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Mr Munde was on his way to the airport to take a flight to his home state of Maharashtra when his car was hit by another vehicle, officials said.
Doctors at the AIIMS hospital said he was not breathing when brought in and efforts to resuscitate him failed.
Mr Munde, 64, was appointed just last week to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new government.
India has some of the most dangerous roads in the world - nearly 140,000 people died in road accidents in India in 2012, according to the government's National Crime Records Bureau.
Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari told reporters: "An accident took place earlier in the morning, following which he was taken to hospital in Delhi. Doctors declared him dead at about 8am [02:30GMT]."
"Mr Munde was brought to the emergency department... by his personal assistant and driver. He was sitting in the back seat of his car which was hit by another car or any other vehicle... from the side he was sitting," Dr Amit Gupta of the AIIMS Trauma Centre told reporters.
"On his arrival at the Trauma Centre, there was no spontaneous breathing, no blood pressure, no pulse, no cardiac activity."
Dr Gupta said there were "no major external injuries on his body... clinically we might say that he had a sudden cardiac death".
The minister's driver and secretary escaped unhurt.
Prime Minister Modi was among the first to mourn Mr Munde's death.
"Extremely saddened and shocked by the demise of my friend and colleague Gopinath Munde. His demise is a major loss for the nation and the government," Mr Modi tweeted.
He described Mr Munde as "a true mass leader" and said that "hailing from backward sections of society, he rose to great heights and tirelessly served people".
One of the most popular politicians in Maharashtra, Gopinath Munde wielded great clout at the national level too. He was deputy leader of his party, the BJP, in the last parliament.
Mr Munde was a politician who had risen from the masses. He came from a small area in central Maharashtra called Parli and belonged to a low-caste grouping known as the OBCs, or the Other Backward Classes. They constitute a large voter base for any party, and Mr Munde's popularity among them made him an important leader for the BJP.
His home district of Beed is infamous for female foeticide, and given that he has three daughters and no son, he was often hailed as an example for others to follow. One of his daughters, Pankaja Munde-Palve, is a member of the Maharashtra state assembly.
Mr Munde's body was being flown later on Tuesday to his village where his funeral will take place on Wednesday.
He was deputy chief minister in Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999 and elected twice to the lower house of parliament in 2009 and 2014.
Reports said Mr Munde had been on his way to Maharashtra to address a victory rally in his constituency, Beed.
Although he had recently been appointed rural development minister in the new federal government, he was a popular choice to become the chief minister of Maharashtra, should his party win state elections due in a few months.
His is the second big loss for the BJP in Maharashtra in the past eight years - in 2006, senior party leader Pramod Mahajan was shot dead in his home in Mumbai.
Mr Mahajan was Mr Munde's brother-in-law and correspondents say their closeness to some extent helped Mr Munde rise within the BJP.
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Titled Hahn/Cock, the 4.72m high piece is by German artist Katharina Fritsch and will be on display for 18 months.
Saturated in intense ultramarine blue, the sculpture was unveiled by Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, on Thursday.
It replaces a 4.1m high bronze of a boy on a rocking horse that had been on the plinth since February 2012.
By Rebecca JonesArts correspondent, BBC News
A big blue cock positively invites double entendres. And the opportunity was not lost on the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, as he unveiled the latest sculpture on the Fourth Plinth.
Despite saying he wouldn't lapse into the art criticism of Viz character Finbarr Saunders, that didn't stop him wondering how long the "wonderful creature" was going to stay up. (The answer, by the way, is 18 months.)
You certainly cannot miss it. Painted a deep, matt electric blue, it adds a spot of vibrant colour to Trafalgar Square. Surrounded by bronze statues of Kings and Generals, there is a kind of joyful aspect to it which will put a smile on many people's faces.
The public sculpture, said Mr Johnson, "doesn't just show that we're the sporting capital, but we are also the artistic and cultural capital of the world".
He also said he would try and avoid any double entendres when talking about the cockerel.
"It is a ginormous blue Hahn Cock, as it's called," he told BBC London.
"I think if you tried to Google it in the future, the Prime Minister would stop you from finding it" - a reference to David Cameron's proposals to have internet pornography blocked by internet providers.
One London-based conservation group had tried to stop the cockerel - a traditional emblem of France - from being displayed.
Trafalgar Square takes its name from the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, one of Britain's most significant naval victories in the Napoleonic Wars.
The Thorney Island Society wrote to Westminster Council in protest, branding the sculpture "totally inappropriate".
But Justine Simons, director of the Fourth Plinth programme, said she was confident it would be a popular addition.
"We really love the striking vivid blue colour and also the character is really interesting," she told BBC London.
"It's an everyday kind of object - this regular domestic cockerel with a twist. The artist has supersized it.
"It will be as big as a London bus and she's made it this striking blue colour, so it will be familiar but also quite surreal."
Many leading artists have bid to have their work displayed on the Fourth Plinth over the last seven years.
The first sculpture to occupy it was Mark Wallinger's Ecce Homo, a marble sculpture of a human-scale Jesus.
Others have included a statue of a naked, pregnant woman with no arms and Antony Gormley's One & Other, where members of the public occupied the plinth for an hour at a time.
The chancellor said it would require "every ounce of skill and diplomacy" to get the right deal, warning that people didn't vote for Brexit to be poorer.
Speaking in London, he said changes to customs arrangements should be phased in and there should be transitional measures to protect key industries.
Labour said the chancellor was seeking to "distance himself" from Theresa May.
Mr Hammond's speech came as ministers deny the UK had caved in over the timetable for Brexit talks.
As the process began on Monday, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said the two sides had agreed to discuss the details of the UK's exit - such as the rights of citizens and any so-called "divorce bill" - before moving on to the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the EU.
The UK has always maintained that the two issues go hand in hand and should be dealt with simultaneously.
In his first major speech since the Conservatives failed to win a majority in the general election, Mr Hammond set out his priorities for the Brexit negotiations, placing the needs of the UK economy and businesses front and centre.
While the talks had got off to a promising start, he warned they would get "tougher" and the remaining 27 EU members would have their own agenda.
"The future of our economy is inextricably linked to the kind of Brexit deal we reach with the EU over the next 20 months," he told an audience of City leaders at the Mansion House.
Philip Hammond said that no-one voted for Brexit to become poorer.
He also made it clear that he wants to put the economy at the heart of the Brexit negotiations. Rather than sovereignty or controlling immigration, which are the issues likely to motivate other colleagues in the Cabinet and certainly in the Conservative Party.
The tensions are clear. The chancellor - strengthened since the general election - gave the greatest detail yet about what his approach might mean for our future relationship with the EU. Yes, as he said at the weekend, the UK will be leaving the customs union.
But he made the case for a new form of customs agreement with "current border arrangements" - which presumably means agreeing to some form of EU oversight for some years following Britain's exit from the union.
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He added: "I am confident we can do a Brexit deal which puts jobs and prosperity first, that reassures employers that they will still be able to access the talent they need, that keeps our market for goods, services and capital open, achieves early agreement on transitional arrangements so trade can carry on flowing smoothly.
"The collective sigh of relief would be audible. The benefit to our economy would be huge."
Mr Hammond said every sector of the British economy, whether it be the car industry, pharmaceuticals or financial services, were dependent on a "smooth" transition to a post-Brexit world that was underpinned by a "comprehensive" free trade agreement in goods and services.
A deal "that protects jobs, prosperity and living standards in Britain will require every ounce of skill and diplomacy we can muster", he said, claiming that any alternative outcome would not be "delivering on the instructions" given by the public when they voted Leave in last year's referendum.
Mr Hammond said the UK still planned to leave the single market and customs union despite calls for a rethink from business after the inconclusive election result. But he said border checks - particularly in Ireland - must remain as "frictionless as possible" as the UK moved to a different system.
"To do this in the context of our wider objectives will be challenging... it will almost certainly need an implementation period, outside the customs union itself but with current customs border arrangements remaining in place until new long-term arrangements are up and running."
Leaving the EU, he added, could not be to the detriment of investment, enterprise or increased productivity - which he said held the key to the UK's future economic growth and the government's ability to pay for increased funding for public services at a time of growing "weariness" over austerity.
"I thought we had won that argument. But I learnt in the general election that we had not.
"That we must make anew the case for a market economy and for sound money, the case for growth, we need to explain again how stronger growth must be delivered."
Barry Gardiner, the shadow secretary of state for international trade, said Mr Hammond had "swallowed Labour's playbook" by backing a "jobs-first Brexit, fair and managed migration and no deal being a bad deal".
"He has adopted the very wording," he told the BBC's Daily Politics.
Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith, a leading voice in the campaign to leave the EU, said the chancellor's speech was "fine", with little he disagreed with.
But pro-EU former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine told BBC Newsnight: "There is no longer any agreement in the Conservative Party on what Brexit means.
"We've always known this but the chancellor's speech today reflects probably a majority in the cabinet."
In other Brexit news, a group of Labour MPs and MEPs has said the party should fight to retain full membership of the EU single market.
More than 30 politicians - including MPs Chuka Umunna, Maria Eagle and Liz Kendall and shadow ministers Andy Slaughter, Daniel Zeichner and Ruth Cadbury - signed a statement on the Guardian website.
Labour's official position focuses on "retaining the benefits" of the single market, and on Sunday its Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer said the UK could not retain "formal membership" after leaving the EU.
But the MPs' statement said "access" to the single market was "both different and inferior to membership of the single market", because it would leave working people worse off.
From an Iwata swordfighter to a banana meme, the BBC takes a look at some of the ways fans are honouring his legacy.
Wii tributes
Many users used Wii games to pay tribute to Mr Iwata, who steered the company to develop the game console.
On the popular paint-shooting game Splatoon, where users can doodle their own character status updates, some have been spotted referencing Mr Iwata and his games.
Twitter user Hollander Cooper noted: "Splatoon is really, really depressing tonight."
Some have also used it to express moral support for Nintendo.
Video gamer Matt Blankenship created a tribute figure to Mr Iwata in the game Mii Swordfighter.
Some have also tweeted tribute images of Mr Iwata with a bunch of bananas, in a reference to an internet meme about him.
In 2012 Nintendo screened a short clip of Mr Iwata silently staring at the fruit at the start of a press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), as an apparent nod to Donkey Kong.
The clip soon became a running joke. Mr Iwata's - or rather his puppet's - latest performance took place at this year's E3 where Nintendo hired the Jim Henson Company to make puppet versions of the executives.
Twitter has been flooded with artworks depicting Mr Iwata with famous characters in the Nintendo game universe.
This picture by Twitter user 1217karen shows him with Kirby perched on his head. The pink blob stars in the eponymous game which Mr Iwata helped to create in his early years as a programmer.
Others have tweeted screenshots showing Nintendo characters looking sad, and the "Thank you" credits at the end of classic Nintendo games.
The hosts were 6-0 up when Falcons wing Vereniki Goneva was shown a yellow card for preventing a touchdown, for which Bath were awarded a penalty try.
That sparked another three tries in eight minutes as Bath secured a try bonus point before the break.
They added another four scores before Ally Hogg's late consolation try.
Dean Richards' Falcons side narrowly beat Sale in their season opener the week before, but this was their biggest defeat in 11 years as they struggled to deal with Bath's attacking play.
England winger Semesa Rokoduguni impressed throughout for Bath as he crossed twice, with lock Dave Atwood also going over for two tries.
Matt Banahan, Kahn Fotuali'i and Elliot Stooke scored their other tries as they made it two wins from two for Kiwi Blackadder since he replaced Mike Ford over the summer.
Newcastle, who finished 11th last season, did have a Joel Hodgson try ruled out for obstruction before Hogg dotted down out wide to prevent them finishing without any points.
Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder: "I'm just so pleased for our players. It was fantastic.
"It was a great atmosphere. The support here is unbelievable. You just feel the passion and commitment to the team.
"When Semesa Rokoduguni saw the opportunities he really went for it. That inspired our guys. Dave Attwood was one of our best today, too.
"We'll celebrate and enjoy this tonight, a fantastic performance. It's great weather and the boys probably deserve a few quiet beers - and so they should."
Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards: "George Ford was by far the best player on the field. He was outstanding.
"The penalty try changed the game entirely. The way we saw it, Niki Goneva was taken out but we haven't got all the angles the referee has.
"To capitulate in the way we did in the 10 minutes after that was poor from our point of view, the inability to react to it. So in that respect we've got to take it on the chin."
"We came down here on a bit of a high and got a wake-up call. Having said that, it's not going to be easy at home to Leicester next week."
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Clark, Banahan; Ford (c), Fotuali'i; Auterac, Batty, Palma-Newport, Charteris, Attwood, Ewels, Sisi, Mercer
Replacements: Dunn, Obano, Lahiff, Stooke, Douglas, Cook, Priestland, Williams
Newcastle: Hammersley; Goneva, Harris, Socino, Sinoti; Delany, Takulua; Rogers, Lawson, Welsh, Green, Witty, Olmstead, Welch (c), Wilson
Replacements: Sowrey, Lockwood, Ryan, Robinson, Hogg, Young, Hodgson, Waldouck
The proposals were part of 86 amendments to the Justice (No.2) Bill, but media coverage of Wednesday's debate was dominated by failed attempts to reform abortion laws.
The debate on the mammoth bill lasted more than 12 hours.
MLAs also voted to make it a crime to attack staff in the emergency services.
The DUP chair of the justice committee, Alastair Ross, had proposed bringing in laws to deal with so-called 'revenge pornography'.
England and Wales already have legislation making it a criminal offence for someone to publish explicit sexual images or videos of former partners.
Mr Ross said Northern Ireland needed to catch up, adding: "Nobody envisaged the type of world we'd be living in today where we all have smartphones capable of taking videos or photographs.
"They're all capable of being shared online almost instantly."
The Justice Minister David Ford had brought forward the amendment seeking to reform the Welfare of Animals Act. He said it had been sparked after the case of Cody the dog, who had to be put down after being set on fire in 2012.
Andrew Richard Stewart was jailed for 10 months after admitting the offence.
The amendment means the maximum sentence handed down in the Crown Court for animal cruelty crimes will increase from two years to five.
Someone found guilty of unnecessary suffering to animals or causing and attending an animal fight will face up to 12 months' imprisonment instead of six, and the maximum fine for conviction will rise from £5,000 to £20,000.
The minister said it was a "significant advancement of sentencing" intended to "send out a clear message" to those convicted of harming animals.
When the Justice Bill is given royal assent, Northern Ireland will have some of the strictest penalties for animal cruelty offences across the UK.
DUP MLA Paul Frew brought a further amendment to the bill, hoping to make it a statutory offence to assault paramedics.
Last year, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) called for better protection for its staff and said paramedics would be given PSNI riot gear when called to disturbances, due to the rising number of "risky situations" staff were facing.
Paul Frew said "if it is good enough" to have specific legislation protecting police officers and members of the fire and rescue service, then there should be similar provision for ambulance workers.
The proposals were passed in the assembly and it is hoped they will take effect soon after the Justice (No.2) Bill becomes law.
Stornoway High consulted on a split after the General Assembly voted last May for a proposal that would allow gay men and women to become ministers.
The issue has caused divisions in some congregations, with opponents arguing that it goes against the word of God.
About 100 people will continue to worship at Stornoway High on Lewis.
The group of 250 includes the entire kirk session.
The new Free Church congregation - who are without a minister - is worshipping in a primary school in Stornoway.
Former Stornoway High session clerk Christopher Martin said: "We have always said we wanted to continue in a Presbyterian setting, and having looked at a number of possibilities it became clear that the most favourable and accommodating was to join the Free Church."
He added: "Sadly our congregation could simply not identify with the general direction of the Church of Scotland is headed in, and the sensible option was to leave."
Reverend David Meredith, a Free Church minister in Inverness and a former moderator, has been leading a working group set up to handle requests from congregations seeking to join the Free Church.
He said: "The High fellowship is well known as a lively and forward looking group and we are delighted to welcome them into the denomination.
"We are conscious that the process of disengagement from the Church of Scotland has been a painful experience for them but we hope we can offer a home which presents a Biblical vision for contemporary Scotland."
The Church of Scotland said it was "saddened" by the group's decision to leave the Kirk.
John Cunningham, interim session clerk at Stornoway High Church of Scotland and also Moderator of Presbytery of Lewis, said: "We still regard them as our brothers and sisters in Christ and wish them well in the path they have chosen.
"Almost 100 will continue to worship in Stornoway High Church where services have been held since 1909. There is a sense of peace among those who remain."
The Very Reverend David Arnott who is acting coordinator of the office of principal clerk in the Church of Scotland, added: "There is a sadness that these members have left but we are happy that they have found another home."
Nathan Priestley set up an online fundraising page for the Hotel Rui Imperial Marhaba workers after 90% of guests left after Friday's massacre.
"They were incredibly heroic," said Mr Priestley, 21, of Norwich, who fears the workers' jobs are under threat.
The 30 British victims out of the 38 killed have now been identified.
Gym instructor Mr Priestley was on a day trip at the time of the beachfront assault by gunman Seifeddine Rezgui.
He said the scene when he returned was "absolute carnage".
"Walking back into the hotel, I still have images of the blood and body bags... and where they were taking them out to hospital," he said.
The fundraiser was launched on Tuesday to help the staff at the Rui Imperial Marhaba and the neighbouring Hotel Rui Bellevue Park.
"One had to run and cover up dead bodies so the fleeing children wouldn't see them on their return to the hotel," said Mr Priestley.
"Our head waiter was absolutely distraught - he was hugging everyone and crying and saying he was so sorry."
Mr Priestley, who will fly back on Thursday night after his seven-day stay, initially wanted to raise £1,000 to give to the workers.
"Many of them have been told not to come into work because there are barely any guests left," said Mr Priestly.
"The staff are overwhelmed from the support and cannot thank us enough."
Rehm, 27, who lost his lower right leg in a wakeboarding accident aged 14, competes using a carbon fibre blade.
The German set a T44 world record of 8.40m at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha last October.
The mark is just one cm shorter than the distance Rutherford jumped to win world gold in Beijing in August.
Rehm, who competed against Rutherford at the FBK Games in Hengelo in 2014, has already stated his intention to compete at the Olympic Games.
But under the current rules of the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), he will need to prove that he does not gain any advantage from his prosthetic blade.
South African Oscar Pistorius won a similar battle to compete at the London Olympics after going to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after the IAAF initially ruled him ineligible.
"Of course time is running out but I am a very positive person and I am hoping to get the chance to convince the IAAF that I can compete against the best in Rio," said Rehm.
"I don't mind if I am not able to win an Olympic medal, but I just want to get the opportunity to compete in my sport to the best possible level.
"My biggest wish is that in the future other athletes will think the same as I do, and we can all find a way to compete together and side-by-side and show we are all the same.
"This is a massive year for me and I think competing against athletes such as Greg will be the perfect way for me to start my preparations," said the German, who will be one of a host of stars at the event on Saturday, 20 February.
In 2014, Rehm became the first athlete with an impairment to compete in the final of an event at the able-bodied German championships, winning the long jump with a distance of 8.24m.
But the German authorities opted not to send him to the European Championships in Zurich, saying they had doubts over whether jumps with a prosthetic limb could be compared to those using a natural joint.
The visitors, with England all-rounder Moeen Ali back as opener at Taunton, looked well placed at 155-3.
But once Moeen went for 81, followed by Worcestershire skipper Daryl Mitchell (64), they collapsed to 210 all out.
Openers Jayawardene (117 not out) and captain Jim Allenby (81) then put on 188 as Somerset raced to 214-1.
Allenby's side will now face Warwickshire at Edgbaston in the last four, after they beat Essex by 70 runs in Wednesday's other quarter-final.
While Somerset made the chase look simple, with Jayawardene's superb, chanceless innings coming off 111 balls, it was the wicket of Moeen which turned the match in the hosts' favour.
The 29-year-old, who scored 316 runs at an average of 63.20 in the four-match Test series against Pakistan, looked at his fluent best once again, striking 10 fours and a six in his 76-ball knock.
However, just as he seemed to be taking Worcestershire to a sizeable score he miscued Peter Trego into the leg side in the 30th over and was caught on the mid-wicket boundary by Max Waller.
Seamer Trego (3-33) followed it up with the wicket of Mitchell and, by the time last man Jack Shantry was pinned lbw by Roelof van der Merwe, Worcestershire had lost their last seven wickets for 55.
Former Sri Lanka captain Jayawardene demonstrated all of his international class in bringing up his 21st List A limited-overs hundred, mixing wristy flicks to the boundary with more aggressive shots - one of his two sixes landing on the roof of the Sir Ian Botham Stand.
Allenby's dismissal, when he skied Moeen to Tom Fell, was only a minor blip as the hosts got home with 13.1 overs to spare.
How wrong he was.
Now after a tumultuous seven days in which he has also been publicly admonished for his Nutella addiction and forced to build a chicken coop in dungarees, the 28-year-old has been dropped from the Germany squad for the friendly against England in Berlin on Saturday.
The sanction imposed by his Bundesliga club was 25,000 euros (£20,000), meaning Kruse's misdemeanours have left him almost £80,000 poorer - not to mention the considerable dents to his pride and blood sugar levels.
As if all that was not enough, he was photographed at a night club at the weekend where he grabbed a woman's mobile phone and tried to delete the pictures, according to German newspaper Bild.
Germany manager Joachim Low was not sympathetic, saying: "We need players who are focused on football and also understand their role as role models.
"I talked with Max about what I expect from players on and off the pitch. His actions in the last weeks were unprofessional."
According to Bild, the trouble began in October, after Kruse enjoyed a successful evening at the World Series Poker tournament in Berlin.
Sadly, his joy was short-lived, as the cash suffered a fate familiar to countless Bundesliga defenders: left trailing in Kruse's wake.
The striker contacted the police but the money has never been recovered, and to add to insult to injury, he was reprimanded by Wolfsburg last week after the incident was made public.
To make matters worse, Kruse could not even seek solace in his favourite comfort food.
Wolfsburg director Klaus Allofs confronted him at the club's winter training camp and told him to kick the chocolate hazelnut spread into touch, Bild reported.
"The aim is to support our players to deliver optimum performance," Allofs said. "Max needs to correct a few things."
Deprived of his sugary fix, there remained one final indignity for Kruse.
As part of Wolfsburg's community programme, he was sent to help out at a youth group - where he was snapped in a fetching pair of green dungarees, taking part in the construction of a chicken coop.
So far, it has not been a month to remember for Wolfsburg's strikers: last week Nicklas Bendtner was fined 2,250 euros (£1,750) after sleeping through his alarm clock and missing training.
On Tuesday, Honeywell said it was abandoning its efforts because of United Technologies "unwillingness to engage in negotiations".
United Technologies rejected the offer last week, saying regulators were unlikely to approve the deal and the price was too low.
The deal would have created one of the aerospace industry's largest companies.
"Continuing to try to negotiate with an unwilling partner is inconsistent with our disciplined acquisition process," said Honeywell's chief executive officer, Dave Cote.
Last week, the head of United Technologies, Greg Hayes, said accepting the deal would be "irresponsible".
"It would also have a material negative impact on [United Technologies'] operations, customer relationships and talent retention," Mr Hayes said.
United Technologies is an American manufacturer, among the businesses it owns are aircraft engine maker Pratt & Whitney and elevator manufacture Otis.
Honeywell's businesses focuses on aerospace, automation and controls, and advanced materials. The company often looks to mergers and acquisitions to expand. On Tuesday, it completed its purchase of Movilizer - a cloud services provider for employees performing maintenance, sales and warehousing activities away from the office.
Honeywell shares rose 2.3% following the announcement while United Technologies shares fell 2.5%.
The survey suggested 44% had never heard of the policy and 20% had heard of it but know nothing about it.
The Powerhouse attempts to redress the north/south divide and attract investment to the north.
The findings are based on a survey of 1,003 people in the North of England.
The Northern Powerhouse is the brainchild of Chancellor George Osborne, who is aiming to bridge the economic gap between the north and south by attracting investment and improving transport links between its towns and cities.
It aims to promote growth in towns and cities and divert money and power.
The ComRes BBC-commissioned survey found 82% of respondents agree local politicians should have control over services like transport and health - rather than MPs in London.
The survey's findings were welcomed by government minister Greg Clark.
"The fact that most people have heard of it [the Northern Powerhouse] is good news," he said.
"We now need to work together to show what a difference having decisions made locally can make.
"I was struck by the survey where it said 82% of people in the North think decisions should be made by people in the North rather than in London and Westminster.
"That's exactly what I think and that's what this project is all about."
He said putting more power in the hands of people who live in the north and know about the north "is a far better way" than having decisions taken in London.
44%
Never heard of it
20% Heard of but know nothing about it
30% Heard of and know a little about it
6% Heard of and know a lot about it
As part of plans announced in November, Greater Manchester will be run by an elected mayor from 2017, to devolve fiscal power closer to where the money is spent.
The city was also given power over its health budget in February.
The shadow energy and climate change secretary, Lisa Nandy, who is also MP for the Greater Manchester constituency of Wigan, said: "We would like to see more powers devolved out of Westminster and Whitehall so local areas can have tax-raising powers as well as deciding how to spend a very small number of budgets that the Treasury has currently devolved."
She added: "It's really, really important that people are involved in that decision-making process. The deal that we've had from Osborne hasn't given us much scope to do that."
Some Yorkshire towns and cities claim they have been overlooked in favour of Manchester, and there is also rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester.
In Yorkshire, council leaders have been unable to fully agree on how many mayor-led devolved regions there should be, which neighbours they should join up with or what powers they should have.
The electrification of the railways, which is regarded as crucial to the success of the Northern Powerhouse, takes in major northern cities like Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and York, yet there have been delays to the electrification of the line between Manchester and Leeds.
When George Osborne launched the Northern Powerhouse, there was no certainty it would stick. Economic plans come and go.
Our survey suggests 44% people have never heard of it.
On the flipside, the survey found 56% of people are at least aware of it - that's actually pretty remarkable.
How many other government economic strategies can you name?
But that is all it is; a strategy, a plan, a dream. The ambition is to reverse decades of economic decline and create a powerful alternative to London.
That is to be achieved mainly by massive transport improvements to link the Northern cities. But high speed trains and new tunnels do not get built quickly.
Having said that, a deeper port will open in Liverpool next year, science is flourishing at Alderley Park in Cheshire and Greater Manchester councils are already exercising new economic powers.
82%
want politicians in the North to control transport and health
70%
do not believe it is fair that London should get more money than the North for arts, science and transport
50% are confident the Northern Powerhouse will boost the economy in the North
49% don't believe the Northern Powerhouse will help rebalance the North-South economic divide
Are smaller towns in the North of England being left behind by the Northern Powerhouse locomotive?
Leigh, which is 15 miles from Manchester city centre, does not have a railway station, despite its size.
Many people told me they'd never heard of the concept and it is unfair the south gets more money for things like transport, the arts and science projects.
They complain there's no industry and no jobs in the area, particularly since the closure of pits across Lancashire's coalfield. The railway station was mothballed in the 1960s.
Ask people what the Northern Powerhouse is and you're likely to get a variety of answers, not all of them illuminating.
"A 1980s nightclub" and "an electricity company" are among the replies I've had.
In the North East, devolution would be achieved through an elected mayor for Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and Durham, plus a separate one for Teesside.
The chancellor agues all this will help to rebalance the north-south divide, and also help to counter the power of an increasingly assertive Scotland, itself the subject of a new devolution deal.
Sceptics question how effective the project will be. Some described it as the "Northern Poorhouse" and claim it is window dressing, citing the recent closure of SSI steelworks in Redcar, with the loss of thousands of jobs.
ComRes interviewed 1,003 adults in the North of England by telephone in October 2015. Data was weighted to be representative of all adults aged 18+ by age, gender, region and social grade.
The former WBA heavyweight champion fights the little-known Australian three and a half years after his last fight - a victory over Dereck Chisora.
"Instead of dieting down I've been packing the food in, eating every two, two and a half hours," said Haye, 35.
"I'm setting alarms to make sure I eat, that the weight doesn't get too low."
Haye says he has reinvented himself since he fought Chisora at Upton Park in July 2012.
Since that night, owing to a hand injury, a cut eye and a career-threatening shoulder injury, Haye has twice withdrawn from fights with Tyson Fury and another date with Manuel Charr, and in 2013 announced he had been advised to retire.
In advance of his comeback, he has also switched his trainer from Adam Booth to Shane McGuigan, while deciding that his former strategy to be as light as possible was flawed.
"In my old training camps, I used to come in around 15 stone - I'd lose a stone just cutting my food down," said Haye.
"The general consensus back then was, the lighter I am, the closer I am to cruiserweight, the faster I will be. That's all well and good, but when you're cutting weight down so low, and sparring big guys, I get injured.
"I'm not as ripped as I was in my last few fights, but it's not a bodybuilding competition. I'm more ripped than [De Mori] though."
Despite being a relative unknown in Britain, De Mori has lost only once in his 33 career bouts.
The 33-year-old Perth-born boxer's last defeat came in 2004, and 26 of his 29 victories have been via knockout.
In his own words, De Mori has "gone from a self-trained guy in my dad's garage with my wife wiping blood from my face to being properly trained".
He says he will not be relying on Haye breaking down injured, and will instead look for victory via a knockout.
"To put yourself in that position, you can't sit around on the outside dancing around and being defensive, you have to engage," said De Mori.
"It's a risky approach, but it's the only approach a guy with my style can take, and that's what I'm prepared for."
The 43-year-old admitted suffocating her three-year-old twin sons Ben and Max, and daughter Olivia, aged four, due to diminished responsibility.
After the killings she took painkiller tablets and drank a bottle of wine in a suicide bid.
The details were revealed at a mitigation hearing at the Old Bailey.
The children, who all had type 2 spinal muscular atrophy, were found at their home on 22 April.
Her husband Gary had taken the couple's eldest daughter on a holiday to South Africa a few days earlier, leaving Clarence alone with the other three children in New Malden, and had given the nanny a day off.
Prosecutor Zoe Johnson QC, told the court up to 60 professionals were involved in the care of Clarence and her children, sometimes visiting the family home unannounced.
The court heard doctors were considering "child protection measures on the basis of neglect," and there was a "fundamental tension" between the couple and medical staff over care recommendations.
Ms Johnson said Mr Clarence's decision to consent to a stomach operation on the couple's oldest daughter, was a "substantial trigger" for the killings, because she wanted palliative care over more invasive treatment.
"She smothered the boys first whilst they were sleeping using a nappy so they would not smell her," Ms Johnson said.
"She found it much harder to kill Olivia, and wrote a letter to her husband in the time between killing the boys and killing Olivia."
The letter read: "Gary, I cannot live with what I have done. I took the tablets but they didn't work. Please do not save me. Love you.
"This life is better without me. I am nothing," it continued.
"The only thing that gives me solace is that the boys are playing in heaven like they cannot play here. I can see them running around already."
The mother of four was discovered bleeding and crying by her nanny, Jade Cuelo, and a neighbour, who had gone to the home after becoming concerned for her safety.
After she was found, Clarence told her nanny: "It's too late, it's too late, there's nothing you can do to help them, you can't help them."
In a separate letter to Ms Cuelo, Clarence wrote: " I also could not leave the children with Gary. It would have been too much for him.
"You have been such an amazing person in our lives over the last few years. Without you I most likely would have done this a lot sooner."
Concluding the prosecution case, Ms Johnson asserted: "Although Mrs Clarence and her husband believed that the only appropriate care for their children was palliative care, the children had not reached the stage when palliative care was required.
"Tania Clarence's rational belief that she didn't want to prolong her children's lives became distorted into an irrational decision to kill her disabled children, a decision she had formed well in advance of the killings."
The court has previously been told Clarence had been suffering "from an abnormality of the mind" and was depressed when she killed three of her four children.
The court also heard of tension between the Clarences and the social services department of Kingston upon Thames Council.
Social services managers replaced the family's social worker because they felt she was "getting too close" to the family, said Ms Johnson.
"This was perhaps an ill-conceived decision by the social services department," the barrister said.
Clarence had told a friend that Kingston social services had "made the children's care 1000 per cent worse," she said.
She had twice told family doctors of her desire to take the children away to South Africa so they could "all die together".
Jim Sturman QC, defending, said there was no evidence Clarence would have "harmed a hair on their head but for the illness she suffered" and urged the judge to impose a hospital order.
Clarence will be sentenced by Judge Mr Justice Sweeney on Tuesday.
Takagoyama Nature Zoo in Chiba said DNA testing showed the monkeys had been crossbred with the rhesus macaque.
The non-indigenous rhesus macaque is banned under Japanese law.
A local official said they had to be killed to protect the native environment.
The zoo's operator held a memorial service for the snow monkeys' souls at a nearby Buddhist temple.
Japanese macaques, commonly known as snow monkeys, are native to Japan and are one of the country's major tourist attractions.
Japan prohibits the possession and transport of invasive species, including crossbreeds.
An official from the Office for Alien Species Management, part of the country's environment ministry, told local media that the culling was unavoidable because there were fears they might escape and reproduce in the wild.
Junkichi Mima, a spokesman for conservation group WWF Japan told AFP news agency that invasive species cause problems "because they get mixed in with indigenous animals and threaten the natural environment and ecosystem".
Men who consume more than 10 portions of tomatoes each week reduce their risk by about 20%, according to a UK study.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide, with 35,000 new cases and around 10,000 deaths in the UK every year.
Cancer experts recommend eating a balanced diet which is high in fruit and vegetables and low in red and processed meat, fat and salt.
The Bristol team analysed the diets and lifestyles of around 20,000 British men aged between 50 and 69.
They found men who consumed more than 10 portions of tomatoes each week - such as fresh tomatoes, tomato juice and baked beans - saw an 18% reduction in prostate cancer risk.
Eating the recommended five servings of fruit or vegetables or more a day was also found to decrease risk by 24%, compared with men who ate two-and-a-half servings or less.
"Our findings suggest that tomatoes may be important in prostate cancer prevention," said Vanessa Er, from the School of Social and Community Medicine at Bristol University.
"However, further studies need to be conducted to confirm our findings, especially through human [clinical] trials.
"Men should still eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, maintain a healthy weight and stay active."
The cancer-fighting properties of tomatoes are thought to be due to lycopene, an antioxidant which can protect against DNA and cell damage.
The researchers also looked at two other dietary components linked with prostate cancer risk - selenium, found in flour-based foods such as bread and pasta, and calcium, found in dairy products such as milk and cheese.
Men who had optimal intake of these three dietary components had a lower risk of prostate cancer, they said.
Commenting on the study, Dr Iain Frame of Prostate Cancer UK said there was not yet enough evidence to make concrete recommendations on which specific foods men should eat to reduce their risk of prostate cancer.
"What we do know is that men shouldn't rely too heavily on one type of food, such as tomatoes," he said.
"A healthy, balanced diet with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, together with regular exercise is by far the best option."
Tom Stansfeld of Cancer Research UK added: "While eating foods rich in lycopene - such as tomatoes - or selenium may be associated with a reduction in the risk of prostate cancer, this has not been proven, and this study can't confirm whether there is a link between diet and prostate cancer risk.
"Diet and cancer prevention is a complex issue with few black and white answers; we encourage everyone to eat a balanced diet which is high in fruit and vegetables and low in red and processed meat, fat and salt."
The research, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, was carried out in collaboration with the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
The couple were called twice by a person claiming to be from their bank asking if they had received replacement bank cards, Thames Valley Police said.
On the second call in April, one of the victims, who are from Maidenhead, revealed their pin code.
The next day one of the fraudsters delivered two new bank cards and took the couple's original debit cards away.
Over the following days, the fraudsters managed to set up telephone banking and transferred funds from the victims' investment account into their current account, spending a total of £56,950 over three days.
Fraudulent purchases were made in Costco Hayes, Costco Sunbury and Costco Watford on 22, 23 and 24 April.
Large purchases were also made in central London at Jessops and John Lewis in Oxford Street and Brent Cross.
The fraudsters also made purchases in Starbucks and other locations in Acton, London.
A black BMW registration number AY05 XDC may have been used in connection with this fraud.
The victims were unaware of the fraud until they visited Lloyds Bank on 24 April where they presented their 'replacement' card to the cashier asking to make a withdrawal from their account.
Det Insp Jason Kew, of Maidenhead CID, said: "They have preyed on vulnerable elderly victims and understandably this crime is still causing the victims a lot of distress."
Sexton was named man of the match after kicking 15 points in Ireland's 18-11 victory as he made his return to rugby after a 12-week concussion lay-off.
"It was just a glancing blow," said Sexton of his clash of heads with burly France centre Mathieu Bastareaud.
"I just needed a couple of stitches but I felt fine after it."
In the run-up to Saturday's game, former French international Laurent Benezech had described the Racing Metro fly-half's inclusion in the Ireland team as a "big mistake", while a number of the France side hinted that Sexton could be targeted in the Aviva Stadium game.
The debate over Sexton's selection led the Irish Rugby Football Union to release a strongly-worded statement on Friday night, defending the Dubliner's inclusion.
For his part, the 29-year-old said that he had attempted to ignore the press coverage.
"I tried to stay away from most of it," said Sexton, who was briefly replaced by Ian Madigan while he got the stitches. "There was a little bit of talk in the press but you can't do anything about that.
"I needed to concentrate on my performance. I didn't get off to the best start with a couple of miscommunications and bad passes but we've plenty to improve on and that's a great place to be."
Ireland were forced to defend desperately in the closing stages as France produced intense late pressure after Romain Taofifenua's 70th-minute try.
"That's a very good French team," insisted Sexton.
"We made it hard for ourselves as usual and we dug deep at the end.
"We're delighted. We've got a lot to improve on and we've got a big match here in two weeks against England."
Ireland coach Joe Schmidt said that Sexton had exhibited no signs of concussion despite the head clash.
"He was replaced because of the blood, not because of any concussion," added Schmidt.
The Ireland coach revealed that number eight Jamie Heaslip was in a "lot of pain" following the game after appearing to be kneed in the back by France lock Pascal Pape.
The France second row was sin-binned by referee Wayne Barnes following the incident and Schmidt said that he expected the footage to be looked at "by people who make decisions".
Heaslip had to be replaced by Jordi Murphy after the incident.
Schmidt added that his team had performed an "admirable job" in holding on to win despite France's second-half pressure.
"They have some of the biggest humans I've seen playing rugby," he said.
"When Bastareaud and (Uini) Atonio and Taofifenua started to give them that go-forward, it's very difficult to stop them.
"We just about survived and we can be really proud of the effort we put it."
Precision medicine is one of the big themes at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Doctors say "breath-taking" advances in the understanding of tumours are being used to unlock new treatments.
But there are also concerns that patients are not getting access to the precision medicines we already have.
The premise of precision medicine is that cancers are not all the same - even those in the same tissue - so a tailored approach is needed.
It is the same approach as in football - you modify your tactics to face Barcelona, Newcastle United or Skegness Town.
Cancers are normal cells that have become corrupted by mutations in their DNA that leads to uncontrolled growth.
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy kill everything, including healthy tissue.
The idea of precision medicine is to test every patient's tumour, find the mutations that have become essential for it to survive and then select a targeted drug to counter-act the mutation - killing the tumour.
This concept is not new. Women with breast cancer already have their tumours analysed to decide on treatment.
Tumours whose growth is fuelled by oestrogen have drugs to block the female sex hormone, while the drug Herceptin works in only the 20% of tumours that have specific mutations.
But a revolution in genetics - allowing scientists to rapidly and cheaply interrogate a cancer's corrupted DNA - is leading to huge excitement about a new generation of precision drugs.
Prof Peter Johnson, the chief clinician at the charity Cancer Research UK, argues: "The idea of taking something which is particular to cancer cells and targeting them isn't hugely new, what is new is our depth of understanding.
"I think it is a new era of understanding and it's driven by the technology changes which have allowed us to decipher the cancer cells genetic codes at a level of detail that was unimaginable 15 or 20 years ago.
"So in that sense we have a fantastic range of new opportunities for treating cancers."
The world's largest cancer conference - a meeting of 30,000 doctors and scientists - has already heard how a precision approach is helping to beat cancer.
Dr Maria Schwaederle, from the centre for personalised cancer therapy at the University of California, San Diego, has presented data on 346 highly experimental clinical trials involving 13,203 patients.
Of the studies, 58 used a precision approach. Even though the trials were designed to test only for toxicity, they also uncovered huge benefits for patients.
Cancers shrank in 31% of cases when a drug was matched to the tumour's weaknesses compared with just 5% of the time without.
And the time before the disease worsened increased from three months to nearly six months with precision medicine.
Dr Schwaederle said the findings were "striking" and praised the "breath-taking advances in our ability to perform genomics" that was revealing the inner workings of tumours.
The UK's National Lung Matrix is already trying to match a new generation of targeted lung cancer drugs to the unique flaws in patient's tumours.
Meanwhile, another trial has been announced with the aim of testing 4,500 women's breast cancers to see which patients need chemotherapy.
Dr Robert Stein, a consultant from University College London, said: "We would expect to reduce chemotherapy within the trial population by about two thirds."
Further data on treating patients with precision medicine is due to be presented later.
Dr Daniel Hayes, who will take over as president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, told the BBC News website: "There's a lot going on, we're still in our infancy, but this is really starting to hit the fan.
"And frankly we're starting to become more precise in our precision medicine."
Precision medicine should be hugely beneficial for patients as it also has far fewer side effects than either chemotherapy or radiotherapy which kill healthy tissue as well as the tumour.
However, there are concerns that patients are already missing out on established drugs like crizotinib in lung cancer, or dabrafenib in melanoma, that work effectively in a subset of patients.
An analysis by the charity Cancer Research UK found patients were not getting tested in order to get a precision treatment.
It said that in England alone there were 10,900 cases of bowel cancer each year, but 4,900 were not offered a test to see if a precision drug would help.
It estimates that at least 2,100 patients would have been suitable for a precision medicine that had already been developed.
And in lung cancer 1,400 missed out on drugs.
But Prof Johnson concluded: "I think we're just in the foothills of precision medicine at the moment, but we're really starting to get a grip on how treatments will work in the future."
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Nock-Ten hit the coast near Catanduanes island at 18:30 local time (10:30GMT) but there are no reports yet of damage or casualties.
However, some 100,000 people have been moved from areas at risk in the Bicol region amid fears of widespread flooding and possible landslides.
Dozens of ports have closed, with warnings of two-metre (6.6ft) waves.
In October, Super Typhoon Haima hit the country, killing at least four people.
The landfall of Nock-Ten, also known as Nina and the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, was reported on the Twitter account of Pagasa-Dost, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.
It issued a local thunderstorm warning and has forecast the typhoon will travel west at 15km/h.
Its sustained winds are currently about 185km/h.
It will pass across the southern area of the main island of Luzon, possibly weakening as it travels close to the capital, Manila, before heading into the South China Sea.
In Manila, officials ordered big roadside advertising boards to be taken down, fearing that strong winds could uproot them and injure people.
There have been fears Filipinos would ignore evacuation warnings to stay at home with family at Christmas, the biggest holiday in the largely Catholic nation.
The strength of the typhoon is equivalent to a Category Three hurricane in the Atlantic, according to the JTWC data, or a Category Two storm based on the information from the Philippines' weather office.
In 2013, super typhoon Haiyan claimed more than 7,350 lives.
The duo approached three Nigerian students in Cowane Street on Saturday and shouted racial abuse at them, goaded them to fight, threw a pint glass and assaulted one of them.
Both men were between 20 and 22. One was 6ft tall and was wearing a red top, while the other was 5ft 8in tall and was wearing a white shirt and hoodie.
Officers have appealed for information.
The attack, which occurred at about 21:10, ended when a member of the public stopped his vehicle to check on the victims on nearby Wallace Street, and police are also keen to trace this person.
The two attackers then moved on to Bruce Street, where they assaulted two students, one of whom was a 19-year-old woman, in another unprovoked attack.
Insp Jim Young said: "The behaviour of these two males is very concerning. They were first noticed in Viewfield Street and they then entered Cowane Street where they started their crime spree.
"Due to one having a pint glass in his hand, it is likely they have been in a local pub before this and we are currently checking licensed premises and CCTV to identify them.
"They have targeted everyone they have come across which includes a female.
"Due to the time of night and city centre location, someone will have seen them and know who they are. I am appealing for witnesses to come forward and help identify them."
In a separate inquiry, Forth Valley police are investigating another racial incident where two Zimbabwean men were abused outside the Masterchef Takeaway on Strathmore Drive in Cornton.
The man involved in the incident at 21:45 on Sunday was white, about 30 years old, of stocky build and had short hair. He was wearing a tracksuit, appeared to be drunk, and walked into a nearby block of flats after the incident.
NHS England data found a 56% rise in the number of bed days lost to delayed discharge in psychiatric trusts in October 2016 compared to November 2015.
There was a comparable rise in acute trusts of 30%.
A spokeswoman said the Department of Health was investing £400m over four years to support people in their homes.
"No-one should face unnecessary delays in being discharged," she said. "The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health will transform services by 2020/21 to make sure urgent improvements are made."
Oliver Lang, from Norfolk, spent two months longer than necessary in a psychiatric unit. The 27-year-old, who has Asperger's syndrome, was initially detained under the Mental Health Act.
But weeks after he was told he could leave, he remained in the unit while two separate mental trusts argued over who should pay for his care.
"I felt I was in danger in there because a lot of things happen in (psychiatric) hospitals. I felt if someone attacked me, I'd have to defend myself," he said.
"But if I did defend myself and hurt someone, they'd say I was a danger to the public still and they'd keep me locked up for longer. So I was trying to be whiter than white."
A delayed discharge occurs when a patient is declared medically well enough to leave hospital but something else hinders their departure.
NHS England says 17,509 bed days were lost in October 2016 in the 24 trusts which particularly specialise in mental health and learning disability care, an increase of nearly 56% on the previous November.
A broader analysis - including trusts that provide community as well as mental health services - shows a 43% increase between the two months.
Many of the problems are caused by a lack of social care packages available to support people once they leave hospital because of cuts to local authority budgets and rising demand.
But experts say mental health patients are further disadvantaged by poor community psychiatric provision and reduction to other support services such as detox, which has had a disproportionate impact on mental health.
Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat MP and former care minister, requested the research.
He said: "Its all part of a system under impossible strain. Mental health has suffered much more in terms of financial terms than the rest of the NHS, there's a discrimination."
In 2015, an inquiry ordered by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found that the main reason that some mental health patients were having to travel long distances to get a hospital bed was because of delayed discharges and a lack of community psychiatric provision.
A report last May from the National Audit Office estimated that delayed discharges across England were costing the NHS £820m a year.
A BBC investigation in 2016 found that delayed discharges were also affecting mental health patients in Northern Ireland.
Paul Farmer, chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, said: "When you are hospitalised in a mental health crisis, you are at your most unwell and desperately need the right care at the right time.
"The time after leaving hospital is critical as that is when people are at the greatest risk of taking their own lives. People need the right support to recover and manage their mental health properly and trusts should be planning properly for discharge from the point at which someone goes into hospital.
"These types of problems are symptomatic of mental health historically not being given the attention and funding it deserves - mental health services have been underfunded for decades, at a time of rising demand."
Latest figures show 48 million people took day trips in Wales in the first six months of the year - a 19% increase from the 40 million recorded in 2013.
August has also been a bumper month with 82% of tourism businesses reporting more, or a similar number of, guests compared with 2013.
And 45% of all businesses said they had more visitors last month compared to the same time last year.
Figures in the government's August Tourism Business Survey show hotels, guest houses and B&Bs have all benefitted with 59% reporting a higher number of guests.
Source: Tourism Business Survey
Attractions also saw an increase with 43% saying they had more visitors than last year.
As the results were announced, the Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism Ken Skates visited the National Trust's Erddig in north Wales.
And the Minister for the Economy, Transport and Science, Edwina Hart visited Llwyn Helyg Guest House in Carmarthenshire, who have also had a busy summer
Welcoming the figures, Mr Skates said: "It seems that 2014 is proving to be an excellent year for Welsh tourism, even compared to 2013 which was a successful year in itself.
"Although the weather has been kind this year, the weather was also good for the UK as a whole but Wales is managing to outperform the rest of GB in terms of attracting staying visitors and day visitors.
"Visit Wales' marketing working is achieving its response targets and I look forward to working with the Tourism Advisory Board to realise our target of 10% growth for the industry by 2020.
"These figures show that the tourism sector is going from strength to strength."
Asad Khan, 11, was found hanged in his bedroom at his family home on Tile Street, off Whetley Lane, on 28 September by his mother Farina Jan.
Speaking at a pre-inquest review, his father Asif Mahmood said he had "absolutely no faith" in coroner Martin Fleming's actions.
The coroner told the hearing there were "no grounds" for him to step aside.
Asad, from Bradford, died three weeks after starting at Beckfoot Upper Heaton School, with his family believing he was being bullied.
In June, an inquest into his death was adjourned when claims emerged a "choking game" was "all over the school".
At Monday's hearing, Asad's family claimed the investigation into his death had been carried out "very badly" and told the coroner they "would like someone else to take my son's investigation further, and not you".
They said relevant CCTV footage had not been considered and a summons was issued for the family's mobile phones and laptop despite them already agreeing to provide them.
Mr Fleming said he was "saddened" by the family's comments and had taken their "heartfelt concerns" on board, but would continue to preside over the inquest.
Asad was taken to hospital after he was found unresponsive, but died a short time later.
After his death, his mother called for "justice for her child" amid claims he had been bullied.
The hearing was adjourned until 16 August, with a full inquest due to start on 16 October.
There was controversy at last year's event, when some competitors said they thought the course was shorter than the stipulated 13.1 miles.
Four cyclists set off from the city's George Square at 04:30, and finished in two stages at Glasgow Green at about 07:00.
They were accompanied by a police escort whose job was to stop traffic.
The riders' bikes were equipped with specialist measuring equipment.
The course should be 13.1 miles, but after last year's event, some runners said they thought it was up to 200 metres shorter.
That difference could be crucial for professional runners - including last year's winner Callum Hawkins, who also set a new course record.
If the course is found to be a different length, it mean's the winner's record, and that of all the other runners, could be in doubt.
The riders cycled the full half-marathon course, including going through a darkened Pollock Country Park.
The time and date were kept secret in advance, chosen in order to allow the officials an unimpeded ride.
The results of the measuring exercise will be announced on Monday by the run organisers, The Great Run Company.
The Milwaukee-based firm now expects to sell between 241,000 and 246,000 bikes this year, down from 262,221 last year.
Demand has been dropping for years. A decade ago it was selling almost 350,000 annually.
Harley is also facing competition from cheaper bikes made by the likes of India's Polaris and Japan's Honda.
In a BBC interview earlier this year, the boss of the firm, Matthew Levatich, said his iconic motorcycle company was "emblematic" of what the Trump administration thought a home-grown US company should be.
But in its second quarter results, published on Tuesday, the company said sales would be down sufficiently for it to need to cut production, and workers' hours, at some of its US plants.
Harley-Davidson demand has weakened among its aging baby-boomer customers and fewer millennials are taking to motorcycling.
Part of the reason for the fall in demand is that its loyal customers are ageing, and, as they do, they sell their bikes, dampening the appetite for new vehicles.
Despite this, the company said it was not looking to cut new bike prices in the face of these lower used-bike prices.
Harley has tried to counter its image as a high-cost, older age group brand and has introduced a number of models at the lower price range aimed at younger riders.
Across the US, big bikes are falling from fashion. Figures released last week show registrations of large motorcycles fell by about 7% so far this year.
Harley-Davidson's second quarter net income was down almost 8% at $258.9m (£198m).
Revenue per motorcycle rose about $437 to $15,530 in the quarter.
She told MPs Britain must do more to support "vulnerable" countries and to counter the "poisonous and repugnant" ideology of so-called Islamic State.
It comes after bomb attacks in Brussels left 31 people dead. Some 260 people were injured, including four Britons.
Another Briton, David Dixon, from Nottingham, is missing.
The IT programmer, who lives in the Belgian capital with his partner and son, went to work on the metro, but his family have not heard from him since.
Of the injured Britons, three, all men, remain in hospital, while the fourth, a woman, has been discharged.
Twin blasts hit the city's Zaventem airport at about 07:00 GMT on Tuesday. Another explosion at Maelbeek metro station near EU headquarters happened an hour later.
Two of the men who carried out suicide attacks have been named as the brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui. IS has claimed it was behind the bombings.
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Eleven people died at Brussels airport and 20 at the Maelbeek metro.
Updating the House of Commons following the attacks, Mrs May said:
Mrs May said the decision to tighten security was not "in response to specific intelligence", but she said the UK must remain "vigilant".
"The police and security services will continue in their dedication to keeping people safe and the public should remain alert."
She continued: "Together with our allies around the world we must act with greater urgency and joint resolve than we have before."
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham said: "This is the moment not for division but for maximum unity amongst peoples of all faiths and none."
He raised concerns about resources for UK Border Force, which he said had endured "years of cuts and is already stretched to the limit", and questioned whether police outside London had sufficient firearms capability.
Earlier, Lord Reid, who was Labour defence secretary until shortly before the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme a terror attack in the UK like that in Brussels was inevitable.
"Politicians ought to be honest with the British people and tell them, 'This will happen.'
"It will happen here because the terrorists only have to get through once," he said.
Elsewhere, Rob Wainwright, director of EU law enforcement agency Europol, told the BBC that despite the attacks, cross-border police cooperation in the EU "brings daily operational benefits to the UK".
He was responding to comments by the former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove, who wrote in Prospect magazine that "the cost to Britain would be low" from a security perspective if it were to leave the EU.
Several of London's major landmarks, including the National Gallery, Tower Bridge, the London Eye and Trafalgar Square's fountains displayed the colours of the Belgian national flag on Wednesday evening in tribute to the victims of the attacks.
Many government buildings in the capital are already flying the Union flag and the Belgian flag at half-mast.
On Thursday, a 25-metre silk flag will be placed on the central staircase in Trafalgar Square ahead of a vigil organised in partnership with the Belgian Embassy between 18:00 GMT and 22:00.
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: "The scenes in Belgium were truly appalling and it is important we pay tribute to the victims, as well as show our solidarity with the people of Brussels.
"They have the sympathy of every Londoner and our thoughts will be with them as they do their best to recover from this despicable atrocity."
One British eyewitness described being caught up in the blasts.
Pauline Graystone cowered on the floor of the check-in area at Brussels airport with her husband and daughter.
"There was a huge bang just behind us. I said, 'What's that?' to my husband and he knew instantly it was a bomb so we just dropped.
"We were huddled there and suddenly there was another even bigger, louder bang that seemed even closer... then we really knew this was serious.
"We could smell burning and lots of the ceiling was falling down. It was just total confusion so we just stayed put and didn't move and hoped there wasn't going to be a third bomb."
The Foreign Office is warning Britons travelling to Brussels to be "alert and vigilant and stay away from crowded places".
Zaventem airport will remain closed until at least Friday and flights between there and the UK are disrupted. Passengers are being advised to contact their travel operator.
Eurostar services are operating normally on Wednesday, but passengers are being advised to check.
The Port of Dover says security checks have remained heightened since November's attacks in Paris, with customers urged to leave extra time before travelling
An emergency number for those worried a relative may have been affected has also been issued - 020 7008 0000.
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11 January 2017 Last updated at 08:05 GMT
The crafty creature isn't the first thieving animal to be caught in the act but who are the worst culprits?
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The new artwork for the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square, a bright blue cockerel symbolising regeneration and strength, has been unveiled.
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Jobs and living standards must come first as the UK negotiates its exit from the EU, Philip Hammond has said.
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Bath ran in eight tries as they overpowered a poor Newcastle side in director of rugby Todd Blackadder's first home match in charge.
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Paralympic long jump champion Markus Rehm will take on Olympic champion Greg Rutherford at next month's Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix.
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Mahela Jayawardene's unbeaten century led Somerset to a crushing nine-wicket victory over Worcestershire to reach the semi-finals of the One-Day Cup.
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David Haye says he has been setting two-hourly alarms to remind himself to eat as he bulks up for his return against Mark de Mori on Saturday.
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Doctors dealing with the family of Tania Clarence, who killed her three disabled children by smothering them, had raised concerns about neglect.
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Jonathan Sexton said he had suffered no ill-effects despite needing stitches following another bang to his head in Ireland's Six Nations win over France.
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A typhoon packing gusts of wind up to 255km/h (158mph) has made landfall in the eastern Philippines.
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Police are looking for two men who launched a racist attack as part of a "crime spree" in Stirling city centre.
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This week a cheeky squirrel made headlines for having a bit of a sweet tooth and stealing chocolate from a local shop in Canada.
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The article in question described the beautiful fifth skull from Dmanisi in Georgia. Most commentators and colleagues were full of praise, but controversy soon reared its ugly head.
What was, in my view, a logical conclusion reached by the authors was too much for some researchers to take.
The conclusion of the Dmanisi study was that the variation in skull shape and morphology observed in this small sample, derived from a single population of Homo erectus, matched the entire variation observed among African fossils ascribed to three species - H. erectus, H. habilis and H. rudolfensis.
The five highly variable Dmanisi fossils belonged to a single population of H. erectus, so how could we argue any longer that similar variation among spatially and temporally widely distributed fossils in Africa reflected differences between species? They all had to be the same species.
I have been advocating that the morphological differences observed within fossils typically ascribed to Homo sapiens (the so-called modern humans) and the Neanderthals fall within the variation observable in a single species.
It was not surprising to find that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, a clear expectation of the biological species concept.
But most people were surprised with that particular discovery, as indeed they were with the fifth skull and many other recent discoveries, for example the "Hobbit" from the Indonesian island of Flores.
It seems that almost every other discovery in palaeoanthropology is reported as a surprise. I wonder when the penny will drop: when we have five pieces of a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, every new bit that we add is likely to change the picture.
Did we really think that having just a minuscule residue of our long and diverse past was enough for us to tell humanity's story?
If the fossils of 1.8 or so million years ago and those of the more recent Neanderthal-modern human era were all part of a single, morphologically diverse, species with a wide geographical range, what is there to suggest that it would have been any different in the intervening periods?
Probably not so different if we take the latest finds from the Altai Mountains in Siberia into account. Denisova Cave has produced yet another surprise, revealing that, not only was there gene flow between Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans, but that a fourth player was also involved in the gene-exchange game.
The identity of the fourth player remains unknown but it was an ancient lineage that had been separate for probably over a million years. H. erectus seems a likely candidate. Whatever the name we choose to give this mystery lineage, what these results show is that gene flow was possible not just among contemporaries but also between ancient and more modern lineages.
Just to show how little we really know of the human story, another genetic surprise has confounded palaeoanthropologists. Scientists succeeded in extracting the most ancient mitochondrial DNA so far, from the Sima de los Huesos site in Atapuerca, Spain.
The morphology of these well-known Middle Pleistocene (approximately 400,000 years old) fossils have long been thought to represent a lineage leading to the Neanderthals.
When the results came in they were actually closer to the 40,000 year-old Denisovans from Siberia. We can speculate on the result but others have offered enough alternatives for me to not to have to add to them.
