shares in GTR's parent company Go-Ahead fell 12% on Tuesday after it issued a profit warning, citing "very challenging performance and industrial relations environments".
GTR is in dispute with the RMT and ASLEF unions on three issues: the role of guards, the introduction of longer driver-only trains and closure of some ticket offices.
The operator insisted there would be no job losses or pay cuts.
The artwork, Roses In a Glass Vase, was painted by the wartime prime minister and shows flowers he picked at his country home, Chartwell, in Kent.
It was given to the Gone with the Wind actress during a supper he hosted in 1951 to celebrate the birthday of her husband, actor Sir Laurence Olivier.
The painting is on display at Sotheby's from Monday.
Expected to fetch £100,000, it is part of a sale in September of a collection of Leigh's belongings including jewellery, couture, books, furniture, porcelain and art.
Leigh, who kept the painting on the wall opposite her bed, said it gave her "the determination to go on".
She said: "Whenever I feel particularly low or depressed I look at those three rosebuds.
"The thought and the friendship in the painting is such a great encouragement to me."
Sotheby's said the auction would see the spotlight fall on the screen star's private side.
Frances Christie, head of Sotheby's modern and post-war British art department, said the painting revealed a deep and long-lasting friendship.
"Churchill's gift of a still life or roses to Vivien speaks volumes about the respect and regard he felt for her," she said.
"Theirs was not a passing acquaintance, but a friendship that endured for more than 20 years."
She said Churchill inspired Leigh to begin painting herself and the pair shared "mutual solace in an activity where they found a refuge from all the trials and tribulations of daily life."
Leigh and Churchill met in 1936 on a film set when she was a little-known actress and Churchill was an established politician.
They remained friends until he died in 1965. Leigh died two years later.
A party of six climbers, three men and three women, were caught up in the avalanche on Bidean Nam Bian, at about 14:00.
One male member of the party raised the alarm.
The sixth climber, a woman, is in a serious condition in hospital in Fort William.
It is understood the party were descending from a peak on the south side of the valley, when the slope they were on broke away.
The climbers were close to Church Door Buttress when the snow slope broke away.
Five of them were swept down the mountain and engulfed by ice and snow.
One female climber was recovered alive but has serious head injuries.
John Grieve, leader of Glencoe mountain rescue team, which co-ordinated the search, said the alarm was initially raised by two climbers - who were not part of the group of six - when they discovered one of the casualties lying in the snow.
But, soon after, police were contacted by the male survivor from the climbing party, who told them more people were missing.
Mr Grieve, who is in Spain and was not part of the search, said: "The first call to police was from two other people who had been on the mountain; they found someone lying next to where they were climbing.
"So, the assumption was that it was just one casualty, but it became clear that there were others missing when they heard from the man who is safe."
Prayers are to be held for those who were killed and injured during Sunday service at the nearby St Munda's Church.
Reverend Moira Herkes said it was the worst accident to happen in the area for many years.
"It is very distressing, because people come here for pleasure and when something like this happens it hurts everyone involved," she said.
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said it was an "appalling tragedy".
"Our immediate thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who have been lost," he said.
"To lose four people from a party of six is truly devastating.
"The Scottish government will provide any support that we can and I would like to thank the police and mountain rescue team for their efforts in these difficult circumstances."
Anyone who is concerned about relatives climbing in the area are advised to contact Northern Constabulary's control room on 01463 715555.
Perfect Strangers was made as a test run during preparations for making a feature-length romantic comedy, Journey Bound.
The 26-minute short will be given its first Scottish screening at Glasgow's Southside Film Festival next month.
Perfect Strangers was shot at locations on Rannoch Moor.
The comedy was made by Bafta-nominated director Ryan Hendrick and David Newman.
With actors Kenny Boyle and Clare Sheerin in the lead roles, the short features music from Scottish-based singer-songwriter Jack Henderson's debut album.
Hendrick said: "We are thrilled that our little film is finally returning home for its first Scottish screening after a successful few months on the festival circuit.
"We were so incredibly lucky to be able to take Perfect Strangers to the Cannes Film Festival, it has opened so many doors for us."
Perfect Strangers tells the story of two people stranded in the Scottish Highlands on Christmas Eve who team up to try and get home in time for Christmas.
It was shot on Rannoch Moor over five days days last winter during preparations for Journey Bound, a forthcoming comedy road movie starring Ford Kiernan, Clare Grogan, Sylvester McCoy and Rutger Hauer.
Hendrick said: "It is crucial to enable independent filmmakers working with very little resources to get their films out there.
"It's incredibly challenging on the festival circuit and you always receive far more rejections than you do acceptance notices."
He added: "Independent film festivals like the Southside Film Festival need to be supported."
In its second estimate of the health of the economy, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also says business investment grew by more than expected.
That was up 0.9% following the Brexit vote, against the second quarter, although it was down on last year.
There will be a third estimate of the figures in December.
"Investment by businesses held up well in the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum, though it's likely most of those investment decisions were taken before polling day," Darren Morgan, an ONS statistician, said.
"That, coupled with growing consumer spending fuelled by rising household income, and a strong performance in the dominant service industries, kept the economy expanding broadly in line with its historic average."
The figures cover the period from July to the end of September and the ONS said the growth in gross domestic product suggested limited effect so far from the EU referendum at the end of June.
However, it is expected that the effects of the Brexit vote and the fall in sterling will begin to feed through in the coming months.
The Office for Budget Responsibility, which provides independent economic forecasts and analysis, said on Wednesday that it expected the economy to grow by 1.4% in 2017, down from the 2.2% it predicted in March. It cut its forecast for growth in 2018 to 1.7%, down from 2.1%.
The "near-term strength of the economy after the Brexit vote is unlikely to persist", said Samuel Tombs chief UK economist with Pantheon Macroeconomics.
"The outlook for stagnation in real incomes next year, as inflation rockets, points to a sharp slowdown in consumer spending growth ahead," Mr Tombs added.
The British economy continued to grow following the vote to leave the EU and so has business investment, although there had been fears that both would be hit immediately by the decision to leave the EU.
It is the huge services sector that kept the economy growing. Services increased by 0.8%, driven by a continued strong performance on the British High Street as sales continue to boom. But all the others sectors of the economy, manufacturing, agriculture and construction, are contracting.
It is however the business investment figures which are the most encouraging. They show investment is continuing to grow, despite fears that businesses would slam on the brakes following the Brexit vote, if only temporarily, because they were uncertain about what the future holds.
The ONS says business investment held up well after the vote to leave the EU, although it also added that most decisions on investment in this period were probably taken before the referendum result was known.
Fifty Labour MPs defied Jeremy Corbyn's orders and backed single market membership in a vote on Thursday.
Three of them were subsequently sacked as frontbenchers.
The BBC understands the rebels think up to 90 Labour MPs back their cause and they could work with Tory MPs who also want a "soft Brexit" in future votes.
Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both support leaving the EU's internal market as a way of bringing to an end the free movement of EU citizens into the UK.
Labour's manifesto called for the benefits of the single market and customs union to be retained after Brexit.
But some MPs believe this is virtually indistinguishable from the government's position, and want continued membership or access on equivalent terms, without which they say businesses will suffer and jobs will be lost.
Three shadow ministers - Ruth Cadbury, Catherine West and Andy Slaughter - were sacked by Mr Corbyn for defying his orders to abstain in a vote on an amendment to the Queen's Speech, tabled by Labour's Chuka Umunna, which pledged to remain in the single market and customs union.
Stephen Doughty, one of the 50 rebels, told the Guardian the fight was far from over.
"The key issue going forward is the extent to which Conservative MPs who have significant disquiet about the direction of Theresa May's hard Brexit are willing to put their money where their mouth is and stand up for membership of the single market and customs union and other issues in key legislation coming forward."
Another rebel MP told the BBC that there were up to 40 more colleagues who felt the same way but who had decided to sit on their hands in Thursday's vote because it was "premature" and Tory MPs were unlikely to have backed a vote that might have toppled the government.
They would instead "take smaller steps - one thing at a time" and seek to co-ordinating their efforts with the Lib Dems, SNP and likely Tory rebels.
Parliament will be asked to approve eight Brexit-related bills over the next two years, framing new policies on trade, customs procedures and immigration.
Another Labour MP, Wes Streeting, told Radio 4's World at One he was "surprised and disappointed" at Jeremy Corbyn's position, as he did not believe the party could "achieve its objectives of tariff-free, barrier-free access to the single market and a jobs first Brexit, outside of membership of the single market".
There has also been a backlash against Mr Umunna in the wake of the vote, with some senior figures suggesting he had caused unnecessary division at a time when Labour is on a high.
"I just felt that given we'd come out of the general election with such an unexpected result, and there's a real euphoria, to try and divide Labour MPs a week and a half in was a little disappointing," deputy leader Tom Watson said.
And Stephen Kinnock, who like many Labour MPs did not take part in the vote, said the decision to fire the rebels was "regrettable" but "had to be done".
Mr Umunna's amendment was defeated by 322 votes to 101 as most Labour MPs did not take part.
A separate amendment proposed by shadow chancellor John McDonnell - which called for Brexit to deliver the "exact same benefits" as the EU single market and customs union - was defeated by 323 to 297.
The UK is due to leave the EU on 29 May 2019, although negotiations on the terms of exit have just begun.
About 150 people attended the auction at The Coliseum, Ceredigion Museum, as more than 200 signs went under the hammer.
Chalybeate Street raised the most, with an estate agent paying £500.
The signs were replaced as part of an £800,000 scheme to improve the look of the Welsh seaside town.
The exact figure raised will be counted and confirmed by the Friends of Ceredigion Museum group on Tuesday.
President Bronislaw Komorowski said Poland would start talks with the US to finalise the multibillion contract.
The move follows reports that Russia has deployed missiles in its exclave of Kaliningrad, which borders Poland.
Russia's annexation of Crimea last year and its support for rebels in eastern Ukraine have caused great concern among Nato states, notably in Eastern Europe.
Russia denies accusations by Nato that it is arming the rebels and sending troops into Ukraine.
The Patriot is an advanced missile system intended to defend against aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles.
"For the armed forces' technical modernisation, and the Polish armed forces' resilience, to be effective, the so-called anti-missile shield... had to become the priority of priorities", President Komorowski said on Tuesday.
He added that regional security had worsened because of the conflict in Ukraine.
Warsaw wants to buy the Patriots because it is concerned about Moscow placing missiles in Kaliningrad that borders northern Poland, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw reports.
Poland currently has no defence against such weapons.
The missile deal - which could be worth about $7bn (£4.7bn) - is the largest in Polish history, our correspondent says.
It is part of Poland's plans to spend $35bn to modernise its military over the next eight years.
Poland also plans to buy helicopters, submarines and armoured personnel carriers.
The report, for NHS England, looked at the collapse of an out-sourcing contract to deliver adult community services in Cambridgeshire.
UnitingCare, which was owned by two local NHS Trusts, ended in December.
The report also questioned the ability of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to handle large contracts.
"The current approach of complete delegation to CCGs to enter into large complex novel contracts without the need to provide any assurance to NHS England should be reviewed," it said.
The review found both the UnitingCare and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group failed to take account of the fact that, because UnitingCare was not an NHS organisation, it would be liable for VAT - at a cost of £5m a year.
It also says the contract, which took effect on 1 April last year, "should have been delayed" because it was not ready to go live and there was not "a finally agreed value of the contract for the first year".
It adds that commissioners underestimated the cost of delivering community services.
The report says: "The CCG could not be confident that this element of cost was correctly captured in its financial envelope.
"As a consequence the CCG was not able to demonstrate to the bidders that the envelope was reconcilable to current expenditure levels."
Labour MP for Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner, said: "Forcing the NHS into this crazy contract culture has cost a fortune and is failing patients.
"Every page of this report is littered with examples of confusion and muddle, with conflicts of interest, and fundamental issues like who pays the VAT left unresolved."
A spokesman for NHS England said the review contained "useful initial lessons to inform how the NHS approaches similar contracts in future".
The crash happened near Hatfield, in Hertfordshire, shortly before 07:00 BST on Sunday.
The Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit tweeted the driver was "OK this time" but warned people to avoid swerving for wildlife. The duck died in the crash.
"A duck's life is far less valuable than yours," police said.
Granted independence from France in 1960, Togo has struggled to build a stable country and economy.
The country has gained notoriety as a transit point for ivory poached elsewhere in the region. Poaching has risen in recent years across the continent, where well-armed criminal gangs kill elephants for tusks and rhino for their horns, before shipping them to Asia for use in ornaments and supposed medicine.
Togo is one of the world's top five producers of phosphates, which are used in fertilisers, but remains poor and dependent on foreign aid.
Population 6.3 million
Area 56,785 sq km (21,925 sq miles)
Languages French (official), local languages
Major religions Indigenous beliefs, Christianity, Islam
Life expectancy 56 years (men), 59 years (women)
Currency CFA (Communaute Financiere Africaine) franc
President: Faure Gnassingbe Eyadema
Faure Gnassingbe Eyadema succeeded his father, who died in 2005 after ruling the country with an iron fist for 38 years.
The military installed Faure Gnassingbe as president, but following intense domestic and international pressure he called elections. Hundreds died challenging his victory in those polls.
Gnassingbe has won two more elections, in 2010 and 2015. Both were decried by the opposition, but the European Union, Togo's leading nternational lender, said the 2015 election "went off calmly, confirming the Togolese people's attachment to democracy".
The African Union and regional bloc ECOWAS also said the vote was free and transparent.
Opposition groups have protested against changes to the electoral law which they said further favoured the governing coalition.
Impunity for crimes against journalists has created a "tense and illiberal" media environment, US-based Freedom House reports.
Radio is the most popular medium, particularly in rural areas. The main TV station is government-owned Television Togolaise. The government also operates Togo-Presse daily.
Private media have proliferated. There are dozens of commercial and community radios and weekly newspapers, as well as a handful of private TV stations.
But many private media firms suffer from shaky finances and lag behind state-owned rivals in attracting advertising revenue.
Some key events in Togo's history:
15-17th centuries - Ewe clans from Nigeria and the Ane from Ghana and Ivory Coast settle in region already occupied by Kwa and Voltaic peoples. In the 1700s, however, the coastal areas are occupied by Danes.
1884 - German protectorate of Togoland established, forced labour used to develop plantations. Germans lose Togoland to British and French forces in 1914, and in 1922 the western part of the country is handed to Britain while France is given the eastern area by a mandate from the League of Nations.
1960 - Independence.
1967 - Gnassingbe Eyadema seizes power in bloodless coup, political parties dissolved. A decade later Eyadema is elected as president as the sole candidate in the first parliamentary polls since 1967. He is re-elected in 1986, 1998 and 2003.
1992 - New constitution approved. In 1993 Eyadema dissolves government, sparking protests and fatal clashes with police. Thousands flee to neighbouring states. European Union breaks ties with government.
2004 - European Union restores partial diplomatic relations.
2005 - President Gnassingbe Eyadema dies, aged 69. The military appoints his son Faure as president in a move condemned as a coup. Under international pressure Faure stands down and agrees to hold presidential elections, which he wins although the opposition condemn it as rigged and it is followed by deadly street violence between rival supporters.
2006 - Government and opposition sign an accord providing for the participation of opposition parties in a transitional government. The next year, the European Union restores full economic cooperation after a 14-year suspension, citing Togo's successful multi-party elections.
2012 - Clashes as demonstrators gather in Lome to protest against reforms to the electoral code that favour the ruling party. The next year, the ruling party wins two-thirds of parliamentary seats in elections.
Time Warner, owner of CNN and Cartoon Network, made the announcement in its quarterly earnings report.
Chief executive Jeff Bewkes said the company was committed to "supporting and developing new platforms".
The company also raised its full-year earnings forecast to $5.35-$5.45 per share, up from $5.30-$5.40.
Profit for the quarter fell from $951m (£714m) to $971m.
Time Warner, the second-largest cable provider in the US, has been fighting to attract younger viewers as more move away from buying cable subscription services in favour of cheaper streaming services.
The company launched its own steaming service HBO Now last year and it has tried to attract viewers with "binge-watching" marathons of select television shows.
Under the terms of the Hulu deal, Time Warner's television unit, Turner - which includes TNT, TBS, CNN and Cartoon Network - will be available live and on-demand on Hulu's new live-streaming service, which launched next year.
"The Hulu investment is not a surprise," said Matthew Harrigan, an analyst at Wunderlich Securities.
"They want to ensure that the Turner networks have the broadest possible distribution without really compromising the traditional cable, satellite and telco channels," Mr Harrigan said.
Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox and Comcast already own stakes in Hulu. Time Warner did not disclose the details of the purchase price, but reports by the tech website ReCode suggest it could be close to $580m.
Revenue for the Turner unit climbed 6.5% during the quarter and HBO, which hosts popular shows such as Game of Thrones and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, saw 2% revenue growth.
Time Warner Cable completed a merger with Charter Communications earlier this year.
In a joint statement, the pair acknowledged their relationship had been volatile.
"Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love," it read.
Lawyers for Heard filed a motion on Tuesday to dismiss a temporary restraining order against Depp.
News of the divorce settlement came just a day before a hearing regarding the restraining order was due to begin.
The temporary order had ordered Depp not to contact Heard, and stay 100 yards away from her, after she accused him of striking her and throwing a mobile phone during a fight earlier this year.
The Hollywood star, 53, had always denied abuse allegations made by his former wife.
Heard, 30, filed for divorce in May and obtained the temporary restraining order against Depp a few days later.
The couple, who were married for just under 18 months, also came to a financial settlement as part of their divorce.
Unconfirmed reports put the value of the settlement between $7 million (£5.4 million) and $7.7 million (£5.9 million).
"Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm," the statement continued.
It said Heard would be donating proceeds from the divorce settlement to an undisclosed charity.
Neither of the actors said they would comment further on the case.
Depp has two children from a previous relationship with French singer and model Vanessa Paradis.
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The 29-year-old spent last season with Championship side Fulham, for whom he played 39 times, before being released.
"To get back into the Championship is what we're looking to do," O'Hara told the club website. "I want to win trophies and with this squad I feel we can mount a challenge."
Gillingham, who beat Southend in their opening game, host Bury on Saturday.
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The 25-year-old daughter of musician and campaigner Bob Geldof was found dead at her home in Kent on Monday.
Police said at the time that her death was being treated as "non-suspicious but unexplained and sudden".
The toxicology tests could take "several weeks" to come through, police said on Wednesday.
"Officers continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death in order to compile a report for the coroner," they added in a statement.
Kent County Council has said it will make "a decision on whether there needs to be an inquest" based on the final results of the post-mortem.
Geldof, who was a writer, TV presenter and model, died on Monday.
Officers had been called to the home she shared with her husband, singer Thomas Cohen, and their two young children following "a report of concern for the welfare of a woman". Geldof was pronounced dead at the scene.
The news of her death was met by shock and grief from friends and family.
In a statement issued on Monday night, Bob Geldof said: "She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.
"Writing 'was' destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?"
Geldof's elder sister, Fifi Trixibelle, also paid tribute on Tuesday with a post on Instagram that read: "My beautiful baby sister.... Gone but never forgotten. I love you Peaches x."
Cohen, lead singer of the rock band SCUM, added: "My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra.
"I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts everyday. We shall love her forever."
Actress Susan Sarandon, singers Boy George and Lily Allen, and TV presenter Davina McCall all offered condolences.
Irish President Michael D Higgins extended "my deepest sympathies to Bob Geldof and his family on the sudden and untimely death of his daughter".
President Higgins, who was due to meet Bob Geldof this week during a state visit to the UK, said his thoughts were with the family.
"This is such a difficult cross to bear for any family and all of our thoughts are with Peaches' family and friends at this time. Sabina and I were due to meet Bob Geldof while on the state visit and we are thinking of him at this time of immense loss," he added.
Also among those to pay tribute was Michelle Mone, founder of underwear firm Ultimo, who employed Geldof as a brand ambassador.
She called her "an incredible young woman" and said their relationship remained good despite Geldof being dropped by the company in 2010 after allegations about her taking drugs appeared in newspapers.
"I really did respect her and every time I met her I just felt quite proud of her because she had managed to turn her life around and seemed very happy," Mone told BBC Radio 5 live.
Geldof was 11 when her own mother died.
TV presenter Paula Yates died of a drug overdose in September 2000. In September 2012 Geldof said she had not been able to come to terms with her mother's death for several years.
Geldof's final tweet on Sunday was a picture of her as a child in her mother's arms, with the message: "Me and my mum."
Her last column for Mother and Baby magazine was published posthumously on Tuesday.
"Right now, life is good," she wrote. "And being a mum is the best part of it."
Government forces say they have made a tactical retreat from the centre of Sangin.
A spokesman for Helmand's governor confirmed the district police and governor's headquarters were now in militant hands.
Almost a quarter of British troops killed during the UK's combat mission in Afghanistan died defending Sangin.
Hundreds of members of the Afghan security forces died there in recent fighting.
Separately, at least nine local policemen were killed in an "insider" attack in Kunduz in the north early on Thursday.
A guard who officials say was linked to the Taliban reportedly gave access to insurgents at a security checkpoint located on the Kunduz-Kabul highway. The attackers took weapons and ammunition with them.
The Taliban already control large chunks of Helmand but the fall of Sangin underlines the security challenge facing the Afghan government and its Western allies.
Sangin's capture shows the Taliban's growing strength in the south and it has symbolic significance for the US and Nato, which lost more soldiers there than in any other district in Afghanistan.
Since security responsibility was handed from Nato-led troops to Afghan forces in 2013, hundreds of Afghan security forces have lost their lives defending the district.
There are now two possibilities. Afghan troops, with the help of US special forces and aerial bombing, might try to recapture Sangin, following a pattern seen elsewhere.
Or the government will leave the city to the Taliban - as they have done with a few other districts in Helmand, a centre of the insurgency - and focus on defending the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the insurgents had captured Sangin and "key outposts" overnight. Taliban forces had already surrounded the district headquarters.
A spokesman for the Afghan defence ministry said troops had been pulled back to their main garrison on the orders of the army chief of staff.
Reports say foreign forces have begun bombarding the area, which has been fiercely fought over for more than a decade.
On the road to the crucial Kajaki dam, Sangin was the scene of heavy British and US military casualties before Nato combat forces left Afghanistan in 2014.
They will travel to the European country in June after an invitation from German President Joachim Gauck.
This will be the Queen's seventh time in Germany - her first was in 1965 and the last in 2004. In 2000, she opened the new British embassy in Berlin.
She has been on four previous state visits and two official visits.
Buckingham Palace said in a short statement: "The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, will make a state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany from 24 to 26 June.
"Her Majesty and His Royal Highness are visiting at the invitation of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck."
Mr Gauck and his partner, Daniela Schadt, were guests of the Queen and Prince Philip at a lunch at Buckingham Palace in November 2012.
Mr Gauck, a human-rights campaigner and former East German dissident, became president in March 2012.
Cardy Construction has granted outline planning permission for 850 homes on the Brooke Peninsula in Lowestoft.
But some opponents say they will contest Waveney District Council's decision to back the £150m scheme.
The Lowestoft Harbour Maritime Businesses Group (LHMBG) said the site should be used for industry.
Cardy's scheme for the former Brook Marine boatyard on Lake Lothing includes such facilities as a marina a primary school but would mean a smaller county wildlife site and the loss of a playing field.
The LHMBG said small businesses currently using the site were only being given short-term leases and they would have to move on.
John Wylson, chairman of the LHMBG, said: "Landowners have been holding out because it's more profitable to build housing than to rent to business and this is bad news for the town's future."
Mr Wylson said it was supporting a residents group which had informed the council of a possible legal challenge.
But Neil Connolly, a representative for Cardy, said: "The site has been in decline for a long time and there simply isn't demand from large businesses to move there.
"The stilts is an exciting way of bringing something innovative to a larger housing project, although the site has never flooded."
David Ritchie, Conservative cabinet member for planning at the council, said: "This development is one piece of a large jigsaw which should ensure industry and housing can thrive on Lake Lothing.
"There is scope for business use on neighbouring sites, such as the former Jeld Wenn factory.
"The wildlife site will be taken into proper management, while the playing field can be moved to the former Sanyo site."
Cardy Construction said it hoped the first phase of the 10-year development could begin within a year following a detailed planning application.
It has been another season of domestic dominance for Bayern, who wrapped up their 27th championship with three games to go with a thumping win.
Ancelotti's side have lost just twice in the league all season and were never troubled by out-of-sorts Wolfsburg.
Wolfsburg can still be relegated.
From the minute Austrian left-back David Alaba fired Bayern ahead from a free-kick, the destination of three points and the title was not in doubt.
Poland striker Robert Lewandowski scored twice before half-time to make the second 45 minutes a formality, while Arjen Robben added a trademark shot after cutting in from the right.
Wolfsburg captain Luiz Gustavo was sent-off against his former club late on and had to be restrained by team-mates after sarcastically applauding the referee, before Thomas Muller tapped in a fifth.
There was still time for Josh Kimmich to drill in a sixth and leave the home side just a point above the relegation zone.
If any German sides thought that Pep Guardiola's departure last summer may have led to a changing of the guard, Ancelotti has been ruthless in proving them wrong.
A 6-0 demolition of Werder Bremen opened the campaign, and another one in Wolfsburg bookended a superb season.
They have scored 79 times while conceding just 17, comprehensively leading the league on both fronts.
Saturday's win was the fifth time they had scored five or more.
Ancelotti is now the first manager to win titles in four of 'the big five' leagues after adding Bayern's championship to honours won with AC Milan, Chelsea and Paris St-Germain.
The Italian said his first Bundesliga title was a "fantastic experience" and paid thanks to a "fantastic club."
"I am lucky to be here with these great players and the fans who have supported us so fantastically all season," said the Italian.
"We deserved the title, we played nice football."
With Champions League titles won with both Milan and Real Madrid, the next step for Bayern and Ancelotti will be a sixth European crown.
Despite their control of the Bundesliga, Bayern have won just two Champions League trophies this century.
Ancelotti has faced questions over his future after losing to Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals, followed by defeat by Borussia Dortmund in the German Cup semi-finals on Wednesday.
However, he added: "Now is the time to celebrate and after that, we will prepare for the new season as best as possible."
Wolfsburg were runners-up in 2014-15, but lost playmaker Kevin de Bruyne to Manchester City for £55m that summer.
They reached the Champions League quarter-finals last season, taking a 2-0 first-leg lead over Real Madrid, but are now facing relegation.
They have three games left - away at Eintracht Frankfurt and Hamburg and at home to Borussia Monchengladbach - and are on their third coach of the season in Andries Jonker.
Match ends, VfL Wolfsburg 0, FC Bayern München 6.
Second Half ends, VfL Wolfsburg 0, FC Bayern München 6.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Robin Knoche (VfL Wolfsburg).
Attempt saved. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Rafinha with a cross.
Foul by Juan Bernat (FC Bayern München).
Vieirinha (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! VfL Wolfsburg 0, FC Bayern München 6. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Arjen Robben with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Vieirinha (VfL Wolfsburg) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Maximilian Arnold.
Foul by Kingsley Coman (FC Bayern München).
Riechedly Bazoer (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Joshua Kimmich tries a through ball, but Thomas Müller is caught offside.
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Koen Casteels tries a through ball, but Riechedly Bazoer is caught offside.
Goal! VfL Wolfsburg 0, FC Bayern München 5. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) hits the right post with a right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich following a set piece situation.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Paul-Georges Ntep replaces Daniel Didavi.
Second yellow card to Luiz Gustavo (VfL Wolfsburg).
Renato Sanches (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luiz Gustavo (VfL Wolfsburg).
Foul by Juan Bernat (FC Bayern München).
Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Daniel Didavi (VfL Wolfsburg) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Maximilian Arnold with a cross.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Renato Sanches replaces Thiago Alcántara.
Foul by Kingsley Coman (FC Bayern München).
Vieirinha (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Thiago Alcántara tries a through ball, but Kingsley Coman is caught offside.
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Didavi (VfL Wolfsburg).
Foul by Rafinha (FC Bayern München).
Jannes Horn (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Koen Casteels tries a through ball, but Daniel Didavi is caught offside.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Rafinha replaces Philipp Lahm.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Yannick Gerhardt.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Juan Bernat replaces Mats Hummels.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Paul Seguin replaces Ricardo Rodríguez.
Goal! VfL Wolfsburg 0, FC Bayern München 4. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) with an attempt from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich with a cross following a corner.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Riechedly Bazoer.
Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mario Gomez (VfL Wolfsburg).
NHS guidelines say patients should have an initial appointment within 18 weeks, but in Leeds the average is about 83.
Extra funding has been secured to address concerns about a lack of support for those on the waiting list.
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) said it hoped to meet its target by October 2018.
The Leeds GIC is one of seven adult clinics in England.
In 2015/16 it received 533 referrals from GPs of which 370 came from outside of Yorkshire and The Humber, predominantly from the North West where there are no clinics.
LYPFT said it had introduced a new screening process to identify those unsuitable for the service more quickly and is recruiting peer support workers in West Yorkshire and Manchester to support those waiting for a consultation.
It has also secured "significant investment" from NHS England to increase staffing capacity to a level it says will allow it to handle 40 extra assessments a month.
Jackie Kernaghan, 21, from York, has been on the waiting list for Leeds GIC since August 2014.
She said the wait was both "frustrating and dangerous" for transgender people.
"You are very much left alone," she said.
"There's no contact to see how you are doing, it's very much that you are on the waiting list and you just have to wait.
"A lot of transgender people are in very vulnerable positions that can only be aggravated by a long waiting period."
Other GICs have also seen a similar increase in demand.
At Sheffield GIC referrals have risen from 71 in 2010 to 350 in 2015, while the West London GIC, said referrals had risen on average 15% each year to 1,892 in 2015/16.
Andy Weir, from LYPFT, said through increasing capacity it expected to see a "significant drop" in waiting times and hoped the introduction of peer support workers would "ensure a more proactive period of support and signposting for service users".
Scottish Engineering's latest quarterly review also found a drop in employment levels.
The industry body said uncertainty surrounding the Brexit vote was one factor "exacerbating negative trading conditions" for firms.
It said the fall in sterling had added to costs for Scottish businesses.
Order levels were negative for the eighth quarter in a row, according to the review. A total of 45% of firms said their orders were down, while 32% said they remained static and 23% reported orders had gone up.
Almost half of firms (48%) said their output volumes had fallen in the past three months, while 21% reported an increase and 31% said they remained the same.
Staffing levels also dipped "considerably" in the third quarter of this year, according to responses from companies.
Scottish Engineering chief executive Bryan Buchan said: "We appear to have been hit on all fronts.
"The potential benefits of a weaker pound for exports have yet to be realised and our figures show there has been substantial downturn in export orders."
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, he added: "It would good to see a very clear strategy on the part of the UK government for negotiating the terms of trade and I really think that has to be accelerated.
"If we are into a situation where we have to have two years worth of trade negotiations then that will stifle growth."
The changes to the branches in Montgomery, Llanidloes and Llanfair Caereinion came into effect on Monday.
Residents who have collected thousands of names for a petition objecting to the move protested outside the Llanfair Caereinion branch.
NatWest said the changes were a response to falling customer demand.
Roger Eagles, who lives in Llanfair Caereinion and took part in the protest, said: "I think it's dreadful.
"I'm really, really angry for myself and for my community as well.
"We're a wonderful community here and they will take the heart out and there will be nothing here. We need to keep the banks open. We're fighting for everything.
"This is just the start. I'm sure they think it's the start of cuts they're going to do - this is the start of us protesting and keeping the town alive."
The new opening hours are 1000-1400 in Llanfair Caereinion on a Tuesday and Friday; 1000-1400 in Llanidloes on a Monday and Thursday; and 1000-1400 in Montgomery on a Wednesday.
Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates said several NatWest customers had turned up at the Llanfair Caereinion branch during the protest not realising it was now closed on Mondays.
"I think what annoyed me at first was the way they [NatWest] went about it. They stuck a notice up in the bank - that was the first I knew about it," he said.
Mr Bates said a copy of the bank's charter was on the door of the bank which included "making banking easy", "helping when you need us", "supporting the communities we work in" and "listening" to customers.
"They've not listened to us. We've met them and they've ignored us," he said.
A NatWest spokesperson said: "Our sub-branches at Llanidloes, Llanfair Caereinion and Montgomery have all seen a sustained fall in customer demand but, rather than close these branches, we are keen to maintain a presence in all three towns.
"The difficult decision to reduce the hours in these branches has not been taken lightly and we welcomed the opportunity recently to meet with local interested parties to explain the basis for those decisions.
"In addition to the branch service, we offer a full Welsh language telephone banking service between 9am and 5pm and are looking to expand this service later in the year."
There have been attempts to allow richer countries to cut their emissions by paying for the development of carbon lowering schemes in poorer nations. However, the effectiveness of these schemes has been questioned, with research indicating that some have created more emissions than they have actually curtailed.
Of greater significance have been the so called cap and trade schemes, at regional, national and international levels. They work by setting an overall limit or cap on the amount of emissions that are allowed from significant sources of carbon, including the power industry, automotive and air travel.
Governments then issue permits up to the agreed limit, and these are either given free or auctioned to companies in the sector. If a company curbs its own carbon significantly it can trade the excess permits on the carbon market for cash. If it's not able to limit its emissions it may have to buy extra permits.
Schemes are up and running in the European Union and in several regions of the United States, but attempts at a national scheme in the US foundered in the Senate in 2010.
Cap and trade schemes have been very effective in tackling environmental problems in the past, with trading in sulphur dioxide permits helping to limit acid rain in the US. The big attraction for governments concerned with stemming CO2 is that carbon trading is much easier to implement than expensive direct regulations, and unpopular carbon taxes.
If regional cap and trade schemes can be joined up globally, with a strong carbon price, it could be a relatively pain-free and speedy method to help the world decarbonise.
Creating a market in something with no intrinsic value such as carbon dioxide is very difficult. You need to promote scarcity - and you have to strictly limit the right to emit so that it can be traded. In the world's biggest carbon trading scheme, the EU ETS, political interference has created gluts of permits.
These have often been given away for free, which has led to a collapse in the price and no effective reductions in emissions. Another problem is that offset permits, gained from paying for pollution reductions in poorer countries, are allowed to be traded as well. The importance of these permits in reducing carbon emissions is questionable and the effectiveness of the overall cap and trade scheme is also reduced.
There are two basic options. Carbon taxes and direct regulations. Taxes on energy content or production are in place in many European countries. Taxes exist in India, Japan and South Korea and they have been imposed then repealed in Australia.
Other governments have tried to regulate their way to lower emissions. This approach is being tried in the US, where President Obama has imposed a Clean Power Plan on energy producers, designed to reduce emissions from this sector by 32% by 2030.
A report from business advisers PwC said prices could instead rise to between $60 and $70 a barrel in the next few years.
It said this could trigger a rise in capital investment and overall activity levels after the recent downturn.
Industry body Oil and Gas UK said the sector was showing "drive and determination".
The 'Sea Change: Emerging from a downturn' report states: "There is a sense that a balancing of industry fundamentals is approaching which should support a limited oil price recovery.
"And while we are unlikely to see $100 prices returning in the near to medium term at least, a more robust price ($60-$70) should be realised in the next few years.
"But this recovery will be uneven. Moreover, we are unlikely to witness a return to the boom period as prices recover."
It concludes: "Those players that can operate efficiently and profitably in the current environment, while investing in core business areas for future growth, will be the fittest to emerge from the turmoil and most likely reach for the stars."
Oil and Gas UK chief executive Deirdre Michie said the industry had faced "unprecedented challenges".
She said: "There is still much work to be done and this will require the joint efforts of industry, governments, the Treasury and the Oil and Gas Authority."
Officers were called to a property in Hawick's Fisher Avenue at about 16:00 on Wednesday.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said the body of a 45-year-old woman had been found in the property.
A joint investigation between the police and fire service is under way to establish "the full circumstances surrounding this incident".
Rosberg was 0.215 seconds quicker than Hamilton, who complained of a lack of power early in the session.
Hamilton is 23 points behind with five races and a maximum of 125 points still available and needs to beat Rosberg this weekend to revive his title hopes.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was 1.094 seconds behind Rosberg in third.
Mercedes have said they are running their engines in a revised spec, which effectively means a minor loss of performance at certain points of the weekend, following Hamilton's engine failure while leading in Malaysia last weekend.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was fourth fastest, ahead of the two Red Bulls of Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, who used the slower medium tyre to set their times rather than the soft.
The Force Indias of Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez were next, ahead of the McLaren of Fernando Alonso, who was four places and 0.674secs quicker than team-mate Jenson Button despite going off and damaging his car at Spoon Curve.
Alonso was able to get back to the pits and take a full part in the session.
Button was complaining about the balance over the radio, saying: "We've got a lot of work to do."
Haas' Romain Grosjean was the only other driver to crash at arguably Formula 1's best and most demanding track, although Verstappen also ran wide at Spoon.
The Frenchman lost control at the notorious Degner Two corner, where he slid wide and damaged his front wing against the barrier, although he, too, was able to get back to the pits.
The session was run in warm, humid weather, which is expected to continue throughout Friday before rain arrives overnight and could well affect qualifying on Saturday.
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Some 179 British soldiers, who were part of the coalition, died in Iraq.
Mr Corbyn, who is tipped to be the next Labour leader, attended the event on behalf of the Stop the War Coalition.
Mr Corbyn's team said the conference, in Cairo, had not been organised by Stop the War.
But Panorama has discovered the conference communiqué was posted on Stop the War's website and remained on it for many years.
The Cairo Conference was organised by an Egyptian anti-war organisation.
Its 2003 conclusions committed the conference to support "resistance against the occupation forces with all legitimate means, including military struggle".
At the time, Mr Corbyn was on Stop the War's steering committee.
Panorama asked Mr Corbyn whether he had supported the right of Iraqis to attack British soldiers - in line with the conference statement.
A spokesman for the Labour leadership candidate said: "Jeremy was opposed to the Iraq war and to the loss of 179 British soldiers. No lives should have been lost.
"His opposition to war was precisely because he did not wish to put British troops in harm's way, and voted inside Parliament against the war and worked with Stop The War (StWC) outside to stop it happening.
"As for the the Cairo conference, it was a separate organisation from StWC. Publication of its statement does not mean StWC endorsement of it.
"Still less did it mean that all the diverse membership of StWC steering committee agreed with it or were asked to endorse it."
Since he entered Labour's leadership race, Mr Corbyn's foreign policy views and activism have come under intense scrutiny.
Last month, he insisted remarks made in 2009 about Hezbollah and Hamas being his "friends" had been taken out of context.
The Irish News reported that Emma Pengelly, who was co-opted into the assembly seat, was to receive the payment.
She used to work in the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers.
Special advisors are civil servants that are appointed by ministers to work on party political matters.
A DUP spokesperson said: "Emma Pengelly receives a severance payment in accordance with the terms and conditions of her contract of employment.
"Mrs Pengelly will receive her severance payment from her former employer in due course as it is a contractual obligation to resign upon having become identified as an election candidate."
The new MLA will contest the Stormont election scheduled for next May.
While the exact amount has not been published, special advisors who have been in the job at least four years and leave the post under these circumstances are entitled to a severance payment of six months' salary.
Mrs Pengelly's annual salary was just under £92,000. As an MLA she will earn £48,000 a year.
The TUV leader Jim Allister has said Mrs Pengelly should not take the severance payment.
But the conditions have not been as bad as expected with only a small number of schools forced to turn pupils away and only minor disruption to transport.
The Met Office had warned of rain turning to snow as it moved east across the UK, with snow confined to higher ground in Wales.
But the risk of snow and ice remains on Friday.
This may lead to "a risk of disruption" and "difficult driving conditions", the forecaster said.
In its weather warning, the Met Office said some parts of Wales 2-4cm of snow on lower ground and 5-10cm (2-4in) on higher ground. There is a risk of ice on untreated surfaces.
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The A465 Heads of the Valleys Road between the Brynmawr and Ebbw Vale roundabouts saw drivers urged to show caution due to accumulated snow.
Driving conditions have also been described as "hazardous" due to snow on the Rhigos mountain road, while Colonel Road was closed due to the weather at Heol-Y-Felin (Betws) in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.
Meanwhile, Dyfed-Powys Police encouraged walkers to park sensibly around the Storey Arms area of Brecon this weekend as a high volume of visitors is expected for the Fan Dance endurance event at Pen y Fan.
The force said snowfall over the Brecon Beacons and two pre-planned events led to significant disruption and traffic issues on the A470 last January.
Cars parked on the side of the road in the National Park area caused "substantial difficulty" to emergency services vehicles which were called to a three-vehicle crash and created a hazard to pedestrians who had to walk in the road.
Sgt Owen Dillion, of the roads policing unit, said: "Last January, we issued fines to over 100 vehicles parked illegally in one weekend. We really hope not to do the same this year."
Thirty women were elected, compared to 20 in the 2011 assembly elections.
Some were returning MLAs but others, such as Claire Bailey from the Green Party, Jenny Palmer from the UUP and Linda Dillon from Sinn Féin were elected for the first time.
Assembly speaker Mitchel McLaughlin said he was "delighted" by the rise in the number of women elected.
"During my time in office, a number of initiatives attempted to raise the fact that female representation in the assembly failed to reflect the make-up of the wider population, building on the report by the Assembly and Executive Review Committee into "Women in Politics"," he said.
"While we still have a long way to match the 51% of the population who are female, this is nonetheless a significant rate of progress.
"I congratulate all 108 members who were elected but I particularly look forward to the contribution that significant female presence will make."
Former MP Naomi Long returned to frontline politics after her election for the Alliance Party in East Belfast, where she lost her Westminster seat to the DUP last year.
The DUP's Joanne Bunting took the East Belfast seat vacated by former first minister Peter Robinson, who retired last year.
Former agriculture minister Michelle Gildernew, who left the assembly to serve as an MP, is also returning to Stormont after her election for Sinn Féin in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
At the end of the last assembly term, there were 23 women MLAs, some of them had been co-opted.
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Brit Idris Elba won best supporting actor for his role playing a warlord in Beasts of No Nation.
His young co-star Abraham Attah went on to win the best actor award for his first ever role.
Spotlight picked up the best film, director, screenplay and a special recognition for its ensemble cast.
The film is based on the Boston Globe newspapers investigation into child abuse by priests in the city, which became a scandal that was felt around the world.
After collecting the award for best film, director Tom McCarthy said the church still had a long way to go to address the fallout from the abuse for its survivors.
"We have yet to see action. There have been a lot of words but there needs to be action," he said at the award ceremony in Santa Monica.
Elba's role as a ruthless warlord in the Netflix drama Beasts of No Nation has been widely used as an example of the diversity problem for the Academy Awards and its voters after being overlooked in the nominations.
He did not address the controversy, but speaking after his Independent Spirit win, he said: "I am so more proud of being a producer on this film, it wasn't about my performance, it was about us as a team. We were very much a family."
The Independent Spirit Awards honour films with a budget of less than $5m.
The best actress prize went to Brie Larson for Room, the role for which she is widely tipped to win the Oscar.
She was full of praise for the author of Room, Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue, who she called the film's "mom".
Donoghue, who won the best first screenplay award, said she was just planning on "enjoying the day" at Sunday's Oscars, believing she would not win the big prize.
The best supporting actress award went to Mya Taylor, the first trans woman to win at the awards, having starred in the iPhone-shot movie Tangerine.
Collecting the award, she said: "I have had a long journey through 2015 because I had come from almost nothing and then got this role and this movie, and my life just did a total 360."
Speaking to the assembled crowed of film-makers, she added: "There is transgender talent. There's very beautiful transgender talent. So, you better get it out there and put it in your next movie."
Child care worker Syaikhah Izzah Zahrah Al Ansari, 22, was held under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows for detention without trial.
She had been radicalised since 2013 "by online propaganda", a statement said.
She had a "wide network" of contacts, including IS militants, some who had been killed or arrested for terrorism.
"Izzah was intent on joining ISIS (IS) and was actively planning to make her way to Syria, with her young child, to do so," a statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs said.
"She supported ISIS's use of violence to establish and defend its self-declared 'caliphate', and aspired to live in it."
The young woman had been looking for an IS supporter to marry, the ministry said. "She said she would support her husband if he fought for ISIS in Syria as she believed she would reap 'heavenly rewards' if he died in battle."
She had been "actively" posting and sharing pro-IS material online, it said.
Her family, including her parents who were both teachers of the Koran, had been aware that she had become radicalised and planned to travel to Syria.
"They did not alert the authorities. They tried on their own to dissuade her but they were unsuccessful," the statement said.
The ministry said it was the first time a woman had been "detained in Singapore for radicalism". Under the controversial ISA, she can be held for up to two years without trial.
Singapore is increasingly concerned about the spread of Islamist militancy in neighbouring countries. Philippine troops are currently fighting militants occupying a city on the southern island of Mindanao who have pledged allegiance to IS.
In a report on 1 June, the ministry said two Singaporeans were believed to have gone to fight in Syria with their families.
Fourteen more radicalised people had been detained under the ISA since 2015. The ministry said this was a significant rise, compared to 11 cases between 2007-2014.
The majority of Singapore's population are ethnic Chinese but there are large ethnic Malay and Indian communities.
The city-state also has a large migrant worker community. In the same report, it said that 40 Bangladeshi migrant workers and eight Indonesians had also been assessed as radicalised since late 2015. All had been sent home except six who were serving sentences for terrorism financing offences.
In a statement, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore said it would "continue to work hard to inoculate the community against exclusivism and extremism".
It said the young woman's case showed that the "danger of self-radicalisation is very real", through falling "prey to false narratives and teachings on the internet and social media".
The 12 teams will be able to spend £1.9m next year, £2m in 2019 and then £2.1m in 2020.
There has also been an agreement reached that clubs can have two marquee players - up from one - with exemptions for new or returning players as well as some under the age of 21.
The Rugby Football League board will vote on the proposals on Thursday.
"The clubs asked the Rugby Football League to put forward a set of proposals that would help them retain and attract the best players to the competition," said Super League executive director Roger Draper.
"We believe that when you consider all of them together, these changes could make a significant difference to helping clubs attract and retain the best talent in this league and that is something we all are determined to do."
It is below the Australian National Rugby League cap of £4.25m for 2017, while, in rugby union, the English Premiership cap is £7m.
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Wigan Warriors owner Ian Lenagan: "We need the best players playing in our competition and when all of the proposals that were voted through are looked at together, the decisions that were made will provide Super League clubs the opportunity to do that."
Warrington Wolves owner Simon Moran: "If you want the competition to flourish going forward, it is very important that the best talent is kept in our league.
"I thought it was very important that the salary cap did go up and the opportunity is now there with two marquee players available to clubs to bring and retain some of the best talent in the world."
Salford Red Devils owner Marwan Koukash: "I think the decisions that were made are good for the sport and good for the competition and I am delighted with this outcome.
"We need to provide fans with the best entertainment and talent on the field and the decisions give us the opportunity to do that."
About 230,000 households switched away from SSE in the three months to the end of June.
The supplier raised its dual-fuel prices by 6.9% on 28 April.
Separately, Scottish Power said it had lost 100,000 customers in the first six months of 2017. It raised dual-fuel prices by 7.8% in March.
SSE's figures show an acceleration of customers leaving - after losing 210,000 in the whole of the previous year. It blamed a "highly competitive market".
But Scottish Power, which saw customer numbers drop from 5.4 million in the first half of 2016 to 5.3 million in 2017, said its numbers were stable.
"We have still retained more of our customers over the last five years than any other large supplier," said Keith Anderson, Scottish Power's chief corporate officer.
The figures continue the trend that has seen households leaving the big six suppliers, and moving to smaller companies.
Five of the big six have announced price rises this year - with the exception of British Gas, which promised to freeze prices until August.
The biggest price increase was Npower's. It announced a dual fuel rise of 9.8% in March, leading to calls from the regulator for it to justify such increases.
At a rally supporting Hillary Clinton, Mr Obama also urged senior Republicans to formally withdraw their endorsement of Mr Trump as presidential candidate.
Many top Republicans have distanced themselves from Mr Trump over a video in which he boasts of groping women.
Mr Trump accused them of disloyalty.
He was particularly scathing about House Speaker Paul Ryan whom he described as a "weak and ineffective" leader.
Addressing a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday evening, Mr Obama referred to Mr Trump's crude remarks about women, saying: "Now you find a situation in which the guy says stuff that nobody would find tolerable if they were applying for a job at 7-Eleven."
He said: "You don't have to be a husband or a father to say that's not right. You just have to be a decent human being."
Mr Obama questioned how senior Republican politicians could still want Mr Trump to be president.
"The fact is that now you've got people saying: 'We strongly disagree, we really disapprove... but we're still endorsing him.' They still think he should be president, that doesn't make sense to me," he told the crowd.
Mr Obama was interrupted several times by anti-Clinton campaigners but seemed unfazed, saying: "This is democracy at work. This is great."
The hecklers were escorted from the venue by security officials.
Thousands waited for more than six hours to hear Barack Obama speak in what could very well be his last visit to the battleground state as president.
The sun was out, and so were the hecklers.
The first two interrupted the president early in his address. Mr Obama, seemingly unfazed by it all, waited for the crowd to finish their booing before telling the hecklers with a wry grin to "get their own rally".
It wasn't long before Mr Obama was interrupted again. This time, the heckler was further back in the crowd. The man walked straight past us as he left, wearing a T-shirt declaring "Hillary for prison 2016".
In the third and final interruption, a man entered the cordoned-off area, screamed something at the president and tore a Clinton-Kaine campaign sign in two.
The man was escorted away and President Obama carried on smoothly, handling it all with good humour. The Greensboro crowd seemed to appreciate the laugh, in a campaign that's turned decidedly nasty.
In another development, Hillary Clinton's Campaign Chairman John Podesta has said that Russia was behind an apparent hacking of his emails and may have been colluding with the Trump campaign.
He said on Tuesday that the FBI was investigating the hacking of the emails that were published by WikiLeaks.
The 2005 video released on Friday revealed Mr Trump describing how he had sought to have sex with a married woman and making other sexually aggressive comments about women.
Nearly half of the 331 incumbent Republican senators, House members and governors have condemned the lewd remarks and about 10% have called for Mr Trump to drop out of the race, according to Reuters news agency.
On Monday, Mr Ryan said he would not defend Mr Trump over the remarks.
He told fellow House Republicans he would instead focus on congressional elections to ensure Republicans could maintain legislative control.
Mr Trump fired back in a string of tweets, saying the "shackles" had been removed, allowing him to "fight for America the way I want to". He said he neither wanted nor needed Mr Ryan's support.
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Mr Trump said "disloyal" Republicans "come at you from all sides. They don't know how to win - I will teach them!"
He attacked Senator John McCain, who has denounced Mr Trump's conduct and faces a close re-election battle in Arizona, as "foul-mouthed".
Despite a widening divide within the Republican Party, some members insist they are sticking by Mr Trump.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he was "really disturbed" by Mr Trump's comments about women but still planned to support him, saying the election was "about bigger issues than that".
Texas Senator and former rival Ted Cruz also said he would still cast his ballot for Mr Trump, telling a Texas TV station that Mrs Clinton was an "absolute disaster".
Mr Trump delivered a gaffe while addressing supporters in Florida on Tuesday, telling them to go out and vote on the wrong date.
ABC News footage showed him saying: "Go and register. Make sure you get out and vote, November 28." The election is on 8 November.
A recent PRRI/Atlantic poll suggested Mrs Clinton holds a 49-38 lead over her opponent.
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The 37-year-old left Stamford Bridge this summer after playing 381 games and winning four Premier League titles across two spells with the London club.
Drogba is the Ivory Coast's all-time top scorer, with 65 goals in 105 international appearances.
Montreal president Joey Saputo said the signing made it "one of the biggest days in club history".
He added: "It's an honour to welcome Didier Drogba to the Impact.
"From the first conversation I had with him, I felt that he really wanted to play in Montreal.
"His arrival will be beneficial in every aspect."
Drogba will be a designated player at the Canadian side, which means his wages will not be restricted by the MLS salary cap.
Impact, MLS members since 2012, finished bottom of the table last season.
Drogba follows former Chelsea team-mate Frank Lampard in moving to the North American league, with the 37-year-old having joined New York City.
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That's going by his first formal interview on Monday night, a decade after becoming the latest member of the India's fabled Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to enter politics.
What the leader of India's ruling Congress party appeared not to be sure of was how he - and his party - should deal with leaders touched by the taint of corruption or even those who were allegedly involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that happened under the watch of his father, then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
"All said and done, that was brave of Rahul Gandhi," tweeted journalist Tunku Varadarajan about the 80-minute interview on the Times Now channel. "How many Indian PM candidates have offered themselves up for prime time interview?" (Mr Gandhi will lead the party's campaign in the forthcoming general elections.)
Mr Gandhi even chose India's most aggressive prime-time anchor Arnab Goswami to grill him.
Having said that, the media-shy leader's first proper interview on TV turned out to be a mixed performance.
Mr Gandhi was composed and reasonably articulate - if slightly pedantic - while setting out his vision for much-needed reforms in his party and for India's development.
He was less than impressive when questioned about why his party had failed to crack down on corruption.
He avoided direct comments on his arch rival, Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, and the leader of the new anti-corruption party, Arvind Kejriwal, whose Aam Aadmi Party made a spectacular debut in the polls in Delhi and now rules the capital with the minority support of Mr Gandhi's party.
There were also what many say were tired platitudes which couldn't have won Mr Gandhi new admirers. Some examples: "Innocent people dying is a horrible thing"; "Anybody who is corrupt should be punished"; and "women are the backbone of this country". He occasionally lapsed into rhetoric and regurgitated lines.
Mr Gandhi's agenda for development is unexceptionable.
He used the words "empower" and "empowerment" interchangeably 22 times. He mentioned the word "system" - the existing one, which is broken, and the need to change it - 70 times.
He mentioned women - and their key role - 17 times. Many found it a bit odd that he spoke about himself in the third person seven times.
Mr Gandhi laid the blame on the obvious devil - the system - for all India's ills.
He quite rightly said the system had to change in order to remould India's politics, which shuts out outsiders.
But then he also said he had seen his family members, people he loved, "destroyed by the system". It was not immediately clear how the tragic killings of his grandmother Indira Gandhi and his father Rajiv Gandhi could be attributed to the system.
He said the 2002 Gujarat riots also happened because of the system, "because people don't have a voice in the system". Again, it was not clear how.
Mr Gandhi also surprised many by curiously painting himself as a rebel of sorts.
He said he was being attacked by his opponents because he was "doing things dangerous to the system". He said he was not "superficial and thinking deeply and long term".
Observers say that Mr Kejriwal had already taken pole position as the rebel of Indian politics with his unpredictable and unconventional politics and Mr Gandhi may have arrived late to the show.
Some analysts say Mr Gandhi also betrayed his inexperience in politics.
He accused Mr Modi's government of not doing enough to stop the Gujarat riots in 2002, but floundered when asked to back that up with evidence, even forgetting that a minister in Mr Modi's cabinet had been sent to prison for her involvement.
When asked about Congress's prospects in the election, he declared confidently that his party would win - despite opinion polls pointing to a heavy defeat - and then declared he was a "serious politician" who was not interested in power for power's sake.
So has Rahul Gandhi now truly come of age?
The former editor of Outlook magazine, Vinod Mehta, said Mr Gandhi emerged as a "sincere, candid and passionate person, seriously interested in changing India" in the interview.
But, Mr Mehta said, he had "no answers to specific charges of corruption". Mr Gandhi, he said, was "half a leader".
Other analysts like Siddharth Varadarajan said though Mr Gandhi did a decent job of sketching out a future vision for his party, he did badly when it came to "defending the indefensible" - corruption and the alleged role of party leaders in the 1984 riots.
"When things got hairy," says Mr Varadarajan, "he spoke about [the] system and empowerment."
In the end, analysts say, Mr Gandhi proved - once again - that though his heart is in the right place, he remains a prisoner of his dynastic party's legacy.
So will Monday night's "landmark" interview energise his party workers and excite the voters? We will only know in a few months time when Indians cast their ballots in the world's biggest election.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of birds are killed on the bases, mostly sold for food in what has become a multi-million pound black-market trade.
The crime team is being increased from a squad of six to 11.
Conservationists welcomed the move but point out that they must patrol a base that sprawls over 100 square miles.
They warn the problem is getting "worse and worse".
It's before dawn on Cape Pyla, not far from the party resort of Ayia Napa. A British police unit is scouting for signs of illegal bird poaching.
This is part of "Operation Freedom," a fresh effort by the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) authorities here to stop the trapping and killing of songbirds on British territory.
Despite the expansion in personnel, the area they must cover is massive - a key resting place for millions of migratory birds crossing the Mediterranean.
The three-car convoy suddenly stops when one of the officers hears the sound of a bird - a blackcap.
But these birds don't sing at night. A short distance from the road the officers find what they expect to find: an MP3 player powered by a car battery, with a speaker balanced in the branches.
This fake birdsong signals to other birds that it is safe to rest here: it lures them into the bushes.
This means that the poachers are operating nearby. The police unit will not be welcome. Sergeant Andy Adamou warns: "I've had officers assaulted, shotguns pointed at us, vehicles rammed."
As dawn breaks all of a sudden the convoy picks up speed. It is during this brief period of first light that the poachers put up "mist" nets. They then throw stones at the roosting birds to get them to fly into the trap.
Sgt Adamou points through the open window: "Can you see it? The pole?"
Just visible above the acacia bushes is the top of the mist net. The officers jump from the vehicles.
Just a few metres from the track, they find almost 70 birds struggling in the fine mesh. There is no sign of the poachers although there is an MP3 player nearby.
It is silent, having done its job of luring birds to these bushes. The team works to free them, gently untangling and cutting the fibres from around their throats, wings and legs.
Officer Andreas Eleftheriou has a trembling songbird cupped in his hands. "It's like seeing a person in captivity," he said. The bird is in captivity too. He lifts his hands and opens them and the bird flutters up in to the sky.
"Back in the nature where it belongs," Mr Eleftheriou commented.
Sgt Adamou is using scissors to carefully cut netting away from around the belly of a blackcap. "It's an experience, when you hold one of these birds, you can literally feel the heartbeat in your hand."
A net can hold 400 birds - and this is just one site. Every night during the spring and autumn seasons, well over a hundred traps are set all over the territory.
Officer Eleftheriou says he finds it difficult to deal with the extent of the poaching. "I cannot be in a million places at once. You are in one place you know in one place else still some place else and you can't do anything about it," he said.
Each autumn, hundreds of millions of songbirds fly south from Britain and Europe to winter in Africa. They concentrate along "migration highways" - but around the Mediterranean, an estimated 25 million are killed by hunters.
Nearly half of the migratory bird species from Europe, Africa and the Middle East are thought to stop to rest on Cape Pyla.
The most recent figures from the conservation group BirdLife Cyprus estimate that almost 900,000 were killed on this British land over the course of one year.
Most of the birds are eaten. The local dish "ambelopoulia" is a delicacy. The songbirds are pickled or roasted or fried and eaten illegally in secret.
The Cypriot owner of an olive grove in the British base area near Ayios Nikolaos tells us that the meal is "delicious". He says that people eat it in private in their homes rather than in restaurants.
"Now it's difficult to find so it makes it better when you get it!"
He added: "When people who are against it try it, then they change their minds."
A meal of twelve birds can cost up to £60. A poacher can demand £1 a bird: it is a lucrative tax-free income.
If caught, a first-time trapper could be imprisoned for up to three years, or fined up to 17,000 euros. In reality, the average fine is 400 euros and only a handful of people have gone to prison.
James Guy is Divisional Commander of the SBA Police. He said: "The greatest challenges are cultural and political, because for some section of society here it's an accepted practice.
"The argument is that this goes back to their roots when a few birds were taken for the family table - when people were poor and when it was used to subsidise families in a purely eating sense. Now it has become commercial, there's no doubt about it."
It is a multi-million pound black-market trade and investigating it can be risky.
When three anti-poaching activists from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) approach the house of a known poacher, there are two men on the front porch and one of them yells and expletive at them and tells them: "I'm going to go and get my shotgun. Right now!"
Even as he continues to shout, the plucky group continues and ensure that the area is free from traps before leaving.
This is the second year running that Andrew Rose has come from England to volunteer. When undertaking surveillance operations at night furious trappers regularly chase after him through the undergrowth.
One of his colleagues was beaten with an iron bar. He says his time in the army infantry was "perfect training".
He has a lot of respect for the police officers patrolling out on the ground but says: "I don't think that they are resourced properly. We talk about trapping, but it's organised crime. It's a dangerous job they do and I don't think they get the support they deserve."
BirdLife Cyprus welcomes the beefing up of the police patrol teams. Clairie Papazoglou is Chief Executive of the organisation that has been monitoring illegal trapping for 14 years.
She said that support for tackling the poachers was now finally coming from the "highest level." She says: "We've seen that the bases want to make a difference and want to make this stop. They have been putting a lot of effort in."
But she points to evidence showing that the problem is getting worse and worse. "Having more people on the ground is an important element," she says, "but it's not enough. If you just take a mist net away then they probably have ten at home."
There are no fences ringing the territory and farmers cultivate some of the land so it can be difficult to spot where the trappers harvest the birds.
Ms Papazoglou says removing the bushes that the poachers use to hide their mist nets is the best way forward. Acacia is an invasive species that spreads like a weed.
It is the right height and density to make an inviting roosting spot. Getting rid of the bushes would make it very difficult to set effective traps.
Divisional Commander James Guy says that they are trying. He estimates that they have spent half a million euros in removing 50 acres of the 200 that exist.
However, they have been hampered by local protests. In July, contractors arrived to remove some of the acacia and they found the road blocked by several excavators and around eighty 4x4s. Some two hundred locals and six MPs successfully disrupted the operation - so far the SBA authorities haven't tried again.
Andrea Rutigliano, from CABS, says: "We were always disappointed by the performance of the SBA authorities and by the lack of political will. Basically we've seen an attitude of tolerance and them trying to turn their eyes away from the problem."
Plans for Westbridge Park, in Stone, include a six-lane swimming pool and play area.
The proposals, which would still require planning permission, also feature a new sports hall and artificial football pitch at nearby Alleyne's Academy.
It is expected to be partly funded through a new M&S food store.
Stafford Borough Council said the store would also require planning permission, but it had been earmarked on land already developed within the park.
Council Leader Mike Heenan said: "These plans deliver the best leisure facilities for Stone whilst retaining valuable green space on Westbridge Park."
Previous proposals for the site, which included a larger supermarket in 2012, were met with strong opposition, including a 1,200-name petition.
Local councillor Jill Hood, part of the Keep Westbridge Park Green campaign, said the group was "over the moon" that the town would keep its park.
While he has compiled his best season to date, culminating in this week being crowned Race to Dubai winner for the second time in three years, he has been battling the stress of court proceedings against his former management company.
After the failure of a recent mediation process, the legal case with the Dublin-based Horizon Sports Management agency is scheduled to go to court in February next year.
McIlroy pulled out of two recent events in China to concentrate on preparing for the legal proceedings.
But he has spent the last 10 days in Dubai to ready himself for the season-ending World Tour Championship, an event he won two years ago to clinch the money list title.
This time he has wrapped up the Race crown ahead of schedule while the Horizon case has been bubbling under the surface. He claimed the Open and US PGA titles as well as the WGC Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone in August.
McIlroy's other victory, the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, came in the immediate aftermath of his May split from fiancee Caroline Wozniacki.
This was the first win that showed his ability to put aside off-course troubles and it kick-started his stellar summer.
"I've been able to put a few things out of my mind this year and just focus on golf. It's really been the first year I've been able to do it," McIlroy told BBC Sport. "I guess getting used to it has been a big part of being able to do it.
"It's nice to get back to the golf tournaments and golf courses and to solely think about that. And just get back to an environment that I'm 100% comfortable in.
"It's almost like a holiday coming back to playing tournaments."
McIlroy admits that the time in lawyers' offices can take a toll. "It is stressful in some ways, it takes up quite a lot of time," he said.
"I think anyone who has been in this position will tell you it's not the nicest thing to go through."
He is confident the case will not derail his bid to complete a career grand slam at the Masters next April.
"It'll be over in a few months and I'll have a clear mind and a clear head going to Augusta which is the important thing," he said.
"As long as everyone appreciates that and knows that then everything will be OK."
The world number one confirmed that the case will not affect his playing schedule next year. "We've done it in a way which has been nice in that it won't impact on any tournaments that I have planned to play next year," McIlroy explained
"All the tournaments that I usually play at the start of the year, I'm going to play again.
"It might take out a couple of weeks where I would normally practise but I'm not missing any tournaments which is important to me."
Aside from contesting the court case, which centres around his terms when he was a Horizon client, McIlroy is making the most of his growing influence on the game.
His charitable foundation will be backing next year's Irish Open at Royal County Down. The event is already reaping rewards from the relationship as McIlroy has persuaded American star Rickie Fowler to join the field.
And the involvement of leading players in backing and promoting tournaments is a trend that is gathering momentum.
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Last week Scotland's most recent major winner, Paul Lawrie, announced he will be staging a 64-man matchplay event on the European Tour at the Murcar Links next August.
The 1999 Open champion has exploited the business contacts he has nurtured in the prosperous Aberdeen area and it has resulted in another British date on the Tour schedule.
It is a move that might encourage other home players to try to follow a similar route. This particularly applies to English stars like Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Luke Donald.
All three are based in the United States but would do their British profile a power of good, as well as tapping into the golf-starved market in England, if they could follow suit.
Certainly Welshman Jamie Donaldson can see the potential benefits, and he told BBC Sport that he would be keen to follow Lawrie's example.
"I'd love to get involved in something like that," said the man who sealed Europe's recent Ryder Cup victory.
"Especially if there is no Wales Open next year, that would be incredible to get involved in.
"Obviously I've still got a lot left to do in my playing career, but certainly at the end of it I would love to get involved in stuff like that.
"Also if there's people who want to get involved, I don't mind. I'd love to spearhead another Welsh Open, maybe at a links course if not Celtic Manor again.
"There's so many great golf courses in Wales. I'd love to bring another Welsh Open to what is a great golfing country.
"I would gladly get involved in anything that helps the European Tour to bring more events on," added Donaldson.
More immediately, the Pontypridd man is looking to end an outstanding season on a real high in Dubai. That is something else he has in common with McIlroy.
Lostwithiel School, in Cornwall, plans to take 91 children to the mosque in Exeter as part of their Religious Education (RE) lesson.
Cornwall Council said "a small number of parents" had raised concerns after fundamentalist groups, such as IS, affiliated themselves with Islam.
The Muslim Council of Britain said it was "disappointing".
Speaking outside the school gates, one mother who did not give her name, said: "With the way that things are at the moment in this country with the attacks that have happened through no warning, I just felt that it was the wrong time to be sending children to a mosque."
Kat Smith, chair of governors at the school, said some parents had expressed concern but the "vast majority" had returned their consent slips and the trip would go ahead.
The Muslim Council of Britain said: "We hope this incident is atypical and not reflective of a growing sentiment against Muslims in this country."
Cornwall Council said: "Parents have the right to withdraw from RE in whole or in part and provide alternative work for their children to further their knowledge and understanding of their own beliefs and values.
"However it is not possible for children to take part in RE as a whole but opt out of learning about one specific religion, as this would contravene the Equality Act of 2010."
Lostwithiel School follows the Cornwall Agreed Syllabus for RE.
As part of that curriculum they study Christianity in greater detail, as well as finding out about Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Islam through school trips, visits from outside speakers and class teaching.
Exeter's mosque has declined to comment.
The teenagers, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were charged following an alleged incident in the Northfield area of Aberdeen on Thursday.
A man was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Both teenagers made no plea, were committed for further examination and were released on bail.
Giglia, 30, who had a stroke in January 2013, clocked a time of 41.761 seconds, beating the previous best of 42.955.
On Thursday she won the C3 3km pursuit, also in a world-record time, to boost her chance of Rio Paralympic selection.
"I'm still pretty new to the sport and this is just a stepping stone in the right direction," she told BBC Sport.
"Hopefully I will continue to go and get stronger and faster as we go on.
"I've worked hard to get to this point and will continue to do it, to prove I can do what I am here to do, but I have given myself the best opportunity possible."
There was also a bronze for the tandem pairing of Lora Turnham and Corrine Hall in the 3km pursuit and a first World Championship medal for teenager Louis Rolfe who was third in the C2 kilo event.
"It's really cool to achieve what I have achieved," said the 18-year-old from Cambridge, who has cerebral palsy. "Coming here I didn't really think I could get a podium spot but I did and I'm really happy."
A team of three male candidates was selected last month which had resulted in the former agriculture minister being left off the ticket.
Ms Gildernew is the former MP for the constituency.
In December, Ms Gildernew was selected to run alongside sitting MLA Sean Lynch and local councillor John Feely.
However, earlier this year she was replaced on the ticket by the current MLA, Phil Flanagan, who missed out on selection at a previous selection convention six weeks ago.
The party has now decided to run four candidates in the constituency.
Residents had previously criticised the plans and a report to West Dorset District Council said they would bring "significant harm" to the area.
The application had been submitted by Broadview Energy Ltd.
It was for six turbines up to 70m (230ft) in height in a seven hectare site to the north west of the B3143 at Slyer's Lane near Charminster.
The council, which was recommended to refuse the application, received 2,648 objections and 678 letters of support.
Stinsford Parish Council objected as it would have "an adverse impact on the natural environment "and would be a "visual intrusion".
A report to West Dorset council said: "The proposed development in this case would result in significant harm to the setting of the Dorset Area of Outstanding Beauty, eroding its character, natural beauty and the special qualities."
The Dutchman has employed this tactic as a trademark in battles with rivals but many other drivers have complained that it is extremely dangerous.
Race director Charlie Whiting was told at the US Grand Prix that there would be a big accident if he did not act.
Whiting has issued a ruling saying such moves will be considered illegal.
"It is like it is," Verstappen said about the rule.
"It's good to make it clearer what's allowed and what's not.
"I'm just going to race and then we will see how it is going to be defending and how it will affect the racing."
This is likely to become known as the "Verstappen rule" after a series of controversies involving the 19-year-old this year.
These have included his battles with Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen at the Hungarian and Belgian Grands Prix, and with Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton at the last race in Japan.
Mercedes lodged a protest against Verstappen's driving in Suzuka, which resulted in Hamilton taking avoiding action and going up the escape road at the chicane, but subsequently withdrew it.
The drivers' concerns about Verstappen's driving focus on two main areas: moving - or changing line - under braking; and what is called "wait-and-move".
The second is when a driver defending his position waits to see which side the driver behind will attack on and only moves to defend after he has done so.
Many drivers consider both situations to be dangerous and even dirty because they are already on the limit during braking so cannot brake harder and avoiding the car in front is difficult.
Whiting has been confronted about the issue a number of times this season. His initial response was that Verstappen was driving on the edge but just within the bounds of acceptability.
Verstappen has twice in recent races been taken aside by Whiting and warned to be careful about how he drives in such situations.
But after repeated complaints from the drivers, Whiting has been persuaded that he needs to take action.
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His new ruling is predicated on article 27.5 of the sporting regulations which states that "no car may be driven… in a manner which could be potentially dangerous to other drivers…" and article 27.8, which prohibits any manoeuvre "liable to hinder other drivers, such as… any abnormal change of direction".
The drivers and teams have been reminded of article 27.6, which says: "More than one change of direction to defend a position is not permitted. Any driver moving back towards the racing line, having earlier defended his position off-line, should leave at least one car width between his own car and the edge of the track on the approach to the corner."
Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, said: "It is very simple. The day I joined F1 it was clear and it was a sort of unwritten law, and in recent times we have had situations and got away with it.
"So for sure then the message is that everyone is starting to do it. It is the wrong thing because, as we spoke about yesterday, we are just waiting for something to happen. Therefore I think it is a good action."
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South of Scotland MSP Colin Smyth said TransPennine Express had imposed the block due to overcrowding during the Edinburgh Festival.
Passengers are able to get on or off at stations further south.
The company said it was a temporary measure and "in no way" was it stopping customers from travelling.
Mr Smyth said a block on seat reservations for journeys of about an hour or less on the Manchester to Edinburgh service was unfair to Lockerbie passengers.
It comes after his recent complaints about them being treated "like cattle" on overcrowded trains.
"Several passengers highlighted even more problems including the fact the company are now banning passengers from booking seats on busy services from Lockerbie to and from Edinburgh," he said.
"TransPennine Express have been far from open with passengers in admitting the introduction of a ban on seat bookings on busy trains during the festival when a journey is around one hour or less.
"This means that if a passenger is travelling to the Scottish capital on this service, the only station they are banned from booking a seat from is Lockerbie."
The company said it had had to restrict reservations for journeys of up to about one hour due to services to and from Edinburgh being "extremely busy" in August.
"This is a temporary measure for the busy month of August only, and in no way are we stopping customers from travelling," said a spokesperson.
"We recognise that our services to and from Edinburgh can be very busy, and we are introducing extra capacity across our network.
"We're also introducing more services, and from December 2017 we plan to introduce additional weekday evening services, including a new 22:30 departure from Edinburgh to Lockerbie, and additional Sunday services that will call at Lockerbie."
The company also said it hoped to meet with Mr Smyth in the near future.
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Rebecca Downie, Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold, Hannah Whelan and Kelly Simm held off Australia to win, with Wales putting in a superb display for bronze.
Earlier, Louis Smith, Sam Oldham, Kristian Thomas, Max Whitlock and Nile Wilson won the men's title.
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Scotland finished second to secure their first major team medal.
Dan Keatings, Dan Purvis, Frank Baines, Adam Cox and Liam Davie scored 257.603, with England's 266.804 enough for victory.
However, Oldham missed England's final two rotations after falling in the vault.
England's women finished on a total of 167.555, and errors from Australia on both the floor and beam in the final rotation left them second on 161.646.
The Welsh team of Lizzie Beddoe, Georgina Hockenhull, Jessica Hogg, Angel Romaeo and Raer Theaker secured the country's first team medal with a score of 160.095.
Both England teams led their events after the opening day but Whitlock, who led qualifying for the all-around final with 90.365, acknowledged his team had been pushed by the Scots.
"It's very different competing against Scotland," he added. "These are guys we've been friends and team-mates with for a long time so it's interesting and a bit of fun training with them.
"We've been preparing for this for a long time and for it to go well on the day in front of a crowd like this is amazing."
Whelan, 22, was thrilled with the gold medal and also the performance of 16-year-old Fragapane, who put in solid performances on the floor and beam to help clinch the win.
"We did have a few shaky moments out there but we have worked so hard," said Whelan.
"Coming off the back of a Europeans and going into a Worlds, we have done as much as we can do training-wise and we all felt ready.
"The way Claudia finished it off was fantastic. We have all pulled our weight and I'm really proud of the way everyone has performed."
Mcebisi Jonas says he rejected the offer, calling it "a mockery of our hard-earned democracy".
The opposition has long accused President Jacob Zuma of letting the Guptas wield excessive influence.
The Indian-born family has built up holdings in mining, travel and media.
The Guptas, whose forebears arrived from India in 1933, also have huge interests in computers, air travel, energy, and technology.
They said Mr Jonas' statement was political point-scoring.
In 2013, there was an outcry after a private jet carrying guests to the wedding of a Gupta family member was allowed to land at a South African military air force base in Pretoria.
The opposition has said that links between President Zuma and the Guptas were so close that they have been nicknamed the "Zuptas".
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The allegations, confirmed by a serving minister, may well represent the lowest point of Mr Zuma's presidency, which has already been beset by multiple corruption scandals.
South Africans have reacted with shock and dismay. Some are already calling for the president to resign.
It is very difficult to see how President Zuma can come out of this latest scandal unscathed.
The ANC's national executive committee's meeting this weekend will face a tough decision: should it keep President Zuma as head of state?
Mr Jonas' shock statement follows questions about the role of the Gupta family in parliament.
He said that "no-one apart from the president of the Republic appoints ministers.
"The narrative that has grown around the issue of 'state capture' should be of concern to all responsible and caring South Africans."
Mr Jonas said he was offered the job of finance minister in December 2015 just before Nhlanhla Nene was sacked by President Zuma.
Mr Zuma then appointed the little-known David van Rooyen, leading to a run on the currency and national protests.
Just days later, Mr Zuma made an about-turn and replaced Mr Van Rooyen with the widely respected Pravin Gordhan.
The artist and illustrator designed the enduring Ghostbusters logo and a dog with a gun to its head for the cover of National Lampoon magazine.
Gross was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2014 and died on Monday at his home in California.
Prior to his death he launched Flip Cancer, a darkly comic anti-cancer campaign.
Gross's Ghostbusters logo, designed for the first Ghostbusters film in 1984, features a slightly-shocked looking spirit caught in the middle of a slashed red circle.
It placed first, beating out the Chrysler Building, when the Pratt Institute ran a survey for their thoughts on the 125 most admired icons created by its alumni and faculty.
The National Lampoon image showed a photograph of a dog with a gun to its head and the words: "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog".
In 2005, it was rated one of the 40 greatest covers of all time by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Gross's charity art project Flip Cancer saw Gross, and others, drawing raised middle fingers in protest against the disease with the words 'Flip Cancer' written beneath.
The works were put on display at a gallery exhibition last year and at the time of his death, he was making plans to auction them in aid of research for cancer.
He is survived by his son, daughter and three grandchildren.
The scheduled 10:45 BST start at Lord's was delayed and, with further rain forecast, the match was called off.
England take one point from the match towards qualification for the 2017 World Cup, plus four points from their two previous wins in the series.
The tourists previously won the one-off Test match at Wormsley by six wickets.
"India showed what a strong side they are during the Test match and I am really pleased with how quickly we bounced back from that disappointment and delivered when it counted," said England captain Charlotte Edwards.
The ICC World Championship involves the top eight-ranked women's teams in the world and over the next two years all teams will play each other in a three-match ODI series either at home or away.
The top four teams will qualify for the Women's World Cup in England in 2017.
Countries finishing in the bottom four will take part in the Women's World Cup qualifying tournament in early 2017 against teams from the ICC's regional structures to determine the final four participants for the event.
England will next play a three-match Twenty20 series against South Africa starting on 1 September in Chelmsford, with live commentary on the BBC Sport website.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said that the thoughtful, hat-wearing figure was discovered in recent excavations in Yehud, east of Tel Aviv.
The ornament topped a jug in the Middle Bronze Age and was found in a grave.
The Times of Israel compared the figure's head-in-hands pose to The Thinker, the famous work by French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
Yet at just 18cm (7in) tall, the Israeli discovery comes in 10 times smaller than Rodin's famous bronze from the turn of the 20th Century.
The IAA's excavation director, Gilad Itach, said the piece was "unique" as it was the first such example found in Israel, noting an "impressive" attention to detail.
He also said its inclusion in a grave would indicate that the deceased was a person of importance.
Other offerings found nearby included daggers, arrowheads and an axe head.
Mr Itach said it was hard to determine who created the mysterious figure, or who it was buried with, as there was no writing found at the scene.
Nottingham city councillor Dave Trimble said he had "major concerns about the risks it could pose to children and families in the city centre".
The march on Saturday would end at the city's Market Square where a temporary beach is located.
Police said the march could not be stopped but added officers were "constantly reviewing" the situation.
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But Mr Trimble said: "Surely the safety of Nottingham citizens, particularly where young children are involved, has to come first?"
A video on the EDL website said the march was being organised to raise concerns about "Nottinghamshire residents involved in Islamic terror-related activities".
It also called for a program to "reduce the threat of Islamification in the UK".
Ch Supt Ian Howick, from Nottinghamshire Police, said the force had a legal obligation to keep the public safe and facilitate peaceful protests.
"Since being notified of the group's intentions, we have committed significant resources to ensure that we can meet both obligations and are taking all available steps to minimise the disruption caused to all those affected," he said.
"Having reviewed all available information, intelligence and human rights obligations, the specific conditions required to prevent a planned procession from taking place have not been met.
"However, the situation remains under constant review and, should this change, we have the necessary legislation in place to continue to keep Nottinghamshire safe."
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Rooney, 31, announced last week that he is staying at Old Trafford, after being heavily linked with a move to China.
The England captain has also been linked with a return to former club Everton, but Mourinho said talk of such a move "makes no sense".
Striker Ibrahimovic's one-season deal includes an option for a second year.
The Swede, 35, has scored 26 goals in 38 appearances for United since joining on a free transfer from Paris St-Germain in July.
He scored twice in Sunday's 3-2 EFL Cup final victory over Southampton.
After the final, Ibrahimovic said he will "see what happens" about extending his contract.
Mourinho said: "I see him staying. The next transfer window will bring us to a different level because I will bring in a few players. Zlatan will be fundamental. I think he will stay."
On Rooney, he added: "What I have is a very strong message, 'I don't go anywhere. I want to fight with this team and help until the end of season'. 100% he will be with us for the rest of season.
"Next season, 100% I would like him to be with us, but always the player is very important."
United, who are sixth in the Premier League, host Bournemouth on Saturday (12:30 GMT).
Mourinho also backed Luke Shaw to make himself indispensable as United's left-back.
Shaw, 21, has not played since the 4-0 FA Cup win over Wigan at the end of January, but Mourinho hinted the England international would start against Bournemouth.
"In practical terms we have lots of left-backs," he said.
"It doesn't look like it, but the reality is that Daley Blind, Shaw, Marcos Rojo, Matteo Darmian are all playing left-back and can play there. They are different players.
"I think the one that should be in the couple of years the best of all - because potentially he should have all the conditions to be the best of all - is Luke Shaw.
"By age, by physicality, by intensity, aggressive going forward, he should be the best. But to be the best you need to work hard. It's what he's trying to do."
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Mourinho took the initiative at today's news conference. Sensing what was going to be asked as he sat down in front of the media, he said: "Rooney and Shaw."
He then proceeded to talk for four minutes and 20 seconds about club captain Rooney, and out-of-favour left-back Shaw, who are both in United's squad to face Bournemouth on Saturday.
Mourinho said Shaw, who last played against Wigan in the FA Cup in January, has been "working hard" on his fitness.
On Rooney, Mourinho said the fact he was ready to come on at Wembley when Ibrahimovic scored his winner was proof the United captain remains a valued member of his squad.
The Portuguese said Rooney would "100%" be at United for the rest of the season, which is fairly obvious now the Chinese transfer window has closed.
However, after comments from Everton this week suggesting the England forward's former club may offer him a summer return to Goodison Park, Mourinho said he wants the 31-year-old to stay, adding it could not be guaranteed because he will not keep unhappy players.
The International Development Committee says evidence is "overwhelming" the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels has violated humanitarian law.
The committee called for the UK to support an international inquiry into the alleged abuses.
The government said it has a "rigorous" arms export control system.
In a letter to International Development Secretary Justine Greening, the committee said the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia had risen "significantly" during the conflict.
It said close to £3bn worth of export licences for arms had been granted in the last six months.
They include £1bn worth of licences for bombs, rockets and missiles issued in the three months to the end of September last year compared to £9m of licences awarded over the same period the previous year.
"We are shocked that the UK government can continue to claim that there have been no breaches of humanitarian law by the coalition and not only continue sales of arms to Saudi Arabia but significantly increase them since the start of the coalition intervention into Yemen," said the cross-party committee.
"We are convinced that there is more than a clear risk that weapons sold to Saudi Arabia might be used in the commission of serious violations of international humanitarian law.
"The evidence that we have heard is overwhelming that the Saudi-led coalition has committed violations of international law, using equipment supplied by the UK."
The committee's intervention comes after a leaked UN report found the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthis had targeted civilians in air strikes in a "widespread and systematic" way.
The UN panel said civilians were also being deliberately starved as a war tactic and called for an inquiry into human rights abuses.
The war in Yemen escalated in March, when a coalition led by Saudi Arabia entered the conflict on the side of the internationally recognised government to try to oust Houthi rebels from the capital Sanaa and other areas. All sides have been accused of targeting civilians.
The UK supports the coalition and, along with the US and other countries, has been supplying some of the weapons and jets used in the bombing campaign.
But attacks directed against civilians or civilian targets constitute violations of international humanitarian law.
The government claims it has one of the most "transparent arms export control systems in the world" with each licence application assessed on a "case-by-case" basis.
It regularly stresses to the Saudis and the Houthis the need to comply with humanitarian law, according to a spokesman.
International Development Minister Desmond Swayne stopped short of backing an inquiry, telling the Commons: "We've supported the UN Human Rights Council resolution, which requires the government of Yemen to investigate with the support of the UN."
He added that only a peace process to restore the Yemeni government "will end the suffering" in the region.
Saudi Arabia is Britain's biggest market for defence exports, worth $1.7bn (£1.1bn) last year, according to IHS's Global Defence Trade Report.
BB has hired a US lawyer, but has not yet filed a lawsuit.
In February, hackers succeeded in instructing the New York Fed to transfer money from BB's account to accounts in The Philippines.
After the theft, the NY Fed said the breach did not occur in its system.
It also said that the payments were vetted through the "standard authentication protocols."
"To date, there is no evidence of any attempt to penetrate Federal Reserve systems in connection with the payments in question, and there is no evidence that any Fed systems were compromised," the bank said in a statement.
Criminal charges were filed in Manila against two suspects, on Tuesday.
The cyber heist is one of the largest ever committed.
According to a report seen by Reuters, the BB is "preparing the ground to make a legitimate claim for the loss of funds against the [Federal Reserve Bank of New York] through a legal process".
The report from the BB alleges that 35 sets of payment transfer instructions were sent to the New York Fed, 30 of which were rejected by the US bank.
The incident has led to the resignation of Bangladesh's central bank governor Atiur Rahman.
Bangladeshi investigators are still combing through the central banks' systems for more evidence and US investigators have stepped in to help.
An opponent has yet to be announced for 30-year-old Barnes but the contest will be at the Waterfront Hall in his home city of Belfast.
Barnes made it two pro wins from two with a points victory in a six-rounder against Adrian Dimas Garzon in March.
Jamie Conlan will also feature on the bill at the Waterfront.
Unbeaten Conlan defeated Yader Cardoza on a split decision to take the vacant WBC International Silver super-flyweight crown on 10 March.
Conlan, also 30 and from Belfast, is aiming to secure a world title eliminator having won all 19 of his professional fights.
Mrs Maguire, 61, was stabbed to death by student Will Cornick at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds in 2014.
The Leeds Safeguarding Children's Board review said Cornick spoke of an "adrenaline rush" and "good times" after stabbing his Spanish teacher.
He was detained for a minimum of 20 years after admitting murder.
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Cornick, who was 15 at the time of the murder, told the report's author, Nick Page, he had gone to his Spanish class in "a red mist, not conscious of his surroundings".
Earlier he had packed a rucksack containing two knives.
He approached Mrs Maguire from behind and stabbed her in the upper back and neck seven times in front of "a large number of pupils".
The teenager then pursued her as she fled from the classroom and continued his attack, before being restrained by members of staff.
Mr Page found there had been no "credible warning signs" that could have been picked up by the school about Cornick's behaviour. The report went on to say it was an "unprecedented emergency situation".
However, no-one had realised the "deep antipathy" Cornick had developed towards Mrs Maguire over two years.
Threats made on social media and to his fellow pupils were viewed by them as "fantasy", the report said.
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Mr Page said: "Will's school friends and peers considered that he had a dark sense of humour and could talk very negatively and unkindly about people he did not like.
"None of the young people in the class or friendship group who heard Will talk about killing Ann, and were told about or shown the knives he had brought into school on 28 April 2014, had believed that he would actually carry out an assault."
He said staff had "acted instinctively and demonstrated initiative and bravery" during and immediately after the attack on Mrs Maguire.
Mark Peel, independent chairman of the safeguarding board, said: "It is also reassuring that this outcome of the learning lessons review is in agreement with the findings of the court, in that this tragic incident could not have been foreseen or prevented, and that the only person responsible for Ann Maguire's death has been punished accordingly."
Mrs Maguire's family, who have previously called for a full public inquiry, said they would need time to consider the findings before commenting, but added the review "appears to be significantly different from an early draft report which we viewed some months ago".
Ian Murch, National Union of Teachers' treasurer, said it was important to look for warning signs.
He said: "You can't develop big security systems for every school in the country because of an incident which will happen once in twenty years, maybe not even that."
The operation follows months of investigation into the Artemis brothel.
Brothel managers are accused of evading some €17.5m (£14m; $19.7m) in social security payments since 2006.
Prosecutors allege that staff at Artemis were forced to pretend to be self-employed to avoid the payments.
Police say the raid was conducted in cooperation with customs officials and tax fraud investigators.
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Germany legalised prostitution in 2002, creating an industry now thought to be worth approximately €16bn per year.
So-called "mega-brothels" are common, attracting tourists from neighbouring countries with stricter laws, and sex workers from Eastern Europe.
The number of prostitutes in Germany is thought to have doubled to 400,000 over the last 20 years.
Investment, exploration and new technology form the focus of this year's event at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC).
Scotland's Economy Secretary Keith Brown and UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd were among those in attendance.
Discussion on the EU referendum is also playing a part in the two-day event.
Jobs lost as a result of the downturn in the UK oil and gas sector could top 120,000 by the end of this year, according to a report last week.
Industry body Oil and Gas UK has estimated 84,000 jobs linked to the industry went in 2015, with 40,000 losses expected this year.
The dinner, his eighth, was a chance for the US president to make fun of himself, his colleagues and opponents.
As in previous years, Donald Trump was a regular target, but the favourite for the Republican presidential nomination was not present.
Mr Obama's dramatic exit, featuring a mic drop, gained a standing ovation.
The event was attended by journalists, politicians and film and television stars.
"The Republican establishment is incredulous that he's their most likely nominee. They say Donald lacks the foreign policy experience to be president. But in fairness he has spent years meeting with leaders from around the world: Miss Sweden, Miss Argentina, Miss Azerbaijan."
"Is this dinner too tacky for the Donald? What could he possibly be doing instead? Is he at home eating a Trump steak? Tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel? What's he doing?"
"Foreign leaders they have been looking ahead, anticipating my departure. Last week, Prince George showed up to our meeting in his bathrobe. That was a slap in the face. A clear breach of protocol."
"Ted had a tough week. He went to Indiana... stood on a basketball court and called the hoop a basketball ring. What else is in his lexicon? Baseball sticks, football hats, but, sure I'm the foreign one!"
"The end of the republic has never looked better," Mr Obama told Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus. "Congratulations on all your success. The Republican party, the nomination process - it's all going great."
"In fact somebody recently said to me, 'Mr President, you are so yesterday. Justin Trudeau has completely replaced you. He's so handsome, he's so charming. He's the future.' And I said: 'Justin, just give it a rest.' "
"Eight years ago I said it was time to change the tone of our politics. In hindsight, I clearly should have been more specific."
"While in England, I did have lunch with her Majesty the Queen. Took in a performance of Shakespeare, hit the links with David Cameron. Just in case anybody is still debating if I'm black enough, I think that settles the debate."
"Obama out." [drops microphone, exits, gains standing ovation]
In December, it was announced that half of Glasgow's 16 jobcentres would shut to save money and to reflect a rise in the use of online and phone services.
The Department for Work and Pensions said it expected affected employees to move to other sites, adding that any redundancies would be "very small".
Scottish Employability Minister Jamie Hepburn said Scotland was being disproportionately affected.
Union officials said the wider announcement would mean that more than one in 10 jobcentres in Scotland, England and Wales would shut, putting thousands of staff jobs at risk.
UK Employment Minister Damian Hinds said: "We will always make sure that people have the support they need to get into and progress within work, that's why we are recruiting 2,500 more work coaches to help those who need it most.
"The way the world works has changed rapidly in the last 20 years and the welfare state needs to keep pace.
"As more people access their benefits through the internet many of our buildings are under-used. We are concentrating our resources on what we know best helps people into work.
"The changes we've announced today will help ensure that the way we deliver our services reflect the reality of today's welfare system."
Aberdeen, Greyfriars House - DWP administration centre
Alexandria - Jobcentre
Benbecula, Jobcentre
Broxburn - Jobcentre
Coatbridge - DWP administration centre
Cumnock - DWP administration centre
Edinburgh, St Andrew Street - Jobcentre
Glasgow Portcullis House - DWP administration centre
Glasgow, Corunna House - DWP administration centre
Inverness - DWP assessment centre
Inverness, Church Street - Jobcentre and DWP administration centre
Lanark - Jobcentre to move to South Lanarkshire Council office, South Vennel
Larkhall - Jobcentre
Paisley, Lonend - DWP administration centre.
Port Glasgow - Jobcentre
Wick, Girnigoe - Jobcentre to move to Caithness House
A spokeswoman for the DWP said some of the jobcentres being closed were very close to other sites.
The latest changes include:
The spokeswoman said two jobcentres where the distance people would need to travel would be more than three miles - which will be consulted on - were Broxburn which is planned to move to Livingston Jobcentre and Grangemouth which is planned to move to Falkirk.
Mr Hepburn told BBC Scotland: "This will obviously be a very concerning time for the communities served by the particular jobcentres to be closed.
He said there were also a number of back office closures proposed and that it was unclear if there would be any compulsory redundancies.
"It's been a somewhat shambolic process," he said. "The drip feed of information has not been very clear which has caused further confusion."
He added: "What's been absolutely unacceptable is the failure to consult with those communities directly affected but also with the Scottish government, despite the fact that the Smith Commission talked of a greater role for the Scottish government in terms of governance for Jobcentre Plus here in Scotland.
"We've had no prior warning about the specific closures we've been hearing about today. That's unacceptable.
"It looks as though there's been a disproportionately high number of closures here in Scotland and given the issues of rurality and deprivation in some of the communities served by these jobcentres, that again, is unacceptable."
Mr Hepburn has already written to the DWP over the plans to close half of Glasgow's jobcentres and said he would also be voicing his new concerns.
Alison Johnstone, Social Security spokeswoman for the Scottish Greens said: "The UK government appears determined to punish the very people who need the most support in our society. They should be making it easier, not harder, to find employment.
"Not everyone has reliable access to the internet or can afford to make the numerous phone calls needed to speak to prospective employers. There's also the cost of travelling longer distances to job centres. It's simply wrong-headed.
"These changes will be hugely disruptive and while the DWP says that most staff will have the option to relocate or take alternative roles, that won't suit everyone."
Brown Clee in Ditton Priors and Clunbury closed on Wednesday, Shropshire Council announced.
However, both schools said they had now reopened and pupils had returned to class.
The Met Office has a yellow weather warning in place for Shropshire. It predicted more wintry showers later, which may be heavy at times, with a risk of hail and thunder.
The council said: "As far as we know, all schools are back open today after the snow yesterday."
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The world governing body's Tennis Integrity Unit said Serkan Aslan and Mehmet Ulker "delayed the inputting of scores and/or fraudulently manipulated scores by inputting fictitious deuce games" at ITF Futures events in 2015.
Separately, Ulker was found to have allowed "third parties to benefit by placing bets on matches in which he was officiating".
The ITF, which runs Grand Slam tournaments, found Ulker delayed inputting scores into a PDA device and used his mobile phone to communicate the scores of matches to a third party while officiating at a Futures tournament in Belek, Turkey in October 2015.
Both men additionally failed to comply with requests to hand their mobile phones to investigators.
The ITF Futures circuit is the entry level of professional tennis but the ban covers all events sanctioned by the ITF, the Association of Tennis Professionals and the Women's Tennis Association.
The surprising answer is from the chemistry of a single tail feather.
Incredibly, specific compounds in penguin feather proteins allow scientists to track the birds’ migration over many hundreds of kilometres.
The plumage records a kind of "chemical passport" stamped with a signature of the locations visited.
Dr Michael Polito, of Louisiana State University, US, told BBC News: "You can say: 'penguins are where they eat,' because a geochemical signature of their wintering area is imprinted into their feathers."
Two species of penguin - Chinstraps and Adélies - are the focus of the study published this week in Biological Letters.
These animals both live on islands surrounding Antarctica, and migrate extensively in winter to reach rich-feeding grounds.
Polito's team attached geo-locator devices to 52 adults at their breeding colonies on the South Shetland Islands, which lie 120km off coast of Antarctica.
The scientists returned a year later to retrieve the tags in order to determine where the birds had been travelling.
The use of such devices to trace the movements of long-ranging animals has revolutionised biology – both on land and in the oceans. But, this technique, so often seen on TV documentaries, has its drawbacks.
It can be expensive, as well as causing some discomfort during attachment and removal.
But in this new study the scientists also employed a new, cheaper, less invasive method to track the birds - one they believe can be just as reliable.
Polito and his colleagues removed a piece of tail feather for laboratory study from each penguin that had a tracker on it. They then compared data on location from the tag and from the chemistry of the feather. And they matched.
The chemistry locked in the feather records where the penguins migrated just as faithfully as the electronic trackers.
The team uses a technique called compound specific isotope analysis to tell not only what the penguins have eaten but where they ate it.
This works because the krill upon which the penguins feed incorporate into their own tissues a chemical signature of the ocean chemistry where they live. When the penguins then eat the krill, they in turn incorporate the krill chemistry, including the signature of where the krill live.
In the case of penguins, the tail feather is selected for analysis because it is lost after breeding and grows back again during migration, and so its chemistry reflects that particular episode in the penguin's life.
But this new technique can be used on other animals, explained co-author Dr Tom Hart, from University of Oxford, UK: “We can use this type of analysis on most animals, and in fact on tissues other than feathers, such as skin or muscle."
Understanding where and when highly migratory species travel provides new information on aspects of their behaviour and feeding grounds. It can even give clues to their remarkable navigation abilities.
Perhaps, most importantly, it can help in the conservation of several animal species under threat.
"The great thing about this new technique is that we can work out where an animal has been based on a sample of an animal’s tissues without it ever being tagged," said Dr Hart.
"We are going to continue to use this non-invasive technique on penguins, and it has great potential to be applied to other seabirds and marine mammals, such as whales and seals for example."
The 17-year-old was more than four seconds behind France's Charles Rozoy after the first 50m, but had the lead by the time of the breaststroke leg and maintained his advantage to the finish.
"I was really happy with that race," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I also achieved a personal best which is great."
Oliver Hynd - SM8 200m Individual Medley
Jonathan Fox - S7 100m Backstroke
Jessica-Jane Applegate - S14 200m Freestyle
Eleanor Simmonds - S6 400m Freestyle and 200m IM
Heather Frederiksen - S8 100m Backstroke
Hynd, who has also won silver and bronze at these Games, clocked a European record time of two minutes 24.63 seconds.
Wang Jiachao of China touched home in second and Maurice Deelen of the Netherlands finished in the bronze position.
Hynd's brother, Sam, came fourth.
Charlotte Henshaw came agonisingly close to adding a seventh swimming gold for Britain.
The Mansfield swimmer was pipped to the SB6 100m breaststroke title by three-hundredths of a second by Ukraine's Viktoriia Savtsova, who set a new Paralympic record. Henshaw's team-mate Elizabeth Johnson held on for bronze.
Louise Watkin also missed out on gold by fractions. The 20-year-old, who trains in Salford, was beaten to the S9 50m freestyle title by China's Lin Ping, who touched home less than a tenth quicker.
Elsewhere, fellow Briton Rob Welbourn took bronze in the men's S10 400m freestyle.
The 25-year-old Chesterfield swimmer, who won relay gold in Athens and Beijing, had the lead, but could not maintain the pace over the final 200m, with American Ian Silverman powering through to take gold while Canada's Benoit Huot clinched silver.
Chertsey teenager Hannah Russell, 16, won her third medal of the Paralympics - a bronze in the S12 100m backstroke. Russia's Oxana Savchenko dominated in the final 50m, winning gold with a new world record time.
The 25-year-old, who has played 20 games for Rovers this term, dislocated his acromioclavicular (AC) joint in the 24-20 defeat by Leeds in July.
The injury comes as a blow for a Hull KR side looking to retain its Super League status though the Qualifiers.
Rovers, who finished second from bottom in Super League, host Batley in their Qualifiers opener on Sunday.
The 24-year-old Netherlands international joined the Hornets from AZ Alkmaar last summer in a deal reported to be worth £4.6m.
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Chesterfield Bowling Club in Derbyshire is believed to date back to 1294.
But a former member said the club was losing money because of its ageing and dwindling membership, and warned it would close without female members.
The club denied being "chauvinistic" or in financial difficulty, adding it has traditionally been male-only.
The former club member contacted the Derbyshire Times after leaving in frustration.
He said the members were "traditionalists" rather than being "sexist".
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"Some of the members are old school and they have been there for 20 or 30 or 40 years and don't want to change traditions," he said.
"Some were frightened to death that I wanted to introduce ladies.
"I'm 66 and I was one of the youngest. Most are in their 70s and 80s and there are even a couple of 90-year-olds."
In a statement the club said it was "a small and ancient private members club which has traditionally been single gender".
"The reported chauvinistic attitudes are denied," it added.
Chesterfield Bowling Club has since taken a vote on the matter and decided to stay as it is but said it could allow women to join in future.
"The possibility of admitting female members has been the subject of committee discussion after being raised by an active member of the club," it said.
"As a result the opinion of the present membership was recently canvassed. The subject is not closed and is set for review."
The former member has since joined a club that admits females.
"They are very good players," he said. "They beat me every time, which I don't mind at all."
Tajamul Islam won the sub-junior World Kickboxing Championship in Italy in November.
She has been winning local championships since last year, and now aspires to participate in the Olympics.
Photographer Abid Bhat chronicles the life and times of the troubled region's newest heroine.
Tajamul comes from a village in Bandipora district, some 65km (40 miles) from the main city of Srinagar. Her father works as a driver with a construction company and earns 10,000 rupees ($146; £117) a month.
She began kickboxing at an early age and picked up a gold medal in a state championship in Jammu last year.
She defeated a 13-year-old opponent to pick up the gold medal in India's national kickboxing championship in 2015.
"I was a little afraid when I saw her [my opponent]. But then I said to myself that age or body structure does not matter. I will remain focused and give it my best shot," she said, after her win.
Tajamul began kickboxing in 2014 when she joined a local martial arts training academy.
"I was walking near the stadium here when I saw many young boys and girls training. I saw them punching and all that and told my father that I wanted to join them and he let me," she told a journalist.
Every day she puts on her boxing gloves, punches the sand bag and does her stretches under the watchful eyes of her local coach Faisal Ali.
Mr Ali says she has sometimes practised up to 25 hours a week.
Earlier this month, Tajamul won the gold medal in the sub-junior world championship, winning six bouts in five days. Some 90 countries participated in the event, where she defeated opponents from China, Japan, France, Italy, Canada and the US.
Tajamul's neighbours are turning up in droves to congratulate her after her return from Italy. Many garland her, shower her with gifts and carry her around the village.
She has become a celebrity of sorts as people recognise her on the streets and take selfies with her. She has also become an inspiration for the youth in the Kashmir valley.
Tajamul's brother and two sisters also practice kickboxing.
"It is in their genes. All the siblings are champions, but Tajamul is far ahead of the pack," Shabnam Kounser, principal of her school told the Press Trust of India news agency.
"She has a fighting spirit even though she looks soft-spoken and cute. Do not be fooled by her innocent looks, they are deceptive."
Her mother has been very supportive of her daughter's sporting efforts.
Tajamul is close to her younger brother, Adnan-ul-Islam, who wants to follow in her footsteps. She often plays with Adnan and does not mind pretending to lose to him.
A student of the Indian Army's Goodwill School, Tajamul frequently tops her class and participates in all extracurricular activities at school.
"She dances well. She has her own team here and teaches them dancing. She is a bright kid and very good at studies," Ms Kounser says.
Tajamul says she wants to become a doctor.
"It will have its own benefits. I will first break my opponents bones and then treat them," she says with a laugh.
Judge Michael Pastor gave the ruling against Dr Conrad Murray at a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles.
Prosecutors say that he gave Jackson a lethal dose of a powerful anaesthetic mixed with other sedatives and then failed to provide proper care.
Dr Murray, 57, has pleaded not guilty, and says he did not give Jackson anything potentially lethal.
Judge Pastor made the order against the cardiologist on the sixth day of the hearing. He also granted a request by the California Medical Board to suspend the licence of Dr Murray to practise in the state.
Dr Murray faces up to four years in prison if convicted at trial.
Earlier, Detective Orlando Martinez, who interviewed Dr Murray two days after Mr Jackson's death in June 2009, gave evidence to the court.
Mr Martinez told the hearing Dr Murray said that Jackson told him on the day he died he would have to cancel his comeback concerts in London unless he had a dose of the anaesthetic, propofol.
The detective said Dr Murray admitted giving Jackson it after a night administering lesser drugs to help him sleep.
The doctor said he then left the room for "two minutes" to go to the bathroom, but on returning found the singer had stopped breathing, Mr Martinez said.
Dr Murray started to try to resuscitate Mr Jackson but told the detective he did not call for an ambulance himself because "he said he was caring for his patient and he did not want to neglect him".
Prosecutors say that phone records show the doctor made a series of other calls before an ambulance was finally called more than an hour later.
Mr Martinez also said Dr Murray told him he had given Mr Jackson doses of propofol six nights a week for two months but was trying to wean him off the drug as he feared his patient was becoming addicted.
During closing arguments at the hearing, Dr Murray's lawyer, Joseph Low, said the case should be dismissed because prosecutors had not adequately proved how Dr Murray caused Jackson's death. He also said Jackson's health may have been a contributing cause.
Belgium-born Moussa, 26, joins the League One Saddlers after his short-term deal with the Shrimpers finished at the end of last season.
"I'm really pleased to have signed and I feel this is a club where I will fit in nicely," Moussa told the club's official website.
He becomes Walsall boss Jon Whitney's eighth signing of the summer.
Moussa started his career at Southend, scoring eight goals in 103 games, before moving to Leicester City in August 2010.
He had a more prolific spell in two seasons with the Sky Blues from September 2012, where he scored 20 times in 92 appearances.
Moussa rejoined Southend in March on non-contract terms after spending most of last season at Charlton.
"I feel this is a big season for me," Moussa added. "A lot of trust and confidence has been put in me to perform and I really want to do that and hopefully we can have success as a team."
Moussa's deal has an option for a further year and he joins Joe Edwards, Kacy Milan Butterfield, Erhun Oztumer, Florent Cuvelier and Theo Vassell in signing permanent contracts at the Banks's Stadium.
Southampton defender Jason McCarthy and West Ham midfielder George Dobson have also arrived on loan.
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Ysgol Dewi Sant in St Davids will open as a new 3-16 school from September 2018 as part of education shake-ups.
Pembrokeshire council wants to redevelop the school site and is considering moving pupils 16 miles away to Tasker Milward School in Haverfordwest.
But it insists "no decisions have been made" and discussions are taking place.
The council sent a letter to the school's chair of governors this week, prompting anger from parents and pupils across social media over a lack of transparency.
Among their concerns were transport, increased travel times and relocating pupils during exam years. They are now calling for a public meeting with the council.
The council said it was in the process of developing a scheme which would result in the part redevelopment of the Ysgol Dewi Sant site as part of its 21st Century Schools Programme.
Its preferred scheme would result in the demolition of an existing school block and the development of new accommodation.
The council said the school "occupies a constrained site" and is considering "various pupil decanting options" including a temporary relocation to another school site.
It is currently considering using part of the Tasker Milward School site and discussions are taking place with the school's head teacher and trustees.
The school reorganisations, approved by Cabinet Secretary for Education last year, will see:
4th century - Migrants from the north settle, joining the indigenous San and Khoikhoi people.
Anti-Apartheid icon walks free after 25 years in prison to become a revered statesman
Obituary: Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela: Timeline
1480s - Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu Dias is the first European to travel round the southern tip of Africa.
1497 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama lands on Natal coast.
1652 - Jan van Riebeeck, representing the Dutch East India Company, founds the Cape Colony at Table Bay.
1795 - British forces seize Cape Colony from the Netherlands. Territory is returned to the Dutch in 1803; ceded to the British in 1806.
1816-1826 - Shaka Zulu founds and expands the Zulu empire, creates a formidable fighting force.
1835-1840 - Boers leave Cape Colony in the 'Great Trek' and found the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.
1852 - British grant limited self-government to the Transvaal.
1856 - Natal separates from the Cape Colony.
Late 1850s - Boers proclaim the Transvaal a republic.
1860-1911 - Arrival of thousands of labourers and traders from India, forebears of the majority of South Africa's current Indian population.
1867 - Diamonds discovered at Kimberley.
1877 - Britain annexes the Transvaal.
1879 - British defeat the Zulus in Natal.
1880-81 - Boers rebel against the British, sparking the first Anglo-Boer War. Conflict ends with a negotiated peace. Transvaal is restored as a republic.
Mid 1880s - Gold is discovered in the Transvaal, triggering the gold rush.
1899 - British troops gather on the Transvaal border and ignore an ultimatum to disperse. The second Anglo-Boer War begins.
1902 - Treaty of Vereeniging ends the second Anglo-Boer War. The Transvaal and Orange Free State are made self-governing colonies of the British Empire.
1910 - Formation of Union of South Africa by former British colonies of the Cape and Natal, and the Boer republics of Transvaal, and Orange Free State.
1912 - Native National Congress founded, later renamed the African National Congress (ANC).
1913 - Land Act introduced to prevent blacks, except those living in Cape Province, from buying land outside reserves.
1914 - National Party founded.
1918 - Secret Broederbond (brotherhood) established to advance the Afrikaner cause.
Police killed protesters, sparking international outrage
South Africa marks 1960 massacre
1919 - South West Africa (Namibia) comes under South African administration.
1934 - The Union of South Africa parliament enacts the Status of the Union Act, which declares the country to be "a sovereign independent state". The move followed on from Britain's passing of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, which removed the last vestiges of British legal authority over South Africa.
1948 - Policy of apartheid (separateness) adopted when National Party (NP) takes power.
1950 - Population classified by race. Group Areas Act passed to segregate blacks and whites. Communist Party banned. ANC responds with campaign of civil disobedience, led by Nelson Mandela.
1960 - Seventy black demonstrators killed at Sharpeville. ANC banned.
1961 - South Africa declared a republic, leaves the Commonwealth. Mandela heads ANC's new military wing, which launches sabotage campaign.
1960s - International pressure against government begins, South Africa excluded from Olympic Games.
1964 - ANC leader Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment.
1966 September - Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd assassinated.
1970s - More than 3 million people forcibly resettled in black 'homelands'.
1976 - More than 600 killed in clashes between black protesters and security forces during uprising which starts in Soweto.
People rallied against the white government, which hit back violently
Why the Soweto protests erupted
How Soweto changed everything
1984-89 - Township revolt, state of emergency.
1989 - FW de Klerk replaces PW Botha as president, meets Mandela. Public facilities desegregated. Many ANC activists freed.
1990 - ANC unbanned, Mandela released after 27 years in prison. Namibia becomes independent.
1991 - Start of multi-party talks. De Klerk repeals remaining apartheid laws, international sanctions lifted. Major fighting between ANC and Zulu Inkatha movement.
1993 - Agreement on interim constitution.
1994 April - ANC wins first non-racial elections. Mandela becomes president, Government of National Unity formed, Commonwealth membership restored, remaining sanctions lifted. South Africa takes seat in UN General Assembly after 20-year absence.
1996 - Truth and Reconciliation Commission chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu begins hearings on human rights crimes committed by former government and liberation movements during apartheid era.
FW de Klerk, left, oversaw the end of apartheid and won the Nobel Peace Prize with his successor, Nelson Mandela, right
FW de Klerk: Overseer of transition
1990: De Klerk dismantles apartheid in South Africa
1996 - Parliament adopts new constitution. National Party withdraws from coalition, saying it is being ignored.
1998 - Truth and Reconciliation Commission report brands apartheid a crime against humanity and finds the ANC accountable for human rights abuses.
1999 - ANC wins general elections, Thabo Mbeki takes over as president.
2000 December - ANC prevails in local elections. Recently-formed Democratic Alliance captures nearly a quarter of the votes. The Inkatha Freedom Party wins 9%.
2001 April - 39 multi-national pharmaceutical companies halt a legal battle to stop South Africa importing generic Aids drugs. The decision is hailed as a victory for the world's poorest countries in their efforts to import cheaper drugs to combat the virus.
2001 May - An official panel considers allegations of corruption surrounding a 1999 arms deal involving British, French, German, Italian, Swedish and South African firms. In November the panel clears the government of unlawful conduct.
2001 September - Durban hosts UN race conference.
2001 December - High Court rules that pregnant women must be given Aids drugs to help prevent transmission of the virus to their babies.
2002 April - Court acquits Dr Wouter Basson - dubbed "Dr Death" - who ran apartheid-era germ warfare programme. Basson had faced charges of murder and conspiracy. ANC condemns verdict.
2002 July - Constitutional court orders government to provide key anti-Aids drug at all public hospitals. Government had argued drug was too costly.
2002 October - Bomb explosions in Soweto and a blast near Pretoria are thought to be the work of right-wing extremists. Separately, police charge 17 right-wingers with plotting against the state.
2003 May - Walter Sisulu, a key figure in the anti-apartheid struggle, dies aged 91. Thousands gather to pay their last respects.
2003 November - Government approves major programme to treat and tackle HIV/Aids. It envisages network of drug-distributon centres and preventative programmes. Cabinet had previously refused to provide anti-Aids medicine via public health system.
2004 April - Ruling ANC wins landslide election victory, gaining nearly 70% of votes. Thabo Mbeki begins a second term as president. Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi is dropped from the cabinet.
2005 March - Investigators exhume the first bodies in a Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigation into the fates of hundreds of people who disappeared in the apartheid era.
2005 May - Geographical names committee recommends that the culture minister should approve a name change for the capital from Pretoria to Tshwane.
2005 June - President Mbeki sacks his deputy, Jacob Zuma, in the aftermath of a corruption case.
Mr Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, was ousted in 2008 and succeeded by his rival, Jacob Zuma
Rise and fall of Thabo Mbeki
Why Mbeki had to go
2005 August - Around 100,000 gold miners strike over pay, bringing the industry to a standstill.
2006 May - Former deputy president Jacob Zuma is acquitted of rape charges by the High Court in Johannesburg. He is reinstated as deputy leader of the governing African National Congress.
2006 June - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits and promises to limit clothing exports to help South Africa's ailing textile industry.
2006 September - Corruption charges against former deputy president Zuma are dismissed, boosting his bid for the presidency.
2006 December - South Africa becomes the first African country, and the fifth in the world, to allow same-sex unions.
2007 April - President Mbeki, often accused of turning a blind eye to crime, urges South Africans to join forces to bring rapists, drug dealers and corrupt officials to justice.
2007 May - Cape Town mayor Helen Zille is elected as new leader of the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA).
2007 June - Hundreds of thousands of public-sector workers take part in the biggest strike since the end of apartheid. The strike lasts for four weeks and causes widespread disruption to schools, hospitals and public transport.
Political leader Mahatma Gandhi is revered in South Africa where he spent two decades fighting for basic rights of Indians
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2007 December - Zuma is elected chairman of the ANC, placing him in a strong position to become the next president. Prosecutors bring new corruption charges against him.
2008 May - Wave of violence directed at foreigners hits townships across the country. Dozens of people die and thousands of Zimbabweans, Malawians and Mozambicans return home.
2008 September - A judge throws out a corruption case against ruling ANC party chief Jacob Zuma, opening the way for him to stand as the country's president in 2009.
President Mbeki resigns over allegations that he interfered in the corruption case against Mr Zuma. ANC deputy leader Kgalema Motlanthe is chosen by parliament as president.