The conclusion that I derive takes me back to Dmanisi: We have built a picture of our evolution based on the morphology of fossils and it was wrong.
We just cannot place so much taxonomic weight on a handful of skulls when we know how plastic - or easily changeable - skull shape is in humans. And our paradigms must also change.
Some time ago we replaced a linear view of our evolution by one represented by a branching tree. It is now time to replace it with that of an interwoven plexus of genetic lineages that branch out and fuse once again with the passage of time.
This means, of course, that we must abandon, once and for all, views of modern human superiority over archaic (ancient) humans. The terms "archaic" and "modern" lose all meaning as do concepts of modern human replacement of all other lineages.
It also releases us from the deep-rooted shackles that have sought to link human evolution with stone tool-making technological stages - the Stone Ages - even when we have known that these have overlapped with each other for half-a-million years in some instances.
The world of our biological and cultural evolution was far too fluid for us to constrain it into a few stages linked by transitions.
The challenge must now be to try and learn as much as we can of the detail. We have to flesh out the genetic information and this is where archaeology comes into the picture. We may never know how the Denisovans earned a living, after all we have mere fragments of their anatomy at our disposal, let alone other populations that we may not even be aware of.
What we can do is try to understand the spectrum of potential responses of human populations to different environmental conditions and how culture has intervened in these relationships. The Neanderthals will be central to our understanding of the possibilities because they have been so well studied.
A recent paper, for example, supports the view that Neanderthals at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in France intentionally buried their dead which contrasts with reports of cannibalistic behaviour not far away at El Sidron in northern Spain.
Here we have two very different behavioural patterns within Neanderthals. Similarly, modern humans in south-western Europe painted in cave walls for a limited period but many contemporaries did not. Some Neanderthals did it in a completely different way it seems, by selecting raptor feathers of particular colours. Rather than focus on differences between modern humans and Neanderthals, what the examples show is the range of possibilities open to humans (Neanderthals included) in different circumstances.
The future of human origins research will need to focus along three axes:
Sites in the latter category are few and far between. In Europe at least, many were excavated during the last century but there are some outstanding examples remaining. Gorham's and Vanguard Caves in Gibraltar, where I work, are among those because they span over 100,000 years of occupation and are veritable repositories of data.
There is another dimension to this story. It seems that the global community is coming round to recognising the value of key sites that document human evolution.
In 2012, the caves on Mount Carmel were inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List and the UK Government will be putting Gorham's and associated caves on the Rock of Gibraltar forward for similar status in January 2015. It is recognition of the value of these caves as archives of the way of life and the environments of people long gone but who are very much a part of our story.
Prof Clive Finlayson is director of the Gibraltar Museum and author of the book The Improbable Primate.
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If one human evolution paper published in 2013 sticks in my mind above all others, it has to be the wonderful report in the 18 October issue of the journal Science.
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The suspect told the owner of the shop on Archway Road, north London, his wife was pregnant and needed some water.
Police said the suspect took cash from the shopkeeper's pockets. He then left the shop, pursued by the victim.
The incident was caught on CCTV and police are trying to trace a man aged 30-35 and about 5ft 6ins tall.
Det Sgt Dave Bullock said the victim was "momentarily totally unaware of what has happened to him".
He added: "The suspect's distraction tactics seemed to have put him into a trance leaving him open to be robbed."
The incident took place on 11 September just before 22:00 BST.
The suspect is slim build with short black hair, wearing dark jeans, a grey polo shirt and a black bomber jacket.
Watch the full video and appeal on Crimewatch at 21:00 GMT.
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A shopkeeper appeared to "fall into a trance" as a suspected robber rummaged through his pockets in a London off licence, the Metropolitan Police said.
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Swiss investigator Borbely and German judge Eckert were not named among those proposed for the next four-year term of the independent Ethics Committee.
Borbely and Eckert have combined to ban numerous football officials.
A statement from the pair said their impending departure "means the de facto end of Fifa's reform efforts".
They suggested the decision by world football's governing body was "obviously politically motivated" and added: "It seems the Fifa hierarchy has valued its own and political interests higher than the long-term interests of Fifa."
Borbely and Eckert will be replaced by Colombian prosecutor Maria Claudia Rojas and Greek judge Vassilios Skouris.
The Fifa Council decisions were announced in Bahrain on Tuesday, two days before the 67th Fifa Congress.
Among the other announcements from the council were a decision not to end the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup by handing it to the joint North American bid from Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Rivals from other confederations only have until August to declare their intention to bid.
It was also confirmed that London will host of the Best Fifa Football Awards 2017 on 23 October, and that the ban on Iraq being able to play matches has been lifted.
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway
Fifa was hoping to continue efforts to distance itself from a series of damaging corruption scandals in recent years at this week's annual congress in Bahrain - but its leading officials have decided that Borbely and Eckert are surplus to requirements.
The two ethics committee chiefs - who banned the former president Sepp Blatter and a host of other executives - wanted to stay on past their current mandate, but will now be replaced.
They also investigated but cleared Fifa's current president Gianni Infantino last year over the alleged misuse of private jets.
In a statement the pair said the decision to remove them "jeopardised" the future of the game.
They have now flown to Bahrain and will speak publicly on Wednesday in a dramatic move that threatens to undermine Fifa's well-laid plans to push the message here that the days of crisis are long behind them.
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Wilfried Bony scored both goals as Swansea ended a five-match winless run in the Premier League.
Swansea's first win since August saw them climb to sixth in the table, but Monk was just relieved to get back to winning ways.
"There was a little bit of pressure on us when you don't win in five games," Monk said.
"It was about getting three points as we could feel that little bit of pressure on us within the crowd and amongst the players."
Bony opened the scoring after a fine exchange of passes with Gylfi Sigurdsson, the Ivory Coast striker tucking past Foxes keeper Kasper Schmeichel.
The 25-year-old made it 2-0 by side-footing Jefferson Montero's cross home, his fourth goal in the last three games.
Monk said Swansea were deserving winners and the 35-year-old praised his side's hard work in keeping a clean sheet.
"The goals that we scored were very good goals and warranted the three points," Monk added.
"All of the players are contributing well. After a harsh few weeks, they got their just rewards with a clean sheet and two goals.
"It was never going to be easy, especially when Leicester threw caution to the wind, and we could have controlled the ball a bit better in the second half, but I thought we deserved it.
"We limited them to shots from distance which is credit to the shape we've been working on and how hard defensively we've been working.
"Three goals we've conceded in the last two games - two against Newcastle and the second one against Stoke - has not been the standard we've set but we got back to that to keep a clean sheet."
Swansea face Liverpool on Tuesday in the Capital One Cup fourth round tie against former manager Brendan Rodgers' current side.
"It's always fantastic when you get to play at Anfield - it's a special place," Monk said.
"We've got nothing to lose. They will be favourites to win the games."
Ugbo, 18, joins the Championship side for the 2017-18 season, having scored 23 goals in 35 matches for Chelsea's under-23 and under-18 sides last term.
He also scored once in three appearances to help England's under-20 side win the Toulon Tournament in June.
"He is a forward who has pace, height, strength and power as well as a keen eye for goal," Barnsley manager Paul Heckingbottom told the club website.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is looking to compile a package of at least 20 trillion yen ($186bn; £141bn) according to the Kyodo News agency.
The world's third-largest economy is still trying to emerge from deflation.
Both the benchmark Nikkei 225 closed trading 0.8% higher at 16,810.22.
In the currency market, the Japanese yen fell to a six-week low against the US dollar.
Over in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 finished 0.4% up at 5,512.40 points.
South Korea's Kospi wrapped the day flat at 2,012.22 points.
In China, Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 0.5% to close at 22,000.49 while the mainland Shanghai Composite ended 0.4% higher at 3,039.01.
A high-rise flat was cordoned off in the Kincorth area in the south of the city on Thursday afternoon.
A man was later seen being led away by police.
On Wednesday, armed officers carried out searches in nearby Torry as part of what Police Scotland described as an intelligence-led operation.
The paper said the move was aimed at preventing readers in China "from accessing independent news coverage".
Apple said they had been informed the app violated Chinese regulations but did not say what rules had been broken.
Western media have long been facing difficulties making their content available in China with many outlets frequently or permanently blocked.
According to the New York Times, Apple removed both the English-language and Chinese-language apps from the App Store in China on 23 December.
The paper cited an Apple spokesperson as saying the firm had been "informed that the app is in violation of local regulations" which meant it had to be taken down.
"When this situation changes, the app store will once again offer the New York Times app for download in China," the spokesman said.
The New York Times said they had asked Apple to reconsider the decision.
The paper's website has been blocked in China since 2012 after it published a number of reports on the private wealth of members of the political elite and their families.
The New York Times attributes the request to pull the app to new regulations officially designed to curb activities "such as endangering national security, disrupting social order and violating the legitimate rights and interests of others".
"The request by the Chinese authorities to remove our apps is part of their wider attempt to prevent readers in China from accessing independent news coverage by The New York Times of that country, coverage which is no different from the journalism we do about every other country in the world," the paper's spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said.
Users who have their accounts registered on an App Store other than the Chinese one can still download the apps.
Apps from some other international media outlets can still be accessed, including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, BBC News, the Financial Times, ABC News, CNN, and Reuters.
In the case of the BBC, the Chinese-language website is blocked while the English version occasionally has some human rights or political stories blocked on both the website and the app.
A number of other Western websites like Google, YouTube and Facebook are also blocked in China.
The Spanish side had taken a deserved lead when Vitolo's cross was turned in by the impressive Yevhen Konoplyanka.
City quickly equalised when Wilfried Bony's close-range shot was deflected home off Adil Rami after good work by Yaya Toure.
Sevilla's quick counter-attacks threatened more goals against a City side often caught wide open at the back.
But, for the second successive European game, Manuel Pellegrini's men snatched three vital points in the dying seconds.
Yaya Toure charged forward in stoppage time and fed De Bruyne, who cut in from the right to score his fifth goal in his last seven games for City and send them into second place in the group.
Pellegrini's side are a point behind leaders Juventus, who were held by Borussia Monchengladbach on Wednesday, and three points above Sevilla.
Two of City's last three group games are away, starting with the return at Sevilla in two week's time.
Before then they travel across town to take on Manchester United in Sunday's derby, where Pellegrini will be looking for a big improvement in his defence.
City had won their previous two home games 6-1 and 5-1, but not without looking wide open at the back at times in both matches, and that vulnerability continued here.
The difference was that City were playing Sevilla, not Newcastle or Bournemouth, and last season's Europa League winners consistently threatened whenever they came forward.
The continuing absence of captain Vincent Kompany - who was again on the bench for his club despite being considered fit enough to start for Belgium at the start of the month - is an obvious factor.
City have not kept a clean sheet without him in their last seven games this season, and Eliaquim Mangala and Nicolas Otamendi - with a combined cost of more than £70m - again failed to convince with their marking, positional sense or tackling ability.
It was City's full-backs who struggled the most, however, with Pablo Zabaleta and Bacary Sagna, who started out of position at left-back, particularly exposed.
Some of that was down to City's 4-4-2 formation, which saw De Bruyne and Jesus Navas tearing up the wings.
That just made it more puzzling why Zabaleta and Sagna looked to join them so often, leaving gaping holes behind them that Sevilla exploited.
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Considering Pellegrini had described it as "must-win" game before kick-off, City did not look much like winning it until De Bruyne struck on the break to pay back a little more of his £54m fee.
City's attack had been fluid throughout, with Raheem Sterling starting up alongside Bony but often dropping deep and switching with De Bruyne, who operated mostly on the left.
While they created plenty of chances early on, they were far less of a threat in the second half and their lack of striking options were clear in the final 15 minutes when Bony was replaced by Fernando, leaving Toure to lead the line.
Most strikers would look poor in comparison with Sergio Aguero but Bony is a Champions League novice and the signs are he has much to learn at this level.
The £28m Ivorian is still awaiting his first Champions League goal, although he obviously played a big part in City's equaliser.
But too often he was not on the same wavelength as his team-mates, noticeably when he failed to anticipate a Sterling through-ball in the second half.
It was down to De Bruyne to save the day, but City's lack of cutting edge was a worrying sign for Pellegrini before his side's trip to Old Trafford.
Yevhen Konoplyanka almost became a Liverpool player in January 2014 and on this evidence the Reds missed out on a player who would have given them the width they have lacked so much of late.
The Ukraine winger turned Pablo Zabaleta inside out down City's right flank and, as well as his goal, he was unlucky to hit the post when his clever free-kick caught Joe Hart unaware.
BBC Radio 5 live's Pat Nevin: "This is a brilliant result against a really good side. Manchester City got very, very lucky until about 60 minutes but after that I could see tiredness coming for Sevilla. Manuel Pellegrini made some changes, and they were very intelligent changes. They worked, Manchester City won and they are 100% in the driving seat for getting through now."
Manchester City just have the small issue of a derby against rivals Manchester United on Sunday.
Match ends, Manchester City 2, Sevilla 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 2, Sevilla 1.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Eliaquim Mangala.
Substitution, Manchester City. Vincent Kompany replaces Kevin De Bruyne.
Goal! Manchester City 2, Sevilla 1. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Yaya Touré.
Attempt saved. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.
Attempt missed. Grzegorz Krychowiak (Sevilla) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Michael Krohn-Dehli following a set piece situation.
Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Dangerous play by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
Substitution, Sevilla. Mariano replaces Coke.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Aleksandar Kolarov.
Substitution, Sevilla. Steven N'Zonzi replaces Yevhen Konoplyanka.
Substitution, Manchester City. Fernando replaces Wilfried Bony.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Nicolás Otamendi.
Attempt blocked. Michael Krohn-Dehli (Sevilla) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Grzegorz Krychowiak.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Grzegorz Krychowiak.
Attempt blocked. Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Yaya Touré.
Kevin Gameiro (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jesús Navas (Manchester City).
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Vicente Iborra.
Attempt blocked. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aleksandar Kolarov.
Offside, Sevilla. Sergio Rico tries a through ball, but Kevin Gameiro is caught offside.
Kevin Gameiro (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Kevin Gameiro (Sevilla).
Attempt missed. Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Benoît Trémoulinas with a cross.
Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City).
Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Yaya Touré.
Foul by Coke (Sevilla).
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Sevilla. Michael Krohn-Dehli replaces Éver Banega.
Offside, Sevilla. Coke tries a through ball, but Vicente Iborra is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a set piece situation.
Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Vicente Iborra (Sevilla).
Jesús Navas (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Grzegorz Krychowiak (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City).
Substitution, Manchester City. Aleksandar Kolarov replaces Pablo Zabaleta.
Attempt saved. Jesús Navas (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.
Mujahid Arshid, 33, is also accused of the kidnap, rape, and attempted murder of a woman in her 20s.
Vincent Tappu, 28, from Acton, west London, is charged with the kidnap of both women. The men appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court.
Celine Dookhran's body was found at an address in Coombe Lane West, in Kingston Upon Thames, on Wednesday.
The second woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had earlier been treated for stab or slash wounds at a south London hospital.
A post-mortem examination revealed the cause of Ms Dookhran's death was a neck wound.
Police had started searching for the two women following a concerned call about their safety.
The men were remanded in custody. Mr Arshid, of no fixed address, is scheduled to appear at the Old Bailey on 26 July.
Both defendants will appear at the same court on 21 August.
Their kidnapping sparked one of the biggest global social media campaigns, with tweeters using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
But most of the girls are still missing. BBC News looks at what we know.
On 14 April 2014, Boko Haram militants attacked a government secondary boarding school in Chibok, Borno state, where girls from surrounding areas had gone to take exams.
Many schools in the region had shut down. Boko Haram was targeting them because of their opposition to Western education, which the militants believe corrupts the values of Muslims.
But Chibok had not been attacked before, so it was felt safe to use the school for the important final year exams. Many of the pupils were Christians.
The gunmen arrived in the town late at night in a blaze of gunfire and headed for the school where they raided the dormitories and loaded 276 girls on to lorries.
Some managed to escape within hours of their kidnapping, mostly by jumping off the lorries and running off into the bushes.
In total 219 girls were taken away.
One of those who did escape told the BBC Hausa service the militants had said: "You're only coming to school for prostitution. Boko [Western education] is haram [forbidden] so what are you doing in school?"
In the past the militants had secretly swapped hostages for Boko Haram members or relatives in prison but this abduction and the blaze of publicity that followed came as the group was growing in strength and capturing territory.
Captives from the villages they were taking over were generally put to work, the boys as fighters while women and girls were often forced to become wives of men in the group.
Three videos have been released to date. On 14 August 2016, a Boko Haram tape showed about 50 of the girls and contained a demand for the release of imprisoned militants in exchange for them.
The group also said some girls had been killed or injured in government air strikes.
In April 2016 a video was broadcast by CNN, which appeared to show some of the kidnapped schoolgirls alive. In May 2014, Boko Haram released a video of around 130 girls gathered together reciting the Koran.
In May 2016 one girl was rescued from the Sambisa Forest, a remote area of north-east Nigeria near to the Cameroon border, where many Boko Haram militants have fled.
She was reportedly spotted by a vigilante group in the area, although the circumstances of her rescue are unclear.
She was named locally as Amina Ali Nkeki, aged 19, and may have had a baby. According to one Chibok activist, Amina said six of the schoolgirls had died but the rest were in the forest.
In October, 21 of the remaining students in captivity were freed.
The Nigerian government said their release was the result of negotiations with Swiss officials acting as intermediaries with Boko Haram.
There are conflicting reports but one security official told the BBC that four Boko Haram commanders were freed as part of a swap - this was denied by the Nigerian government.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has said all the girls have converted to Islam and were "married off".
Last year, three women who claim they were held in the same camps as some of the Chibok girls told the BBC some of them had become fighters - though the testimony has never been verified.
Other rumours or reported sightings of the girls in neighbouring countries have turned out not to be true.
A journalist who is believed to have had contact with the militants, Ahmed Salkida, said in December that sources had told him that the girls were alive. The Nigerian army has since declared Salkida himself a wanted man.
The US, UK, France have been providing military support and intelligence to help in the search for the girls.
China and Israel have also given assistance.
A boosted regional force with 8,700 troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria was launched last July.
Thanks to this renewed military impetus, over the last year the militants have been driven from towns and villages to their hideouts in the Sambisa forest - which cannot be accessed by road.
Thousands of people have been freed from Boko Haram captivity, but Amina was the first of the 219 girls to be found.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is prepared to enter into talks if a credible Boko Haram leadership can be identified. The group is said to have recently split over allegiance to so-called Islamic State.
Negotiations, brokered by the Swiss, helped secure the release of the 21 students, and Nigeria's Information Minister Lai Mohammed said that their release was "the first step" towards the liberation of all the remaining girls.
Abul Kahar, from Sunderland, denies 11 charges including disseminating terrorist publications, attempting to fund IS and encouraging others to take up arms.
Newcastle Crown Court was earlier told he had watched IS videos of beheadings.
It is also alleged he posted extremist material on social media sites.
The 37-year-old takeaway chef told the jury he had not been brainwashed, did not support violence and thought killing other Muslims was against Islam.
He denied he watched videos of beheadings posted by IS on the internet because he "supported and had an unhealthy interest in IS".
Of the videos, he said: "Most of the time before they behead people they give a quote.
"They say why they are doing it. I want to see how they justify it.
"It's on the news all the time, it's all over social media."
He said he had made "no attempt" to go to Syria.
"I know how it looks, but this is not who I am," he told the court.
The trial continues.
21 October 2015 Last updated at 18:17 BST
Since having the operation, she has lost over four stone in weight and her symptoms of type 2 diabetes have gone into remission.
Leading surgeons say the surgery not only drastically reduces a person's weight, but it can have a side-effect on the gut, which causes dangerous sugar levels to return to normal.
Last year the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said people with recent type 2 diabetes diagnoses should be assessed for surgery as soon as possible.
Speaking to Adrian Goldberg for Radio 4's The Report, Jenni Murray says we need to stop moralising about weight-loss surgery, and that a salad and exercise approach to treating obesity does not work for everyone.
"I'm not a token SDLP candidate" is the headline in the Belfast Telegraph.
The paper says the SDLP has denied that it is putting up a "paper candidate" - press officer Martin McAuley - in North Belfast.
Nationalist commentator Chris Donnelly has criticised the nomination and that of Mary Garrity in Fermanagh and South Tyrone as "low-profile and last minute".
However, Mr McAuley tells the paper: "I will be putting my all into the fight to win this seat," adding "I wouldn't be wasting my time if it was a token battle".
Meanwhile, the Irish News says that the use of several Orange halls in County Down for upcoming clinics urging unionist voters to "defend the union" has been criticised by nationalists.
The Irish News says that the campaign also includes a "unionist special election hotline" from which voters can seek advice ahead of the 8 June poll.
The SDLP's John Dallat says the campaign "calls into question the rationale for funding the Orange Order", while Sinn Féin also said it was "attempting to influence the political process".
Both the DUP and Ulster Unionists have defended the voter campaign. An Orange Order spokesman would not say whether it runs the campaign, but said it was a "positive development".
"Veterans: Republicans should face justice too" is the front page headline of the News Letter.
The call was made as former security force members gathered close to the Belfast headquarters of the Public Prosecution Service to protest against what they say is the current imbalance in the approach to alleged Troubles crimes.
The veterans contrasted the PPS attempts to prosecute 76-year-old former soldier Dennis Hutchings, with Royal Pardons given to republicans such as Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly.
Carrickfergus man Jim McCaw, who served with the UDR, RIR and Royal Artillery, tells the paper: "After the Good Friday Agreement, paramilitaries were given special status - as in reduced sentences, gates opened and let out.
"The armed forces didn't get anything. All we want is parity of esteem."
The removal of Cavan murderer Alan Hawe from his family's grave yesterday is the lead in the Daily Mirror. Hawe murdered his wife, Clodagh, and sons Liam, Niall and Ryan last August.
"Monster has gone" is the Mirror's headline.
Clodagh's sister, Jacqueline Connolly, said the family had been deeply distressed and shocked at the time of the family's funeral and as a result "the devil was put in that same grave as our beautiful Clodagh and our wonderful boys".
The story is covered in the other three papers, with Allison Morrison in the Irish News saying that a "constant reminder" of a killer has been removed.
Elsewhere in the Irish News is a warning that heroin laced with a tranquiliser used on elephants is being sold in Northern Ireland.
It says one of the opioids being mixed with the Class A drug is "4,000 to 10,000 times stronger than morphine".
A letter from chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride to GPs and other health care workers warns them to be alert to the "increased possibility of overdose" as a result.
The visit of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall is also covered in the papers and the News Letter features a tribute to the pupils of Dromore Central Primary School.
The Duchess officially opened the school yesterday and said it had a "wonderful atmosphere".
"I never seen such better behaved children," she added.
Finally, the Belfast Telegraph has the down side of the recent spell of fine weather we've been enjoying in Northern Ireland.
The paper says "that shrinking feeling" has hit Northern Ireland's reservoirs following the driest April since 1980.
The good news/bad news? A spokesman for NI Water says: "We expect the predicted rainfall over the coming weeks will help levels in reservoirs rise again."
We all knew it couldn't last.
The document by the UK-based think-tank Quilliam Foundation says the group has developed from al-Qaeda militants in Iraq and now has about 5,000 members.
It says the group - which has claimed deadly attacks against the government - will fight on even if President Bashar al-Assad's regime falls.
But the group lacks popular support.
The 13-page document describes Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) as one of Syria's most effective groups, which aims to establish an Islamist state in the country.
"The short-term strategy of JN is primarily military focused, although preparations are being made for long-term sustainability of the group," it says.
The group, the document says, is now "adapting to the changing conflict, and making preparations for a post-Assad future". This includes "the procurement of heavy weaponry".
The paper also details the group's successful strategy of taking control of the countryside around main cities while simultaneously using secret cells to launch focused and demoralising attacks on urban targets through suicide bombers.
JN has spies in the government, and - unlike the mainstream Free Syrian Army - exerts stern discipline and rigorous selection process.
The rebel group has alarmed Western and Arab governments by its fanaticism and links to al-Qaeda, the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner says.
The US has put the group on its list of terrorist organisations.
However, the report questions JN's popular support within Syria and says it is isolated internationally, our correspondent adds.
The Ottawa-based company, Standard Innovation, has agreed a collective payout up to a total of C$4m (£2.4m) for users in the US, where the lawsuit was filed.
But where does that leave other sex-toy users?
Are there new forms of protection that people should now consider?
In Standard Innovation's case, an app was at the root of the problem.
The We-Connect app connected to its We-Vibe vibrator, and the data collected was sent back to the company, including details on temperatures, settings and usage.
A class-action lawsuit was filed in September 2016 by customers who alleged the company violated their privacy rights.
This week, the company agreed its payout for US customers who bought the product before 26 September last year.
Under the deal, those who used the We-Connect app will be paid up to C$10,000 each.
Customers who bought the toy, but did not activate the accompanying app, will receive up to US$199 each.
The settlement only applies to customers in the US, and Standard Innovation says it has since enhanced its privacy notice and app security.
According to Ann Summers, a British retail chain that specialises in sex toys, the market is becoming increasingly hi-tech.
"Our company has been around since the early 1970s," said spokeswoman Kyrsty Hazell-Page. "Back then, products didn't even vibrate. Then they moved from battery-powered to USB-charged, then came apps and now virtual reality is the next big thing."
The We-Connect app allowed users to control the device's intensity via their mobile phone.
It also enabled a user to allow another user to activate the product from afar via Bluetooth technology.
Standard Innovation said the data it collected was for market-research purposes, but some users felt violated, as the information is particularly personal.
The lawsuit also voiced concerns that the information could be linked to the email address they provided to the company.
The company has since said there has been no breach of our customers' personal information or data.
It says it has also changed its privacy practices, and says "data is used in aggregate and anonymous form that does not personally identify any individual".
At Ann Summers, Ms Hazell-Page said the industry was learning from the case: "We have to be really mindful as it is really important that we protect customers' safety and data in everything we do."
The retain chain, which sells We-Vibe products, said, "We are satisfied with the security changes undertaken by them in September".
Two hackers at Def Con, a US hacking convention, gave a talk at the August 2016 event called The Internet of Vibrating Things, in which they demonstrated how data is sent from the We-Vibe device to Standard Innovation.
The pair, who go by the names of Goldfisk and Follower, also showed how third parties could intercept the data, or even take control of the vibrator and commit what they called "potentially sexual assault".
"Cybersecurity issues are now in all area of life," said cybersecurity specialist Jessica Barker, who runs website Cyber.uk.
More and more products are being invented with internet compatibility, from light switches to fridges, creating what has called "the internet of things".
"In general, the more connect we are the more this opens us up to vulnerabilities, which all sorts of people could take advantage of," said Ms Barker.
In the US, parents have even been warned about the possibility of baby monitors being hacked.
New EU data-protection laws are expected to have an effect, as, from May 2018, companies could face huge fines if they misuse personal data or fail be transparent about its usage.
The law is designed to protect EU citizens but companies based outside the union will also have to comply if they are serving EU consumers.
Earlier this month, the Wikileaks website published allegations that the CIA had developed ways to listen in on smartphones and smart-TV microphones.
However, Ms Barker says intelligence agencies "do not have the resource or the will" to be monitoring the average person's sex life.
"What people need to be more concerned about is cybercrime," she said. "If a product can take video footage, this could be used to extort you. We have seen this already in what we call sextortion cases."
This is when a person consents to sending someone sexual images but the recipient turns out to be a fraudster, or possibly part of a criminal gang, who then threatens to release the footage unless they receive a payoff.
Clicking on a suspect file sent via email can also lead to malware infecting a computer, and could allow someone to hack into the machine's camera.
This is not a new crime. One of the most famous cases came in 2013, when Jared James Abrahams, a 20-year-old computer-science student from California, hacked and threatened two dozen women, including a winner of the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant. He was later sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Ms Barker recommends covering the camera lens on your laptop, either by using a sticker, a piece of tape or a widget sold for this purpose.
Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is thought to take this precautionary measure.
Kellyanne Conway, an advisor to US President Trump, was mocked earlier in the week for comments suggesting that microwaves could be used as cameras to spy on people.
"I'm not Inspector Gadget," she later told US news network CNN. "I don't believe people are using their microwave to spy on the Trump campaign. However, I am not in the job of having evidence."
Technology website Wired looked into the matter and concluded: "Microwave ovens are not an effective spy tool."
Wired referred specifically to the idea of microwaves as cameras. It said the microwave would have to have an outward-facing webcam built into its design before it could be taken over by outside forces.
There are no known microwaves with webcams on the market.
However, the idea has been mooted on online forum Reddit, where a user once asked if one could be created so that you could check on your dinner from a device in another room.
Phil Bale was speaking as the Liveable City Report was published on Thursday.
The report paints a picture of the city in 2017, setting out its strengths and weaknesses.
It said Cardiff was growing fast and jobs were being created, but highlighted that not everyone was feeling the benefits.
The report, commissioned by Cardiff Public Services Board, looked at a number of aspects of life in the city including the economy, safety, health, environment and education.
It is the task of the board - which includes members of the council, health board, fire service and Natural Resources Wales - to improve these aspects.
Mr Bale, who chairs the board, said inequalities between those living in the north and south of the city were the "most powerful findings" for him.
"All of the evidence shows that if you can get young people from various different backgrounds through school with a good education, that will have long lasting benefits to them and to levels of inequality in society," he told BBC Wales.
"For us, working on our school system, ensuring we have a sufficient number of good paid jobs in the city, are really important challenges for us."
The report was commissioned last year and comes as the council gears up for the local elections on 4 May.
Mr Bale's working majority on the council was cut to three at the end of last year after two fellow Labour councillors quit but he said he had "no need" to resign.
The report showed that while the city's school system is now improving after years of underperformance, too many schools are still underperforming.
The number of pupils achieving at least five A* to C grades at GCSE have increased but the gap in achievement between those who have free school meals and those who do not remains.
Mr Bale said this gap was "one of the key focus points, it is narrowing but still too wide".
Cardiff also has the highest percentage of young people not in education, employment or training of any local authority in Wales.
An Estyn report two years ago said the local authority's education services needed "significant improvement" but in March last year the watchdog said no further intervention was required.
Mr Bale said: "There has been a significant turn-around which is not down to any one individual, it's down to a partnership approach.
"Education has been very clearly a priority of the city council over the last few years.
"But we're not complacent, we know there's more that needs to happen and we're working with schools across the city and with other partners, to ensure that improvement continues."
Residents in deprived areas of the city have lower healthy life expectancy - there is a gap of 22 years for women and 24 years for men between the least and most deprived areas.
They are also less likely to have a job - unemployment rates in Ely are nearly 10 times higher than those in Creigiau.
There are marked differences in prosperity between the north and south of the city and the report said addressing these inequalities was "fundamental" to the city's future.
For example, 41,000 homes in Cardiff - more than a quarter - are already deemed to be living in poverty.
Infrastructure
The city is projected to grow faster than all major British cities, apart from London, over the next 20 years - an additional 72,000 people between 2015 and 2035.
The report said this would bring challenges as well as opportunities, putting pressure on both the infrastructure and public services.
The Cardiff Capital Region City Deal, Cardiff Metro and effective city-regional governance will be fundamentally important in delivering sustainable, inclusive economic growth, the report added.
Mr Bale said: "We recognise that initiatives like the city deal where a number of councils and other partners come together can have transformational benefits.
"We have historically worked not very well together as a region and that has to change because cities and city regions across the world are increasingly working as one.
"They recognise that if they want to attract investment, if they want to develop more jobs for people across the region, they have to work together with stresses and strains on budgets and resources."
However, his comments have drawn criticism from other parties on the city council.
Conservative councillor Jayne Cowan said: "If Phil Bale thinks education is critical to stop inequality, I'd like to ask him what he's done since his group have been in power since 2012?
"We are seeing many young people being failed by this council and it's essential that we get a grip on this in order to give every child the same opportunity to excel in education, sport and extra curricular activities."
Neil McEvoy, leader of Cardiff's Plaid Cymru group, added: "Labour's legacy is one of division and inequality, with staggering attacks on services and the environment with its local destruction plan.
"Cardiff Plaid, in just 14 weeks time, will have the opportunity to throw out the LDP.
"Schools in desperate need like Cantonian will finally get the investment they need. We'll put pride back in our capital city."
There will be a six-week consultation on the report with the public and other agencies, before it goes back to the Public Services Board in March for approval.
The board will then create a draft plan with a view to it being published in spring 2018.
The FTSE 100 index fell 58.59 points to 5,931.78 points - a fall of 0.98%.
Anglo American extended gains to stand up 8% on news of higher output at its Brazilian mine and Royal Dutch Shell shares rose more than 2%.
Lloyds Banking Group lost 1.3% on news the government was delaying its sale of its remaining stake.
Fellow state-supported bank RBS was also lower, falling by nearly 2%.
Utilities giant Centrica was down 4.7% after a broker downgrade. Two rival power providers recently cut prices.
SSE announced its price cuts at the start of business on Thursday, its shares finished down by 0.5%.
Typically all of the big six providers follow each other in this.
Ashtead Group shares were down 7.7% and the biggest faller on the 100 list after its US equivalent, United Rentals reported weak quarterly results.
On the economic front, the latest figures on the state of the UK economy showed growth at 0.5% in the fourth quarter of last year. That gave an annual rate of growth of 2.2% - well down on 2014's 2.9% but still leaving the UK among the fastest-growing developed nations.
On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.89% against the dollar to $1.43610 and was also up 0.36% against the euro at €1.3114.
He announced on Tuesday that he was leaving the Welsh assembly to lead the new Menai Science Park, denying the new role was a conflict of interest.
An AM since 1999, Mr Jones took Plaid into government for the first time as deputy first minister in the One Wales coalition with Labour in 2007.
The Anglesey AM was replaced as leader by Leanne Wood in March last year.
Explaining his plans, Mr Jones, who was also MP for the island for 14 years, said he was "fiercely committed to and passionate about creating a better economy for Anglesey and the north west of Wales".
He said: "In my maiden speech in Parliament in 1987, I said that I had been elected to put Anglesey on the political map of Wales, and I am pleased to have been able to deliver real results for the island both as an MP and AM and through my roles as leader of Plaid Cymru and as deputy first minister of Wales and economy and transport minister.
"I would like to thank the people of Ynys Môn for their support and assistance over the last 26 years and more, and I am committed to continuing to serve their interests in the new role that I am taking up."
Reacting to Mr Jones's decision to stand down, Plaid leader Ms Wood tweeted: "A big thanks for all you have done for Plaid Cymru and for Wales over 26 years."
Later she said: "Ieuan Wyn Jones has a proud record of serving the people of Ynys Mon for 26 years. His decision to take on this new challenge of leading the science park project is a continuation of his commitment to the area."
A solicitor by profession, Ieuan Wyn Jones came to prominence in 1980 when he was made chair of Plaid Cymru for two years, repeating the role from 1990-92.
He first stood for parliament in 1983 but lost out to the Conservative Keith Best in Ynys Mon. Four years later he was triumphant there, gaining a 4,298 majority.
Mr Jones was campaign director for the party's first assembly election in 1999, when he also took Ynys Mon. A year later he became party leader.
He stepped down as MP in 2001 to concentrate on his assembly seat.
In 2003 he then resigned as party president and leader following poor election results, but was re-elected leader later that year.
When Labour and Plaid Cymru entered into coalition in 2007, Mr Jones became deputy first minister and minister for economy and transport until 2011.
Following more poor election results that year, Mr Jones stood down as assembly leader in 2012 and was replaced by Leanne Wood.
Born in 1949, solicitor Mr Jones led the party between 2000 and 2012.
He stood down as Plaid's leader after the party's disappointing showing at the 2011 assembly election. The party was widely seen as having failed to capitalise on its period as junior coalition partners.
Former Plaid MP and AM Cynog Dafis said Mr Jones left an "enormously significant record" behind him.
"I think his contribution to Plaid Cymru and to Welsh politics generally has been enormous," Mr Dafis told BBC Radio Wales.
"He was absolutely crucial, I believe, in getting a 'yes' vote in that 1997 referendum [and] in setting up the Plaid Cymru contribution to the campaign.
"I really do think that in a sense he's a kind of giant of Welsh politics over the last 20 years."
At the start of his weekly question session in the assembly chamber, First Minister Carwyn Jones paid tribute to the former Plaid leader as "somebody who I worked with in government for four years and somebody who I have, and had, the utmost respect for and I wish him well in his future endeavours".
"I know that he has much to contribute yet to the public life of Wales," he added.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said Mr Jones had "always been an effective assembly member and I applaud his many years of public service".
"It is fitting that this experience will be put to excellent use at the Menai Science Park," he said. "While Ieuan and I may hold different opinions politically, I wish him well in his important endeavours to increase opportunities for the people of north Wales."
Discussing his new job, Mr Jones said Anglesey and north west Wales was "a beautiful part of the world, but people need good jobs to enjoy the benefits of living and working here".
"I believe that the best contribution I can make in the next few years is lead the project to build Menai Science Park, and use the skills and expertise I have built up over many years to ensure that it plays a leading role in strengthening and broadening our economic base."
The deal for £10m of capital funding to set up a science park linked to Bangor and Aberystwyth universities was a surprise element of the budget deal agreed between the Labour Welsh government and Plaid Cymru in November 2012.
Since then there have been few public details about how the project will work in practice.
Menai Science Park will be led by Bangor University in collaboration with Aberystwyth.
As a result of the £10m for the science park and an extra £40m for apprentices, Plaid agreed to abstain on the budget vote, giving Labour a comfortable majority.
Mr Jones was the Plaid finance spokesman when the budget deal was agreed - so would have played a key role in securing the funding.
However, speaking on BBC Wales' Welsh language news programme, Newyddion 9, he strongly denied any conflict of interest.
He said there was no conflict whatsoever and the post of chief executive had not been created when he was campaigning for the £10m investment from the Welsh Government to set up the venture.
He also said it was too early to set a date for the Anglesey by-election, but said he did not wish to do two jobs for too long.
Earlier this year, Bangor University said it was seeking a "person of high prominence" in Wales to become chief executive officer of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) set up to operate the Menai Science Park.
It said the successful candidate would be "effective in business engagement, politically astute, a proven networker and quite simply a person with credibility".
Toho's film will be released in 2016, a decade after its last take on the monster story, Godzilla: Final Wars.
This year's US Godzilla took more than $500m (£321m) worldwide, and a sequel is already planned for 2018.
Toho said innovations in computer graphics technology were behind its decision to revive the franchise.
The film company previously said that its 2004 Godzilla film - the 28th in the series - would be its last.
The franchise began with 1954's widely-praised Japanese original, directed by Ishiro Honda.
However, more recent productions - such as the 1998 Hollywood version directed by Roland Emmerich - failed to impress fans or critics.
Edward's film - a co-production for Legendary Pictures and Warner Brothers released in May this year - revived the franchise.
Tokyo-based company Toho, which owns the rights to Godzilla, has not yet picked a director for its upcoming reboot.
Veteran producer Taichi Ueda is heading up the new project at Toho studios, which has launched the Godzilla Strategic Conference (Godzi-Con) - a committee aiming to reboot the Godzilla brand.
"The time has come for Japan to make a film that will not lose to Hollywood," Ueda told reporters, according to Variety.
The company is not expected to spend the $200m (£129m) reportedly lavished on the recent Hollywood Godzilla, but Ueda said Toho hopes to make Godzilla a character that "will represent Japan and be loved around the world" by the time of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The fire-breathing, reptilian monster - a combination of the Japanese words for whale and gorilla - is a mutation caused by nuclear testing.
Two hundred had battled the blaze in the landmark 17-storey Plasco building for several hours before it fell to the ground in a matter of seconds.
Another 70 people were injured, 23 of them seriously, in the incident.
Completed in 1962, the building was once Tehran's tallest and contained a shopping centre and clothing workshops.
The cause of the fire is not known, but several officials said managers had been warned about safety issues.
The fire reportedly began on the ninth floor at around 08:00 (04:30 GMT).
Initial photos showed flames and smoke pouring out of the top of the building.
Ten fire stations responded to the blaze and state television reported that dozens of firefighters were inside the building when the north wall collapsed, swiftly bringing down the whole structure.
One of the firefighters told AFP news agency: "I was inside and suddenly I felt the building was shaking and was about to collapse. We gathered colleagues and got out, and a minute later the building collapsed."
"It was like a horror movie," the owner of a nearby grocery shop told Reuters.
Rescue workers and sniffer dogs searched the rubble for several hours before Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf announced that 20 firefighters had died.
Earlier, he said that "no ordinary civilians" were believed to be missing, but witnesses told the Associated Press that they had seen some people slip through the police cordon in an attempt to retrieve their possessions.
Some business owners were later filmed by state TV trying to enter the ruins.
Masoumeh Kazemi said her two sons and a brother had jobs at one of the many clothing workshops inside the building.
"I do not know where they are now," she told the Associated Press in tears.
Police officers have cordoned off Jomhoori avenue, which passes by the building, as well as the nearby British and Turkish embassies.
Fire department spokesman Jalal Maleki said it had repeatedly told the building's managers that it was unsafe, and that it had lacked fire extinguishers.
"Unfortunately, there were loads of goods inside the building and its staircases and none of the safety measures had been observed." he told the Isna news agency.
The Tasnim news agency reported that the building "had caught fire in the past".
President Hassan Rouhani ordered Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli to investigate the incident, calling it "extremely sad and unfortunate".
The Plasco building was built by the Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian and was named after his company, which manufactured plastics. He was executed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution after being convicted of spying for Israel.
The boy faces charges of aggravated criminal assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography. He was not named because of his age.
The girl was allegedly assaulted by five or six males last month.
Around 40 people were said to have been watching the stream at one point but nobody reported the incident to police.
A teenager had alerted a relative of the girl to the assault.
Police said on Sunday they were also seeking the arrest of a 15-year-old boy in connection with the crime.
The girl had been dropped off near her home after attending church with her family on 19 March. She then disappeared and was found on 21 March after the alleged assault was filmed.
She was reunited with her mother but the family has had to be relocated as it suffered threats and taunts. Police expect to make further arrests.
A spokeswoman for Facebook said: "Crimes like this are hideous and we do not allow that kind of content.
"We take our responsibility to keep people safe on Facebook very seriously and will remove videos that depict sexual assault and are shared to glorify violence."
In January, Chicago police arrested four people following a separate incident in which a man's alleged assault was live streamed, also on Facebook Live.
The observations confirm the existence of a second jet, blasting in the opposite direction.
The study uses this galaxy, Pictor A, to test ideas about what makes jets like these emit very bright X-rays.
It appears in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
To make their observations, the team combined 15 years of X-ray data, from Nasa's Chandra space telescope, with images taken in radio wavelengths by the Australia Telescope Compact Array.
Chandra has been in orbit since 1999 - and interest in Pictor A was sparked right back at the beginning of its mission, according to Martin Hardcastle from the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
"The early images from Chandra showed there was this very bright jet," Prof Hardcastle, the study's lead author, told the BBC.
"At that stage we didn't really understand it, because the data were good enough to make an image of the jet, but not to do this kind of detailed analysis."
The new images have five or six times the resolution of our previous best views of Pictor A, he added, meaning that new features can be detected and the physics of the jet probed in detail.
Most big galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their centre, and Pictor A - five million light-years from Earth - is no exception.
In its case, the immense quantities of stuff swirling towards the black hole release so much energy that a beam of high-energy particles is spat across space, at very nearly light speed.
A second jet, fired in the opposite direction, was only an indistinct shadow in previous images, Prof Hardcastle said.
"In some work we did on an interim version of this data set, we thought we could see it. But now it's definitely there."
This "counterjet" - to the left in the blue X-ray image - appears much fainter than its twin and the team believes this is because it is moving away from us, at the same breakneck speed. According to the principles of relativity, this makes it look dimmer.
"It's like the Doppler effect only more so," said Prof Hardcastle. "In special relativity it actually effects the amplitude as well as the frequency of the emission."
Blooming outwards from the twin beams are two clouds of hot material, clearly visible in the radio wave images (displayed in red in these images).
These are created after the jets smash into the sparse, gaseous medium that separates galaxies.
"The material goes up the jet at relativistic speeds and at some point it runs into the external medium. And when it does, it's like blowing up a balloon; the material that's come up the jet has to go somewhere and it inflates these lobes," Prof Hardcastle said.
"It's basically pushing the hot intergalactic medium out of the way, so it blows these twin bubbles."
At the end of the jet there is also a "hotspot", visible in both images, where the material first piles up in collision with that medium.
The most intriguing problem for Prof Hardcastle and his colleagues, however, is wrapped up in the jet itself.
"The question for us is, why can you see the jet at all? It's these very fast chunks of material, but why are they radiating?"
Based on their observations, they say one previous explanation - based on jet particles bouncing off the cosmic microwave background - can be discarded.
Instead, the light we can see shining from the twin jets is apparently produced by electrons spinning around in very small circles.
Just like what happens when electrons are piped around in much bigger circles in a synchrotron, here on Earth, that motion produces radiation in the form of bright X-rays.
But a mystery remains, because the electrons must be re-accelerated along the length of the jet; the mighty shove delivered back at the black hole is not enough.
"Everywhere you see light, you've got some sort of process that's taking energy out of the jet and dumping it into those very high-energy electrons," Prof Hardcastle said.
"We don't know what that is. But we can study the process in Pictor A much better than anywhere else."
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Deputy first minister John Swinney and the chief secretary to the Treasury, Greg Hands, met for the fifth time to discuss the fiscal framework.
The new devolved powers set out in the Scotland Bill cannot go ahead without an agreement being reached.
Mr Swinney has previously said he would veto any deal that was unfair.
At the moment, Holyrood is largely funded by a grant from the Treasury, which will be reduced when the Scottish government is given responsibility for income tax rates and bands.
The talks between Mr Swinney and Mr Hands aim to reach an agreement on the fairest way to calculate the reduction in future years.
Other issues that will need to be resolved include the scope of Holyrood's borrowing powers, as well as who pays the set-up costs for the new powers and how financial scrutiny should work.
What is the fiscal framework?
The Scottish and UK governments had hoped to reach a deal by the end of the autumn, but haggling over the details looks set to continue into the New Year.
Both sides have agreed not to provide a "running commentary" on the negotiations until they have been completed.
But Scotland Office minister Lord Dunlop told the House of Lords last month that the UK government hoped to have the Scotland Bill enacted ahead of May's Holyrood election.
And he said details of the fiscal framework would be available before the bill completes its passage.
Lord Dunlop also said he believed the Scottish government was negotiating on the fiscal framework "in good faith".
He added: "We are committed to reaching an agreement as soon as we can. We cannot guarantee when the negotiations will end.
"Both governments need time and space to reach an agreement that is right for Scotland, right for the UK as a whole, and built to last."
Lord Dunlop was responding to calls from peers for the Scotland Bill to be delayed until the fiscal framework had been published, with concerns being raised that the framework could become a recipe for disharmony between the two governments.
A new thriller called Anthropoid premieres in the US on 12 August, dramatising the ambush by British-trained Czechoslovak paratroopers Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis in Prague.
Yet even today parts of the story are shrouded in mystery.
SS Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich, acting Reichsprotektor of occupied Bohemia and Moravia, was a key organiser of the Holocaust.
The Nazi retaliation for his assassination was savage - the Czech villages of Lidice and Lezaky were razed, the inhabitants shot or deported to concentration camps.
I have had some jarring reminders of the assassination - Operation Anthropoid - during my time in Prague.
I know now my second flat was a five-minute walk from the spot where, on 27 May 1942, Heydrich's open-top Mercedes slowed to negotiate a hairpin bend.
It was less than 700m (2,310ft) from where Jozef Gabcik's Sten sub-machine gun jammed and where Jan Kubis threw his bomb.
Houses in the district where I now live are dotted with plaques to those who helped shelter the parachutists and who paid the ultimate price.
The SS military hospital on the river, where Kubis was brought, badly wounded, is now the maternity hospital where both of my children were born.
Kubis was dragged there from the church crypt where seven Czechoslovaks had held off 800 SS and Gestapo troops. He never regained consciousness.
Gabcik took his own life. The parachutists were laid out in front of the church to be identified by the man who had betrayed them, fellow paratrooper Karel Curda.
But the answer to one question had long eluded me.
Where are they buried?
Surprisingly, the truth has begun to emerge only in the past decade.
"Under these trees are mass graves of people from the Second World War. You can even see where they are - look - the earth has been compressed a little," said Jiri Linek, from the Organisation of Former Political Prisoners.
We had walked down a path to a small clearing in Dablice cemetery, on the northern fringes of Prague. I had driven past it, unwittingly, for years.
"Here," said Jiri, pointing at a patch of grass, the rectangular outlines of a slight depression faintly visible.
"Or maybe here. This is where they should be."
Historians and researchers agree the mass graves of this local cemetery are the final resting place not just for Gabcik and Kubis, but their five fellow parachutists, the dozens of citizens who sheltered them, and the hundreds shot in reprisal for Heydrich's death.
But while every Czech schoolchild has heard of Gabcik and Kubis, hardly anyone realises they are buried here.
"People simply don't know. It was hidden for 42 years," Mr Linek told the BBC.
"If the Communist regime hadn't started in 1948, we would know exactly where Gabcik, Kubis and the others were. But because they flew from England, a capitalist state and our enemy, they weren't regarded as the heroes they should have been."
The location has been established almost single-handedly by author Jaroslav Cvancara. He was fascinated by the Operation Anthropoid story from childhood.
In the 1980s he began travelling the country, tracking down the parachutists' relatives, borrowing their memories and photographs.
During that time he befriended a former Czechoslovak police officer who had been assigned to Prague's Institute of Forensic Medicine during the war. That was where Kubis, Gabcik and the five others were brought for autopsy. The policeman was on good terms with the Czech pathologists working at the institute, which was divided into Czech and German parts.
"One night, the German pathologists were celebrating something or other, and so this policeman with two colleagues crept into the main autopsy room, where they knew the skulls of the parachutists were kept," Mr Cvancara told the BBC.
"They took photos of the skulls - the only photos in existence," he said, adding that he later asked an anthropologist to compare them with pre-war images of the men to confirm they matched.
"These were the skulls of the five other parachutists. Gabcik and Kubis were also there; their severed heads had been kept in jars, preserved in formaldehyde," he said.
"Unfortunately they didn't manage to take photos of them."
The policeman also introduced Mr Cvancara to one of the Czech pathologists who had been working at the institute in 1942. He confirmed the headless bodies were almost certainly taken to Dablice.
The five skulls and two heads were last seen being loaded by the Gestapo onto a goods train at Prague's Smichov station on 20 April 1945. It was Hitler's birthday. They have never been seen since.
A campaign is now under way to get the Czech authorities to exhume the mass graves at Dablice, which contain the remains of an estimated 8,000 people. They range from World War Two resistance heroes, Gestapo officers shot in 1945 and infants born to Communist-era political prisoners in the 1950s.
Jiri Linek, however, says that by cross-referencing the autopsy dates with World-War-Two-era aerial photos of Dablice, the search for the parachutists' bodies could be narrowed down significantly.
"We need to treat them better than waste. These people were basically dumped into that grave as human waste," said Neela Winkelmann, managing director of the Prague-based Platform of European Memory and Conscience, which is spearheading the campaign.
"Of course it requires opening - literally getting the skeletons out of the cupboard, and opening some painful topics. But we cannot avoid this.
"If we want to proceed towards a more evolved nation, we have to honestly deal with the past. And give this last service to our dead."
The film Anthropoid will be released in the UK on 9 September.
The six survivors, all women, walked to a remote village and are being looked after in Dirkou, Niger, Red Cross official Lawal Taher said.
They say several children are among the dead.
The Ghanaians and Nigerians were trying to get to Libya, reports Nigerien news site Sahelien.
So far no-one has visited the site to identify the bodies, Mr Taher added.
The route from Niger to Libya is one of the main ways migrants reach North Africa before crossing the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe.
Crossing the Sahara is one of the most perilous parts of the journey as migrants are crammed into pickup trucks often with only enough room for a few litres of water, reports Reuters news agency.
The harsh Sahara: By Martin Patience, BBC News, Nigeria
The unforgiving conditions of the Sahara Desert mean that a broken down vehicle is often a death sentence for migrants.
Niger serves as a transit point for West Africans hoping to reach Europe to start a better life.
Every year, tens of thousands of migrants cross the Sahara to reach Libya. From the Libyan coast they board rickety boats to ferry them to Europe.
Many drown in the Mediterranean but, perhaps, less well known, are the dangers they face while crossing the Sahara.
It's not known how many deaths there are every year - as it's a vast, ungoverned region. But many migrants die of thirst, while others are robbed and attacked by criminal gangs and security forces.
'My sister drowned getting to Europe'
Authorities told Reuters that is it almost impossible to know how many have died in the vast and unpoliced Sahara.
Last June, the bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, were found in the Sahara Desert near Niger's border with Algeria.
It appeared they had died of thirst after being abandoned by their smuggler, a government minister said at the time.
US President Barack Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and Denmark's PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt took an impromptu photograph of themselves at the memorial service for the late South African President Nelson Mandela.
The snap joins what one commentator has suggested is the "interesting social phenomenon" of people taking "selfies" in serious places.
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Tom Crawford has been in a dispute with Bradford & Bingley, who claim he owes £43,000 in mortgage payments.
Hundreds of supporters gathered outside Nottingham County Court, where Judge Nigel Godsmark was due to rule on an appeal against an earlier decision.
But he reserved his judgement after suspending the hearing twice.
Judge Godsmark said commotion outside the court meant proceedings could not continue.
"What is happening out there is an attempt to disrupt the process," he told the court.
He said he refused to conclude "if there's the risk of serious public disorder."
The wrangle between Mr Crawford and Bradford & Bingley began in 2012.
Mr Crawford, who has been treated for cancer, claims he has paid off the endowment mortgage he took out in 1988 and the terms of his mortgage were changed without his knowledge.
Last year, a court ruled in favour of a debt recovery firm which took on the outstanding balance, and Mr Crawford was told to pay or lose his home.
Support for Mr Crawford came from across the country after a Facebook group was set up.
In January, more than 250 people blocked bailiffs from evicting him and wife Sue from their home.
Mr Crawford, of Fearn Chase, Nottingham said the public support he had received over his eviction appeal had been "fantastic".
"If it wasn't for these people, they would have taken our home," said the 64-year-old.
"This support is what everyone should get. There's a lot of homes taken from people who don't owe any money and they are railroaded by the banks."
As proceedings resumed, Nicole Sandells, for Bradford & Bingley said: "This is not a case where the bank is asked to turn it into a repayment mortgage and has failed to do so.
"The bank offered to amend this to repayment if requested and that was not accepted."
Ms Sandells said permission for an appeal against the eviction order should not be granted and the repossession could still go ahead.
Amy Winehouse: In Her Own Words has been pieced together from interviews and sessions the singer recorded for the BBC before her death in 2011.
It includes live performances of Love Is A Losing Game and Wake Up Alone which were never broadcast.
The release precedes a documentary film about the star's life.
Entitled Amy it is directed by Asif Kapadia, whose last movie was an acclaimed biopic of Ayrton Senna.
Kapadia conducted more than 100 interviews with 80 people - including friends, family and colleagues of the star, although her father, Mitch Winehouse, has since distanced himself from the film.
BBC Music's companion programme focuses exclusively on interviews and sessions by the London-born star.
She is seen discussing her musical influences, her aspirations and the intensely personal nature of her lyrics.
"I've been through times where I've been so [messed] up that I've had to just write everything down - even feelings I don't want to acknowledge.
"It's good, because someone else might hear that and be like 'I'm not an idiot for feeling them things.'"
She also talks about her tempestuous relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, which inspired much of the Grammy Award-winning album Back To Black.
"I fell bang in love with someone and it didn't do me any favours," she says. "When I split up with this fella, I didn't have anything to go back to. I wasn't working, so I was playing pool for four hours every day, getting drunk, having to be carried home in a wheelbarrow. So Back To Black is about a black mood, I guess."
The quotes, many of which are also being seen for the first time, are drawn from interviews Winehouse gave to the BBC for documentary projects including the Jazz and Soul Britannia series on BBC Four.
Performances have been drawn from The BBC One Sessions (2007), Glastonbury (2004 and 2008), The Mercury Music Prize (2004), Later... with Jools Holland (2006) and The Hootenanny (2006).
Winehouse died at her London home in 2011 at the age of 27.
She had previously struggled with alcohol and drug addiction. The inquest into her death found she died of accidental alcohol poisoning.
Amy Winehouse: In Her Own Words is available now on the BBC iPlayer.
The deal includes a 100MW development at the Ness of Duncansby in the Pentland Firth and a 10MW project at the Sound of Islay in western Scotland.
The projects were acquired by Atlantis's development vehicle, Tidal Power Scotland Limited (TPSL).
In exchange, SPR has gained a 6% shareholding in TPSL.
The project assets include lease agreements with The Crown Estate for both sites, while the Sound of Islay development also has a grid connection offer and construction consents from Scottish ministers.
Atlantis said the two projects would sit alongside its flagship 398MW MeyGen tidal energy scheme in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth, which separates the north Caithness coast and Orkney.
The firm eventually plans to have up to 269 turbines installed on the seabed there.
Earlier this year, Atlantis bought Marine Current Turbines from Siemens AG, providing it with lease agreements for two further Scottish tidal sites - at the Mull of Galloway in south-west Scotland and Brough Ness, to the north of the MeyGen and Ness of Duncansby sites.
Atlantis is in the process of adding these two projects, with a combined capacity of 130MW, to the TPSL portfolio.
By 2022, the company aims to have at least 640MW of installed capacity in the UK through developing its existing portfolio.
Atlantis chief executive Tim Cornelius said: "The UK is now synonymous with tidal power in the same way tech is with Silicon Valley.
"Thanks to the dedicated support provided by the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Scottish government, the UK tidal sector is leading the world.
"In a transformational 12 months, we have increased our UK projects portfolio by almost 80% in terms of potential capacity, through the acquisition of Marine Current Turbines from Siemens, and this transaction with SPR."
ScottishPower Renewables chief executive Keith Anderson said: "The MeyGen project has moved the tidal power sector forward in Scotland and Atlantis is now the world's leading developer.
"This agreement will drive momentum in the sector."
In a separate development, Orkney-based Scotrenewables Tidal Power Ltd announced it had secured a further £5.7m from investors to allow it to demonstrate the world's largest tidal turbine.
The company is close to completing the construction of its SR2000 (2MW) system in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
The machine is due to be launched early next year before being towed to the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney to commence grid-connected testing.
The latest funding was provided by existing shareholders - including ABB, Total New Energies, Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA - as well as new stakeholders DP Energy, Harland and Wolff and Scotmarine.
While the UK voted for Brexit, 74.4% of those who cast their ballots in the Scottish capital were in favour of remaining.
Driving through the capital, making stops along the way to talk to people, there were no visible signs in the streets or in gardens of how people felt about the vote.
There were no flags, banners or groups of kilted men as there had been in the hours after the Scottish referendum result in 2014.
However, everyone wanted to talk about the referendum result.
Alice Cook, 41, a teacher who lives in Portobello, said she was "worried and scared" by the result.
"This is a disaster. I am devastated. I am astounded by the English," she said.
"I am happy with Scotland's vote but I'm embarrassed to be English and I'm glad I moved to Scotland to be with like-minded people.
"This is probably the most stupid thing that will ever happen in my lifetime.
"Isolating ourselves is ridiculous. I have a new Danish boyfriend who was planning to move here but I don't know what this means for him now."
BBC Scotland took to the streets of towns and cities across the country to find out what people feel about the decision to leave the EU.
Some mothers in Morningside said they were up at 05:00 so they could find out the result.
Amelia Baptie, 36, a mother of twins, said she was "heartbroken and devastated" by the result, as were most of the parents she spoke to in the playground.
She said: "I think if it was about hope on the Leave side then some good could come out of it, but it was about hatred.
"I am upset and worried. I don't know what has happened to England. They have gone so much to the right and Scotland is being pulled along.
"My parents live in France and they are very worried now if they can stay, and about their income."
Beryl Borrowman, 72, a grandmother-of-four, said: "I voted for Europe to join the EU but it is not the Europe that I voted for.
"However, I voted to Remain and so feel slightly shocked and a bit sad."
Logan Turner, 27, a recovery worker from Colinton Mains in Edinburgh, said he was "very worried" about his German mother.
He said: "My mother has lived in Scotland for at least 35 years but was told she had to choose which passport she kept. So she chose her German one as she wanted to retain her heritage.
"Now after this vote she will not be entitled to any benefits from the government here. However, if my parents move to Germany then my dad will lose his pension from here, so they are in a Catch 22 situation."
Linda Napier, 37, from Colinton Mains, said: "I'm shocked as I didn't think the vote would be to leave.
"Scotland is always in England's back shadow.
"I'm scared because when we leave there is no going back and it's the next generation that will take the brunt."
The small plastic bags, containing rum, vodka or other spirits, are popular with those on a budget - costing between $0.35 (£0.28) and $1.65.
The ban was aimed at minimising the impact of alcohol on young people, especially students, government spokesman Bruno Kone said.
A ban on the sale of water in plastic bags led to protests two years ago.
They were banned by the Ivorian authorities in a bid to reduce pollution.
The decision to ban the sachets of alcohol was taken after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday and had been proposed by the ministry of commerce, Mr Kone said.
"These products are mostly smuggled into the country," the APA news agency quotes him as saying.
"They do not meet our standards and therefore constitute a real threat to the health of consumers - and a threat to the country's economy."
Cameroon, Malawi and Senegal have also banned the sale and production of alcohol in sachets in recent years.
In its ever-escalating war against connectivity ports, Apple’s latest computers do away with the SD card port, a full-size USB port, and the HDMI port.
Instead, you’ll need a dongle to convert those “legacy” connectors, as Apple put it on Friday, into the new, smaller USB-C port.
"We recognize that many users, especially pros, rely on legacy connectors to get work done today and they face a transition,” the company said in a statement, without acknowledging that Apple’s newest iPhone, released just last month, is one such “legacy” device - without a dongle (or a different cable, sold separately), you can’t connect Apple’s new smartphone to Apple’s new laptop.
“We want to help them move to the latest technology and peripherals, as well as accelerate the growth of this new ecosystem."
That help will be a decent discount on the price of the dongles - it calls them adapters - until the end of this year.
The most popular one is likely to be the USB to USB-C adapter - which will be $9, down from $19. For connecting iPhones (both new and old), you’ll need a $19 Lightning to USB dongle - although you could use an old Lightning to USB cable if you bought the USB to USB-C adapter. Keeping up?
Dongle spaghetti
It’s an acknowledgement that Apple’s pro users aren’t exactly thrilled with the latest offering from the company considered to offer the gold standard in laptops.
The bigger issue here, and one that was expertly discussed in a Medium post by technology journalist Owen Williams, is what many see as a muddle at the heart of Apple’s newest products.
For a company that rightly prides itself on creating products that “just work”, it’s literally descended into something of a tangled mess.
Apple has, Mr Williams argued, created computers that lack a core selling point. For pro users, the types that use their Macs for graphic design and video editing, the new range only serves to take away functionality existing Macbooks provide.
If you’re not a pro user, that’s fine. But along with Apple’s announcement of new hardware came the news that the prices were going up. Dramatically so, if you’re living in Brexit Britain. (Though Apple certainly isn’t alone there. Marmite, anyone?)
Those factors combined mean the dongle issue, one Apple might have got away with in the past, has caused added frustration to the faithful who had been waiting for a serious Macbook upgrade for some time.
Dongles get lost, forgotten and broken. They’re an added source of vulnerability when it comes to things accidentally being pulled out when uploading some data, corrupting the lot.
The Macbook future, at least for a short while, is a rag-tag spaghetti junction of dongles strewn across a desk or stuffed into a bag. In offices around the world, inboxes will fill with passive aggressive requests for “whoever took my iPhone dongle” to “please put it back where you found it, no questions asked”.
And when something doesn’t work, you’ll now need to ascertain: is it the device that’s broken? Or the cable? Or the port? Or the dongle?
But hold up. Apple has form here, and history mostly proves them right. Where Apple goes, others normally follow.
Earlier Macbook models already did away with ethernet ports and the CD/DVD drive - a move which seemed absurd at the time, but I’d argue Apple was ultimately exonerated. When was the last time you put a CD into your computer?
So in time, the accessories we use every day will become USB-C as standard, no question about that, and the dongles will no longer be needed.
But in the short term, Apple is left with a product that that no longer caters to either end of the market. Data suggests schools, parents and bosses are looking to Google’s cheaper Chromebooks, which this year began outselling MacBooks.
And if we’re looking at MacBooks as being as part of the bigger Apple planet, we’re left with a company that appears to be behind in many areas. Its iPhone is still king, but sales have been in decline.
Apple doesn’t have any virtual reality hardware. It doesn’t have any augmented reality hardware. Or a car - autonomous, electric or otherwise. In artificial intelligence, Apple's Siri is considered to be the least smart of the mainstream smart assistants, and unlike Google and Amazon, it can’t yet be found in a family-friendly home device.
Tim Cook appears to be throwing money at the problem(s). Spending on research and development has ballooned in the past three years, though Mr Cook is staying typically mum about what exactly the company is working on - only to tell worried investors that his company has the "strongest pipeline that we've ever had and we're really confident about the things in it”.
Only an idiot would write off Apple and its future. I don’t intend to be that idiot. Apple wasn’t the first to market with the smartphone, not even close, but it went on to define the industry and produce the most profitable piece of technology ever made. It could do that again and again in these new areas.
As the world’s richest company, it has time and resources on its side. But with that in mind, couldn’t it afford to pop a dongle or two in the box to make its present-day customers a little happier?
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The 2012 Olympic champion, 30, will meet an opponent yet to be named on the David Haye v Tony Bellew undercard.
Taylor, who stopped Karina Kopinska on debut in November and out-pointed Viviane Obenauf two weeks later, is currently training in America.
She said: "It's the start of a very big year for me and there are big plans but I need to keep winning and performing."
Taylor, who won world championship gold on five occasions, added: "I think people are really excited about the Haye-Bellew fight and the rivalry between those guys and as a boxer these are the kind of nights you want to be a part of.
"It's a massive stage for me and I'm really looking forward to it."
WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew, 34, will step up in weight to meet former world champion Haye at heavyweight, with both fighters consistently goading one another on social media during the build-up to the bout.
Also on the undercard, Sam Eggington faces a step-up in class against former two-weight world champion Paulie Malignaggi, while Liverpool's Derry Mathews challenges WBC silver champion Ohara Davies at lightweight.
Since then the tide of opinion has turned. Astronomers have shown that Earth may be just one of myriad habitable worlds.
Meanwhile biologists have shed light on how life might have originated here, and therefore on other planets too.
Far from being unique, many now regard Earth as an ordinary lump of space rock and believe that life "out there" is almost inevitable. But could the truth be somewhat more complex?
On Friday, top scientists are meeting at the Geological Society in London to debate this very issue, posing the question: "Is the Earth special?". What emerges is that aspects of our planet and its evolution are remarkably strange.
Prof Monica Grady is a meteorite expert at the Open University. She explained in what sense the Earth could be considered special.
"Well, there are several unusual aspects of our planet," she said. "First is our strong magnetic field. No one is exactly sure how it works, but it's something to do with the turbulent motion that occurs in the Earth's liquid outer core. Without it, we would be bombarded by harmful radiation from the Sun."
"The next thing is our big Moon," continued Prof Grady. "As the Earth rotates, it wobbles on its axis like a child's spinning top. What the Moon does is dampen down that wobble… and that helps to prevent extreme climate fluctuations" - which would be detrimental to life.
"Finally, there's plate tectonics," she added. "We live on a planet that is constantly recycling its crust. That's another way that the Earth stabilises its climate." This works because plate tectonics limits the amount of carbon dioxide escaping into the atmosphere - a natural way of controlling the greenhouse effect.
If these factors were important for life flourishing on Earth, an obvious question is what went wrong for our moribund neighbours, Venus and Mars?
One popular explanation is the Goldilocks Effect. This states that Venus was simply too close to the Sun and overheated while Mars was too far away and froze. Between these extremes - like the baby bear's porridge - Earth was "just right" for life.
Indeed, just this week astronomers confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like planet in this "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own.
Dr Richard Ghail, an expert on Venus at Imperial College London, is highly sceptical of this Goldilocks theory, however.
"For me, the key thing is that Venus has a lower density than the Earth," he told the BBC. "That difference was fixed early on in the formation of the Solar System when there were lots of planetary collisions." In the case of Venus, collisions led to accretion into a single planet, but with Earth, the lighter material was flung off to form the Moon.
One effect of Venus's lower density is that its interior melts more easily. So, whereas the Earth has a swirling core that is part solid and part liquid, the core of Venus is entirely liquid - and strangely calm.
In Dr Ghail's opinion, this has led to a spiral of doom for Venus. Without a turbulent core, no magnetic field was generated. And no magnetic field meant that Venus was mercilessly battered by solar radiation, causing it to lose all its water.
Because water is needed to "lubricate" plate tectonics, the crust stopped recycling. Consequently, carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect ran out of control. As a result, today, Venus is a lifeless inferno whose surface is hot enough to melt zinc.
Dr Ghail said: "When you think about it, there was this one amazing chance event [a collision that flung off the Moon] that made the Earth the way it is." If that had not happened, life on Earth might not have evolved at all.
Given that Earth's history was shaped by a single improbable event, one might be tempted to assume that life elsewhere must be extremely rare.
Wrong, argues Dr Nick Lane, a geneticist at University College London. He believes that the emergence of life is probable on any wet, rocky planet.
Dr Lane explained the reasons for his confidence, saying: "One of the most common minerals in the Universe is olivine; interstellar dust is full of it. When olivine and water mix on the seafloor, the reaction is exothermic." That is, it gives off heat.
The environment produced by this reaction "provides analogues for all six essential processes of living organisms," continued Dr Lane. But the especially important thing is that it releases "a rich source of chemical energy that is much easier for an organism to tap than, for example, the Sun's energy".
Thus, wherever olivine and water mix in large quantities, conditions are favourable for the emergence of life.
Consequently, life is not limited to planets that orbit a star; conceivably it could also exist on asteroids drifting through deep space. Simply put, "The Earth is not special," concluded Dr Lane.
Prof Simon Conway Morris, a renowned palaeontologist at the University of Cambridge, is not entirely convinced by these arguments, however.
"I would tend to raise one cautious eyebrow to such arguments," he said. After all, there is a horrible gulf between elementary chemical systems and the creation of fully functioning cells. It is a gap that we have been remarkably unable to bridge experimentally."
Prof Conway Morris concluded: "One important jigsaw piece that is rarely mentioned in these discussions is Fermi's Paradox." This is the concept of the Great Silence; in other words, if life is common in the Universe, why have we not managed to contact it?
And that surely is the key. For in the absence of verifiable alien contact, scientific opinion will forever remain split as to whether the Universe teems with life or we are alone in the inky blackness.
Bydd rhagor o heddweision yng nghanol Dinbych-y-pysgod ar benwythnosau ac ar drenau'n dod i mewn i'r dref.
Fe fydd Trenau Arriva Cymru hefyd yn darparu mwy o staff diogelwch.
Nod Ymgyrch Lion yw ceisio atal ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol cyn iddo gyrraedd Dinbych-y-pysgod.
Mae'r ymgyrch yn ei bumed flwyddyn eleni, ond mae wedi bod yn cynyddu pob blwyddyn.
Mae canol y dref wedi bod yn "ardal yfed reoledig" ers 2014, sy'n golygu bod yfed ar y stryd wedi'i wahardd.
Dywedodd yr Arolygydd Aled Davies o Heddlu Dyfed Powys: "Poblogaeth Dinbych-y-pysgod fel arfer yw tua 5,000 i 6,000, ond yn yr haf gall hynny godi i 60,000.
"Mae 99% o'r bobl sy'n dod i Ddinbych-y-pysgod eisiau dod yma a mwynhau'r dref fel ymwelwyr, a'r oll d'yn ni'n ei ofyn yw i'r bobl sy'n dod yma yw iddyn nhw barchu'r dref.
"Ond yn y gorffennol d'yn ni wedi gweld rhai yn dod yma i ymweld â'r tafarndai a'r clybiau, sydd yna'n achosi trwbl ar ôl yfed yn ormodol."
It is exploring whether it can buy out the contracts of RHI beneficiaries due to receive subsidy payments in the next 20 years.
First Minister Arlene Foster this week survived a no-confidence vote over the flawed design of the scheme, which is expected to run up a £400m overspend.
Buying out the recipients would incur a cost, but would reduce the final bill.
The RHI was set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti) under the stewardship of Arlene Foster in 2012 to encourage businesses and other non-domestic users to move from using fossil fuels to renewable heating systems.
But flaws in setting the scheme's subsidy rate left it open to abuse as claimants could earn more cash the more fuel they burned.
The scheme was finally halted early this year, by which time its overall cost had reached £1.18bn.
About £20m a year for the next two decades could be taken from the Northern Ireland budget to cover the overspend.
In an interview with the BBC's Stephen Nolan on Thursday, Jonathan Bell, a former enterprise minister, broke ranks with his DUP colleagues and made a number of sensational claims about how the controversial scheme was handled.
In the tumultuous fall out Mrs Foster, who is now first minister, denounced a "trial by television" as she survived Monday's no-confidence vote in the Assembly.
The potential cost of a buy-out policy is not yet clear.
It would likely be focused on compensating recipients for the costs of buying and installing boilers.
The executive would prefer buy-outs to be voluntary but is also understood to have taken legal advice from the Attorney General about making them compulsory.
The other option being considered is keeping the scheme open but reducing the subsidy rate.
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said he favoured the scheme remaining open but said a windfall tax should be imposed on those who had abused it.
"It acknowledges the fact that this was a bad scheme, badly thought out and it had a fatal flaw in it," he said.
"The fundamental principle of having a renewable heat incentive to try and encourage people off fossil fuels onto renewables is sound and we want to continue with that rather than close it all down."
Mr Nesbitt has written to Assembly Speaker Robin Newton asking him to stand down after Christmas over his handling of this week's Assembly debate on the RHI scheme.
Mr Newton allowed First Minister Arlene Foster to make a statement on the scheme despite it not having the support or approval of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
An Assembly spokesperson said: "The Speaker intends to reply directly to Mr Nesbitt in the New Year."
The SDLP's Nichola Mallon said her party wrote to Mr Newton on Tuesday and drew his attention to the "fact that we believe that there is a significant issue of confidence in his role".
"We have asked that he consider his opinions," she said.
"We have done so because, unfortunately, I think, when the speaker increasingly becomes the story, there are issues, but in respect of Monday, we disagreed with his ruling."
Later, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the speaker had "lost confidence of the assembly and must stand down."
In a statement, the DUP said: "The speaker is independent of party politics and such calls are not a matter for the DUP.
"It is clear, however, that some parties have nothing to offer other than resignation calls and cheap walkout stunts."
TUV leader Jim Allister said a rating system could be introduced for boilers operating under the scheme.
"I would have thought that it would be possible to rate these boilers, to make them rateable, we've done that with wind turbines, you could do the same with these boilers and in that way recoup some of the excessive profits," he said.
On Tuesday Mr Bell, who was suspended from the DUP following his Nolan interview, released an email to the head of the civil service which he said held "critical information" about the scheme.
The email shows that the permanent secretary for the department responsible for the RHI scheme regarded the spike in applications in the autumn of 2015, which accounted for a large proportion of the projected £400m overspend, as "beyond reasonable prediction".
The former Enterprise Department Permanent Secretary, Andrew McCormick's, assessment came in an e-mail dated 28 January 2016.
Mr Bell has blamed the delay in bringing down the costs of the scheme on interference by DUP advisers - a charge rejected by the First Minister, Arlene Foster.
In the e-mail Mr McCormick said the former minister Mr Bell was advised of the mounting problems with the heating scheme in early July 2015.
Chelsea had already won the Premier League title, but got another chance to celebrate, and this time with their trophy.
Manchester City and Liverpool secured their places in Europe's Champions League next season but Arsenal lost out on a place, the first time in 20 years.
Meanwhile in the Scottish Premiership Celtic completed an unbeaten campaign with a 2-0 win over Hearts.
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The moment of the season for me was when Arsenal beat Chelsea 3-0.
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I think I like it now because the teams who lost last season can get a second chance in winning next season.
Elise, 10, Wolverhampton
My favourite part of the season is when Emre Can scored that spectacular overhead goal against Watford with an outstanding assist from Lucas.
Jack, 11, North Yorkshire
My favourite part of the season was when Spurs beat Hull 7-1! The best match I've ever seen! The highest scoreline this season!
Will, 11, Brighton
I support Manchester United. My highlight of the season was when Mkhitaryan scored with a scorpion kick.
James, 8, Darlington
My favourite moment this season was Charlie Adams' corner in the Burnley v Stoke game. He tripped up taking the corner and gave away a free kick for handball. We all thought he looked like he was searching for his pie on the ground!
Fred, 8, Lancashire
My favourite footy moment is Sanchez's step-over. He then chipped it over the goalie for Arsenal's 5-1 win over West Ham.
'Arsenal fan', 8, Norfolk
My best footy moment of the season is when Emre Can scored the overhead kick against Watford. It was the best goal I've ever seen!!!
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Nicholas Paget-Brown remains leader of the council for the time being but Ms Campbell becomes de facto leader.
It is expected that she will be confirmed as leader of the council at its next full meeting on 19 July.
Mr Paget-Brown resigned on 30 June following continued criticism of the council's handling of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
He had faced fierce criticism of the council's response to the blaze, in which at least 80 people died nearly three weeks ago.
In her first statement since her selection, Ms Campbell said: "The first thing I want to do is I want to apologise.
"This is our community and we have failed it when people needed us the most. So, no buts, no ifs, no excuses.
"I am truly sorry."
She said as the new leader she would appoint a new cabinet on Tuesday and vowed, "things are going to change".
Her first action would be to reach out to the community so that wounds could begin to heal, she added.
Her second action would be to call Communities Secretary Sajid Javid to ask for more help.
She said she was unsure at this stage exactly what form that help should take but said she needed to draw up a plan for north Kensington.
The Conservative group control 40 out of 50 seats on Kensington and Chelsea Council.
Ms Campbell has been a councillor in the borough since 2006 and represented the Royal Hospital Ward since 2010. She was previously a Conservative parliamentary party candidate in for Gateshead East in 2001
Local politicians have warned the new leader must come from outside the "contaminated" administration.
Councillor Daniel Moylan said the ruling Conservative group has to "show a complete break with the past".
Mr Moyland, the Conservative former deputy leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said "any idea of a continuity candidate would be a very bad idea".
"We have to be able to go to the people of North Kensington and to the victims of the fire with a real sense of acknowledging how badly they have been let down, a real sense of shame if you like," he told BBC London Radio.
Judith Blakeman, a Labour councillor in the ward which houses Grenfell Tower, said "it can't possibly be one of the cabinet members" as they had voted to endorse the former leadership.
"They are all contaminated. No member of the current cabinet would have any credibility with the residents of North Kensington," she added.
Sadiq Khan has called for commissioners to take over the running of Kensington and Chelsea Council.
The Mayor of London said the government had "no option" but to appoint "untainted" commissioners.
Donegal 1-14 1-12 Mayo
Down 0-06 0-22 Kerry
Derry 2-12 1-18 Galway
Laois 0-14 1-14 Tyrone
Meath 1-13 1-20 Cavan
Antrim 2-14 0-09 Leitrim
Fourteen wagons of the CSX freight train overturned near Rhode Island metro station early on Sunday.
Sodium hydroxide, a form of caustic soda, leaked from one wagon, which was later sealed by emergency crews.
Crews also plugged a leak in another wagon after a release of non-hazardous calcium chloride.
The cause of the derailment is unclear.
Sodium hydroxide is a corrosive chemical that can irritate and burn the skin and eyes.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control, while sodium hydroxide is not combustible, contact with moisture or water may generate enough heat to ignite combustible substances.
"We don't know how much leaked," District of Columbia Fire Department Deputy Chief John Donnelly was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
"The fumes should not cause you any problems."
CSX said the train had three locomotives and a total of 175 cars - nearly half of them empty, the rest carrying mixed freight.
After a relatively quiet, goalless first hour, Yeovil stormed into a three-goal lead as Francois Zoko slotted home before Shaylon Harrison and Alex Lacey both headed in.
At that stage, Exeter were set to slip out of the League Two play-off places, while Yeovil looked certain to win for only the second time in 11 league games.
Anything but a Glovers win still seemed unlikely even when David Wheeler drilled in off the post with less than two minutes of normal time remaining.
However, in stoppage time, first Troy Brown headed in to make it 3-2 before Reuben Reid smashed in Jack Stacey's cross at the far post to equalise amid delirium at St James Park.
Exeter remain seventh but are level on points with eighth-placed Carlisle, while Yeovil slipped to 18th, 13 points clear of the relegation zone.
After the game, Yeovil boss Darren Way said his players needed to take responsibility, telling BBC Somerset: "When the first [Exeter] goal went in, I looked at the body language - it took us long to get up and we looked deflated.
"If I could have made six changes just by looking at their body language, I probably would have.
"With the goals going in in quick succession I think the players have got to take responsibility. We should have managed that game better.
"The players are very disappointed. You have got to be strong enough and resilient enough. As a manager, I have to go over those goals and make sure we do our best to make sure that doesn't happen again."
Exeter manager Paul Tisdale told BBC Radio Devon: "It is a lesson to our team as well that you can never count your chickens.
"Don't celebrate early. Don't think you are there.
"I want the players to leave today feeling good about themselves because they showed so much character and belief."
There was a surprise onlooker in the stands at St James Park - The Walking Dead and Love Actually actor Andrew Lincoln.
Lincoln, who plays Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead, told Devon Live: "One of my oldest and dearest friends happens to be Paul Tisdale. So I've been watching him very avidly throughout his whole career and I've been very proud of him."
Match ends, Exeter City 3, Yeovil Town 3.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 3, Yeovil Town 3.
Lloyd James (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town).
Foul by Reuben Reid (Exeter City).
Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Brandon Goodship replaces Ben Whitfield.
Goal! Exeter City 3, Yeovil Town 3. Reuben Reid (Exeter City) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by David Wheeler with a cross.
Goal! Exeter City 2, Yeovil Town 3. Troy Brown (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lloyd James following a corner.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Alex Lacey.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Tom Eaves replaces Francois Zoko.
Goal! Exeter City 1, Yeovil Town 3. David Wheeler (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Ryan Harley.
Attempt blocked. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Alex Lacey.
Attempt blocked. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Delay in match Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Troy Brown.
Attempt missed. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Exeter City 0, Yeovil Town 3. Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matthew Dolan with a cross following a set piece situation.
Lloyd James (Exeter City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Lloyd James (Exeter City).
Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro replaces Shayon Harrison.
Foul by Jack Stacey (Exeter City).
Ryan Dickson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jordan Moore-Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town).
Artur Krysiak (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Jack Stacey (Exeter City).
(Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Exeter City 0, Yeovil Town 2. Shayon Harrison (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Troy Brown.
Substitution, Exeter City. Reuben Reid replaces Craig Woodman because of an injury.
Craig Woodman (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town).
Attempt missed. David Wheeler (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
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A section of the sea wall in Dawlish, Devon, collapsed and left the railway to Cornwall suspended in mid-air.
Residents of homes on the Somerset Levels were evacuated amid fears flood defences could be overwhelmed.
David Cameron chaired his first Cobra meeting this year and announced an extra £100m for flood works.
At Prime Minister's Questions he pledged £75m for repairs over the next year, £10m for urgent work in Somerset - where several rivers have flooded - and £15m for maintenance.
By Nick RobinsonPolitical editor
Mr Cameron said he would "ensure that everything that can be done to get stricken communities moving is being done: there are no restrictions on help".
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said Mr Cameron had given the "clearest possible sign" that he needed to "be seen to be getting a grip" on the response to the floods.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson's handling of the crisis has been widely criticised.
He will not be chairing the Cobra emergency committee or giving a statement to the House of Commons on Thursday after being diagnosed with a detached retina. Instead, Mr Paterson will undergo emergency surgery.
By Chris EakinBBC presenter
Seldom can one small village have been so inundated by officials and their vehicles.
In Moorland, on the Somerset Levels, floodwater has reached people's gardens, and there is a huge effort to save properties as residents are advised to leave.
Environment Agency workers, at the centre of a political as well as meteorological storm, are here in huge numbers. Monster pipes are being laid across a road to shift great volumes of water from an overwhelmed drainage canal into the River Parrett. It is an effort to bypass Moorland and save the village.
Despite the advice to leave, announced from a police helicopter - as in a Hollywood disaster movie - many people, if not most, are staying to look after their homes. One woman told me she was worried about looters.
Residents have an anxious wait to see what the water does. For many on the Somerset Levels, it's an anxiety present since Christmas.
Western Power Distribution said about 44,000 customers had been affected by power cuts since Tuesday afternoon.
By 22:00 GMT on Wednesday, thousands of homes had been reconnected but 953 customers remained without power across the South West. In Cornwall, 490 were still cut off.
On the Somerset Levels, police used a helicopter to advise the occupants of more than 150 properties in Fordgate and Northmoor to leave their homes.
Forecasters say there will be an "improving picture" on Wednesday evening. But there will be rain moving up from the south coast on Thursday morning which will spread to south-west England in late morning. About 20-30mm of rain is expected throughout the day.
More heavy rain and gales are forecast for Friday night into Saturday.
Dawlish resident Robert Parker said the storm was "like the end of the world".
He said: "It was like an earthquake. I've never experienced anything like it. I've been in some terrible storms in the North Sea, but last night was just a force of nature."
First Great Western said all lines between Exeter St Davids and Plymouth were closed because of the collapsed track at Dawlish and the bad weather.
Limited services are running between Plymouth and Penzance, with rail replacement services due to be provided from Thursday.
Network Rail has estimated the damage at Dawlish could take at least six weeks to fix. First Great Western said the repairs could not begin until the weather improved.
Speaking after the Cobra meeting, the prime minister said he was "determined to ensure a proper alternative service" was provided while the railway line at Dawlish remained out of use, with a solution found to fix it as soon as possible.
The Environment Agency has two severe flood warnings in place in south-west England - meaning there is a danger to life - down from a high of nine earlier on Wednesday.
It has also issued about 60 flood warnings and more than 200 flood alerts.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued five flood warnings and several flood alerts.
The Met Office has issued an amber severe weather warning for rain - meaning "be prepared"- from 15:00 GMT on Thursday until 23:00 GMT on Saturday across southern England.
In other developments:
Firefighters have also been called out to deal with dangerous structures. There have been two incidents in the Tenby area of Pembrokeshire with roofing being blown off buildings.
1914-1918 - The Netherlands maintains its neutrality during World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany goes into exile in the Netherlands at the end of the war.
1922 - Dutch women get the vote.
1932 - A 31-km dam is completed across the Zuider Zee forming a freshwater lake known as the IJsselmeer. Part of the lake has since been drained and the reclaimed land used to grow crops.
1939 - At the outbreak of World War II, the Netherlands declares its neutrality.
1940 - Nazi Germany invades on 10 May. The Dutch Royal Family flees to England, accompanied by the Dutch cabinet. The Germans bombard Rotterdam from the air, destroying tens of thousands of buildings in a few hours. The Dutch army is overwhelmed and the Netherlands surrenders.
1940 onwards - The Netherlands suffers greatly under German occupation. There is political repression, Dutch workers are forced to labour in German factories, Dutch Jews are deported to the death camps. Some go into hiding, including Anne Frank, whose posthumous diaries make her world-famous. The Dutch resistance movement draws its members from all social groupings. The Germans execute Dutch hostages in retaliation for acts of resistance.
1944-5 - As the Allied forces advance towards Germany, the Netherlands becomes the site of bitter fighting. There is further destruction through bombardment of German positions. The food supply is severely disrupted with many Dutch civilians suffering near-starvation.
1945 - The occupation ends with the surrender of German forces in the Netherlands on 5 May, three days before Nazi Germany capitulates on 8 May.
1945 - The Netherlands becomes a charter member of the United Nations. The leader of the Dutch Nazis is sentenced to death in December.
1949 - The Dutch East Indies, which had been occupied by Japan during World War II, receives its independence as Indonesia.
1949 - The Netherlands abandons its policy of neutrality and joins Nato.
1952 - The Netherlands is a founding member of the European Coal and Steel Community, which is to become the European Economic Community five years later.
1953 - Nearly 2,000 people die when dykes are breached by storms.
1963 - Colony of Netherlands New Guinea is ceded to Indonesia.
1965 - Princess Beatrix, the heiress to the throne, arouses controversy when she announces her engagement to a German diplomat. Former Dutch resistance fighters protest. The Dutch parliament eventually approves the marriage, which takes place in 1966.
1975 - Dutch colony of Surinam achieves independence. Hundreds of thousands of Surinamese emigrate to the Netherlands.
1980 - Queen Juliana abdicates; Beatrix becomes queen.
1985 - Government decides, despite widespread opposition, to site nearly 50 US cruise missiles in the country within three years. The controversy is subsequently dissolved by the ending of the Cold War.
1993 - Netherlands regulates euthanasia by doctors. Official estimates suggest that 2% of all deaths in the Netherlands each year are assisted.
1994 - Labour party leader Wim Kok becomes prime minister at the head of a three-party coalition.
1995 - Serious flooding leads to a state of emergency, with a quarter-of-a-million people evacuated from their homes.
1998 - Wim Kok re-elected as prime minister.
2000 - Parliament legalises euthanasia, setting strict conditions for doctors.
2001 April - In the first official ceremony of its kind, four homosexual couples are married in Amsterdam under new legislation. The new laws also allow homosexual couples to adopt children.
2002 January - Euro replaces the Dutch guilder.
2002 April - Wim Kok's government resigns following official report criticising its role in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 when just over 100 lightly armed Dutch peacekeepers failed to stop Bosnian Serb forces from murdering thousands of Muslims.
2002 May - Widespread shock as anti-immigration party leader Pim Fortuyn is killed by gunman. His party, formed three months earlier, comes second in elections. Moderately conservative Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) led by Jan Peter Balkenende tops poll.
2002 July - Balkenende becomes prime minister in centre-right coalition with List Pim Fortuyn Party and liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
2002 October - Balkenende's government collapses, brought down by infighting in List Pim Fortuyn Party.
2003 January - Narrow win in general election for Christian Democratic Appeal. Coalition talks begin.
2003 April - Animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf sentenced to 18 years for Fortuyn killing. He said he saw Fortuyn as a threat to democracy. His subsequent appeal is rejected.
2003 May - Centre-right coalition sworn in with Balkenende as premier for second term. New coalition involves Balkenende's Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and Democrats-66.
2004 March - Queen mother Juliana dies, aged 94. Juliana reigned for 32 years from 1948.
2004 November - Film-maker Theo Van Gogh is murdered. He was reported to have received death threats after his controversial film about the position of women in Islamic society. A radical Islamist is jailed for life for the murder in July 2005.
2005 June - Dutch voters reject a proposed EU constitution, days after a French referendum goes against the treaty.
2006 February - Parliament agrees to send an additional 1,400 Dutch troops to join Nato-led forces in southern Afghanistan. The decision comes after weeks of wrangling and international pressure.
2006 June-July - Prime Minister Balkenende forms a temporary, minority government after his coalition collapses in a row over immigration, precipitating early elections in November.
Cabinet backs plans to ban the burqa - the full body and face covering - in public places.
2007 February - Jan Peter Balkenende is sworn in as head of a three-party centrist coalition, three months after general elections.
2009 January - Court orders right-wing politician Geert Wilders should stand trial for inciting hatred against Muslims for a film linking radical Islamists' actions to the Koran.
2009 May - Seven people are killed at a parade in a failed attack on the royal family.
2009 June - The right-wing Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, comes second in European elections in the Netherlands, winning 15% of the vote.
2010 February - Coalition government collapses following dispute over troops in Afghanistan.
2010 June - Centre-right Liberal Party emerges as largest party in parliamentary election.
2010 August - The Netherlands withdraws its 1,900 soldiers from Afghanistan, ending a four-year mission that had grown increasingly unpopular at home.
2010 October - After months of coalition talks, Liberal Party and Christian Democratic Appeal agree to form minority government with parliamentary support from Geert Wilders' right-wing Freedom Party.
Netherlands Antilles dissolved. Aruba, Curacao, St Maarten become nations in Netherlands Kingdom. Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, became autonomous special municipalities of the Netherlands.
2011 June - Populist politician Geert Wilders is acquitted of all charges in a hate speech trial in Amsterdam. Judges find his comments comparing Islam to Nazism might be offensive but fall within the scope of protected speech.
2011 July - A court rules the Dutch state responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslims in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
2012 April - Prime Minister Mark Rutte tenders the resignation of his cabinet after the right-wing Freedom Party refuses to support an austerity budget.
A court upholds a draft law to ban foreign tourists from entering cafes that sell cannabis in the south of country. The law, intended to stop dealers' buying drugs to resell abroad illegally, is to be applied nationwide from January 2013.
2012 September - Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling Liberals win election with 41 seats in parliament, two more than centre-left Labour. Eurosceptic and anti-immigrant Freedom Party sustains heavy losses.
2012 November - Liberals and Labour form a coalition headed by Mark Rutte. The new government warns the Dutch that tough austerity measures will be needed.
2013 March - The authorities raise the terror threat to "substantial" - the second-highest level, citing concerns that Dutch citizens who fought with Islamists in Syria are returning more radicalised.
2013 April - Willem-Alexander becomes king.
2013 November - Netherlands contributes 380 peacekeeping troops to Mali, as part of a UN-led mission that took over from French forces who drove out Islamist and Tuareg insurgents earlier in the year.
2014 April - Dutch Supreme Court bans a paedophile club championed by advocates of free speech
2014 May - Volkert van der Graaf, the convicted killer of anti-immigration Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, is released after serving two-thirds of his 18-year sentence.
2014 July - A Dutch court rules that the Netherlands is liable over the killings of more than 300 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys at Srebrenica in Bosnia-Hercegovina in July 1995. The men and boys were among 5,000 Bosniaks, mostly women and children, sheltering with Dutch UN peacekeepers.
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashes in eastern Ukraine, close to the border with Russia. The Netherlands declares national mourning for its 193 citizens who are among the 298 people killed. The two sides in the Ukrainian conflict accuse each other of shooting the plane down. The incident and its aftermath spark international outrage and condemnation.
2014 September - Preliminary report by Dutch experts says crash of Malaysian airliner in rebel-controlled territory in Ukraine in July was likely due to "external cause". Nearly 200 of those killed were Dutch.
2014 November - Authorities take measures after outbreak of bird flu at several poultry farms in the Netherlands.
National memorial service held for 298 passengers who died in crash of Malaysian airliner in rebel-controlled territory in Ukraine in July. Nearly 200 of those killed were Dutch.
2014 December - The authorities say far-right politician Geert Wilders will be prosecuted over claims that he incited racial hatred against Moroccans.
2015 March - Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten and his state secretary resign over having misled parliament.
Antenucci put Leeds in front when he latched on to Mustapha Carayol's corner and struck past keeper Paul Rachubka.
The hosts doubled their advantage when Antenucci curled into the far corner after his initial cross was blocked.
Substitute Kaiyne Woolery gave Bolton hope when he fired in Dean Moxey's cross but Leeds held on to win.
The result, Leeds' first league win since their 1-0 victory against Bristol City in January, eased the pressure on under-fire head coach Steve Evans as his side move up two places to 16th in the Championship.
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Evans was advised by the club's chairman Massimo Cellino not to talk to the media following their 4-0 defeat by Brighton & Hove Albion on Monday.
Meanwhile, Bolton's relegation worries deepen as they drop to the bottom of the league once more and are now 10 points adrift of safety following MK Dons' 2-0 win against QPR with 11 games left to play.
Prior to kick off, a Leeds fans' group named "Time To Go Massimo" held a mock funeral outside Elland Road to mark "the death of the club" as a protest towards Cellino.
A single-engine plane then flew over the ground, half an hour before the match started, with a banner displaying the message "Time To Go Massimo".
Both sides suffered early injuries with Bolton losing Emile Heskey in the warm up whilst Leeds lost Lewie Coyle after 22 minutes when he came off worse following a challenge for the ball with Jay Spearing.
Leeds boss Steve Evans when asked if the protests had proved a distraction: "No, none of it. We have to keep our focus on the grass.
"At the team meeting at the hotel I said to the players whatever happens we can't affect it. It's not our business.
"Our business is to turn up as professional footballers, professional coaching staff and medical staff and support the team on the pitch and get three points. We know if we get the three points we send the Leeds United family home ready to enjoy their Saturday night. "
Bolton manager Neil Lennon: "It's been a problem for us all season, we've lacked quality in the final third and that was apparent here.
"For all our good approach play we weren't clinical enough. We had Leeds on the back foot for the last 20 minutes.
"They had one shot in the second half and it goes in the back of the net. Strikers cost money and we've not got a lot of that this season."
A whistleblower had alleged patients were removed from lists at Kettering General Hospital because national targets were being missed.
The hospital denied "fiddling" but admitted inappropriate "filtering" to remove patients from waiting lists.
NHS Protect said it had carried out inquiries and no fraud was found.
The organisation, which investigates potential fraud in the NHS, said having conducted preliminary inquiries it would not be carrying out a full investigation.
In May, the BBC reported allegations by David Phelan, who was also a trust governor at the time, that waiting lists had been "fiddled" to remove patients.
A hospital review found that 138 patients were harmed - including one who had substantial sight loss - as a result of the long waits.
The hospital admitted using inappropriate filtering of its data to remove patients, but said: "Allegations brought by the former member of staff that this was done to deliberately make our figures look better and to avoid fines from our commissioners for long waiting patients is entirely false."
It quoted the findings of a report which said the filters were "well-intentioned, if misguided, tactical efforts to extract performance data which created a false sense of comfort and control".
Fiona Wise, interim chief executive at the hospital, said the trust had been given the "all clear".
"There has been a lot of concern about fiddling the waiting list," she said. "NHS Protect have been looking at the issues and they have confirmed to us that absolutely there was no fraud."
NHS Protect said: "After undertaking enquiries about Kettering General Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, it is our view that there is no evidence of fraud against the NHS in the claims made, and it is also unlikely fraudulent activity will occur in the future in relation to this issue at the trust."
Mae'r Glymblaid Sosialaidd ac Undebau Llafur (TUSC) yn ymgeisio mewn wardiau ar draws pump o gynghorau, gan gynnwys 14 yng Nghaerdydd a phump yn Abertawe.
Dywedodd Ross Saunders o TUSC ei bod yn hanfodol i "adeiladu gwrthwynebiad go iawn i'r toriadau sydd bobman yng Nghymru".
Ychwanegodd y dylai cynghorau ar fyrddau iechyd lleol wrthwynebu toriadau i'r GIG.
Fe wnaeth Mr Saunders, sy'n ymgeisydd ac yn llefarydd ar wasanaethau cyhoeddus i'r blaid, gyhuddo rhai cynghorwyr o fethu a throi i fyny i gyfarfodydd byrddau iechyd.
Dywedodd nad oedd pleidiau eraill wedi "sefyll i fyny ac amddiffyn gwasanaethau cyhoeddus a swyddi rhag y toriadau mae'r llywodraeth Geidwadol yn eu hanelu atyn nhw".
"Pan rydych chi'n ethol cynrychiolydd rydych chi'n disgwyl iddyn nhw frwydro drosoch chi, i sefyll i fyny drosoch chi, ac yn anffodus does dim un toriad gan y llywodraeth yn San Steffan wedi ei wrthod," meddai.
"Yn hytrach mae carnifal o gydweithio gyda chynghorau'n cael eu rhedeg gan bleidiau gwahanol yn torri'n gwasanaethau'n ufudd a'u preifateiddio."
Mae blaenoriaethau eraill TUSC yn cynnwys gwneud popeth sy'n bosib i reoli lefelau rhent, amddiffyn tenantiaid a rhoi diwedd ar ffioedd rhentu tai.
Traffic lights were placed on the A379 near Yealmpton in March 2015 after the road started subsiding.
Repairs were due to be finished by 31 March this year, said Devon County Council.
The authority has admitted the problems mean a delay for about 6,000 drivers on the road every day.
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The A379 was turned into a single carriageway for about 200m with traffic lights last year after highways chiefs were alerted to subsidence.
Yealmpton parish council clerk Mike Stickland said: "We are fed up with it being closed for so long, it's a major tourist road and the local area's businesses rely on it."
South Hams district councillor Richard Hosking asked the county council to classify the roadworks as an emergency but his request was rejected.
"I've been assured it is being treated as a priority," he said.
A county council spokesman said: "Public safety is our prime concern, and one lane of this section of the road is closed, with temporary lights, because the road is subsiding and is not safe.
"It doesn't normally take this long to design a structural repair scheme but the investigation work was seriously hampered by the location of a gas main under the road.
"A further complication arose following preparatory vegetation clearance which identified the need for a risk assessment to determine if a safety barrier was now required.
"That assessment took place last week and the outcome is a significant length of barrier is required to safeguard the highway user from what is a significant drop.
"The re-design of the strengthening works and the safety barrier will delay starting on site until April."
The first leg on 30 June against Estonian side Infonet was switched to Tynecastle hours after Monday's draw.
And, the following day, the second leg was moved forward 24 hours, which Hearts say inconvenienced their fans.
"The club has requested that the Scottish FA make representation to Uefa," the Scottish Premiership club said on their website.
Hearts want the SFA to recommend "that the communication process between participating clubs, their national associations and Uefa be reviewed and improved".
They say that fans "who had moved quickly to book flights and accommodation" had been adversely affected.
"Having been assured that all deliberations of the competitions committee had been concluded, and decisions taken were final, we released this information to our supporters," they said.
"No further communication was received from Uefa to the club prior to them issuing their finalised list of fixtures, which showed that a further change had in fact been made, moving our away leg from Thursday 7 to Wednesday 6.
"This change was made without any reference to either Hearts or, indeed, FC Infonet.
"In this instance, the club can only repeat its apologies for the inconvenience that these events have caused and trust that supporters will recognise that we did everything possible to provide timely and accurate information to our supporters, including sending representatives to Nyon."
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The pair will meet in round four, with 2015's top-flight bottom four joining at the next stage.
Fellow amateurs and National Conference League side Pilkington Recs host Championship side Halifax and Cumbrian outfit Kells are away to Oldham.
Fax's near neighbours Siddal go to League One Rochdale Hornets.
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Their 14-6 win over Wigan Warriors in the Grand Final was Brown's last match with Saints after two seasons.
The club allowed the 41-year-old ex-Huddersfield boss to leave a year early to return to his native Australia.
Cunningham, 37, spent his whole playing career at St Helens before joining the coaching staff after his retirement.
The former Wales and Great Britain hooker made his St Helens debut in 1994 and went on to make 495 appearances at the club.
Cunningham scored the final try at Knowsley Road before the club moved to Langtree Park, and his legendary status has earned him his own statue outside the ground.
"When you finalise what's going on and you agree your contract and everything's done, it's sort of not real," Cunningham told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"It's almost like when your wife's pregnant and you don't see the baby, and the next thing is you sit in the press conference and the baby is there.
"I was never going to say no. It's something that I always dreamed of doing. I started coaching and I was always adamant I was going to be head coach one day. It's the proudest moment of my life.
"It's up there with lifting the trophy for the town at Wembley, I'm so proud to do it."
After his retirement in 2010, following a Grand Final defeat by Wigan, Cunningham joined the Saints backroom staff in an assistant coaching role.
"Keiron is ready for this professionally and totally committed to the task ahead of him," Saints chairman Eamonn McManus told the club website.
"He has been heavily involved in the success of this season and is ideally placed to carry it on for years to come.
"Not only does he understand our culture, he has been instrumental in its development since the inception of Super League."
The two-time series winners got their 2016 campaign off to a perfect start in Ramsey with victories in both the time trial and criterium.
Following their team trial victory, it was Chris Lawless from Wigan who won took the individual criterium.
Raleigh's Sebastian Mora finished second, with Dale Appleby (NFTO) third.
Local guest Owen Dudley, 17 and from the Isle of Man, finished an impressive sixth in near perfect cycling conditions in Ramsey.
The leading riders completed 33 laps of a one-mile (1.5km) closed road circuit.
With each team's top four riders counting in the time trial, JLT Condor edged out Madison Genesis by just two seconds, with Team Raleigh GAC a further second back.
The series opener was held as part of a new four-day festival of cycling on the island, which continues on Friday with a mass participation event and BMX GP.
The 26-year-old has replaced Alastair Cook despite only leading in four previous first-class matches.
"It would be silly not to talk to people who have been in this position before," Root told BBC Sport.
"Maybe I'll also speak to a few people away from cricket to get different perspectives on things."
The Yorkshire batsman added: "The opportunity to do that comes with a great deal of time before our next Test, hopefully I can be smart about things and use that time wisely."
The Yorkshire batsman takes over from Cook, who resigned on 6 February after a record 59 Tests in charge.
Cook has stated his intention to remain in the team, with Root keen to tap into the experience of the opening batsman and other senior players like pace bowlers James Anderson and Stuart Broad.
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"You shouldn't be scared of asking for help," said Root, who has had limited opportunities to lead in county cricket since making his international debut at the age of 21.
"I will want to do things my way as well because I would like to think I can put my own stamp on the job.
"I like to think I'll be instinctive, I want us to always to look to win and be a tough side to play against."
Speaking before Cook resigned, Root likened becoming captain to being a new father, his first son Alfie having arrived in January.
And he was performing a fatherly duty when he asked to become captain on Sunday evening.
"It's a funny story," he told Sky Sports.
"On Sunday afternoon I took Alfie for a nappy change and got a nice call from Andrew Strauss saying this is that one call in your life when you get offered the England captaincy."
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Root will lead England in home series against South Africa and West Indies before the defence of the Ashes in Australia next winter.
His task is to reverse the fortunes of a side that have lost six of their past eight Tests.
"I can't for the Ashes," he said. "We should all be very excited about that.
"We have a great blend of experience and raw talent and there's a core group of players that have played 20 or 30 games.
"It's a great time for them to become more consistent and to make this side really tough to beat."
"I'm not preoccupied but you have to try and be occupied," explains Banderas on his forthcoming role as Picasso.
"It's not nerves, it's about being honest and discovering in me what I have in common with him and studying him, his complexities and depth well enough to bring him to me and do a portrait that is fair."
The film 33 Dias, is set during the period when Picasso worked on his anti-war masterpiece Guernica.
If the pressure of playing a celebrated Spaniard isn't enough, both men also hail from the town of Malaga on the southern coast.
"People loved him and loved what he did in artistic terms and what I'm doing is trying to understand him and why he said the things he said and did the things he did.
"There's a sense of responsibility every time you play a character."
It is arguable whether that same sense of responsibility extends to Banderas' role as Burger Beard in The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
The film, which opens in the UK on Friday, is already a financial success, having earned $280m (£187m) worldwide.
From Blackbeard through to Captain Jack Sparrow, history is littered with seafaring scoundrels so did Banderas base his pirate on anyone in particular?
"Of course there are pirates in the history of motion pictures, hundreds of them, and probably I've seen them all and something is in here," says Banderas gesturing to his head.
"But it's not like I thought: 'I want to sound like someone else'."
A veteran of Spanish cinema, thanks to his frequent collaborations with director Pedro Almodovar, Banderas flits between drama roles, action film and comedies in equal measure.
But it is providing the voice of a CGI fairytale character for which he has possibly become best known - the doe-eyed but deadly Puss in Boots.
The swashbuckling feline first appeared in the Shrek sequel in 2004 and was reprised in the third and fourth films before landing his own film in 2011, marking the start of his own franchise.
"We've already initiated the process of making a new movie with him, probably in a couple of years he's going to be back on the screen.
"I love that cat man, it's so much fun and I like to voice the character. I've been with him since 2003, I was on Broadway at the time.
"But I love to make movies for children because you can do so much more and laugh and get your own personality in there."
Banderas' plans come as Netflix premieres its own animated series based on the character.
The Adventures of Puss in Boots, however, is not voiced by Banderas, but rather a Canadian voice actor Eric Bauza, doing an impersonation of Banderas.
But just how does the real Banderas feel about this?
"It's how Hollywood operates," he says. "If you create a character that can produce all of these different branches, it's just because the character is successful, so I'm very happy that it's happened."
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The centre forward scored a total of 114 goals in 230 appearances for the club between 1946 and 1957.
He most famously scored twice as the then English champions beat Hungarian side Honved, which at that time provided half of the country's national team, 3-2 at Molineux in December 1954.
"Everyone at Wolves was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Roy," said chief executive Jez Moxey.
"Roy is one of the club's most iconic and revered footballers and he's left an everlasting mark on the club's history.
"He was the hero of the famous floodlit game versus Honved, which many fans say is the club's most famous victory."
Sandor Kocsis headed in fellow Hungary legend Ferenc Puskas' free-kick to help Honved lead 2-0 after 14 minutes, however a second-half Johnny Hancocks penalty and two in two minutes from Swinbourne saw Wolves win.
The Hungary national side was one of the strongest in world football in the 1950s. They won the 1952 Olympic title before inflicting a first international home defeat at Wembley on England, winning 6-3 in 1953 in a game dubbed the "Match of the Century".
The following year they thrashed England 7-1 in Hungary, a score that remains England's heaviest defeat.
Hungary went on to reach the 1954 World Cup final where they led West Germany 2-0 but lost 3-2 in Bern, Switzerland - their only defeat in 50 matches from 1950-56.
Wolves' players will wear black armbands during Monday's game at Charlton.
Snowdonia National Park has issued the appeal in a bid to stop people creating cairns - piles of stones.
It said the practice has "become customary" among walkers so they can "identify paths and junctions or dangerous places".
But park wardens warned it has caused footpaths to erode.
On Ty Nant footpath, within less than a mile between Rhiw Gwredydd and Bwlch y Cyfrwy, there are 102 cairns.
Simon Roberts, senior warden for south Snowdonia, said the issue has become "quite a problem" on Cadair Idris, leading to a volunteer day being organised to reduce the size and number of piled stones.
"As the cairns are built, stone by stone, the footpaths are eroding and the fragile landscape is being damaged," he said.
"Footpaths widen and the cost of maintaining the footpaths increase. But, even more dangerous, they can mislead walkers, especially in fog."
McNeill's family revealed at the weekend that the former captain and manager is suffering from dementia.
"He is one of the great figures who has inspired Celtic to what it is today," Rodgers said.
"Billy and his family retain the huge support of the Celtic family, which is the fans and everyone involved here."
Rodgers revealed that he had met the 76-year-old at the 1-0 win over Aberdeen at Celtic Park on 1 February.
"I met Billy the last time at the Aberdeen game and he was in good spirits," he said.
"The twinkle was still in his eye, but like his wife said, he finds it hard to communicate at the moment.
"Everyone here and the support will always be here for them and to make their life as easy for them as we can."
Rodgers said that McNeill's leadership of the Lisbon Lions in 1967 was "inspirational" and played a part in the success that other British clubs went on to enjoy in the competition.
He added that his duty as the current Celtic manager was to meet the standards set by the likes of McNeill, Danny McGrain and John Clark in the past.
"If you look at him as the player, he inspired not just people around Celtic Football Club but many a player around Britain, being the first captain of a British team to pick up the European Cup," Rodgers said.
"You only truly get inspired seeing someone you know, or are close to, actually do it. From that moment, Liverpool won the European Cup five times and other teams and managers won it, so a really truly inspirational figure.
"At Celtic, he was a real leader of men - and proper men. My time remembering him was as a manager and the great teams he managed and the great players.
"One of the truly iconic players and people of this club who will always be remembered fondly. I'm sure he'll be around to see many more games."
Rodgers said that McNeill - who managed Celtic from 1978 to 1983 and again from 1987 to 1991 - and his former European Cup-winning team-mates were an inspiration when he joined the club last summer.
"When I first came in here, I said my duty as the manager was to fill the stand," he added.
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"One of the stands was named after the Lisbon Lions and he was the leader of that, so our respect as players and coaching staff was to inspire this team to entertain in order to get the stands back full again as a mark of respect to those great figures of our past.
"The Celtic way has always been about entertainment, fighting for the shirt, defending the culture of your club, so every time you pull on your Celtic shirt, you have to play with confidence, play with aggression, tenacity, be optimistic that you can win every game and you've got to have enthusiasm before you even think about tactics."
Meanwhile, ahead of Wednesday's trip to face Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Premiership, Rodgers revealed Celtic are awaiting scan results to ascertain the extent of the injury winger James Forrest suffered in the 2-0 win against Hamilton Academical at the weekend.
The body of Leonne Weeks was discovered just off Lordens Hill, in Dinnington, on Monday at 11:00 GMT.
South Yorkshire Police said a post-mortem examination revealed she had died from multiple stab wounds.
A 26-year-old woman held on suspicion of assisting an offender was released on Wednesday night pending further inquiries.
An 18-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody.
On Thursday afternoon South Yorkshire Police said they had been granted an extra 24 hours to quiz the man.
Set in 1686, the story unfolds as a young bride is given a miniature replica of her own house, the contents of which seem to mirror real life.
Burton wrote the book over four years while working as an actress and as a PA in a City firm.
She said: "Short of actually being published, it's the best news I've ever had."
The author added: "It's an almost indescribable thrill to know the characters and story I invented in The Miniaturist are going to be given a new life in such an exciting way."
Kate Sinclair, executive producer for The Forge which will make the series, said: "I feel privileged to be making this for the BBC. Think Wolf Hall meets Tulip Fever."
The book, which was one of the fastest-selling debut novels in a decade, has been adapted by John Brownlow.
It has won numerous awards including Waterstone's Book of the Year and the National Book Awards Overall Book of the Year.
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About 100 people attended the Festival of Recollections at Caerwys town hall on Thursday evening.
The event documented the town's growth as a service centre since 1490 and shopkeepers had the chance to share their memories of business.
The festival was organised by Caerwys Historical Society, supported by a grant from the Big Lottery Fund.
Society chairman Rowland Ward said: "What we are celebrating tonight is the adaptability and hospitality of our traders."
He said that, while businesses might have struggled in other towns, shops had survived in Caerwys because they have "kept ahead of the trends, of new technology and crucially have been at the heart of the community".
Among those who took part in the festival was butcher Meirion Morgan, who described taking over his father's business in the winter of 1963 and delivering meat to customers over the snowdrifts.
He told BBC Wales: "It was a winter we will never forget... life was pretty difficult on the country roads.
"We managed to get around, nobody went hungry, but it was hard work."
Now in his 70s, he is the last of the mobile traders who have served the farms and cottages in the local area.
Will Hebson, the last grocer and draper in Caerwys, now runs a convenience store and also spoke at the event.
He recalled how there was a ruler along the counter for measuring knicker elastic when he took over the shop 30 years ago.
"I sold the last piece of knicker elastic... a lady asked me to measure a yard and when I measured it she asked me to measure it twice, just to make sure that it didn't shrink," he said.
"I'm convinced that if it did shrink I would never be here today. My reputation would have been finished."
The deal marks the end of the long-running takeover battle for one of the largest car rental firms in the US.
The new partners said the deal would lead to "significant growth opportunities" and $160m of cost savings each year.
The deal has been approved unanimously by both boards but is still subject to regulatory approval.
Both Hertz and rival Avis had made bids for Dollar Thrifty in recent years.
"We are pleased to have finally reached an agreement with Dollar Thrifty after a lengthy - but worthwhile - pursuit," said Hertz chief executive Mark Frissora.
"We have always believed that a combination with Dollar Thrifty is the best strategic option for both companies."
Scott Thompson, chief executive of Dollar Thrifty, said: "After three years of merger-related activity and speculation, I am pleased that we have reached a win-win transaction for both Hertz and Dollar Thrifty."
Combined, the two companies recorded sales of $10.2bn in the year to the end of July.
Hertz also announced the sale of its Advantage business to Franchise Services of North America and Macquarie Capital.
In its twice-yearly assessment of global economic prospects, the bank forecasts only a modest increase in growth.
The report also says that there has been an increase in risks to the global economy.
The bank's chief economist suggests that China's economic slowdown is a potential danger.
But there are some relatively upbeat elements to this report.
The World Bank does think that global economic growth will pick up this year.
The rich countries will gain some speed and the emerging economies will grow more rapidly than last year.
But then 2015 was, for the developing economies, what the bank calls a post-crisis low in terms of economic growth.
This year's forecast, 2.9% for the global economy compared with 2.4% last year, is still not robust.
Nor is the forecast for the developing economies, at 4.8%.
South Asia, led by India, is described as a "bright spot". But among the other largest emerging economies, sometimes known as the Brics, growth is expected to slow further in China, while Brazil and Russia are likely to remain in recession.
The Bank's chief economist, Kaushik Basu, said there is greater divergence between emerging economies.
He also says the risks to the forecast have increased in the last six months, "particularly those associated with the possibility of a disorderly slowdown in a major emerging economy".
He didn't name the emerging economy that was behind that remark, but it's not hard to guess that it was China.
The report warns that weakness in major emerging economies could pose a threat to hard-won gains in raising people out of poverty.
It expresses concern that poverty will become increasingly concentrated in economies based on the exploitation of natural resources, many of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, where extreme poverty is already prevalent.
The natural resource economies have been hit by the recent fall in the prices of commodities. The report says many poor households in these countries have also been hit by higher prices of imported goods, resulting from sharp declines in national currencies.
The report warns: "Even the limited gains in poverty reduction made over the past decade could rapidly reverse."
It's worth adding that the growth figures for the world and for groups of countries reported by the bank should not be directly compared with the figures given by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
That's because there are two ways of adding up country figures, and the two agencies choose to highlight different ones.
But comparable figures are there to be found. Using the IMF's preferred method, the two agencies' most recent global growth figures for this year and next are the same; using the bank's method they are slightly different, but still very close.