New party launched
2008 December - A new political party is launched in Bloemfontein, in the first real challenge to the governing ANC. The Congress of the People - or Cope - is made up largely of defectors from the ANC and is headed by former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota.
2009 January - Appeals court rules that state prosecutors can resurrect their corruption case against ANC leader Jacob Zuma, opening the way for Mr Zuma's trial to be resumed, just months before general election.
2009 April - Public prosecutors drop corruption case against Jacob Zuma.
ANC wins general election.
2009 May - Parliament elects Jacob Zuma as president.
Economy goes into recession for first time in 17 years.
2009 July - Township residents complaining about poor living conditions mount violent protests.
2010 June - South Africa hosts the World Cup football tournament.
2010 August - Civil servants stage nation-wide strike.
2011 May - Local elections, with opposition Democratic Alliance nearly doubling its share of the vote since the last poll.
President Zuma mediates in Libyan conflict.
2011 October - President Zuma sacks two ministers accused of corruption.
Opposition Democratic Alliance picks a black woman - Lindiwe Mazibuko - as its leader in parliament.
2011 November - The ANC suspends its controversial and influential youth leader, Julius Malema, for five years for bringing the party into disrepute.
The killing of 34 striking miners at the Marikana platinum mine shocked South Africa
Wake-up call for ANC
Leaders ignore lessons at their peril
National Assembly overwhelmingly approves information bill accused by critics of posing a threat to freedom of speech. The ANC says it is needed to safeguard national security.
2012 July - Member of white extremist group found guilty of plotting to kill Mandela and trying to overthrow government.
2012 August-October - Police open fire on workers at a platinum mine in Marikana, killing at least 34 people, and leaving at least 78 injured and arresting more than 200 others. Prosecutors drop murder charges in September against 270 miners after a public outcry, and the government sets up a judicial commission of inquiry in October.
2012 September - Former ANC youth leader Julius Malema is charged with money laundering over a government tender awarded to a company partly owned by his family trust. Mr Malema says the case is a politically motivated attempt to silence his campaign against President Zuma, in particular over the Marikana shootings.
2012 October - Platinum mine owner Amplats fires 12,000 striking miners as wave of wildcat strikes shows little sign of abating.
2012 December - President Zuma re-elected as leader of the ANC.
2013 October - Members of a white supremacist group accused of bombings in Johannesburg's Soweto township in 2002, and of plotting to murder Nelson Mandela, are found guilty and given long sentences.
2013 December - Nelson Mandela dies, aged 95. Tributes to "the father of the nation" flood in from throughout the world.
2013 March - The anti-corruption ombudsman heavily criticises President Zuma for a twenty million dollar upgrade to his private home.
2014 May - Ruling ANC party wins a majority in general elections.
2014 October - Paralympics athlete Oscar Pistorius - nicknamed the ''Blade Runner'' because of his prosthetic limbs - is sentenced to five years in jail for killing his girlfriend.
2015 February - President Zuma announces plans to limit farm sizes and ban foreign farmland-ownership in an attempt to redistribute land to black farmers - a longstanding ANC pledge.
Power utility Eskom rations electricity to prevent power cuts, blaming years of poor maintenance.
2015 March-April - A spate of anti-immigrant attacks leaves several people dead.
2015 June - Government receives unwelcome international attention over allegations of bribery to disgraced international footballing body Fifa to secure 2010 World Cup, and allowing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to visit despite International Criminal Court arrest warrant over genocide and war-crimes charges.
The nine-day Royal National Mòd, which will take place from 14-22 October, was last held in the Western Isles in 2011.
Organisers An Comunn Gàidhealach said last year's event in Oban was estimated to have generated about £3m for the local economy.
The Mòd features music, dance and arts competitions and performances.
This year's opening ceremony will include headline performances by Gaelic group Dàimh and the Mischa Macpherson Trio.
Lewis Pipe Band will also lead the festival's traditional torchlight procession, which is held on the opening night of the Mòd.
John Morrison, chief executive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, said a "tremendous amount" of entries had been received for this year's competitions.
He added: "The Mòd is a huge highlight in Scotland's cultural calendar, attracting Gaels and non-Gaels from across the world to celebrate our diverse range of events and competitions.
"We're delighted to have the Mischa Macpherson Trio and Dàimh play at this year's opening ceremony, setting the tone for what will be a tremendous Royal National Mòd 2016."
Norman MacDonald, convener of the Western Isles' local authority Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, said: "With only a month to go until the Mòd begins with the torchlight parade through Stornoway followed by the opening ceremony at the Lewis Sports Centre, preparations are at an advanced stage.
"The Royal National Mòd brings huge economic benefits to the area at a time when the peak tourism season has more or less come to an end."
The 31-year-old was placed on report by referee Richard Silverwood after catching Giants full-back Scott Grix late during the 24-8 loss on Friday.
But the Rugby Football League's review panel judged that the initial contact was with Grix's shoulder.
Bowen can now face Sydney Roosters in Sydney on Saturday, 22 February.
The former Australia international was making his Super League debut for the Warriors following his winter move from NRL side North Queensland Cowboys.
Champions Wigan have taken a squad of 27 players down under and will begin their preparations for the World Club Challenge with a warm-up fixture against New Zealand Warriors on Wednesday.
Didier Deschamps' side ran amok to underline their pre-tournament billing as favourites.
Olivier Giroud answered some of his critics with the opening two goals and his Arsenal team-mate Laurent Koscielny headed a third before the break.
Substitutions mercifully broke up the second-half rhythm, allowing the Scots to escape with their dignity intact.
The reality is that this performance and result are no indication in helping to answer that question, but the tournament hosts certainly appear to have the quality to do so.
Their midfield options are mouth-watering - the trio of N'Golo Kante, Paul Pogba and Blaise Matuidi look masterful, oozing power and athleticism.
Giroud has been booed by French supporters and criticised by local media in the build-up to the Euros, but a crafty back-heel and an alert close-range rebound earned him a standing ovation from the Metz public.
Kingsley Coman, Dimitri Payet, Antoine Griezmann and Anthony Martial were also given game time as Deschamps examined his options before Friday's competitive bow against Romania in Paris.
Questions have been asked about the strength of their defence, but Scotland offered no test of that.
Gordon Strachan lamented his side's inability to pass and control the ball in Sunday's 1-0 defeat by Italy and there was little to be pleased about on this occasion either.
They were afforded more possession than against the Italians, but rarely used it purposefully and once again failed to muster a shot on target.
Goalkeeper David Marshall, as he did six days ago, kept the damage to a minimum with a host of splendid saves and will be difficult to displace when the World Cup qualifiers begin in September.
Another small crumb of comfort for the Scotland coach will be an assured display from young Swansea full-back Stephen Kingsley when he came on in the second half, with Rangers winger Barrie McKay also making his senior international debut from the bench.
Pogba ran the show in imperious fashion and twice came within inches of adding a fourth goal, first striking the post with a fierce free-kick before curling another on to the roof of the net.
Match ends, France 3, Scotland 0.
Second Half ends, France 3, Scotland 0.
Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (France) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Bacary Sagna with a cross.
Corner, France. Conceded by Ikechi Anya.
Substitution, France. Moussa Sissoko replaces N'Golo Kanté.
Attempt missed. Steven Naismith (Scotland) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Barrie McKay.
Foul by Antoine Griezmann (France).
Ikechi Anya (Scotland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Scotland. Barrie McKay replaces James McArthur.
Substitution, France. Lucas Digne replaces Patrice Evra.
Attempt missed. Yohan Cabaye (France) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (France) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Antoine Griezmann (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Charlie Mulgrew (Scotland).
Foul by Antoine Griezmann (France).
Stephen Kingsley (Scotland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hugo Lloris (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Naismith (Scotland).
Corner, Scotland. Conceded by Patrice Evra.
Attempt saved. Yohan Cabaye (France) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Martial.
Paul Pogba (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James McArthur (Scotland).
Substitution, France. Yohan Cabaye replaces Blaise Matuidi.
Corner, Scotland. Conceded by Bacary Sagna.
Substitution, Scotland. Stephen Kingsley replaces Robert Snodgrass.
Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (France) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Blaise Matuidi with a cross.
Attempt saved. Adil Rami (France) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Paul Pogba (France) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Substitution, France. André-Pierre Gignac replaces Olivier Giroud.
Blaise Matuidi (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James McArthur (Scotland).
Corner, France. Conceded by David Marshall.
Corner, France. Conceded by James McArthur.
Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (France) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Blaise Matuidi.
Substitution, Scotland. Steven Naismith replaces Steven Fletcher.
Attempt blocked. Antoine Griezmann (France) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Foul by Olivier Giroud (France).
James McArthur (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Steven Fletcher (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ikechi Anya with a cross.
Attempt missed. Adil Rami (France) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann with a cross following a corner.
She is visiting Action for Children centres in Torfaen and Caerphilly.
The duchess took over the role of royal patron from the Queen in December.
Sir Tony Hawkhead, the charity's chief executive, said he was "thrilled" to introduce her "to the specialised work we do with families".
The duchess visited Torfaen Multi-disciplinary Intervention Service (MIST), a child and adolescent mental health project, where she enjoyed an impromptu game of pool with teenagers who use the service.
Craig, 15, who became her team-mate, said: "She was talking about how MIST helps us and stuff with life and school. She was really interested in what we were talking about."
Asked what he thought of her pool skills he pulled a face and said: "She was dreadful."
Children's services manager Jenny Welham said the visit was "important" for the families helped by the project.
"It's a celebration of the hard work that they've achieved and the changes that they've made in their lives," she said.
"Lots of our children come from very difficult backgrounds so to have the duchess come and celebrate with them the changes they've made, is really important."
Later, the duchess was given flowers by Ypapanti, eight, and Chloe, 10, and told them "both George and Charlotte would have loved to have met you".
Chloe said she had always wanted to meet a member of the royal family and had managed to get "five hugs" from the duchess.
The duchess went on to visit the Caerphilly Family Intervention Team, which works with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, problems with family relationships and those who have or who are likely to self-harm.
She also sat in on a private family therapy session and take part in a round-table discussion to learn more about the issues children and families face and the support Action for Children provides.
Sir Tony said: "We are very grateful to Her Royal Highness for her continued interest in the vital work we do, not just in Wales, but at our 600 services across the UK."
Yorkshire posted 180-5, which included a 31-ball 42 from debutant Sarfraz Ahmed and 34 from Adam Lyth.
Billy Godleman (67) and Wayne Madsen (47) led their chase as Gary Wilson hit the winning runs with two balls left.
Elsewhere, South Group leaders Glamorgan lost in their rain-disrupted match against Gloucestershire.
Having lost just three times in their past 12 outings coming into the game, Yorkshire posed a tough challenge for Derbyshire at Headingley.
But, in a thrilling finale going into the final over, Wilson hit the winning four to finish on an unbeaten 33 from 16 balls as Derbyshire recorded their sixth T20 Blast win this season.
Gloucestershire sealed a dramatic T20 Blast victory by five runs thanks to DLS, as rain played havoc with play against Glamorgan in Cardiff.
Thisara Perera had bowled Jacques Rudolph in the last ball of the fifth over to leave the Welsh county on 32-2 before the rain fell.
Earlier, Phil Mustard hit 57 for the visitors but Michael Hogan claimed a career-best 5-17 to limit Gloucestershire to 150-9.
It means Glamorgan have had four games washed out this season and they are now just a point ahead of Hampshire, while Gloucestershire move up to fourth.
Hampshire ensured a fifth win from their past seven away games as they easily beat Middlesex in front of 20,000 at Lord's.
Without overseas players Brendon McCullum and Tim Southee and England's Dawid Malan, Toby Roland-Jones and Steven Finn, Stevie Eskinazi was the only star of the hosts' innings as they struggled against Hampshire's bowling attack.
Eskinazi hit five fours and one six for his 43 before he was bowled by Mason Crane and the hosts quickly fell to 136 all out, five balls shy of 20 overs.
Rilee Rossouw fired 60 from 47 balls as the visitors made easy work of reaching their target as they posted 137-4 on a balmy north London summer's evening.
Rossouw's half-century was not the only pick of the action at the home of cricket on Thursday though.
Fourteen overs into Hampshire's innings, a fox ran onto the field. Much like the visitors, the staff at Lord's made quick work of the chase.
Northants and Lancashire faced each other in a repeat of the 2015 T20 Blast final, but this time it was Northants who came out on top.
Fresh from their agonising final-ball defeat by Birmingham Bears on Tuesday, Richard Levi hit a tremendous 71 for Northants, which included five fours and three sixes.
Adam Rossington added 29 while captain Alex Wakely posted an unbeaten 35 to set the visitors a target of 159.
Ryan McLaren, aided by Dane Vilas (40), hit a superb 77 to give Lancashire hope of a successful chase - but it was not enough.
Requiring 26 from the final over, McLaren hit two successive sixes before he was caught by Rob Keogh off Rory Kleinveldt (3-16) and the Red Rose finished 11 runs short on 147-9.
With just one win from eight matches, Sussex were rooted to the foot of the T20 Blast South Group table going into their game against Surrey.
However, the south coast county stormed to victory with a huge 6.3 overs to spare in Hove.
Surrey posted 148-8 with Moises Henriques - playing his first Surrey match since breaking his jaw after a collision with team-mate Rory Burns in 2015 - top scoring with 41 but Tymal Mils (3-20) was the pick of the hosts' bowling attack.
Chris Nash hit nine fours and three sixes for his 64 to put on 120 for the first wicket with Stiaan van Zyl (52) as the hosts made easy work of their chase.
Can Derbyshire win the T20 Blast North Group?
If you've got an image in your mind of cheery fish mongers bowing and wishing you the Japanese equivalent of "top of the morning", forget it.
You get pushed and shoved, told "you're in the way!" At every step you're nearly run down by a three-wheeled electric cart careening through the tiny alleyways.
The message is clear - if you don't work here you're not really welcome.
Nor is Tsukiji any sort of architectural gem. Anyone expecting a Japanese version of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar is going to be disappointed.
Tsukiji is a sprawling collection of corrugated iron sheds put up in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake. It's old, rundown, dirty and overcrowded.
But you don't come here for architecture. You come for the fish and in this Tsukiji really is like nowhere else.
Every fish you've ever heard of is traded here, and many you haven't. There are giant spider crabs from Russia, scallops and sea urchin, squid and octopus, oysters and crayfish, salmon roe and sea cucumber.
But what Tsukiji is really famous for is tuna. More giant Pacific and Atlantic bluefin tuna are traded here than anywhere else in the world.
The action starts a little after 4am. In a long refrigerated hall, hundreds of shiny black and silver tuna are laid out in neat rows.
Some are 1.5m (5ft) long and weigh over 200kg (441lbs). Men in blue overalls and wellington boots are bending over, pulling open the gills and peering inside. These are the wholesalers who have licences to bid in the morning auctions.
At 5am the auction bells start ringing. The auctioneers step on to small wooden stools and the bidding begins.
The pace is frenetic. Six auctions are going at once. One auctioneer shouts, two others chant and the nearest sounds like he is singing.
There are maybe 1,000 tuna laid out here, but it's all over in a matter of minutes. The 200kg monsters are hauled away on handcarts by their new owners.
At his shop, deep in the bowels of the market, Toichiro Iida is waiting as one of the huge tuna is hauled in.
Now the real work begins.
First the fish is carefully washed and scrubbed. A muscular young man picks up a terrifying-looking knife called a 'Maguro-Bocho'.
The blade is 1.5m long and extremely sharp. Still, it takes all his strength and the help of a colleague to cut through the fish. After each cut, the meat is carefully wiped clean with a white cloth.
The final delicate jointing is done by Iida-san himself. His customers call in their orders - 2kg for this one, 5kg another. Some customers turn up to watch in person.
"Our customers trust me," Iida-san tells me.
"My eyes, my skill to find the fish which they like. If they come here I want to explain how it is, where it was caught, how it was caught, what it will taste like."
Carefully Iida-San takes another knife - this one the size of a samurai sword. In one smooth movement slices through the meat. Each joint is again carefully wiped with another fresh white cloth.
Finally the meat is gift-wrapped in dark green tissue paper, packed in ice, and dispatched to the customer. By lunchtime it will be served at the most expensive sushi restaurants in nearby Ginza.
Iida-san's family has been doing this for eight generations. In the 1850s, when the shoguns still ruled Japan, his forebears had a shop in the old fish market near Nihonbashi bridge.
That was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. In 1935, his grandfather moved to the new Tsukiji market.
Now they have been told to move again, across Tokyo Bay to an artificial island that used to be home to a chemical plant. The new market is beautiful, with vast white air-conditioned halls.
But no one is happy. For Iida-San, it's too far from his customers.
"I don't want to move. Ginza has 200 sushi shops. That culture was made by this place because we are close. It's only a 10-minute walk from there to this market," he says.
The new site is also contaminated. The old chemical plant seriously polluted ground water beneath the new market. It was supposed to have been cleaned up.
But Tokyo's recently elected governor, Yuriko Koike, ordered new tests. Those have found benzene levels 79 times higher than government safety limits.
"I find myself with a renewed sense of surprise at how things have turned out," the chairman of the Tsukiji Market Association, Hiroyasu Ito, told the Kyodo news agency.
That's a bit of Japanese understatement. The site of the new market was supposed to have been covered with a thick layer of clean soil before construction began. Now it turns out that was never done.
Some fish wholesalers say they suspect the old Tokyo administration may have altered data in the original ground water tests in order to get the market move approved.
For the traders, it means more waiting and more uncertainty.
On the day I visit Tsukiji, it's supposed to be the last New Year auction ever to be held here. There's always excitement for the first big auction of the year, mainly because of the antics of one man.
Kiyoshi Kimura is the president of Japan's most successful sushi chain. Each January the rotund figure of Mr Kimura can be seen pushing the bids to astonishing levels.
In 2013 he paid over $1.7m (£1.4m) for a single 222kg bluefin. This year the bidding is a little more modest. He manages to net a 212kg fish for just 74 million yen ($652,000, £538,000).
At that price Mr Kimura is making a massive loss on every piece of sushi from the fish. Of course, it's a publicity stunt. His astronomic bids gain him headlines across Japan and around the world.
For some watching from the sidelines, Mr Kimura's annual stunt is in poor taste.
The world's appetite for bluefin tuna is running far ahead of the fish's ability to reproduce. Latest estimates suggest that since the 1960s stocks of Atlantic bluefin have fallen by over 95%.
The Pacific bluefin was thought to be in better shape, but recent surveys suggest it too is in deep trouble.
Attempts have been made in the United Nations to impose a temporary ban on catching Atlantic bluefin to allow the stocks to recover. But Japan and its allies have blocked them.
Toichiro Iida has seen the effect.
"When I started working in this market every day at the auction we had maybe 5,000 frozen tuna and 2,000 to 2,500 fresh tuna.
But now we have 1,000 or less frozen tuna each day, and fresh tuna is 200 or 100 or less. We don't have enough fish to sell to our customers."
I ask him if he now fears for the future of his business.
"Yes," he says, nodding his head vigorously. "I think maybe it's going to be like what happened to the whale."
The global media giant reported profits of $1.6bn (£1.05bn) for the period between July and September compared with $1.5bn at the same time last year.
Television revenue has climbed, despite Americans dropping cable subscriptions in favour of on-demand providers such as Netflix.
Revenue for Disney's parks and resorts reached $4.4bn.
The company attributed the growth to increased visitor numbers at parks in the US and Disneyland Paris.
The company's television channels also saw a rise in revenue, which climbed 12%.
Investors had been concerned because audiences have been abandoning traditional television, but in the event profits from cable TV increased by $381m for the quarter to $1.7bn.
Analysts had been watching to see what Disney would say about the number of ESPN subscribers, which were down last quarter.
Disney said subscribers had increased in this quarter and attributed the growth to the new ESPN affiliate channel, SEC Network, which launched in August 2014.
The sports network makes up 40% of Disney's revenue.
Last month ESPN announced it was cutting 300 employees or 4% of its global workforce.
The film arm of Disney came in flat bringing in $1.8bn in revenue during the quarter.
The company is expecting a marked increase in this area next quarter when it releases the latest film in the Star Wars series.
"The next focus for investors is how much Star Wars is going to bring in," said Martin Pyykkonen senior research analyst at Rosenblatt Securities.
"There has been a lot of hype, pre-order ticket sales have been high and there will be a lot of merchandise that flows from that," he said.
From Wednesday, passengers on Easyjet flights from Turkey and Egypt to the UK must put large electronic devices, including e-readers, in the hold.
The airline said passengers would face extra security checks and advised them to arrive early at their airport.
The government is set to face an urgent question on the issue in the Commons.
The ban, announced by the UK government on Tuesday, applies to certain direct flights to the UK from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.
The ban applies to any device larger than 16cm long, 9.3cm wide or 1.5cm deep. It includes smart phones, but most fall inside these limits.
The government has not given a start-date for the ban, but says affected airlines are "in the process of implementing it".
Other UK carriers affected include British Airways, Jet2.com, Monarch, Thomas Cook and Thomson.
Overseas airlines affected are Turkish Airlines, Pegasus Airways, Atlas-Global Airlines, Middle East Airlines, EgyptAir, Royal Jordanian, Tunis Air and Saudia.
The ban follows a similar move in the US, where officials say bombs could be hidden in a series of devices.
Somalia has not had a functioning government for more than two decades. Since the collapse of the state in 1991, the country has become a haven for pirates and al-Qaeda affiliated militants, who have seized the attention of the world.
The Somali community in the UK as well as other Western countries has become linked to these scourges, so it comes as a breath of fresh air to have a Somali-born Brit bring such joy to many British households who might have previously had other opinions about Somali people.
I am particularly hopeful that the "Mo Farah effect" can bring Somalis and the different communities here in Britain closer together, to truly appreciate the human aspirations and commonalities we share as part of this melting pot known as Great Britain.
I was in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, for the past two weeks so I unfortunately missed the chance of catching any of the Games live, but I made sure I watched on every TV at my disposal and I wasn't the only one.
At every big screen one couldn't escape from the roaring crowd, all vying to see Mo in action.
People adore him in Mogadishu, and rightly so.
It is his birthplace and most of the local youngsters feel that sense of connection with him.
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While mingling with local people, I noticed the amazing ability of one person to be able to transcend disparities and bring together people who had been separated and turned against each other by power, greed and clan animosity, despite being many miles away.
Mogadishu is a city divided by tumultuous conflict, with most people separated by their political or religious views, but for the brief moments that Mo was on TV, everyone came together, united as Somalis.
And the same was true of Somali-inhabited territories elsewhere in East Africa.
On my way to the UK, I had the chance to make a pit-stop in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, where I visited Eastleigh - a densely populated neighbourhood where nearly all residents are ethnic Somalis.
Here too, Mo Farah was a superhero. Young children were cheerfully shaping the "Mobot" - Mo's signature victory sign.
Similar celebrations were taking place online on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Somalis were overwhelmed with joy and Mo reciprocated their support by expressing his sense of appreciation for all Somalis, irrespective of where in Somalia they came from or which clan they belonged to.
This, I think, has further lifted the reverence the Somali people had for him.
He chose to appreciate the bigger picture in a deeply divided society and as a result has perhaps created a sense of unity that has long been missing in the Somali community.
Additionally, he has remained true to his religious beliefs, giving a Muslim prayer after each win and thanking Allah for his victory.
This will no doubt restore confidence in the Somali youth, who often grapple with finding a balance between their Western upbringing, Somali roots and Muslim faith.
I am optimistic that his win will shed light on a different kind of role model Somalis can look up to and aspire to emulate, and maybe we might be lucky enough to see more Somali-British youngsters competing in the next Olympics.
He is already an inspiration to Somali Olympians Zamzam Mohamed Farah and Mohamed Hassan Mohamed, who competed in the London Olympics representing Somalia.
They both cited Mo, saying they have tried to emulate him since they caught sight of him in the last Olympics in China.
Mo's display of his faith portrays to the rest of Britain that Somalis can remain true to their beliefs while fully integrating with the wider society, which will hopefully counter-balance the common association of Muslims with fundamentalism.
It is precisely for these reasons that I think Mo will remain dearly cherished by all Somalis both inside the country and in the diaspora and I hope his effect will stretch wide enough for all of them to unite once again.
It is understood that Barra McGrory QC will stay in office until the autumn.
He became the first Catholic to hold the post when he was appointed in November 2011.
In recent months he has been in the eye of a political storm for prosecuting former soldiers for killings during Northern Ireland's Troubles.
His appointment five-and-a-half years ago ruffled the feathers of some unionist politicians.
As one of Northern Ireland's best known criminal lawyers he had represented Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and other senior republicans.
Mr McGrory pointed out that he had also represented loyalist paramilitaries, unionist politicians and former police officers.
He has been strongly criticised by a number of Conservative Party MPs and the Democratic Unionist Party in recent months for decisions to prosecute former soldiers.
They claimed that cases involving soldiers were being unfairly prioritised.
There were even calls for him to be sacked.
Earlier this year, he told the BBC that those who accused him of treating former soldiers unfairly had insulted him and his office.
Mr McGrory said he was mystified by the claims that he did not act impartially when he brought charges against a small number of ex-soldiers.
His decision to leave the post is expected to be announced at a staff meeting on Wednesday morning.
It is understood he plans to return to his private legal practice.
Sources have said that his decision is not connected to the criticism he has faced in recent months.
The authors say that consumer demand in Europe and the US for beef, leather and timber is driving these losses.
The vast majority of this illegal deforestation for commercial agriculture took place in Brazil and Indonesia.
The authors say the practice is spreading rapidly in Asia and Africa.
The research has been carried out by Forest Trends, a US based, non-governmental organisation that includes environmentalists, industry and the financial sector.
Their report focuses on the question of illegality. While the cutting down of tropical forests has been an issue of global concern for several decades, knowing what's legal and illegal has been much more difficult to ascertain.
This new study argues that in the first 12 years of this century, 49% of tropical deforestation was due to illegal conversion for commercial agriculture.
The authors say consumer demand in the EU and elsewhere for agricultural commodities is the main driver for these clearances that have seen more than 200,000 sq km of forest laid bare.
The report values this trade in commodities including timber, leather, beef, soy and palm oil at $61bn a year.
"I think it will come as a shock to a lot of people, even to people who work on deforestation," lead author Sam Lawson told BBC News.
"People are often blind to the illegalities or don't see them for what they are in terms of the scale."
Much of these forest clearances are illegal, but governments don't have the capacity to enforce their own law. Licences and permits to cut the trees are often acquired through corruption.
This can have significant, sometimes deadly implications for the indigenous communities that live in these forests.
In recent days in Peru, four indigenous campaigners were murdered for their opposition to illegal land clearances.
In Brazil, where large amounts of this type of deforestation have taken place, the authorities are making strenuous efforts to tackle the problem.
One reason they have had success is they have started to hit the corporations involved, in their pockets - blocking access to credit for example, for companies involved in illegal clearing.
The authors believe that consumer countries like the European Union could be doing much more to tackle the problem.
"At the moment EU is giving large amounts of money to these tropical countries to reduce deforestation while at the same time it is shooting itself in the foot by importing all these dodgy products from illegal clearances," said Sam Lawson.
"It needs to close that vicious circle, it needs to stop importing these products as a first step."
The research team believe that the example of tropical timber could be a role model for tackling beef, leather and palm oil from illegal sources.
Back in the 1980s, there were attempts to ban these imports but these floundered. There were also certification schemes that met a similar fate.
Ultimately, according to the researchers, countries realised that the only thing that would work were strong regulations and not voluntary actions.
"In the EU we now have laws saying that companies have to do due diligence on their timber to make sure it was legally produced," said Sam Lawson.
"What is needed is equivalent legislation regarding these commodities including palm oil, soy and beef."
The biggest concern right now for campaigners is the spread of illegal deforestation to new countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
They point to Papua New Guinea where millions of hectares of forest have been licensed for deforestation in recent years. A parliamentary inquiry found that 90% of these licences were issued by corrupt or fraudulent means.
All these land clearances are making a significant contribution to global warming.
The report estimates that in the period 2000-2012, carbon dioxide equivalent to a quarter of the EU's annual total was emitted every year.
Developed countries have embarked on an ambitious programme to pay developing nations to stop cutting down the trees. But Sam Lawson thinks this is doomed to failure.
"It is pointless paying a government to change its policies when these governments are incapable of implementing and enforcing their policies in the first place."
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Emmanuel-Thomas' free-kick six minutes from time eased the Gills away from the drop zone and into mid-table, where they are now above the Saddlers.
Gillingham went ahead in just the second minute, Cody McDonald looping home a close-range header after Walsall's defence made a mess of clearing Bradley Dack's low cross.
Walsall profited from similarly poor Gills defending to level on nine minutes, Jason McCarthy charging down Baily Cargill's clearance before sliding a cool finish between goalkeeper Stuart Nelson's legs.
Billy Knott whistled a 25-yarder just over on the half-hour for the Gills before Walsall came close to going ahead right on half-time but Franck Moussa's deflected shot was cleared off the line by Cargill.
Walsall pushed Gillingham back for most of the second half but did not really work Nelson, with their best effort, an Erhun Oztumer sighter, whistling a couple of feet wide.
And Gillingham snatched the points on 84 minutes as Emmanuel-Thomas drilled in a low 20-yard free-kick that took a nick off unwitting centre-half Max Ehmer.
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The two male and one female calves are under observation, officials said.
During floods, hundreds of animals in the park move to the adjacent hills of Karbi Anglong for safety.
Kaziranga is one of the world's most important wildlife parks and is home to the highly endangered one-horned rhino, elephants, swamp deer and tigers.
Earlier a herd of elephants was photographed swimming through the flooded park and crossing a national highway for drier higher ground.
Officials had also rescued seven hog deer from the floods, they said.
"There's only love for it. From the moment it was in our drive, the postman, delivery men, everyone was commenting on it," says Steve, 51, who lives in Worcester and works for a fire alarm company.
"The neighbours love it - at least they tell me they do."
After 10 years of wanting one of the iconic red kiosks, he managed to secure it for £1,500 in September.
It was something of a bargain. The oldest red phone boxes can sell for upwards of £15,000 when fully restored.
From Germany to Japan, collectors buy the disused phone booths and either restore them or create new uses, from cocktail cabinets to secret entrances to a child's playroom.
Premier League footballers and rock musicians are also among the buyers. Sharon Osbourne even bought a black phone box that once stood near the Tower of London for husband Ozzy.
On the streets, the spread of mobile phones has left phone boxes in terminal decline. BT is consulting on plans to decommission another 14,000, although most of them will be the more modern stainless steel boxes because many red booths are protected.
With thousands listed as architecturally significant structures, sellers say that demand still outstrips supply.
The most common type of red kiosk - designed by Battersea Power Station architect, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, and known by aficionados as the K6 - turned 80 in October.
"There are certain objects that people see as quintessentially British. The red phone box is certainly one of them," says Hamish Wood, who works at the National Telephone Kiosk Collection at Avoncroft Museum.
They were ubiquitous for decades, and for many people are as recognisable as London's Tower Bridge, he says.
Steve agrees they're a valuable item. "The K6 was only ever built to last 50 years," he says. "I started thinking they're becoming more and more of a collector's item and prices are being driven up."
Yet when it arrived, there was a problem. The phone box, which weighs 750kg - almost twice as heavy as an Aga cooker - had to be lifted over the house into the garden.
The kiosk itself was £850 because of its dilapidated condition, but hiring the crane operator cost £650. "It's the quickest £650 I've ever spent."
It was worth it, he says. Visitors are so keen to see it that they don't take their jackets off, they go straight to the garden.
Most of the second-hand phone boxes are now used as garden features, according to Richard Parker, managing director of X2Connect, which works with BT to refurbish and sell discontinued phone boxes.
Among some of the wackier reports are of a box being re-purposed as a poolside shower in Sydney or as a lift down to someone's wine cellar.
"A Swedish company purchased two of them for staff to use for private mobile calls. It was going back to the old use," Mr Parker says.
The exact number of second-hand K6s in circulation is uncertain, but sellers say it's only a small percentage of the 60,000 on the streets at their peak.
People buy them for their appeal as a "design icon", but also for the nostalgia, says Christian Lewis, restorations manager at Unicorn Restorations, a major seller of the boxes.
"We have had customers purchase telephone boxes or particular types of payphones as they reminded them of making calls to their girlfriend, who is now their wife," he says.
Some older customers hear the "ticking" sound of the old coin box and are taken back to their childhood, he adds.
They were "landmarks", agrees Steve, who grew up in Birmingham. "You would meet your friends there, or shelter from the rain in one of them. When I was a teenager, that was our mobile phone."
But it's unlikely the thousands of steel and glass boxes left increasingly obsolete by mobiles will capture the imagination of collectors in the same way.
"I doubt people will get so sentimental over a modern payphone," Mr Lewis says.
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Jim Allister was speaking at the launch of his party's election manifesto.
He said people are correct to be angry about the "appalling incompetence" demonstrated in drawing up the RHI scheme without cost controls.
The TUV has taken a leaf out of US President Donald Trump's book.
They entitled their manifesto "Drain the Swamp".
The manifesto says the RHI scheme is just the latest in a series of Stormont scandals which the party has been in the forefront of exposing.
The TUV backs efforts to curb any future losses resulting from the RHI scheme and prosecutions of anyone fraudulently abusing the scheme.
The party opposes an Irish language act and any attempt to introduce same-sex marriage.
Mr Allister described Brexit as a "golden opportunity" for Northern Ireland and predicts that the Republic of Ireland may in time consider following the UK's example in leaving the European Union.
At the manifesto launch, the TUV leader was strongly critical of the Sinn Féin northern leader, Michelle O'Neill.
Mr Allister claimed Mrs O'Neill's decision to attend a commemoration for four IRA members shot dead by the SAS at Clonoe near Coalisland in 1992 amounted to "dancing on the graves of the innocent victims of the IRA".
The TUV manifesto calls for wholesale changes to the current system of power sharing.
It wants the introduction of either weighted majority voting or a new model in which local politicians would continue to sit in the assembly while Westminster direct rule ministers run Stormont departments.
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Whiteside, 31, secured a unanimous victory over Carly Skelly in the flyweight contest in Rotherham.
"Winning a seventh title is great but my main aim for next year is to represent England at the Commonwealth Games," said Whiteside.
"This win means I should be well in line for selection."
Light-welterweight Cherrelle Brown and middleweight Natasha Gale both won their third national titles while light-flyweight Demi-Jade Resztan took her second national championship.
In the men's competition, light-flyweight Kiaran MacDonald, light-welterweight, Luke McCormack, middleweight Ben Whittaker and heavyweight, Cheavon Clarke all won second elite national titles.
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The family said the action was directed against officials in the Republic of Ireland over the ongoing delay.
Denis Donaldson was shot dead in 2006, in a killing claimed by the dissident republican Real IRA.
His death came months after he was exposed as an agent who had worked for police and MI5 for 20 years.
Ciaran Shiels, the Donaldson family's solicitor, said the legal action in the Republic has been taken against the Irish attorney general, the director of public prosecutions, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan, the coroner and the Irish justice minister.
He added that the family would not return to the inquest until the issue was resolved in the High Court in Dublin and that they had effectively walked out of the process.
Members of the family expressed their frustration with the lack of progress in the case after the inquest was adjourned on Wednesday in Letterkenny, County Donegal.
In a letter, sent to those state bodies and individuals at the end of March, the family said 18 adjournments had been requested because of "an ongoing investigation" by the gardaí (Irish police).
"However, no meaningful investigation seems to have taken place by the gardaí and certainly there has been no criminal proceedings arising," it added.
"Although the applicant acknowledges that some measure of a delay in the hearing of an inquest might be anticipated in a case such as this, there comes a point where that delay becomes unlawful and intolerable for those affected by the death.
"We submit that this threshold has been reached and that the inordinate and inexcusable delay in this matter is unprecedented in the history of the state."
Earlier, the coroner agreed to a request by Irish police for a four-month adjournment so it could pursue the investigation.
A Garda superintendent said they had no intention to delay or inhibit the inquest but that police must be allowed to gather all the evidence.
Counsel for Mr Donaldson's family opposed the adjournment and said they had "the greatest of misgivings about the bona fides of another application".
Granting the adjournment, the coroner said he believed there was momentum in the case and also said he would like to see better liaisons between the gardaí and the Donaldson family.
The family have previously raised their concerns about the case, including an accusation that the gardaí failed to properly investigate his killing and that Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers may have contributed to his death.
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The hosts beat India by nine runs at Lord's in front of a sell-out 26,500 crowd, the second biggest in Women's World Cup history.
More than 50 million people worldwide watched the group stages.
"What a tournament it has been - the support, the cricket and everything about it," said Knight.
Anya Shrubsole took 6-46 - the best figures in a World Cup final - as India collapsed from 191-3 to 219 all out in pursuit of England's 228-7.
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"Women's cricket has gone through the roof since 2009," she told BBC Sport.
"This is a watershed moment, to be playing at Lord's in front of a sell-out crowd in a World Cup final.
"You just don't think those things are going to happen. It's unbelievable."
England coach Mark Robinson said: "It has captured the imagination of everybody as the tournament has gone on.
"Hopefully, the women's game will go from strength to strength. It is getting the recognition, getting its proper place. People take it seriously and give it respect."
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The superb Shrubsole took five wickets in 19 balls to hasten India's collapse, sealing England's fourth World Cup title by bowling number 11 Rajeshwari Gayakwad with eight balls to spare.
"Anya Shrubsole, what a hero. I thought about taking her off and I'm really glad I kept her on," said Knight.
"It's been an extraordinary game. To win with some of my best mates, I'm absolutely delighted."
India needed only 38 runs from 43 balls before Shrubsole dismissed Punam Raut for 86 to spark a collapse of seven wickets for 28 runs.
"One of the great things about this team is we never give up," said Shrubsole. "It is a fitting final of what was a brilliant World Cup.
"There was a huge amount of pressure. It's without doubt the most significant spell I've ever bowled."
Shrubsole and team-mate Tammy Beaumont said they had never experienced such a passionate crowd.
"I've never played in a game where you can't hear the person who's 15 metres away from you," said Shrubsole.
"Trying to get Heather's attention, I was having to scream at her because the crowd made that much noise - pretty much from start to end."
Beaumont, who was named player of the tournament after topping the batting charts with 410 runs, said: "I have lost my voice. I was trying to scream over the crowd.
"It almost felt like half England on one side and India on the other. I don't think that atmosphere will be replicated in a number of years."
Knight added: "At times I had to pinch myself and concentrate on the game.
"The noise when we got the last wicket was a really special moment. It was incredible to be part of."
India skipper Mithali Raj said her side "panicked" as they lost seven wickets for 28 runs in the space of seven overs to miss out on a first major trophy.
"There was a time when the match was in the balance. It wasn't easy for England but credit to them - they kept their nerve," she said.
"I would like to tell the girls I am very proud of them. They didn't make any match look easy for the opposition."
Wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor was one of five England players - along with Knight, Shrubsole, Jenny Gunn and Laura Marsh - who were part of England's World Cup-winning squad in 2009.
She returned to the team at this World Cup after taking a break from the game last year to deal with anxiety problems.
"It has been a rollercoaster. To be part of this team is incredible," Taylor said.
"It was a case of getting healthy. It was pot luck to be back for this World Cup. This is amazing."
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Niall Quinn drilled in the opener and then crossed for Kirk Millar to head the second before half-time.
Joe Gormley marked his return to Cliftonville by scoring twice as Barry Gray celebrated his first match as boss with a 6-3 victory over Ards.
Coleraine had Steven Douglas sent-off but still won 3-1 at Dungannon while Glentoran beat Ballinamallard 2-1.
On Friday night, last season's runners-up Crusaders beat Ballymena United 4-1.
Linfield's victory was never in doubt once Quinn drilled a low left-foot shot beyond Carrick keeper Harry Doherty in the 16th minute at Windsor Park.
David Healy's double winners, unbeaten in domestic competition since early January, went 2-0 up though Millar and could have made it three after the break but Jordan Stewart's tame penalty was saved by Doherty.
Cliftonville, boosted by the return to the club of record scorer Gormley after a spell at Peterborough, had an early scare at home to Ards when Jonny Frazer gave the visitors an early lead.
But Gormley's double, two more from Jay Donnelly, a Chris Curran strike and a Scott Davidson own goal saw new boss Gray get off to a winning start at Solitude.
Former Warrenpoint manager Gray was appointed in May after Gerard Lyttle left to take charge of Sligo Rovers.
Coleraine, third last season, were drawing 0-0 at Dungannon when their defender Douglas was sent-off for a second yellow card offence.
But Oran Kearney's team went 2-0 up through Ciaron Harkin and Stephen O'Donnell before Ryan Mayse pulled a goal back for the Swifts.
Dungannon keeper Andy Coleman was sent-off for bringing down Brad Lyons late on and stand-in Jarlath O'Rourke had no chance as Ian Parkhill fired in a spectacular third for the Bannsiders.
Two goals by top striker Curtis Allen gave Glentoran their 2-1 win away to Ballinamallard United.
But Ballinamallard furiously protested that Allen had netted the 87th-minute winner with his hand.
The hosts had taken the lead through a Ryan Curran penalty but Allen levelled before the break.
Marc Griffin scored twice on his debut to help Glenavon edge Warrenpoint Town 3-2 at Milltown.
Griffin fired twice early on to give the Lurgan Blues a two-goal lead before Point rallied back through Darren Murray.
The former Cliftonville striker headed past Jonathan Tuffey before firing a second from the penalty spot, having been fouled by Simon Kelly.
Bobby Burns smashed a great strike in from the edge of the box to give Gary Hamilton's side the points.
The move comes after Ms Jolie asked for full physical custody of all the children, who are aged eight to 15.
Ms Jolie cited "irreconcilable differences" when she filed to end the marriage on 19 September.
Reports suggest that Mr Pitt is being investigated over an incident with his eldest son Maddox on a plane.
A child welfare agency in Los Angeles is examining what happened during the incident on a private flight in mid-September, US media say.
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The actors have reached a temporary agreement so the Fight Club star can visit his children while the welfare investigation continues.
California divorce courts generally favour joint custody, but the outcome of the plane row could affect the judge's decision. The actors may also hammer out a deal privately to avoid the matter being aired in public.
Mr Pitt's custody request was included in his response to Ms Jolie's divorce petition. He revealed that the pair separated on 15 September, one day after the alleged plane altercation.
Mr Pitt and Ms Jolie have been together since 2004 but only wed in August 2014, at their children's urging. They grew close while filming the 2005 film Mr & Mrs Smith, in which they played a couple in a stagnant relationship.
Their union was Mr Pitt's second marriage, after a divorce from Friends star Jennifer Aniston, and Ms Jolie's third after Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.
The couple have six children together - Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, who are adopted, and biological children Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.
Mr Pitt, 52, and Ms Jolie, 41, married privately at their French estate in Provence. Their children served as ring bearers and helped illustrate Ms Jolie's white Versace dress with their drawings.
Both actors are known for their philanthropic work away from the screen.
Academy Award winner Ms Jolie became a special envoy for the United Nations in 2012, and is a passionate advocate for refugees. She has also raised awareness of breast and ovarian cancers after going public with her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.
Meanwhile, Mr Pitt built homes in New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and has made sizeable aid donations to Haiti through the estranged couple's charity, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
The report - by a taskforce set up by NHS England - said around three-quarters of people with mental health problems received no help at all.
Ministers agreed more needs to be done, committing £1bn extra a year by 2020.
The government says this will help treat a million more people a year.
The funds are to come out of the £8.4bn the government has promised to the health service during this Parliament and comes on top of extra money already announced for children's services.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "We should be frank. We have not done enough to end the stigma of mental health.
"We have focused a lot on physical health and we haven't as a country focused enough on mental health."
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£9.2bn spent by NHS a year
15-20 years shorter life expectancy for those with severe problems
Mental health care is sometimes called the Cinderella service of the NHS. Over the years it has been neglected, marginalised and under-funded. The taskforce's report acknowledges this.
So will the recommendations have the necessary impact? Ministers and NHS bosses have all said they're fully committed to it.
But similar things were said in 2011 when the coalition launched its mental health strategy. And, as the BBC reported on Sunday, that didn't stop investment being cut.
With money so tight in the NHS, the nagging fear is that despite the promises being made history could still repeat itself.
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Currently £9.2bn a year is spent on the condition - less than a tenth of the NHS budget - despite one in four people experiencing a mental health problem each year.
The result is that an estimated three-quarters of people go without any help, with the taskforce's report acknowledging that services were so bad that lives have been "put on hold or ruined" and "thousands of tragic and unnecessary deaths" have been caused.
The review also said more attention needs to be paid to rising suicide rates.
NHS England believes the strategy will help to ensure that another one million people receive support - whereas at the moment fewer than two million people do so.
It said the investment promised will help pay for:
It said that together these measures would help reduce the demand on specialist inpatient wards in hospitals and therefore help tackle the much-criticised practice of sending people long distances for treatment.
Paul Farmer, the chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, who led the taskforce, said the strategy should act as a "landmark moment" for mental health care, which was currently "very patchy".
"We are saying to the NHS, to government, to industry, to local leaders and to the public that mental health must be a priority for everyone," he said.
While the extra funding was crucial, he added that some stigma around mental illness "still prevails, right the way inside the health service, as it does in society", and this needed to change.
NHS England boss Simon Stevens said he was "fully committed" to implementing the recommendations.
But Royal College of Psychiatrists president Prof Sir Simon Wessely warned it would take "sustained work" to end the "decades of inequality".
And Prof Sheila Hollins, of the British Medical Association, pointed out such promises had been made before.
"Those suffering from mental illness need to see these pledges fulfilled."
Meanwhile the Welsh government said spending on mental health had been ring-fenced since 2008, with investment topping £600m this year.
The current annual allocation to mental health in Northern Ireland is £247m.
The Scottish government said it had made a commitment to invest an additional £150 million over a five year period in improving access to mental health services.
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Armstrong, 19, scored 20 goals in 40 games during a loan spell at League One side Coventry City last season.
Jackson, 22, failed to make a senior appearance for the Premier League side.
The former England Under-19 international played in 35 games for League Two side Hartlepool last season, and joins for an undisclosed fee.
Of Armstrong, Tykes boss Paul Heckingbottom told the club website: "His talent and goal-scoring abilities are clear to see as he was excellent in League One last season scoring a tonne of goals.
"We've started the season in great form, scoring a lot of goals and I have no doubts that Adam will make an instant impact and excite the fans."
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A "technical baccalaureate" is to be introduced showing young people's abilities in maths, literacy and a high level vocational qualification.
This will be a performance measure for schools and evidence of credible skills for students to show employers.
Skills minister Matthew Hancock said the technical baccalaureate would be a "mark of achievement".
But Labour's education spokesman Stephen Twigg said: "Seven months after Labour announced plans for a technical baccalaureate, the government is today trying to catch up."
The "Tech Bacc", launched on Monday by Mr Hancock and Education Secretary Michael Gove, is intended to reinforce the value of technical and vocational training and qualifications taken by 16 to 19-year-olds.
It is aimed at teenagers who might want qualifications for jobs in areas such as information technology, construction, retail, hospitality and digital media.
It will not be another separate qualification, but will be evidence that a young person has a particular set of employer-friendly skills.
The Tech Bacc will require students to have three elements - qualifications in maths and literacy and a "high quality" vocational qualification.
These vocational qualifications could be in anything from engineering to hairdressing, but will be taught at a level of difficulty which is meant to show that pupils are able to carry out "complex and non-routine" skills, on a par with A-levels.
These so-called Level 3 vocational qualifications were taken by about 185,000 students last year.
There is a consultation taking place to decide which vocational qualifications should be retained - after complaints that there were too many insubstantial qualifications, which carried little weight with employers.
For schools and colleges, the Tech Bacc will become a league table performance measure from 2017, in the way that schools are measured by the percentage of pupils who have achieved academic English Baccalaureate subjects.
A proposal for a Tech Bacc has previously been put forward by Labour's education spokesman, Stephen Twigg.
Responding to the government announcement, he said that Labour's version would have been a "gold standard" available to all pupils.
"David Cameron and Michael Gove have spent the last three years undermining technical education - damaging the quality of apprenticeships, downgrading the engineering diploma and narrowing the curriculum so skills are side-lined.
"The government should be judged on their actions so far, not on their words today."
The idea of a Tech Bacc has also been supported by former education ministers Labour's Lord Adonis and the Conservatives' Lord Baker.
Neil Carberry, the CBI's director for employment and skills said this was a "big step in the right direction".
"Including the Tech Bacc in existing league tables will help put vocational subjects on a par with academic A-levels.
"Business prefers this approach, rather than creating another new qualification which would struggle for recognition - like the Diploma did. We hope this will prove to be a staging point towards our ultimate goal of rigorous vocational A-levels."
Christine Blower, head of the National Union of Teachers, said that "vocational qualifications should be part of a wider 14-19 integrated system of education where the emphasis is on the opportunity to study general education, specialist areas and vocational learning. This constant tinkering with 14-19 education perpetuates unnecessary divisions."
Skills Minister Matthew Hancock said: "We want an education system in which everyone can reach their potential.
"Our reforms to post-16 qualifications, including the introduction of the new Tech Bacc will do that. They will incentivise the development of high-quality courses and incentivise schools and colleges to offer the courses that get young people on in life.
"We expect all bright students who want to go into technically-skilled jobs or apprenticeships to aim for the Tech Bacc."
Kaymer, 31, has not won since his US Open triumph at Pinehurst two years ago which followed his Players Championship victory a month earlier.
The German's best Irish Open finish is a share of 10th at Adare Manor in 2008.
Tournament host Rory McIlroy will also be joined in the field from 19-22 May by recent Masters winner Danny Willett.
Soren Kjeldsen will attempt to successfully defend the Irish Open title after winning at Royal County Down last year while other Ryder Cup hopefuls in the field include Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello, English trio Matt Fitzpatrick, Andy Sullivan, Chris Wood plus Austrian Bernd Wiesberger.
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Cabrera Bello, Kjeldsen, Fitzpatrick and Sullivan all currently occupy automatic qualifying places in the European points list for the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine in late September.
Kaymer played played at the K Club in the 2007 European Open.
"Although it maybe wasn't my best week on the course, I can remember being really impressed by it," added the former world number one, who clinched his first major win at the US PGA Championship in 2010.
"The Irish people love their golf and really get behind the players, so it should make for a great atmosphere, especially with such a strong field there."
McIlroy will be joined at the event by other Irish major winners Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington and Graeme McDowell while other big names in the field include Shane Lowry and Lee Westwood.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) rejected the claim, saying missile deployment as part of security measures for the Games was legitimate and proportionate.
Residents of Fred Wigg Tower in Leytonstone, east London, have applied for permission for a judicial review at the High Court.
A judgement is expected on Tuesday.
The residents' barrister, Marc Willers, said their block could become the "focus of a terrorist attack" to make an "evil statement".
Mr Willers told Mr Justice Haddon-Cave: "It is the unprecedented siting of a military base or missile site in peace time on English soil that brings us to this court."
Of the residents, he said: "They have a fully justified fear that installation or deployment of the missile system on the roof of the Fred Wigg Tower gives rise to the additional risk that the tower itself may become the focus of a terrorist attack.
"That fear is not just genuine and legitimate but justified given the nature of the forthcoming occasion - the Olympic Games - and given the nature of the deployment and the current threat level, which is said to be substantial."
Mr Willers filed documents to the court calling for the residents to be moved out of their homes and compensated during the Olympics if the missiles are set up.
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He suggested building a tower or gantry on Wanstead Flats to house the missiles.
Mr Willers also warned that part of the missile falls away when fired, claiming it could drop on to a passer-by or set a building on fire.
The MoD plans to deploy either Rapier or High Velocity missiles at six sites as part of security measures for the London Games.
David Forsdick, appearing on behalf of the MoD, said the decision over where to position the missiles was taken at the "highest levels after rigorous scrutiny".
He said it was signed off by the prime minister, deputy prime minister, home secretary and defence secretary in "defence of the realm".
He rejected the allegation that the block could become a focus of terrorism.
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He told the court: "The MoD, intelligence agencies and the Metropolitan Police do not consider there is any credible threat to the Fred Wigg Tower from terrorism."
He said that view was supported by a witness statement from Dr Campbell McCafferty, head of UK counter-terrorism at the MoD.
The judge hearing the application said the case was "urgent" and hopes to give a judgment on Tuesday.
Mr Willers said it was now probably too late for a full consultation process to be ordered.
The residents want an injunction preventing the siting of the missiles until their legal challenge is heard.
The defence secretary is accused by the local residents' association of breaching Article 8 and Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
These protect an individual's right to a private life and peaceful enjoyment of their home.
But Mr Forsdick said the missile deployment was "legitimate and proportionate", and the MoD was not legally obliged to relocate residents or offer them compensation.
The missiles, including Rapier and High Velocity systems, will be in place from mid-July, the MoD confirmed last week.
The sites and types of systems set to be deployed are:
Plans also include the use of the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, which will be moored on the River Thames.
RAF Typhoon jets will be stationed at RAF Northolt, and Puma helicopters at a Territorial Army centre in Ilford, east London. The aircraft, which arrived back at the base on Monday, could be scrambled at short notice.
The Glasgow club must pay €7,000 (£6,250) following the incident during the first-round match on 29 June.
Rangers won the game 1-0 in Glasgow but were beaten 2-0 in the return leg in Luxembourg.
The home leg marked the Scottish Premiership club's return to European competition after a six-year absence.
In his heart of hearts Barclay thought it was over for him at Test level. He thought he was done. The mood music coming from Vern Cotter and his management team more or less confirmed it, but Barclay couldn't bring himself to make an announcement and throw in the towel.
He hung on more in hope than expectation and now he has his reward.
Consider the journey. Cotter brought five back-row forwards to the World Cup and Barclay wasn't one of them. Cotter parachuted in a sixth during the tournament and Barclay was overlooked again.
On Saturday, against England, he will play blind-side. Only a few short months ago he was, at best, fifth choice in that position. Ryan Wilson was ahead of him. So were Josh Strauss, Alasdair Strokosch and Blair Cowan. The vibe was that Cotter would sooner have moved heaven and earth than move Barclay into contention, but here he is.
Strokosch's retirement has helped, so has Wilson's indifferent form and Strauss' lack of game-time. Barclay warranted a start even if all those guys were around, though. He's been playing number eight for his club, Scarlets, and he's been playing well. Not just in the weeks before this selection, but for months and years.
The prodigal has returned and not before time. He's in and Scotland now go to war in the back row with two open-side flankers - Barclay and John Hardie - as against England's two blind-side bruisers - Chris Robshaw and James Haskell.
The breakdown was a recurring theme when Cotter spoke on Thursday at Murrayfield, not just the personnel he is deploying but the coach he has brought in to add "ideas and detail" to that critical phase of play - the ever-impressive Richie Gray, previously of Gala and South Africa and now of Scotland. The return of another prodigal, if you will.
Apart from Barclay's omission at the expense of Cowan - who started against Australia at the World Cup - there were no surprises in Scotland's team, no nasty shock as regards the excellent Mark Bennett, who mercifully for the home attack, is fit to play.
Everything else is as you would expect and everything on the day is as obvious as hell. This England team will bring grunt on a grand scale to Murrayfield. Eddie Jones has not picked an imaginative team, but a big team, a team to establish physical dominance and to batter Scotland into submission.
Cotter knows it and spoke of "combining energy forces" to try to combat it. "Physicality is something we've been working on over the last year or so," he said. "We have to have total clarity in what we're doing. They (England) will want to dominate us but I don't see why we shouldn't take them on at their strong points."
The days before a Six Nations opener are always blue-sky days in Scotland. Hope has survived through the years despite the kickings. It's an extraordinary thing, this optimism in the face of such failure. It begs the question of what this rugby nation would be like if it ever had real momentum to bite on.
There's newfound hope despite a whitewash last time round. Despite all sorts of things, to be honest.
Bennett, Finn Russell and Jonny Gray have never won a Six Nations match. Tommy Seymour has never won a Six Nations match at Murrayfield. Greig Laidlaw has three wins from 20 in the championship, Richie Gray five from 22, Ross Ford eight from 45. Scotland have not scored a try against England at Murrayfield since 2004. They have only scored two tries against England at Murrayfield in Six Nations history.
That hope, though. It's not unfounded, far from it. Scotland possess an attack that can do damage if it has the platform. They have better men in place this year to establish that platform than they've had for some years.
WP Nel is a big addition to the front row, Hardie a key influence in the back row. Gray, the coach, has been microscopic in his analysis of Scotland's defensive breakdown. Gray's arrival has allowed Matt Taylor more freedom to focus on fixing the weaknesses in defence.
Centre Matt Scott said that the attention to detail has never been as high. "When we came into camp we identified defence as an area we needed to improve. We saw that Ireland only conceded two tries in last year's Six Nations (it was actually three). By contrast, we conceded into double figures (11). We can't be conceding 25-30 points in games and expect to win."
That's the big puzzler for Scotland. Can their defence hold out? They shipped 40 points against Ireland at the end of last year's Six Nations and 30-plus to South Africa, Samoa and Australia at the World Cup. In the biggest games they're making life so difficult for themselves.
Scott said something else that resonated. He spoke of learning lessons, not just in defence, but in terms of handling emotion. He went back to the last Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield, a 20-0 drubbing in 2014.
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"The boys were so geed-up before that game," he recalled. "We were tear-ing up in the changing room before the game and I remember thinking I was going to go out and have an amazing game. I thought I was invincible. It was a surreal feeling of being helpless on the pitch. That's when the emotion can over-ride things and affect your play.
"We were way off the mark. We couldn't get our attack structure going. It just felt like we were 15 individuals on the pitch. It was an awful experience.
"I think we've learned from that, learned to say, 'Yes, it's a Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield and there's going to be fire and brimstone but we have to take a step back and put our cool heads on."
Barclay is one of those cool heads - an experienced leader in a team that still doesn't know enough about winning. They get another chance on Saturday. Despite everything, hope springs.
Officers found the bag, full of ??10 and ??20 notes, in Lower Sundon, Bedfordshire, in the early hours of Friday.
Officers tweeted: "Did you lose a bag of money and drugs? Please come to police HQ where we'd love to chat."
A number of people commented, with one replying: "Wait, if I come and collect it, you won't arrest me, right?"
The tweet, posted by officers from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit, was described as the "best ever" by some of their social media followers.
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The officers' post included a photograph of the dark-coloured bag containing the cash and plastic bags of drugs.
Another tweet said: "Can you leave it where you found it please. I'll come and collect it later this evening."
Kenton Cool, 42, last week became one of the first foreigners to reach the mountain's summit in two years.
Avalanches that followed an earthquake in Nepal made conditions treacherous, claiming the lives of at least 18 climbers last year.
"She's a beautiful mountain," Mr Cool said.
Mr Cool made it to the top with fellow adventurers Robert Richard Lucas, Mexican David Liano and three Nepalese guides.
It was his 12th successful climb of the world's highest peak, and 36-year-old Liano's sixth.
Speaking after his return, Mr Cool, who lives in Quenington, Gloucestershire, said: "My wife Jazz says that Everest is my mistress and I go back to her every year.
"I do adore the place. She's a beautiful mountain and I will keep climbing [her] until I fall out of love."
Growing up in Uxbridge, west London, he told how his family lived in a bungalow with no hot water or flushing toilet.
"My father was unemployed for most of my childhood," he said.
He started mountaineering while studying at Leeds University, despite being told he would never climb again after falling from a rock face in North Wales and shattering both heel bones.
"Adventure and climbing have really defined who I am and what I stand for," he said.
"If you truly believe in your dreams then very little can get in the way."
Mr Cool said the latest ascent - which he completed on 12 May - was the best of all his climbs.
"Every time you go to Everest, it's slightly different," he said.
"This time the ascent was amazing, with a cloudless sky. You couldn't ask for better conditions.
"Every time you go to the mountain you've got to approach it in the same manner. You've got to be very respectful, you have to be fully prepared."
The explorer now hopes to climb Everest, along with the the world's second and third highest peaks - K2 and Kangchenjunge - on a single trip, travelling overland between them by Land Rover.
"Nobody's ever linked them together.
"A lot of my colleagues are saying it can't be done."
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"As a consequence of Mr Warner's resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained," said a Fifa statement.
Warner was suspended pending an investigation into bribery allegations.
He and fellow Fifa member Mohamed Bin Hammam are alleged to have paid bribes of £600,000 to Caribbean associations.
Chuck Blazer, general secretary of the Concacaf federation Warner had been president of, alleged that violations of Fifa's code of ethics occurred during a meeting organised by Bin Hammam and Warner in May.
In a statement, Warner said: "I am convinced, and I am advised by counsel, that since my actions did not extend beyond facilitating the meeting that gave Mr Bin Hammam an opportunity to pursue his aborted bid for the Fifa presidency, I would be fully exonerated by any objective arbiter.
"I have, nonetheless, arrived at the decision to withdraw from Fifa affairs in order to spare Fifa, Concacaf and, in particular, CFU and its membership, from further acrimony and divisiveness arising from this and related issues."
The Fifa executive committee, the Fifa president and the Fifa management thank Mr Warner and wish him well for the future
Warner also told Bloomberg press agency he felt he had been "hung out to dry" and insisted the giving of gifts has been part of Fifa culture during his 30 years in the organisation.
"It's not unusual for such things to happen and gifts have been around throughout the history of Fifa," he said. "What's happening now for me is hypocrisy."
He added: "I have lost my enthusiasm to continue. The general secretary that I had employed, who worked with me for 21 years, with the assistance of elements of Fifa has sought to undermine me in ways that are unimaginable.
"This is giving the impression that Fifa is sanitising itself. I've been hung out to dry continually and I'm not prepared to take that."
Blazer's allegations were preceded by claims made in parliament by the former head of England's failed 2018 World Cup bid, Lord Triesman, about irregularities in the bidding process for the 2018 World Cup.
Triesman, who was also former chairman of the Football Association, accused Warner and three other Fifa Executive Committee members of improper conduct during England's 2018 World Cup bid.
According to Triesman, in exchange for voting for England to host the World Cup, Warner had asked for cash to build an education centre in Trinidad and to buy World Cup television rights for Haiti.
The 68-year-old had been the longest-serving member of Fifa's executive committee, and a Fifa statement continued: "Fifa regrets the turn of events that have led to Mr Warner's decision.
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"His resignation has been accepted by world football's governing body, and his contribution to international football and to Caribbean football in particular and the Concacaf confederation are appreciated and acknowledged."
In May, Fifa opened "ethics proceedings" against Warner and Bin Hammam but Warner insisted he was not guilty of a "single iota of wrongdoing".
Football's governing body then suspended Warner and former Fifa presidential candidate Bin Hammam on 29 May, pending an investigation into claims they had offered bribes to members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).
Despite claims by Bin Hammam that Fifa president Sepp Blatter was aware of payments made to the CFU, and that he too should be investigated, Fifa's ethics committee stated that "no investigation is warranted" of Blatter.
Following Bin Hammam's suspension, Blatter went on to run unopposed in the Fifa presidential election, despite efforts by the FA to have the election suspended amid the corruption allegations that had engulfed the sport's world governing body.
Blatter was re-elected for a fourth term after receiving 186 of the 203 votes, after 17 member associations supported the FA's request for a delay.
With my withdrawal from service in international football, I shall, henceforth, be concentrating exclusively on my lifelong commitment to the service of the people of Trinidad and Tobago, currently as chairman of the major party in our governing coalition and as a cabinet minister in the government of our republic
Despite the controversy that has surrounded Fifa and Warner since May, the governing body's statement concluded: "Mr Warner is leaving Fifa by his own volition after nearly 30 years of service.
"The Fifa executive committee, the Fifa president and the Fifa management thank Mr Warner for his services to Caribbean, Concacaf and international football over his many years devoted to football at both regional and international level, and wish him well for the future."
Warner thanked Fifa in his statement and added that he would now commit himself to serving the people of his native Trinidad and Tobago.
"I am gratified that Fifa has acknowledged my service to international and regional football over several decades," he said.
"It is also a special source of satisfaction to me that during my tenure, capacities and facilities in the Caribbean were upgraded to levels that enabled the region to host several Fifa World Cup finals.
"I sincerely hope that the Caribbean Football Union will continue to fight above its weight in Fifa and Concacaf affairs.
"With my withdrawal from service in international football, I shall, henceforth, be concentrating exclusively on my lifelong commitment to the service of the people of Trinidad and Tobago, currently as chairman of the major party in our governing coalition and as a cabinet minister in the government of our republic.
"I shall continue to encourage the youth of the Caribbean and the world to deepen their involvement in football, which has lifted so many young people out of hopelessness and risk to personal achievement, while bringing glory to their respective countries."
That means winning their four-team group and progressing to the Super 10 stage - anything less is failure.
Achieving their goal is no easy feat, because Bangladesh are firm favourites to top Group A while Oman and the Netherlands provide tricky opposition.
If they do reach the Super 10 then high-profile encounters against hosts India, Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan will follow.
And the Irish love nothing more than taking a big scalp in major tournaments.
Ireland possess two new weapons for the group games in Dharamsala - and both are in the bowling department.
The return of paceman Boyd Rankin to Irish colours after his 2012 switch to England provides a potent spearhead to their attack.
And Sri Lanka great Chaminda Vaas, who claimed 400 one-day wickets in a stellar career, has been drafted into the Irish set-up for the tournament.
Ireland skipper William Porterfield is delighted to have Rankin and Vaas on board for their Super 10 bid.
"It's great to have Boyd in the squad again and he has found it easy to fit back in - it's like he was never away," said the opener.
"Any team would like a 6ft 8in plus bowler performing the way he has been and Boyd's experience and professionalism is so beneficial to our younger bowlers.
"Chaminda's stats speak for themselves and the big advantage is his vast experience of playing in sub-continent conditions.
"He's also played here at Dharamsala in the IPL and his bowling is a similar pace to many of our own players.
"His advice is invaluable and we're delighted to have him in the camp going into Wednesday's opener against Oman."
Porterfield is a man in form, with an unbeaten 75 in Thursday's victory over Hong Kong followed by 31 against Zimbabwe in the final warm-up game on Saturday.
However, a six-wicket defeat against the Zimbabweans highlighted the challenge facing Porterfield and new coach John Bracewell.
Ireland are attempting to make the second phase of the World T20 for the first time since 2009 and Porterfield is clear on what is required.
"We need to win all three games, it's as simple as that," added the Warwickshire batsman.
"Oman are first up - they are no pushovers and it's a form of the game they really enjoy.
"Bangladesh are favourites but they lost to Hong Kong in the last World T20 while we were defeated by the Netherlands, so anyone can beat anyone.
"Getting to the Super 10 stage in Bangalore and Calcutta is all we're talking about, it's our sole focus and we are determined to get there."
The MRI machine reveals the fibres which carry all the brain's thought processes.
It's been done in Cardiff, Nottingham, Cambridge and Stockport, as well as London England and London Ontario.
Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range of neurological disorders and could be used instead of invasive biopsies.
I volunteered for the project - not the first time my brain has been scanned.
In 2006, it was a particular honour to be scanned by the late Sir Peter Mansfield, who shared a Nobel prize for his work on developing Magnetic Resonance Imaging, one of the most important breakthroughs in medicine.
He scanned me using Nottingham University's powerful new 7 Tesla scanner. When we looked at the crisp, high resolution images, he told me: "I'm a physicist, so don't ask me to tell you to whether there's anything amiss with your brain - you'd need a neurologist for that."
I was the first UK Biobank volunteer to have their brain and other organs imaged as part of the world's biggest scanning project.
More recently, I had my brain scanned while playing computer games, as part of research into the effects of sleep deprivation on cognition.
So my visit to the Cardiff University's Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) held no particular concerns.
The scan took around 45 minutes and seemed unremarkable.
A neurologist was on hand to reassure me my brain looked normal.
My family quipped that they were happy that a brain had been found inside my thick skull.
But nothing could have prepared me for the spectacular images produced by the team at Cardiff, along with engineers from Siemens in Germany and the United States.
The scan shows fibres in my white matter called axons. These are the brain's wiring, which carry billions of electrical signals.
Not only does the scan show the direction of the messaging, but also the density of the brain's wiring.
Another volunteer to be scanned was Sian Rowlands who has multiple sclerosis.
Like me, she is used to seeing images of her brain, but found the new scan "amazing".
Conventional scans clearly show lesions - areas of damage - in the brain of MS patients.
But this advanced scan, showing axonal density, can help explain how the lesions affect motor and cognitive pathways - which can trigger Sian's movement problems and extreme fatigue.
Prof Derek Jones, CUBRIC's director, said it was like getting hold of the Hubble telescope when you've been using binoculars.
"The promise for researchers is that we can start to look at structure and function together for the first time," he said.
The extraordinary images produced in Cardiff are the result of a special MRI scanner - one of only three in the world.
The scanner itself is not especially powerful, but its ability to vary its magnetic field rapidly with position means the scientists can map the wires - the axons - so thinly it would take 50 of them to match the thickness of a human hair.
The scanner is being used for research into many neurological conditions including MS, schizophrenia, dementia and epilepsy.
My thanks to Sian, Derek and all the team at CUBRIC.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the new combination would not affect prices or quality of "hot pies, cold pies, sausage rolls, pasties and slices" in the £1bn sized market.
The two own brands such as Pork Farms, Millers, Walls and Bowyers.
As well as branded goods, they supply own label products to supermarkets.
Pork Farms already makes Kerry's Walls and Millers brands under licence.
The deal was first proposed in August last year.
Chris Peters, group managing director at Pork Farms Group, said: "The CMA's decision marks the start of an incredibly exciting new time for our business and our employees."
He said the deal would allow it to expand the product range.
He also said it would mean changes to the way it operated: "Our priority is to move ahead to integrate the Spalding and Poole businesses into the Pork Farms Group.
"We will now take stock of our entire business, taking into account our employees', customers', owners' and suppliers' needs... in what is an exciting and pivotal time in the UK chilled food market."
A judge told Peter Anthony Young, 58, of Hunter's Way, Ardglass, that he had "deliberately taken advantage'' of the major glitch in the bank's system almost four years ago.
It meant customers could withdraw funds from ATM machines without affecting their balance.
Following a check, the bank discovered the money had been withdrawn by Young.
A prosecution lawyer told Downpatrick Crown Court that on 22 June 2012, Ulster Bank had "experienced a computer malfunction in its system''.
"Following a check, Ulster Bank discovered that Young, who was one of its customers, had £11,000 withdrawn from his account on that day,'' said Ms Ivers.
The judge was told there had been 22 separate withdrawals of £500 on the day in question.
The prosecution lawyer said the bank made repeated attempts to contact Young without success before eventually reporting the incident to police as "fraudulent''.
The PSNI started an investigation and Young voluntarily attended a police station and admitted making the withdrawals, telling police he had "spent the money on drink''.
The prosecution lawyer said the accused, who was a customer of the Ulster Bank, had "made no effort to pay back the funds'' and the outstanding balance he owed now stood at £10,908.40.
A defence lawyer described it as an "unusual case'' and said that when Young was interviewed by police in September 2014 he made "frank admissions'' to his crimes.
"Reading between the lines from the court papers, it appears Mr Young was in the company of other people drinking with them that day and when he was taking money out it became apparent to him and the others that there was a fault with this machine," he told the court.
"This was always going to come home to him.
"He is not in the least blaming others.''
The defence lawyer said that Young's life had "taken a downward spiral'' following the death of his mother in 1991 and said that by the age of 34 he was an alcoholic, homeless and "living on the streets of Belfast''.
The lawyer added that the father-of-five was now a recovering alcoholic, who was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, was part of a church group and was also attending a rehabilitation programme.
The defence lawyer said Young could be made the subject of a community order which "would leave something hanging over his head that would remind him not to stray from the straight and narrow again''.
"I would urge the court to give him a chance to continue to improve himself,'' the lawyer added.
The judge said Young had gone to the machine on one occasion to withdraw £500 on the day in question.
"He chose to return to this machine a further 21 times to withdraw the money when he knew he did not have the funds in his account," he said.
"He knew full well what he was doing and he deliberately took advantage of the defective ATM."
The judge said Young, who is living on social security benefits, had not repaid any money he had stolen from the Ulster Bank.
"I don't believe I could deal with this case by way of a suspended sentence. The least sentence I can impose is one of four months in custody.''
The screening at Wellington's Embassy Theatre will take place two weeks ahead of the film's release on 14 December.
Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson said it was fitting to hold the premiere "where the journey began."
Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit is set 60 years before the Lord Of The Rings trilogy of films.
In An Unexpected Journey, Bilbo Baggins attempts to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from Smaug, the dragon.
The film's cast includes Sherlock's Martin Freeman, who takes on the lead role of Baggins.
Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett and Sir Ian McKellen, who all starred in Jackson's Oscar-winning trilogy, also appear in the movie.
British actor Andy Serkis has reprised his motion-capture animated role of Gollum.
The film is split into two parts, with the second instalment - The Hobbit: There And Back Again - due for release in December 2013.
The 3D movies were shot at a rate of 48 frames per second, compared with the industry standard of 24 frames.
Following a preview of unfinished footage at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas in April, some critics claimed it "looked like a made-for-TV movie".
Jackson admitted: "It does take you a while to get used to," adding, "Ten minutes is sort of marginal, it probably needed a little bit more."
He wrote the screenplay with partner Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Mexican director Guillermo del Toro.
She broke Serena, 32, in the sixth game of the final set to beat her for the first time in five years.
Venus, ranked 26 in the world, will play Agnieszka Radwanska after the third seed overcame Ekaterina Makarova 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (7-3) in Montreal.
Defending champion Serena later tweeted of the result: "Big sister taught little sister a lesson."
Venus said: "I think for both of us, what's so unique about the situation is that we're both very good players.
"We both know when we walk out there, it's not like you're guaranteed a win. I think that's what makes it challenging for both of us."
Serena still leads 14-11 in the head-to-head with her sister, who she played for the first time on the professional circuit 16 years ago,
Ahead of the final, Radwanska, who has won her last two matches against Venus, said: "She's definitely on fire. Definitely she's playing amazing tennis this week.
"She beat a lot of good players on the way to the final, especially Serena. It's not going to be the easy one."
The win in Canada will be a boost to Venus, 34, in her build-up to the final Grand Slam of the year, the US Open, which starts at Flushing Meadows on 25 August.
The Consumer Electronics Show - known as CES - will start on Thursday and finish on Sunday.
At the show, companies will show off some of their latest exciting gadgets.
It is extra special as it's the event's 50th anniversary this year.
The first ever CES was originally held in New York back in 1967 and more than 17,000 people attended.
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People come to CES from around four in every five of the world's countries
According to the Consumer Technology Association, there will be 1,745 companies from the UK going along to the show this year and around 177,000 people are expected to head to the show.
Here's some of the bits of technology to look out for at this year's event...
One gadget being shown at CES is an interactive speaker called Lunii, which lets you make up your own bedtime stories.
The user chooses where the story takes place, who's in it and what they do - and then the speaker reads the story out.
VR headsets are still hugely popular and lots of new ones are currently being developed and shown off at CES.
One company called Fove has made a headset which allows you to control a game using just your eyes, as it can track where you are looking.
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One month after CES 1969, the first man walked on the moon, meaning more people became interested in science and technology
There's lots of new tech at CES which use voice and movement control instead of pressing buttons.
A French company called Bixi will be showing off a device that lets a person control their tablet or smartphone by waving their hand.
For example, you could use it to change the volume of your music by waving your hand down.
Many people like to use technology to help them to stay healthy and lots of these gadgets are expected to be on show at CES.
One company from Israel will be displaying its device called the TytoHome which works a bit like Baymax from Big Hero 6.
This gadget allows families to take health measurements, like heart rate and breathing patterns, and send the information to the doctors.
The idea is that it could mean fewer people would need to make the trip to see the doctor in person.
One company from London will be launching a robot called Olly, who you can talk to and ask questions.
The interesting thing about it is it behaves differently depending on who it's with!
This is just some of the technology that will be on display at CES.
We'll have more updates on what other exciting gadgets will be at the show later this week.
The development with Llangollen Hotels has led to the immediate closure of the Wynnstay Arms in Wrexham and the Fantastic Fun Houses in Mold and Wrexham.
Staff at the hotel and children's play centres were sent home on Thursday.
Ms Booth's other hotels and the Mclaren's Leisure Complex in Oswestry will continue trading as normal.
A spokesman for Ms Booth said she is using her own money to ensure all staff have been paid.
"Following a winding-up petition issued by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, Llangollen Hotels expects to be placed in administration later today or tomorrow," said the spokesman.
"This has necessitated the immediate closure of leased premises as a default on rent is unavoidable."
He added that all deposits and bookings were safeguarded whilst the company works with auditors KPMG to find a long-term solution.
In 2009, Ms Booth appeared in BBC Wales fly-on-the-wall documentary series Hotel Stephanie showing her cope with the day-to-day problems of managing six hotels in north east Wales during the recession.
In recent months she has been linked with a takeover of Wrexham football club, before withdrawing from the process in May.
She took over the Wynnstay Arms, which is a well-known Wrexham landmark, in April 2010. The new proprietor "guaranteed" the workforce their jobs would be safe.
Promising to spend at least £1m in the first year, Ms Booth said she wanted to restore the historic Grade II listed hotel to its "past glories".
The Georgian building, formerly known as the Eagles Inn, was where the Jacobite society, the Circle of the White Rose met in the 18th Century, including members of the prominent Williams-Wynn family of Wynnstay.
The Football Association of Wales was founded at a meeting at the hotel in 1876, and there is a plaque to mark the occasion.
The facade of the hotel is protected, after a campaign to save it from demolition in the 1960s.
After a generation of violence that ravaged a lot of Belfast's traditional architecture, 2012 has seen the opening of two special buildings.
The new Titanic Belfast has received much of the limelight this month. But a couple of stones throw away, on the other side of the River Lagan, sits the Metropolitan Arts Centre - a more understated example of Belfast's brave new architecture.
Simply known as the MAC - the distinctive piece of modern architecture, will give visitors a real chance to experience world-class art in all forms.
Located directly behind one of Belfast's oldest landmarks, St Anne's Cathedral, the newest addition to the city will give people more of a reason to venture further from the more traditional tourist spots.
From the outside, the building looks deceptively small. But walk inside from the Exchange Street West entrance and suddenly the size of the main atrium reveals the real scale of the MAC.
On the right hand side is the Sunken Gallery, currently home to Dublin-based artist Maria McKinney's exhibition - a restructured version of an earlier work, Somewhere But Here, Another Other Place. The display is made up of a number of second-hand tables stacked imaginatively to fill the gallery which visitors are invited to explore.
Built with Belfast brick and Antrim basalt, Chairman Len O'Hagan describes the MAC as being "unapologetically Belfast". Indeed, enormous feature windows turn the city itself into a living gallery.
Walking up the central staircase a piece of art appears to burst through a window tucked into the top of the building - Mark Garry's, The Permanent Present. Four hundred copper strands in all the colours of the rainbow drape down from the high ceiling to the first floor.
In one of the galleries, celebrated Chicago-born artist Robert Therrien displays his work. Named Table and Four Chairs, his work is simply that, an enormous table with four chairs that visitors can interact with.
The second gallery hosts the hottest attraction at the MAC. Alongside paintings by the world renowned L.S. Lowry sits the work of Belfast's William Conor. Born in 1881, the son of a wrought-iron worker, Conor was commissioned by the British government in World War I to produce official records of soldiers and munitions workers.
The centre's celebrity ambassador Sean Bean thinks that the MAC "puts Belfast and the arts on the world stage".
Chairman Len O' Hagan finds it hard to disagree:
"Because it is a wonderful, world-class building. Now we have the ability and the confidence of major lenders to give us pieces," he said.
The building also has two theatres. The larger, a 350 seater venue is tucked away on the bottom floor underneath the stairs beside a row of intimate snugs facing a very modern bar.
Exiting the MAC, you can see St Anne's Square has had new life breathed into it. The ivory white surrounds feel something like a continental courtyard complete with a number of new cafés and restaurants.
It is safe to say that the MAC certainly adds something a little bit different to Belfast - a renewed energy and sense of pride around a city with high hopes of being able to take a place at the top tables of the European cultural scene.
Timm Klose's error gifted Albion the lead as Lasse Vigen Christensen nicked possession and squared for fellow Fulham loanee Cauley Woodrow to tap in.
City levelled when Steven Whittaker's wild shot deflected in off Cameron Jerome for his 11th goal of the season.
But Kightly grabbed a stylish winner, flicking the ball past Russell Martin before lifting a shot over John Ruddy.
Norwich came into the game on a six-game unbeaten league run, but were let down again by their poor away record.
The Canaries have lost nine times away from Carrow Road in the league this season, only Forest and Rotherham having conceded more Championship goals on the road.
Both Burton goals came against the run of play, but the hosts could have won by a greater margin, with Lloyd Dyer blasting over and Martin clearing as Jackson Irvine prepared to pounce.
Nigel Clough's side, who have conceded in 16 consecutive league matches, protested strongly against City's sole goal, claiming Jerome had handled.
Yet the Canaries, who had 64% possession in an often scrappy game, felt they should have had a stoppage-time penalty when Wes Hoolahan was bundled over.
Burton's third win in five league matches lifted them to 20th, four points clear of the bottom three, while Norwich slipped to seven points off the play-off places in seventh.
Burton manager Nigel Clough: "That's right up there with our best results this season, especially in the context of where we find ourselves in the league playing against a very good side as we did today.
"It was just about pure hard work and the desire to stop the opposition playing. The two goals are great quality from our point of view, especially the second one.
"It was the work-rate today that did it and I thought that was outstanding. There was a real desire at the end to see it through and get the three points."
Norwich boss Alex Neil: "It's hugely disappointing. We got into good areas at times, but the final ball wasn't good enough when we got it in there.
"We had most of the game and Burton's centre-forward (Cauley Woodrow) gets man-of-the-match.
"When we scored we looked as if we are going to go on and win the game.
"We gave the ball away in a stupid area from our own throw-in and then didn't defend well enough."
Match ends, Burton Albion 2, Norwich City 1.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 2, Norwich City 1.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Luke Murphy.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match John Mousinho (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Foul by Timm Klose (Norwich City).
John Mousinho (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by John Mousinho.
Attempt blocked. Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonny Howson with a headed pass.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Shaun Barker replaces Lasse Vigen Christensen.
Attempt missed. Luke Varney (Burton Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Marvin Sordell.
Attempt missed. Jonny Howson (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Norwich City. Kyle Lafferty replaces Alex Pritchard.
Attempt missed. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Luke Varney with a cross.
Steven Whittaker (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Varney (Burton Albion).
Substitution, Burton Albion. Luke Varney replaces Cauley Woodrow.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by John Mousinho.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Lloyd Dyer replaces Michael Kightly.
Substitution, Norwich City. Josh Murphy replaces Yanic Wildschut.
Foul by Alexander Tettey (Norwich City).
Marvin Sordell (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lasse Vigen Christensen (Burton Albion).
Foul by Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City).
Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Cameron Jerome with a headed pass.
Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Cameron Jerome (Norwich City).
Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Burton Albion 2, Norwich City 1. Michael Kightly (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cauley Woodrow following a fast break.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Tom Naylor.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Tom Flanagan.
Attempt blocked. Cauley Woodrow (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Michael Kightly.
Goal! Burton Albion 1, Norwich City 1. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Steven Whittaker.
Attempt missed. Steven Whittaker (Norwich City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Attempt missed. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Pritchard with a cross following a set piece situation.
Russell Martin (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion).
The 18cm huntsman was found in a shipping container of family belongings in Merstham, near Redhill, on Thursday.
It survived 10,000 miles of travel over three months and RSPCA officer Annie Janes said it was "lucky to be alive".
Dave Aldridge, a manager at Britannia Movers International, caught the "handsome critter" after one of his colleagues ran out of the container.
The 55-year-old said: "I had three guys unloading, one ran about two miles up the road when he first saw it.
"He's a handsome, furry guy. I caught him in a lunch box and took him home for my six-year-old son to see while waiting for the RSPCA to pick him up."
The non-venomous spider was found at the back of the container, stowed away in garden swing parts.
"He was about the size of my two hands put together, so quite something to look at," Ms Janes said.
"From the empty locust shells found in the container it seems he has thankfully been able to find food during that length of time, but it's a long time to go without water, and he's lucky he didn't get squished by any boxes or furniture."
It was taken to the Heathrow Animal Reception in Hounslow, which will arrange for it to be rehomed to a specialist.
Mr Aldridge added: "We've had a few creatures in our containers over the years, including a lizard, but he's definitely the biggest spider."
The giant huntsman variety can grow to up to 30cm in leg span and Mr Alrdridge said: "I don't think I'd be so brave if he was that big".
Netherlands boss Van Gaal, who replaced David Moyes at United, is preparing for Wednesday's semi-final with Argentina.
Assistant manager Giggs will be helped by Marcel Bout and new assistant coach Albert Stuivenberg.
Stuivenberg, most recently coach of Netherlands Under-21s, was added to Van Gaal's coaching team on Sunday.
Bout, also an assistant coach, joined United's backroom staff when Van Gaal was appointed in May.
Van Gaal, 62, has been in regular contact with Giggs, who had a spell in charge last season before ending his 22-season playing career.
He plans to be present for the start of a five-match tour of the United States on 18 July, just five days after the World Cup final.
Netherlands face Argentina in Sao Paulo on Wednesday having beaten Costa Rica on penalties in the quarter-finals after Van Gaal successfully introduced goalkeeper Tim Krul as a last-minute substitute.
New signing Ander Herrera will be among the players at United's training ground on Monday after his £29m move from Athletic Bilbao.
The 120,000 sq ft site in Mamhilad Park Estate, Pontypool, is Frog Bikes' first manufacturing facility in the UK.
The Surrey-based firm has received £1.7m bank funding and support from the Welsh Government.
It has opened the new factory to meet demand for its bikes following a rise in 2015.
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The company has sent an email to customers hit by the breach informing them that data has been stolen.
In a statement, Touchnote said names, email and home addresses went missing in the attack.
It said it was still investigating the breach and, so far, was not sure how many customers had been affected.
About 4 million postcards are believed to have been sent via the app since it was launched in 2008. The app is pre-installed on millions of handsets.
Only identity information rather than passwords and payment card information was stolen in the attack, it said, which was first discovered on 4 November.
"None of the data that may have been accessed is financially sensitive," it said.
The UK's National Cyber Crime Unit is helping with the investigation.
In its explanatory email, Touchnote said useable payment information was not revealed because it only stored the final four digits of credit and debit cards used via the site.
As far as it was aware, it said, passwords had not been revealed either because these are stored using security techniques that make them difficult to decrypt.
Despite this, Touchnote advised users to change the password they use for the service. The sheer number of people attempting to do this made the site hard to reach on Friday afternoon.
Touchnote said further updates would be accessible via its official Twitter feed. The company has yet to issue an official statement about the breach.
Susan Norman, 68, died in March 2013 when mud poured into her flat in Looe, Cornwall, during torrential rain.
Looe mayor Armand Toms said Cormac - which carries out work on behalf of Cornwall Council - was offered £600 to clear drains in St Martins Road.
He told Truro Magistrates' Court the offer was never taken up.
More on the landslide inquest and other news from Cornwall
Mr Toms sent a confidential email to the head of Cormac which said there were three drains "blocked solid" in St Martins Road which the highways manager "had not done anything about".
Mrs Norman lived in the ground-floor flat of a house split into three apartments.
She died after a retaining wall and rock slope that stretched up to St Martins Road collapsed.
Neighbour Dwayne Brown previously told the inquest he had to clamber over a torrent of mud and water to escape his home.
In the weeks before the landslide, the court heard a bulge had formed in the wall behind the house and builders had been commissioned to repair the property.
The inquest is expected to last until 25 November.
Carlos Ghosn said Nissan is not ready to make decisions on plans for its Sunderland plant, which employs 6,700.
Investment there depends on the outcome of UK-EU talks on Brexit, he said.
In November, Mr Ghosn warned Nissan would reconsider investment in the UK if Britain voted to leave the EU.
"We are reasonably optimistic at the end of the day, common sense will prevail from both sides," Mr Ghosn said.
The Nissan boss thinks that the UK will continue to be a "big partner" for the European Union, but he said: "The question is what will happen to customs, trade and circulation of products.
"That will determine how, and how much we will invest in the UK," he said.
Mr Ghosn described Nissan's Sunderland plant as a "European plant based in the UK", as most of its production is exported to Europe.
The plant made 500,000 cars last year, making it the biggest car plant in the UK, according to Nissan.
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Mr Ghosn said there was "no doubt" that prices for Renaults, and other cars made in Europe and sold in the UK, will rise due to the falling value of sterling.
However, he thinks final prices will only be determined once the pound stabilises.
He said the UK economy will see some contraction "not because there is anything wrong with the UK, but because markets hate uncertainty".
Renault-Nissan says the global car market will continue to be sluggish until 2019.
Mr Ghosn also said he does not regret Nissan sponsoring the Rio Olympics, at a time when Brazil's car industry is facing its worst year in decades.
Car sales have tumbled 40% in Brazil in three years, due to a severe recession.
The company's goal with the Olympics sponsorship is to help increase its market share in Brazil from 3% to 5%.
Ministers will have their pay cut by 10% to further reduce spending.
Ms Rousseff increased the number of ministers from centre-right coalition partner the PMDB in a bid for Congress support for austerity measures.
Brazil is facing its worst economic crisis for decades, leaving Ms Rousseff's popularity at a record low.
"Today we are making a first and major step toward the reorganisation of the federal public administration. We are beginning by reducing eight ministries," Ms Rouseff said.
The reshuffle would "guarantee the political stability of the country" and "strengthen relations between the parties and members of parliament who support the government", she added.
The president increased the number of ministers in Brazil's congress from the PMDB, the most powerful party in the ruling coalition with her leftist Worker's Party.
Correspondents say Ms Rousseff boosted the PMDB's share of power in order to increase support for her economic plans and ward off moves to impeach her.
Congress has been boycotting many of her attempts to implement austerity measures and achieve fiscal balance.
Ms Rousseff made no changes to her economic team, a sign that she will continue to pursue austerity in order to reverse the country's deficit.
She also announced the creation of a Permanent Commission for State Reform designed to make the government more efficient.
"This is first, big step towards the reorganisation of the federal administration," she said.
Earlier this month the government announced a $7bn (£4.5bn) package of spending cuts aimed at plugging the huge black hole in the country's 2016 budget.
At the same time, it unveiled plans to raise another $8bn by bringing back an unpopular financial transactions tax that was abolished eight years ago.
Failure to pull the country's economy out of recession and a huge corruption scandal have left Ms Rousseff's public approval at just 8%.
Her critics also accuse her of policy mistakes during her first term, including interventions in the energy market and a failure to bring inflation under control.
Education in a school for the mentally disabled meant the pair were isolated from mainstream society - a bar to their integration, the judges found.
The Strasbourg court said their schooling amounted to discrimination.
For years many Roma children have been wrongly placed in remedial schools in Hungary and some of its neighbours.
Many Roma communities in Hungary and the neighbouring Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Serbia are blighted by poverty and a high degree of social segregation.
Istvan Horvath and Andras Kiss, from the town of Nyiregyhaza, were born in 1994 and 1992, respectively.
Ruling on their case, the court said the Hungarian school system had failed to provide the necessary safeguards for a disadvantaged minority.
The judgment said Hungarian courts had also acknowledged deficiencies in the way mental abilities were tested.
Hungary was ordered to pay the pair's legal costs of 4,500 euros (£3,848; $6,065). The applicants did not request damages from Hungary on grounds of discrimination.
The BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest says the conservative Fidesz government is putting money into teaching Roma culture and history - though some NGOs argue that integrating Roma is more important than building their cultural identity, which can be divisive.
Fidesz argues that it has developed a Roma strategy, aimed at improving Roma rights - something that the EU has long been urging.
Fidesz says Roma-majority schools in some villages are a fact of life, whereas the previous Socialist-led government favoured bussing Roma children to schools where they would have to mix with ethnic Magyars, our correspondent reports.
Hungary's Minister for Human Resources, Zoltan Balog, has said the country "cannot prosper without its Roma population - if the Roma lose, we lose too".
He said the "negative trend" of the majority against the Roma must be changed, at the same time as Roma themselves must shed their "victim mentality". Most Roma are unemployed and poor, he pointed out.
A Council of Europe report in 2009 criticised the over-representation of Roma children in Hungarian remedial schools, while acknowledging that Hungary had made efforts to address the problem.
The report said "the vast majority of children assessed as having a 'mild disability' could, in the view of many NGOs, be integrated relatively easily in the ordinary school system: many children are misdiagnosed due to a failure to take due account of cultural differences or of the impact of socio-economic disadvantage on the child's development".
Senior health sources told the BBC growing costs would outstrip the money the NHS received from April 2015.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is involved in Whitehall talks on how to plug the gap.
The Department of Health said it was "confident" it would "make the savings necessary to meet rising demand".
The NHS's budget in England for 2015 has been set at about £100bn.
The NHS has experienced a prolonged budget freeze as part of the government's plan to reduce the UK deficit.
Its budget has been protected from cuts which have affected most other government departments, but spending has risen only at the rate of inflation.
Factors including population growth have led to increasing demand on NHS services and higher NHS pension costs have added to the financial pressure.
In a statement, the Department of Health said: "The NHS is on track to make £20bn savings this parliament and we are confident that it will continue to make the savings necessary to meet rising demand."
And speaking on Tuesday, the health secretary said he was confident in the sustainability of the NHS .
He cited a report from the US-based Commonwealth Fund think-tank, which ranked the NHS top in 2013 out of a list of healthcare systems in 11 leading countries around the world for effective, safe, co-ordinated and patient-centred care, access and efficiency.
But some health chiefs told the BBC the sums for the financial year beginning next April did not add up.
Chris Ham, chief executive of healthcare charity the King's Fund, said the situation reflected the increasing pressures hospitals were under to provide high quality patient care, short waits for operations and cancer care, speedy A&E access - and to balance their budgets too.
He said some hospitals could run out of money. "There is a real risk of that this year and particularly next year."
In 2015/16 about £2bn from the NHS budget will be put into the Better Care Fund, intended to help the NHS and local councils provide more integrated health and social care.
Mr Ham said while it was a good idea, it meant money being taken away from hospitals. "So they're having to find even bigger efficiency savings to balance the books and deliver good standards of patient care.
"That's a very, very big ask."
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham also raised concerns about the Better Care Fund.
He said: "David Cameron is transferring large amounts of money out of the NHS to back-fill the hole he's created in social care finances.
"I am worried that the fund will set back the cause of integration and get it a bad name - the policy should be put on hold pending a full parliamentary debate."
Matt Tee, of the NHS Confederation which represents NHS trusts, added: "What we really need is for the NHS to have some certainty about the funding it will get in future years, so health service leaders can plan most effectively with their populations how to deliver the right services, in the right places, for the best value.
He called on politicians to commit to a 10-year funding settlement for the NHS.
Anita Charlesworth of the Health Foundation think-tank said the NHS had been "doing well" during austerity and had managed to make savings.
But she said: "There is a 'pincer' - as the NHS takes on more nurses, drug prices are rising and their pension costs are rising, as part of government policy."
And she warned: "We're not going to find this money behind the sofa, so it really would mean the Treasury stepping in.
"If it can't do that, we're faced with cutting services and cutting quality."
Meanwhile, an estimate by the health regulator, Monitor, underlines the possible scale of the challenge.
It says there is a funding gap of just over £5bn for 2015-16 in the NHS in England's £78bn commissioning budget for all secondary healthcare - which makes up about three quarters of its total budget and includes hospitals and mental health services.
Even after all realistic efficiency savings are made, Monitor says, a deficit of £1.6bn will remain in this section of the budget.
The concerns over the NHS budget in England come after recent research by the Nuffield Trust suggested the NHS in Wales was facing a £2.5bn funding gap over the next decade.
Health minister Mark Drakeford said that report, commissioned by the Welsh government, recognised long-term savings could be made if services continued to be reformed.
In a speech, he said: "Globalisation is associated with low wages, insecure employment, stateless corporations and striking inequalities."
There are "staggering wealth inequalities" in many advanced economies, he added.
Mr Carney was speaking in Liverpool.
He told his audience that politicians and central bankers must act to ensure people do not lose faith in the current system.
"Turning our backs on open markets would be a tragedy, but it is a possibility," he said.
"It can only be averted by confronting the underlying reasons for this risk upfront."
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Mr Carney, giving the Roscoe Lecture at Liverpool John Moores University, spoke of the need for wealth distribution and putting individuals back in control.
He cited Prime Minister Theresa May's criticism of "stateless corporations" who paid little tax and had little responsibility to local communities.
The governor said: "Redistribution and fairness also mean turning back the tide of stateless corporations."
"As the prime minister recently stressed, companies must be rooted and pay tax somewhere.
"Businesses operating across borders have responsibilities," he added.
The lecture is only the second major public speech Mr Carney has given since the June Brexit referendum.
Since that vote, the governor has had to defend himself against criticism that he had made explicitly pro-Remain comments, and also against suggestions that the prime minister had been unhappy with the Bank's monetary policy because savers had lost out.
However, although Mr Carney acknowledged in his speech that there were losers from the policy of low interest rates, he said: "The thrifty saver and the rich asset holder are often one and the same."
"Just 2% of households have deposit holdings in excess of £5,000, [they have] few other financial assets, and don't own a home.
"So the vast majority of savers who might have lost some interest income from lower policy rates have stood to gain from increases in asset prices, particularly the recovery in house prices," he added.
The challenges to greater prosperity, he said, were far wider.
Mr Carney listed three priorities:
Last week, the bank's chief economist, Andy Haldane, struck a similar note when he warned about Britain's widening inequality gap.
He was concerned not just with the gap between rich and poor, but also geographically - between north and south, east and west.
Mr Haldane said in a speech: "I think [the issue of regional inequality] is right up there as among the most important issues that we face today as a country."
"What's more, the variations are among the widest in Europe."
Samantha Thomas, who had just turned 29, died at a flat on Shakespeare Road, St Dials, Cwmbran, despite neighbours' desperate attempts to save her.
A 49-year-old man, rescued from the apartment and treated at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital for smoke inhalation, was arrested.
The remaining three flats in the block have been evacuated.
The fire broke out on Tuesday at about 06:40 BST.
Neighbour Gaynor Haines said: "I could hear these terrific screams and I looked out the bedroom window and it was just flames. Dreadful.
"Everyone's in shock, in shock, because we all knew them."
Another neighbour, David Leedham, 20, tried to help Ms Thomas escape.
He said: "The flat was engulfed in flames and she was on the balcony. We tried to reach her with a ladder but couldn't get there."
More than 30 firefighters from Cardiff and Newport rushed to the one-bedroom first floor flat where they tried to get the blaze under control.
They entered the apartment using breathing apparatus and rescued the man who was taken to hospital.
Senior officer Ian Greenman said: "I wish to extend my sympathies on behalf of South Wales Fire and Rescue Service to the family and friends of the individual who sadly lost their life today."
The block of flats had to be evacuated following the blaze and the neighbours are being provided with alternative accommodation.
Duncan Forbes, chief executive of Bron Afon, which owns the flats, said: "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the woman who died this morning.
"We have found alternative accommodation for seven residents who were evacuated and will be offering any help needed by the police and fire service in their investigation."
Officers want witnesses to call 101.
Police have released images of 160 women in an effort to identify them - and to determine whether to charge Lonnie Franklin over more deaths.
The mechanic has pleaded not guilty to 10 murders between 1985 and 2007.
Most of the victims were prostitutes who were sexually assaulted and shot.
The attacker was given his moniker because he apparently stopped killing between 1988 and 2002.
Police said they opted to release the images found in Mr Franklin's house because they needed to identify the women - and learn if any are missing or presumed dead. Many of the women were shown in photographs and home video in states of undress or in sexually graphic poses.
"Now that we know who he is and what type of activity he is involved in with women, we are very concerned for everyone in these photographs," Detective Dennis Kilcoyne said.
Many of the women appear to be willing participants in the photography, although others appear to be sleeping, unconscious or dead.
After spending years investigating the killings, police made a breakthrough when Mr Franklin's son - who is currently in prison - was swabbed for DNA using a technique known as a "familial search". The convict's DNA indicated he was a close relative of the serial killer.
Mr Fallon said there were no "Euro-fanatics" around David Cameron's top table, adding that everyone was behind the PM's bid to reform the EU.
He dismissed newspaper reports that potential rebels who might criticise the result of his renegotiations would be reshuffled.
A referendum on the UK's membership of the EU will be held by the end of 2017.
Beforehand, Mr Cameron has pledged to win back powers from Brussels and says he wants to campaign to remain in a reformed EU.
The prime minister said for the first time on Thursday that he would be publishing a list of the specific reforms in early November he is seeking, after calls for clarity about his demands.
Campaigners to leave the EU predict the demands will be "marginal", and Eurosceptics have said some ministers will resign unless they are allowed to campaign to leave.
Q&A: UK's planned EU referendum
The Sunday Times claimed Mr Cameron was being urged to "sack his critics instead", but this was rejected by Mr Fallon during an appearance on The Andrew Marr show.
"I don't know where you get this stuff", he said.
Mr Fallon added: "We're all Eurosceptics now. I don't see any Euro-fanatics around the Cabinet table."
Ministers are "all firmly behind the prime minister" in his attempts to get a "better deal", he added.
Mr Fallon said the movement of people and the claiming of welfare would be "one of the key areas where we need to see reform".
However, other EU leaders have warned Mr Cameron the principle of free movement is "non-negotiable".
Mr Cameron's reform demands, which are also likely to include exemption from an "ever-closer union" and safeguards for non-eurozone countries, will be revealed in a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk.
The prime minister has promised to "quicken the pace" of negotiations after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday that "huge progress" was not being made and reminded the UK that "it takes two to tango".
His requests are likely to be considered by his counterparts at the December meeting of the European Council.
Yellow Met Office "be aware" warnings of snow, ice and wind were issued for most of Wales for Wednesday morning.
Gusts reaching up to 70mph caused roof tiles to fall and trees to be blown over in Aberystwyth, with roads closed as a precaution.
Western Power Distribution said nearly all of the homes cut off now had power.
The Met Office warned people to be aware of difficult driving conditions due to snow in north Wales.
In Aberystwyth, police closed Terrace Road and Pier Street in the centre of the town and advised people not to drive or walk near the area because of falling roof tiles.
Trees have also come down in the Waun Fawr area of Aberystwyth, along with in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. In Radyr, Cardiff, a tree fell on top of a car.
How does London pay for more infrastructure as funding shrinks and the population grows?
The predictions are that London will have a population of 10 million by 2030. That puts immense pressure on transport.
What is interesting in this mayoral election is there is now a broad political consensus around the need for investment in transport - but budgets are shrinking.
Transport for London's (TfL) operational budget will be non-subsidised by 2018/19 as the Government withdraws £2.8bn.
Stephen Joseph at the Campaign for Better Transport says: "I think the big challenges facing transport in London are really about money and how to deal with growth - both the population and the economy and those are big challenges in relation to transport.
"TfL is losing its grant from the government by 2018/19 so it will have to survive on what it earns and on capital funding and that will have challenges around fares and then there is also the issue of how it manages burgeoning population growth and the economy.
"I think it is quite clear that whoever gets in in May the direction of travel is about more public transport and managing traffic in various ways but connecting development sites with better public transport."
So innovation and change will be needed in the funding. Multiple funding streams are more likely now with less reliance on the public purse.
Colin Stanbridge at the London Chamber of Commerce says: "I think the mayor is going to have to show great innovation and TfL's going to have to show great innovation when it comes to trying to raise the money.
"I think that we all accept now that going to government and saying we need billions and billions over and over again is not going to work.
"What the government needs to do is to give the mayor the freedoms and the power to be able to raise that money. The London Finance Commission came up with a very interesting idea - which the Chamber supported - about raising money from property taxes from council tax - from business rates.
"Well, we need something along those lines if the mayor's going to be able to raise that money. What we really need to protect is the investment."
And there are some elephants in the room. Most notably around traffic and congestion.
If the economy grows as does the population, then how will the finite number of roads cope?
It's politically unpalatable but will road charging across London eventually be considered by the next mayor?
Could introducing a workplace parking bay levy fly?
These are early days but we are seeing signs of these policies emerging.
London is arguably the home of transport innovation. The first urban underground railway was here, along with the congestion charge zone, the Oyster card and contactless payments.
Now, we are seeing long segregated cycle lanes. But what is next? Some are disappointed at the limited number of the radical ideas.
Rachel Holdsworth at Londonist.com says: "I think innovation is crucial and what is actually sadly lacking in the two front runners manifestos is a big picture, a big ambition of how they want London to be in the next 30 or 40 years.
"I don't get a big vision from them. They are promising things that are already in the pipeline such as Crossrail 2 and the Bakerloo line extension. There does not seem to be an acknowledgement that maybe we are at peak car right now so why are we carrying on building road tunnels?
"Shouldn't we be doing river crossings that are for public transport? Shouldn't we be focusing more on moving people rather than vehicles? Shouldn't we be focusing more on cycling?"
Whoever gets elected the challenges in transport are big. Keeping London moving costs billions and budgets are being squeezed.
And, as more people move here, the challenges and the decisions become more acute.
Michelle O'Neill spoke on Sunday evening at a memorial event marking 30 years since the ambush, in which an innocent civilian was also killed.
Earlier, unionists and victims had reacted angrily to the move.
However, Ms O'Neill said everyone had a legitimate right to remember their dead.
She told people gathered for the commemoration at Cappagh, County Tyrone, that victims and survivors of the Troubles in Northern Ireland who sought justice and truth, must be given the strongest possible support and assistance.
"While much of our history has been marked by sadness and tragedy, we now have a unique opportunity to be the authors of a new, peaceful, and democratic future," she said.
"This does not mean we forget our past. Everyone has a legitimate right to remember their dead, tell their side of the story and share their experiences, and hurt, of that time, without being demonised.
"I challenge our opponents to stop fighting a war which is now over. There is an onus on all of us to move forward to create a free, just and equal society - together."
Ms O'Neill said she had been criticised by unionists and the media for commemorating IRA volunteers, but she was an Irish republican.
"I see no contradiction whatsoever in commemorating our republican dead while reaching out to our unionist neighbours to build the future - Orange and Green together on the basis of full equality and mutual respect," she said.
Undercover soldiers killed eight members of the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone unit at Loughgall in May 1987.
It happened as they approached Loughgall RUC station in County Armagh with a bomb in a hijacked digger.
The IRA men shot were: Jim Lynagh, Padraig McKearney, Gerard O'Callaghan, Tony Gormley, Eugene Kelly, Patrick Kelly, Seamus Donnelly and Declan Arthurs.
The SAS also shot Anthony Hughes and his brother was badly wounded.
In 2014, Mr Hughes' family received a fully government apology confirming he was entirely innocent of any wrongdoing.
In 2001, the European Court of Human Rights found the rights of those killed at Loughgall had been violated.
Earlier this week, during a visit to a Catholic grammar school to meet Irish language students, DUP leader Arlene Foster criticised Ms O'Neill's decision to attend the commemoration.
"It is disappointing that when I am trying to make this a shared place for everybody in Northern Ireland that other leaders are doing things that frankly are wrong and backward looking," Mrs Foster said.
"I am thinking of what is happening in Loughgall on Sunday and I think that is something that Sinn Féin needs to reflect on.
"We have heard a lot during the election about respect and they need to understand what that means in terms of the past and in terms of the future, as people look to the future here in Northern Ireland."
Ramsay will feature in this weekend's inaugural Golf Sixes at the Centurion Club in St Albans, where teams of two play over a six-hole greensomes format.
"A lot of different bodies have not been doing anything. They say 'this is a problem and that is a problem', but you have to take action," said Ramsay.
"This is different and it's been a long time in coming."
Sixteen teams, each representing their country, are split into groups of four, with the top two in each group advancing to Sunday's quarter-finals, with the semis and final following on the same day.
The greensomes format sees both players tee off, with one ball then being chosen and alternate shots taken.
Each of the six holes has a theme, including a long-drive contest, nearest to the pin and a 40-second shot clock.
The European Tour has offered a prize fund of 1m euros (£850,000) for the event, which is similar to the World Super Six tournament that took place in Perth in February.
"I'm not going to turn round and say Golf Sixes is the answer to solving golf's problems, but it's a step in the right direction," said Ramsay, who will play alongside Marc Warren.
"Hopefully we can take the good things from this and make it work."
Cowan said he had been "unhappy", and left his co-stars after a Mrs Brown show at London's O2 Arena on Sunday.
He has worked with the comedy's creator Brendan O'Carroll for 26 years.
"I hadn't been happy working for the Mrs Brown's Boys company for the last 18 months to two years," he said. "I feel that 26 years is enough so I decided it was time to go."
Cowan told O'Carroll last month that he wanted to quit, but was persuaded to stay for the latest part of the Mrs Brown tour.
"I told Brendan on 16 June about my decision to leave," Cowan told the Irish Daily Mail. "That's when I handed in my notice.
"I was supposed to leave at the end of that week, but Brendan said that would be impossible and asked if I'd stay on until the end of the London O2 gigs. So I agreed to that."
He said there was "no bad blood" between the pair.
"I'm not going into details about why I was unhappy. I did the final show, packed my stuff into a small Waitrose plastic bag and just left the venue."
In a statement, O'Carroll described Cowan as "a legend".
"To all of us it feels like Ronaldo leaving Manchester United," he said. "But Ronaldo went on to amazing success which I know Rory will too.
"I can't even quantify the contribution Rory has made to our success and the well-being of me and my family, not just on screen or stage but way before that as a friend and a driving force in getting us here."
Cowan started off as O'Carroll's publicist - a job he took after being made redundant as a marketing manager for EMI Records.
He only became part of the Mrs Brown's Boys cast when an actor dropped out during a tour and O'Carroll couldn't find anyone else who could learn the lines in time.
The success of the stage show led to the BBC TV series, which began in 2011.
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Uluru, which is also known as Ayers Rock, is a huge sandstone rock formation in central Australia.
Waterfalls appeared all over the landmark, causing the famous national park to be shut temporarily.
It hardly ever rains in that area and weather experts have described the freak storm as something that happens only once in 50 years.
People living in towns nearby to the national park, were forced to leave their homes and seek shelter because of the flash floods.
The charges include rape, sexual assault and trafficking, police said.
They are said to have been committed between 2004 and 2008 against three victims aged between 14 and 16 at the time.
All the defendants, who are aged between 25 and 39 and from Rochdale, are due to appear at Bury Magistrates' Court on 21 January.
Joshim Miah, 31, of Yorkshire Street, Rochdale, is accused of rape and trafficking a person within the UK for sexual exploitation.
Mohammed Sadeer, 27, of Brimrod Lane, Rochdale, Naheem Akram, 39, of Manley Road, Rochdale, and a man, who police say cannot be named for legal reasons, are all also charged with rape.
Ittefaq Yousaf, 25, of Stanley Street, Rochdale, has been charged with sexual assault and causing/inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity, while Arfan Iqbal, 25, of Park Road, Rochdale, is charged with attempted rape.
Greater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts said: "This case is another that has been launched by Operation Doublet, an investigation into Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) that arose following the 2011 investigation into CSE in Rochdale.
"To date, 83 people have been arrested, 15 have been interviewed under caution and prosecutions have been launched against 25 people.
"The sexual exploitation of children and young people is the absolute priority for Greater Manchester Police and its partners."
He was detained on the Carlisle Road on Tuesday afternoon.
Police said the arrest followed a report from a member of the public.
The boy is to be reported to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).
The £15bn spending plans - to be unveiled by Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford on Tuesday - need the backing of some opposition AMs to pass.
The two parties have held budget talks under the post-election deal by which Plaid Cymru supported Carwyn Jones's return as first minister.
Ms Wood said Plaid "sought to be constructive" as official opposition.
She said the deal was a sign of how the party was cooperating with Labour, following criticism by Lord Elis-Thomas over Plaid's stance.
The Dwyfor Meirionnydd AM quit the party on Friday night, claiming Plaid was not "serious" about working with Labour.
"The talks have been productive and I'm very pleased with the deal that we've agreed with the Labour government," Ms Wood said.
"I'm not able to furnish you with details at this point, but there's plenty there that will demonstrate that Plaid Cymru's priorities will have been met."
The Plaid leader called for a by-election in Lord Elis-Thomas's constituency, saying party members there would be "very disappointed indeed" by his decision to sit as an independent AM, so soon after May's assembly election.
Ms Wood said she felt an "element of relief that I don't have to deal with that difficulty now, but I still think there is an element of disappointment and sadness that it has had to come to this."
A Welsh Conservative spokesman dismissed the budget deal, saying: "There's little reason to believe that this budget will be any different from those that preceded it - all of which have categorically failed to deliver the necessary levels of education, prosperity and health for communities across Wales."
It touched down at Titanic Belfast this morning, and will tour Northern Ireland over the next two days.
It is hoped the helicopter will come into service by March. Decisions are yet to be made about staffing and a permanent base for the helicopter.
Northern Ireland was previously the only area in the UK without a HEMS (helicopter emergency medical service).
The helicopter has arrived after a campaign for an air ambulance service by the late Dr John Hinds.
Dr Hinds died in an accident in July 2015, but his partner Dr Janet Acheson continued his campaigning work.
Earlier this year the then chancellor George Osborne provided £4.5m of banking fines to get the service up and running.
Ringleader Radu Dogaru and accomplice Eugen Darie had already admitted stealing seven paintings from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam last year.
They told the Bucharest court that security at the museum was very lax.
The paintings, including works by Picasso, Gauguin and Matisse, have not been found and may have been burnt.
Dogaru and Darie, who were not in court to hear the sentencing, were convicted of aggravated theft and "taking part in a criminal organisation".
They were ordered to pay 6,000 lei (£1,130) in court costs.
It was in October 2012 that thieves broke in through a rear emergency exit of the museum, grabbed the paintings off the wall and fled within minutes.
Dogaru told the court that security had been "practically non-existent" and he had "entered... just with a screwdriver".
Darie took the paintings to Romania hidden in pillowcases, the court heard, and they tried to sell them on several occasions but without success.
Eventually, an art expert alerted the police leading to a series of arrests.
The trial of three others resumes next month. One of them has already pleaded guilty.
Dogaru's mother, Olga, also faces trial accused of destroying the works. She originally told investigators she burned the paintings but later denied it.
However, experts from Romania's National History Museum said ashes retrieved from her stove included the remains of three oil paintings and nails from frames used before the end of the 19th Century.
The study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine followed 3,500 healthy people at or around retirement age.
Those who took up exercise were three times more likely to remain healthy over the next eight years than their sedentary peers.
Exercise cut the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and depression.
People who took up exercise in their 60s were also less likely to struggle with day-to-day activities such as washing and dressing.
After eight years of follow-up, a fifth of the participants were defined as healthy - not suffering from any major chronic mental or physical illness.
This group was largely made up of people who always exercised and relative newcomers to exercise. Few were people who did no exercise at all.
Doing regular exercise throughout your life is ideal, say the researchers, but there are health benefits to be had even if you are a late starter.
Lead investigator Dr Mark Hamer, from University College London, said: "The take-home message really is to keep moving when you are elderly.
"It's [a] cliche, but it's a case of use it or lose it. You do lose the benefits if you don't remain active."