Onboard video and other data now indicate that a critical mechanism that ordinarily would only be used during the descent from sub-orbital space was activated at the beginning of the vehicle's journey skywards, on ascent.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says SpaceShipTwo broke apart just two seconds after this "feathering" system was deployed.
Why the mechanism came out when it did, the inquiry team is not yet in a position to say.
But its untimely activation is now the focus of the investigation.
"This is not a statement of cause but rather a statement of fact. There is much more that we don't know, and our investigation is far from over," NTSB acting chairman Christopher Hart told a news conference in Mojave on Sunday.
Feathering is supposed to be one of the vehicle's key safety features.
The standard procedure is for the system to be deployed when the ship has reached its highest altitude, after it has broken through the atmosphere.
The twin tailbooms on the craft are rotated 65 degrees, from the horizontal to the vertical. The effect is to make the returning vehicle behave much like a shuttlecock.
As the air gets thicker on the descent and rushes over the booms, the drag on the plane means it naturally adopts a belly-down position ready for the glide back home - just as the feathers always ensure forward-facing flight for the conical projectile used in a game of badminton.
Feathering gets around the need for a complicated system of small thrusters that would otherwise be required to put the rocket ship into the correct re-entry attitude. Importantly, that belly-down configuration also slows the vehicle's fall.
The system worked to great effect on the prototype vehicle, SpaceShipOne, when it made its flights to suborbital space 10 years ago.
It goes without saying that feathering a vehicle while under rocket power and moving in excess of the speed of sound is a recipe for disaster. The aerodynamic profile is utterly changed along with the forces acting on the structure of the craft.
The pilots control the descent system by means of two levers - one to unlock the system; the second to deploy it.
Investigators could see from recovered cockpit video that co-pilot Michael Alsbury, who died in the accident, uses a handle to change the feathering system from the "lock to unlock" position as the vehicle passes Mach 1.0.
Mr Hart said that this action was taken earlier than would normally be expected (it should be executed at 1.4 times the speed of sound), but there is no evidence to suggest the pilots then moved the lever that actually engages the feathering system.
"The lock-unlock lever was moved from lock to unlock, but the feathering lever was not moved. This was what we would call an uncommanded feather, which means the feather occurred without the lever being moved into the feather position," the investigator told reporters.
The other key piece of information released by the NTSB concerned SpaceShipTwo's propulsion system.
Much of the discussion over the weekend has focussed on the rocket engine, on its new polyamide solid fuel and the suitability of its oxidiser, nitrous oxide.
Commentators have speculated whether some problem in the motor, perhaps an explosion, could have caused the accident.
But the NTSB's investigations directly contradict this idea.
"The fuel tanks were found intact with no indication of breach or burn-through, and so was the engine as well," Mr Hart said.
This was enough to prompt Virgin Galactic boss Sir Richard Branson to round on his critics.
He described the speculation concerning the motor's role in the accident as "garbage".
"I think that what you need to do is wait for the NTSB's final statement," he told the BBC.
"There will be a final statement and then we'll know exactly what happened; and the rumours and the innuendoes and the self-proclaimed experts I think will be put back in their box."
Campaigner Peter Mitchell has called the sign at Limavady Health Centre "deeply offensive and wrong on so many levels".
He said there was an onus on health care providers to use more socially acceptable language.
The Western Health and Social Care Trust has promised to take action.
Mr Mitchell, a local actor and wheelchair user, said he initially thought the sign was a "wind-up".
"The word handicapped is really offensive," he said.
"It comes from mid 17th Century when disabled people were seen as second class citizens, they literally had to beg on the streets with their cap in their hands.
"Do people look at me because I am in a wheelchair, as a second class citizen, that I have nothing to offer?"
He said there was ongoing debate among disability groups as to appropriate language, but said there was widespread agreement that the word handicapped was "wrong on so many levels".
Damon Rose from BBC Ouch said the word "embodies an old fashioned idea that if you are handicapped you have something wrong with you".
"Whereas if you are disabled people tend to think of that more as a problem people can solve by putting in ramps or accessible loos".
In a statement the Western Trust said: "We are grateful that this has been brought to our attention and will take action to rectify immediately."
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that China's actions in the area were "out of step" with international rules.
China claims almost the whole of the South China Sea, resulting in overlapping claims with its neighbours.
Chinese officials have described US remarks on the South China Sea as "groundless and not constructive".
Other countries have accused China of illegally taking land to create artificial islands with facilities that could potentially be for military use.
At the conference on Saturday, which was attended by defence ministers from across the Asia-Pacific region, Mr Carter said he wanted the "peaceful resolution of all disputes".
"To that end, there should be an immediate and lasting halt to land reclamation by all claimants," he said.
He acknowledged that other claimants such as Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan had reclaimed pockets of land or built outposts in the area, but said "one country has gone much farther and much faster than any other".
"China has reclaimed over 2,000 acres, more than all other claimants combined and more than in the entire history of the region. And China did so in only the last 18 months," he said.
"It is unclear how much farther China will go. That is why this stretch of water has become the source of tension in the region and front-page news around the world."
The US defence secretary also said the US would maintain a substantial presence in the region, adding: "The United States will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows."
Ash Carter's comments were some of the toughest on China's island-building strategy that have come from a senior US official.
The key question is what the US can actually do about it beyond words.
Recent over-flights by US maritime patrol aircraft of some of the new islands have been met by terse radio traffic with the Chinese demanding they leave the area. The fear is that this kind of activity might lead to some kind of incident in the air or at sea that may only further inflame tensions between Washington and Beijing.
China takes the view that it is doing nothing wrong - and certainly nothing that other countries are not also doing.
However, it is clearly the pace and scale of what China is doing that worries many.
And with the precedent of China's self-declared air defence identification zone in the East China Sea, there are fears that such an approach to monitoring or potentially even ultimately limiting freedom of movement could be extended into the South China Sea as well.
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Senior Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo, a member of China's delegation at the conference, said that China's actions were "reasonable and justified", and that "it is wrong to criticise China for affecting peace and stability through construction activities".
Mr Carter's comments follow reports from US defence officials that China had put two artillery vehicles on one of the artificial sands it is creating in the disputed Spratley Islands area of the South China Sea earlier this month.
Asked about the US claims, China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said she was "not aware of the situation" described, and urged the US to "stop making any provocative remarks".
China has previously said its work in the area is legal and needed to safeguard its sovereignty.
The 25-year-old became the most expensive player in history when he joined PSG from Barcelona for 222m euros (£200m).
He set up Edinson Cavani for his side's opener on Sunday before scoring the final goal in a 3-0 victory.
"People think that leaving Barca is to die, but it's the opposite," he said.
"I'm more alive than ever. I play, I am very happy and football is the same. Only the country, the city and the team change, but football is the same."
He started the game on the left side of an imposing three-man attack, with Cavani and Angel di Maria.
PSG dominated the game and took the lead early in the second half when Ikoko's misjudged back-pass found his own net.
Cavani then converted after latching on to Neymar's superb pass into the box before the two swapped roles, with the Uruguayan setting up his Brazilian team-mate for a close-range finish.
"It is always very important to score, not just in the first game," added Neymar.
"This is a great challenge for me as a person, but we have a great team.
"The main thing was to win. The team played well and I played well.
"We are trying to improve all the time and we'll get to know each other even better yet. But it is easy to play with players of such quality."
The Finn met chairman Stephen Thompson on Tuesday following their relegation from the Scottish Premiership.
United will now begin the search for a new head coach, with Raith Rovers boss Ray McKinnon an early favourite.
"I would like to thank the players, staff and supporters," Paatelainen said after his departure was confirmed.
"It has been a difficult winter and the challenge was huge but nevertheless I have enjoyed every day working for the club and with this group of players".
Former Finland boss Paatelainen, whose contract ran until the summer of 2018, replaced Jackie McNamara in mid-October with United bottom of the table after just one win in their first 10 Premiership games.
But he was unable to inspire an upturn in fortunes, overseeing just five wins in 25 Premiership matches before Monday's 2-1 defeat at city rivals Dundee sealed their relegation fate.
United chairman Thompson apologised "unreservedly" to fans on Tuesday, promising "radical changes" in the "near future" to try to ensure a swift return to the top flight.
United's next match is at Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Friday.
The Tannadice outfit have placed Rovers boss McKinnon at the top of their wanted list to replace Paatelainen.
But the Championship club have made it clear they will not welcome an approach for the former Terrors midfielder, at least while the club is involved in the Premiership play-offs. Raith face Hibernian in the first leg of their quarter-final on Wednesday.
"We have not had any contact from Dundee United or any other club regarding Ray McKinnon," director Eric Drysdale told BBC Scotland
"And should any be forthcoming it would be extremely unwelcome. Ray and the team are fully concentrated on the play-off matches against Hibernian and nothing will distract them from this."
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Holyrood's environment committee said it was "deeply disappointed" with the national marine plan - which has taken five years to formulate.
It aims to balance the oil and gas and renewable energy industries with the need to protect the environment.
Ministers said they would respond to the concerns "in due course".
The draft marine plan, published at the end of 2014, covers Scotland's sea areas out to 200 nautical miles and aims to protect and boost areas such as the energy industry, tourism and transport, while meeting the needs of the environment.
'Vague aspiration'
But the cross-party environment committee's convener, SNP MSP Rob Gibson, said it was lacking in clarity.
"The committee is deeply disappointed that a government plan five years in the making is simply not yet fit for purpose," he said.
"Multiple uses are made of our marine environment, and increasingly these are coming into conflict, but the Scottish government's draft national marine plan does not provide a clear and concise set of policies that can be consistently applied by decision-makers and those using the marine environment.
"There is a danger the plan in its present form will create conflict by having highly prescriptive actions in some areas, while setting out vague aspirations in others.
"Simply put, instead of making the marine environment easier, it risks making it more difficult."
Calum Duncan, convenor of Scottish Environment Link's marine taskforce, said: "Scotland's environment community have followed the development of the National Marine Plan closely.
"It is a chance not just to ensure developments at sea are well co-ordinated and sustainable, but also to enhance the diminished health of our seas, which is the legal duty of Scottish ministers.
"A good place to start is putting in place proper fisheries management in our marine protected areas (MPAs), but current plans allow scallop dredging and bottom trawling to continue across large areas of some MPAs."
A Scottish government spokesman said its marine plan had won "widespread support" during its consultation phase, adding: "The plan provides clarity to developers and decision makers ensuring the protection of our precious marine environment."
The spokesman said: "The Scottish government notes the committee's report and will respond in due course."
The Korean Fair Trade Association said the firm had engaged in unfair business practices with its patent licensing and modem chip sales.
It also said Qualcomm had abused its dominant position in the chip market.
The California-based firm rejected the ruling and said it would appeal in court.
According to the regulator, Qualcomm limited or refused access to vital wireless technology patents for rivals in Korea, hindering sales at companies such as Samsung.
It also forced mobile phone makers into unfair agreements, the association said.
This involved requiring handset-makers to purchase comprehensive wireless technology licences, even when they did not need or use them.
KFTC secretary-general Shin Young-son said: "We investigated and decided on these actions because Qualcomm's actions limit overall competition."
The regulator also ordered Qualcomm to renegotiate deals with its partners if requested.
The company said it would appeal in Seoul's high court and disputed the scale of the fine, the largest handed down by the regulator.
Qualcomm has faced scrutiny over its business practices in other countries. Last year it agreed to pay a $975m fine in China following an antitrust probe, while the European Union has accused it of anticompetitive behaviour.
Regulators in the US and Taiwan are also investigating the company.
MPs backed the renewal of the UK's nuclear weapons system, voting 472 to 117 in favour in Parliament.
The SNP's 54 members opposed renewal, as did Labour's Ian Murray, Lib Dem Alistair Carmichael and independent MPs Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry.
But Conservative MP David Mundell backed the renewal proposals.
The vote, which was held late on Monday evening, means the UK government will press ahead with the manufacture of the next generation of nuclear submarines, which are based at Faslane on the Clyde.
In a statement to parliament, Prime Minister Theresa May said it would be a "gross irresponsibility" for the UK to abandon its nuclear weapons.
She added that the nuclear threat had not gone away, and "if anything, it has increased".
Asked by SNP MP Ian Blackford what message she was sending to the people of Scotland, Mrs May said: "Fifty-eight of the 59 Scottish MPS will be voting against jobs in Scotland which are supported by the nuclear deterrent."
Earlier Brendan O'Hara, the SNP's defence spokesman said "there was absolutely no evidence" the threat of nuclear attack had increased.
He told BBC Scotland programme: "It would also suggest that 190-odd countries that don't have nuclear weapons somehow can't sleep safely in the beds at night.
"It's nonsense - it's another extension of project fear. It's to whip up fear and to make a nation or a people feel insecure in order to secure you're own political ends."
Since 1969, according to government documents, a British submarine carrying nuclear weapons has always been on patrol, gliding silently beneath the waves, somewhere in the world's oceans.
The logic is to deter a nuclear attack on the UK because, even if the nation's conventional defence capabilities were destroyed, the silent submarine would still be able to launch a catastrophic retaliatory strike on the aggressor, a concept known as mutually assured destruction.
The submarines, based at Faslane on the River Clyde, carry up to eight Trident missiles; each can be fitted with a number of warheads.
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He said Trident was a "political weapon" designed to keep the UK on the "top tier of the world stage".
The country's economy cannot afford both nuclear weapons and conventional defences, he added.
"Either you bolster your conventional defences or you are a nuclear state," he said. "In which case, very quickly, your last line of defence becomes your first line of defence."
The Labour party is split on the issue of Trident, with its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, opposed to renewal.
Ian Murray, the former shadow Scotland secretary, said the split reflected similar attitudes in opinion across the country, and he welcomed Labour MPs being given a free vote on the issue.
He said he would be voting against renewal as "all nuclear weapons are immoral".
He said the risk of Scottish jobs being lost if Trident was scrapped was "something that has to be resolved".
But he added: "I don't think that should be the driving force in determining whether or not we renew the Trident weapons system. I think this has to be an issue of conscience."
Meanwhile, Mr Carmichael said he believed the UK should reduce its number of nuclear-armed submarines rather than scrapping them altogether.
But he said the vote was a yes or no decision, and he was unable to support the proposals put forward by the UK government.
Mr Carmichael said the requirement for the UK to have at least one Trident submarine at sea at all times was "out-dated", and that the UK should join together with other Nato countries to provide a nuclear defence.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the replacement of the four nuclear-armed submarines - at an estimated cost of £31bn - would help to protect the country from nuclear attack for 30 years.
"We can't choose the threats that are out there nor can we predict exactly what they might be in the 2030s, 2040s, or 2050s," he said.
"We have to prepare to deal with terrorism, with conventional threats by strengthening our armed forces and we have to be sure we can respond and deter any nuclear attack as well."
He added: "We will continue to work for multilateral disarmament but meantime it is too dangerous a world to take the gamble of not modernising our own deterrent."
Gary Smith, Scotland secretary for the GMB union, said politicians should consider the jobs that are tied into the renewal of Trident.
He said: "Tens of thousands of jobs across the UK are dependent on Trident renewal and with that the building of the four submarines that's been promised.
"And the issue really is whether those submarines will be built in the UK or whether they will manufactured and built in America.
"And that's what politicians in Scotland should be focusing on here today - jobs and working class communities."
Stephanie Meakin, from Crewe, lied about her mobility for 11 years - during which time she was also seen wading into the sea for baptisms and jogging to a bank.
Recorder Mary Loram, at Liverpool Crown Court, said she was a "thoroughly dishonest woman".
Meakin was sentenced to 15 months, suspended for a year.
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The court heard she legitimately began receiving Disability Living Allowance at the highest rate in 1995 due to severe back trouble, which had significantly improved by 2001.
She denied dishonestly failing to notify a change in circumstances.
The 51-year-old, of Springwell Close, was seen wearing high heels, walking up a steep hill and exercising her Rottweiler.
She also went on a church mission to South Africa, during which she had a "luxury" visit to the Kruger National Park, and twice flew to see relatives in her homeland of the Philippines, jurors heard.
"The evidence was overwhelming, but you persisted in the lie to the jury that throughout you were in crippling pain," Ms Loram told her.
The court heard she was deeply religious and established the Church of Abundant Life in Crewe after moving to the UK to marry her husband.
When department of work and pensions investigators raided her home, they uncovered a life insurance application form on which she stated that, apart from high blood pressure, she had no on-going health problems and exercised several times a weeks.
Defending, Andrew Higginson said Meakin's daughter had since disowned her but her sons were standing by her.
He said Meakin suffers from "widespread pain syndrome", depression, has mild to moderate disability and now lives with one of her sons.
Sheku Ahmed Tejan Bayoh died after he was held by officers in Kirkcaldy in the early hours of Sunday.
Police Scotland previously confirmed a female police officer was injured during the same incident but gave no further details.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner has launched an investigation into the matter.
A PIRC spokeswoman said: "The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has directed the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) to carry out an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of 31-year-old Sheku Ahmed Tejan Bayoh in Kirkcaldy on Sunday 3 May who had been detained by police shortly before his death.
"A report on the PIRC's findings will be submitted to the COPFS in due course.
"As this is a live investigation it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time."
An appeal has been issued by the PIRC for witnesses who were in Hayfield Rd, near Hendry Road, Kirkcaldy between 07:00 and 08:00 on Sunday.
The PIRC is keen to speak to anyone who may have witnessed any incident in this area.
Fife Divisional Commander Chief Superintendent Garry McEwan said earlier: "This is a tragic set of circumstances and my condolences go to the man's family.
"The investigation of deaths in Scotland is the responsibility of Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, who have instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner to lead on this inquiry."
Since the referendum vote there have been concerns that banks would reduce their staff and offices in the country.
In a statement the banks and Chancellor George Osborne said they would work to ensure London "retains its position".
However, they did not say whether this meant that they would keep the same number of jobs and offices in the UK.
Ahead of the UK's referendum on the EU, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan, said the bank could move 4,000 jobs out of the UK if the country voted to leave the EU.
The banks signing the statement included JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, as well as the UK's Standard Chartered, which makes most of its profit in Asia.
"Today we met and agreed that we would work together to build on all this with a common aim to help London retain its position as the leading international financial centre," the statement said.
According to Aaron Klein, a fellow at Brookings Institute these statements are meant to "instil confidence during periods of market turmoil."
"Yes, London will remain a financial services hub, as it has been one for a long time. But the size and scope of that hub could be very different depending on how things shake out with Brexit," he said.
Other EU countries have shown signs of trying to attract these jobs to their cities since the vote. On Wednesday, France announced it would put in place Europe's most favourable tax code for expats.
The banks and Chancellor Osborne acknowledged that London's role may have to change, but pledged to keep the city an attractive place to do business.
"We will also work together to identify the new opportunities that may now become available so that Britain remains one of the most attractive places in the world to do business," the statement read.
It brings the total number of newborns infected to 18, many of them were premature babies. One of them has died.
The babies were being cared for in neonatal intensive care units in nine different hospitals and are said to be responding to antibiotic treatment.
Of the three new cases, two are said to be likely with one confirmed, Public Health England said.
All started displaying symptoms between Thursday and Saturday last week, but have only now been reported to Public Health England.
Hospitals were alerted to the problem on Wednesday. The contaminated batches have since been withdrawn, although as they expired on Monday none should have been used since then.
A total of 162 units of the feed were sent out from the contaminated batches to more than 20 hospitals. It is possible other cases will emerge as tests are carried out.
The liquid feed is given direct into the bloodstream of babies as they cannot be mouth fed. It means symptoms start developing quickly.
Public Health England and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are investigating the outbreaks.
The manufacturer of the feed, ITH Pharma, has said it was "saddened" by what has happened and was cooperating fully with the investigation.
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The baby who died was being treated at Guy's and St Thomas'. The baby died on Sunday after being diagnosed the previous day.
The investigation is focussing on the production of the batches on Tuesday 27 May.
Speaking outside the company's north west London base, ITH Pharma managing director Karen Hamling said: "From investigations carried out so far, it would appear the potential contamination is linked to a single sourced raw material ingredient.
"As a mother, as a pharmacist , as someone who has worked for 30 years in healthcare, inside and outside the NHS, I am deeply saddened that one baby has died and others have fallen ill from septicaemia."
Hooker Tom Youngs plays following a back injury, with lock Dom Barrow back after serving a two-match suspension.
Bottom-of-the-table London Irish have not won away from home in the Premiership since 28 February 2015.
The Exiles welcome back Scotland duo Sean Maitland and Blair Cowan as the only changes from the defeat by Exeter.
Leicester have lost their last three games in the Premiership, but have not lost four in succession since the 2003-04 season.
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill told BBC Radio Leicester:
"We are going to make the right choices at the right times and be more accurate. There is nothing wrong with how we are playing, it's how we are executing.
"There is a bit of learning in that, but we have to learn very quickly. It is not acceptable that we keep making those errors three weeks on the trot.
"We have to take our physicality to another level - and we did that at the weekend - but that should be a given. We need to be smarter and make better choices. We have done that in lots of games. Three poor results does not mean we are a poor team.
"Sunday is a huge game and we have to win. It is now time to show some character."
London Irish assistant coach Clark Laidlaw told BBC Radio Berkshire:
"We're certainly having a real good look at preparation in terms of an away game.
"We've talked a lot around how tactically we approach the game against Leicester. Getting the balance between kicking and gaining territory, as well as our attacking game.
"It's been a long time between drinks (winning) away from home, but we're certainly working on getting our preparation and our tactics right.
"The mentality has to be right away from home as Welford Road is a tough place to go."
Leicester: Tait; Thompstone, Tuilagi, de Villiers, Veainu; Burns, Kitto; Ayerza, T Youngs, Balmain, Fitzgerald, Barrow, Croft, McCaffrey, Slater (capt).
Replacements: Thacker, Brugnara, Mulipola, Williams, Pearce, Harrison, Bell, Smith.
London Irish: Maitland; Ojo, Hearn, Mulchrone, Fenby; Brophy Clews, Steele; Smallbone, Paice, Aulika, Symons, Stooke, Narraway (capt), Cowan, Treviranus.
Replacements: Cruse, Court, Halavatau, Lloyd, Trayfoot, Allinson, Geraghty, Williams.
Referee: Ian Tempest (RFU)
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Cruz was bidding to become the first openly gay boxer to win a world title.
But the Puerto Rican carried no real threat and showed little ambition, allowing Flanagan to control proceedings from start to finish.
On the undercard, Welsh light-middleweight prospect Liam Williams stopped game Hungarian Gabor Gorbics.
Williams, 24, was supposed to have defended his British title against Ahmet Patterson, but the Londoner was attacked while on a training run and had to withdraw.
Despite being a late replacement, the unheralded Gorbics was tough and willing but Williams' constant pressure began to take its toll in the middle rounds.
In round eight, Williams dropped his opponent with a lethal left hook to the body and despite Gorbics hauling himself off the canvas, the referee waved the fight off.
In 2012, Cruz became the first professional boxer to come out as being gay while still competing.
The following year, he challenged Orlando Salido for the WBO featherweight title but was stopped in the seventh round.
After a quiet first three rounds, Flanagan found his range in the fourth, during which the challenger already looked resigned to his fate.
Before the start of the sixth, Flanagan's corner pointed out to referee Steve Gray that Cruz was not throwing any punches back.
Cruz was slightly more willing in the seventh but was dropped by a right hand in the eighth before Gray called a halt to proceedings.
"Once I hurt him, he didn't want to know," said the 27-year-old Flanagan.
"I think I'll have Christmas off and spend it with my family, because I've just finished a 15-year camp!"
Flanagan was making the fourth defence of the belt he won last July and is now unbeaten in 32 pro fights.
Flanagan would like to fight the winner of a proposed rematch between fellow Mancunian Anthony Crolla and Jorge Linares.
Venezuelan Linares beat Crolla last September to secure the WBA lightweight title. However, Flanagan's next fight is more likely to be a mandatory defence against unbeaten Puerto Rican Felix Verdejo.
Promoter Frank Warren said he had offered a fight to former Olympic champion Luke Campbell, who is guided by rival promoter Eddie Hearn.
"They didn't reply, which tells you how much they want it," added Warren.
Warren also said that Williams was ready to challenge for a world title, despite having only had 17 professional fights.
Warren also promotes Liverpool's Liam Smith, who lost when challenging for Saul Alvarez's WBO light-middleweight title in September.
But with Alvarez expected to move up in weight, Williams and Smith could possibly fight for the vacant belt in 2017.
Also on the bill at the Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield super-bantamweight Kid Galahad won his third fight since returning from a drugs ban, stopping Nicaraguan journeyman Reynaldo Mora in three rounds.
Former Olympian Tom Stalker was outpointed by Welshman Craig Evans, the first two fights between the pair having ended in draws.
Birmingham's Tommy Langford beat Sheffield's Sam Sheedy via a split decision to secure the vacant British middleweight title.
Ryan McAnespie and Daniel McKenna replace Vinny Corey and Kieran Hughes, who struggled to make an impact in last weekend's Clones defeat by Kerry.
Even a win may not be enough to prevent Monaghan from being relegated.
Donegal are not themselves safe in Division One but a win is likely to earn them a semi-final place.
After two opening wins, Monaghan have lost their last four games to slide deep into relegation trouble while early Division One pacesetters Donegal go into the match on the back of three straight defeats.
If Mayo, as expected, hand Down a seventh straight defeat at Castlebar and Cork avoid defeat against Kerry at Tralee, Monaghan will be relegated even if they beat Donegal.
Matters are just as tight in Division Two with Cavan needing to avoid defeat by Galway at Breffni Park to secure promotion alongside Tyrone.
Fermanagh need to beat the Red Hands at Enniskillen to be absolutely certain of avoiding the drop while Armagh may need a big win over Derry at the Athletic Grounds to retain their Division Two spot with bottom-placed Laois facing Meath in another big relegation clash at Portlaoise.
Armagh will go down along with Meath if they both lose against Derry and Laois but a Fermanagh defeat plus wins for Armagh and Meath will see the Ernemen and Laois dropping to Division Three.
Derry are not mathematically safe but anything other than a heavy defeat at the Athletic Grounds should be enough to keep Damian Barton's side in Division Two.
Barton makes two change in personnel from the draw with Meath with Emmet Bradley and Niall Loughlin replacing Shane Heavron and Emmet McGuckin.
A positional switch sees Mark Lynch moving from midfield to full-forward.
Fermanagh showed tremendous battling qualities to earn a draw in Galway last weekend, in a result which did no favours to Armagh's chances of avoiding the drop.
Niall Cassidy is suspended for Fermanagh after his dismissal against Galway so Marty O'Brien is drafted into the full-back.
Pete McGrath has opted to make three other changes with the McCusker brothers Declan and Paul and Daniel Teague drafted in and Ryan McCluskey, Aidan Breen and Ruairi Corrigan making way.
Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney has kept faith with the side which earned a battling draw against Tyrone last week after hitting an injury-time goal.
Defender Ronan McNamee is in the Tyrone team for Sunday's Division Two clash with Fermanagh after recovering from an ankle injury.
The full-back replaces Padraig Hampsey in one of four changes made by manager Mickey Harte from the side that started against Armagh last weekend.
Mickey O'Neill replaces Niall Morgan as Harte continues rotating his keepers.
Barry Tierney is preferred at wing-back to Niall Sludden while Padraig McNulty is in for the injured Peter Harte.
Harte has been ruled out by the shoulder injury which forced him out after just five minutes of the drawn clash with the Orchard men at Healy Park.
The Red Hands have already secured promotion and a place in the league final, but they will be looking to extend an 11-game unbeaten run.
Already-promoted sides Antrim and Louth meet at Corrigan Park in a dress-rehearsal for the Division Four final which will take place on Saturday, 23 April.
Monaghan: R Beggan; C Walshe, D Wylie, R Wylie; D Mone, F Kelly, K O'Connell; N McAdam, D Hughes; S Carey, D Malone, T Kerr; R McAnespie, D McKenna, C McManus. Subs: M Keogh, C Boyle, J McCarron, K Duffy, V Corey, D Clerkin, K Hughes, O Duffy, C McCarthy, B McGinn, F McGeough.
Armagh: P Morrison; A Mallon, C Vernon, S Heffron; M Shields, S Connell, J McElroy; A Forker, E Rafferty; R Grugan, M McKenna, C O'Hanlon; C Watters, S Campbell, G McParland. Subs: M McNeice, S Sheridan, P Casey, M Murray, A Findon, R McCaughley, S Forker, N Grimley, T Kernan, N McConville, J Hall.
Derry: T Mallon; O Duffy, C McKaigue, K McKaigue; G McKinless, B Rogers, D Heavron; C McAtamney, Emmet Bradley; B Heron, C Bradley, J Kielt; N Loughlin, M Lynch, SL McGoldrick.
Tyrone: M O'Neill, A McCrory, R McNamee, C McCarron, B Tierney, R Brennan, T McCann, C Cavanagh, M Donnelly, P McNulty, R O'Neill, R Donnelly, D McCurry, S Cavanagh, C McAliskey.
Fermanagh: C Snow; M Jones, C Cullen, M O'Brien; D McCusker, J McMahon, D Kelly; E Donnelly, B Mulrone; P McCusker, R Jones, R Lyons; D Teague, Sean Quigley, T Corrigan.
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Saturday
Division Four
Waterford 0-10 1-06
Sunday - 14:00 unless stated
Division One
Monaghan v Donegal, Castleblayney
Roscommon v Dublin, Dr Hyde Park
Kerry v Cork, Tralee
Mayo v Down, McHale Park
Division Two
Fermanagh v Tyrone, Brewster Park
Cavan v Galway, Breffni Park
Armagh v Derry, Athletic Grounds
Laois v Meath, Portlaoise
Division Three
Longford v Westmeath, Pearse Park
Limerick v Offaly, Newcastlewest
Kildare v Clare, Newbridge
Sligo v Tipperary, Markievicz Park
Division Four
London v Wicklow, Ruislip, 13:30
Antrim v Louth, Corrigan Park, 13:30
Wexford v Carlow, Wexford Park, Carlow
Miller headed a free kick into the path of Baird to fire in the opener on 34 minutes.
Midway through the second half, Sean Murdoch made an impressive save to deny Baird but Miller was on hand to tuck in the loose ball.
With an 11-game unbeaten run brought to a halt, the Pars stay sixth.
Match ends, Falkirk 2, Dunfermline Athletic 0.
Second Half ends, Falkirk 2, Dunfermline Athletic 0.
Foul by Nathan Austin (Falkirk).
Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe McKee (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. Nathan Austin replaces Lee Miller.
Hand ball by Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic).
Substitution, Falkirk. Tony Gallacher replaces Luke Leahy.
Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces John Baird.
Attempt missed. John Baird (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic).
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Nathaniel Wedderburn.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Peter Grant.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Joe Cardle replaces John Herron.
Attempt missed. David Hopkirk (Dunfermline Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. John Baird (Falkirk) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Joe McKee (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nathaniel Wedderburn (Dunfermline Athletic).
Goal! Falkirk 2, Dunfermline Athletic 0. Lee Miller (Falkirk) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Lee Ashcroft (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner following a corner.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Paul Watson.
Attempt missed. James Craigen (Falkirk) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Jason Talbot.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Lee Ashcroft.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Nathaniel Wedderburn.
Delay in match Joe McKee (Falkirk) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. James Craigen (Falkirk) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Foul by Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk).
Gavin Reilly (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. David Hopkirk replaces Paul McMullan.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Gavin Reilly replaces Michael Moffat.
Attempt missed. James Craigen (Falkirk) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Lee Miller (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lee Ashcroft (Dunfermline Athletic).
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Joe McKee.
His lyrics had a profound effect on many people's lives - from meeting him on a beach on a Greek island, to bursting into tears in his presence.
Here are some of your memories:
Nick Garrie is a singer-songwriter who opened for Leonard Cohen in Spain in 1985.
"He was a mentor and completely changed the way I sang. He told me I needed to listen to the audience. It's uncanny that I wrote about him only recently on my Facebook page.
"He was wearing the black suit even then and was unfailingly polite and solicitous. He saw our little changing room and was horrified and moved us to his enormous dressing room.
"After the show, which he said was his best ever, he asked me how I got to be number one in Spain. I said I didn't know and he said he didn't either. His albums just washed up on different seashores in Europe.
"He came to the Spanish guitarist with some champagne. When I told him he didn't drink, he replied 'He does now' and poured it down his throat!
"It's funny to think that the man with the golden voice taught me how to sing and listen to an audience."
Denise Hayes in Stourport-on-Severn met Leonard on holiday on the Greek island Hydra.
"It was the early 70s. He would sunbathe on rocks close to where I was with my friends. He'd quietly arrive with his towel, a book and sometimes a beautiful woman or two.
"I was only in my early 20s and wasn't aware of how famous he was. As a joke, my older friends sent me to talk to him and ask him what he did for a living.
"He took my interruption with good grace and - with a wry smile and a twinkle in his eye - said in his very distinctive languorous and low voice: 'Oh, I write a little, I sing a little'."
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Jordan Peers was 21 years old when he met Leonard Cohen in a Leeds supermarket four years ago.
"I spoke to him and he was incredibly polite and humble. I'd like to say I said something deeply profound and meaningful to him but instead I cried and mumbled how much I loved his work.
"He shook my hand gave me an autograph to give to my mother. I saw him play live the next day and he was incredible."
Al MacDonald, in Largs, Scotland, who was an art student, took a photo of the singer when he was invited into his dressing room after his concert in Glasgow in 1970.
"There was virtually no security back then. He was busy with his band and backing singers smoking and drinking. Leonard saw me, came over and introduced himself.
"He wanted to know about me. I was in awe. It was like meeting God. I still remember his quiet charisma and gentle vibe. It was spiritual.
"He was an incredible wordsmith. He put a lot of complex emotions in simple phrases. The man is a legend who touched many lives."
Paul Baker, from Stenning in West Sussex, works for a company that arranges world tours and met Leonard when he was touring in Denmark.
"I'm really sad to hear the news. I joined him for three sections of his world tour in 2012. You could not wish to meet a kinder, gentler and funnier man.
"He invited me on board his tour bus and I chatted with him and the band, who all made me very welcome, on the way to the hotel in Denmark.
"He had time for everyone, the fans waiting outside the hotel and the people at the airport. He was kind and polite beyond belief. He did not do 'celebrity'. A true gentleman in every way."
Andrew Gryn attended an auction at Joe Morena's St-Viateur Bagel Shop in Montreal where Leonard Cohen was signing everything anyone requested.
"The money raised was going to the Montreal Children's hospital Foundation. My collection of Leonard Cohen CDs was autographed and donated. I kept the vinyl.
"As Joe and I said goodbye, Leonard got up and said 'Let me hold the door for you'. It might have been a normal act of a gentleman, but to the two of us it felt very spiritual and mystical.
"May your body rest and your spirit fill the hearts of mankind. May you hold the door open for many a soul."
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Three of the 12 holes at Gogarburn Golf Club have been closed since Monday to allow police teams to search the area, following Saturday's discovery.
It is understood body parts were found in two different locations.
The initial find was in the grounds of Gogar Mount House and the other parts were later found a short distance away.
Dave Hamilton, Gogarburn Golf Club greens convenor, said he understood a caretaker at Gogar Mount House found a skull on Saturday and alerted the police.
He said: "On Monday morning detectives arrived and told us they had found a skull in the property next door to us and we knew nothing about it.
"We've closed the top field and we are playing a short course instead of the full course.
"We are helping the police in any way we can."
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The two were arrested in Haiti last week and taken by the US Drug Enforcement Administration to New York and charged with drug trafficking.
Mr Cabello said the arrests were "irregular" and had been carried out to damage the governing party ahead of legislative elections on 6 December.
US-Venezuelan ties have been fraught.
The two nations have not exchanged ambassadors since 2012 and Venezuela regularly accuses the US of trying to destabilise the Latin American country.
Mr Cabello, a powerful figure in the governing United Socialist Party (PSUV), was the first official to speak out about the arrest of the two men last Tuesday.
In an interview with Venezuelan TV, he said that he did not consider it an arrest.
"A plane went to Haiti with six people and they kidnapped two," he said referring to the fact that the four other people on board had not been charged.
"It's the DEA's normal procedure to kidnap lots of people," he alleged.
The aim of the arrests, he added, was "to hurt the Bolivarian revolution" in the midst of an election.
Some polls suggest that the governing coalition could lose its majority in the National Assembly for the first time in 16 years on 6 December.
Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, 29, and Franqui Flores de Freitas, 30, were charged with one count of drug trafficking on Thursday.
The two are nephews of first lady Cilia Flores and travelled on diplomatic passports.
Mr Cabello said they had acted independently: "These are grown men who can do what they want in life."
Their indictment accuses the men of conspiring to import "five kilograms [11 lb] and more of mixtures and substances containing a detectable amount of cocaine" to the US.
But Reuters said a US law enforcement source had told the news agency that the two men had allegedly planned to smuggle a much larger amount, 800kg, to the US.
Lawyers for the two men said they would plead not guilty at their next court appearance.
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The "Sappers" Colonel-in-Chief inspected an honour guard and met soldiers from bases across the UK at Brompton Barracks in Chatham, Kent.
She also inspected some of the vehicles used by the Corps of Royal Engineers in operations around the world.
In a speech, the monarch paid tribute to the Royal Engineers' "extraordinary" work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Your ability to provide a flexible and adaptable force, quickly and without fuss, for the purposes of war fighting, peace building or disaster relief is world class," she told the troops.
Commanding officer Lt Col Sean Cunniff said it was wonderful for the Corps to host its Colonel-in-Chief at its headquarters as the culmination of its 300th anniversary commemorations.
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Sitting at Norwich Crown Court, Judge Mark Dennis told him he had been impressed by a letter written by Barton which he believed he had recognised what he had done and included a "genuine apology".
However, he said, he had some concerns which remained, and issued an order banning him from having contact with females under 16 or from working with children.
Eric Alexander, who ran Uber's business in Asia, is said to have shared the records with the company's chief executive, Travis Kalanick, over a year ago.
Uber confirmed to the BBC that Mr Alexander no longer worked at the firm - but offered no further comment.
Technology news site Recode said Mr Alexander was fired only after the publication contacted the company about the story.
It said as well as Mr Kalanick, the records were seen by the company's senior vice president, Emil Michael.
The news is the latest in a series of high-profile scandals greatly affecting Uber's reputation. On Tuesday, the company announced it had fired 20 employees as part of an investigation into sexual harassment and other misconduct at the company.
In December 2014 a 26-year-old Delhi woman was raped by Uber driver Shiv Kumar Yadav. Yadav was sentenced to life in prison.
At the time Uber said "sexual assault is a terrible crime and we're pleased he has now been brought to justice", adding it had improved security due to "lessons we learned from this awful case".
But the ride-sharing service was consequently banned from operating in Delhi (the ban was lifted in June 2015).
Behind the scenes, Uber executives reportedly doubted the authenticity of the woman's claim, and questioned whether Ola, an Uber competitor in India, was behind the incident as part of a sabotage attempt.
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Landlords are being told and more checks carried out, No 10 said.
It comes as further tests are being carried out on about 600 high rises across England.
Cladding is thought to have contributed to the rapid spread of fire at Grenfell Tower, in which at least 79 people are believed to have died.
Extra checks by the fire service would determine whether the buildings were safe and what - if any - action needed to be taken, the prime minister's spokesman said.
He pointed out that a failed cladding test did not necessarily mean a building was unsafe - that would depend on the amount of cladding used and where it was fitted.
Arconic, an engineering and manufacturing company, said one of its products, Reynobond PE (polyethylene) - an aluminium composite material - was "used as one component in the overall cladding system" of Grenfell Tower.
"We will fully support the authorities as they investigate this tragedy," a spokesman for the US-based firm said.
The latest test results came as new footage emerged showing the prime minister being booed after her latest visit to meet residents of Grenfell Tower.
Theresa May has been widely criticised for her response to the Grenfell fire, with some people calling for her resignation.
In the video taken during a private, unannounced visit on Wednesday evening, cries of "shame on you" are heard but she does not appear to respond as she is ushered into her official car by waiting security officers.
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, councils were told to give details to the government about cladding used in their tower blocks by 20 June.
Cladding is typically fitted to the outside of high-rise buildings to improve insulation and tidy up the appearance of often ugly blocks.
The Department for Communities and Local Government is now co-ordinating tests on it - with up to 100 able to take place in a day.
It has written to all local authority and housing association chief executives to advise them on steps to take if tower blocks in their area are found to be clad in combustible panels.
Read the letter here.
A Downing Street spokeswoman said no-one would be left to live in unsafe buildings.
"They will be rehoused if they need to be and landlords will be asked to provide alternative accommodation where that's possible," she said.
Arnold Tarling, a member of the Association for Specialist Fire Protection, said removing combustible cladding from buildings around the country could cost "hundreds of millions of pounds".
"Problems with cladding and problems with properties doesn't just affect social housing. It goes across the whole range of properties," he told BBC 5 live. "There could be office blocks clad with it."
Earlier, there had been some confusion after Downing Street said 600 tower blocks had "similar cladding" to Grenfell Tower.
The Department for Communities and Local Government later clarified that the figure of 600 referred to the number of buildings with cladding of any kind.
One of the blocks found to have combustible cladding is on Camden Council's Chalcots estate, in north London.
Workmen are now removing panels found to have been made up of aluminium with a polyethylene core, said the council.
Its leader Georgia Gould said the panels were "not to the standard" that the council had commissioned, and it would be informing the contractor behind the work that they would be taking legal advice.
Three tower blocks in Plymouth have also been found to be clad in combustible panels, local Labour MP Luke Pollard has said.
He is calling for the government to pay for cladding on the Mount Wise buildings to be "urgently" replaced.
John Clark, CEO of Plymouth Community Homes, said tests showed the cladding was "aluminium coated with a polyethylene core".
He said extra fire safety precautions were being introduced, including 24/7 monitoring, additional fire protection in stairwells and checks on fire doors.
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Residents at a 22-storey block of flats in Tottenham, north London, have been sent an email - seen by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme - saying the building has the same cladding as Grenfell Tower.
Rivers Apartments - which is shared ownership, so classed as social housing - was built just two years ago, with the cladding incorporated as part of the design.
It is understood the block is clad in Reynobond PE, the same brand of cladding believed to have been used on Grenfell Tower.
The programme was told the tower passed all building regulation checks by Haringey Council.
Unlike Grenfell Tower, this block does contain modern safety features, such as a sprinkler system.
Newlon Housing Trust, the housing association that part-owns the block, said it had arranged with the fire service to carry out more checks.
It is still waiting for final test results to confirm it is the most flammable type of cladding.
It says the cladding on the building may have to be replaced.
Grenfell Tower is coming to be seen as a "political symbol of inequality", the BBC's Iain Watson said.
The new Labour MP for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, told the Commons the "burnt-out carcass" of the tower revealed the "true face" of her constituency, with poverty, malnutrition and overcrowding existing alongside wealth.
In her maiden speech, she criticised people who think social tenants have "no right to live in an area like desirable Kensington", and called for fire service cuts to be reversed.
Mrs May said she expected to name the judge who will lead a public inquiry into the fire within the next few days.
"We want to ensure when the judge takes charge, people feel they can have full confidence in the inquiry," she said.
"No stone will be left unturned. For any guilty parties there will be nowhere to hide."
She also said that an inquiry into whether cladding in Grenfell Tower met fire safety regulations would be published in the next 48 hours.
Since the Grenfell fire on 14 June, more than £700,000 has been paid out to survivors - none of which will have to be repaid, said Mrs May.
Resources, including healthcare and accommodation, would be available to everyone affected by the fire, regardless of their immigration status, she added.
The fire destroyed 151 homes - most in the tower block itself, but also a number of surrounding properties.
Mrs May said that 164 "suitable properties" had now been found for those made homeless, and they were in the process of being checked before residents can move in.
The new properties include a block of 68 flats in Kensington, bought by the City of London Corporation and allocated to Kensington and Chelsea Council.
On Wednesday, the PM apologised for "state" failures following the Grenfell blaze. Later that day, Kensington and Chelsea Council confirmed that its chief executive Nicholas Holgate was resigning.
Speaking in the Commons, Mrs May said the council "couldn't cope" in the aftermath, and that it "was right" that Mr Holgate had stepped down.
NHS England said that 10 patients across four London hospitals are still receiving care following the fire in West Kensington. Five of them are in critical care.
One of the hospitals which has looked after patients, King's College Hospital, confirmed it had treated three people with an antidote to cyanide poisoning - although it did not confirm whether they were given it as a precautionary measure.
The 600 figure does not include Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which have autonomous powers in housing.
The Scottish government and Welsh ministers have said that none of their council high-rise blocks has cladding of the type said to have been used in the Grenfell Tower.
Similarly, there is no evidence of Grenfell Tower-type cladding used on tower blocks managed by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, and checks on other high-rise buildings owed by housing associations or private developers are continuing.
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But the #hairgate scandal that unravelled at the weekend in fact centres around a famous novelist, the Canadian prime minister and his well-groomed Liberal opponent.
It's one of several episodes in an eventful election campaign - with voting still two months away.
Writer Margaret Atwood thrust the upcoming Canadian parliamentary elections into the international media spotlight after a satirical article she wrote about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's hair (yes, hair) appeared on the National Post website, then disappeared after several hours.
It reappeared again with several lines missing, prompting the novelist to ask, "Um, did I just get censored?"
The novelist tweeted about the mysterious disappearance of her article hours after it was first published on Friday, and soon #hairgate started to trend on Twitter.
People mocked the amount of coverage it was getting, likening it to the media attention Donald Trump has been awarded in recent weeks.
...even Margaret Atwood found time to joke about it...
A senior National Post vice-president later told The Star the article was taken down because fact-checking had not been completed and questions remained over whether it was "aligned with the values of the National Post and its readers".
How did the flowing locks of politicians become an election issue anyway?
It began in May - three months before the polls were even announced - when the Conservatives released a new video ad dubbed "The Interview" mocking the coiffure of Justin Trudeau, leader of Canada's Liberal Party.
Four people sit in a conference room mulling over CVs of candidates for a job interview (presumably the post of prime minister), "lets talk about Justin," one man says. "I see he's enclosed his picture," a woman on the panel responds.
They go on to question Mr Trudeau's credentials and attack his policies for being too lightweight, finally concluding he's "just not ready". The video ends with one panellist quipping, "nice hair though".
Mr Trudeau's hairstyles have long been a subject of interest in the Canadian media, with thousands of words dedicated to his thick wavy locks.
"It's a tangential way of saying he's not serious enough, that it's all about his looks and his personality and there's not enough substance to his policies. He's a celebrity not a politician or a leader, that's what they are trying to get say," CBC News politics producer Chris Carter tells the BBC.
In 2013, the Liberal leader decided to ditch the tousled and unkempt look for a shorter, cleaner cut, which observers in Canada interpreted as a bid for him to win the Liberal leadership contest (which he did).
Stephen Harper's hairstyle has also been under scrutiny, with comedians noting with glee how it has "remained unchangeable and quite consistent", says Mr Carter.
The article by Mrs Atwood that caused such a stir included the suggestion that it was Mr Harper with the hair problem and not his Liberal opponent.
One of Stephen Harper's supporters hit the headlines last week when he verbally abused a group of journalists questioning the prime minister's knowledge about an ongoing expenses scandal that dates back to 2012.
CBC reporter Hannah Thibedeau was confronted by an unnamed man who, using explicit language, told her she - and the rest of the media - was a "lying piece of ..." after she grilled him about the Mike Duffy case, a senator facing charges of bribery and fraud.
The self-professed Conservative supporter went on to accuse the group of journalists of lying on their tax returns, saying it amounted to the same thing as the Duffy scandal.
A Conservative spokesman later apologised, saying the man's behaviour was unacceptable, the channel reported.
In what is probably a first for any election campaign, Canada has introduced the world to its (maybe) first dragon-slaying and alien-busting politician.
Meet Wyatt Scott, an independent candidate standing in a district near Vancouver whose promotional video showcasing his extraordinary skills has received more than 1.2m views on YouTube.
In it, Mr Scott can be seen flying a giant goose, landing on a dragon and laser-eyeballing what appears to be giant robot.
It's not the only election campaign video to cause a ripple. In April, comedian Scott Vrooman published a satirical video calling the Senate a "gilded chamber filled with corruption and sleazy back-scratching".
He claims to be standing for the upper house despite seats there being appointed not elected.
Meanwhile, Darth Vader has entered the race. That's according to a campaign sign that appeared on a lawn in the town of Penetanguishene, Ontario, a week ago.
A picture of the "campaign sign", whose slogan reads "Darth Vader. Together we can rule the galaxy", quickly went viral on social media, prompting some Canadians to ask where they could purchase one.
It turns out a man called Nic Gorissen created the signs after becoming frustrated by different parties pestering him to vote for them, the CTV Barrie news site reports.
But it's not the first time the dark lord of Star Wars has appeared in election campaigns. Some 16 men named Darth Vader registered to vote in Ukraine's parliamentary polls last year.
And finally, as if that wasn't enough excitement with just 55 days to go before the polls, there are rumours that the brother of Toronto's controversial former mayor, Rob Ford, may throw his hat into the ring for Conservative leadership if Stephen Harper fails in the election.
"Doug said if it's a minority government, Harper's going to step down. He wants to run for leadership," Rob Ford said of his brother, Doug, in an interview with Bloomberg news three days ago.
The comments drew a strong response from the Twittersphere, with some comparing Ford's possible bid for Canadian prime minister to Donald Trump's US presidential campaign.
Sarah Boyle, 26, said at about six months old, Teddy suddenly "became very distressed" when she tried to feed from her right breast.
The Staffordshire mum said his continued behaviour convinced her to insist that a cyst which was found to be benign be re-scanned.
Mrs Boyle is being treated for grade two triple negative breast cancer.
There have been anecdotal reports that babies can pick up breast changes, but this has not been accepted as breast cancer sign by the medical profession.
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Mrs Boyle said her son, who is nearly one, had taken "fantastically well" to breastfeeding but his behaviour changed last summer.
She tried feeding Teddy in various positions over several weeks and wondered if there was something wrong with his neck, but now believes milk from her right breast tasted different.
"He became very unhappy and even hit out. For an eight-month baby to push his mother away was really heartbreaking," she said.
Mrs Boyle was diagnosed with a benign cyst in her right breast in 2013 and said when she asked to be re-scanned was told not to worry.
However, as Teddy's behaviour persisted, she also noticed the cyst had become "more rigid" and painful and her breast had changed shape.
She went back to see a doctor and a scan and biopsy later confirmed cancer.
"I remember it was 11:55am on 16th November," she said.
Mrs Boyle is halfway through chemotherapy at Royal Stoke University Hospital, whose staff were "fantastic", she said.
The mother, who is to have a double mastectomy and reconstruction said Teddy, her husband and rest of her family were getting her through the rough times.
"Nobody can say for certain whether it was Teddy, but I know that if it wasn't for him then this time next year it could've been completely different if I'd listened to doctors, but instead I listened to Teddy.
"[It's] Because of him that I'm now being treated."
Catherine Priestley, clinical nurse specialist at Breast Cancer Care, said they had heard from a "small number of women" who had found their baby stopped feeding from their breast before their diagnosis.
"While there are many reasons why a baby may stop feeding, getting any new breast changes checked out must be top of the list," she said.
"We found a tenth of younger women diagnosed with breast cancer are pregnant or breastfeeding when they first notice their breast symptom."
Dr Jasmine Just, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said there was "no good evidence that difficulties breastfeeding are likely to be caused by breast cancer or that the disease changes breast milk so that a baby might not want to feed".
A public consultation over the proposed closure of Pells CE Primary School and Rodmell CE Primary School has been launched.
East Sussex County Council said the fall in pupil numbers meant the schools "could not secure financial stability".
Nick Bennett, who is the lead member for education, said the decision to close a school was "never an easy one".
The consultation will close on 27 May.
On Thursday, prosecutors presented as evidence footage allegedly filmed by the defendants, including wildlife scenes and news conference.
The men, including ex-BBC reporter Peter Greste, have been held since December. They deny the charges.
The case has been condemned by rights groups and media around the world.
The three journalists - producer Baher Mohamed and Al-Jazeera English's Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief Mohamed Fadel Fahmy - are among 20 people facing similar charges. Only eight are currently in custody, while the remaining 12 are being tried in absentia.
Another man on trial with the three journalists - a student who has been on hunger strike for two weeks - passed out in court.
A fourth al-Jazeera reporter, Abdullah Elshamy, who works for the network's Arabic channel, has been detained since August but not charged.
Mr Elshamy is on hunger strike and his wife says his health is deteriorating.
The BBC's Orla Guerin, who was in court, says none of the videos shown at the hearing appeared to have any link to the case.
There were several stories from Sky News's Arabic channel - including, bizarrely, a report on animal welfare in Egypt, our correspondent says.
Material from Peter Greste's laptop was examined, including a news conference from Kenya, a documentary he made in Somalia and some of his parents' holiday photos.
AFP news agency said the judge told prosecutors the footage from Kenya had "nothing to do with this case".
From inside their cages in court, Mr Greste shouted that the trial was a mockery and an embarrassment for Egypt.
Outside court, Peter Greste's brother Mike told the BBC the trial was "like a TV sit-com". He said it would be funny if Peter Greste and his colleagues had not been in jail for more than 100 days.
The judge ordered the prison authorities to allow more family visits and said other student defendants on trial with them should get access to their books.
The trial was adjourned until 22 April.
Egyptian authorities accuse the al-Jazeera journalists of aiding the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, which has been banned as a terrorist group.
The defendants' detention has been criticised by human rights groups including Amnesty International, which has described them as "prisoners of conscience" and called for their immediate and unconditional release.
On Wednesday, in a separate development, another journalist, who had previously worked for al-Jazeera, was arrested in Egypt
Abdel-Rahman Shaheen, who was detained in the Suez Canal area, is accused of taking part and inciting attacks against police, the country's state news agency Mena said.
The report also identified him as a journalist who worked for the Brotherhood's now-banned newspaper and television station.
Holyhead's Market Hall was built in 1855 but has fallen into a state of disrepair in recent years.
Anglesey council took over its ownership through a Compulsory Purchase Order last year and secured a £2.4m Heritage Lottery grant to restore the Grade II Listed building.
Restoration gets underway in the next few weeks, starting with the roof.
The whole project will be done in two stages, with the end of 2018 earmarked for completion.
On Friday local businesses were given a guided tour inside the building and shown the plans, which include a new library and market hall.
Anglesey council assistant chief executive, Annwen Morgan said: "Such remarkable historic buildings are irreplaceable.
"If no one intervenes then these rare buildings not only disappear forever from our townscapes, but so do the stories that they tell us about the lives of our recent ancestors."
Earlier a CDU activist urged Mrs Merkel to resign, condemning her "laissez-faire" refugee policy as "a burden that we will not get rid of any time soon".
There was applause when the Afghan boy, called Edris, said in German: "I would like to thank you, Mrs Merkel".
He was tearful when she shook his hand.
The emotional moment was reminiscent of Mrs Merkel's controversial encounter with a tearful Palestinian girl, whom she comforted on German TV in July 2015. The girl, Reem, feared deportation to a camp in Lebanon.
Last year, 890,000 asylum seekers arrived in Germany - an unprecedented influx. And in January-October this year the German authorities received 693,758 asylum requests.
The largest groups in January-October were: Syrians (38%), Afghans (18%) and Iraqis (13.5%), the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) reported. Many can settle in Germany as refugees fleeing war and persecution.
But the influx has put pressure on housing and the welfare system. The crisis also triggered criticism of Mrs Merkel, including within CDU ranks.
The nationalist, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now a serious rival to the CDU in some regions.
Mrs Merkel plans to run for a fourth term as chancellor in elections next year. She insists that Germany has a humanitarian and historic duty to help refugees.
There were boos when a veteran CDU member, Ulrich Sauer, told a regional CDU conference in the western city of Heidelberg: "Madame Chancellor, step down.
"With your truly unparalleled 'laissez-faire' refugee policy you have burdened us with something that we will not get rid of any time soon."
The mood changed when Konrad Reuter, a retired teacher who helps refugees, introduced Edris and the boy's proud father.
Edris was lifted up to say "thank you, Mrs Merkel" on a big video screen, drawing applause.
"I am very, very happy," the boy said.
On the podium Mrs Merkel, smiling broadly, told him: "Okay, you learned a lot of German already. Do you sometimes speak German?"
Edris said: "I only speak [German] to my dad."
Mrs Merkel replied: "You speak German to your dad? That's pretty good already. Is your mum here too? No, oh well then keep on practising."
Edris was heard saying "I wanted to touch your hands once" - prompting Mrs Merkel to go over to the side of the hall, where she met Edris and his father. Edris wiped away tears as she shook his hand, surrounded by photographers.
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The leadership challenger made his comments during an interview with James O'Brien on the BBC's Newsnight programme.
The Pontypridd MP said Mr Corbyn's "metropolitan" politics were at odds with Labour traditions about national identity in England, Scotland and Wales.
He claimed the Labour leader did not understand that many people had a "sense of place".
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service was called to Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, at about 19:25 BST on Friday.
The Snow Storm ride is understood to have malfunctioned but fire crews had rescued everybody by 21:45.
A basket holding people stopped 10m (32ft) off the ground, but no-one was injured.
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The new leader, Jocelerme Privert, was elected at a marathon session of the national assembly that continued into the early hours of Sunday morning.
Mr Privert is the current head of the assembly.
He will serve as president for up to four months while Haiti holds a new presidential poll.
A run-off vote in January was cancelled because of violence and instability and earlier this month a man believed to be a former soldier was beaten to death by a mob during continuing anti-government protests.
Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, is still struggling to recover from a huge earthquake in 2010.
In a speech before he was elected, Mr Privert vowed to "foster confidence" across society, ensure stability and hold the much-delayed run-off vote "as soon as possible".
The election will now be held on 24 April, with a new president due to be sworn in on 14 May.
The last-minute deal aims to prevent the country from plunging into an immediate power vacuum.
Speaking before he stepped down, Mr Martelly said his biggest regret was that January's presidential election had been postponed.
Mr Martelly is constitutionally barred from seeking re-election but has thrown his weight behind Jovenel Moise, a banana exporter who won the first round of the presidential election in November.
But the result was contested by the opposition challenger, Jude Celestin.
He accused the electoral authorities of favouring Mr Moise and threatened to pull out of the run-off vote.
It said those in charge of the Jalabiya plant had taken "unacceptable" measures in order to keep the plant open and protect employees.
Various armed factions "controlled or sought to control" the area, it said.
The plant in northern Syria was shut down in 2014, the year before France's Lafarge merged with Swiss rival Holcim.
LafargeHolcim said the evidence was revealed by an internal investigation.
"At times, different armed factions controlled or sought to control the areas around the plant," the firm said.
"It appears from the investigation that the local company provided funds to third parties to work out arrangements with a number of these armed groups, including sanctioned parties, in order to maintain operations and ensure safe passage of employees and supplies to and from the plant," it added.
"In hindsight, the measures required to continue operations at the plant were unacceptable."
At the time, Syria was subject to EU sanctions imposed on President Bashar al-Assad's government, which has lost control of large swathes of the country to various armed groups.
The French government believes that Lafarge's local officials bought oil in Syria to power the factory, in defiance of those sanctions, according to the French news agency AFP.
At the same time, LafargeHolcim released better-than-expected fourth-quarter results, showing that underlying core earnings were up 15.5% year-on-year to 1.61bn Swiss francs (£1.3bn; $1.6bn).
High-ranking priest Lucio Vallejo Balda and former employee Francesca Chaouqui were arrested early in November.
They were members of a commission set up by Pope Francis to advise him on economic reform.
An assistant to Monsignor Balda and two journalists who published books with the revelations have also been charged.
A preliminary hearing has been set for 24 November.
They were questioned after information contained in the documents - including details of alleged corruption, theft and uncontrolled spending in the Holy See - appeared in books by Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi.
In a statement, the Vatican said magistrates "notified the accused and their lawyers of the charges filed... for the unlawful disclosure of information and confidential documents".
Ms Chaouqui was released shortly after her arrest after pledging to co-operate with authorities. Monsignor Balda remains in a Vatican cell.
Both, along with assistant Nicola Maio, are accused of forming "a brotherhood of crime" and stealing documents, the Vatican said.
The two journalists have been charged with soliciting and exerting pressure to obtain the information.
Mr Fittipaldi told local media he was "stunned" by the decision.
"Maybe I'm naive but I believed they would investigate those I denounced for criminal activity, not the person that revealed the crimes," he said.
"I understand they are seriously embarrassed in the Vatican over the things in my book, especially because they could not deny any of it. But I didn't expect a criminal trial."
They risk more than four years in jail.
The 22-year-old former Newcastle United striker denies raping a woman he had been out with in Newcastle last January.
The woman said she saw Mr Ranger, who now plays for League One Swindon Town, when she went to see the hotel's CCTV.
Mr Ranger has claimed the woman consented to sex.
She told the court after swapping messages with the footballer, she met him in a bar and next remembered waking up naked in a hotel room the following morning.
During cross-examination by Toby Hedworth QC, defending, the woman, who gave evidence via a videolink, wept when he suggested she had sex twice with Ranger and was "enthusiastically participating".
She has claimed she was too intoxicated to consent and was not attracted to the footballer.
She told the jury she returned to the Carlton Hotel in Jesmond, the following night with a relative to see if they could check the CCTV on the premises.
The alleged victim told the court: "Nile Ranger was at the front desk. He was booking another room for that night, for the same thing to happen to someone else.
"I know this is not the first time this has happened. Since this case, two other people have mentioned being in a horrible state in the same sort of circumstances as what I have been in.
"I'm not going to let it happen to someone else."
Mr Hedworth responded: "You can say what you like about him. You can say he's done it to that person, this person, the other person in the hope that mud sticks."
The alleged victim replied: "That's not true. I know me, I know what happened that night."
Having seen CCTV images of herself looking intoxicated, she said: "Judging by those videos, I'm in no fit state to consent to anything."
Mr Hedworth asked about chatty text messages the pair swapped the morning after the alleged attack, including jokes about Ranger's dance moves, and she replied: "I don't know why I responded like that. I kick myself for responding like that.
"Unless you are in this situation, no-one has a right to say how I dealt with the situation."
The trial continues.
The group, which has Marxist-Leninist roots, was formed in the late 1970s and launched an armed struggle against the Turkish government in 1984, calling for an independent Kurdish state within Turkey.
Fighting flared up again after a two-year-old ceasefire ended in July 2015.
Now the PKK is being targeted in a bigger Turkish security crackdown, following the botched July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by mutinous Turkish officers.
The PKK's struggle is also part of the turmoil in Iraq and Syria, where Turkey is trying to assert its influence on a battlefield with many rival forces.
In a BBC interview in April the PKK's military leader Cemil Bayik said "we don't want to separate from Turkey and set up a state".
"We want to live within the borders of Turkey on our own land freely... The struggle will continue until the Kurds' innate rights are accepted," he said.
Turkey continues to accuse the PKK of "trying to create a separate state in Turkey".
More than 40,000 people have died in the conflict. It reached a peak in the mid-1990s, when thousands of villages were destroyed in the largely Kurdish south-east and east of Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled to cities in other parts of the country.
In the 1990s, the PKK rolled back on its demands for an independent state, calling instead for more autonomy for the Kurds.
Who are the Kurds?
The spotlight is now on Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party, People's Democracy (HDP), whose joint leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag were arrested early on 4 November.
The Turkish government said they had failed to appear for questioning about alleged links to the PKK - which they deny. Turkey accuses them of spreading PKK propaganda. Ten other MPs were also arrested.
Acting with emergency powers, introduced after the coup attempt, the Turkish authorities have also detained the joint mayors of Diyarbakir, a mainly Kurdish city. The Kurds' main media outlets have also been shut down.
The HDP, the main pro-Kurdish party, is a broad coalition of groups including liberal and left-wing ethnic Turks. The party denies Turkey's claim that it is allied to the PKK.
It entered parliament for the first time last year, winning 59 seats, making it the second-biggest opposition party.
South-eastern Turkey has been wracked by violence since the ceasefire with the PKK collapsed.
Hours after the HDP politicians were arrested, a car bomb went off outside a police station in Diyarbakir. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said it had killed eight people, including two policemen - and he blamed the PKK.
The Turkish air force regularly carries out air strikes against PKK bases in mountainous northern Iraq.
The Turkish government has ruled out any negotiations until the group completely disarms.
There have been many PKK attacks on Turkish security forces in the south-east.
In August 2016 a PKK car bomb in Cizre killed 11 policemen and injured 78. Hundreds of people have died in more than a year of clashes in Turkey's Kurdish-majority region.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the EU and US.
Human rights groups say many civilians have died during Turkey's anti-PKK offensive in the south-east. Turkey has imposed curfews and used heavy armour in urban areas in its fight with the rebels.
Tears and destruction amid Turkey PKK crackdown
Turkey has twin concerns about the Iraqi-Kurdish push to oust so-called Islamic State (IS) from Mosul.
President Erdogan's AK Party, strongly rooted in Sunni Islam, does not want Iraqi Shia forces to spread their influence up to Turkey's borders and beyond.
Nor does Turkey want the armed Kurdish groups to join up along its borders, bolstering the PKK cause.
Turkey retains an army base at Bashiqa, not far from Mosul, and has trained a local militia force - the Ninevah Guards - consisting of Sunni Arabs, Turkmens and Kurds.
In war-torn Syria, Turkey views the Popular Protection Units (YPG) - a Kurdish force fighting IS - as linked to the PKK.
Turkey is allied to the US in Nato - but the US also supports the YPG in its anti-IS struggle.
Turkey-Iraq tensions over Mosul offensive
Turkey v Syria's Kurds v Islamic State
In July 2015, a suicide bombing blamed on IS killed 32 people in the mainly Kurdish town of Suruc, just inside Turkey, near war-ravaged Kobane in Syria.
Kurdish groups accused the Turkish government of not doing enough to thwart IS operations.
A Turkish military operation in August-September 2016, in support of allied Syrian rebels, ousted IS from border towns.
The PKK suffered a major blow in 1999 when its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was arrested and jailed for treason.
In March 2013, he called a ceasefire and urged PKK forces to withdraw from Turkey. But that ceasefire broke down in July 2015.
PKK leader holds key to Turkish-Kurdish peace
It was not the first time a truce had been declared.
Shortly after Ocalan's arrest, the PKK introduced a five-year unilateral ceasefire and tried to change its image and widen its appeal.
It called for a role in Turkey's politics, more cultural rights for the country's estimated 15 million Kurds and the release of imprisoned PKK members.
Turkey refused to negotiate with it and offered only a limited amnesty to its members.
Between 2009 and 2011, high-level secret talks took place between the PKK and the Turkish government in Oslo, Norway, but they collapsed after a clash in June 2011, in which 14 Turkish soldiers were killed.
Richard Weston had previously dumped waste in the same spot in Derbyshire six times, so the council set up a motion-activated camera to catch him.
The council's environmental health manager said it was "a really dopey thing to do".
Weston admitted depositing controlled waste without an environmental permit.
Matt Holford, South Derbyshire District Council's environmental health manager, described one of the photos as "a one in a million".
"It's extraordinary. He obviously didn't spot the camera," said Mr Holford.
"It almost looks like he is joyously throwing machine parts into the hedge."
The camera did not capture Weston's car registration plate the first time he was photographed, but he returned to dump yet more waste and was then traced through the number.
When interviewed he said he had salvaged parts from old dishwashers and sold them online as a hobby to earn a bit of extra money.
"One of the hilarious things about it was that during interview, under caution, he almost gave an impression he didn't think it was a problem because every time he dumped something it would disappear," said Mr Holford.
"I think he thought a local scrap dealer was picking it up."
In reality, the council was picking up the cost of clearing the site in Sandy Lane, Caldwell.
Weston, 38, of Frederick Street, Woodville, was fined £215, ordered to pay £1,000 costs and a victim surcharge of £21 when he appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court.
The narrow-bodied passenger plane's development has placed a major strain on Bombardier's finances.
Bombardier is based in Canada, but it is Northern Ireland's largest manufacturing employer.
The Quebec government will hold a 49.5% stake in a limited partnership set up to complete the CSeries programme.
The wings for the CSeries are made at Bombardier's Belfast plant.
Bombardier has also confirmed it is cancelling the development of its Learjet 85 business jet.
Earlier this year, it suspended the Learjet 85 programme due to a lack of demand for the plane.
Wing components for the jet are also made in Northern Ireland, but Bombardier says the cancellation will have no impact on jobs in Belfast.
The company reported a quarterly loss of $4.6bn, largely due to writing down the value of its investments in CSeries and Learjet 85.
Alain Bellemare, chief executive of Bombardier, said the deal with the Quebec government comes at a "pivotal time" for the CSeries.
"The market is there, our leadership is in place, we have the best product and with the support of the government, we are ready to make this aircraft a commercial success."
Quebec said its investment will come from the economic development fund that is managed by Investissement Québec, a financing corporation set up to attract investment to the province.
The government will receive 200m stock warrants for its investment.
Each warrant will entitle it to buy a class B share in Bombardier at a price of C$2.21 per share within a five-year period.
Davy Thompson of the union Unite said the Quebec government's intervention was a lesson for politicians in Northern Ireland in how "government action can safeguard employment and support the manufacturing sector.
"We are hopeful that this investment by the Quebec government will give Bombardier breathing space to achieve its sales targets for the CSeries, will safeguard the long-term employment of the workforce here and the wider economic benefit from such high value jobs," he said.
Set 320 to win off 53 overs, Yorkshire lost Adam Lyth early on but opener Alex Lees and Gary Ballance (43) set the platform for an exciting run chase.
Lees (107), Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow accelerated after tea but the visitors lost quick wickets and were left hanging on for a draw, ending 257-9.
Number 11 batsman Jack Brooks survived the last two balls of the match from England's Stuart Broad to avoid defeat.
Broad trapped Steven Patterson lbw in the final over, but Brooks edged his first delivery for four through gully and safely defended his second as Yorkshire clung on for a third draw in three Championship matches in 2016.
Earlier, Chris Read's 101 helped Notts from their overnight 151-5 to 348 all out in their second innings.
A game that looked set to peter out to a tame draw came to life when reigning champions Yorkshire, 64-1 at tea and requiring 256 further runs to win, attacked in search of an unlikely victory in the final session.
Root, who made a first-ball duck in the first innings, scored a quick-fire 27 and England team-mate Bairstow added 35 off 20 balls, while lower-order hitters Liam Plunkett and David Willey were pushed up the batting order.
But that intent almost proved Yorkshire's undoing as they were pegged back by Jake Ball (3-68) and Harry Gurney (4-53).
In the morning session, Yorkshire's wayward bowling was punished by Broad, who hit a 44-ball half-century and scored at more than five runs per over during a seventh-wicket partnership of 104 with Read.
Captain Read was 97 not out when Jackson Bird (23) became the ninth Notts wicket to fall, but Gurney saw off five balls from Patterson before Read reached his first Championship century of the season with a boundary off Adil Rashid.
Nottinghamshire are now top of Division One, while Yorkshire are four points behind in fifth.
The Grammy Awards are seen as the most important and respected prizes in the music business.
Disney's Frozen also won at the star-studded ceremony picking up two awards for Let It Go and for best film soundtrack.
Pharrell Williams and Beyonce won three awards each.
Other British winners included Clean Bandit with Jess Glynne for their hit song Rather Be.
Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Rihanna and Kanye West were just of the stars who performed at the Los Angeles ceremony.
But the night belonged to Sam Smith, who has cemented his place as one of pop's biggest stars just nine months after the release of his debut album In the Lonely Hour.
It also approved his decision to declare a 90-day state of emergency.
Senegalese troops have reportedly moved towards The Gambian border ahead of possible intervention to force Mr Jammeh to hand power to President-elect Adama Barrow.
Thousands of UK and Dutch tourists are being evacuated from The Gambia.
The tiny West African state is popular with European holidaymakers because of its beaches.
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Adama Barrow: From estate agent to president
Holidaymakers to be returned
The Gambia was plunged into crisis after Mr Jammeh rejected Mr Barrow's shock victory in the 1 December election.
In a televised announcement on Tuesday, Mr Jammeh said "any acts of disobedience to the laws of The Gambia, incitement of violence and acts intended to disturb public order and peace" were banned under the state of emergency.
He said security forces were instructed to "maintain absolute peace, law and order".
Could there be conflict?
A Senegalese military source said they were "very seriously" preparing for military action in The Gambia, Reuters news agency reports.
Residents in two towns in southern Senegal told the agency they had seen columns of troops heading for the border.
Regional bloc Ecowas, the Economic Community of West African States, has mandated Senegal, which almost surrounds The Gambia, to spearhead military intervention, but only as a last resort and with the backing of the UN Security Council.
The US State Department urged Mr Jammeh to peacefully transfer power to Mr Barrow on Thursday.
"Doing so would allow him to leave office with his head held high and to protect The Gambian people from potential chaos," spokesman John Kirby said.
"Failure to do so will put his legacy, and more importantly The Gambia, in peril," he added.
The Gambia's entire armed forces is made up of only about 2,500 troops, making it difficult to see how they can defeat a regional force if it moves in, says BBC Africa Monitoring security correspondent Tomi Oladipo.
Nigeria's air force was contributing 200 "supporting" troops for the force, navy spokesman Capt Dahun Jahun told the Associated Press.
A Nigerian military source told our correspondent that a Nigerian warship was sailing towards The Gambia as a show of force.
However, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's foreign affairs aide, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, denied it was a war ship, saying a vessel had been sent to evacuate Nigerians if need be.
Where is Mr Barrow?
Mr Barrow, a property developer, has been in Senegal since Saturday. His aides said he would return to The Gambia for his inauguration on Thursday.
In his only comment since the state of emergency was declared, he tweeted: "We made history on the first day of December. Our future starts tomorrow."
Mr Jammeh's declaration of a state of emergency was seen as an attempt to block the ceremony, scheduled to take place at a stadium in Bakau town, west of the capital Banjul, from going ahead.
Mr Barrow could, technically, also be sworn in at The Gambian embassy in Senegal. However, there are currently no visible preparations under way there.
Could there be a refugee crisis?
At least 26,000 Gambians, mostly women and children, had crossed into Senegal by Monday evening amid fears that violence could erupt, the UN refugee agency said, citing Senegalese government figures.
"The flow has increased sharply since then," regional spokeswoman Helene Caux was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Travel firm Thomas Cook said it would fly back to the UK, over the next 48 hours, 985 customers from package holidays after the Foreign Office advised "against all but essential travel to The Gambia due to ongoing political uncertainty and potential military intervention following the presidential elections".
About 1,600 Dutch citizens are also being flown home after similar advice from their government.
Tourism has become the fastest-growing sector of The Gambia's economy, and the country, which has a population of about two million, was marketed to holidaymakers as "the smiling coast of West Africa".
But many of its citizens are poor and complain of political repression. Some, including the goalkeeper of the national women's football team, have drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe in the hope of a better life.
Why is Mr Jammeh refusing to leave office?
He has ruled The Gambia since taking power in a bloodless coup in 1994.
The Gambia regularly held elections, which he won until his shock defeat in the latest poll.
Mr Jammeh has said there were irregularities in the election process, including the turning away of some of his supporters from polling stations, and errors made by the electoral commission.
The commission accepted that some of the results it initially published contained errors, but said Mr Barrow had still won.
Mr Jammeh has said he will stay in office until new elections are held.
Retaining power would also ensure he was not prosecuted in The Gambia for alleged abuses committed during his rule.
It's that time of year when delegations from across Europe - and further afield - come together to find out which country will be crowned the winner of the annual song contest-cum-live TV spectacle.
This year marks the 62nd edition of the international gathering that, over the years, has brought us such gems as Waterloo by Abba, Making Your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz and Flying the Flag by Scooch.
For some it's a deluge of gaudiness, kitsch and music to make your ears bleed. To many aficionados, though, it's a yearly delight that can be relied upon to deliver emotion, tension and laughter in bucketloads.
Here's what you need to know ahead of this year's event.
When Eurovision started in the Swiss resort of Lugano back in 1956, only seven countries took part. Each country submitted two songs each, with host country Switzerland eventually winning.
But over the years there has been a steady rise in participating countries - so steady in fact that the contest is now preceded by two semi-finals.
The first semi takes place on Tuesday, with the second following on Thursday. The aim is to whittle the semi-finalists - 36 this year - down to a more manageable 20.
Those 20 progress to the final on Saturday, when they will be joined by the so-called "big five" - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK - and host nation Ukraine.
The "big five" get an automatic pass to the final as they pay the most towards keeping the contest going.
Once the final starts it's a level playing field, with all 26 acts at the mercy of the juries and viewers who cast their votes on the night.
The winning act is awarded a glass trophy in the shape of a microphone, and their country is given the right to host the following year's contest.
Before last year, each competing country's jury and public votes were combined and announced at the same time.
But now the votes are split, with each country's jury vote cast first, and votes from viewers in all countries combined and announced at the end.
This can result in dramatic reversals - as was shown at last year's contest, when Ukraine's entry leapfrogged Australia's at the last minute to claim the top spot.
There have been 61 contests to date, but 64 winners. That's because the 1969 contest resulted in a four-way split, with France, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK all ending up with the same points tally.
The so-called voting "scandal" led to a change in the rules that ensured there would always be just the one overall winner in future.
Ireland lead the way on the all-time leader board, having won the contest seven times between 1970 and 1996.
Sweden has won six times, while the UK has five victories under its belt along with France and Luxembourg.
The UK's last triumph came in Dublin 20 years ago, when Katrina and the Waves stormed to victory with Love Shine a Light.
Since then we've had distinctly mixed fortunes, with three last-place finishes and a dreaded "nul points" in 2003.
Recent attempts to better our lot by enlisting the likes of Blue and Engelbert Humperdinck have had little impact on how we've performed.
Indeed, it's been eight years since we even finished inside the top 10.
This year it will be Lucie Jones who'll be representing us with Never Give Up on You, a tender ballad co-written by the Danish singer-songwriter who won the contest in 2013.
Jones, 26, has dismissed suggestions she might suffer as a consequence of Britain's decision to leave the EU, insisting she is "not worried" about a potential Brexit backlash.
The decision to give Australia a wild card entry in 2015 was a surprise to many, not least those in possession of an atlas.
Yet it was considered a successful enough experiment for the Land Down Under to compete for real in 2016 - and they'll be back again this year to try their luck once more.
Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Firebrace, the first indigenous male to represent Australia at Eurovision, will be hoping he can go all the way with his ballad Don't Come Easy.
The appearance of Justin Timberlake at last year's event led to speculation the United States might also be invited to participate at future Eurovisions.
This year sees the contest make a return visit to the Ukrainian capital Kiev, 12 years since it was first held there in 2005.
This year's contest comes from Kiev's International Exhibition Centre, a giant complex with capacity for up to 11,000 spectators.
The run-up to the contest has been dominated by a diplomatic row between Ukraine and Russia over the Russian entrant, 27-year-old Julia Samoilova.
Ukraine refused to allow her to perform at the contest because she has visited Crimea, the peninsula seized by Russia in 2014.
Last month Russian broadcaster Channel One announced it would not be broadcasting this year's event, removing any chance of Russia taking part.
Thanks in part to the mocking asides that Sir Terry Wogan used to issue from his commentary booth, Eurovision-bashing has become a national pastime for us Brits.
Yet the competition is taken extremely seriously by some of our neighbours across the pond, many of whom see competing in the contest as a badge of national pride.
Eurovision's legion of die-hard fans take it very seriously too, travelling to the event in numbers to support their country's act and enjoy the party atmosphere.
And it can also launch careers, as Michael Flatley discovered when he took to the stage with Riverdance during the 1994 contest in Dublin.
The first semi-final will be shown on BBC Four on Tuesday at 20:00 BST. You can also follow it online on a special BBC live page.
The second semi on Thursday is on the same time and place - and there's a live page for that too.
The final will be shown on BBC One on Saturday, with Graham Norton commenting on the action from 20:00 BST. You can also follow the final online.
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About 30 people took part in a protest at Rossington, near Doncaster, over noise and flies which they claim are linked to recycling firm Morris Metals.
The group was shot at by a man wearing a balaclava and riding a quad bike. The injured man has been taken to hospital.
Morris Metals said it had taken action to reduce flies around its site and denied causing excess noise.
Police are investigating the shooting.
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Villagers in Rossington were protesting against the number of lorries running through the area and about insects which they say come from the recycling firm.
Villager Cheryl Moy said the problem was making people prisoners in their homes.
"When it is warm its hot because you daren't open your living room windows, you can't get air in the house without having lots of flies coming in. Its horrible".
The company said in a statement it did not believe it was the only source of the problem.
"We have had some issues with flies but have worked hard to eradicate them and we now no longer stockpile material that contains organic matter.
This will ensure that we won't be a source of this kind of problem in future."
It also added it was restricted to 10 to 12 lorries per day and had never breached its permits.
The Environment Agency said it understood the issue was causing "real distress" to residents and was taking action.
"We have visited all permitted businesses on the estate to ensure that they are operating properly, and have instructed Morris Metals to take action to reduce the number of flies," it said.
An army statement said troops and militiamen were advancing into Sheikh Miskeen on several fronts and had reached the main square.
Opposition activists said there were fierce clashes around the town and a heavy bombardment by Russian aircraft.
The government's offensive is the first in the south since Russia launched air strikes in support three months ago.
The region is the last where secular and nationalist rebel factions still hold substantial territory, and Sheikh Miskeen lies on one of the main routes from Damascus to the city of Deraa and the Jordanian border.
The army said on Wednesday afternoon that troops had taken control of eastern and northern parts of Sheikh Miskeen and reached the town's main square.
Earlier, a military source told the state news agency, Sana, that "terrorist organisations" inside Sheikh Miskeen had suffered heavy losses in the past two days and had started moving their operations centre to nearby Nawa.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network, reported that there had been fighting around Sheikh Miskeen on Wednesday between rebels and advancing government forces, which it said were backed by Russian warplanes.
Russia's defence ministry has confirmed it carried out air strikes in Deraa province on Monday and Tuesday, but not whether they were in the Sheikh Miskeen area.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that monitors the conflict in the country, said earlier that Russian air strikes in Syria had killed 2,371 people, including 792 civilians, since they started on 30 September.
Among the combatants killed were 924 rebels and 655 militants of so-called Islamic State (IS), which Russia says it is targeting along with "other terrorist groups".
On Tuesday, the US expressed concern at the "marked and troubling" increase in reports of civilian casualties in Syria since the start of the Russian air campaign.
The accounts of activists and non-governmental organisations suggested Russian attacks had "killed hundreds of civilians, including first responders" and "hit medical facilities, schools and markets", state department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Last week, Russia rejected allegations by Amnesty International that it had used cluster munitions and unguided bombs on civilian areas.
Syria's government and a US-led multinational coalition against IS are also conducting air strikes in Syria.
More than 250,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted in Deraa in March 2011. Eleven million others have been driven from their homes.
The 35-year-old has only played one previous Test, but will partner Shane Watson at the top of the order.
"I've dreamt about this but I didn't necessarily believe it would ever come true," Rogers told BBC Sport.
Shane Watson: Scored 2,580 runs in 41 Tests, at an average of 35.34
Chris Rogers: Scored 19 runs in two innings in his only Test appearance, which was against India at Perth in January 2008
The untried partnership will first take on Worcestershire in Australia's final warm-up match starting on Tuesday.
The team for that match also features 19-year-old left-arm spinner Ashton Agar and seamers Jackson Bird and Ryan Harris.
Rogers, who scored only four and 15 in his solitary Test to date against India in Perth in 2008, has considerable experience of English conditions.
He is the current captain of Middlesex, having also played for Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Northants, and averages 50.38 from 239 first-class matches.
"This opportunity is one that is not going to come too often," added Rogers. "I have nothing to lose and hopefully I can take that attitude into the Test match.
July
10-14 1st Test, Trent Bridge (11:00 BST)
18-22 2nd Test, Lord's (11:00 BST)
August
1-5 3rd Test, Old Trafford (11:00 BST)
9-13 4th Test, Chester-le-Street (11:00 BST)
21-25 5th Test, The Oval (11:00 BST)
29 1st Twenty20 international, Southampton (18:30 BST)
31 2nd Twenty20 international, Chester-le-Street (14:30 BST)
September
6 1st ODI, Headingley (10:15 BST)
8 2nd ODI, Old Trafford (10:15 BST)
11 3rd ODI, Edgbaston (14:00 BST)
14 4th ODI, Cardiff (10:15 BST)
16 5th ODI, Southampton (14:00 BST)
NB Fixtures and start times are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made
"It's going to be about managing my emotions. In county cricket there are a lot less people watching the game so the intensity will be up - that's what I have to deal with."
Lehmann's endorsement of Rogers is a further example of the new coach stamping his authority on the side since taking over from the sacked Mickey Arthur on 24 June.
Last week, he confirmed Watson's return to the top of the order for the Ashes and the opener responded with a powerful 90 in the tour victory over Somerset.
Rogers's inclusion against Worcestershire sees regular opener Ed Cowan move down to number three, with all-rounder Steve Smith handed an opportunity at number six.
Bird and Harris are given a chance to stake their claim for Ashes places, with Mitchell Starc, James Pattinson and Peter Siddle all rested.
Agar was called into Australia's touring party in India in March after playing only two first-class matches.
Originally selected in Australia's A squad, he was drafted into the Ashes party last week as a development player and back-up to regular spinner Nathan Lyon and will now stay on for the entire tour.
The first Ashes Test in Nottingham starts on 10 July.
Australian XI to play Worcestershire: Michael Clarke (capt), Shane Watson, Ed Cowan, Chris Rogers, Phillip Hughes, Steve Smith, Brad Haddin (wk), James Faulkner, Ryan Harris, Ashton Agar, Jackson Bird, Nathan Lyon (12th man).
The Belgian, who masterminded the Cameroonians' triumph 11 days ago, is one of over 60 applicants for the job.
Several big names have applied, including Italians Roberto Mancini and Giovanni Trapattoni as well as Germans Lothas Matthaus and Bernd Schuster.
Hassan Shehata, who led Egypt to three Nations Cup titles, and Nigeria's Samson Siasia are also on the list.
The names of the coaches were revealed by the South African FA (Safa) on Thursday.
Safa also revealed that former internationals Lucas Radebe and Benni McCarthy would form part of the committee to find the new national coach.
Radebe was a long-standing captain of Bafana Bafana while McCarthy, who has just completed his Uefa Pro A coaching licence, is South Africa's record goalscorer.
"The committee … will draw up a short list, deliberate (on) it before naming the suitable candidate in (the) coming days," a Safa statement said.
Clive Barker, who guided South Africa to its sole Africa Cup of Nations win in 1996, and Neil Tovey, who captained the side that day, are also on the committee.
"We want to have the process expedited as Bafana Bafana have a bumper 2017 season in which they need to compete and qualify on three fronts," said SAFA President Dr Danny Jordaan.
"We need the coach to be in place when we play two friendly matches in March," he added.
In addition to contesting qualifying for the 2018 World Cup and 2019 Nations Cup, South Africa will try to reach next year's African Nations Championship, the tournament for Africans who play in their own domestic league.
South Africa's coaching job became vacant in December when Ephraim 'Shakes' Mashaba was sacked for "gross misconduct."
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The process is expected to take at least a week as officials tally the paper ballots by hand.
The election was delayed for more than a year after the results of the October 2015 vote were thrown out following allegations of widespread fraud.
After President Michel Martelly's mandate expired in February, Jocelerme Privert was named interim leader.
The Caribbean nation was choosing a new president and lawmakers.
The presidential election will probably go to a second round on 29 January as none of the 27 candidates is expected to gain the 50% of the votes necessary to win outright in the first round.
Exit polls suggested Jovenel Moise, 47, had an early lead, although the supporters of Maryse Narcisse said their candidate was ahead.
Mr Moise enjoys the backing of former President Martelly and belongs to his Parti Haitien Tet Kale (Haitian Bald Head Party).
A banana exporter, Mr Moise won the first round of presidential election held in October 2015 but following allegations of fraud, those elections were annulled.
Ms Narcisse, a doctor, has the backing of Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and is one of two women running for the top office.
Whoever wins the election will face the challenge of reconstructing a country which has been ravaged by natural disasters.
The most recent, Hurricane Matthew, destroyed 90% of some of Haiti's southern areas.
One voter in that region told Reuters news agency that what people there needed was "aid after the hurricane, because everything was lost".
An appeal for donations by the UN has so far failed to raise even half the sum it set out to reach.
$2bn
Estimated loss caused by Hurricane Matthew
$120m Sum UN wants to raise
$45.6m Pledged so far
$23m Sum pledged by US
Voter turnout in the areas worst hit by Matthew last month was low, according to reports.
But the president of the electoral council, Leopold Berlanger, said he was satisfied overall with how voting had progressed.
In the capital, Port-au-Prince, voters queued from early in the morning to to cast their ballots.
"This is my responsibility as a citizen," Alain Joseph, a motorcycle taxi driver in the city, told the Associated Press news agency.
Some hours after voting ended, a fire broke out at a market in a suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The cause of the blaze is still unknown.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said "tens of millions" was needed to ensure London was prepared in case of a similar incident to the Paris attacks.
The national counter-terror budget currently stands at £564m, with an additional £130m set to be distributed.
The Home Office said allocation of the £130m was yet to be finalised but all agencies would be provided for.
During the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee meeting at City Hall, Sir Bernard said the increasing use of online networks was taking up more resources than ever in the fight against terrorism.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing, Stephen Greenhalgh, also raised concerns that the Metropolitan Police was only expected to benefit from £9.4m of the £130m extra funding.
He told City Hall: "They [Scotland Yard] do the surveillance work...and a lot of undercover policing takes place in our capital city.
"So we think it's important that counter-terrorist policing gets its fair share of that additional money and £20m is a good round number."
The Home Office said it would make sure the police and other agencies had the resources they needed to respond to changing threats.
But London Assembly Labour Group member Joanne McCartney said: "It's vitally important that the Met have the resources they need to fund counter-terrorism efforts including more firearms officers.
"Stephen Greenhalgh has said we need an extra £20m from Government. Tough talk alone from the Home Office won't cut it; we need them to put their money where their mouth is."
The e-borders scheme, launched in 2003, has been dogged by problems and in 2014 was "terminated" in its current form.
The Public Accounts Committee accused officials of complacency and said delays in implementing its successor risked undermining Britain's security.
The Home Office has so far not responded to the MPs' report.
The e-borders scheme is designed to enhance checks on people entering the country by air, rail and sea by gathering and processing data on passengers before they reach the border.
The cross-party committee said the new system was not expected to be in place until "at least" eight years later than planned and cost "significantly more than expected".
It found that repeated warnings about the original e-borders scheme and its successor had not been taken seriously, saying officials had been "worryingly dismissive".
"It is difficult to understand where this confidence comes from, given the lengthy delays and continual warnings of ongoing management issues, which gives us cause for concern about the future prospects for this programme which is vital to national security," its report said.
What are e-borders?
Seven warnings about the programme had been issued by the Major Projects Authority since 2010 and in 2015 the National Audit Office said checks remained "highly manual and inefficient" and the IT systems were outdated.
The report found that only 86% of those coming to Britain have their data checked ahead of travel, despite a pledge to carry this out on 95% of travellers by December 2010.
Committee chairwoman Meg Hillier said: "If the Home Office is to complete this project before the decade is out, then it must get its house in order now - starting by setting out exactly what it expects to achieve this year, and who will be held to account for it."
Volkswagen could be forced to pay more than $4bn unless it gets regulatory clearance for the plan, which covers three-litre diesel engines.
The company, which has already agreed a deal covering 475,000 two-litre cars, will receive a final ruling in May.
The court also gave preliminary backing to a separate deal involving Bosch.
The German car parts supplier to Volkswagen had proposed a settlement of $327.5m to US diesel VW owners.
"This settlement marks an important milestone in Volkswagen's efforts to make things right in the United States," said Robert Giuffra, an attorney representing VW.
US District Judge Charles Breyer, in San Francisco, is due to hold a hearing on 11 May on whether to grant final approval for the VW and Bosch deals.
VW has now agreed to spend up to $25bn in the US to settle claims from car owners, environmental regulators, US states and dealers.
The US has also charged seven current and former VW executives with wrongdoing.
VW previously agreed to spend up to $10.03bn to buy back up to 475,000 polluting two-litre vehicles that are fitted with software that allowed them to evade emissions rules during testing.
The Federal Trade Commission said said earlier this month that US customers who bought the three-litre diesel cars would be fully compensated "through a combination of repairs, additional monetary compensation, and buybacks for certain models".
Owners of 2009 to 2012 models could get between $26,000 to $58,000 for a buyback, depending on the model, mileage, and trim of the car, the FTC said.
The trial allows people who have signed up for a special card to use Portslade and Woodingdean libraries.
A phone line to a security company will be available in case of emergency and library staff can be contacted via a dedicated helpline.
Brighton and Hove City Council said staffing will not be reduced.
The libraries are normally closed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Alan Robins, deputy chairman of the council's culture committee, said if the pilot was successful it could be rolled out across the city.
"It's monitored by CCTV. If you go in using your card people are watching you.
"You couldn't just walk out with a load of computer equipment."
Our Little Sister tested positive for nandrolone after finishing last in a race at Wolverhampton on 14 January, which had prize money of £2,500.
Morrison, who could lose his licence, said he is "totally innocent" and has no idea how the drug was administered.
"For me to do it would be professional suicide," he told BBC Sport.
The 56-year-old, who has had 780 winners in a 20-year career, was charged by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) on Thursday with breaching rules and is appealing for help from the public.
He believes there has been a malicious attempt to sabotage British racing or his training operation in East Ilsley, Berkshire, and has informed Thames Valley Police.
The force said it had been contacted by Morrison's lawyer, but said it was a matter for the BHA.
A BHA spokesman said the case would be considered by a disciplinary panel and anyone with information could contact its confidential helpline on 0800 085 2580 or visit the RaceStraight website.
Morrison says whoever injected the filly must have had a thorough knowledge of racing and the implications of a positive test.
He said the horse had been left unattended for a significant time at Southwell races on 2 January after an injury to another of the stable's runners.
"The onus is on me to prove my innocence. I wouldn't be offering such a generous reward if I didn't think there was something out there," he added.
BHA rules of strict liability for prohibited substances mean he faces a ban from training of between one and 10 years if found guilty.
The BHA introduced a zero-tolerance policy on anabolic steroids after the case of Godolphin trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni.
Zarooni was banned for eight years in 2013 after admitting giving an anabolic steroid, stanozolol, to 15 horses.
Morrison has been a vocal critic in the past of people using performance-enhancing substances.
"I'm so violently against steroids. Why would I give anything which would destroy me career overnight?" said the trainer who has won six races at Royal Ascot and three Group One contests.
"I have so much to lose and nothing to gain. This was a very moderate horse which gave my young staff experience in races.
"I just want to find the truth and tell the truth. We have a few questions which remain unanswered from the BHA."
Our Little Sister raced once more, when down the field at Southwell on 26 January and has since been retired.
Morrison said his yard was raided at dawn by the BHA on 3 February, when blood samples taken from all 77 horses, including Our Little Sister, returned negative results.
Morrison said he had hired a leading American toxicologist in an effort to uncover what has happened.
"People have been incredibly sympathetic but we have been through hell over the past three months. It's been a pretty traumatic time," he said.
"No-one likes to be accused of something one hasn't done. It's rather debilitating when you are totally innocent."
Morrison fears for the future of his yard, which employs 25 full-time staff.
He revealed news of the positive test in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.
"Our Little Sister was a horse of limited ability, in a race with hardly any prize money, and there was no unusual betting on it," said the trainer.
"Racing is my life. My reputation is everything. I might annoy a few people, but everyone knows my integrity is 100%. I would never, ever do anything to besmirch the good name of the sport," he told the newspaper.
BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
I don't think Morrison would argue with the analysis that he's not everyone's cup of tea. The word "outspoken" could practically have been invented for him, as all kinds of racing participants - including racecourse officials - will testify.
However, no one disputes his abilities as a trainer. Success at the top end of the scale has come with horses such as Pastoral Pursuits and Sakhee's Secret, both of whom won the Group One July Cup.
But he's also gained a reputation for being an astute 'placer' of horses, - not sending one to, say, Ascot if a lowly handicap at a less fashionable outpost might provide a better winning opportunity.
As the Old Etonian brother of a Lord, Morrison fits racing's establishment stereotype neatly but, unlike some similar trainers, he cut his teeth in commerce, running a lighting business in Manchester.
The Irish government amended the law in January, cutting the duration of bankruptcy from three years to one.
Prior to 2013, the Republic of Ireland had an even more onerous regime, in which bankruptcy lasted for 12 years.
The system has been extensively reformed in the last few years, in order to reduce delays and costs.
The changes came in response to some of the problems thrown up by the Irish banking crisis and property crash.
Many people were saddled with huge debts and mortgages they could not pay.
Because of the tough 12-year regime, several Irish people, including some high-profile property developers, opted to declare themselves bankrupt in the UK, where they could be released from the restrictions in 12 months.
The process was referred to as "bankruptcy tourism" and led to calls for reform.
On Friday, 793 people who were made bankrupt on or prior to 29 July 2015 were released from the process, according to the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI).
The government-backed organisation was set up in 2013 to help tackle personal debt problems.
Its director, Lorcan O'Connor, said: "As of today, almost 800 former bankrupts can have a fresh start without the burden of unsustainable debt."
He also welcomed a new state-funded scheme that enables borrowers with mortgage arrears to access advice from a personal insolvency practitioner.
The ISI said the aim of the scheme is to "find a sustainable solution that keeps a person in their home, where possible".
Mr O'Connor said it "should ensure that anyone in difficulty can now get the help they need".
The new alert level rates the risk of an attack on the UK "highly likely", although Mrs May said there was no evidence to suggest one was "imminent".
It is the second highest of five possible UK threat levels.
David Cameron promised new legislation would make it easier to take passports from those travelling abroad to fight.
The home secretary already has the power, under the Royal Prerogative, to withhold a passport if it is in the public interest to stop somebody travelling.
That power has been used 23 times between since April 2013 to stop people travelling abroad for alleged terrorist-related or criminal activity.
In a Downing Street press conference on Friday, the prime minister said Islamic State (IS) extremists - who are attempting to establish a "caliphate", or Islamic state - represented a "greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before".
He said that "learning lessons from the past doesn't mean there isn't a place for our military" in combating the threat, but did not commit to any military action.
He added the "threat is growing" from Britons travelling to fight with IS, saying at least 500 people had travelled from the UK "to fight in Syria and potentially Iraq".
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, the Association of Chief Police Officers' lead for counter-terrorism, said security and protection measures were being increased following the raised threat level.
And efforts are continuing to identify a suspected British jihadist who appeared in IS footage of the killing of US journalist James Foley.
Analysis by Dominic Casciani, BBC home affairs correspondent
The raised threat level may not lead to visible signs of change on the streets - but it is a sign of the increased concern and security activity behind the scenes involving all of the UK's intelligence and security bodies.
The last time the level was this high was between January 2010 and the summer of 2011. This may have been linked to attempts by an al-Qaeda affiliate to smuggle bombs on to planes heading out of the Middle East.
The highest level is "critical"- meaning an attack is expected imminently. Officials have twice put the country on such an alert - in 2006 after the discovery of liquid bombs aimed at airliners and then the following year when extremists attempted to bomb Glasgow Airport (pictured) and London's West End.
In other words - if security chiefs had knowledge of a clear threat they could not contain, the level would already be one notch higher.
Mr Cameron said the murder of Mr Foley was "clear evidence - not that any more was needed - that this is not some far-off [problem], thousands of miles away, that we can ignore".
He did not give extensive details on what the changed threat level would mean, stressing people "should continue to go about our lives in the normal way".
Mr Cameron said other measures to tackle the threat included:
More steps to deal with the threat would be announced on Monday, Mr Cameron said, which would include details on how to stop would-be terrorists travelling abroad.
He said there were "gaps in our armoury" which needed to be strengthened.
Earlier, in a statement, Mrs May said: "The increase in the threat level is related to developments in Syria and Iraq where terrorist groups are planning attacks against the West.
"Some of those plots are likely to involve foreign fighters who have travelled there from the UK and Europe to take part in those conflicts.
"The first and most important duty of government is the protection of the British people."
Mrs May said decisions about the threat level were made by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC).
She added: "JTAC's judgements about that threat level are made on the basis of the very latest intelligence and are independent of ministers."
AC Rowley said: "From this afternoon we will begin to increase our levels of visible patrols and implement other security and protection measures.
"We will also build on existing community relations to provide reassurance and seek their support and assistance in keeping the UK safe."
He urged communities and families to report anyone who is "vulnerable, a danger or escalating towards terrorism" by calling the anti-terrorist hotline on 0800 789 321.
Baroness Neville-Jones, a former chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee, said the higher threat level was "justified", adding it was "not something you do for the sake of it".
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the government's decision to remove control orders - to restrict the movements of terror suspects - should be reconsidered, adding there should be "proper powers in place when there is an extreme threat".
She said the government needed to support communities, and families in particular, and that more could be done through its anti-terrorism Prevent scheme.
The terror threat level was made public in 2006.
The level last changed in July 2011 when it was reduced to "substantial".
The threat level in the US has not changed. US secretary for homeland security Jeh Johnson said he had spoken to Mrs May about changes to the UK threat level but that he was not aware of any "specific, credible" threat to the US.
What is the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre?
The line between Tonbridge and Hastings is being closed after 21:00 GMT on Monday and Tuesday to allow worn out components to be replaced.
It is understood the work will take several months to complete.
Greg Clark, MP for Tunbridge Wells, said the work had been poorly publicised, however, Network Rail said there was "no good time" to do it.
Mr Clark said: "To do this just before Christmas without consultation is completely wrong.
"It will be a terrible shock to many of my constituents travelling home after a long and busy day."
Network Rail's route managing director for the south east, Alasdair Coates, said: "There is no good time to do this work and it is almost impossible to do so without impacting on passengers.
"However, I'm confident that this will plan keep the railway open as long as possible, while also improving journeys for everybody."
A rail replacement bus service will run instead of trains while the line is closed.
The St John's hospital ward in Livingston has only opened between 08:00 and 20:00 during weekdays and closed at weekends since 9 July.
It assessed patients on weekdays but transferred children to Edinburgh if they needed to be admitted.
First Minister Alex Salmond and West Lothian Council criticised the temporary move at the time.
Additional staff have now been recruited to support the team at the hospital in the future.
Three new consultant neonatologists and two consultant paediatricians will take up post in the next few weeks.
Trainee doctors will also return to the children's ward, with two due to start in August.
Dr David Farquharson, NHS Lothian's medical director, said: "The medical and nursing staff at St John's made Herculean efforts in order to maintain children's and maternity services.
"Despite this, for the three weeks in July, we were unable to ensure that adequate back-up was in place if there was an unplanned absence.
"The alternative, of crossing fingers and hoping for the best, was not good enough.
"I am delighted to say now the department is stronger than ever and we are back to full strength to provide the high quality of care associated with St John's Hospital."
The Irishman deputised for suspended Mark Oxley in Saturday's Scottish Cup semi-final win over Dundee United.
Making his first appearance for 16 months, Logan kept a clean sheet and stopped two penalties in a shootout.
But manager Alan Stubbs confirmed that Oxley will return at Easter Road, saying: "Ox is my number one."
Logan, 30 on Monday, thwarted United in three one-on-one situations and made a smart save from a John Rankin shot in a game short on thrills.
He saved his best for the shootout, stopping efforts from Blair Spittal and Billy McKay as Hibs went through 4-2 on penalties.
"Conrad has come in and done magnificently and was rightly named man-of-the-match," Stubbs told BBC Scotland.
"He's done himself no harm whatsoever, pushing for a place. Every manager wants competition for places and he has raised the bar.
"We're delighted to have him. He's been great since he's come here and he needs to keep putting Mark under pressure."
Wednesday's match at Easter Road is a rehearsal for the Scottish Cup final on 21 May.
While Rangers have already wrapped up the Championship title, Hibs are in need of points as they bid to overhaul Falkirk - who are six points ahead, having played two games more - in second place.
"It's three huge points for us," said Stubbs. "It's a game that we must be looking to win.
"But I don't think there will be much relevance in terms of the cup final. Will the winners have an edge in the final? I don't see that one."
Rangers have had the best of the head-to-heads this season, with three victories, while Hibs won 2-1 at Easter Road in November.
Should Hibs finish behind Falkirk and then progress to the play-off final, it would mean a gruelling schedule of 11 games in 36 days for a side that looked exhausted during extra-time against Dundee United.
"When you have a goal that you've worked towards all season and a cup final, as a player, it doesn't get any better," said Stubbs.
"And then they can go away after being successful, if that's the case, and have a long rest. I'll give them extra time off in the summer.
"Yes, it's a lot of games but success is the thing everyone strives for in football and, when you've got something so close, tiredness isn't an issue."
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Benn, 53, and Collins, 52, were once among the biggest names in the super-middleweight division.
Dublin-born Collins has twice beaten Londoner Benn, who retired after their second fight in 1996.
Details of the third fight are yet to be agreed but Benn expects it to take place in October or November.
Benn, nicknamed 'The Dark Destroyer', held the WBO middleweight title and the WBC super-middleweight belt before retiring as a fighter following his second defeat by Collins at the Manchester Arena in November 1996.
First fight - 6 July 1996, Manchester
Collins ended Chris Eubank's unbeaten record to win the WBO super-middleweight title in 1995, and successfully defended the title seven times, include twice against Benn.
Benn came into the first fight in July 1996 having lost his WBC World super middleweight title to Thulani Malinga.
Collins stopped his opponent in the fourth round, with Benn suffering an ankle injury, but the pair then had a rematch just four months later.
Second fight - 9 November 1996, Manchester
Benn went into the rematch seeking revenge, but Collins was relentless in his attacking strategy.
The Englishman battled through to the end of round six before retiring in his corner. Collins had two more fights, retaining his WBO title, retiring in July 1997.
Benn, whose son Conor made his professional debut in April 2016, has talked up the possibility of a return to the ring before.
An attempt to organise a rematch with old rival Eubank came to nothing, but both Benn and Collins have indicated that they are ready to fight each other again.
If the British Boxing Board of Control refuses to sanction the bout, both fighters have said they would seek a boxing licence from abroad.
"It's about the final chapter," Benn said. "It's about closure.
"I was going backwards and forwards with Chris and I thought: 'I wouldn't have a problem with Steve.' So I asked him if he wants to fight. He said yes. No mucking about."
Collins has not fought in almost 20 years, with an attempt to come out of retirement in 1999 halted when he collapsed during a sparring session.
The Irishman has also talked of fighting again in recent years, saying in a 2013 interview that he wanted to take on Roy Jones Jr.
Collins, whose son Steve Jr has been a professional boxer since 2013, said his motivations for taking on the fight with Benn were financial.
"It's just about money, a payday which will allow me to buy some more land," he said.
"I have no problem with Nigel. I have a lot of respect. I like him."
Since his retirement, Benn has helped train young boxers, and has also made a career as a DJ - while in 2002, he appeared as a contestant in the first series of ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.
He said that he feels in the best shape of his life, comparing himself to Benjamin Button, the F Scott Fitzgerald character who becomes younger in appearance as he gets older.
Benn added that he felt fitter now than he did at his professional peak, a time during which he said he was smoking cannabis and struggling with troubles in his personal life.
"I'm not angry any more and I can have everything I ever want," he said. "I am Nigel 'Benjamin Button' Benn. I feel like I am in my thirties."
Collins, nicknamed 'The Celtic Warrior', has worked as an actor since his last professional fight, appearing in the 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
He is confident that he will be cleared medically to fight Benn, despite the collapse that prevented his comeback in the late 1990s.
"I am not fighting a 20-year-old-guy," he said. "I'm fighting someone the same age as me. There's no disadvantage to anybody.
"I get medicals every year and the most impressive part is my MRI. 'Excellent' was how the neurosurgeon described it. I'm very healthy and very fit."
The NatCen British Social Attitudes Report found 77% of 4,328 people interviewed thought the class divide was either fairly wide or very wide.
Just 26% of people thought it was not very difficult to move between social classes, compared with 35% in 2005.
NatCen said the poll showed the UK class divide "was alive and well".
The social research specialists found that people who identify as working class were more likely to believe the divide between social classes was "fairly wide" or "very wide" (82%) compared with 70% of those who describe themselves as middle class.
The British Social Attitudes survey has been carried out every year since 1983, with questions repeated periodically to assess how opinions change over time.
This 2015 study aimed to find how people had responded to government austerity and how it affected perceptions of class, public spending and the workplace.
Kirby Swales, director of the NatCen survey centre, said: "The class divide is alive and well in Britain and the economic instability and austerity of recent years seem to have sharpened our belief that it is difficult to move from one class to another...
"Our findings certainly show that people who believe themselves to be working class are more likely to believe in a class divide than those who say they are middle class and more think it is difficult to move between classes than did in the past."
The report also found the majority of people considered themselves to be working class (60%) compared with 40% who identified as being middle class - the same proportion as in 1983.
This is despite the fact it is estimated that only a quarter of the population are in working class occupations, the report's authors said.
Some 47% of people in jobs classed as managerial and professional consider themselves working class.
NatCen said class identity was closely linked to attitudes in other areas, with people who say they are working class being far more likely to be opposed to immigration, one of the defining issues of the EU referendum.
The authors of the report's chapter on social class, Geoffrey Evans and Jonathan Mellon, said there appeared to be a "working class of the mind".
They said: "Those in middle class occupations still think of themselves to a surprising degree as working class, and especially so if their family background was working class or they have never been to university.
"And this sense of working class identity apparently means that they are less libertarian and less pro-immigrant, but not necessarily more left-wing - even though those with a working class identity are particularly likely to think that class differences and barriers remain important."
But 45% of those surveyed back a cut in benefits for unemployed people.
Elizabeth Clery, research director of NatCen social research, said: "We have witnessed a big rise in support for higher public spending; support is now back to a level not seen since before the financial crash.
"After seven years of austerity the public is clearly worried about the funding of the NHS and reckons that, for some groups at least, spending on benefits should be increased."
"I want to be clear, we will be punished severely," Jean-Laurent Bonnafe said in the internal memo.
The bank could be fined $8.9bn (£5.2bn) for allegedly violating sanctions rules as early as Monday, reports suggest.
The Financial Times and New York Times also report that the bank will, unusually, admit guilt.
The bank is accused of breaking sanctions against Iran, Sudan and Cuba between 2002 and 2009.
"This is good news for all staff and for our clients," Mr Bonnafe said.
"It will enable us to remove the current uncertainties that are weighing on our group. We will be able to put behind us these problems, which belong to the past.
"The difficulties that we are currently experiencing must not affect our future plans."
There have been months of speculation about the fine, which could force BNP to slash its dividends and issue billions of euros of bonds, reports say.
In April, BNP Paribas said it had set aside $1.1bn to cover the cost of US penalties, but warned that the "amount of the fines could be far in excess of the amount of the provision".
The bank's share price has fallen more than 15% since the beginning of April.
If the latest reports are correct, the fine could almost wipe out BNP's entire 2013 pre-tax income of about $11.2bn.
Earlier this month, one of the European Union's top officials intervened in the controversy.
Michel Barnier, the EU's internal markets commissioner, said any penalty on the giant French bank must be "fair and objective". Reports at the time suggested the fine would be in the region of $10bn.
France's President Francois Hollande has also raised the matter with US President Barack Obama.
As part of the deal with US authorities, BNP may be suspended from converting foreign currencies into dollars, reports suggest, which would hit its ability to operate in international wholesale banking markets.
Reports say US authorities are keen to make an announcement on the settlement on Monday afternoon.
Gateshead grabbed an early lead after Bowman's poacher's finish.
But the visitors were level on the stroke of half-time, when Richard Brodie scored from the penalty spot after Kaine Felix was fouled in the area by Jamal Fyfield.
Heed regained the lead just after the break through Danny Johnson, before Bowman netted his second after 56 minutes with a fine finish, latching onto James Bolton's flick on.
Substitute Toby Ajala slid home after 74 minutes before Fyfield and Sam Jones joined the rout to secure the points.
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Match ends, Gateshead 6, York City 1.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 6, York City 1.
Goal! Gateshead 6, York City 1. Sam Jones (Gateshead).
Substitution, Gateshead. Sam Jones replaces Wes York.
Goal! Gateshead 5, York City 1. Jamal Fyfield (Gateshead).
Goal! Gateshead 4, York City 1. Toby Ajala (Gateshead).
Substitution, York City. Jake Wright replaces Shaun Rooney.
Substitution, Gateshead. Toby Ajala replaces Danny Johnson.
Shaun Rooney (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Gateshead 3, York City 1. Ryan Bowman (Gateshead).
Goal! Gateshead 2, York City 1. Danny Johnson (Gateshead).
Substitution, York City. Matt Dixon replaces Clovis Kamdjo.
Second Half begins Gateshead 1, York City 1.
First Half ends, Gateshead 1, York City 1.
Richard Brodie (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Gateshead 1, York City 1. Richard Brodie (York City) converts the penalty with a.
Gus Mafuta (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Gateshead 1, York City 0. Ryan Bowman (Gateshead).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Samples from 10 victims had been analysed at four laboratories, OPCW head Ahmet Uzumcu said.
The attack on rebel-held Khan Sheikhoun killed at least 87 people.
The Syrian military denied using any chemical agents.
Its ally Russia meanwhile said an air strike hit a rebel depot full of chemical munitions - but this suggestion has been widely rejected.
The US responded to the attack by launching air strikes on a Syrian military airfield.
Footage following the incident showed civilians, many of them children, choking and foaming at the mouth.
Mr Uzumcu said samples had been taken from three people who died in the attack and were analysed at two OPCW designated laboratories.
Another set of samples from seven people being treated in hospitals were also analysed in two other laboratories.
"The results of these analyses from four OPCW-designated laboratories indicate exposure to sarin or a sarin-like substance. While further details of the laboratory analyses will follow, the analytical results already obtained are incontrovertible," Mr Uzumcu said.
An OPCW fact-finding mission was ready to deploy to the town if the security situation meant it was possible, he said.
The team was continuing to conduct interviews and collect samples, he added.
Syria had been obligated to give up its chemical weapons arsenal under the terms of a deal agreed between the US and Russia in 2013 following a deadly chemical weapons attack in Damascus earlier that year.
The UN said sarin had been used in the attack which killed hundreds of people in the Ghouta agricultural belt to the west and east of the capital.
The protesters chanted "Park Geun-Hye resign" as they waved candles and placards above their heads.
Ms Park is accused of allowing her friend, Choi Soon-sil, to manipulate power from behind the scenes.
The president has apologised twice on national television, but has so far resisted calls to resign.
This is despite South Korea witnessing the largest protests since pro-democracy demonstrations of the 1980s.
Organisers said as many as 500,000 people attended the candlelit rally in the capital this weekend, which brought streets to a standstill for the fourth consecutive Saturday. Police put the figure far lower.
Lee Won-cheol, a 48-year-old IT expert, told Agence France-Presse: "She is a criminal. How can we have a criminal as our president? She must step down."
Ms Park, whose approval rating as dropped to 5%, apologised earlier this month for putting "too much faith in a personal relationship", and has pledged to co-operate in an official investigation into the scandal.
Prosecutors are expected to bring charges against Ms Choi, along with two former presidential aides, on Sunday. She was arrested earlier this month.
Ms Choi is accused of trying to extort huge sums of money from South Korean companies, and suspected of using her friendship with Ms Park to solicit business donations for a non-profit fund she controlled.
"If deliberate, this attack may amount to a war crime," he said.
Russia has said neither it nor Syria carried out the attack in the village of Hass in rebel-held Idlib.
Syrian media and a monitoring group meanwhile say rebel fire killed several children at a school in government-held western Aleppo on Thursday.
State news agency Sana said three children died when shells hit the school in the Shahaba area. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said six children were killed in both that incident and rebel shelling of the government-held district of Hamdaniya.
It came as the UN warned that the coming winter could be the worst yet in Syria's five-year-long civil war.
The head of the UN's humanitarian task force for Syria, Jan Egeland, said the brutal conflict had become "more ruthless" and was affecting increasing numbers of civilians, including children.
Five Syrian schools, including the one in Idlib, have been targeted since 11 October, the UN's children's fund Unicef said.
Emergency workers in Syria and the SOHR said on Thursday the death toll from the Idlib attack had risen to 35, and that most of the victims were children.
It appears the bomb fell in the village, about 75km (45 miles) south-west of Aleppo, as children were getting ready to go home early because of air strikes.
The BBC has not been able to independently verify the details of the attack.
A spokesman for Russia's defence ministry, Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov, said the claim was a fabrication and that a Russian drone had found the school's roof still intact on Thursday.
But the SOHR, which gathers information from a network of people within the country, said "warplanes - either Russian or Syrian" had carried out six air strikes on the village.
Activists shared photographs of dead bodies - many of them children - on the floor of a makeshift treatment centre.
Mr Ban said: "If such horrific acts persist despite global outrage, it is largely because their authors, whether in corridors of power or in insurgent redoubts, do not fear justice.
"They must be proved wrong."
Unicef chief Anthony Lake said the incident might be the deadliest attack on a school since the war began.
"Children lost forever to their families, teachers lost forever to their students, one more scar on Syria's future - when will the world's revulsion at such barbarity be matched by insistence that this must stop?"
Idlib is one of the last strongholds of the Syrian opposition, and the province has been repeatedly bombed by the Syrian and Russian air forces.
The US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) has also targeted rival jihadist fighters linked to al-Qaeda who operate there.
As part of efforts by the UN, the people of eastern Aleppo are being offered safe passage to the province, the BBC's James Longman in Beirut says.
But as these latest attacks demonstrate, he adds, nowhere in rebel-held Syria is free from violence.
Ireland play Wales at Donnybrook on 6 February as they begin their attempt to win a third successive title.
"We have a squad full of talent and the vibe in the camp has been very positive over the last few weeks," said Tierney.