In the study, those who had regularly indulged in moderate or vigorous physical activity at least once a week were three to four times more likely to be healthy agers than those who had remained inactive, even after taking into account factors such as smoking.
Dr Hamer says physical activity does not necessarily mean going to the gym or going for a run - gardening or walking to the shops also counts.
The Department of Health recommends all adults, including those over 65, do 150 minutes of physical activity a week.
Doireann Maddock, of the British Heart Foundation, said: "It's well worth getting into the habit of keeping active, as we know it can help reduce the risk of heart disease along with many other conditions.
"Every 10 minutes counts, so even hopping off the bus a couple of stops early or taking a brisk walk on your lunch break will help."
Swan, Britain's youngest ever Fed Cup player at 16 years old, won 6-3 6-3 in the opening contest of the best-of-three tie in Eilat, Israel.
Heather Watson then beat Sofia Shapatava 6-2 6-0 to ensure Britain top Pool B in Europe/Africa Group 1.
Britain will play Belgium in Saturday's play-off.
Another victory there would see Judy Murray's side progress to a World Group II play-off in April, and the possibility of a first home tie for Britain's women since 1993.
In the four years since Murray took over the captaincy they have twice come through Europe/Africa Group 1, only to lose away ties against Sweden in 2012 and Argentina in 2013.
Murray's hopes were dealt a blow before the tournament started this year when Australian Open semi-finalist and British number one Johanna Konta withdrew because of illness, prompting the captain to call on Swan.
The US-based teenager made her Fed Cup debut on Thursday with a victory against South Africa, but Gorgodze - ranked 197 places higher than the Briton - was a significant step up in class.
The Georgian broke serve at the first opportunity for a 2-0 lead but Swan then took 10 of the next 12 games to build a decisive advantage.
Leading 6-3 4-1, Swan held off a fightback and saved break points before closing it out after one hour and 31 minutes.
Watson, ranked 85th, was far too strong for world number 226 Sofia Shapatava in the second singles match as she won in one hour.
Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith were beaten 6-2 6-4 by Shapatava and Oksana Kalashnikova in the doubles match.
"Joss had a back injury which restricted her, especially on serve, and of course that's a little bit of a worry for Saturday," Murray told the LTA.
Belgium will go into Saturday's decider as the favourites in terms of rankings, with Alison van Uytvanck their number one at 43 in the world.
Murray added: "They have a strong team but I know enough about Fed Cup to know that rankings can go out of the window when you're playing for your country."
On Sunday, the ruling AIADMK party announced Sasikala Natarajan would become the next leader, two months after the death of influential politician J Jayalalitha.
O Panneerselvam, who had taken over after her death, resigned on Sunday.
He now says he had to make way for Sasikala, who prefers to be known by her first name.
On Tuesday evening, Mr Panneerselvam visited a "monument" erected in honour of Jayalalitha at Marina beach in the capital, Chennai (Madras).
He meditated there for 40 minutes before announcing that Amma (mother), as Jayalalitha was popularly known, wanted him to be chief minister and that he had been compelled to put in his papers by a group of legislators on Sunday.
Sasikala: The 'new mother' of Tamil Nadu politics
Jayalalitha: The 'goddess' of Tamil Nadu politics
Mr Panneerselvam told reporters that he was not "convinced of the decision" taken by this group, but "by then they had collected the signatures of the legislators" in favour of Sasikala, a close confidante of Jayalalitha.
For close to three decades, Sasikala, known as Chinnamma (younger mother) to her supporters, had been an almost permanent fixture in Jayalalitha's life, and was often seen with the former chief minister on public platforms.
"Finally she [Sasikala] held my hands and asked me to obey the decision, for the party, as she did when she insisted me to take the chief minister's post," he said.
Mr Panneerselvam also said he was willing to withdraw his resignation "if people wanted".
Some leaders of the AIADMK, who owe allegiance to Sasikala, have criticised Mr Panneerselvam's remarks and called him a "betrayer".
Reports say he will need the support of at least 118 of his party's 134 lawmakers if he wants to continue as the leader of the government.
Correspondents say it is unclear whether Mr Panneerselvam will be able to garner the requisite support, although many people in the state have opposed Sasikala's elevation.
Tamil Nadu's main opposition DMK party also criticised the decision saying that "the people of Tamil Nadu did not vote for anyone from Jayalalitha's household to become chief minister".
The governor of Tamil Nadu will now have to take a call on whether to ask Mr Panneerselvam to demonstrate his support in the state assembly, or swear in Sasikala as the next chief minister.
Never given any formal role by Jayalalitha in the party or the state government, Sasikala's role was always that of aide and confidante.
But analysts say her proximity to power allowed her and her extended family to wield huge influence in the party and the government.
Sasikala's influence over Jayalalitha also became the source of intense media speculation and tabloid gossip.
They also faced corruption charges together. A Karnataka high court order in 2015, which cleared them of involvement in a corruption scandal, paved the way for Jayalalitha's return to power after a setback in September 2014 when a trial court found them guilty of corruption.
India's Supreme Court has heard an appeal in the case, and is expected to issue a verdict next week.
If convicted, Sasikala will not be allowed to hold public office for six years.
League Two new boys Rovers should have had a dream start in the first minute when Stanley goalkeeper Aaron Chapman bundled over Matty Blair in the area.
But the keeper redeemed himself, diving low to his right to save Andy Williams' penalty and then scrambling away the follow-up.
Stanley, who finished fourth in the last campaign, edged ahead on eight minutes when Scott Brown played through Rommy Boco, who was one-on-one with keeper Ross Etheridge, and he slotted home the opener.
Rovers had not been behind for long when Tommy Rowe weaved his way into the area before firing home from 10 yards on 12 minutes.
Doncaster should have been comfortably ahead, with Andy Butler squandering two great chances.
Stanley made them pay on 29 minutes when defender Matty Pearson got the ball 30 yards out and unleashed a fierce shot into the bottom.
Doncaster dominated possession after the break but it was Stanley's McConville who came close, heading against the post.
With eight minutes left, sub Liam Mandeville's cross was slotted home by Williams as Doncaster thought they had rescued a point.
But there was more drama as former Manchester United and Burnley midfielder Chris Eagles sent McConville in for the winner, which he curled into the far corner of the net in the first minute of added time.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Accrington Stanley 3, Doncaster Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Accrington Stanley 3, Doncaster Rovers 2.
Attempt missed. Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley).
Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Chris Eagles (Accrington Stanley).
Foul by Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers).
Mark Hughes (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) because of an injury.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 3, Doncaster Rovers 2. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Seamus Conneely.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Sean McConville.
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matty Blair (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley).
Attempt saved. Terry Gornell (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers).
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) because of an injury.
Foul by Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers).
Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 2, Doncaster Rovers 2. Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Liam Mandeville with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Callum Jones replaces Janoi Donacien because of an injury.
Delay in match Janoi Donacien (Accrington Stanley) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Chris Eagles (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) hits the left post with a header from the left side of the six yard box.
Foul by Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers).
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Liam Mandeville replaces Jordan Houghton.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Chris Eagles replaces Jordan Clark.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Shay McCartan replaces Romuald Boco.
Delay in match Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) because of an injury.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Harry Middleton replaces James Coppinger.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Cedric Evina replaces Riccardo Calder.
To state the obvious, investors love the Tories' general election victory.
There are a few reasons.
One (no surprise here) is that Labour's threat of breaking up banks and imposing energy price caps has been lifted.
Second is that investors have been discounting days and weeks of wrangling after polling day over who would form the government - and so they are semi-euphoric that we already know who's in charge.
Third, many investors tend to be economically conservative and instinctively Conservative.
But although the City may be a bit drunk on the result, its pleasure in Ed Miliband's and Ed Balls' humiliation may be making it a bit blind - perhaps dangerously so - to some bumps in the economic road ahead.
The first thing to note is that England and Scotland have voted for diametrically opposed economic policies.
If there was one policy associated with the Tories it was further deep spending and welfare cuts to generate a budget surplus.
If there was one policy associated with the Scottish National Party it was an end to deep spending and welfare cuts.
Which means that if the integrity of the United Kingdom is to be sustained, somehow a way has to be found - and presumably fairly fast - to reconcile the English vote for more austerity and the Scottish vote for an end to austerity.
And this would have to be done in a way that doesn't reinforce the view of millions of English citizens that they are subsidising feather-bedded Scottish public services.
The transfer of more economic decision-making powers to Edinburgh also has to be done in a way that doesn't split the ruling Tory party.
Which takes us to the second important uncertainty of this apparently certain result - which is whether Tory MPs will be more or less united than in the current parliament.
Strikingly, the eurosceptic, nationalist and more socially conservative right of the Tory party has been remarkably loyal to David Cameron over the past few years - partly because they could see that in a coalition party discipline was vital to governing and staying in office.
But the trouncing of the Liberal Democrats means that Tory MPs no longer have to be on their best behaviour - they no longer have to be careful not to alienate coalition partners with their words and deeds.
So David Cameron could live to regret his electoral dream come true, what looks set to be a slim overall majority in the Commons.
Or to put it another way, the new Tory government may not turn out to be a unified, strong government, of the sort that investors prefer. And that is partly because the Fixed Term Parliament Act means there can be endless backbench rebellions that do not come anywhere near to tipping the government out of office.
Apart from anything else, David Cameron will now be under enormous pressure from many of his MPs, alarmed by UKIP's success in taking votes - if not seats - to claw back much more sovereignty from Brussels than is realistic, as a precursor to the the promised referendum on EU membership.
Or to put it another way, the UK's continued membership of the EU is today more uncertain than it has ever been - and many investors and those who run big multinationals will hate that.
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Tom Bleasby's performance with the star of "Flashlight" from the movie Pitch Perfect 2 has racked up seven million views on Facebook.
However, it did concede that the government overstepped its authority with "overly harsh" conditions imposed on an $85b loan to prevent AIG from collapse.
The government took an 80% stake in the company and 14% interest on the loan.
In total, AIG received nearly $185bn in aid during the financial crisis.
Mr Greenberg, through his company Starr International, had sought $50bn in damages on behalf of the company and its shareholders.
Starr was the largest shareholder in AIG at the time of the bailout, with a 12% stake.
But Judge Thomas Wheeler awarded no damages because the alternative to the loan would have been bankruptcy.
"In the end, the Achilles' heel of Starr's case is that, if not for the government's intervention, AIG would have filed for bankruptcy," he said in the ruling.
''In a bankruptcy proceeding, AIG's shareholders would most likely have lost 100% of their stock value."
The US central bank, which worked with the US government on the bailout, said it strongly believed its actions "were legal, proper and effective".
"The Federal Reserve's extension of credit to AIG prevented losses to millions of policyholders, small businesses, and American workers who would have been harmed by AIG's collapse," it said.
The Fed added that the terms of the deal "were appropriately tough to protect taxpayers from the risks the rescue loan presented".
Tom McPhail, head of retirement policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, suggested taxing pensions in the same way as Isas could lead to a "Northern Rock-style run on the pensions system".
The result of a review of pension saving will be revealed in the Budget.
Other options could benefit the savings of basic rate taxpayers.
Click here to explore the chancellor's options to change the pension system, if he decides on an overhaul.
They include changing the method of tax relief, establishing an Isa-style system, altering allowances, and cutting salary sacrifice.
There could be winners and losers from such changes.
Speculation suggests that Chancellor George Osborne might change the system to make pensions like Individual Savings Accounts (Isas).
Pension savers currently pay no tax on money they put into a pension, but they do pay tax on the money they take out. An Isa system would be the opposite, with income tax paid before the money was saved but tax-free when taken out.
Such a move would save the Treasury money but, according to Mr McPhail of pensions and investments manager Hargreaves Lansdown, this would cause huge instability.
"Investors don't trust politicians not to muck around with the pension system, with good reason," he said.
"An Isa-style reform, with tax relief being scrapped in favour of tax free withdrawals, would create the risk of a future Northern Rock-style run on the pension system and the UK stock market.
"Any hint of political interference in the future could result in billions of pounds being withdrawn overnight; it would be hugely unstable."
Former Pensions Minister Steve Webb, now director of policy at pensions provider Royal London, suggested that an Isa-style system would mean future pension savers would be at risk of politicians tinkering with this tax-free withdrawal, by having "another dip" at taxing pension savings.
Lord Adair Turner, a former chairman of the Pensions Commission, told the BBC on Thursday that an Isa-style system would not have any effect on the incentive to save into a pension, although it would bring forward the Treasury's tax income.
He said he was sympathetic to the idea of single rate of tax relief, suggesting it was "the direction in which we should head".
At the moment, basic-rate taxpayers who pay into a pension get 20% tax relief. Higher-rate taxpayers get 40% - and top-rate taxpayers get 45%.
Higher-rate tax relief costs the Treasury some £7bn a year, and clearly favours the well-off. A flat-rate has the potential to benefit basic-rate taxpayers and hit higher-rate taxpayers, depending on the level at which it is set.
A Treasury spokesman said all options were still being considered - including retaining the current system.
"The government launched a wide-ranging consultation into pensions tax relief last summer. We have not decided on whether or how to reform the system and are considering all options, including retaining the current system. This consultation is now closed and we will respond at the Budget," he said.
Hansons believe the vase was made during the reign of Emperor Qianlong between 1735 and 1799.
It had been valued at £300,000-£500,000 before the auction in Derby.
The seller inherited the vase from a great aunt who acquired it during her life in Cornwall in the 1920s, it is believed.
Charles Hanson, of Hansons, said earlier: "We've had significant interest across China and Taiwan and Hong Kong. We've had buyers fly in from these regions to view the vase.
"We've had telephones lines booked and it's just quite remarkable."
NHS Lothian said the patient was screened at the Western General on Thursday after reporting a fever.
Earlier the health board said the test was being done as a precautionary measure and that the patient was being kept in isolation.
The Scottish government said a blood sample taken from the man was "found to be negative for Ebola".
It had initially been reported by a news agency that the patient was female.
In a statement posted on Twitter overnight, NHS Lothian said: "The patient admitted to the Regional Infectious Diseases Unit at the Western General Hospital yesterday has tested negative for Ebola.
"We have robust systems in place to manage patients with suspected infectious diseases and staff follow tested national guidelines."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "The individual was transferred by the Scottish Ambulance Service to hospital on Thursday afternoon.
"As the individual had recently returned from one of the west African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak and felt unwell, they were tested for Ebola and other infections as a precaution.
"A blood sample was taken and tested at the viral haemorrhagic fever testing facility in Edinburgh and found to be negative for Ebola."
The suspected Ebola case in Edinburgh came about 24 hours after Northampton General Hospital said it was treating a possible case.
The hospital has since confirmed that the female patient, who has a history of travel to west Africa, tested negative for the deadly virus.
Last month a Scottish nurse, Pauline Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, became the first confirmed UK case of Ebola after she returned from Sierra Leone where she had been working with the charity Save the Children.
She is being treated at London's Royal Free Hospital and was in a critical condition although she has since improved.
Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, such as blood, vomit or faeces.
The virus has killed more than 8,400 people, almost all in West Africa, since it broke out a year ago.
The players from the Bundesliga 2 side run out to the song Hells Bells by rock band AC/DC, while the club is known for its skull-and-crossbones logo and left-wing stance against racism, sexism, fascism and homophobia.
Now, after having two beehives installed at their Millerntor stadium in Hamburg, St Pauli have become the first German club to produce their own honey.
The honey will be called Ewaldbienenhonig, named after manager Ewald Lienen and 'bienen', the German word for bees.
Residents within a 3km radius of the stadium have been asked to make "bee friendly" window boxes to help the insects flourish.
It is hoped the initiative will raise awareness of the declining bee population.
"Others have balconies to celebrate championships and we have them for the bees," said managing director Andreas Rettig.
The poll was set for May 2016 to avoid a clash with the 2015 general election.
There have been suggestions the extended term has left ministers and AMs with too little to do, leading some to dub it a "zombie" assembly.
Mr Davies told BBC Wales five years was "a considerable stretch", claiming a shorter term would make democracy "fresh".
In 2011, the assembly's term was changed from four years to five years by the Westminster government to avoid future clashes with UK general elections - themselves now fixed every five years.
The assembly's five-year cycle was made permanent in the 2014 Wales Act, but control over the issue will pass to Cardiff Bay under new legislation due to be published in the autumn.
Mr Davies told the Sunday Politics Wales programme: "We're certainly going to be rolling our sleeves up and getting on with the work.
"But I do think to make democracy relevant, to make democracy fresh, I do think you need to shorten that term."
He added that there were also problems caused by the high number of AMs standing down next May.
"With the best will in the world, many people's minds wander when they are looking at what they are going to do after the election," he said.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood told the programme the Welsh government was not "making the most of the opportunity that presents itself" with a five-year term.
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said: "The Welsh government and Welsh ministers seem content to let us drift towards the election."
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the Welsh government had adapted to the five-year term as Westminster had done and Scotland would have to.
"There's a lot of legislation to get through before the assembly rises for the election," he said.
"From my point of view, it's never quiet."
The Sewol sank off Jindo island on 16 April 2014, killing 304 people, almost all of them children.
The bodies of nine people have never been recovered and relatives have long campaigned for them to be found.
The ship was raised in March after almost three years on the sea floor and towed to port.
Workers are searching the silt and debris inside the wreck to search for human remains, while divers are looking on the seabed where the ferry had been lying.
The 34-centimetre bone was found at the site of the sinking.
"The result of a DNA test on a bone piece identified it as Danwon high school teacher Ko Chang-seok," the maritime ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The sinking of the Sewol shocked the nation.
Most of those on board were teenagers from the same high school. Many obeyed erroneous crew instructions to remain in their cabins as the ship sank.
The disaster was blamed on a combination of illegal redesigns, cargo overloading, the inexperience of the crew member steering the vessel, and lax government regulations.
The ship's captain was later convicted of murder.
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Is it where it is designed, where the parts are manufactured, or where those parts are assembled? Or is it where the brand owner is based?
The answer is more complicated than you may think.
And this is putting some patriotic US car buyers in an awkward position, because the "most American-made car", according to a recent survey, is actually a Toyota - a Japanese brand - made in Kentucky.
While price and technology are big factors for Americans buying a new car, 28% of the people surveyed by Cars.com in 2015 said they would only consider buying an "American-made" car.
But only seven vehicles made Cars.com's list, which requires a car to be assembled in the US and have 75% of its parts made there, including the engine and transmission.
And for two years in a row, the Toyota Camry, has topped that list. Two other Japanese models are in positions two and three.
The globalised car industry has long known that if you're making something as large and heavy as a car, it makes sense to build it as close to the customer as possible.
But constituent parts can come from wherever it's cheapest to make those parts. A car is, in reality, a hotchpotch of different nationalities.
Yet car companies know that branding plays a crucial role in persuading buyers to spend more on one make than on another.
So if you're buying an Audi, you know you're buying a German car. A Ford is still heavily associated with the US.
The Toyota Camry is assembled in Georgetown, Kentucky, and has high US sales volumes. But it has been progressively "Americanised" over time.
The first Georgetown-made Camry rolled out of the plant in May 1988. In the beginning, the design and engine came directly from Japan, but as demand in the US grew, so did the US influence over the car. Toyota began building Camry engines in Kentucky in 1990.
"I don't think it's fair to consider the Camry to be a Japanese car," says Wil James, president of Toyota's Georgetown plant.
Along with the substantial number of parts made in the US - and the number of US workers who assemble the car - Mr James points out that Camry's design team also lives there, not in Japan.
That Michigan-based team has implemented features and design elements to make the car more appealing to US customers, not to mention having to implement more stringent safety and emissions specifications.
For these reasons, the 2015 model Camry sold in the US looks quite different from the ones sold elsewhere around the globe.
Similarly, a German person looking over a BMW-branded SUV (sports utility vehicle) may find, to his or her surprise, that the vehicle in question was not only made in the US but has a design adapted to suit the local market.
BMW is the biggest exporter by value of cars in the US. The company's plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is BMW's biggest.
The plant produced an average of 1,300 cars a day in 2015, exporting more than two-thirds of them, mostly to Europe and Asia.
"There is no other plant that builds any of the products that are built in Spartanburg," says Ludwig Willisch, president of BMW North America.
So a European could end up buying a BMW SUV that was actually imported from the US.
Spartanburg focuses mostly on manufacturing SUVs, a style of vehicle that gained popularly in the US before taking off globally. The plant is the sole producer of several of BMW's models, including the X3 Sport and X5 M.
The Spartanburg plant and its nearby suppliers have developed an expertise in this kind of car, making them better positioned to fill BMW's worldwide demand for SUVs.
The success of BMW in Spartanburg has helped boost the regional economy and build a sense of US pride for cars typically considered German.
US carmakers have also joined this trend. Ford produces many of its lorries in Mexico and South Korea. And General Motors has announced its intention to bring the Buick Envision, a Chinese-made car, to the US market.
"Our general philosophy is to build where we sell," says Mary Barra, GM's chief executive.
She adds that if the cars become popular in the US, GM may consider building a US plant, bringing the model full circle.
If, however, US buyers scorn a Chinese-made car, even one branded with such an iconic American logo, the company is not too worried.
Buick expects to sell 200,000 Envisions in China in 2016 and just 45,000 in the US.
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The Children are Unbeatable coalition said young people should have the same protection from assault as adults.
In 2002, the Labour/Lib Dem government dropped plans for a ban, after they were deemed unworkable.
The Scottish government said a consultation on proposals for the Children and Young People's Bill was currently under way.
A spokesman added: "We would encourage as many people and organisations as possible to take part and submit their views.
"It is already illegal to physically punish children by shaking them or hitting them with any implement."
The Scottish government said its bill would not go through parliament until some unspecified time in the new year.
Currently, foster carers, teachers and others who work with children are prohibited from using physical punishment such as smacking, but parents are not.
Parents are banned from serious assaulting children, but anything else is considered "reasonable chastisement".
But Alison Todd, of Children are Unbeatable, youngsters did not have enough protection.
"This is not about political correctness," she said, adding: "This is about children and young people suffering violence in our country and we need to do something that tightens it up so that it can't happen."
The Scottish Parent Teacher Council argued there was no case for a law to criminalise parents, adding: "It is not about whether or not you should be able to smack your child - this is about whether or not you should have a law against it."
Welsh Assembly members have voted in favour of a smacking ban, although ministers have ruled out such a move in the current term.‬
It's no surprise, given their size, that the Ibrox and Easter Road clubs command so much attention, but it's high-time now that James Fowler's team were given the consideration they so richly deserve.
Queens are sitting fourth in the Championship, tucked in behind Hibs and Rangers in the play-off spots and four points ahead of Falkirk with the added cushion of having a game in hand over Peter Houston's team, who they've just beaten 1-0.
In their last three games they have beaten Hibs, Rangers and Falkirk - the two teams directly ahead of them and the one side directly underneath them. They are motoring along serenely while Rangers and Hibs do their split personality routine.
One day Rangers look like they have turned the corner, the next day they don't, the next day they do again.
Hibs are similar. They win five in a row in the league, then lose three in a row, then win two in a row, including Sunday's much-warranted victory over Hearts at Easter Road.
Only a madman would call this play-off for one team or another, but it's a fact that there are three contenders to get to the final against the Premiership entrant, not two as so many of us had probably assumed all along.
It might still seem a bit improbable that Queens could overturn Hibs or Rangers over two legs and then beat Rangers or Hibs over two more legs to take their place in the play-off final, but their record stands up to all sorts of scrutiny.
They have played Rangers four times this season and have a winning record against them - winning two, drawing one and losing one. Their aggregate score against Rangers is 8-5 in their favour. They've scored in all four of the matches between the sides whereas Rangers went goal-less in two of them.
They also have a winning record against Hibs - winning two, drawing one and losing one. The fine margins are illustrated by the aggregate score of 2-2 over the four matches. Hibs went goal-less in three of those four matches.
What a story it would be if the small fry from Dumfries managed to upset the natural order of things in these play-offs. They may not, but they demand respect. You can be sure that Stuart McCall and Alan Stubbs are looking over their shoulder with some apprehension.
We're approaching the point of the season where the ballot papers for player of the year are sent out and the rows about who is deserving and who isn't begin in earnest.
Managers will moan that their club has been ignored (again). Supporters will rage about favouritism. A winner will be announced and the whole process will be deemed, on the one hand, a joke, a laughing stock, an embarrassment and on the other, a deserving honour for a supreme player who was the obvious choice to any right-minded individual.
That's usually the way of it. This year might be different, but I won't be holding my breath.
So, where do we stand?
Right now, I know where my vote is going. Unless something drastic happens, there's one guy who stands out just ahead of everyone else. I could list all those candidates who deserve mention but, frankly, that's a dangerous game. You pick five and then Twitter gives it to you with both barrels about the twenty that you shamefully left out.
So my choice of player of the year: Craig Gordon, for all sorts of reasons. For making a comeback when very few people thought he would, for coming back as good, if not better, than he'd been before and, most importantly, for returning to the game and excelling in European football with a string of outstanding performances. That's what elevates him. He did it at a higher level than domestic fare.
His poor night at Celtic Park against Inter Milan might be mentioned, but the fact is that without his sustained excellence in earlier rounds there would have been no game against Inter Milan. So, with tin hat on, Gordon it is.
This is the time of year when you look at the Pro 12 and start to have fanciful notions about the competition's possibilities. The array of box office names on display in this weekend's matches was impressive. The cast of characters ought to be every marketing executive's dream.
Nobody will forget the breathtaking drama of the final Saturday in the Six Nations only a few weeks ago when Wales put it up to Ireland who, in turn, put it up to England who, in the greatest day of theatre in the old tournament's history, fell short against France, but only just.
Many of the Irish and Welsh players who lit up Super Saturday were in action in the Pro 12 this weekend. Five of the Irish squad that won in Murrayfield played for Leinster at the Dragons on Sunday, the home team having one of the Welsh side, Taulupe Falatau, that did such thrilling damage to Italy.
The Munster side that put Edinburgh to the sword in the same stadium where those remarkable scenes happened only a few weeks back contained Paul O'Connell, Peter O'Mahony and Conor Murray, three giants of their Six Nations triumph.
Against Zebre, Scarlets fielded four of the Welsh squad that featured against Italy. In the Connacht versus Ulster match in Galway, there were five of the champion Irish squad. In Ospreys' win over Treviso there were seven of Warren Gatland's squad playing. In Glasgow on Friday, Sam Warburton was in the visitors' team.
Of the Ireland and Wales line-ups from Super Saturday, 27 of them played in the Pro 12 this weekend, including the last two Lions captains, Warburton and Paul O'Connell.
If you factor in the intensity at the top of the league, where so little separates the top four, then you have the raw materials for a cross-border competition that ought to be making a lot more money for its clubs than it actually does. The sense of untapped potential in the Pro 12 remains, but so does the financial gap between it and the English and French leagues.
Of course, the gap is growing ever wider and all the while it threatens the bits of progress that have been made by the Pro 12. How long will it be before some monied English or French club raids Scotstoun and makes off with Jonny Gray or Alex Dunbar or Mark Bennett? Or, indeed, Gregor Townsend? Glasgow can only continue moving forward while keeping hold of its big names. The same can be said of the Pro 12 in general.
The television money in the Premiership and the Top 14 in France is bordering on the obscene in comparison to the relative pittance on offer in the Pro 12. The crowds are big and the heat of battle is red-hot. All the time. Some of it might be turgid stuff, but fear of failure can be a great attraction. Every game matters to the fans and, by extension, to the broadcasters who pay through the nose to cover it.
The Pro 12 is improving as a competition, but it still does not hold anything like the importance of a Premiership or a Top 14. Great swathes of the Pro 12 season go by without the big names appearing in it. It's really only now, when the cotton wool comes off the international players, that we see the competition in its best light.
This weekend has been interesting in that it has seen an increase in intensity. The top four needed to win and win big to maintain their position and they all did so, all four of them taking bonus-point victories. Edinburgh were in great mode ahead of their home game against Munster but they got put back in their place by a side that has cranked up its power now that we are at the business end of the league season. The cream is rising to the top.
It's not just those who follow Glasgow who will be hoping that Townsend's team can go one better than they did last season, it'll be everyone who holds the best interests of the Pro 12 at heart. For too long there has been a sameness to the winners' podium - Leinster, Leinster, Ospreys, Munster, Ospreys, Munster, Leinster, Ospreys. Eight seasons and only three different winners.
The Pro 12 needs Glasgow to come through and change the narrative and the good news is that they look eminently capable of doing it. It also needs the Edinburghs and the Llanellis and the Cardiffs and the Dragons to get their acts together and get competitive instead of being the also-rans they have been for too long.
A new champion is only the start of the work that needs to be done to capitalise on a competition that could be so much better.
The survivors were picked up from wooden and rubber boats, in 17 separate operations by Italian and French ships.
An Italian ship landed nearly 900 people in Sicily early on Monday.
At least 1,750 people have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean, a 20-fold increase on the same period in 2014 when 96 people died.
The final number of people rescued over the weekend is expected to rise. The busiest two days for rescues so far this year were April 12 and 13, when 6,500 people were picked up.
Many more migrants are expected to make the crossing in the coming weeks as smugglers take advantage of calmer weather.
In a separate incident on Sunday, three people died when a boat carrying migrants to Europe sank off Egypt's coast, according to Egyptian state media. Thirty-one migrants were reportedly rescued.
At an emergency meeting last month to discuss the crisis, European Union leaders said they would triple the funding for rescue operations run by EU border agency Frontex, and threatened to target smugglers' boats with military strikes.
Italy abandoned its Mare Nostrum search-and-rescue mission last year after some EU members - including the UK - said they could not afford to fund it.
The decision was widely criticised in April after more than 800 people died when a single boat sank - the deadliest capsize recorded in the Mediterranean.
Some of the 27 survivors of the accident described being beaten by smugglers in an attempt to load more migrants on to the boat
The overloaded vessel crashed into a cargo ship shortly after leaving Libya, causing panic on board. The dead were mostly Syrians, Senegalese, Eritreans, and Somalis - adults and children.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has said "much more" needs to be done beyond the EU's current spending plans to tackle the migration crisis in the Mediterranean.
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The emergency services were called to the blaze near Glencorse Reservoir, at Flotterstone off the A702, just before noon.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said wind was causing the fire to spread through trees and grass.
Crews are using beaters and hoses to fight the fire, which is still well alight.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue service spokeswoman said: "Edinburgh operations control received a call just before midday and mobilised two appliances from Penicuik and Sighthill fire stations.
"Due to the fire being fanned by the wind, further appliances from Dalkieth, Liberton and West Linton have been mobilised to the scene.
"The incident is ongoing and will be for some considerable time.
"The area is popular with hill walkers and we would ask if you can avoid the area until fire operations are concluded."
The British number one beat China's Zhang Shuai to set up a last four meeting with seventh seed Angelique Kerber (04:30 GMT, Thursday).
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"I'm fine," said Konta, 24. "Whatever comes, I'm enjoying it."
Konta, who is guaranteed prize money of £370,000, is the first British woman to reach a major semi-final since 1983.
Jo Durie was the last person to achieve that feat, at the US Open in 1983.
Konta also joins Virginia Wade, the Australian Open champion in 1972, and Sue Barker, a semi-finalist in 1975 and 1977, as the only British women to reach the last four at the Australian Open since the open era began in 1968.
Konta was ranked 47 in the world before this tournament and her exploits mean she is likely to break into the world's top 30 on the back of her success in Melbourne.
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She says, however, that she does not let her results - good or bad - consume her.
"If you live and die with your wins and losses it is an incredibly tough lifestyle to live," she said. "Separating myself from that gave me a lot of enjoyment and perspective.
"It gave me some peace to realise that I am also working on myself for post-tennis. There is a whole rest of my life for when I retire from tennis whenever that may be - hopefully not for a number of years if I stay nice and healthy."
"Both of them are false," said Konta. "I had a lot of ear infections when I was younger so I didn't learn to swim until I was about 14 so that is definitely false. I was a decent 800m runner, not 400m.
"I'm actually really proud of this... I won at school, I beat the girls and boys so it was a big deal at the time when I was about 11.
"Then I won the district race and I made the state but I just never went because I was training in tennis. It was a big part of my life at that point.
"For me, it has always been tennis. I haven't really explored any other avenues."
Konta was born in Sydney to Hungarian parents and settled in the UK when aged 14 before becoming a British citizen in May 2012.
"Actually I am a tri-citizen," she said. "I've got a Hungarian passport as well. Just add that into the mix - I'm pretty much the female version of Jason Bourne."
When it was suggested other countries may try to claim her allegiance, she added: "That's a real lost cause. I definitely belong to Great Britain."
Home Secretary Theresa May has apparently turned down his visa application.
It means he will no longer be able to tour Britain in February as planned.
So who is this 25-year-old? And what has he done so wrong to make 150,000 people sign a petition to stop him coming to the UK?
The Swiss-born American works for LA-based company Real Social Dynamics and is known as a "pick-up artist".
As a self-described "leader in dating advice", he travels the world telling men how to seduce "any woman they want".
"I teach guys how to gain confidence in order to socialise with women and perhaps get into a relationship with a woman," Blanc told CNN.
"A lot of the clients do meet their spouses on these programmes.
"I receive emails all the time, I've been invited to weddings, people are just eternally thankful."
But despite Blanc's insistence there are plenty of people who find the 25-year-old's approach dangerous, sexist and violent.
The business of men selling themselves as professional "pick-up artists" and "dating gurus" has been growing for years.
For around £125 you can get yourself a 23-part video course with Blanc. For another £200 you can get the videos and a ticket to a live event.
But you don't have to search for long to come across one of his seminars online.
In one video he can be heard telling a group of men: "In Tokyo, if you're a white male, you can do what you want."
In others he's seen grabbing the necks of various women and forcing their faces towards his crotch.
It all started to go wrong for Blanc when the videos from Japan surfaced.
After being shared across social media a petition was started in Australia asking the government to revoke his visa.
Images of Blanc seemingly choking women in the street then added to the political pressure to throw him out.
On 6 November his Australian visa was revoked.
Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison explained the decision saying: "This guy wasn't putting forward political ideas, he was putting forward abuse that was derogatory to women and those values are abhorred in this country."
He's also been refused entry to Brazil and now seemingly Britain.
Petitions have also been gathering signatures fast in Japan and Canada.
Canada's Citizen and Immigration Officer Chris Alexander recently tweeted: "My job is to ensure our immigration system does not facilitate violence against anyone in Canada and ensure women are protected from all forms of such."
Blanc has publically spoken for the first time since his Australian visa was revoked.
In an interview with CNN this week, he said: "I 100% take responsibility. I apologise 100% for it. I'm extremely sorry.
"My intentions were never bad. I agree it was a horrible attempt at humour and unfortunately a lot of it got put out of context.
"With those pictures... I want to make it clear that that is not what I teach. It was a horrible, horrible attempt at humour.
"Those girls were girls I was hanging out with. I did place my hand around their neck. I did not physically choke them.
"They were also taken out of context. You can make anything look bad."
But it seems that apology hasn't had an impact on Home Secretary Theresa May's decision.
A UK Home Office spokesman told Newsbeat today: "The home secretary has the power to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good or if their exclusion is justified on public policy grounds."
The spokesman also said the Home Office doesn't comment on individual exclusion cases unless they are made public by the excluded individual.
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Mukhtar Hussain, defence counsel for Roger Cooper, told Birmingham Crown Court that prosecutors have deployed "imaginary and erroneous" speculation against his client.
Mr Cooper, 41, and his brother David, 38, deny murdering Sameena Imam, from Cardiff, on Christmas Eve last year.
Ms Imam's body was found buried on David Cooper's allotment in January.
Roger Cooper managed the Coventry warehouse of cash-and-carry firm Costco and was having an affair with Ms Imam, the company's marketing manager.
It is alleged that Mr Cooper, from Coventry, thought he would be sacked if their relationship was exposed.
Mr Hussain said Ms Imam was in a good mood after travelling from Coventry to Leicester with Roger Cooper to the home of his brother.
Jurors were told she suddenly went rigid after a comment made by David Cooper.
Mr Hussain added: "She was angry about the lack of trust and respect and told Roger Cooper that he had crossed the line.
"She was sobbing, crying, shouting, hysterical. She clearly thought, you may think, that her privacy had been invaded when he had asked his brother to go and spy on her."
The court heard Ms Imam demanded to be let out of the car so she could get a taxi.
"He stopped at a Tesco. She gathered up her things and stormed off. That was the last he saw of her," said Mr Hussain.
The case continues.
Stephen Thomas Hughes, 29, and Shaunean Boyle, 25, are accused of murdering Owen Creaney between 3 July and 6 July 2014.
Both have denied the charges.
Ms Boyle, from Edenderry Park, Banbridge, pleaded not guilty at Belfast Crown Court on Friday.
In February, Mr Hughes, whose address was given as Maghaberry Prison and is originally from Craigavon, also denied murder.
Mr Creaney, 40, from Lurgan, was found dead at Moyraverty Court in Craigavon.
He was found dumped in a wheelie bin after subjected to a violent assault.
The court previously heard that the victim had been showered before being put in the bin.
The case will be reviewed again in June before the trial is expected to start in September.
The Royal British Legion said there would be a series of events ahead of Remembrance Sunday on 13 November.
LLandaff Cathedral in Cardiff is among 30 buildings which were lit up, as well as all Cadw-owned sites across Wales.
Antony Metcalfe of the Royal British Legion said it "was important to remember there's a new generation that needs your support".
This comes as the charity asked people to recognise younger veterans and serving soldiers as Remembrance and the poppy were commonly associated with with older, World War Two veterans.
Buildings which will be lit up until Remembrance Sunday include Conwy Castle, St Mary's Cathedral, Wrexham, Aberystwyth Castle and war memorial, the Senedd and City Hall in Cardiff.
The charity said this was a mark of respect to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Battle of the Somme and the 4,000 men from The 38th (Welsh) Division who were killed or injured at Mametz Wood in World War One.
A crowd was at Karachi airport when Khan, 43, landed and there were more angry fans waiting for him at his home.
Senior police official Tariq Dharejo said: "We have deployed some police at Moin's residence for security reasons as people were causing disturbances."
The former test captain has apologised for his actions.
"I went to the casino to have dinner with some friends but in hindsight it was an inappropriate judgement on my part given the disappointment in the team's performance at the World Cup," said Khan, who was ordered home by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Pakistan were heavily beaten in their opening two games against India and West Indies. and are bottom of Pool B.
University of Edinburgh scientists found the painkiller interrupted the production of testosterone when given for seven days.
The hormone is key to the development of male reproductive organs.
NHS guidelines say paracetamol should be taken only if necessary in pregnancy and for the shortest possible time.
And anyone needing long-term treatment must seek medical advice.
The UK watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, says paracetamol is one of the few painkillers generally considered safe if expectant mothers absolutely need to take it.
It can also be important in treating fevers that could otherwise lead to harm
But previous studies have hinted that paracetamol could kick-start reproductive problems in the womb.
For example, Danish research found women who took painkillers were more likely to have boys born with undescended testes - this can sometimes lead to future reproductive troubles.
To find out what might be behind this link, scientists engineered a system to mimic the conditions of human pregnancy as closely as possible.
Mice were implanted with human foetal tissue and given paracetamol for seven days.
They had much lower levels of testosterone in their blood than those given a dummy drug.
But when given doses for just one day, it appeared to have no effect.
Dr Rod Mitchell, the lead researcher, said: "This study adds to existing evidence that prolonged use of paracetamol in pregnancy may increase the risk of reproductive disorders in male babies.
"We would advise that pregnant women should follow current guidance that the painkiller be taken at the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time."
Researchers caution it is still too early to tell to what extent their findings apply to humans, but point out that a study on pregnant women would not be possible for ethical reasons.
However, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health says paracetamol is an important treatment that should not be avoided altogether.
Dr Martin Ward-Platt, spokesman for the organisation, added: "The study specifically relates to paracetamol use over at least several days.
"There are times where one or two doses is needed to treat one-off episodes of fever, for example.
"Fever during pregnancy can be harmful to the developing embryo, with links to a significant increase in the rates of spina bifida and heart malformations, so small doses of paracetamol are sometimes necessary."
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, which monitors the safety of drugs used in the UK, said it would be "carefully evaluating" the findings.
Meanwhile, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists warns the study has to be treated with caution.
Dr Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami, of the college's scientific advisory committee, said: "This is a robust piece of research.
"However, it is important to note that the study was carried out in animal models and it is not possible to translate the findings into a recommendation regarding what would be safe or unsafe in pregnant women.
"Additionally, the mice were not pregnant but in a 'pregnancy state' which was induced by a hormone and human foetal testicular tissue which was grafted on to them.
"Further research needs to be conducted into how paracetamol may affect testosterone levels as well as examining the long-term developmental effects on testosterone production."
The study is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Responsibility for ill health and disability benefits is being devolved to Holyrood.
Social Security Minister Jeane Freeman believes there is "value in looking at at whether we continue to use the word 'benefits'" when that happens.
A consultation on how devolved benefits should be delivered has been launched.
Ms Freeman, who was elected to Holyrood in May, made the comments as she launched the 13 week consultation with Social Security Secretary Angela Constance.
The Scottish government has already made clear its ambition to place "dignity, fairness and respect" at the heart of the new welfare system.
Ms Freeman said: "I do think there is value in looking at whether or not we continue to use the word 'benefit', because there is an implication in there that is the rest of us doing something nice for somebody else, when actually what we have said consistently as a government is that social security is an investment we make collectively in ourselves.
"Part of how you make dignity, fairness and respect real as opposed to just fine words is about the culture that the organisation that will deliver those benefits embraces, and how people receive that in their dealings with that organisation.
"There are some things you can do to affect quite quick cultural change, and part of that is around language and thinking, so there is value in looking at whether or not we don't simply call these payments, as opposed to benefits, or some other word."
A social security bill is expected to be introduced to Holyrood in May or June next year, while the proposed new Scottish social security agency could be making payments to people before the 2021 elections.
Payments such as disability living allowance, personal independence payments, attendance allowance, severe disablement allowance and industrial injuries disabled benefit will become the responsibility of MSPs, as well as carer's allowance - which the Scottish government has already committed to increasing to the same level as jobseeker's allowance.
Other benefits being devolved include sure start maternity grants - which are to be changed to best start grants - funeral payments, cold weather and winter fuel payments, discretionary housing payments and some powers over Universal Credit.
Westminster will retain responsibility for much of the Universal Credit system, along with pensions, child benefit and maternity and paternity pay.
Ms Constance described Holyrood taking responsibility for part of the existing welfare system as "the biggest and most complex programme of change, probably in the history of devolution".
She added: "We want to gather views from as many people as possible from across Scotland about their own experience of benefits and how they think the system could be improved in the future."
Scottish Labour social security spokesman Mark Griffin said: "The new powers coming to our Scottish Parliament give us the opportunity to build a Scottish welfare state with dignity at its heart.
"We can do things differently now. With the power to top up and create new benefits, there is a huge opportunity to tackle poverty and inequality in Scotland.
"Labour will support the government where they show ambition in social security but we will not allow the SNP to simply pass on Tory cuts."
Ryan Sidebottom, Tim Bresnan and Jack Brooks took three wickets each to earn their side a 188-run lead.
Acting captain Gary Ballance declined to enforce the follow-on and openers Adam Lyth (41) and Alex Lees (30) extended the lead with a 72-run stand.
Ballance then helped himself to an unbeaten 75 as Yorkshire reached the close on 200-4, 388 runs ahead.
Bottom-of-the-table Nottinghamshire's batting performance earlier in the day did not augur well for their chances of avoiding relegation.
Resuming on 38-2, they were rocked by an inspired opening spell from Sidebottom, who had Michael Lumb caught behind, trapped Steven Mullaney (25) lbw and Samit Patel taken at first slip.
Brendan Taylor hung on for an hour and a quarter for 14 - making him the third and last Notts batsman to reach double figures - but was then bowled by Steven Patterson.
Lees gave Yorkshire's second innings an early flourish with four successive boundaries off Mullaney and although the home side got rid of both openers and Jake Lehmann (35), England batsman Ballance ensured they will face a tough final two days with 12 boundaries so far.
The UK astronaut has given his first full news conference since touching down on the Kazakh steppe on Saturday.
He is the first person to fly to space under the UK banner since Helen Sharman in 1991 and made the first spacewalk by a UK astronaut.
During the 186-day mission mission, Maj Peake also remotely steered a robot on Earth and ran the London Marathon.
He told a news conference: "I would do it again in a heartbeat. And I can say that because I've spoken to my wife and she is incredibly supportive of it."
He also said he hoped the UK would send further Britons into space.
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"We have to be continuing our contributions to human spaceflight," he told journalists at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
But he explained: "Life doesn't stop with the International Space Station," adding that there were likely to be other upcoming opportunities over the coming years, including potential missions to the Moon and Mars.
"If we are not involved now we will simply miss the boat," he said.
Describing the descent to Earth on Saturday, Maj Peake said: "The descent is a really exciting ride... you can't help the boy inside you that's enjoying this fantastic ride back from space.
He said the pyrotechnic bolts that went off to separate the descent module (containing the crew members) from the other two parts of the Soyuz capsule sounded "like a very heavy machine gun", adding that "the spacecraft really does blow itself apart".
As the Soyuz capsule dropped further in altitude, Mr Peake said: "You really get a strong sensation that you are falling back to the planet... the capsule gets very hot, you're working against the Gs (gravitational forces), you're working hard against the heat, you've got your visor down with not much ventilation, you're having to read the systems and check the spacecraft."
But he explained: "Probably the most dynamic part is where the parachute - the drogue chute - opens. For 20 seconds you're getting really flung around, so you have to hold on and wait for it all to stop."
Maj Peake emphasised the importance of inspiring the next generation. The UK Space Agency had devised a programme of educational activities around the astronaut's "Principia" mission.
These included contests to design the spaceman's mission patch, to devise a meal for Maj Peake to eat in space and an experiment comparing the growth of seeds that had been in space with those that remained on Earth.
He said: "We have reached over a million schoolchildren... I'm delighted we've got them to think about space and science in a different way," adding that he wanted them to know that: "You can go to the Moon."
Asked what he would tell pupils at his old school, Tim Peake said: "I think the message to take away is that you're looking at a boy who went to Westbourne Primary School who left school at the age of 19 with three below average A-levels and I've just got back from a six-month mission to space.
"My message to them is: 'Don't let anyone tell you you can't do anything'."
Maj Peake said he had already been receiving rehabilitation following his return. But he would now be involved in a physical programme to help him return to full fitness.
Extended periods in microgravity takes a large toll on the body, including a decrease in bone density and muscle wastage.
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The participants, aged between three and 22, swam, cycled and raced at the event at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Organisers Bigmoose said disabilities included cerebral palsy, epilepsy, blindness and Down's syndrome.
The charity said the event was geared towards individual goals, with 120 volunteers accompanying the children and their families.
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Question from Sean on Facebook: Why is #Florida always the last to announce the results? Can't they count there?
Katty answers: They can count in two languages there! It's one of closest fought, most populous states so it takes longer
Question from @SHSPolitics: How have Dems been able to increase their senate seats? Is it due to akin/mourdock?
Katty answers: Yes. The GOP didn't do itself any favours with those two candidates
Question from @errant1977: Jeb Bush for GOP run in 2016? adage says without "Bush or Nixon on the ticket" they've never won since 28?
Katty answers: Hmm. In their dreams, yes. He can expand the party but his last name still isn't Smith and he's told me that's an issue
Question from @alyssaweis: How do you feel the legalization of marijuana in certain states will affect the rest of the nation?
Katty answers: For me, question is whether this is like gay marriage, part of a social/demographic trend - I'm not sure yet
Question from @lizrob92:Where do you think Mitt will go from here? esp. considering his own people in Mass. didn't vote for him?
Katty answers: He'll get some sleep, spend time with his family and then look at his future. I'd guess some non-profit, GOP leadership role
Michael in London asks: What is the future of the GOP after the re-election of Obama?
Katty answers: This is THE biggest question out of the election. GOP needs to be more inclusive, but may start w a conservative backlash
A friend on our BBC World News Facebook asks: Are you wearing your hipster glasses today?
Katty answers: My 16-year-old daughter says it's never good to be hipster anything! Does this mean I have to be blind again?
Question from @benlhcarpenter: Why do Americans want change yet vote in the same man?
Katty answers: Understandably they aren't happy with the economy but they seem to have decided to give Obama's policies more time.
Question from @ds_andrews asks: What do you believe the #GOP'ers have to do to obtain more diverse votes? (Hispanic, African American etc.)
Katty answers: Changing their tone on immigration would help and signing up to comprehensive immigration reform would help even more.
Question from @Elly1J: What do you think would be the impact among the black people if Obama hadn't won?
Katty answers: The prospect of the first Af Am president being a 1-term president was part of what drove so many black voters to polls
Question from @NairnMcD: When will the inauguration be held for his second term?
Katty answers: This year it was due to be held on a Sunday, so it's been pushed back to Monday 21st January. It'll be chilly either way!
Michael in the UK asks: Could you explain why there is so much#Republican resistance to so called "Obamacare"?
Katty answers: Republicans believe Obamacare represents a costly, inefficient expansion of government. It was a big deal for GOP voters
Question from @jmesaghafi: Do you think #Obama has a strong mandate - given the dropoff in votes vs. '08 (9 million less)?
Katty answers: Remember, voters also chose to keep Republicans in the House, this was a vote for divided government
Question from @laurenlamack: What do you think the #GOP can do to become more "woman friendly" than they are/appear today?
Katty works: Ask Mr Mourdock and Mr Akin to keep quiet.
Question from @essex_tom: What should Obama's main priorities be in his second term of presidency?
Katty answers: First off is the budget but today Harry Reid mentioned immigration and climate change - expect to see both on the agenda
Question from @ChristopherJor5: What of Paul Ryan. Potential candidate for 2016?
Katty answers: Yes. At the Republican convention this year they were much more excited about Ryan than Romney
Question form @fergold: Why do so many Americans view socialism as some kind of evil?
Katty answers: Getting govt off your back is part of the American DNA, the pioneering spirit of individualism. It's also easy politics.
John Happ from Hingham, USA emails: Who will replace Mrs Clinton, now that the election is over?
Katty answers: I heard today that Hillary may stay for a bit longer to clear up Benghazi mess - beyond that Susan Rice or John Kerry
Question from @Steve_Map: Did you enjoy the election? Do the US have the same amount of coverage of the UK General Election?
Katty answers: Yes and no
Question from @SimenAndersen2: Is John Boehner really a nice guy? Doesnt seem like the most cooperative republican
Katty answers: I've never met him. I never hear that he isn't a nice guy
Question from @rhysbart: Who gets to keep the "Mitt Romney for President" plane? Does Mitt get to take it home ?
Katty answers: Even Gov Romney doesn't have a garage big enough for a plane. There was a rumour Bruce Springsteen was taking it on tour
Question from @robertch07: Without enjoying majority in house of representative, Can Obama pass any major bill?
Katty answers: Yes, if he can get compromise. That will take strong effective leadership
Question from @AndrewWork:Does Obama keep the same VP?
Katty answers: A snr WH official tells me Biden is there for the full four years and Obama has a lot of time for his VP
Q from @AmrNail: Now that Obama has been re-elected will the#republicans concede the fact that they have to increase taxes?
Katty answers: Speaker John Boehner has just said he knows revenue has to be part of the deal
Question from @dandemay: Any ideas on Dem candidate for 2016? Hillary perhaps?
Katty answers: Hillary, possibly. Rahm Emmanuel. Gov Martin O'Malley. Gov Hickenlooper - though I confess the name's a tad tricky
From Google+ user William D: Why wasn't there more coverage of Gary Johnson or other third party candidates?
Katty answers: Because they weren't going to win, or make a real impact on the race
Question from @MarkCWarner :How do you view the Tea Party's future in subsequent elections?
Katty answers: with confusion
Question from @RestlessRani: Think #Obama will act on pressure re action in #Syria?
Katty answers: There is still very little appetite for intervention in Syria, but he may have more freedom to focus on foreign issues now
Question from @CleverDemocrat: Puerto Rico voted in favor to be a US state, but will they actually become the 51st state of the US?
Katty answers: It would have to be voted on by Congress so chances are slim that GOP would approve a new hispanic state
Mike on Google+ asks: I'd like to know what's being said in Britain about the election's outcome?
Katty answers: After Romney's super successful trip to London this summer, Brits were mildly relieved not to see him elected
Katty says: Thank you for joining us today & following #election2012 with the BBC. Now go get some sleep! #AskKattyBBC
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The Twentieth Century Society fear mosaics created by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi will be lost at Tottenham Court Road station.
The society said the archways of "very high quality" mosaics should be saved.
Redevelopment work is intended to improve access with new entrances and lifts.
Transport for London (TfL) said efforts had been made to retain over 95% of the Paolozzi mosaics in their current position or with a mixture of new and original tiles, but for structural reasons the mosaic covered arches could not be saved.
Henrietta Billings, senior conservation adviser at the Twentieth Century Society, warned that mosaic covered arches over escalators and a large decorative panel would be "demolished imminently".
She added: "But both of these pieces are of very high quality and we believe they could be successfully retained within the new station - or relocated.
"To destroy them would be a tragic loss and London deserves better."
Gareth Powell, director of strategy and service development at LU, said the Paolozzi Foundation had been involved in efforts to ensure the station continues "to provide a home for the work".
Mosaics have been restored and replaced on the Northern Line and similar work will be carried out on the Central Line.
He added: "This process involved colour matching and following the same production used for the original tiles.
"We also have plans to relocate the signature pieces at the former Oxford Street entrance."
The survey tested about 4,000 samples of whole chickens bought from UK retail outlets and independent stores.
In February, the FSA said contamination had increased since November, with every major retailer failing to meet targets to reduce the bug.
Campylobacter is the most common form of food poisoning in the UK.
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Many of these people are living in a makeshift camp in Calais known as "The Jungle".
They have tried to make the camp as liveable as possible - constructing shelters, a school and a community canteen.
Martin has been to the French town to find out more the growing migrant crisis there.
If confirmed, it would reverse a police statement earlier on Wednesday banning the demonstration.
Philippe Martinez, the head of the left-wing CGT union, said the ban had been lifted after an emergency meeting with the interior minister.
Police had insisted any rally would have to be stationary, citing violence at a Paris protest last week.
But the ban elicited a furious reaction, with union leaders and many Twitter users pledging to defy it.
"After tough talks with the interior minister, the union and student organisations obtained the right to demonstrate on a route proposed by the interior ministry," Mr Martinez told a news conference.
Mr Martinez said it was a "victory for democracy" and urged workers to turn out in "massive" numbers.
The agreed route, proposed by the interior ministry, will cover 1.6km (one mile) near the centre of Paris.
That is much shorter than the original route proposed by the unions - so short, in fact, that Liberation newspaper suggested (in French) that if there were a large turnout, it could end up being stationary anyway.
The march is the latest in a series of mass demonstrations and strike action against controversial changes to employment laws.
But violence has marred previous protests. On 14 June, hundreds of masked protesters threw chunks of paving and set cars ablaze and a children's hospital in central Paris was badly damaged.
French police are "on the verge of a breakdown", according to one of their union leaders.
They are physically worn out by their multitude of tasks, morally exhausted by the constant criticism, and now - more than ever before - anxious for their very lives.
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Police responded with tear gas and water cannon, and dozens of officers were injured.
In their earlier statement, the Paris police department said the police, who have the task of providing security for the Euro 2016 football championship and countering the threat of terrorism, were under too much pressure to allow the march to proceed.
The government's labour reforms make it easier for employers to hire and fire workers and relax the limit on working hours.
However, the bill was watered down before ministers decided to force it through the lower house of parliament to avoid it being voted down.
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Nevin told BBC Scotland's Sportsound that the Scottish Football Association did not provide comfortable seats on the overnight flight back from Tbilisi.
He said there was only burger and chips for the players to eat at the airport.
"The SFA has not done this well on this occasion," said Nevin. "Something has to be done. That cannot happen again."
The squad's return flight, after Scotland's 1-0 defeat by Georgia in Euro 2016 qualifying, was delayed by two and a half hours. The team arrived back in Glasgow about 06:00 BST on Saturday, with a match against world champions Germany to follow on Monday evening.
Nevin complimented the "ultra pleasant" SFA for doing "a lot of things really well on this trip".
However, he criticised them for failing to act on his suggestion to an official on the outward flight that something ought to be done to give the players more leg room then and on the return trip.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live before Scotland's 3-2 defeat by Germany at Hampden, Nevin said: "The seats on that plane were uncomfortable for me. I'm 5ft 6.5in. Imagine how they must have felt for the players, who are travelling overnight.
"It was a six-hour flight with a three-hour delay, 4,000km over three time zones, in those cramped seats.
"After the game, we had two or three hours milling about in the airport afterwards with the fans, with the journalists.
"The players lined up in front of Burger King where they ate burger and chips.
"They had to refuel but there was no other food that they could have.
"What about all these sports scientists? I was really, really disappointed with the organisation."
The SFA declined to comment on the points he had raised.
On Wednesday's Sportsound, Nevin revealed he had spoken to some of the players "who were really disappointed with it" but who "are not going to say anything because it's after the game and they have been beaten".
"They are a great bunch of guys; they are not going to complain about everything," said the former Chelsea and Everton winger.
"The plane was a (Boeing) 737-800, I believe, which is not the standard of plane the players would expect to be going on a long-haul journey - it's a six-hour flight - and particularly a journey back overnight.
"What you have to do is bite the bullet and get the best plane available and make sure the players can get a bit of kip and lie back.
"There isn't a team on this planet that thinks it's a really good idea to go without sleep two nights before playing the world champions.
"All I want is for it to be better for the players to give them the best chance."
Nevin said on the outward journey there were 18 seats free that afforded better leg room than the players had in the seats they were allocated.
He himself had a "good" seat and this prompted him to speak to the SFA official.
"There was the opportunity to adapt it and it wasn't taken," said Nevin.
And on the subject of nutrition, he said: "Have a read back at anything Gordon Strachan has ever said about eating and refuelling and then think about burger and chips and try to get your head round it."
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme, Mr Murphy refused to say how he would achieve this but said he would let his constituents know first.
He also said he was "determined" to hang on to every Scottish Labour seat at Westminster.
"It's feasible but tough," he said.
"There is a lot of work to do but I am determined to hold onto every seat we currently have and I am confident we can.
"We can either protest against the Tories or replace the Tories."
Mr Murphy, who ran next to the River Clyde during a photocall, also told the programme he planned to give his leadership contest rivals Neil Findlay and Sarah Boyack roles in his new cabinet.
"I'm keen to rediscover the Team Labour approach," he said. "I'm going to build a talent-based team where we bring everyone together."
"The contest was a good advert for the Scottish Labour party. It was free of the personal acrimony of the past."
Speaking about his plans to gain a seat at Holyrood he said: "I have given a commitment that I will be in the Scottish Parliament in 2016 and Labour candidate for first minister by 2016.
"I'd like to be there sooner than that and in terms of how we do that, of course I will let my constituents and constituency party know first.
"But there is a cast iron guarantee to be a candidate in those elections, if not before."
Mr Murphy, who currently has a seat at Westminster, indicated he would not be an MP and an MSP at the same time, saying: "It is not something I am attracted to."
He said he was determined to lead the party from Scotland.
"I am going to lead the Scottish Labour Party from Scotland, in Scotland," he said.
"I am also going to include people who aren't in the Labour Party, some who have never voted Labour, and get these fresh ideas in and strengthen our party."
Mr Murphy said the Smith Commission package of devolved powers given to Scotland was strong but said welfare powers should be devolved to towns and cities rather than left with "people sitting behind a desk in Edinburgh".
The new Scottish leader earlier told BBC Radio Five Live he would not be consulting Ed Miliband on policies or campaigns in Scotland.
"I don't need to consult the leader," he said.
"I'm proud of being part of a wider Labour movement across the United Kingdom.
"But the days in which anyone needed permission from the Labour Party anywhere else in the United Kingdom to make a decision about what happens in Scotland are gone and they're gone for good.
"They're not coming back. I need no-one's permission. I consult no-one on the issues that are devolved in Scotland other than the people of Scotland and the Scottish Labour Party.
"That's the way it's going to be in future."
Mr Murphy's predecessor, Johann Lamont, resigned after the independence referendum saying Labour's Westminster leadership had treated the party in Scotland as a "branch office".
"I didn't agree with the comment about the branch office and I'm going to make clear how that will change," Mr Murphy said.
"Things on election tactics, election strategy, party funding, party strategy, the policies are devolved to the Scottish Parliament - those decisions will be made in Scotland in future," he said.
He added: "I'm big enough and I'm ugly enough and I've been round long enough not to be pushed around."
Lydia Bishop got her neck caught in a rope on an outdoor slide in September 2012, on what was her first full day at York College nursery.
Sophee Redhead, 25, of York, had denied manslaughter by gross negligence.
She was cleared, although York College was found guilty by the jury at Leeds Crown Court of health and safety breaches in relation to the nursery.
The college operated the nursery, which has since been closed, for children of staff, students and members of the public.
Lydia died after a rope attached to a slide at the nursery became entangled around her neck.
She lay undiscovered for 20 minutes before Miss Redhead found her.
The trial heard the rope had been attached to the slide by nursery staff and was supposed to have been removed at the end of every supervised play session.
However, the rope had been in place for about two months at the time of Lydia's death.
The trial heard that Lydia's mother Rebecca Dick had just enrolled on a course at the college and had been for introductory sessions with her daughter.
The day Lydia died was her first full day at the nursery, the jury was told, and her mother was assured children were not left alone outside to play on the apparatus.
Following the verdict, Det Ch Insp Nigel Costello, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "This was an extremely tragic case for all concerned, not least for Lydia's family who have been left devastated by the loss of their daughter."
Alison Birkinshaw, principal and chief executive of York College, said: "We deeply regret what happened and can't begin to imagine the pain experienced by Lydia's family and everyone affected by this terrible tragedy."
The judge, Mr Justice Coulson, said York College would be sentenced next week.
Miss Redhead was also acquitted of an alternative charge of failing to take "reasonable care" of the girl under health and safety legislation.
The boy, 16, was riding on Brantingham Road, Elloughton, when he was hit from behind and knocked down by a car on Friday night.
Police said an arrest was made after calls from members of the public.
The boy is in critical condition at Hull Royal Infirmary with "life-threatening injuries", police added.
Michael Luciano, 58, and Philip Luciano, 29, allegedly sold synthetic opioids fentanyl and oxycodone on AlphaBay before its closure.
The notorious site was targeted by investigators during an international operation earlier this year.
Authorities allege the Lucianos' drug sales date back to February last year.
AlphaBay was quietly taken over by agents earlier this year and later shut down.
The pair are said to have traded on AlphaBay using the pseudonym Zane61 and received positive reviews from some customers.
One allegedly wrote: "Fast shipping, great vendor. Good stealth, price, and A+ product."
It was the son, Philip, who allegedly "handled the technological aspects" of the transactions, including the purchase of bitcoins, according to investigators.
"Fentanyl is a societal scourge powerful enough to rob the lives of those who use in an instant," said Philip Bartlett of the US Postal Inspection Service.
"Today's arrest of this father and son should serve as a strong reminder the anonymity of the Dark Web can't always protect you from the long arm of the law."
At the time of AlphaBay's closure, Europol said the seized data would lead to new investigations into users of the marketplace.
The investigation into the Lucianos dates back to before AlphaBay's seizure by authorities, however.
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The 70-year-old agreed to take over at St Andrew's on Tuesday, a day after Gianfranco Zola resigned.
"I'm not being paid. It doesn't bother me though," Redknapp told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I have got a bonus. It's not a massive one, but I said 'if I don't keep you up, I don't want paying'."
Former West Ham, Tottenham and Portsmouth manager Redknapp revealed he had the same arrangement when he worked as an adviser to Derby County at the end of last season.
He added: "I said to them 'if you don't make the play-offs, I don't want any money'. If we hadn't made the play-offs, I wouldn't have got paid anything."
Redknapp has not managed in English football since leaving QPR in February 2015 but is confident he can have an energising effect on Blues, who are only three points clear of the relegation zone.
He said: "When a team only wins two out of 24, it tells you it's not going to be easy. But you've got to believe in yourself and believe in the team.
"I've been in these sort of situations before. They're always difficult, but I'm ready for it."
His first game in charge is away to local rivals Aston Villa on Sunday, and Blues then face Huddersfield at home before finishing the season away at Bristol City.
And although Redknapp is initially only involved for those three matches, and has attended just one training session so far, he has already seen enough in the club to believe it can challenge for the top six - if he can mastermind survival.
"I think if we can stay up this year, the potential is here to build a team that next year would be looking at the play-offs," he said.
"It's not that difficult to put together a good team in the Championship, if you know what you're doing. You can go out and pick up players, you haven't got to spend fortunes.
"Right now, it's tight at the bottom. Wigan and Blackburn have still got a big chance, so we're going to need some points from somewhere, starting if we can on Sunday."
Facebook says it will appeal against the decision and that the order relates to a cookie it has used for five years.
The cookie is installed when an internet user visits a Facebook page even if they are not members.
However, the Belgian court said that the company was obliged to obtain consent to collect the information being gathered.
"The judge ruled that this is personal data, which Facebook can only use if the internet user expressly gives their consent, as Belgian privacy law dictates," it said in a statement.
If Facebook fails to comply, it could face a fine of up to 250,000 euros (£180,000) per day.
The fine would go to the Belgian Privacy Commission, which brought the case, the court added.
Cookies are simple files that track whether a user has visited a website before and notify the site itself.
They can track a number of user activities, such as how long they stayed, what they clicked and any preferences selected.
"We've used the Datr cookie for more than five years to keep Facebook secure for 1.5 billion people around the world," said a Facebook spokesperson.
"We will appeal this decision and are working to minimise any disruption to people's access to Facebook in Belgium."
Monitor began an investigation into the running of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust on 8 March.
Stephen Hay, of Monitor, said it had found concerns over The Christie's governance.
But Mr Hay said there were no concerns about the care it provided. The Christie has declined to comment.
Mr Hay, managing director of provider regulation at Monitor, said: "The Christie is going through some serious difficulties and our investigation has found concerns with the way the board was operating."
He added: "Whilst we've no concerns about the care it provides, it is important to patients, taxpayers and staff that the trust be well-run."
The investigation into the trust followed the resignation in February of its chairman, Lord Bradley. Its chief executive, Caroline Shaw, has been under suspension since November as part of an internal disciplinary investigation, although Monitor said its inquiries did not involve any allegations relating to Ms Shaw.
Monitor has appointed Sir Hugh Taylor, chair of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, as interim chairman of The Christie.
It said that under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, it could require foundation trusts to make senior appointments if it considered them to be in the best interests of patients.
Earlier, Monitor said it was examining whether the trust had breached its licence to provide healthcare services by failing "the principles of good governance".
It said there were concerns that the board of the trust had "not adhered to the required corporate governance standards".
Although The Christie said it would not comment on Monitor's findings, it said it welcomed its new chairman.
In a statement the hospital said: "We are hopeful that Sir Hugh's appointment, along with his experience and expertise, will bring the ongoing situation to a swift and satisfactory resolution."
It added: "The trust and charity's activities continue to be delivered to the very highest standards, and patients, families and carers can be reassured that this situation in no way affects or compromises patient care."
Manchester Withington MP John Leech has previously described the situation as a "mess".
"My primary concern through all of this is to make sure patients come first," he said.
Kathryn Wood, 69, from Baguley, Wythenshawe, who was treated for cancer at The Christie, said the hospital was "wonderful".
"Without a shadow it saved my life," she said. "I can't praise the hospital or the staff enough."
The Christie, based in Withington, treats more than 40,000 patients a year.
The Ministry of Defence is investing £135m in new facilities in preparation for the arrival of the F-35B Lightning II aircraft next year.
The money will pay for a new hangar to house 12 of the jets and and provide vertical landing pads.
Two existing runways and taxiways will be resurfaced.
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said: "This contract will ensure that RAF Marham has the facilities to match this world-class aircraft when it arrives next year.
"Throughout the F-35 programme, British firms have won major contracts creating thousands of jobs.
"The contract to improve the runways and taxiways as well as installing new landing pads will bring local jobs to Marham."
Last year it was announced the government was investing £167m in centres for aircraft training and maintenance at RAF Marham.
Due to open in 2018, three new buildings on the site will provide training facilities for pilots and ground crews.
Having trailed 15-13 at half-time, Chiefs were more clinical in the second period to earn an impressive away win.
Lewis Ludlow and Jonny May's first-half tries had put Gloucester ahead, before Ian Whitten went over for Chiefs.
Ben Moon, James Short and Will Chudley then all crossed after the break as Chiefs took a decisive lead, while May added a consolation for the hosts.
Exeter will now host third-placed Saracens in their semi-final, while Gloucester - who made eight changes before Friday's Challenge Cup final in Edinburgh - will need to beat Stade Francais in order to compete in the Champions Cup play-offs instead of seventh-placed Northampton.
After a sustained spell of early Gloucester pressure, May fed Ludlow for the opening score and, after Greig Laidlaw exchanged penalties with Gareth Steenson, May intercepted a loose Steenson pass to run clear.
Whitten then cut through Gloucester to cross for Chief's first try, before his vital last-ditch tackle prevented Charlie Sharples from extending the hosts' lead.
After half-time, Moon and Short both went over in the corner in quick succession, before May crossed for his second for the Cherry and Whites and Laidlaw brought them to within seven.
But Chudley's try made the win safe for Chiefs, who finished second, level on points with table-topping Wasps, who beat Sarries.
Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter:
"To have Saracens there (at Sandy Park) will be fantastic. Everyone knows how good Saracens are and we could be potentially playing the best side in Europe in a home semi-final.
"I'm really pleased we have two weeks to prepare for it. We need it as we have boys bumped and bruised. We will have players back which is fantastic as well and it will make training next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday a bit spicy because the guys will want to lay down some markers to get into that semi-final team."
Gloucester head coach Jonny Bell:
"We mixed some tremendous rugby but the difference between the two sides was they were accurate when they had their opportunities and took them.
"We were not accurate so that is why they are a top-four side because they don't need a huge number of invitations to take points. We did well to take our scores but, ultimately, it was poor execution by us."
Gloucester: Hook; Sharples, Scott, Atkinson, May; Twelvetrees, Laidlaw (capt); McAllister, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Galarza, Clarke, Ludlow, Morgan.
Replacements: Dawidiuk, Thomas, Hohneck, Thrush, Rowan, Heinz, Thorley, Trinder.
Exeter: Nowell; Woodburn, Whitten, Devoto, Short; Steenson (capt), Townsend; Moon, Cowan-Dickie, Williams, Atkins, Parling, Dennis, Salvi, Horstmann.
Replacements: Yeandle, Rimmer, Francis, Skinner, S Simmonds, Chudley, J Simmonds.
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The fourth Cardiff Contemporary is set in traditional galleries but also in derelict buildings - and even on the roof of a car park.
Artists are working to the theme of communication.
The festival, subtitled Are You Ready?, is inspired by Guglielmo Marconi's radio experiments on Flat Holm Island.
Those were the words transmitted in Morse code across the Bristol Channel to Lavernock Point in May 1897.
The biennial festival has already grabbed the headlines after a sighting of a "meteorite" off Penarth seafront, which went viral on social media, turned out to be a deliberate hoax by artist Mark James.
It was part of his work 'A Response', inspired by "a response from whatever life lives out beyond the stars, who might be watching us and the state our world is in".
There are 45 artists involved in different projects across the city, some of them arts spaces but also in derelict buildings and pop-up venues.
Ruth Cayford, festival manager, said: "It's been incredible how the city has come together to make this work - from artists, businesses, the hotels, the council, the support from Arts Council Wales - it's quite a beautiful story how everyone has been working to make something cultural happen in the city."
Musician Richard James has been working with artists Angharad Van Rijswijk and Andy Fung, as well as comedian and writer Stewart Lee, on themes explored in Arthur Machen's book The Hill of Dreams.
"We're using stereo surround sound - trying to make it an immersive experience. I wanted a project which incorporated different types of visual art, sonic art and composition," said James, co-founder of the band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
"It was all about trying to capture the magic of childhood and childhood landscapes and how they inform us as we get older and mature into adults."
It is one of the installations in a former derelict motorcycle garage in the city centre.
"It's quite dilapidated - I quite like the idea of having it in this sort of place. It takes it out of conventional galleries and I like making use of buildings no longer in use."
The event is sitting alongside the start of the Artes Mundi exhibition at National Museum Wales and Chapter.
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Johnston, which owns The Scotsman and more than 200 other titles, said the deal would create the UK's fourth largest print publisher with more than 600,000 paid copies a day.
The i newspaper is part of the group that publishes The Independent.
It is controlled by Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny.
The i became Britain's first new daily national newspaper in nearly 25 years when it launched in 2010 with a cover price of 20p.
The talks come at a time when the printed media is struggling in the face of falling advertising revenues as customers move to digital platforms.
The sale of the i newspaper could raise questions about the future of The Independent, according to analyst Douglas McCabe from media research firm Enders.
He said: "One's instinct is that the Independent could close after 30 years of existence.
"It is very difficult to disentangle the i and The Independent because there is a lot of crossover between them both journalistically and commercially. If you hive off one of them, it poses risks for the future of the other."
In announcing the talks, Edinburgh-based Johnston said: "The board of Johnston Press plc notes the recent media speculation and confirms that it is in late stage discussions with Independent Print Limited (IPL) for the potential acquisition of the business and certain assets of the i.
"There can be no certainty that the discussions between the company and IPL will lead to any definitive agreement concerning the possible acquisition or as to the final terms of any such agreement.
"Completion of the acquisition would be subject to the approval of shareholders of the company.
"The consideration for the proposed acquisition is likely to be £24m, to be provided from the group's existing cash resources."
"In the year ended 30 September 2015, the i had unaudited operating profit of £5.2m."
IPL's parent company, ESI Media, confirmed that talks with Johnston were taking place but added that no decision had yet been made.
Group chief executive Steve Auckland said in a statement: "ESI Media remains committed to our brands, building on our fast growing global footprint, whilst cementing our place as the most important destination for audiences in the capital."
Johnston Press recently revealed plans to cut editorial jobs across its operations in the UK as part of a bid to reduce costs following a decline in revenue.
Shares in the publisher rose earlier this month after it said it expected a major reduction in its pension scheme deficit.
Jasmine Botting said Darren Turk - found hanged at his Etchingham home in June - was an innocent "gentle giant".
He was convicted of historical abuse after his death in what is thought to be the first time a dead man has been convicted of a crime in England.
East Sussex senior coroner Alan Craze concluded Turk took his own life.
After the hearing, Mrs Botting said her son wrote in his last letter: "I cannot go to prison for something I haven't done."
Adding that the family were waiting to hear whether they could appeal against Turk's convictions, she said: "It was definitely a witch hunt. He couldn't believe someone could say those awful things about him."
Turk, 54, was accused of offences against boys aged 11 to 15 between 1996 and 2002 at Frewen College, Northiam, where he was a member of care staff and later head of care at the school, but not a teacher.
The charges did not involve any staff or pupils currently at the school.
After Turk died, a Lewes Crown Court jury convicted him of 10 counts and cleared him of six counts.
The inquest heard he had been prescribed anti-depressants before his body was found at his home in Fontridge Lane by his stepfather Eric Botting.
Post-mortem tests gave the cause of death as hanging and toxicology tests found he had 74mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, described by the coroner as "not a huge amount".
A plastic box labelled "Mum and Dad" contained letters of a suicidal nature, the inquest heard.
Mr Craze said: "The letters make it abundantly clear what he was doing and why he was doing it."
In a statement, the family said: "An innocent man has been hounded to his death by a malicious campaign with no justification whatsoever.
"Darren was one of the gentlest, loveable and caring people you could ever meet."
He was flown to Manchester from Spain on Saturday after his condition improved enough to allow him to travel.
The Mirror reported that Healy was taken ill almost a month ago and had been fighting for his life.
An ITV spokesman said the 64-year-old was "feeling much better" and that filming of the show had been "adjusted to accommodate Tim's absence".
It is understood his former wife Denise Welch flew to Spain at one point to visit him in hospital, where his wife Joan has been by his side.
Healy, who was born in Newcastle and found fame in the 1980s' show Auf Wiedersehen Pet, has played the cross-dressing character Les/Lesley in Benidorm since 2010.
The ITV spokesman, who did not confirm the nature of Healy's illness, said the show's team were "currently mid-way through filming the new series", which will air in 2017.
He added that "all the Benidorm cast and crew wish [Tim] a healthy recovery in his own time".
In an essay published on its website quoting "careful estimates", the church said the wives included a 14-year-old and others who were already married.
The Mormon church banned polygamy in 1890 and now excommunicates anyone who practises it.
The church has previously sought to portray Smith as loyal to his first wife Emma.
However, this is not the first time that the church has admitted his polygamy, as previously reported here.
The essay, entitled Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo, said: "Joseph married many additional wives and authorised other Latter-day Saints to practise plural marriage."
It said "plural marriage was difficult for all involved"; for Emma it was an "excruciating ordeal".
Multiple marriage and the Mormons
Most of the women were aged between 20 and 40 when Smith married them, the essay added.
The youngest was Helen Mar Kimball, a daughter of two close friends, who he married "several months before her 15th birthday".
It is likely Joseph Smith - who is considered a prophet - did not have sexual relations with all of his wives, as some were "sealed" to him only for the next life, according to the essay.
The Utah-based Mormon religion, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, boasts more than 15 million members worldwide.
Polygamy was widely practised by men in the church from the mid-to-late 19th Century, but the revelations about Joseph Smith have shocked followers.
Emily Jensen, a blogger and editor in Farmington, Utah, told the New York Times that members had been saying on social media: "This is not the church I grew up with, this is not the Joseph Smith I love."
What do Mormons believe?
While the practice of polygamy was dropped in 1890, the concept remains in the afterlife. A man can be married or "sealed" to more than one woman after death, but not the other way around.
Church leaders reportedly said the essay was part of an attempt to be truthful and transparent with followers.
It is among a series of essays posted on the Mormon church's website in the past year.
They address topics such as the ban on black men from the priesthood, which was lifted in 1978, and accounts of how Smith translated the Book of Mormon, the church's sacred scripture.
The object, measured to be almost a kilometre wide, came within five times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Known as 2014 JO25, the asteroid is the biggest such space rock to skim our world since 2004.
Astronomers say the best opportunity to view the rock will come in the dark hours of Wednesday night.
Radar imagery using Nasa's 70m (230 ft) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California reveal a peanut-shaped asteroid that rotates about once every five hours.
The asteroid passed Earth at a distance of 1.8 million km (1.1 million miles) at 13:24 BST on Wednesday, 19 April.
The next known encounter of an asteroid of about this size will occur in 2027 when the 800m-wide (half-mile-wide) asteroid 1999 AN10 will fly by at one lunar distance, about 380,000 km (236,000 miles).
On Friday, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) voted to back the other leading contender, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain.
However, the 54 African federations will vote separately in the election to decide Sepp Blatter's successor in Zurich on 26 February.
"We are supporting Gianni Infantino for the Fifa presidency," said South Sudan football chief Chabur Goc Alei.
Chabur said Infantino, the preferred candidate of Fifa vice-president and former Manchester United chief executive David Gill, had a better project "for our federation, for Africa and the world".
He said he expects more African nations to support Infantino, general secretary of Uefa, who became the confederations' candidate when president Michel Platini was prevented from taking part over the payment scandal that saw him banned from football for eight years.
In addition to Sheikh Salman, Infantino is standing against South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale, former Fifa assistant secretary general Jerome Champagne and Jordan's Fifa executive committee member Prince Ali bin al-Hussein.
Africa is the continent with most votes. Europe has 53, Asia, 46, Concacaf (North, Central American and Caribbean), 35, Oceania, 11, and the Infantino-supporting Conmebol (South America), 10.
The 60-year-old was found with multiple stab wounds at a property in Sunny Bank Road, Helmshore at 22:40 GMT on Friday after concerns were raised for her welfare.
She is believed to be Sadie Hartley, Lancashire Police said. A formal identification is yet to take place.
No arrests have been made.
Ms Hartley was last seen at a conference in Manchester on Thursday and is believed to have returned home, police said.
Det Supt Andy Murphy said: "We have a large team of detectives dedicated to following all lines of enquiry.
"Specialist officers are supporting Sadie's family at this difficult time."
A post-mortem examination is due to take place and a police cordon remains at the scene.
Anyone with information is urged to call Lancashire Police on 101 or Crimestoppers.
Gold for cyclist Katie Archibald as part of Great Britain's women's team pursuit quartet and silver for swimmer Duncan Scott in the men's 4x100m medley relay on Saturday brought the Scots' medal tally to 10.
That surpassed the previous best of eight from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, and justified the pre-Games prediction of Mike Whittingham, performance director for national agency Sportscotland, that "we can get 10".
Two more medals followed on Sunday when Andy Murray beat Juan Martin del Potro to retain his men's singles tennis title from 2012, and cyclist Callum Skinner took silver behind GB team-mate Jason Kenny in the men's sprint final.
That brought the Scottish tally to 12, including four golds.
One more medal in the final week of the Games would equal Scotland's best ever tally of 13 (including seven gold) that they contributed to Team GB's haul of 65 at London 2012.
There are 50 Scots - the largest ever contingent in a Great Britain team for an overseas Olympics, surpassing the previous record of 31 in Beijing in 2008 - competing in 15 of the 42 sports in Rio.
Heather Stanning (Rowing, women's pair).
Gordonstoun-educated Stanning, who lives in Lossiemouth, and partner Helen Glover were unbeaten in the women's pair since 2011, and led the final from start to finish to successfully defend their Olympic title.
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Callum Skinner (Cycling, team sprint)
Glasgow-born Skinner, 23, who started cycling at Meadowbank velodrome when his family moved to Edinburgh, was under pressure to justify his place in the men's sprint team but claimed a superb gold alongside Philip Hindes and Jason Kenny.
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Katie Archibald (Cycling, team pursuit)
Archibald, 22, from Milngavie, near Glasgow, joined Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Elinor Barker to set a new world record as they beat the United States in the final.
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Andy Murray (Tennis, men's singles)
The two-time Wimbledon champion, 29, completed another memorable double when he became the first tennis player to win two Olympic singles titles with a thrilling four-set victory over Argentine Juan Martin del Potro.
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Stephen Milne, Duncan Scott, Dan Wallace, Robbie Renwick (Swimming, 4 x 200m freestyle relay)
Milne, 22, from the Perth City Swim Club, Edinburgh-born Wallace, 23, a member of the Warrender Baths Club, 19-year-old Scott and University of Stirling team-mate Renwick, 28 - who swam in the heat before James Guy took over for the final - finished strongly to claim silver behind the United States.
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David Florence (Canoeing - C2 double)
Aberdonian Florence, 34, and partner Richard Hounslow had to settle for silver for the second successive Games in the canoe double, a third for Florence after a C1 silver in Beijing in 2008.
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Mark Bennett & Mark Robertson (Rugby sevens)
Glasgow centre Bennett, 23, and Scotland sevens specialist Robertson, 31, both played key roles in a GB squad that squeezed past Japan and New Zealand in tense pool games before even tighter knock-out matches against Argentina and South Africa, only to be beaten 43-7 by favourites Fiji in the final.
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Katherine Grainger (Rowing, double sculls)
Glasgow-born Grainger, 40, became Britain's most decorated female Olympian by winning a fourth Olympics silver medal with Victoria Thornley in the double sculls, four years after striking gold in London.
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Polly Swann & Karen Bennett (Rowing, women's eight)
Edinburgh-born Bennett, 27, and 28-year-old Swann, raised and educated in the Scottish capital, helped Britain win a first Olympic medal in the women's eight, alongside Katie Greves, Melanie Wilson, Frances Houghton, Jessica Eddie, Olivia Carnegie-Brown and Zoe Lee.
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Duncan Scott (Swimming, 4x100m medley relay)
The Glasgow-born 19-year-old won his second silver of the Games, joining Adam Peaty, James Guy and Chris Walker-Hebborn in helping Britain to a sixth medal in the pool.
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Callum Skinner (Cycling, men's sprint)
The 23-year-old, already dubbed 'the new Chris Hoy' in some quarters, cemented his burgeoning reputation by reaching the final of the individual sprint, having already won gold in the team event, but had to play second fiddle to more experienced GB team-mate Jason Kenny.
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Sally Conway (Judo, women's -70kg)
Conway, 29, who won bronze for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and trains at Judo Scotland's Edinburgh headquarters in Ratho, scored a single yuko to beat Austria's Bernadette Graf in the bronze medal match, after earlier beating world champion Gevrise Emane.
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The 28-year-old had been scheduled to join up with Yorkshire at the end of May but suffered the injury playing for Mumbai Indians against Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League.
Finch scored 291 runs in five County Championship games for Yorkshire last summer.
Meanwhile, seamer Ryan Sidebottom is likely to be out for six weeks.
The 37-year-old injured his calf in the opening victory over Worcestershire last week.
"It is disappointing news for Aaron and for us. We were hoping he would be with us in May, but that is not going to happen," said director of cricket Martyn Moxon.
"Plans are in place to fill the void that Aaron will leave. We hope we can get this sorted sooner rather than later, and remain confident we'll find a replacement for the County Championship and the T20 Blast."
They were named as Detective Constable Heather Bickley, 46, and her sons Felix, 10 and Oscar, six.
A senior North Wales Police officer said Det Con Bickley, who joined the force in 1994, would be "sorely missed by friends, colleagues and the local community".
An investigation into the cause of the blaze has been launched.
The body of one child was recovered after emergency services arrived in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
But crews had to wait before recovering the two other bodies because the structure of the bungalow was too dangerous to enter.
A senior officer, paying tribute, called Det Con Heather Bickley a "trusted, respected and experienced officer".
Chief Superintendent Mark Jones called the death of a friend and colleague, along with her two sons, tragic.
He said Det Con Bickley had joined the north Wales force in August 1994, and had served at Bangor, Holyhead and Amlwch - most recently working with the public protection unit "a role she pursued with passion".
Det Con Bickley's husband, John, was being offered support, he added.
He is understood to have been at work and arrived home at about the same time as the emergency services in the early hours of the morning.
Chief Supt Jones added: "She will be sorely missed by friends, colleagues and the local community."
The joint investigation between police officers and the fire service personnel, supported by the forensic science service, is still ongoing at the scene of the fatal house fire.
Emergency crews were called to a bungalow at Tyn y Gongl near the island's coastal resort of Benllech.
North Wales Fire and Rescue could not begin a search until the building was made safe.
The fire gutted the bungalow roof, which then collapsed into the building.
A fire service spokesperson added: "Crews arrived to find the property well alight. Two sets of breathing apparatus, two hose reel jets and a main jet were used to extinguish the fire.
"The cause of the fire is not yet known and is being investigated jointly by North Wales Fire and Rescue Service and North Wales Police.
Ann Hughes, head teacher at Ysgol Goronwy Owen, Benllech, where the boys went, said: "Very sad news reached us this morning about a fire that has tragically taken the lives of two of our pupils.
"As you can imagine, it is a great shock and loss to the school and the community. Our thoughts are of two very dear and likeable young boys, who have been taken from us in such tragic circumstances.
"As a school we are trying cope as best we can with such a tragedy and are keeping the school day as normal as possible for the pupils. Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family."
Rev Elizabeth Pearce, rector of Llanfair Mathafarn-Eithaf, said: "On behalf of the church and community here in Benllech I should like to say how shocked and sad we are that this tragedy has happened.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to family and friends - and of course to the emergency services also."
The disease, carried by a biting midge, can be fatal to sheep and cows.
The return of the disease to central France last year has led to concerns the virus could spread, particularly to southern England.
Government vets say there is an 80% chance that infected midges will arrive in the UK this summer.
Humans are not affected, but bluetongue has economic impacts for farmers, who can lose livestock and face restrictions on moving animals from farm-to-farm.
Government Deputy Chief Vet Simon Hall said robust disease surveillance measures were in place and the situation in France was being carefully monitored.
''The risk of incursion from infected midges is difficult to predict at this stage because it is highly dependent on the level of disease on the continent, the proximity to the UK and the weather."
He said animal keepers should remain vigilant for signs of the disease and report any suspicions to their vet and the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Bluetongue facts
Bluetongue is carried and spread by biting midges of a family known as Culicoides.
There is no cure but animals can be vaccinated against the virus.
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has urged farmers to consider whether to vaccinate their stock.
Prof John Blackwell of the BVA said: ''We'd recommend farmers speak to their local vet about the benefits of vaccination, given their locality and individual circumstances, and especially if farmers have any concerns about their livestock.''
Bluetongue was found in the UK in 2007 as well as in much of northern Europe.
In August 2015 the disease was found on a farm in France - the first outbreak in the EU since 2011.
It has since spread north, raising the risk that infected midges could be blown across the channel and infect flocks and herds in the UK.
Mild weather is a factor, as the virus reproduces better at warmer temperatures.
Any outbreak in the UK is thought most likely to occur in late summer.
Reading University's stress-reducing offer is the latest example of the competition to attract students.
The university sees it as a more "honest" approach to applications.
A University of Reading spokesman said it reflected a "very aggressive, competitive undergraduate market".
With the removal of limits on student numbers and a demographic dip in 18-year-olds, there is intense competition between universities, which last year accepted more than half a million students.
This has seen a growth in "unconditional offers", where universities try to tempt applicants with an offer of a place regardless of the exam grades eventually achieved.
Universities have run advertising campaigns and marketing events and provided incentives such as free tablet computers, as well as offering scholarships and bursaries.
Mary Curnock Cook, head of the Ucas admissions service, said last week that more than half of students accepted on to degree courses last year had missed their required results by two or more grades.
She also warned some teachers were "over-predicting" applicants' grades to improve their chances of university offers.
University vice-chancellor and former Universities Minister Bill Rammell has said it would be fairer for the admissions process to take place after students have their A-level results.
There have also been concerns about the reliability of predicted grades when GCSE and A-level qualifications are being overhauled.
A University of Reading spokesman said: "We've had record intakes and applications in the last two years, but we can't afford to stand still.
"More strategic, targeted offer-making is the reality of a very aggressive, competitive undergraduate market.
"Universities are not wrapped in cotton wool any more by student number caps - we need to be much more proactive.
"Every application is judged equally and individually on merit.
"We are piloting new approaches to drive up the number of firm acceptances, convert students who may otherwise have put us as insurance and to make sure we attract high-calibre students."
Provisional figures show entries for English, maths, science and computing qualifications increased.
Ofqual says the rise is likely to be in response to government targets for more teenagers to study academic subjects.
However other subjects, such as citizenship, saw a decline in exam entries, Ofqual said.
Ofqual also noted decline in the number of students taking modern foreign languages.
Chief regulator Glenys Stacey said: "The subjects that are proving to be more popular this year are the traditional ones.
"There's been a drop-off in subjects that have never been high-volume ones anyway and there are one or two noticeable subjects that have dropped, for example GCSE citizenship studies where we've seen a 50% drop in take-up."
The data suggests government performance measures, such as the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) - where pupils have to study English, a language, maths, science and history or geography at GCSE - are having the effect ministers wanted to see.
In June, the government said all pupils who start secondary school in England this September will have to take the EBacc subjects when they sit their GCSEs in 2020.
The rise in popularity of traditional subjects may also be linked to academically competitive universities urging students to avoid subjects they perceive to be less rigorous.
In 2011, the Russell Group of research intensive universities published guidance advising students to study traditional subjects at A-level and to take at least two choices from a list of "facilitating subjects" such as English and maths.
Ms Stacey said traditional subjects were seen to be "very good currency" for university.
"We know that they are seen to be very good currency for some universities," she said.
" If your aspirations are to study some subjects at universities where there is a great deal of competition for places, we know that maths is sometimes an absolute requirement for some places, and also is extremely well regarded.
"It's not surprising that some students with those sort of ambitions will focus on that."
The Russell Group welcomed the figures, saying they were "welcome news", but said more needed to be done to ensure bright students from disadvantaged backgrounds got places at top institutions.
Ms Stacey added that the marking of exam papers was "on track" for this year, in contrast to this time 12 months ago when the regulator had concerns about marking progress for the board OCR.
This was "particularly pleasing", she said, given that exams this year were less modular than in previous years and were, therefore, being marked in a relatively small window.
The data was released by Ofqual as A-level candidates wait to receive their results on Thursday 13 August and GCSE candidates the following week.
Students in Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their results at the same time as their counterparts in England, while those in Scotland received the results of their National 4s and 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers on Tuesday 4 August.
The index, the UK's leading measure of share prices, has been rising steadily since the middle December.
It marks the eighth successive record high. The latest boost came from a 1% drop for the pound against the dollar.
A weaker pound boosts the profits of the many multinational companies listed on the FTSE 100 when their foreign earnings are converted into pounds.
The pound's sharp fall was provoked by comments on Brexit made on Sunday by the Prime Minister, Theresa May.
She rejected the idea that the UK could "keep bits of membership" of the EU, raising the prospect of a so-called "hard Brexit".
That sent the pound down against a broad range of currencies.
The pound fell more than a cent, or 1%, against the dollar to $1.2170, and also dropped nearly 2% against the euro to €1.15.
"The pound has dipped to its lowest level since October on Monday after Prime Minister May said on Sunday that we couldn't keep bits of the EU, fuelling fears of hard Brexit," said Kathleen Brooks, research director at City Index.
"On Monday she said that she doesn't accept the terms 'hard' and 'soft' Brexit, and declined that her comments yesterday were a change of stance. This back-pedalling has done nothing to reverse the decline in the pound," she said.
The biggest risers were Glencore, Randgold, BAT, Imperial Brands and Sage group.
Bovis Homes shares were up 1.4% after the firm announced that its chief executive, David Ritchie, was to step down.
Last month, the company warned that building delays in the run-up to Christmas would hit profits.
Among individual shares, William Hill shares fell 1.6% after it warned profits would be at the low end of expectations.
It said a run of "customer-friendly" results at the back end of last year in football and horse racing had cut profits by about £20m.
As a result, operating profits for 2016 were about £260m, compared with previous guidance of £260m-£280m.
The vehicles will be equipped with low-emission engines and the latest CCTV systems, the company said.
The fleet will include a mix of double-decker buses and smaller vehicles.
National Express is buying 600 new buses in total across its UK division, but the "lion's share" would serve Birmingham, the Black Country and Coventry, spokesman Jack Kelly said.
The new British-made buses would provide better comfort for customers, he said.
"Inside they're going to have better climate control so they're cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
"Every bell and whistle you can have on a bus, these will have."
They would also have LED lighting inside, to ensure the back of the bus would be as light as the front, Mr Kelly said.
The first batch of more than 100 of the new buses is scheduled to be introduced in the region by the end of the year.
The legislation, which was debated in the state Senate after passing in the House, will also shut down most of the state's abortion clinics.
Republicans had moved quickly to pass the bill after a Democratic senator originally blocked it with a marathon delaying speech.
Governor Rick Perry has vowed to sign the bill into law amid large protests.
The Texas legislation mirrors a series of state laws recently passed in Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kansas, Wisconsin and Arizona.
The US Supreme Court legalised abortion nationwide in 1973, but about a dozen states have enacted laws in recent years limiting access to the procedure. Some of that state legislation is tied up in court battles.
The bill came near to passage last month but was blocked in the state Senate when Senator Wendy Davis spoke for nearly 11 hours - in a delaying speech known as a filibuster - in an attempt to run out the clock on the legislative session.
The following day, Mr Perry, a Republican who opposes abortion, called a special session to take up the abortion bill and other legislation.
The filibuster drew nationwide attention and made Ms Davis a heroine of the US abortion rights movement.
Anti-abortion and abortion rights protesters have rallied at the state capitol in Austin in large numbers since the second special session began.
In addition to banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the bill will require all abortion procedures to be performed at a surgical centre, and mandate all doctors performing abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles (48km) of the clinic.
Only six abortion clinics in Texas can be classified as surgical centres, and all are in major metropolitan areas, according to the Texas Tribune. Critics say the provision will force some women to travel hundreds of miles to have an abortion, while supporters say it will protect women's health and the foetus.
The bill's sponsor, Senator Glenn Hegar, argued during debate on Friday that all abortions, including those that are medically induced, should take place at a surgical centre in case of complications.
Democrats argued childbirth is more dangerous than abortion and abortion drugs do not pose such a risk. They had planned to introduce numerous amendments to the bill, including exceptions for rape and incest.
Senator Rodney West, a Democrat, also questioned why Republicans wanted to pass restrictions similar to those currently tied up in legal challenges.
"There will be lawsuits, I promise you," said Sen West, raising his right hand as if taking an oath.
Among the bill's opponents were the Texas Medical Association, the Texas Hospital Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
When asked about why he was sponsoring a bill that medical experts did not support, Sen Hegar said he had heard from "numerous experts and doctors" who supported the restrictions.
"And what do we do if they are right and we don't pass this legislation?" he said.
Another senator, Bob Deuell, a Republican and a doctor, defended the bill, saying abortion clinics in the state "had not maintained the proper standard of care".
In testimony earlier before a House committee, lawmakers heard personal stories from both sides. Some women said they had regretted having an abortion, while others said it had given them a second chance.
On Friday, officers thoroughly checked the bags of people entering the gallery after Texas police said they had information that "individuals planned to use a variety of items or props to disrupt legislative proceedings at the Texas Capitol".
In a statement, police said they had confiscated "significant quantities of feminine hygiene products, glitter and confetti possessed by individuals" as well as "one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to contain faeces, and three bottles suspected to contain paint".
Abortion rights advocates on Twitter pointed out that concealed firearms, however, are allowed inside Texas' state capitol.
Each spectator was also given a copy of the capitol's rules of decorum, which stipulate there can be no demonstrations or attempts to disrupt the chamber's work.
In a dramatic conclusion to Sen Davis' filibuster last month, protesters chanted in the gallery after she was ruled to have gone off topic. Democratic senators took up the rest of the time before the midnight deadline with procedural challenges.
22 September 2016 Last updated at 17:33 BST
Ivory is the hard white material found in elephant tusks.
Poachers kill elephants to get ivory and then sell it illegally around the world, to be used in things like jewellery and ornaments.
Almost a third of Africa's elephants have disappeared in the past seven years, according to a huge survey of the animals last month.
Prince William said in a speech on Thursday that there would be "no more elephants left in the wild by the time his daughter Charlotte is 25" if the situation didn't change soon.
HM Inspectorate of Prisons said the influx of drugs at HMP Lindholme near Doncaster was "destabilising" the establishment.
The Category C prison holds just over 1,000 adult male inmates.
The National Offender Management Service said "the governor was working hard with police" to tackle the issue.
Prison inspectors said they were told "horrific" stories concerning the possible effects of new psychoactive substances (NPS).
Following the Psychoactive Substances Act, brought into effect on 26 May, the production, distribution, sale and supply of drugs previously called "legal highs" is now an offence punishable by up to seven years in prison.
The Inspectorate's report, following an unannounced inspection in March, said links with crime agencies were "impressive" and a kilo of NPS, 67 mobile phones and 145 Sim cards had been seized in a month.
What are so-called "legal highs"?
Nearly two-thirds of prisoners told inspectors it was easy to obtain illegal drugs.
The report added: "The stories we were told, concerning the possible effects that NPS was having on individuals, including one young man who had literally blinded himself, were nothing short of horrific."
The watchdog said serious concerns still need addressing at HMP Lindholme, but its deterioration had been halted and work, training and education had improved.
Michael Spurr, chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, said the site had a "focus on rehabilitation", but efforts were "undermined by the illegal supply of new psychoactive substances".
"The governor is working hard with police colleagues to tackle this threat and to generally improve safety," he said.
In fact, some of the 24 unions - such as the civil service union the PCS - which have voted to have such funds aren't connected with Labour in any way.
So while proposals to introduce an "opt in" process for these funds could hurt Labour financially, they would also restrict the ability of union leaders to campaign more widely on political issues.
The legislation on political funds is more than 100 years old but was tightened substantially by the Thatcher government in 1984.
Unions which wanted not simply to contribute to political parties - usually Labour - but to campaign any issue that might be deemed "political" were required to ballot their members every 10 years to establish or keep a separate political fund.
Once a decision had been taken to have a political fund, individual members in England, Scotland and Wales then had to take a deliberate decision to "opt out" if they were unhappy with where their money was going.
By turning this round - proposing that trade unionists must now "opt in" - the object is clear.
Fewer members are likely to make a conscious effort to do so, and funds could therefore decrease as a result.
This is precisely what happened between 1927 and 1946 when the "opt in" system was introduced after the General Strike, only to be repealed by the post-war Labour government.
(The then devolved Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont did not follow suit. )
But what effect will this measure have on Labour Party funds today?
Changes introduced under Ed Miliband's leadership mean that those union members who want to be associated with the Labour Party - or, in the jargon, who wish to be "affiliated supporters" - must now consciously opt in.
It's estimated that affiliation fees from big unions, such as Unite and the GMB, will fall substantially as a result - without the need for any legislation from a Conservative government.
So if the government now applies the same principle to political funds as a whole, this would hit Labour less hard than it would have done before the Miliband reforms.
But if the government's plans result - as is likely - in smaller political funds, this would also make less cash available to union leaders to make, at their discretion, the separate party political donations on which Labour increasingly depends.
The families were joined in the protest by Travellers from across the country, with some coming from Navan, Tipperary, Sligo and Naas.
A spokesperson said the families have been traumatised by the last week.
She said the council could not hide behind doors and must present them with what she called acceptable solutions.
The council said the eviction was carried out due to health and safety concerns at the site and it is continuing to find short and long-term accommodation for those displaced.
Following the eviction, 15 families moved to a make-shift site off the N52 in Dundalk, however, they have been told by police they will have to vacate the area as it is private property.
Five more families with very young children, whose caravans were impounded during the eviction, were put up in B&Bs at the council's expense this week.
Their stay was due to expire at noon on Friday, however, it has been extended until next Friday.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, the TD (MP) for Louth, addressed the protest, saying he hoped to meet with the chief executive of the council to discuss the situation.
Elsewhere, an eviction notice has been extended for Travellers in Carrowbrowne, County Galway.
The Barna Waste recycling company has extended the notice until next Wednesday.
Eleven families with 15 caravans have been illegally encamped at the entrance to the company site for several months.
The 78-year-old, from Shore Road in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, denied two charges relating to a sermon he gave in a Belfast church in 2014.
A judge said while he considered the remarks offensive, he did not consider them "grossly" offensive under the law.
Supporters of the pastor applauded when the verdict was given.
Speaking outside court, Mr McConnell said his only regret was the response from the Muslim community that he was "out to hurt them".
He said: "There was no way I was out to hurt them. I wouldn't hurt a hair on their head.
"But what I am against is their theology and what they believe in."
He said he would do it again, but would be conscious that he was "hurting innocent Muslims".
Mr McConnell had denied two charges - improper use of a public electronic communications network and causing a grossly offensive message to be sent by means of a public electronic communications network.
He made the remarks at the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in north Belfast in May 2014. His sermon was also streamed online.
During the trial, Mr McConnell said that he still believed in what he had preached, and did not go into church to "provoke anyone".
A prosecution lawyer had said his words were not "a slip of the tongue", while a defence lawyer said he should not be convicted.
Judge Liam McNally told Belfast Magistrates' Court he did think the pastor's passion in preaching meant it "had caused him to lose the run of himself" and advised him to consider the impact of his words in future.
However, he concluded that the words upon which the charges were based, while offensive, do not reach the high threshold of being "grossly offensive".
"The courts need to be very careful not to criminalise speech which, however contemptible, is no more than offensive," he said.
"It is not the task of the criminal law to censor offensive utterances."
In a statement, the Belfast Islamic Centre said the Muslim community in Northern Ireland believes in the freedom of expression, but added that "insulting other faiths and beliefs" leads to "disunity and mistrust".
It said: "We Muslims are looking forward to achieving and maintaining the values of coexistence and diversity.
"We are mindful of some voices trying to push towards disintegration and isolation of some religious and ethnic minorities.
"Although we disagree with the description of Pastor McConnell's remarks as 'not grossly offensive', we have always been ready to implement the values of forgiveness and pardon as a way forward."
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Sammy Wilson and Catholic priest Fr Patrick McCafferty appeared as character witnesses for Mr McConnell.
Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme, Mr Wilson welcomed the news, saying Mr McConnell "should never have been in court in the first place".
He said: "Anyone who is engaged in public debate or speech ought to be happy at the result today.
"We live in a free society and in a free society, people should be free to express the beliefs that they hold."
He added that if Mr McConnell had accepted a police caution, it would have introduced "a chill factor" into issues of public speech.
Peter Lynas, of the Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland, said the verdict was "a victory for common sense and freedom of speech".
"However, until the law is changed or clear guidance is issued there will still be concern about further prosecution," he added.
"The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) need to explain why this case was brought and assure everyone that this will not happen again."
Boyd Sleator of Atheist Northern Ireland said: "His (Mr McConnell's) comments were offensive but we are allowed to be offensive and I would never want to see anybody prosecuted for being offensive. His comments were idiotic, his comments were silly," he said.
In a statement, the PPS said "it was clear from the judgement that the court considered Pastor McConnell had a case to answer and that the decision on whether the comment was offensive or grossly offensive was not only finely balanced but one for the court and the court alone to take".
"The decision to bring this prosecution was entirely consistent with the duty of the PPS to put before the court those cases in which it is considered there is a reasonable prospect of a conviction."
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The Cherries won the Championship title at Charlton on Saturday, having already secured a place in the top division.
Promotion will see them earn in the region of £120m but Howe says the club, who were close to liquidation in 2008, will be prudent in their spending.
"We will not pay silly money," Howe told BBC Sport. "We just can't do it."
Howe's Championship-winning side has been assembled on a modest budget, with the summer arrival of forward Callum Wilson for an estimated £3m a club record.
Bournemouth's manager says he will look to improve his squad, but that the majority of his side will be given the chance to prove themselves in the top flight.
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The Cherries are owned by Russian millionaire Maxim Demin, but Howe says there will not be a major spending spree over the close season.
"We are going to have to be very creative with the players we do sign," said Howe.
"We are looking for players who can make our squad better and that was going to be regardless of what division we were going to be in.
"Maybe the only thing that changes is the pool of players who find us attractive is larger. We won't do anything too different to what we have been doing.
"If we go after Premier League players we will not be able to afford them, I think our market of players will be a different pool to the majority of other clubs."
Howe says planning for their first ever season in the top flight has already begun and urged his squad to "dedicate themselves" to the cause over the summer.
And chairman Jeff Mostyn, who helped save the club from going out of business in 2008, has backed Howe to act with due care and consideration in his recruitment.
He also reiterated the club could not afford to go on any sort of wild spending spree.
"Eddie is probably the exception amongst managers in that when he's spending money he believes it's his own," Mostyn told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Despite rumours to the contrary we haven't spent large sums of money - we have a mediocre budget.
"We haven't really sat down [to look at budgets]. There's a great deal of superstition around the club and until Monday we didn't know we were going to be promoted.
"Eddie in particular will sit down with Maxim [Demin] and have a look at what he needs.
"Most people would believe that to compete in the Premier League you need to strengthen the squad but it'll be done with a great deal of thought and consideration rather than buying players who are suddenly released and available."
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and Toffees manager Ronald Koeman said Barkley, who was booked, might have been "lucky" not to be sent off.
"It was pretty late, but I know Ross well. He's a good lad," Henderson said.
Sadio Mane's injury-time goal won the game for the visitors and lifted them to second in the Premier League.
Klopp, whose side are now six points behind leaders Chelsea, suggested that midfielder Henderson was fortunate not to have suffered an injury as a result of the challenge by his 23-year-old England team-mate.
"I saw it one time. Everything is clear. If you saw it say how it was," the German manager told BBC Sport.
"Maybe Ross was really lucky and Hendo was really lucky."
Speaking on Sky Sports, 26-year-old Henderson added: "Thankfully I'm OK. It was mistimed and he apologised after. It's a derby - it doesn't matter if you're friends off the field."
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Former Everton midfielder Kevin Kilbane told Match of the Day 2: "Barkley is lucky from two sides. He's lucky he didn't get a red card and lucky Henderson didn't get a serious injury."
The second-half incident also sparked a confrontation between Everton full-back Seamus Coleman and Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren.
The Republic of Ireland international Coleman was booked by referee Mike Dean as a result, but the Croatia centre-back was not punished.
Everton's Dutch boss Koeman said: "Why did he give Coleman a yellow and not Lovren? Everybody was reacting and it was started by Lovren and he already had a yellow."
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It was a second away victory in a row for Liverpool, following the 3-0 win at Middlesbrough on 14 December, and the result means they have now lost just one of their past 20 matches against their Merseyside rivals.
"It was quite intense, and I'm very, very happy after the game," added Klopp.
"You saw the reaction of our fans, so obviously they were happy and that's the best you can do on a night like this.
"If you only win games on your brilliant days you don't win a lot of games. Today was a real fight, a real battle - we were ready for it and we're happy."
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In a speech, Andy Burnham will say it is time for tough action to protect children and tackle obesity.
He will criticise the government's approach to industry, which has been categorised by voluntary agreements.
The Conservatives said "real progress" had been made on public health under the current government.
Mr Burnham is also expected to call for more to be done on food labelling and for plain cigarette packaging to be introduced.
But it is the move on setting mandatory maximum limits that will attract most attention.
The levels of fat, salt and sugar in food has been reduced in recent years, but many people still consume above the recommended levels.
There are signs that the rise in obesity among children has started levelling off, but 15% of under 15s are still obese.
On food labelling, Mr Burnham wants to see a clearer traffic light-based system. A front-of-pack colour coding and nutritional information system is currently being used.
It is not clear how this will be done, as introducing food labelling has proved difficult because of industry opposition and the need for mandatory rules to be agreed at an EU level.
Meanwhile, the pledge of plain packaging comes after the government has carried out a consultation on the issue and said it is "minded" to introduce it, but has yet to confirm it will.
Targeted action on high-strength, cheap alcohol is also needed, Mr Burnham will say, with options on pricing and bottle size being explored.
"Labour has traditionally led the way on public health and this new approach will chart a new course towards a healthy nation in the 21st century.
"Children need better protection from the pressures of modern living and the harm caused by alcohol, sugar and smoke. and Labour will not flinch from taking the action needed to provide it."
Professor John Ashton, president of the Faculty of Public Health, said the steps proposed were in line with the organisation's "public health priorities".
"We need an honest discussion about whether we can still have a world-class health system without government intervening, where only it can, to improve and protect our health."
A Conservative spokesman said: "Labour are naive to think that just banning particular types of food will support people to make informed choices. The public deserve better."
Tesco and the other big supermarket chains have been facing fierce competition from the likes of Aldi and Lidl which has led to pressure to cut costs.
It nevertheless came as a bolt from the blue, surprising both those in the industry and politicians.
The Welsh Government was given 45 minutes notice of announcement, which suggests that Tesco was not looking for funding to reconsider its decision.
The store group's UK chief executive spoke of "unprecedented challenges" and meeting changing needs of customers.
The jobs due to go at Tesco in Llanishen are services dealing with customers on the telephone and online through social media and emails.
Increasingly, Tesco like other call centres, is dealing with emails rather than telephone calls. This takes less time, so involves fewer people.
But overall the contact centre industry in Wales is still growing.
About 2,000 jobs have been created in the last 18 months most recently at Carpeo in Newport.
Despite the worry this will undoubtedly cause the Tesco workers, the skills that they have will put them in a strong position to get other jobs in the sector.
32,000
workers
10,000 number of workers in 1999
250 contact centres, from the AA to Zip World
£650m value to Welsh economy
Q&A: The contact centre industry in Wales
Based on an interview with Sandra Busby, managing director of the Welsh Call Centre Forum.
How strong is the sector in Wales at the moment?
It's very strong. We just represent people in the contact centre side, not the total business - so Admiral have 5,500 people in Wales and 4,700 are in the contact centre.
"We call them contact centres not call centres now because there are multi-channels - people will host web chats, answer phones, emails and, increasingly, look after social media. It's about customer contact.
The sector has changed considerably since 1999. That's due to technology - an example of that is the DVLA which pushed people into self-serving online. The same with booking cinema tickets or paying the bank's credit card bills. You might have expected to see a reduction but we've seen a growth in jobs.
There are already new jobs in the pipeline apparently both in terms of new companies coming to Wales and the many that are already here that are planning to expand.
The concern there's been when manufacturing work has closed down is that those jobs go and won't be replaced by anything else.
There's some hope that won't be the case here as opportunities arise with these call centre jobs particularly as schemes like React are put in place and organisations like JobCentre Plus get involved.
There is a medium and long-term challenge for call centres though as they will certainly be affected by automation which will have an impact on jobs.
South Wales is pretty established now as a call centre location. What are the particular attributes its workers offer? What do employers like?
Wales is well placed on competitive salaries, building costs and support from Welsh Government. Staff turnover tends to be lower, a more loyal workforce. When you look at the right behaviours to go with the skills - people turn up for work, they want a career and to progress.
There are some who still say call centre jobs are not 'real' jobs.
In 1999, there were team leaders who are now senior managers. People move up the ranks. Working in customer contact can involve sales, marketing, customer service, a whole variety of jobs and working for some great brands - Barclays, Virgin, HSBC, PPI and cold calling damaged the industry.
Earlier this year, The Shires were booked to play their first headline slot at Glastonbury. But when the BBC caught up with the band backstage, singer Crissie Rhodes had a slightly panicked tone to her voice.
"At the minute it's just me on my own," she said, indicating an empty space where her musical partner, Ben Earle, should have been.
"His fiancee gave birth this morning," she explained, nervously. "He's on his way. He should be on site soon."
By the time our interview finished, Earle still hadn't shown up... but after another nail-biting hour, he made it through the mud in time to strap on his guitar and take to the stage.
Looking back at the festival with a few months' perspective, Earle can see find the humour in the situation.
"The baby was seven days late," he laughs. "It was getting closer and closer to Glastonbury and everyone was freaking out. There was no back-up plan or anything.
"Luckily, it all worked out perfectly and it was a really, really special day. We've been singing together for three-and-a-half, four years now and it was such a milestone for both of us - but to have the baby on top of that? It was quite surreal, if I'm honest."
Earle's last-minute dash to Worthy Farm is the sort of thing you'd expect to see at the climax of a Richard Curtis film. And, should The Shires ever have a movie made of their life, the rest of the script practically writes itself, too.
The duo found each other on Facebook, after Earle posted a message saying: "Surely there must be somebody out there who likes country music?"
After meeting in a cafe (Rhodes gave her mum the address, in case Earle turned out to be "dodgy") they forged a musical partnership, writing songs in Rhodes' kitchen, with her dog acting as the sole barometer of their success.
"Our families were like, 'Really? You're going to do country music in the UK? That makes no sense at all!'" recalls Rhodes.
But, thanks largely to the support of BBC Radio 2, the band suddenly found themselves with a top 10 album - Brave. They were the first UK country act to ever achieve the feat.
"It was our label who said, 'Let's try and go for a top 10'," says Earle. "And we didn't think it was going to work. But the whole country community put their foot down and said, 'This is what we want to hear'."
The album continued to sell long after its chart debut, and was certified gold last November.
"I don't want to sound arrogant, but it just goes to show that if an album's good, people will tell each other about it," says Earle, whose gold disc hangs above his fireplace.
"I genuinely didn't want it in my house but I went away on tour and my fiancee had put it up in the living room," he cringes. "Now, whenever an Amazon delivery person comes in, they can see it."