Ireland, who lost 15-5 in Wales in a warm-up game last weekend, will again be captained by full-back Niamh Briggs.
Queen's University and Ulster back Claire McLaughlin is one of seven uncapped players included in the squad.
Munster players Zoe Grattage and Ciara Griffin are joined by Tralee club-mate Ciara O'Connor, who plays provincial rugby for Connacht.
St Mary's and Connacht flanker Grainne Egan is the other uncapped player in the pack.
Munster wing Liz Burke and centre Elise O'Byrne-White are also yet to make their first appearance in an Ireland shirt.
"We've had the opportunity to see a lot of the girls play and we've looked at a number of combinations. The newer members of the squad are doing really well," enthused Tierney.
Ireland will play all their home games at Donnybrook, but face testing away trips to France and England.
The Irish side won four of their five fixtures last year, while Wales finished in a disappointing fifth place.
Ireland Women's Six Nations 2016 squad:
Forwards: Elaine Anthony (Munster), Ciara Cooney (Leinster), Ailis Egan (Leinster), Grainne Egan (Connacht), Paula Fitzpatrick (Leinster), Orla Fitzsimons (Leinster), Zoe Grattage (Munster), Ciara Griffin (Munster), Claire Molloy (Bristol), Cliodhna Moloney (Leinster), Heather O'Brien (Munster), Fiona O'Brien (Leinster), Ciara O'Connor (Connacht), Ruth O'Reilly (Connacht), Lindsay Peat (Leinster), Fiona Reidy (Munster), Marie-Louise Reilly (Leinster), Sophie Spence (Leinster).
Backs: Niamh Briggs (Munster), Liz Burke (Munster), Nikki Caughey (Ulster), Mairead Coyne (Connacht), Aine Donnelly (Leinster), Mary Healy (Connacht), Claire McLaughlin (Leinster), Larissa Muldoon (Skewen), Sene Naoupu (Connacht), Elise O'Byrne-White (Leinster), Jackie Shiels (Richmond), Nora Stapleton (Leinster).
After four seasons of solid performances with Williams, the 27-year-old Finn has been rewarded with every driver's dream - a seat with the best team in Formula 1.
Barring a remarkable slip in form for Mercedes, Bottas will morph from being an occasional podium visitor to a race-winner and possibly title contender this year.
But in new team-mate Lewis Hamilton, Bottas faces an adversary far beyond anything he has experienced so far. How he measures up will likely define the rest of his career.
Bottas might not be the most exciting of choices for Mercedes. Fans around the world would have loved to see Hamilton battle McLaren's Fernando Alonso again, or take on Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo or Max Verstappen, or Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. But his appeal to Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff is obvious.
Bottas is Wolff's attempt to find a like-for-like replacement for German Nico Rosberg, who dropped Mercedes in the mire by announcing his retirement last year, five days after clinching his first world title. And it's not just about their blond hair or Finnish ancestry.
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Bottas shares many of Rosberg's characteristics. Both are calm, unobtrusive characters, who are generally pliable and understanding in terms of working with the team and lack the demanding nature of a Hamilton or Alonso.
On the track they are consistent, largely error-free performers. And Bottas has proved himself a resilient and hard racer.
Wolff should - he hopes - be able to plug Bottas in and carry on pretty much where Mercedes left off in the past few years.
Wolff rates Bottas extremely highly. But now he has joined Mercedes, the big question is: how good is he?
There have been flashes of brilliance - such as qualifying third in the wet in an uncompetitive Williams in Canada in 2013 - that suggest a real talent.
And overall, the general perception is Bottas' record against Felipe Massa at Williams over the past three years is similar to Alonso's against the Brazilian at Ferrari before that.
But the facts do not bear that out. While Bottas and Alonso beat Massa in both qualifying and races, the Spaniard's advantage over the Brazilian was significantly bigger.
Directly comparing the data suggests Bottas is as much as 0.2-0.3 seconds per lap slower than Alonso and considerably less effective in races.
Neither Massa nor Bottas have been team-mates to Hamilton. But Alonso has - at McLaren in 2007. They finished tied on points, with four wins each, and Hamilton edged qualifying by the tiniest of margins. By any measure, it was - and is - very difficult to separate Hamilton and Alonso.
If 2017 follows the trend of those results, Hamilton can be expected to be comfortably quicker than Bottas.
Perhaps more surprising is that those comparisons suggest that not only is Bottas not a match for Alonso and Hamilton, but he might not equal Rosberg either.
However, drivers' form does not always directly translate across teams and rivals in as linear a fashion as might be expected.
It is up to Bottas to prove the comparisons wrong and grab the opportunity with both hands.
Bottas was always the only realistic option once Wolff decided against Mercedes junior Pascal Wehrlein. Bottas is quick, dependable, has had a management relationship with Wolff, and raced for a team that had Mercedes engines, and with which a deal therefore might more easily be done.
All the A-list drivers - Alonso, Ricciardo, Verstappen and Vettel - were not available. They are under contract to leading teams that would have been left in a similar position to Mercedes had they allowed them to leave.
But if they had been available, Wolff may not have wanted most of them anyway.
Part of the decision to sign the same type of driver as Rosberg was a desire to retain the team dynamic.
Rosberg and Hamilton worked for Mercedes because only one of them saw it as a right and expectation to be in front. Spoken or not, there was a natural order. They were, as one senior Mercedes insider once put it, "a great driver and a very good one".
This is a way of keeping the rivalry manageable and under control without the need for too much team interference.
The faster driver - Hamilton - knows he will win most of the time as long as he performs at his best. And the other one - a different personality - is able to keep defeat in perspective more easily when it happens.
As Wolff put it on Monday: "Valtteri shares our values and passion, and he's modest, humble and hard-working."
But there is a possibility the team dynamic will change anyway.
Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche recently provided an amusing insight into Mercedes' relationship with Hamilton.
Talking to Autocar magazine about how he heard the news of Rosberg's retirement, Zetsche said: "I was stepping out of the shower lacking any clothes and my phone was ringing. And I saw it was Toto and I thought: 'Oh, again something with Lewis!'"
His remarks confirm the open secret that Hamilton is not an easy driver to manage.
Like all drivers of his stature, Hamilton can be awkward over PR appearances and other such matters that are expected of drivers but they find tiresome. And he has repeatedly bucked against the authority of the team.
In ignoring orders to speed up while 'backing' Rosberg into rivals in the title-deciding race in Abu Dhabi, Hamilton was metaphorically sticking two fingers up to team management.
Wolff initially said he would consider what actions to take. Then, Hamilton spoke of feeling "disrespected" by that call. Following Rosberg's retirement, Wolff and soon-to-leave technical boss Paddy Lowe said the orders should not have been issued.
Throughout last season, Hamilton repeatedly brought up the reliability disparity that was giving Rosberg an advantage in their title battle.
In Malaysia - after his engine failed while he was leading, costing him the championship lead and, as it turned out, the title - he went as far as saying "something or someone doesn't want me to win this year".
Many interpreted that wrongly as a suggestion there was a conspiracy in the team. But even as a reference to bad luck or divine intervention, it is a statement that causes Mercedes problems.
After Hamilton refused to take questions in a news conference at the Japanese Grand Prix last year, Wolff called such incidents "collateral damage", and insisted "his performances in the car justify" it.
But sometimes - if very rarely - Hamilton is not phenomenal in the car. And some in F1 question his 'off' weekends and occasional problematic behaviour as directly linked to his decision to pursue a Hollywood lifestyle. This, they argue, restricts his ability to perform at his absolute best all the time.
They see his jetting back and forth to the US as a lack of focus and blame it for weekends such as those in Baku and Singapore last year, where Hamilton quite patently, and for reasons that are not clear, just did not bring his 'A game'.
And they believe it is facilitated by Mercedes' choice of a team-mate Hamilton knows he can handle.
Wolff and Hamilton, meanwhile, insist it is the freedom Mercedes give him to be himself that allows him to perform at his peak - and everyone has a bad day once in a while.
And it seems more likely that the 'off' weekends are just part of him, and related to specific aspects of car behaviour, a set-up he cannot get right, or which he refuses to adapt to because he feels it is not working for him.
His occasional unpredictability is one of the reasons Mercedes need a strong team-mate for Hamilton - and not just to score regular points in the constructors' championship, the main reason Bottas was preferred over Wehrlein.
While Rosberg was not on Hamilton's level as a driver, he was close enough to give Mercedes a viable alternative as a counter-balance.
The likelihood is Bottas will slot in and be - at least - a direct Rosberg replacement. While that is the case, Mercedes might not want a driver with a talent comparable to Hamilton - and the attitude that tends to come with it.
But if he can't challenge Hamilton regularly, Wolff might, for a number of reasons, wonder whether signing another superstar alongside Hamilton is not such a bad idea after all.
Vettel and Alonso, both out of contract at the end of the year, will be watching this with interest.
Bottas will go into Mercedes aiming to win races and titles, but he will be as aware as anyone of the challenge facing him.
Hamilton will likely already feel emboldened, his position strengthened by Rosberg's departure, and a weaker team-mate would only enhance that feeling.
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The published extract is authoritative, balanced and, in parts, far from flattering.
Those around the future king - who invited the author in - cannot now complain as she holds a mirror up to his court.
The book's greatest value will probably be the light it sheds on how Charles intends to behave once destiny calls.
The serialisation suggests the Queen's eldest son wants to continue the work he does now - which includes a focus on the environment and architecture - as well as taking on the role of head of state.
Some in royal circles believe the two are not compatible.
We know the prince's reign will be different from his mother's. This biography may help us understand just how different it will be.
An inspection of Swinfen Hall prison near Lichfield, Staffordshire found almost all areas have deteriorated and the prison is "not safe enough".
The report also found inmates at the prison and young offenders institution were not having daily showers.
A spokesperson for the prison said the problems reflected "operational pressures".
The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, said: "Basic standards to improve".
The report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons found:
The Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform charity, Frances Crook, said: "For the second time in as many weeks, we read of a prison where men are so frightened for their safety because of rising violence that they are refusing to come out of their cells.
"Many prisons are overcrowded, but Swinfen Hall is not, which makes this report particularly concerning."
Michael Spurr, Chief Executive of the National Offender Management Service, said more prison officers will be recruited to Swinfen Hall and an action plan is in place.
Inspectors noted the prison was working hard to address offending behaviour and work to resettle prisoners back into the community was "reasonably good".
In August 2015, the prison was put on lockdown. In December of the same year prison staff were taken to hospital after being attacked by inmates.
The unannounced inspection of the prison, which holds 600 male prisoners aged between 18 and 25, was carried out in October and November 2016.
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Bolt, an eight-time Olympic champion and icon of world sport, will retire after this month's World Championships.
The Jamaican, 30, will run in the 100m and 4x100m at the Worlds, which begin in London on Friday.
"Hopefully athletes will see what's going on and what they need to do to help the sport move forward," he said.
Referring to the McLaren report, which uncovered evidence of a Russian state-sponsored doping programme, he added: "Personally I think we were at rock bottom. After the scandal on Russia I don't think it gets any worse than that.
"Over the years we're doing a better job, it's getting clean and we're catching up to a lot of athletes. There's an understanding that if you cheat you will get caught. Over time the sport will get better.
"I said a couple of years ago it had to get really bad, when there's nowhere else to go but up. Doping is always a bad thing and it's never pleasant because you put in the hard work and the sport starts going forward and then you have other guys bringing it back, it's hard.
"It's going in the right direction so hopefully it will continue in that direction."
The men's World 100m final is on Saturday, 5 August, while the men's 4x100m relay race - which will mark the end of Bolt's career - is on the following Saturday.
Bolt has won 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold at the past three Olympic Games - Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.
However, his unprecedented 'triple triple' of nine gold medals was downgraded to eight after Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter, who was part of the quartet that won the 4x100m in Beijing, tested positive for a banned substance. Carter has appealed against the decision.
Nevertheless, Bolt's exploits remain unprecedented and he also holds the world record in the 100m (9.58 seconds) and 200m (19.19).
Asked if he still believes he is the fastest in the world, the Jamaican replied: "Yeah, without a doubt.
"The last race I ran was a 9.95, so that shows I am going in the right direction. After the two rounds leading up to the 100m final, which always help me, it's all about who keeps their nerve.
"I have been here many times. I know I am ready."
Asked in an interview with BBC Sport whether he believes his world records will be broken, he replied: "I hope they're not. No athlete would ever wish for that - I want to brag to my kids when they're in their 20s: 'See, I'm still the best!
"There is no-one around now, in this era, who can do it. No. Maybe in a couple of years, 10 years, but my records are safe for now."
Bolt was also asked which of the current stars of track and field could potentially replace him as the pre-eminent force in the sport.
He named South African 25-year-old Wayde van Niekerk, who will be competing in the 400m and 200m in London.
"Wayde van Niekerk is proving he is a world star. He has broken the 400m world record, he ran the fastest 300m ever, and now he's doing the 200m also. For me, he's proving that he can step up to the plate," said Bolt.
"I'm watching him, we've had discussions and he's a cool person but I've told him to open up his personality a little bit because he's really laid back."
Bolt says he will miss the "thrill" of being on the track but that it is time for him to slow down and enjoy himself.
"The energy when you first walk out on the track and the people go crazy, that's what I'll miss the most," he said.
He might manage to replace the buzz of competing with one of his hobbies, though.
"I ride quad bikes, that's an adrenaline rush," he said.
"But I think it's time for me to slow down a little, relax a little bit. Enjoy myself as much as possible."
He says he does not think he will re-consider his retirement as he has nothing left to prove - and of his legacy added that he wanted to be considered among the greatest sports figures of all time.
"I just want to be one of the greats," he said.
"Whenever there's a conversation about the greatest sports stars, I want to be part of that conversation. I want people to say: 'Yeah, Usain Bolt was one of the greatest'."
Asked if it was his mind or body saying 'enough', he replied: "It's the body, definitely.
"Over the years, I've got more niggling injuries than anything else, simple little things, but it's just because I'm getting older. The pounding means my body's just deteriorating now, so for me it's just time to go."
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Yanic Wildschut crossed for Will Grigg to head home, before Ryan Colclough lashed in a fine effort in a breathless opening 10 minutes.
Grigg completed the scoring on 21 minutes from the penalty spot, after being tripped in the box by Bury keeper Ian Lawlor.
Grigg was denied his hat-trick by the smallest of margins, as his 20-yard effort came back off the crossbar.
Second-placed Wigan are now just two points behind League One leaders Burton.
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"I think we were incredible the first half.
"We thoroughly deserved to be 3-0 up, if not more at half time.
"At times we were a bit sloppy in our defending, but overall, I'm delighted with a magnificent display."
Bury manager David Flitcroft told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"We've seen them (Wigan) progress this season and learn about the league and get better as the season's gone on.
"It's been a tough afternoon but one that we've got to shake ourselves down quickly.
"We have been looking for a centre-half for four or five weeks now and have been unable to recruit one."
Damon Kelly has been distributing the leaflets since 2012, but he was eventually charged for harassing a lesbian couple in the street.
He subsequently delivered a distressing letter to their home in Leicester.
The 54-year-old, from Northamptonshire, pleaded guilty at Leicester Magistrates Court to harassment without violence.
Kelly had also sent several letters to online newspaper PinkNews, describing them as "the Devil's disciples", although he has not been charged with any offences in relation to this.
Lisa Morris, from the Crown Prosecution Service in the East Midlands, said Kelly's right to free speech must be balanced with the need to protect the public.
"Damon Kelly has caused offence when distributing his leaflets," she said.
"The right of free speech is extremely important in our society, but when this crosses the line into harassment, it is important that the public is protected."
Kelly calls himself "Brother Damon Jonah Kelly" and dresses in monk's robes.
As well as condemning homosexuality, his leaflets condemn sex outside of marriage, contraception, "assisted fertilization", abortion, pornography, divorce, transgender people, euthanasia, atheism and humanism.
He has distributed them at various locations across England, including the East Midlands, Brighton, Cambridgeshire and the West Midlands.
Many people have reported him to the police after being upset and offended by them.
The leaflets were described by witnesses as "vile", "offensive" and "upsetting".
Damon Kelly was given a five-year Criminal Behaviour Order prohibiting him from:
He was also given a 12-month community order requiring him to do 170 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge.
The CPS has asked people to contact their local police force if they see Kelly breaching the Criminal Behaviour Order.
"It is important that communities are aware that he has been banned by the courts from these activities," said Ms Morris.
The 35-year-old, who has been racing for Red Bull Honda's World Superbike team this year, is being treated at a hospital in Cesena.
The American competed in the latest round of the World Superbike championship in Italy last Sunday.
He won his only MotoGP championship in 2006, preventing Valentino Rossi from winning a sixth successive title.
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April the Giraffe, whose prolonged pregnancy has been watched by millions of amateur zoologists online, has delivered her fourth calf.
"We have a baby! Everything went absolutely perfect. This is great!" park owner Jordan Patch said.
Since a live feed of her enclosure started in February, April has become an internet celebrity.
April lives at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, almost 200 miles north-west of New York.
The park has given no details on the gender of the calf yet. The mother, whose every move has been closely followed, and baby are said to be fine.
The delivery does not mean they are going away from the public's eyes. There will be a competition to determine the calf's name.
Now April will raise the calf, and weaning could take between six to 10 months, the park explains.
The young giraffe will then be moved to another facility for a breeding programme.
April's delivery has not been without (virtual) hurdles.
Her live feed was briefly removed from YouTube in February after it was flagged as being sexually explicit or having nude content.
The park blamed animal rights activists for reporting the video as inappropriate, a move that infuriated her followers. But, to their relief, the ban was short lived.
Speaking at a conference in Washington on his first US visit in his new role, Mr Johnson said the UK would lead a campaign to bring the group to justice.
He warned of the potential dispersal of IS fighters around the world after they are pushed out of Iraq and Syria.
Mr Johnson proposed a UK summit to examine how to tackle the new threats.
Addressing foreign and defence officials from about 30 nations involved in the fight against IS, Mr Johnson said more needed to be done to collect evidence in territory the group has lost.
Witnesses would need to be identified and data collected so individuals could be held to account and prosecuted, he said.
Later, in a TV interview, Mr Johnson said: "We've got to deal with the whole cancer and its ability to spread and to metastasize, to pop up all over the world in the way that we've been seeing...
"There are thousands of them and we need to start setting in train the process of gathering evidence, of getting more witnesses, so that ultimately they can be prosecuted and held to account for their crimes against humanity and that's something that I said today to everybody and got a large measure of support."
Mr Johnson also defended Nato's principle of mutual self-defence following a suggestion by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that the US might not always come to the aid of the group's fellow members.
Outlining a foreign policy strategy aimed at reducing US expenditure and involvement abroad, Mr Trump said as president he may abandon a guarantee of protection to fellow Nato members unless they have "fulfilled their obligations to us".
Mr Johnson said Nato's "doctrine of mutual defence is incredibly important. It is something I have repeated several times in the last week to people around Europe, to representatives and my counterparts, the Baltic countries and elsewhere.
"It is something that the British government believes in absolutely fervently and something we stand behind four square."
Gross domestic product grew at an annualised pace of 1.5% between July and September, according to the Department of Commerce, down from a rate of 3.9% in the second quarter.
The slowdown was partly due to companies running down stockpiles of goods in their warehouses.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged and said the economy was expanding at a "moderate" pace.
Analysis: Andrew Walker, economics correspondent
Yes, it's a sharp slowdown compared with the previous three months. But the biggest reason for it was companies running down stocks - meeting demand by selling stuff they already have in the warehouse.
That is a process that has a limit. Sooner or later, they will feel they have sold enough and may want to start replenishing those stocks.
Consumer spending remained fairly robust. Yes, it too did slow, but not by all that much. It grew by 0.8% in the three-month period, or 3.2% in the annualised terms that the US official statisticians prefer.
The big question for markets is, when will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates? Will the central bank think the economy is strong enough to take it? The markets seem to think the new figures have, if anything slightly increased the chances that the Fed will move at its next policy meeting in December.
Low oil prices have hit US energy firms so far this year. But lower fuel prices have been good news for consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of US economic activity.
Consumer spending grew at 3.2% in the third quarter, down from 3.6% in the second but still a strong reading.
Analysts said that the running down of warehouse stockpiles in the third quarter was likely to be a temporary effect and they expected growth to accelerate again in the fourth quarter.
"The headline number isn't great but this masks underlying strength," said Luke Bartholomew at Aberdeen Asset Management.
"Inventory adjustment was a drag but final domestic demand is much stronger suggesting the fundamentals of the economy remain solid."
For several months there has been intense debate about when the US central bank will raise interest rates, and now the focus is on its last meeting of the year in December.
The Fed has said in past statements that it expects to raise rates in 2015, and that labour market participation, inflation and the global economy would be the key factors in its decision.
In its latest statement on Wednesday, the Fed said: "In determining whether it will be appropriate to raise the target range at its next meeting, the committee will assess progress - both realized and expected - toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2% inflation."
However, the Fed dropped comments, which had been used in the previous month's statement, that weaknesses in the global economy could affect the US. Financial markets interpreted this as a sign that the Fed might be more likely to raise rates in December.
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Andy Burnham said wealth creators were "heroes" and should be valued by Labour in the same way as teachers and nurses.
Yvette Cooper urged Labour to focus on the jobs of the future and not get marooned in an "analogue" past.
And Liz Kendall warned against "taking the safe option", saying investment in education was key to social mobility.
All those hoping to succeed Mr Miliband are arguing the party must broaden its appeal and rethink its relationship with business.
With nominations set to close on 15 June, the trio - as well as other candidate Mary Creagh - are seeking to build momentum and ensure that they have the backing of 35 MPs needed to get on the ballot paper.
Addressing workers at Ernst & Young in London, Mr Burnham said Labour could not win a general election without business support.
The party, he said, could only regain trust if it supports those who "put in the hours, the sweat and the hard graft" to succeed and not allow itself to be characterised as a party of welfare and high public spending.
"I have never believed in levelling down, denigrating success or the politics of envy," he said. "Nor have I believed that people should be handed everything on a plate.
"It worries me that, in some people's eyes, Labour has become associated with giving people who don't want to help themselves an easy ride. That must change before we can win again."
Under his leadership, Mr Burnham said society's wealth-creators will be valued as highly as NHS staff.
"Far too rarely over the last few years has Labour spoken up in praise of the everyday heroes of our society. The small businessman or woman; the sole trader; the innovator, the inventor, the entrepreneur. The small businesses that become big businesses.
"The people with the creative spark to think of a new idea and the get-up-and-go to make it work. Who often have to fight against the odds to succeed, but put in the hours, the sweat and the hard graft to do it.
"So I want this message to go out loud and clear today: in a Labour Party I lead, they will be as much our heroes as the nurse or the teacher."
Mr Burnham acknowledged Labour's appeal was "too narrow" under Ed Miliband but challenged those who say it should merely focus on middle-income voters in the south of England as a route back to power.
"Politicians make a terrible mistake when they try to compartmentalise the voters and speak only to the hope and dreams of some in certain parts of the country," he added.
"Aspiration is not the preserve of those who shop at John Lewis. Aspiration is universal; it is felt by Asda and Aldi shoppers too."
Ahead of the official launch of her campaign in Yorkshire later, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has said she will set out on a "listening tour" across the UK to hear what people think Labour needs to do next.
Speaking at tech City in London, she said the contest was in danger of getting "stuck in the rhetoric and the battles of our party's past when it should be talking about our country's future".
Labour, she said, should be addressing the jobs of the future - incentivising new tech-start-ups outside London and taking advantage of new technology to reshape public services and move jobs not just outside London but out of the big cities too.
"Too many people are being left behind, too many women are not being included in those jobs, too many people are not getting the opportunity to be part of that," she said.
Liz Kendall told supporters at De Montfort University in Leicestershire that increased investment in early years education was the key to tackling "the crippling inequality that shames our nation and holds it back".
"We must end the scourge of illiteracy and innumeracy, broaden the horizons of our young people and give everyone a better chance in life," she said. "Under my leadership, Labour will do just that.
"And our economic credibility will be based on having a plan that starts before children are born and follows them through the ups and downs of their lives."
The findings follow inspections of all 43 police forces in England and Wales by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).
Dyfed-Powys Police "had not done enough to develop an ethical culture", said inspectors.
The force's police and crime commissioner Christopher Salmon said action must be taken.
"Dyfed-Powys needs to do more to develop an open and questioning culture. I want to see more progress on this," said Mr Salmon.
"I have made clear to the chief constable that, as this report states, he has more to do."
The force was one of five singled out for improvement after inspectors examined how officers interacted with individuals and communities.
"Following our inspection, HMIC considers that Dyfed-Powys Police had not done enough to develop an ethical culture, to incorporate the code of ethics into policy or practice, or to ensure complaints and misconduct cases were free of bias," said HM Inspector Wendy Williams.
"That is why we have judged the force to 'require improvement' to be considered 'legitimate'."
However, the force was rated good on issues of stop-and-search and its use of stun guns.
The other three Welsh forces were all rated as good overall, with both South Wales and Gwent Police given outstanding rankings for the way they engage with the public.
South Wales Police's Assistant Chief Constable Richard Lewis said: "Overall this is a very pleasing report. What it shows is we are listening to and working together with our communities, which is central to everything we do."
He follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Labour foreign and home secretary Herbert Morrison, who was High Steward of Hull from 1956 to 1965.
In a ceremony at Hull's Guildhall, Lord Mandelson vowed to serve the city to his "best judgement and ability".
At the same ceremony, former Tory MP Virginia Bottomley was appointed to the rejuvenated role of Sheriff of Hull.
The Queen gave the city permission for the two ancient ceremonial posts to be reinstated after they were abolished in 1974.
Both roles were scrapped following a local government reorganisation.
The Office of High Steward was created in 1583 while the Office of Sheriff dates back to 1440.
Holders of the posts will act as ambassadors for the city and attend civic events, Hull City Council said.
The High Steward serves for 10 years while the Sheriff serves for three.
In a short speech following his appointment, Lord Mandelson said he would embrace the role of High Steward and "duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it, according to my best judgment and ability".
When Hull City Council announced Lord Mandelson's selection for the High Steward role, Lord Prescott, who was MP for Hull East from 1970 to 2010, said he was surprised it had not been discussed with him.
But he said: "I also have no interest in being a steward again - I did that job on the liners for 10 years."
Hull City Council commissioned a jewellery workshop in the city to design and create the chain of office for the High Steward and to refurbish the chain of office for the Sheriff.
Funding for the chains came from money left to the council by Col Rupert Alexander Alec-Smith.
Col Smith was Sheriff of Hull between 1949 and 1950, Lord Mayor of Hull in 1970 and 1971, as well as Lord Lieutenant of Humberside between 1980 and 1983.
They are mainly concentrated in the north, in the Turkmen Mountain area in Latakia close to the Turkish border, as well as in Aleppo, Idlib, Homs, Tartus and the Damascus region.
There are no reliable population figures, but they are estimated to number between about half a million and 3.5 million.
Under the Assad regimes in Syria, the Turkmen were banned from publishing or writing in Turkish. The government did not recognise them or other ethnic groups as minorities, preferring to stress the unity of the Arab nation.
Supported by Turkey, a staunch foe of Bashar al-Assad, they took up arms against the regime soon after the start of the uprising in 2011.
Syrian Turkmen parties also united under the Syrian Turkmen Assembly, which is affiliated to Syria's Western- and Gulf-backed National Coalition opposition group.
The Turkmen have formed numerous Turkish-trained rebel groups, including the Syrian Turkmen Brigades, reported to be about 2,000 - 10,000 strong, in 2012.
Their military structure is loose and they maintain a number of units in northern Syria.
Their brigade in Latakia Province, the Jabal al-Turkman Brigade, was formed in 2013 and comprises 12 armed units.
Its Second Coastal Division was formed in early 2015 and is closely affiliated with the Western-backed rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Reports say the brigades work with other opposition armed groups in the northern Latakia countryside, including the FSA, the al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front and the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham.
The area has often been the flashpoint of clashes between the brigades on the one hand, and the Syrian army, Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah on the other, who enjoy Russian air support.
Their main opponents are the regular Syrian army and the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
A further unit - the Sultan Selim Brigade - has long sided with the Kurdish-led People's Protection Units (YPG) and joined the US-backed Kurdish-led opposition coalition called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on 10 October.
The Turkmen fighters also took part in earlier YPG-led offensives against IS.
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Prinknash Abbey was opened in 1972 but has been empty since 2008 when the resident monks moved back to their previous home of St Peter's Grange - a 15th Century Grade I listed building.
The plans have been submitted to Stroud District Council.
A spokesman said the sale of the site would allow an existing farmhouse to be turned into a new retreat centre.
The building was designed in the 1930s and work on it began in 1939, but construction was delayed due to the outbreak of World War Two.
The Benedictine monks eventually moved into it from the nearby St Peter's Grange, which had been their home since 1928, in 1972.
But they moved out again in 2008 after the building became too big and too expensive to maintain for the diminishing community, which now numbers just 12.
The abbey's bursar, Father Martin McLaughlin, said the sale to developer Edward Blake Ltd would release funds to convert an existing farmhouse in Prinknash Park into a retreat centre.
He said it would "breath new life" into the Prinknash community and the monastery would "once again play an active part in the spiritual life of the Catholic church".
Father McLaughlin added the amount of money the monastic community would receive from the sale was "not as much as people think".
Stained glass and religious items, such as altars, will be moved from the disused abbey and used in the new retreat centre, he said.
A spokesman for Edward Blake, based near Tetbury, confirmed the plans had been submitted to the council.
Previously it was announced that the building had been bought and would be turned into retirement flats.
Ritchie will retire this summer after five years as chief executive of the governing body.
"I hope I have left it in a better place than it was," he told BBC Sport.
"It's been a privilege. It's a schoolboy dream to do these sort of things."
Ritchie, formerly chief executive of Wimbledon, joined the RFU at the end of 2011, and inherited a union in turmoil and a team struggling after a scandal-filled World Cup in New Zealand.
Along with head coach Stuart Lancaster, Ritchie repaired the image and governance of the organisation before the home World Cup in 2015.
But England were knocked out of that tournament at the pool stage, and Ritchie faced calls to stand down.
"It was horrendous," he said.
"The World Cup was a massive disappointment. But I had a stubborn streak about sorting out what happened post-2015, and I feel I have helped deliver on some of that.
"There were many positive things about what was happening at the RFU anyway during the course of 2015.
"The immediate thing was finding Stuart's successor, so I got on a plane to Cape Town and decided Eddie [Jones] was the right man for the job."
England have won back-to-back Six Nations titles under Jones, but Ritchie says he has no regrets about giving Lancaster and his assistants six-year contract extensions in 2014.
"I wouldn't do anything different. Notice periods and break clauses were all in the contracts. We all felt it was a good idea for Stuart not to have to concentrate on the contracts," he added.
"I don't have regrets about that, but I certainly have regrets - as we all do - about what happened on the pitch. But that's sport, that's what happens.
"Stuart and the coaching staff all now have fantastic jobs and good luck to them, because they are highly talented, committed people, and the margins are so small."
RFU chairman Andy Cosslett will lead the search for Ritchie's successor, and says they will "attract the best" candidates to the position.
"Ian has done a fantastic job and we wish him nothing but the best," Cosslett told BBC Sport.
"He has transformed the finances of the union - we have never been in a stronger position - we are one of the few sports raising our participation numbers, and a lot of that is to his credit.
"He has signed a landmark agreement with the Premiership clubs, and he has been a great vanguard for the women's game. Everywhere you look he has left his paw prints on this union."
Ritchie added: "England, economically, from a rugby strength point of view, from a playing point of view, I think we are in a very, very strong place.
"We just need to maximise that."
With England ranked second in the world in the men's game, Ritchie admits part of him would have wanted to oversee the side's bid to win the World Cup in Japan in 2019.
"I am optimistic and confident, the preparation I am sure will be first rate, the players are more experienced and battle-hardened," he said.
"I would love to be there, but it's two and a half years away, and the golf course is calling."
Muhammadu Buhari said he was prepared to swap militants who are in custody for the girls.
The more than 200 girls were seized during a raid on a school in the north-eastern town of Chibok in 2014.
Previous efforts by neighbouring Chad to broker a deal with Boko Haram to secure the girls' release failed.
Speaking on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly meeting in New York, Mr Buhari said that splits within the ranks of Boko Haram, which is affiliated to the Islamic State (IS) group, made it difficult to hold talks with them.
"Government had reached out, ready to negotiate, but it became difficult to identify credible leaders. We will welcome intermediaries such as UN outfits, to step in," Mr Buhari said.
The UN has not yet commented on his request.
In August, IS said that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had been replaced by the younger Abu Musab al-Barnawi.
Mr Shekau denied this, insisting he was still the leader.
The abduction of the schoolgirls led to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, that was supported by US First Lady Michelle Obama and Pakistani Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai.
So far only one schoolgirl, Amina Ali Nkeki, has been found.
An army-backed vigilante group stumbled across her in May in the huge Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon, as she was looking for wood to make a fire.
She was with a baby, and a suspected militant who identified himself as her husband.
Boko Haram had previously said that some of the girls had been enslaved or "married off" to fighters.
Foreign governments, including those from the US and China, had promised to help Nigeria search for the girls when they were abducted while preparing for the school exams in Chibok in April 2014.
Boko Haram has been fighting since 2009 to create an Islamic state, but it has lost most of the territory under its control in the last 19 months following an offensive by a multi-national force.
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The England Under-19 player had to take the kick again five days on after an unprecedented intervention by Uefa.
Williamson had converted the original penalty on Saturday only for the German referee to mistakenly cancel it out.
Uefa ordered it to be taken again on Thursday - and Williamson netted to book England's place in the European Championships.
The amazing scenes took place in Belfast five days after England and Norway had initially met.
During the first game, England were trailing 2-1 when they were awarded a penalty in injury time at the end of the match.
Williamson scored it, but German official Marija Kurtes ruled it out after ruling some England players had encroached into the 18-yard box.
The penalty should have been retaken but Kurtes decided to award Norway a free-kick.
Uefa, which governs European football, then intervened and said the penalty should be retaken - the first time it had taken such a decision.
Before that could happen, England needed to beat Switzerland earlier in the day to keep alive their chances of qualification.
They did - 3-1 - leaving Williamson with the task of scoring her penalty to ensure England made the finals in Israel.
"I went for a sleep," she told BBC Sport. "There was nothing else to do. I was pacing around last night, so I didn't want to do that again."
Williamson said her mother managed to change her flights so she could stay to watch the penalty re-take.
"That was really nice," said the Arsenal defender.
The rematch was officiated by a different referee, after Kurtes was sent home because of her error.
Both teams had to resume the game with the same players who were on the field when the penalty was taken in the original match, although England could have changed who took the penalty.
Both sides emerged at the Seaview Stadium in Belfast and headed straight to the Norway penalty area, rather than the centre circle.
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Having already scored a penalty in the win over Switzerland, Williamson was forced to wait a few more nervous moments as the referee ensured all the players were outside the box.
But she coolly placed her spot-kick into the bottom left-hand corner to make it 2-2, leaving Norway just enough time to kick-off before the final whistle was blown and England celebrations could begin.
England women's head coach Mark Sampson, speaking after the senior side's 2-1 friendly win over China, was full of praise for Williamson.
"To take that penalty and the fact she has scored it speaks volumes for the character in the team and the personality she has," he said.
The rematch was officiated by a different referee, after Kurtes was sent home because of her error.
Both teams had to resume the game with the same players who were on the field when the penalty was taken in the original match, although England could have changed who took the penalty.
The result meant England finished as group winners, but Norway also qualified as the leading runner-up.
England and Norway join Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark, Spain and hosts Israel in the finals, which begin on 15 July.
Officials say MV Seaman Guard Ohio was detained on 12 October by the Indian Coast Guard and is currently anchored at a port in southern Tamil Nadu state.
Its 35-member crew include Indians, Britons, Ukrainians and Estonians.
The ship's owner, AdvanFort, said the vessel was involved in supporting anti-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean.
But there have been differing accounts of the chain of events from the Indian authorities and the US-based security firm.
The Indian authorities say they intercepted the American ship last weekend when it was reportedly sailing off the coast of Tamil Nadu.
Police also said they found weapons and ammunition on board, which had not been properly declared. Officials say the vessel was not authorised to carry arms in Indian waters and that it never produced the necessary paperwork.
By Andrew NorthSouth Asia correspondent
Yet again the private security industry is in the frame, with India saying the British and other contractors it has arrested were not authorised to have arms and ammunition in its waters.
The ship's owner, AdvanFort, is one of a growing number of Western security companies involved in protecting shipping from pirates in the Indian Ocean.
India supports those efforts with its own navy. But it has drawn a line with the crew of the MV Seaman Guard Ohio, accusing them of "illegal activity" for failing to provide sufficient paperwork for the weapons on board.
We're still waiting for the company's side of the story.
The Indian government was criticised last year for its handling of the case of the two Italian marines on anti-piracy duty who were accused of shooting two Indian fishermen. With elections approaching it will want to be seen to be taking a firm line in this latest case, to avoid giving any new ammunition to its opponents.
But in a statement released on Monday, AdvanFort said India's coast guard and police allowed the vessel to enter the port to refuel and shelter from a cyclone which hit India's eastern coast last weekend. The company even thanked officials.
It added that all weaponry and equipment on board was properly registered.
In recent years piracy has emerged as a major threat to merchant ships in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, with ships and their crews sometimes hijacked for ransom.
There have been fewer attacks recently, partly because more armed guards are now deployed on board.
On Friday, police said that 33 crew members had been taken to a local police station for questioning. Two had been allowed to remain on the vessel in port at Tuticorin.
Six of the crew members are Britons and the British high commission in Delhi said consular officials had been in touch with them by email and with the local authorities, but they were still trying to clarify exactly what had happened and on what grounds they had been detained.
The US embassy told the BBC it had "no comment" to make.
According to AdvanFort there were privately contracted security personnel on board the Sierra-Leone registered MV Seaman Guard Ohio.
It said that as these men routinely provide counter-piracy protection they also had uniforms, protective equipment, medical kits, rifles and ammunition - "all of which is properly registered and licensed to AdvanFort".
The company added that the vessel "provides an accommodations platform for AdvanFort's counter-piracy guards between transits on client commercial vessels transiting the high risk area".
Analysts say that anti-piracy measures on high-risk shipping routes are poorly regulated and India is increasingly sensitive to violations of its maritime boundaries.
India directly supports the multi-national campaign to combat the mostly Somali pirates targeting ships in the Indian Ocean with its own navy.
But it's been controversial too, with the Indian authorities prosecuting two Italian marines on anti-piracy duty for allegedly shooting two fishermen inside Indian waters last year.
They were guarding an Italian oil tanker and said they mistook the fishermen for pirates.
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People that breed exotic animals, like racoons, need a licence to do so, but anyone buying one doesn't.
Experts are worried that people buying exotic animals won't be able to look after them properly and may release them into the wild, which is illegal.
Ore has been taking a look exotic household pets.
It applies to "outposts" - settlements built without official approval in the area occupied by Israel since 1967.
The international community regards all settlements as illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
Palestinians see settlements as a major obstacle to a peace deal with Israel.
They want all settlements and outposts to be removed from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which they seek for a future Palestinian state.
According to the anti-settlement movement Peace Now, there are 97 outposts, as well as more than 130 settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The bill, which would legitimise about 4,000 settler homes, still needs to pass three readings in Israel's parliament to become law.
Its main backer, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, has called it the eventual start of Israel's annexation of most of the occupied territory.
The move has drawn international criticism, including from the US, Israel's closest ally.
Northern Ireland international Magennis, 25, has agreed a two-year contract with the League One club.
The former Cardiff and Aberdeen player scored 20 goals in 84 appearances during two years at Kilmarnock.
Democratic Republic of Congo international Botaka, 23, moves to The Valley on a season-long loan deal.
Botaka joined Leeds from Dutch side Excelsior for an undisclosed fee in September 2015, and featured 14 times for the Yorkshire side last season.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
He led the Tykes to victory in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final and League One play-off final after being appointed as caretaker in January.
"At the end of an unforgettable few months I am absolutely delighted to have signed as head coach," the 38-year-old told the club website.
"We have a clear vision of how we want to continue to improve the club."
The former Oakwell youth coach took over on a short-term basis after previous boss Lee Johnson left for Bristol City.
Heckingbottom won 13 of his 21 games in charge, culminating in a 3-1 win over Millwall at Wembley as Barnsley returned to the Championship after a two-season absence.
"We've enjoyed one of the most unforgettable and remarkable seasons ever here at Barnsley Football Club and it goes without saying that Paul has been instrumental in the success we have achieved," chief executive Ben Mansford said of the Barnsley-born coach.
"He's one of the brightest and hard-working young coaches in the country and we're absolutely delighted that he's agreed to become our permanent head coach."
Meanwhile, full-backs George Williams and George Smith are to leave Oakwell after the club withdrew contract offers to the pair.
Williams, 23, made 27 appearances last season, including both Wembley finals, while Smith, 19, played 29 games and had a spell on loan at Crawley.
The American, 27, plans to be ringside next Friday when Burns meets WBA super-lightweight challenger Relikh.
"We were pretty much there in terms of the deal to fight Broner," said Hearn.
"But because of issues out of the ring we all decided to fight Relikh and try and clear the mandatory before securing the fight against Broner in December."
Broner is a former four-time world champion and was last in action in April when he stopped Londoner Ashley Theophane in Washington, taking his record to 32 wins from 35 fights.
"Adrien contacted me this week and said he is coming to Glasgow on 7 October to watch the fight," added Hearn.
"If Ricky defeats Relikh I expect that fight to get made without any problems."
The pair were close but Denise told ITV's Loose Women show the friendship broke down when she found out he was renegotiating his contract separately.
"It was mainly to do with pay. The view was that I did other things outside of presenting... that I already had another side to my career."
She said the row was the reason that she left the Channel 4 show in 1999.
Johnny has made no comment regarding Denise's explanation.
"At that particular time (the 90s), we were literally like brother and sister, we were best friends, unbreakable," Denise told the Loose Women panel.
"The whole relationship fell apart when we started to renegotiate our contracts because I always felt that we worked together as a team and that is how it should be.
"I know there were other influences involved and agents and everything but he was negotiating his contract separately from me, which I found out," she said.
She added that the friendship then felt "tarnished", which led her to leave the show.
"I knew at that point it would never be the same in that working environment."
At its peak, The Big Breakfast attracted two million viewers per episode.
Van Outen said: "Obviously I gave it a second go but a similar thing happened again (she returned for a short time in an ill-fated attempt to boost flagging ratings). It's hard because I loved him so much and I still do.
"I could still be angry about it now, but I have seen him since and, whenever I see him, because I love him so much and he makes me laugh so much, more than anyone I've ever met, I just forget about it.
"We were really, really good friends, I just don't know if it would ever be the same again."
Vaughan now presents the drivetime show on Radio X.
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Those sides are touring Australasia, while England are in Argentina.
England coach Eddie Jones said call-ups to the New Zealand tour should be on "merit" not "geographical proximity".
Gatland said he could "see some people's point", but added: "My job is to win a Test series and I will do whatever it takes to do that."
The Lions beat the Maori All Blacks 32-10 on Saturday and face the Chiefs on Tuesday before the first Test against New Zealand in Auckland on 24 June, and Gatland wanted extra players to ensure none of the Test squad have to play twice in a week.
Welsh quartet Kristian Dacey, Tomas Francis, Cory Hill and Gareth Davies were called up after featuring in Wales' 24-6 victory over Tonga in Auckland on Friday.
Scotland prop Allan Dell and fly-half Finn Russell were then added to the Lions squad following Scotland's 24-19 defeat of Australia in Sydney on Saturday.
A number of former Lions have criticised Gatland's move, with three-time tourist Donal Lenihan telling BBC Radio 5 live it "impacts on the ethos of being a Lion".
In terms of travel and logistics, Jones had also said Argentina is only a "13-hour trip" from New Zealand.
"I'll let Eddie do his own talking, he can do plenty of it," Gatland said after Saturday's win in Rotorua. "I just understand how difficult it is to do that travel from Argentina.
"In terms of devaluing the shirt, I can see some people's point on that - but we're here to win a Test series and it's those guys covering from Auckland, not travelling halfway around the world.
"Bringing in these players from an identical time zone - who can hit the ground running and step straight in rather than having to adjust following long-haul travel - will help us manage players before the first Test, give us quality training numbers to prepare properly, as well as offering us options for selection for the Chiefs match.
"These guys will be with us for a week and they are for bench cover. They understand that's the way it is."
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Real's victory moved them into second place with one game to go, still one point behind leaders Barcelona, who routed Espanyol 5-0.
Atletico Madrid's 2-1 loss at Levante means only Real and Barca can prevail.
Ronaldo's goals either side of a Karim Benzema strike made it 3-1, but Andre Gomes' goal added to Rodrigo's earlier effort to make it a nervy finish.
Relive how the title race developed
Defending champions Barca will take the title if the teams finish level on points thanks to their superior head-to-head record.
Ronaldo took his goal tally for the season to 49 with two excellent finishes, firing low into the net from 20 yards with his right foot to give Real the lead half-way through the first half.
After Rodrigo had pulled one back early in the second half, Ronaldo then restored Real's two-goal advantage as he ran clear to beat Diego Alves with a left-foot shot.
The hosts' cause was aided when goalscorer Rodrigo was dismissed on 83 minutes.
Barcelona have the destiny of the title in their own hands but should they drop points at Granada, Real will secure their first championship since 2012 with a win at Deportivo de La Coruna.
Deportivo would still have been in relegation danger going into the last day but for a 2-0 win at Villarreal on Sunday.
However, that was only their second league win in 21 games.
Eighty-eight men and 88 women aged over 70 were presented with the coins in recognition of their work in the church and the community.
Hundreds of people lined the streets for the Queen's first visit to the cathedral.
Retired England footballer Jimmy Armfield, a lay canon at the cathedral, said the service was "very moving".
The Blackpool FC legend said the choir and organist had "done Blackburn proud".
"I'm sure the Queen would have been impressed," he said.
Each of the 176 recipients of the Maundy coin, one man and one woman for each year of the Queen's life, received a red purse of normal money and a white purse of silver Maundy coins.
One of the recipients, Raymond Sutcliffe, said the pomp of the ceremony was "overwhelming" and he could not hold back the tears.
He said: "I couldn't imagine I would go to something like this in my lifetime."
Another recipient Brian Milner, presented with the special minted coins for his work at St Nicholas Church in Fleetwood, said it was a "wonderful experience".
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, went from the cathedral to a civic lunch at Ewood Park, Blackburn Rovers FC.
The Maundy money recipients went to a lunch at Blackburn's King George's Hall.
The Church of England Maundy tradition has its origins in the commandment to "love one another", issued by Jesus to his disciples after he had washed their feet on the day before Good Friday.
Members of the royal family have taken part in Maundy ceremonies since the 13th Century but coins were first used in the reign of Charles II.
Unlike normal coinage, which has been updated as the Queen has aged, the specially-minted coins carry the original portrait used on coins issued in 1953, the year of her coronation.
The Pet Food Manufacturers' Association said the number of pet cats in the country has gone up by 500,000 to reach eight million in the past year.
The rise was driven by one million more men getting a feline friend, the PFMA, which spoke to 8,000 households, says.
Celebrity cat owners, such as Russell Brand and Ed Sheeran, may have also influenced the new pet owners, it says.
About 17% of men in the UK (5.5m) now own a cat, up from 13% (4.2m) in 2016, according to the survey.
Hugh Wigmore lives in London with his cat Nigel Harmsworth.
"I like having a cat because we have loads in common," said Hugh. "We both love cuddles, jelly and the outdoors!
"We get on really well. I'd definitely recommend it to other guys. Nigel is fantastic."
Sam Sahota went the extra mile, adopting three newborn kittens which had been dumped in a dustbin, despite a vet saying they had no chance of survival.
"I had always been a dog man, but when my colleague found a box with three kittens inside, my natural instinct was to save them from certain death," he said.
"I fed them milk from syringes, I placed a clock under their blanket to replicate the heartbeat of their mother and spent hours a day raising them."
Now Sam adores owning cats.
"The thing I love most is how playful they are," he added. "Their curiosity, the affection they show which is real, unlike a dog.
"Cats do not need the attention a dog does but when it gives you attention is not false. They select who they want to be with."
James Copeman, from Canterbury, said having cats made his house "feel full" and loves coming home to his two, Miles and Keiko, waiting at the door.
"We never had pets when I was young so it's something I've always wanted," he said. "They always seem to know when you need a bit of attention after a bad day.
"I'd definitely recommend it but you have to be prepared for the wake up calls, smelly litter trays and scratched furniture!"
Mike Brooks, from Nottingham, has three cats and loves them as pets.
"I got a cat because I have always had cats since I was a child and they're wonderful creatures," he said.
"They're cute, usually cuddly (if you respect their wishes), generally low-maintenance, and there is nothing more satisfying than the purr of a happy cat."
Michael Bellingham, chief executive of PFMA, said: "Pet ownership is a rewarding experience for everyone. It's wonderful to see that men are realising the huge benefits of pets with an increase in cat ownership in this sector."
The most popular pet in the UK is fish - 33 million are kept in tanks and ponds around the country - followed by dogs at 8.5 million.
There are also 900,000 rabbits, 700,000 pet birds, 700,000 reptiles, 600,000 domestic fowl, 500,000 guinea pigs and 300,000 hamsters.
18 January 2017 Last updated at 19:54 GMT
The train left the city of Yiwu, on China's east coast, travelling 7,500 miles (12,000km), before arriving at a freight depot in Barking.
It delivered 34 containers of clothes and High Street goods.
He said the regime would be in trouble "like few nations have ever been" if they do not "get their act together".
His comments came after Pyongyang announced it had a plan to fire four missiles near the US territory of Guam.
US Defence Secretary James Mattis warned that armed conflict with North Korea would be "catastrophic" and said diplomacy was bearing fruit.
"The American effort is diplomatically led, it has diplomatic traction, it is gaining diplomatic results," he said.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said his country is fully prepared to join a war against North Korea, were it to launch an attack on the US.
"If there's an attack on the US, the Anzus Treaty would be invoked and Australia would come to the aid of the United States," he said in a radio interview, "as America would come to our aid if we were attacked."
Tensions have escalated in recent weeks after North Korea tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July.
The UN recently approved further economic sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons programme.
President Trump also said he was close to revealing his keenly awaited decision on the number of troops he plans to keep in Afghanistan.
He said he had "taken over a mess", but was going to make it "a lot less messy".
Speaking on Thursday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Mr Trump suggested his own statements on North Korea had not been tough enough, despite his threat this week to rain "fire and fury" upon the regime.
North Korea has dismissed his dire warnings as "nonsense".
Mr Trump railed against previous US administrations for being too weak on North Korea and also chided the North's closest ally, China, saying it could do "a lot more".
He said: "I will tell you this, if North Korea does anything in terms of even thinking about attack of anybody that we love or we represent or our allies or us they can be very, very nervous.
"I'll tell you why… because things will happen to them like they never thought possible."
However, he added that the US would always consider negotiations.
He added: "I will tell you this, North Korea better get their act together or they're gonna be in trouble like few nations have ever been."
North Korea said on Wednesday it planned to fire medium-to-long-range rockets towards Guam, where US strategic bombers are based.
However, there has been no indication that any attack on the Pacific island is imminent.
Yogita Limaye, BBC News, Seoul
On the streets of Seoul, barely 50km (30 miles) from the border with North Korea, the latest developments have drawn mixed reactions. Kim Seong-su, 62, said he thought Pyongyang was bluffing to preserve its regime and justify its nuclear programme.
But others are more concerned. Yeon Eui-sook says she finds the situation scary. "I hope everyone can live in peace. Kim Jong-un keeps doing this and making us worry," she said.
Analysts say the language from Pyongyang always gets more aggressive in August, when the US and South Korea conduct joint military exercises. But this time - with a US president who also uses strong words - the confrontation is getting even fiercer than usual.
Mr Trump meanwhile denied there were any mixed messages from his administration.
Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson played down the rhetoric between the two sides.
But in an interview with the BBC on Thursday, White House Deputy Assistant Sebastian Gorka dismissed the top diplomat's comments.
"You should listen to the president," he said. "The idea that Secretary Tillerson is going to discuss military matters is simply nonsensical."
Mr Gorka recalled a quote from a Holocaust survivor he often refers to when lecturing on grand strategy, saying: "When a group of people repeatedly says they want to kill you, sooner or later you should take them seriously".
"North Korea has said they wish to annihilate the United States and use nuclear weapons. Sooner or later, somebody should take them seriously," he said.
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Those fined include Oxfam, Cancer Research UK, The Royal British Legion and Battersea Dogs' and Cats' Home.
The Information Commissioner's Office said offences included secretly piecing together data from various sources and trading personal details to target new and lapsed donors.
It said charities must obey the law.
But it limited the individual fines to between £6,000 and £18,000 because donors could be unhappy at more punitive fines.
"[People] will be upset to learn the way their personal information has been analysed and shared by charities they trusted with their details and their donations," said Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham.
"No charity wants to alienate their donors."
The regulator said that some of the charities had hired companies to profile the wealth of their donors. It said this was done by investigating their incomes, lifestyles, property values and friendship circles among other means.
In some cases, the "wealth screening" process was also used to flag those most likely to be convinced to leave money in their wills.
Some charities are also accused of tracking down additional data about past supporters - for example using old telephone numbers to identify current ones. This ignores the fact people have the right to choose what information they share.
In addition, some of the charities shared data with each other without seeking permission.
"Supporters of animal charities could have their information shared with homeless, humanitarian or religious charities even though the supporters only expected their information to be shared with other animal charities," the Information Commissioner's Office said.
"Some charities don't know if the information has been shared one or 100 times. This can result in lots of unwanted charity marketing."
The Information Commissioner's Office carried out the probe after reports that charity supporters were being pressured into follow-up donations.
Last December, the British Heart Foundation and The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were fined for similar activity.
The full list of charities affected by the latest penalties is:
The Charity Commission for England and Wales - another regulator - said it was now investigating whether follow-on action needed to be taken against individual trustees.
"The generous British public expect charities to safeguard their data and raise funds responsibly, and in return they donate in their millions," said the commission's chief operating officer David Holdsworth.
"Sadly in these cases charities have not kept their side of the bargain.
"We are working with the charities concerned, the Information Commissioner and the Fundraising Regulator to ensure that any necessary remedial action is taken."
You might think that fining charities for being a bit too eager to solicit donations is rather unfair. But make no mistake, the kind of offences that the Information Commissioner uncovered are seen by the regulator as very serious breaches of the Data Protection Act.
They would have probably meant far more serious penalties for commercial organisations.
Piecing together information from other sources not provided by donors, ranking people according to their wealth, and in a couple of cases trading data with other charities all meant that millions might have received marketing approaches they did not expect or want.
One of those fined, the NSPCC, said it was disappointed by what it regards as an unjustified punishment.
But the Information Commissioner hopes that charities will now be aware that they have to be just as careful with personal data as any business.
College friends Morgan Ruig and Evan Shay, both 28, told Australian media they pretended to be national players to get into the game.
News sites around the world, including the BBC, picked this.
But it has since emerged they most likely simply joined an organised tour, which included a golf tournament.
"We were very nervous handing our passports over at the border. There are stories of people not coming home," Mr Ruig had told the Courier-Mail newspaper on Thursday.
He said they were chaperoned throughout their five-day trip which included a tour of the capital, where they placed a bouquet at a monument to the country's leaders.
They performed badly, Mr Ruig said, prompting his caddy to say he had "bought great shame to my family".
Mr Ruig also told Yahoo Sport that officials "thought it was quite funny", and that they had no problems leaving the country afterwards.
"I wouldn't recommend it to a light-hearted traveller. It was pretty hardcore but it was an amazing experience."
But it has since emerged that the men simply joined a two-day "DPRK Amateur Golf Open" organised by a UK-based travel company Lupine Travel.
The event they entered is advertised as being "open to all amateur golfers" except South Korean passport holders, and costs between £749 ($930) and £1,349, not including club hire and tips.
Golf magazine quoted Dylan Harris from Lupine Travel as saying the men had never pretended to be professional golfers, but when some North Koreans asked if they were, "they just decided to go along with it".
"They didn't prank the North Koreans. They pretty much just pranked the media," Mr Harris said.
Mr Ruig and Mr Shay did not respond to the BBC's requests for comment on Thursday, nor did Lupine Travel.
Lakmal dismissed openers Stephen Cook and Dean Elgar in quick succession after their 104-run partnership gave the hosts a strong start.
JP Duminy's aggressive 63 steadied the innings before he was trapped lbw by left-arm spinner Rangana Herath.
Lakmal then struck with the new ball as he had Faf du Plessis caught at slip.
Sri Lanka are searching for their first Test victory in South Africa since December 2011, where they won by 208 runs.
The UK Foreign Office said the Russian planes, which came near UK airspace on Wednesday before being "escorted" by RAF jets, were "part of an increasing pattern of out-of-area operations".
Russia's ambassador to the UK said the concerns were "not understandable".
He insisted the patrols were "routine" and met "international legal norms".
Typhoon fighters were scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Coningsby to escort the Russian aircraft, and the RAF said the mission lasted 12 hours.
The Foreign Office refused to give details of the disruption to civil aviation.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the Russian planes - two Tu-95 Bear H bombers - came within 25 miles of the UK.
They travelled from the north, past the west coast of Ireland and to the English Channel before turning and going back the way they had come, he said.
He said the bombers did not file a flight plan, did not have their transponders switched on and "weren't talking to air traffic control".
In a statement, the Russian embassy in the UK said ambassador Alexander Yakovenko had met with British officials to discuss the issue.
The statement said: "This flight (as all other routine flights of the Russian military aircraft) was carried out in strict compliance with the international legal norms including international flight rules and regulations, without violation of other countries' airspace, therefore it cannot be regarded as threatening, destabilising or disruptive."
In response to a recent parliamentary question, the Ministry of Defence disclosed the number of days when Quick Reaction Alert flights were launched against Russian military aircraft
This is the latest in a series of similar incidents involving Russian aircraft. Last month Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the UK was concerned about the "extremely aggressive probing" of its airspace by Russia.
In a statement on the RAF website, one of the controllers involved in the mission said: "Thanks to our integration with air defence systems across Nato, we were able to begin mission planning early and therefore were ready to act in good time."
The controller added: "The operations room was both calm and focused.
"We constantly train for these scenarios so that we are well rehearsed and ready to maintain the integrity of our airspace."
Former RAF pilot Andrew Brookes, who is a fellow at defence think tank The Royal United Services Institute, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme similar incidents had happened in other parts of the world.
He added: "The Russians are coming back on to the world stage, they've cranked up an air force that they have neglected for many years, and they are basically strutting their stuff around the globe."
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said there had been a sharp increase in the number of times Russian planes were intercepted by members.
He said: "Last year, allied aircraft intercepted Russian planes over 400 times. Over 150 of these intercepts were conducted by Nato's Baltic air policing mission. That's about four times as many as in 2013. So we are staying vigilant."
Warner, 26, was dropped for Wednesday's Champions Trophy match against New Zealand.
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Cricket Australia said he was involved in an alleged physical altercation in a bar hours after Saturday's loss to England at Edgbaston.
The ECB said Warner had apologised for an "unprovoked physical attack".
In a statement, the ECB added: "Following a full investigation, the England team management has concluded that the England player was in no way responsible for nor retaliated to the attack.
"Warner has admitted behaving inappropriately and has since apologised to the player involved who has accepted the apology.
"ECB has concluded that this is a matter for Cricket Australia and have no further comment to make."
Australian team management have stood down Warner - who was described as having "great potential to be a leader of the Australian cricket team" by current captain Michael Clarke in May - pending the outcome of a full hearing.
"David Warner has history. He is a kid from the back blocks, who has a lot of talent.
"He is vital to the team, although he has no form at all in his last 10 innings and it is a while since he last made some runs.
"He is the one player alongside Shane Watson who can give some momentum to an innings. So, without Michael Clarke, it will be a big loss."
BBC Radio 5 live's Pat Murphy said: "I believe it happened around 02:00 (BST) at the Walkabout bar in the centre of Birmingham.
"There was a private VIP area and some of the Australia players were in there. The three England players, Joe Root, Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes, were some way away and were larking around - wearing silly wigs and that.
"I understand Warner took umbrage and went over to Root and glanced him on the chin.
"I am hearing that Broad put his arm around Root as soon as it happened and said 'time to go back to the hotel' and I am also told that they were not worse for wear.
"One thing that is important to say is that since 13 May the England players, particularly Root and Broad, have not had a day off.
"The evening of the eighth of June was identified as down time. The matter is closed as far as the ECB is concerned."
July 10-14 1st Test, Trent Bridge (11:00 BST)
18-22 2nd Test, Lord's (11:00)
August 1-5 3rd Test, Old Trafford (11:00)
9-13 4th Test, Chester-le-Street (11:00)
21-25 5th Test, The Oval (11:00)
29 1st Twenty20 international, Southampton (day-night) (18:30)
31 2nd Twenty20 international, Chester-le-Street (14:30)
September 3 ODI: Scotland v Australia, The Grange (10:15)
6 1st ODI, Headingley (10:15)
8 2nd ODI, Old Trafford (10:15)
11 3rd ODI, Edgbaston (d/n) (14:00)
14 4th ODI, Cardiff (10:15)
16 5th ODI, Southampton (d/n) (14:00 BST)
England captain Alastair Cook defended his team-mates, saying he believed the squad as a whole had "not done anything wrong".
"Our conduct as England players is vitally important," the 28-year-old said. "We are aware of the position we hold as players. It is a matter we have taken seriously as well."
"We didn't have training for a few days, so we had a couple of days off.
"You do not often get those in a tournament, so it is important you let your hair down and celebrate wins."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Cook added Root "is a pretty resilient character".
Warner has been reported for "unbecoming behaviour" after potentially breaching rule six of the governing body's code of behaviour.
It states that representative players or officials must not engage in conduct "that could bring them or the game into disrepute or be harmful to the interests of cricket".
Cricket Australia says it will not make further comment until after a hearing, a time and date for which have yet to be confirmed.
Australia, who are already without Clarke because of a long-standing lower back injury, replaced Warner with Glenn Maxwell for Wednesday's game against the Black Caps at Edgbaston.
Warner struggled in his side's opening loss to England, scoring only nine runs in 21 balls before he was caught by Jos Buttler off the bowling of Stuart Broad.
He also failed to score in warm-up games against India and West Indies.
Source: ESPN Cricinfo
In one-day internationals, Warner averages 29.81 from 38 innings, with a strike-rate of 80.58, while in Tests, he has made three centuries and seven fifties in 19 appearances, averaging 39.46.
Yorkshireman Root has excelled since making his debut for England with a patient first-innings 73 in the drawn fourth Test against India last December.
The 22-year-old has since gone on to average 42.40 with the bat in the Test arena, while he has scored 429 in 11 one-day international innings at a strike-rate of 83.95.
This is the second time in three weeks Warner has been in trouble with authorities.
Last month, he was fined £3,700 for comments to journalists on his Twitter account.
The tweets, some containing obscene language and which Warner later apologised for, appeared after a journalist criticised the Indian Premier League (IPL) in an article which used a picture of him.
The game in Birmingham between England and Australia was the start of a hectic schedule in which they will meet in home and away Ashes Test series, as well as Twenty20 and one-day international fixtures.
England will begin the defence of the Ashes at Trent Bridge on 10 July.
The researchers, at the University of Dundee, analysed medical records from more than half a million British women.
They argue the operations could directly affect fertility or there may be a "behavioural" explanation.
Experts said the findings might lead to new treatments, but advised women not to have their tonsils and appendix taken out unnecessarily.
The study found that for every 100 pregnancies in women who had had no procedures there were:
One of the researchers, Dr Sami Shimi, said most doctors were wrongly taught that having an appendix removed damaged fertility.
He told BBC News: "This [study] is very important in reassuring young women that appendicectomy will not reduce their chances of future pregnancy.
"More importantly, looking at both the appendix and tonsils together, this study confirms beyond doubt that removal of inflamed organs or organs likely to suffer from repeated inflammation, in women, improves their chances of pregnancy."
Explaining the findings, published in Fertility and Sterility, is more of a challenge.
One biological possibility is that regularly infected tonsils or appendixes raise levels of inflammation in the body, which affects the ovaries and womb.
The Dundee team favour a behavioural explanation such as women enjoying more "liberal sexual activity", being both more likely to get pregnant and have pelvic inflammatory disease, which could lead to an appendix being removed.
More research is needed to figure this out.
Prof Allan Pacey, from the University of Sheffield, told the BBC: "This is an interesting paper which suggests that surgical removal of the appendix or tonsils (or both) in young women is associated with an increase in their fertility later in life.
"There are several explanations which may account for these observations, one of which is that the removal of these tissues makes an alteration to their immune system which has an impact to some aspect of the reproductive process (such as how their embryos implant in the womb).
"If true, this may ultimately give doctors and scientists some new ideas for novel drugs or therapies to enhance women's fertility.
"But to suggest that infertile women have their tonsils or appendix removed as a way of improving their chances is a step too far at this stage."
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The fictional character was one of just seven people picked for the Power List to mark the show's 70th birthday.
She was described as "a flawed heroine" by the chair of the judging panel.
Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher topped the list, while pop star Beyonce and feminist academic Germaine Greer also made the cut.
Helen Brook, who set up the Brook Advisory Centres in 1964 offering contraceptive advice to unmarried women, was also chosen.
The other women listed were Barbara Castle, the Labour MP who brought in the Equal Pay Act in 1970; and Jayaben Desai, who campaigned against low pay and poor conditions for women workers.
BBC 5 live presenter Emma Barnett, who chaired the judges, said Bridget Jones had been a divisive choice for the panel.
But she said the list was about who has "actually had impact in real women's lives... impact doesn't have to be good, bad, serious or funny".
The character "gave permission for our own imperfections... we still have huge image issues in this country", Barnett explained.
Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding said it was a "tremendous honour for Bridget and, of course, for me".
She added: "I hope it doesn't mean everyone's going to binge drink and eat Milk Tray late at night.
"I also hope there was something rather more profound going on, there's something in Bridget's nature which is very British which is ultimately quite decent, quite kind, quite resilient, not judgemental."
She said Bridget, who first appeared in a newspaper column in 1995 and went on to feature in hit books and films, had caught the zeitgeist and that "women were fed up of being presented in movies and in fiction as not being able to speak for themselves".
Woman's Hour presenters Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey will host a special edition of the programme on Wednesday at 10:00 GMT to celebrate the chosen women.
It was recorded at Buckingham Palace at a reception attended by The Duchess of Cornwall.
In deciding on the final seven names, the judges considered a woman's body of work or her role as a catalyst for change over the past 70 years, as well as those having an impact today.
Sophie Walker, leader of the Women's Equality Party, said: "It is interesting that all but two of these women are 'second-wavers'.
"We are excited about the next generation of activists, thinkers and writers fighting for social and political justice in the 21st Century and look forward to seeing them on future power lists."
Woman's Hour publishes a Power List every year, with a different theme each time. This was the first year where dead women or those outside the UK were considered.
Barnett said: "The list takes in a range of experiences across a range of ages. We hope the list inspires, educates and crucially shines a light on the work of some women who history may already be starting to forget."
Barnett was joined on the panel by business leader and Apprentice star Karren Brady; former Labour adviser and commentator Ayesha Hazarika; award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan; former Woman's Hour editor Jill Burridge; and networking expert and author Julia Hobsbawm.
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The company will reduce its early morning, late evening and weekend timetables from 20 April.
Cardiff Bus blamed the move on the Welsh government slashing its three-year funding package from £213.3m to £189m.
As a result the company will introduce a price hike to selected fares. The Welsh government said previously it was reviewing funding.
A single journey in the Cardiff to Go area will increase by 10p, while day tickets will increase by 10p when bought through the company's app.
In the Cardiff to Go Plus area - which includes travel to Cardiff Airport and the Vale of Glamorgan - single fares will go up by 10p and day tickets will increase by 30p when bought on the app.
Cynthia Ogbonna, managing director of Cardiff Bus, said: "It is unfortunate that we have been forced to take the decision to reduce services as a result of Welsh government cuts in funding to the bus industry in Wales.
"The result of the latest cut in funding is that some of our routes will not cover their running costs, which means that these services are not sustainable."
Nearly 100 subsidised bus routes have been scrapped by councils in Wales in the past three years, with further cuts expected as authorities make savings.
Nearly one in seven routes across 19 council areas have been axed and the Welsh government said it was reviewing ways of funding services.
In February, a Freedom of Information request made by the BBC showed 93 services have been cut from 656 subsidised routes between 2011 and 2014.
The £50m Rushden Lake retail park, which would include 20 shops and create 1,500 jobs, is proposed for the outskirts of Rushden.
East Northamptonshire District council's planners are recommending the project is approved at a meeting next week.
But many surrounding councils have objected to the proposal.
Developer LXB Retail Properties, which owns the land, submitted the planning application in December 2011.
Paul Bell, leader of Wellingborough Council, said the town had no objections to the plans.
He said: "Councillors didn't believe the development would be in competition with Wellingborough town centre.
"The choice of retailers would be different and in fact it could be a catalyst for Wellingborough's regeneration and a stepping stone to attracting big name retailers to the town."
Corby, Kettering, Northampton and Bedford councils have objected to the plans, fearing an adverse impact on their town centres.
Leader of Northampton Borough Council, David Mackintosh said: "We are at a critical point in the development of our town and the proposed Rushden Lakes project could jeopardise all of this, putting jobs and investment at risk in Northampton.
"After studying the proposals our planning committee has raised a number of strong objections which will be heard by East Northamptonshire Council."
Planning officials said the project would regenerate the area, create jobs and new recreational facilities.
East Northamptonshire councillors will discuss the plans on 10 October.
The 20-year-old was selected for their Sheffield Shield game against South Australia, which started on Tuesday.
He took his first wicket on his Shield debut, taking 1-24 on a rain-affected first day in Sydney.
Englishman Crane is the first overseas player to represent the state since Pakistan's Imran Khan in 1984-85.
Crane has been playing grade cricket in Sydney during the English winter, and has taken 45 wickets in 11 matches, including three seven-wicket hauls.
His form at Gordon Cricket Club in the city, taking his wickets at an average of just over 20, saw him selected for NSW.
In his 16 first-class appearances for Hampshire, he has also taken 45 wickets, but at an average of 40.75.
New South Wales spinners Steven O'Keefe and Nathan Lyon are on Test duty with Australia in India, and Crane has been selected alongside off-spinner William Somerville.
Despite only bowling five overs on the opening day in Sydney, he had Tom Cooper caught for 19 as South Australia reached 169-5 at stumps.
In November, Crane signed signed a three-year contract extension with Hampshire, keeping him at the county until 2019.
The exhibition features pictures of the city posted on photo-sharing site Instagram and is the first display of its kind at the Ikon Gallery.
Themes include architectural heritage, hidden spaces, urban street art, evolving landscape, art and culture.
The More Birmingham Instagram Showcase runs until Sunday.
The exhibition celebrates a successful series of 'Instameet' social media events that have taken place throughout 2015.
The events captured key milestones, from the opening of the revamped New Street Station to the redevelopment of Paradise Circus, key cultural celebrations such as the Big Hoot and the Birmingham Weekender.
The thousands of images produced have generated more than one million hits across social media throughout the year.
Emma Gray, director of marketing and communications at Visit Birmingham, said: "Birmingham's Instameet events have created an online photographic legacy, with thousands of remarkable images generated and shared amongst potential visitors across the world."
The exhibition comprises a mixture of print and projected photography, complimented by a virtual gallery accessible online.
Some 1,200 firefighters are battling the large blaze, which has destroyed hundreds of homes since Saturday.
President Michelle Bachelet put the army in charge of the evacuation after declaring the city, 110km (70 miles) west of Santiago, a disaster zone.
Security forces are on the streets to maintain order and prevent looting.
Earlier, the authorities said 16 residents had died, but it turned out that one family had been counted twice.
One official said it was the "worst catastrophe" he had ever seen.
"We fear that the fire will spread to the centre of the city, which would increase the severity of the emergency," regional governor Ricardo Bravo, a life-long resident of Valparaiso, said.
The old centre is a Unesco World Heritage Site, packed with old buildings that are vulnerable to fire.
Strong Pacific coast winds have pushed the fire deeper into the neighbourhoods of Valparaiso, hampering the battle to contain the blaze.
The city is built on a series of steep hills, separated by narrow winding streets, making the job of firefighters all the more difficult, says the BBC's Gideon Long in Santiago.
Large parts of Valparaiso are without electricity, and residents were said to be suffering from smoke inhalation.
President Bachelet is in the city to oversee an emergency committee's response.
"The people of Valparaiso have courage, have strength and they aren't alone," she said during a tour of the worst-hit areas.
"In some places the fires have started again so we're working on this and people will continue to be protected," the president added.
Temporary shelters have been set up for residents who were forced to flee.
The Chilean Red Cross has appealed for donations, such as food and other basic supplies, to help those who were left homeless.
"We will send all of this to the people because they lost everything," a Red Cross volunteer told the BBC.
The fire started on Saturday, and most of the damage was done overnight.
'Hell'
Those residents who managed to return to their homes discovered that they had been destroyed.
"It's all burned down. My sister's house also burnt to the ground," Rosa Guzman told the Reuters news agency.
Another resident said the blaze felt as if "hell encircled my family".
"The fire raced down the hills and destroyed everything in its path," Miguel Ramirez told the AFP news agency.
This is the second emergency that President Bachelet has had to face in the first month of her second term in office, after an 8.2 earthquake hit northern Chile on 1 April.
Fires are frequent in central Chile, where summer sends temperatures soaring.
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Norman A Macdonald has been re-elected to serve as convener. He secured 20 votes to Alasdair MacLeod's 11 in the vote on the post.
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The 23-year-old Exeter prop committed the offence in Wales' 25-21 defeat on Saturday.
He will now miss the rest of his club's regular season games, although he would be eligible to play in the European Champions Cup final if Exeter make it.
Francis can return on Monday, 9 May.
Wales assistant coach Rob Howley says Francis was unaware of what he was doing in the incident that led to him being disciplined.
"When you look at it, his [Francis'] eyes are closed and I don't think he knows what he's doing," said Howley.
"He went to clear someone out."
The second-half incident was reviewed by the television match official and resulted in a penalty against Wales.
World Rugby's recommended sanctions for those found guilty of such offences range from between 12 and 208 weeks but the body said it viewed the offence "as being at the lower end of the scale".
"The disciplinary committee was then required to consider aggravating and mitigating factors, which it did before concluding that the appropriate sanction be a playing suspension of eight weeks," World Rugby added.
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Wales coach Warren Gatland was unsure in his initial assessment of the incident.
"I haven't seen it again, and I listened to the TMO comments on it and he said there was only one view of it and it was inconclusive," said Gatland after the game.
"He thought there was contact with the face.
"I'll be honest and say my initial reaction to it was it didn't look great, but I haven't had a look at it since then."
Francis was a second-half replacement for Samson Lee at Twickenham.
The Yamaha rider finished ahead of team-mate Jorge Lorenzo with Honda's Dani Pedrosa in third.
Championship leader Marc Marquez suffered an early crash and finished down the field in 15th. His overall lead was reduced to 74 points from 89.
Rossi's win at Misano was the Italian's 81st career victory and took his MotoGP points total beyond 5,000.
British riders Bradley Smith and Cal Crutchlow finished seventh and ninth respectively.
The Misano circuit is located near nine-times world champion Rossi's home town of Tavullia.
His last win came at Assen in the Netherlands in June last year and the victory saw an end to Honda's 100% winning record this season.
"It's a really great win and with Marquez in such amazing form it's not like it happens often," said Rossi.
"It was the right moment and I took advantage of it, thanks to a Yamaha which was better than the Honda."
Rossi, 35, had qualified third on the grid, behind Spain's Lorenzo and Italy's Andrea Iannone, with Marquez starting from the second row for the first time this season as he looked for his 12th win in 13 races.
Marquez and Rossi battled from the start, until the young Spaniard fell on lap 10.
He lost control of his bike with 19 laps to go with the machine slipping out from beneath him under braking.
"Winning was the main aim of the season and I did," Rossi added.
"I knew I could do it and I continued to push and believe in it always, regardless of everything.
"I kept telling myself that it would happen one day - that Marquez wouldn't be at 100% and I had to be ready."
The next race is in Aragon, Spain, on 28 September.
San Marino MotoGP result:
1. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 44'14.586secs
2. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha +1.578
3. Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda +4.276
4. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati +5.510
5. Andrea Iannone (Ita) Ducati +11.771
6. Pol Espargaro (Spa) Yamaha +18.999
7. Bradley Smith (GB) Yamaha +23.100
8. Alvaro Bautista (Spa) Honda +36.458
9. Cal Crutchlow (GB) Ducati +38.480
10. Yonny Hernandez (Col) Ducati +45.878
The announcement follows an independent review which also considered Wrexham Maelor Hospital as the sole location for intensive care for babies.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health carried out the review.
However, babies needing the highest care level will need to go to Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, the largest health organisation in Wales, said it now had to make the business case for creating a "sub regional neonatal intensive care centre".
The board faced a campaign by local people as well as opposition from AMs of all four parties in Wales after its 2012 consultation document Healthcare in North Wales is Changing suggested moving specialist intensive care for babies across the border.
Currently both Ysbyty Glan Clwyd and Wrexham Maelor provide specialist neonatal care, at what is known as level 3 care.
The announcement on Tuesday confirms that intensive care for those being treated in north Wales will be centralised at Glan Clwyd in Denbighshire.
But some babies needing the highest care level - estimated at around 36 each year - will need to go to Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral, as originally envisaged by the health board.
That follows the recommendation made by the Royal College review, which recognised that in the short to medium term the necessary investment and medical expertise would not be in place in north Wales.
In a statement welcoming the decision by First Minister Carwyn Jones, the chair of the board, Dr Peter Higson, said: "It ends a period of uncertainty for our dedicated and committed staff, as well as local people."
"There is no alternative for us because we cannot stay indefinitely in a transitional process," Catherine Samba-Panza told the BBC.
However, she admitted the security situation was far from ideal.
The CAR has been wracked by violence since a mainly Muslim rebel group, Seleka, seized power in March 2013.
Seleka has since been forced out of the capital Bangui but still control some parts of the country.
President Samba-Panza told the BBC's Newsday programme that people are keen to vote and "95% of eligible voters have already registered".
"The objective of this transition is to take this country to elections because this is the only way out for us," she said.
Fresh clashes between Christians and Muslims in the capital, Bangui, in September forced the authorities to postpone the elections scheduled in October.
They are now due on 13 December.
But she warned that "politicians and enemies of peace are trying to stop that".
She did not name them but has previously accused both former Seleka leader Michel Djotodia and the man he replaced as CAR President, Francois Bozize, of stirring up trouble.
Currie, Towerbank and Cramond primary schools and Valley Park Community Centre are being fixed in the summer.
Problems at a fifth school, Queensferry High School, have already been rectified.
Previously 17 schools were closed after a wall collapse at Oxgangs Primary highlighted construction faults.
The defects were discovered through the local authority's city-wide building investigation, ordered after about nine tonnes of masonry collapsed at the Oxgangs site during Storm Gertrude in January 2016.
Initial investigations in schools built as part of the same Public Private Partnership (PPP) scheme found ties needed to connect the walls to steel beams had not been used in some cases, leaving them unstable in heavy winds.
The city council temporarily shut 17 schools after operator Edinburgh Schools Partnership said it was unable to provide safety assurances for the properties.
An expert report into the problems found it was down to timing and luck that no deaths or injuries occurred in the Oxgangs collapse as children could easily have been standing in or passing through the area.
City of Edinburgh Council's head of property facilities management Peter Watton revealed the latest defects while giving evidence to MSPs.
Questioned on the PPP deal at Holyrood's Education Committee, Mr Watton said: "I'm absolutely 100% prepared to admit that, at that time, the council got it wrong."
Committee convener James Dornan said: "That's not getting it wrong, that's fundamentally missing the whole point of what you were there to do.
"That's not making a mistake, that's making an absolutely huge error of incredible proportions."
The five buildings most recently identified with defects were built outwith PPP schemes but were found through the council's estate-wide structural review.
Mr Watton said: "We're carrying out intrusive surveys, as a result of that we've identified five properties that have similar issues, not identical, it's not the same extent.
"It's mostly, for example, in a (wall) panel there should be, let's say, 100 wall ties and there's only 80, but we've adopted a very risk-averse approach, as I'm sure you could appreciate, and we are remediating in those circumstances."
Questioned if PPP contractors had cut corners deliberately, Mr Whatton's counterpart at Aberdeenshire Council, Allan Whyte, said: "It would appear so, yes."
He said: "There was probably far too much work on, there was harsh penalties for failing to complete on time and, because of that, that impacted on the quality."
He said it was "horrendous" but now the industry has matured and is no longer in the same situation.
6 November 2015 Last updated at 13:21 GMT
The "weeping window" was first put on display last year at the Tower of London, with those flowers now draped down St George's Hall.
The exhibition is part of a tour of the poppies across the UK which will last until 2018 before they become permanently based at the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester.
This time-lapse footage shows how the display in Liverpool was put together.
Video courtesy of Andy Shukie Photography.
Age: 70
Nominated for: Amour - a French-language drama about sickness and dying that focuses on an elderly couple in a Parisian apartment.
Oscar record: None.
The critics said: "Magnificent in its simplicity and its relentless honesty about old age, illness and dying, Michael Haneke's Amour is a deliberately torturous watch, one that is going to weed the master's fan club of the lightweights who went along for the ride with the morbid mental puzzle-solving of Hidden and Palme d'Or winner The White Ribbon." Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter
Age: 58
Nominated for: Life of Pi - based on the fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel about young man who survives a disaster adrift in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger.
Oscar record: Won best director for Brokeback Mountain (2005). Nominated for best director for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (2000).
The critics said: "Ang Lee has brought to the screen a seemingly unfilmable story with breathtaking mastery of computer animation. His previous achievements - such as Brokeback Mountain, Sense And Sensibility and The Ice Storm - have shown him to be one of the most versatile directors on the planet." Chris Tookey, Daily Mail.
Age: 54
Nominated for: Silver Linings Playbook - a romantic comedy drama starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence about people with mental health issues.
Oscar record: Nominated for best director for The Fighter in 2011.
The critics said: "This romantic comedy-drama from director David O. Russell represents a merger of the two sides of his filmmaking personality - the freewheeling spirit of his early indies (Flirting With Disaster) and the more traditional crowd-pleasing tone of The Fighter." Tim Grierson, Screen Daily
Age: 66
Nominated for: Lincoln - follows the eponymous president's bid to end slavery in North America while examining the relationship between Abraham Lincoln, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, and his wife, Mary (Sally Field).
Oscar record: Six previous nominations for best director - won in 1993 with Schindler's List and for Saving Private Ryan 1998. Seven of the films he directed received nominations for Best Picture. Schindler's List won in this category.
The critics said: "The phenomenal Daniel Day-Lewis plays Lincoln with immersive, indelible power in Spielberg's brilliant, brawling epic. Spielberg and Kushner don't stop for flashbacks and backstory. Lincoln is all forward thrust and hot-damn urgency." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Age: 30
Nominated for: Beasts of the Southern Wild - a magical-realist story about Hushpuppy, a young girl who finds her world changed forever when a Katrina-style storm raises the waters around her ramshackle community.
Oscar record: None.
The critics said: "Benh Zeitlin's debut feature is part film, part hallucination: a ripe and gamey piece of what you might call Apocalyptic Southern Gothic, ambitious and flawed but sprinting with energy." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
But the cash for schools will be taken from elsewhere in the education budget, such as spending on free schools.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says it represents a real-terms freeze on school budgets for the next two years.
Education Secretary Justine Greening told MPs she recognised there was public concern over school funding.
Ms Greening told the House of Commons this "significant investment" would help to "raise standards, promote social mobility and to give every child the best possible education".
But Labour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said: "This is all being funded without a penny of new money from the Treasury.
"They are not committing any new money and have not been clear about exactly what programmes they will be cutting to plug the funding back hole."
But Jules White, a West Sussex head teacher who co-ordinated a campaign over funding shortages, said: "The government finally appears to be listening."
But he cautioned that any increase would need to keep up with "rising pupil numbers and inflationary costs".
Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said this was a "step in the right direction and an acknowledgment of the huge level of concern around the country on this issue".
But he said schools would still have to see the implications of the money being "saved from elsewhere in the education budget".
Chris Keates leader of the NASUWT teachers' union called Ms Greening's statement "a recycled announcement of recycled money".
Jo Yurky, who headed a parents' campaign over funding, said this was "positive news" and an "amazing turn-around" in attitude from ministers, but pressure needed to be kept up on protecting funding.
A joint statement from the NUT and ATL teachers' unions accused the government of "smoke and mirrors".
"Whilst any extra money is welcome this isn't enough to stop the huge cuts that schools are making," said the teachers' unions.
School funding became a major issue during the general election, with school leaders and teachers' unions warning that budget shortages would mean cuts to staffing and subjects.
They pointed to evidence from the National Audit Office and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which warned of £3bn funding gap and schools facing an 8% real-terms budget cut.
During the election, the Conservatives had promised an extra £1bn per year, which on top of planned increases, would have meant the core schools budget rising by about £4bn in 2021-22.
Most of this extra funding was going to come from scrapping free meals for all infants, a policy which was subsequently ditched.
Under the plans announced by Ms Greening on Monday, the overall core schools budget will rise by £2.6bn between 2017-18 and 2019-20.
All schools will receive at least an increase of 0.5% in cash terms.
The Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Layla Moran said: "This is a desperate attempt to pull the wool over people's eyes.
"Schools are still facing cuts to their budgets once inflation and increasing class sizes are taken into account."
As well as concerns about the overall amount of money available, there has been controversy over how it is divided between individual schools.
A new National Funding Formula was announced by education secretary Justine Greening before Christmas.
Ms Greening said the new formula would go ahead and would address unfair and inconsistent levels of funding.
Under the new arrangements, from 2018-19, the minimum funding per secondary pupil would be set at £4,800 per year.
For many years there have been complaints that schools in different parts of the country were receiving different levels of per pupil funding.
Details of an updated version of the formula, with budgets for individual schools, are being promised for the autumn.
It has sent emails to people around the world it has detected are using software tools to watch HBO Now shows.
HBO said it took the action because it only has the right to broadcast shows in the US and to people living in the country.
Email messages were sent to people in Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia, reported tech news site Torrent Freak.
HBO Now was introduced as a way for people to watch HBO's programmes without the need to have a subscription to a television or cable service. HBO Now costs $14.99 (£9.50) a month.
However, many people living in other nations have subscribed to HBO Now and used a variety of tools, including virtual private networks (VPNs), to get around the restrictions designed to stop people outside the US seeing popular shows such as Game of Thrones.
In some countries, the cost of an HBO Now subscription was far lower than the price of buying a service from a native cable TV provider. The Sydney Morning Herald pointed out that watching HD versions of Game of Thrones in Australia via means other than HBO Now would cost more than 660 Australian dollars (£342).
Earlier this week, HBO started sending emails to many people who use region-unlocking tricks and tools. The messages warned them that they would be cut off on 21 April if they did not contact HBO and satisfy it that they were eligible to watch the service.
Those who did not contact HBO would be cut off without further notice, said the company.
Earlier this year, Netflix started to take action against some VPN users and changed how its Android app worked in a bid to thwart some of those using software tools to defeat region locks.
Netflix boss Reed Hastings said earlier this week that VPN users were "less bad" than pirates because they were at least paying for the service. His comments came during press interviews discussing the company's financial results.
Welsh Bristle-moss was discovered near Dryslwyn Castle, close to Llandeilo, by the Countryside Council for Wales.
It said it might have evolved from a genetically similar moss.
But it could be an undiscovered species that was imported from the Continent on maples used to landscape the car park in the 1990s.
There are about 900 species of moss in Britain and 587 of those are found in Wales.
The Welsh Bristle-moss was discovered during a survey which is recording mosses growing on trees in south Wales.
Experts said the moss had a unique combination of distinctive traits. It differed from related mosses because of its round-tipped leaf tips and flat leaf edges.
Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) moss ecologist Sam Bosanquet, who made the new find, said: "Welsh Bristle-moss highlights the need to be ever vigilant and open-minded, even when looking at plants in mundane places like car parks.
"This is a high-point in our regular work of recording mosses which grow on trees in south Wales.
"Over the last decade, we have also discovered three mosses that had not previously been found in Wales and which are more typical of continental Europe.
Mr Bosanquet said he had been recording mosses for 15 years and had found 25 new species never before found in Wales, but which had been found in England and Scotland.
"Now that the species has been recorded, I hope that more research will determine whether the moss is extending its range to other areas of the county and beyond," said Mr Bosanquet.
"I will vote against corruption... I can't elect corrupt politicians," he says.
Next Sunday, 31 October, Tanzania holds elections for both the president and the parliament.
Moshi plans to vote for the main opposition challenger for the presidency, Willibrod Slaa of the Chadema party.
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Mr Slaa shot to prominence because of his courage in parliament where he consistently exposed corruption scandals, and he is now drawing big crowds at his election rallies up-and-down the country.
He is cashing in on people's feelings towards corruption, and has promised to fight it - earning himself a wide following among the youth.
His message to voters has been clear: "The CCM [ruling party] cannot fight corruption because it is the product of corruption... If elected, we will fight corruption from the top."
Within Africa, Tanzania is not often singled out for its poor record on corruption.
But it has had its fair share of major corruption scandals in the past few years, running into hundreds of millions of dollars, and implicating many of the highest-placed figures in the country.
And a recent index drawn up by the Revenue Watch Institute put Tanzania close to the bottom of a global list in terms of the transparency of its mining and minerals deals - only Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Turkmenistan scored worse.
"Tanzania needs a complete and immediate revolution in the system of accountability and leadership," says activist Ananilea Nkya, who won an award from the US embassy earlier this year for her "courage".
When President Jakaya Kikwete came to power in 2005, it was largely on an anti-corruption ticket.
And launching his campaign this time round, he defended his record.
"The government, in the past five years, has fought corruption zealously. We have amended the anti-corruption laws and we have strengthened the anti-corruption bureau.
"All the people are witnesses on how many prominent people have been taken to court for corruption, what else do you want us to do?"
The former Finance Minister Basil Mramba, the ministry's permanent secretary Gray Mgonja, and the former Energy and Minerals Minister Daniel Yona are currently battling corruption allegations in court.
The trio are charged with abuse of office over an allegedly irregular awarding of a contract to audit gold.
In 2008 the Governor of Tanzania's Central Bank, Daudi Ballali, was sacked after an independent international audit found the bank had paid out more than $100m (£66m) to local companies, some of which reportedly did not exist.
Soon afterwards, the then Prime Minister Edward Lowassa and two ministers resigned, amid a huge public outcry over their alleged involvement in awarding a big contract to a ghost US electricity company.
They all maintained their innocence, but the so-called Richmond affair gripped the nation.
All this is presented as a victory by President Kikwete and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party.
"Our party is committed towards fighting corruption. Those who are accused of grand corruption are in court, and the president has demonstrated that he tackles corruption from the top," said CCM campaign manager Abdulrahman Kinana.
But critics are not convinced that real action is being taken.
Early this year the ruling party convened and cleared those implicated in the Richmond affair of any wrongdoing.
And at the Central Bank - although a few relatively low-level businessmen were charged along with some junior central bank staff - no high-profile personality has ever appeared before the dock.
"Those in court are scapegoats," said Mr Slaa.
And the country's most popular newspaper columnist, Ansibert Ngurumo, believes corruption is worse now than under previous governments.
He cites the handling of the controversial military radar deal between Britain's BAE and the Tanzanian government.
Former Attorney General Andrew Chenge was allegedly linked to the deal and - although he denied wrongdoing - he resigned after reports that he held a large sum of money in an offshore bank account.
But now, while Mr Chenge has been appointed a member of the ruling party's ethics committee, Mr Ngurumo says he has been summoned three times by state agents over his critical newspaper articles.
President Kikwete is tipped to win another term in office in these elections, but with a smaller margin than the 80% he scored last time round.
Whatever the outcome, Tanzanians will be watching their leader's next moves closely.
Halfpenny, 28, joined from Toulon on a dual contract with the Welsh Rugby Union in August, signing a three-year deal with Scarlets ahead of his former Cardiff Blues region.
He could make his regional debut against Southern Kings on 2 September.
"Everyone knows his abilities and he is a wonderful player and a great person," said Jones.
Halfpenny has started training with the league champions and is being lined up to play in the opening Pro14 match of the season at Parc y Scarlets against the Kings.
"We're very lucky Leigh decided to join us," said Jones. "All the players and coaches in the squad are looking forward to working with him.
"He's already joined the squad and has brought a positive attitude."
The Scarlets, who won the Pro12 title last season, will open their campaign against the Kings, who have joined the expanded Pro14 league along with fellow South African side the Cheetahs.
"We are very excited," said Jones.
"We are expecting a physical challenge from the Kings and they will be confrontational.
"It's a fresh challenge with a new structure and we realise we have a lot of work to do. The league is evolving and there is a buzz among the players.
"If the league expands further, then great."
The Venezuelan, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has always denied playing any role in the bomb attacks that killed 11 people.
But a court in Paris upheld his jail term on Wednesday.
The 63-year-old, who is also serving a life sentence for a triple murder in 1975, was captured in Sudan in 1994.
By that time he had earned global notoriety as a Marxist militant who masterminded deadly bomb attacks, assassinations and hostage-takings.
Ramirez addressed the appeals court for four hours ahead of the judgement.
He said evidence against him had been falsified by "manipulators serving foreign powers" and accused French investigators of being "agents of the American embassy", according to AFP news agency.
After the ruling, his lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre said her client would appeal once again, saying the verdict was decided "without a shred of proof by a discredited justice" system.
Ramirez began his six week-long trial by saying he had decided to drop his lawyers and asking for a court-appointed defence team.
Prosecutors had struggled to secure a conviction until the release of secret files from East Germany's notorious secret police, the Stasi.
During his trial in 2011, Ramirez described himself as a "man of combat" and a "professional revolutionary".
"I am a living archive," he said. "Most of the people of my level are dead."
He also read a text in memory of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is known to have funded anti-Western attacks.
His convictions in France relate to attacks in 1982-83
Ramirez was born into a wealthy Venezuelan family and studied in Moscow before joining the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He converted to Islam in 1975.
He got his nickname after a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel The Day of the Jackal was found among his belongings.
Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 21, are accused of killing students Hannah Witheridge and David Miller.
A court has now charged the migrant workers with murder and they could be executed if found guilty.
The Witheridge and Miller families said in statements that they want the pair to have a "fair and transparent" trial.
The bodies of Miss Witheridge, 23, from Hemsby in Norfolk, and Mr Miller, 24, from Jersey, were found on a beach on the island of Koh Tao, a popular tourist destination, on 15 September.
Post-mortem examinations found Mr Miller died from drowning and a blow to the head, while Miss Witheridge died from head wounds.
The investigation into the murders has been marred by allegations of police incompetence and of confessions extracted by torture.
Mr Zaw and Mr Win, from Myanmar, also known as Burma, deny killing the two students. They had initially confessed to the murders but later retracted the confessions.
In their statement, Mr Miller's family spoke of their "relief that progress is being made in Thailand and this case is finally coming to court".
But they said the "increasing sensationalism" of the story in the media was "emotionally hurtful" and that a fair trial was needed.
They said: "From what we have seen, the suspects have a difficult case to answer. The evidence against them appears to be powerful and convincing.
"They must respond to these charges, and their arguments must be considered with the same scrutiny as those of the prosecution."
The family of Miss Witheridge said: "We would like to stress that as a family we are confident in the work that has been carried out into these atrocious crimes and want to remind both press and public that they do not have the full facts to report and make comment on at this stage.
"Current news reporting is causing undue distress to our family."
The families said they were united in their shared grief, with Mr Miller's family also saying: "Please remember that this is above all a story of two wonderful young people, David and Hannah, killed in the prime of their lives in a senseless and brutal way."
Both families thanked the Metropolitan Police for carrying out an independent review into the Royal Thai Police investigation.
It now believes 1.5m tonnes of waste is in the Mobuoy site near Londonderry, beside the River Faughan, which is an important salmon river.
It said the options for dealing with the waste will ensure the protection of the river.
But it could be a year before a final plan is in place.
The options have been presented to a stakeholder group in Londonderry.
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said investigations at the site earlier this year had provided better information about exactly what and how much material had been dumped there.
Last month, the Northern Ireland Assembly's environment committee was told that options included removing the waste and potentially leaving it in place.
Officials from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency told MLAs that if the waste was to be left in place a system to collect any liquid run-off and landfill gas would be needed to prevent pollution reaching the river.
Estimates have put the cost of fixing the problem at anything from £800,000 to £100m, depending on the approach taken.
Mr Durkan said: "A number of remediation options for the site have been identified and shortlisted.
"These options will be presented to the local stakeholders today.
"However, further work is need to evaluate these shortlisted options and develop an integrated remediation strategy for the site.
"This will take up to 12 months to deliver."
A case is currently before the courts in relation to the dump.
The Springboks edged out the Irish 19-13 in Port Elizabeth on Saturday to compete a 2-1 series win after losing the opener in Cape Town.
"No Irish team has ever beaten the All Blacks and I don't see any reason why we can't," said Henderson.
"We've got two opportunities to go and do it."
The Irish face the All Blacks in Chicago on 5 November before Steve Hansen's side play in Dublin two weeks later.
Henderson, who started all three Tests in South Africa, says the Irish will go into both games full of belief after earning a first away win over the Springboks.
"One thing we can take from this is that as a side, even being a young side, we've made history once on this tour and there's no reason why we can't do it again," he said.
However, Henderson admitted the huge sense of disappointment in Joe Schmidt's Ireland squad at failure to take a glorious opportunity to earn an historic series win in South Africa.
Having won the opening game despite CJ Stander's red card, the Irish let a 16-point lead slip in the second Test and spurned a couple of try-scoring opportunities in the decider and finished the game hammering on the Springbok line.
"It's a massive shame," Henderson admitted.
"Nobody goes out there believing that we can't win, we went out there and gave it everything."
The Irish put it up to the South Africans despite being without injured big-name performers such as Johnny Sexton, Sean O'Brien, Rob Kearney, Tommy Bowe and Simon Zebo.
As Schmidt handed out debuts to Tiernan O'Halloran, Quinn Roux, Sean Reidy and Matt Healy, the Irish used all 32 members of the squad during the series and Henderson believes the future of the team is bright.
"There are so many class players coming through. It's good to see a strong representation from Connacht, Matt Healy and Tiernan both doing really, really well. Kieran Marmion's sitting there too," added Henderson.
The 40-year-old Englishman has been suffering from arthritic problems in his right foot and missed his last two cuts on the PGA Tour.
"I am obviously disappointed to be in this situation, especially during a Ryder Cup year," Poulter said.
"Right now, rest and rehab take priority."
Poulter has competed for Europe at the past five Ryder Cups, taking 14 points from 18 matches.
He is ranked 85th in the world and his last tournament win was the HSBC Champions in 2012.
Because of his low ranking, Poulter probably would have had to rely on Europe captain Darren Clarke selecting him as one three wildcard picks.
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A court heard James Stewart had avoided a prison sentence on an identical charge months before committing the new offence.
Stewart, 42, admitted downloading indecent images of children in October and November 2015.
Sheriff George Way described Stewart's actions as "unacceptable and disgusting."
Dundee Sheriff Court was told that police, working on a tip-off, raided Stewart's flat in Dundee and his mother's home in Arbroath.
They found images stored on a hard drive and a tablet, as well as a computer belonging to Stewart's mother.
Depute fiscal Trina Sinclair told Dundee Sheriff Court: "The accused is a repeat offender and a registered sex offender having been convicted in January 2015.
"On 19 November 2015 police received intelligence that a device connected to the internet had been downloading indecent images of children."
Child abuse images, some at the most serious level, were discovered on a computer tower and a hard drive, as well as videos running to five hours and 49 minutes.
Miss Sinclair said: "A Toshiba laptop owned by his mother was examined.
"The hard drive had been connected to it previously.
"It contained 174 images of males and females aged five to 15.
"His mother denied any knowledge of the content."
Defence solicitor David Sinclair said: "He's aware he appears on a serious matter and he has breached his previous court orders as a result."
Sheriff George Way revoked the community payback order imposed on Stewart for his original offence and jailed him for three years on that charge.
He also imposed a six-year extended sentence on Stewart, with three years to be served in prison and three on licence, over the new offences.
The two prison terms will run concurrently.
The sheriff said: "This is utterly unacceptable and disgusting behaviour. He basically went behind the court's back and did it again."
The nine-year-old will miss the race for the second year in a row, this time with a stress fracture diagnosed after withdrawing from January's Irish Champion Hurdle, which he won in 2016.
Trainer Willie Mullins also said Min will miss the festival with an injury.
"We had hoped Faugheen had just tweaked a muscle, but we've had it checked out and it's a stress fracture," he said.
"Min has a bruise. Hopefully both will still make the track this season."
Faugheen was unable to defend his Cheltenham crown because of an injury picked up after winning the Irish Champion Hurdle.
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The absence of Faugheen and Min is a huge blow to Mullins and his supporters, especially coming in a season where things have not been going as swimmingly as everyone has got used to.
But the sheer strength in depth that Mullins has under his care means he remains favourite to be top trainer at Cheltenham - and a glance at some of those that remain on course tells you why.
The likes of Melon, Yorkhill, Vroum Vroum Mag, Bellshill, Douvan, Getabird, Un De Sceaux, Let's Dance and Djakadam - and there are more - ensure the most formidable of teams will again be travelling from Mullins HQ to the Cotswolds.
Four-year-old terrier Jake scares off the seagulls at the Angus town, watched on by his owner, harbour assistant Carl Nielsen.
Jake, who has his own Facebook page, has a particular fondness for the Beach Boys and Pink Floyd during karaoke sessions.
He joins in with regulars at the Stag's Head in Carnoustie.
Mr Nielsen, 39, told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie programme: "Jake's a loveable character really.
"Everybody loves him, everybody knows him and everybody knows how to make him talk.
"There are certain specific words we can use and he'll sing along to.
"He sings Beach Boys songs, he loves Sloop John B and he loves singing along to the solo guitar parts of Pink Floyd."
Jake, who wears a lifejacket while on patrol has worked at the harbour since he was a puppy.
Mr Nielsen said: "As soon as he gets his jacket on he knows he's going to work and as soon as it's taken off he knows he's chilling out.
"If a seagull lands on the quayside, he'll run after it and scare it off.
"If people are eating sandwiches or eating ice-cream on the front, the seagulls are basically kept at bay by Jake the harbour dog.
"Otherwise the seagulls would be dive bombing you, they'd be trying to take sandwiches out of your hands.
"These aren't ordinary seagulls, they're genetically modified or something, they're huge."
As well as karaoke, Mr Nielsen said Jake was partial to a sip of "the dregs" of a pint of Guinness after a day's work.
He said: "He basically just patrols the harbour, he never goes on a dog lead.
"He's constantly running around meeting people, he isn't shy, he isn't aggressive.
"It's the ideal life for a dog, I think."
Education Secretary John Swinney said Scotland already had some of the highest standards in Europe, but has asked experts to look into whether further improvements are needed.
Mr Swinney wants school food to be "sourced as locally as possible".
The announcement came after the BBC revealed Scottish councils were spending millions importing food which could be sourced in Scotland.
Announcing the review, Mr Swinney said he had asked Food Standards Scotland, NHS Health Scotland and Education Scotland to look at where provision of school meals could be improved.
He said: "School food matters, in terms of what children eat and what they learn about.
"With almost 366,000 school meals served up in Scottish schools every day we must ensure nutritional standards are the best they can be.
"I also want children, especially primary pupils, to have as many of their 'five a day' as they can and for food to be sourced as locally as possible.
"Since our internationally-admired school meal regulations were introduced in 2008, the scientific evidence and dietary advice has changed.
"Nearly a decade on, the time is right to review whether school food provision can be further improved."
He added: "The short-life working group I have established is examining the scientific and technical detail of the latest evidence and advice regarding nutritional standards.
"Once that group reports back this summer, I will then seek the views of young people, parents, industry, catering and other stakeholder groups before taking forward any potential changes."
Scottish Labour's education spokesman Iain Gray said: "Diet can have a huge impact on pupils ability to learn, so it is essential they are provided with nutritious food. That's why Scottish Labour believes there should be a breakfast club in every school.
"It'll mean that our children start the day with a healthy meal, that'll help cut the attainment gap in our classrooms and inequality in our communities."
The Scottish Conservatives health education spokesman Brian Whittle said: "It's absolutely appalling that we're not buying products for our schools and hospitals from here in Scotland.
"Our farmers produce the highest quality of food, ensure high standards of animal welfare and pay a minimum wage.
"To not then buy their goods is scandalous, and I'm delighted that John Swinney is finally coming to terms with this."
Last week Aberdeen City Council officials warned that the amount of fruit and vegetables served in school meals might have to be cut if budgets were not increased.
They said price rises were putting increasing pressure on catering.
It was, after all, the most high-profile purchase the Welsh government has ever undertaken.
But what many people won't be aware of are the figures showing that ministers have already spent more than £60m on a range of other sites for economic development purposes.
These are business parks, unused factories and office blocks.
I'm told there was never a designated strategy that was set out in a speech or a policy document.
Instead, it is something that has developed as a result of responding to a variety of opportunities that arose.
I think it is also a reflection of the views of Economy Minister Edwina Hart who is unapologetic in her opinion that there is nothing wrong with bringing certain things under state control.
And it is also a reflection of what she's told by her advisor on these matters, David Goldstone, a successful London-based property developer who originally hails from Swansea.
Edwina Hart's views on state intervention were recently on display when she spoke about her desire for the new Wales and Borders rail franchise, currently held by Arriva Trains Wales, to be run by a not-for-profit organisation that is part of the Welsh government.
In relation to her decisions on the wider property portfolio, there is some support from the private sector for her decisions.
To illustrate this let me share the views of Chris Sutton, who runs the Wales office of the property consultancy JLL about one of the acquisitions, the former Sogefi car parts factory in Llantrisant.
He gave me a sales pitch: it's opposite the world-famous Royal Mint, it's two miles from the M4 and five miles from a large potential labour force in the Rhondda valley.
The obvious question is why does it need to be bought using around £2m of taxpayers money when it is supposedly such an attractive prospect.
He says it could be bought privately but if it was, the site would be split up into smaller units, rather then kept intact which could, potentially, be the future location of a company headquarters if it's marketed in the right way.
The argument goes that only public money allows this to happen.
The Welsh Conservatives say the scale of this kind of spending can't be justified at a time of pressure on public services like health.
The leader, Andrew RT Davies, has repeatedly used the purchase of the airport as a stick to beat the first minister with when he complains about the financial settlement from Westminster.
Mr Davies' argument goes that things can't be that bad because the first minister managed to find £52m "under the mattress" to buy an airport.
Expect him to say similar things in relation to the business parks.
Two final and separate points: it's an obvious one but worth saying that at least buying up sites leaves ministers with assets which can give them a rental income or even a tidy profit if they can be sold on when the market improves.
And there is a specific issue in the centre of Cardiff about the acquisition of an office block for £15m that had already been built by a developer in the Capital Quarter and another site for £7m in nearby Callaghan Square.
The justification is to try to meet the widely accepted need for high quality office space in the capital.
Edwina Hart told me she is going to go ahead to fund the development of a new office block at Callaghan Square. It will cost an estimated £15m.
But unlike other parts of Wales, the centre of Cardiff is an area where the private sector is investing.
A number of commercial property agents and developers have told me off the record there are serious concerns about the use of taxpayers' money on this development as there are companies out there willing to take the risk.
Andrew RT Davies says the Welsh government in this instance is directly competing with the private sector.
But the economy minister isn't giving an inch. She doubts the readiness of the private sector to carry out this work and, as a result, is going to plough on with the first phase.
As with all of these sites, the proof will be in the pudding which in this case comes down to how many tenants will sign up in order to create jobs.
In other words, it's a numbers game.
It happened in the Old Fort area early on Friday morning.
The men, aged 34 and 38, have been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent.
Police are appealing for information.
KFC in Pontypool was given a zero score on the Food Standards Agency website meaning urgent action is needed.
Co-operative stores in Pontardawe, Porth, and Birchgrove, Cardiff scored one, along with Subway in Queen Street, Cardiff and Harvester in Cardiff Bay.
Costa in Brecon, Tesco cafe in Maesteg and Asda in Aberdare had a two rating.
That means improvement is necessary.
There are more than 26,000 businesses in Wales which have ratings, carried out by local authorities and registered on the Food Standards Agency website.
Of those, more than 1,400 had a two rating or below. The highest score is five.
Russel Smith, chief operating officer, KFC UK, said: "I was extremely disappointed by the rating this restaurant received, which is completely unacceptable.
"We took immediate action to return the restaurant to the standards we demand and are awaiting a re-inspection which we are sure will reflect this."
A spokesman for The Co-operative Food said: "We take our store environment and hygiene procedures very seriously and these three stores represent a very small percentage of our 143 stores across Wales.
"However, as soon as we were aware of the FSA ratings for these store we adopted an action plan to address the issues and we will be requesting the FSA re-score the stores as we are confident that they will fully meet all FSA required standards."
A spokesman for Harvester said: "The business was recently re-rated by an environmental health officer whilst we carried out some essential works. That work has now been completed and we await a re-visit, so that the business can be re-rated. We are confident that the day to day food safety and hygiene practices remain at a high standard."
A Tesco spokesman said: "On the day of the inspection at our Maesteg store cafe there was an issue with the hot water temporarily not working. This has been resolved and colleagues have been retrained on what to do if this happens. We're awaiting a new inspection from the local authority."
A Costa spokesman said: "We set very high standards for both our own and franchise owned stores and will be working to ensure this matter is addressed as a matter of urgency."
Asda said it has applied to be re-rated.
A spokesman added: "We pride ourselves on upholding the highest standards of hygiene in our stores and while on this occasion there were some areas of improvement to be made, we can assure customers that we are in the process of making those improvements and bringing the store back up to our own high standards."
Subway said the rating has been noted incorrectly. It said the store was awarded a four and they are waiting for it to be rectified.
A Cardiff council spokesman said: "The council takes these matters very seriously and there seems to be a discrepancy in this specific case which is currently being reviewed and the risk rating will be confirmed shortly."
The rating shows how well the business is doing overall but takes account of elements most in need of improving and also the level of risk to people's health any of these issues pose.
This is because some businesses will do well in some areas and less well in others but each of the three elements checked is essential for making sure that food hygiene standards meet requirements and the food served or sold to you is safe to eat.
To get the top rating of '5', businesses must do well in all three elements.
Those with ratings of '0' are very likely to be performing poorly in all three elements and are likely to have a history of serious problems. There may, for example, be a lack of sufficient cleaning and disinfection, and there may not be a good enough system of management in place to check and record what the business does to make sure the food is safe.
The Irish Labour Party reacted angrily to reports that the nuns' firm will have "sole ownership" of the new state-funded National Maternity Hospital.
The Sisters of Charity are major share-holders in the firm that owns the land.
The order has so far failed to pay its share of a compensation scheme for victims of institutional abuse.
The Irish government, which is investing 300m euros (£250m) of public funds in the new maternity hospital, has defended the deal.
It said the new facility will be independent and will operate without religious "distinction".
The Sisters of Charity were not immediately available for comment.
The existing National Maternity Hospital, in Dublin's Holles Street, is being relocated to the St Vincent's Hospital campus in the south of the city.
The new site is owned by the St Vincent's Healthcare Group - a not-for-profit healthcare company which lists the Sisters of Charity as its shareholders.
But the Irish Labour Party said the religious order currently "owes the State a substantial sum of money" as part of a redress scheme set up to compensate victims abused in Catholic-run institutions.
"Time and time again we have heard how the Church, including the Sisters of Charity, has failed women and children," said Labour Women's chairwoman Sinead Ahern in a statement.
"Now we are being told that they are to be put in sole ownership of a facility that is there for women in what is possibly the most vulnerable time of their lives; this is nothing short of a disgrace."
Roisín Shortall from the Social Democrats also criticised the decision, saying it was highly inappropriate and deeply insensitive.
The Department of Health said a new company - called the The National Maternity Hospital at Elm Park DAC - was being established to run the maternity hospital.
The department added that this company would have powers to "ensure that the new hospital is clinically, operationally and financially independent, and that healthcare services provided will be without religious, ethnic or any other distinction".
The department confirmed that the new company would be owned by the St Vincent's Healthcare Group.
However, it said the health minister "will hold a golden share which will serve to underpin and protect the reserved powers".
The Sisters of Charity was one of 18 religious congregations investigated by the Ryan commission over allegations that children were abused in residential institutions.
In 2002, the order was party to a 128m euros (£107m) indemnity agreement with the Irish state.
After the publication of the Ryan report in 2009, the Sisters of Charity offered to contribute a further 5m euros (£4.2m) towards the 1.5bn euros (£1.2bn) redress costs incurred by the state.
The offer has been criticised by some as far too small.
When the BBC asked the department to clarify ownership of the new maternity hospital, a spokeswoman pointed out that currently, St Vincent's University Hospital and the National Maternity Hospital were voluntary hospitals, not owned by the State.
"The State funds voluntary hospitals to provide healthcare services," she said.
"Where capital investment is required on voluntary hospital campuses, the State, through legal mechanisms, protects that investment."
Last month, the leader of the opposition said hospital sites owned by the Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland should be handed over to the state.
Micheál Martin, who leads the Fianna Fáil party, said Irish governments had invested public funds in the facilities for many years and the state - not the Church - was essentially running the hospitals.
Mathew James, 30, from Pontypridd, was shot three times while protecting his fiancee Saera Wilson.
St John Cymru-Wales revealed Mr James has been awarded a silver Life Saving Medal for his "conspicuous act of gallantry".
He will receive the medal at Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, in June.
Keith Dunn OBE, chief executive for St John Cymru-Wales, said: "This is an extremely rare and prestigious award. Mathew has shown presence of mind and control under great pressure.
"The recognition is richly deserved and his actions went above and beyond what anyone would have expected."
The 22-year-old will complete his move to Bloomfield Road on 1 July after his deal with Bolton expires.
Clayton joined Wanderers from Crewe in 2014 and played 13 games last season as they won promotion to the Championship.
"I knew a few people here and I thought it was important for my development to come and work with people that I know," he told the Blackpool website.
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The idea was to get into higher growth business and in some cases, such as cafes and restaurants, open outlets in its own superstores. Tesco also attempted to break into international markets.
Some of the moves were initiated under the leadership of Sir Terry Leahy, who ran Tesco from 1997 to 2011. And a big push came under the following chief executive Philip Clarke.
But Mr Clarke's tenure ended in shocking losses at the UK grocery business and he was shown the door in 2014.
Since then the new boss Dave Lewis has been jettisoning operations not considered central to Tesco's business.
Here's a reminder of Tesco's past - and current - business experiments.
Tesco bought Giraffe restaurants in 2013 for £48.6m. The idea was to get into a high growth business and fill excess space in stores with branches of the family-friendly restaurant.
The chain has lost money, mainly due to the cost of expanding to around 60 stores across the UK. Reports say that Tesco is looking for buyers.
After a lengthy battle, Tesco won full control of Dobbies Garden Centres in 2008, at a cost of around £150m. But last year the company lost £48m and reports say that it's now up for sale.
Tesco first bought a stake in the cafe chain, Harris and Hoole, in 2013 and took full control earlier this year. The chain has 43 outlets of which 29 are located in Tesco stores. For the year to 1 March 2015 it lost £21.6m.
There's speculation that Tesco took full control in order to prepare the business for a possible sale.
Tesco first teamed up with Euphorium in 2012 and then invested further in 2013 to help the bakers roll out more stores.
It took full control of the company in March 2015, but there's speculation that it could be up for sale.
The latest accounts show that it lost almost £34,000 in the year to 1 March 2015.
Fresh & Easy was opened in the US in 2007 but after five years of losses it was sold in 2013.
Tesco spent around £1bn on the attempt to break into the US market.
In 2011 Tesco bought an 80% stake in the online video shop Blinkbox Entertainment. The business racked up heavy losses and was sold to TalkTalk in January 2015.
Under the leadership of Sir Terry Leahy Tesco invested heavily in Asia. In particular it built up the Homeplus chain in South Korea.
Homeplus became a valuable asset and when Tesco came under pressure to reduce its debt, the business was sold. The sale in September of 2015 raised £4.2bn. Even to Tesco that was a significant sum.
Tesco first invested in Nutricentre in 2001 with hopes to build a nationwide chain of stores selling vitamins and other health products. But the company never really took off and its most recent accounts for the year to 28 February 2015 show a loss of £8m.
It closed the business last month.
Dunnhumby is the operation behind the Tesco clubcard. It collects and analyses data on customers' shopping habits. Tesco hoped to raise £2bn when it put it up for sale in 2015. But the sale was abandoned later in the year, suggesting that Tesco did not receive any attractive offers.
The 20-year-old has made 49 appearances for the U's since coming through their youth ranks.
But he has only played six times this season and has been allowed to leave for regular football.
"They've been winning a lot of games recently and scoring a lot of goals, so hopefully I can help," said Szmodics.
The 24-year-old, who can also play at left-back, had one season left on his deal after joining the Gloucestershire club from Dulwich Hamlet last summer.
He made 43 appearances last season as Forest Green won promotion to League Two via the play-offs.
"I know we have a young side and I really like the way the manager wants to play," said Pinnock.
Barnsley manager Paul Heckingbottom added: "This is exactly what we want at this football club, young and hungry players who are constantly wanting to improve themselves and further their career."