"Mine's up in my living room, too!" says Rhodes. "There used to be a mirror in the same place, so I keep looking for the mirror, then I see my photograph staring back at me. It's a bit weird."
The discs served as a constant reminder - and a challenge - as the band wrote and recorded their second album, My Universe, which comes out this week.
"The pressure on the first album was, 'Oh gosh, are we going to sell anything?'" says Earle. "Whereas this time, it's like, 'Right, we want to be bigger, better, and the very best we can be'."
The record certainly aims at a wider audience than its predecessor - mostly because the band got the taste for playing to big audiences on tour with The Corrs and Little Big Town.
"We've done some huge support shows and we just wanted those big moments - something uptempo for the arenas," says Earle, who wrote the rousing, percussive single Beats To Your Rhythm as a result.
But it is the album's quieter moments that impress the most. In particular Daddy's Little Girl, a heartrending ballad that Rhodes wrote about her own father.
"I lost my dad 20 years ago," she says quietly. "I was only eight at the time, but it's never been something we speak about too much.
"Then it just so happened that I went into a session in Nashville and wrote this song. Every word of it is just completely honest.
"It's good to get feelings out - but it makes you think a lot more. So to have that song and open up more about that situation has been really quite tough on me.
"I just really hope that other people can relate to it."
Like The Shires' debut album, My Universe was recorded in Nashville with seasoned country players.
This time however, the band felt better able to push the session musicians around.
"The first time we were completely starry-eyed," says Rhodes, "but this time around we felt able to say, 'Could you just tweak it a little bit?'"
"Just playing our music is stepping out of the comfort zone for them, because they're so used to doing really straight down the line country music," adds Earle.
"So, like Crissie said, we occasionally had to give them a nudge. Often it was the acoustic guitarist, Joel, who's so clear and so perfect. Sometimes I'd be like, 'Joel, that's really great, but can you play it like I played it on the demo, 'cos I'm 10 times worse than you.'
"They didn't get it sometimes."
So, do the band plan to do the unthinkable, and sell country music back to the Americans?
"Yeah, that's what we would like to do with this album," says Rhodes. "We're very much influenced by American country, but we've put a British spin on it. So to be able to take it back to them and say, 'This is us' would be incredible.
"To hear our music on a radio station out there amongst Kelsea Ballerini and Sam Hunt and Little Big Town, that would be a surreal moment."
Earle says he thinks the US is ready to embrace the band's colloquial version of country - having noticed that Americans have a thing for the British accent.
"I definitely try to ham it up when I'm out there," he laughs. "I sound like I'm in Love Actually.
"It's easy to forget that while the Nashville sound seems exotic to us, with its trucks and rhinestones, it goes the other way, too. I met a writer out there called Johnny Bulford, and all he would talk about was Doctor Who!"
Whatever happens, the band are adorably proud of the album they've made. Rhodes even admits to blasting it from her car speakers whenever she gets the opportunity.
"But as soon as I pull into our close, where I live, I turn it down so I don't look too uncool, singing away to my own songs!"
My Universe is out now on Decca Records.
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The current tradition sees each stage's winner take the stage, surrounded by attractive women.
Unipublic, which organises the annual event, says recent debate in the press and on social media has led it to reconsider its protocol.
The ceremonies will now include male assistants.
The female hostesses - in Spain and in other races across the world - often pose by kissing the winner, and then get sprayed with Champagne.
"We are not eliminating the hostesses altogether. We are not getting rid of those jobs," a Unipublic representative, Laura Cueto Morillo, told the BBC, adding that they would be joined instead by men in similar roles.
"What we don't want is the usual photo of a winner getting a kiss on each cheek."
Spanish sports journalist Lola Hernánde shared the news with a female colleague on Twitter, writing: "Moving forward, little by little."
The headline on Spanish newspaper El Mundo on Tuesday read: "A Vuelta without hostesses' kisses and with male assistants on the podium."
Unipublic points out that it is not prohibiting kisses. "Kisses are a typical greeting here. If the hostesses or the local mayor or whoever else [involved in the ceremony] wants to give kisses, that's fine," said Ms Morillo.
In January, Australia's cycling race Tour Down Under replaced its podium girls with junior riders.
The Australian government had already withdrawn funding for so-called "grid girls", who perform a similar role in motor racing, at an event in Adelaide last year.
South Australia Sports Minister Leon Bignell said at the time that the tradition could foster body image issues.
"The government's paying for grid girls at the same time we're putting money into mental health areas to help young women who have body image problems," he told Australia's ABC news network.
"What we actually want to do is inspire girls and young women who come to the motor racing to be car drivers or to be mechanics or to be engineers," he added.
Spanish cyclist Mikel Landa praised the Australian decision: "Podium girls presenting the prizes is an old tradition, it's like treating the women as objects, and undervaluing them."
However, some hostesses have also defended their roles.
"Personally, I have never perceived my work as sexist. I am wrapped up and no-one forces me to do it," Lien Crapoen, a hostess at Belgium's Flanders Classics, told Sporza (in Dutch).
The moves have prompted questions about whether a change will be seen at other big races where the same hostess tradition continues, such as during France's Tour de France.
Hike4Hopey was in memory of Lee Hope, who died last year aged 33 after a 13-week battle with bowel cancer.
Only two of the original nine walkers completed the 12-day challenge, which ended at St James' Park on Saturday.
The group raised more than £17,000 for the foundation, which was set up in 2008 to help fund cancer research.
The walk started at Sir Bobby's statue at Portman Road, home of Ipswich Town and ended at his statue at Newcastle United's ground. He managed both clubs.
Lee's brother Scott, who was one of the two to complete the walk, said: "When we thought about doing this walk for Lee, it was like we were just coming home from the match. He was a massive Newcastle fan so it just felt right.
"It's proved to be a lot harder than we thought it would be, physically and emotionally.
"We were on the road for the first anniversary of Lee's diagnosis with cancer and we were walking the day after Newcastle were promoted, so there have been highs and lows. But everyone's worked together and it's been an incredibly positive experience."
Greeting the group in Newcastle, Sir Bobby's widow, Lady Elsie Robson, said: "This is an absolutely magnificent achievement. I'm very glad everyone's home safe and sound and I hope they're all filled with pride."
Lee, a Newcastle United fan, moved to Guernsey in 2010 where he lived with his wife Amy and daughter Livia.
Scott, who works for Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, said the walkers were given overnight accommodation at fire stations along the route.
To date the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation has raised £10m.
Crewe were the brighter of the two lowly sides throughout, but found Brown standing between them and a first win in 10 games.
Brown tipped over George Cooper's curling free-kick but poor finishing cost the home side too as Ben Nugent could not keep a header down at the back post from a James Jones corner and Charlie Kirk scuffed a close-range effort straight at Brown.
Alex Kiwomya almost made an immediate impact after coming off the bench with the Chelsea loanee blasting an effort against the near post after the restart. And when Cooper picked up the loose ball, Brown kept out the attacker's ground shot.
Brown came to Cheltenham's rescue again when he turned Cooper's curling shot around the post.
Alex Pike's last-ditch tackle robbed Kiwomya as he shaped to finish inside the box. The Crewe substitute also found Brown in the way of the route to goal as he shot from 20 yards.
The Robins struggled to make inroads, with Diego De Girolamo's first-half snapshot which flew wide, their only threat until Kyle Wootton planted a late header over.
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Match ends, Crewe Alexandra 0, Cheltenham Town 0.
Second Half ends, Crewe Alexandra 0, Cheltenham Town 0.
Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town).
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Oliver Turton.
Attempt blocked. Daniel O'Shaughnessy (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt missed. Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Daniel Udoh (Crewe Alexandra).
Daniel O'Shaughnessy (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Daniel Udoh replaces Chris Dagnall.
Delay in match William Boyle (Cheltenham Town) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Scott Brown.
Attempt saved. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra).
James Rowe (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by William Boyle (Cheltenham Town).
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Manny Onariase.
Attempt blocked. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by William Boyle.
Attempt blocked. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Dan Holman replaces Diego De Girolamo.
Attempt missed. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Jordan Cranston replaces Carl Winchester.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Kyle Wootton replaces Daniel Wright.
Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra).
Ben Nugent (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).
Foul by Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra).
Manny Onariase (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Alex Kiwomya replaces Charlie Kirk.
With play only possible on two of the four days in Ayr, the visitors declared on 403-7.
The Scots reached 223-2 on Saturday, with Munsey 100 not out and Calum MacLeod hitting 79.
It is the third draw in five matches for Scotland, who sit sixth in the eight-team table.
Namibia are bottom of the section, with Afghanistan and Ireland a long way clear in first and second.
The teams now go to Edinburgh for two World Cricket League matches on Sunday and Tuesday.
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Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam told the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue that Chattanooga was a city with a "great heart" and an "incredible community spirit" and everyone would do everything they could to rally around.
Ethan and Joel Coen are executive producers on the project alongside writer Noah Hawley, who previously created The Unusuals and My Generation.
The 1996 film noir won two Oscars for best script and best actress.
The crime thriller starred Frances McDormand as a policewoman on the trail of two bumbling criminals.
The plot centred around a bungled blackmail attempt - after William H Macy's character, a slimy car salesman, hatched a plot to kidnap his wife and make his father-in-law pay a ransom.
Set in Minnesota, the film was notable for its heavily-pregnant protagonist and the sing-song dialogue, where almost every sentence ended "Yah?"
Recognised as modern auteurs, The Coen brothers' other films include No Country for Old Men, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski and Brother, Where Art Thou?
They won a $1m (£617,000) international award last year for "a creative partnership unique in the history of film-making".
They were given the Dan David Prize - awarded to people who have made "an outstanding contribution to humanity" - at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
In his annual report, a UN special rapporteur, region also said many children were left traumatised by the 50-day conflict.
Israel and its ally the US were both absent from the debate at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.
Israel has previously accused the body of being biased against it.
It has insisted it did everything possible to avoid causing civilian casualties, and has accused Palestinian militants of putting non-combatants in harm's way.
At the meeting, special rapporteur Makarim Wibisono criticised Israel's conduct during the July-August conflict.
"The ferocity of destruction and high proportion of civilian lives lost in Gaza cast serious doubts over Israel's adherence to international humanitarian law principles of proportionality, distinction and precautions in attack," he told the council.
He lamented "acute" needs in Gaza, warning that Israel's continued "blockade keeps Gaza in a stranglehold which does not even allow people to help themselves".
Israel says its tight restrictions over Gaza's northern and eastern borders and coastline are vital to protect it from attacks by militants.
Also under discussion at the session is a report from the UN's secretary general, which highlights the continued building of settlements in the West Bank, and alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in the area.
About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
The report cites alleged incidents of settler violence and access of Palestinians to agricultural land as particular areas of concern.
In Israel, the foreign ministry told Reuters that the UN's annual debate about human rights in Gaza and the West Bank "negatively singles out Israel and Israel every year asks its friends on the council not to express themselves".
The Palestinians and Israel each accuse the other of committing war crimes during the 2014 conflict.
The war left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead, the majority civilians, according to the UN. Tens of thousands of homes in Gaza were also destroyed or badly damaged.
On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed by militant attacks, which also caused damage to homes and other buildings. Israel says the offensive was aimed at ending rocket fire and preventing militants attacking it via tunnels.
A UN inquiry into possible war crimes committed during the war was removed from the agenda of the current session of the UNHRC after the head of the team quit amid questions over his suitability to lead the investigation.
Canadian legal expert William Schabas had a "clear and documented bias", Israel said, since he had previously done paid work for the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
The inquiry, now headed by former New York judge Mary McGowan Davis, will report back in June, although Israel says it should be disbanded altogether.
Keen mountain biker Keiran McKandie, 16, from Elgin, died after the crash with a car on the B9010 Forres to Kellas Road in March.
His parents Sandra and Gordon McKandie, and family and friends, have been fundraising to buy the defibrillators.
They will be installed in police emergency response vehicles.
North East Police Division officers have started being trained how to use the equipment.
Mrs McKandie said: "Because Keiran was in a rural area when his accident happened the police were first on the scene and had they had a defibrillator there is a chance his life might have been saved.
"This is about maintaining a legacy for Keiran. Our hope is that through his sacrifice other lives may be saved.
"It is appropriate that the police will now have these defibrillators installed and that is something positive from such a tragic event.
"Nothing can compensate for Keiran not physically being in our lives anymore but the fact that these defibrillators are located in emergency response police vehicles will enable others in a critical condition to have an increased chance of survival."
Ch Insp Louise Blakelock said: "We are extremely grateful to Keiran's family for the generous donation of ten defibrillator machines which will be carried in our road policing vehicles in the north east.
"The McKandie family are to be commended for their dedication to the fundraising campaign during such difficult times and these defibrillators will provide something positive from this tragic incident.
"A number of officers have been trained in the use of the defibrillators today, with more to follow and this will allow our road policing officers to provide enhanced medical aid if required when they are first on the scene of serious incidents."
Euan Esslemont, head of ambulance services for the area, said: "We will work with Police Scotland to quickly evaluate the success of this wonderful initiative from the McKandie family and seek opportunities to spread co-responding across Grampian and other remote and rural areas across Scotland."
Lawyers acting for the chimps, Leo and Hercules, want them to be moved to an animal sanctuary. Researchers at Stony Brook University are using the chimps for research on physical movement.
In a potentially significant ruling Judge Barbara Jaffe at one stage suggested the chimps had the right of habeas corpus - the ancient legal principle under which the state has an obligation to produce missing individuals before a court.
But having initially used the words "habeas corpus", the judge subsequently struck them out, suggesting the court does not consider the animals to be legal persons.
Hercules and Leo's lawyers say they are not too dispirited as the court is still asking the university to justify why they are holding the chimps.
The case follows another ruling in New York last year, where a judge said a chimp was not entitled to the same rights as people.
The idea that animals could be considered legal persons with rights is relatively new.
But in centuries past animals were quite frequently involved in court cases in which they were put on trial. Most were found guilty of offences such as murder and assault. Punishments included the hanging of animals found guilty.
Opponents of the concept of animal rights argue that since animals have neither a sense of morality nor an understanding of their duties towards others, they can't have rights. Others, in turn, dismiss such views as "speciesist".
Attempts to understand the nature of animal behaviour have sometimes taken the form of highly unusual experiments. In one case a chimp called Nim was brought up with a New York family.
The chimp's full name, Nim Chimpsky, was a play on words. The philosopher Noam Chomsky had argued that animals do not have an innate understanding of grammar and that humans are uniquely hardwired to comprehend language.
The family raising Nim hoped to prove that the chimp in their midst would be capable of grammatically structured sign language. The experiment also focused on Nim's sense of morality.
New Yorker Jenny Lee was 13 years old when Nim, then an infant chimp, was introduced to her family and became her "brother". She believes that even if Nim could not be persuaded to stop biting people, he did display some behaviours that seemed quite human.
"He quickly understood how to say sorry and when sorry was appropriate," Ms Lee told Newshour Extra. "He would very delicately kiss the tears off my cheek."
But animal rights sceptics believe that even if Nim had some humanlike characteristics and some basic communications skills that does not justify blurring the lines between humans and other animals.
"We have to put into different categories, ourselves - humanity that is - and the rest of the living world," says the leading British neurobiologist, Prof Sir Colin Blakemore.
Prof Carl Cohen of the University of Michigan, Anne Arbor shares that view. Animals, he argues, do not know anything about morality: "Animals do not commit crimes, animals are not attacked for their moral views. Rights are a concept special to the human moral code," he says.
While humans have an obligation not to cause animals needless suffering, he argues, that does not mean animals have rights, as the concept is alien to them.
Not all of those seeking to protect animals rely on rights arguments.
Others argue on the basis of utilitarian calculations of maximising happiness and reducing misery. Factors to consider would include the degree of an animal's autonomy, sensitivity to pain, level of sentience, self-awareness and ability to hold preferences.
Undermining a chimp's autonomy, for example, could be taken as increasing its misery. The greater an animal's capacities, the more misery it would experience.
In terms of intelligence and emotional complexity chimps, the argument goes, have more in common with humans than they do with snails. It is a line of reasoning that offers relatively little protection to animals with fewer capacities.
Weakening the distinctions and blurring the lines between humans and animals could have grave implications for humans.
If a healthy chimp, for example, has greater autonomy than a human with dementia then might there be an obligation to look after the chimp ahead of the human?
Advocates of animal liberation have also argued that differing sensitivities to pain might be another relevant consideration in establishing what interests animals have.
Some have even suggested that there may be a case for stopping predation. In other words it might be morally necessary to prevent a zebra living in the wild from being torn to shreds by a lion.
For more on this story, listen to Newshour Extra on the BBC iPlayer or download the podcast.
The Titirangi Volunteer Fire Brigade received a call from the public on Saturday morning.
One of them reached down into the cesspit while a colleague held on to him to prevent him from falling.
"The mother duck seemed pretty anxious," chief officer Randolph Covich told the BBC.
"But we got them all and sent them off into the wild."
The rescue, which took about 20 minutes, was filmed by the volunteer team and uploaded onto their Facebook page. It received more than 200,000 views over 24 hours.
"We're surprised to see how far the video went," said Chief Officer Covich.
"Winter is coming so we thought a video like this would be something to cheer people up a bit."
The vessel is believed to be a pinnace - a small boat which would have acted as a supply boat for larger ships.
It is likely to have gone down with its parent ship when the German High Seas Fleet was scuttled in 1919, following the end of World War One.
A team from Orkney diving boat MV Valkyrie came across the wreck after an unexpected object was picked up on sonar equipment.
Diver Simon Brown expected to find a lump of anti-torpedo boom net.
Instead he discovered a German vessel which has lain undiscovered for almost 100 years.
Skipper Hazel Weaver told BBC Radio Scotland: "There's lots of piles of steel boom netting dumped after the First World War and the Second World War in Scapa Flow and we assumed it was a pile of that."
She said Mr Brown offered to investigate the discovery and he was in the water for about an hour.
"He took a lot of photos and came back up very, very excited," she added.
Ms Weaver said they had not come across similar vessels previously, so they consulted Kevin Heath of local diving services firm Sula Diving.
"He identified it as a motor pinnace, or diesel pinnace, from the German High Seas Fleet," she said.
"It's a remarkable discovery, especially to find such a wreck even with all the brass works still in tact."
More than 50 German ships sunk to the bottom of Scapa Flow on 19 June 1919.
Most were removed from the water after the war but local people say seven remain on the sea bed.
Ms Weaver said there are still a lot of artefacts to be discovered below the surface of the water and experts are using sonar to survey the area.
"More are being found all the time," she said. "Other operators in Scapa Flow are also looking for these smaller items because they represent a slice of history that is more or less being forgotten now."
They were taken during the height of the group's fame by rock photographer Denis O'Regan, who joined the Sing Blue Silver tour in 1983 and 1984.
The pictures show Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor and Simon Le Bon on and off stage in France, Japan and North America.
Duran Duran were formed in Birmingham in 1978, with core members Le Bon, Rhodes and John Taylor still in the line-up today.
The band had a string of hits in both the UK and US, including Hungry Like The Wolf and Rio.
O'Regan said his work "documents the excitement of the shows, the hysteria and mayhem that surrounded them, and the tedium of life on the road as they became prisoners of their own success."
Keyboard player Rhodes said: "We had seen the stunning results Denis achieved with other artists and wanted him to do the same for us.
"It helped enormously that his personality fitted in so well too. We laughed a lot together.
"If you weren't able to keep up with the constant humour we survived on, you really didn't stand a chance."
The band are playing a few European festivals this summer before releasing their 14th album in September.
The exhibition, called Careless Memories, opens to the public at the Malmaison hotel on 23 April.
Trikal Bhawanta, founder of the Pari Akhara, wanted to take the waters at the world's largest religious festival.
India has 13 widely recognised "akhara" groups, all led by men, many of whom dispute her group's legitimacy.
Equality at Hindu religious sites is an increasingly contentious issue.
In Tuesday's protest, Ms Bhwanta sat in a deep grave dug by her group's female "sadhus", or holy women, while followers threw petals and dirt onto her, until police and local officials ended the protest.
Ms Bhwanta formed her akhara - a group of wandering sadhus who renounce normal life and are respected for their holiness - in 2000. It is thought to be the first such all-female group.
Sixteen people were in one carriage of the Smiler ride; the other was empty.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said two men, aged 18 and 27, and two women, aged 19 and 17, suffered "significant lower limb injuries". They were airlifted to trauma centres in Stoke and Coventry for treatment.
Alton Towers said all guests involved were evacuated by 18:35 BST.
A director described it as "the most serious incident" in the park's history.
The passengers were trapped for several hours on the ride, about 25ft (7.6m) above the ground.
Eyewitnesses reported hearing "a loud crash" when the crash happened at 14:09.
Ben Richardson said: "When the second carriage crashed people were screaming and shouting - even after it stopped. Everyone around the park ran over.
"The people looked significantly distressed. It was almost like a car crash, very full-on."
Alton Towers said first responders based at the park were on the scene "within minutes", quickly followed by the emergency services.
Hospital trauma team consultants were also brought in to help treat passengers.
Alton Towers has said the park will be closed on Wednesday "following the dreadful incident on The Smiler".
In a statement the theme park said: "All guests with pre-booked tickets, or those who arrive at the theme park, will have the choice of either having their tickets revalidated for an alternative date or a full refund."
Sophie Underwood, who was in the park at the time of the crash, said: "It wasn't very high but it was obviously high enough for them to cause some quite serious injuries to the people that were on the rollercoaster.
"They literally had come back off and round the back of a loop, and straight into another empty coach that had been stuck."
The Smiler opened in May 2013 and is billed as the world's first 14-loop rollercoaster.
It holds the official Guinness World Record for most loops in a rollercoaster, according to the Alton Towers website.
The resort claims it features "a series of twisted psychological effects including optical illusions, blinding lights and near misses designed to mess with your mind".
There have been several accidents and incidents involving the £18m ride since it opened in May 2013.
Ellis Dyson, 23, who was in the queue for the ride, added: "The ride was delayed because of a technical fault for a while and then the ride came back on.
"They sent a carriage without any people on it first and then sent a carriage with people on and that was the one that crashed. The platform of the ride where we were vibrated and a massive loud crash."
Visitors reported on social media that the ride had broken down earlier in the day.
Lucy Farrugia said: "Smiler broke down when I was on it this morning and now it's crashed. Hope everyone on it is OK, saw the air ambulance arrive."
Merlin Entertainments said there would be a "full investigation" and the Health and Safety Executive were already on site.
Max speed: 52 mph
Ride time: 165 seconds
Highest drop: 30 metres
Loops: 14
Cost: £18 million
Opened: 2013
Ian Crabbe, divisional director at Alton Towers said the whole team at the park was "devastated" by the incident.
"Our thoughts and main concerns and focus are with injured people and the 16 people that were stuck on the train and their immediate families. That is our major concern," he said.
Merlin Entertainments was the biggest faller on the FTSE 100 after the crash, with shares down 3%.
It is the world's second-largest visitor attraction operator behind Disney and runs 105 attractions, 11 hotels and three holiday villages in 23 countries.
A help-line for concerned relatives has been set up by the Park which is 0800 230 0770.
Alton Towers is located near the village of Alton in Staffordshire and used to be a country estate.
It originally became a tourist attraction because of its gardens, but travelling fun fair rides were added to the grounds in the 1950s.
The installation of the Corkscrew rollercoaster in 1980 is regarded as a key point in the development of Alton Towers into a major theme park.
It now has some of the UK's best known rollercoasters - including Nemesis, Oblivion, Air and Rita - and attracts millions of visitors every year.
"He completely owns the screen," said Variety, despite his character being "very unlikeable throughout" the film.
"You get the strong sense from Fassbender of a mind that is always several steps beyond everyone else's," agreed The Hollywood Reporter.
Steve Jobs was shown as a "work in progress" at the Telluride Festival.
British director Danny Boyle is expected to premiere the completed version at the New York Film Festival on 3 October. The film will also close the London Film Festival on 18 October.
Co-starring Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen and Jeff Daniels, it is the most high-profile of half-a-dozen films and documentaries about the Apple founder since his death in 2011.
The film was written by Aaron Sorkin, who previously dramatised the life of Mark Zuckerberg - another tech billionaire with personality issues - in the Oscar-winning The Social Network.
It spans a period of 14 years between 1984 and 1998, using the story of three seminal product launches - the Apple Macintosh, the NeXT "Cube" and the iMac - to tell the story of the volatile character who founded, and then was forced out of, Apple before returning to rescue the company from bankruptcy.
Boyle, whose CV includes Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting and the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, has called Jobs "the kind of brilliant, flawed character that Shakespeare would have relished writing about".
"This is not a story that sugar coats his past," noted Sasha Stone in The Wrap's review. "Jobs suffered no fools. He is, in many ways, a monster who feeds on ego."
"Fassbender spits out Sorkin's dialogue like an ice cube maker — each withering insult sticking its landing."
"Sorkin has a gift for writing the elevated gab of brainiacs," added Todd McCarthy in The Hollywood Reporter, and "Boyle's fast-heartbeat pacing and quasi-verite style provides the new film with a constant dramatic hum and you-are-there immediacy."
"But hardly any of this would matter without a dynamic actor at the centre of things nailing the part of Jobs, and while Fassbender doesn't closely physically resemble the man, he fully delivers the essentials.
"Along with intellectual brilliance and force of personality, the actor also taps into the man's frequent unreachability, power to inspire, unswerving faith in his own instincts, attention to the smallest detail, utter lack of sentimentality and the certitude that can come from occupying a different, loftier realm."
Variety's Kristopher Tapley put it more succinctly: "The 12 Years a Slave star crushes the role... and then some."
The debut of Steve Jobs in Telluride coincided with that of two other Oscar contenders at the Venice Film Festival.
Johnny Depp has some of the best reviews of his career for his portrayal of Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger in Black Mass.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star "oozes a cadaverous anti-charisma" said Robbie Collin in the Telegraph, although "you long for him to roll his sleeves up and grasp the character's shape and soul himself, ideally without the aid of those distracting prosthetics."
"Depp takes control of the proceedings from the outset and never yields it," said Todd McCarthy in The Hollywood Reporter.
"[His] instinct for observing, underlaying and keeping things in, then letting it all out when required, pays big dividends here."
Also in the running for Oscar glory is The Danish Girl, which stars Eddie Redmayne as celebrated Danish painter Lili Elbe, who became one of the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
However, early reviews from Venice have been lukewarm, with the Guardian calling it "handsome but over-tasteful".
Redmayne, who won last year's best actor Oscar, "is undeniably affecting" said Jonathan Romney. "But his coy grins, so effective in The Theory of Everything, are worked relentlessly here."
"It's a film of few surprises," confirmed Variety magazine - but one of them is the "emotionally compelling" story of Elbe's wife, Gerda Wegender, played by Alicia Vikander.
"Toggling sensuality and sensitivity, with a latent streak of anger throughout, Vikander plays her half beautifully," wrote Guy Lodge.
"It's the stuff that best actress campaigns are built upon."
The Young Pope will feature the Annie Hall actress as an American nun living in the Vatican City, alongside Law's fictional Pope Pius XIII.
Due to be shown in 2016, the series focuses on the controversial beginning to the Pope's tenure.
He is described as a "conflicted character" who struggles to balance religious conservatism with compassion.
Producers have not yet released details of Keaton's character, but Pius XIII is said to be "stubbornly resistant to the Vatican courtiers", among whom she resides.
Keaton shot to fame in The Godfather, playing the girlfriend of Al Pacino's mafia boss, and her career includes hits such as The First Wives Club, Red, Marvin's Room and Father of the Bride.
The Young Pope is her first regular role on a TV show, and her first job on the small screen since 2006 TV movie Surrender, Dorothy.
The eight-part series will be directed by Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, who described it as a story of "faith" and how people "handle and manipulate power".
He added it would deal with "the clear signs of God's existence" and "the clear signs of God's absence", and how they affect the new leader of the Catholic Church.
Law's character will depict: "The inner struggle between the huge responsibility of the head of the Catholic Church and the miseries of the simple man that fate, or the Holy Spirit, chose as pontiff," he added.
A co-production by Sky, HBO and Canal +, The Young Pope is due on screen in 2016.
Tuesday's speech could be a big moment in finding out what the UK's relationship with the European Union will look like after Brexit.
Some other countries already have their own arrangements, governing how they trade with the EU:
But what does all this mean? Here's a guide to some of the terms and key debates that we're likely to be be hearing about.
There is no strict definition of either, but they are used to refer to the closeness of the UK's relationship with the EU, post-Brexit.
So at one extreme, "hard" (or "clean") Brexit could involve the UK refusing to compromise on issues like the free movement of people, leaving the EU single market and trading with the EU as if it were any other country outside Europe, based on World Trade Organization rules.
This would mean - at least in the short term before a trade deal was done - the UK and EU would probably apply tariffs and other trade restrictions on each other.
At the other end of the scale, a "soft" Brexit might involve some form of membership of the European Union single market, in return for a degree of free movement.
A number of non-EU countries have their own relationships with Brussels, with differing degrees of closeness, which could give an idea of what is to come for the UK.
Norway, for example, has full access to the single market, but is obliged to make a financial contribution and accept the majority of EU laws, and all EU citizens can move to live and work there, under free movement laws.
Given that Downing Street has said any deal must involve controls on immigration, it seems unlikely that the UK will accept free movement as it currently applies.
Another example is Canada - which has agreed a new trade deal including preferential access to the single market without all the obligations that Norway and Switzerland - whose access to the EU market is governed by a series of bilateral agreements - face.
However, while post-Brexit Britain may contain elements of these arrangements, Mrs May has stressed the UK does not want an "off the shelf" deal.
"Access to" and "membership of" the single market are sometimes used interchangeably but they mean very different things.
All 28 EU countries are full members of the single market which enables them to trade with one another based on the four freedoms of the EU: free movement of goods, services, capital, and people.
The European Economic Area (EEA) on the other hand is the name of the open internal market between the EU and Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.
The EEA agreement grants these three countries near-full access to the European single market. In return, they are subject to obligations from EU legislation in relevant areas and have to accept free movement of people.
Chancellor Philip Hammond has said if the UK is "closed off" in trade terms by the rest of the EU, it could be forced into adopting a "new economic model", comments interpreted as suggesting cuts to corporation tax to allow the UK to entice business from elsewhere in Europe.
The government says immigration curbs will be an essential part of the Brexit package but how they will work is not yet clear.
During the referendum campaign, Vote Leave called for a "points-based" system, similar to that used in Australia.
But this model, which would involve applications being accepted on the basis of skills, has been rejected by Mrs May, who says it would not give sufficient control to the government.
An alternative, which Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said is under consideration, is to require migrants to have a work permit before coming to work in the UK, with ministers able to prioritise different sectors.
A combination of different models is also an option, and the government says all possibilities are being considered.
It has also been reported a visa waiver scheme, similar to that used by the US, could apply to Britons going to the EU.
This could involve an online application and paying a fee in order to visit the EU, without requiring a full visa.
A customs union is an arrangement between countries who agree not to impose tariffs on each other's goods.
They also agree to impose common external tariffs on goods from countries outside their customs union.
Setting common external tariffs is what distinguishes a customs union from a free trade area, where members are able to set their own tariffs on goods from the rest of the world.
As an EU member, the UK is currently part of its customs union.
But you do not have to be a member state to be in a customs union with the EU.
After Brexit, the UK could adopt a similar model to Turkey, which is not an EU member but trades with the EU as part of a customs union.
However, this would be unpopular in some quarters as by agreeing to set common external tariffs, customs unions also limit the freedom of their individual members to strike their own trade deals.
Reality Check: What is a customs union?
Just like with the referendum itself, opinions differ on what the government should do next. Some in the Conservative Party want a fast "hard" Brexit, while others - including many of the leading Remain campaigners - say access to the single market should now be the priority.
Some Leave campaigners like Conservative MP John Redwood say Brexit is a sovereign decision that should be completed as quickly as possible.
He wrote that the UK should "offer to continue tariff-free trade, send them the letter and then leave".
Other Conservatives have urged the PM to take her time to strike a deal.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the UK needs to "maintain full access" to the EU single market in order to protect jobs.
Several EU leaders have called for clarity on what the UK wants from the Brexit negotiations.
The EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, is among those to tell the UK it cannot "cherry pick" on issues such as the single market.
Several have stressed that for the UK to enjoy continued free access to the single market, it would need to accept free movement of people.
We will know more about the EU's position once formal negotiations begin, which will happen when the UK serves notice of its departure under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which Mrs May has promised to do before the end of March.
There has been much talk of an interim deal between the UK and the EU before the final terms are agreed.
Supporters of the plan say it would avoid the "cliff edge" scenario which could see tariffs imposed on businesses as soon as the UK leaves the EU, and prevent a shock to the economy.
Not everyone is convinced this is necessary - and some Conservative MPs want the UK to leave the EU before negotiating the terms.
But a transitional arrangement appeared to get more likely after Chancellor Philip Hammond said there was an "emerging view" that having longer than two years to negotiate the UK's departure would tend towards a "smoother transition" .
Writing in the Sunday Times, Brexit Secretary David Davis suggested there might be a transitional arrangement to ensure Britain's exit was a smooth process.
A hint of what the UK might be looking for - and a suggestion of how tricky the negotiations might be - was offered by Oliver Letwin, who was briefly in charge of the government's Brexit unit before Theresa May took over as prime minister.
Speaking on the BBC's Daily Politics, he compared what he thought was the UK's likely wish list to having "cake and eating it".
The former Conservative minister said this should include access to financial services for the City of London, a zero tariff regime for the import and export of goods - as well as control over immigration.
The cake theme re-emerged when notes carried by an MP's aide were photographed in Westminster.
The handwritten notes included the phrase "what's the model? Have your cake and eat it" and "unlikely" in reference to the EU single market.
Downing Street said this did not reflect its Brexit position.
Groves split with Fitzpatrick following defeat in his third world title fight in September, against Badou Jack.
McGuigan - son of former world champion Barry - trains IBF super-bantamweight champion Carl Frampton and recently worked with David Haye on his comeback.
Groves' first fight with McGuigan will be against 33-year-old Italian Andrea di Luisa in London on 30 January.
Di Luisa has won 18 and lost three of his 21 professional bouts, with 14 of his victories coming via knockout.
Briton Groves, 27, is rebuilding his career following his defeat by Sweden's WBC super-middleweight champion Jack in Las Vegas - his third loss in his last five fights.
Groves was defeated twice by fellow Briton Carl Froch, in 2013 and 2014.
He was controversially stopped in the ninth round of his first fight against Froch before being knocked out in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley last summer.
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US oil fell 2.4% to $43.11 (£32.72) a barrel, its lowest level since April, meaning it has now fallen by 12% so far this month.
Brent crude dropped 2.1% to $44.75, its lowest level since 10 May.
Shares in oil and firms also lost ground, with Exxon Mobil shares down 1.8% and Chevron down 2.6%.
"Crude oil markets have been under pressure as oil supplies have started growing with the resumption of output from the capacity lost due to wildfires in the Canadian oil sands," said EY energy analyst Sanjeev Gupta.
Data from market intelligence firm Genscape also suggested US production had increased.
Inventory at the Cushing, Oklahoma delivery base rose by 1.1 million barrels in the week to 22 July.
"Supply continues to return from disruptions, refined products are severely oversupplied, crude demand is falling well short of product demand, and key product demand is decelerating," Morgan Stanley said in a note.
On Friday, data showed the amount of US oil and gas extraction points had increased for the fourth week in a row.
The slump in prices from as high as $115 per barrel in 2014 led many shale oil producers to cut the number of rigs as producing oil was no longer profitable.
But despite a decrease in American crude supplies over the past year, there are still large stocks of gasoline in the country, even as the US hits its summer driving peak.
The value of the dollar which has steadily risen over the past month has also put pressure on crude oil prices.
In 2015, world leaders - including the US President Barack Obama - agreed to cap global temperature rises at "well below" 2C.
This time the event won't be so headline-grabbing, but it will be an opportunity for Scotland to shout about its aims and achievements.
So what does Scotland have to shout about?
One of the big achievements can be seen on the River Don in Aberdeen where an Archimedes screw provides power for the grid.
The huge rotating screw that thumps its way through the water is not just unusual to see, it also provides benefits to those living alongside it.
It is community-owned and generates a profit of £30,000 a year to spend locally.
Sinclair Laing, from Aberdeen Community Energy, said: "A lot of schemes are seen to be overly commercial where only big companies and private enterprise is profiting.
"Seeing renewable electricity on a local scale which is returning benefits to a community turns around that perspective."
The biggest reduction in Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions has come from electricity generation like the Donside Hydro.
Earlier this year, it was confirmed that the Scottish government had met its targets for greenhouse gas emissions six years early.
But below that headline figure there are areas of struggle. In transport, for example, there's been little change since 1990.
Glasgow City Council is trying to change that by installing a growing network of charging points for electric cars, but take-up is slow.
Head of infrastructure Andy Waddell said: "We've seen a growth in the sales of electric vehicles in recent years but they are only making up a proportion of about 1.5% of new car sales.
"But we do expect to see a huge growth in the coming years."
Why so sure? Well, early next year ministers will set new targets and explain how they are going to be achieved.
But the conference will focus on impact as well as cause.
The issue of "climate justice" is a big part of the Scottish social policy.
In simple terms, that means supporting the poorer countries of the world whose climate has changed because of fossil fuel consumption in richer countries.
The Scottish government supports schemes in Malawi to help the millions of people facing hunger because of drought.
Head of Oxfam Scotland Jamie Livingstone said: "As a rich developed country, Scotland helped create climate change and we have to now support those who are feeling the full force of climate change on their lives.
"It's essential that we give the money that they need. Our funding levels are fairly small but they're having a significant impact.
Scottish Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham will give a statement to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday afternoon outlining her aims from the conference in Marrakech.
A series of meetings and events have been lined-up with other "states and regions" from across the globe.
She said: "What is important is that we discuss with them some of the things that we've done but equally that applies to me.
"I'm hoping to be able to hear from other countries what their successes have been so that I can learn from them."
The Neath-born mezzo-soprano, 35, introduced her daughter Aaliyah Reign Levitas, who weighed nearly 7lbs (3.2kg), with a posting on Instagram.
She wrote: "We are absolutely besotted with her and grateful for the beautiful blessing of this happy, healthy, little miracle."
The singer first announced she was expecting a girl with husband Andrew Levitas in April.
On Thursday, Ms Yellen said US growth appeared "solid" and she expected rates to rise later in the year.
Sentiment was also lifted by the latest estimates of US GDP, with second quarter growth revised up to an annual pace of 3.9% from 3.7%.
The Dow Jones rose 111.81 points, or 0.69%, to 16,313.13.
Other stocks dipped slightly on tech losses - the S&P 500 slipped 0.72% to 1,931.86 points, while the Nasdaq closed 1% down at 4686.5 points.
Shares in Facebook ended the day down 1.74% and Google fell 2.2%.
People are, quite literally, dying to take a picture of themselves.
In Russia this year there have been a handful of selfie-related fatalities, including the death of two men in the Ural Mountains who posed for a photo while pulling the pin from a hand grenade.
And, in June, a university graduate died after trying to take a selfie while hanging from a Moscow bridge.
Most recently a 17-year-old boy fell to his death from a rooftop as he tried to take his picture for his Instagram page.
He had previously taken a number of similar pictures of himself posing on high rooftops in the city of Vologda.
The problem isn't just limited to Russia. In the US recently a man died after shooting himself in the neck while taking a selfie.
At least 12 people have died this year while taking pictures of themselves making the practice more deadly than shark attacks, of which there have only been eight recorded deaths in 2015, according to tech news site Mashable.
The statistic is creating very real problems for governments.
In August, officials at the Waterton Canyon in Colorado were forced to close the park after several people were caught getting a little too close to the wildlife.
"We've actually seen people using selfie sticks to try and get as close to the bears as possible, sometimes within 10 feet [3 metres]," said recreation manager Brandon Ransom in a blog.
And, at Yellowstone National Park, officials issued a warning after five separate incidents of selfie-takers being gored by bison.
In Australia, a rock that looks like a wedding cake was fenced off because too many people were climbing it to take pre or post-wedding photos of themselves.
While in Russia, in response to the number of deaths there, the Interior Ministry launched a campaign warning that "self-photography could cost you your life".
"A selfie with a weapon kills," the brochure read. The accompanying poster campaign listed dangerous places to take a selfie.
So why are some people willing to risk their life to take the ultimate selfie?
It may come down to pure bravado, thinks Lee Thompson - whose snap of himself on top of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janiero went viral in June 2014.
"People see pictures like mine and see how they spread across the world and see a way to make themselves famous for 15 minutes," he told the BBC.
A professional photographer, Mr Thompson admits that the picture he took was done as a publicity stunt for his travel company, Flash Pack. He did, however, get permission to climb the statue.
"I'm not a serial selfie-taker - this shot was to publicise my business. It was the shot I knew I had to get because people love selfies," he told the BBC.
He admits that the trend towards ever more dangerous selfies is "getting out of control".
"Be creative with your pictures but don't put yourself in danger," he advised.
According to research published by the Ohio State University, the pictures that people post on social media can tell an interesting story about their personality.
Hundreds of tests on people's social media habits were conducted for the study, which showed that people who post a lot of selfies also tend to score higher in traits of narcissism and psychopathy.
Lead researcher Jesse Fox said that, for many, a dangerous selfie is worth it for the number of likes and comments it will generate.
"Likes are a quantifiable way of measuring popularity and these days it isn't enough to just post a picture of yourself, because everyone is doing that. The more extreme it is, the more likely you are to stand out and get lots of likes and comments."
The rise of the selfie as an art form has not gone unnoticed by manufacturers such as Asus, which recently launched a phone dubbed the ZenFone Selfie, that as the name suggests, comes with a powerful camera.
But it too is sensitive to the issue of risk-taking selfies and its marketing of the device in France came with a poster campaign similar to that of the Russian government, pointing out places where taking a selfie would be ill-advised - including in front of trains, in cars and with bears.
Despite the publicity, there doesn't appear to be any let-up in the amount of death-defying selfies being taken, nor people's appetite to look at them.
A video on YouTube, compiling what it describes as the "25 most dangerous selfies ever", has been viewed over 20 million times.
It includes examples of a man taking a selfie while a bull charges at him, a man posing with a lion, someone taking a picture in front of a train and a woman taking a selfie of herself and her toddler while driving.
James Kingston's picture of himself hanging off a crane (above) came in at number three.
The list also features several self-portraits with sharks which had gone viral but which the video exposes as fakes.
Selfies may have become more dangerous than shark attacks but it seems that even the most intrepid self-shooter draws the line at a picture with a Great White.
Say the phrase "the party of crooks and thieves", and almost everyone knows who you are talking about - the ruling party, Vladimir Putin's United Russia.
Although United Russia looks likely to win again in parliamentary elections on Sunday, there is growing dissatisfaction in the country.
Over the past few years, people have seen bureaucrats and politicians buying mansions and luxury cars, way beyond anything their official salaries could pay for.
The word "korruptsiya" (corruption) is on the lips of businessmen and pensioners - and even Kremlin spin-doctors.
The most infamous recent case of alleged corruption centres on the death of Sergei Magnitsky.
He was a young corporate lawyer working on behalf of Hermitage Capital, a British investment fund specialising in Russia.
Sergei Magnitsky discovered what he thought was a massive tax fraud. He believed that officials had wrongly awarded a $230m (£145m) tax refund, which had ended up in criminal hands.
But the bureaucrats and policemen he accused turned the tables on him. He was arrested, and a year later he died in prison after a severe beating and months of medical neglect.
His fate contrasts with that of Olga Stepanova, the woman who authorised the tax refund. She is one of a group of officials who suddenly became very rich.
Her mother-in-law is now the registered owner of an ultra-modern country house outside Moscow worth an estimated $20m, and her husband owns luxury villas in Montenegro and Dubai.
She says the money came from her husband's business, but their annual joint tax returns show an income of around $38,000.
It is two years since Sergei Magnitsky died, but none of those he accused of the tax fraud has been brought to justice.
"It's terrible. I don't know how these people live with themselves," his mother Natalya Magnitskaya said. "They have no conscience. And I find it very difficult to come to terms with that."
For many observers the case of Sergei Magnitsky has come to symbolise much of what is wrong with modern Russia.
It exemplifies a system which seems to allow some officials to become very rich without any comeback. The era of the oligarchs was the 1990s; this is the age of the millionaire Russian bureaucrat.
Drive along Rublyovo-Uspyenskoye Shosse into the countryside to the west of Moscow, and the scale of the enrichment of officials becomes clear.
It looks like the sort of place where only millionaires would live, but here Russia's new rich reside - the ministers and officials.
Some of the money comes from legitimate businesses. But much comes from bribes, from government contracts given to friends and relatives, and from seats on boards with a clear conflict of interest.
Giorgy Dzagurov is the owner of Penny Lane Realty, one of Moscow's biggest real estate agents.
"I would say that 40% to 60% of buyers of top-end housing in Russia are Russian governmental employees," he said. "That does not necessarily mean it comes from corruption, but some properties are directly purchased from bribes."
The mansions on the Nikolino Elite Settlement are worth $20m or more, but among the residents is Boris Gromov, the governor of the Moscow Region.
He owns no businesses, and the only jobs he has ever done are soldier and politician. His official salary is around $125,000.
Then there are the luxury cars.
Gennady Gudkov, who is a member of opposition party Just Russia in parliament, carried out an investigation into expensive cars being bought with state funds.
He found that even small departments and universities were buying top-of-the-range Audis, BMWs and Mercedes Benzes.
"Our bureaucrats did not save any money. They spent a lot just for their luxury. Just for their pleasure. Taking no attention to the needs of the people, of common people," he complained.
"They do what they want, paying no attention to the needs of common people. That's the result of a lack of control and impunity.
"It's very dangerous when people start to hate those who must serve them. They see them using these luxury cars when salaries go down, and all other benefits go down."
In most democracies it is the parliament that gives the population an official voice, providing a check on the executive.
But Russia's parliament, the Duma, has had its wings badly clipped during the Putin years.
At a recent debate on corruption none of the deputies appeared to be listening to the speeches.
The voting was a bizarre charade in which deputies ran around pressing the voting buttons on behalf of absent colleagues - even the parliamentary procedures were a fraud.
Vladimir Pligin is one of the better-respected members of the ruling United Russia party. He says he knows the problems but asks people to be patient
"We have not achieved the proper balance between the executive, legislative power and also our court system. We are in the process of the construction of this balance," he explained.
He said that the process had been going on for "only 20 years - not a big period of time from the historical point of view".
The problem is that the system of corruption is becoming entrenched.
By the time democratic reform comes along, the patience of the people of Russia may have run out.
Ibehre, 34, scored 14 goals for the League Two side this season as they were beaten in the play-offs by Exeter.
Manager Keith Curle has also tabled contract offers to Samir Nabi, Michael Raynes, Jason Kennedy and James Bailey.
Left-back Patrick Brough, keeper Max Crocombe and forward Ben Tomlinson will leave as they deals expire this summer.
Carlisle already have 16 players signed on for the 2017-18 campaign, with winger Nicky Adams among 12 under contract and a further four players being promoted from the club's academy.
The event saw 7,500 runners make their way along the 5km route which started and finished in George Square, the venue for Glasgow's festive market.
This year - the event's 10th anniversary - participants were raising money for the Beatson Cancer Charity.
The Santa Dash has raised more than £100,000 for various charities working in and around Glasgow since 2006.
Beatson Cancer Charity's mascot Bella and Kingsley, mascot for Partick Thistle football club were among those taking part.
Joyce Ross, corporate partnerships manager at Beatson Cancer Charity, said: "We are overwhelmed with the incredible support from everyone who contributed to the success of this year's Santa Dash.
"The event wouldn't be as special without the valuable support from volunteers, fundraisers, sponsors and, of course, the 7,500 Santa Dashers. Thank you to each and every one of you!
"All funds raised from the event will provide vital specialist staff posts including nursing, radiography, physics and research based staff as well as funding enhanced medical equipment, innovative service developments, research projects and educational initiatives to support the 8,000 new patients and their families who attend the Beatson and its related facilities each year."
The Swans beat Liverpool 3-1 on Sunday to mathematically secure their place in the top flight for a sixth season.
With Swansea two points above the relegation zone when he was appointed in January, Guidolin has steered the club to 13th place.
"I am happy we are safe. We were safe three weeks ago but not mathematically," he said.
"To have 40 points with five games to go was important, now we have 43 so this is not the worst season Swansea have had in the Premier League.
"I have done my job very well. I thank the players, assistants and staff and I am happy.
"I am proud, this is my first time in the Premier League. It was not easy because this was not an easy season for Swansea."
The Swans' impressive victory against Liverpool gave them an unassailable 11-point lead over third-from-bottom Sunderland.
Guidolin has previously stated he and chairman Huw Jenkins have already started planning for next season.
However, Guidolin's contract expires at the end of the current campaign and, despite publicly declaring his desire to stay at the Liberty Stadium, the Italian does not know if he will be offered a new deal.
"I say many times I want to stay. The chairman knows I want to stay," said the former Udinese manager.
"He is planning next season and the situation is better. The club is ready to play for next season.
"We have spoken about next season but I do not know if I will be here. It is not my decision, I am waiting.
"If it is yes, I am happy. If it is a no, I have a holiday for a long time. I have no idea."
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That's what some kids in the Sichuan province of China have to do.
They used to have to climb up cliffs and old rickety wooden stairs but now a new giant metal staircase is making a huge difference.
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Brian McIlhagga was beaten by a gang of masked men and then shot in both legs in Ballymoney on 5 January 2015.
On the second anniversary of his death, detectives have appealed for help to bring his killers to justice.
Last year, police said they believed the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) had played a role in the murder.
Mr McIlhagga, a father of five from Ballymena, was visiting a friend's house in Riverview Park at the time of the attack.
There were four children under the age of 13 in the house when the masked gang entered the house and began to assault the 42-year-old victim in the kitchen.
He was then dragged outside and shot in the legs. He died at the scene.
The officer leading the murder inquiry, Det Ch Insp Michael Harvey, said: "These young children heard his screams of terror and pain while the violent injuries were being inflicted.
"That is going to affect them for the rest of their lives. The 13 year-old would also have had some sight of Brian lying injured in the front garden."
The officer repeated his statement from last year which said: "There was certainly paramilitary involvement in this attack but another line of inquiry is that there may well have been some sort of personal grudge also."
Twelve people have been arrested as part of the investigation but no-one has been charged.
Det Ch Insp Harvey said: "It may be that the shadow of paramilitary involvement which hangs over this incident is putting people off coming forward. But I would say to those people with information - put yourselves in the place of those children, Brian's friends and family and the trauma they've been through.
"It is important for people to come forward. Nothing justifies this murder in any way whatsoever. People know who was involved. People know where they went afterwards. They haven't come forward. They are protecting those killers.
"I would appeal to those with information, no matter how small, to contact detectives at Maydown on 101 or, if you do not wish to provide your details, please use the independent Crimestoppers charity number 0800 555 111."
The attackers set off a car bomb outside the heavily fortified Somali Youth League hotel before moving in.
An explosion also targeted a popular park known as the Peace Garden. Police say the attack is now over after they shot and killed four attackers.
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The BBC's Ibrahim Aden in Mogadishu heard a loud explosion on Friday evening, followed by gunfire.
Our reporter says 40 minutes after the first car bomb went off, another explosion of the same magnitude was heard.
Al-Shabab told the BBC they were "in control" of the hotel.
"We have attacked the SYL Hotel and we've forced our way into the hotel," they said.
However, one resident at the hotel told the BBC Somali Service the gunmen had not managed to get inside and had been repelled by security guards.
The hotel, situated near the presidential palace, is popular with government personnel.
Eyewitnesses at the Peace Garden said there were many people in the park at the time of the attack.
"My sister, class mates and I were taking pictures at the peace garden when the car bomb hit the gate of the park," eyewitness Halima Nur told Reuters.
"We all rushed through the back gates," she added.
It is not unusual for al-Shabab to launch attacks in Mogadishu on Fridays, the first day of the Somali weekend.
The operation comes a day after a mortar attack on the presidential palace in Mogadishu in which three people were killed.
A review by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland described a "fundamental weakness" at the board.
It also criticised a decision to hold meetings in private, saying the SPA needed to "genuinely engage".
SPA chairman Andrew Flanagan is to step down from the role, after a row about transparency at the board.
The HMICS report is the latest in a series of probes into governance at the SPA, with two Holyrood committees issuing critical reports and calling for Mr Flanagan's resignation - moves the report describes as "significant".
The outgoing chairman highlighted that the report contained no evidence to support allegations of secrecy or inappropriate decisions being made.
The long-running row stems from a decision - since reversed - to hold board meetings behind closed doors and only publish agendas on the same day.
A dispute over this saw one member, Moi Ali, resign from the board. She subsequently said she had felt "bullied" and that Mr Flanagan had told her that publicly stating opposition was a resignation matter.
After a series of heated committee hearings, MSPs announced that they did not have confidence in Mr Flanagan's continued leadership of the SPA, and he subsequently indicated he would quit once a successor is found.
The latest report, from inspector Derek Penman, found "positive signs of improvement" in SPA board operations over the last 18 months, with improved relationships between the SPA and Police Scotland and the development of the Policing 2026 strategy described as a "major milestone".
However, Mr Penman said the "recent parliamentary scrutiny and media concerns over openness and transparency have weakened public confidence in the SPA and detracted from its ability to perform its statutory function".
He described the decision to hold meetings behind closed doors as "precipitous", and said it "should not have been implemented" until signed off by the board in full.
Mr Penman welcomed the decision of the board to revert to holding meetings in public and publishing committee papers in advance, but wrote: "I am aware that some board members continue to maintain that their decisions to implement private meetings and publish papers on the day of the board were essentially correct.
"There is a fundamental need to listen to the views of stakeholders to maintain public confidence, and on this occasion the SPA has failed to do so until pressed by parliamentary committees.
"The SPA must recognise the legitimate interests of parliament, local authorities, staff associations, the press and the wider public in the scrutiny of policing in Scotland."
Former board member Ms Ali said she was "really concerned" to hear that some board members still backed the private meetings.
She said: "This is a public authority, one of the biggest in Scotland, and it's funded by taxpayers. And there are people on that board who believe that those taxpayers and the media do not have a right to know what that authority is doing. That worries me."
Mr Penman was also critical of other senior managers including John Foley, the chief executive of the SPA, saying there was "fundamental weakness" in current structures.
He said: "My inspection has identified shortcoming in the capacity of the chief executive, senior managers and committee support service to provide the level of expert advice and governance support needed by the board.
"This is a fundamental weakness in the current executive structures and I therefore welcome the recent announcement that there will be a review of the way the SPA board can be better supported to deliver its statutory functions.
"I also found dysfunction in the relationship between the chair and chief executive, and identified challenges for the chief executive and his senior management team in managing long-term secondments and absences. This is undoubtedly impacting on the effectiveness and efficiency of the SPA to perform its statutory function and should be addressed by the proposed review."
Labour's Clare Baker said Mr Foley "must now consider his position", calling for a "complete overhaul of the management structure" at the SPA. This was echoed by Lib Dem Liam McArthur, who called for "root and branch reform".
Jackie Baillie, acting convener of the public audit committee, said the group had been "unimpressed with Mr Foley's evidence" and said it was time for the SPA to "improve its tarnished reputation".
In his response to the report, Mr Flanagan said the SPA had "already acknowledged recent mistakes made" and had "responded accordingly".
He said: "Two charges that have been levelled at the SPA in recent months is that we were creating an organisation to keep secrets, and that we were inappropriately taking decisions behind closed doors which should have been made in public.
"It is notable that the HIMCS inspection report contains no evidence or findings that would support either of those accusations.
"We also welcome that the report found no evidence of a 'bullying culture' within the SPA, and I hope that this finding is given as much prominence as the original allegation."
A number of changes have been instituted in the wake of the dispute, including the appointment of a deputy chairperson and a commitment to hold meetings in public wherever possible, which Mr Flanagan highlighted in his response.
He added: "While I accept that openness and transparency is an important aspect of the work of the SPA, I also welcome the acknowledgement of by HMICS of positive progress in the governance of the SPA, our commitment to good governance, and a genuine commitment by SPA board members to putting policing before personal interests."
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said he was grateful to Mr Penman for the report.
He said: "I am encouraged by their recognition that SPA Board operations and relationships have strengthened, reflecting a genuine commitment to good governance and a clear commitment to improving policing.
"The report will help inform the review I announced last week to consider how the executive of SPA can best support the board and the chair to take informed, transparent decisions."
Mr Penman will give evidence to Holyrood's justice sub-committee on policing about the report on Thursday.
His comments came as the bank's latest Report on Jobs found a slower rise in the number of staff placed in permanent jobs by recruitment consultancies.
The number of temporary staff placed in employment increased in November.
But the report also found the rate of growth easing to its slowest pace since April.
The survey follows a recent report by a leading economic forecaster, the EY Scottish Item Club, which predicted that Scotland's economy will continue to grow next year - but at a slower rate.
The Bank of Scotland's Labour Market Barometer slipped to 60.1 in November, from 65.0 in October, suggesting another improvement in overall labour market conditions in Scotland.
However, it was the slowest rate of improvement since September last year.
It was also below the equivalent index for the UK jobs market as a whole for the first time in five months.
The barometer measures areas such as levels of staff demand, employment and wages to create a single-figure snapshot of labour market conditions.
Mr MacRae said: "November's Report on Jobs showed further growth in the number of people appointed to jobs although the pace of increase eased to its lowest level for seven months.
"Vacancies for permanent jobs rose but at a slower rate than earlier in the year. These results indicate Scotland's economy growing but slowing."
The report found that salaries increased last month as demand for staff remained strong.
However, the pace of expansion in permanent jobs vacancies was down considerably from the highs seen earlier in the year and the lowest overall since September 2013, the report said.
Demand for temporary staff increased at a sharp and slightly accelerated rate in November, extending the current sequence of growth to 61 months.
There was also a slower deterioration in the availability of candidates, although the rate of decline remained "substantial" overall.
The IT and computing sector performed best on permanent jobs, while the nursing/medical/care sector led a broad-based increase in temporary staff demand.
Nearly 200 cyclists race over 2,000 miles in just 23 days.
Every wondered why the riders are so thin? Well, it's fair to say it's a good way to keep fit.
If you finish the gruelling Tour, you could burn off up to 118,000 calories. That's the equivalent of 26 Mars bars per day.
The reigning champ is Great Britain's Chris Froome who has won the race three times: in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
But do you know your yellow jersey from your polka dot? Your prologue stage from your flat? If not, Newsround is here to help.
Basically, it's a huge bike race that takes place every summer. It goes right around France.
Millions of people line the route that's made up of 21 stages raced over 23 days - that means they only have two days off to rest. Ouch.
Twenty-two teams from right across the world are involved in the Tour, each has up to nine riders.
The riders average around 25 miles-per-hour over the entire course but at some points they'll go a lot faster than that.
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The race is broken up into 21 different parts or 'stages'.
It's not just flat roads, the Tour takes the riders up into the mountains too.
The different stages have different names:
Prologue: Each rider races against the clock in a short (usually under six miles) time trial.
Flat: Despite the name, it doesn't necessarily mean it's perfectly flat. Usually it's big packs of competitors riding together in a big group or 'peloton' for around 125 miles. These end in one of two ways; a 'breakaway' victory by an individual or small group; or typically with a hair-raising bunch sprint.
Time trial: A race against the clock. Similar to a prologue but a little longer. These are shorter stages of around 30 miles (as opposed to 100-125 miles). Sometimes riders do it by themselves, sometimes they ride as a team
Mountain: These come in all shapes and sizes. Climbing from sea level to 2,000 metres sometimes more than once in a day. Tough.
The race was started by Henri Desgrange as a publicity stunt back in 1903.
He came up with the crazy idea of a bike race around France in order to raise the profile of L'Auto, the newspaper he worked for.
The first race was a huge success with 60 riders covered an amazing 1,500 miles.
The Tour is one big race with lots of smaller races going on inside it.
Riders might race for each stage win or to earn the right to wear one of the famous jerseys...
The Green Jersey is the points prize. You get points for being one of the first riders over the line on each stage. It's usually won by a sprinter. Britain's Mark Cavendish is one of the world's best in this category, when he sprints for the line he can get to speeds over 40 miles-per-hour.
But the tour isn't just about reaching the highest speeds - it's also known for its uphill struggles. The riders climb thousands of metres up Alpine mountains, with the best rider on those stages winning a snazzy red and white Polka Dot Jersey.
The White Jersey is given to the best young rider - that's someone who's under 25 years old.
But the prize everyone wants is the Yellow Jersey. If you are wearing it, you are the overall race leader on total time since the start of the Tour.
Tour champions are often strong at everything: climbing, sprinting and time trialling.
No. It's a big team event but the team leader is very important. The team leader is usually the strongest rider.
The other team members are traditionally called domestiques, from the French word for servants.
These riders work hard in every stage to protect their team leader.
They even have to go and fetch water for him (and everyone else) if he needs a drink.
If he gets a puncture, they will wait while the team mechanic changes his wheel.
The star-man will ride behind his team mates - they protect him from the wind which makes it easier for him and he gets less tired.
Their reward is a share of the prize money and the glory of contributing to a successful team.
When the race is going on, lots of riders often ride in a big group called the peleton.
This is when they all ride together in formation to save energy - a bit like a flock of birds.
No! It regularly nips into other countries that border France and sometimes the race even starts in another country.
The first two days of racing, the Grand Depart, are held in a new location every two years.
It was in London in 2007 and in 2014 the Tour started in Yorkshire.
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The debate provoked protests from Islamic and other religious groups, and even from some members of the governing party itself.
Critics have accused the party of pandering to a resurgent far right.
The debate was held a week before a law banning the Islamic full-face veil in public comes into force.
With Muslim religious leaders boycotting the event, only politicians or representatives of other faiths took part in the three-hour, round-table discussion at a Paris hotel.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the political atmosphere in France in recent days has been poisonous, with accusations flying between left and right.
According to government estimates, France has as many as six million Muslims, or just under 10% of the population, making it the biggest Muslim minority in western Europe.
The UMP argued that it would be irresponsible not to debate the great changes posed to French society by its growing numbers of Muslims.
It outlined 26 ideas aimed at underpinning the country's secular character, which was enshrined in a law of 1905.
The law poses modern-day quandaries about issues such as halal food being served in schools and Muslims praying in the street when mosques are too crowded.
Proposals discussed on Tuesday included
Launching the debate entitled simply "Secularity" before 200 guests and scores of journalists, UMP leader Jean-Francois Cope defended the idea of holding it at all.
Accusing the opposition Socialists of being in denial and the National Front of demagoguery, he called for "a third way, that of responsibility".
"Many French people have the feeling that the republican pact to which they are attached is being challenged by globalisation and the failures of integration," he said.
However, one of Mr Cope's most senior UMP colleagues, Prime Minister Francois Fillon, declined to take part in the debate, warning that it risked "stigmatising Muslims".
Gilles Bernheim, France's chief rabbi, said the debate was "importune" but he was taking part nonetheless.
"We did not ask for this debate but there was no question for us of boycotting it and stigmatising a political party, even if it is a ruling party," he told reporters after arriving at the hotel.
Salim Himidi, a former foreign minister of the largely Muslim Comoros Islands, said Islam's relations with the secular state was "an important subject" that had to be discussed.
"I think France has a mission that goes beyond its geographical limits," he added.
Condemning the debate, Hassan Ben M'Barek of the pressure group Banlieues Respect, said it was aimed only at "keeping the UMP in the media in the year before the [next presidential] election".
Briton Wiggins led Cobo by 55 seconds at the start of the 15th stage, but he struggled on the notoriously tough climb to the summit finish at Angliru.
Cobo broke clear on the final climb to win and earn a 20-second time bonus.
Britain's Chris Froome remained second in the standings, 20 seconds back, with Wiggins third, 46 seconds down.
After the stage Froome said: "The plan for today was to try and keep Bradley right up there going into that final climb.
"With those gradients it was basically a time trial from the bottom to the top and both of us were poised in really good positions on the road.
"We gave all we had all the way up there but today Cobo proved to be stronger than both of us.
"We've lost the jersey, which never leaves you with a nice feeling, but there's still a week of racing to go and we'll do everything in our power to keep battling and keep right up there in the standings.
"This second rest day couldn't come at a better time for me, just like the first one couldn't, because I'm absolutely shattered and tomorrow will be a welcome time to take things easy and recharge the batteries."
With just six stages remaining until the race ends on 11 September in Madrid, Cobo is now favourite for the overall victory.
There was little sign of the drama to come as the stage began at a relatively gentle pace.
A three-man breakaway was allowed to go out to five minutes but once the peloton had cleared the category two Alto de Tenebredo climb and the category one climb of Alto del Cordalm the leaders were reeled in.
And it was on the final climb of the day, the brutal Alto de l'Angliru, that Cobo made his bid for glory.
The climb peaks at a gradient of 23.5% which reduced many riders to walking pace.
But Cobo made a lung-busting dash for the summit, breaking his nearest challengers on the stage and, more crucially, Wiggins and Froome who were in the pack and visibly struggling.
Cobo crossed the line in four hours, one minute, 56 seconds, a gap of 48 seconds over Froome, who finished alongside Wouter Poels of the Netherlands and Russia's Denis Menchov.
Triple Olympic champion Wiggins, who was fifth, 1:21 behind Cobo, said on his Twitter page: "Well Cobo was just too strong today, congrats to him. Thought my race was over with mechanical on the last decent but managed to come back."
Monday is a rest day before the Vuelta heads toward the Basque country for the first time in 33 years.
Results from the 15th stage of the Spanish Vuelta, a 89.5-mile (144 kilometre) mountain course from Aviles to Alto de l'Angliru:
1. Juan Jose Cobo, Spain, Geox, 4 hours, 01 minute, 56 seconds
2. Wouter Poels, Netherlands, Vacansoleil, +48 seconds
3. Denis Menchov, Russia, Geox, same time
4. Christopher Froome, Britain, Sky, same time
5. Bradley Wiggins, Britain, Sky, +1:21
6. Igor Anton, Spain, Euskaltel, same time
7. Joaquim Rodriguez, Spain, Katusha, +1:35
8. Maxime Monfort, Belgium, Leopard, same time
9. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Rabobank, same time
10. Sergey Lagutin, Uzbekistan, Vacansoleil, same time
Overall Standings (After 15 of 21 stages):
1. Juan Jose Cobo, Spain, Geox, 59 hours, 57 minutes, 16 seconds
2. Christopher Froome, Britain, Sky, +20 seconds
3. Bradley Wiggins, Britain, Sky, +46"
4. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Rabobank, +1:36
5. Maxime Monfort, Belgium, Leopard Trek, +2:37
6. Denis Menchov, Russia, Geox, +3:01
7. Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark, Leopard Trek, +3:06
8. Vicenzo Nibali, Italy, Liquigas-Cannondale, +3:27
9. Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Belgium, Omega Pharma Lotto, +3:58
10. Wouter Poels, Netherlands, Vacansoleil, +4:13
Dabbawalas collect packed hot lunches from customer's homes and carry them to offices and schools across the city.
Flipkart hopes using this expertise will make "last mile" distribution of packages more efficient.
Online retail has boomed in India and is forecast to be worth $16bn (£10bn) by 2018.
Dabbawalas are a familiar sight around Mumbai's often cramped streets - using heavily loaded bicycles to deliver about 200,000 "tiffin" or packed lunch boxes every day.
For decades they have been using a complex coding system - using colours, numbers, letters and symbols - which has been lauded by researchers at Harvard University and recognised with the Six Sigma level of accuracy, meaning they make only one mistake in six million deliveries.
"The dabbawalas of Mumbai are one of the most reliable and trusted brands in the city. Their unique delivery system has been smooth, reliable and has survived the test of time - even under extreme conditions," said Neeraj Aggarwal, Flipkart's senior director for last mile delivery.
Dabbawalas will be assigned deliveries from a Flipkart hub while collecting meals from customers' homes.
And while for now they are using a paper-based tracking system, there are plans to move on to apps and wearable technology.
Like other online retailers, Flipkart allows customers the option to pay cash on delivery of purchase, but initially dabbawalas will only be used for pre-paid orders.
The deal is part of the e-commerce firm's efforts to explore new ways of making deliveries.
It recently began a trial in Bangalore using a crowd-sourced delivery option on low value items - to connect local sellers and buyers with the help of voluntary delivery personnel.
Launched in 2007, Flipkart now has 30 million registered users and has attracted billions of dollars of investment as it tries to dominate the sector.
US retailer Amazon has invested about $2bn into its Indian operations while homegrown firm Snapdeal is another rival in this fast-growing industry.
All three operate as marketplaces - rather than as direct sellers - because Indian law does not allow foreign direct investment in e-commerce sites that sell directly to customers.
And the three businesses currently run at a heavy loss, subsidising the cost of products to offer extensive discounts as they try to tempt more shoppers online.
Unlike in the US and Europe, the vast majority of Indian customers buy items using mobile phones rather than desktop computers - the country sees about 40 million new phone subscriptions every year - with a rapid growth in the uptake of smartphones as more affordable models come on to the market.
The BBC understands that one of the country's other online retailers - fashion brand Myntra which is owned by Flipkart - will shut its website completely in the next few weeks and operate as a mobile-only business.
BAE's Scotstoun and Govan yards have been chosen to build the Type 26 Global Combat ships after the 2014 vote.
Alistair Carmichael told MPs it would be "difficult to see how the work would go to Scotland" if it was independent.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said any suggestions of contracts being clawed back were "preposterous".
News that BAE's two Glasgow yards had been earmarked for the Type 26 work was confirmed as the company announced 1,775 job losses across its UK operations.
The firm said 940 staff posts and 170 agency workers will go at Portsmouth, which will retain repairs and maintenance work.
Some 835 jobs will be lost at its two yards in Glasgow, Rosyth in Fife and at the Filton office, near Bristol.
As part of moves to soften the blow, the defence contractor and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that three new ocean-going Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Royal Navy will be built at Govan and Scotstoun.
The aim is to sustain shipbuilding at the yards until work begins on the Type 26 Global Combat ships sometime after 2014.
The referendum on Scottish independence will be held on 18 September next year.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said the contracts for the Type 26 vessels could not be let until the design had matured and that would be at the end of 2014.
Asked if Scottish independence could have an impact on that, Mr Carmichael said: "In the unlikely event of Scotland removing herself from the UK then the rest of the UK would let future contracts on the same basis as ones that we are discussing today, that is to yards within their country.
"If Scotland is no longer part of that country then yes, it's difficult to see how the work would go to Scotland."
Asked if independence could result in naval contracts being clawed back, Ms Sturgeon said: "That's a preposterous suggestion - the idea that people in Scotland should be somehow punished for voting 'Yes'.
"I would hope that all serious politicians would distance themselves from that kind of suggestion.
"The Clyde is and will remain the best place to build these Type 26 frigates. The fact of the matter is, an independent Scotland would want some of these Type 26 frigates. We would want to see sensible joint procurement."
The victim's body was found just before midnight at a house in Churchill Close, in Burnham-on-Sea, on Monday.
He is yet to be formally identified but his next of kin have been informed. Inquiries are under way to establish the cause of death but police are treating his death as murder.
A 43-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are being questioned.
Det Ch Insp, James Riccio, said the force was doing "everything possible to determine how the man died".
"We're treating the death as murder due to the injuries the man received," he said.
The Buchan Alpha arrived in Lerwick 24 hours behind schedule because of poor weather.
The production vessel is being brought in to anchor for the removal of some of the deeper parts of structure.
It will be brought alongside the newly-extended Dales Voe deepwater quay to be dismantled for recycling.
Work will begin on Monday and it is expected to take about 17 months to take Buchan Alpha apart.
The work will be done by the French company Veolia, and 35 jobs will be created by the project.
Originally a drilling rig, Buchan Alpha started production from the Buchan field in 1981.
It was taken out of service in May by operators Repsol Sinopec Resources UK.
I Believe in Miracles tells the story of the club's rise under Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, from no-hopers to European champions in 1979 and 1980.
Most of the team, who star in the film, watched with fans on a 60ft (18m) screen in Nottingham.
Director Jonny Owen said supporters treated the former players like "gods".
The side, which included Peter Shilton, John Robertson, Tony Woodcock, Viv Anderson and Trevor Francis, conquered Europe at their first attempt, including a first-round victory over the champions of 1977 and 1978, Liverpool.
Mr Shilton, who watched the film premier with former team players and fans, said: "Really pleased with it, it was a great film.
"It showed everything, really, fantastic. It brought a lot of memories back."
Mr Owen, a Cardiff City fan, said: "There's something about that Nottingham Forest team, they stay in the popular consciousness of football fans across the world.
"Everybody you speak to across the country go 'what a side they were' and 'what a story that was'."
Brian Clough took over as manager of Nottingham Forest in January 1975.
At that time they were in the bottom half of the old second division, but already had some of the players who would go on to become European champions.
Mr Owen said it took a while to locate and get together the 16 players for the making of his film.
He said: "They were all funny, all engaging, all intelligent and they had a spirit you can't engineer."
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European Cups
2 League Cups
1 European Super Cup
1 Division One title
1 Anglo-Scottish Cup
Along with old archive, some of which Mr Owen said he found in metal tins in Lincoln, the film's soundtrack has been chosen to reflect the era.
He said 1970s disco, soul and funk music suited the "mood" and the film's title comes from the Jackson Sisters' song of the same name.
"I can't begin to tell you how good it looks when you see Tony Woodcock bombing down the wing and Gloria Gaynor is singing," he said.
I Believe in Miracles will be released in cinemas nationwide on Tuesday and on DVD and Blu-ray from 16 November.
The Claim: Spending on adult social care is facing its biggest crisis despite government's claim that there will be an extra £3.5bn in the system for England by 2020.
Reality Check verdict: Social care could get up to an estimated £3.5bn extra in England by 2020 through council tax increases and a contribution from central government. A similar amount, though, has been cut from social care budgets since 2010 and the extra money would not solve the longer term problems of caring for a population which is continuing to age and whose demands are increasing.
Speaking about a possible plan to increase council tax again to fund this care, Local Government Association (LGA) chair Cllr Izzi Seccombe said: "Unless the Local Government Finance Settlement provides a solution, we could be in the midst of the worst funding crisis social care has ever faced."
But in November, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt claimed that "spending on adult social care increased by around £600m in the first year of the parliament" and "up to an additional £3.5bn can be spent during this parliament".
Social care funding is devolved and this figure refers to additional spending in England only.
The health secretary's claim might sound familiar - in the NHS, like in social care, the government claims to have provided more money than it was asked for, while people who work in health and care say services remain underfunded and are unsustainable in the long run.
So where does the £3.5bn figure come from? And why do the people running our care services think there is still not enough money to go around?
The 2015 Autumn Statement gave councils the power to increase council tax by 2% as long as they spend the extra money on adult social care.
The then chancellor George Osborne told the House of Commons that if authorities made full use of this power it would bring almost £2bn into the care system by 2019-20. The LGA subsequently calculated it to be more like £1.7bn.
This extra income from council tax, on top of money that central government has pledged to give to the Better Care Fund, gives us the £3.5bn figure.
The Better Care Fund is designed in part to help tackle the fact that a shortage of available care means many older people, in particular, end up in hospital unnecessarily, or stay in a hospital bed longer than they need to.
The NHS and adult social care sectors pool parts of their existing budgets to provide the fund with its money. But from next year, central government will top it up with extra cash, rising to £1.5bn by 2020.
Councils have since been told they can choose to raise council tax by 3% next year and 3% the year after instead of 2% each year for three years. This doesn't provide any extra money but allows struggling councils to get the extra cash in more quickly.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid repeated the £3.5bn figure in a statement to the Commons on 15 December. He said bringing the tax rise forward would let councils raise an extra £208m next year, rather than accessing it further down the line.
He also said there would be a new £240m adult social care grant given to local authorities to spend on social care.
The policy of using council tax increases to put more money into social care has been criticised because the poorest councils are least able to raise income in this way - they tend to have the fewest residents who pay council tax and the lowest council tax rates.
For example, health think tank the King's Fund says the amount of extra money raised per head of the adult population varies from £5 in Newham and Manchester, to £15 in Richmond-on-Thames.
Most councils have made use of this power, but those in charge of social care say there is still not enough money to sustain services and keep up with rising demand. The King's Fund agrees, concluding that the publicly funded social care system faces the prospect of a £1.9bn funding gap next year.
Councils, therefore, have little choice but to cut back on the amount of care they provide and how many people they provide it to.
It is up to a local authority how much it spends on social care (provided it meets certain limited statutory responsibilities) and figures show the number of older people receiving local authority funded social care fell by 26% between 2009 and 2014, and 81% of local authorities have reduced their real-term spending on social care for older people over the last five years.
Charity Age UK says 1.2 million people who need help with daily activities, including washing, dressing and using the toilet, are not receiving the social care they require. This is an increase of 48% since 2010. And regulator the Care Quality Commission has said that from mid-2005 to mid-2015, the number of people aged 65 and over in the UK increased by 21% while the number aged 85 and over increased by 31%.
This is evidence that even after more money has been put into the system, the rise in demand along with the fact that services are starting from a negative position after years of cuts, means social care still does not have enough to keep up.
The liberal policy group CentreForum says measuring progress represents all pupils and helps close the gap between the disadvantaged ones and the rest.
It says this is fairer and reflects the "good work" schools do for all pupils.
Currently, schools are measured by pupils' attainment - how many make the grade in writing, reading and maths.
However, under proposals announced by the government last year, England's primary schools will be judged on two new measures from 2016.
They will be considered to be performing well if 85% or more pupils meet a new set standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school, or if pupils make good enough progress between starting school at age four and finishing at age 11.
The research, funded by educational publishers Pearson, argues that pupil progress, rather than pupil attainment, should become the principal benchmark for school accountability.
The study argues that a progress measure would push schools to focus on how well all of its pupils are doing, because each individual performance counts equally towards the school's overall rating.
The pupil attainment measure, it says, can encourage schools to "focus more narrowly on pupils near the expected standard", meaning pupils far below the expected standard risk being left behind and those far above may not be adequately stretched.
It says its analysis suggests just one in 10 primaries currently meets the 85% attainment measure, meaning the progress measure is likely to be used more often from 2016 anyway.
CentreForum stresses that if pupil progress does become the main measure for school accountability, assessments for children at the start of their primary school journey must be "valid, fair and reliable".
The report - Progress matters in primary too - says: "This report shows that it is the progress measure to be the one that will drive performance while aligning better with the government's two core goals of securing the best outcomes for all, not just some, pupils and closing the gap between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest.
"This is because it is both fairer and reflects and encourages the good work that schools do for all their pupils.
"Conversely, the attainment measure, which has been the traditional way of holding schools to account, risks driving school behaviours that are at odds with the government's goals."
James Kempton, the reports's co-author, said: "Attainment thresholds always mean that some pupils' success is more important to the school's league table position than others.
"That is not fair and at odds with the government's own aims for the education system."
A spokesman for the Department for Education said: "Our plan for education is to raise standards across the board so all children leave school with a good standard of English and maths.
"This work begins at primary level and that is why we are introducing ambitious new accountability measures and introducing a proper measure of progress so there is no hiding place for under-performing schools.
"By introducing a progress measure, we will ensure schools are fairly judged on the performance of all their pupils rather than focusing entirely on attainment, which created a perverse incentive for schools to focus on some children at the expense of others."
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: "You have to measure schools on progress if you want to incentivise the right behaviour.
"You have to pay serious attention to pupil mobility. And the benefits of a baseline in reception do outweigh the costs - if you design it well."
Sir Roger, now 86, made his run at Oxford's Iffley Road track on 6 May 1954, when he was 25.
Used by timekeeper WJ Burfitt, the watch was expected to attract bids between £5,000 and £8,000.
A collection of autographs and pictures from four-minute mile athletes, also including Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway, were sold for £420.
The auction was held by Graham Budd Auctions at Sotheby's in London.
There were five timekeepers on the day the four-minute mile barrier was broken.
Charles Hill was the chief timekeeper. His watch was bought by Lord Archer for £8,855 at an auction at Bonham's in 1998 and donated to Oxford University Athletics Club.
Auctioneer Graham Budd did not reveal the identity of the latest successful bidder, but said the Swiss-made watch was from "one of those remarkable, historic moments in British sporting history".
Sir Roger ran the mile in three minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
The Nero Lemania stopwatch was sold with an invoice for repairs to Mr Burfitt.
It also included his personal copy of the programme from the day, signed by Sir Roger.
Sir Roger studied medicine at the University of Oxford and went on to work in research and clinical practice.
He was knighted in 1975 and retired as Master of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, in 1993.
Isaac Aganozor, a caretaker at a top London school, has leukaemia.
His brother Patrick, who lives in Nigeria, had his first visa request refused as the Home Office thought he would try to stay in the UK.
The decision was overturned when a new visa request made it clear that Dulwich College would sponsor him.
The college, where Mr Aganozor works, said it would pay his brother's £1,500 return flight and offer him a place to stay.
Mr Aganozor, of Sydenham Hill, south-east London, is on his fifth cycle of chemotherapy.
Searches on the transplant register had failed to find a match.
The initial refusal letter from the British High Commission in Lagos had said Patrick did not meet the economic requirements as he earned £69 a month as a tricycle courier.
It said it had to take into account his personal socio-economic circumstances, adding: "Given your limited economic circumstances in Nigeria I am not satisfied that these provide you with an incentive to leave the UK at the end of your stay as claimed."
Mr Aganozor's MP Helen Hayes said the u-turn was "great news".
She said it took a "huge amount of campaigning and lobbying", which involved her contacting the minister responsible James Brokenshire, who took a personal interest in the case.
The Labour MP for Dulwich and West Norwood added the Home Office then made arrangements for the application to be dealt with quickly.
The Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.
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The Blues are 14th in the top flight, six points off the bottom three, and their next two league games are at home to Everton and away to Arsenal.
"It's reality," said Hiddink, who took over from Jose Mourinho in December. "We have two difficult games coming up.
"If you don't gather points there, you don't know what the others do. The Premier League can surprise you."
Chelsea were one point above the relegation zone when Mourinho departed the club.
The Stamford Bridge side then beat Sunderland, after which Hiddink took over as manager.
"There are 12 points difference to fourth place, which is Tottenham," added the Dutchman.
"We all like to look forward and to the top of the table, but also don't be unrealistic - you're six points off the line of relegation. That's also a fact.
"We have to work hard and be very concentrated and gather our points to step up."
Nathan Matthews, 28, and his girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, are intending to challenge their sentences for murder and manslaughter respectively.
Becky, 16, was killed during a sexually-motivated kidnapping, before her body was dismembered.
Her aunt said news of the appeals was a like "punch in the gut" for the family.
"Only this week reality was slowly returning, obviously with a massive void, but we were trying to rebuild our lives," said Sarah Broom.
"And to hear this news is a punch in the gut. It is the not knowing if they'll succeed which is the hard bit.
"The thought of having to do another trial is incomprehensible. We just hope the justice system doesn't fail Becky at the last hurdle."
Matthews was last month given a life sentence and told he would serve at least 33 years. Hoare was jailed for 17 years.
The lengthy trial at Bristol Crown Court heard how Matthews suffocated the teenager at her home in the St George area of Bristol on 19 February while trying to kidnap her.
Becky's body was dismembered and hidden in a shed while a huge manhunt in Bristol attempted to track down the 16-year-old.
Hoare was convicted of manslaughter because she had participated in a kidnap where any "sober and reasonable person" would have known some harm would come to Becky, the court heard.
Ben, from Sheffield, vanished when he was 21 months old during a family holiday on the island of Kos.
Kerry Needham has travelled to Athens with South Yorkshire Police to appear on a missing persons programme.
Mrs Needham will also meet the British ambassador to Greece, John Kittmer, to discuss her son's case.
Earlier this year, South Yorkshire Police was granted Home Office funding to support the Greek authorities in continuing inquiries to find Ben.
The television programme, the English translation of which is Light at the End of the Tunnel, broadcasts to about 50% of the Greek TV audience.
Ben's grandmother Christine and his sister Leighanna will also participate in the programme, to be shown on Friday.
In a statement tweeted from @FindBenNeedham, the account of the family's campaign, Kerry Needham said: "As part of Operation Ben I have arrived in Athens this morning with my family and detectives from South Yorkshire Police.
"During our five days here we will be meeting the British ambassador for the first time in 23 years to discuss Ben's case."
The statement continued: "We sincerely hope this will lead to more people coming forward with new information and will help the British and Greek police investigate the whereabouts of Ben."
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We have the deepest sympathies with Ben Needham's family and continue to offer them consular support. We are following this case closely and will fully assist South Yorkshire Police wherever possible."
Ben vanished on 24 July, 1991, after travelling to Kos with his mother and grandparents, who were renovating a farmhouse in the village of Iraklise.
In 2013, a DNA test carried out on a man in Cyprus proved he was not Ben.
Mrs Needham has always maintained her son is alive and was probably abducted.
The 33-year-old Swede made his first Premier League appearance since 20 August in the Baggies' 2-1 defeat by Liverpool in place of the suspended Jonny Evans.
But with Evans available for Saturday's visit of Manchester City, Olsson is set to return to the bench.
"I just have to try my best when called upon," Olsson told BBC WM 95.6.
Olsson's only action before playing at Anfield was in West Brom's EFL Cup tie at Northampton Town on 23 August and their Under-23 side's Checkatrade Trophy defeat by Luton Town on 4 October.
But he was happy to slot in alongside Gareth McAuley again at the heart of the defence for his top-flight return.
"It's nice to play with Gareth. We've been playing together for a while so we know each other," Olsson said.
"Obviously he's been playing with Jonny, who's been doing really well since he came from Manchester United.
"It's tough competition for me - I've been out of the team for a good month and a half. But I just have to train well - hopefully me and Gareth have a few more games left in us."
The news comes a day after she was elected on to the International Olympic Committee's athlete's commission.
The 34-year-old was part of the Russian track and field team who were banned from competing in Rio over claims of state-sponsored doping.
"I'm very happy that I fulfilled my dreams, I won all possible medals, all possible titles, " she said.
Isinbayeva, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, has been an outspoken critic of the IAAF'S decision to ban the Russian athletics team from the Rio Games.
Speaking at a news conference on Friday, she added: "I will forgive them and God will be their judge."
The cash is aimed at ensuring a "seamlessly managed transition" from child to adult mental health services.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said he hoped the extra funding would make "a real and positive difference".
The money is on top of £1.25m already spent on treating eating disorders in people of all ages in Wales.
While child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) involve families in the treatment of eating disorders up to the age of 18, treatment models for adults may not always include the family.
The new money will pay for training and extra support from specialist staff, and ease the transition to adult services.
"Eating disorders comprise a range of highly complex mental illnesses, as well as being physically debilitating conditions in themselves, which is why early diagnosis and intervention is vital," said Mr Gething.
"The additional funding I'm announcing today will help ensure the services and treatment approach young people and their families receive will not change when they transition from CAMHS into adult services.
"This will help ensure young people receive the care and support they need during what is an extremely difficult time for them and their family.
"I hope the improvements this funding will support will make a real and positive difference to them."
It follows complaints from a victim's family who did not know his killer had been released from prison until they came across him in the street.
Jim Heasley's family said they had been "completely ignored" by the system.
In England and Wales, victims are automatically informed, but in Northern Ireland they must fill out a form.
Mr Heasley, a 70-year-old pensioner from Lisburn, County Antrim, died as a result of an assault in his home town four years ago.
He was attacked as he walked home from his local pigeon club on 17 October 2010 and died in hospital from his injuries 10 days later.
The man who attacked him later admitted manslaughter and was jailed for three years.
The Heasley family had expected the prisoner to stay in jail until 2015, but were shocked when a nephew of the victim recently saw the perpetrator walking along a street in Belfast.
They had not been notified that he had been granted a form of phased day release from jail.
The victim's brother, David Heasley, told BBC Radio Ulster he felt "sick and annoyed that no-one ever thought of contacting us, to let us know, or to prepare ourselves".
"At no stage in this were the family's feelings ever taken into consideration, absolutely nowhere along the line," he said.
If the Heasley family lived in England or Wales they would have been automatically enrolled in a victim contact scheme and kept up to date with developments in the legal process.
However, in Northern Ireland victims have to "opt in" to a contact scheme, by filling out a form, asking that they be kept informed.
The Probation Board told the assembly's justice committee that it is currently unable to ensure timely and accurate notification to victims, simply because of the nature of the "opt in" system.
The former chair of the justice committee, Paul Givan, said victims were often "re-traumatised" when they found out a perpetrator had been released without their knowledge.
"Obviously, there are lessons that need to be learned by the agencies responsible," Mr Givan told BBC Radio Ulster.
"That's why the committee recommended that there needed to be a victims' charter, putting into legislation the types of services that victims should be receiving.
"This also includes being advised when individuals who are in prison are being released on parole, over a Christmas period and indeed, whenever they are ultimately, finally discharged from their custodial sentence.
"The families should be advised of this. Many people would believe that should be common sense, but unfortunately, it hasn't happened."
It is not the first time that the Heasley family has felt let down by the criminal justice system.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the police said they believed the pensioner had sustained his injuries as the result of a fall.
David Heasley made a complaint to the police ombudsman, who investigated and found there had been a series of failings in the initial police response.
In May 2012, seven police officers were disciplined over their handling of the manslaughter case.
He said the honour had left him "speechless", the Nobel Foundation said in a statement.
The foundation said it had not yet been decided if the singer would attend the awards ceremony in December.
However, Dylan reportedly told a UK newspaper he intended to pick up the award in person "if at all possible".
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The award to the star was announced on 13 October "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
However, his failure to acknowledge it raised eyebrows.
Last week, a member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel prizes, described his silence as "impolite and arrogant".
But on Friday, the Nobel Foundation said Dylan had called Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, telling her: "The news about the Nobel Prize left me speechless. I appreciate the honour so much."
Although the statement said it was unclear if Dylan would attend the prize-giving banquet in Stockholm, the UK's Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying: "Absolutely. If it's at all possible."
In an interview with the paper he described the prize as "amazing, incredible".
"It's hard to believe. Whoever dreams about something like that?" the paper quoted him as saying.
Recent four-time constructors champions Red Bull finished a lap down on Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes in the opening race of the 2015 season.
Technical boss Newey stated "we've got an engine which is quite a long way behind".
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But Renault's engine chief said: "It's hard to have a partner who lies."
He added on French site Autohebdo: "Adrian is a charming man and an engineer without equal but he has spent his life criticising engine partners."
Red Bull have been contacted by BBC Sport for a response to Abiteboul's quotes.
The Austrian team dominated Formula 1 for four seasons between 2010 and 2013, winning the constructors' championship while Sebastian Vettel collected successive drivers' championships.
However, that dominance was ended by Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton last year.
Abiteboul added: "In addition to our problems, Red Bull has some chassis problems which don't help the situation.
"In particular, the lack of rear stability. These two problems combine to ensure the car is difficult to drive."
But a new accusation of intellectual borrowing has the potential to cause embarrassment at the highest levels.
Keen (and not-so-keen) listeners have noticed that Beijing's Winter Olympics song sounds suspiciously like a runaway hit from the Disney musical Frozen.
Beijing was awarded the 2022 games on Friday despite the city's lack of snow.
Piggy-backing on the massive popularity of Frozen might be just the ticket to dampen down some of the criticisms levelled at the decision - from the lack of snow to China's poor human rights record.
But just how similar are the two songs? Judge for yourself: here's China's promotional number and here's Frozen's "Let It Go".
The official YouTube video for the Chinese song has attracted hundreds of mocking comparisons - although because YouTube is blocked in China they are likely to be from Hong Kong, Taiwan, or other parts of Asia.
"Does anyone want to burst out into 'Let It Go' at 01:14?", said one user, Shiu-Wah Wong.
"Plagiarism, stealing, copying - that's the only thing China can do," said another YouTube user, zn4807. "There's nothing you can do, this is China, from officials to the people, there's a culture of plagiarism, theft and copying."
Chinese business magazine Caijing Online, cited by the New York Times, analysed the instrumentation in the songs and said they had similar prelude chords and an eight-beat introduction, and run at almost exactly the same tempo.
No-one was available for comment at either the Beijing Games' organising committee or Disney.
The Oscar-winning Frozen is the biggest animated feature of all time, having taken more than $1.3 bn (£790m) at the box office worldwide.
Disney announced in March that it would release a sequel.
Former high jumper Mason was killed in a motorcycle crash in Jamaica at the age of 34 on Thursday.
"It's our way of paying respect to a fellow British athlete," Jarryd Dunn told BBC Sport.
Dunn was part of the men's 4x400m relay team who qualified for the final, which takes place on Sunday.
However, there was disappointment for the British men's 4x100m relay team, who were disqualified from the final after looking on course to claim a medal in Nassau.
Chijindu Ujah, Zharnel Hughes and Danny Talbot had put them in a strong position, but debutant Ojie Edoburun took off too soon on the anchor leg, meaning Talbot failed to reach the 20-year-old before he left the changeover zone.
With London hosting the World Championships in August, Britain are guaranteed places in all events and the World Relays are being used to experiment with different line-ups and tactics.
"I can't lie, I'm really disappointed," Edoburun told BBC Sport.
"It's not a nice feeling, but it's about the bigger picture and while it's unfortunate to have to happen like this today, we will get it right when it counts in London."
The British women's 4x400m relay squad - who won Olympic bronze at Rio 2016 - marked their return to action by qualifying for their final, which will also take place on Sunday.
Eilidh Doyle, Emily Diamond, Anyika Onuora and Kelly Massey recorded the second-slowest time of the qualifiers, but are expected to include four-time Olympic medallist Christine Ohuruogu for the final.
Britain did not send a women's 4x100m team to the event because of injuries.
Britain was not the only nation to struggle with changeovers in windy conditions, with Yohan Blake's Jamaica disqualified in the heats of the men's 4x100m and strong Canadian and Dutch teams both eliminated in the final.
Justin Gatlin helped Rio Olympic silver medallists the United States (38.43 seconds) to victory ahead of Barbados (39.18) and China (39.22).
Jamaica did have one medal to celebrate though, with double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson powering the women's 4x200m team to victory over Germany, with USA in third.
The USA won gold in the women's 4x800m event, with Belarus taking silver and Australia bronze.
The Edinburgh-based firm sold a 30% stake to Russian oil giant Lukoil and a further 10% to Africa-focused oil and gas company NewAge.
Bowleven has received an initial £112m in cash under the farm-out agreement.
The company has transferred the operatorship of Etinde to NewAge, and retains a 20% non-operated interest.
The Etinde Permit is located across the Rio del Rey and Douala basins.
Bowleven said the sale of the stakes would enable the progression of appraisal and development activities on Etinde.
After a goalless first half, Sam Baldock opened the scoring with a fierce shot into the roof of the net.
Murphy then added a second with a cool finish, before Elvis Manu's strike made the game safe for the Seagulls.
Murphy's steered fourth sent Brighton, who drew with Derby in the Championship on Saturday, into round two.
Match ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 4, Colchester United 0.
Second Half ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 4, Colchester United 0.
Attempt saved. Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Rob Hunt.
Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 4, Colchester United 0. Jamie Murphy (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Foul by Oliver Norwood (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Macauley Bonne (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Oliver Norwood (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Kazenga Lua Lua (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Louis Dunne (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Kazenga Lua Lua (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Frankie Kent (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Sam Adekugbe.
Substitution, Colchester United. Louis Dunne replaces Tom Lapslie.
Substitution, Colchester United. Craig Slater replaces Kurtis Guthrie.
Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 3, Colchester United 0. Elvis Manu (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Sam Baldock.
Substitution, Colchester United. Macauley Bonne replaces Sammie Szmodics.
Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 2, Colchester United 0. Jamie Murphy (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kazenga Lua Lua.
Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Colchester United 0. Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Kazenga Lua Lua.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Murphy (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Sam Adekugbe (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United).
Doug Loft (Colchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kazenga Lua Lua (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Doug Loft (Colchester United).
Attempt missed. Doug Loft (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Oliver Norwood (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Oliver Norwood (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Sammie Szmodics (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Jamie Murphy.
Attempt missed. Kazenga Lua Lua (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Elvis Manu (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Frankie Kent (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Doug Loft.
Attempt blocked. Danny Holla (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kane Vincent-Young (Colchester United).
The bomb was thrown at the patrol at the Leckey Road flyover, close to a controversial nationalist bonfire overnight in Derry.
No-one was injured but people had to leave their homes at nearby Charlotte Street in the alert.
PFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said "mindless terrorists and their misguided supporters" were responsible.
"Lives were needlessly disrupted and put at risk. A local community was left traumatised and, in the end, nothing was achieved by this act of madness," he said.
"Officers were once again targeted by dissident republicans, but that won't deter them from doing their job in a professional manner."
Mr Lindsay urged anyone with information about the attack to speak to police.
The security alert in the city's Bogside ended at 03:13 BST on Tuesday.
The bonfire reached 20ft (6m) in height and partially blocked the road, leading to complaints from some residents.. Union jacks and Sinn Féin election posters were burned.
"We are investigating all offences committed at the bonfire in the Bogside last night, including a serious incident where a viable pipe bomb-type device was thrown at a police patrol," said PSNI District Commander Mark McEwan.
Foyle Democratic Unionist Party MLA Gary Middleton, who was in the Bogside earlier on Monday, condemned those behind the attack.
"The fact that a viable pipe bomb was thrown, potentially putting dozens of lives at risk, is a deeply worrying incident," he said.
"Those who constructed and threw this device are terrorists who clearly have no regard for the lives of anyone in the city.
"My thoughts are also with many residents who were forced to leave their homes for a number of hours last night," Mr Middleton added.
A last-minute attempt to move the structure from the middle of the road failed on Monday night.
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney said he believed dissident republicans were responsible for the bonfire and the security alert.
"I don't think the focus should be on the election posters," said Mr McCartney.
"There were election posters of all other parties, ourselves included.
"This isn't an act of defiance, this is a group of young people aided and abetted by other dissident elements in this city."
Independent councillor Gary Donnelly said young people in the area have been forgotten about.
"People need to sit around the table and have dialogue - there seems to be a complete disconnect with the young people in that area," he said.
"All week they have been bombarded by a relentless demonisation and criminalisation policy by some elected representatives.
"They will no doubt say that two or three thousand people at that bonfire in the Bogside would be support."
A number of community festivals were held in Creggan, Shantallow and the Bogside areas of the city as an alternative to the annual bonfires.
Bonfires are traditionally set alight on 15 August in some nationalist areas of Derry to mark the Catholic feast day of the Assumption.
The date commemorates the Virgin Mary's death and assumption into heaven.
However, nationalist and republican politicians have criticised the practice, saying it causes disruption to local residents.
Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor John Boyle said: "We need to find different ways of celebrating culture.
"If the police or any other statutory agency had attempted to remove the bonfire we may well actually have been looking at something a hell of a lot worse than we're looking at currently."
Daniel Pelka was starved and beaten for months before he died in March 2012 at his Coventry home.
His mother Magdelena Luczak and her partner Mariusz Krezolek were jailed for a minimum of 30 years in 2013.
Dr Mohammad Pathan, accused of failing to intervene, denies his fitness to practise is impaired.
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel heard Daniel's deputy head teacher made the "unusual step" of calling Dr Pathan as she was worried about his condition.
Gillian Mulhall told the GP about his weight loss, that he had been stealing food and that he was soiling himself at home, the panel was told.
At the time of his death the schoolboy weighed just over a stone-and-a-half (10kg).
The General Medical Council (GMC), which brought the fitness to practise hearing, said Dr Pathan had advised Mrs Mulhall to ask Daniel's mother to make an appointment, which was never booked.
The GMC said the GP's actions "did not reflect an urgency" to examine Daniel, despite his mother's documented history of depression, misuse of alcohol in the home and records showing Daniel would have been exposed to domestic violence.
Kevin Slack, representing the GMC, said."Had he [Dr Pathan] taken these into account, it is the GMC's case that the doctor should have acted much more proactively and should have arranged to see him in 24-48 hours."
Dr Leonard Peter, an expert witness for the GMC, said Dr Pathan "should have realised that the features added up to a child who was at significant risk".
Dr Pathan said he did not look at the boy's mother's records because he did not suspect neglect or abuse and maintains he had no reason to do so.
The GMC said Dr Pathan's actions did not cause Daniel's death, but "rather that his sad death forms part of a background to alleged failings in this case".
A serious case review in September 2013 found a number of chances were missed to save Daniel and criticised a number of agencies involved.
Dr Pathan admits failing to record adequate details of the phone conversation and to formulate an action plan, but denies his fitness to practise is impaired.
The hearing continues.
He was speaking soon after taking the oath of office at the Amahoro National Stadium in the capital, Kigali.
The ceremony was attended by dozens of African leaders and dignitaries.
Mr Kagame took 98.8% of the vote in the 4 August election, which has been criticised by rights groups.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said the election "took place in a context of very limited free speech or open political space".
But the African Union observer team said the vote "was conducted in a peaceful, orderly and transparent manner".
Paul Kagame - visionary or tyrant?
Speaking on Friday, Mr Kagame said that "every attempt that was made whether from within and especially from outside to denigrate the process and glorify the old politics of division only made Rwandans more defiant and more determined to express ourselves through the vote.
"Our experience is that we will be vilified anyway, no matter what. So, we might as well do what we know is right for our people because the results are much better and the costs are much lower."
The president also thanked his opponents saying they had "created a positive environment where no vote was cast against anyone, but rather all were cast for Rwanda".
He was challenged by Frank Habineza, from the Democratic Green Party, and Philippe Mpayimana, an independent.
Mysterious death of an exile
Rwanda country profile
Mr Kagame, 59, came to power in 1994, when his Tutsi rebel group took control of the capital, Kigali, ending the genocide in which some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.
Rwanda's constitution was amended in 2015, following a referendum, enabling Mr Kagame to run for a third term.
Beyond this, he could run again, potentially staying in power until 2034.
His two challengers have complained that their supporters have been intimidated, which they say explains the low turnout at their rallies.
The candidates have also accused some local authorities of undermining their campaigns.
The ruling party denies any accusations of wrongdoing.
A total of 31 tools were taken from the SRUC Barony campus at Parkgate at the weekend.
Police Scotland said the equipment was taken between 16:30 on Friday and 09:00 on Saturday.
They said the chainsaws were all Husqvarna and Stihl brands and a dark green trailer was also taken.
It follows incidents in Linlithgow, Cowdenbeath, Burntisland and Kincardine on Monday.
A four-figure sum of money was taken in total and a 44-year-old woman suffered minor injuries.
The man is expected to appear at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Friday. Police Scotland said efforts were ongoing to trace a second individual.
Det Insp Colin Robson said officers had been "working tirelessly" on the investigation.
He also thanked staff and the public for their "ongoing support".
A top-four finish is beyond Glasgow as they go into their final league game against Edinburgh on Saturday.
It will be Townsend's final match before leaving to take charge of the Scotland squad.
And centre Horne says it "feels wrong" that his side was unable to mark his exit with a semi-final berth.
Warriors won the Pro12 in 2015 and were beaten by eventual winners Connacht in last year's play-off semi-final.
They currently lie sixth - six points behind Ulster and seven off the play-off places.
"It's a shame," said Horne. "It's not sat well with me and a lot of the squad just about the way the end of the season's come around.
"It just feels wrong that we don't have a semi-final and there's no-one to blame but ourselves for that. We've not played well enough this year.
"It's a bit horrible that the season's coming to an end at an early stage.
"If anything, it will just make us hungrier to get back to work. We'll get away, we'll rest up this summer and come back ready to hit the ground running.
"It doesn't mean that it's been a disaster of a season. We've done well in Europe and we've still had some good wins."
This season, Townsend led Glasgow to their first European Champions Cup quarter-final, having also masterminded the 2015 title triumph.
"It's hard to put into words how much he's done for the club," said Horne. "He's taken us to another level.
"We went from having 1,000 people at Firhill if we're lucky to selling out Scotstoun every single week regardless of how we're playing.
"The brand of rugby we're playing means Gregor's getting tipped for all sorts of jobs and, for the last two or three years, every club's probably been after him at some point."
Edinburgh go to Scotstoun on Saturday ninth in the table and trailing their Scottish rivals by 31 points.
Glasgow and Edinburgh's meetings in the Pro12 double as the two legs of the 1872 Cup, with Warriors having won the first of this term's encounters 25-12 at Murrayfield in December.
"It's an easy game to get yourself up for," added Scotland back Horne. "It's one that we'll be desperate to win.
"We've obviously got a lot within our dressing-room to play for. We want to send the coaches off on a high.
"Out of respect for a lot of the guys that are leaving, we want to play well for them.
"And it's our last chance to put your hand up to potentially tour in the summer.
"It might look like a bit of a dead rubber, but we're certainly desperate to get another good win hopefully win the 1872 Cup - something that's evaded us over the last couple of years, so it should be a good game."
Food blogger and activist Jack Monroe has yet to state which party she would represent or which of two Essex seats she would contest.
However, she pledged to "do the best for the most people".
Last month Ms Monroe successfully sued Ms Hopkins over two tweets published in 2015.
Mr Justice Warby also ordered Ms Hopkins - a columnist for the Mail Online - to pay an initial £107,000 towards the campaigner's legal costs within 28 days.
He ruled that the tweets in May 2015 asking Ms Monroe if she had "scrawled on any memorials recently" had caused her "real and substantial distress" and she was entitled to "fair and reasonable compensation".
Ms Monroe, from Leigh-on-Sea, said she was still "crunching" as to whether to contest the Rochford and Southend East or Southend West seat.
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The Right Reverend Libby Lane is now the eighth Bishop of Stockport.
The Church voted to change the law to allow women bishops last November after decades of arguments and a big vote.
Jenny went to meet Bishop Libby, with seven Newsround viewers, to find out how her first six months have been.
Bishop Libby told them "It's an exciting time to grow up."
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Mr Thurston, of Chirton West View in North Shields, died later in hospital.
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Roedd Rhentu Doeth Cymru wedi cysylltu â landlordiaid oedd wedi dechrau'r broses gofrestru ond heb ei chwblhau.
Ond roedd derbynwyr y neges i'w gweld yn y neges.
Dywedodd Cyngor Caerdydd, sy'n gweinyddu Rhentu Doeth Cymru, eu bod yn ymchwilio i'r mater.
Ers mis Tachwedd 2016, mae'n rhaid i bob landlord sy'n rhentu adeilad gofrestru gyda'r cynllun.
Dywedodd Douglas Haig, cyfarwyddwr Cymreig Cymdeithas y Landlordiaid Preswyl: "Rydyn ni wedi rhybuddio ers tro bod angen gwell diogelwch o amgylch cynllun Rhentu Doeth Cymru i atal camgymeriad fel hyn rhag digwydd.
"Gan fod landlordiaid ac asiantau yn gorfod cofrestru yn ôl y gyfraith, mae'n rhaid iddyn nhw allu bod yn ffyddiog bod eu manylion personol yn cael eu trin mewn modd sensitif.
"Er ein bod yn siŵr mai camgymeriad diniwed oedd hwn, fe hoffwn ni weld mesurau'n cael eu cyflwyno i sicrhau na fydd o'n digwydd eto."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Rhentu Doeth Cymru yng Nghyngor Caerdydd: "Mae Rhentu Doeth Cymru yn ymwybodol bod mater wedi codi ar 2 Chwefror 2017 yn gysylltiedig â chyswllt cwsmeriaid.
"Mae Rhentu Doeth Cymru a Chyngor Dinas Caerdydd yn trin Diogelwch Data o ddifri'. Mae ymchwiliad i'r mater ar hyn o bryd i gyd-fynd â pholisïau diogelu data'r cyngor."
Zinedine Zidane's side could become the first club to retain the trophy in the Champions League era in the final on 3 June in Cardiff.
French side Monaco take on Italian club Juventus in the other last-four tie.
The first legs will be played on 2 and 3 May, with the return legs taking place the following week.
Real, aiming to win Europe's premier club competition for a 12th time, beat German champions Bayern Munich 6-3 on aggregate to reach the last four.
Atletico, meanwhile, ended Premier League champions Leicester's fairytale run in Europe, edging the Foxes 2-1 over two legs.
Juventus claimed an impressive 3-0 aggregate win over Barcelona while Monaco defeated Borussia Dortmund 6-3..
She attended a service at Westminster Abbey where her message was played to a congregation of dignitaries and faith leaders.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were joined by the Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
More than 1,000 children were also invited to attend the service.
In the message, which was also broadcast by radio in Commonwealth countries, the Queen hailed the organisation's continuing role, saying what its member states shared was more important now than at any point in its history.
"Not only are there tremendous rewards for this co-operation, but through dialogue we protect ourselves against the dangers that can so easily arise from a failure to talk or to see the other person's point of view," the Queen said.
"Indeed, it seems to me that now, in the second decade of the 21st Century, what we share through being members of the Commonwealth is more important and worthy of protection than perhaps at any other time in the Commonwealth's existence.
"We are guardians of a precious flame, and it is our duty not only to keep it burning brightly but to keep it replenished for the decades ahead."
The Queen said the shared history of the Commonwealth's members meant they could act on the "huge advantages of mutual co-operation and understanding" to benefit their citizens.
"As a concept that is unique in human history, the Commonwealth can only flourish if its ideas and ideals continue to be young and fresh and relevant to all generations," she said.
Actor Sir Tom Courtenay and artist Grayson Perry both read from Larkin's work during the unveiling ceremony.
It marked the end of a long campaign by the Philip Larkin Society to have him added to the existing names in Poets' Corner.
The memorial floor stone contains two lines of poetry, his name and birth and death dates.
The chosen lines are from the end of An Arundel Tomb which was first published in the 1960s.
The stone has been sculpted by Martin Jennings, whose previous work includes the Larkin Statue and roundels on Hull's Paragon Station.
Professor Edwin Dawes, chair of the Philip Larkin Society, said: "We are delighted that Philip Larkin has finally taken his place at the very cultural heart of the nation, amongst Britain's greatest writers."
Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and went on to study at Oxford, with his first poems being published in 1940.
He became a librarian and took a job at the University of Hull in 1955 where he stayed until his death in 1985.
Poets' Corner is a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey and acquired the name due to the number of playwrights, writers and poets who are either buried or commemorated there.
Yn yr adroddiad, dywedwyd nad oedd gan fwrdd y sefydliad y sgiliau na'r profiad sydd ei angen i wario arian cyhoeddus.
Cafodd adroddiad yr Athro Medwin Hughes ar y diwydiant cyhoeddi a llenyddiaeth yng Nghymru ei gomisiynu gan Lywodraeth Cymru.
Dywedodd Llenyddiaeth Cymru y byddai'n ystyried yr adroddiad yn "ofalus a thrylwyr".
Roedd darganfyddiadau'r adroddiad yn cynnwys:
Cafodd Llenyddiaeth Cymru ei greu yn 2011, ac roedd ganddo incwm o tua £1.2m y llynedd - £717,000 o hynny gan Lywodraeth Cymru trwy Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.
Yn dilyn cyhoeddiad yr adroddiad ddydd Mawrth fe wnaeth Ysgrifennydd Economi Cymru, Ken Skates gyhoeddi y bydd rhai o gyfrifoldebau Llenyddiaeth Cymru'n cael eu trosglwyddo i'r Cyngor Llyfrau.
Dywedodd Mr Skates: "Dwi'n deall fydd rhai yn synnu at sgôp y newidiadau yma.
"Fe ddylen ni danlinellu fod y newidiadau yn ymateb i angen penodol mewn maes penodol.
"Dydyn nhw ddim yn adlewyrchiad o waith ehangach y Cyngor Celfyddydau, ac rwy'n gwerthfawrogi'n fawr y gwaith gwych mae Llenyddiaeth Cymru yn cyflawni mewn amryw o feysydd."
Yn ymateb i'r newyddion, dywedodd Llenyddiaeth Cymru: "Mae adolygiad annibynnol Llywodraeth Cymru o gymorth ar gyfer cyhoeddi a llenyddiaeth yng Nghymru yn cyflwyno nifer o argymhellion sy'n mynnu ystyriaeth ofalus a thrylwyr.
"Edrychwn ymlaen at ddarllen yr adroddiad yn llawn, a chydweithio gyda Llywodraeth Cymru, Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru a Chyngor Llyfrau Cymru i sicrhau bod llenyddiaeth yn ei holl ffurfiau yn parhau i fod yn hygyrch i ystod eang o gymunedau ac unigolion trwy Gymru gyfan."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, sy'n darparu'r rhan fwyaf o gyllid Llenyddiaeth Cymru, bod yr awgrymiadau yn yr adroddiad yn "heriol a phellgyrhaeddol".
"Mae'r adroddiad yn awgrymu newid mewn safbwynt, ac mae'n rhaid i ni ystyried os yw strategaeth wahanol yn debygol o ddarparu canlyniadau gwell," meddai.
Researchers writing in The Lancet tested it on around 16,000 households in the UK during the winter flu season.
They found a 14% reduction in general risk of infection and a 20% lower risk of catching flu in those who used it.
This group also visited their GP less and needed fewer antibiotics.
Most people wash their hands five or six times a day, but Prof Paul Little, from the University of Southampton, who led the research, said that if that could be increased to 10 times a day it would have an important effect on reducing the spread of bugs and infections.
Previous research has shown that infections in adults could be prevented if they washed their hands more often and reduced their 'viral load'.
This would be of particular benefit to people who do not want to catch flu, such as those with heart or lung problems or the elderly.
The programme, called PRIMIT, has four weekly sessions which explain the medical evidence behind regular hand-washing.
It encourages users to learn simple techniques to avoid catching and passing on viruses and to monitor their own hand-washing behaviour.
Those using the programme in the study were followed for 16 weeks and asked to fill in a questionnaire afterwards.
Prof Little said that because most households now have access to the internet, the programme could be a good source of health information in a pandemic and help prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed.
Commenting on the study, Prof Chris van Weel, from Radboud University in the Netherlands, said promoting the routine of regular hand-washing was a good thing because it was cost-effective and had public health benefits too.
"The investigators showed improved management of infections while using fewer antibiotics, which is in line with policies to counter the threat of population resistance to antibiotics."
It is part of the investigation into alleged illegal ticket sales.
RTÉ and the Irish Times say the officials include OCI chief executive Stephen Martin - an Olympic gold medal winner - from Bangor, County Down.
The OCI has appointed a crisis management committee to lead its response to Brazil.
Mr Martin, a former hockey player, was previously a director of coaching at Ulster Hockey.
The two other executives are reported to be OCI Secretary General Dermot Henihan and Kevin Kilty, Ireland's Olympic chef de mission.
No arrests were made during the search on Sunday.
Brazilian police are also reported to be seeking the passports of Football Association of Ireland chief executive and OCI vice-president John Delaney; acting OCI president Willie O'Brien and OCI official Linda O'Reilly.
RTÉ says there is nothing to suggest impropriety on the part of any of those officials.
In a statement released overnight, the OCI said it was appointing a crisis management committee to lead the council's response to events in Brazil.
The three people in the committee are Sarah Keane, Swim Ireland, Prof Ciaran O'Cathain, Athletics Ireland, and Robert Norwood, Snowsports Association of Ireland.
The statement said an international accountancy firm would be asked to conduct an independent review of ticketing arrangements in Rio.
The firm will be selected this week and its work will begin immediately and its terms of reference will be published.
Its report will be presented to a judge who will chair the state inquiry into the OCI's handling of ticketing at the Rio Olympics, the statement said.
On Sunday, the OCI said its officials had agreed to go to a police station in Rio on Tuesday for questioning.
"The OCI had an allocation of unused official tickets in their offices which had been made available for athletes' families and friends. The police also took possession of these tickets," the OCI said.
Former Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) president Patrick Hickey was arrested in connection with the alleged illegal sales on Wednesday.
He is being held alongside THG director Kevin Mallon at Rio's Bangu 10 prison.
A 3-0 home defeat by Crewe on Tuesday means the Reds have won only two of their last 12 matches.
"I would like our fans to be patient with the family. We are fighting relentlessly to be better," Eren said in a statement on the club website.
"Our football has improved this season. The infrastructure and recruitment has given the club a solid platform."
Eren completed his takeover of Crawley 12 months ago, with plans to take the club into the Championship within 10 years.
The Turkish businessman appointed former Chelsea academy coach Dermot Drummy as manager in the summer and Crawley were in the top six in mid-October.
However, they have since slipped to 16th - the position they were in when Eren bought the club.
He said: "While we have played some exciting football in a few games we have also had disappointing results.
"This is normal for a squad with 22 new faces. It is still a period of growing stability and togetherness.
"The performance against Crewe was not positive. I'm certain the players will answer and display their true ability in the remaining matches.
"I believe we will finish the season positively and set up a foundation for an exciting season ahead."
Meanwhile, Crawley midfielder Aryan Tajbakhsh has extended his loan with National League South side Wealdstone for a further month.
The 35-year-old joined the League Two side on Monday and opened the scoring in their 4-1 EFL Trophy victory.
Taylor-Fletcher scored twice in 21 appearances at Tranmere last season.
"I was told Accrington liked to play football but I didn't understand how much - in the first half it was like watching Barcelona," he said.
He told BBC Radio Lancashire: "I'm a bit lost for words but it was enjoyable.
"If you made a mistake no one was bothered, it was just 'get the ball back and keep playing'. You can take risks and that's what I like."
David Cameron has said strikes should not be lawful unless a minimum number of union members vote in a ballot.
Plans for a "turnout threshold" will be in the party's election manifesto.
But Unite boss Len McCluskey said this would "oppress the people and remove their freedoms". He added: "Can we respect it? It ain't going to happen."
Under current law, a strike can take place if it is backed by a simple majority of those balloted.
But Conservative MPs have questioned the legitimacy of industrial action where fewer than half of total eligible members support it in a vote.
London Mayor Boris Johnson has called for strikes to be banned unless 50% of staff in a workplace take part in a ballot.
Although Mr Cameron has not specified a figure, he has said it is "time to legislate" to stop "damaging" strikes in "core" public services affecting health, transport, fire services or schools and the manifesto is expected to include proposals for a 40% threshold.
But in a speech to union lawyers in London, Mr McCluskey said the right to strike was "hanging by a thread" and had to be vigorously defended.
"Should there be a Conservative majority in May, there will be a new attack on trade union rights and democracy.
"The bar for a strike ballot will be raised to a level which hardly any MPs would get over in their own constituencies, by a government which has refused our requests to use modern, more effective balloting methods.
"When the law is misguided, when it oppresses the people and removes their freedoms, can we respect it?
"I am not really posing the question. I'm giving you the answer. It ain't going to happen."
Unions have pointed out that only 15 of 303 Conservative MPs elected to Parliament in 2010 received more than 40% of the vote.
Mr McCluskey, whose union is Labour's largest financial backer, said the time had come to ask whether unions could stay within the law any longer while continuing to mount a "decent defence" against abuse of workplace rights.
Such are Unite's concerns, he claimed, that the union's executive is recommending to members that the words "so far as may be lawful" are removed from its constitution.
"This proposed change in the constitution of the biggest union on these isles marks the sorry place we have reached in our national democracy. These words will go not because we are anarchists, not because we are suddenly planning a bank robbery.
"But because we have to ask ourselves the question, can we any longer make that commitment to, under any and all circumstances, stick within the law as it stands?
"Unite remains determined to operate ever more effectively within the law, even when that law is an ass and ill-serves our people.
"But restricting the right to strike, attacking the capacity for trade unions to organise and conduct our own business in line with our own rules, belong to last century's consensus."
The Lib Dems have blocked any moves to change the law to make it harder to strike.
Speaking in Parliament last July, Mr Cameron said "the time has come to look at setting thresholds in strike ballots", citing the example of a walkout by a teaching union which he said had the support of fewer than 30% of its members in a ballot.
"It is time to legislate and it will be in the Conservative manifesto."
Bernard Hender, 19, and Doug McTavish, 39, died in a flat fire in the centre of Llanrwst in the Conwy Valley in the early hours of 1 October 2014.
An investigation found the fire started in a Whirlpool tumble dryer.
A pre-inquest review hearing was held in Ruthin on Monday.
It was attended by the only survivor of the fire, funeral director Garry Lloyd Jones, the partner of Mr Hender and business partner to Mr McTavish.
Also at the hearing were representatives of Whirlpool UK Appliances Ltd.
David Lewis, Assistant Coroner for North East Wales and Central, has ordered Whirlpool to supply information on how many TVM tumble dryer models have been produced and sold in the UK and abroad, how many times instances have arisen with a door switch mechanism on that model and how many such instances have involved a Trading Standards body.
A further hearing will be held on 19 May.
In recent meetings with fellow European Union leaders David Cameron has argued instead for what officials call an "irreversible lock" and "legally binding" guarantees that at some future date EU law will be changed to accommodate Britain's renegotiation.
As recently as January Mr Cameron insisted that he would be demanding "proper, full-on treaty change".
Euro sceptics and those who want to leave the EU altogether have always been suspicious that agreements between political leaders can be later undermined in the courts.
They believe that legal or treaty changes are necessary to deliver the Prime Minister's negotiating objectives - in particular to free Britain from the EU's commitment to build an "ever closer union" of nation states and to ensure that benefits such as tax credits be withheld from migrants who have been in the country for less than four years.
David Cameron's critics may fear that the formula he is now using is a watering down of that commitment and will demand to know who would interpret any legally binding agreement reached between the Uk and the rest of the EU.
Downing Street insists, however, that it is simply a reflection of the fact that any treaty change will require a time consuming ratification process in 28 different countries involving parliamentary votes as well as referendums in France, Ireland and Denmark.
They point out that when Ireland had a referendum in 2009 on the Lisbon Treaty all other EU countries had not yet ratified the proposed changes in EU law.
Engelbart developed the tool in the 1960s as a wooden shell covering two metal wheels, patenting it long before the mouse's widespread use.
He also worked on early incarnations of email, word processing and video teleconferences at a California research institute.
The state's Computer History Museum was notified of his death by his daughter, Christina, in an email.
Her father had been in poor health and died peacefully on Tuesday night in his sleep, she said.
Doug Engelbart was born on 30 January 1925 in Portland, Oregon, to a radio repairman father and a housewife mother.
He studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University and served as a radar technician during World War II.
He then worked at Nasa's predecessor, Naca, as an electrical engineer, but soon left to pursue a doctorate at University of California, Berkeley.
His interest in how computers could be used to aid human cognition eventually led him to Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and then his own laboratory, the Augmentation Research Center.
His laboratory helped develop ARPANet, the government research network that led to the internet.
Engelbart's ideas were way ahead of their time in an era when computers took up entire rooms and data was fed into the hulking machines on punch cards.
At a now legendary presentation that became known as the "mother of all demos" in San Francisco in 1968, he made the first public demonstration of the mouse.
At the same event, he held the first video teleconference and explained his theory of text-based links, which would form the architecture of the internet.
He did not make much money from the mouse because its patent ran out in 1987, before the device became widely used.
SRI licensed the technology in 1983 for $40,000 (£26,000) to Apple.
At least one billion computer mice have been sold.
Engelbart had considered other designs for his most famous invention, including a device that could be fixed underneath a table and operated by the knee.
He was said to have been driven by the belief that computers could be used to augment human intellect.
Engelbart was awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize in 1997 and the National Medal of Technology for "creating the foundations of personal computing" in 2000.
Since 2005, he had been a fellow at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
He is survived by his second wife, Karen O'Leary Engelbart, and four children.
In less than 24 hours, his Trump-defying message "make our planet great again" was shared more than 140,000 times, easily ousting the previous record-holder, the rather less high-minded TV presenter Cyril Hanouna. One fifth of the re-tweets were in the US.
It is proof yet again that what we witnessed from the Elysee on Thursday was a master class in communications.
In giving his TV reaction to the US president, not only did Macron break brazenly with longstanding convention, according to which French presidents never speak publicly in English, but he even had the chutzpah to subvert the US leader's personal campaign slogan.
"Make our planet great again" was a provocation dressed up as a call to virtue. As a catchphrase for the faithful, it was irresistible.
By tweeting it, Macron took one more step down his road to investiture as that long-awaited international figure: the anti-Trump.
The French leader has a growing fan club: in France, the US and across the globe, among people who see him as the polar opposite, the perfect antithesis of his counterpart in the White House.
These people love the fact that with the arrival of Macron, the existing order appears to have been turned on its head.
It used to be France that was old, inward-looking and incapable of regeneration, and America that was the land of youth, energy and leadership.
But where is that caricature now?
And they adore the way that Macron had the nerve to face down Trump in the Brussels handshake. At last, they feel, we have a champion with the guts and the conviction to challenge the Trumpian order.
Macron himself never planned any of this. When he first thought of running for the presidency, the chances of a Trump in the White House seemed too ludicrous to contemplate.
But not for the first time, the stars seem to have aligned for France's boy-prodigy.
Just as in domestic politics doors seemed to open miraculously for President Macron, so in the world of international affairs shifts of power and ideology are also working in his favour - for now.
The tilt towards nationalist interests exemplified by Trump's America has created a clear leadership space for someone who will fly the other flag. Providential or not, Macron has come to power just as a reaction sets in against the populist tide of the last few years - and he is poised to reap the reward.
With its perpetual harping on about ideals and morals, France's capacity to irritate is prodigious. Perhaps it will not be long before Macron loses his touch and the world starts panting for his comeuppance.
But right now, with Trump in the White House, French preachiness doesn't appear to raise as many heckles as it used to. Having a quotable charmer for a president certainly helps.
She was a regular and enthusiastic visitor to Glamis Castle in Angus, the home of her mother's family, as she revealed in a letter to her grandparents.
"Darling Granny: Thank you very, very much for having us to stay with you at Glamis.
"It was one of the happiest weeks I have ever spent.
"With lots of love, from Lillibet."
That letter was written when the Queen was 11 and staying at Balmoral Castle, another of her favourite places.
Scotland has always also played a significant role in her Royal duties.
When she became Queen, on the death of her father King George VI, one of her first official tasks was to plant a cherry tree at the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, the parish church for the Palace of Holyrood House.
And after the Coronation, the first to be televised live, huge crowds lined the streets of the Scottish capital as she received the Honours of Scotland - the Scottish crown, sceptre and sword of state.
When she travelled to Glasgow, the city's George Square was so packed with well-wishers that 300 people were injured in the crush.
But Richard Finlay, professor of History at Strathclyde University, said there was also controversy during the early years of the Queen's reign.
"There was the optimism because she was young, it was after the war, she represented youth and hope and aspiration.
"But her Royal advisors put their foot in it by insisting on the numeral two, and of course there hadn't been an Elizabeth who was Queen of Scotland before.
"And many middle class Scots got quite irate about this, because it was seen to be ignoring Scottish history."
He said there were attempts to blow up pillar boxes with the EIIR emblem on them and anger when, in a Christmas message from New Zealand, the Queen described herself as Queen of England.
Over the years, affection for the monarch, and interest in her visits to Scotland have waxed and waned.
But Professor Christopher Smout, the Historiographer Royal, told the BBC the Queen has embraced the new Scotland and has opened each session of the new Holyrood Parliament.
He said this showed her abiding interest in what happens in her northern kingdom.
"People in Scotland don't appreciate the degree to which she is Queen of Scotland.
"This is really very odd since she is descended from Scottish kings like Robert the Bruce for example, and she is not descended from horrible English kings like Henry VIII."
During her long reign, the Queen has visited almost every part of Scotland, receiving bouquets and less traditional gifts, launching ships, opening bridges and buildings, like the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
And she always spends a summer holiday in Scotland, whether touring the Western Isles in the Royal Yacht Britannia or staying at Balmoral.
Crowds along the Borders rail route, which the Queen officially opened, offered testament to her abiding appeal.
But Richard Finlay warned against conflating Elizabeth the person with the institution of monarchy when they are quite distinct things.
"The only idea people have of monarchy is the current Queen," he said.
"While the Queen may be popular as an individual, there is a tendency to translate that as support for the institution of monarchy.
"The big issue will be when the Queen goes and you have the issue of succession.
"There will be a lot of expectation, and re-evaluation about what we expect from the institution of monarchy, because it won't be the same."
Earlier, sources told the BBC the DUP wanted £1bn invested in Northern Ireland's health service and a similar figure for infrastructure projects.
However, DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has described the figures as "wild speculation" and "wide of the mark".
But he did say the DUP wanted Treasury "help" with public spending priorities.
"We're talking to the the Treasury and to the government about, yes, investing in our infrastructure in Northern Ireland, because we've lagged behind the rest of the UK, not least due to 30 years of violence," he told BBC Newsline.
In a separate exchange in the House of Commons, he stepped in to defend the DUP after they were branded "dinosaurs".
Sir Jeffrey was indignant when the co-leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, used the insult in the House of Commons.
Ms Lucas suggested that the lack of bills concerned with the environment in the government's legislative program was influenced by the DUP.
Objecting to her remarks, Sir Jeffrey invited Ms Lucas to read his party's manifesto.
He also asked the Commons Speaker to rule on whether Ms Lucas had used "unparliamentary" language, but his complaint was dismissed.
Sir Jeffrey, the MP for Lagan Valley, is a senior negotiator in the DUP's ongoing discussions with the Conservative Party.
Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking the support of the DUP's 10 MPs after losing her majority in the general election.
Both sides have been locked in talks for 11 days, but to date they have not confirmed a deal to prop up a Conservative minority government.
On Tuesday, a senior DUP source said the party could not be "taken for granted" and urged the Conservatives to give a "greater focus" to their negotiations.
But on Wednesday, Sir Jeffrey told the BBC his party is "confident" that it can agree a confidence and supply arrangement with the Tories before Parliament votes next week on the measures outlined in the Queen's Speech.
He said the talks were "making progress".
He confirmed that as well as DUP requests for infrastructure spending, a reduction in Northern Ireland's rate of corporation tax, VAT on tourism and air passenger duty have all formed part of the negotiations.
Sir Jeffrey said giving Stormont control to set its own rate of corporation tax could give Northern Ireland "a leading edge in attracting investment".
He described how during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, public funding had been diverted into "security apparatus rather than our roads and our bridges and other elements of our infrastructure - our hospital, our schools".
"We're looking at health and education as well," he said.
"These are priorities for us, in terms of government spending, and we want some help from the Treasury."
Chan, whose son was jailed for drugs offences, said that with drugs "you're hurting thousands of young children".
Jaycee Chan spent six months in prison in China after police found marijuana in his home.
Jackie Chan is Singapore's first celebrity anti-drug ambassador. He was named official Narcotics Control Ambassador by Chinese police in 2009.
Both Singapore and China have enforced capital punishment for drug trafficking.
In an interview with journalists conducted in both English and Mandarin, he said drugs were not only hurting young people, they were hurting his family.
"On some issues, I do support the death penalty," he said.
"When you're hurting thousands and thousands of young children, I think these kind of people are useless.
"You should get the right punishment."
He added: "[Young people say] 'it's okay, it's just like a cigarette'. I say 'it's not okay, not in my family'."
Jaycee, 32, was imprisoned for not just using drugs, but for the additional and more serious crime of "providing a shelter for others to abuse drugs", Beijing police said at the time.
When asked about Jaycee's time in prison, Chan said he felt "ashamed" and "shocked" and that he was now more focused on his son.
"I'm more concentrating on him now, used to be just, 'you are a grown man.' But now I find out, he's still a boy," Chan said.
Daniel Bell-Drummond made a hard-hit 84 while there were brutal innings from Darren Stevens and Mitch Claydon, as five batsmen passed fifty.
Michael Hogan with 4-91 and Craig Meschede, who took 3-105, were the pick of an inconsistent Glamorgan attack.
Stevens completed the visitors' misery by removing captain Jacques Rudolph.
Kent's Daniel Bell-Drummond told BBC Radio Kent:
"It was a brilliant day for the team as a whole. No-one got that big score, but everyone got a start and contributed to the team to post near enough 500. A brilliant team effort.
"If partnerships come for Glamorgan now, we have to sit in and trust ourselves that the wickets will come. Hopefully we'll bowl them out short of the 228 lead but, if we don't, we need to back ourselves to get the runs.
"We've got to be ruthless and try and go for the kill now, but they're a good team and, if they come back hard, it's no dramas. As long as we win, we'll be happy."
Glamorgan fast bowler Michael Hogan told BBC Wales Sport:
"We're behind the eight-ball a little, or a lot to be fair. We probably shot ourselves in the foot on the first day with the way we bowled.
"Claydon is a dangerous player. You can't have fielders everywhere when you're behind in the game. These guys have a licence to tee off - that's the way the game goes.
"My personal efforts don't mean much. It's nice to get a few wickets but you would trade it for them being bowled out for two hundred less. It's a difficult task but we won't shirk it. It's time for us to show what we're about as a team."
Only one case has been discovered in Ryan's string but the yard near Thirsk has been placed under quarantine by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).
The nearby stables of trainers Bryan Smart and Michael Herrington have also been quarantined as a precaution.
The BHA said they are working with Ryan and staff to ensure the correct disease control measures are in place.
"The risk of the virus being transmitted in a controlled race-day environment is relatively small," said David Sykes, the BHA's director of equine health and welfare.
"[But] it is in theory possible that horses from the yard in question may have been infectious some time before the disease was diagnosed.
"For this reason we have taken measures to alert trainers, as well as racecourses and veterinary surgeons, to be vigilant to the clinical signs."
The equine herpes virus can cause respiratory disease and abort foetuses, while a less common neurological form of the virus can cause co-ordination problems and paralysis, and is potentially fatal.
The National Stud breeding site in Newmarket was closed last year following the discovery of the neurological herpes virus infection.
Ryan won the French Derby and Irish Champion Stakes in 2014 with The Grey Gatsby and is a four-time winner of the Ayr Gold Cup, including the 2016 edition with Brando.
Writing in his column for The Sun, he says that the day must come when you "wave goodbye to the big monsters".
"I don't intend to dwell here on what happened then or what will happen in the future," he says. "I'm sure you're as fed up with the story as I am."
Clarkson was suspended by the BBC earlier this week after reports of a "fracas" with producer Oisin Tymon.
The show has been taken off-air while the BBC carries out an investigation into the allegations.
In his column, Clarkson uses comparisons with animals repeatedly, saying that big imposing creatures on the brink of extinction had no place in a world which has moved on.
"We lose one animal and we get another," he says. "The world turns."
The presenter also thanks his fans, saying that one of the things that has cheered him up is the how many people have expressed their support.
More than 870,000 people have signed a petition demanding he keep his job.
Newspapers are claiming that Clarkson got angry after being told he couldn't have a steak for dinner.
Clarkson is scheduled to appear with co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond at four live shows in Norway on 27 and 28 March and a decision on whether to go ahead with them is expected early next week.
All three men's contracts expire three days after the appearances in Norway.
The last three episodes of the series are on hold.
The BBC has apologised to viewers who complained about the postponed shows.
In a statement it said: "We do hope you'll understand that we value this reaction, but the investigation is still under way.
"Until more is known, we're therefore unable to say anything further in response and will not yet be making further statements about the issue.
"We realise you'll be disappointed that we can't respond to you in any more detail but thank you for contacting us."
Clarkson started the investigation process when he told his bosses about the argument.
A BBC disciplinary panel will be led by Ken MacQuarrie, the head of BBC Scotland, who carried out an investigation after Lord McAlpine was wrongly implicated in child sex abuse allegations by BBC Two's Newsnight.
A lawyer for Mr Tymon said his client intended "to await the outcome of the BBC investigation" and would make no comment until that was finished.
A family who witnessed the row said Clarkson was staying at the Simonstone Hall Hotel near Hawes in North Yorkshire and went into the bar at around 9.30pm after a day of filming last Wednesday.
Bob Ward, 60, from Leeds, told Sky News the star refused to have a selfie taken with him, saying: "No, not with the day I have had."
His wife Sue claimed Clarkson then said it was "ridiculous there was nothing to eat".
She said he thought his colleague had not done his job properly and "he would see to it that he would be losing his job".
Clarkson has joked about his position, telling reporters he was "just off to the job centre" and he changed his Twitter profile on Thursday to read: "I am probably a presenter on the BBC2 motoring show Top Gear."
The BBC owns the rights to Top Gear, which is valued at around £50 million, and includes the show, DVD rights and live shows.
If Clarkson left or was sacked, Top Gear would continue on the BBC while Clarkson could take a similar show to one of its rivals such as Sky or ITV.
Jeremy Clarkson first appeared on the show in 1988 and it now has an estimated global audience of 350 million.
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Mr Javid has met Indian government officials in Delhi to discuss how the trading relationship with India might work after Brexit.
After the talks he said he was confident the relationship would get "stronger and stronger".
While in India, Mr Javid has also discussed the future of Tata Steel UK.
He will also visit the US, China, Japan and South Korea in the coming months.
India is the third biggest foreign investor in the UK, according to UK Trade and Investment.
Total trade between the two countries was £16.55bn last year, the government body said.
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To help redraw those trade relationships, the UK government this week announced plans for a new team of up to 300 specialist staff, including trade negotiators, by the end of the year.
However, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond admitted on Thursday the UK would rely on "friendly governments" to help bolster its staff.
110,000
people employed by Indian companies operating in the UK
12 Indian companies each employ more than 1,000 people in the UK
69,000 work for Tata Group, which owns 5 of those 12 firms
33,000 of those work for Tata Motors, which owns Jaguar Land Rover
"The government will have to acquire additional trade negotiation resources," Mr Hammond told a committee of MPs.
"We will look to friendly governments to assist us, as well as seeking to hire the best resources available on the open market."
Brexit supporters argue the UK will be able to negotiate better trade deals with fast-growing economies such as India than it currently has as an EU member.
The EU has trade agreements with 52 countries and it is expected the UK will need to re-negotiate these as part of Brexit.
Commonwealth countries accounted for about 10%, or £47.8bn, of UK exports in 2014, whereas about 44%, or £228.9bn, were with the EU.
Indian-owned companies employ about 110,000 people in the UK and grew revenue by £4bn to £26bn last year, according to a report by Grant Thornton.
Tata Motors, which owns Jaguar Land Rover, added an extra 4,000 jobs to employ nearly 33,000 people, the report said.
Meanwhile, sister business, Tata Global Beverages, which owns Tetley Tea, employs more than 1,000 UK workers.
The Clacton Pier attraction "buckled in the middle" when the coast was hit by 80mph (129km/h) winds in October 2013.
The pier's admin manager Sharon Charters said the process had been slow because they wanted to make sure the ride was "restored to its former glory in the correct and proper way".
It is likely to be back up and running at the Essex attraction in September.
Military courts were first set up as a response to the 2015 attack on a military-run school by the Pakistani Taliban that killed 134 children.
The courts, which try civilians charged with terrorism offences, had a two-year mandate that expired on 7 January.
The legislation still needs Senate approval before it can become law.
Viewpoint: How Peshawar military school massacre changed Pakistan
The government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in January it wanted to reinstate the military courts, but lacked the two-thirds majority in parliament. After months of discussions between parties, the bill was passed late on Tuesday.
Under the original secret military court system:
The new bill, however, has some amendments, including allowing suspects to choose their own lawyer.
Under the new law, a suspect must also read the charges at the time of arrest and be produced in a military court within 24 hours, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.
In their first two years, the military courts awarded death sentences to more than 160 people, of whom 20 have been executed, our correspondent says.
After the school massacre, Pakistan lifted a moratorium on capital punishment as part of measures it said were aimed at checking the spread of militancy and extremism. Since then more than 400 prisoners on death row have been hanged.
One of the main arguments made in favour of military courts is that the government cannot provide adequate security to judges who preside over terrorism related cases.
But critics say the courts lack transparency and due process.
But Lord Lloyd-Webber has left the stage clear for the creative brains behind Committee or The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence on Whitehall's Relationship With Kids Company - to give the musical its full title.
It is based on the verbatim transcript of the grilling of Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and chair of trustees Alan Yentob (who is a BBC presenter and former BBC creative director).
Committee members who appear as characters in the show include Conservative former Welsh Secretaries Cheryl Gillan and David Jones and veteran Welsh Labour MP Paul Flynn.
London's Donmar Warehouse stresses "this production has not been authorised by any participant or Parliament" but as a veteran observer of these things I'd suggest there is little for Parliament to get too upset about.
It displays a fair insight into the way select committees work.
Early on, a clerk reveals to the audience: "All select committees are hoping their report gets their chair an appearance on the Today programme - that's the golden thing, the 8:10am slot on the Today programme". Cue a tuneful chorus of "the 8:10 am slot" from the cast.
Director Adam Penford said (during rehearsals): "The idea of doing a new verbatim musical based on the transcript of a select committee hearing is quite a crazy idea but potentially incredibly exciting. "Whilst it's part of the musical function to explore how we hold ourselves to account as a society it also asks multiple questions about the relationship of government to the people."
The production presented new challenges for the actors. Robert Hands, who plays David Jones, said: "I've never played a real person before and I didn't know I could do it, I was a bit worried about it actually."
He needn't have worried. Indeed, every member of the cast is thoroughly convincing and instantly recognisable to anyone who watched the original hearing or knows the MPs involved.
Cheryl Gillan went to see it with other committee members. Her verdict? "A very interesting treatment of a very serious matter using the words that are in the public domain but surreal to see yourself portrayed on stage."
Paul Flynn is played by Anthony O'Donnell ('Dai Davies' in Stella), who delivers Flynn questions - "a spiel of psychobabble, a torrent of words, verbal ectoplasm" directed at Batmanghelidjh - with the gusto of the original.
The Newport West MP tells me he's looking forward to seeing it and meeting O'Donnell. He remembers Camila Batmanghelidjh's evidence with frustration. "It was all about distraction and changing the subject, throwing a dead cat on the table."
A frosty exchange between the two of them about spending £150 of the charity's money on a pair of shoes for a client is given a suitable theatrical treatment.
David Jones recalls: "It was the strangest parliamentary event I have been involved in. It was bizarre, the whole thing. Camila's conduct was extraordinary and in the end I gave up on her and just asked Alan Yentob questions.
"I think it was valuable and I think the value of it was that action is being taken as a consequence of it."
It was revealed on Monday that the Insolvency Service is trying to get the charity's directors, including Camila Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob, barred from holding company directorships for up to six years.
Paul Flynn also believes there is "unfinished business" in the committee's investigations.
You can sample the musical here or see it for yourself at the Donmar Warehouse, where it runs until August 12.
American Noah Lyles, 19, equalled the world-leading time of Wayde van Niekerk by winning in 19.90 seconds.
Lyles' compatriot LaShawn Merritt was second in 20.27, with Gemili crossing in 20.35 after being run down following a fast start.
Elsewhere, Jamaica's Elaine Thompson won the women's 100m in 10.78, which is the fastest time of the year.
Thompson, who won 100m and 200m Olympic gold in Rio, streaked clear to finish ahead of the United States' Tori Bowie (11.04).
Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas ran a world-leading time of 49.77 in the 400m, as Britain's Anyika Onuora (53.98) finished last.
There was disappointment for another Briton, high jumper Robbie Grabarz, who cleared his first attempt at a height of 2.20m but went out after three failures at 2.24m.
In the men's long jump, South Africa's Luvo Manyonga set a Diamond League record of 8.61m.
The wild cat, named Flaviu, was reported missing from Dartmoor Zoo on Thursday.
Staff believe the animal is on farmland around the zoo, near Plymouth.
Bedding from the creature's former home at Port Lympne Reserve in Kent will also be used as the round-the-clock search continues.
More on the missing wild cat, plus more Devon and Cornwall news
Dartmoor Zoo owner Ben Mee said he was hoping to get the recording of Flaviu's mother Klementyna, who remains at Port Lympne.
He said: "Flaviu is a bit of a mummy's boy, so we think he is really missing his mum.
"That is why he could have escaped last week, because he was trying to get back to her."
Flaviu arrived in Dartmoor on Wednesday.
Park staff have set a number of humane traps after a sighting on farm land outside the boundary of the park in Sparkwell.
Mr Mee said he was sure Flaviu was still in the area.
He added: "We have definite signs - we would have expected to catch a badger or a fox by now, but something is scaring them off.
"Livestock in the area is herding around its young protectively and our wolves are prowling in that direction."
He said Flaviu would not be starving as he had been used to catching wild animals at his former home.
He also asked people to stay away or the operation could be compromised.
Police have also said Flaviu, which is the size of a large domesticated cat, could be dangerous if cornered.
The proportion of private school A-level entries gaining grade A or better was 48.7%, down from 49.3% last year, says the Independent Schools Council.
This is still almost twice the national average of 25.8%, itself down slightly from 25.9% in 2015, says the ISC.
Council chairman Barnaby Lenon called the figures encouraging.
Overall, the 2016 A-level grades, published earlier this month, showed a marginal fall in top grades for the fifth successive year - but the Joint Council for qualifications described outcomes as relatively unchanged.
The ISC figures, for 495 UK independent schools offering A-levels, reflect the results of 36,992 candidates and suggest:
Overall the pass rate for private school A-level students was 99.1% - one percentage point better than the national average, says the ISC.
And three-quarters (75.2%) of grades were B or higher, it adds, compared with 52.9% nationally
According to the ISC, more private schools are choosing to offer the International Baccalaureate, with the number rising by 5% on last year.
The ISC says the figures show academic success is still a "top priority" at independent schools, with a strong focus on good grades in the subjects preferred by the most selective universities.
"A concerted effort to halt grade inflation in recent years has seen the top grades both nationally and in independent schools level off and fall slightly, so it is encouraging to see the headline A* and A figure remain solid," said Mr Lenon.
"Of particular note is the number of students achieving ABB grades, which will see many of them moving on to the university of his or her choice, a high number to the top institutions."
It may be hard to imagine now, but before the trial verdict he still retained some of his reputation as a historian.
It was not impossible - though pretty unlikely - that he would win the case.
Mr Irving had claimed Prof Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, had destroyed his livelihood and generated "waves of hatred" against him.
In her defence, Prof Lipstadt had to show that what she had written was true and that Mr Irving deliberately distorted history.
In the film Denial, released this weekend, Timothy Spall captures Irving's bluster, but for me the film as a whole does not quite convey the threat of Mr Irving at the time.
The story is told from Prof Lipstadt's point of view.
At times Mr Irving seems a somewhat ridiculous figure, easily flattered into accepting a judge-only trial, rather than a jury, which would probably have worked better for him.
I recall him as a more intimidating presence, especially when I encountered him for the first time, marching down the dark corridor of his Mayfair flat.
His Danish partner Bente Hogh had opened the front door and, as she was making a cup of tea, we chatted in her - and my mother's - language.
Mr Irving overheard and came to see what was happening.
I explained I was half-Danish and he paused to look me up and down, taking in my dark hair and eyes. "Well!" he said, "you'd never know it to look at you!"
And then, perfectly polite, he invited me to his study where we could talk.
In Denial, the lawyers and Prof Lipstadt travel to Auschwitz for research.
They see the glass-fronted cases full of suitcases and shoes in Auschwitz I, property of murdered Jews from across Western Europe.
Outside in the the freezing Polish winter, they walk round the huge second site at Birkenau, down the steps into the remains of a demolished gas chamber.
Later, Richard Rampton QC is shown angry that there has not been a full detailed scientific study of the whole site, to remove all possibility of doubt.
"Where's the proof?" he shouts.
I knew Auschwitz unusually well as I'd joined the Today programme after three years as the BBC Warsaw correspondent.
At that time, the late 1990s, Auschwitz was often in the news because there was international concern about the site and its upkeep.
The post-Communist government wanted to build better relations with Jewish communities worldwide, so the president took personal responsibility for Auschwitz improvement.
One way and another, often with survivors, I had visited the site many times.
Although Mr Irving put Auschwitz at the centre of his case, he had never been there himself.
In the quiet of his study, as soon as I brought out the microphone, Mr Irving spoke energetically and confidently.
"If I carry the day on Auschwitz," he told me, "if I'm right on crematorium number two at Auschwitz then as far as I'm concerned I'm right on my position on the Holocaust: that it has been grossly inflated and there's been a hell of a lot of lying by the eyewitnesses and I don't need to prove them right on the other camps as well."
In the film, Prof Lipstadt is angry that eyewitnesses, Auschwitz survivors, are not called to give evidence. Written testimony was employed by the defence instead.
Mr Irving had been confident he had demolished these accounts.
He told me: "They produced only five eyewitnesses and it's always the same five eyewitnesses,"
I pointed out that there were scores of living eyewitnesses and that I had met them myself.
"Not so," he retorted, with a half cough, half laugh, effectively calling me a liar.
I said that just by researching the subject he would have come across many survivors. He denied it.
I explained that I had lived in Poland for years, told him that I knew Auschwitz well, had visited often.
"And what did they show you?" he asked, leaning forward, suddenly more interested.
"What they show everyone," I replied.
"Did they show you the gas chamber?" he asked. I replied: "You know very well the Germans blew them up as they left."
And then, once again, he simply cast doubt.
"Well somebody blew them up. I don't think it was necessarily the Germans, it was either the Russians or the Germans, we don't know which. I mean this is the kind of extraordinary grey area which just hasn't been properly researched."
Mr Irving's posture through the 32 days of court was that of the sceptical historian - always looking for the documentary proof.
It was only by establishing that his political views had directly affected his work, that Prof Lipstadt, Penguin and their lawyers could win the case.
And as Denial shows, that was neither simple, nor straightforward: it required tremendous effort, months of work from many researchers and a brilliant legal mind in Mr Rampton to marshal the argument.
In April 2000, Mr Justice Gray delivered his damning verdict.
He found the charges against Mr Irving "substantially true".
He said: "Irving was motivated by a desire to present events in a manner consistent with his own ideological beliefs, even if that involved distortion and manipulation of historical evidence."
In the film, that is where it ends - but today Holocaust denial is alive and well on the internet.
Last December it emerged that asking Google "Did the Holocaust happen?" threw up as the first answer a right-wing, Holocaust-denying site.
There was an outcry, Google has now acted and now the search returns are very different.
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The game turned just before half-time when Coventry reserve keeper Lee Burge was sent off following an altercation with Worcester striker Daniel Nti.
Geddes converted the resulting penalty, then added a second after the break.
Sky Blues skipper Reda Johnson, who had missed a first-half penalty, pulled one back nine minutes from time.
But mid-table Conference North side Worcester - 64 places below the Sky Blues in the English football pyramid - saw it through to the final whistle, Carl Heeley's unfancied side putting in an inspired performance.
It was Coventry's first defeat by a non-league side since their infamous exit to Sutton United 25 years ago - and the first time that the club have gone out at the first round stage since 1959.
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Worcester had met the Sky Blues twice before in the FA Cup, losing both games (in the first round in 1960/61 and at the third round stage in 1982/83).
But, once Hereford-born youngster Burge had been spotted by the referee kicking out at Nti in the 39th minute, it was always going to be hard work for the home side's 10 men to make it a third Cup win over Worcester, for whom 22-year-old Geddes proved the hero.
The former Manchester United trainee had a long wait for his spotkick as the home side arranged for regular keeper Ryan Allsop to come off the bench, at the expense of striker Frank Nouble.
But he kept his nerve to fire home the penalty before adding a second in the 55th minute when his low shot from the edge of the area flew past Allsop.
In between, Coventry had a great chance to level when teenager James Maddison was bought down in the box by Graham Hutchinson, but Johnson fluffed his penalty, goalkeeper Vaughan diving to his right to save comfortably.
Johnson then set up a nervous finale for Worcester when he dived low to head in at the far post with nine minutes remaining.
But, despite the addition of seven minutes' added time, homeless City, who now play their Conference North games as neighbours Kidderminster Harriers' tenants at Aggborough, hung on to reach the second round again - as they did when they last reached this same first round stage nine years ago.
Worcester City boss Carl Heeley told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"The seven minutes of injury time were the longest of my life, but this is the proudest day of my football career and finishes off the week for me after the birth of my daughter.
"We genuinely thought we could come here and get a result. We've got some good footballers and they're incredibly fit lads, so I didn't think the full-time/part-time thing would be a factor.
"Often in these games, you get fazed by the occasion but we took the game to them and were the better side and I'm very proud of them.
"I'm delighted for Sean Geddes. He was a key part of a Stourbridge side who've had a couple of cup runs. He's got goals in him. That's why we brought him here.
"We hope there's more good times to come. We want to reach the third round and there'll be a few wary of drawing Worcester City after that."
Match ends, Coventry City 1, Worcester City 2.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 1, Worcester City 2.
Attempt saved. Nick Wright (Worcester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Worcester City. Conceded by Aaron Martin.
Attempt saved. Nick Wright (Worcester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Tristan Dunkley (Worcester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Jack Finch (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card.
Tristan Dunkley (Worcester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Finch (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. Ellis Deeney (Worcester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Wayne Thomas (Worcester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Aaron Martin (Coventry City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card.
Tyler Weir (Worcester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marcus Tudgay (Coventry City).
Nathan Vaughan (Worcester City) is shown the yellow card.
Jordan Murphy (Worcester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Haynes (Coventry City).
Danny Jackman (Worcester City) is shown the yellow card.
Simeon Jackson (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Jackman (Worcester City).
Goal! Coventry City 1, Worcester City 2. Reda Johnson (Coventry City) header from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by James Maddison with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Jordan Murphy (Worcester City).
Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Jackman (Worcester City).
James Maddison (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ellis Deeney (Worcester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Danny Jackman (Worcester City).
James Maddison (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Worcester City. Tristan Dunkley replaces Daniel Nti.
Substitution, Worcester City. Connor Gater replaces Sean Geddes.
Foul by Nick Wright (Worcester City).
Jack Finch (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. James Maddison (Coventry City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Ellis Deeney (Worcester City).
James Maddison (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Reda Johnson (Coventry City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. James Maddison (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Jordan Murphy (Worcester City).
Josh McQuoid (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Starting on 26 January, Timeline will be broadcast live between 19:30 and 20:00 each Thursday on BBC Two Scotland.
It will be jointly presented by the BBC's Glenn Campbell and Shereen Nanjiani.
The head of news at BBC Scotland, Gary Smith, said Timeline would be "the weekly centrepiece of a new engagement with our audience".
He added that the public would help shape the agenda of the programme which is to have a distinctive online and social media presence.
Explaining the choice of programme name, Mr Smith said: "A timeline is our go-to for information, for news, for what we care about.
"It's how we find out what's interesting and relevant to our lives.
"A timeline connects people. It brings them together to share stories, experience and opinions. It connects young and old, the ordinary that can become exceptional.
"Timeline is a programme that will do just that."
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The blaze in the Aberdeenshire town's High Street in May in 1998 claimed the life of 43-year-old Gordon Graham.
Barry Henderson, 42, denies killing Mr Graham and attempting to murder his wife Anne.
The prosecution at the High Court in Glasgow claims Mr Henderson wilfully set fire to materials in the ground floor and the blaze spread.
Jurors were read out a joint minute of agreed facts in the case.
They were told that two flats at 74 High Street were occupied by Mr Graham, his wife, and family members, and that the Graham family were known locally as "the family from hell".
The jury also heard that Mr Graham died of smoke inhalation and his body was scorched by fire.
At the time of his death he was said to be "substantially under the influence of alcohol and cannabis".
Mr Henderson is also accused of assaulting a woman in a nightclub in Fraserburgh in 1998.
He faces another charge that he behaved in a threatening manner on a bus between Crimond and Fraserburgh last November.
Mr Henderson, who is represented by defence QC Brian McConnachie, denies all the charges against him and has lodged special defences of alibi and incrimination.
Judge Lord Ericht told the jurors: "It is estimated this trial will last for five weeks."
The trial continues.
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The teenagers, named locally as Dominic O'Neill, Kyle Warren and Billy Hines, died in Tivetshall Road, near Pulham Market, Norfolk, on Wednesday night.
On Thursday, hundreds of people gathered at Eye airfield to remember them and release lanterns.
"It was an unbelievable night," said Adam Kerry, a friend of Mr O'Neill.
Mr O'Neill, 18, and Kyle, 17, were from Harleston, while 16-year-old Billy was from Wortham in Suffolk.
They died at the scene after the car burst into flames. A number of bunches of flowers have been left at the roadside in their memory.
Read more on this story and other news from Norfolk
Archbishop Sancroft High School in Harleston said the whole school community had been left "shocked and saddened" by the news of their deaths.
Two of the teenagers were pupils at the school, which opened its doors during school holidays to offer support to those affected by the deaths.
A book of condolences is also available to sign at St John's Church in Harleston.
The Reverend Nigel Tuffnell said: "It is just one of those things you don't expect ever to happen and you hope and pray that it doesn't happen.
"Unfortunately it has happened and it's happened to three families."
The rarely seen event was witnessed by gig rowers in Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall.
Dolphin attacks on porpoises accounted for about one death a year on average, said Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT).
It is unclear why dolphins attack porpoises but it could be an aggressive response to feeding competition or even "misdirected sexual aggression".
More on the deadly attack, plus more Devon and Cornwall news
The pictures were captured by the Pendeen Pilot Gig Club in a training session.
CWT said: "We are unsure of why this happens and it is certainly not predation.
"Many theories have been put forward, including misdirected infanticide (bottlenoses will kill calves), misdirected sexual aggression or play behaviour and an aggressive response to feed competition are just some."
Marine Strandings Network said it found the carcass of the porpoise, which had "multiple severe injuries as a result of the attack".
"We do have a number of dead porpoise, and more unusually common dolphin, reported to us with injuries resulting from bottlenose dolphin aggression."
O'Sullivan led 5-3 at the end of the first session, but Trump won the next three frames, including consecutive centuries, to take a 6-5 lead.
Five-time world champion O'Sullivan looked on the brink of success when he won the next three to go 8-6 up.
But Trump turned it around again by winning the final three frames.
It is the sixth ranking title of the 27-year-old's career.
Trump said: "It was a very tough game. Ronnie wasn't playing well and he still should probably have beaten me in the end so it shows how good he is. He puts you under pressure just by sitting there - nobody else does that."
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The move is part of the final report from the Scottish government's enterprise and skills review containing a range of measures to help business.
Economy Secretary Keith Brown said it showed how to "transform the performance" of the economy.
He said it recognised the need for dedicated support to southern Scotland as already offered in the Highlands.
Mr Brown launched the report while meeting Dumfries and Galloway business Kite Power Systems.
The company has secured £7m of equity funding for its innovative approach to harnessing wind energy.
He said the report contained measures to "enable more businesses to deliver strong, vibrant and inclusive growth at scale".
In addition to the new enterprise agency the final report also includes:
"We have recognised the importance of providing dedicated support to the south of Scotland in the same way we currently do for the Highlands and Islands," said Mr Brown.
"A new agency will be established to meet the distinctive economic needs of communities in the south of Scotland.
"The fundamentals of Scotland's economy are strong and - as this report confirms - we are doing all that we can to build upon these further."
However, south of Scotland Labour MSP Colin Smyth criticised the three-year timescale for getting the new organisation fully set up.
"A proposal was put to the government that would have seen a new agency up and running within months using the local councils under current laws," he said.
"Clearly the government's obsession with centralisations means they want to control everything including this new agency.
"The document they have published simply cuts and pastes the one the two councils produced in relation to the boundaries of the new body and what its aims should be.
"But the Scottish government hasn't proposed anything itself other than dither and delay."
Dumfriesshire Conservative MSP Oliver Mundell MSP said the announcement had his "wholehearted support".
"This is a Conservative manifesto commitment that is set to be delivered," he said.
"There is no doubt that the extra Conservative representation following the 2016 Scottish Parliament election reinforced the need for the Scottish government to take the economic priorities of the south of Scotland more seriously."
Susan Love of the Federation of Small Businesses said the Scottish government deserved credit for pursuing reform.
"While the review process was difficult and sometimes fraught- it looks to us like there's much to be applauded," she said.
"These good ideas now need careful and swift implementation."
Scottish Borders Council's Mark Rowley said it was "delighted" the needs of the area had been recognised.
"The south of Scotland faces particular challenges such as an ageing population, traditionally lower wages and digital connectivity issues," he said.
"The introduction of the south of Scotland enterprise agency means we can tackle these challenges differently, with the new organisation bringing a fresh approach to deliver the best outcome for businesses, learners, communities and individuals."
David Cameron is engaged in what seems to be an increasingly successful campaign to persuade the House of Commons to expand British military air strikes into Syria.
He gave more details of what had been billed as a "comprehensive plan", not just for bombs to fall on the so-called Islamic State's stronghold in Syria, but a billion pounds for reconstruction; a perhaps optimistic assessment that there are 70,000 moderate forces on the ground with whom we could work; and an increasing confidence that the time is right to join America, France and even Russia in air strikes.
But the government is reliant on some support from the Labour Party to get its way. And Jeremy Corbyn's party is embroiled in an enormous row of its own tonight.
It's no secret that he is a longstanding opponent of military intervention in the Middle East. After the debate today he met with his shadow cabinet to try to hammer out a common position.
After a difficult couple of hours, it was plain, despite the leader being opposed, most of the shadow team is in favour of strikes. So they agreed to disagree, and to talk again after the weekend.
Then to the astonishment of some of Mr Corbyn's own team, just a couple of hours later, his office published a letter that made it abundantly clear there is no chance he will back air strikes, and his position is set.
Making that move has, in the words of one shadow minister, "lit the blue touch paper" in the shadow cabinet. Another said members were so angry they had to be "scraped off the ceiling".
Many Labour MPs are furious that he took a step like that without consulting them. For their part, sources close to Mr Corbyn insist that he is taking a lead, communicating his position to the wider party as he is perfectly entitled to do.
Indeed, his views against military intervention are part of what won him the leader's job in the first place.
But there's a risk of a massive political bust-up, and perhaps the collapse of his front bench.
The crunch now is whether or not Mr Corbyn will allow MPs to vote as they see fit next week, perhaps as early as Wednesday. Or whether he will try to force them to agree with his position.
If he is intent on doing that, it is highly likely that members of the shadow cabinet will resign.
I understand some of them told him they would potentially back air strikes in Syria when they took on their jobs in the shadow cabinet in September - they knew this dilemma might come.
If, as now seems "inevitable" as one senior member of the shadow cabinet suggested, Mr Corbyn allows a free vote, the team will be bruised by all of this but probably intact. But if he tries to force his will, the political consequences for his leadership could be grave.
The first and deputy first ministers made the announcement on a US visit.
Shaun T Kelly will advise on east coast opportunities and John Hartnett will advise on the west coast and Silicon Valley.
Mr Kelly, from Belfast, is the New York-based chief operating officer of professional services firm KPMG.
Mr Hartnett is the founder of SVG Partners, a technology investment company.
The men will assist Invest NI in developing opportunities as part a renewed effort investment effort that involves lower corporation tax.
The tax rate in Northern Ireland is due to be cut to 12.5% in 2018.
Mr Kelly said Northern Ireland was working in a "very competitive environment" but does stand out to potential investors.
"[Companies] are also looking at eastern Europe, India, Asia," he said.
"Yes, Northern Ireland is definitely on the map, but it's competitive and that's where the lower corporation tax is going to really help.
"It makes [Northern Ireland] a much more attractive proposition."
First Minister Arlene Foster said it was important to have "two men who know Northern Ireland very well, situated here in the United States to advocate for us".
"We will come to the United States and talk to people of influence, but they are here all the time and we felt they could help us bring more jobs to Northern Ireland."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said the two men were "doing this because they are emotionally and intellectually engaged in trying to assist our process".
About 6m yuan ($960,000, £595,000) will be spent making the remote Malan base in Xinjiang region tourist-friendly, an official told Xinhua news agency.
Visitors will be able to see scientists' laboratories and a 300-metre tunnel used for air strikes.
China tested its first atomic bomb on 16 October 1964.
More than 40 nuclear tests have been carried out in Xinjiang over the decades before a moratorium was called in the 1990s.
Beijing's Tsinghua University and the local government are developing the site, located in a desert area in north-western China, Xinhua says.
Officials say that the base at Malan will be turned into a "red tourism site" - locations designated by the Communist Party to celebrate what it regards as historic events, says the BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing.
However it is not clear how many tourists the nuclear facilities will actually attract, as it is in one of the remotest regions in the country, our correspondent adds.
Police, councils, universities and public bodies can use the wording, the prime minister will say in a speech.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's hopes its definition, agreed this year, will be adopted globally.
The definition calls anti-Semitism "a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews."
It goes on: "Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities."
"Adopting the international definition will ensure that culprits will not be able to get away with being anti-Semitic because the term is ill-defined, or because different organisations or bodies have different interpretations of it," Downing Street said.
The IHRA - which is backed by 31 countries, including the UK, USA, Israel, France and Germany - set its working definition of what constituted anti-Semitic abuse in May.
The group says having a "legally binding working definition" will give countries the "political tools" to deal with anti-Jewish hate crime.
Police in the UK already use a version of the definition. However, it will now also be used by other bodies, including councils.
Mrs May will say: "There will be one definition of anti-Semitism - in essence, language or behaviour that displays hatred towards Jews because they are Jews - and anyone guilty of that will be called out on it."
She will also insist: "It is unacceptable that there is anti-Semitism in this country. It is even worse that incidents are reportedly on the rise.
"As a government we are making a real difference and adopting this measure is a ground-breaking step."
Last week, a man who subjected Labour MP Luciana Berger to an online campaign of anti-Semitic abuse was jailed for two years.
It comes as the Community Security Trust said the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK increased by 11% between January and June - from 500 in the same period last year, to 557 this year.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said anti-Semitism must be understood for what it is - "an attack on the identity of people who live, contribute and are valued in our society".
"There can be no excuses for anti-Semitism or any other form of racism or prejudice," he said.
"Crimes must always be reported, and the law enforced, but we also want to create an environment that prevents hate crime from happening in the first place."
Labour, which has faced accusations that it has failed to tackle anti-Semitism in its own membership, welcomed the move.
A spokesman for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said hatred towards Jews was "as repugnant and unacceptable as any other form of racism".
Earlier this year Baroness Chakrabarti, the former director of civil liberties group Liberty, chaired an inquiry into anti-Semitism in the party.
It found the party was not overrun by anti-Semitism or other forms of racism, but there was an "occasionally toxic atmosphere".
The inquiry followed the suspension of MP Naz Shah and ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone amid anti-Semitism claims.
The Labour spokesman said Mr Corbyn had "consistently spoken out against all forms of anti-Semitism and condemned all anti-Semitic abuse".
The Chakrabarti inquiry's recommendations had already led to "far-reaching changes to the rules and practice of the Labour Party", he added.
"He has also taken decisive disciplinary action over allegations of anti-Semitism, including a series of suspensions and exclusions from membership," the spokesman said of Mr Corbyn.
It marks a new era after the referendum on direct law-making powers in devolved areas including health and education.
The Queen said the assembly had a "well deserved reputation for diligence and competence".
Presiding Officer Rosemary Butler and First Minister Carwyn Jones welcomed her to the Senedd.
Addressing assembly members in the Senedd, the Queen, said the assembly was there to represent Wales and its people, make the laws for Wales and hold the government of Wales to account.
She said the assembly had "coped admirably" with the growth in its powers since devolution, and had a "well deserved reputation for diligence and competence."
The opening of the fourth assembly "marks a significant development in the future of devolution in Wales".
The Queen said the "vital functions of democracy" now rested on the shoulders of the assembly members and much would be expected of them.
She added: "You are now entrusted with the authority to make laws in all matters contained within the 20 subjects devolved to the assembly and, for the first time, you will be passing assembly acts.
"The performance of the assembly in discharging these new responsibilities will be closely scrutinised here in Wales and elsewhere."
Carwyn Jones called it an "important new beginning" and said it was a great honour to be first minister and serve the people of Wales.
He said: "There are challenges ahead, and difficult decisions between competing choices will have to be made, but this is fundamentally a time of optimism for Wales. We have the powers to make a difference."
Mr Jones said his government would "work night and day" to help improve public services, to protect the vulnerable, to educate and prepare our young people for work, "to promote our industry at home and abroad, to do all we can to make Wales healthier and more prosperous."
The Queen went on to have a lunch of Welsh lamb at the nearby Wales Millennium Centre.
By Betsan PowysBBC Wales' political editor
We've seen The Queen today opening what is, in all but name, a proper Welsh parliament.
In the past, she's opened an assembly with limited law-making powers.
Now, they've been given the tools, as they said, to do the job.
The Queen is, therefore, opening an institution that can get on and forge its own path through these laws that it will start to pass.
There was no reference to Westminster, the responsibility lies here.
We can also look forward to much more drama, potentially, when it comes to that law-making process, thanks to the knife-edge election result in May.
Labour will have to haggle and compromise to get its policies into law much more than in the days of the huge majority afforded to it as a result of the coalition with Plaid Cymru.
It's going to be a very interesting five years of the fourth assembly - the key for both ministers and the assembly itself is what difference Wales will see when it's over.
A fly-past of four Hawks from 208(R) Squadron RAF Valley on Anglesey in Gwynedd took place.
Fanfares at the Senedd were performed by brass and percussion students from the Royal College of Music and Drama.
After the royal opening, the Queen and other royal visitors met guests in the assembly's Neuadd (public space).
Royal harpist Claire Jones, from Crymych, Pembrokeshire, performing before a pre-lunch reception at the Wales Millennium Centre where the royal guests met AMs.
Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones did not attend the Royal opening. A party spokesman said he was still on half-term leave and would not return to work until next week.
The party's AM Jocelyn Davies replaced him in the line-up of party leaders greeting the Queen.
But his absence was criticised by Labour as "completely disrespectful" and "extremely disappointing" by the Conservatives.
Four Plaid Cymru AMs had already signalled they would not be attending: Leanne Wood, Bethan Jenkins and Lindsay Whittle and Llyr Huws Gruffydd.
Plaid's new North Wales regional AM Mr Gruffydd went to homeless charity Shelter Cymru, and Ms Wood and Mr Whittle were attending a Cardiff Bay Republican Day event.
Ms Wood said it was the third time she would not attend a royal opening of the assembly.
"My wish is for Wales to become a modern, independent country, and I cannot see any place for an outdated concept like the monarchy within it."
Ms Jenkins said she would spend the day talking to businesses in Bridgend about the economic downturn.
"I define myself as a republican so I don't believe the royal family represent what I believe in as a Welsh citizen," she said.
"I respect the people who are attending but I decided to carry on my work as an assembly member and try to represent the people of my area to the best of my abilities."
But their Plaid Cymru colleague and former presiding officer Lord Elis-Thomas said it was right that The Queen should take part in an historic day, opening an assembly which now has direct law-making powers.
He said it was a recognising the "new democracy of Wales", an occasion as significant as the state opening of parliament at Westminster.
"It's our day - a day for celebrating Wales within the UK constitution," he said.
"We live within a parliamentary constitution which has a monarchical structure - if people want to have a debate about whether there should be a republic and we had a referendum, there's no question about which way I would vote."
The Senedd's new Presiding Officer, Rosemary Butler, AM, told BBC Radio Wales afterwards that she faced a "very interesting task" in steering the members forward to make sure its new powers were used "for the people of Wales".
She added that the debating style of the AMs in Cardiff was different to MPs in Westminster.
She said she was confident that all the political parties would work together and if there is "confrontation" then she will "have to be more strict".
There was also room to "communicate better" with the people of Wales about the Senedd's work, she added.
The reception at the Wales Millennium Centre was used to showcase new and established Welsh talent, including choir Only Men Aloud.
Personnel from No. 4 School of Technical Training, based at MoD St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, took part in parade duties with members of the Air Training Corps from around Wales.
A referendum in March gave assembly members the right to make laws for Wales in 20 devolved areas without requiring the permission of the UK Government.
The queen opened the assembly with Labour in government but without an outright majority.
The party won 30 of the 60 seats in May's elections.
The assembly has developed ceremonial elements of previous royal openings by engaging the Wales Herald, the Honourable Thomas Lloyd, and enhancing the role of the Macebearer, David Melding AM.
The Wales Herald takes part in occasions such as the State Opening of Parliament.
The mace is the symbol of the royal authority by which the assembly makes laws.
Ahead of Tuesday's royal visit, a ceremony entitled the Celebration of the Mace took place at the Senedd.
It emphasised the need for greater understanding between different sectors of society.
Celebrities and royal figures are all seen at the West Sussex airport at various points in its history.
The Queen is seen arriving at the airport in 1958 - and opening its North Terminal 30 years later.
Passengers flew to Paris on the first scheduled flight on 17 May 1936.
A single fare on that flight, including the first-class train fare from London Victoria, cost four pounds five shillings - equivalent to about £160 today.
Other destinations from the airport in the first year of operation included Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Malmo.
Pope John Paul II is seen kissing the ground in 1982.
He arrived at Gatwick that year for a six-day visit to Britain.
It was the first papal visit to the UK.
The images include a photograph of Diana, Princess of Wales, listening to air traffic control dialogue with pilots coming in to land at Gatwick in 1988.
She was visiting the airport's control tower.
Nowadays, a flight takes off or lands at the airport nearly every minute.
Its annual passenger total will reach 41m for the first time this year.
Gatwick is still campaigning to build a second runway after the Airports Commission recommended last year that a third runway should be built at Heathrow.
The Department for Transport said that the commission's shortlisted options - new runways at Heathrow or Gatwick, or extending an existing runway at Heathrow - are viable.
Further work is being carried out on noise, pollution and compensation before a decision is made.
NHS Highland charges £5 for one copy and £10 for three copies.
Following an investigation, SNP MSP Kate Forbes found that the board is the only one in Scotland to ask for a fee.
NHS Highland said charges have been in place for some time and the money covered the cost of high quality paper, but it would now review the practice.
Twelve out of 14 health boards issue one copy free, while NHS Lothian requests a voluntary donation, according Ms Forbes' investigation.
She said: "Seeing your baby for the first time on a scan at the hospital is an exciting and happy moment for mums and dads-to-be, particularly when you can see their little hands and feet moving for the first time.
"But it is unfortunate that pregnant mums in the Highlands are the only women in Scotland having to pay £5 for a photo of their baby at their antenatal scans."
A spokesperson for NHS Highland said: "NHS Highland can confirm that we do charge £5 for a copy of an antenatal scan and £10 for three copies.
"The antenatal scans are printed on high quality photographic paper for personal use by expectant parents, and the current charges were put in place after an increase in 2014.
"Charging for scanned photographs has been in place for a number of years, but in the light of the current information we will now undertake a review of this practice."
Ms Forbes said she was pleased the health board is to review the charges.
She added: "The matter came to light after I heard of a woman who had moved from Glasgow, where scan photos are free, to the Highlands, where she had to pay.
"My concern is the disparity between all the other health boards and NHS Highland."
The review highlighted "failures at multiple levels" at Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust since 2011.
One man who was suffering from lung cancer was not diagnosed for four months, it revealed.
The trust said it was "sorry that these issues went unchecked... for so long" but it was now making improvements.
Jackie Smith, chief executive and registrar at the Nursing and Midwifery Council, said: "We can confirm that we are investigating a number of individuals from Liverpool Community NHS Trust on allegations of misconduct."
The trust delivers community health services to about 750,000 people in Liverpool and Sefton, either in their homes or at health centres.
The review, conducted by the law firm Capsticks at the request of the trust, found cost-cutting efforts led to "a culture of bullying and harassment of staff" and pressures on front line services.
It said the trust also failed to fully investigate an attack on a health worker taken "hostage" and seriously assaulted by a patient's relative in 2013.
Other findings included:
Sue Page, chief executive at the trust since April 2014, said: "Two years ago, as we talked to staff, it was quite clear there were a lot of things that were clearly very wrong.
"Some of the staff were incredibly hurt by this and all I can say is a really big sorry on behalf of the NHS.
"They didn't deserve it, it wasn't their fault.
"We gave Capsticks complete independence and the staff feel it is an unbiased, independent report.
"A lot more has to be done. The report says we are only just turning a corner."
West Lancashire MP Rosie Cooper has called for a public inquiry into the trust.
She added: "This wasn't just a poor quality job. We are talking about people who lacked basic humanity and appear to have fiddled the records to protect themselves."
Carole Panteli, the trust's interim director of nursing, said a new leadership team was appointed in 2014 and was making improvements.
But, the report recommended the trust "quicken the pace of change".
The appointment of Robert Mueller, who headed the FBI for more than a decade, came just over a week after President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey - sparking calls for such a move.
But what is a special counsel? And what will he do?
The special counsel was appointed by Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. He made the decision as "acting attorney general" because Attorney General Jeff Sessions has stepped aside from the Russia inquiry.
Mr Rosenstein said that given the "unique circumstances", it was in the public interest for a special counsel independent "from the normal chain of command", to lead the investigation.
By placing authority for the probe into the hands of Mr Mueller, the idea is that it will be able to proceed without any interference, including from the White House.
According to Mr Rosenstein's order, he will look into:
That last point gives him quite a broad remit, with observers suggesting that he will also determine if the president himself has committed any wrongdoing.
"This is the way we are going to learn about whether there was an obstruction of justice or whether Mr Trump has violated the law in a way that would require action against him," Professor Stefan Halper, who served as a White House official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, told the BBC.
The special counsel has the powers of a US attorney - meaning he can subpoena records and bring criminal charges.
He can also prosecute anyone who interferes in his investigation through crimes including perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses
The special counsel can also ask for his jurisdiction to be widened.
He will not be supervised on a day-to-day basis but the attorney general, or in this case Mr Rosenstein, will be able to request an explanation for "any investigative or prosecutorial step" and can decide that any such action does not need to go ahead.
He must notify Congress if such a decision is made.
The justice department will provide staff that can work for Mr Mueller, and he can also ask for specific people from both inside and outside the department.
He will have to propose a budget in the next 60 days - and update it annually.
As acting attorney general in this matter, only Mr Rosenstein can fire him, and for the following reasons: misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest or for other "good cause", including violation of department policies.
However, President Trump could replace his deputy attorney general at any time.
Not necessarily. When a special counsel's work ends, a confidential report must be provided to the attorney general explaining the decision to lay charges or not.
The attorney general then has to notify Congress and can decide if the report should be made public.
The term "special prosecutor'" in the US context harks back to the Watergate scandal, when President Nixon's attorney general appointed Archibald Cox to lead an independent investigation.
But there was actually no law defining and regulating such an appointment, which allowed Mr Nixon to later fire Mr Cox. Only later, in 1978, was the Ethics in Government Act passed, which defined the circumstances under which an "independent counsel" could be appointed.
This role actually had more independence from the attorney general than the current special counsel position.
But the legal provision regulating it was allowed to expire in 1999 after the controversy of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's wide-ranging investigation into President Bill Clinton, which started as an inquiry into the Whitewater land deal allegations but ended up providing details of his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
So the titles "independent counsel" or "special prosecutor" no longer exist.
Instead the justice department has regulations allowing an outside "special counsel" to be appointed to investigate a person or matter when it might present a conflict of interest for the department or under other "extraordinary circumstances".
Speaking to a crowd of over 200 people in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, he said he admired Welsh Labour's record and would like to "narrow the red water".
Mr Corbyn praised Welsh Labour for removing internal competition in the NHS and pledged to boost rail services.
He said he hoped to meet First Minister Carwyn Jones soon to share ideas.
The second day of Mr Corbyn's campaign visit to Wales ended with a rally in Cardiff on Tuesday evening which was attended by about 1,000 people.
Earlier he addressed supporters in a gathering at the memorial stones to Welsh Labour hero and NHS creator Aneurin Bevan in Tredegar.
He praised the work of the Welsh Labour government in Cardiff Bay.
"I've been looking at their economic planning ideas, looking at the way they're trying to promote industrial development in Wales," he said.
"They need more powers in that area. They also need more resources, particularly in infrastructure improvements.
"If you want to have a growing economy, a better industrial economy, you have to improve the basic infrastructure, which is in main rail but in part road as well," he said.
Mr Corbyn said he was keen to forge closer links between the Labour parties in Wales and Westminster, saying he knew the former First Minister Rhodri Morgan well.
He said he had admired Mr Morgan's attempts in office to create "clear red water" between the former UK Labour government's policies and a more traditionally socialist direction in Wales.
"Maybe we can narrow the red water and we can walk across it," he said.
Mr Corbyn said he was "absolutely" ready to meet First Minister Carwyn Jones, as the other three leadership contenders had done, when they were both available.
Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall are also contenders for the Labour leadership, with the winner to be named on 12 September.
Officers were called to reports a man in his 50s had been stabbed at a house in Cumberland Avenue at 17:50 BST on Thursday.
A 43-year-old man is being questioned by police. Officers were seen guarding a property in nearby Lake Avenue.
At this stage it is believed that the victim and suspect were known to each other, Suffolk Police said.
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Arek Jozwik, 39, who was originally from Poland, died from head injuries from the attack in Harlow on 27 August.
Essex Police said they believed he was knocked to the floor by a single punch outside the TGF Pizza and Mr Luigi's in The Stow.
His ashes were buried at Parndon Wood Crematorium in Harlow.
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Leading the prayers in Polish and English, Father Bogdan Kot, a priest at Harlow's Catholic Church, said: "We gather together to pray and ask why?
"Why God allowed this to happen? Whatever the cause God will bring good out of it, if we let him."
Mr Jozwik was cremated on Thursday at a private service.
His ashes were buried on Friday at a memorial service attended by friends and family.
Speaking at the service, his friend Eric Hind said: "Arek was a wonderful man and even better friend.
"We loved the same video games, we watched the same TV shows.
"He was one of the few people I've met who actually cared, he was a true friend.
"Let's all think back how Arek touched our lives. We should all be thankful we were given chance to know a man called Arek."
Mr Jozwik was taken Addenbrooke's Hospital after the attack where he was pronounced dead.
Six teenagers have been arrested and released on police bail as part of a murder inquiry.
In the aftermath of his death, more than 1,000 people - including Poles from across the UK - gathered for a vigil in Harlow.
The American duo's announcement comes after fellow tennis stars Milos Raonic, Simona Halep and Tomas Berdych withdrew from the Games over the Zika virus.
In a statement, Bob Bryan said he and his brother made the decision after "countless hours of deliberation".
"Though we'd love to compete again, as husbands and fathers our family's health is now our top priority."
The Bryan brothers, 38, made no direct reference to Zika in their statement.
Women's world number five Halep and men's world number seven Raonic were the first tennis players to make themselves unavailable because of Zika, which is linked to brain deformities in newborn babies.
More than 20 male golfers have also withdrawn from Rio 2016, with many concerned about the mosquito-borne virus.
The Florida-based Bryan brothers won Olympic gold at the London 2012 Games - beating France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michael Llodra in the final - and own 112 titles together, including 16 Grand Slams.
"Representing Team USA is one of our proudest tennis moments to date and winning gold in 2012 will always remain the pinnacle of our career," their statement added.
"The Olympics mean so much to us for so many reasons and the memories we have wearing the Stars and Stripes will burn brightly forever."
Harris was best known for her roles on Broadway, where she jointly holds the record for the most Tony Award wins.
Her breakthrough came in the hit 1950 play The Member of the Wedding, which led to an Oscar nomination for a big screen adaptation three years later.
Other films included 1955's East of Eden with James Dean, while on TV she was known for the soap Knot's Landing.
Harris died at her home in Massachusetts of congestive heart failure, actress and family friend Francesca James told the Associated Press (AP) news agency.
Born in Michigan, Harris made her Broadway debut in 1945 and made her name five years later in The Member of the Wedding.
Aged 24, she played the lonely 12-year-old Frankie in Carson McCullers' stage version of her novel.
Harris won her first Tony Award in 1952 for playing Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, adapted from Christopher Isherwood's book Berlin Stories, which was later the basis of the stage and screen musical Cabaret.
Other Tony wins came for playing Joan of Arc in The Lark in 1956, for Forty Carats, a hit comedy about an older woman and a younger man in 1969, and for her role as Abraham Lincoln's wife Mary Todd Lincoln in 1973's The Last of Mrs Lincoln.
Her final competitive Tony win came for portraying poet Emily Dickinson in her one-woman show The Belle of Amherst in 1977. That performance also won a Grammy Award for best spoken word recording.
Angela Lansbury and Audra McDonald are the only other performers to have won five competitive Tonys.
Harris had five other nominations, making her the most nominated performer in the awards' history, and she received a special lifetime achievement Tony in 2002.
On the big screen, Harris appeared in more than 30 films including playing James Dean's love interest in East of Eden.
On television, she won three Emmy Awards between 1959 and 2000 as well as playing country music singer Lilimae Clements in Knot's Landing in the 1980s.
Harris had a stroke in 2001 followed by another in 2010, Francesca James told the AP.
Tornado reconnaissance aircraft, a naval frigate and a 1,200-strong force will be sent to the region under the proposals - expected to go for a parliament vote as early as Wednesday.
Germany decided to join the fight against IS after an appeal by French President Francois Hollande in the wake of the 13 November Paris attacks.
Its forces will not engage in combat.
MPs are expected to back the mission, which would become Germany's biggest current military operation abroad.
A debate and vote on the UK's involvement in fighting IS in Syria are due in the British parliament on Wednesday.
The Bundestag (lower house) will assess the proposals on Wednesday and a vote is expected by the end of the week, reports say.
Last week, Germany agreed to send 650 soldiers to Mali, to join 1,500 French troops deployed to fight IS militants.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Bild newspaper before Tuesday's cabinet meeting: "We are doing what is militarily necessary, what we can do best, and what we can back politically. Against an opponent like IS we need plenty of stamina."
Germany's armed services association cautioned against entering a conflict without clearly defined goals.
"I'm working on the basis that this fight, if it is taken seriously, will go on for well over 10 years," the association's chairman Andre Wuestner told German TV.
Green Party chairwoman Simone Peter was concerned about the legal basis for the mission without a UN resolution: "This deployment also has no political goal, no political concept and that's why it's irresponsible."
BBC Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill says Germans have concerns about mission creep and many MPs say backing the measures will give them political "Bauchschmerzen" [stomach ache].
The mandate will initially last a year and will cost €134m (£94m; $142m). It will involve Tornado reconnaissance jets, refuelling aircraft and the naval frigate Sachsen, which will help support the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean.
An opinion poll published on Tuesday revealed German disquiet about involvement in a mission against IS. According to the YouGov poll for the DPA news agency, 71% believed it would raise the threat of attack in Germany.
However 45% of Germans questioned backed military involvement and 39% were opposed.
Until now, Germany's biggest foreign mission has been in Afghanistan, but that has gradually wound down to a force of just under 1,000.
Some 700 German soldiers are also part of the Nato-led K-For operation to stabilise Kosovo.
A meeting on Wednesday turned down a devolution partnership with Portsmouth and Southampton, which supporters said could secure £900m from the government.
Portsmouth leader Donna Jones said the vote put the deal in jeopardy, although she was confident it would be reversed.
Isle of Wight council leader Jonathan Bacon said his executive would make a final decision on Monday.
If all three authorities agreed, an application would be submitted to the government.
Mr Bacon, an independent, said a devolution deal was the only way to address the council's "perilous financial state", following budget cuts of more than £50m over the last five years.
He said Wednesday's vote had "probably shot our credibility with the government".
Opposition Conservative leader Dave Stewart, whose group voted against the bid, said: "There has been little support for it amongst residents, and there were some very significant question marks over it."
Isle of Wight Conservative MP Andrew Turner had warned the island's needs "could easily be over-ridden" by Southampton and Portsmouth, and the potential £900m grant over 30 years was an "estimate" not a "government promise".
Mr Bacon said the government had confirmed the money was "definitely on the table".
He said the independent-controlled executive was in a "difficult position" ahead of its vote on Monday.
On Wednesday, Southampton joined Portsmouth in agreeing to be part of the bid.
Under the deal, the councils would leave the current system of government funding in exchange for keeping business rates of about £210m a year.
The three councils would continue as separate entities and retain their existing powers, but they would also be equal members on a board led by an elected mayor.
The teenage boy was killed by New South Wales police on Friday after he gunned down the worker at close range outside the state police headquarters.
Police say the boy, who was of Iraqi-Kurdish heritage, probably acted alone.
In a separate case in Britain, another 15-year-old boy on Friday was given a life sentence for plotting to behead police officers at a Melbourne parade.
The Blackburn teenager - who sent thousands of online messages to an alleged Australian jihadist - will serve at least five years and will only be released once he is no longer considered dangerous.
The man killed in Friday's incident has been named as Curtis Cheng, a finance worker who had worked for the New South Wales police force for 17 years.
He was shot dead outside his office in Parramatta, a western suburb of Sydney, in what police describe as a targeted attack.
According to some reports, the gunman - whose name has not yet been released - shouted religious slogans before carrying out the attack. He was subsequently killed in an exchange of fire with volunteer police officers.
"We believe his actions were politically motivated and therefore linked to terrorism," New South Wales police commissioner Andrew Scipione told reporters on Saturday.
But he said that the boy's "exact motivation still remains a mystery to us".
The boy, who was born in Iran, was previously unknown to police or intelligence services, he added.
Australia has stepped up counter-terrorism efforts in recent months in the face of what officials say is a growing security threat from radical Islamists.
Dozens of Australian nationals are thought to be fighting for Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria.
Experts are worried about the effect of returnees - and on those who support them - on security.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described Friday's incident as "a shocking crime" and "cold-blooded murder".
"It was doubly shocking because it was perpetrated by a 15-year-old boy. And it underlines the importance of families, communities, leaders being very aware of whether young people are becoming radicalised," he told reporters on Saturday.
But he also warned against vilifying the Muslim community for "a very, very small percentage of violent extremist individuals".
Without naming Khan, Rajnath Singh told the parliament that despite insults, iconic Dalit leader "BR Ambedkar never said he would leave India".
On Wednesday, the actor clarified that he had no intention of leaving India.
But several leaders of Mr Singh's BJP party have criticised him.
On the opening day of the winter session of the parliament, MPs began by paying tribute to Ambedkar - the independence hero who wrote India's constitution.
Ambedkar was a Dalit - formerly untouchables - who were socially discriminated against by India's higher castes.
"Dr BR Ambedkar had to put up with insults and derision. Yet, he controlled his emotion and put forward an objective point of view for India. He never said how he was being ignored and insulted in India," Mr Singh said in his remarks in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the parliament.
"He said I will stay in India and keeping the Indian values and culture in mind, I will strengthen the country," Mr Singh added.
On Monday, actor, director and producer Khan told a journalism awards ceremony organised by The Indian Express newspaper that a sense of "insecurity" and "fear" had been growing in India.
He said he was "alarmed" over rising intolerance and his wife had even suggested leaving the country.
Following criticism from BJP politicians and several of his Bollywood colleagues, Khan on Wednesday put out a statement on his Facebook page saying he had never intended to leave India.
"Let me state categorically that neither I, nor my wife Kiran, have any intention of leaving the country. We never did, and nor would we like to in the future."
Despite his clarification, the controversy refuses to die down and the home minister's comments are seen as the latest salvo fired at him by BJP politicians.
Mr Singh's comments are also important as they were spoken in the parliament, where the government will later seek to push a key bill on a uniform countrywide goods and services tax.
The government wants to implement one of India's most significant tax reforms since Independence by April 2016.
However, the session is likely to be a stormy one, with opposition parties demanding a debate on "growing intolerance" in the country.
BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu said the government was "willing to discuss all issues, including the so-called issue of rising intolerance even though the incidents that happened were in the domain of states… We do not support or condone such incidents".
The coaching trio depart with immediate effect, with Pulis now set to recruit his own staff at The Hawthorns.
Kelly took caretaker charge after Alan Irvine was sacked last week, overseeing the 1-1 draw at West Ham.
"It is obviously sad to say farewell to three popular and respected members of staff," a club statement read.
Kelly and Downing were the club's joint assistant head coaches, while Kiely was goalkeeping coach.
Dave Kemp - who was Pulis' assistant at Stoke and Crystal Palace - is expected to move to The Hawthorns after watching the Baggies' 1-1 draw at Upton Park with Pulis last week.
"Keith and Dean have been here a number of years and took over first-team control in a caretaker capacity during a difficult period last season. They played a key role in stabilising the team," West Brom's director of football administration Richard Garlick added.
"Rob joined at the start of the season and became a valued member of the coaching set-up.
"The club would like to place on record its deep appreciation for the contribution of Keith, Rob and Dean within the coaching structure."
Pulis took over on Thursday and led the club to a 7-0 win against Dover in the FA Cup in his first game at the helm.
West Brom are 17th in the Premier League, one point clear of the drop zone with 18 games remaining.
Hales, 27, was out for 15 in the first innings of the final Test against South Africa and has made only 135 runs in his first seven knocks at Test level.
"He doesn't have the attitude for it. He hasn't got it," Boycott said.
"Even if he makes runs in the second innings, that's not enough. I need more consistency from my opening batsman."
Hales is the eighth opening batsman England have tried since the retirement of former skipper Andrew Strauss in 2012.
Yorkshire left-hander Adam Lyth was discarded after the Ashes last summer, the 28-year-old making 265 runs in seven matches at an average of 20, with a best of 107.
Moeen Ali was tried at the top of the order in the United Arab Emirates against Pakistan last year but averaged only 14 in three matches.
Hales, who made his maiden one-day international century in November and averages 25 from 24 matches in the 50-over game, has a first-class best of 236 but has made only one score of note in his short Test career, hitting 10 fours in his 60 in the second Test.
He struck three fours at Centurion on Saturday but was caught driving tamely at pace bowler Kagiso Rabada.
"Hales' was a shocking shot - caught at cover as an opening batsman. I'll repeat that: caught at cover as an opening batsman. It's not humorous," Boycott told BBC Test Match Special.
"The lad has never had it in Test cricket - he doesn't have the attitude for it. He hasn't got it. He's got wonderful hand-eye concentration but he's a one-day cricketer.
"You've got to set a platform. But Hales gets out in funny ways. His technique and footwork is not good enough for Test cricket. He may never get it. I've never been convinced."
In reply to South Africa's 475, England lost two early wickets, with number three Nick Compton LBW for 19 to a shooting low delivery that raised question marks about the state of the pitch with three days remaining.
Skipper Alastair Cook made his first half-century of the series, sharing an unbroken 60 with Joe Root as England closed 337 behind in Centurion.
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Three catches were missed by England on day two, in addition to the two they spilled on the opening day and all-rounder Ben Stokes admitted: "We'll look back on this game at the end and realise we let them off the hook massively.
"In Test cricket good players make you pay and they certainly have done in this innings."
Looking ahead, Stokes - the pick of the England bowlers with 4-86 - said: "Cooky's obviously struggled this tour so when he did get that 50 it was almost like he'd got a hundred because we were all so pleased for him.
"It's good to see him back on form and playing the way he has done over the years. Hopefully he can go on and make a big one for us."
Serbian PM Ivica Dacic said the EU "is not only the goal, but also the means by which we will modernise our system".
The membership negotiations are expected to take several years, as Serbia has to bring its laws and institutions into line with EU norms.
Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos led the EU team in Brussels. Greece is now chairing EU meetings.
The BBC's Guy De Launey in Belgrade says the Serbian government is led by former ultra-nationalists who converted to the cause of EU membership before they came to power two years ago.
Aleksandar Vucic, leader of the largest party in the governing coalition, has been the driving force, our correspondent says.
He told the BBC that joining the EU was the only sure way to transform Serbia after two decades of conflict, international embargoes and economic woe.
"If we don't change ourselves, if we don't do something regarding rule of law, if we don't do many other changes in other social spheres - we won't be successful in the future," he said.
Serbia's membership negotiations are expected to take at least six years.
Serbia's agreement to normalise relations with Kosovo was the key which allowed membership talks to start. Kosovo broke away from Serbia in a conflict in 1999 and declared independence in 2008 - a move that was condemned by Belgrade.
But a Kosovo-Serbia deal was struck through EU mediation last year.
The EU Ambassador to Serbia, Michael Davenport, told the BBC that "Serbia has made a lot of progress over the last three or four years - putting much stronger emphasis on regional co-operation, and in particular trying to sort out the issue of Kosovo".
"By the way, Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast opens today," the smart speaker said after listing the time, weather and travel update.
In a video posted on Twitter, it then talked about the plot and suggested asking it about main character Belle for "more movie fun".
Google denied that the material on Home was an advertisement.
It appeared as part of a "My Day" feature where the digital assistant provides an update which can include calendar events and news bulletins.
"This wasn't intended to be an ad," said a spokeswoman.
"What's circulating online was a part of our My Day feature, where after providing helpful information about your day, we sometimes call out timely content.
"We're continuing to experiment with new ways to surface unique content for users and we could have done better in this case."
The device is not yet available outside the US.
The tech giant has experimented before with including what it calls "seasonal timely content" on the Google Home device without it being requested.
Previous material on the themes of Black History Month and the Oscars has also run.
The rise of digital assistants presents a "tricky conundrum" for advertising sales, said analyst Ben Wood from CCS Insight.
"Unlike adverts inserted on a screen which can be glossed over, anything presented in an audio format risks being incredibly intrusive," he said.
"The most likely outcome will be that there would be ad-funded voice assistants where the user gets a discounted device in return for accepting adverts."
He added that Google faces a different challenge to Amazon, which markets rival home assistant the Amazon Echo.
"Google's primary business model is predicated on advertising," he said.
"Whereas for Amazon its about transactional revenue where a voice assistant like Echo can help drive sales."
BBC Radio Sheffield reports the clubs have agreed a fee of about £500,000.
Evans, 28, last played for the Blades in 2012 before he was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in 2011 and sentenced to five years in prison.
That conviction was quashed and, following a re-trial last October, Evans was found not guilty.
Wales international Evans joined Chesterfield last summer and has scored seven goals in 29 appearances for the relegated League One side this season.
He scored 42 goals in 103 league appearances in his first spell at Bramall Lane.
Evans joined Sheffield United from Manchester City for £3m in 2009, but struggled in his first two seasons with the club, scoring only 13 goals in 74 games.
His form improved dramatically in his final season with the Blades, as he found the net 35 times in 42 appearances, before being jailed six days after his final game - a 3-1 win over Leyton Orient.
After his release in October 2014, having served two and a half years of his prison sentence, the Blades revoked an initial offer to allow him to use their training facilities after 170,000 people signed an online petition against the move.
United's main shirt sponsor threatened to end their association with the club if they re-signed Evans, three club patrons resigned, while Olympic heptathlon champion Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill wanted her name removed from a stand named after her if the striker was offered a contract.
He then nearly joined League One side Oldham Athletic in January 2015 before the club pulled out of the deal following threats to their staff and pressure from sponsors.
Chesterfield offered him a return to professional football in June 2016, two months after his conviction was quashed, saying "a great deal of thought" had gone into the signing.
Evans scored in his first professional game in over four years with the equaliser in a 1-1 draw against Oxford on the opening day of this season in August.
He scored six more times before the turn of the year, but has failed to score in his past 11 appearances and has not featured since 4 March.
BBC Radio Sheffield sport reporter Rob Staton:
The Blades clearly believe they can get the best out of Ched Evans. He played his best football at Bramall Lane and Chris Wilder is known for his man-management skills.
Fans will be torn on this one. Some will back the signing and remember the days, albeit five years ago, that Evans was a prolific goalscorer. Others will see it as an unnecessary distraction.
United have already won the League One title and this story will now dominate the headlines before their coronation as champions on Sunday.
The Olympics' most decorated athlete signed a letter sent to the International Swimming Federation (Fina) in December.
It proposed carrying out "at least six" targeted, out-of-competition tests on the 10 quickest swimmers in each of the 34 Olympic events.
Fina accepted the proposal in January.
The tests for a range of prohibited substances include the collection of urine and blood samples and represent a significant increase.
Other US swimmers making the "urgent request" to the governing body included Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin.
The swimming competition in Rio has been marred by increased tension between competitors after the IOC resisted demands for a blanket-ban of Russia despite the McLaren report into state-sponsored doping.
Seven Russian swimmers have been allowed to compete in Rio after initially being banned, leading to complaints from several rivals.
American Lilly King and Britain's Chloe Tutton have both appeared to question the involvement of Russia's Yuliya Efimova, who was banned in 2013 after traces of an anabolic steroid were found in her system.
Australian 400m freestyle champion Mack Horton called Sun Yang "a drug cheat" after his Chinese rival served a three-month ban in 2014 for testing positive for a banned substance.
China's Chen Xinyi became the first swimmer to fail a doping test in Rio. The 18-year-old tested positive for diuretic hydrochlorothiazide on Sunday - the day she finished fourth in the women's 100m butterfly final.
The letter sent by the American swimmers was also signed by Camille Adams, Nathan Adrian, Michael Chadwick, Tyler Clary, Kevin Cordes, Conor Dwyer, Matt Grevers, Jessica Hardy, Chase Kalisz, Caitlin Leverenz, Simone Manuel, Katie Meilli, Cody Miller, Lea Neal, David Nolan, Alison Schmitt, Josh Schneider, Tom Shields, Austin Surhoff and Kelsi Worrell.
It read: "We have learned from the Wada [World Anti-Doping Agency] independent commission that state-sponsored doping in Russia involved athletes from sports other than just athletics, including swimmers.
"We also know there are a number of top swimmers from other countries where there has been a history of doping, and many would question the effectiveness of their national anti-doping organisations.
"According to the clean swimmers of the world, there is no more important priority for the use of Fina funds."
Fina spent £560,000 on anti-doping in 2015 - approximately one tenth of the figure that cycling's governing body, the UCI, spent.
They have also had swimmers test positive in recent years, particularly Russia, which hosted the Fina World Championships in Kazan last year. Five young Russian swimmers failed tests in late 2013, with three more cases since then.
Fina President Julio Maglione has claimed that Wada "exceeded their power" when compiling the McLaren report into Russian doping.
Members of the the United Cabbies Group (UCG) focused their demonstration outside Transport for London's (TfL) headquarters in Victoria Street.
Traffic built up quickly and the knock-on effect was felt by road users throughout neighbouring areas.
TfL said it was working to clamp down on illegal minicab activity.
It added that 331 private hire drivers had been reported since the recent launch of a high-profile campaign to ensure everyone complied with the regulations.
However, UCG drivers complained that TfL is failing to properly regulate private hire drivers and minicab offices by not carrying out sufficient background checks on people applying for licences.
They also said minicabs, which are legally only allowed to take passengers that have pre-booked cabs, are picking up passengers from the street.
The situation has got worse since the launch of Uber, a smartphone cab booking app, according to the union.
Len Martin, chairman of the UCG, said: "We have continually complained of a lack of enforcement creating a real and present threat to lone females at night."
David Garness, from Dagenham, Essex, who took part in the protest said: "We don't like demonstrating like this but TfL is turning a blind eye to what is going on.
"We have illegal operators coming down to London, sleeping in their vehicles, operating without insurance and without the necessary checks."
TfL said it had urged the UCG to call off the protest saying it had launched an operation to clamp down and disrupt illegal activity by minicab and taxis.
Garrett Emmerson, of TfL, said: "We are determined to protect the livelihoods of all legitimate taxi and private hire drivers through robust enforcement action."
Police knew that the suspect, Jose Jorge Balderas Garza, was in a relationship with a Colombian model.
Reports say when a Facebook profile in her name listed a Mexico City area as her location, officers moved in.
Mr Balderas denies he carried out the shooting.
He blames one of his associates for the attack last January on Cabanas, who played for Paraguay and Mexico's Club America.
The football star was shot in the head in the bathroom of a bar in Mexico City on 25 January last year. He survived, but a bullet remains lodged in his head.
Police also accuse Mr Balderas of running a drug-trafficking ring.
Officers say that during their inquiries about Mr Balderas, they became aware of his romantic link to the Colombian model and participant in the Miss Antioquia 2008 competition, Juliana Sossa.
A profile page in Ms Sossa's name on Facebook gave her current location as Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City.
On Tuesday, police moved into the area and found Ms Sossa, 25, and Mr Balderas in the house they shared. They arrested the couple, along with five other suspects.
The pictures of Henry Bushnell were found by Prof Peter Stoneley, from the University of Reading, who carried out a study of Wilde's fellow prisoners.
He said the playwright had been "attracted to" Bushnell but details of their relationship were unknown.
Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for homosexuality in 1895.
In a letter the disgraced playwright mentioned a "little dark-eyed chap", believed to be labourer Bushnell, who was jailed for theft 21 times between 1892 and 1911, said Prof Stoneley.
Most inmates were not photographed but, as a repeat offender, Bushnell was. There are seven mugshots of him in the archives of the recently closed Reading Prison.
Speaking on the 160th anniversary of Wilde's birth, Prof Stoneley said: "We don't know the full details of the relationship between Wilde and Bushnell.
"However, Victorian prisoners were not officially even allowed to speak to each other while in prison - much less eat or work together, or form private relationships.
"What we do know is that as well as mentioning him in his letters, Wilde sent money to Bushnell after he was released from prison, although further meetings are unlikely."
Records about the execution of Charles Wooldridge, the soldier whose death is the subject of Wilde's work The Ballad of Reading Gaol, were also found in the archives.
In records that detail the execution of Trooper Wooldridge, the prison doctor noted that he had a "rather long" neck.
The study revealed details of the Victorian prison system, which Wilde went on to campaign against.
The Oscar Wilde and Reading Gaol exhibition opens at the Berkshire Record Office on Monday.
A mound of waste, reaching 42ft high (13m) at its peak, has dominated the skyline around Moor Street, Brierley Hill for several years.
Robert McNaughton, director of Refuse Derived Fuel, was jailed for six months in December 2013 for failing to clear the site.
On Monday Dudley Council approved outline planning permission for up to 94 flats to be built on the site.
Developers are expected to meet the costs of removing the waste from the 0.83-hectare site, if detailed plans are approved at a later date.
"The clients will be dealing with taking the rubbish off the site and working with the Environment Agency to make sure everything is box-ticked," Ashley Clarke from MRC Architects, which is responsible for the new plans, said.
Local resident Geoff Clarke described it as a very "positive" step and said people in the area had suffered the sight and smell of the tip for many years.
"The waste site has been in its current state for about four years," he said.
"It's been there that long that it's started to sprout trees."
The legal action against RDF was brought by the Environment Agency.
Broadcasting Minister Venkaiah Naidu took the decision, the channel said.
The 24-hour suspension was imposed as a penalty for NDTV's coverage of an attack on the Pathankot air force base.
The broadcasting ministry said the channel had divulged "strategically-sensitive details" while covering the attack which took place in January.
It said that among the information revealed were details on ammunition and the locations of military planes.
Monday's decision - reported on the channel's website - to suspend the ban was announced after the Supreme Court agreed to hear NDTV's appeal on Tuesday against it.
Mr Naidu earlier argued that the suspension was necessary for security reasons and that it was responsible for generating a storm of criticism against the government which appeared to be "politically inspired".
NDTV rejected the criticism, saying its coverage of the attack - in which seven Indian soldiers and six militants were killed - was "particularly balanced".
It argued that other channels and newspapers reported the same details.
India has accused Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammad of carrying out the assault.
The ban was believed to have been the first order against an Indian broadcaster over its coverage of militant attacks.
The Press Club of India described the government's action as "uncalled-for censorship" at a time when "press freedom is already under increasing threat in the country".
NDTV said after the announcement of the ban that it was looking at "all possible options" in response to the "extraordinary order".
The channel also received support from the Editors Guild of India, an organisation of the country's top editors which condemned the "unprecedented decision".
News of the ban and its suspension has also trended on Twitter under the #NDTVBanned hashtag.
The Farc urged other members not to pursue "this futureless path."
Under the terms of the accord, the rebels will give up their armed struggle and become a political party.
There are concerns that many rebels would prefer to remain in the highly profitable cocaine smuggling business that the Farc controlled in some areas.
Profits from the production of cocaine and drug trafficking was used to finance the Farc's operations.
"The path of peace should not be hampered by a group of reckless people who, ignoring the yearnings of peace of the vast majority of our people, throw themselves off a cliff of personal ambition," said the Farc in a statement.
The five commanders were based in a jungle area in south-east Colombia.
Until a few days ago, the Farc says, they "performed tasks of command in the organisation."
They have been named as Gentil Duarte, Euclides Mora, John Cuarenta, Giovanny Chuspas and Julian Chollo.
One of them took part in the peace negotiations held in the Cuban capital, Havana, for nearly four years, Reuters news agency reported.
It is suspected that they might have left their base with a group of fighters, money and arms and that they were no longer following orders from the Farc central command, says the BBC's Natalio Cosoy in Bogota.
The agreement between the Colombian government and the Marxist rebel group is the culmination of four years of negotiations in Havana.
Their aim was to end a conflict that began in 1964 and has killed at least 220,000 people.
They reached a deal in July, but the Colombian people rejected it by a narrow margin in a referendum in October.
Opponents of the deal said it gave too many concessions to the Farc, including leniency for those who had committed crimes during the conflict.
New negotiations began immediately, including the Colombian opposition.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Farc leader Timoleon Jimenez better known as Timochenko signed a peace accord last month.
The opponents, led by former President Alvaro Uribe, say the revised deal is still too lenient on Farc leaders.
President Santos says the new accord takes into account changes demanded by opponents of the scheme.
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Does yr un cwmni ar wahân i S4C wedi arwyddo cytundeb prydles hyd yma.
Dywedodd Is-ganghellor Prifysgol Y Drindod Dewi Sant, Medwin Hughes, ei fod yn gobeithio y byddai Yr Egin yn cyrraedd capasiti o 60% o fewn y ddau fis nesaf, ond cyfaddefodd byddai angen mwy o gwmnïau.
Dywedodd Mr Hughes wrth y Pwyllgor Materion Cymreig: "Mae £3m o'r arian rent sydd wedi'i dalu rhag blaen gan S4C yn helpu gyda llif arian am 2 i 3 blynedd, ond bydd angen iddo fod yn 60% llawn er mwyn i'r cynllun dalu ffordd."
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"Fel gydag unrhyw gytundeb mawr ceir cytundebau cyfrinachedd. Ar y cyfan, mae'r cysylltiad rhwng S4C a'r Brifysgol wedi cael ei gyflwyno mewn modd priodol."
Yn gynharach ym mis Mawrth fe gafodd yr Egin £3m o gyllid gan Llywodraeth Cymru ar ôl i'r Brifysgol sylweddoli na fyddai'r cyllid Ewropeaidd oedd ar gael iddynt yn ddigonol.
Ali Price and Finn Russell return, with Fraser Brown and Gordon Reid on the bench for Gregor Townsend's side.
Connacht also welcome back several internationals, with Tiernan O'Halloran and Kieran Marmion in the backline.
Sean O'Brien, Jake Heenan and John Muldoon return to make up the back row.
Up front, Denis Buckley and Finlay Bealham pack down in the front row with hooker Tom McCartney. Quinn Roux and Andrew Browne make up the second-row partnership.
Ireland Sevens player Josh Rowland starts on the bench after recovering from an ankle injury.
Connacht coach Pat Lam said: "All our games with Glasgow are challenging, particularly in Scotstoun, where we have never won.
"But that chance to create a bit of history just adds to the excitement for us."
Glasgow are sixth in the Pro12 table, one place and seven points ahead of the visitors, who have a game in hand over the Scots.
Warriors' returning internationals should be boosted by a positive Six Nations performance, with Vern Cotter's Scotland having finished fourth in the table following three victories.
Hogg starts at full-back on Saturday and is joined in the back three by Sean Lamont, who lines up on the right wing, with Rory Hughes on the opposite side.
In the centre, Peter Horne captains the side for the second game in a row, alongside Nick Grigg, and Horne's brother George is among the replacements.
The Scotland half-back pairing of Price and Russell are reunited and, in the front-row, Alex Allan and Sila Puafisi pack down either side of All Black Corey Flynn.
Matt Smith will make his home debut starting on the open flank and he is joined by Rob Harley and Adam Ashe in the back-row, with Harley set to make the second highest number of appearances of any player in a Glasgow shirt.
Glasgow coach Townsend said: "It's great to welcome so many of our Test players back into our squad. They formed the majority of a Scotland team that got three wins in the Six Nations.
"It's great to see our players working hard during games, doing work that leads to tries and also scoring tries. It means they're full of confidence and they'll bring that confidence back into our squad.
"The quality of the session goes up when you have a really good group of players training, either in the team or the opposition team. We've missed them.
"We realise that this is the biggest part of our season. It's the time where we usually play well - it'll be tougher for us this year because of the opposition we're playing, but it's a really exciting period.
"Connacht are a side we respect greatly, from their positive approach to the game and also how hard they work for each other."
Glasgow Warriors: S Hogg, S Lamont, N Grigg, P Horne (captain), R Hughes, F Russell, A Price; A Allan; C Flynn, S Puafisi, T Swinson, B Alainu'uese, R Harley, M Smith, A Ashe.
Replacements: F Brown, G Reid, D Rae, S Cummings, L Wynne, G Horne, A Dunbar, P Murchie.
Connacht: T O'Halloran, N Adeolokun, B Aki, C Ronaldson, S Ili, J Carty, K Marmion; D Buckley, T McCartney, F Bealham, Q Roux, A Browne, S O'Brien, J Heenan, J Muldoon captain).
Replacements: D Heffernan, R Loughney, D Robertson-McCoy, J Cannon, N Dawai, J Cooney, T Farrell, J Rowland.
Referee: Ian Davies.
One of the first and most vivid pieces of footage, posted by Twitter user William Locke, recorded the entire explosion.
The person behind the camera was knocked over by the shockwave but not before they captured the scale of the blast, as the ensuing series of images from his video shows.
Others recorded the blast - a huge fireball rising above the port in Tianjin followed by a huge cloud of dust and ash rising into the sky.
In the aftermath of the explosion, thick smoke and dust could be seen in images taken on people's phones and uploaded to Weibo, the Chinese microblogging platform similar to Twitter.
The BBC's Paul Wood, who was embedded with the marines at the time, recalls the fierce fighting and asks what it can tell us about today's struggle against Islamic State.
We were on a rooftop in Falluja. A sniper was in a minaret a couple of hundred yards away.
The sound of battle was all around us but the roof seemed awfully still and quiet.
You couldn't see the bullets. It was more like feeling their presence. We all lay flat, an unseen force pressing down. That force was fear.
The military translator stood and shouted down to the street. A dozen civilians, men and women, were inching forward, waving a ragged white sheet.
"Raise your shirts", he shouted to the men. He was afraid they were hiding suicide belts. "OK. Move!" he yelled. "Get the hell away from here: it's dangerous."
We crawled off the roof and fell down the stairs, back into the noise and confusion of the building.
Two marines were at a window, one firing, one spotting. "Right there! Right there!" An hour later we heard that the last man off the roof had been killed. A bullet from the sniper hit him in the back, below his flak jacket, as he jumped into the stairwell.
That was Lt Dan Malcolm. He was 25. I remembered him as a quiet and thoughtful young officer who liked to play chess. Like us, he had left the roof, the danger all too apparent.
He went back because of a desperate call from another lieutenant, Elliot Ackerman, whose platoon was coming under friendly fire.
"We had these artillery rounds landing in the street in front of us," Lt Ackerman told the BBC last week.
"I could hear the steel slapping against the building we were in. So I got on the radio, screaming out, trying to figure out what was going on. Dan ran back up to that rooftop to see where the rounds were landing and call them off of us."
Ten years on, Elliot Ackerman, deeply affected, still wears a wristband to remember Lt Malcolm.
How was it that the biggest battle of the Iraq campaign was fought more than a year-and-a-half after the invasion - and after the now notorious declaration by President Bush of "Mission Accomplished"?
Falluja was never going to welcome the Americans as crowds of Shia Muslims did when US forces arrived in Iraq, in March 2003.
Falluja was Sunni - and it had done well under Saddam Hussein's Baath party rule. Its sons joined the army and the police. After March 2003, they were unemployed.
Some turned to crime: the highway near Falluja became notorious for armed hijackings. Some joined the "resistance".
On 31 March 2004, four American private security contractors were ambushed in the centre of Falluja. They were probably killed when their armoured four-wheel-drive vehicle was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade.
To make sure, small boys brought jugs of petrol and a crowd set the bodies alight. The men's charred bodies were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates.
The US Marines wanted to move into Falluja "like a soft mist" and quietly arrest the guilty, said the military historian Bing West, a former Marine Corps officer in Vietnam.
As the crisis unfolded, Mr West was at the headquarters of the marines' commander, Gen James "Mad Dog" Mattis.
"Ambassador [Paul] Bremer [former US administrator in Iraq] and President Bush got very angry and emotional and the order came down the chain of command, 'No, you are to seize the city,'" Mr West told me in an interview in 2006.
"And the marines said, in a polite way, 'Do you know what it takes to seize a city of 300,000?'"
But that was exactly what the US Marines were ordered to do. Their attack in April 2004 - the first battle of Falluja - quickly got bogged down. Marines I spoke to recalled being trapped, fired on from all sides as the young men of Falluja rose up to defend their city.
Civilian casualties were inevitable and anger spread across Iraq, leading to street protests and more attacks on coalition forces.
There was unrest among the Shia majority, not just among Sunnis. Members of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council threatened to walk out. Iraq was boiling over. The marines were ordered to retreat.
After that, Falluja became a safe haven for al-Qaeda. Kidnap victims - Iraqi and foreign - disappeared there. Strict sharia [Islamic law] was enforced. Locals spoke of beheadings in the street.
Outside, a long, slow military build-up began. Civilians were warned that they should leave. A noose was thrown around the city. Anyone suspected of being an insurgent was arrested at checkpoints.
In October 2004, journalists came to Camp Falluja to "embed" with the force that would shortly try to retake the city.
During the first battle, in April, Muslim opinion had been outraged by US targeting of mosques. Fallujah has so many it is known as "the city of mosques".
They were being used as insurgent bases, the minarets sniper positions. The marines wanted journalists there to witness that.
I joined 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment - the 1/8 - led by Lt Col Gary Brandl.
Col Brandl told his men they were leaving behind the shadow war of insurgent ambushes and roadside bombs planted by a "faceless enemy".
"The enemy has got a face," he said. "He's called Satan. He's in Falluja. And we're going to destroy him."
Years later, that is still one of my most memorable quotes of the Iraq war. The unit's pastor said the "wrath of God" would be called down on the "terrorists, evildoers" in Falluja, with the US Marine Corps the instrument of that wrath.
The night before everyone "stepped-off", Col Brandl explained the battle plan to his officers, using a mock-up of Falluja laid out on the dusty floor of a barracks.
One rifle company would take the main road into Falluja. A second would go up that road to move into the complex of government buildings in the centre.
It was an old fashioned marine charge. "Hey diddle-diddle, straight up the f-ing middle," one of the officers said to me quietly.
So as the sun rose a couple of days later, the US forces in the city centre buildings found themselves under fire from all sides.
The fighting was at close quarters, with the two sides sometimes just a few yards apart
Meanwhile, Col Brandl strode around like a Hollywood version of what a Marine Corps officer should be, cigar stuck between his teeth as he dished out orders.
The bodies of insurgents lay in the streets for days, being gnawed at by dogs.
We moved to a house with one squad. The owners had left behind Baath party membership cards and pictures of Saddam Hussein.
Outside, insurgents were hiding behind a breeze block wall. As night fell, they fired rocket propelled grenades that made yellow streaks as they sailed over the house.
Marine snipers using thermal imagers could see the insurgents and shot them through the wall.
The marines lost a man in an intense firefight for another house that went on most of the morning. Inside, they found the bodies of two men and a boy aged about 10. The whole squad was very upset about that.
To me, it seemed to show that some of the menfolk of Falluja had stayed behind to fight the Americans.
The marines were not just facing the foreign jihadists whose passports - Saudi, Egyptian, Algerian - US commanders said had been found on insurgent bodies.
But most of the people had left Falluja. The only civilians we saw were on the first day, from the roof of the building where Lt Malcolm was killed.
That was the crucial difference with the first battle of Falluja. The image of a city packed with non-combatants being pounded with artillery and white phosphorous was wrong.
After a week of combat, the marines had taken back Falluja. The 1/8 alone had lost more than 20 men.
A year later, we went back to Falluja. A Marine Corp major showing us around stood embarrassed as a woman in black niqab screamed at him that her husband had been shot dead at a checkpoint.
As we found out later, the Iraqi Army, not the Americans, had killed him. But people were angry at the US.
That didn't change until the Sunni tribal "Awakening" - and only then because Sunnis feared genocide at the hands of Shia death squads.
Now the black flag of jihad flies over Falluja once again, the Islamic State in control.
Sunnis have turned to them because of hatred of the Shia-led government in Baghdad.
American military advisers are back in Iraq but the US is not about to refight the battle of Falluja.
The lesson of 10 years ago for Western governments battling the Islamic State today? It is that military force alone is not enough for lasting victory.
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is launching a public consultation on the plans for trains from the south of England to London, Bedford, Cambridge and Peterborough.
GTR's Southern services have been disrupted in a long-running dispute over the role of conductors.
The RMT union called the timetable plan "spin" to hide the "daily chaos".
GTR said there would be new direct routes between Brighton, Gatwick Airport and Cambridge, and from London Bridge to the Medway Towns.
A spokesman said the changes planned for 2018 would lead to greater reliability.
Direct trains between London Victoria and Seaford may no longer run with journey times between Victoria and Eastbourne and direct services between Brighton and Seaford reduced.
Services between Brighton and Eastbourne, and between Brighton and Hastings could be increased, GTR said.
Passengers travelling between Brighton and Ashford International may have change at either Eastbourne or Hastings, adding up to 27 minutes to the journey.
Phil Hutchinson, who is leading the public consultation on the plans, said: "We are proposing a complete redesign of the timetable by looking at which journeys are most important to passengers.
"We are creating more capacity and new cross-London routes with connections to Crossrail."
But Mick Cash, general secretary of the RMT union, said: "Passengers don't want to be consulted on how services may improve in almost two years' time.
"They want action now to end the daily chaos to their journeys.
"This can only raise suspicions that the Southern spin machine is at full tilt to obscure the reality of cancelled train services."
The UK health service was praised for its safety, affordability and efficiency, but fared less well on outcomes such as preventing early death and cancer survival.
The research by the Commonwealth Fund, a US think tank, looked at countries across the world, including the US, Canada, Australia, France and Germany.
The US came bottom.
It is the second time in a row that the UK has finished top.
Three years ago, when the survey was last done, the UK was also number one.
It comes despite the NHS being in the grip of the tightest financial squeeze in its history with lengthening waiting times.
The NHS was praised for the safety of its care, the systems in place to prevent ill-health, such as vaccinations and screening, the speed at which people get help and that there was equitable access regardless of income.
Only in one of the five themes looked at did the NHS perform poorly compared with the other nations - health outcomes. This covers general health of the population, early deaths and cancer survival among other measures.
1 UK
2 Australia
3 Netherlands
4 = New Zealand
4 = Norway
6 = Sweden
6 = Switzerland
8 Germany
9 Canada
10 France
11 US
England's Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "These outstanding results are a testament to the dedication of NHS staff, who despite pressure on the front line are delivering safer, more compassionate care than ever.
‎"Ranked the best healthcare system of 11 wealthy countries, the NHS has again showed why it is the single thing that makes us most proud to be British."
But others pointed out that in terms of quality of care - as shown by the health outcomes - the findings were more damning.
Kate Andrews, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, said the NHS was "far from being the envy of the world".
"The UK has one of the highest rates of avoidable deaths in western Europe, and tens of thousands of lives could be saved each year if NHS patients with serious conditions such as cancer were treated by social health insurance systems in neighbouring countries, such as Belgium and Germany.
"It is not just low-income earners who receive poor care, the NHS's provision of care is equally poor for everybody, irrespective of income."
The infection was related to the treatment he has had for prostate cancer over the past 18 years, his daughter, Rev Canon Mpho Tutu said.
Mr Tutu was readmitted on 28 July one week after being discharged. He will now continue his recovery at home.
Archbishop Tutu retired from public life in 2011 but continues to travel.
The 83-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate cancelled a planned trip to Rome in December following another infection.
The statement said Mr Tutu was happy with "the first-class" treatment he had received.
However, he told Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, that "most South Africans did not have access to decent health care".
The archbishop also celebrated Eucharist in the hospital with daughter Mpho, it added.
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The popular soap opera is watched in more than 60 countries, and has been running for 25 years.
The show's producers are planning a series of blockbuster storylines, including a fairytale wedding and the plotting of an attempted murder.
Neighbours tells the story of ordinary suburban folk in a fictional Australian city.
While it might not sound like gripping television, the show's simple formula of mixing family disputes with troublesome teenagers and romance has intrigued many millions of viewers around the world.
The producers have launched a series of festivities to mark the programme's extraordinary longevity with storylines that include the return of an old favourite and the appearance of the first openly gay male character.
The success of Neighbours owes a great deal to its international appeal.
Viewing figures in Australia have declined steadily in recent years but the daily dramas on Ramsay Street continue to thrill audiences overseas.
The soap opera is shown in Ireland, Norway and Belgium as well as Barbados and New Zealand.
Britain has been fixated with this legendary show for decades.
The marriage of characters Scott and Charlene, played by the actor Jason Donovan and the singer Kylie Minogue, was watched by more than 20m people in the United Kingdom.
Despite its fluffy reputation, Neighbours has occasionally tackled far more weighty issues, including drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder.
He is among several lawmakers to express frustration after three Republican senators opposed a bill to scale back parts of the US health law.
The so-called "skinny" repeal is the Senate's third failed attempt to roll back Obamacare.
It is considered a blow to Republicans who vowed for years to repeal the law.
The legislation fell apart during the early hours on Friday, when Arizona Senator John McCain cast the decisive vote to reject the bill by 51 to 49 in the Republican-dominated Senate.
He joined Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins in opposing the plan.
An estimate from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found the "skinny" repeal would have resulted in 16 million people losing their health insurance by 2026, with insurance premiums increasing by 20%.
Mr Ryan said Republicans "should not give up" on the plan, but added that he would now turn his attention to overhauling the tax code.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, described the result as a "disappointing moment".
He continued: "It's time to move on."
Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks blamed Mr McConnell for the failure, telling CNN "the leadership at the top is responsible. The buck stops there".
"If Mitch McConnell cannot get the job done on this, how is he going to get the job done on the rest of President Trump's agenda over the next three and a half years?" he asked.
Mr Brooks added that Mr McConnell should pressure the Senate to pass a new version of former President Barack Obama's signature law - the Affordable Care act - or step down.
Iowa Congressman singled out Mrs Murkowski and Mr McCain for the loss.
He said Mrs Murkowski "was initially appointed to her position by her father" and that her write-in campaign in 2010 "was essentially a revolt" against Republican primary voters.
Mrs Murkowski was elected to her fourth term last year.
Congressman Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican, was among several lawmakers to share his disappointment on Twitter.
Texas Senator John Cornyn tweeted it was up to Democrats now to protect Americans from a market collapse.
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst tweeted she was "disappointed" the Senate could not repeal the "flawed law" while Georgia Senator David Perdue blamed "an unworkable budget process and politicians who put their political self-interests ahead of national interest".
"The American people should be outraged and should demand real change now," he said in a statement. "It is extremely important that we get this fixed."
But Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich applauded Mr McCain, Mrs Murkowski and Mrs Collins in a tweet on Friday, saying "Courage is contagious".
President Trump lamented the failed vote during a speech at Suffolk County Community College in New York on Friday afternoon, but added "you can't have everything".
He told the crowd he said from the beginning to "let Obamacare implode" first and then repeal it.
"I turned out to be right," he added.
A spokesman for Mr Obama weighed in on the debate on Friday, praising those who "mobilised, organised and made their voices heard".
"President Obama still believes that it is possible for Congress to demonstrate the necessary bipartisanship and political courage to keep delivering on the promise of quality, affordable health insurance for Americans," Kevin Lewis said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer lauded the three senators who voted against the bill.
"I have not seen a senator who speaks truth to power as strongly as well as frequently as John McCain," he said at a news conference on Friday.
He also called Mrs Collins and Mrs Murkowksi tough women and said he spoke to Speaker Ryan on Friday about working on bipartisan legislation.
By Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
Instead of beating the drum for healthcare reform, the administration has been all over the map.
A hastily announced ban on transgender individuals in the armed forces, issued by presidential tweet. A press conference to herald efforts to combat gang violence. A campaign-style rally in Ohio with a focus on the threats of illegal immigration. A speech to a Boy Scouts gathering that was heavy on media bashing.
In case that wasn't enough, over the past week the administration has been beset by internecine warfare. Mr Trump publicly questioned the effectiveness of his former campaign confidant, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, subjecting him to an increasingly angry barrage of tweets.
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The bill - officially known as the Health Care Freedom Act - would have eliminated parts of Obamacare, including the individual mandate requiring all Americans to have health insurance coverage or pay a fine, and the employer mandate, which requires the same of companies with 50 employees or more.
It also would have temporarily repealed a tax on medical devices, defund the US women's group Planned Parenthood for a year and provide more money to community health centres, as well as given states more flexibility in complying with Obamacare regulations.
But the pared-down measure would have left much of Obamacare untouched, including the expansion of Medicaid, a government health programme for the poor that faced deep cuts in earlier proposals.
A requirement that all insurance plans cover essential health benefits, federal subsidies to help consumers pay for insurance as well as taxes on wealthy Americans also would have remained in place.
The stripped down bill came after earlier Senate defeats for proposals to replace Obamacare and then to partially repeal it.
Mr McCain said he had voted against the skinny repeal because it did not amount to meaningful reform and would not have improved care for Americans.
There are not thought to be any further plans for a new bill to repeal Obamacare because the skinny repeal was seen as the only measure Republicans could get through Congress.
However, lawmakers could revive the issue and take it up later in the year.
Following the vote, President Trump tweeted: "As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal."
Mr Trump's position on healthcare reform has varied - he has spoken out at various points for Obamacare being repealed, repealed and replaced, or being allowed to collapse by itself.
In his statement, Mr McCain said Obamacare was in a state of "collapse", with healthcare premiums "skyrocketing" and providers "fleeing the marketplace".
He criticised the way Obamacare had been passed by Democrats using their Obama-era majority and called for senators to "return to the correct way of legislating" with input from both parties.
"We must do the hard work our citizens expect of us and deserve," he said.
But Texas Senator Ted Cruz insisted the fight was not over.
"Mark my words, this journey is not yet done," he said.
Writers including former national poet Gwyneth Lewis will present analysis and readings from the medieval Welsh text.
The Mabinogion Revisited can be heard at 22:45 GMT from 14 to 18 November.
Writer Jon Gower said: "It's wonderful to share a national treasure that not even everyone in Wales realises we've got."
The medieval tales include fabled beasts and monsters and one of the earliest-known references to King Arthur.
Some of the stories are more than 1,000 years old, but others are thought to date back even further.
They were popularised and caught the imagination of a new generation of readers when the 11 tales were translated in the mid-19th Century.
"It's one of the finest collections of European folk stories," said Gower.
"But they also have a relationship to the country in which we live today, as so many of the places on the map today connect with those stories told such a long time ago.
"They had been handed down orally from one storyteller to another, down the generations."
The other writers discussing the Mabinogion as part of The Essay series are Prof Sioned Davies, James Hawes and Horatio Clare.
The series is part of BBC Radio 3's 70th anniversary programming. It launched as the Third Programme in 1946, and featured contributions from Dylan Thomas in its early years.
Thomas's play Under Milk Wood premiered on the station shortly after his death in 1954, with Richard Burton playing the principal narrator.
As well as speech programming, it also broadcasts music and has a longstanding relationship with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
BBC Radio 3 controller Alan Davey, who studied the Mabinogion at university, said he welcomed the chance to broadcast the work.
"The Essay on Mabinogion forms part of BBC Radio 3's 70th anniversary, as part of our mission to connect audiences with remarkable music and culture," he said.
Jon Gower's essay will be on the role of nature in the tales and he said they remain relevant today.
"You can look for clues to elements of the landscape in Wales now, and how it's changed," he said.
"For instance in Culhwch and Olwen there's reference to the deforestation of the land.
"There are characters in the tales which have got universal appeal. For instance there's King Arthur, who is chasing the Twrch Trwyth [a wild boar] around Wales and which had him running everywhere, and defeated almost all of his bravest knights.
"It shows that we have possession of that folk character, who is a legend and an icon of Britain."
A New York appeals court unanimously rejected every Argentine argument against the payout.
The decision is the latest twist in the long-running legal saga.
Argentina refuses to pay anything to investors who declined to participate in a previous debt reduction deal involving most of the nation's lenders.
"What the consequences predicted by Argentina have in common is that they are speculative, hyperbolic and almost entirely of the Republic's own making," the judges said in their decision.
But the appeals court held off forcing Argentina to pay pending an appeal to the Supreme Court - which is considered unlikely to hear the case, but puts off any decision to 2014, well after Argentina's congressional elections in October.
The appeal came after a Manhattan court ruled last February that Argentina had violated its contractual obligation to treat all creditors equally. That meant the country would have to pay the bondholders, led by NML Capital and Aurelius Capital Management.
Argentina defaulted on some $100bn of debts in 2002, and has since restructured its debt twice, cancelling around 75% of the nominal value of the bonds.
Almost 92% of the country's bondholders agreed to write off most of the amount owed to them.
NML Capital and Aurelius are demanding 100% repayment of the $1.3bn, plus interest.
The investors were so determined to get their money that they went to court to have an Argentinean ship, the Libertad, impounded in Ghana last year. After several weeks, the ship returned home.
The 20-year old utility player, who can operate in midfield, spent last season at League Two side Wycombe Wanderers.
He has made one first team appearance for Southampton in 2014-15, when he also skippered the young Saints to the Under-21 Premier League title.
"I've been watching Jason for the last six months," said boss Jon Whitney.
"Wycombe's manager Gareth Ainsworth is a good friend of mine. He spoke really highly of him as a player and a person. He's a committed defender. Southampton think really highly of him."
Since being appointed manager on 1 June, Whitney has brought in four midfielders, Kacy Milan Butterfield, Peterborough United's Erhun Oztumer, Sheffield United's Florent Cuvelier and Colchester United's Joe Edwards.
The loan deal with Southampton will run until January 2017.
Since the end of last season, Walsall have lost of right-back Jason Demetriou, centre-half Paul Downing, winger Milan Lalkvovic and midfield link man Romaine Sawyers, who all turned down offers from the club.
Demteriou has since signed for Southend, while Downing has joined MK Dons, Lalkovic is to go to Portsmouth and Sawyers remains linked with former Saddlers boss Dean Smith at Championship side Brentford.
The Saddlers remain in negotiations with winger Anthony Forde, while they are still to determine the future of midfielder Sam Mantom, striker Jordan Cook and left-back Andy Taylor.
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The website will hold information for schools and parents to tackle the "spell of twisted ideologies".
There will also be a "tougher approach" to preventing illegal, unregistered schools.
Mrs Morgan says the aim is to protect "impressionable minds from radical views".
The measures will be announced at Bethnal Green Academy in east London, a school attended by three girls who ran away to Syria last February.
In her speech, Mrs Morgan will say that this is "absolutely not about shutting down debate in schools" or "wrapping young people in cotton wool".
The education secretary says there has to be a balance between preventing extremism and allowing an open debate with challenging ideas.
"That isn't easy, there's no hard and fast rule, age appropriateness matters, as do the motivations of the speakers," Mrs Morgan will say.
"It requires judgement - but just as we must be absolutely clear that we should never give those who peddle extremist ideologies' entry in to our schools or colleges, so too we must guard against inadvertently hiding young people from views which we simply think are wrong and disagree with."
The anti-radicalisation website promises to provide "practical advice to protect children from the dangers of extremism", with information from the government and groups such as the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
It will include information on:
NSPCC head Peter Wanless likened tackling the appeal of extremism to preventing grooming.
"We are contacted daily by worried parents and children themselves on all sorts of issues including radicalisation and dangers associated with extremism," said Mr Wanless.
"Spotting the signs of such abuse has never been more important if we are to help protect children from sexual exploitation, gang related activity or other hate crimes."
Mr Wanless added he wanted parents to be aware of "tell-tale signs of exploitation".
Bethnal Green Academy principal Mark Keary said the website would be a "vital tool" and "educators have a crucial role to play in protecting children from the threat of radical views".
The Department for Education is also promising a "significant escalation" of investigations into schools operating without any formal registration or oversight.
In November, Ofsted said it had found 15 unregistered, illegal schools, including some in Birmingham and London.
A further three schools were discovered a month later, with calls from inspectors for more urgent action to close them.
There will also be a consultation on making sure information is shared to track pupils leaving a school to move to another part of the country.
Mrs Morgan said the website would give teachers and families "the expertise they need to challenge radical views and keep their children safe".
She said "improving intelligence" on where pupils went when they moved away from a school would cut the risk of "young, promising children falling under the spell of twisted ideologies".
"There will be no single knockout blow against those who seek to corrupt young people - but the action we are taking to protect children, inform parents and support teachers will put us firmly on the front foot."
"Controversial slimming pill sweeps the UK", "15 inconveniences of being a woman", "Nine people you won't actually believe exist", "Danger! Don't watch this with your wife" - if you've ever seen any of these headlines screaming out at you, then you'll be familiar with the company's work.
Taboola is one of the main providers of sponsored stories on news and gossip websites.
When you scroll to the bottom of the page, there are picture and caption links to three, six or eight external stories, typically under the headings "More stories from around the web" or "You may like".
More often than not the captions hoping to tempt you to click on them are just a little lowbrow, and the photos accompanying them typically show celebrities or women in bikinis (or both).
Critics have described Taboola's (and its rivals') content as "spam", "click-bait", "degrading", "representing a race to the bottom" and many other derogatory terms.
Yet 400 million of us around the world click on Taboola's links every month, and the business - which was only founded in 2007 - now enjoys revenues of $250m (£154m) a year.
Taboola, which is essentially a hi-tech digital advertising company, was established in Israel by Adam Singolda, who had previously spent almost seven years as an officer in an elite encryption unit of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).
While the technology the company uses is sophisticated, Taboola's business model is straightforward. News websites don't have to pay to carry its links, and instead they get a share of the advertising revenue that Taboola receives from the advertiser behind each promoted story.
For many newspaper groups who are continuing to see sales of physical newspapers plummet, Taboola provides them with a much appreciated new digital revenue stream, helping them to better monetise their websites.
Yet why is Taboola's content often so annoying?
A charming Mr Singolda, 32, who is the company's chief executive, jokes that we only have ourselves to blame.
"The problem is that for everyone who hates one piece of content, many others love it, and click on it," he says.
"So we register it as a popular story, and leave it up, so more people can see it. If no-one clicked on it, or tweeted about it, then we would remove it."
He adds: "A journalist once complained that he was always seeing stories about [reality TV star] Kim Kardashian on Taboola. So I asked him if he ever clicked on them, and he said yes. So I replied, 'What are you calling me for then?'"
Yet Taboola does seem to have taken the criticism on board, as a year ago it introduced a tool to enable people simply to click to remove stories they don't like.
And as long as a reader of a particular news website doesn't remove the cookies that recognise who they are, Taboola's software will remember their preferences.
So if someone clicks once to remove a link to a story on Kim Kardashian, that should be the last time they ever see her via Taboola.
And Mr Singolda insists that the company's software is getting ever more sophisticated in how it aims to provide people with the additional content they may want.
So to use one simple example, if someone often reads stories about wine, Taboola will aim to provide wine-related sponsored story links.
While Mr Singolda came up with the idea for Taboola after he left the army, he says his military service played a vital role, as it gave him a wealth of training and managerial experience.
A keen computer programmer, and maths whizz kid since he was a young child, upon starting his compulsory national service, he was chosen for the IDF's computer science training programme, before graduating first in his officers' training class.
At the age of just 20, he was leading a team of soldiers doing encryption work, such as allowing an Israeli general to use his mobile phone securely.
"There was no money in the world you could pay to get that experience," he says.
"I learned firsthand how to lead a team, and get everyone to work together. And being the army I couldn't give anyone any financial reward - the only way to get people to do stuff was to inspire them."
The army also enabled Mr Singolda to meet and get to know many people who would go on to join him at Taboola.
After leaving the army, he came up with the idea for Taboola while living back at home with his parents.
He managed to secure the backing of an angel investor, and with a handful of staff and no turnover for four years, developed the software before Taboola was eventually launched to customers.
Today it has 200 employees, and the news websites that use it include USA Today and the Huffington Post.
While Taboola's headquarters is now in New York, it maintains a large office in Tel Aviv, and is just one of a great many hi-tech firms based in Israel.
Mr Singolda says Israel is so strong in the technology field for a number of reasons, including the training that military service provides, and the fact the country has always had an entrepreneurial culture.
And while some Taboola employees are IDF reservists who were called up to serve during the recent conflict in Gaza, Mr Singolda says the company was otherwise unaffected.
Instead, Taboola is now looking to secure a fresh multi-million dollar injection of investment, as it plans to expand around the world - both with and without Kim Kardashian.
The US diplomat made the remarks on his Twitter account, saying a UK exit (Brexit) could also lead to political gridlock or "calls for partition".
His claims were dismissed as "nonsense" by Northern Ireland's first minister.
Arlene Foster said it was "disgraceful" that anyone would suggest that violence would be a consequence of a Brexit.
Mr Haass chaired multi-party negotiations about flags, parades and the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 2013, but the talks broke up without agreement.
In his tweet, he said it was "unlikely that those in NI unable to agree on past could agree on future".
The UK's EU referendum takes place on 23 June.
The mature cherry trees were attacked during the night in Cannon Hill Park, in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham by someone wielding an axe.
Birmingham City Council said the trees had been "felled with an axe" and the matter had been reported to the police.
The trees, including one that was about 50 years old, measured up to 30ft (9m) in height.
Darren Share, head of parks, said: "This has taken out a beautiful amenity that was there for everybody to enjoy.
"All the staff are devastated.
"It's not great for anybody to be walking round with an axe. Luckily nobody else was in the park. It's just mindless vandalism that is hopefully a one-off."
The council said it was "impossible" to put a price on the trees.
"They are effectively priceless, as these are mature specimens which cannot simply be replaced with full-size trees - they'd have to be replaced with saplings," it said.
Errington Cheese Ltd has previously been linked to an E. coli outbreak in which a three-year-old girl died.
The company has disputed the evidence and insists its cheese is safe.
In another development, a "small number" of children in Angus have fallen ill with E. coli. A playgroup had temporarily and voluntarily closed.
NHS Tayside said the Angus cases were linked and the children affected were receiving medical treatment, with advice also being issued to parents.
Food Standards Scotland has not linked the latest outbreak in Tayside to the ban on Errington Cheese.
The ban involves Dunsyre Blue, Dunsyre Baby, Lanark Blue, Lanark White, Maisie's Kebbuck and Cora Linn.
People have been advised not to eat the cheese, and to return it to the seller.
The watchdog has previously linked an outbreak of E. coli in July, in which 20 people were infected, including the child who died, with cheese produced by the firm.
Four product recalls have already been issued - three of them voluntary - for specific cheeses produced by Errington.
In a statement, the watchdog said: "FSS is advising all consumers who have purchased these products not to consume them, and to return the products to where they purchased them.
"Both O157 and non-O157 strains of E. coli have been detected in a number of different types of cheese produced by Errington Cheese Ltd.
"Symptoms caused by both O157 and non-O157 E. coli can include diarrhoea, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea, and haemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious condition that can lead to kidney failure.
"Given the potential severity of illness and the very low doses of this bacterium required to cause illness, FSS believes this action is in the best interests of consumers."
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Sir Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, questioned the decision by the FSS.
He told the programme: "Food Standards Scotland is behaving in a very precautionary manner because as I understand it, the scientific evidence that there's E. coli 157 in the cheese has not yet been produced.
"There is evidence that some people who ate the Dunsyre Blue cheese in July fell ill - a significant number of people who didn't eat it also fell ill as I understand it."
He added: "Food Standards Scotland has moved in a very, very heavy way and I think it raises the issue of proportionality. How dangerous are these cheeses and have they gone too far in saying none of these cheeses can be sold?"
Errington Cheese said on its website that it was restricted in what it could sell or say because of the "exercise of statutory powers by the authorities".
The company added: "We are pleased to see that FSS acknowledge that there is no microbiological link been found between Dunsyre Blue and the recent outbreak of illness.
"Our own detailed testing keeps us confident that all our cheese is safe to eat."
Speaking about the latest outbreak, Dr Jackie Hyland, consultant in public health medicine at NHS Tayside, said: "NHS Tayside and Angus Council are together investigating a small number of linked cases of E. coli O157 infection.
"The risk to the general public remains low and those affected have received appropriate medical treatment and advice."
There are no opinion polls, but the moderate Islamist Ennahda party is predicted to do well.
Turnout reached 65% an hour before the close of voting, state TV reported.
A series of democratic changes have taken place since the authoritarian leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in 2011.
Tunisia is seen as the birthplace of the Arab Spring - the pro-democracy movement which sought to replace autocratic governments in several Arab countries.
Tunisia is considered to have had the most successful outcome, with relatively low levels of violence.
At the scene: Naveena Kottoor, Tunis
Despite a rainy and damp start to the day, there were queues outside this polling station in the Tunis 2 district, with some carrying the Tunisian flag.
In this district, voters have a choice between 45 candidates. The entire process is being tightly observed by around 800 international, as well as more than 10,000 national, election monitors across the country.
The security presence is visible at the polling stations and on the streets.
Today marks the end of the political transition period from dictatorship to democracy. It's a milestone, the expectations are high, not just in Tunisia but abroad as well.
Ennahda's main rival is likely to be the liberal Nidaa Tounes (Tunisia's Call), although it has promised to seek a coalition government even if it wins the most seats.
Most of the major parties have vowed to tackle Tunisia's high unemployment and to reinvigorate its economy.
Polls opened at 07:00 (06:00 GMT) and closed at 18:00 (17:00 GMT). Results are expected on Wednesday.
More than 50,000 security personnel and nearly 20,000 soldiers were ordered to be deployed on Sunday to ensure safe voting.
Radical groups within Tunisia have threatened to disrupt the elections and on Thursday militants shot a policeman on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis.
Casting his vote on Sunday, Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa said "the whole world is watching Tunisia today".
Earlier Mr Jomaa warned that extremist groups could attempt to attack polling stations.
"We know that this [election] will be a target because it is unique in the region. It brings hope," he said, during an inspection of troops near Tunis.
Around five million Tunisians were registered to vote, with overseas residents having already cast their ballots on Friday.
Ennahda, which currently rules in coalition with other parties, has promised to pursue a unity government even if it wins the most seats.
Tunisia is set to hold a presidential election on 23 November, which will deliver the country's first directly elected leader since the removal of Ben Ali in 2011.
Protests which began in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid in late 2010 later gathered pace and spread across much of the Arab world the following year.
The businessman, 54, was convicted on Monday of five charges relating to HK$720m (£55m) passing through his bank accounts between 2001 and 2007.
He claimed he had accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars through stock trading, business ventures in mainland China, a hair salon and gambling.
Judge Douglas Yau said the sentence must be a deterrent to others.
The former hair stylist's trial was told he had lied about how he made his money and Yeung was described by Judge Yau as "not a witness of truth".
By Juliana LiuHong Kong correspondent, BBC News
His was a rags to riches and, now, back to rags story.
Carson Yeung's rise from humble hairdresser to wealthy owner of a British football club has attracted much media attention.
The international press pack bore witness to his fall from grace at the end of a three-year legal case.
His legal team has declined to say whether there will be an appeal. This has been a closely watched case, coming just two years after the city introduced new laws against money laundering and terrorist financing.
It is still unclear exactly how the sentence will affect Yeung's British football club, Birmingham City.
The businessman was unable to show where almost HK$100m (£7.7m) in his bank accounts had come from.
Sentencing Yeung at Hong Kong District Court, Judge Yau said: "The sentence must include an element of deterrence to discourage those who are in a position to exploit the system.
"The law will come down on them with full force.
"Maintaining the integrity of the banking system is of paramount importance if Hong Kong is to remain an international finance centre," he said.
Police investigators, who described the case as a difficult one involving analysis of financial records from as far back as 2001, welcomed the six-year sentence.
Gloria Yu, a police investigator, told reporters outside the courthouse: "We overcame a lot of hurdles to get this result.
"We are happy... and encouraged because fighting money laundering is a very arduous task."
The BBC's Andrew Wood in Hong Kong said it was a tough sentence, despite Yeung's lawyer asking for leniency.
"He'll be 60 years old [when released], assuming he doesn't come out with time for good behaviour."
Yeung worked in the UK as a teenager before becoming a hairstylist in Hong Kong. He made his fortune investing in Macau in the 1990s and is a prominent property developer in Hong Kong.
He bought Birmingham City in October 2009 for £81.5m from David Sullivan and David Gold, now the co-owners of West Ham.
The Hong Kong businessman was arrested and charged with money laundering two years later.
He is the majority shareholder but resigned in February as president of Birmingham City FC, director of Birmingham City plc and director and chairman of the club's parent company, Birmingham International Holdings Ltd (BIHL).
His son, Ryan, 20, and brother-in-law Shui Cheong Ma, 52, remain on the club's board of directors.
Acting chairman Peter Pannu said Yeung would not run the "club by proxy" from prison through family members on the board.
On Monday, the club said Yeung's conviction would have no impact on day-to-day operations.
The Football League has said it is satisfied with the action the club's holding company has taken since the commencement of criminal proceedings.
In a separate development, the sale of 12% of the club was cancelled on Friday as the buyer, a Chinese media firm, failed to meet the deadline set by the club.
BBC 5Live's Pat Murphy has estimated the value of the football club has dropped to about £30m as it struggles in the second tier.
Fans' organisation the Blues Trust has said Birmingham supporters are looking forward to a "new era" and want to put "this troubling period behind us as soon as possible".
It has called on BIHL to sell the club as soon as possible.
Since Yeung took charge, Blues have won the League Cup but have been relegated from the Barclays Premier League and are currently 17th in the Championship.
A 33-year-old and a 21-year-old were found dead on Sunday after getting into difficulty while swimming in Llanberis, Gwynedd.
Two others, aged 27 and 25, were treated in hospital before being released.
North Wales Police are continuing inquiries into what happened before the men died.
Paul Gray said reducing treatment rates was one of the "contingencies" the health board had raised with him.
NHS Tayside has a gap of just over £58m between expenditure and income this financial year, MSPs were told.
Mr Gray told a Holyrood committee the chair and chief executive of NHS Tayside have raised various options.
Audit Scotland warned last year that there was a risk NHS Tayside would need a Scottish government bailout, known as brokerage, despite receiving more than £24.3m from ministers since 2012.
Mr Gray told the Public Audit and Post Legislative Scrutiny Committee: "One of the contingencies a board can deploy would be to slow down the rate of treating people in some areas.
"That's what I want to discuss with them, whether and how they will deploy some of these contingencies.
"There may be some that are appropriate and some are not, I just want to be sure about that."
Committee convener Jenny Marra asked: "Does that mean longer waiting lists?"
Mr Gray replied: "Yes, let's not beat about the bush, of course it would.
"It would mean that somebody who might have been treated at the end of March might not be treated until April."
NHS Tayside management have been set the target of making savings of £46.75m in 2016-17 and £45.8m in 2017-18.
Christine McLaughlin, director of health finance at the Scottish government, said after the "board is back in financial balance" it will then look to "put in place a repayment profile for the brokerage they have incurred".
Some health boards have previously not been required to repay brokerage funding, but Mr Gray said the Government had already made a concession to NHS Tayside by allowing it to keep money it raises from the sale of any assets rather than returning this to central funds.
MSPs pressed Mr Gray when the financial problems had become apparent, with the SNP's Gail Ross asking: "Surely the alarm bells start ringing when you need to get bailed out by the Scottish government in consecutive years, time after time?"
Conservative MSP Ross Thomson said a specialist taskforce had been sent in to help 15 years ago in a bid to avoid the "very financial situation NHS Tayside has found itself in".
Mr Gray said: "I will reflect on that but it is difficult to hold to account people who are not there, and also to look back at decisions which were taken, for example about assets, in the light of today's economic circumstances which now turn out to be wrong.
"We would have to reflect whether they were wrong at the time they were taken."
The 24-year-old, capped 21 times, has agreed a two-year contract with the Murrayfield outfit.
"It was a very difficult decision to leave a club I've supported since I was a teenager," said Weir.
"It'll be a new challenge for me after six years at the Warriors and when the time comes I'll move on with a number of good memories."
Weir, who featured in two matches at last year's World Cup, made his 100th appearance for the Warriors in the 22-5 win over Racing 92 at Rugby Park on Saturday.
He was a second-half replacement when Glasgow beat Munster in the Pro12 final last May.
"The highlight has obviously been winning the Pro12 last season," he told the Warriors website. "But there is still a lot of rugby to be played this season and my aim is to end my time at Scotstoun on a high."
Weir has scored 55 points in the blue of Scotland, including a final minute drop-goal to secure a 21-20 win over Italy in the 2014 Six Nations and a late penalty in a 21-19 defeat of Argentina in the same year.
"He's had to go through some tough times with injuries but he always brings enthusiasm to training and he's playing some really good rugby," said Glasgow head coach Gregor Townsend.
"It'll be tough for us to go up against him next season, but he wants to fight for the stand-off position at Edinburgh and we wish him all the best when he leaves."
The analysis by Unicef UK said there was a "strong economic case" for supporting more women to breastfeed.
It said £11m every year could be saved by preventing infections and £31m by reducing the cases of breast cancer.
The Department of Health said it was "absolutely crucial" that new mothers received the support they needed.
The analysis, published in Archives of Diseases in Childhood, is part of a much larger report by Unicef on the health benefits of breast milk.
It found "good quality" evidence that breastfeeding was protective against gastrointestinal and lower respiratory tract and ear infections in infants.
The cost to the NHS of treating those infections was £89m every year, the team of researchers from across the UK calculated.
If the 21% of women who were exclusively breastfeeding at six weeks continued until their baby was at least four months old, it would save £4m a year in hospital and GP bills, the researchers said.
Increasing the figure to 45% would save £11m a year, they said.
Currently, 81% of new mothers start breastfeeding, but only 7% are still feeding with breast milk alone at four months.
Surveys had shown that most women stopped before they would like to because of problems, the researchers said.
Their analysis also indicated that if twice as many premature babies were fed breast milk, either from their mother or donor milk, while they were in hospital, the NHS would save £6m every year in treating the potentially deadly gut infection necrotising enterocolitis.
And if about a third of women breastfed one child or more for longer than seven months in total, the reduced rates of breast cancer could save £31m from the annual £960m spent in treating the disease in women who had given birth.
Norway 80%
Sweden 68%
Australia 60%
UK 34%
They said it was very important to note that the findings did not depend on persuading more women to breastfeed, but supporting those already breastfeeding to carry on for longer.
The findings should "reassure policymakers, service planners and commissioners that a rapid return on investment is realistic and feasible", they added.
Study leader, Dr Subhash Pokhrel from Brunel University, said they had selected 45% still breastfeeding at four months as it seemed a "realistic" achievement.
Rosemary Dodds, senior policy adviser at the charity NCT and co-author of the study, said there had been enormous improvements in the past 20 years in increasing rates of breastfeeding for newborns but support in the community for women to breastfeed longer was lacking and the government had failed to lead on the issue.
"The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said women should be getting proactive support, but that is not happening all over the country, and one of the reasons is data collection - those working in the community do no know who has had a baby," she said.
Other strategies recommended by the NCT included breastfeeding cafe's where pregnant women could find out about the realities of breastfeeding to boost their confidence, she said.
Health minister Dr Dan Poulter said: "The health and economic benefits of breast feeding are clear and it is absolutely crucial that new mothers get support with breastfeeding.
"That's why the Government has trained thousands of extra NHS midwives and health visitors in order to provide personal care to every new mum, and to help give more mums breast feeding support and advice."
New tests were ordered more than a year after Gemma Wilks died because a report said she had a "normal" gallbladder, an organ she had actually had removed.
The 23-year-old's mother Carrie Wilks, from Lincoln, spoke after an inquest into her death on Thursday.
New tests showed Gemma's death, in July 2013, related to a therapeutic drugs overdose, the Lincoln inquest heard.
Coroner Stuart Fisher had ordered the exhumation, in September last year, after errors with initial post-mortem tests indicated Gemma's cause of death was heart disease.
Speaking about the exhumation, Ms Wilks said: "It was horrible - her coffin had collapsed so they had to move her into a body bag.
"It was just really eerie - even though the staff were lovely - it wasn't something any mum should have to go through."
Gemma's body was only exhumed after her mother questioned some of the details of the initial post-mortem report.
Ms Wilks said the family's grief had been made worse because they believed Gemma had "had a massive heart attack".
She said they were told "Gemma's heart was like that of a 60 year old," adding it was "really distressing to think she died on her own in agony".
Gemma had previously been diagnosed with chronic pain syndrome and a personality disorder, her mother said.
Agreeing with the findings of the second post-mortem examination, Mr Fisher said that in 20 years as a coroner, it was the only exhumation he had ever ordered.
He said it had been necessary in order to establish the facts.
Hallam Amos crossed less than a minute into his comeback, while tries from Nic Cudd and Lewis Evans gave the Dragons a 24-10 half-time lead.
The home side found it hard going despite a 58th minute red card for Alexandre Bias, before Ashton Hewitt scored the vital fourth try.
Dragons stay two points clear of Sale Sharks, who won 27-3 at Pau.
The top two face each other in the final round of matches on 21 January at Sale's AJ Bell Stadium, with the five pool winners and three best-placed runners-up qualifying for the quarter-finals.
The Dragons showed their intent from the start as a Castres knock-on allowed Sarel Pretorius to start a counter-attack and Jason Tovey to work Amos clear.
Cudd then smuggled his way over from a driving line-out maul and Evans crossed from close range. Tovey converted all three touchdowns.
David Smith shot over in the final minute of the first half for a converted score that seemed to turn the tide in favour of the French.
Lock Christophe Samson charged in after 50 minutes after some snappy handling and a Geoffrey Palis penalty on 56 had the home side rocking at 24-18.
Two minutes later, Castres were let down by their discipline as replacement lock Bias put in a reckless head and shoulder charge on Phil Price, and referee Peter Fitzgibbon brought out a red card.
French woes deepened as replacement prop Eric Sione saw yellow for a clumsy challenge, but the Dragons laboured to press home their advantage.
Eight minutes from time they finally cracked the Castres defence, with a Taulupe Faletau charge producing the chance for Hewitt to grab the loose ball for the crucial fourth.
Tovey converted for an 11-point haul to go with his man-of-the-match award.
Newport Gwent Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones told BBC Radio Wales:
"We wanted to play with ambition and not kick the ball too much.
"We had them under pressure and played good rugby. Our errors in the second half were 60% and we can't make that many errors, it was poor.
"We're still top of the group and hopefully we'll go to Sale on a positive note and have a go there."
Dragons: Meyer; Hewitt, Hughes, Warren, Amos; Tovey, Pretorius; Price, Dee, Harris, Hill, Landman (capt), Evans, Cudd, Faletau.
Replacements: T Rhys Thomas, Stankovich, Knight, Screech, Jackson, Davies, O'Brien, Scott.
Castres: Palis; Sivivatu, Combezou, Cabannes (capt), Smith; Fontaine, Seron; Diarra, Babillot, Caballero, Desroche, Samson, Martinez, Rallier, Taumoepeau.
Replacements: Sione, Beziat, Wihongi, Hannoyer, Bias, Wulf, Urdapilleta, Lamerat.
It is a copy by Quinn of his painted bronze and steel sculpture Planet, which is 30ft (9.2m) long.
On social media residents have likened it to the "marshmallow man" and talked of a "baby invasion" in Royston, Hertfordshire.
The artist's studio said the "editioned work" is at a depot for "maintenance".
Quinn's original six tonne "Planet" was commissioned by Chatsworth House in Derbyshire in 2008, where it was displayed in the grounds.
It was exhibited in 2012 at the Musée Océanographique de Monaco before moving to its permanent home in the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore in 2013.
The massive Royston baby might seem hard to miss, but it is usually covered with a marquee-like structure or tarpaulin.
However, it has been spotted in its full nakedness several times by people walking through the industrial estate.
"Anyone know why there is a giant baby wrapped in plastic on the industrial estate?" wrote a member on a local Facebook page, having spotted the structure earlier this week.
Others who spotted it were "intrigued" while one "screeched with laughter" at the sight.
It is being housed at an art storage and transportation company which was responsible for installing the original Planet at the Monaco exhibition.
A spokesman said he could not comment on what the sculpture was doing there, citing "client confidentiality".
A representative of Quinn said the Royston baby is an "editioned work by Marc Quinn", adding: "The work was undergoing maintenance... as is common to all painted bronze sculpture."
Emily Price, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, moved to Aberystwyth in 2014 to study maths and physics.
She died just days after being elected as a Lib Dem town councillor in May.
Head of Maths Prof Simon Cox said: "With her quiet smile and enthusiasm, she will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by us all."
Ms Price, who was in the final year of the course, had submitted her dissertation shortly before the local elections and was planning to continue her studies at masters' level.
Her family and the university are discussing the idea of setting up a bursary in her memory.
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The game was called off at short notice, a day after a suicide bomber killed four people in the city.
The Istanbul governor's office said the decision had been taken "after the evaluation of credible intelligence".
The bombing in Istanbul's main shopping street was blamed by the authorities on so-called Islamic State (IS).
Fans had already begun to arrive for the Fenerbahce-Galatasaray match at Galatasaray's Turk Telecom Arena when the announcement was made.
There were boos as supporters were left with no choice but to leave the ground.
The postponement came even though the authorities have repeatedly urged the 15 million inhabitants of Turkey's largest city to carry on with their normal daily lives after the blast.
Interior Minister Efken Ala meanwhile named the bomb suspect as Mehmet Ozturk, born in 1992 in Gaziantep.
He told reporters that five people had been questioned so far.
Mr Ala also announced a review of security measures in seven Turkish provinces following several attacks since July.
Three Israelis - two with Israeli-US nationality - and an Iranian were killed by the bomb attack. Another 36 were injured.
Eleven Israelis were among the injured. Two Irish citizens, one national each from Germany, Iceland, Dubai and Iran were also injured.
The coffins of the Israeli nationals were flown out on Sunday and the Israeli government has now advised its citizens to avoid Turkey.
Turkey is part of the US-led coalition against IS and allows coalition planes to use its air base at Incirlik for raids on Iraq and Syria.
It has been attacked by IS in the past - most recently in January when a suspected suicide attack in Istanbul killed 12 German tourists.
And more than 100 people died outside Ankara railway station in October 2015 when IS militants carried out a double bombing close to the headquarters of the national intelligence organisation.
Kurdish militants have claimed a number of recent attacks in Turkey.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said terror groups are targeting civilians because they are losing their struggle against Turkish security forces.
Turkey had in the meantime launched a nationwide tightening of security ahead of the Kurdish spring festival of Newroz on Monday, an occasion traditionally used by Kurds in Turkey to assert their ethnic identity and demand greater rights.
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Nine people had been killed and seven injured in a shooting at an Oregon school before the assailant was shot dead by police.
The president was at turns angry, weary and apparently resigned to the intractable opposition he faces in tightening gun regulation.
"Somehow this has become routine," he said. "The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine."
A list of some of the statistics on US gun violence reveals just how routine mass shootings and other firearm incidents are in a country with nearly as many guns as people.
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Mass shootings
62 shootings at schools
12,223 people killed in gun incidents
24,722 people injured in gun incidents
Over the course of his presidency, Mr Obama has spoken publicly or issued a statement in the wake of 15 mass shootings. But the deaths in Oregon were the 994th mass shooting of his second term alone - since November 2012.
There have been 294 mass shootings - defined as an incident in which four or more people are killed or injured by gun - so far in 2015, more than one per day.
Over the same period, there have been 45 shootings at schools, and 142 such incidents since the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary on 14 December 2012 - although those figures include occasions when a gun was fired but no-one was hurt.
And while it is the school shootings and other mass shootings that capture the world's attention, the vast majority of gun deaths in the US occur in smaller, often unreported incidents. According to the Gun Violence Archive, 9,956 people have been killed by firearms so far this year and more than 20,000 have been injured.
So many people die annually from gunfire in the US that the death toll between 1968 and 2011 eclipses all wars ever fought by the country. According to research by Politifact, there were about 1.4 million firearm deaths in that period, compared with 1.2 million US deaths in every conflict from the Revolutionary War to Iraq.
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statements by President Obama following mass shootings during his presidency
994 mass shootings since he was re-elected in 2012
Once again, Mr Obama compared America's response to that of countries such as the UK and Australia, where strict gun laws were put in place in the wake of mass shootings.
"We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings," he said. "Friends of ours, allies of ours - Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it."
And the statistics bear that out: the number of per capita gun murders in the US in 2012 - the most recent year for comparable statistics - is nearly 30 times that in the UK, at 2.9 per 100,000 compared with just 0.1. Of all the murders in the US in 2012, 60% were by firearm compared with just 10% in the UK.
No official figure exists for the number of guns in the US but there are thought to be about 300 million, concentrated in the hands of about a third of the population. That's nearly enough guns for every man, woman and child in the country to own one each.
The right for citizens to own those guns is protected by the Second Amendment of the US Constitution and fiercely defended by lobby groups such as the National Rifle Association, which boasted that its membership surged to around five million members in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Faced with such staunch opposition to his desire for tighter gun laws, President Obama called on the media on Thursday to compare the number of US citizens killed by terrorism to those killed by gun violence.
The US spends more than a trillion dollars per year defending itself against terrorism, the president said, which kills a tiny fraction of the number of people killed by ordinary gun crime.
According to figures from the US Department of Justice and Council on Foreign Affairs, 11,385 people died on average annually in firearm incidents in the US between 2001 and 2011.
In the same period, an average of 517 people were killed annually in terror-related incidents. Removing 2001, when 9/11 occurred, leaves an annual average of just 31.
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The unrest is a consequence of Hong Kong's unique historical position - a territory on Communist China's soil, but a global and connected city where many believe direct democracy is the only fair system of government.
The BBC looks at some of the turning points between handover and now.
On this date the Union Flag was lowered in Hong Kong, marking the end of 150 years of British colonial rule.
Negotiations between Britain and China left Hong Kong the Basic Law, a de facto constitution that ensured the territory would be run under the principle of "one country two systems" until 2047. It would retain its capitalist system and preserve rights and freedoms mainland Chinese citizens did not have.
The first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, was elected by a 400-member Chinese committee, but the Basic Law promised that democracy would gradually develop. The ultimate aim was "the selection of the Chief Executive by universal suffrage upon nomination by a broadly representative nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures" - but no deadlines were set.
From then on, protests have been held every 1 July to remind China that Hong Kong was still waiting for universal suffrage.
Did China go back on its promises?
Proposed changes to Hong Kong's security laws brought an estimated half-a-million people out in protest.
The bill - which the government was constitutionally obliged to draw up - proposed heavy penalties for sedition and would have made it illegal for political organisations to establish ties with foreign political groups and vice versa.
It enraged democracy campaigners who said the bill was a step back for political, religious and media freedom and could be used by China to silence its critics. Ultimately, the bill was dropped indefinitely.
The following year, China ruled that its approval had to be sought for any changes to Hong Kong's election laws, giving Beijing the right to veto any moves towards more democracy.
How does Hong Kong choose its leaders?
29 December 2007 - direct elections granted
When Donald Tsang began his second term as chief executive in July 2007, he promised to publish a green paper "so that we can all work together to identify the most acceptable mode of universal suffrage to best serve the interests of Hong Kong".
Right on time, on 29 December, China ruled that Hong Kong would be able to elect its leader by the 2017 elections. Mr Tsang said this marked "a timetable for obtaining universal suffrage".
But critics - including veteran pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, above - said this was too slow and not far enough.
In March 2012, Leung Chun-ying (widely known as CY Leung) won the race to become Hong Kong's third chief executive - he was elected by a panel of 1,200 influential citizens, most of them Beijing loyalists. He was to be the last executive to gain office without public election.
CY Leung - seen here with Chinese President Hu Jintao at his inauguration in July - proved an unpopular choice among the Hong Kong public from the outset, finding it hard to shake suspicions that his loyalties lay too closely with Beijing.
Though he passed popular measures, including a tax on foreigners buying property and a ban on pregnant woman travelling from the mainland to give birth, he lost favour by proposing Chinese patriotism classes for schoolchildren.
In the face of further huge protests, the government backed down.
In January 2013, law professor Benny Tai published an article in the Hong Kong Economic Journal, in which he said civil disobedience was now the best way to demand democracy. The Occupy Central movement was born.
In June 2014, the group organised an unofficial referendum on how candidates should be shortlisted for the 2017 election. About 42% of voters backed a proposal allowing the public to have a greater say, alongside a nominating committee, and political parties.
China said the referendum was illegal and invalid, but Mr Tai insisted that even if it were not legally binding, the 792,808 votes cast could not be ignored.
But groups claiming to represent Hong Kong's "silent majority" who did not want to see confrontations also spoke out, saying they gathered more signatures for their cause.
Hong Kong voices against the protest
Beijing had been considering for some time what form the 2017 elections would take - would Hong Kong, as many hoped, have a totally free choice of candidate?
China's top legislative committee issued its verdict in August - yes, Hong Kong would be able to elect its chief executive in 2017, but with one important caveat: a nominating committee would choose two to three candidates, who must each be approved by 50% of the committee members.
China said the "sovereignty, security and development interests of the country are at stake," and therefore "there is a need to proceed in a prudent and steady manner".
This was a bitter blow to the democracy campaigners. Occupy began planning mass protests for 1 October, China's National Day.
Things that could only happen in a Hong Kong protest
On 22 September, thousands of students walked out of the classes, mobilised by the Hong Kong Federation of Students and Scholarism. What began as a peaceful boycott and sit-in to demand democracy escalated through the week as the students converged on government HQ. When a small group broke into government offices, a number of people, including student activist leader Joshua Wong, were arrested.
Then on the evening of Sunday 29 September, Occupy Central announced that they were joining forces with the students and their occupation of the business district was beginning early.
Hours later, riot police moved in, firing tear gas at unarmed students and mounted baton charges. Not only did they fail to end the protests, the operation was widely condemned as an overreaction, prompting thousands more to join.
China's legacy of youth protest
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He took charge of the Welsh National League Division One West match between Gowerton and Crymych.
In Twickenham the All Blacks were 34-17 winners over Australia.
At the Athletic Ground in Gowerton today, the home team emerged 28-18 victors over their west Wales opponents.
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The 40-year-old won gold in London with Anna Watkins after three consecutive silvers and was expected to be selected in the double scull again this summer.
But the Scot and Wales' Thornley, 28, have struggled since winning European bronze last year.
"It has put my Olympic place in the balance," Grainger said.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, she added: "I've never been in this position before, not having a seat in a boat so close to an Olympics. But I don't want to walk away from it now."
Grainger - Britain's most decorated female Olympian alongside swimmer Rebecca Adlington - returned in September 2014 following a two-year sabbatical in the aftermath of the London Games.
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In the absence of the retired Watkins, Grainger was paired with Thornley and the duo finished sixth at the World Championships last September to qualify the boat for Rio.
However, their failure to make the podium at this year's European Championship earlier in May precipitated the end of their partnership, with the news broken to the pair on Friday.
British Rowing confirmed that both Grainger and Thornley will "be given the opportunity to be considered" for a place in the eight, but face a tough task after the current crew earned European gold in Brandenburg.
"The double has been very close to my heart so I'm very sad about the decision," Grainger added. "Defending the title was a driving factor in me coming back.
"If we can help to make the eight faster, it's a very exciting opportunity. But it has been made clear to us that we will have to earn our places."
The contest in this electorally critical heartland state pitted Mr Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition against the "Mahagatbandhan", or the "grand alliance" of anti-BJP parties.
This included a number of regional heavyweights, as well as the Indian National Congress.
According to data released by the Election Commission of India, the anti-BJP front won nearly three-quarters of the seats (178 out of 243) in the Bihar state assembly. Although Mr Modi's BJP emerged as the single largest vote getter, its alliance picked up a paltry 58 seats.
In the coming days, India's opinion pages and news channels will dissect the reasons for the BJP's electoral defeat and scrutinise the way in which two longtime rivals -incumbent chief minister Nitish Kumar of the JD(U) and former chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav of the RJD - so skillfully buried the hatchet in pursuit of political survival.
Beyond political theatre however, the Bihar outcome has implications for Mr Modi and his reform agenda.
In the short run, Bihar is a significant setback for Mr Modi in three ways: it damages his prestige, complicates politics both inside and outside the ruling alliance, and makes parliament more of an obstacle. Over the longer term, however, one should not overstate the broader impact on Mr Modi's economic reform plans.
The Bihar loss damages the prime minister's standing because the BJP, hoping to exploit the prime minister's unparalleled popularity across India, made him the explicit face of the campaign.
This formula had delivered results for the BJP in a string of recent state polls. In Bihar, though, Mr Modi was pitted against a popular chief minister, Nitish Kumar, who also preaches the gospel of development and suffered no clear anti-incumbency sentiment.
As a result, the strategy of relying on the "Modi magic" - in the absence of a credible local face - fell flat.
Decisive defeats in successive state elections in Delhi and Bihar have resoundingly punctured the halo of invincibility that has surrounded Mr Modi and his trusted lieutenant, BJP president Amit Shah.
This loss of prestige, in turn, creates space for disgruntled voices within the party who are either underwhelmed by Mr Modi's governance or demoralised by Mr Modi and Mr Shah's iron grip on the party apparatus. The humbling rout in Bihar will give fresh oxygen to BJP dissenters. Beyond the ruling alliance, the election has two further political implications.
First, it elevates the profile of Nitish Kumar - set to begin his fourth stint as chief minister - making him an opposition leader to reckon with on a national level.
Even though Mr Yadav's RJD will end up as the single largest party in terms of seats, it is Mr Kumar who will be crowned victor and lead the state government.
Second, the election validates a much-debated hypothesis: that parties opposed to the BJP can counteract the Modi wave if they opportunistically band together.
In the 2014 general election, many regional parties - including those in Bihar - fought elections on their own, fracturing the anti-BJP vote. Parties in states like Assam, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal will sit up and take note in anticipation of upcoming state elections.
Third, the BJP loss ensures that parliament will become an even greater obstacle to Mr Modi's legislative agenda on at least two counts.
The Bihar drubbing increases the likelihood that the national opposition will use its newfound mandate to block important bills in parliament's winter session. Expect the opposition to point to the BJP's use of Hindu-majority rhetoric on the campaign trail - Amit Shah famously warned Bihari voters that Pakistanis would set off firecrackers if the BJP loses - as evidence of its eroding legitimacy.
More importantly, the BJP's failure to win Bihar also makes its quest for a majority in parliament's upper house (Rajya Sabha), whose composition is determined by the various state assemblies, an ever-distant dream. Without majorities in both houses, Mr Modi's legislative agenda will continue to face headwinds.
Damage to the Modi brand, growing dissent within the party, and dimming hopes for a co-operative parliament will surely sting in the near term.
Over the long haul, however, it is not obvious that this election by itself will change Mr Modi's plans for economic reform.
The prime minister's priorities to date make it abundantly clear that he is plotting no dramatic rupture with the past; he is committed to an incremental programme of economic change. India's democratic system and important divides within his own alliance, provide enough checks and balances to mean that he is is unlikely to deviate from this course.
Wherever possible, the Modi regime will circumvent a divided parliament, deploying executive action and pushing reforms that can be adopted by India's states, where a divided national parliament poses no obstacle. In short, don't expect Mr Modi to dwell on Bihar for too long.
In India, another state election is always around the corner.
Milan Vaishnav is an associate with the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. You can follow him on Twitter @MilanV.
The demonstrations in the city of Burlingame temporarily delayed a speech by the billionaire businessman.
Because of the protest, Mr Trump had to enter the hotel via a rear entrance.
Mr Trump's rallies have been dogged by violence.
On Thursday, a police car had its windows smashed as Mr Trump spoke inside a hall in the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. Some 20 arrests were made.
The Trump campaign had to cancel several rallies in March after hundreds of protesters threatened to disrupt events in Chicago and St Louis.
Before his speech on Friday, news helicopters showed Mr Trump and his security detail crossing a motorway before entering the hotel via a side door.
On stage, Mr Trump joked about the protesters, saying "that was not the easiest entrance I ever made."
"I felt like I was crossing the border," he said, and that he walked through "dirt and mud" to get to the building outside of San Francisco.
Many of the protesters outside his speech were arguing against his positions on immigration. He has advocated building a border wall with Mexico which he says Mexico would pay for.
He has also referred to Mexicans as "rapists" and criminals responsible for bringing illegal drugs into the US.
Mr Trump is extremely unpopular among Latino voters and California has a large Mexican-American population.
Protests are expected to continue until the California primary is held on 7 June.
Mr Trump has called himself the Republican "presumptive nominee" after a string of primary wins.
In terms of delegate support, the property tycoon is far ahead of his nearest rivals, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and John Kasich, the governor of Ohio.
The 43-year-old world number 20 beat Rhys Clark 6-1 to set up a second-round meeting with Ken Doherty on Saturday.
Davis, who turned professional in 1991, said: "I would love to win a ranking tournament before I retire.
"But if I don't it will be because I haven't been good enough. I don't feel under pressure."
Sussex cueman Davis has six career titles to his name, but his best ranking tournament performance has been reaching the semi-finals on four occasions - including the 2013 UK Championship.
Davis was relieved to get through his first-round meeting at this year's event and progress to the televised stages of the sport's second biggest tournament.
"I was obviously a strong favourite to win but it doesn't mean anything," he said.
"I was in a tournament in Hong Kong last week and didn't get back until Sunday morning so I was a bit shattered. I knew it probably wouldn't be pretty, it was just a case of winning.
"These guys can all play and if you are off your game it can go against you. You have to be professional, get the job done and I did that. I missed too many balls but I don't really care; it was just a case of winning."
And he is relishing the chance to face Doherty, the 1997 world champion and current world number 47.
"It should be a good game," added Davis. "Ken has done so much in the game. I will have to play well. He is still getting results now.
"His peak years were a few years back but on any given day he can still play some really good snooker. I don't take anyone for granted, and certainly not Ken."
MPs for English seats would have a veto on tax, and issues like schools and health, which only affect England.
The plan falls short of the English Parliament demanded by some Tory MPs.
But Commons leader William Hague said it was a "fair solution". Labour is calling for a cross-party investigation into the matter.
Scotland is on course to be given the power to set its own income tax rates and bands - and Air Passenger Duty rates - under proposals drawn up by the The Smith Commission in the wake of September's independence referendum.
Prime Minister David Cameron promised a new settlement for England at the same time.
Critics say it is unfair that Scottish MPs should help decide how things such as schools and the health service are run in England, when English MPs have no such say over how they are run in Scotland.
But attempts at cross-party talks to resolve the so-called "West Lothian Question" were boycotted by Labour - which could struggle to get key legislation through the Commons if it won the election without its Scottish MPs - as a "stitch up".
Mr Hague's plan would give an effective veto to MPs for English seats - and Wales on some policies - for matters decided in the Scottish Parliament, but would still require a majority of all UK MPs to pass legislation.
He said it was the least radical of three options to resolve demands for "English votes for English laws" but would bring "fairness and accountability to England without breaking up the unity and integrity of the UK Parliament".
He told BBC Breakfast: "MPs from all parts of the UK would continue to debate, as they do now, anything they want. It is just that they would only be able to pass measures relating only to England with the agreement of the English MPs."
English MPs were never going to be given total control over English law. That would have created a de facto English Parliament that many MPs believe would have left the United Kingdom unworkable.
David Cameron never had this in mind when he stood outside Downing Street last September and promised to listen to the voices of England.
While some constitutional purists on the Tory benches are feeling sore, others are content. They now have something to say on the doorstep about the so-called English issue.
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Mr Hague said the Commons Speaker would probably have the job of deciding which measures should be treated as England only.
He said the proposals were unlikely to become law before May's general election but they would be in the Conservative manifesto and he was keen for MPs to debate them before the election.
But some Conservative MPs say the plan will still give MPs for Scottish constituencies too much influence.
Former Cabinet Minister John Redwood told The Daily Telegraph: "It gives them leverage. If you had a lot of Nationalist MPs, for example, who wanted something for Scotland then presumably they would all gang up and try to block an English proposal until we cave in on what they wanted. It would be perfectly legitimate political tactics."
He said Tory MPs would not back Mr Hague's proposals.
In December Labour said an English, or English and Welsh, committee stage would give those MPs "a key role" in considering the legislation in question, while MPs as a whole would have the final say.
Labour said this and other ideas should be considered by a constitutional convention after May's general election.
The Liberal Democrats favour a grand committee of English MPs, with the right to veto legislation applying only to England, with its members based on the share of the vote.
But Lib Dem Deputy Commons Leader Tom Brake said it would be a "major mistake" to "rush through" changes without a constitutional convention.
UKIP Deputy Leader Paul Nuttall said: "Cameron has spoken of English votes for English laws but these proposals will fail to deliver anything but chaos."
Stewart Hosie, deputy leader of the SNP, said Hague's plan was "confused and a bit shambolic" and the UK government could not exclude Scottish MPs from debate unless full tax and spending powers were devolved to Holyrood.
Elfyn Llwyd, Plaid Cymru's leader at Westminster, said English votes must "go hand in hand with home rule all round and the Barnett formula must be replaced in order to address the chronic underfunding of Wales".
The new show will be called Pitch Battle and will feature lots of different types of musical styles.
It will see groups of singers face off against each other in "riff-offs", which were made famous by the popular Pitch Perfect films.
There will be a capella challenges where groups of singers make music using only their voices, as well as solo challenges.
The BBC also announced another singing talent series called Let It Shine which will air in January next year.
These new shows come after the BBC said it had lost The Voice in 2015 to ITV.
In the past the BBC has been criticised for creating talent shows that are too similar to its rivals, like the X Factor on ITV.
Kate Phillips, the BBC's controller of entertainment commissioning, said that 'Pitch Battle' would have: "shed loads of sass and spirit".
Darren Clarke's men led 9-3 heading into the third day of competition, and a dominant performance in the singles saw them wrap up an 18½-5½ victory.
Danny Willett clinched the win with eight matches still out on course.
His fellow Englishmen Ian Poulter, Andy Sullivan, Lee Westwood, Matt Fitzpatrick and Chris Wood also won.
Swede Kristoffer Broberg, Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen and Frenchman Victor Dubuisson were also victorious in the singles, while England's Ross Fisher tied with Jeung Hun Wang.
Austria's Bernd Wiesberger and Irishman Shane Lowry were the only Europeans to lose on the final day, to KT Kim and Anirban Lahiri respectively.
This was the second staging of the EurAsia Cup, which replaced the Royal Trophy.
Victory delighted Clarke, who will captain Europe's Ryder Cup team when they take on the USA in Hazeltine, Minnesota in September.
"If your players don't play and don't perform then you can be the best captain in the whole world and you're not going to win, so the credit doesn't belong to me, it belongs to the players," he said.
"The quality of the golf they have played this week has been brilliant."
Lord Mervyn King predicted the long-term effect of a Brexit on GDP would turn out to be "a bit of a fuss about nothing".
In a BBC interview, he also accused the Remain campaign of treating people considering voting Leave like "idiots".
He said voters had not been impressed by "scaremongering tactics".
"If you say to someone 'you're an idiot if you don't agree with me' you're not likely to bring them in your direction," he added.
UK shares remain volatile in the wake of Thursday's vote, with some stocks temporarily suspended.
It came as sterling hit a 31-year low, and yields on 10-year government bonds sank below 1% for the first time.
Lord King, who was Bank of England governor for 10 years until 2013, said: "I don't think people should be particularly worried, markets move up, markets move down.
"We don't yet know where they will find their level and the whole aspect of volatility is that there is a trial and error process going on before markets discover what the right level of stock markets and exchange rates actually are.
"What we need is a bit of calm now, there's no reason for any of us to panic."
He said uncertainty would affect investment in the short term, but predicted the long-term impact to be "much smaller than either side pretend", predicting that "in 25 years' time we'll look back and say a little bit, that at least in economic terms, maybe that was a bit of a fuss about nothing".
Lord King's successor, Mark Carney, has said "extensive contingency planning" makes the UK "well-prepared" for the consequences of the vote to leave.
In a statement aimed a calming markets, Chancellor George Osborne said the UK was ready to face the future "from a position of strength".
But his predecessor, Labour's Alistair Darling, warned that a "vacuum" before a new prime minister is appointed could affect investment in the UK and said he was more worried now than during the financial crisis in 2008.
CCTV cameras caught Pardeep Kaur walking towards a bridge over the M4 in Hayes and being followed by a "stooped man" on 17 October last year.
Ms Kaur's body was found in undergrowth near Harlington Bridge nearly a week after she was reported missing.
Vadims Ruskuls, 25, who was sleeping rough under the bridge, denies murder.
Ms Kaur was snatched while on her way to work at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel in Harlington, Middlesex.
On the footage, presented to the Old Bailey, Ms Kaur and the figure, who is seen staggering in the street, disappear from view behind a bush at 06:33 BST.
Twenty-five minutes later, an indistinct figure is seen dragging her body back down the path and behind a pillar under the bridge.
PC Victoria Wellsted told the court no-one else was seen in the area in the 25-minute gap between Ms Kaur and the suspect walking out of view.
She told the jury the poor quality of the film meant it was impossible to tell from the footage if the person seen dragging the body was a man or woman.
However, she said there were "certain similarities" between the man seen following Ms Kaur in the images and Mr Ruskuls.
The trial continues.
Pubs will be able to stay open an extra two hours on both days until 01:00.
The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year - her actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on a Saturday in June - this year on 11 June.
The longer opening hours also coincide with England's and Wales's first games in the European football championships.
On Saturday 11 June, Wales play Slovakia at 17:00 BST and England play Russia at 20:00 BST.
There will be a series of events over the June weekend to mark the Queen's 90th birthday.
These will include a street party in The Mall, a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral and the traditional Trooping the Colour ceremony, also known as the Queen's Birthday Parade, at Horse Guards Parade.
Announcing the extension during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron said: "I'm sure that will be welcomed right across the House."
Late opening hours have taken place on other occasions in recent years including the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and the 2014 World Cup.
Pubs wishing to extend their opening hours for a one-off occasion normally need to apply to their local council for a temporary event notice. Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate licensing regulations.
The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a "new industrial" robot revolution.
It looks at whether to give robots legal status as "electronic persons".
Designers should make sure any robots have a kill switch, which would allow functions to be shut down if necessary, the report recommends.
Meanwhile users should be able to use robots "without risk or fear of physical or psychological harm", it states.
Lorna Brazell, a partner at law firm Osborne Clarke, was surprised by how far-reaching the rules were.
But questioned the need to give future robots legal status.
"Blue whales and gorillas don't have personhood but I would suggest that they have as many aspects of humanity as robots, so I don't see why we should jump into giving robots this status."
The report suggests that robots, bots, androids and other manifestations of artificial intelligence are poised to "unleash a new industrial revolution, which is likely to leave no stratum of society untouched".
The new age of robots has the potential for "virtually unbounded prosperity" but also raises questions about the future of work and whether member states need to introduce a basic income in the light of robots taking jobs.
Robot/human relationships raise issues around privacy, human dignity (particularly in relation to care robots) and the physical safety of humans if systems fail or are hacked.
The report acknowledges that there is a possibility that within the space of a few decades AI could surpass human intellectual capacity.
This could, if not properly prepared for, "pose a challenge to humanity's capacity to control its own creation and, consequently, perhaps also to its capacity to be in charge of its own destiny and to ensure the survival of the species".
It turns to science fiction, drawing on rules dreamed up by writer Isaac Asimov, for how robots should act if and when they become self-aware. The laws will be directed at the designers, producers and operators of robots as they cannot be converted into machine code.
These rules state:
Meanwhile robotic research should respect fundamental rights and be conducted in the interests of the wellbeing of humans, the report recommends.
Designers may be required to register their robots as well as providing access to the source code to investigate accidents and damage caused by bots. Designers may also be required to obtain the go-ahead for new robotic designs from a research ethics committee.
The report calls for the creation of a European agency for robotics and artificial intelligence that can provide technical, ethical and regulatory expertise.
It also suggests that in the light of numerous reports on how many jobs could be taken by AI or robots, member countries consider introducing a universal basic income for citizens provided by the state.
The report also considers the legal liabilities of robots and suggests that liability should be proportionate to the actual level of instructions given to the robot and its autonomy.
"The greater a robot's learning capability or autonomy is, the lower other parties' responsibilities should be and the longer a robot's 'education' has lasted, the greater the responsibility of its 'teacher' should be," it says.
Producers or owners may, in future, be required to take out insurance cover for the damage potentially caused by their robot.
If MEPs vote in favour of the legislation, it will then go to individual governments for further debate and amendments before it becomes EU law.
The number of households made homeless due to private rented sector evictions has increased 600% since 2010.
Councils have increased spending on putting up the homeless in temporary accommodation by as much as 2,000%.
The private rented sector has been called "the major issue" causing homelessness in London.
Anne Baxendale, head of policy at Shelter said: "Cuts to welfare and a lack of genuinely affordable homes has sadly forced a growing number of Londoners into homelessness."
In London, the number of families being made statutorily homeless is at a 10-year high.
The council owes a duty to accommodate households classed as statutory homeless - local households with children or with individuals with special needs who are made "unintentionally homeless" .
Being evicted from the private rented sector is now the most common cause of statutory homelessness in London.
"It's the private sector which is the major issue," Lewisham housing councillor Damien Egan said.
London remains the priciest city to rent in the UK. A two-bedroom flat in London costs an average of £1,555 a month, according to figures obtained by the BBC.
While rents are increasing the overall benefit cap has been reduced from £26,000 to £23,000 (£442 a week) in London.
The dual impact of these changes has led to families being "priced out" of London's housing market, according to Councillor Egan.
Natalie Monsoor and her three sons have been living in a single room in a Redbridge hostel for over nine months, since she was evicted from her privately-rented flat.
"When I pulled up to the hostel I just burst into tears," she told the BBC.
"I was hoping maybe three months maximum and we would be out of there. I mean there are 47 rooms in the hostel and only two kitchens.
"Some of the families there are seven kids to one family. And we all have to share bathrooms."
"It's not easy at all, and I think any mother would understand that when you see your child suffering, that's got to be the most difficult part."
The amount of money being spent by councils placing homeless households in temporary accommodation has also grown by an average of 60% since 2010.
Responses to Freedom of Information requests found the increase had been driven by a sharp rise in the amount spent on housing families in bed and breakfasts across London.
1197% Bromley
840% Wandsworth
248% Hackney
233% Merton
213% Sutton
53% LONDON AVERAGE
Temporary Accommodation is partly financed through central government subsidy.
The amount councils receive from government to cover rent is capped at 90% of the 2011 Local Housing Allowance rate - the rate paid by government to cover housing benefit.
A study by London Councils estimated London boroughs are meeting one quarter of the cost of Temporary Accommodation services from their General Fund, leading to cuts in other services.
Hackney 1805%
Tower Hamlets 1095%
Bromley 995%
Lewisham 821%
Greenwich 604%
LONDON AVERAGE 313%
A Department for Communities and Local Government spokesman admitted "there's more we can do" to tackle homelessness.
"That's why we're spending £550 million to tackle homelessness over the course of this Parliament, as well as investing £7 billion to build the affordable homes this country needs."
Watch the full report on Inside Out London on BBC One in London at 19:30 GMT on Friday 31 March.
This division is reflected in sharply polarised attitudes towards the media.
Venezuelan journalists' unions and opposition politicians accuse the authorities of clamping down on press freedom, while the government and its supporters say that they are the victims of a "media war".
Seventy percent of television and radio stations are privately-owned, but an array of defamation laws has led them to be wary about what they broadcast.
In the past 10 years, one major television channel, RCTV, and 34 radio stations have lost their broadcasting licences.
Miguel Henrique Otero, the editor of El Nacional, the only national daily newspaper that is overtly critical of the government, left the country in May 2015 after a top government official launched a lawsuit against him.
The Venezuelan press workers' union (SNTP) says the government's hostile rhetoric against the media has led to a rise in attacks on journalists.
The media landscape has changed markedly since Mr Maduro's predecessor and mentor, Hugo Chavez, was first elected 17 years ago.
Back then, the main privately-owned TV stations were very critical of his left-wing government.
To counter what government supporters perceived as right-wing propaganda against the socialist president. they founded hundreds of community radio and television stations.
Most are partially funded through government advertising, and those working there continue to believe that the mainstream media give an unfairly negative picture of President Chavez's Bolivarian revolution.
Here, four Venezuelans on different sides of the political divide give their views on the media.
"We don't have a free press. A free press means being able to say what you want without fear of the consequences.
"The biggest independent TV station was closed by the government just because it opposed them.
"Media owners have been harassed and forced to flee the country or forced to sell shares in their companies to businessmen close to the government.
"The government has a monopoly of the paper needed to print newspapers and gives more paper to newspapers that support it.
"Meanwhile the state-owned media is subjugated to the interests of the political party in power, the Socialist Party of Venezuela. This is not a fair or balanced situation."
"The big private media companies don't show reality of the country. They only follow the lines set by the owners.
"These big media companies and media trans-nationals have been instruments of suppression by imperialism against the people.
"Our aim has been to open our microphones, our cameras, our notebooks, so the people can express themselves. This doesn't happen in the rest of the media.
"We believe in the Bolivarian revolution and we are activists in the revolution, but we try to communicate with everyone.
"When we see the government do bad things, we criticise it, of course."
"The ability to exercise freely rights such as freedom of expression and access to information has become more and more difficult in this country.
"The former president Hugo Chavez used rhetoric to criminalise the work of the media. That was echoed by governors, mayors and the current president Nicolas Maduro.
"This discourse was interpreted by the government's followers to mean that journalists were the enemy of the nation.
"The mainstream media are very manipulative, on a national and international level - especially the international media.
"We are the ones who live here, who know what's happening here. They use television, radio and newspapers to entertain while trying to find a way to destroy our politics, destroy the revolution, destroy us.
"I am a builder. Who would have thought that at the age of 50-something I would be sitting behind a microphone.
"I've become a communicator, even though I don't have any qualifications from a university.
"As revolutionaries we do criticise the government. Comandante Chavez always told us that the best way to be a revolutionary was to criticise the revolution.
"But the criticism has to be healthy."
The Premier League side outplayed their hosts in the first half, but James Ward-Prowse fired over and Cuco Martina shot wide.
Substitute Charlie Austin powered a low strike just wide after the break as Saints lacked the cutting edge to score the goal their play deserved.
Inter, who had lost their past three games, rarely threatened before Antonio Candreva lashed a shot into the top corner.
Marcelo Brozovic's late dismissal for two bookings gave Southampton renewed hope, with both Virgil van Dijk and Austin denied from point-blank range.
But the visitors could not find an equaliser as they slipped to their first defeat in the Europa League this season.
Relive Inter Milan v Southampton
Southampton, who had around 7,000 vociferous fans at the San Siro for their first match against an Italian team, will be left wondering how they lost this match.
Even though manager Claude Puel had made six changes from Sunday's win over Burnley, the visitors played the more eye-catching football only for their finishing to let them down.
There was plenty to enjoy in Saints' build-up play, including marauding 21-year-old left-back Sam McQueen, who looked like a seasoned campaigner despite making his first start for the club.
However, Jay Rodriguez, Ward-Prowse, Martina, Austin - who came on for the injured Shane Long - and Van Dijk were all guilty of not being clinical enough in front of goal.
Rodriguez thought he had scored when he headed in but the referee had blown for a foul as players jostled in the area to meet a cross.
Van Dijk and Austin had the best chances but, in the closing stages, the former sidefooted a shot too close to keeper Samir Handanovic and had a header cleared off the line, while Austin's close range effort was brilliantly blocked by the Inter stopper.
Inter Milan might be one of Italian football's biggest clubs but they have fallen on hard times and, even though this was not pretty, they badly needed these three points.
They were weakened by not being able to include summer signings Gabriel Barbosa, Joao Mario, Geoffrey Kondogbia and Stevan Jovetic in their Europa League squad this season because of Financial Fair Play regulations.
And the home side, who are struggling in 11th in Serie A, played more like the away team as they soaked up the pressure and tried to catch Southampton on the break.
They rarely threatened but, when they did, Candreva showed the ruthlessness Southampton lacked when he found the top corner with a left-foot strike from Davide Santon's low cross.
It was Inter's first win of this season's Europa League following defeats to Sparta Prague and Hapoel Beer Sheva but they remain bottom of Group K, with Southampton second.
Southampton manager Claude Puel speaking to BT Sport: "It is very hard to lose this game because we had control of the game every time.
"I think we are unlucky because we played a very good game with quality and had many, many, chances and it is a big disappointment tonight.
Southampton captain Virgil van Dijk: "It is very tough. We were the team that deserved it most. You can see the goal was their only chance and it is frustrating, we should have buried the game in the first half.
"There was only one team who deserved to win but in the end that is football."
Southampton will try to extend Manchester City's run of games without a win to five when they visit Etihad Stadium on Sunday for a 13:30 BST kick-off. Inter Milan are at Atalanta on the same day at 14:00 BST. Inter visit St Mary's in both sides' next Europa League outing on 3 November.
Match ends, Inter Milan 1, Southampton 0.
Second Half ends, Inter Milan 1, Southampton 0.
Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Offside, Southampton. Steven Davis tries a through ball, but Virgil van Dijk is caught offside.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Gary Medel.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Danilo D'Ambrosio replaces Yuto Nagatomo.
Offside, Southampton. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg tries a through ball, but Charlie Austin is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Charlie Austin (Southampton) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Yuto Nagatomo.
Attempt blocked. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse with a cross.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Ivan Perisic.
Attempt blocked. Oriol Romeu (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Virgil van Dijk.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Ivan Perisic replaces Éder.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton).
Éder (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Gary Medel (Inter Milan) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton).
Éder (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Mauro Icardi.
Attempt blocked. Maya Yoshida (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Cristian Ansaldi replaces Antonio Candreva.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Éder (Inter Milan).
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Jeison Murillo.
Substitution, Southampton. Steven Davis replaces Jay Rodriguez.
Second yellow card to Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) for a bad foul.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan).
Charlie Austin (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan).
Substitution, Southampton. Sofiane Boufal replaces Dusan Tadic.
Attempt missed. Jeison Murillo (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Maya Yoshida.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Sam McQueen.
Goal! Inter Milan 1, Southampton 0. Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Davide Santon with a cross.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton).
Éder (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Fourteen people - including Shia opposition party members - were given sentences of up to 10 years for their role in the pro-democracy protests.
A further 13 people were imprisoned for between five and 15 years for the kidnapping of two policemen, the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said.
Meanwhile, the authorities have banned a planned opposition protest.
Bahrain's security chief Tarak Mubarak bin Daina said plans by the main Shia opposition al-Wefaq party to stage a human-chain protest on a key road in Manama on Wednesday would "derail public security and block the smooth flow of the traffic".
Al-Wefaq - which wants to protest over the jailing of doctors and nurses who treated anti-government demonstrators - described the ban as "illegal".
It is "an indication of constraints on the freedom of expression", the party said on its Facebook page.
A special security court on Tuesday issued 15-year sentences to nine people for the kidnap of policeman Mohammad Nayef Al Falah, and 10-year prison sentences for four people convicted of abducting policeman Saif-Allah Mohommad Ibrahim, BNA reports.
Six people received 10 years in prison and eight were given five years for offences which included organising illegal protests, broadcasting false news and rumours, and transmitting pictures abroad that would harm Bahrain's reputation.
Some of those convicted were reported to be members of the opposition Islamic Action Society (Amal), which the government planned to disband - along with al-Wefaq - until the move was criticised by the United States.
On Monday, 36 people were jailed in three separate cases of murder and attempted murder during the unrest.
Also on Monday, prison terms of between five and 15 years were imposed on 20 doctors and nurses convicted of aiding anti-government demonstrators.
The move has prompted protests from international human rights groups, the UN and medical associations in the West. Bahrain's prosecutor-general has said appeals by some of the convicted medics against their sentences will be heard on 23 October.
Pro-democracy protesters, largely drawn from Bahrain's Shia Muslim community, took to the streets earlier this year to call for the 200-year-old ruling Sunni Muslim dynasty to give up its hold on power and allow a freely elected government.
Shia Muslims make up about 70% of Bahrain's 525,000 people but say they face widespread discrimination.
Military rule was declared in March, a day before protesters were driven from Pearl Square in Manama. It was lifted in June, following hundreds of arrests and workplace purges.
More than 30 people have died since the protests began in February.
Arlene Foster is leading the Northern Ireland Assembly after Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson stepped aside over a political crisis.
She is now the only DUP minister left in Stormont's Executive after a crisis sparked by an ex-IRA man's murder.
But Sinn Féin criticised her comments as a "bigoted" throwback to the past.
The crisis has escalated following the murder of ex-IRA man Kevin McGuigan in Belfast last month and a police assessment that former IRA members may have been involved in the killing.
Mrs Foster said Mr Robinson's move and the resignations of three other DUP ministers was aimed at creating "time and space" for new political talks on the way forward for Northern Ireland's devolved political institutions.
Speaking on the BBC's The View programme, Mrs Foster said she has stayed on the executive in order to act as a "gatekeeper".
"I have been placed there as a gatekeeper to make sure that Sinn Féin and the SDLP ministers don't take actions that will damage Northern Ireland and principally, let's be honest, that damage the unionist community."
She added: "If anybody knows me and indeed knows the Democratic Unionist Party they know that I'm not going to put at risk to the people of Northern Ireland the possibility that rogue Sinn Féin or renegade SDLP ministers are going to take decisions that will harm the community in Northern Ireland."
However, speaking on the same programme, Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly said her comments were a "throwback" to the past and displayed a "very bigoted view of what the institutions are about".
"To make this attack on nationalism - because it wasn't just republicanism but on nationalism - and call ministers 'rogue ministers' is a complete nonsense," Mr Kelly said.
"She actually said that her job was - which by the way it isn't - her job was to protect unionism. Her job as a minister is actually to serve all the people."
Earlier on Thursday, the British and Irish governments expressed concern over the latest developments and called for further talks between Stormont's five main parties.
The DUP had asked Westminster to pass emergency legislation to suspend the assembly but both Prime Minister David Cameron and Secretary of State Theresa Villiers said they did not think suspension was the right action to take.
The DUP then tried to secure an adjournment of the assembly, but the motion was defeated when Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionists and the Social Democratic and Labour Party voted against it.
The US government also called for more talks to resolve the crisis, in a statement released through former senator Gary Hart.
Mr Hart acted as a US envoy during last December's Stormont House Agreement negotiations.
He said: "Northern Ireland's achievements are the result of dialogue and responsible leadership; now is the time to re-energise the parties' commitment to implementing the Stormont House Agreement and addressing remnant paramilitary activity."
"The United States remains actively engaged and will continue to support political progress."
The Briton will compete in the 5,000m and hopes to sign off with victory in what will be his indoor finale.
"I haven't thought about it before but it will be," said Farah, 33, who plans to focus on road racing after the outdoor World Championships in August.
"If I want to hang my spikes up after this summer then that will be it, and I'll move on to the roads."
Farah is looking to improve on a seventh-place finish at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country last month.
Jamaica's 100m and 200m Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson and 110m hurdles world record holder Aries Merritt of the USA are among the leading names in action.
Britain's Laura Muir (1,000m), Andrew Butchart (5,000m), Jazmin Sawyers (long jump), Richard Kilty (60m) and James Dasaolu (60m) will also line up in Birmingham, but sprinter Dina Asher-Smith has been ruled out with an ankle injury and heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has a hamstring strain.
The British athletes are preparing for next month's European Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
You can watch all the action from the Barclaycard Arena on BBC One from 13:15 GMT on Saturday, 18 February.
Chris Turner died in April aged 64, after being diagnosed with a form of dementia in 2006.
He spent nine years as a player with Posh before winning back-to-back promotions as manager in the early 1990s.
Sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn has been commissioned and fans have so far raised £15,000 of the £75,000 cost.
One fan, Adi Moles who is involved in the fundraising campaign, said: "We want to have a large plinth, all lit up and covered in granite and very tall, because Chris Turner was a very tall man, standing at London Road.
"He'll have his arms up and we're transfixing the face he had when we won at Wembley, absolutely laughing his head off and having the time of his life."
Phil Adlam, Peterborough United press officer, said the club was "very much behind" the plan and it was a "perfect, fitting tribute" to Turner.
They will donate the 5p plastic bag charge from all sales at their shop towards the costs of the statue.
The fans are launching the fundraising campaign at two events later and on Friday.
Mr Moles does not yet have a date for the statue's provisional completion and unveiling saying he expected fundraising to be "a marathon not a sprint".
Organisers said they hope the prime minister will "lead an appropriate humanitarian response" to the crisis at a UN refugee summit next week.
The demonstration follows news that the UK is on track to resettle 20,000 refugees by 2020.
The UN says 4.5m Syrians have fled their homes during the country's war.
Groups such as Oxfam, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Amnesty International, the Refugee Council and Stop the War Coalition collaborated for the demonstration, organised by charity coalition Solidarity with Refugees.
During the march, protestors carried flags and placards, and chanted: "Theresa May, you will say, refugees are welcome here", and refugees, celebrities and religious leaders spoke at a rally in Parliament Square.
Actor and campaigner Vanessa Redgrave said at the rally: "The present government and previous governments, both Labour, coalition and Conservative, have been breaking international human rights law. We must hold them to account."
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said earlier this month that the government had received enough pledges of available accommodation from local authority housing departments for the government to meet its target to resettle 20,000 refugees under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme.
Under the scheme, the government will pay £8,500 towards housing, healthcare and other costs for each refugee in the first year, but this figure is reduced to £1,000 by the fifth year.
But Solidarity with Refugees director Ros Ereira said the current response had been slow.
"The situation is growing, it is not decreasing - it is not going away and there are people dying and we need to stop that happening," she said.
She hopes Prime Minister Theresa May will "set the tone" for her leadership and play "an important role on the global stage" at next week's UN Summit for refugees and migrants in New York, hosted by US President Barack Obama.
Refugee Kais Aldahou, 24, who came to the UK from Damascus in Syria in 2009 to study at university, said: "It is about more support, not necessarily bringing in more refugees, but to help the camps around Europe - the situations in them are pretty horrendous."
This year's UN annual report for World Refugee Day revealed the number of refugees worldwide had passed 60 million for the first time, with more than half coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.
A former chaplain and ex-principal were jailed in January for abusing boys at the former St William's home in East Yorkshire between 1970 and 1991.
Campaigners want to know why the abuse there went unchecked for decades.
MP Hilary Benn has asked for the case to be included in the national inquiry into child sex abuse led by Alexis Jay.
Campaigner Darren Furness, who was a pupil at the care home near Market Weighton, started the petition in June. He said: "I've been fighting this for 30 years and I'll carry on fighting till the day I get answers.
"It's not about money. It's about getting justice and making sure this can never happen again.
"We want a public inquiry."
The Labour MP for Leeds said the number of signatures on the petition showed "strength of feeling" and that "lessons need to be learned".
Mr Benn wrote to the previous chairwoman of the national inquiry before her resignation, judge Dame Lowell Goddard.
In a response, the inquiry panel invited Mr Furness to submit evidence but the case would not be investigated the MP said.
Former chaplain Anthony McCallen, formerly of Whernside Crescent, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, was convicted in December of 11 charges including a serious sexual offence, but was acquitted of eight others after a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
Ex-principal James Carragher, of Cearns Road, Merseyside, was jailed for nine years after he was found guilty of 21 indecent assaults and three serious sex offences. He was cleared of a further 30 charges.
The inquiry into child sex abuse in England and Wales was set up in July 2014 to investigate allegations made against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions, as well as people in the public eye.
The trio from Blackwood, in Caerphilly county, will play the final day of the annual festival on Sunday, 9 July.
"It's always really special to play in Wales," said a Manics statement.
"Particularly when we are playing an event for the first time. And to play on the festival's 70th anniversary will make it even better."
The band, whose hits include A Design For Life, Motorcycle Emptiness and If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, have just finished the 20th anniversary tour of their platinum album Everything Must Go.
Tickets for the show at the Royal International Pavilion, which is expected sell out the 5,200 capacity, go on sale on Thursday.
"This is set to be Llanfest's biggest ever show and to say we are excited about the prospect would be an understatement," said festival's musical director Eilir Owen Griffiths.
"The Manics are one of the most important bands to ever emerge from Wales.
"They have an extensive back catalogue of politically charged songs, which resonate as much now as when first released, as well as their powerful newer works."
The company behind the phone operators announced last year that it was ending the promotion because its customers' "viewing habits had evolved".
It promises to have another package to offer soon.
But there was speculation that the company couldn't reach a commercial deal with a cinema chain.
In a statement issued in December, EE said: "Orange Wednesday launched over a decade ago and at its peak was a massive success and an iconic promotion.
"After 10 great years our brand has changed and our customers' viewing habits have also evolved so it's time to move on.
"That's why the final credits will roll for Orange Wednesdays at the end of February 2015. We're working on new customer entertainment rewards and we'll provide more detail soon."
2013's box office attendance was the lowest in 20 years, according to Rentrak.
Cinemas in the UK and Ireland saw box office takings drop 2.9%, or around £34 million, from 2013 - the most significant change since 1991.
Blame, in part, was being directed at a lack of Hollywood blockbusters on screens that year.
But it was also put down to the increasing cost of a ticket and people downloading films and box sets at home on a tablet, TV or phone.
Sam Claflin, who has appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean and stars in the Hunger Games movie franchise, said the end of the deal could "potentially" have an impact on box office figures.
"As much as I've never been with Orange mobiles, it's never really affected me personally," he says.
"But as a film buff, I don't feel that I have kind of stopped going to the cinema personally.
"I think you only have to look at the outstanding British film nominations [at the Baftas] to realise that there's such a vast range of different genres that are being made now. From Under the Skin to Paddington, it's such an incredible feat.
"And I think, people are being more creative and there are really, really interesting projects out there.
"It is a shame that people aren't going to see them I suppose as much in the cinema because that's the real experience of film."
But Stephen Fry says it's not as simple as people being turned off film and brands the decline as "sad".
"I don't know whether one can factor in the figures for those who wait in order to watch Netflix, iTunes and other such downloads.
"Because I think that's really on the up enormously and the passion for cinema and for movies is the greatest I think that it's ever been.
"So the fact that it's not reflected in box office returns is sad, because I think filmmakers and everyone like to see their movies watched in proper, big, big cinemas.
"Indeed Imax and funnily enough, you get things like Game of Thrones being shown in Imax cinemas.
"It's disappointing but actually that's bound to happen but over a longer period I think. I think you'll find that cinema attendance is still pretty good."
And he's not wrong. 2014 did mark the fifth consecutive year that the film industry exceeded the £1.1 billion mark.
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Large-scale farming from before the Roman invasion suggests a high level of civilisation, archaeologists said.
The survey also revealed the route of a long-suspected Roman road between Chichester and Brighton.
It covered an area between the Arun river valley in West Sussex and Queen Elizabeth Country Park in Hampshire.
The "Lidar" survey technique uses an aircraft-mounted laser beam to scan the ground and produce a 3D model of features that survive as earthworks or structures in open land or woodland.
Images of land between Lamb Lea Woods and Charlton Forest showed that a field system already protected as a scheduled monument was just a small part of a vast swathe of later pre-historic cultivation extending under a now wooded area.
James Kenny, archaeological officer at Chichester District Council, said it suggested a civilisation closer to ancient Greece, Egypt or Rome than what is known of prehistoric Britain.
"One of our biggest findings is the discovery of a vast area farmed by pre-historic people on an astonishing scale," said Trevor Beattie, chief executive of the South Downs National Park Authority,
Mr Kenny added that the evidence raised questions about who was growing the crops, who was eating the food and where they were living.
"The scale is so large that it must have been managed, suggesting that this part of the country was being organised as a farming collective," he said.
The route of the road suggests the Romans would have headed out from their settlement at Chichester on Stane Street, the road to London, before branching east towards Arundel.
"The recognition of the 'missing link' in the Roman road west of Arundel was a highlight in a project full of exciting results," said Helen Winton, aerial investigation manager at Historic England.
The bill was defeated in a first vote on Tuesday, after a coalition party and the main opposition abstained.
A second vote is expected by the end of this week after Prime Minister Iveta Radicova's coalition struck the deal with the opposition Social Democrats.
Slovakia is the last eurozone state to vote on ratifying the fund's expansion.
It is proposed to expand the effective lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to 440bn euros ($600bn; £383bn).
The fund would also be empowered to buy eurozone government debt and offer credit lines to member states and to banks.
Top EU officials urged the country on Wednesday to ratify the bill swiftly.
"We call upon all parties in the Slovak parliament to rise above the positioning of short-term politics and seize the next occasion to ensure a swift adoption of the new agreement," European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a joint statement.
Ms Radicova failed to pass the bill on Tuesday when a junior partner in her coalition, Richard Sulik's free-market Freedom and Solidarity party, refused to back it.
By Gavin HewittBBC Europe editor
Sovereignty and the European project
Freedom and Solidarity asked why Slovakia's taxpayers should be asked to help cover the debts of richer countries.
Many Slovaks feel their country - the second poorest in the eurozone - should not have to bail out countries like Greece, correspondents say.
However, the EFSF looks almost certain to pass in the second vote after four parties reached agreement on Wednesday.
"We have reached an agreement on securing the adoption of the most important document of this period - the EU bailout fund," said Robert Fico, head of the Social Democrats.
Earlier, explaining his abstention in the first vote, which helped bring down the government, he said: "We're saying 'no' to a rightist government, but we're saying 'yes' to the rescue fund."
In return for his support, Ms Radicova's coalition agreed to hold snap elections on 10 March, one of her ministers, Mikulas Dzurinda, confirmed.
"We decided that as the first point of [Thursday's] parliamentary session, we will work on a proposal to shorten the voting period, with the goal of organising an election on 10 March," he said.
"Immediately after, tomorrow or Friday, we will debate proposals related to the EFSF."
Correspondents say Mr Fico, a former prime minister, is positioned to do well at the elections because of the unpopularity of the outgoing government's austerity measures.
But what does this headline-grabbing event say about France's relationship with its unions, and their role in French society?
As every child knows, a story needs its goodies and its baddies. And political stories are no different, except that the labels change depending on who is telling the tale.
So why has France had such a hard time deciphering who's who in the recent Air France protest?
The initial reaction, from the public at least, seemed clear. One opinion poll, taken in the days after the attack on company managers, found that 75% of French were "shocked".
In another, more than two-thirds of respondents called the violence "inexcusable".
The government joined in, with Prime Minister Manuel Valls condemning the behaviour of some protesters, and calling them "thugs".
Only France's far left, and the CGT union behind the demonstration, came out in strong support of the shirt-rippers, with the union reiterating their "total support" for those arrested in the aftermath of the violence.
But then something interesting happened, says Gil Mihaely, deputy editor at current affairs magazine Causeur.
"The wind changed," he says. "At first people were shocked by the images, but after the emotion died down, something changed.
"And the worker from the shipyard who refused to shake President Hollande's hand a few days later became a hero."
That worker was Sebastien Benoit, secretary of the CGT's maritime arm. He rebuffed the president during an inspection of a shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, criticising him for failing to denounce the "employers' violence" in the Air France affair.
A day later, French radio station RFI ran an article which described the events at Air France as "a mirror of the French Revolution".
"The violence at Air France has shocked the world," it read. "But what's more shocking for French people is the sympathy shown to the company's bosses, when it's potentially 3,000 members of staff that could get the axe."
And so began the slide of victimhood from one side to the other.
The violence of the Air France protest may have been unusual, and sympathy for its shirtless and terrified managers may have been real, but that was just the human story.
The debate itself, slicing thousands of jobs in France's difficult economic climate, switched many sympathies to the other side. The union members, many people seemed to concede, had a point.
"A significant proportion of people - especially those in lower income groups - said they 'understood' the violence, even if they didn't approve of it," says Dr Susan Milner, a specialist in French labour relations at Bath University in the UK.
8%
of employees belong to a union
2010
saw a peak in strikes over pensions
Minimum wage (p/hr) €9.61
Unemployment rate is 10.7%
She believes attitudes towards the Air France protest have been coloured by widespread anger at job losses in France more generally, and government failure to tackle unemployment rates.
But despite the strong stance of organisations like the CGT on issues like the minimum wage, hiring policies and the 35-hour week, Susan Milner says public anger over job losses does not necessarily translate into support for trade unions themselves.
In fact, says Prof Guy Groux of Sciences Po university, conflicts like the one at Air France "spring from despair, the unions being too weak to bring together members in big days of action".
"And the weaker a union is, the louder it has to shout to make itself heard."
Only 8% of employees are members of a union in France, compared with 25% in the UK. But union negotiations affect all workers in a particular company or industry, members and non-members alike.
Their influence, therefore, comes not from membership but from a curious combination of their institutional position as state-sanctioned workers' representatives, and their protest power, says Susan Milner.
"And there's growing tension between these two sources of power," she explains, "[partly] because the economic climate has encouraged grassroots discontent."
There is discontent with the unions themselves, too, which are often seen as rigid, self-serving and tainted by their establishment position.
In fact, one of the clearest results in polling after the Air France affair was the 82% who said it was a sign of France's "degraded social dialogue", and both politicians and commentators have called for reform - from mandatory union membership, to directly polling staff members on key decisions.
PM Valls has already launched a new project to tweak the relationship between the French state, its unions and employers, paring back the 3,000-page Labour Law, and giving companies and union representatives more leeway in negotiating deals at company and regional levels.
But some are sceptical that reform alone can transform the dinosaurs of the industrial era into representatives fit for France's contemporary economy.
"Unions find it difficult to move from the world of big employers to the world of people who change jobs 10-15 times, or who work in two different places at the same time, or who use their car as a taxi at night," says Gil Mihaely.
"They're still working with the old model in their heads."
Guy Groux from Sciences Po agrees, but says France cannot function without them.
"There are 35,000-40,000 agreements signed between management and unions each year in France," he says, "and the number of strike days has shrunk dramatically."
Unions may also be an occasional lightening rod for a working class that feels increasingly powerless and invisible, but when it comes to violent revolt like that at Air France, says Mr Mihaely, the ruling class also bears some responsibility.
"The story here is not just the unions, it's the French elites," he says.
"That's why we have the same re-enactment of the French Revolution - the aristocracy, the legitimacy of violence, the small humiliating the big.
"There are too many officers who were never soldiers," he explains.
"When you have to announce bad news, every ounce of credibility and legitimacy counts. The future is less job security; it's work more and earn less; it's a smaller pension taken later.
"This is the news that this generation of French elite must break - and they don't know how to do it."
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Many have a vote; those who have been living there for more than 15 years do not.
But vote or not, what will a decision to leave or stay in the EU mean to them?
I took a road trip around the Costa Blanca to find out.
There is an assumption that UK citizens living permanently in Spain are retired.
It is more complex than that. There are many that retired there more than 20 years ago, along with recent retirees and those who are no longer working but too young to collect their state pension.
There is also a growing number of middle-aged people working in Spain. Not just working in bars, as builders and shop owners but also increasingly with the digital revolution, people of many professions can work remotely in businesses all over the world.
So what is the pull? The biggest is lifestyle. Not just sea and Sangria but a more relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere, they told me.
HEALTH CARE AND PENSIONS?
If UK citizens are living and working in Spain and pay their taxes they are entitled to full use of the Spanish health care system.
Amongst the many expats I have met in the last few days, I heard only praise for the Spanish health service - they have had new knees, hips, treatment for complex illnesses and also babies.
If UK citizens are entitled to a UK state pension, they get that in Spain and at the moment it is index-linked to inflation.
Expat pensioners also get free health care and the UK Government pays the Spanish Government £3,000 a year for each UK OAP.
THE VIEW FROM THE BAR
TJ's karaoke bar just off Avenida de Mediterraneo in the middle of Benidorm was set up by Tony and Tracey Jones from Swansea seven years ago.
In the bar, the Welsh flags and Brains beer mats are a reminder of home and most of the customers while I was there were holidaymakers from Port Talbot.
Back home Tony was working as a builder and Tracey worked for 25 years as a taxi driver.
It was the sun and the more relaxed working atmosphere that attracted them and they say they will never go back to live in Wales. Their daughter Katie was 21 when she followed them out and she too never expects to return to live.
Katie gave birth to her son Amir, now aged two, in Alicante hospital. He was only 900 grams when he was born, was in intensive care and spent many weeks in hospital.
Because Katie and her Moroccan partner have been working and paying tax in Spain, Amir's care was free, as will be his education when he starts school.
Amir is now learning to speak Spanish, Arabic and English.
Katie is not sure whether she will vote but is happy in Spain.
"If I could have done this a long time ago, I would've done," she said. "I class myself as Spanish as well, we've got British passports. I've got my husband-to-be and we enjoy living here."
COSTA CHOIR - THE MALE VOICE
The Costa Blanca male voice choir is a social gathering for Welsh expats from around the coast, which meets in the back room of a bar at Teulada, half an hour's drive north of Benidorm.
Jeff Thomas and Alun Price came for the sun and lifestyle and will stay on the Costa Blanca whatever happens. But they have worries over arrangements for health and the effect on the exchange rate and pensions.
Alun said: "They would possibly freeze pensions. It's the unknown factors we're concerned about, there are so many conflicting reports coming from both sides."
Jeff added: "And of course our residential status - will we be illegal immigrants? There are lots of issues."
Gareth Jones is voting to stay in "for selfish reasons" but would vote Brexit if he was back in Wales.
"All the four countries would be better off - I think we can cope, there'll be a blip but in the end it will even itself out."
Gareth Pugh said: "A lot of people I speak to in the UK are unsure, but I've got a feeling people prefer the devil they know.
"It's more fear of the unknown, in terms of trade deals, world conflict, that sort of thing."
THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS...
Drive inland from Gata de Gorgos and Ondarra and you come to the village of Benidoleig.
Traditionally it is a farming area - vines, almonds, cherries and oranges fill the valley.
But increasingly over the last few decades people from many other European countries and beyond have moved there.
It is a mixed community not an expat ghetto.
Above the village I find El Cid's Bowling Club. It is noon, 30C (86F) and 45 expats, dressed in the sport's full white uniform, are competing hard against each other. Amongst them a handful of Welsh players.
Linda and Ieuan Davies, originally of Cardiff, have been living in the Jalon valley since 2012. They are not working and not old enough to get a state pension. They pay the Spanish authorities €60 a month.
For that they get a health card which gives them and their dependent free healthcare but they do pay for prescriptions.
Both are worried about the result of the referendum. They have both voted by post and voted to remain.
Linda says it is not for what she calls "selfish reasons" but rather that she thinks EU countries are better together and she wants to see the UK stay as part of that group. She says she is also worried about the future.
Their UK occupational pensions are calculated in pounds and so if the exchange rate falls that hits their pocket.
I also spoke to Jeff and Ann Eslick, who decided three years ago to move back home to Lincolnshire and have now sold their house in Spain.
"The EU just seems to be a group of people who aren't taking into consideration the people they're serving," said Ann.
"I feel we have to take that back and make our own decisions. It's got too big and we're not controlling ourselves."
Jeff added: "It's all been scaremongering. The big industries we had - steel, iron, shipbuilding and transport have disappeared because of cheap imports. I believe they'll come back under our own government."
The most popular countries where Britons live abroad
Australia 1,289,396 residents born in the United Kingdom
United States 714,999
Canada 607,377
South Africa 318,536
Spain (EU) 308,821
New Zealand 265,014
Ireland (EU) 254,761
France (EU) 185,344
Germany (EU) 103,352
Italy (EU) 64,986
Source: United Nations, 2015
In a nutshell: the argument for leaving the EU
Given the importance of UK tourists in the EU and in particular to Spain, it is likely the UK government would find it relatively easy to renegotiate similar privileges to the ones British tourists, workers and expat pensioners currently enjoy.
If Britain leaves, the argument is that it will force the EU to change for the better - and will benefit those expats who carry on living in Spain.
In a nutshell: the argument for staying in the EU
Although expats who currently live there are expected to have "acquired rights" to remain under international law and to own property, there are no guarantees over benefits, pensions and medical treatment and their continuation would depend on new agreements with the UK. Also if free movement ends, it could mean applying for visas to live or work there in future.
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A NEW GENERATION
It is not just retired people in the expat community. The digital revolution means for many professionals they can work almost anywhere, have meetings on Skype and fly to most places from Alicante when they have to meet clients or colleagues face to face.
This means there are young families living in Spain and the Lady Elizabeth School near Benissa, a few miles from Teulada, has more than 1,000 pupils from 26 different nations.
It is one of 15 international schools on the Costa Blanca. Exams are sat in English, Spanish and Valenciano, one of Spain's regional languages.
Economics teacher Howard Westcott said: "There's a whole new wave coming - there's a caricature of expats, that we come for the cheap beer and karaoke nights, but there's a whole generation that come for job opportunities, setting up their own businesses."
He said for the self-employed it could be complicated to start with on the Costa while they pay a significant contribution to the state to be covered for health and social care.
"I run as business as well as teach, and I pay my taxes. Yes, the sun is lovely but it's not why I came here. I came for the opportunity to teach in a wider environment.
"The nature of work has changed. People don't have to physically be where their workplace is. A lot of families I know work online and can travel abroad from here. You may as well be based here where the weather is nice and it's a cheaper economy."
The question on the minds of many that I spoke to was if the UK left the EU, what would happen to the agreements in free health and education that are in place now.
Remain supporters fear those benefits would disappear while many of those who want the UK to leave say that British employees and customers are too important to the Spanish economy for Spain to want to make life difficult for them.
At this stage it is impossible to know what will happen and what the reaction will be of Spain and other governments across the EU if Britain votes to leave.
Mr Westcott said there were questions and he would consider taking Spanish citizenship when he was eligible if he had to.
"Students are asking me will I need a visa to travel to university, the things you naturally get with freedom of movement? No-one has convinced me yet with the arguments for coming out, what are the advantages."
A VIEW FROM SPAIN
I certainly found dismay among many Spaniards about why the UK is even holding a referendum. There is disquiet in Spain too about the bureaucracy of the European Commission, about whether its economic policies are steered to benefit France and Germany most and also whether decision making in the EU is too centralised.
But generally in Spain the feeling expressed to me was that change should and can happen from within the EU, not by leaving it.
Thursday's protest was largely peaceful after violence a day earlier during which one person was fatally shot.
Keith Lamont Scott's family dispute police allegations he was armed and want video recording to be released.
Excessive police force used against black men has been the subject of protests for two years across the US.
On Tuesday, Mr Scott was killed in Charlotte after police say he refused to drop a gun he was carrying. His family say he was unarmed and holding a book.
Police have released a video of the shooting to the family, but have refused to make it public.
The family's lawyer, Justin Bamberg, said no gun was visible in the video and Mr Scott appeared to be "acting calm".
"You do see something in his hand, but it's impossible to make out from the video what it is."
Police chief Kerr Putney said the video proved the shooting was justified, telling Fox news: "The officer perceived his failure to comply with commands, failure to drop the weapon and facing the officers as an imminent threat."
On Thursday, demonstrators protesting against Mr Scott's death defied a curfew put into force by the city's mayor on Thursday - running from midnight to 06:00.
According to Cpt Mike Campagna, officers did not enforce the curfew as protests were largely peaceful, with some on the street singing gospel songs.
However Charlotte police reported two officers were injured.
Hundreds of National Guard troops were deployed on the streets to protect the city against further violence and property damage.
It followed Wednesday's protest during which protesters smashed windows of hotels and restaurants, set fires, and attacked reporters.
Peaceful demonstrations took place in the aftermath of last week's shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
On Thursday, officer Betty Shelby was charged with manslaughter for shooting an unarmed man.
Prosecutors said her decision to shoot Terence Crutcher was "unreasonable".
Video of the incident shows Mr Crutcher with his hands up, leaning against the car.
Officer Shelby said Mr Crutcher had not followed her commands and she had opened fire when he began to reach into his car window.
As well as being shot, Mr Crutcher was also struck with a stun gun by another officer.
Ms Shelby's lawyer, Scott Wood, has said she believed Mr Crutcher was under the influence of the synthetic drug PCP. A vial of the drug was found in the car.
His family have disputed Ms Shelby's claim, arguing that his window was closed at the time of the incident.
Police have said no gun was found on Mr Crutcher or inside his vehicle.
The US justice department has also opened a separate investigation to see if Mr Crutcher's civil rights were violated.
If convicted, Ms Shelby faces a minimum of four years in prison.
After the charge, a small group of demonstrators gathered to demand a harsher sentence.
Just four days before the first presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump said the violence from the Charlotte protests was largely due to drugs.
"If you're not aware, drugs are a very, very big factor in what you're watching on television at night," he said.
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine said the list of black men fatally shot by police had "grown too long" and the country needed to confront the issue of racial tensions.
Republican Congressman Robert Pittenger, of North Carolina, told the BBC the protesters hated white people because white people were successful, but he later apologised for his comments in an interview with CNN.
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Muslim Khan, a former spokesman for the militants, was convicted of killing 31 people, including civilians and security personnel, the military said.
He is among eight "terrorists" whose death penalty was confirmed by army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.
The military courts were set up in the aftermath of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre. Their term expires next week.
Others whose convictions were confirmed by the army chief on Wednesday include four gunmen sentenced for involvement in a 2015 bus massacre of Ismaili Shias in Karachi, and the assassination of social activist Sabeen Mahmud, also in Karachi the same year.
Muslim Khan, 62, started out as a student activist of a left-wing secular party in the 1960s, but underwent an ideological transformation in the early 1990s when a pre-Taliban Islamist movement briefly emerged in his native Swat region.
In 2007, he became the chief spokesman of the Swat Taliban, and was the movement's public face during its stranglehold over the region which continued until the winter of 2009.
His forceful defence of the Taliban's policy of killings, beheadings and the destruction of schools in Swat earned him and Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah the title of "butchers of Swat".
The military's statement described him as "a spokesman of a proscribed organisation [who] was involved in killing innocent civilians, attacking armed forces and law enforcement agencies of Pakistan".
These attacks resulted in the death of 31 people and injuries to 69 others, the statement said, adding that he was involved in "slaughtering" four soldiers.
"He was also involved in kidnapping two Chinese engineers and a local civilian for ransom. The convict admitted his offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was awarded the death sentence."
A former BBC Urdu correspondent, Abdul Hai Kakar, who met him in September 2009, reported that he spoke several languages, including Urdu, English, Arabic and Persian, in addition to his mother tongue Pashto.
He had lived in or travelled across more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, Europe, the US and the Far East.
He has been in custody since his arrest in 2009 during the military operation that drove the Taliban out of Swat.
The military court trials are held in secret, and prisoners on trial are held in internment centres run by the military, away from the mainstream jail population.
Scores of suspects have been convicted by the military courts since they were set up in January 2015 - obtaining accurate information is difficult because secrecy makes it almost impossible to scrutinise the process.
Dawn newspaper said more than 270 cases had been sent to the military courts in the past two years. They gave death sentences to 161 people, while 116 were given jail terms, mostly life sentences.
A report by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in June had a lower figure, saying the military courts had convicted 81 people during the 18 months of their existence.
So far only 12 suspects have been executed by the military courts.
Others have gone to the courts to challenge the fairness of the trials, but judges have failed to intervene.
The ICJ has accused the Pakistani authorities of failing to make public key information about the trials, with similar objections raised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and other groups.
The BBC asked the Interior Ministry for information on cases tried by the military courts but has not yet received a response.
The convictions made public on Wednesday are believed to be the last by military courts before their legal term expires in January 2017.
It is not clear if their term will be extended.
Elements within the military want the term of the military courts extended, believing the government is not up to dealing with terrorism-related offences.
But rights groups and some political circles say law and order has improved and the justification for military courts no longer exists.
US customs officials say Jose Aguilar was arrested by federal agents who found four illegal migrants from China in the boot of his car.
The lawyer representing Mr Aguilar, Jeremy Warren, said the case had nothing to do with the famous singer.
"Jose Aguilar is a young man who will address this matter in court, not with the press," he said.
The arrest took place two weeks ago - but details, including Jose Aguilar's involvement, emerged on Friday.
US Customs and Border Protection said Mr Aguilar was arrested at the border in San Diego after a sniffer dog alerted federal agents to the stowaways in the boot of his car.
The migrants reportedly said they had agreed to pay Mr Aguilar between $3,000 and $60,000 (£2,390 and £47,830) to be smuggled into the US.
Mr Aguilar, who is a US citizen, was released on bail pending his arraignment.
His father, Pepe Aguilar, is one of Mexico's most popular mariachi singers.
He has won four Grammy awards and four Latin Grammy awards and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Police said the incident happened on Tuesday at a property in the Huntly area.
A 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy have been charged with reckless conduct in connection with the incident.
No-one was injured and a report is being sent to the procurator fiscal, officers said.
Sgt Ian Moeller added: "I would like to take this opportunity to stress how deadly fireworks can be in the wrong hands and when let off in the wrong place and at the wrong time.
"Without being in complete control you have no idea how the situation will develop and what the outcome will be.
"What might be considered to be a prank could have deadly consequences."
The deal, for a 4G LTE data plan, applies to cars sold in the US from 3 March and will cost $20 (£16) a month.
It is being offered with the help of US carrier OnStar and will see vehicles fitted with a wi-fi hotspot that connects to the web via LTE.
Chevrolet said it was offering the deal because in-car data use had grown so fast.
Figures gathered by Chevrolet suggest the amount of data used via wi-fi in its cars jumped by 200% last year.
In 2016, it said, Chevrolet in-car hotspots had handled about four million gigabytes of data.
The LTE-based hotspots are available across the entire range of vehicles made by Chevrolet.
The system allows owners to connect up to seven devices at a time.
Ford also announced this week that it had signed a deal with Vodafone to put 4G modems in its cars.
It has not yet released any information about prices but said the system would be an optional extra available in cars sold across Europe from 2018.
In its announcement, Ford said the 4G hotspots would use wi-fi so passengers could connect directly rather than by using Bluetooth.
Car owners will be able to use up to 10 devices in a car at any one time.
The deal agreed at this year's North Atlantic Ski Areas' Association conference is thought to be a world first.
It involves Scotland's CairnGorm Mountain, Glencoe Mountain, Glenshee, Nevis Range and The Lecht ski centres.
All nine of Iceland's snowsports centres are involved.
Earlier this month, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding between VisitScotland and the Icelandic Tourist Board.
The agreement between the Scottish and the Icelandic tourism boards will see them share information and advice on areas such as quality development and sustainability.
Heather Negus, chairwoman of Ski-Scotland, said the snowsports deal was ground-breaking.
She said: "We believe this is the first international agreement between all snowsports areas in two countries.
"While there is cross-border co-operation between individual ski areas elsewhere, what makes this unique is that it includes absolutely every lift at every resort in both Scotland and Iceland.
"With daily flights linking Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh with Reykjavik, we believe many of our customers will see this as a wonderful opportunity to ski or snowboard on new terrain and enjoy the culture of a new country.
"And of course, we also look forward to welcoming Icelandic skiers and boarders to Scotland's mountain resorts."
Malcolm Roughead, chief executive of VisitScotland, added: "Both Scotland and Iceland are small countries that punch well above their weight on the global tourism stage.
"VisitScotland and the Icelandic Tourist Board have built a strong and mutually beneficial relationship over the past three years, culminating in the recently announced formal agreement between the two organisations.
"This historic collaboration will see the sharing of information and best practice on areas such as quality development, information provision and sustainability."
The Dow Jones industrial average closed 0.24% lower, to 17581.43 points, while the S&P 500 lost 5.29 points, or 0.26%, to 2,065.9 points.
The Nasdaq composite index closed 0.09% lower, to 5030.15 points.
Chinese online retailer Alibaba said second-quarter sales rose 32%. The shares rose 4.01% to $79.41.
That beat analyst estimates, even though the value of goods traded grew at a slower pace.
But Ford fell 5.13% to $14.88, after reporting sharply higher quarterly profit, helped by a good performance in North America, but missed Wall Street estimates because of higher taxes.
The Federal Reserve is beginning its two-day meeting. Few analysts expect the central bank to raise interest rates because US inflation is low and the economic recovery remains uneven, but analysts will be looking to see if any clues emerge as to the timing of a rate rise.
Figures from the US Commerce Department showed orders for durable goods dropped 1.2% in September. The department also said orders fell 3% in August, an even bigger dip than first reported.
The robbery happened at Graham Street News in Graham Street at about 18:10 on Thursday.
The man, who was 5ft 10in and wearing a grey jacket, black tracksuit bottoms and gloves, stole the till after threatening the two staff members.
He is thought to have got into a dark vehicle in Barnes Avenue before it was driven off towards Old Glamis Road.
Police Scotland have appealed for anyone who saw the man in the area, or saw him get into the car, to contact them.
Crews from Wisbech found migrants living in poor conditions at the side of the A47 were often involved in accidents with vehicles.
The fire service decided to give out free luminous jackets to keep people "visible and safer" in the dark.
The BBC reported on conditions in the makeshift roadside camps in 2014.
Reporters found one squatter had died while crossing the busy road to get to the camp.
"We spend a great deal of time out and about in our communities identifying and supporting the most vulnerable people and this is no different," Wisbech station commander Phil Pilbeam said.
"After identifying the trend in the incidents we were responding to, we discussed and came up with the idea of providing hi visibility jackets for free to those who'd benefit from them."
The firefighters worked with a local group, the Rosmini Centre in Wisbech, "for support in how to engage the community".
"Hopefully, this initiative will allow us to work more with the variety of communities in Wisbech and improve access to them to share safety messages and important information in the future," Mr Pilbeam added.
Issues relating to the complex have been at the centre of fresh violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
Mr Kerry was speaking after talks in Jordan, the formal custodian of what is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and as Haram al-Sharif to Muslims.
He said Israel had renewed a pledge to maintain existing rules there.
In the latest upsurge of violence, at least eight Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in knife or gun attacks by Palestinians, following rumours that Israel was planning to change the rules.
About 50 Palestinians, including several of the attackers, have been killed in recent weeks.
Mr Kerry, who is on a tour of the region, met Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan in Amman on Saturday.
"All the violence and the incitement to violence must stop. Leaders must lead,'' Mr Kerry told reporters.
The steps he announced include round-the-clock video monitoring and Israel's agreement to reaffirm Jordan's historic role as custodian of the religious complex.
Israel says it has not challenged the status quo on the Temple Mount and has no intention of doing so.
Mr Kerry met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, and said the talks had raised ideas that were worth exploring.
Later on Saturday, Mr Kerry will travel to Saudi Arabia for talks with regional leaders.
In the latest violence, Israeli police said they shot dead a Palestinian attacker in the northern West Bank early on Saturday.
"A terrorist, who arrived armed with a knife, tried to stab a security guard at the site. In response, the terrorist was shot by the security force," it said, according to AFP news agency.
There has been a spate of stabbings of Israelis and some shootings - several of them fatal - by Palestinians since early October, and one apparent revenge stabbing by an Israeli. The attackers have struck in Jerusalem and across Israel, and in the occupied West Bank. Israel has tightened security and its security forces have clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side. The violence has also spread to the border with Gaza.
After a period of relative quiet, violence between the two communities has spiralled since clashes erupted at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site in mid-September. It was fuelled by rumours among Palestinians that Israel was attempting to alter a long-standing religious arrangement governing the site. Israel repeatedly dismissed the rumours as incitement. Soon afterwards, two Israelis were shot dead by Palestinians in the West Bank and the stabbing attacks began. Both Israel and the Palestinian authorities have accused one another of doing nothing to protect each other's communities.
There have been two organised uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli occupation, in the 1980s and early 2000s. With peace talks moribund, some observers have questioned whether we are now seeing a third. The stabbing attacks seem to be opportunistic and although they have been praised by militant groups, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation.
What is driving the latest violence?
Joint Warrior is held twice a year - in spring and autumn.
The first of this year's two exercises involved warships operating from Faslane on the Clyde and aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray.
Countries taking part included Denmark, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US.
Live firing was conducted using a military range at Cape Wrath in Sutherland during Joint Warrior.
This year's spring staging of the exercise also involved the Royal Navy's first large scale cyber war games.
Information Warrior 17 involved Artificial Intelligence (AI) and testing the protection of warships and submarines against cyber attacks.
There are clear skies in Misrata, Libya.
It means hundreds of people who have left their homes in Sub-Saharan African countries like Senegal and Eritrea will attempt to cross to Italy by boat in search of a better life.
The European Union says more than 7,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean since Friday.
Summer brings calmer waters, waves of migrants and death to the Mediterranean. Three boats - 250 people rescued in 24 hours.
Ali, right, is from Gambia. It's his second attempt crossing to Italy. "I've had enough. I want to go home to my mum".
Ninety-seven men were crammed on this boat, rescued by Libyan coastguard, stuck at sea for 24 hours, not all survived.
When they saw how flimsy the dinghy was, many refused to board. The people smugglers forced them at gunpoint.
A year since we visited Libyan jails holding migrants fleeing to Europe: it's worse than before.
This kid, 14 years old, is from Eritrea. "Is this a jail? Are we refugees?" some ask, and tell us they've been held for seven months.
A thousand men and women, migrants, are crammed in here. The jail has doubled in numbers in less than a week.
A smaller EU rescue mission only means more of these people are dying. They aren't discouraged from crossing.
Migrant graffiti in Libyan jail: I spend ma life to search the freedom. I spend ma life to bee in Italy.
The Libyan coastguard rescues hundreds of migrants from the Mediterranean - they have few working boats.
Already this Libyan jail contains hundreds. Standing room only.
Standing water on the pitch meant the game was called off shortly before 11:00 GMT, with further rain expected in the afternoon.
A Yeovil statement said: "Both Town manager Darren Way and Crawley boss Dermot Drummy were present and happy with the decision."
A new date has yet to be confirmed.
Mae'r swyddogion wedi gwrthod cymryd rhan yn dilyn penderfyniad i gyhoeddi'r canlyniadau yn yr iaith Saesneg yn gyntaf ac yna yn yr iaith Gymraeg.
Y llynedd, cafodd canlyniadau etholiad y Cynulliad yng Nghaerdydd eu cyhoeddi yn Gymraeg yn gyntaf.
Mae'n debyg bod Cyngor Caerdydd wedi dod o hyd i bobol eraill yn lle'r pedwar sydd wedi tynnu allan.
Dywedodd un o'r pedwar wrth BBC Cymru eu bod nhw'n "teimlo'n bersonol" bod y penderfyniad "yn gam yn ôl".
"Mae gan Gyngor Caerdydd hanes da gyda'r iaith dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf ac roedd cyhoeddi canlyniadau 2016 yn gam arall cadarnhaol," meddai.
"Ro'n i'n teimlo'n bersonol bod hwn yn gam yn ôl ac allwn i ddim â chydwybod clir gefnogi hynny felly tynnais fy enw yn ôl."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Cyngor Dinas Caerdydd: "Fel Cyngor rydym yn cymryd ein dyletswydd i hyrwyddo'r iaith Gymraeg yn ddifrifol iawn ac rydym wedi ymrwymo i hyrwyddo Caerdydd cwbl ddwyieithog.
"Dyma'r achos hefyd wrth gefnogi etholiadau, yr ydym yn falch o ddweud sy'n gwbl ddwyieithog.
"Yn ôl canllaw'r Comisiwn Etholiadol mae'r drefn ar gyfer darllen canlyniadau etholiad yn ddwyieithog yn ôl disgresiwn y Swyddog Canlyniadau.
"Nid yw hyn yn gostwng statws yr iaith Gymraeg nac yn mynd yn erbyn safonau'r Gymraeg, yr ydym yn eu cefnogi'n llawn."
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has ordered Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by San Bernardino gunman Rizwan Farook.
But Apple has continued to fight the order, saying it would set a "dangerous precedent".
The case will be heard in a federal court on 22 March.
Farook and his wife killed 14 people in the Californian city last December before police fatally shot them.
The FBI wants to access data on Farook's iPhone but the device is encrypted and can only be unlocked by entering the correct Pin code.
Guessing the code incorrectly too many times could permanently wipe the device, so the FBI has asked Apple to develop a new version of its operating system that circumvents some of its security features.
Apple has repeatedly stated that creating a compromised version of iOS would have security implications for millions of iPhone users and would set a precedent.
The FBI's court order refers to a 1789 law called the All Writs Act, which can give courts the power to force companies to cooperate in a criminal investigation.
But in its latest response, Apple said the DOJ was using the law to "resolve a policy and political issue".
"According to the government, short of kidnapping or breaking an express law, the courts can order private parties to do virtually anything the Justice Department or FBI can dream up.
"The Founders would be appalled."
But the FBI has said encryption could make smartphones "warrant-proof".
On 1 March, FBI Director James Comey said: "From the founding of this country it was contemplated that law enforcement could go into your house with appropriate predication and oversight.
"To me the logic of that means they wouldn't have imagined any box or storage area that couldn't be entered.
"It's so seductive to talk about privacy as an ultimate value in a society where we aspire to be safe, and have our families safe and our children safe — that can't be true, we have to find a way to accommodate both."
Supt Steve Furnham said infrastructure in Lens is "very limited" and fans should watch the game in other cities.
Welsh officers will join colleagues from England and Northern Ireland as 500,000 UK nationals head to France.
Supt Furnham also said banned fans will get a "knock on the door" if they do not surrender their passports.
A police delegation from Wales travels to Sweden with the national team for a friendly on 5 June and then on to Paris the next day.
"We are there until Wales get knocked out or win it. Hopefully the latter," South Wales Police's Supt Furnham said.
Their role will be to patrol host cities and fan zones as well as offering guidance to French police on safety, security and how to engage with Welsh fans.
Supt Furnham said officers chosen from Wales are "very experienced" who regularly work at domestic games as well as at internationals.
A total of 87 Welsh fans issued with banning orders after incidents in the UK have until Wednesday night to surrender their passports.
"The very fact they have been arrested indicates they are a risk," he said.
"We've worked really, really hard to reduce the number of arrests at games across the country. Arrests are down and we want that to continue."
With a fan zone capable of holding just 10,000 fans, a handful of bars and a ban on consuming alcohol on the streets of Lens, Supt Furnham warned ticketless Wales fans against going to the city for the game with England on 16 June.
Lens has a population of less than 40,000 and with the stadium holding just 35,000, concerns have been expressed about a large influx.
"If you haven't got a ticket to Lens, don't go," he said.
"It's been well documented in the last couple of weeks that the infrastructure doesn't lend itself to large numbers of football fans going there."
He said other cities are better equipped such as Bordeaux, where there will be a fan zone capable of hosting 60,000 people.
The festival, which has been running for more than 30 years, is currently based in the capital's Charlotte Square.
It comes after the owners asked the festival to reduce its impact on the space.
Officials are also looking at ways to minimise damaging the grass.
Nick Barley, director of Edinburgh International Book Festival, said: "We have been working closely with the proprietors of Charlotte Square Gardens who generously make this private space available for the Book Festival each year, but who have now asked us to reduce our impact on the gardens.
"This year, we are looking at ways of improving our infrastructure to ensure a quicker get-in and get-out to minimise damage to the turf and soil.
"We also intend to take advantage of the opportunities of new technology, digital innovation and development of temporary theatre structures and for the 2017 festival are in discussion with the City of Edinburgh Council and Essential Edinburgh to look to expand into new spaces on George Street which will open up the Book Festival to new audiences."
There were jubilant scenes as they were greeted on the tarmac by family members and Lebanese politicians.
Two Turkish pilots who were being held hostage in Lebanon were also freed as part of a complex swap.
Murat Akpinar and Murat Agca were seized in Beirut in August in a retaliatory abduction.
They were met by their relatives and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after flying to Istanbul on a Qatari jet late on Saturday.
A third part of the hostage negotiations - reportedly mediated by Qatar, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority - involved the release of a number of female prisoners being held by the Syrian government.
It is not yet clear whether that has taken place.
By Dima HamdanBBC News, Beirut
The 17-month ordeal for the nine Lebanese citizens is finally over. The scenes when they arrived at the VIP lounge at Rafik Hariri Airport were incredibly emotional. There were hugs and there were cries. Some people were so emotional they fell to the ground.
The group looked exhausted. They all insisted they had been treated very well by the Syrian opposition but they did say the conditions in which they had been kept were very, very difficult, especially the last four days.
Two things needed to happen for them to be released. Two Turkish pilots who were kidnapped two months ago are back home in Turkey. We also believe about 130 female Syrian prisoners were being released by the Syrian government from its detention centres.
The Lebanese group, all men, were released by their captors on Friday evening and driven to Istanbul, from where they flew to Beirut.
At the airport they were greeted by friends and family, as well as politicians and religious leaders.
The men appeared tired but in good health.
"A whole year passed and each of us never slept more than two hours a night due to exhaustion and too much thinking about what would or could happen to us," one told the BBC.
Others described being kept in dark and windowless rooms and hearing heavy fighting.
"Our abductors didn't respect us, they treated us badly," Ali Zogheib was quoted as saying by Lebanese media.
"We wished that any of them had any kind of values", another said of his captors. One of the pilgrims thought they had been held close to the Syrian border with Turkey.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says it is clear that huge effort has gone into producing the complicated deal.
Lebanon's security chief Maj Gen Abbas Ibrahim, who co-ordinated the hostage release, said it had been "difficult, without a doubt".
"I didn't want anything from this deal, except to see this sight,'' he said, gesturing at the cheering crowds.
The nine Lebanese were among 11 people seized while making their way back to Lebanon after a tour of holy sites in Iran. Two of them escaped.
They were reportedly being held in northern Syria by fighters from a Sunni-based rebel group opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The rebels insisted their hostages were fighters with the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah, and were demanding the release of women detainees held by the Syrian regime in exchange.
Then in August, Murat Akpinar and Murat Agca were seized from a bus close to Beirut's international airport. A previously unknown group called Zuwwar al-Imam Rida said it had kidnapped them, and that they would be freed if the Lebanese group were set free.
It demanded that Turkey used its influence with Syrian rebels to make the swap possible.
In response, Turkey advised its citizens in Lebanon to leave if possible.
Turkey has consistently backed Syria's Sunni rebels, while much of Lebanon's Shia community supports President Bashar al-Assad.
The pilots' abduction sparked protests in Lebanon, and growing concerns that the Syrian civil war was spilling over the border.
Earlier this week they appeared in a video broadcast on Lebanese television saying they were both well and wanted to go home.
Then, as word came late on Saturday that the Lebanese citizens were back in Beirut, the pilots arrived in Istanbul.
They told Turkish media that they had been treated well in captivity.
But Mr Akpinar told the Hurriyet newspaper that "first month has been very difficult".
"We have been transferred eight times, each time as if it was a new kidnapping."
"We chose to have a good understanding with them. And we did, so much that one of our (kidnappers) has even decided to call his new son Murat," Mr Akpinar added.
Syrian and Lebanese politics have been deeply intertwined throughout the history of the two states.
Syria had a large military presence in Lebanon for 29 years. It finally withdrew its soldiers in 2005, but has maintained a strong influence.
The conflict in Syria, now in its third year, has claimed more than 100,000 lives and created more than two million refugees.
Our correspondent says that while the war rages on, the hostage exchange creates a small glimmer of hope as efforts intensify to arrange a peace conference in Geneva next month.
Eleven people were on board the vessel. Three survivors were rescued after the incident in rough seas at Kaipara Harbour, north of Auckland.
Conditions were reportedly poor at the time, with wind gusts of up to 50km/h (31mph) and one-metre (3ft) swells.
One person is still missing. But poor weather could hamper rescue efforts.
The identities of those on board were not revealed. Officials are investigating the cause of the accident, which happened around 15:30 (02:30 GMT) on Saturday.
It reportedly involved Francie, a 12m (40ft) charter vessel.
Two of the injured have already been discharged from hospital, and the third is said to be in stable condition.
In the early hours of 9 June - as results from the general election came in across Wales - Leanne Wood was considering resigning.
The party has declined to comment, but the story comes from a reliable source who says Ms Wood changed her mind when Ben Lake - "an outstanding candidate" - won Ceredigion.
If true, it would not be the first time she agonised over an important decision during the election - originally dithering over whether to stand in Rhondda.
As it turned out, Plaid Cymru, according to its press release, celebrated a "historic election result".
The question asked by some senior members of the party is, 'was it really'?
Context is important. In the weeks leading up to polling day, the campaign co-ordinator Adam Price described the Labour vote as "soft as jelly".
Plaid identified the supposedly wobbly Labour Westminster seats of Blaenau Gwent and Rhondda as winnable constituencies.
Both were lost to a combined Labour majority of over 25,000.
In Rhondda, the Plaid vote went down despite an exceptional result by Leanne Wood in the assembly election last year.
Plaid, says one of its former elected politicians, is "in denial about the election". The source was "shocked" that these seats were identified as targets.
If this was a Plaid election pitched towards the south Wales valleys, then "Leanne Wood failed", the source said.
Others are far less gloomy, but they are also realistic.
There is no doubt that this was an election of two halves. Before the launch of the Tory manifesto Plaid, were polling very well in Rhondda, the data was said to be "off the scale". Ynys Mon was as safe as could be.
Then came the Corbyn bounce.
Doorstep conversations were not going well, as Plaid supporters said they were voting Labour.
Yet the party gained a seat and insiders make this very valid point - the electorate does not talk about vote share; the only thing that counts in elections is winning seats.
But whether Plaid was "sophisticated enough" to respond to the changing nature of the election is a question one AM would like to see on the debrief agenda.
Having increased its overdraft facility to £100,000, some are arguing money should be spent now at ground level in readiness for the next election.
Another senior member of the party is highly critical of the messaging.
Trying to outflank Corbyn on the left gave Carwyn Jones an open door to campaign on a nationalist ticket. "Defending Wales" was a negative slogan, he said.
This "historic election result" also included 14 lost deposits and a bitterly disappointing result in Ynys Mon.
No blame is attached internally to the candidate Ieuan Wyn Jones, described as "the right choice at the time".
There is however a recognition that candidates are important and that the party is not good enough at succession planning.
It could explain why so little was seen of candidates in the media, something many in the party want addressed.
And what of Leanne Wood?
"People like her but do they see her as a leader of a Government? She doesn't have the clout, she's not authoritative enough or confident".
Opinion is split on whether she should have put her name forward in Rhondda but less divided on whether taking days to come to a decision reflected badly.
The view of the leader is that people would not take kindly to her giving up the assembly seat so soon after winning.
"The boys," as Leanne Wood refers to them, could be waiting in the wings. Adam Price and Rhun ap Iorwerth are often talked up as future leaders.
It is hard to see how this will play out.
There is, I am told, "a great deal of support for Leanne but it is also natural that people will look at the leader. On the whole there is no big push against her".
It might have gone under the radar but Plaid does have a new leader - at Westminster. Liz Saville-Roberts actually increased her share of the vote in Dwyfor Meirionnydd.
If Plaid rules allowed it, she would, as one well-placed party member put it, "be head and shoulders above anyone else".
The win came five years to the day since she was released from 15 years of house arrest.
Although the Myanmar constitution forbids her from becoming president because she has children who are foreign nationals, Ms Suu Kyi is widely seen as de facto leader.
Her official title is state counsellor. The president, Htin Kyaw, is a close confidante.
The 70-year-old spent much of her time between 1989 and 2010 in some form of detention because of her efforts to bring democracy to then military-ruled Myanmar (also known as Burma) - a fact that made her an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.
In 1991, "The Lady" as she's known, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the committee chairman called her "an outstanding example of the power of the powerless".
However, after her release and subsequent political career, Ms Suu Kyi has come in for criticism by some rights groups for what they say has been a failure to speak up for Myanmar's minority groups during a time of ethnic violence in parts of the country.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Myanmar's independence hero, General Aung San.
He was assassinated during the transition period in July 1947, just six months before independence, when Ms Suu Kyi was only two.
In 1960 she went to India with her mother Daw Khin Kyi, who had been appointed Myanmar's ambassador in Delhi.
Four years later she went to Oxford University in the UK, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics. There she met her future husband, academic Michael Aris.
After stints of living and working in Japan and Bhutan, she settled in the UK to raise their two children, Alexander and Kim, but Myanmar was never far from her thoughts.
When she arrived back in Rangoon (Yangon) in 1988 - to look after her critically ill mother - Myanmar was in the midst of major political upheaval.
Thousands of students, office workers and monks took to the streets demanding democratic reform.
"I could not as my father's daughter remain indifferent to all that was going on," she said in a speech in Rangoon on 26 August 1988, and was propelled into leading the revolt against the then-dictator, General Ne Win.
Inspired by the non-violent campaigns of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King and India's Mahatma Gandhi, she organised rallies and travelled around the country, calling for peaceful democratic reform and free elections.
But the demonstrations were brutally suppressed by the army, who seized power in a coup on 18 September 1988. Ms Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest the following year.
The military government called national elections in May 1990 which Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD convincingly won - however, the junta refused to hand over control.
Ms Suu Kyi remained under house arrest in Rangoon for six years, until she was released in July 1995.
She was again put under house arrest in September 2000, when she tried to travel to the city of Mandalay in defiance of travel restrictions.
She was released unconditionally in May 2002, but just over a year later she was put in prison following a clash between her supporters and a government-backed mob.
She was later allowed to return home - but again under effective house arrest.
During periods of confinement, Ms Suu Kyi busied herself studying and exercising. She meditated, worked on her French and Japanese language skills, and relaxed by playing Bach on the piano.
At times she was able to meet other NLD officials and selected diplomats.
But during her early years of detention she was often in solitary confinement. She was not allowed to see her two sons or her husband, who died of cancer in March 1999.
The military authorities had offered to allow her to travel to the UK to see him when he was gravely ill, but she felt compelled to refuse for fear she would not be allowed back into the country.
She was sidelined from Myanmar's first elections in two decades on 7 November 2010 but released from house arrest six days later.
Her son Kim Aris was allowed to visit her for the first time in a decade.
As the new government embarked on a process of reform, Aung San Suu Kyi and her party rejoined the political process.
When by-elections were held in April 2012, to fill seats vacated by politicians who had taken government posts, she and her party contested seats, despite reservations.
"Some are a little bit too optimistic about the situation," she said in an interview before the vote. "We are cautiously optimistic. We are at the beginning of a road."
She and the NLD won 43 of the 45 seats contested, in an emphatic statement of support. Weeks later, Ms Suu Kyi took the oath in parliament and became the leader of the opposition.
And the following May, she embarked on a visit outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years, in a sign of apparent confidence that its new leaders would allow her to return.
However, Ms Suu Kyi became frustrated with the pace of democratic development.
In November 2014, she warned that Myanmar had not made any real reforms in the past two years and warned that the US - which dropped most of its sanctions against the country in 2012 - had been "overly optimistic" in the past.
And in June, a vote in Myanmar's parliament failed to remove the army's veto over constitutional change. Ms Suu Kyi is also barred from running for president because her two sons hold British not Burmese passports - a ruling she says is unfair.
In 2015, the military-backed civilian government of President Thein Sein said a general election would be held in November of that year - the first openly contested election in 25 years.
Soon after the 8 November vote it became clear the NLD was headed for a landslide victory.
On 13 November, the NLD secured the required two-thirds of the contested seats in parliament to win a majority in what was widely regarded as a largely fair vote - although there were some reports of irregularities.
However, hundreds of thousands of people - including the Muslim Rohingya minority, who are not recognised as citizens - were denied voting rights.
Since taking power, the NLD, and Ms Suu Kyi in particular, have faced international criticism for ignoring abuses against the Rohingya in western Rakhine state.
Some analysts say that by challenging the military on the issue, the young government could put itself in a precarious position, but Ms Suu Kyi also faces little domestic pressure to help the Rohingya.
After all, this is a giant of both Formula 1 and British industry, who has been forced out, by his own partners, of the company he had built up. It is a company that had made him the most successful team boss in F1 history, and which is now one of the world's leading sportscar manufacturers.
It is a story with many aspects of a Greek tragedy: a great but flawed man losing the thing he cares about most, at least partly because of his own failings.
At its heart is the story of a broken friendship - between Dennis and fellow shareholder Mansour Ojjeh, who were close allies for three decades before they fell out a few years ago.
Why? There are stories buzzing around the F1 paddock about it, including one that many of those close to the situation believe to be true but which cannot be detailed here.
One thing is clear, however. It got very personal between the two of them before Ojjeh finally won the battle.
In truth, it is not hard to see how someone could fall out with Dennis.
Undoubtedly a brilliant man, he is also an intensely complex personality: generous and loyal on the one hand, gauche and arrogant on the other. He can also be disarmingly charming, amusing and self-deprecating.
Asked about the merit of the Norman Foster-designed McLaren Technology Centre, which opened in 2003 and cost hundreds of millions of pounds, he once offered: "Have I built myself a pyramid, you mean?"
And 20 years or so ago, he told a very funny story about his own well-known obsessive-compulsive tendencies.
It was about the new house he and then-wife Lisa had bought, in which fountains had been installed in the rose gardens. When these were first turned on, Dennis said, he was horrified to see that they came on row by row, instead of all at the same time.
This wouldn't do, he told the garden designer. They had to come on all at once. "But Mr Dennis," responded the designer, "it will cost thousands to start again, install all the necessary pumps and so on." Dennis said he didn't care. It had to be done. He couldn't look at it the way it was.
Yet his condescension and patronising attitude could take your breath away and he has made a lot of enemies along the way.
To journalists, he would publicly pride himself on his oft-repeated claim that he would be economical with the truth but not actually lie to you. Yet sometimes he did.
In the late 1990s, I had found out that Mercedes were about to buy a significant but still minority shareholding in McLaren and went to Dennis to verify it. "Who's your source?" he asked me. When I told him I would not reveal it, he said I should get a new one because this one was wide of the mark.
Two weeks later, he stood up at Silverstone and announced that Mercedes had bought a 40% shareholding in McLaren.
When he was challenged about it, he initially tried to claim I had asked the wrong question, before eventually conceding that, yes, he had lied. "I had to," he said.
At Silverstone this year, I asked him what would happen when his contract ran out in mid-January 2017. He said: "Oh, don't worry about that. I've signed for another two years."
Dennis started his career as a mechanic for Jack Brabham in F1 in the late 1960s. After an abortive foray into F1 in the early 1970s, he set up a Formula Two team with backing from cigarette giant Marlboro.
Success there came as McLaren's F1 team - also backed by Marlboro - was becoming uncompetitive. The tobacco company engineered it so Dennis' Project Four organisation could take over McLaren.
Initially, he ran it with the existing boss, American Teddy Mayer, but two such strong personalities were never going to last together. By mid-1981, Dennis was in full control.
What he accomplished, initially in partnership with designer John Barnard, has gone down in legend.
There was the first carbon-fibre chassis in 1981. Then there was the persuading of Ojjeh's TAG company to leave Williams, who had brought it into F1 as a sponsor, and join McLaren - then fund the development of a turbo engine from Porsche.
After three drivers' and two constructors' titles between 1984 and 1986 with Niki Lauda and Alain Prost, McLaren's competitiveness began to slide, as they were overtaken by Williams-Honda. Dennis took on the brilliant Brabham designer Gordon Murray, persuaded Honda to leave Williams for McLaren and signed Ayrton Senna. In 1988, the McLaren-Honda-Senna-Prost combination swept all before them, winning all but one race.
McLaren dominated for three more years, even after Prost left at the end of 1989 following his famous fall-out with Senna. Then Williams, with Renault engines, became the dominant force of the early and mid-1990s.
But Dennis was not finished with his plundering of Williams. In 1996, he persuaded their star designer Adrian Newey to join him, a move that started the next period of McLaren domination in 1998-99, before Ferrari took over with Michael Schumacher.
The 2000s were up and down for McLaren. They were competitive in 2001, 2003 and 2005, but not in the even-numbered years. Then, at the end of 2005, while waiting to go out on the podium in Brazil with Renault's Fernando Alonso, who had just clinched his first world title, Dennis asked whether the Spaniard would like to drive for McLaren one day.
It turned out Alonso had been dreaming of nothing else since he was a young boy and he duly joined in 2007, alongside a novice called Lewis Hamilton.
Arguably, this was the beginning of the end for Dennis. He had promised Alonso priority status in the team but then reneged on it when it became apparent Hamilton - who Dennis had nurtured since he was 11 years old - was just as good.
A series of rows followed, culminating in a cataclysmic weekend in Hungary. Hamilton double-crossed Alonso in qualifying by refusing to let him by as agreed during the 'fuel-burn' laps, effectively denying him a fair shot at pole position. Alonso retaliated by blocking Hamilton in the pit lane so he could not do a final lap. Dennis failed to control the fall-out.
Alonso threatened to go to the FIA, motorsport's governing body, with emails he had that were pertinent to the then-ongoing 'spy-gate' case if Dennis did not back him in the championship. He later apologised and withdrew the threat - but not before Dennis had phoned FIA president Max Mosley and 'fessed up'.
The result was a $100m fine for illegally possessing confidential Ferrari information and being thrown out of the constructors' championship.
Standing on the steps of the McLaren motorhome with Mosley in a photocall intended to project an image of 'no hard feelings', Mosley reputedly leaned over and whispered in Dennis' ear: "$10m is for what you did; $90m is for being a ****."
That remark betrays the difficult relationship Dennis had with both Mosley and his ally Bernie Ecclestone, the F1 commercial boss, for much of his career.
Two years later, McLaren were again in trouble during the 'lie-gate' scandal, when Hamilton and team manager Dave Ryan were found to have lied to the stewards at the Australian Grand Prix. Ryan took the fall for that, publicly taking the blame and sacked.
Falling out with Ecclestone and Mosley, though, does not necessarily reflect entirely badly on Dennis, for neither man is everyone's cup of tea.
In fact, even as recently as last weekend in Brazil, Dennis' fellow team bosses were bemoaning some aspects of his impending fall, saying he always meant well, and had the best interests of F1 at heart.
An example of this was a meeting of team bosses in Abu Dhabi last year, when Ecclestone and his boss Donald MacKenzie were making it difficult for Renault to finalise their return to F1 as a team owner by arguing over financial terms.
Those present report how Dennis tore into them, insisting they "pay the ******* money", for the good of the sport. It did the trick.
What happened on Tuesday this week has been on the cards for at least three years, possibly longer.
As long ago as early 2013, there have been claims of a fall-out at McLaren, of Ojjeh wanting Dennis out, of the chairman in turn wanting to take majority control of the company and trying to raise the money to do so.
Those stories would not go away. The deal that would have seen Dennis increase his shareholding from 25% by buying stock from Ojjeh (25%) and Bahrain's Mumtalakat investment fund (50%) never happened.
In early 2014, Dennis forced out team principal and chief executive Martin Whitmarsh, a close friend of Ojjeh, who was in a hospital bed recovering from a double lung transplant. Did that coup make things worse? Perhaps.
Certainly Ojjeh continued to make his life difficult. When, at the end of the season, Dennis wanted to keep Kevin Magnussen to partner Fernando Alonso in 2015, it was Ojjeh who stepped in and undermined him, forcing him to take Jenson Button instead.
It hardly helped that Dennis failed to secure a new title sponsor following the departure of Vodafone in 2013, which many blamed on his refusal to lower McLaren's rate card despite a changed commercial landscape and the team's drop in competitiveness.
The fateful meeting at which Ojjeh told Dennis his time was up appears to have been over lunch in mid-October at the McLaren factory.
Dennis was never going to go quietly and last week he took his own company to the High Court to try to prevent Ojjeh and the Bahrainis putting him on gardening leave. The case was thrown out.
That was Dennis' last throw of the dice. Insiders say he still had the option to go quietly with dignity, with a press release praising his contribution, saying he had decided to step down and hand over to a new generation, or words to that effect.
But, a fighter to the last, he rejected it. Perhaps he knew that no one would really believe he had voluntarily given up running the company in which he had invested his life's work.
So he went on his terms, throwing punches, with a statement saying he had been "required to relinquish his roles", warning of "consequences for the business", claiming the grounds for his dismissal were "entirely spurious".
For both McLaren and F1, life will not be the same without him.
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All of that came as she juggled the needs of a one-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son - much to the acclaim of people everywhere as they celebrated the Exeter-based runner a "supermum".
Two years on, with her little family getting bigger, she is preparing for her fifth Olympic Games - a record for any British track athlete.
It is a training regime which is balanced around her son Jacob, who is almost seven, and little Emily who is approaching her third birthday. On the evening I meet her at the Exeter Arena, she and her husband Gavin, who is also her coach, were up against the clock as the children had been left with their grandparents.
But Pavey says making training a family affair has reinvigorated her - how many 42-year-olds will be donning their spikes in Rio?
"As a mum it's made me enjoy my running more," she said before one of her last training sessions on British soil before jumping on a plane to Brazil.
"It's made me feel happy in my personal life, I feel like I've got that balance and it does make me enjoy running.
"The needs of the kids change and the way we can train as a family changes.
"It used to be my husband with a little boy on the back of a bike, but now my little girl goes on the back of the bike and my little boy's like a training partner now - he just whizzes ahead of me on his bike and I can't keep up with him.
"It's really kept my motivation going at this old age that I am now."
The age question has become something of a running joke for Pavey now - she knows she is getting older, but as yet there is no British woman who can match her over 10,000m.
But time will eventually catch up with Pavey, who is realistic about whether Rio will be her final Olympics.
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"I would have thought realistically that it is, but I'm definitely not retiring yet," she said.
"I'm definitely not saying that I wouldn't give it a go in four years' time, but I would have never thought I'd still be thinking of an Olympics at this stage.
"When London was awarded the 2012 Olympics it was way back in 2005 and I remember thinking: 'What a shame, I would have loved to have tried to compete in a home games'. So I'd never have thought I'd be thinking about competing in the one after that.
"I've got no plans for retirement, but I just take each stage at a time."
Pavey has never won an Olympic medal - her best chance came in Athens in 2004 when she was fifth in the 5,000m.
Pavey finished seventh in the 10,000m at London 2012, putting her as the highest-placed athlete born in a country other than Kenya and Ethiopia, and those powerhouses of distance running will again be favourites in Rio.
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"It's going to be extremely tough, but when you stand on that start line you always know that anything can happen," Pavey said of her chances.
"I'm definitely not going to put any barriers to my performance, the same as any athlete. You just give it absolutely everything and anything can happen, but it will be tough."
Whatever happens, cheering Pavey on at home will be Gavin, Jacob and Emily - no doubt all keen to be chasing her on their bikes when she returns to Devon after a record-breaking fifth Olympic appearance.
Robert Lewandowski had a shot cleared off the line and then hit the post.
But Vidal turned in Thomas Muller's cross in the 90th minute, before Robben thumped a second in stoppage time.
Bayern, who host Arsenal in a Champions League last-16 first-leg match on Tuesday, extended their league lead as RB Leipzig lost 3-0 at home to Hamburg.
Saturday's match was Bayern's first since captain Philipp Lahm made his surprise announcement that he would be retiring at the end of this season.
They remain on course to send him off with a treble of Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup - but were unconvincing for much of the afternoon.
Both Mats Hummels and Lewandowski were unable to convert early chances, before the Poland international ran on to Xabi Alonso's through pass and chipped keeper Martin Hansen, only for Marvin Matip - brother of Liverpool defender Joel - to clear off the line.
Muller was denied by Florent Hadergjonaj's goalline clearance early in the second half, and Lewandowski swerved a shot against the post before the two late goals turned one point into three.
RB Leipzig, in second, seemed to be the only team who could challenge Bayern for the title, but they fell to a fourth defeat in seven Bundesliga matches as Hamburg boosted their hopes of avoiding relegation.
Defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos headed in the opener against his former club, before Brazilian Walace added a near-identical second. Aaron Hunt wrapped up victory with his 50th Bundesliga goal.
That lifted Hamburg out of the relegation play-off place, into which dropped Werder Bremen, who were beaten 1-0 at home by Borussia Monchengladbach.
Third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund, in fourth, also lost. Javier Hernandez, the former Manchester United striker, scored twice for mid-table Bayer Leverkusen as they beat Eintracht 3-0 - with his first goal a clinical finish from seven yards, and his second a sublime volley.
The biggest upset of the day, though, was Dortmund's 2-1 defeat at Darmstadt, who had collected just one point from their previous 11 league matches. Terrence Boyd and Antonio Colak scored to give Darmstadt boss Torsten Frings victory over a club he used to play for.
Match ends, FC Ingolstadt 04 0, FC Bayern München 2.
Second Half ends, FC Ingolstadt 04 0, FC Bayern München 2.
Attempt missed. Stefan Lex (FC Ingolstadt 04) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lukas Hinterseer.
Goal! FC Ingolstadt 04 0, FC Bayern München 2. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Douglas Costa.
Goal! FC Ingolstadt 04 0, FC Bayern München 1. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Substitution, FC Ingolstadt 04. Anthony Jung replaces Mathew Leckie.
Attempt missed. Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara.
Mats Hummels (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lukas Hinterseer (FC Ingolstadt 04).
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Lukas Hinterseer (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Douglas Costa with a cross following a corner.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Florent Hadergjonaj.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Corner, FC Ingolstadt 04. Conceded by Arturo Vidal.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Rafinha replaces Philipp Lahm.
Substitution, FC Ingolstadt 04. Stefan Lex replaces Pascal Groß.
Foul by Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München).
Pascal Groß (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Arjen Robben with a cross following a set piece situation.
Pascal Groß (FC Ingolstadt 04) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Pascal Groß (FC Ingolstadt 04).
Foul by David Alaba (FC Bayern München).
Alfredo Morales (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, FC Ingolstadt 04. Lukas Hinterseer replaces Darío Lezcano.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Arjen Robben replaces Joshua Kimmich.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card.
Romain Brégerie (FC Ingolstadt 04) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Romain Brégerie (FC Ingolstadt 04).
Foul by Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München).
Romain Brégerie (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Thiago Alcántara tries a through ball, but Douglas Costa is caught offside.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Douglas Costa replaces Xabi Alonso.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Markus Suttner (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München).
Marvin Matip (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
The late night ruling means the travel ban will remain suspended until the full case has been heard.
The court gave the White House and the states challenging it a deadline of Monday to present more arguments.
Two states argued that the travel ban, affecting people from seven mainly-Muslim countries, was unconstitutional.
In its appeal, the Justice Department said Judge James Robart had overreached by "second guessing" the president on a national security matter.
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In Friday's case, the Justice Department had argued that states did not have the authority to challenge a presidential executive order.
Lawyers for the states of Washington and Minnesota had argued that the ban was unconstitutional because it denied people with valid entry documents the right to travel without due process.
It also violated freedom of religion rights by appearing to target Muslims, they said.
The next step is for briefs to be filed by both sides for a formal review of Judge Robart's suspension on Monday. The Justice Department could have appealed directly to the Supreme Court on an emergency basis, but it chose not to since the appeal court is moving fairly quickly.
If the appeal court decides the stay is valid - perhaps as early as next week - then a Supreme Court appeal is almost certain.
In the meantime, everything is on hold. US immigration processes continue as they did before Mr Trump issued his executive order.
If it looks like this is bogging down, the president might eventually decide to modify the order rather than try to defend its legality. That's probably the most prudent course, but he's a stubborn man.
Iraq, one of the countries named in the ban, has praised the revocation of the travel ban as a "move in the right direction", Reuters reported.
Iran has also responded to Judge Robart's ruling by saying it would allow a US wrestling team to compete in a World Cup event it is hosting later this month.
The US wrestlers were initially denied visas after Iran said it would ban Americans in retaliation for Mr Trump's order.
However Mr Trump has called Judge Robart's ruling "ridiculous", described him as a "so-called judge" and vowed to restore the ban.
Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell told CNN it was "best to avoid criticising judges individually".
Judge Robart has served on the federal bench since 2004 after nomination by President George W Bush.
Friday's ruling has also seen visa holders from the affected nations scramble to get flights to the US, fearing they have a slim window to enter.
The State Department has been reversing visa cancellations and US homeland security employees have been told by their department to comply with the ruling.
Customs officials told airlines that they could resume boarding banned travellers. Qatar Airways, Air France, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa and others said they would do so.
The ban caused confusion at US and foreign airports when it came into force.
It envisages a 90-day visa suspension for anyone arriving from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The directive also suspends the US Refugee Admissions Programme for 120 days, and places an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees.
It has led to protests in US cities and around the world.
The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people on how different factors impacted their wellbeing.
Suffering from depression or anxiety hit individuals hardest, whilst being in a relationship saw the biggest increase in their happiness.
The study's co-author said the findings demanded "a new role from the state".
The study was based on several international surveys from around the world.
On a scale of one to 10, the doubling of someone's pay saw their happiness rise by less than 0.2. The researchers said this was down to people caring more about how their incomes compared to other people's than how it affected them.
However, having a partner saw happiness rise by 0.6 - losing a partner by separation or death saw the same impact downwards.
The biggest effect was caused by depression and anxiety, which saw happiness levels dip by 0.7 on the scale. Unemployment also saw the same reduction in points.
Report co-author Prof Richard Layard said the findings meant that the state needed to play a new role in its citizens' happiness - focusing on "wellbeing creation" rather than "wealth creation".
He added: "The evidence shows that the things that matter most for our happiness and for our misery are our social relationships and our mental and physical health.
"In the past, the state has successively taken on poverty, unemployment, education and physical health. But equally important now are domestic violence, alcoholism, depression and anxiety conditions, alienated youth, exam-mania and much else. These should become centre stage."
Craig Nelson, 34, who was also known as Craig Preston and who was from Wath-Upon-Dearne, was found at the Woodhead Tunnels in Derbyshire on 22 August.
Two boys, aged 15, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and a girl, also aged 15, on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, said South Yorkshire Police.
Two people have already been charged with murder.
Mohammed Bashir, 41, and Leonie Mason, 23, both of Holme Park Court, Huddersfield, appeared at Sheffield Magistrates' Court charged with murder.
Both were remanded in custody to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on 27 September.
All three teenagers remain in custody, said the force.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Nelson died as a result of head injuries.
The funds control billions of euros of property assets.
They have used part of the tax code known as Section 110 to reduce tax bills to a few hundred euros a year.
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has published an amendment to Section 110 saying concerns had been raised about "aggressive tax practices".
Mr Noonan said: "The proposed amendment targets the issues that have been raised and will ensure that the Irish tax base is appropriately protected."
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Section 110 was introduced in 1997 with the intention of boosting Dublin's International Financial Services Centre.
It allowed for the creation of companies, known as Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV), which could undertake certain international transactions effectively tax-free.
The regime had little to do with activity in the Irish domestic economy, beyond work for tax and accountancy specialists.
However, following the Irish economic crash the vulture funds were advised they could use Section 110 companies to hold billions of euro of distressed property debt they had bought from Irish banks.
Section 110 is allowing them the funds to use various techniques to legally send revenues from these assets offshore and so minimise taxable profits in Ireland.
Research by the Sunday Business Post newspaper shows that many of the funds have managed to structure their businesses so the annual corporation tax charge is just 250 euros.
Police said the drug tested at Weston Park, Staffordshire, contained "really serious chemicals that would have a severe adverse effect".
The chemicals, pentylone and N-ethylpentylone, had been found recently at other music festivals and had made people ill, they said.
Since the event started on Friday, 32 people have been arrested for offences including drug dealing and theft.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested for trying to smuggle 200 tablets in a bag he was carrying into the Staffordshire event.
Supt Martin Brereton, leading the Staffordshire police operation, said "in the first 24 hours [we] have seen very little crime and have proven that our security and policing operation is working well".
He warned festival-goers that taking the powder or crystals would lead to nausea, vomiting, hypothermia and general agitation.
People who had consumed it at other events needed urgent medical attention, police said.
Organisers said the drugs were likely to be sold as MDMA and warned people to be vigilant and contact police if offered the substance.
Staffordshire Police said three men had also been prevented from taking 355 canisters of "laughing gas" into Weston Park.
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Emergency crews at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, said most people they had helped were suffering from blisters and dehydration.
The blaze in Saint-Quentin, about 130km (80 miles) north-east of Paris, was probably accidental, reports say.
The children's father was present but escaped with serious burns, local officials said.
Three people were also killed and 13 hurt in a fire in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers on Saturday. Officials suspect the fire was "of criminal origin" and an investigation has begun.
Officials said that the blaze in Saint-Quentin began at around 22:30 local time (21:30 GMT).
The father had been looking after the children for the first time since splitting up with his wife three months earlier, a neighbour told French media.
He tried to reach his children but was beaten back by the flames and jumped from the first floor of the building to raise the alarm, reports say.
But by the time emergency services arrived, the building was not safe to enter and the children's bodies were discovered when the fire had been put out.
The flames "severely hampered the firefighters' work", local official Jean-Jacques Boyer said.
The children's bodies were eventually found and they had died of asphyxiation, he added.
Four of those injured in the Aubervilliers fire were in a serious condition. Around 60 people were reported to be in the seven-storey building when the fire began.
"The fire was probably of criminal origin, it looks like it was a settling of scores," the mayor's Chief of Staff Michael Dahan told TF1 radio.
Aubervilliers' deputy mayor for housing, Evelyne Yonnet, told French media the building was "very badly managed, with a squatting problem".
Those who escaped from the building were being temporarily housed in a local gymnasium, reports say.
Bombs fell on Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury during an attack by Zeppelin airships on the night of 31 March-1 April 1916.
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Bury St Edmunds, where seven people died, was believed to have been targeted because it was a base for the Suffolk Regiment and home to the Robert Boby engineering plant, which manufactured shells.
Fatalities from an earlier Zeppelin raid on the town, in 1915, were restricted to a dog.
Ron Murrell, of Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds, said: "It would have been terrifying to hear these bombs going off around you - the shock would have been like a spaceship turning up today.
"It would have had an effect on the morale of British soldiers serving on the western front knowing their families back home were at risk, and it would have bolstered morale in Germany."
Five people were killed in Sudbury - four civilians and an off-duty soldier.
Shirley Smith, Sudbury Town Council employee and co-author of No Glorious Dead, said: "It was the first time it brought terror on to the home front and the impact of the war was felt by civilians."
That night, the fleet of airships also dropped bombs on Braintree, Chelmsford and Brentwood in Essex.
A spokesman for Braintree Museum said four people were killed in the town that night, but accurate records for civilian casualties were not kept everywhere.
Ian Hook, curator of the Essex Regiment Museum in Chelmsford, said: "They were such a shock to British civilian life because we regarded ourselves as an impregnable island defended by the world's greatest navy.
"These Zeppelin air raids suddenly changed people's perceptions and they realised we were vulnerable to attack from the air."
Mr Corfield, 19, had not been seen since he left the White Horse pub in Builth Wells in the early hours of last Tuesday morning.
His body was found in the River Wye, Builth Wells, on Sunday afternoon.
In a statement, his family said: "We will miss James with all our hearts, and are utterly devastated."
Mr Corfield, a member of Montgomery Young Farmers' Club, was due to meet his family at the Royal Welsh showground where he had been camping with friends but failed to show up.
The statement continued: "James was very much a farming family guy - farming was his life, and he loved his animals with a passion.
"A visit to the Royal Welsh Show was a real highlight for him - and seeing the sheep and poultry judging was something he really looked forward to.
"He went to the Royal Welsh Show every year throughout his life, and we have fond memories of taking him as a child, which we will always treasure.
"We will miss James with all our hearts, and are utterly devastated. We are very grateful to all the volunteers who helped with the search, and for all the messages of support, but we ask now to be left in privacy."
Outside of farming Mr Corfield was a keen and "gifted" cricketer who played for Montgomery Cricket Club.
He was recently awarded Shropshire Division 2 Cricketer of the Year, and the league's young player of the year in 2016, which his family said was a "massive achievement for someone his age and something he was incredibly proud of".
The hosts had Patrick Ah Van sin-binned early on before Widnes' Aaron Heremaia and Wakefield's Scott Moore saw red.
Anthony Tupou crossed as Wakefield led at the break, but Charly Runciman and Eamon O'Carroll touched down to bring the Vikings level at 10-10.
Widnes led with Rhys Hanbury's try but Craig Hall's last-gasp score won it.
The victory was Wakefield's sixth in Super League this season and moved them up to seventh in the table, level on points with sixth-placed Widnes, who are winless in six league games.
In a tense opening 40 minutes, Ah Van was yellow-carded early on for a fierce tackle which dislocated the shoulder of Wakefield's Ashley Gibson.
Moore was sent off for a high tackle on Ah Van following his return to the field, while Heremaia was dismissed for his reaction in the brawl that followed.
Widnes also had Lloyd White sent to the sin bin, while Stefan Marsh saw yellow for a trip on Jacob Miller before Hall's match-winning score and Liam Finn's fifth successful kick at goal.
Widnes head coach Denis Betts: "It was the worst refereeing performance I've seen in 30 years. We had a legitimate try from Chris Houston from a bomb disallowed near the end and there was nothing wrong with it.
"We did enough to win the game because we were in control but I'm really disappointed for my players.
"I can understand Wakefield's elation but thought we deserved something out of the game."
Wakefield head coach Chris Chester: "It was a crazy game and I've not been in one before like it with two sent off and three sin-binned.
"But we had a real never-say-die-attitude despite being shot to bits in terms of interchanges.
"It was a real back to the wall effort and we won it with a special play from Craig Hall in the end and a great conversion from Liam Finn. It was a fantastic performance by our guys."
Widnes: Hanbury; Thompson, Ah Van, Runciman, Marsh; Mellor, Heremaia; Dudson, White, O'Carroll, Dean, Houston, Cahill.
Replacements: Sa, Manuokafoa, Leuluai, Whitley.
Wakefield: Jowitt; Jones-Bishop, Gibson, Hall, Johnstone; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Moore, Arona, Kirmond, Ashurst, Topou.
Replacements: Annakin, Simon, Howarth, Yates.
Attendance: 4,398
Referee: Joe Cobb
Mr Ruddy, 32, was murdered and secretly buried in 1985 by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
Willie Gallagher has been liaising with the commission set up to find the bodies of the Disappeared.
He passed on the new information which led to the discovery near Rouen.
Formal identification has yet to take place.
Mr Gallagher, of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), said a decision to follow up on a rumour about an INLA arms dump in a forest provided the breakthrough at the weekend.
The former INLA man, who was jailed for a bomb attack on a bar in Strabane, said he is relieved the search is now over.
"Three years ago we had extra members on our team to re-examine and re-evaluate all the information we did have and during the course of that we came across what seemed an insignificant rumour which we pursued," he said.
"That insignificant piece of information provided the key to lock the door with regard to more precision as to where the body was and we were successful in the recovery.
"We chased down every lead possible, and some of those leads came to dead ends and actually involved a number of us travelling over to France, Belgium and Spain."
Mr Ruddy's sister, Anne Morgan, said her life has "completely changed" since investigators discovered human remains near Rouen on Saturday.
Anne Morgan was the only member of her family to travel to the search site in France.
Before attending Mass at the Church of Joan of Arc in Rouen on Sunday morning, she said she would "be thinking of family" who were at home.
"I'll also be thinking of those who have been here looking after this site at Pont-de-l'Arche, and all of the people who have spent a lot of time helping us to find Seamus."
Mr Ruddy was working as an English teacher in Paris when he went missing.
He was one of 16 people known as the Disappeared who were murdered and secretly buried by republicans during Northern Ireland's Troubles.
The INLA admitted responsibility for the killing 10 years after Mr Ruddy's death.
This latest search began in France on Tuesday after new information was passed to the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains (ICLVR).
Other members of the Ruddy family were at home in Newry, County Down, when the discovery was confirmed.
The remains of three people out of 16 Disappeared have not yet been found.
The others are Columba McVeigh, Joe Lynskey and Army Capt Robert Nairac.
Clubb, 29, has not played for the Warriors since May because of a neck problem which requires more treatment.
Mossop, 27, has made 25 appearances this season but will miss the rest of the campaign with a shoulder problem.
Head coach Shaun Wane also confirmed club captain Sean O'Loughlin has a hamstring injury and is being assessed from week to week.
Catherine Calderwood wants doctors and patients to have more open and honest conversations about the benefits and risks of procedures or medication.
She argues that quality rather than quantity of life can be more important.
The British Medical Association Scotland said doctors needed time to "learn, teach and reflect".
But its chairman, Dr Peter Bennie, said it regularly heard from doctors that they did not have the necessary time to do this.
Dr Calderwood names her plan "realistic medicine" in her new annual report.
She said she came up with the concept in response to research that found that doctors would make different choices for themselves and their families than they do for their patients.
In some areas, realistic medicine is already well established.
When Alastair Macgregor, 76, was referred to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary's renal unit with poor kidney function, he had a conversation with his consultant and decided dialysis was not the right option for him.
"There is nothing worse than getting towards the end of your life and you realise you wasted day after day," he said.
"As the sun comes up every day I'm looking for something interesting, and it's a bonus day.
"I didn't fancy spending three days of the week in the Royal Infirmary when I can be out doing things with my family. I want quality of life, I don't want length of life particularly."
Dr Calderwood wants to see more of these conversations in hospitals and in GP surgeries across the country.
After speaking to doctors about how to implement realistic medicine, she now wants to involve the wider health community and to consult people on how they can become more involved in a "person-centred" approach to healthcare.
She said she had recently met a man who had undergone surgery.
"When I asked him if he was pleased with his knee replacement he said 'well I want to stand on my doorstep and talk to my neighbour and I asked them for a grab rail and they gave me a knee replacement, and I still don't have a grab rail and I still can't talk to my neighbour'.
"So he had had a major procedure when actually he wanted a simple solution to his problem which was to chat to his neighbour on his doorstep."
Dr Calderwood, who still practices as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, explained that modern medicine tends to over medicalise.
"I think that doctors are fixers, they want to help but I think we have perhaps overestimated the benefits of some treatments and maybe underestimated the risks and perhaps underestimated the burden of healthcare, so visits to hospital, visits to the GP surgery, blood tests, monitoring.
"And now we are having much more open and honest conversations."
Dr Caroline Whitworth, a consultant nephrologist at the renal unit in Edinburgh, is an advocate of realistic medicine but acknowledged it can mean having difficult conversations with patients:
"You've got to be very honest, but you've got to be honest in a sympathetic, empathetic way," she said.
"It's too brutal to say you've got however many weeks or months left and actually we don't know the answer to that.
"But what you do have to be honest about is where you can make a difference and where you might not make a difference.
"And when you are talking about particular treatments you've got to be honest about whether that treatment realistically is going to make a difference."
Dr Peter Bennie, chairman of BMA Scotland welcomed the chief medical officer's report and said doctors wanted to engage with patients to provide the best possible care.
He said: "Doctors want, and expect, to be innovators and leaders in improving outcomes for patients, however to do this well we need time to learn, teach and reflect.
"It is good to see that the CMO recognises the need for innovation within the NHS but with the ever increasing demand and high levels of long term vacancies, the BMA now regularly hears from doctors that they do not have the necessary time to do this."
He added: "We need to have an honest and open debate with the public and politicians about what the NHS can realistically provide.
"We look forward to further discussions with the CMO on many of the ideas discussed in her latest report, and to hearing more detail on the plans for the development and use of a national atlas of variation and a single national formulary."
Dr Calderwood's annual report is the second phase of the introduction of realistic medicine.
Leaflets will shortly be distributed to hospitals and GP surgeries encouraging people to ask more questions.
There will be a review of how patients consent to procedures in an effort to help them understand more fully the benefits and risks, and there are to be consultations with the public on what realistic might mean to them.
Putting it into practice will mean challenges as doctors are stretched.
Prof Derek Bell, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, said: "Issues such as the overuse of clinical treatments, interventions and antibiotics remain high on the college agenda.
"Patients also need to be treated in the right place at the right time."
Researchers from the universities of Exeter and Oxford have found crop pests are moving at an average of two miles (3km) a year.
The team said they were heading towards the north and south poles, and were establishing in areas that were once too cold for them to live in.
The research is published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Currently, it is estimated that between 10% and 16% of the world's crops are lost to disease outbreaks. The researchers warn that rising global temperatures could make the problem worse.
Dr Dan Bebber, the lead author of the study from the University of Exeter, said: "Global food security is one of the major challenges we are going to face over the next few decades.
"We really don't want to be losing any more of our crops than is absolutely necessary to pests and pathogens."
To investigate the problem, the researchers looked at the records of 612 crop pests and pathogens from around the world that had been collected over the past 50 years.
These included fungi, such as wheat rust, which is devastating harvests in Africa, the Middle East and Asia; insects like the mountain pine beetle that is destroying trees in the US; as well as bacteria, viruses and microscopic nematode worms.
Each organism's distribution was different - some butterflies and insects were shifting quickly, at about 12 miles (20km) a year; other bacterium species had hardly moved. On average, however, the pests had been spreading by two miles each year since 1960.
"We detect a shift in their distribution away form the equator and towards the poles," explained Dr Bebber,
The researchers believe that the global trade in crops is mainly responsible for the movement of pests and pathogens from country to country.
However, the organisms can only take hold in new areas if the conditions are suitable, and the researchers believe that warming temperatures have enabled the creature to survive at higher latitudes.
Dr Bebber said: "The most convincing hypothesis is that global warming has caused this shift.
"One example is the Colorado potato beetle. Warming appears to have allowed it to move northwards through Europe to into Finland and Norway where the cold winters would normally knock the beetle back."
The researchers said that better information about where the pests and pathogens were and where they were moving was needed to fully assess the scale of the problem.
"We also need to protect our borders, we have to quarantine plants to reduce the chances that pests and pathogens are able to get into our agricultural systems," added Dr Bebber.
In a second year of severe cuts in cost, the industry is thought to be supporting 120,000 fewer jobs than in 2014.
The annual economic report from Oil and Gas UK shows the impact this year is increasingly on the supply chain.
Spending is down by 30% in two years as a result of the oil price fall.
The report also points to a further deterioration in prospects if exploration is not stepped up.
Only six wells have been sunk in UK waters this year in search of new reservoirs of oil and gas.
For every barrel newly found, four are being extracted from existing fields.
The industry body says that is "unsustainable", and is calling for more effort to encourage drilling.
The last year that more oil and gas was found than produced was in 1990.
The report also showed exploration and production firms are cutting the amount of their known oil and gas reserves they believe to be commercially viable, as marginal fields become "stranded".
This year has so far seen little new commitment of capital funds. Whereas £4.3bn of investment capital was committed to new projects last year, that has fallen to only £100m so far this year.
Recent high levels of capital spending have helped turn around the sharp decline in production since the start of this century.
Oil output rose 9% last year, and gas by 1%. In the first half of this year, oil production was up around 6%.
But with the oil price averaging $41 per barrel in the first eight months of this year - just over a third of the level in summer 2014 - capital spending is now falling rapidly.
It has gone from £14.8bn two years ago to an estimated £9bn this year, with further declines forecast.
Total expenditure, including capital and operating costs, has fallen from £26.6bn in 2014 to £21.7bn last year, and this year it is expected to reach £19bn.
But such a drop was seen as necessary. The industry is claiming a striking achievement in cutting the cost of extracting the average barrel of oil, down from $29 to $16 by the end of this year.
International comparisons suggest that is not all due to the slashing of prices by supply companies as they struggle to win orders. It is partly credited to efficiency measures in what had become one of the world's most expensive regions for oil extraction.
The economic report estimates the employment implications of the industry downturn. It says the 27% drop in only two years has not been felt most severely in direct employment within the production sector. It is now estimated at 34,000, down from 42,000 in 2014.
Indirect employment, in the supply chain, has fallen to 151,000, according to the industry report, down from 201,000 two years ago.
The wider calculation of "induced" jobs, supported by industry expenditure, is reckoned to be down from 211,000 to 145,000.
Scotland is the base for four out of five directly-employed jobs - 27,000 roles - but a lower proportion of indirect jobs (41% or 51,000) and of induced jobs (24% and 35,000).
Profits have plummeted. In 2011, the average rate of return for extraction companies was more than 50%: at the start of this year, it was 0.2%. Tax revenue has turned negative.
Deirdre Michie, chief executive of Oil and Gas UK, said the UK vote in June to leave the European Union was adding complexity "in an already testing business environment".
In the short term, she said there was "the distraction from managing our way through the downturn, a loss of positive influence over ongoing and future policy development in Brussels, and uncertainty, making it difficult for our members to make longer-term investment decisions".
She said: "The lack of new development projects must be urgently addressed if we are to avoid a repeat of the sharp production decline that dominated the early part of this decade.
"Exploration has fallen to record lows. Little new investment has been approved in 2016, and 2017 looks no better."
Ms Michie argued the government could do more to encourage asset sales, bringing more companies into investment in the specialist challenge of handling oil and gas fields as they near closure. That includes clarity on the liabilities for decommissioning costs.
The chief executive said: "The evidence in the report demonstrates what our industry can achieve when the basin's competitiveness is addressed, and the tax regime reformed.
"Now it is time for the UK and Scottish governments to reinforce their efforts to promote the UK [industry], nationally and internationally, as an attractive investment with world-leading capability from front-end exploration to late-life operations."
McInnes has tied the 24-year-old striker to a four-year deal from English Championship side Preston.
Nicky Maynard, Gary Mackay-Steven, Kari Arnason, Greg Tansey, Ryan Christie and Greg Stewart have also joined the Dons.
"I don't think they'd be bringing in the players they are if he wasn't here," said May, who was given his debut at St Johnstone by McInnes.
"It was a big part. There's no two ways about it, if he wasn't still here I probably wouldn't be here, and I think the same can be said for a lot of his signings.
"From the outside I was keeping an eye on the coming and goings, and I've played with a number of them at Scotland Under-21s so I know the quality that he brought in."
After starting his career with Saints, with whom he won the Scottish Cup in 2014, and prolific loan spells at Alloa and Hamilton, May joined Sheffield Wednesday in August 2014, winning his sole Scotland cap that year, before an injury-hit time at Preston North End curtailed his progress.
McInnes, who spurned an offer from Sunderland to stay at Aberdeen this summer, believes May's arrival helps make his side a lot harder to predict.
Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha last season appeared at a press conference clutching what he believed would be the Aberdeen team ahead of an encounter at Pittodrie.
"In the past few years most people could second guess my team," said McInnes. "No harm in that, but I do feel now we've got the luxury of being able to re-jig it and freshen it up, and try different styles at certain times.
"He (May) is a boy who I've got a high regard for and someone who I think will do extremely well here. He's only 24, he's been involved in the national team, and I think his best years are still ahead of him. He certainly knows where the back of the net is.
"I know what he is as a player and for us to get him on a four-year deal at 24 years of age is a fantastic bit of business.
"I think it's important for a club like us to have a number of different options. I'm really pleased with the options we have."
As May arrived, fellow striker Miles Storey was allowed to exit Pittodrie, with the 23-year-old signing a two-year deal with Partick Thistle.
McInnes explained: "I had an agreement with Miles that it was probably best that he moved on to get regular football.
"I think he was a bit frustrated at not getting more game time last year, and what he didn't want and what I didn't want was another year like that."
The security alert, on Blythe Street in the city, has ended.
A PSNI spokesperson said suspicious objects were found in the area earlier on Friday evening and an "improvised viable explosive device" had been made safe and taken away from the area.
No homes were evacuated and roads remain open as normal.
England cricketer James Anderson and ex-Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard have both become OBEs.
Boxing champion Carl Froch is made an MBE, as are distance runner Jo Pavey and England footballer Casey Stoney.
Wheelchair tennis player Jordanne Whiley is also appointed an MBE.
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Speaking to BBC Sport from Canada, where she is part of England's World Cup squad, Stoney said: "It's huge for women's football.
"Women in sport don't really get much recognition, so to get recognition in your area of sport, to get recognised for your services to the game, is really important because it's not just about me, it's about the players who played 25 to 30 years ago, who put me in this position to be able to go to a World Cup."
In rugby union, former England fly-half and Rugby World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson becomes a CBE, while ex-Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies has been made an OBE for his work as president of Cardiff's Velindre Cancer Centre.
Swansea City chairman Huw Jenkins has been made an OBE as has England squash world champion Nick Matthew.
Liz Nicholl, UK Sport chief executive, has also been appointed a CBE.
Edwards, 67, is a former Wales and British and Irish Lions scrum-half who won 53 caps for his country.
He scored what is regarded as the greatest try of all time for the Barbarians against New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park in 1973.
Fast bowler Anderson, 32, became England's leading Test wicket-taker in April and has now taken 403 wickets in 104 Tests.
Head, 69, who co-founded Williams with Sir Frank Williams, helped the team claim nine constructor championships.
Sir Frank said: "His engineering talent helped play a key role in establishing Great Britain as a leading force in global motorsport and the benefits of this are still being felt to this day, both culturally and economically."
Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, brought the first two stages of the Tour de France to the county in 2014.
Knight: Gareth Edwards, former British and Irish Lions and Wales scrum-half; Patrick Head, former director and co-founder of Williams F1 team; Gary Verity, for services to tourism and the Tour de France Grand Depart 2014.
CBE: Liz Nicholl, UK Sport chief executive; Jonny Wilkinson, former England fly-half.
OBE: James Anderson, England fast bowler; Brian Davies, chef de mission Team Wales at 2014 Commonwealth Games; Jonathan Davies, former Wales fly-half and president of Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff.
Peter Dawson, R&A chief executive and secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews; Huw Jenkins, Swansea City chairman; Anthony Kendall, London Youth Games chair; Frank Lampard, former England footballer; Jonathan Lane, Tennis Foundation chair; Nick Matthew, English squash player.
MBE: James Chalmers, Football Safety Officers Association president; Lloyd Cowan, UK Athletics lead sprint coach; Carl Froch, boxing world champion; Alison Harris, for services to the British Horse Society and to equestrian sport in Yorkshire; Richard Knight, for services to rowing; Catriona Morrison, for services to sport and voluntary service in Scotland.
John Monaghan, for services to sport administration in Northern Ireland; Jo Pavey, long distance runner; Casey Stoney, Arsenal Ladies and former England captain; Jordanne Whiley, wheelchair tennis player.
BEM: Jim Montgomery, former Sunderland goalkeeper and club ambassador.
Of those, 1,095 were confirmed as gang members, ICE said, while the remaining 238 "were arrested on either criminal or administrative charges".
More than 900 of the arrested were US citizens.
Acting director Thomas Homan said "violent criminal street gangs are the biggest threat facing our communities".
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit carried out the operation, its largest to date.
ICE said it was targeting gang members and "associates" involved in cross-border criminal activity - including drug and weapons smuggling, sex trafficking and murder.
During the six-week operation, 238 firearms were seized, alongside almost 600lb (270kg) in mixed drugs, and almost half a million dollars in cash.
Those arrested were considered "confirmed" as gang members, ICE said, if they admitted to membership, had been convicted of gang-related offences, had tattoos of a specific gang, or were identified "by a reliable source".
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ICE also said that 10 people arrested had entered the US as unaccompanied minors - and nine of them were gang members. Another three had been part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) scheme - so called "dreamers", or undocumented immigrants who arrived as children who are allowed to stay,
"Aliens granted DACA who are found to pose a threat to national security or public safety may have their deferred action terminated at any time and the Department of Homeland Security may seek their removal from the United States," ICE said in its press release- adding that about 1,500 people have been deported for that reason since 2012.
The large-scale operation was part of Operation Community Shield, an ongoing programme which targets gang members with the help of federal and local law enforcement agencies.
There had been speculation that Alex Salmond might seek the position.
However, the BBC's Norman Smith said Mr Robertson would be re-elected unopposed and had received the private support of former SNP leader Mr Salmond.
Elections for the position of SNP leader at Westminster will take place on Tuesday.
The new intake of Nationalist MPs arrived in London for a photo opportunity with Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
On the prospects of retaining his role, Mr Robertson said: "It has been an honour to lead the Westminster SNP group for the last eight years and it would be an honour to continue as group leader of the record-sized SNP parliamentary party.
"I am grateful to have the support of deputy SNP leader Stewart Hosie MP, former first minister Alex Salmond MP and the encouragement from colleagues across the newly-elected SNP group.
"The SNP is now the third party at Westminster and we have a huge responsibility to stand up for Scotland.
"As third party we will be called at every Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), every debate and also serve on a wide range of committees.
"We will use these opportunities to oppose the Tory austerity agenda, press for the delivery of more powers for Scotland and seek to block the renewal of Trident."
All 56 MPs will take up the seats normally reserved for the Liberal Democrats in the Commons.
They will also take over the third party whips office which had been run by the Lib Dems for almost a century.
Norman Smith said it was understood that the SNP would be removing all the old photos of Gladstone and other Liberal leaders.
The Conservative Party was in coalition with the Lib Dems between 2010 and 2015.
However, the election on Thursday saw the Tories win a majority.
In Scotland there is now just one Labour, one Liberal Democrat and one Conservative MP.
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No-one has had contact with Jia Jia since Tuesday night when he was set to board his flight. His wife has reported him missing.
He is said to have warned an editor friend about publishing an anonymous letter calling for President Xi Jinping's resignation.
The letter appeared on a state-linked site but was swiftly taken down.
It is unclear who authored the letter, which had the byline "loyal Communist Party supporters". Mr Jia had reportedly insisted he had no connection to the letter.
The incident appears to be the latest in a string of high-profile censorship incidents, amid a ramp-up of state campaigns aimed at burnishing Mr Xi's image.
Mr Jia, who is in his 30s, is known for writing commentaries for the online news portal Tencent. He was due to fly from Beijing to Hong Kong on Tuesday when he became uncontactable.
The newspaper Apple Daily quoted Mr Jia's wife as saying she last spoke to him at 20:00 local time on Tuesday, and he told her he was about to board the plane to Hong Kong.
She added that Mr Jia was due to arrive at a friend's home that night, but he never arrived. He also missed a lunch appointment the next day.
"On the cultural and ideological front, you [President Xi] have emphasised 'party-surnamed media' [an official campaign to get all media to toe the party line], and have disregarded the citizen aspect of the media, stunning the whole nation; you supported... low-standard people to become our literary representatives, disappointing the workers in the larger literary world; you have condoned cultural units in directly singing your praises; your wife Peng Liyuan's sister took over the producing duties of the CCTV Spring Gala, causing everyone's beloved and anticipated programme to become your personal propaganda tool.
Your condoning of a personality cult, not allowing 'rash opinions of central leadership', creating a 'one voice party' method - those of us who have gone through the Cultural Revolution can't help but feel secretly worried - our party, country and citizens cannot go through yet another 10-year catastrophe!"
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His lawyer, Yan Xin, told the BBC: "We don't have any clue who took him away and why... there is [a] great possibility that he was taken away from the airport."
"His wife has not received any official document on Jia Jia's whereabouts and status."
Mr Yan added that attempts to find Mr Jia's flight booking record had failed, and he and Mr Jia's wife were checking with immigration authorities.
The letter in question raised eyebrows when it appeared on the state-linked news site Watching, also known as Wujie News, on 4 March.
Addressed to Mr Xi, it called for him to step down, accusing him of gaining "excessive power" and creating a "personality cult", and ran through a list of criticism of his rule ranging from his diplomatic policies to his economic decisions.
Apart from the whereabouts of the missing blogger apparently caught up in all of this, the big mystery is how on earth the letter appeared on a Chinese news website in the first place.
That people may hold these kinds of views is entirely possible, of course. But that anyone might take the risk of openly publishing, on a government-backed website, a call for the Chinese President's resignation would be extraordinary.
That's why there is speculation that the website was hacked in some way.
The Chinese authorities will, we can be certain, be trying to find out the truth, although probably not with a view to sharing the results of that investigation with the outside world.
Mr Jia is said to have cautioned his friend Ouyang Hongliang - an editor at Watching - after he saw it published.
The BBC tried to contact Mr Ouyang on his mobile phone but he could not be reached.
A colleague at Watching told the BBC that those involved with the letter's publication were "under investigation".
Watching stated it had reproduced the letter from another site, Canyu, an overseas-based portal known for carrying articles critical of China's government.
Canyu's version of the letter is still online.
Wasps scored twice in the first 10 minutes via Hughes and Ruaridh Jackson.
Jackson and Elliot Daly added a penalty apiece with Jonathan Pelissie landing two for Toulon, champions three years in a row, to make it 20-6 at half-time.
Further tries from Frank Halai and Hughes secured Wasps' bonus point.
Wasps knew they might struggle to contain the powerful Toulon pack in the tight phases, and when they lost Bradley Davies to illness before the game that became even more likely.
His replacement in the second row, James Gaskell, is a much lighter player than Wales lock Davies, but what Wasps may have lost in the scrum they more than gained in the loose.
With the hosts playing a fast-paced game with plenty of width, the rangy Gaskell was in his element. His mobility enabled him to cover every blade of grass in a performance that saw him named man of the match.
The hosts were out of the blocks quickly and scored their opening try when number eight Hughes rampaged over after being set free by Jackson's raking pass.
Two minutes later, Wasps countered from deep. Simpson claimed Jackson's cute chip and fed Gaskell, who supplied the final pass for Jackson to scamper over from 40 metres.
That gave the home side a 14-0 lead and they led by the same margin at the break after both sides landed a pair of penalties.
Wasps maintained their ambition after the break and the only area Toulon had the advantage was the scrum.
With James Haskell and George Smith in outstanding form for Wasps - captain Haskell led from the front with 20 tackles - Toulon were unable to rule the breakdown or find a way through the home defence.
Wasps always looked the more threatening side and they scored a third try soon after half-time as full-back Charles Piatau sliced through Toulon on the counter-attack and Halai was on his shoulder to finish from 30 metres out.
After their bonus-point win away to Leinster last weekend, Wasps were full of confidence and they duly secured a four-try bonus point when Hughes powered over from a well-worked line-out.
Wasps boss Dai Young on lively scrum-half Joe Simpson: "I don't see many nines better than Joe out there. His kicking game is up there with the best, and in broken play I think he's the best nine.
"Something England kept talking to him about was the game management, making the right decisions, but I think he's more than mastered that - he's shown how accomplished he is as a nine and a decision-maker."
Wasps: Piutau; Wade, Daly, Jacobs, Halai; Jackson, Simpson; Mullan, Festuccia, Cooper-Woolley, Launchbury, Gaskell, Haskell, G Smith, N Hughes.
Replacements: Lozowski for Piutau (71), Tagicakibau for Wade (67), Robson for Simpson (68), McIntyre for Mullan (59), Johnson for Festuccia (21), Cittadini for Cooper-Woolley (54), Myall for Launchbury (67), Jones for Haskell (67).
Toulon: D Armitage; Tuiosva, Bastareaud, Mermoz, Habana; Cooper, Pelissie; Chiocci, Etrillard, Stevens, Manoa, Taofifenua, J Smith, Fernandez Lobbe, S Armitage.
Replacements: Belan for Mermoz (71), Tillous-Borde for Pelissie (50), Fresia for Chiocci (51), Soury for Etrillard (63), Chilachava for Stevens (41), Mikautadze for Taofifenua (51), Gorgodze for J Smith (59), Vermeulen for S Armitage (51).
Att: 21,000
Ref: John Lacey (Ireland).
The 12cm (4.7in) creature scuttled out when staff at a storage company in Old Newton, near Stowmarket, opened the container to unload it.
It was found on 13 January.
RSPCA officer Naemi Kilbey, who was called to collect the spider, said: "Workers who found the spider definitely thought it was a Friday the 13th jinx."
She added: "I must admit I'd get a bit of a shock if I was unloading some stock and a huge Huntsman spider crawled out."
The RSPCA said Huntsman spiders, usually from Australia, can grow to more than 15cm (6in) in size but are generally harmless.
While a bite from a Huntsman could cause some pain and discomfort, they are not a highly venomous species.
The spider was taken to a local exotic animal specialist who will keep it.
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Miles Storey tapped in Ross Draper's cut-back as the United defence was opened up.
Then Iain Vigurs made it two after the break with a long drive past goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima.
The result leaves Mixu Paatelainen's side eight points adrift of second-bottom Kilmarnock.
It means they have to win a minimum of three of their remaining five games, having won just six from 33 so far, to avoid automatic relegation.
On the evidence of this match, that is an entirely improbable sequence of results, with United on a run of only one win in their last six matches.
A Scottish Cup semi-final against Hibernian next weekend may be a welcome distraction in a season that, otherwise, threatens to be utterly grim.
Caley Thistle may not have been able to hit the heights of last season - they will finish in the bottom six despite this victory - but they were markedly superior to United.
Storey's opening goal came seconds after he was allowed a clear run on goal by a fragile United defence and though Kawashima denied him then, United failed to learn a lesson and allowed Draper in behind them to set up Storey for a tap-in.
Kawashima kept the deficit down, saving from Greg Tansey and Gary Warren before the break, but he was beaten again early in the second half.
A corner kick was cleared as far as Vigurs who, 25 yards from goal, powered the ball past the Japanese keeper, who pushed over a similar effort from the midfielder later in the match.
United only seriously threatened Owain Fon Williams' goal on a couple of occasions and both times the visiting keeper saved well, firstly from Guy Demel and then Kyle Knoyle.
The full-time whistle was greeted by boos from the bulk of the United fans who had remained to the bitter end, but it appears there is an even more bitter end to follow.
For Inverness it was just the Highlanders' second win in eight Premiership matches, but not enough to make the top six.
The Highways Agency says the new restriction would apply from 7am to 7pm, seven days a week.
It would be in place from junction 28, near Matlock, Derbyshire, to junction 35a, north of Rotherham.
Variable speed limits are widely used to aid traffic flow, but the RAC said this could be the first time they had been implemented to cut air pollution.
It warned that reducing the maximum speed from the national standard 70mph to 60mph could "pave the way for similar restrictions on other sections of motorway" and there would "inevitably be a negative impact on business efficiency and individual mobility".
The Highways Agency said the lower limit, which has been put out to consultation, was likely to remain for "several years".
In its document, it stated that the current use of the 70mph speed limit for motorways was having "adverse impacts on air quality" and that cutting it would reduce emissions.
It also said the change would bring "reduced congestion, increased capacity and improved journey time reliability for users of the motorway".
The normal speed limit would still apply to the rest of the M1, which runs from north London to Leeds.
Tougher European Union guidelines on air quality have come into force and the agency argued that a lower limit would be needed to ensure these were met on the section from junctions 28 and 35a, which goes past Mansfield, Chesterfield and Sheffield.
It said: "For the purposes of this consultation, it should be assumed that the speed limit will need to be in place for several years. However, we are not able to give an indication in this document of how many years the speed limit will need to be retained."
But the document said: "It is expected that vehicle emissions will reduce as more new, cleaner vehicles come into use and older, more polluting vehicles become obsolete."
The agency said it could change its plans, by limiting the operation of the lower speed limits to peak hours, or Mondays to Fridays.
The length of the stretch of road affected could be shortened too, it added.
RAC technical director David Bizley said: "This is a landmark proposal as to the best of our knowledge motorway speed limits have not previously been lowered in order to comply with environmental legislation."
He added that it "would certainly negate some of the current benefits of operating this section as a 'smart' motorway where motorists are allowed to use the hard shoulder to reduce congestion".
Mr Bizley also said: "More worryingly, it could pave the way for similar restrictions on other sections of motorway. While preserving air quality is obviously a paramount concern there will inevitably be a negative impact on business efficiency and individual mobility.
"This very powerfully demonstrates the impact that speed has on emissions and many will be surprised to hear that a reduction of just 10mph can have such a significant effect on improving air quality."
The consultation will close on 3 March.
They say there is too much room for error in ultrasound scans in the first six weeks, which wrongly label a small percentage of embryos as miscarried.
The true scale of the problem is unknown but researchers said it was "hard to see how there can't be women having misdiagnoses being made".
Guidelines are currently being reviewed.
The study suggested the current rules "could lead to 400 viable pregnancies potentially being misclassified", however the researchers said this was an educated guess with no evidence of how many would lead to a termination.
Miscarriage is very common, affecting one in five pregnancies.
If a women experiences pain or bleeding early in the pregnancy, around five to six weeks, they will have an ultrasound scan.
Two results would suggest a miscarriage, which could then lead to a decision to terminate the pregnancy:
A series of papers published in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology questioned the thresholds.
One paper reviewed the evidence for the guidelines and said they were based on poor evidence.
Another reported significant variation in the measurements made by different clinicians, which could in theory change the diagnosis.
Tests on 1,060 women whose pregnancy was in question showed the 20mm rule would diagnose about 0.5% of cases as miscarriages when they were in fact healthy.
Prof Tom Bourne, from Imperial College London, told the BBC: "We found that the cut-off values were not entirely safe because they can be associated with a misdiagnosis of miscarriage in a small number of cases, and our view is that there shouldn't be any risk.
"I think a significant number is one, frankly. I think anyone who has a diagnosis of miscarriage and potentially has surgery would expect that that diagnosis is right."
He argues the cut-offs should be about 25mm instead of 20mm for the sac and 7mm for an embryo without a heartbeat. He also wants a greater emphasis on repeat scans.
He said: "There's not a medical cost to being more cautious in what we're doing."
Prof Siobhan Quenby, from University Hospital Coventry, welcomed greater attention and clarity on the issue, but said: "I really don't think many mistakes are being made."
She said people were aware of issues with the guidance and if there was any doubt, further tests, not a termination, would take place.
It is "very common that people come back for a second scan", she said.
For those with a miscarriage diagnosis, she said that in the majority of cases there would be no medical intervention. About 30% would take tablets or have surgery to end the pregnancy.
Dr Mark Hamilton, consultant gynaecologist at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, said the findings "reinforce the need for clinical staff to continue to exercise great care in the diagnosis of non-viable pregnancy to minimise the risk of misdiagnosis.
"Women should continue to be managed expectantly without the need for medical treatment or surgery until the diagnosis of non-viability is established with certainty."
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is currently developing guidelines for the care of women who experience pain and bleeding in early pregnancy. There is already guidance available from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
This will include the role of ultrasound in determining the viability of a pregnancy and will draw on this research. New guidelines are due in November 2012.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists welcomed the studies.
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The Sunderland manager is favourite to succeed Roy Hodgson, who resigned after England's Euro 2016 exit.
It was reported this week that Allardyce, 61, would be interviewed for the role, but he is yet to be contacted by the Football Association.
"I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him," Hammers co-chairman Gold told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He is determined, he is ambitious. He's been in the business a long time.
"I think the most important thing from my point of view is that he's English."
Allardyce took charge at Sunderland in October and steered the club to Premier League safety.
The Black Cats finished 17th, one place and two points above the relegation zone, after losing only one of their final 11 league matches of the 2015-16 season.
Former Chelsea and England striker Chris Sutton said: "I think Allardyce has clout. He's proved himself. He gets the job done.
"If Euro 2016 has taught us anything, it's about learning how to win football matches and Sam Allardyce is the master.
"How he kept Sunderland up this season, I don't know, but it was an incredible achievement.
"He studies opposition's weaknesses, he knows his team's strengths and he plays to them. It's all about winning."
Allardyce left Sunderland's pre-season training camp in Austria on Monday and returned to England to conduct some transfer business.
The club said it was "business as usual".
He was interviewed for the England job in 2006 following the departure of Sven-Goran Eriksson, but the FA instead chose to appoint Steve McClaren, who had been the Swede's assistant.
Prior to joining Sunderland he spent four seasons as boss of West Ham, who he led back to the Premier League via the play-offs in 2012.
He has also managed Blackburn, Newcastle, Blackpool, Notts County and Bolton, who were promoted to the top flight and qualified for Europe during his tenure.
It is understood no official approach has been made to the US Soccer Federation about Jurgen Klinsmann.
It was claimed Klinsmann had discussions over the role, with the German thought to be in California.
The former striker, Klinsmann spent the 1994-95 season in the Premier League with Tottenham.
As a coach, the 51-year-old took Germany to the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup, held on home soil.
An ill-fated stint in charge of Bayern Munich ended in April 2009 when he was sacked and replaced by Jupp Heynckes.
He took the USA job in 2011, won the Concacaf Gold Cup in 2013 and reached the last 16 of the 2014 World Cup, where they were beaten by Belgium in extra time.
USA were beaten by Jamaica in the semi-finals of last year's Gold Cup and reached the semi-finals of last month's Copa America Centenario, where they lost to Argentina.
Hodgson's successor will be chosen by a three-man panel of FA technical director Dan Ashworth, chief executive Martin Glenn and vice-chairman David Gill.
They have already spoken to former internationals - including Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Lineker - as part of their review and have not ruled out an interim appointment, with World Cup 2018 qualifying beginning in September.
England Under-21s boss Gareth Southgate has already ruled himself out of the running.
Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe has been linked with the role.
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It came down near Blackbushe Airport, close to the Surrey border, killing the pilot and all three passengers.
In a statement, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, offered condolences to the Bin Laden family.
The embassy said it was in contact with the British crash investigators.
The statement said: "His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud... has paid his condolences to the family and relatives of Mohammed bin Laden at Blackbushe airport in Britain for the great loss they have suffered as a result of the crash of the plane that was carrying the family."
The embassy added that it was working with the British authorities to ensure the speedy handover of the bodies for funerals and burials in Saudi Arabia.
The plane - an Embraer Phenom 300 - is reported to have belonged to an aviation firm owned by the Saudi-based family of the former al-Qaeda leader.
The plane, which was arriving from Milan, Italy, crashed into a British Car Auctions site at the airfield shortly after 15:00 BST, exploding on impact.
Eyewitnesses at the scene said there had been a "ball of flames" and "several explosions".
The pilot and all three passengers were killed but no-one on the ground was injured, Hampshire Police said.
In a statement, the force said: "We do believe three of the deceased to be the mother, sister and brother-in-law of the owner of the aircraft, all of whom are from the Bin Laden family, but formal post-mortem examinations are ongoing.
"They were Saudi Arabian nationals and visiting the UK on vacation."
It is carrying out a joint investigation with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and has urged anyone with pictures and videos to get in touch on 101.
A spokeswoman for AAIB said a team had been deployed to the site.
In a statement, Blackbushe Airport, in Yateley, which is currently closed, said the jet had crashed near the end of the runway while attempting to make a landing.
Phil Giles, a former air accident investigator, said: "It suggests that the plane either landed too late or tried to take off again when the pilot realised it wasn't going to make the end of the runway.
"Or it may have been a problem with the brakes."
A spokeswoman for Milan Malpensa Airport confirmed the plane had left at 13:30 BST on its way to Hampshire.
The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation tweeted that the plane was a Saudi-registered private aircraft, and said it would support the UK's AAIB in its investigation.
Geoff Pierce, an aviation enthusiast from Fleet in Hampshire, was at Blackbushe airfield and saw the plane come down.
He said the plane did not seem to make a normal approach and appeared to be going at high speed.
"The next thing I knew the siren was wailing on the control tower and then I saw a big plume of black smoke," he said.
The Bin Laden family image is very different in Saudi Arabia compared to the West.
In Saudi Arabia, they are known as philanthropists and as successful business people that have been in the country since 1910, when the father, Mohammed Bin Laden, from Yemen, first arrived.
He started a large construction empire which still operates today.
The connection between the wider clan and Osama Bin Laden is very distant, even non-existent, since the 9/11 attacks.
A large part of the Bin Laden clan is living in the West, mainly in the United States, including in Boston.
So, it wouldn't be surprising to see other members of this family travelling all over Europe.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said it sent 24 firefighters to the scene following the crash.
Witness Barry Wright said there was a "huge bang" followed by an explosion.
"It started off instantly with smoke coming up, then there was a small flame from the top of the air craft, then... it just literally went into a ball of flame within a minute."
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The assault took place at dawn during a military vehicle patrol in the town of Tinzaouatine, near the border with Mali, local media reported.
The attackers also stole weapons and communication devices, and set the vehicles alight, the source said.
It is the most deadly attack so far this year in Algeria.
Armed Islamic groups in Algeria have linked themselves to al-Qaida to stage bombings and other attacks.
Algeria was riven with violence after the 1992 general election, won by an Islamist party, was annulled.
More than 150,000 people died, but an amnesty in 1999 led many rebels to lay down their arms.
Political violence in Algeria has declined since then, but Islamic groups continue to carry out sporadic attacks.
The light strips are designed to catch the eye of people looking down at their device, and change colour to match traffic signals.
The lure of games and social media has come "at the expense of attention to traffic", said councillor Kees Oskam.
But Dutch road safety group VVN said the idea "rewards bad behaviour".
"It's not a good idea to help mobile phone users look at their phones," said Jose de Jong of VVN, the Dutch Traffic Safety Association.
"We don't want people to use phones when they're dealing with traffic, even when walking around.
"People must always look around them, to check if cars are actually stopping at the red signals."
The lights have been installed on a trial basis at one crossing, close to three schools in Bodegraven.
The company that developed the technology says it hopes to offer the strips to other towns in the future.
Similar pavement lights are being tested in the German city of Augsburg to help so-called "smartphone zombies" navigate level crossings.
The Illuminated River project will see the pedestrian, road and rail crossings between Albert and Tower Bridge lit.
More than 100 international groups entered the competition which has raised £10m so far in private funding.
The designs are on display at the Royal Festival Hall during November with the winner announced on 8 December.
According to the organisers, the Illuminated River Foundation, the project will be funded "from private and philanthropic sources rather than the public purse".
The project has been backed by Sadiq Khan who said it would be a "wonderful celebration" of the river and "a major contribution to the growing importance of London's night-time economy".
The foundation said they hoped to install the winning design in 2018 depending on whether they could raise more funds and following consultation with local councils and the people who own the bridges.
Blurring Boundaries has been designed by the Adjaye Associates' who say their idea "re-imagines the bridges not as connectors, but as the heart of London itself".
The designers behind The Eternal Story of the River Thames say they "want to reveal the river as a breathing, pulsing organism" with the lighting of the bridges changing with the tide.
Synchronizing the City: Its Natural and Urban Rhythms would see the crossings "slowly fill with light like a vessel with liquid" during the night, before beams on each bridge shine into the sky.
Current is a "transformational artwork" which is "designed to enliven the Thames using dynamic light" in three different stages, according to its designers.
A River Ain't Too Much To Light would see the bridges being illuminated progressively, "to follow the ideal line of demarcation between light and shadow (twilight)", its designers say.
The Thames Nocturne would form "a ribbon of light connecting Chelsea to Wapping".
The World Health Organization estimates that at least 81 million people across Africa are affected by some form of disability.
As a result many grassroots activists, academics and artists are finding innovative ways to improve accessibility for people with disabilities, at both a local and international level.
From the Accessible Guidebook to Ethiopia, to wheelchairs made especially for rough rural terrain, there are numerous examples of resourcefulness and audacity.
BBC Africa spoke to eight of these change-makers - to find out what they are doing and why they were inspired to make a change.
In 2002, singer Grace Jerry was on her way home from choir rehearsal when she was knocked down by a drunk driver and left with paralysis of the lower limbs. After the accident she says music took on a whole new dimension: "Today, it is more than just holding the microphone, it is my world, my platform and my voice." Last year, she introduced President Obama at the Mandela Washington Fellowship Young African Leaders Initiative programme in the United States. "I had to hold back the tears when he walked up to me on stage and said some beautiful things about me and the work we are doing in Nigeria through [disability advocacy NGO] Inclusive Friends," she remembers.
Four years ago, the Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development published its Guide to Accessible Addis Ababa, reviewing the accessibility of different hotels, government buildings, restaurants and public spaces. "When we saw that it was really helpful for visitors as well as locals with disabilities, we thought 'Ok we have to scale up this project'," says programme director Retta Getachew. "We have six guides now and another that combines them all in one book, which is the Guide to Accessible Ethiopia."
When her daughter was born with disabilities, Shona McDonald says medical staff told her: "'Put her in a home, have another kid and move on' - that there was nothing that would really add value for her. And it was through my frustration and anger that I decided I wanted to prove them wrong." Using her sculpting skills, she started designing mobility equipment and supports - with the help of the University of Cape Town's biomedical-engineering department. Now her company, Shonaquip, manufacturers everything from wheelchairs to posture supports, which can be easily assembled, fitted and maintained by local therapists and technicians all over Africa.
Last year, Tlhokomelo Elena Sabole was crowned Miss Deaf Africa 2015. It was, she says, a dream come true: "Winning was so amazing. I have never been happy like that." Growing up in Lesotho as a deaf person is not easy, she says. But she hopes to change attitudes towards non-hearing people, and wants to see access to information opened up - such as through sign language on TV and signing classes in schools. "My dream is to have my own business," she says, "for example a salon where I can share my skills and work with other deaf girls."
When Kenneth Habaalu joined the APTERS organisation they were finding it difficult to identify children with disabilities in the community. "People didn't want others to know they had a disabled child at home," he explains. "One mother told me she usually leaves her child in bed when she goes to the market. To help her sit, she said: 'I dig a hole outside the house and put the child in there.' To stand, she would tie the child to the tree with material. I think it's inhuman to do such things." With limited resources, APTERS' team of eight (all of whom are disabled) use recycled paper and cardboard to make papier maché chairs, standing frames and walking aids, as well as teaching blocks for physiotherapy.
Victor Locoro has been working as a lecturer in the Faculty of Special Needs and Rehabilitation at Uganda's Kyambogo University for 20 years. As well as offering courses in community-based rehabilitation and disability studies, the faculty has its own Braille Production Unit. "At the moment it's on hold because one of the embosser machines needs serious repair," says Mr Locoro, who lost his sight at the age of ten. "But we are able to produce small amounts of material for the students, and are in the process of replacing the machine so that we resume full production. This includes producing books in Braille for primary and secondary schools; ministries of education, science, technology and sports; as well as civil society organisations."
In September 2007, Tim Stones co-founded the South African Deaf Rugby Union (SADRU). But there was a problem, the union wasn't affiliated with the South African Rugby Union - and so wasn't recognised by World Rugby. That all changed in 2014, and the following August SADRU held its first official Deaf Rugby Test series - the first of its kind held on South African soil - against Deaf Rugby World Champions, Wales.
Today, the union has around 90 deaf players. "However our numbers are steadily growing," says Mr Stones, "especially now that we are forming provincial Deaf Rugby unions in each province of SA." SADRU is also working with audiologists to conduct screenings in clubs and schools, to identity potential players - and undiagnosed hearing problems.
In between studying for her Electrical Engineering Masters at Colombia, Kay Igwe, who was raised in America but whose parents are from Nigeria, has been busy making an accessible computer game that's powered by brain waves. "A lot of people are investing in gaming culture right now," she explains, "but when someone has a neurodegenerative disease that impairs them from using any of their limbs or eye movements - or if they've suffered from a stroke or something that has left them paralysed - they cannot use a controller in the same way that someone who has those abilities can." Her solution? To use electroencephalogram or EEG signals to connect the brain to a computer game, so that a person can control a player using their brain waves.
This is part of BBC Africa's Living With Disability season. Find out more here.
The investors include state-owned firm China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) and investment firms AGIC Capital and Guoxin International.
KraussMaffei, which makes machinery for processing plastic and rubber, was owned by Canadian firm Onex Group.
The deal is the biggest acquisition by Chinese investors in a German company.
Chinese investors have recently been buying European firms, along with their technology and distribution networks.
Last year, ChemChina bought Italian tyre maker Pirelli in a deal valued at €7.1bn (£5.1bn).
In a statement on its website, the German company said the operations would remain in Munich and Europe and it would add jobs with the acquisition.
It currently employs 4,500 people - 2,800 of those jobs are based in Germany.
Meanwhile, the chairman of ChemChina Jianxin Ren said the takeover of the 178-year-old firm would help the Chinese giant become a pioneer in achieving the "made in China" initiative.
"We are investing in the company's strong management team and its technological expertise, which we believe will benefit our Chinese subsidiaries," he said.
The deal is expected to be finalised in the first half of this year.
The Scottish champions are also looking into similar opportunities in Asia as they attempt to grow their global brand.
Initial talks have already taken place between representatives of the club and the North American Soccer League, which is the second tier league in the US.
The NASL is hoping to expand from its current 11 teams to 20 teams by 2018.
Celtic regularly travel across the Atlantic to play pre-season friendly matches.
English Premier League club Manchester City took on the franchise for Major League Soccer side New York City in 2013.
They show improved ambulance response times but NHS Wales is still behind on waiting time targets for patients to start cancer treatment.
For the first time, seven sets of NHS statistics have been released on a single day.
The aim is to provide a more coherent picture of the health service in Wales.
So what do the figures tell us?
AMBULANCE RESPONSE TIMES
The last monthly performance figures in March showed 77.9% of responses to life-critical red calls arrived within eight minutes - the highest proportion since November. The target is 65%.
The median response time for red calls was 4.65 minutes - compared to 6.27 minutes the previous year.
Only about 5% of calls received by ambulance control are now designated red after the system was changed in October 2015 to prioritise the most urgent calls.
ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY WAITING TIMES
A total of 3,206 patients patients were waiting more than 12 hours in A&E, according to March's figures - up by about 230 on the month. But the proportion of patients waiting under 12 hours improved slightly.
Just under 81% of patients waited under four hours to be seen - the same as the previous month. There is a target of seeing 95% of patients within four hours and no patients should wait more than 12 hours.
WAITING TIMES AFTER BEING REFERRED BY GP FOR HOSPITAL TREATMENT
These figures show how long patients are waiting for the start of their hospital treatment - from the moment they are referred by their GP to the time their treatment starts.
The numbers waiting more than 36 weeks hit a peak in August 2015 when it was 6.4% of all patients. That figure has continued to fall and was 4.5% in February, while more people - 86.9% - were seen within 26 weeks (or six months).
This next set of figures looks at the median wait for those waiting to start treatment - this gives you the middle when you look at both the shortest and longest waits. It was 9.81 weeks in February, an improvement on the year and also the previous month; it has not been below nine weeks since March 2014.
DELAYED TRANSFERS OF CARE
These are patients - often elderly people or those with mental health issues - who are delayed for different reasons from moving from hospital on to the next stage of their care. This involved nearly 400 patients in March. Most are delayed for less than three weeks.
This time last year, there were more than 530 patients in hospital waiting to find either a nursing home place or care in the community. There has been a steady drop over the decade, when the figure was more than 650.
WAITING TIMES FOR DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY SERVICES
These figures look at patients waiting more than eight weeks for specified diagnostic services - which have been generally falling after peaking at nearly 28,000 at the start of 2014.
Those waiting more than 14 weeks for therapy services has been between 2,000 and 3,000 in recent years.
CANCER WAITING TIMES
This is how long patients suspected of having cancer by their GP and subject of an urgent referral to hospital have to wait for treatment.
The last monthly figures showed nearly 87% started treatment within 62 days. The target is 95%, which was only close to being reached five years ago.
There is also a figure for those newly diagnosed with cancer - but not by this urgent route - and here there is a target of treatment starting within 31 days. This was 97% in February, just short of the 98% target.
Macmillan Wales said it was "disappointing" that treatment waiting times continued to miss national targets.
"Early diagnosis and early treatment make a huge difference to outcomes for people with cancer," said the support charity.
"Delays impact not only on survival, but also the quality of life people will have once their treatment has ended."
It pointed to two health boards piloting a Danish model for quicker diagnosis as a way forward.
OUTPATIENT REFERRALS
These statistics look at the numbers of referrals for a first outpatient consultant appointment - including for different specialities.
The athletes competed in three sports but will not be named until their 'B' samples have been analysed.
The eight are among the 23 athletes who tested positive in the retrospective testing of 265 samples from 2012.
Thirty-one athletes, 14 from Russia, failed tests when 454 samples from the 2008 Games in Beijing were retested.
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Russia has already been banned from international athletics competition by the sport's world governing body, after a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation revealed systematic doping among its athletes.
The International Association of Athletics Federations is set to meet on 17 June to decide whether they should be allow to compete in Brazil.
The retests from the 2008 and 2012 Games were targeted at athletes who could potentially participate in Rio.
The International Olympic Committee has said the re-analysis programme is ongoing, with the possibility of more results in the weeks to come.
Adanae Liburd-Graham suffered 32% burns when the garment "went up like tissue paper", her mother said.
Her parents tried to beat out the flames with their hands but ended up burning themselves.
Adanae, now nine, said people should "stop, drop and roll" if an item of their clothing catches fire.
"I was scared that my mum and my dad would get burnt," she added.
Adanae was hurt on 25 December 2015.
"I can remember Christmas Day like it was yesterday," said her mother, Nicola Liburd.
"Her dress was just a normal 100% cotton dress from a supermarket, you wouldn't expect it to go up so easily and quickly - it can happen as quick as you can click your fingers.
"We started trying to bat the flames out but we were getting burnt ourselves. I've done first aid but we couldn't get her to stop and do stop, drop and roll."
They wrapped Adanae in cold wet towels and then took her to accident and emergency at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.
She spent four weeks at Birmingham Children's Hospital and a further two weeks in hospital in Nottingham, where she had significant skin grafting.
Her mother said she was so shocked she couldn't speak about the accident for a long time.
"I think it takes a long time to get over the guilt as a parent and adjust your life really to the new circumstances," she said.
She wants to raise awareness among parents that children's day clothes are not made from flame retardant materials, unlike nightwear.
Adanae is a keen gymnast, and thanks to physiotherapy she has been able to do gymnastics again.
However, her mother said the accident has affected her mentally and she feels more cautious and nervous about doing some activities.
The daughter of Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman suffered serious burns when her Halloween costume brushed against a lit candle in 2014.
Ms Winkleman described how she and another child's father tried patting the flames out, but said they kept coming back.
"It was like those horrific birthday candles that you blow out and then they come back," she said.
"We couldn't put her out."
Her daughter's surgeon has called for fancy dress outfits - which are classed as toys - to meet the same safety standards as children's nightclothes.
Adanae's mother believes the campaign should look at normal children's clothes as well as fancy dress outfits.
Monwel, based in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, ceased trading last month, with 38 people made redundant.
Liquidators said the company failed because of a deficit of £400,000, high employment costs and reduced sales.
In May, the Welsh government hailed it as an example of good practice of communities running facilities.
The ex-England international centre, 33, has played for the Black and Whites - his hometown club - for 15 years, making 371 appearances.
Yeaman is discussing a potential future behind-the-scenes role at Hull.
"It was a really tough call to make. Playing rugby is all I've done since the age of five. But, as they say, all good things come to an end." he told Hull's website.
"It's been something that I've been thinking about for a while. I'm 33 and I'm not getting any younger.
"My body isn't what it used to be. These last few weeks, particularly after winning the Challenge Cup, confirmed it for me."
August's triumph against Warrington at Wembley saw Yeaman become the only player to win the Challenge Cup twice with Hull, having also been part of their victorious 2005 squad.
He could bow out with two more trophies, as the winners of Friday's match against the Wolves will clinch the League Leaders' Shield, while Hull have already qualified for the play-off semi-finals and are eyeing a first Grand Final victory at Old Trafford on 8 October.
"There'd be no better way to finish my career with the year that we've had so far and what we could still potentially achieve," he said.
Yeaman's 176 tries make him third-highest try scorer in Hull's history.
Head coach Lee Radford, a former team-mate of Yeaman, said: "The many records he has will put him up there as one of the greatest players to have played for the club, and deservedly so.
"I hope he can go out on a high, and the stage is set for him to do so with the position that we're in at the moment.
"It will be sad when he puts his boots up for the final time."
With the Warriors trailing 14-9, a DTH van der Merwe try four minutes from time, converted by Finn Russell, gave the home team a dramatic 16-14 victory.
The hosts were second best for much of the night against Ulster, who scored their try through Chris Henry.
Glasgow face Munster or the Ospreys in their second straight Pro12 final next Saturday in Belfast.
It was a semi-final of immense physicality, one that claimed an early victim when Al Kellock, the Glasgow captain playing for the last time in front of his home crowd, retired hurt after just 20 minutes.
By then, Ulster had established their dominance; in the line-out and the scrum, in the collisions and the breakdown and on the scoreboard. For so long they looked set for victory, but the indomitable spirit of these Glasgow men was extraordinary.
Ulster were left completely shocked at the end. Ruan Pienaar's penalty for the visitors after just 30 seconds was cancelled out soon after by Russell - a powerful effort from just inside his own half - but when Henry scored in the corner in the 19th minute it was only what Ulster's early play deserved.
It was a clinical score, sparked by the visitors' grunt up front and finished beautifully out wide when Paddy Jackson linked with Louis Ludik, whose quick hands put Henry over.
There is much attacking nous in this Ulster backline, but Henry can be a bit of a try-machine himself at times. It was his second try in a week at Scotstoun, having scored their only one in last Saturday's 32-10 defeat by Glasgow.
The Scotstoun support fretted. Ulster were dictating the tempo and unleashing their ball-carriers. They were winning all the key battles and even when Glasgow had threatened to get some momentum their line-out was a source of frustration.
Several times in the match they engineered good field position only to effectively load a gun and fire the bullet into their own feet with a botched throw or a mistimed lift.
The fact that Ulster were only two points clear at the break was something of a lucky break for the home team, but two points became five when Pienaar landed a second penalty just before 60 minutes had elapsed.
At last, Glasgow found something. Some phases, some urgency, some power. It brought them three points from the boot of Russell and energised the big crowd.
Gregor Townsend leapt off his bench in the hope of finding gaps in a brutish Ulster defence, but for the longest time it looked like Ulster's defence would not be breached.
Ulster scored again. If Stuart Hogg's stunning kick from the tee in the first half was eye-catching then Pienaar's effort from a veritable mile out was even better. It was a thumping kick that restored their five-point lead and left Glasgow needing a try.
And what a try. One of Glasgow's all-time great passes, a 30-yard delivery off Russell's left hand, one of their all-time great run-ins from their departing son, Van der Merwe, and one of the all-time great conversions by Russell from so far out on the right side that he practically had to clear a gap in the crowd in order to kick it.
Tumultuous stuff. Quite stunning.
Glasgow Warriors: Hogg, Seymour, Vernon, Horne, Matawalu, Russell, Pyrgos, Grant, Brown, de Klerk, Gray, Kellock, Strauss, Fusaro, Ashe.
Replacements: Van der Merwe for Seymour (67), S. Lamont for Horne (70), Weir for Matawalu (78), Reid for Grant (45), MacArthur for Brown (20), Cusack for de Klerk (53), Nakarawa for Kellock (20), Wilson for Fusaro (41).
Ulster: Ludik, Bowe, Payne, D. Cave, Gilroy, P. Jackson, Pienaar, Black, Best, R. Lutton, Stevenson, Tuohy, Henderson, Henry, Wilson.
Replacements: McCloskey for D. Cave (76), Warwick for Black (71), Diack for Stevenson (76), Reidy for Henry (77). Not Used: Herring, B. Ross, P. Marshall, Allen.
Att: 10,000.
He could face a life sentence if found guilty over the death of Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944.
The incident occurred when Mr Bruins, a Dutch-born German, was stationed on the Dutch-German border.
The trial - which is taking place in the western town of Hagen - is one of the last of its kind in Germany.
Mr Bruins, originally from Groningen in the north-east of the Netherlands, is one of the last suspected Nazi criminals to be detained in Germany.
Another former SS officer, Heinrich Boere, began a life sentence in December 2011 for murdering three Dutch civilians during World War II.
Mr Bruins is accused of shooting Aldert Klaas Dijkema, who had been captured, four times in the back, in September 1944 in the Appingedam area east of Groningen.
Although he has already admitted being at the scene, he said he was not the person who pulled the trigger.
When confronted by a reporter for a German TV programme, he said he had been marching beside the prisoner when the shots rang out.
He is accused over the death along with an alleged accomplice who has since died.
After the war, Mr Bruins lived in Germany but the authorities refused to extradite him to face charges in the Netherlands, the BBC's Stephen Evans in Berlin reports.
Separately, in 1980, he was sentenced by a German court to seven years in prison for the murder of two Jewish brothers.
The prosecutor in Dortmund said at the opening of the trial that the defendant's age should not prevent the pursuit of justice.
Mr Bruins became a German citizen in 1943 under the so-called Fuehrer's Decree, which conferred German nationality on all foreigners who worked for the Nazis, our correspondent says.
Accordingly, after the war, Germany refused to extradite him to the Netherlands to face trial, he reports.
26 August 2015 Last updated at 15:00 BST
The Winsford Rock Salt Mine is the size of 700 football pitches and usually supplies salt to treat frozen roads.
The atmosphere is perfect for the preservation of the rock, some of which dates back millions of years and is thought to hold important geological information.
Work on Crossrail started in 2009 and from 2018 trains will run as far west as Reading in Berkshire and as far east as Shenfield in Essex.
BBC News' Naomi Cornwell speaks to John Davis, an engineering geologist at Crossrail.
Burton has described himself as "Blackpool Pleasure Beach's biggest fan" and used the seaside town for scenes in his latest film.
He achieved fame through directing blockbusters like Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Planet of the Apes and Alice in Wonderland.
The famous lights will be turned on following a concert on 4 September.
A host of stars will perform including The Vamps, Lawson and Professor Green.
Burton, who was formerly married to actress Helena Bonham Carter, chose to shoot scenes in Blackpool for US band The Killers' video "Here with Me".
His latest movie "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" has also brought him to the resort.
Hollywood actor Samuel L Jackson, was one of the cast who featured in scenes filmed on the promenade and inside Blackpool Tower.
He announced his arrival in the town in May by posting a selfie on Instagram.
Councillor Gillian Campbell, deputy leader of the town's council, said: "Having one of the most famous film directors in the world turn on the Blackpool Illuminations is a major coup and shows the high regard the town is held in the hearts of our famous visitors.
"We know he is a huge fan of Blackpool and we are delighted that he has agreed to switch the Illuminations on for us on the biggest night of Blackpool's year.
"This is gearing up to be one of the best switch-on events we have ever had."
The discovery was made during a dig at the former Gloscat site at Greyfriars in Brunswick Road, ahead of a housing development being built.
It has been described as one of the most significant archaeological finds in the city in the past 30 years.
The skeletons could end up in the care of Gloucester museum after scientific tests have been carried out.
Stuart Joyce from Cotswold Archaeology said: "We're just outside the walls of the Roman city of Glevum and this would have been the Roman cemetery associated with the city.
"This is probably one of the most significant finds that has been made within Gloucester within the last 30 years. It will add greatly to the knowledge of the [city]."
Forty skeletons were uncovered nearby in the 1960s. These are now kept at Exeter University.
"The cemetery itself was known previously, but this is the first time that such an [archaeological dig] in this area has been conducted under modern excavation practice," added Mr Joyce.
"Maybe another 20 to 30 will come up during subsequent excavations, but the number is very hard to say."
Excavation work on the site is expected to last for at least another two years while a new housing development is built.
After a turgid first half which saw Gareth Steenson and Mike Delany trade penalties, the second half burst into life as Chiefs' Thomas Waldrom scored.
A flurry of tries then saw Sonatane Takulua and Nili Latu score for Falcons either side of Phil Dollman's effort to leave the game tied at 17-17.
However, late scores from Sam Hill and Elvis Taione eased the Chiefs clear.
Taione's late score ensured the bonus point and temporarily put Exeter two points clear at the top of the table, only for Saracens to then regain the lead with a 26-16 win over London Irish in New Jersey.
Much of the pre-match talk focused on the return of Exeter's England hopeful Henry Slade from injury, but despite some flashes of quality he was unable to spark this game into life.
Instead that mantle fell to Steenson, who was excellent with the boot and probed and sniped to give Exeter momentum.
Rob Baxter's Chiefs have recovered from a mini-wobble earlier in the campaign to stake their Premiership claims.
At the other end of the table, the Falcons remain second from bottom after leaving with nothing to show for their determined display following the late tries from Hill and Taione.
Exeter: Dollman; Woodburn, Slade, Hill, Whitten; Steenson, Chudley; Moon, Yeandle, Williams, Stevenson, Parling, Armand, Salvi, Waldrom.
Replacements: Taione, Hepburn, Rimmer, Atkins, Ewers, Lewis, Hooley, Bodilly.
Newcastle: Tait; Venditti, Harris, Pablo Socino, Sinoti; Delany, Takulua; Rogers, McGuigan, Cusack, Botha, Green, Wilson, Welch, Latu.
Replacements: Lawson, Harris, Hatakeyama, Mayhew, Hogg, Young, Goode, Penny.
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They are better educated than before but fewer people own their own homes, the government welfare report said.
The report found that most Australians were doing well but major challenges remained for Indigenous Australians.
The disabled, people suffering mental illness and domestic violence victims were also faring less well.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report, issued every two years, says that a baby born between 2011 and 2013 can expect to live to 80.1 years if it is a boy and 84.3 if it is a girl.
The national snapshot said 15% of the current population was aged 65 and over and by 2054 this was projected to increase to 21%, or 8.4 million people.
About 3% of the population is Indigenous, it added.
The report showed most children were doing well and most young people were studying or working, said Acting AIHW Director Kerry Flanagan.
"Adult participation in the labour force is higher than 20 years ago, and while some people are staying at work longer, after retirement, the majority of older Australians are not using aged care services," said Ms Flanagan.
"On the other hand, we see that 1 in 37 children are receiving child protection services, around 2 million Australians, mostly women, have experienced partner violence since the age of 15, youth unemployment exceeds 13%, and there's been little improvement in the proportion of young people who are not fully engaged in employment, education or training."
About 28% of the population was born overseas, with the largest number coming from the UK, followed by New Zealand and China.
That compares with 24% 10 years ago.
Pre-tax profits fell to £78.7m in the first six months of the year, down 35% from £121.8m a year earlier.
It paid an additional £44m in gambling duties, following changes to the taxation of online betting and fixed-odds betting terminals.
William Hill also said it had bought a 29.4% stake in online lottery firm NeoGames for $25m (£16m).
Shares in the bookmaker had fallen more than 7% by late morning.
In December last year, a new Point of Consumption Tax came into effect, which applies to gambling profits generated from UK customers.
In addition, Machine Games Duty - the levy paid on fixed-odds betting terminals - was increased to 25% in March.
The company's chief executive, James Henderson, said: "We have delivered a good operational performance in the past six months during a period of significant regulatory and taxation change for the industry.
"Whilst factors such as the Point of Consumption Tax and the increase in the Machine Games Duty rate have impacted our cost base as expected, we continue to progress our strategy and invest in our long-term growth drivers."
William Hill's profits were also hit by one-off costs relating to the rebranding of its operations in Australia.
The fall in profit came despite a slight increase in net revenues to £808.1m from £805.2m a year earlier.
The bookmaker also said that the introduction of the government's National Living Wage would cost it about £1m-£2m in 2016.
Referring to William Hill's purchase of the stake in NeoGames, Mr Henderson described the online lottery market as an "exciting opportunity".
NeoGames' business is focused on the US, where lottery spending per head is the highest in the world, William Hill said.
The UK firm also has an option to buy the remaining 70.6% of NeoGames, which it can exercise after either three or five years.
Wales face Ireland in the last four on Sunday when a win would guarantee either nation a place in the next round of the World League in June.
Joanne Westwood had put Wales ahead in the first half before Symbat Sabazova equalised for Kazakhstan from a penalty corner.
Ireland beat Singapore 10-0 to reach the semi-finals.
Wales have never reached this stage of the Hockey World League before.
Advancing to the next stage in June would give them an opportunity to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
Theo Robinson's superb curler opened the scoring for Vale before O'Connor tucked home the first of his two spot-kicks after Sam Foley was fouled.
JJ Hooper raced onto a poor back-pass by Joe Rafferty to make it 3-0 but Calvin Andrew's drive gave Dale hope.
O'Connor scored a second penalty after Remie Streete had been pushed.
The result means both teams are five points away from the League One play-off places with two games to play.
The team at Imperial College London say early trials on 20 people suggest the method could have a similar effect to drugs, but without the drowsiness.
The mild electrical current interferes with the messages arriving from the part of the ear which controls balance.
Other scientists urged "healthy scepticism" until larger trials backed up the findings, reported in Neurology.
Whether you are travelling by plane, boat or car, motion sickness is thought to be down to mixed messages coming from your ears and your eyes.
It leaves the brain confused about what is going on and culminates in nausea and headaches.
Dr Qadeer Arshad, from the movement and balance group at Imperial, said people no longer had motion sickness if their inner ear was damaged.
So the team used "transcranial direct current stimulation" to try to manipulate the part of the brain that interprets messages coming from those balance organs in the ear while people were made to feel nauseous.
Twenty volunteers were placed in a "chunder chair" which is like a twisted fairground ride that spins someone round at an angle.
It is guaranteed to make pretty much anyone motion sick within five minutes. Keep going and you will be physically sick, as some of the participants found out.
Everyone had an initial go.
Then one hour later, half of the participants had small electrical currents passed through their scalp to alter their brain activity.
The other half were given a dummy treatment.
With the stimulation, it took an extra 207 seconds, on average, for motion sickness to develop.
Whereas those getting the dummy treatment actually felt nauseous 57s sooner (one bout of motion sickness makes you more vulnerable to another).
The results showed the stimulation improved recovery times.
Dr Arshad told the BBC News website: "The best comparison is with the best known drug scopolamine - we showed in essence that it's equivalent to scopolamine, but that drug knocks you out, it puts you to sleep."
He said there were no known side-effects to brain stimulation and that it would be easy to develop.
"Within the next couple of years people will be able to use these devices - it's not far away," he said.
"You can envisage on a cross-Channel ferry, having a small area where if you feel sick this could be applied by a trained person."
The group are also investigating brain stimulation for virtual and augmented reality devices, which can also result in headaches in some people, and for nausea after cancer chemotherapy.
Prof Chris Chambers, the head of brain stimulation at Cardiff University, commented: "It would be irresponsible to conclude that this study provides anything more than very early evidence of a potential benefit.
"Until the findings are replicated in a large registered trial, I recommend that the public approach any claims about treatment benefits with a healthy scepticism."
The Met Office said freezing fog would become widespread on Tuesday morning, mainly across south west Wales, and that roads and pavements would be icy.
The weather has caused delays on the roads as well as to some flights from Cardiff Airport.
The warning is in place until 11:00 GMT.
There are currently traffic delays on the M4 and M48 near Bridgend due to reduced visibility.
Cardiff Airport said three FlyBe flights had been delayed because of fog - the 08:00 to London City, the 10:20 to Faro and the 11:30 flight to Belfast.
The Met Office warning covers Cardiff, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Powys, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham.
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Diego Costa slid in the opener, a Rolando Aarons error let in Pedro to run clear and fire home, and Costa set up Willian to make it 3-0.
Pedro and Bertrand Traore added further goals in the second half, before Andros Townsend's late consolation.
The only thing to spoil Chelsea's night was an injury to captain John Terry.
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The centre-half limped off with a hamstring injury before half-time and is a doubt for Tuesday's trip to play Paris St-Germain in the first leg of their last-16 Champions League tie.
Chelsea's interim manager Guus Hiddink remains unbeaten in 12 games in all competitions, and his side are now unbeaten in their past 10 Premier League games.
Newcastle have only scored seven goals on their travels this season, the worst record in the top four divisions in England, but it was their defence that let them down at Stamford Bridge.
Magpies boss Steve McClaren said in his pre-match TV interview that the first 20 minutes would be crucial to the outcome of the match. He was right, but not in the way he would have wanted.
By then, his side had suffered a complete collapse at the back which was summed up by Chelsea's second goal.
That came from a Newcastle free-kick near the home side's corner flag that was cleared to the halfway line before Aarons' horrendous cross-field pass allowed Pedro to gallop clear.
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McClaren's side never looked capable of a second-half comeback as they slipped to a fifth successive away defeat.
After the break, Cesc Fabregas set up Pedro for his second and Bertrand Traore turned in Cesar Azpilicueta's cross.
Andros Townsend's trademark run and finish for his first goal since his £12m move from Tottenham reduced the damage at the end.
But Newcastle's goal-difference still took a battering and at -22 it is now the worst in the top flight.
Chelsea's own defensive problems were of a very different sort.
With Kurt Zouma out for the season, the last thing Hiddink needed before a busy fortnight was to see Terry limp off.
Terry appeared to fall awkwardly after a clash with Magpies striker Aleksandar Mitrovic and will have a scan to assess the severity of his hamstring injury.
Gary Cahill only returned to the starting line-up on Saturday because of Zouma's serious knee injury, but could end up being a key figure at the back for his side in the next few weeks.
He was playing with a broken nose, but Chelsea's man in the mask did not miss his mark.
Along with the impressive Willian, Costa scored one goal and made another but he edged the individual accolade because of his delightful finish to give his side an early lead.
Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink: "We can be pleased with the performance of the guys. We tried to surprise them in the beginning. Happily it worked out.
"It's important for the way we played, not just in attack. The players also have to do defensive work and that is where we are aiming and then the quality comes out."
Newcastle boss Steve McClaren: "We got exposed on quite a few occasions in terms of defensive frailties. Rolando Aarons had to play at left-back and it was Steven Taylor's second game in six months.
"We caused our own problems. We knew Chelsea would come out quick. They wanted to win that game by half-time with the week they have ahead of them.
"You get one or two of these games a season. I've told the players don't let that derail us. It was damage limitation by half-time.
"I just wanted to make sure we scored a goal and stayed in the game."
Newcastle are out of the FA Cup and their Premier League game with Manchester City on 28 February has been postponed because City are in the Capital One Cup final.
So the Magpies do not have a game for 18 days until they travel to Stoke on 2 March, and are heading for a training camp in Spain.
In that time, Chelsea play four matches, starting with Tuesday's trip to Paris.
Match ends, Chelsea 5, Newcastle United 1.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 5, Newcastle United 1.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Daryl Janmaat (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Steven Taylor.
Goal! Chelsea 5, Newcastle United 1. Andros Townsend (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jack Colback.
Foul by Gary Cahill (Chelsea).
Seydou Doumbia (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Chelsea 5, Newcastle United 0. Bertrand Traore (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by César Azpilicueta with a cross.
Substitution, Chelsea. Ruben Loftus-Cheek replaces Willian.
Attempt missed. Baba Rahman (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas.
Attempt blocked. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.
Attempt blocked. Bertrand Traore (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Branislav Ivanovic.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Seydou Doumbia replaces Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Foul by Gary Cahill (Chelsea).
Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Willian (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andros Townsend (Newcastle United).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Rolando Aarons.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Jamaal Lascelles replaces Cheick Tioté.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Jack Colback.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Pedro (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cheick Tioté (Newcastle United).
Bertrand Traore (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United).
Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Chelsea. Bertrand Traore replaces Diego Costa.
Goal! Chelsea 4, Newcastle United 0. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Colback.
Offside, Chelsea. César Azpilicueta tries a through ball, but Diego Costa is caught offside.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Rolando Aarons.
Foul by Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United).
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Attempt blocked. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andros Townsend with a cross.
Mothers pay Kathryn Beale, 41, from Swindon, to blend an 8cm (3in) long piece of their fresh placenta with fruit and juices.
Her local council is concerned about hygiene standards but has failed to get court permission to halt the business.
Miss Beale said she operated safely and had voluntarily stopped until health inspectors could meet her.
"I understand that they have to make sure that all food business are running safely," said Miss Beale, a mother-of-two.
"I think they have been a bit overzealous in trying to shut me down without doing a full inspection. I believe that I do it safely."
She describes herself as a birth and postnatal doula, who runs support groups and is also an "IPEN-licensed placenta encapsulation specialist".
As well as the smoothies, the services also includes dehydrating placenta and grinding it into powder for capsules which can be swallowed later.
The encapsulation service costs £150, the smoothie is £20 extra and she also offers a £60-£80 service to set an umbilical cord in resin.
The placenta is an organ attached to the lining of the womb during pregnancy, and linked to the baby by the umbilical cord.
It passes oxygen and nutrients from the mother's blood supply to the baby.
Waste products from the baby, such as carbon dioxide, pass back along the umbilical cord to the placenta.
After the baby is born, more contractions will push the placenta out - or it will be lifted from the womb during a Caesarean.
Source: NHS Choices
Swindon Borough Council said its officers attended court on 10 March "seeking a hygiene emergency prohibition order in respect of raw human placenta practices" but the order was not granted.
"Our investigations continue and we are therefore unable to comment further at this stage."
It explained its action by saying the health benefits were not clear and the processes involved present a number of potentially serious health risks.
Miss Beale, who has been in the business for two years, said she had around two customers a month and added there were 50 people around the country offering similar services.
"There is no eating of anyone else's placenta. It is all quite tightly controlled, stored properly and chilled," she said.
"Everything has to be cleaned and sterilised and there is quite strict hygiene involved.
"I only prepare placenta smoothies when I am with the mother in her home or at her private hospital room because she needs to drink it straight away."
"They have won one cup, they are comfortable in the league and they have one more thing to do - win another cup," he told BBC Scotland.
"It is going to be difficult, everybody is going to be after them, but I think the boys are ready."
Petrov left Celtic in 2006 after seven years to move to Aston Villa.
Now 37, he has fought back from being diagnosed with leukaemia in 2012 and trained with Villa last summer but was not offered a playing contract.
Speaking at an event to promote the William Hill Scottish Cup, Petrov praised Rodgers for restoring excitement to Celtic Park and believes the current squad have the hunger to win the treble for only the fourth time in the club's history.
"They are going impressively, they are playing very well," said the former Bulgaria captain, now working towards his coaching badges and working on his charitable foundation.
"They have the fans back. The excitement is back after the last couple of years and they have a great opportunity to do the treble.
"It takes good characters, team spirit and Celtic have all the ingredients this season to do it.
"They are playing with flair, they are winning games, they have one cup and they have one more hurdle to jump and they are motivated to do it because they will be in the history of Scottish football for years to come."
Petrov hopes that Celtic can retain the services of Moussa Dembele, who has caught the eye in his first season in Scottish football and is reportedly attracting interest from other clubs.
The French striker scored a penalty as Celtic beat Aberdeen 3-0 to win the Betfred Cup earlier in the season and the 20-year-old has helped place his team in a commanding position in the Scottish Premiership and has starred in the Champions League.
"I would stay at least for another year," said Petrov of Dembele. "I'd have a go for another time with Celtic in Europe.
"As a Celtic fan, I would love him to stay because you always want the best to play for the club you love.
"But in today's crazy market we know anything is possible, so Celtic should hold out for as much as they can. He is a talent, he is young and he can be one of the best.
"He has shown he is something special. He is developing very well.
"He is somebody who can make the difference - it's not just the goals, it's the hard work around the pitch, the link-up play with other players.
"The only way for a good manager to have success in big tournaments like the Champions League is to have your best players. With him, it will be easier."
The pedestrian was airlifted while the motorcyclist was conveyed to hospital by paramedics following the incident on Carmarthen Road on Friday just after 17:00 BST.
South Wales Police said both casualties sustained non life-threatening injuries.
The road was closed following the incident but reopened at 21:30 BST.
Blair Alston found the top corner on 72 minutes and Myles Hippolyte rounded the goalkeeper to level before McHugh turned in a neat, near-post finish.
Rangers looked on course for a comfortable victory when Kenny Miller and Barrie McKay applied close-range finishes inside nine minutes.
But the Championship leaders let their lead at the top slip to 11 points.
It was just a third league defeat of the season for Rangers, who will guarantee the title with four wins from their remaining seven games.
But Falkirk boast the same number of losses and a remarkable comeback also takes them six points clear of Hibernian, although they have played three more games than the team in third place.
Rangers had gone 15 matches unbeaten since losing another thriller to Falkirk in December and Mark Warburton's men could have been out of sight after a dominant first-half display.
Having had a strike incorrectly disallowed for offside, James Tavernier drilled in a cross for Miller to tap in the opener.
The huge travelling support were still celebrating when Rangers swaggered forward and fired in a second, with Lee Wallace setting up McKay.
Miller and McKay threatened again, while Wallace and Halliday had shots well saved by Danny Rogers before the interval.
Rangers started the second half with the same drive, with Miller and Halliday going close to extending their lead.
But the home side's desire was never in question and they began to cause problems for the Rangers defence as Luke Leahy, Will Vaulks and substitute Hippolyte had shots repelled by Wes Foderingham.
The Rangers keeper was also tested by a fierce Alston shot in the first half but had no chance when the Bairns midfielder expertly lashed the ball on the half volley into the top corner of the net.
Soon after, the increasingly lively Hippolyte found space on the left, skipped past Foderingham and blasted the ball beyond two covering defenders.
The home fans behind the goal rose and roared as one and in near disbelief as Hippolyte back-flipped away in delight.
And just as they were preparing to celebrate an unlikely point, McHugh handed them the victory and added to the delirium.
Kevin O'Hara did well to create room for a cross on the left and when he drove the ball in low fellow substitute McHugh nicked in to steer the ball home from inside the six-yard box.
A bewildered Rangers had scarcely any time to respond and Falkirk held on to secure a vital three points in their push for promotion.
The attack was reported to have happened in Lothian Road, opposite the Waldorf Astoria hotel, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Police are asking for anyone with information for come forward.
Roma midfielder De Rossi, 32, scored from the penalty spot after Veselin Minev tripped Antonio Candreva.
Both teams finished with 10 men, De Rossi sent off with Bulgaria's Iliyan Mitsanski after the pair clashed.
Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, 37, won his 150th cap in the victory but he was rarely tested.
Norway are two points behind Italy in second place after a 2-0 win over Croatia in Oslo.
With two games remaining, two of Italy, Norway and Croatia - third in the table with 15 points - can still secure automatic qualification.
Italy entertain Norway in their last game in Rome on 13 October.
In the group's other game, Azerbaijan drew 2-2 at bottom club Malta.
Match ends, Italy 1, Bulgaria 0.
Second Half ends, Italy 1, Bulgaria 0.
Marco Parolo (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dimitar Rangelov (Bulgaria).
Corner, Bulgaria. Conceded by Gianluigi Buffon.
Attempt saved. Georgi Milanov (Bulgaria) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Mihail Aleksandrov.
Attempt blocked. Éder (Italy) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Giorgio Chiellini.
Attempt missed. Leonardo Bonucci (Italy) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Alessandro Florenzi with a cross following a set piece situation.
Éder (Italy) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ivan Bandalovski (Bulgaria).
Substitution, Italy. Éder replaces Antonio Candreva.
Svetoslav Dyakov (Bulgaria) is shown the yellow card.
Marco Verratti (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Svetoslav Dyakov (Bulgaria).
Offside, Italy. Marco Verratti tries a through ball, but Simone Zaza is caught offside.
Leonardo Bonucci (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dimitar Rangelov (Bulgaria).
Marco Parolo (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Svetoslav Dyakov (Bulgaria).
Foul by Simone Zaza (Italy).
Nikolay Bodurov (Bulgaria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dimitar Rangelov (Bulgaria) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alessandro Florenzi (Italy) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dimitar Rangelov (Bulgaria).
Marco Verratti (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nikolay Bodurov (Bulgaria).
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Italy).
Mihail Aleksandrov (Bulgaria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Simone Zaza (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mihail Aleksandrov (Bulgaria).
Substitution, Italy. Alessandro Florenzi replaces Stephan El Shaarawy.
Substitution, Italy. Simone Zaza replaces Graziano Pellè.
Substitution, Bulgaria. Dimitar Rangelov replaces Ivelin Popov.
Marco Parolo (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Georgi Milanov (Bulgaria).
Foul by Leonardo Bonucci (Italy).
Ivelin Popov (Bulgaria) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Matteo Darmian (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Veselin Minev (Bulgaria).
Substitution, Bulgaria. Mihail Aleksandrov replaces Todor Nedelev.
In 1923, the royal ring was fashioned from a gift of Clogau gold with enough left over for the weddings of The Queen in 1947 as well as those of the late Princess Margaret, the Princess Royal and the 1981 marriage of Prince Charles and Diana.
The stock of the original Clogau gift is believed to be almost exhausted, having been replenished over the years with donations from several other Welsh mines.
Clarence House is remaining tight lipped over the precise source of the Welsh gold for Kate's wedding band.
In a statement to dispel speculation and confusing merchandising, the palace announced: "The wedding ring that Catherine Middleton will wear will be made of Welsh gold. The gold was given to Prince William by The Queen shortly after the couple were engaged."
"It has been in the family's possession for some years and has been in the care of the royal jewellers. There are no further details on which mine the gold was mined from."
Yet that hasn't stopped people jumping on the Welsh gold bandwagon; with four shopping channels listing Welsh gold sales for the royal wedding period, and airlines and duty-free shops stocking up for an anticipated holiday rush.
Although Ms Middleton's ring is made of Welsh gold, it's not clear from source it has been made, with at least three gifts to the royal family over the last century.
But just how similar to Kate's ring is the Welsh gold on offer to the public? And what's so special about Welsh gold anyway?
Dr Mike Bassett, expert in minerals and mining, said: "From its discovery by the Romans, up until when the colonial gold rushes of the 19th Century opened up new sources, the gold produced in Wales played a reasonable part in the British economy; though it was never regarded as anything distinct from gold in general."
"Welsh gold only became fashionable when the Queen Mother chose it for her wedding ring in 1923.
"But it's really an 'Emperor's new clothes' vanity, as it's visually and very nearly chemically indistinguishable; gold is gold is gold."
Same Welsh gold
Indeed, how royal and how Welsh the gold products currently being marketed are, is a tangled web of claim and counter-claim.
Last week, the Clogau gold company, which now owns the trading name and a quantity of gold from the defunct Clogau St David's mine, retracted a press release after an over-enthusiastic press officer claimed the company were to create Kate's wedding ring.
But whilst Clogau Gold moved quickly to scotch any confusion, they stand by what they say is their unique selling-point, that their rings are made from "the same Welsh gold as Kate's".
Dr Bassett says whilst this could well be the case, would-be Kate Middletons still ought to be careful, as the only way of proving it for definite could be costly.
"The royal stocks of Welsh gold have become so mixed up over the years, that I don't think even they themselves can have much degree of certainty over its precise origins any more," he said.
"If Kate, and the other brides would like to give up their wedding rings for melting down and isotopic analysis of the numbers of neutrons per atom, we'd be able to get to the bottom of whether they came from the same Clogau mine.
"However I suspect that it's likely to remain a fascinating debate for the pub."
But the questions remains as to how to guarantee the Welshness of the gold.
The last working gold mine in north Wales, Gwynfynydd, closed in 1998; although extractions on anything close to a commercial basis ceased with the closure of Clogau near Dolgellau in 1911.
And with the world supply of Welsh gold ingots now believed to leave room to spare in an overnight bag, managing director of Clogau Gold Ben Roberts explains that they have to ration it to just "a touch" in each item of jewellery.
"We make no apologies about the small amount of Welsh gold that we put into each and every piece of our jewellery," he said.
"The precise amount is a common question but one that we try not to stipulate because it puts us on the hook to continue using the same percentage and it's one which might be subject to change in the future depending on supplies (although at present we have no plans to change the mix)."
Mr Roberts added: "We do however put a guarantee that all of our jewellery does contain our own gold and indeed we keep a very clear and concise audit trail to prove this."
Arnold Mouat was last seen at a property in Panbrae Road, Bo'ness at about 23:30 on Thursday.
Mr Mouat subsequently left the address at some point during the night and has not been seen since.
Officers are asking people in the Bo'ness, West Lothian and Falkirk areas to check their gardens, garages and outhouses.
Police Scotland's search and rescue officers, dog unit and helicopter have been deployed in the search.
A poster campaign has also been launched.
Mr Mouat is white, about 6ft 3in tall, with dark receding hair and a tanned complexion.
He is believed to be wearing distinctive blue running trainers, but the rest of his clothing is unknown.
Insp Alyson Bolton said: "I would thank everyone who has assisted with our search to find Arnold.
"Unfortunately he has not yet been traced and Arnold has now been missing for a significant amount of time.
"Arnold is a keen walker and we believe he may visit the Bo'ness Foreshore, West Lothian Golf Club or various canal paths in the local area.
"He may also have travelled to other parks in the area such as Beecraigs or Callendar Park, and may also have gone to the Linlithgow or South Queensferry areas."
The Fermanagh rider sustained three broken vertebrae, a broken tailbone, a fractured thumb and a broken finger in Saturday's supersport practice crash.
Johnston has also revealed that he had a bleed in his brain after the crash.
"If I can get fit again within a month or a month and a half I plan to be at Dundrod in August," said Johnston, 28.
"I want to get back out as soon as possible and I want to try and be fit for the Ulster," said Johnston.
The 28-year-old was released from Noble's Hospital on Wednesday and made his way to the TT grandstand to catch some of the racing action.
"As well as my other injuries, I had some bleeding on the brain but that has stopped and that is why they thought I was stable enough to let me out.
"It's testament to all my safety gear that I am fit and walking about so soon.
"It is a very fast place and a very dangerous place to come off and I remember nothing of the crash, the air ambulance or arriving at hospital," added the Northern Irishman.
Johnston is disappointed to miss racing at this year's event on the Isle of Man but is grateful for the many messages of support from road racing fans.
"It's frustrating as I had really good bikes but all the messages of support show how much the road racing community care for each other. It's been crazy.
"I won't be retiring anyhow. That thought hasn't entered my head. I'm too afraid of having to get a real job."
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Saffrons joint-manager Gearoid Adams told the Irish News that the 31-year-old Cargin player had opted to end his county career.
However, McCann's response on Twitter in a twitter exchange with another Antrim player Chris Kerr made clear the report had taken him by surprise
"Have I? Thanks for letting me know," said McCann, 31.
Joint-manager Adams said that McCann had opted to end his decade-long Saffrons stint because of club and work commitments.
Adams added that McCann had given "tremendous service" to the county.
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Later in the season, McCann was part of the Cargin team which regained the Antrim football title as they defeated 2010 All-Ireland champions St Gall's in the county decider.
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Nicole Sedgebeer, 22, from Milton Keynes, was shown to a 24-hour cafe by a man called Mark after failing to catch the train at Euston station.
She said she was "close to tears" when he took her to safety and back to the station the next day.
Her fundraising page has attracted more than 1,000 donations.
Ms Sedgebeer was left outside the station in central London at about 03:00 GMT on 4 March, with no phone battery and hours until her next train.
She said she was feeling "very vulnerable" when she was approached by Mark, who took her to an all-night cafe and promised to return to walk her back to Euston.
Though she doubted his word, he returned at 05:00 GMT to escort her to the station.
"Not only did he turn up, but he had to get a bus to come get me," she said. "Mark you are one special man."
Ms Sedgebeer set up a crowdfunding page to raise £1,000 to thank him but received more than 1,000 donations.
She is now working with charities on how the money can be used to "get [Mark] on his feet" and described her experience with him as the "most eye-opening event of my life".
England lost the final two Twenty20 matches against Australia but won the points-based multi-format series 10-8.
"I hate losing - as I should, and as should the team - but we've a lot to be proud of," Edwards told BBC Sport.
"This seemed a long way off a few weeks ago and to stand here with that trophy again is pretty special."
10-13 Jan: Test, Perth - England won by 61 runs
19 Jan: 1st ODI, Melbourne - England won by seven wickets
23 Jan: 2nd ODI, Melbourne - Australia won by 26 runs
26 Jan: 3rd ODI, Hobart - Australia won by four wickets
29 Jan: 1st T20, Hobart - England won by nine wickets
31 Jan: 2nd T20, Melbourne - Australia won by seven wickets
2 Feb: 3rd T20, Sydney - Australia won by seven wickets
England could only muster 101 from their 20 overs in Sydney, Natalie Sciver top-scoring with 28, and Australia reached their target with nine balls to spare.
"I'm disappointed, we should have got up to 120-130," Edwards said. "We stuck with it with the ball and it wasn't easy to score once the slower stuff was on so it was a disappointing day, but looking at the whole series we've got to be very proud of what we've achieved."
Despite closing with two defeats, England were always ahead in the series, having won the one-off Test match in Perth to earn six points, and moved 8-0 ahead by taking the opening one-day international in Melbourne.
They secured their second successive Ashes-series victory with a nine-wicket win in the opening Twenty 20 in Hobart on 29 January.
Commenting on the closing defeats, with a squad depleted by injuries, Edwards added: "It has taken a bit of the gloss off receiving the trophy but quickly you have to remember back to Perth and back to the ODIs and Hobart, where we managed to play so well.
"It's been a really tough four weeks - the Test match took a huge amount out of our young attack and ultimately we've been trying to claw it back since then. The girls have stuck together and to win out here back to back is pretty special."
Attention now turns to the ICC Women's World Twenty20, which begins in Bangladesh on 16 March, as England attempt to regain the title they won in 2009, when the inaugural competition was staged on home soil.
"These two games in a couple of months' time might be a blessing in disguise to show we've still got a little bit of work to do," Edwards added.
"If we get Anya [Shrubsole] back it looks a totally different team and we've got to get home, get everyone fit and well and come ready and raring to go for Bangladesh."
The party's leader Ed Miliband said the move formed part of Labour's aim to recruit 20,000 more NHS nurses.
Half of nurses said wards are dangerously understaffed, he told BBC Breakfast.
The Conservatives say they inherited a nursing crisis from Labour, with staff shortages contributing to the Stafford hospital scandal between 2005 and 2008.
"We have turned that round with record high nurse numbers on our wards and a new focus on compassionate care", a spokesman said.
The Tories have already pledged an extra £8bn a year by 2020 for the NHS in England if they win the election.
But Mr Miliband said the Conservatives didn't "know where a penny of it" was coming from.
Of the £2.5bn promised by Labour, he said this was a "downpayment" and it was clear where the money was coming from.
"We are going to have a Budget within the first month of a Labour government," he added.
"It's going to put in place the mansion tax, the tobacco levy and the clampdown on tax avoidance by the hedge funds to get the money flowing into our NHS straightaway."
Mr Miliband was speaking to BBC Breakfast ahead of a speech on Tuesday to student nurses at Manchester Metropolitan University.
There, he will say that, if elected, he will ask universities to reopen admissions for highly-oversubscribed nursing courses.
About 30,000 would-be nurses were turned away in 2014 because of the lack of places, he will tell the audience.
He will also highlight new figures to emerge through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests which suggest one-third of NHS Trusts were investigated last year over concerns about safe staffing.
Mr Miliband will say this disclosure follows reports in the last week showing the number of people waiting over four hours at accident and emergency departments has risen by over 50% compared to last year.
"Two-thirds of nurses say patients are missing out on care because there just aren't enough nurses on the wards," he will claim.
"None of this has happened by accident.
"It has happened as a direct result of choices this government has made; cutting nurse training, failing to understand that if people don't get the care they need at home and in their own communities, it ends up in an A&E crisis..."
• Conservatives: Increase NHS spending in England by at least £8bn above inflation over the next five years
• Labour: Extra £2.5bn funding for the NHS, to pay for 20,000 more nurses, 3,000 midwives and 8,000 GPs
• Lib Dems: Increase real terms NHS funding by at least £8bn a year by 2020, starting with an extra £1bn a year until 2018
• UKIP: Extra £3bn a year for the NHS by 2020, used to fund 20,000 more nurses, 8,000 GPs and 3,000 midwives
• Green: Increase NHS budget by £12bn a year
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said there was a "severe shortage" of staff in the NHS, exacerbated by what he said was a "stranglehold" over recruitment by private agencies.
"We have got to get this agency bill down," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "It is literally going through the roof."
Other aims of Labour's "rescue plan" include early planning to avoid a winter crisis in hospitals, and tackling what it describes as "the £300m scandal of vulnerable people being kept in hospital this year because they cannot get the care they need to be discharged".
This issue includes NHS funding, GP access and social care, particularly of older people.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
Q&A: Health and care - the background issues
The NHS has become a major battleground for the main political parties, with more announcements on the service expected over the coming days.
Labour says it wants to pay for extra nurses through its "Time to Care Fund", which will use money from a mansion tax of properties worth over £2m, and also by cracking down on tax avoidance, and imposing levies on tobacco firms.
Mr Miliband will say that this will bring in £2.5 billion a year from 2016-17.
The £8bn-a-year figure pledged by the Conservatives for the NHS in England by 2020 if they win the election is one which NHS England boss Simon Stevens cited as the funding gap between what the NHS currently receives and what it needs to implement his modernisation programme.
Pressed about the £8bn figure, Mr Burnham said Labour would do "whatever it takes" to secure the future of the health service but was "not going to give the NHS cheques that are going to bounce in a few years time".
A Conservative spokesman said: "This government inherited a nursing crisis with the scandal of short-staffed wards at Mid Staffs and other failing hospitals.
"Unlike Ed Miliband, we have committed the additional £8bn a year the NHS says it needs, which is the only way to ensure hospitals have the money they need to increase staff."
The Lib Dems have also pledged £8bn for the NHS funded by scrapping some tax reliefs.
"NHS staff and patients want to know the health service is secure for the long term," a party spokesman said.
"Until Labour agree to make the necessary resources available, all they can offer is warm words and nothing more."
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Of pupils classified as "white British", 94% are in schools with a white British majority.
Researchers say schools are more segregated than their local areas.
"We would hope for a much greater level of integration for students," said Richard Norrie from the Demos think tank which published the report.
The analysis from the Demos Integration Hub and Simon Burgess of the University of Bristol looks at how white and ethnic minority pupils are spread within schools.
It shows patterns of pupils being more likely to be taught with pupils from a similar background - in a way that does not always reflect local populations.
In London, about 26% of pupils are white British, but 49% of these children are in schools with a white British majority.
Children from Bangladeshi, Pakistani and black Caribbean communities are also disproportionately likely to be at school with children from the same ethnic background.
About a third of pupils in primary school are now from ethnic minorities, but this study shows that below this average there are very wide regional differences.
In seven local authorities in London, there are no white British pupils in a school with a white British majority. While in 71 authorities across England, there are no ethnic minority pupils in schools where they are in a majority.
The study examines where there is greatest segregation, in terms of how dissimilar school intakes are to local populations.
The top 10 authorities with the highest levels of segregation are mostly in the North and Midlands: Blackburn with Darwen, Birmingham, Haringey, Bradford, Rochdale, Kirklees, Leicester, Oldham, Rotherham, and Manchester.
The study does not examine why or how such segregation takes place, on a local or national level, but it says that research shows that this is not simply a reflection of where people live.
It points to research that "schools were more segregated than the local neighbourhoods that they served".
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Mapping Integration Project at Demos and former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, said this was "not a story of terrible racial hostility".
Instead, he said, it reflected demographic shifts and a pattern of the individual, localised choices of parents about where they and their children would feel "comfortable".
"Most families unconsciously make a choice which tends to line up with their own racial background," said Mr Phillips.
But he said this tendency towards separation had a negative effect, not preparing children for a diverse society.
Mr Phillips said the success of schools in London showed how much children from all backgrounds could benefit from schools with a high proportion of ethnic minority pupils.
Prof Burgess said that although schools "in some places remain highly segregated", the longer-term trend is that such separation is "generally declining or is stable".
But Dr Norrie said: "While we couldn't expect these communities to spread out on a truly equal scale, we would hope for a much greater level of integration for students at the start of their education."
The analysis of ethnicity and education shows that, allowing for socio-economic factors, white British pupils are the lowest achieving group at GCSE level.
The study also shows that ethnic minority pupils are more likely to have private tutors, more likely to attend private school and go to a Russell Group university than their white counterparts.
Last week, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw said that there needed to be more good and outstanding schools available to white, working-class communities.
Sir Michael warned that white low-income families can feel "abandoned" and "forgotten" by the school system.
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The army has a total of 850,000 soldiers, while the navy and air force have a strength of 235,000 and 398,000, China said in its defence white paper.
The paper also criticised the US's expanded military presence in the Asia Pacific, saying it had exacerbated regional tensions.
China's defence budget rose by 11.2% in 2012, exceeding $100bn (£65bn).
The defence white paper, which state media describe as China's 8th since 1998, emphasised China's "unshakable national commitment... to take the road of peaceful development".
By Celia HattonBBC Beijing correspondent
China's People's Liberation Army is on a fast path to modernisation. Following years of double-digit budget increases, the military has acquired submarines and naval destroyers. Aircraft carriers and Chinese-made fighter planes are in development. In 2010, technology to destroy missiles in mid-air was tested.
Now, it seem the generals have forged a new marketing strategy.
In its latest white paper, the defence ministry takes pains to outline the PLA's work relating to peacekeeping and natural disasters.
It confirms information on the military's structure that previously was only available from analysts outside mainland China: The names of the PLA's divisions and brigades and the numbers of active personnel they contain, in addition to the missile line-up.
Of course, the PLA is far from an open book; a great deal of information is still classified. However, the bid to come across as a modern, professional military with nothing to hide marks a change from times past.
According to the white paper, China's ever-expanding military follows one over-arching principle: "We will not attack unless we are attacked; but we will surely counter-attack if attacked."
However, it highlighted "multiple and complicated security threats" facing China, and China's need to protect its "national unification, territorial integrity and development interests".
The white paper reveals details of China's military structure. According to state-run news agency Xinhua, this is the first time such information has been disclosed publicly.
Correspondents say this appears to be part of an effort, on the part of the Chinese military, to become more transparent.
The territorial army has 18 combined corps in seven military area commands: Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Lanzhou, and Jinan.
The air force has 398,000 personnel and an air command in the same seven military areas, while the navy commands three fleets: the Beihai Fleet, the Donghai Fleet and the Nanhai Fleet, the paper said.
The paper also describes the role of China's second artillery force, which contains China's nuclear and conventional missile forces.
The force is crucial to China's "strategic deterrence", and is "primarily responsible for deterring other countries from using nuclear weapons against China, and carrying out nuclear counterattacks and precision strikes with conventional missiles," the paper said.
The paper also criticised the US's increased presence in the region.
"The US is adjusting its Asia-Pacific security strategy," it said, adding later that "some country has strengthened its Asia-Pacific military alliances... and frequently makes the situation there tenser."
The US has increased its military presence in Asia in recent years, as part of President Barack Obama's "pivot to Asia".
The white paper also addresses "issues concerning China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights", criticising Japan for "making trouble over the issue of the Diaoyu Islands".
The islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, are controlled by Japan but claimed by both China and Taiwan.
Separately, the paper describes "'Taiwan independence' separatist forces" as the biggest threat to cross-Straits relations.
Taiwan is an island which has for all practical purposes been independent since 1950. However, China views the island as a rebel region that must be reunited with the mainland - by force if necessary.
However, Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said the failure in tests of four blocks in Swansea was "cause for some concern".
He said ministers were awaiting advice from the UK government on whether to carry out further tests or relocate any residents.
Swansea council said the blocks which failed tests met current regulations.
Samples of the same type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower are being tested from seven social housing tower blocks in Wales at the request of the Welsh Government.
Swansea council said the British Research Establishment (BRE) looked at samples from four of its 11 high-rise blocks which have aluminium composite material (ACM).
The results of samples from three blocks at Clyne Court, Sketty, and one at Jefferys Court, Penlan, come after 149 high-rises in England also failed.
Mr Sargeant told BBC Wales the results of samples from the blocks did not give "the full picture".
He said the Welsh Government was awaiting further advice from the UK government's advisory panel on whether to move beyond testing samples to testing "the integrity of the building panel system".
He said the fire service had given "some assurance around the building quality and standards" of blocks in Swansea and Newport where samples had been sent for testing.
"They're presuming the buildings to be in a good state of affairs and therefore conditionally, as a holding process, they're safe places to be in at the moment." he said.
Swansea council's deputy leader Clive Lloyd told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme on Monday the council's main priority was to seek "absolute reassurance" for its tenants but added: "The failure of the tests at this level wasn't a huge surprise.
"What has been difficult for us and for all other local councils is that the tests that are being carried out by BRE and the ones that we failed along with other councils, we don't know what standards they are being tested at.
"So it's very difficult for us to respond, and that's why we're continuing to work with the Welsh Government and the UK government to find out what those standards are and what we need to do to rectify this particular failure.
"But that information hasn't been forthcoming unfortunately.
"Once we get that information and advice from Welsh Government on what we need to do, we will do what is absolutely necessary and our residents can be reassured to that.
"If that means taking the cladding down, then so be it."
Swansea council said extra fire safety checks were being carried out and tenants were being kept informed.
Results of tests on samples from tower blocks in Newport have not yet come through.
Meanwhile Cardiff council said it was "actively considering" retrofitting sprinklers in its high rise flats, although a spokesman said "a number of practical issues need to be fully taken into account in making changes to existing buildings before any work is taken forward".
The council also plans to upgrade fire doors at its low-rise flats around the city.
Bron Afon Community Housing, which has three high-rise blocks in Torfaen, said they were all retrofitted with sprinklers. Samples from the blocks were also being sent off for testing.
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Pochettino was aggrieved with the 2-2 draw as Spurs lost the lead against 10 men after Francis Coquelin's red card.
"You feel frustrated and disappointed because at 11 against 10 you need to keep that result," said Pochettino.
Wenger felt Arsenal were in control leading 1-0 before the dismissal, adding: "We have big regrets."
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Alexis Sanchez's 76th-minute equaliser gave Arsenal a point after two quick goals from Toby Alderweireld and Harry Kane had put Spurs in front following Aaron Ramsey's opener and Coquelin's dismissal.
Pochettino added: "It is true we missed a big opportunity. It was a game that means a lot to us and the feeling is we missed a big opportunity to move forward but we are young and I was proud of my team."
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Wenger was left equally frustrated - not by the result, but by Coquelin's 55th-minute sending off for a second yellow card, awarded after he dived in late on Kane.
"I couldn't see how, with 11 against 11, we could drop points," added Wenger, 66. "We made a big mistake when it was 1-0. Francis knows he made a big mistake and we can't complain about the decision."
Arsenal are now without a win in five games and have just three wins in their last 12 outings.
Wenger added: "I'm very happy with the attitude and character we showed. We refused to lose the game"
Wenger had no complaints about Coquelin's red card, but was understandably aggrieved Spurs' Eric Dier escaped similar punishment later for a blatant shirt pull on Olivier Giroud when he was also on a yellow card.
He said: "I can certainly complain that Dier wasn't sent off. The referee was ruthless with us but not with Tottenham."
Pochettino said: "You could say Hector Bellerin deserved a second yellow card but this was the decision of the referee. They are the bosses on the field."
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Spurs were left two points behind leaders Leicester before their kick-off against Watford, with Arsenal five points off the pace.
The Gunners face away trips to West Ham, Sunderland, Everton and Manchester City in their run-in.
Wenger admitted: "I don't know what to say any more about that. Let's see what happens over the weekend. I think we have to take encouragement from this performance and reproduce it until the end of the season and then we might have a chance."
Pochettino urged his side to now be "focused" on Thursday's Europa League trip to Borussia Dortmund ahead of a league run-in which includes trips to Liverpool and Chelsea.
Forecasts had predicted a peak of 17C for Monday but warmer weather has been recorded at Kew Gardens in south-west London, and Northolt in north-west London.
This has not broken the record for the hottest day in February, however - that was 19.7C in 1998.
The warm weather is due to tropical Atlantic air blowing across the UK.
Heathrow Airport saw highs of 18.1C and 17.5C was recorded in Marham, Norfolk.
BBC Weather presenter Louise Lear said there had been "glorious weather" in some parts of the UK.
"East Anglia and parts of the South East have seen the best of the warmth today [at] 18C," she said. "It really does feel like spring is just a hop, step and a jump away.
"But there is cloud out to the west creating some drizzle, so it is a little disappointing here [even though] it's still mild."
She added that westerly winds will continue to drive in cloud and, by the end of the week, temperatures could be closer to single figures, with London expected to reach 10C.
Passengers were initially trapped when a carriage tipped on to its side at the station in Lucerne.
The incident occurred at about 14:00 local time (13:00 GMT) on Wednesday, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) said.
There were 160 passengers on board the train, owned by Italian operator Trenitalia, which was travelling to Basel from Milan, Italy.
The fourth carriage of the train struck a power cable when it derailed, delaying rescue efforts, a spokesman for Lucerne police, Urs Wigger, said.
Lucerne police said the passengers were evacuated and at least three people required treatment and were taken to hospital. Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Services in and out of the station were suspended for the rest of the day, SBB said.
The cause of the derailment was not immediately clear.
That was the 20-year-old Victor Wanyama, from Nairobi in Kenya via Beerschot in Belgium, and the reaction to his arrival then pretty much mirrors the reaction now that Eboue has arrived from Krasnodar in Russia via Abidjan in Ivory Coast.
In the vacuum, there's a furious search for information about his back story, just as there was with Wanyama; a frantic retweeting of morsels of video, a mad hunt for players and managers who know anything about him and the life he leads.
We know the outline of Eboue's tale, but that's about it. He's only 19, has already nailed down a position as a central midfielder in what is currently Russia's fourth best team, has started six out of six Europa League ties this season, assisting in two goals, and has been picked in training squads for his country.
He hasn't yet been capped - and he won't be playing in the African Cup of Nations this month - but he's closing in on international recognition. Some say he's at his best as a defensive midfielder, others say that he is, or will be, good enough to play at a very high level as a holding midfielder or an attacking midfielder or a combination of both.
In November, he sat on the bench while the Ivory Coast played Paul Pogba's France in a friendly in Lens. For such a young player in such a new and exacting environment there is just one guarantee about his move to Glasgow - his pedigree is enough to quicken the pulse of any Celtic fan. A teenager with his kind of CV will have them dreaming of what might be in Europe in the coming seasons.
Eboue is a Champions League signing, a player tasked with the job of bringing more energy and physicality to the holding midfield role. That lack of intensity was glaringly obvious against Borussia Monchengladbach in Glasgow. The memory of it may have played on a loop in Brendan Rodgers' head these past few months.
More than any other, the one person who'll be looking over his shoulder at Eboue is Nir Bitton, who has slipped off the radar a little at Parkhead.
Bitton played in that Monchengladbach game and played again in the League Cup semi-final victory over Rangers at Hampden. He was taken off after an hour against Rangers and has only started once since then.
On his day, Bitton is still capable of excellence, but you wonder where he fits in now. Rodgers has Scott Brown, Callum McGregor and Eboue, if he lives up to his new manager's expectations, as his main midfield buffers. Bitton is behind them, seemingly drifting in importance.
There were times in Rodgers' recent career when supporters used to block their eyes when he was linked with a player, fearing another mishap in the market. Not any more, of course, but in the post-Luis Suarez era at Liverpool there were many headline failures.
Rodgers was mocked by many for his transfer activity, but it was a little overblown. His eye for a cheap and hugely effective player at Swansea was razor sharp and for all the duds recruited at Anfield there was serious quality brought in, too.
And it's still there.
Rodgers bought Philippe Coutinho for £8.5m. He's worth multiples of that now. He brought in James Milner for nothing and Milner has been exceptional. Adam Lallana, Daniel Sturridge, Nathaniel Clyne, Divock Origi, Roberto Firmino - all important players for Jurgen Klopp in Liverpool's assault on the Premiership title and all bought by Rodgers.
In the business of Eboue, Celtic fans will hang their hat on Rodgers' judgement - and it's understandable. Moussa Dembele's capture for £500,000 was a coup, nothing less. Scott Sinclair cost a lot more, but he's been reborn in Glasgow.
Rodgers' short time at Celtic Park has revealed an ability not just to find new players who make a difference in the first team - rather than clogging up the bench - and also to galvanise players that have been around a while. Brown is an example of that. James Forrest, to an extent, is, too. The ultimate illustration is Stuart Armstrong, who has gone from nervy cameos under Ronny Deila to dominant displays under Rodgers.
It's interesting, too, that Celtic, though bringing in Dembele and Sinclair and now Eboue, is maintaining, or increasing, its Scottishness.
The most highly-charged domestic fixture is the Old Firm game. Five Scots started in the most recent contest against Rangers (Craig Gordon, Brown, Armstrong, Forrest, McGregor and it would have been six had Kieran Tierney been fit), an increase on the four Scots that began the League Cup semi-final last April.
Five Scots in the starting line-up against their Ibrox rivals? It's only the second time it's happened since the spring of 2009. Rodgers might be spending some money on foreigners, but he's not diluting the impact of the homegrowns.
The combination is working nicely. Eboue now enters a happy and progressive set-up and in Dembele he can see the possibilities. Rodgers is about to give him a chance to make his mark. The rest is up to him.
MOTD2 pundit Danny Murphy expands on his TV analysis of how 10-man Manchester United almost rescued an unlikely derby draw against Manchester City, despite having Chris Smalling sent off before half-time.
City had been on top when it was 11 against 11 and, from their point of view, it was good to see that they maintained that level of pressure when Chris Smalling was sent off in the 39th minute.
Manuel Pellegrini's players could have been frustrated by the fact they were not awarded the penalties they should have been given with the score at 0-0.
Instead of feeling hard done by, they kept pressing forward.
They got their reward when Sergio Aguero put them ahead with a brilliant finish, but the momentum of the game turned with that goal, which came with just under half an hour to go.
The first part of what changed is fairly obvious: once United had fallen behind and knew they had nothing to lose, they attacked with greater numbers and greater intensity in search of an equaliser.
What you might not expect, especially with them playing against 10 men, is for City to do what they did next - which was to drop deeper and deeper rather than continue pushing forward in search of the second goal that it appeared they needed to be sure of victory.
Having been in the same position myself, I would suggest City's recent poor form might have had something to do with their caution, and the fact it was such a big game.
But knowing they had an extra man would have been irrelevant.
City just wanted to protect their lead even if, by doing so, they created some problems for themselves by allowing United a foothold in the match.
I always think that when you are a man up in games the hardest thing is maintaining the same intensity in terms of pressing for the ball.
When your team has an extra man, you automatically assume that you will have more possession, even though you still need to win it in the first place.
But it is easy for players to get in the mindset that they don't have to work as hard when it is 11 vs 10 as when it is 11 v 11.
What usually happens is that the team with 10 men starts working harder than they were, so you need to do the same.
It only takes one or two players to trigger that response and get everyone else chasing the ball again instead of just sitting back, but even then, by doing that, you think you are taking a risk.
By pressing high up the pitch, you are stopping attacks at their source but you are worried about the space you are leaving behind. It is hard to change that mentality, as City found out.
Even when they did have the ball, there were other reasons why they did not just bomb forward.
If they had committed more men up the pitch in search of a second goal and got caught on the counter then everybody, including their manager, would be asking what on earth they were doing - why not just keep the ball, keep their shape and make sure United can't score?
It is a balancing act but City probably just erred on the side of caution too much in the latter part of the game and gave United confidence.
As the game drew on, they got a bit panicky with their clearances and, instead of playing the ball out from the back, they went long early. Their nerves gave United more belief.
Another way City went wrong was with their substitutions.
Pellegrini brought on Edin Dzeko and Samir Nasri with 20 minutes left when he really needed an extra man in midfield to try to get some control back.
He did eventually make the correct change, and Fernandinho did well when he came on. But if he had been brought on 15 minutes earlier, it might have stemmed the momentum that United were building.
United also made the right change at the wrong time, because young James Wilson made a big difference when he replaced Robin van Persie up front eight minutes from time.
When you play one up front with 10 men, your striker has to be able to give you a get-out when you are under pressure, whether that is by running the channels or holding the ball up.
With Van Persie up front, they did not have that. He showed one bit of class in the game, with a nice turn in the corner and a shot that Joe Hart saved, but otherwise it was a difficult day for him.
He was isolated and did not have the athleticism to run the channels effectively, or the pace to out-run Vincent Kompany or even Martin Demichelis.
I was surprised Marouane Fellaini did not get put up there to have some battles with City's centre-halves but instead Louis van Gaal went for Wilson's pace, which stretched City and forced them even further back - maybe he should have made the change sooner.
United still had some defending to do of course, but the longer they hung in there with the score at 1-0, the more they would have believed they could still get something from the game.
That did not happen, but they can still take some encouragement, and not just from the grit and determination they showed.
Daley Blind was superb in United's midfield and showed a really calm head.
Another attribute you need when you are playing with 10 men is someone who is not worried about playing under pressure and Blind did that brilliantly at Etihad Stadium.
He did a great defensive job but rather than just whacking the ball out and clearing their lines until the next attack, he was trying to get them playing and taking a risk to try to build something for United to come forward.
The positives were all in the result for City. This is the start of a big week for them, and they will need a better performance to be sure of the victory they need against CSKA Moscow in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Just like in Russia a fortnight ago, they kept the ball poorly in the last 20 minutes against United and almost paid for it again.
I still think that is psychological, rather than down to any lack of ability. They were desperate for a win and now they have seen this game out, I would expect them to push on.
For that to happen, though, they need to keep Sergio Aguero fit.
He is the best striker in the Premier League and watching him against United made me think he could be the difference between them staying close to Chelsea at the top of the table, or not.
Aguero gives City amazing quality in the final third, which we saw all game.
For his goal, there was his movement away from Paddy McNair to find space and then a brilliant finish to what was a difficult chance on his weaker foot.
He should have had two penalties because of his quick feet and skill and, with his movement and energy, he was a focal point for everything City did and a constant threat.
Aguero has the ability to turn matches no matter how many players teams put behind the ball.
He was frustrated to come off, but Pellegrini was right to be thinking of the part he has to play in future games, starting with Moscow on Wednesday.
Danny Murphy was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Henson, 33, joined the Championship club in 2015 from Bath and is among five players to sign new deals.
The Wales international joins Chris Brooker in signing for another year. Ross McMillan, Jack Tovey and Jack Wallace have agreed two-year contracts
"As a senior member of the squad, Gavin has shown his dedicated professionalism since joining," director of rugby Andy Robinson told the club website.
"His displays on the field show he is still a Premiership performer."
Henson made his name at Swansea and then Ospreys, winning 33 caps for his country and the Grand Slam in 2005 and 2008.
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In a match delayed from Monday, the world number four beat Mannarino - who is ranked 51st in the world - 6-2 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 in two hours and 13 minutes.
The Serb appeared unhappy with the condition of Centre Court and also received treatment on his right shoulder during the match.
The 30-year-old will face Czech 11th seed Tomas Berdych in the last eight.
When asked about his shoulder, Djokovic told BBC Sport: "We'll see. It has something which has been dragging back and forth for a while, but I am still managing to play."
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The match was due to be played on Monday on Court One but was postponed following Rafa Nadal and Gilles Muller's four hour and 48 minute tie.
The decision to postpone the match until Tuesday, rather than play it on Centre Court after Roger Federer's victory on Monday over Grigor Dmitrov, was questioned by some, including Djokovic's wife Jelena.
There were early concerns over Mannarino's fitness, as the Frenchman looked to be struggling from the effects of playing two five-set matches on his way to the last 16.
He clutched at his hip as Djokovic broke in his first service game, and although he grew sufficiently into the match to save two set points, he was unable to prevent Djokovic taking the first set in 37 minutes.
A double fault from Djokovic and some loose play allowed the Frenchman to break in the second set and eventually force a tie-break, but the 12-time Grand Slam champion came through the extra points with ease.
However, there were some concerns for Djokovic, who twice requested attention from the doctor before calling a medical time-out in the final set.
He looked increasingly uncomfortable with his shoulder, flexing it after he double-faulted on match point, before eventually serving out the match to remain unbeaten on grass this year.
"I mentioned there is a hole in the middle of the court to the umpire and he asked me to show him, which I did at the end. He was not too pleased," Djokovic added.
"The courts are not that great this year, many players feel the same. I am sure the groundsmen are the best in the world, but grass is the most complex surface to maintain."
Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, of Enfield, called himself Comrade Bala and brainwashed his cult into thinking he had god-like powers.
Over 30 years he also raped two of his followers, Southwark Crown Court heard.
His daughter Katy Morgan-Davies said the situation was "horrible, so dehumanising and degrading".
Ms Morgan-Davies, 33, who has waived her right to anonymity, said: "I felt like a caged bird with clipped wings."
Balakrishnan was convicted of offences including child cruelty, false imprisonment and assault.
The court heard he established the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought in the 1970s in south London and convinced his followers into thinking he could read their minds.
He warned them a supernatural force called Jackie would cause natural disasters if he was ever disobeyed.
Branding him a "narcissist and a psychopath", his daughter said: "The people he looked up to were people like Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein - you couldn't criticise them either in the house.
"They were his gods and his heroes. These were the sort of people he wanted to emulate."
During the trial she told the court she was beaten and banned from singing nursery rhymes, going to school or making friends.
And she said her father was using the sect as a "pilot unit" to learn how to control people before taking over the world.
She said: "I used to think 'God, if the whole world is going to be like this, what way out is there? How am I going to live? I cannot live in this.
"So I used to think that the best way would be to die."
Told she was a "waif", it was only when she was a teenager that she learned a follower of Balakrishnan, Sian Davies, then known as Comrade Sian, was her mother.
Ms Davies fell from a window at the cult's base on Christmas Eve in 1996 and died several months later in hospital
Ms Morgan-Davies said that night she heard screaming and shouting and saw her mother lying in a pool of blood below the bathroom window pleading with Balakrishnan to "kill me".
She said in the subsequent years she would dream of her mother and wake up crying.
Sentencing Balakrishnan, the judge said: "You decided to treat her as a project, not a person.
"You claimed to do it for her to protect her from the outside world, but you created a cruel environment."
Ms Morgan-Davies managed to escape the cult in 2013 after memorising the number for an anti-slavery charity she saw on the news.
She has since moved to Leeds and started an education and said: "I've been a non-person all my life and now is my chance to be myself."
During sentencing the judge recommended that £500 be given to the charity Palm Cove Society, which helped Balakrishnan's daughter escape.
It follows calls from Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens in response to the sexual assaults near the city centre.
The city's taxi association has rejected claims some drivers have previously refused short-distance fares.
A 40-year-old man remains in police custody and a man, 22, has been bailed.
In a joint statement, South Wales Police, Cardiff University, University of South Wales and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama said additional safety measures had been put in place following the attacks.
They said two additional buses staffed by police officers and police student volunteers had been provided as well as three buses which will will run into the night to provide students with safe transport back to their accommodation.
South Wales Police said it was continuing its high visibility patrols throughout the city centre and surrounding areas.
Meanwhile, Cardiff University and the college's students' union have been actively promoting their 'Safe Taxi Scheme' following the first of the three attacks carried out in the early hours of Sunday morning against a 20-year-old, close to the university's main building in the civic centre.
Another 20-year-old was attacked in Cathays Terrace on Tuesday and at about 04:30 BST on Thursday, a 19-year-old was targeted in Gorsedd Gardens.
"Our security team has been visiting student residences to discuss personal safety, while the Students' Union safe taxi scheme is now being extended to staff as well as students," explained the university's pro vice-chancellor, Prof Patricia Price.
"The scheme allows you to be safely picked up by Dragon Taxis anywhere in Cardiff and taken home even if you don't have cash at the time, provided you have your student or staff card."
Students who use the scheme can then reimburse the taxi fare through the students' union over the following days.
But Cardiff Central MP, Ms Stevens said she had written to local taxi firms after concerns were raised.
"A number of constituents have advised me that this is an issue for women travelling home from the city centre," she said.
Mathab Khan, the chair of the Cardiff Hackney Cabs Association, rejected the claim.
"That's not true at all," he insisted.
"Our advice to our drivers is to be as helpful as you possibly can, especially when it comes to lone female students, we say 'Please take them, they are vulnerable'."
Mr Khan said the only time a cab driver would refuse a fare was if the passenger was unfit to travel, due to excessive drink.
"99.9% of the taxi drivers in Cardiff are very helpful," he said.
A march is being held on Friday evening by Reclaim the Night, a group which campaigns against rape and all forms of male violence against women.
Students in Cardiff have been urged to stay in pairs on nights out, stay in well-lit areas, ensure someone knows where they are going, and to "be sensible".
Cardiff city council, which is responsible for licensing taxi drivers, said it was ready to act if fares are turned down.
A spokesperson for the council told BBC Wales: "What you need to do if you are overcharged or refused to be carried is to note the time, date, the driver's number and taxi number - all information that is on public display on the taxi - and then we can take action.
"It is a condition of their licence that they cannot refuse a fare."
Noone, 29, has made 170 appearances for the Bluebirds since joining from Brighton for £1m in 2012 but has recently struggled for a place.
Other clubs have already shown interest in the player, whose contract expires in 2018.
"Agents are talking to people etc but nothing has come up which has whetted our appetite," Warnock said.
"I think we're in a rush with that really, I think people like Craig Noone at the end of August is when others might have a look.
"I think he needs a move and I think he'll do well for the team he goes to, but I'm not in a rush. He doesn't cause me any problems, he's a good lad."
Noone scored twice for the club's under-23 side in their 5-1 win away at Hereford on Wednesday .
Cardiff slipped to their first pre-season defeat of the summer against Shrewsbury on Tuesday evening, a 2-1 reverse which Warnock said did not concern him.
Afterwards he reaffirmed that striker Kenneth Zohore is not for sale.
Earlier in the month Warnock claimed the Denmark international would not leave the club this summer "unless I have a heart attack and another manager takes over".
He added: "I expect 20 goals from Kenneth this season."
Cardiff's next friendly match is against Livingstone Athletic on Friday, 28 July.
You look at your phone but the number is not in your contact list. So is it important enough to run out of the room with your phone held half-up in signal to the others that this is a call too important to miss?
Truecaller may be able to help with that.
"If you download Truecaller you will never have to worry about saving contacts to your phone book, everything will be in the cloud." says Alan Mamedi, chief executive and co-founder of Truecaller.
He recalls his own phonecall-in-a-meeting dilemma as being his motivation to help create the app, which he believes could be on every smartphone across the globe.
"If you receive a call from a number you don't have we'll show that information, if there is a sales call coming in we will warn you about that.
"Or if you just want to make an outbound call in a much better way; by knowing if your friend is available or your friend is on a phone call then you can use Truecaller."
Truecaller uses a database of more than two billion phone numbers to tell you who is phoning you.
On certain smartphone operating systems it will show that person's name, where they are from, and in many cases even display their picture.
It then uses crowd-sourced information to recognise nuisance calls and prevent them ever taking a second more of your time.
"In the UK or US every sixth call would be a spam caller," says Nami Zarringhalam, co-founder of Truecaller.
"People in general get more spam calls than they receive calls from family members. So this is a big issue we're pinpointing and providing a solution for."
Alan Mamedi, goes on to explain how the data is collected: "If you receive a call from a number and we can't detect it, then you, as a user, can actually add that information.
"But we also partner with different data providers to fill in the empty gaps".
However according to Nishanth Sastry, senior lecturer in the centre for telecommunications research at King's College, London, it's this aspect of the company that is open to scrutiny.
If a phone user shares the names and numbers in their contacts book with an app, that then relays those details to the world, it's not that phone user's information to share, he says.
"It's not their own information they are sharing, it is their friends' information they are sharing.
"And they are sharing this information with people that they don't know. That's a privacy issue for friends - who have never seen the terms and conditions of Truecaller."
Alan Mamedi, doesn't believe this to be an issue: "We made it super easy for anyone to un-list their number on our website, we don't require any verification or such.
"This has been the case since day one. It's part of our philosophy that it should be super simple to just un-list your number.
"You just go on our website and then it's gone forever."
Now Alan, Nami and their team occupy a series of plush offices. It's a long way from where they first began back in 2009.
"We were sitting in my one room apartment, which was basically just my kitchen and bedroom in the same room," says Nami.
"We started to build Truecaller with servers that we had bought, building an application for our own mobile phones."
They then decided to release it and within the first week say they had 10,000 new users.
"We decided to start a company and so resigned from our full-time jobs," says Alan. "Since then we've grown really, really fast.
"We have 200 million users globally. Just last year we went from 100 million users to 200 million. We've definitely seen an exponential growth globally, especially in the emerging markets."
Truecaller, he says, also has a few, less obvious uses.
"One of the cases we've seen in India is women who before they jump in a cab actually verify the cab driver who is calling them.
"We with some confidence can say, hey this is a cab driver who's calling you. Or even say if you have friends in common with this cab driver - and that adds a safety layer which we never thought about in the past."
Despite adding 63 new users a minute on average since its creation in 2009, Alan has even bigger ambitions.
"The number one app that people are using everyday is your phone app and no one has innovated in that space.
"Truecaller is changing that. It's making your phone experience more trusted and safer, but also more delightful.
"Our aim is to make a great product that everyone will adopt and have it on every single smartphone across the globe."
Barack Obama's social media strategy in 2012 was hailed a success and Hilary Clinton announced her bid for the US presidency amid online fanfare.
But how effectively is Welsh politics harnessing digital power?
Expert Paul Shepherd described social media campaigning by the major Welsh political parties as "primitive".
"It's active, engaging in places, but there is so much more that could be done by analysing social media data and reacting to the wealth of information held within," said Mr Shepherd, chief executive of social media agency, Coup Media.
He said it reflected most of the digital campaigning across the UK, adding: "It's disappointing because the tools and skill sets are now available to really drill down into what people think and react accordingly."
Plaid Cymru has garnered 16,400 Twitter followers and 15,244 "likes" on Facebook - the most received by any Welsh party.
Mr Shepherd, whose company has offices in Newport and London, said the party had partly taken "the humorous route".
One of its promotional videos, which has been viewed more than 6,000 times, begins with a young man confessing to his parents he has a personal secret.
"There is something I need to tell you," he says, adding after a strained pause: "I'm voting Plaid".
Figures uncovered earlier this year showed the Conservatives were spending £100,000 a month on Facebook across the UK.
Mr Shepherd said the Welsh Conservatives had been tactically "good" at breaking down video content by topic, such as those on the NHS and the Budget.
However, he said the execution was "poor".
The party has 1,598 Twitter followers and more than 5,500 Facebook "likes".
Welsh Labour's Twitter account, which has 6,350 followers, was "extremely active" with a large number of responses to its posts, including celebrity endorsements from the likes of Eddie Izzard, Mr Shepherd observed.
Its Facebook page has 1,482 "likes".
However, a Labour advert starring The Hobbit actor, Martin Freeman, had an "unexpectedly" low amount of views on the Welsh Labour YouTube channel.
Welsh Liberal Democrats has 4,064 Twitter followers and more than 2,000 Facebook "likes".
The party's promotional video on YouTube depicts leader, Kirsty Williams, addressing the camera, intercut with supporters giving positive comments from their doorsteps.
Mr Shepherd said the party's Twitter feed was not as active as others but its Facebook page had a better mix of "pushing policy and attacking other parties".
The Green party's Twitter account, which has 2,787 followers, is a "lot less confrontational" than its rivals and more focused on itself, he added.
But its engagement was slightly lower, "with re-tweets and 'Favourites' not as high as some of the other parties".
Mr Shepherd noted that the UK Independence Party's twitter account, which has under 600 followers, used "a lot" of re-tweets.
He said this suggested the party was "curating rather than creating content", which could signify "a lack of confidence in policy or just lazy Twitter strategy".
Mr Shepherd urged the parties to pay more attention to the way the public interacted with their online content.
"It's all a huge source of intelligence that, when treated correctly, can give you the insights that will give the edge over the competition," he added.
"It also shows the electorate that you're doing the most important thing - listening."
Elizabeth Linder, politics and government specialist of Facebook UK, said last month social media would be "absolutely at the heart" of political campaigning across the UK.
His son-in-law, William Mollett, confirmed the news in a statement to the BBC.
The Trumptonshire Trilogy - Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley - were shown weekly by the corporation from 1966 for 20 years.
The programmes were later repeated by Channel 4 and then Nickelodeon Junior.
Camberwick Green, which was made using stop-motion animation, was the first children's show to be aired in colour on the BBC in 1966.
Murray was born in London on 3 May 1921 - the youngest of four children.
He attended Emanuel School, where he studied Classics - but later gave up Latin and Greek, after which he spent most of his time in the art and drama departments.
Mr Mollett told the BBC that Murray enjoyed going to the Victoria Palace Theatre with his father as a child to see variety shows - and particularly liked the marionettes.
Murray was nine years old when his father died in 1930.
After leaving school, he started working as a journalist and joined the Territorial Army. In 1939 he was enlisted in the London Scottish Regiment.
Having been commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals, Murray took part in the Normandy landings as a platoon commander, landing on Gold Beach.
After the war, he worked as an actor in repertory theatre, and appeared in Shakespeare plays and Peter Pan - where he met his wife, ballet dancer Enid Martin.
In the 1950s, Murray established a puppet company touring theatres in the UK, when he was scouted by BBC producer Freda Lingstrom.
He went on to produce several successful marionette shows for children's television including Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale and 33 episodes of The Rubovia Legends.
His first television credit was in 1954 as a puppeteer on Bengo - a children's programme about the adventures of a boxer puppy.
Murray had the opportunity to become the BBC's head of children's programmes, but chose instead to form his own production company - where he created the Trumptonshire trilogy.
Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley were created using stop motion animation and actual 3D scaled down models.
The characters were eight inches tall, with heads made out of ping-pong balls and clothes out of foam latex.
There were 39 short episodes across the trilogy - all of which were first broadcast on BBC One, airing before the midday news.
The programmes were digitally restored and re-released in 2011, after the original footage was found in the family's attic and in the BBC archives.
In recent years he lived with his family near Stamford and is survived by his daughters Emma and Rose and his four grandchildren.
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The People's Supreme Court ruled a Chinese sportswear company must stop using the characters for Jordan's name, read as Qiaodan in Chinese.
Qiaodan Sports registered the name more than a decade ago but Jordan's lawyers said it built its business around his Chinese name without his permission.
Jordan has welcomed the decision which overturns previous rulings against him.
"I am happy that the Supreme People's Court has recognized the right to protect my name through its ruling in the trademark cases," he said in a statement sent to the BBC.
"Chinese consumers deserve to know that Qiaodan Sports and its products have no connection to me."
"Nothing is more important than protecting your own name, and today's decision shows the importance of that principle."
The basketball star first started legal action against Qiaodan Sports in 2012.
His team argued that Qiaodan's trademarks had damaged his legal rights to use his name and asked the court to invalidate more than 60 trademarks used by the company.
The court agreed Qiaodan Sports had violated trademark law and its registration of the name should be revoked.
But his win is only a partial victory.
While the company cannot use Jordan's Chinese name, the court upheld a ruling allowing it to use the Romanized version of Qiaodan, pronounced "Chee-ow-dahn."
A Shanghai court is yet to hear a separate naming rights case.
"War is always more costly than peace," he said in an interview with the BBC.
Mr Santos and Farc leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, will sign a historic peace deal later on Monday.
But it will take a long time for Colombian society to recover from more than five decades of conflict, he said.
The Farc will be relaunched as a political party as part of the deal, which is due to be put to Colombian voters in a popular vote on 2 October.
"We could have grown between 2% and 3% more per year for the past 23 years," Mr Santos told the BBC's Lyse Doucet, adding that the conflict had also had a profound impact on Colombian society.
"We have even lost our compassion, which is the ability to feel some kind of pain for others.
"A country at war for 50 years is a country that has destroyed many of its values," said President Santos.
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Colombia's peace deal makes history in many ways, most of all for ending the last of the Cold War conflicts. But it also breaks new ground in trying to balance the desire for peace with the demands of justice which bedevil all peace talks.
There's no amnesty, unlike all previous peace accords in the region. The Farc, as well as Colombia's security forces, have accepted special tribunals and a truth and reconciliation process.
Many of the victims of the Farc's brutality have been brought into the process. If polls are to be believed, a majority will vote to accept this deal. But I kept meeting people in Bogota and Cartagena who said they would vote no.
Fifty years of war also means decades of hatred and mistrust. Many doubt that the Farc will give up all its lucrative criminal activities. Will this deal also make history in being a peace deal which doesn't fall apart?
The peace agreement was sealed last month after nearly four years of talks, which were held in the Cuban capital, Havana.
A bilateral ceasefire came into force five days later, effectively ending the conflict.
Senior members of the Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) voted unanimously to ratify the deal on the last day of their conference on Friday.
The 52-year conflict has led to the deaths of an estimated 260,000 people with more than six million people internally displaced.
"The signature of the deal is simply the end of the conflict. Then the hard work starts: reconstructing our country," President Santos said.
The Farc now has 180 days to disarm and move its estimated 7,500 fighters into disarmament zones set up by the UN.
An amnesty will be granted for "political crimes" but this does not cover massacres, torture or rape.
The Farc has already agreed to stop drug production in areas under its control and the government has pledged to help farmers earn a living without growing illicit crops.
The Farc will become a political party, allocated 10 seats in the 268-member Congress.
Once the deal is signed EU sanctions against the group are expected to be suspended, the bloc's ambassador in Bogota said. They could be permanently removed from the EU's list of terror organisations after six months have elapsed, according to EU officials.
Both sides have pledged to provide land, loans and basic services to impoverished rural areas.
Mr Santos says the deal with the Farc was fair and that it made those who committed war crimes accountable.
Mr Santos and Farc leader Timoleon Jimenez will sign the historic peace deal at a ceremony in the port city of Cartagena on Monday evening.
The document will be signed using a Baligrafo - a bullet turned into a pen - as a symbol of a peaceful future.
Some 2,500 attendees are expected, among them UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State John Kerry and several Latin American leaders including Cuba's Raul Castro.
Victims of the conflict will also be present.
Mr Santos said he was "very, very confident" that most Colombians would vote in favour of the deal.
"The latest polls say that between 65% and 70% of the people approve of the peace process," he said
But he warned that if the agreement was rejected in the popular vote, the conflict would start again.
"We will go back six years and continue the war with the Farc. That's plan B," he said.
Colombia's second largest rebel group, the ELN (National Liberation Army), announced on Sunday a unilateral ceasefire until the referendum.
ELN leaders have publicly expressed their wish to engage in their own peace process with the Colombian government.
1964: Set up as armed wing of Communist Party
2002: At its height, it had an army of 20,000 fighters controlling up to a third of the country. Senator Ingrid Betancourt kidnapped and held for six years along with 14 other hostages
2008: The Farc suffers a series of defeats in its worst year
2012: Start of peace talks in Havana
2016: Definitive ceasefire
Full timeline of Farc conflict
Eliza Wasni, 16, appeared in court on Wednesday, the day after Grant Nelson was found in a pool of his own blood outside an apartment building.
The Uber driver was attacked minutes after he had picked Ms Wasni up from a Walmart store, prosecutors said.
He managed to escape, but died later in hospital after undergoing surgery.
Ms Wasni, who has been charged as an adult, tried to flee in his blood-covered car but crashed, and continued on foot, wearing just her bra and leggings.
She was found hiding near an air-conditioning unit, still clinging to the machete and knife - which she only dropped after being Tasered.
Ms Wasni had called for an Uber to pick her up from the store in Skokie, north of Chicago, at about 03:00 local time (08:00 GMT), despite not being old enough to use the service.
She was also accused of stealing the weapons from the store.
Assistant state attorney Michelle Cunningham told reporters Mr Nelson, 34, had been able to give a description of his attackers to police after they found him "laying in the grass, bleeding from multiple deep stab and hacking wounds to his arms, side, head and chest".
Judge Michael Hood called the crime "extremely violent", according to the Chicago Tribune, and ordered Ms Wasni to be held without bail.
According to a Reuters report, Blackberry's management is considering taking the company private, which means buying out existing shareholders.
Going private would allow the company to reorganise its business without the pressure of shareholder scrutiny.
Blackberry has been losing money after failing to keep up with its rivals.
Last month the company's chief executive said that Blackberry was on the right and track, but needed more time to fix its problems.
If Blackberry decided to go private it would have to find partners who could raise the billions of dollars need to buy out existing shareholders.
That could prove difficult as the company has been struggling.
In its most recent quarter, Blackberry lost $84m (£54m) and expects to lose more money in the three months to the end of August.
Blackberry launched two all-new smartphones this year, the touchscreen Z10 device, followed by the Q10, with a mini keyboard favoured by many Blackberry users.
But some analysts have been disappointed by the sales of Blackberry's new phones.
Blackberry's managers will have noted the experience of computer maker Dell.
Founder Michael Dell is trying to buy out shareholders to help reorganise the firm.
But the plan resulted in a painful struggle with some shareholders accusing him and his partners of undervaluing their shares.
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The Tigers, who are 19th in the Premier League, rejected a bid from West Ham earlier this month for the 29-year-old midfielder.
The Scotland international, who joined Hull from Norwich in 2014, has scored seven Premier League goals this season.
The Tigers say the move is now down to the player and he has not yet gone for a medical at Burnley.
Hull have so far rejected offers of up to £6m from West Ham for Snodgrass, who missed Sunday's 2-0 defeat at Chelsea with what manager Marco Silva described as "a small injury in the knee".
West Ham remain interested but Silva is reluctant to part with Snodgrass having already sold midfielder Jake Livermore to West Brom for an undisclosed fee, believed to be £10m.
Any deal for Snodgrass would have to be for about the same price.
Snodgrass has been linked with a move away from the KC Stadium since December, before Hull triggered a one-year contract extension, tying him to the club until the end of the 2017-18 season.
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Hull City have accepted a bid in the region of £10m from Burnley for top scorer Robert Snodgrass.
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Ruesha Littlejohn and Sarah Ewens both grabbed doubles with Suzanne Mulvey and Courtney Whyte also adding goals.
That moves Celtic back up to third above Spartans, who lost 4-0 at home to second-placed Hibs.
Glasgow City stay top after a 3-0 win over Rangers, which helped Stirling University move up to fifth by beating Hamilton Academical 1-0.
Celtic now begin the biggest week of the season, and arguably their most important for years, with back-to-back clashes against Hibs.
A win on Tuesday is vital if they are to stay in touch with the top two in the Premier League title race, while a defeat would leave them seven points off the Hibees, and possibly eight behind Glasgow City should they beat Hamilton a day later.
Then, the two sides do battle again in the SWPL Cup final at Broadwood.
It was important for David Haley's side to go into those fixtures with three points, but the manner of the win showed they mean business.
They set their stall out early and within the opening seconds they could have scored when Mulvey was inches from connecting with a low cross.
When Sarah Crilly is on her game she is difficult to stop, and she proved far too hot to handle for the Aberdeen defence.
It was her cross after 15 minutes that landed perfectly for Littlejohn at the back post to head in the first goal.
Six minutes later and Mulvey latched onto a fine through-ball from Whyte to tap in a second.
Aberdeen goalkeeper Emily Mutch denied Littlejohn and Mulvey in quick succession as Celtic continued to dominate, but Aberdeen finished the half strongly and after Samantha MacDonald saw a shot tipped wide, the Dons won a penalty.
Hannah Stewart fired it down the middle to give the visitors some hope before the break.
However, soon after half-time it was 3-1. Littlejohn took her time applying the finish and was almost caught out by Mutch, but eventually moved the ball back onto her left foot and found the net from close range.
Ewens grabbed the first of her double when she slipped in behind the defence and coolly slotted past the goalkeeper, then Georgie Rafferty's corner was bulleted home by Whyte.
Right before the end Ewens added a sixth when she again beat the offside trap, lobbed the goalkeeper, and then tapped in.
Celtic had struggled to find a clinical edge this season, and boss Haley was happy to see his side put that right.
"I said to the girls before they went out they needed a good performance to give us some confidence going into Tuesday night and Sunday," he told BBC Scotland. "They were excellent.
"Again it was something we spoke about. We need to start taking chances, we need to put teams to bed earlier.
"We seem to get one or two goals up and then it comes to the last 10 minutes and we're almost hanging on simply because we've not taken our chances. But today we did that so I'm really pleased.
"We managed to get people some game-time today that they needed and hopefully they'll recover well going into Tuesday."
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Celtic 6-1 Aberdeen
Rangers 0-3 Glasgow City
Spartans 0-4 Hibernian
Stirling University 1-0 Hamilton Academical
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East Fife 1-1 Motherwell
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Celtic warmed-up for their double-header with Hibernian with a thumping 6-1 win over Aberdeen in the SWPL.
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Lord Berkeley said the Chinese embassy owes £2m in congestion charges.
He went on to ask: "Why did Boris not think of clamping the Queen's horse and carriage yesterday, with the president inside it?"
A government minister admitted there was a "legal impasse" in this area.
On Wednesday the Queen and the Chinese president were driven by carriage along The Mall to Buckingham Palace, where the president and his wife have been staying during their state visit.
Lord Berkeley wanted to know "why does TfL not get out and clamp all these Rolls-Royces", later adding: "It might have taught him [President Xi] a lesson."
The government's annual written statement published earlier this year showed the US owed more than £9m and China more than £2m in congestion charges incurred between 2003 and 2014.
Foreign Office Minister Lord Courtown said officials from his department "regularly lobby diplomatic missions about outstanding debts" but reminded the House of Lords that diplomatic vehicles are "inviolable".
He explained that there was "a particular problem at the moment" with the London congestion charge, as "some overseas diplomatic missions consider that it is a tax as opposed to a charge".
"Officials from the Department for Transport and Transport for London continue to press non-paying diplomatic missions to pay the congestion charge, and work to identify a solution to the legal impasse with non-paying missions," the minister insisted.
He also told peers, when quizzed by former head of the Diplomatic Service Lord Wright, that the Foreign Office pays its fines in other countries "as much as it can".
Armenia has been chosen to stage the event in 2019, and then the tournament returns to Northern Ireland after a gap of 15 years.
In the 2005 event, matches were played at the grounds of Linfield, Glentoran, Ballymena, Glenavon and Newry.
The finals involve eight teams and France are the holders having beaten Italy 4-0 in the 2016 final in Germany.
Northern Ireland will qualify automatically in 2020 as the hosts.
The tournament will be held in Georgia in 2017 and in Finland the following year.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said crews battled the grassland fire in the Covesea Links area in a bid to prevent it spreading further.
Crews were called out at about 10:45. Smoke could be seen over a wide area.
Police Scotland said some roads closed as a result. Moray Council said more than 20 people staying at the nearby Silver Sands caravan site were moved as a precaution.
The council later said firefighters brought the gorse fire under control by the early afternoon, allowing the caravan site to reopen.
Teams were remaining at the scene to make sure it was safe.
The blaze at Japanese Autoparts, in Helen Street, near Ibrox stadium, broke out at about 16:30 GMT.
Scottish Power said one of its buildings was involved in the fire, and power had to be shut off in the Govan area as a precaution while fire crews assessed the damage.
Power was restored to customers at 21:50, the firm said.
It had warned residents to expect to be without power until 03:00 on Monday.
At its peak, about 50 firefighters tackled the blaze.
Speaking from the scene, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service's deputy assistant chief officer, Peter Heath, said: "At the moment we still have a significant attendance at this fire.
"Firefighters are currently engaged in a fire that has engulfed a building which is approximately 100 metres by 40 metres with a large yard in the back full of tyres which have been involved in the fire."
He added: "At one side of the building that is on fire is an electrical substation which supplies a significant part of Glasgow and Govan area and at the other side there is a large storage facility.
"Our activity in the last few hours have been ensuring that we protect these and we have been successful in that to date."
Earlier on Sunday, pictures were posted on social media of smoke billowing high above Glasgow.
Globally, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the third most commercially successful film in history, according to the Walt Disney studio.
Titanic, released in 1997, is number two and 2009's Avatar is top, with a total box office take of $2.8bn.
The film was released in China a month after its global release.
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Disney, owners of the intergalactic adventure franchise, have focussed considerable marketing effort on China, even going as far as putting 500 Stormtroopers on the Great Wall of China for an event.
It is the first episode many Chinese have seen, as the original Star Wars was not released in China at the time.
The Oxford Bulls took on Sion Sonics on Monday night - another local team featuring players with Down's syndrome.
The friendly game - Oxford Bulls' first - was organised after the team featured in a video with winger James McClean that went viral.
Manager Kevin Morrison said it was "a night to remember".
"We started off with about six or seven players and things just blossomed from there," Mr Morrison told BBC Radio Foyle.
"Things have been crazy the past couple of months since the video with James McClean went viral.
"Footballer Paddy McCourt has also been to meet the boys. The good will and support has been phenomenal.
"We've been training for two years and getting a match was a big thing for the boys."
Sion Sonics have also been training for a year and hoping for a match, just like the Bulls.
"There are different needs within the groups," said Mr Morrison. "Crowds, cheering and a different venue could have been an issue for the boys, so we took them to a parish hall for the match.
"They really enjoyed it every minute and we didn't keep a score.
"As José Mourinho would say, it's not about the result. It was about our boys getting out into the community and they were amazing."
The teams are now resting and players meet later in the week to discuss tactics and their next match.
The Oxford Bulls club was established with the help of the Foyle Down's Syndrome Trust, which provides a wide range of activities for young people and adults with the condition.
A mother, whose 10-year-old son plays for the team, said the club had given her 10-year-old son confidence and helped him make friends.
Vinisha Ajanraj, 30, was seriously hurt when she was hit by a car outside the shop on London Road, Leigh-on-Sea, on Monday.
The couple's unborn baby was not harmed, but Mrs Ajanraj may not fully recover from her injuries for a year.
Her husband Thangarasa said it was an "extremely difficult" situation.
The 36-year old, who also has a son, aged two, with his wife, said he can not believe what has happened.
"I can't control my feelings. She's crying. I'm crying. My son can't find out. I can't tell my son about her injuries. It's a very bad time," he said.
"I plan to sell it [the shop]. I have to look after my kids, and my wife, and I can't do everything."
He said the sale of the shop would allow him to look after his wife when she leaves hospital, as well as looking after the new baby and his two-year-old son.
Mrs Ajanraj, who is seven months pregnant with a girl, was working by herself on Monday in The Turnpike shop at about 17:00 BST when three men came inside.
She challenged one man about a bank card but he left the shop, pursued by Mrs Ajanraj, who was then hit by a car.
She is having surgery on a fractured cheekbone at the Royal London Hospital. She also suffered a fractured shoulder.
It is not known how long she will be in hospital.
A 25-year-old man has appeared at Basildon Crown Court accused of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, fraud, dangerous driving and failing to stop.
One theme is emerging from today's British Chambers of Commerce annual conference.
Yes, many businesses support remaining in the European Union.
But many also say the "leave" campaign has had a good start.
And opposition to Brexit might be softening.
One executive of a significant investment fund I spoke to this morning said that it was polling its leadership network to see if the tone towards the EU was changing.
Last year, this group of people, numbering several hundred senior business figures who deal with entrepreneurs and medium sized, fast growing businesses, split 80-20 in favour of staying in the EU.
Now, early polling returns suggest that the split is 60-40, the fund executive said.
John Longworth, the director general of the BCC, has gone as far as he feels able on whether Britain should remain in the EU.
The BCC has said it will not campaign for either side as its membership is split.
But Mr Longworth said this morning that in his personal opinion, Britain's long term economic future could be "brighter" outside the EU.
The EU cannot reform, he argued.
Many will see his words as confirmation that Mr Longworth, who leads an organisation representing thousands of businesses, is an "outer".
There was not a lot more warmth from Sajid Javid, the business secretary, who does support Britain remaining in the EU.
He admitted he was still a "Brussels basher" and that in his heart he was a eurosceptic.
But his head told him that "uncertainty is the enemy of jobs and growth". So, better to stay in a reformed EU.
The BCC tends to represent smaller businesses which are on the whole more sceptical about the EU.
Many do not export at all, or to other parts of the world.
Of course, most polls suggest that businesses as a group, large and small, back remaining in.
And many of the UK's largest employers have made it clear they believe a future in the EU is the best for the British economy
But the mood, among some at least, could be changing.
Elizabeth Bennett and Brian Woodward tied the knot at St Peter's Church, Ickburgh, Norfolk, on Saturday, nine years after their chance conversation.
Mrs Woodward said he was "really rude" when they first spoke but he called back the following day to apologise.
"A couple of weeks later he turned up at Thetford train station and hasn't been away since," she said.
Mrs Woodward, 25, said her husband, 26, and originally from Leamington Spa, was the worse for wear when he made the first phone call and "didn't know what he was doing".
"He popped the question the day after my 21st birthday - four years ago," she said.
Mrs Woodward said the wedding on Saturday "went perfectly well" and the weather was "better than we hoped for".
One of the four bridesmaids, Hannah Hamilton, said the day had been "filled with happiness and love".
The couple, who live in Mundford, Norfolk, plan to go on honeymoon in the new year.
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Spurs increased the pressure on the Foxes by thrashing Stoke City 4-0 at the Britannia Stadium on Monday.
"We are not going anywhere," said 22-year-old striker Kane, who took his Premier League goal tally to 24 with a brace.
"If we keep playing like that, there are not many teams who will beat us."
The England player added that, with four games left for the top two sides, Spurs still believe they can win the title.
"We think we can do it, otherwise there's not much point being involved," he said. "Leicester are still in the driving seat being five points ahead but there are four games left and we've reduced the gap. That's all we could have done."
Dele Alli also scored twice in the victory over Stoke as Tottenham cut the gap to Leicester, who drew 2-2 with West Ham on Sunday.
He also hit the post when he had the goal at his mercy, evoking memories of Ronny Rosenthal's extraordinary miss against Aston Villa in 1992.
Listen: Radio 5 live commentary of Alli's miss
Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino echoed Kane's sentiments about the title race, insisting his players "really believe" they can overhaul the Foxes.
"This is our dream, to win the title," he said. "Always we try. You must never give up. You can feel every day this season from the beginning was special."
Tottenham have won 10 of their past 13 Premier League games to keep pace with Leicester and play on Monday night again in each of the next two weeks.
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"The most important thing is that the performance we showed was perfect," said Pochettino. "It was a big signal that we are there waiting and fighting."
Stoke boss Mark Hughes praised a "very impressive" Tottenham, describing them as stronger, faster and more powerful than his team.
"Sometimes you have to give credit to the opposition," he added. "They are quick and sharp and have got that edge that chasing major trophies gives you.
"You wouldn't bet against them catching Leicester."
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Stuart Middleton, who has Asperger's Syndrome, has won the 2015 Ginetta Junior Scholarship.
The 15-year-old, of Northumberland, has been kart racing at championship level, but the scholarship means he will be taking a step up racing two-seaters for a full season - all expenses paid.
The tourists lost 30-15 in the opening Test at Eden Park on Saturday.
Woodward, whose Lions side suffered a 3-0 whitewash by the All Blacks in 2005, says Warren Gatland's team need to dominate possession rather than trying to play a box-kicking game.
"The All Blacks are totally beatable," said Woodward, 61.
"But you have got to dominate possession and if you don't they are so talented, so good, so physical, you are going to get beat."
England's World Cup-winning coach told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek: "We didn't lose the game based on selection.
"What happens in the UK, you box kick, the opposition get it, play a couple of phases and normally kick the ball back.
"You box kick down here, the All Blacks catch it and you don't get the ball back."
The Lions face the Hurricanes on Tuesday, before Saturday's second Test against the All Blacks in Wellington (both 08:35 BST kick-offs).
Referees will be asked by Gatland to clamp down on what he considers the All Blacks' harassment of Conor Murray's kicking game.
He said New Zealand dived "blindly" at Murray's standing leg whenever he launched a box kick in Saturday's defeat.
France's Jerome Garces will referee this Saturday's second Test, and Gatland said he will raise the issue in meetings with the officials later this week.
"There were a couple of times from Conor Murray where there was a charge down where someone dived at his legs," said Gatland.
"I thought that was a little bit dangerous, and after he's kicked he's been pushed a few times, and pushed to the ground."
Munster claimed Glasgow targeted Murray's standing leg during the Irish province's 14-12 Champions Cup win at Scotstoun on 14 January.
Woodward, who toured New Zealand as a Lions player in 1983, was impressed with Gatland's attacking line-up and said defeat by "one of the best sporting teams in the world" should be put in perspective.
He highlighted the performance of full-back Liam Williams and wingers Elliot Daly and Anthony Watson, adding that scrum-half Conor Murray's use of the ball - making a game-high 11 kicks from hand - was down to the "team plan".
"When we ran from deep and had the confidence to keep the ball in hand, we played really well," added Woodward.
"I just don't want to see us kick the ball away."
Woodward called New Zealand lock Brodie Retallick's performance on Saturday "one of the best I've ever seen", adding that the Lions need to match the All Blacks like for like in the remaining Tests.
"They are physical, they are direct and they are tough to beat," he added. "You know what's coming.
"My own personal view is you have to try and pick a team that plays similar to them, try and match them at what they do really well.
"If you can match them you have got half a chance."
2 September 2016 Last updated at 14:32 BST
OK OK, we know why. There's no mistaking the big black eyes, ghostly white skin and tiny slits for nostrils the Harry Potter villain is famous for.
The colobus monkey was born after her mum had to have an operation called a C-section - the first time staff at the zoo had performed the procedure.
In the wild, colobus monkeys live in all types of forest in central Africa.
Both mum and Dark Lord-lookalike are doing well and already on the hunt for Harry Potter (not really).
The new station, which is closer to the town centre, allows longer 12-car trains to pass through the station. The old station used to take 10-car trains.
Five extra trains to London will run in the mornings and one extra return train will run in the evening.
Network Rail said passenger numbers at Rochester had doubled over the past decade to 1.3m journeys a year.
Route managing director Alasdair Coates said the upgrade would increase capacity and reliability and offer better local transport links.
Southeastern managing director David Statham said Medway's commuter network was growing and commuters would benefit.
At least 100 people were hurt and buildings were damaged at the popular tourist destination when the 6.7-magnitude quake hit in the Aegean Sea.
Paddy Leonard, from Dublin, is visiting the Greek island with his three friends and was asleep when the quake struck.
He said it was "one of the most frightening experiences I've ever had".
The earthquake struck at 01:31 local time on Friday (22:31 GMT on Thursday).
Mr Leonard and his friends had planned to spend their last day on a boat trip so decided to get an early night, rather than spending it out on the town.
"We were in bed and all of a sudden the earthquake hit," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"The room I'm in is on the ground level beside the pool, and I was half asleep and the bed just moved and the ground started shaking, really powerful.
"I panicked but my friend said just get down on the ground.
"The pool - there was water being shoved out by force of the quake - the buildings were shaking, trees blowing.
"There was just pandemonium - I didn't know what to think."
The two people who were killed were crushed by debris, police said.
Many people have suffered broken bones, with some of them in a serious condition, according to government officials.
Mr Leonard said an area where he and his friends had spent most nights of their holiday was worst hit by the quake.
"The bar we went to every night - the whole roof was taken off," he said.
"To think that could've been myself, my friends - I count myself lucky to be alive.
"The last thing you expect is to go on a holiday and an earthquake hits you.
"You hear about it, learn about it in school, but you never think it'll actually happen to you or affect you."
We'll discuss the biggest cybersecurity threat of the moment, the use of bots in the fight to get the upper hand on social media during the US elections and the ongoing debate about the risks of artificial intelligence.
This week, producer Jat Gill and I attended a demo by security firm Sophos which left us both rather scared. James Lyne from the firm played a bad guy launching an attack on a company, while two colleagues played the increasingly confused system administrators trying to work out what was going on as chaos engulfed the network.
We then heard that the principle weapon in the attackers' armoury was now ransomware. This is malicious software that first takes over your network, then encrypts all your files before demanding a ransom - usually in Bitcoin - to unlock them.
This is now proving a major threat to organisations from hospitals to police forces - we don't know the exact scale of the problem because it seems many quietly pay up without telling anybody.
What's really scary is that some of this ransomware is now out there on the internet but without any way of even paying the criminals behind it, who have long since moved on. That means there is no way of unlocking your encrypted files.
So what's to be done? James Lyne tells us that companies which regularly update their security systems should be safe - but the most important advice is to make regular back-ups of your files, and make sure they are insulated from the rest of your network.
Computational propaganda is the term Professor Philip Howard of Oxford University uses to describe his research project. He is on this week's show talking about his study of Twitter activity during the Presidential debates.
His research - which has not yet been peer reviewed - appears to show that many more automated accounts are being used to tweet in support of Donald Trump than the bots backing Hillary Clinton.
During British election campaigns I get bombarded with reports from sentiment analysis firms, claiming they can mine Twitter to understand who is winning over voters. Those claims always seemed dubious - even more so, now that it appears that expertise in running bots is becoming the prime weapon in social media campaigning.
At a period when new advances in Artificial Intelligence seem to be reported every day, the ethical issues surrounding its impact on our lives are rising up the agenda.
This week saw the opening of an AI think tank, the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, in Cambridge with Prof Stephen Hawking renewing his warnings that the technology could bring extraordinary benefits to mankind - but could also spell the end for us.
Then on Thursday night I took part in a Cambridge Union debate opposing the motion: "This House fears the rise of artificial intelligence". I'm afraid to report that our side lost - and fear won - though all the speakers agreed we needed a more nuanced view of AI.
And that's what we get on Friday's programme from one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence research in the UK, Prof Margaret Boden. She tells us to stop worrying about some apocalypse that is a very remote danger but start thinking about the ethics of using robots to care for the elderly.
Listen to Tech Tent on Fridays at 15:00 GMT (16:00 BST) on BBC World Service or catch the podcast here..
One had been injured in Amatrice, the town which saw the heaviest loss of life, and the other in Arquata del Tronto, which was also badly damaged.
The magnitude-6.2 quake struck at 03:36 (01:36 GMT) on 24 August, 100km (65 miles) north-east of Rome.
Nearly 4,000 people made homeless are still in temporary accommodation.
The authorities hope to find proper shelter for those living in camps before the onset of bad weather, an official told BBC News on Friday.
Towns and villages were damaged in the regions of Lazio, Le Marche, Umbria and Abruzzo, with the epicentre about 4km north-east of Norcia.
At least 230 of the victims were killed in Amatrice and 50 in the Arquata del Tronto area, while others died in Accumoli.
It was exactly what England needed at the time after they had lost three quick wickets to leave them 49-3, and helped them reach 179-4 at the close.
Captain Alastair Cook suffered his first duck in 40 innings and I was surprised by Joe Root, who looked well set and confident but was dismissed by the spinners' first delivery of the day, which did turn - perhaps a sign that spin will play a part in proceedings once the sun comes out and dries the pitch.
But to have players other than Joe Root and Alastair Cook coming in and playing well when England were facing a problem is a good thing for the side. It shows they have others who can step into the breach.
I think everyone recognises that Taylor is a really promising young player. At 25, he is now completely different at the crease than when he first played Test cricket in 2012. He is much more confident.
Even Test Match Special summariser Graeme Smith was paying tribute to him today for the change he has seen in him at the crease.
He played really well, and it was sad that he got out in the dying moments of the day, as Dale Steyn picked up his third wicket of the innings.
Compton is the one who had a lot to prove after being dropped following the home series against New Zealand in May 2013.
Having received quite a lot of sympathy for losing his place after scoring two centuries away to the same opponents two months earlier, he has come back and started to prove a point.
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The technique he showed today is exactly what you want from a number three when the team is in trouble.
The ball did a bit, although not much, but the team was in trouble and it was a very good examination of him. The pressure was not on him to score particularly quickly, therefore he could get in and bat, and that is what he likes to do.
He gave a very discreet clenched fist pump when he got to 50. He is an intense individual but he is also a good player.
Opener Alex Hales will obviously be a bit of a talking point. His dismissal was of the type his detractors point to as an illustration of how his technique will let him down in Test cricket.
The ball from Dale Steyn wasn't a half volley - it was wide and he chased it. Unfortunately, in Test cricket, you can't take that amount of risk early in your innings.
The 26-year-old has a great eye, he has scored explosive hundreds in one-day cricket and there is an argument for saying let him play his natural game.
That's OK, except when you are in circumstances like this on the first morning of a series and you have two of the best bowlers in the world running in with the ball doing a bit. Do you really want to be throwing your bat at a wide length ball? The odds are already stacked in the bowler's favour. You want to even up the odds, and that means leaving well and playing solidly with tight footwork.
Some people will judge him on today's dismissal but England have got to give him a chance and persevere with him. He is a talented batsman - it will be a steep learning curve and he will realise he needs to tighten up a bit.
Hopefully he will find some flatter pitches than this as the series goes on.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Phil Dawkes.
The clubs will play each other in the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Sports Academy Challenge on 17 February at New York University's Abu Dhabi Campus.
Both teams are part of City Football Group, which also owns Manchester City and Melbourne City men's football club.
Manchester City Women start their Women's Super League campaign against Notts County Ladies on 23 March.
Police and intelligence officers will be able to see the names of sites people have visited without a warrant, Home Secretary Theresa May said.
But there would be new safeguards over MI5, MI6 and the police spying on the full content of people's web use.
Mrs May told MPs the proposed powers were needed to fight crime and terror.
The wide-ranging draft Investigatory Powers Bill also contains proposals covering how the state can hack devices and run operations to sweep up large amounts of data as it flows through the internet, enshrining in law the previously covert activities of GCHQ, as uncovered by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The draft bill's measures include:
Mrs May told MPs the draft bill was a "significant departure" from previous plans, dubbed the "snooper's charter" by critics, which were blocked by the Lib Dems, and will "provide some of the strongest protections and safeguards anywhere in the democratic world and an approach that sets new standards for openness, transparency and oversight".
But Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights campaign Liberty, said: "After all the talk of climbdowns and safeguards, this long-awaited Bill constitutes a breath-taking attack on the internet security of every man, woman and child in our country.
"We must now look to Parliament to step in where ministers have failed and strike a better balance between privacy and surveillance."
And Mr Snowden warned the communications data covered by the proposed legislation was "the activity log of your life".
In a message on Twitter he said: "'It's only communications data' = 'It's only a comprehensive record of your private activities'."
The proposed legislation will be consulted on before a bill is formally introduced to Parliament in the New Year, Mrs May said. It will then have to pass votes in both houses of Parliament.
It would order communications companies, such as broadband firms, to hold basic details of the services that someone has accessed online - something that has been repeatedly proposed but never enacted.
This duty would include forcing firms to hold a schedule of which websites someone visits and the apps they connect to through computers, smartphones, tablets and other devices.
Police and other agencies would be then able to access these records in pursuit of criminals - but also seek to retrieve data in a wider range of inquiries, such as missing people.
Mrs May stressed that the authorities would not be able to access everyone's browsing history, just basic data, which was the "modern equivalent of an itemised phone bill".
But investigating officers will not have to obtain a warrant, just get their request signed off by a senior officer, just as they do now - some 517,000 such requests were granted last year.
If officers want to mount more intrusive spying operations, including accessing the content of emails, hacking into computers and tapping phones, they will still need a warrant from the home secretary or another senior minister - 2,700 such warrants were signed last year.
But the draft bill proposes giving a new panel of judges, known as the Investigatory Powers Commission, the ability to veto such requests.
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When police or security agencies apply to intercept someone's communications, their plans would have to be first signed off by the home secretary but then approved by one of these judges.
In urgent situations, such as when someone's life is in danger or there is a unique opportunity to gather critical intelligence, the home secretary would have the power to approve an interception warrant without immediate judicial approval.
The judges would also be able to refer serious errors to an outside tribunal which could then decide to tell the individual their data has been illegally collected.
The bill does not propose forcing overseas companies to comply with these orders.
The bulk collection of internet messages flowing through the UK by GCHQ, as revealed by Edward Snowden, is currently in a legal grey area, covered by legislation originally meant for other purposes.
The security services argue they need access to large amounts of data to help them monitor suspected foreign terrorists or criminals deemed to pose a threat to the UK.
The new bill would aim to put bulk collection on a firm legal footing, with the home secretary given the power to issue warrants, as set out in the graph below.
The estimated cost to taxpayers of implementing the Bill is about £247m over the next 10 years, including storage of internet connection records and the new warrant approval regime.
The draft bill is a response in part to a review by the government's terror watchdog, David Anderson QC, who said in June the UK needed a "comprehensive" new surveillance law to replace the current "fragmented" rules.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Mr Anderson gave Mrs May's proposals "four stars" but said it would be for Parliament to determine the extent of surveillance powers and safeguards.
He said: "This isn't a licence for the police to simply prowl over everything you have been doing, but I quite accept that a lot of data is being kept by these service providers and under the government's proposals it would be kept for a very long time."
This creates "obvious risks" he said, adding: "I simply wouldn't vote for this unless I had been very substantially satisfied that those risks had been minimised."
Labour's shadow home secretary Andy Burnham backed the draft bill, saying it was "neither a snooper's charter nor a plan for mass surveillance".
Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said it was a "much improved model" of the legislation he blocked during the coalition government but said the "devil would be in the detail".
The futuristic Hanna-Barbera show, originally set in 2062, followed a family living in a space city.
But would audiences - and critics - appreciate an updated Jetsons with actual people?
Live-action cartoon adaptations on the big screen historically haven't been met with much praise, so perhaps a TV version will fare better.
Here's a look at some of the cartoon adaptations that were probably best left alone.
On paper, a Scooby-Doo movie is a great idea - mystery, suspense, a talking dog and those pesky kids.
Audiences flocked to see it in its opening weekend, but were mostly left underwhelmed.
Empire said: "Anyone looking for sophistication from a movie which features a two minute-long farting contest between man and CG dog is going to be sorely disappointed."
Its healthy box office receipts led studio bosses to make a critically panned sequel two years later.
Originally starting out as a comic, the live action film version was based on the 1950s and '60s cartoons about the friendly ghost.
"Duller than a dead man's eyes," was the Washington Post's appraisal of the film starring Christina Ricci.
While Entertainment Weekly concluded: "The movie version is like the cartoon without innocence - a fairy tale with the soul of a re-run."
Boasting a great cast including John Goodman, Rick Moranis and Elizabeth Taylor, The Flintstones was highly anticipated when it was released.
It performed reasonably well at the US box office and really flew internationally. But that didn't mean people liked it.
"It isn't just awful. It bombs itself into the Stone Age. As Fred Flintstone might have put it: Yabba-dabba-boo," the Washington Post said.
It also spawned a sequel - Viva Rock Vegas - which without the original cast no-one wanted to see, opening to a meagre $10.5m and taking $59.5m worldwide.
The little blue guys who stand three apples high had been a global hit in the 1980s so it was only a matter of time before they got the big screen treatment.
With a staggering $110m budget, you might have expected a cinematic masterpiece.
"103 minutes of utter tripe," was the Daily Mail's mauling, but that didn't stop a $105m sequel in 2013, which effectively bombed in the US, taking $71m.
A movie version of He-Man! A hit cartoon with a massively popular toy range behind it. What could possibly go wrong?
"You couldn't get a more polyethylene performance than Dolph Lundgren gives," the LA Times scathed. "A misfiring, underdone epic."
Possibly the worst performing cartoon to live-action adaptation made, Jem had a hard time from the moment its trailer was released.
Fans were not happy with what they saw and voted with their feet at the box office. Another problem was the young female market it was targeted at were too young to actually know or care about who Jem was in the first place.
It was a disastrous flop, taking just $2.3m worldwide with the critics almost universally found no redeeming features.
"It takes a cartoon that was originally about a group of women who unquestionably held power and turns it into a tale of a meek and weak-willed young woman who is arbitrarily given fame and holds zero agency except for that which is granted to her by the men in her life," Forbes said.
Ouch.
You know a film is bad when even the actors start to distance themselves from it.
And that's what Bill Murray did, famously joking in Zombieland about his voice role in Garfield when asked of any regrets.
BBC Films called it "a misguided attempt to construct a feature-length vehicle around a cartoon creation who was barely tolerable over three panels - the result is not so much catnip as catnap".
Sadly a sequel followed, taking a meagre $7.3m in its opening weekend and $28.4m domestically in the US.
Loved by many in the 1980s, the bumbling Swiss Army knife detective seemed perfect for the big screen.
But the Matthew Broderick film was a box office flop which after costs, wouldn't have made back its budget.
Critics universally panned it, with The Guardian describing it as: "Mad and headache-inducing: boisterous kids will like it; adults might feel the need to lie down in a darkened room."
Another Hanna-Barbera cartoon to be given the live-action treatment, the picnic-stealing bear failed to set the world alight with USA Today proclaiming he "needs to go back into hibernation".
It took $16.4m in its first three days, compared to Tron Legacy's $44m the same weekend.
There were very few positive reviews; most were savage with Empire asking: "What drug did they use on Justin Timberlake to make him sign on as Boo-Boo?"
The film that bucks the trend of failed cartoon/live-action adaptations is Transformers - a franchise which has so far spawned five movies.
Critics were generally split on the merits of the first film - "the script may have rubbery legs, but the action is rock-hard," Empire said.
As the films have gone on, the reviews have progressively got worse, but that hasn't stopped audiences going to cinemas in their droves to see Optimus Prime and his band of Autobots save the world.
The third and fourth Transformers movies both took more than $1bn at the global box office - a figure most movie studios can only dream of.
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Ziyed Ben Belgacem, 39, was killed after he put a gun to a soldier's head saying he wanted to "die for Allah".
Paris prosecutors' office said toxicology tests during his autopsy found traces of cocaine and cannabis.
Belgacem also had an alcohol level of 0.93g per litre of blood, nearly twice the legal limit for driving in France.
He is said to have been radicalised in prison, and was on a police watch-list.
He was involved in a shooting and then a carjacking on Saturday before he attacked a military patrol at Orly, Paris's second-biggest airport.
Belgacem's criminal record included convictions for armed robbery and drugs offences, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters late on Saturday.
In an interview with French radio Europe 1 on Sunday, a man identified as his father said Belgacem wasn't a practising Muslim and drank alcohol.
"My son was not a terrorist. He never prayed, and he drank. But under the effects of alcohol and cannabis, this is where one ends up," the father said.
Europe 1 did not give his name.
The father was released from police custody overnight on Saturday, while Belgacem's brother and a cousin were released later on Sunday.
Early on Saturday morning, Belgacem was stopped at a checkpoint in Garges-les-Gonesse, north of Paris.
He fired at police with a pellet gun before escaping in a car that was later found abandoned.
Police say he then stole a car at gunpoint from a woman at Vitry, south of Paris. That car was later found at Orly airport.
Belgacem arrived at the airport and attacked a military patrol in the south terminal.
He tried to seize a servicewoman's automatic weapon, put his gun to her head and said: "I'm here to die for Allah. In any case people are going to die."
He was then shot dead by two other soldiers.
A copy of the Koran was found on his body, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins added.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the picture is building up of a man on the criminal fringes of society, who also consorted with Islamist radicals.
The attack came at a sensitive time. France has presidential elections starting next month and remains under a state of emergency.
The soldiers at Orly were part of Operation Sentinel - involving thousands of soldiers deployed to provide back-up to the police after the Charlie Hebdo attack in January 2015 and the Paris attacks of November 2015.
Callum Brown, from Kirkcaldy, was 18 when he crashed the car leading to the death of his passenger, 16-year-old Brian Phimister.
The crash happened in the early hours of 5 June 2015 near Kirkcaldy.
Brown was jailed for three years and four months for what the judge said was "a needless loss of life".
He pled guilty to causing death by dangerous driving during a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh last month.
Police investigators found Brown was driving at at least 58mph in a 40mph zone when he crashed the car on the Coaltown of Wemyss to Dysart road.
Brown, who had a previous conviction for speeding, lost control on a bend and when emergency services arrived they found his vehicle lying on its side and "folded around the tree".
Detectives investigating the death of Brian, who was known to friends as Phimmy, concluded that Brown was speeding due to skid marks left on the road.
At the High Court in Paisley, Judge Craig Scott QC told Brown he would have to live with the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life.
He said: "Following the impact with the tree, and judging by his injuries, Brian Phimister had no chance of surviving.
"You, on the other hand, did survive and you have survived to bear witness to what was a needless loss of a life - caused entirely by the manner in which you chose to drive your car.
"All with no regard for the consequences and, particularly, for the life of your good friend. In a few moments, your car sped out of control on its way to tragedy."
Judge Scott said he would have jailed Brown for five years were it not for his guilty plea.
He added: "It seems to me the only redeeming features concerning the circumstances are that no other road users were involved and no factor apart from excessive speed was involved."
The judge also banned Brown from driving for five years and told him he must pass an extended driving test before getting behind the wheel again.
The visitors took the lead through an own goal when Kevin Lokko headed a cross past keeper Mike McEntegart.
The Wood doubled their lead four minutes before the break when Luke Howell curled a shot in.
Clovis Kamdjo headed a third just after the hour mark as Mark Goldberg suffered a second straight defeat as Wings boss.
On Monday Australia's upper house, the Senate, rejected a piece of government legislation for a second time.
This provided Mr Turnbull with a trigger for a so-called double dissolution election.
Mr Turnbull said at a press conference on Tuesday that he intended to ask the governor general to dissolve parliament after the budget on 3 May.
He said calling the double dissolution was about "giving the people their say".
What is a double dissolution election?
Australia's constitution allows for an early election to be called when 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.
What are the key policy battlegrounds?
The government will position itself as the party best placed to transition Australia from the mining boom through to a new phase of economic growth. Labor, conversely, will run on a "people first" platform of health, education and nation building.
How do the leaders stack up?
Mr Turnbull is, well known to Australians through his prominent public life as a barrister and advocate for the republic, is the clear frontrunner. But he has been losing ground to Mr Shorten in the polls.
Mr Turnbull will attempt to paint Mr Shorten as a union lackey who cannot manage the economy; Mr Shorten will say Mr Turnbull is an out-of-touch protector of greedy banks leading a divided party that stands for nothing.
How many seats does Labor need to win?
Labor needs to win 21 seats to take power, a swing of 4.3%.
Mr Turnbull said that if the ruling coalition wins the election, "as I believe we will, we will return and the reforms to registered organisations and the reintroduction of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) will be made law".
Earlier in the day opposition Labor leader Bill Shorten addressed the party's caucus, reportedly saying of the government that "beyond Turnbull's popularity, they now have nothing".
"They are going to have a civil war. It's a choice about whether they have it in government or in opposition," Mr Shorten was quoted as saying.
Residents of the UK, France and Irish Republic will be able to apply online to attend, said John Whittingdale.
The Somme was one of the bloodiest battles of World War One with more than one million casualties over 141 days.
The ceremony will take place at France's Thiepval Memorial on 1 July 2016. The ballot opens on 28 September.
The ballot will be for pairs of tickets.
A ceremony is held at the Thiepval Memorial every year, but the joint Anglo-French centenary event will be on a larger scale, with 10,000 people attending - 8,000 of whom will be selected by ballot.
The monument, erected in 1932, includes the graves of 600 British and French soldiers, along with the names of 72,000 more who died engraved on to the stone.
"Nearly everyone in the UK will have an ancestor who fought or died at the Somme," said Mr Whittingdale.
"It is important that people across the UK have the chance to remember and honour these brave soldiers.
"The centenary event will be an opportunity to not only pay tribute to those that sacrificed so much but to ensure that their legacy continues for generations."
Mr Whittingdale also expressed gratitude to the the French for their collaboration "on what will be an incredibly important and deeply moving event".
The 19-year-old batsman is to spend three months playing for Cape Town CC.
He will also be having intensive training at former South Africa opener Gary Kirsten's cricket academy.
"Hopefully I can gain some really good skills, bring that back into the season in the UK and you never know what could happen this year," Jenner said.
Jenner, who made his international debut for Jersey aged 15, is now on an 'academy plus' contract at Sussex after finishing school in the summer.
He played most of the second half of last season in the county's second team, and is hopeful of starting the season in the same squad.
He told BBC Radio Jersey: "It'll be really nice to hopefully go in right at the beginning of the season without the added pressure of school and exams and hopefully cement my place in that team.
"There's a real big emphasis at the moment on consistently scoring runs, whether it be in the second team or first team.
"The next three months will be interesting. I don't know if they're going to be very big in my career, we'll soon find out."
Dong Energy said it wanted to construct a second operational hub next to its existing building on the Royal Dock and would invest up to £20m in the project.
It would "support and maintain" three wind farms off the coast of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, the firm said.
Its UK chairman, Brent Cheshire, said the hub would be a "game-changing, industry first".
"It will generate direct and indirect job opportunities in the Humber region, as well as opportunities for the local supply chain," he said.
Last month, the government approved plans for Dong Energy to build an offshore wind farm 55 miles (88 km) east of Hornsea.
But the RSPB said it would pose an "unacceptable risk to nature" as the development was "in the flight path" of two threatened species of seabirds - gannets and kittiwakes.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the design and construction of the project had been adjusted in order to reduce impacts on birds.
Sir Nicholas topped ArtReview magazine's annual Power 100 list for helping Tate "punch above its weight in the global network of influence".
He has been the Tate's director since 1988 and oversaw the opening of Tate Modern in 2000.
The gallery, in a former power station on London's Southbank, is the world's most visited contemporary art museum.
Sir Nicholas, 68, who has appeared in the top 10 of every list since it launched in 2002, is the first representative of a public museum to reach the top spot.
ArtReview said that he was ranked number one this year "on account of the way in which Tate has, since the launch of Tate Modern, consistently deployed an international - rather than a national - perspective on art production".
It added: "Tate has come to epitomise almost all the elements of the current 'global' art world, where the distribution of art is arguably now more important than its production."
The full list can be found on the ArtReview website.
Sir Nicholas ran London's Whitechapel Art Gallery from 1976-88 and Oxford's Museum of Modern Art from 1973-76.
He co-curated Tate Modern's recent Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs - its first show to attract more than half a million visitors.
In 2013-14, more than seven million people visited the Tate's four galleries - Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.
American painter Christopher Wool is one of the highest new entries on the ArtReview list at number 55.
ArtReview said it was the result of the 59-year-old's influence "on a younger generation of artists who are currently fuelling the auction fires".
Last year's list was topped by Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the sister of the emir of Qatar, who heads the country's museums authority.
Lord Heseltine backed the demand for a parliamentary vote on the final deal to be written into Brexit legislation.
Lord Heseltine learned hours later that he had been fired from five government advisory roles he had held.
He said he accepted Number 10's right to sack him but "sometimes there are issues which transcend party politics".
Lord Heseltine told the Lords that the UK was facing "the most momentous peacetime decision of our time".
The peer said he was having dinner with his wife when he got a call from the chief whip, and went to the Lords to be told he was being sacked.
Lord Heseltine told the BBC: "This is not my judgment, this is the prime minister exercising her perfectly legitimate right to get rid of opposition in any way she finds appropriate.
"Whether it's a wise thing to do is a matter for her not for me.
"I have been hugely proud of the work I have done for David Cameron and now for this prime minister, and if they don't want me to go on they must sack me."
He continued: "I did write a newspaper article the other day setting out exactly what I intended to do so I think they could have told me this would be the price but let me make it quite clear; I would still have voted as I did tonight.
"Sometimes in politics there are issues which transcend party politics; in the end you have to be your own person. I believe our interests are intertwined with Europe. I am not prepared to change.
"Every Conservative prime minister I worked for has told me, including this prime minister before the referendum, that we were essentially seeking British self-interest in Europe."
"It's not perfect but it's much better than anything that happened before the Second World War."
Ministers have said they aim to overturn the two defeats peers inflicted on them in the Lords on the Brexit bill.
When the bill becomes law it will give the prime minister the legal permission she requires to begin the process of leaving the EU.
Brexit Secretary David Davis has said some in the Lords are seeking to "frustrate" Brexit but it was the government's intention to ensure that did not happen.
When the bill returns to the Commons next week ministers will have some persuading to do but Theresa May remains on course to trigger Article 50 and begin Brexit negotiations before the end of this month.
Like Ken Clarke in the Commons, Lord Heseltine was determined to remain vociferously pro-European both before and after the referendum.
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason says Lord Heseltine's sacking illustrates Downing Street's determination to pointedly press ahead with Brexit.
Lord Heseltine, 83, served as a minister in Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.
He was brought in by former Prime Minister David Cameron to advise the government on a range of projects, including schemes in east London and Swansea.
Peers voted by 366 votes to 268 in favour of an amendment to the bill to have a "meaningful" parliamentary vote on the final terms of the Brexit deal.
The previous defeat was on the issue of guaranteeing the rights of EU citizens.
After a three-hour debate on Tuesday, the turnout for the vote was the largest in the Lords since 1831, according to Parliament's website.
As well as Lord Heseltine, 12 other Tory peers defied the government to vote in favour of the amendment, including former ministers Lord Deben and Viscount Hailsham.
Mrs May has said she wants to trigger Article 50 by the end of March but the Commons is unlikely to have an opportunity to consider the changes made by the Lords until the middle of next week as four days have been set aside for debate on the Budget.
The species included Daubenton's and Brandt's.
The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) enlisted more than 3,500 volunteers to help with its National Bat Monitoring Programme.
The citizen science project collected data from 3,272 sites across Great Britain from 1997 to 2012.
In the report, the trust said the results revealed a "generally favourable picture" and "signs of recovery" for bats over the monitoring period.
The study did, however, generate different trends for Natterer's, serotine and pipistrelles.
The report added: "This study demonstrates that use of volunteer programmes can be successful in monitoring bat populations, provided that key features including standardised survey methods and volunteer training are incorporated.
"Some species that are more difficult to detect and identify may however require specialist surveillance techniques."
For a country that has been largely left to its own fate, the sudden spike in international interest in Zimbabwe did not come from the high unemployment figures, the food shortages, the state persecution of vendors, the lack of medicines, the lack of cash - but from a lion named "Cecil" by conservationists.
Cecil was killed by a US dentist fond of hunting, who was once fined for killing a bear in his own country outside the permitted hunting area.
The lion's death has not registered much with the locals - and for most Zimbabweans the name is more associated with the British imperialist diamond digger Cecil John Rhodes, serving as a reminder that the country once bore the name Rhodesia.
Indeed for the Zimbabwe press this explains "the saturation coverage on the demise of his namesake", and they have been reminding us that tourism and hunting are "mired in elitism".
As names go, it was a curious choice for a Zimbabwean lion - it would be like Asmara Zoo calling a lion Benito in a not so subtle nod to Mussolini, Eritrea's Italian coloniser.
Those hoping not to offend in future may wish to clear lion names with a relevant ministry.
One hundred years ago the colonisers were wiping out animals as a kind of rite of passage throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
"Safari cool" was popularised by the 26th US President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and American writer Ernest Hemingway, before hunting as conservation became acceptable.
Licensed to kill: When hunting is not poaching
In this new century folk are a bit more sentimental, and scientists studying the lions in their habitat are making us sensitive to the fact that growing human populations are decreasing the living space of beasts.
In reality though, the lion is caught between the rock of his ever-shrinking jungle and the hard place that is legalised hunting.
Hunting brings in $616m (£395m) into South Africa's national coffers every year and trophy hunting is permitted all year round in Zimbabwe - and a brief web search will tell you how much you can expect to spend on bagging a warthog, a hyena, a giraffe, an elephant or a lion.
Hunting, and to a large extend, conservation, remains a "white man's game" throughout southern Africa.
The professional hunters are often white Zimbabweans, white South Africans or white Zambians who, in turn are visited by other white folk with huge disposable income - like the cricketer Glen McGrath or the former Spanish King Juan Carlos - or the American dentist from Minnesota who paid $50,000 to kill Cecil.
When the local press call the hunting culture "elitist", they may be referring to these visitors who ghost in on chartered flights from South Africa, live in lodges far from the locals, kill wild game and head back to their Western capitals to await the delivery of their severed heads.
It is impossible for some of us to understand the thrill for the hunter, or why hunting remains so attractive to some men and some women - the dentist has been pictured with dead leopards too, and there are photographs of a graceful giraffe bloodied on the floor with some hunter standing over it.
The late US conservationist Edward Abbey once wrote: "Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and aesthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one."
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665 Approx number of 'trophy' lions killed for export from Africa per year
49 Lion 'trophies' exported from Zimbabwe in 2013
0.29% Contribution to GDP of Zimbabwe from trophy hunting
17% Of Zimbabwe's land given to trophy hunting
Despite the divided trenches of "to hunt" or "not to hunt", money is the bottom line.
The vast sums of money involved will have had a double-edged impact on Zimbabwe's struggling economy.
Just how much of the cash is ending up in the national coffers or helping conservation efforts is unknown, but it is also true that a scramble to own game ranches has been at play now for some time amongst Zimbabwe's powerful.
The first lady herself was accused of allegedly displacing farm workers to make way for wild animals as she tried to turn the land into a game ranch. A court order has halted the evictions, which government has denied were linked to Grace Mugabe.
Even the two men brought before the courts over this incident provide us with a microcosm of Zimbabwe's new reality after its land reform, with a black landowner, who is yet to be charged, and his white ranger, who has pleaded not guilty to aiding the rich dentist.
The prosecutors believe it was a crime - a lion was shot with a bow and arrow after being lured out of its protected zone, only to die 40 hours later from a bullet, and all the while wearing a GPS collar which ought to have made it immune to a hunter's fancy.
The most notorious lion in Zimbabwe was one that once roamed villages in Kariba eating people at sunset.
The villagers ironically called the man eater "Maswera Sei", meaning "How was your day?"
Because he was too old, the lion hunted humans, the easiest prey of all.
With the wrath of social media, the dentist may be feeling like a hunted animal himself, but unlike Cecil - he lives to hunt again.
The central bank has revoked foreign exchange licenses from businesses ranging from hotels and restaurants to golf clubs and hospitals.
It said a growing preference for the US dollar has spurred demand for it, and led to "exchange rate instability".
The US dollar is used widely in the tourism industry.
Since the end of military rule in 2011, Myanmar has launched economic reforms, adopting a floating rate for the kyat.
The licences, however, have allowed many people to use the dollar for domestic transactions, bypassing the local financial system.
The kyat has fallen more than 20% so far this year, making it one of the worst-performing currencies in the region.
In a statement, the country's central bank said the special licenses were revoked to combat "dollarisation".
"Because of payments and sales in dollars, there has been dollarisation leading to an increased need for dollars, weakening the 'Kyat' and causing exchange rate instability," the national lender said.
With an exchange rate of more than 1,200 kyat to one dollar, larger cash transactions require stacks of bank notes if not conducted in US dollars.
After the changes, only banks and official money changers will still be allowed to exchange dollars. Other companies will have to return their permits by 30 November.
According to the statement, all hotels, travel agencies, restaurants, duty free shops, airlines, hospitals, freight forwarders, telecom enterprises, media, apartments, super markets, souvenir shops, gold clubs and the military-owned Myanmar Economic Holding will have to give back their licences.
The bank said the move was intended to promote the use of kyat in making payments for goods and services within the country and to cut down the use of cash by encouraging domestic debit cards and credit cards, internal payment cards and online payment system.
Myanmar is not the only country in Asia where the US dollar is used as an unofficial second currency, essentially replacing the national currency for all larger transactions.
In Cambodia, the US dollar is also used alongside the domestic currency, the riel, which is used mostly for fractional dollar amounts.
The protesters are angry about an international tribunal ruling rejecting China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The case was brought by the Philippines, a US ally which has a competing claim in the area.
State newspapers said the authorities were "calling for rational patriotism".
KFC has more than 4,000 branches in China and is often seen as a symbol of US influence in the country.
Not huge, but animated.
In recent days, small groups of protesters have gathered outside KFC outlets, starting in Hebei and spreading to other places including Changsha and Hangzhou, media reports said.
They have shouted anti-US slogans and held up banners with the words "Get out of China, KFC and McDonalds".
In some of the videos of protests which were posted to Sina Weibo, police can be seen intervening.
The state Xinhua news agency said: "This is not the right way to express patriotism."
The China Daily newspaper said: "Instead of being patriotic, it is their jingoism that does a disservice to the spirit of devotion to the nation.
"Those who organise such activities without going through the necessary procedures and unlawfully harass others in the name of patriotism should be held accountable according to the law."
Both the China Daily and the People's Daily newspaper said police and media organisations were "calling for rational patriotism".
In China, protesting without seeking permission from the authorities is forbidden.
Nothing. However, China has accused the US of encouraging its ally, the Philippines, to challenge China in the arbitration tribunal.
The tribunal ruled there was no evidence for China's claim of historic rights to the waters or resources within its "nine-dash line", and that it was violating the Philippines' sovereign rights with its operations there.
China has been engaged in vast amounts of construction on various disputed islands and its maritime authorities have been involved in altercations with Philippine fishermen in the Scarborough Shoal area.
China refused to participate in the proceedings and rejected the findings.
No. Chinese netizens have also been sharing images online of people apparently smashing iPhones in protest over the ruling, or wearing scarves with patriotic slogans on them.
The Shanghaiist website reported that in Dalian a man wearing Nike shoes was attacked on the subway, supposedly because the wearing of American brands showed support for the US.
And the Philippines is also facing the wrath of some Chinese online, who are calling for a boycott of its famous mangoes and other exports.
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Tony Jules, 63, of Sundon Park, Luton, died on Sunday from prostate cancer at Keech Hospice Care in Luton.
His wife Denise, 60, said her husband was "overwhelmed by how total strangers took his story to their hearts" in his bid to raise funds.
The hospice paid tribute to Mr Jules' "courage" and "strength".
Mrs Jules said it was a sad time for the family, including his sons Taj, 40, and Jonathan, 18, and his mother, Veronica, 84.
"My heartfelt thanks go to all the nurses and staff at Keech for their fantastic care and support throughout Tony's final journey."
Liz Searle, chief executive at Keech, said: "Tony chose to use his final weeks to raise awareness of Keech Hospice Care and to help us to raise much needed funds. Tony and his work will always be remembered by us here at Keech."
Mr Jules started his fundraising mission in August 2015 and it has raised more than £44,500.
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