Pinnock made his debut for seventh-tier Dulwich Hamlet aged 16, going on to play 204 times for the London side before turning professional.
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For most of last year and much of this, IS's focus has been on taking and holding territory in the Middle East. For its leaders in Raqqa and Mosul, that is still the priority.
But the militants are well aware of their transnational appeal to violent jihadists in Europe and elsewhere.
As they reel under the daily onslaught of US-led coalition airstrikes, haemorrhaging one leader after another, they are increasingly looking to direct or inspire attacks further afield.
In June, IS claimed a gun attack at a Tunisian beach resort in Sousse that killed 38 tourists, 30 of them British.
In October Turkey blamed a suicide attack killing 102 people in Ankara on IS. Later that month, IS's Sinai affiliate claimed to have brought down a Russian airliner, killing all 224 people on board.
On 12 November, IS claimed the bomb attack on the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut that left 44 people dead. And then came Paris, with at least 120 dead and over 300 injured.
Paris attacks: What we know
Fear stalks Paris
These are not isolated, lone wolf, spur-of-the-moment attacks.
Although not necessarily difficult to execute, these attacks still took planning, preparation, training, sourcing of weapons and explosives, reconnaissance of the target and the careful recruitment of so-called "martyrs" - fanatical young men prepared to carry them out in the full knowledge they will probably die doing so.
This is far more reminiscent of al-Qaeda's modus operandi in the early 2000s, going for big publicity, high-casualty attacks that make headlines around the world.
Western counter-terrorism officials had recently come round to the conclusion that while there were still people aspiring to such grand-scale attacks, the prevailing threat was more likely to come from "self-starters", people like the murderers of British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich near London in 2013.
In the light of what has happened in Paris and elsewhere, they may now be revising that assessment.
How will Paris cope?
A new type of terrorism?
There is also another factor here. The 1000-mile (1,600km) Turkey-Syria border used to present little obstacle to the thousands of would-be jihadists coming from Europe to swell the ranks of IS.
While the border is still porous in places, much of it on the Syrian side is now controlled by the YPG, a Kurdish militia opposed to IS.
So the "window" through which new recruits can cross has narrowed considerably. Iraq is not a realistic transit route for European jihadists to reach Syria, Jordan's border is closed and in Lebanon there is a high risk of being caught by security forces.
The net result is that IS's online recruiters have recently been encouraging their followers to stay in their own countries and plan attacks there, rather than attempt the risky journey to Syria.
In the short term at least, this will translate into a heightened chance of terrorist attacks here in Europe.
MI5 recorded the names of about 4,000 people from Britain and Ireland suspected of travelling to join the war, National Archives files show.
The previous estimate stood at about 2,500. Many volunteers were communists and of interest to MI5.
One name on the list is Eric Blair, better known as author George Orwell.
His experiences in the Spanish Civil War were documented in his book Homage to Catalonia.
The details of those who had joined the fight against General Franco's forces between 1936 and 1939 continued to be updated by security service MI5 up until the mid-1950s.
The record for Orwell covers the period in which he published the bestselling novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, until his death in January 1950.
The files, which can be downloaded free for a month, comprise more than 200 pages detailing the movements of the men and women who left British ports for the Spanish front line - as well as a "roll of honour" of some of those killed in action.
James Cronan, the National Archives' diplomatic and colonial records specialist, said it was not clear how many of those who left actually reached Spain, but he added that "we know that hundreds never returned".
"The International Brigades and associated militia brought volunteers together from all over the world in defence of democracy but few, if any, records exist of their service," he said. "That's why uncovering a document like this is so exciting."
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the war in July 1936.
The Australian has made more appearances for a British club than any other foreign player, over 250 so far.
Dorn, who scored a hat-trick in Castleford's thumping 52-12 win over Leeds on Thursday, has also played for London Broncos and Salford.
"It will be with a heavy heart when I finish here, but it's a great club I am finishing at," the 33-year-old said.
"It's a completely different club from when I was here the first time and I think we've all played a part in where the club is at now.
"I think leaving at the end of this year, I'll be leaving this club in a good place."
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The Dons had failed to win in 12 previous attempts against their bogey team, but a stunning first half saw them three goals up at the break.
Tom Elliott headed the visitors in front from close range following a 20th-minute corner which Darius Charles nodded back across goal from the far post.
Liam Sercombe went close to levelling soon after when he shot just wide after a sharp turn.
But Charles scored a spectacular second goal in the 42nd minute, curling the ball into the top corner from 20 yards as Oxford's players protested about what looked like a dangerous tackle on Wes Thomas by Dean Parrett.
Oxford's players were still rattled by that controversial decision when Andy Barcham ran through the middle in first-half stoppage-time and slotted home Jake Reeves' pass under goalkeeper Simon Eastwood.
The hosts pulled a goal back four minutes into the second half when Charles turned Chris Maguire's cross into his own net.
Barry Fuller headed Phil Edwards' effort off the line as the home side tried to come back but they lost Joe Skarz to a shoulder injury, and their second-half fight back petered out.
The win, coupled with MK Dons' defeat by Port Vale, moved Wimbledon up to 10th and above Dons in the league table for the first time in their history.
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Match ends, Oxford United 1, AFC Wimbledon 3.
Second Half ends, Oxford United 1, AFC Wimbledon 3.
Attempt missed. Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Jonathan Meades.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Charlie Raglan.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Crowley (Oxford United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Dominic Poleon replaces Lyle Taylor because of an injury.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Dannie Bulman.
Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Marvin Johnson (Oxford United).
Dannie Bulman (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Alfie Egan replaces Dean Parrett.
Attempt missed. Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Oxford United. Marvin Johnson replaces Liam Sercombe.
Substitution, Oxford United. Joe Rothwell replaces Joe Skarz because of an injury.
Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt blocked. Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Cheyenne Dunkley.
Attempt blocked. Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Tyrone Barnett replaces Tom Elliott.
Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon).
Substitution, Oxford United. Daniel Crowley replaces Wes Thomas.
Wes Thomas (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dannie Bulman (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt saved. Philip Edwards (Oxford United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Barry Fuller.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Barry Fuller.
Foul by Wes Thomas (Oxford United).
Jonathan Meades (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
James Shea (AFC Wimbledon) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Wes Thomas (Oxford United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Jonathan Meades.
Attempt saved. Dannie Bulman (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Wes Thomas (Oxford United).
Dannie Bulman (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Timber production and jobs in the sector have increased by half since the last review in 2008.
Industry leaders have said new processing techniques are producing much more valuable wood products.
The work of the sector has also enabled other key Scottish industries to grow, such as in the energy, construction and tourism.
Foresters are now harvesting the benefits of a tree-planting boom in the 1970s and 1980s, with trees put into the ground then now reaching maturity.
This has led to a massive expansion of the timber industry - from harvesting, with contractors now employing highly efficient tree-felling machines, through to sawmilling and processing where new techniques are creating high-quality wood products for house construction, cladding and flooring.
The report, from Forestry Commission Scotland, points out that a total of 25,000 people are now employed in forestry-related businesses in Scotland - including tourism and leisure.
There has been a significant boost to employment levels in the forest management and processing sector with more than 19,500 people now working in the industry - a jump of 6,500 compared with the previous report in 2008.
In 2008 timber production was about five million tonnes each year. It is currently sitting at record levels of 7.5 million tonnes per annum.
Speaking at a meeting with top forestry leaders later, Environment Minister Dr Aileen McLeod will officially launch the new Forestry Commission Scotland report.
She is expected to say that Scottish forestry is "very much a hidden success story" of the Scottish economy.
Stuart Goodall, chief executive of Confor, the trade association which promotes wood and forestry, said: "This report demonstrates the growing importance of Scotland's forest-based industry to both rural areas and the national economy, an industry that has bucked the trend and posted impressive growth since the downturn in 2008.
"Scotland has some of the most technologically-advanced sawmills in the world and the maturing of the forestry sector is supporting an increasing number and variety of relatively well-paid rural jobs.
"We welcome the support that the Scottish government has given to this booming industry and look forward to delivering even more jobs, economic growth and carbon reductions for the people of Scotland."
Cerberus said it "had contact to varying extents" with Peter Robinson, Simon Hamilton, Arlene Foster, Nigel Dodds and Mr McGuinness.
The details are contained in a submission to the finance committee.
The committee is investigating the circumstances of the fund's purchase of Nama's Northern Ireland loan book.
It said these contacts were part of its "due diligence" of the Northern Ireland economy and as "ongoing liaison with stakeholders in the jurisdiction".
The interactions involved senior Cerberus staff, including former US Vice President Dan Quayle.
The firm said the "substantive discussions" prior to its purchase of the Nama loans focused on its approach to the investment, its management of the portfolio and its effect on the economy.
It does not disclose the dates of the contacts and whether they were meetings or phone calls.
Cerberus said it also prepared a letter to be presented to the Northern Ireland Executive prior to its bid.
This was to lay out its investment and operational intentions if the bid was successful.
It stated its approach to borrowers including an indication it would be willing to waive guarantees for cooperative borrowers.
Mr McGuinness said: "My only contact with Cerberus was a courtesy meeting months after the Cerberus deal with Nama and in line with my responsibilities as Deputy First Minister.
"This was a routine engagement and was in the public domain."
The Dons finished second in the Scottish Premiership last season, with Rangers promoted from the Championship.
"I think Aberdeen after the last couple of seasons," Brown told Sky Sports when asked to pick the biggest threat.
"They have been exciting to watch, they have come to Celtic Park and got points and we have struggled up there."
Aberdeen have been runners-up in the past two campaigns; finishing 15 points behind Celtic in May, two points closer than the previous term.
Glasgow rivals Rangers beat Celtic on their way to the Scottish Cup final last season and the Old Firm pair meet on league duty on 10 September.
When asked how he thought Rangers would fare, midfielder Brown said: "We'll see that when it comes. That's the fifth game of the season so we have got a few before that. Aberdeen have been great the last couple of years and so have Hearts after coming back up last season."
On the derby fixture, Brown added: "It will be good. It's always good, a Rangers-Celtic game, especially with the atmosphere. But there's lots of huge games coming up for us and that's way down the line."
Celtic meet Astana on Wednesday in the second leg of their Champions League third qualifying round tie.
A second-half strike from Leigh Griffiths saw Rodgers' side return from Kazakhstan last week with a 1-1 draw.
"We went over there and got the away goal," Brown said. "That's always going to help us. We played well on the day and maybe could have sneaked another one.
"But it's going to be a great atmosphere back at Celtic Park and we're looking forward to the game."
With a visit to Hearts following on Sunday, Brown believes the European qualifiers will help Celtic get off to a strong start when they kick off their Premiership defence.
"Last season was a little bit disappointing overall but we still got the job done," he said.
"This season we have started off well in the Champions League qualifiers and hopefully we will push that into the league.
"This is always the priority. It's huge for us to try to get six in a row. We fought well last season and deserved it after a long hard season."
The ministry said it had not ruled out anonymity between arrest and charge.
But Justice Minister Crispin Blunt has said he would rather put pressure on the media not to name suspects than bring in a new law.
Labour welcomed the apparent U-turn but said the government's handling of the issue had been "lamentable".
The plan to grant anonymity to rape suspects was a surprise inclusion in the government's coalition agreement in May.
It had not been in the Conservative or Liberal Democrat election manifestos, although it had been Lib Dem policy since 2006.
The coalition agreement pledged to "extend anonymity in rape cases to defendants", with ministers stressing the need to "protect anyone who may be wrongly accused from harmful stigma".
But Prime Minister David Cameron appeared to bow to pressure from campaigners last month when he said he favoured a "limited extension" to the law to cover the period between arrest and charge.
After it emerged that ministers preferred not to change the law and to put pressure on the media instead, acting Labour leader Harriet Harman attacked its whole approach to the issue.
"It is really lamentable that they could think of something as important as prosecuting rape, that they should just do a proposal on the back of an envelope," she told the BBC.
"It is a very serious offence and they should not just dream up a proposal and bring it forward without thinking about it. Rape is too serious for that."
Shadow Home Secretary Alan Johnson, speaking in the Commons, said he welcomed the government's "U-turn" on the issue.
In the House of Commons last week, Mr Blunt said the government wanted to find a "non-statutory solution" to extending anonymity.
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"Given that we had 21 criminal justice acts passed over the 13 years of the last administration, I am sure that Labour [MPs] will understand why we are loath to find even more statutes to put on the statute book," he said.
He suggested Press Complaints Commission guidance recommending the media do not identify people before they are charged with rape might be strengthened.
The Ministry of Justice played down Mr Blunt's remarks, insisting it had not entirely ruled out legislation to provide anonymity between arrest and charge and was still carrying out an analysis of evidence and research on the subject.
The results of this were due to be published before the summer recess but will not now appear until the autumn.
A spokesman said: "We want to make sure a thorough assessment of all of the available evidence is produced to inform the debate on this very important issue. It is right that we take the time to get it right, and have therefore decided to publish the report when Parliament returns in September."
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) said it would be "happy" to discuss the issue with ministers but said "as yet they haven't approached us".
The PCC is in charge of enforcing editorial standards for newspaper journalists but does not draw up its own guidelines - that is done by a committee of editors. The guidelines are set out in the Editor's Code of Practice but they are not legally binding.
Campaign group Women Against Rape said they were "glad the government has been forced to back down".
A spokeswoman said: "Why should men accused of rape have special protection not offered to those facing charges of murder, terrorism or child abuse?
"People are no more likely to be falsely accused of rape than of other crimes. Why this attempt to further discredit and discriminate against rape survivors?"
Labour MPs have criticised the proposal to grant anonymity to rape suspects consistently in Parliament, while Conservative MP Louise Bagshawe told The Observer that by "singling out rape in this way, ministers are sending a negative signal about women and those who accuse men of rape".
The anonymity proposal became Lib Dem party policy in 2006 after a number of cases in which celebrities were named in newspapers over allegations of sexual assault, even though in some cases they were not charged and the complainant was found to be malicious.
The 1976 Labour government introduced anonymity for defendants - only for the measure to be repealed 12 years later under the Tories.
A review of the law earlier this year warned there needed to be a proper examination of the wider issues.
There is no anonymity for defendants in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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The Liberal government says the jets will close the "capability gap" in Canada's air power as it seeks a permanent replacement to its CF-18 fleet.
It will also launch a five-year procurement process in 2017 to find a replacement, which could include F-35s.
Ottawa will continue to participate in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program.
Federal Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said on Tuesday that Ottawa will immediately begin discussions with the US government and Boeing, which manufactures the Super Hornet fighter aircraft, on the purchase of the stop-gap fleet.
Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote was unable to provide an estimated cost for the 18 new jets, saying it would depend on the negotiations.
Canada cannot currently meet its commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the North American Aerospace Defense Command with its aging fleet of CF-18s.
But the procurement process to replace the 30-year-old fleet has been rife with problems and politics.
The former Conservative government originally intended to buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35s, with deliveries slated to begin in 2016.
In 2012, the country's auditor general criticised the sole-sourced procurement process for the fighters. Cost overruns and other issues also hampered the planned purchase.
In the last federal election campaign, the Liberals unequivocally ruled out buying the stealth bomber for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and promised to purchase a "lower priced" option.
Canada has been involved in the JSF program, the development and acquisition program for the F-35s, since its inception in 1997.
Other countries involved in the JSF project include the US, the UK, Turkey, Italy, Australia and the Netherlands.
Each unprotected department has been asked to come up with savings plans of 25% and 40% of their budget.
The chancellor said departments had also been asked to help meet a target of 150,000 new homes on public sector land by 2020.
The NHS and per-pupil schools budgets will be protected in the review, which will be published on 25 November.
Mr Osborne, who gave evidence to MPs on Tuesday about the Budget and his spending priorities, said that "with careful management of public money, we can get more for less".
The Treasury said "large savings" would be required of unprotected departments, which have been asked to model two scenarios: of 25% and 40% cuts to their budgets by 2020.
The BBC's economics editor Robert Peston said what was being proposed would require a reinvention of some services taken for granted by the public.
Mr Osborne has already unveiled £12bn of welfare savings plus £5bn of tax avoidance prevention measures - which together with the £20bn of departmental spending cuts make up the £37bn figure earmarked to get government finances back in the black.
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Today I want you to imagine what you would cut from your lifestyle if told that your income would fall by either 25% or 40%, after adjusting for inflation, over the next four years.
It is quite a scary thought, isn't it? Presumably, if you haven't done it already, you'll think about switching the weekly shop to one of those discounters. You will heat up the water for fewer hours. And the kids' swimming lessons will have to go.
But those savings would not even scratch the surface of a 40% cut. To reach that, the kids may have to share a bedroom, so you can take in a paying lodger. And the car would be history.
All of which serves to explain why ministers and officials in all but protected departments and services - that is everything but health, schools, defence and overseas aid - are having panic attacks today.
Because they have been instructed by the chancellor to "model" the impact on the services they provide of finding savings of either 25% or 40% by 2019-20 - or £20bn per annum of cuts in aggregate. This is the stuff of public-service reinvention, not efficiency.
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Spending limits will be set for government departments, which will also be asked to examine the way they manage their assets and consider privatisation and contracting out where necessary.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said talk of cuts of as much as 40% were just "a ranging shot".
"Past experience would suggest that initial pitching by the Treasury should be regarded as aspirational," he told MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
"But it is clear that to deliver the overall fiscal trajectory departments collectively will have to make substantial savings, double-digit percentage savings."
The review document says it will prioritise spending which: promotes innovation and greater collaboration in public services; promotes growth and productivity including through devolution within England; promotes choice and competition and which drive efficiency and value for money.
Although full details will not be published until November, the document does include some details of specific areas for change.
On local government it says "the government will look at transforming the approach" to its financing and "further decentralising power, in order to maximise efficiency, local economic growth and the integration of public services".
It also sets out plans to sell off publicly owned land that is surplus to requirements, including assets owned by the Ministry of Defence.
The Treasury said the MoD, alone, accounted for 1% of all land in the UK, while the state land holdings were worth £300bn.
Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock told the BBC that £1.5bn of land had been disposed of during the last Parliament and that ministers had only "just started getting going".
"It is clear we can release much, much more," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One. "It also contributes to our wider objectives like housebuilding. The two go hand in hand."
But the BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said the scale of the cuts envisaged meant it would take a lot more than "flogging off a few disused airbases" to meet the chancellor's targets.
For Labour, shadow chancellor Chris Leslie told BBC News: "During the Budget speech the chancellor said that he was going to step off the rollercoaster ride in public spending and now he's asking his cabinet colleagues to perhaps think about deeper cuts than he envisaged only a fortnight ago.
"So it's very unclear what the chancellor's coherent approach is here and I think we do need, of course, those sensible savings but he needs to now come clean and say what exactly is he planning."
The SNP's deputy leader Stewart Hosie said some of the targets set for departments were likely to prove "completely unmanageable" and Mr Osborne risked "setting himself up for a very large fall".
"Perhaps he's setting the bar high and he'll appear to be the good guy if it's less when push comes to shove," he said. "I think the key thing is we look at the last parliament. He failed on all these major targets.
"He seems to be wanting to push the boundaries time after time after time. There's no longer fat to be cut. It's into the bone and the impact on services could be catastrophic."
Nicky Schellander, 44, from Barnstaple, Devon, had her ovaries removed when the cancer was found in August 2015.
After pioneering surgery in London, she is fundraising £66,500 for the drug Olaparib to stop the cancer growing.
If the fundraising is successful, she hopes to be back to jousting by October, when she also plans to marry.
Ms Schellander, who has worked on films such as Snow White and the Huntsman and TV series Merlin, went to her GP in August 2015 with stomach pain and was sent home with painkillers.
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But five days later the pain was so bad she could barely walk, and after an ultrasound a "large mass" was found on her ovary.
She had surgery and chemotherapy and went into remission, but the cancer returned aggressively in February.
Ms Schellander, who lives with fiancé Cy Margieson, said: "It was devastating for me.
"The dreams that my fiancé and I held, are getting harder - we lost our baby and chance of starting a family, so now, the priority is to concentrate on staying alive."
Ms Schellander was told about the drug Olaparib, which will stop the cancer's DNA from replicating, but won't be able to access it on the NHS until she has had three rounds of chemotherapy.
"Rather than waiting for it to come back a third time I'd rather have it now," she said.
"This is the first ovarian cancer treatment to get approval from the NHS in over a decade.
"If it wasn't the only thing that might help me, I would not even consider it.
"I want to get back to full health and get back to doing what I am passionate about and also marry my soulmate."
The woman's family had wanted her life-support machine to be turned off.
Doctors had not granted their wishes as they were unsure of the legal status of the unborn child under the constitution in the Republic of Ireland.
The woman in the case was declared brain-dead on 3 December.
The court had heard that the chances of her unborn child being born alive were small.
Lawyers for the unborn child had told the court that it must be satisfied that there was no real possibility of the foetus surviving before allowing the machine to be turned off.
Lawyers for the Health Service Executive (HSE), the body which runs all public health services in the Republic of Ireland, had argued that it would be lawful to withdraw life-support in this case.
The woman is in her late 20s and has two other children.
The judge said that to "maintain and continue" the present support would "deprive her of dignity in death".
"It would subject her father, her partner and her young children to unimaginable distress in a futile exercise which commenced only because of fears held by treating medical specialists of potential legal consequences," he said.
Irish Health Minister Leo Varadkar said he would be carefully examining the ruling.
"I wish to convey my heartfelt sympathies to the family and partner of the woman at the centre of this case at this most difficult time - particularly given the season," he said.
"This case and the judgement will need to be carefully examined before I can make any further comment on it.
"In the meantime, I would ask that the privacy of this family is respected, at this so difficult and challenging time."
Twin blasts hit Zaventem airport at about 07:00 GMT, with 11 people reported killed.
Another explosion struck Maelbeek metro station near EU headquarters an hour later, leaving about 20 people dead.
Brussels police have issued a wanted notice for a man seen pushing a luggage trolley through the airport.
He was pictured in CCTV footage with two other suspects who are believed to have died in the blasts.
The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attacks in a statement issued on the IS-linked Amaq agency.
Belgium has raised its terrorism alert to its highest level. Three days of national mourning have been declared.
Prime Minister Charles Michel called the latest attacks "blind, violent and cowardly", adding: "This is a day of tragedy, a black day... I would like to call on everyone to show calmness and solidarity".
Two blasts tore through the departures area of Zaventem airport shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT).
A suicide bomber was "probably" involved, the Belgian prosecutor said.
Eleven people were killed and 81 wounded in the blasts, Belgian Health Minister Maggie de Block said.
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Some witnesses reported hearing shots fired and shouts in Arabic before the two explosions.
Others said that people fled the first blast, only to get caught in the second.
A third bomb failed to detonate and was destroyed by the security services.
A local firefighter, Pierre Meys, described seeing "war injuries".
"I think this is the worst thing I've ever seen in my career," he said.
"People were running over others that had fallen, I couldn't breathe. I can't believe I'm alive," 15-year-old Antoine told me as he walked with his school friends in a line of hundreds being escorted on foot and by bus to a sports hall, now a makeshift reception centre.
Three hearses passed, heading towards the ruins of the airport departure hall. People sobbed at the sight of them.
Several tourists were asking police what they should do now, where it was safe to go - and when the airport might reopen.
The police were confused too, but offered what little information they had, telling people to head to a reception centre. An officer repeatedly shouted: "Quickly, keep moving, evacuate, this is serious."
The metro blast occurred shortly after 08:00 GMT during the rush hour at Maelbeek station.
It struck the middle carriage of a three-carriage train while it was moving away from the platform.
Alexandre Brans told AP: "The metro was leaving Maelbeek station when there was a really loud explosion. It was panic everywhere. There were a lot of people in the metro."
Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur said "about 20" people had died and more than 100 had been injured, 17 of them severely.
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The station is close to EU institutions. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, has told employees to stay indoors or at home. All meetings at EU institutions have been cancelled.
Ryan McGhee, a catering worker at a college in Brussels, told the BBC: "The entire city is in lockdown. People are calm at the moment but the atmosphere is tense."
Local and international travel has been suspended or disrupted and security tightened across Europe.
All flights have been cancelled. The airport is due to reopen on Wednesday.
Eurostar has cancelled all trains to and from Brussels. The Thalys France-Benelux train operator says the entire network is closed.
In the UK, security has been stepped up at Gatwick and Heathrow airports. The UK Foreign Office has advised British nationals to avoid crowded areas in Belgium.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the Cobra response committee on Tuesday.
In France the cabinet has held an emergency meeting. There is also extra security at Dutch airports.
There has been strong international condemnation:
Belgium's Interior Minister Jan Jambon had said on Monday that the country was on the highest level of alert for possible revenge attacks after the capture on Friday of Salah Abdeslam, the main surviving suspect from the Paris attacks in November.
Mr Jambon told Belgian radio: "We know that stopping one cell can... push others into action. We are aware of it in this case."
European security experts had been braced for another attack for months. But it is always a huge shock when it actually happens.
If this was "revenge" for the arrest of Salah Abdeslam on Friday, it will be a source of considerable concern that a functioning terrorist network was able to respond so quickly and with such devastating effect.
It is possible that a cell linked to Abdeslam brought forward the timing of a future attack because they thought he might blow their cover.
Either way, it shows how advanced the planning was in terms of logistics, explosives, weapons and people willing to carry out such attacks on civilian targets.
The priority now will be to ensure that anyone else who poses an imminent threat to the public is apprehended as soon as possible. But it is clear that there are still huge gaps in intelligence, and Brussels is seen as a soft target.
In the words of French President Francois Hollande, the response from Europe will need to be "calm, lucid and determined" - and it will have to last for a long time.
All Bar One has agreed a deal to establish its first presence in the city.
It will be the chain's fourth Scottish outlet, with two already in Edinburgh, and one in Glasgow.
Marischal Square is expected to open in the summer of next year. Offices and a hotel are being built on the site of the former council headquarters.
It is a £107m development.
Protestors failed in their bid to get the development halted last March.
Councillors voted by 22-21 to continue with the project.
Paul Roddy, 56, died after being attacked by Christopher McAllister, 30, of Priory Street, Warrington.
Jailing him for 10 years for manslaughter, Mr Justice Turner at Manchester Crown Court told McAllister he "was dependant on your care but you were violent and hastened his death".
McAllister's defence said he was "incapable of being a carer".
The jury had been told Mr Roddy was in the latter stages of the degenerative illness when he moved in to McAllister's home in Constable Street, Gorton, Manchester.
But Mr Roddy suffered a series of violent assaults which left him with multiple injuries to his head and body, the court heard. He died on 30 December 2015.
His cause of death was given as pneumonia but the court was told his condition was aggravated by the violent abuse by his carer.
The judge, Mr Justice Turner, told McAllister that, although Mr Roddy was prone to falls, he was satisfied that his victim "died as a result of your blows".
John Parry-Jones, defending, said his client took Mr Roddy into his home because youths had been using the sick man's dwelling to take drugs.
But he added McAllister was "socially, mentally and physically incapable of being a carer."
The 58-year old, who is the first American to manage in the Premier League, succeeded Francesco Guidolin as Swansea boss with the club only outside the relegation zone on goal difference.
"He strives to get the best out of players. The lads have said training has been really good," said Taylor, who has been on Wales duty.
"He looks a really exciting manager. He looks up for it and backs his ability."
Bradley could not have asked for a tougher baptism on Saturday with Arsenal having won seven of their last eight games in all competitions.
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However, left-back Taylor believes former USA national coach Bradley has already galvanised the squad.
"Hopefully from here onwards we can pick up results because that is what matters in the Premier League," he said.
"He looks very motivated and that is great for the players. We can feed off him and we need to use that to pick up results, that is obvious now."
Taylor fell out of favour under former manager Guidolin, starting only one Premier League game this term in which he was substituted before half-time, but he does not see Bradley's appointment as a new beginning for him.
"I will just go back and work the same way I was working under the old manager, that is the way I do things," Taylor said.
"It makes no difference to me, but obviously there will be different ideas.
"There are ups and downs for every footballer, you just stay on a level playing field whether you are up or down. You keep working the same way, things come back around - that is the way football is."
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Swansea are not expected to end their losing run at the Emirates Stadium with in-form Arsenal winning their last five league matches to move up to third place.
But Swansea have an excellent away record against Arsenal having won on three of their five Premier League visits, including a 2-1 win last season.
"It is a tough first game but we don't mind playing that," Taylor said.
"We are hoping we can pick up from where we left off there last season and pick up points. We would be probably written off even if we were in form."
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Sten Sepper said that he took full responsibility for 56 cases of undeclared cigarettes and 1,000 litres of undeclared liquor found on board the Sakala mine-hunter earlier this month.
He will continue to serve as a senior staff officer, local media reported.
The commander of the Sakala is reported to have been transferred to a desk job.
Defence Minister Hannes Hanso said that it was important an Estonian took full responsibility for events within their area of responsibility.
"The navy chief has decided to resign due to the damage to reputation accompanying the unacceptable event, irrespective of where the opened criminal case and official investigation will lead," Mr Hanso was quoted as saying by Estonian Public Broadcasting.
The newspaper said that Capt Sepper will now work as a senior staff officer in the headquarters of the Estonian defence forces.
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The authorities have so far not revealed where the smuggled goods were picked up or where they were being taken.
At the time of their seizure by customs officers, the Sakala was participating in Nato's Mine Countermeasures Group.
On Tuesday Nato accused Russia of "aggressive military posturing" following reports that it has deployed anti-ship missiles in its westernmost Baltic region.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said the commission should have "no fear of investigating their own" and urged "complete transparency".
And Tory party chairman Grant Shapps said it was important that the commission was held to account.
Mr Juncker has denied the claims.
The government has had an acrimonious relationship with Mr Juncker since he emerged as the leading candidate to run the commission following May's EU elections.
Mr Juncker, who took over as head of the EU's executive body at the start of November, has come under pressure over claims that some 340 global companies were granted deals to help them avoid tax during his 18 years in office, which ended last year.
A report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has alleged that firms such as Pepsi and Ikea made "sweetheart" deals with his government to save billions in tax in other countries.
The revelations are to be looked into by the EU's Competition Commissioner, Danish politician Margrethe Vestager, as part of a series of investigations into tax arrangements in Luxembourg, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Mr Juncker, who was Luxembourg's finance minister before becoming its leader in 1995, has insisted that all tax settlements reached under his leadership complied with national laws and international rules.
Speaking in Brussels last Wednesday, Mr Juncker said there was "nothing in my past indicating that my ambition was to organise tax evasion in Europe".
Asked about the issue during an interview on BBC Radio 5Live's Pienaar's Politics, Mr Duncan Smith said it was right that the matter was properly looked into.
"This is a real moment for the European Union, for the commission, to show that it has the capacity and the determination to investigate its own," he said.
Although he did not name Mr Juncker by name, Mr Duncan Smith said he would feel the same way if the official under scrutiny was British.
"The trouble for the European Union historically has been that it circles the wagons around the people that are having the finger pointed at them and refuses to let any kind of change takes place," he added.
"I think what is required from the European Commission is complete transparency."
Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps told Sky News he had not seen all of the evidence but it was important that the commission was held to account.
The UK was one of two EU countries to oppose Mr Junker's selection as commission president and, since taking over, the Luxembourg politician has already been at odds with David Cameron, suggesting the UK prime minister finds it hard to get on with his EU counterparts.
Asked whether Mr Juncker should stand aside while the claims are examined, shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden told Pienaar's Politics there was "little chance" of that.
But the Labour MP added: "I think if more comes out on this then really serious questions will have to be asked about his position."
That go-to anecdote, that chance encounter with someone famous that you wheel out at every opportunity.
In honour of Rio 2016 getting under way this week, we asked Sportsday readers to get in touch with their unusual encounters with Olympians - and you have delivered in your droves.
From a selfie with Sir Steve Redgrave in a service station to bumping into Lord Coe outside a pub.
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From 11-time Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson...
...to two-time Olympic champion and president of the International Association of Athletics Federations Lord Coe...
...to rowing legend and five-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave...
...to Sir Bradley Wiggins.
Daley and Ennis-Hill are two of the faces of Team GB in Rio and plenty of you have met them.
So many of you have stories about the time you met Britain's former Olympic hurdling champion.
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A couple of you had met Kurt Angle, who won wrestling gold at the 1996 Olympics.
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A single shoe and a "number" of passports were also among the hundreds of items left at the Welsh Government-owned site during 2016.
The figures come as the airport prepares to welcome 35,000 people through its doors this festive season - up 9% on the same fortnight last year.
Among the top destinations this Christmas are Amsterdam and Edinburgh.
About 300 pieces of luggage were left behind every month in June, July and August but most were returned when passengers realised their error.
All left luggage is held for five days before it is sent to the airline for secondary tracking.
But items such as children's prams and buggies are kept at the airport for longer, with those not collected donated to children's charities.
Debra Barber, managing director and chief operating officer at Cardiff Airport, said it was "great" to see an uplift in passengers over Christmas.
She said although temperatures were mild, the airport had plans in place to ensure disruptions could be kept to a minimum if cold weather causes problems.
She added: "Passengers travelling to the airport during the Christmas holidays are advised to allow plenty of time for their journey - and particular attention should be given to public transport services as there may be some restrictions to regular timetables over the period.
"Those travelling with Christmas crackers should check with their airline before arriving at the airport and customers are reminded not to travel with wrapped presents in hand luggage as they may need to be opened during the security process."
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The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) - or, in military speak, Mother of All Bombs - was launched on Thursday.
The target was said to be a network of tunnels operated by the so-called Islamic State in Achin district.
As a non-nuclear weapon, use of the MOAB does not necessarily require approval by the US president.
It is a huge weapon - a 30ft (9m), 21,600lb (9,800kg), GPS-guided munition that is dropped from the cargo doors of an MC-130 transport plane and detonates shortly before it hits the ground.
The MOAB falls from the aircraft on a pallet, which is then tugged aside by a parachute allowing the weapon to glide down, stabilised and directed by four grid-like fins.
Its principle effect is a massive blast wave - said to stretch for a mile in every direction - created by 18,000lb of TNT.
The bomb's thin aluminium casing was designed specifically to maximise the blast radius.
The "bunker-busting" bomb is designed to damage underground facilities and tunnels.
The weapon was developed for use in the Iraq war - at a reported cost of $16m (£13m) each - and was first tested in 2003, but never used in action - until now.
And yet, the MOAB is not the US military's heaviest non-nuclear bomb.
That distinction belongs to the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, an even bigger bunker-buster which weighs a colossal 30,000lb.
Russia has developed its own massive conventional bomb, nicknamed the Father Of All Bombs. The FOAB is a kind of fuel-air bomb, technically known as a thermobaric weapon.
Thermobaric bombs generally detonate in two stages: a small blast creates a cloud of explosive material which is then ignited, generating a devastating pressure wave.
A significant part of the effect of weapons like the MOAB is said to be psychological - to instil terror by the massive force of the blast.
Its development followed the use of similar weapons including the BLU-82 Daisy Cutter, a 15,000lb bomb designed in part to flatten a section of forest to carve out a helicopter landing pad.
The MOAB was developed by the Alabama-based aeronautics company Dynetics.
In a statement read out by organiser Prince Harry at the closing ceremony, she said competitors had "overcome great adversity just to take part".
The prince added that those who had taken part had shown their "unconquerable" character.
Wounded servicemen and women from 13 countries took part in the games.
Prince Harry read out a statement from the Queen to crowds at a concert in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to mark the end of the games.
"Prince Philip and I send our heartfelt congratulations to the organisers and supporters of this competition and most importantly to you men and women of the armed forces who have overcome great adversity just to take part in these Games," the Queen said.
"As I have followed the competition over the past four days, I have been deeply moved by your courage, determination and talent.
"All of you have used the power of sport to enhance your own recovery and to raise wider awareness of the enormous challenges faced by wounded veterans."
The Queen said the success of the games could "be measured not by medals won but by the renewed sense of purpose and confidence in your abilities that you have gained".
She added: "I send my warmest good wishes and congratulations to you all."
The concert, in front of a sell-out crowd of 26,000, featured acts including rock bands Foo Fighters and Kaiser Chiefs.
Prince Harry told the crowd the games had shown "the very best of the human spirit".
"These games have been about seeing guys sprinting for the finish line and then turning round to clap the last man in.
"They have been about team-mates choosing to cross the line together, not wanting to come second, but not wanting the other guys too either," he said.
'Huge achievement'
The games featured more than 400 competitors in track and field events and disciplines including cycling and indoor rowing.
Teams have travelled from the US, Afghanistan, New Zealand and across Europe to take part in events at the Olympic Park and Lee Valley Athletics Centre in London.
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Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, has said the games could become a permanent fixture.
"What's exciting is that other countries are now coming forward and saying, 'We would like to host an Invictus Games as well,'" he told Forces TV.
"And I think there's every chance that this can become a real institution and a huge achievement for Prince Harry."
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Great Britain won four gold medals for the first time at a World Championships two years ago, courtesy of Mo Farah's distance double, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford.
Those victories helped the British team finish fourth in the medal table, behind Kenya, Jamaica and the USA.
But with Ennis-Hill now retired and Rutherford injured, how many medals will they win in London? And will they meet UK Sport's target of between six and eight medals?
Gold - Mo Farah - Men's 10,000m - day one - report
Gold - Great Britain (CJ Ujah, Adam Gemili, Danny Talbot, Neethaneel Mitchell-Blake) - Men's 4x100m relay - day nine - report
Silver - Mo Farah - Men's 5,000m - day nine - report
Silver - Great Britain (Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith, Daryll Neita) - Women's 4x100 relay - day nine
Fourth - Callum Hawkins (marathon), Laura Muir (1500m), Kyle Langford (800m), Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (200m), Dina Asher-Smith (200m)
Fifth - Katarina Johnson-Thompson (heptathlon and high-jump), Lorraine Ugen (long jump).
Sixth - Laura Weightman (1500m), Holly Bradshaw (pole vault), Nick Miller (hammer throw), Morgan Lake (high-jump)
Seventh - Reece Prescod (100m), Sophie Hitchon (hammer)
Eighth - Eilidh Doyle (400m hurdles), Andrew Butchart (5,000m)
Placing table
Men's 4x100m relay
Gold - Great Britain - watch here
Silver - United States
Bronze - Japan
Women's 4x100m relay
Gold - United States - watch here
Silver - Great Britain
Bronze - Jamaica
Men's javelin throw
Gold - Johannes Vetter (Ger)
Silver - Jakub Vadlejch (Cze)
Bronze - Petr Frydrych (Cze)
Men's Decathlon
Gold - Kevin Mayer (Fra) - watch here
Silver - Rico Freimuth (Ger)
Bronze - Kai Kazmirek (Ger)
Women's high-jump
Gold - Maria Lasitskene (ANA) - watch here
Silver - Yuliia Levchenko (Ukr)
Bronze - Kamila Licwinko (Pol)
Men's 5000m
Gold - Muktar Edris (Eth) - watch here
Silver - Mo Farah (GB)
Bronze - Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo (USA)
Women's 100m hurdles
Gold - Sally Pearson (Aus) - watch here
Silver - Dawn Harper-Nelson (USA)
Bronze - Pamela Dutkiewicz (Ger)
Women's 200m
Gold - Dafne Schippers (Ned) - watch here
Silver - Marie-Josee Ta Lou (CIV)
Bronze - Shaunae Miller-Uibo (Bah)
Women's 3000m steeplechase
Gold - Emma Coburn (USA) - watch here
Silver - Courtney Frerichs (USA)
Bronze - Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi (Ken)
Men's hammer throw
Gold - Pawel Fajdek (Pol) - watch here
Silver - Valeriy Pronkin (ANA)
Bronze - Wojciech Nowicki (Pol)
Women's long jump
Gold - Brittney Reese (USA) - watch here
Silver - Darya Klishina (ANA)
Bronze - Tianna Bartoletta (USA)
Men's 200m
Gold - Ramil Guliyev (Tur) - watch here
Silver -Wayde van Niekerk (SA)
Bronze - Jereem Richards (TTO)
Men's triple jump
Gold - Christian Taylor (US) - watch here
Silver - Will Claye (US)
Bronze -Nelson Evora (Por)
Women's 400m hurdles
Gold - Kori Carter (US)
Silver - Dalilah Muhammad (US)
Bronze - Ristananna Tracey (Jam)
Women's 400m
Gold - Phyllis Francis (US)
Silver - Salwa Eid Naser (Bhr)
Bronze - Allyson Felix (US)
Men's 400m hurdles
Gold - Karsten Warholm (Nor) - watch here
Silver - Yasmani Copello (Tur)
Bronze - Kerron Clement (US)
Women's shot put
Gold - Lijiao Gong (Chn)
Silver - Anita Marton (Hun)
Bronze - Michelle Carter (US)
Men's pole vault
Gold - Sam Kendricks (US)
Silver - Piotr Lisek (Pol)
Bronze - Renaud Lavillenie (Fra)
Men's 400m
Gold - Wayde van Niekerk (SA) - watch here
Silver - Steven Gardiner (Bah)
Bronze - Abdalelah Haroun (Qat)
Men's 800m
Gold - Pierre-Ambroise Bosse (Fra) - watch here
Silver - Adam Kszczot (Pol)
Bronze - Kipyegon Bett (Ken)
Men's 3,000m steeplechase
Gold - Conseslus Kipruto (Ken) - watch here
Silver - Soufiane Elbakkali (Mar)
Bronze - Evan Jager (US)
Women's javelin throw
Gold - Barbora Spotakova (Cze) - watch here
Silver - Lingwei Li (Chn)
Bronze - Huihui Lyu (Chn)
Women's 1,500m
Gold - Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (Ken) - watch here
Silver - Jennifer Simpson (US)
Bronze - Caster Semenya (SA)
Women's triple jump
Gold - Yulimar Rojas (Ven) - watch here
Silver - Caterine Ibarguen (Col)
Bronze - Olga Rypakova (Kaz)
Men's 110m hurdles
Gold - Omar McLeod (Jam) - watch here
Silver - Sergey Shubenkov (Rus)
Bronze - Balazs Baji (Hun)
Women's hammer throw
Gold - Anita Wlodarczyk (Pol) - watch here
Silver - Zheng Wang (Chn)
Bronze - Malwina Kopron (Pol)
Women's 100m
Gold - Tori Bowie (US) 10:08s - watch here
Silver - Marie Josse Ta Lou (Civ) 10:06s
Bronze - Dafne Schippers (Ned) 10:96s
Men's shot put
Gold - Tomas Walsh (NZ) 22.03m
Silver - Joe Kovacs (US) 21.66m
Bronze - Stipe Zunic (Cro) 21.46m
Women's pole vault
Gold - Ekaterini Stefanidi (Gre) 4.91m
Silver - Sandi Morris (US) 4.75m
Bronze - Robeilys Peinado (Ven) 4.65m
Women's heptathlon
Gold - Nafi Thiam (Bel) 6784 points
Silver - Carolin Schafer (Ger) 6696 points
Bronze - Anouk Vetter (Ned) 6636 points
Women's marathon
Gold - Rose Chelimo (Bhr) 2:27.11 - watch here
Silver - Edna Kiplagat (Ken) 2:27.18
Bronze - Amy Cragg (US) 2:27.18
Men's marathon
Gold - Geoffrey Kirui (Ken) 2:08.27 - watch here
Silver - Tamirat Tola (Eth) 2:09.49
Bronze - Alphonce Simbu (Tan) 2:09.51
Men's 100m
Gold - Justin Gatlin (US) 9.92s - watch here
Silver - Christian Coleman (US) 9.94s
Bronze - Usain Bolt (Jam) 9.95s
Men's long jump
Gold - Luvo Manyonga (SA) 8.48 - watch here
Silver - Jarrion Lawson (US) 8.44m
Bronze - Ruswahl Samaai (SA) 8.32m
Women's 10,000m
Gold - Almaz Ayana (Eth) 30:16.33 - watch here
Silver - Tirunesh Dibaba (Eth) 31:02.69
Bronze - Agnes Tirop (Ken) 31:03.50
Men's discus
Gold - Andrius Gudzius (Lit) 69.21m - watch here
Silver - Daniel Stahl (Swe) 69.19m
Bronze - Mason Finley (US) 68.03
Men's 10,000m
Gold - Mo Farah (GB) 26 mins 49.51 secs - watch here
Silver - Joshua Kiprui Chepegei (Uga) 26:49.94
Bronze - Paul Kipngetich Tanui (Ken) 26.50.60
The video entitled 'Hwages', loosely translated in English as 'Concerns', shows women in Saudi Arabia skateboarding, playing basketball and dancing.
Created by media production company 8ies, the video has been viewed nearly three million times on YouTube since it was uploaded in late December.
It features women in full Islamic dress taking part in various activities, singing lyrics that include: 'If only God would rid us of men'.
The video appears to express women's frustration with the male-dominated society in Saudi Arabia.
Male guardians decide on what women can do, for example permission to travel abroad or to undertake higher education.
On YouTube, one user commented: "Unbelievable video clip!! The voice is bad and the content is worse.. Imagine the girls drive (cars) and men are dressed like that and dance. May Allah protect us."
While another added: "The video clip is beautiful. With all the comedy, it shows one aspect of oppression girls are subjected to."
A third commenter said: "Foreign newspapers are mentioning it. Creatives - let the world know that there are talented people who appreciate art in Saudi Arabia. It is not all about religious police, clerics IS members and retardation."
It's the latest content on social media to put the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia under the spotlight.
In 2013, a Saudi comedian recorded the song No Woman No Drive about women not being allowed to drive.
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The Railway Street drugs misuse service in Ballymena was partly paid for by the Department of Justice.
However, it is withdrawing funding after 14 years due to budget cuts.
The service has been independently assessed as a model of best practice in helping injecting drug users across the UK.
Justice Minister David Ford said the move was "regrettable but unavoidable".
"It is one of many difficult funding decisions I am currently having to make in order to balance the books," he said.
"In light of the financial constraints being imposed I have advised the Northern Trust that the Department of Justice share of the funding for this partnership project between the justice system and the health service would cease on 28 February 2015."
Oscar Donnelly, director of mental health and disability for the Northern Trust, said: "Unfortunately the withdrawal of two thirds of the funding for the scheme means that we will not be able to sustain it in its present form.
"The trust will need to review the way in which a significantly reduced service can be provided in the future."
Calderwood left after his side finished fourth to qualify for the Europa League and was succeeded in 2009 by Miller's former Aberdeen team-mate, Mark McGhee.
However, Miller insists he "gave Calderwood five wonderful years at the club and supported him to the hilt".
Calderwood told BBC Scotland: "I honestly believe it was Willie because Willie was strange in the end."
The 60-year-old, who also managed Dunfermline, Kilmarnock and Ross County, has been out of work since leaving De Graafschap in 2014.
He says being out of football is "killing me" and cannot understand why he has not had a job since his last sojourn in the Netherlands.
His departure from Pittodrie remains one of his most painful memories, the Scot having paid for being edged into fourth spot in the top-flight behind Rangers, Celtic and Hearts.
"I had to go to the chairman's house and I thought we were talking about next season," Calderwood said of his end-of-season meeting with Stewart Milne and Miller.
"I was told they were thinking of making changes but it's not certain yet.
"That's when I made a mug of it. I said 'it's certain now. If you are doubting what we're doing at this club, it is certain if that's what you want to do'.
"I said to Willie, what are you thinking about this? But Willie said nothing. I thought 'this is a done deal, they are at it'."
Calderwood believes that a majority of Aberdeen fans were similarly mystified over a departure the club said was by "mutual consent" but which he insists was a sacking.
Miller is surprised that his former manager has only had brief stints at Killie and County in Scotland since then, helping to steer both clubs away from the threat of relegation.
But he did say a dip in form had been to blame for Calderwood's departure.
"There was a feeling among the board that the quality of football wasn't what they were expecting in that final year," he told BBC Scotland.
"His league record was solid, absolutely. There was a fantastic run in the Europa Cup too. But no cup finals in that time.
"And from the turn of the year in that last season, there were only five wins from 19 games.
"I don't think the fans were particularly happy with what they were seeing at that time."
Under Calderwood, Aberdeen finished third once, fourth twice and sixth once, but he found himself replaced with McGhee, who had enjoyed success with Motherwell.
"I think Willie and Mark were quite close," said Calderwood, who says he has not spoken to Milne or Miller since.
"If I was in England watching games, Willie was down there a lot with Mark and big Alex McLeish.
But Miller denies that, saying: "I'm not particularly close with Mark.
"When Jimmy left we needed to find a new manager and Mark was one who was doing extremely well. There was certainly no conspiracy to bring Mark back to Aberdeen on my part."
Miller and Calderwood had grown up together, playing in opposing sides and together for Scotland in their youth days.
"He is a legend," added Calderwood. "He was absolutely brilliant for me in the first season, but I think he thought I was getting too big and powerful for him and there wasn't much dialogue in the end."
Miller said he was "baffled" by that comment, adding that he did "everything I possibly could to make his job a success".
The Apollo 11 lunar rock was a present from the United States President Richard Nixon to the UK.
The National Museum of Wales wanted it after Scotland, but was in competition with the Norfolk city of Norwich.
That could have posed "presentational difficulties" wrote an official to the prime minister's private secretary.
"The National Museum of Wales would like to receive the moon dust on loan for a month or so preferably after it has been released by the Royal Scottish Museum," said Richard Munday, in the papers released after 30 years by the National Archives.
"There would, as I am sure you will appreciate, be presentational difficulties if Wales came after Norwich."
The plea appeared to have been successful and the moon dust went on display in Cardiff before it travelled to Norwich.
It was later put on show in Newport, Swansea and Aberystwyth.
The moon dust consisted of "four miniscule pieces embedded in a clear plastic globule mounted for display".
The display stand featured a Union flag that had been taken to the moon and back by Apollo 11.
President Nixon had presented it to Prime Minister Harold Wilson in January 1970, but its preferred whereabouts occupied officials and politicians for more than a decade.
Edward Heath, PM from 1974 to 1979, was unable to identify an "aesthetically suitable" public spot in 10 Downing Street and it was placed in a cupboard.
In January 1985, Margaret Thatcher decided the display should be placed in the waiting area at No 10, where it remains today.
Papers also released by the National Archives show former prime minister Margaret Thatcher ordered a review of funding in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland - amid claims that public spending in Scotland was too high..
The also revealed she was originally opposed to regeneration of Cardiff docklands and the Cardiff Bay barrage project.
The releases also unveiled how the Welsh secretary at the time, Nicholas Edwards, urged the prime minister to reject any plans to build a bridge linking England and France, based on his own experiences of using the Severn Bridge and the Cleddau Bridge in Pembrokeshire.
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The Riders, who won the Trophy and the league this season, failed to score for five minutes in the last quarter as the Sharks overhauled them.
Mike Tuck, voted the most valuable player, led Sheffield's scorers with 20 points and Jerrold Brooks added 18.
Northumbria won the WBBL play-offs title with a 75-68 win over Nottingham.
Neal Watson had 19 points for Leicester and Conner Washington added 15.
Leicester were uncharacteristically untidy in the first quarter but still came out of it leading 22-18.
Sheffield's six three-pointers in the second quarter - three from Kyle Odister and two from John Barber - ensured the Sharks were ahead 44-43 at the interval.
Leicester scored the last 10 points of a tight third quarter to lead 66-59 with 10 minutes remaining but Sheffield re-took the lead, 73-71, with 4:14 remaining with five points in a row from Brooks.
When Riders' Tyler Bernardini hit a three with 6:14 remaining, Leicester led 71-66, but that was their last score for almost five and half minutes - Sheffield's 14 unanswered points in that time left Leicester scrambling for a reply they could not find in the final minute.
Meanwhile, Nottingham, the league champions, led by as many as 13 points late in the first half, but Northumbria came back to lead with six minutes remaining and held their nerve in a tense final minute to win their first WBBL trophy.
Fiona O'Dwyer led Northumbria's scoring with 17 points and Nottingham's efforts were led by Amber Stokes' 21 points.
Sheffield forward Mike Tuck: "I couldn't be more proud of our guys - we've had such an up and down season with changes of players and losing guys to injuries - to fight all the way through the post-season to win the biggest competition of the year on the biggest stage in British basketball."
Leicester coach Rob Paternostro: "I thought we missed a lot of easy [shots] around the basket, some of them went in and out - demoralising misses for us. I thought it was quite comical that they were playing the underdog role because everyone in the league knew how good this team was."
Northumbria coach Chris Bunten: "We were down big in the first half and we weren't playing particularly well. We just said 'we can't play any worse than we are now - let's go out and play the way we can', and from that point we executed superbly."
Boreham Wood's Delano Sam-Yorke played a one-two with with Harry White before firing home the only goal.
Adam Boyes' header hit the bar for Guiseley and Sam-Yorke struck the inside of the post for the Wood.
After 20th-placed Halifax's surprise win over Forest Green, the Wood now sit 19th on 47 points, while Guiseley are 21st on 46 points with one game left.
The 31-year-old defender made 196 appearances for his hometown club, helping the Grecians win promotion out of non-league and into League One.
Since leaving in 2009 he has had spells at Derby, Crystal Palace and Bolton, whom he left at the end of last season.
"It is nice to have the kit back on and I have got my number back," Moxey told the club website.
"It is strange, having not been here for eight years. It (the training ground) has improved a fair bit since I was last here, with the 3G pitch down the bottom.
"The first team training pitch looks fantastic now as well - it was just mud when I was here before."
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It's not the first time the band have taken to the main stage, having made their debut at the event back in 2003.
"I can't stop thinking about playing at Reading & Leeds," said The Libertines frontman Pete Doherty.
"There is a great vibe in the band and we should be doing some new songs too. So it'll be the best Reading and Leeds ever," added band-mate Gary Powell.
The festival takes place on 28-30 August.
Mumford and Sons and Metallica have already been confirmed as the two other main stage headliners.
Mumford and Sons last appeared at Reading and Leeds on the NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage five years ago.
The band have been working on their third album since February 2014.
Festival boss Melvin Benn announced another 50 acts that will perform for fans across the English bank holiday weekend.
They include Jamie XX, Gorgon City, Kendrick Lamar and The Maccabees.
"I really think we've got the ultimate line-up this year," Benn said.
"Where else can you see Kendrick Lamar on the same day as Deadmau5 and Years & Years, or Marmozets on the same day as Azealia Banks or Metallica, or All Time Low on the same day as Knife Party or Mumford & Sons."
Rebel Sound are another of the acts confirmed to play.
"The last time we played Reading and Leeds, the crowd were insane and we had to stop the set four times - there was so much energy," the group said.
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Another passenger, a woman in her 50s, was also killed and more than 20 injured, two seriously.
Witnesses said the man, reportedly aged 71, had poured fuel over himself in the first carriage of the train and used a lighter to ignite it.
Most of the 1,000 people on board escaped the smoke-filled carriages when the train made an emergency stop.
The train, a super-fast Nozomi going from Tokyo to Osaka, was near Odawara city south of the capital, when the emergency stop button was pressed.
All trains on the Tokyo-Osaka high speed line were stopped - signs at Odawara station said staff did not know when it would resume operating.
Officials have given no indication of the man's motives but are treating the incident as a suicide.
One unidentified witness said the man had been carrying a petrol container "and sprayed liquid across the seats and then all over himself and then set himself on fire".
"The fire spread all over the place immediately," he told Reuters.
This incident will be profoundly shocking to people in Japan. This is an extremely safe country, and Japan's famous bullet train is the safest in the world.
It has not recorded a single fatality since it started operation more than 50 years ago.
Sadly though, Japan is no stranger to suicide, especially among young men. Last year this country again reported the highest rate of suicide in the world, and it is now the leading cause of death for men between the ages of 20 and 44.
There is also a history of people setting themselves on fire in protest. Last year a man died after setting himself on fire in a park in central Tokyo. He was protesting at government plans to overturn Japan's post-war pacifist constitution.
Local media said the incident took place at 11:30am local time (02:30 GMT) while the train was between Yokohama and Odawara.
Japan Rail officials said the train came to a stop after the emergency button was pressed and the man who set himself on fire was then discovered near the toilet stall.
The Kyodo news agency quoted transport officials as saying the driver had tried to put out the fire.
The other dead passenger, a woman, was reportedly found at the other end of the carriage. It was not immediately clear how she had died but officials said it may have been from the effect of the smoke.
Television footage showed people being removed from the train by emergency services and carried across the tracks on stretchers.
The Championship leaders revealed they had spoken to the 34-year-old last week but said any move would depend on them winning promotion back to Super League.
McGuire has spent 15 years with Leeds, helping them to seven Grand Final wins.
"I feel I could have easily stuck around at Leeds and finished my career here but I feel like I've still got a lot to give," he told the club website.
"I'm still playing well, so I'm looking forward to starting afresh and putting a marker down at Hull KR. Hopefully, we can have a good season and create some good times there."
England and Great Britain half-back McGuire is the leading try-scorer in Super League history with 233, and is fourth on the Rhinos' all-time list.
Since making his Leeds debut as a teenager in 2002, McGuire has scored 262 tries in all competitions in more than 400 appearances and in addition to their Grand Final triumphs has also helped them to three World Club Challenge titles and two Challenge Cup wins.
McGuire will team up again with former Leeds team-mate Jamie Peacock, who is now the Robins' head of rugby, at KCOM Craven Park, while he will get the chance to play under World Cup-winning former Australia coach Tim Sheens.
"Danny will really add to our squad for next year," said Sheens. "He's had a few clubs looking at him but I think he liked what he heard about us and the things we spoke about. We've had a good chat about how we see things and we were totally honest regarding our situation for next year, which wasn't an issue for him."
Rovers are guaranteed to finish top of the Championship but must now go through the Qualifiers to win promotion back to the top flight at the first attempt after being relegated when they lost to Salford in the Million Pound Game last October.
Emergency services were called to Market Hill, in Sudbury, Suffolk, at about 18:25 BST after reports people were trapped.
Police said a "full-scale evacuation" had taken place in the immediate area as flames spread, with up to 20 people moved from their homes.
Three people were taken to hospital for further treatment.
The patients, a man in his 50s, a woman in her 40s and a woman in her 70s, had minor burns and were suffering smoke inhalation, East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust said.
They were taken to West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, while another patient was treated at the scene.
The cause of the fire is not yet known, Suffolk Police said.
The fire is thought to have affected several shops and adjoining flats in the centre of Sudbury. Suffolk fire service sent 15 appliances to the blaze.
Sarah Pheby, an administrator who lives across the road from where the fire broke out, said: "I could feel the heat of the flames on my face when I looked at it through the window, and that was through my double glazing.
"The first floor of the building has collapsed, it is just a shell now. The roof has gone."
Local Labour councillor Luke Cresswell said: "I saw around 20 people being evacuated. They were given covers and looked really upset.
"There were families including children. They looked really shaken up, some of them were crying.
"A couple of the young girls only looked around five or six-years-old and were very upset."
The verdict is scheduled for 18 July.
Mr Navalny, a 37-year-old anti-corruption campaigner, later denounced President Vladimir Putin's rule, saying his system was "sucking the blood out of Russia".
If convicted, he could be kept in prison until after the next presidential election in 2018.
The prosecutors stopped short of demanding the maximum term of 10 years at the trial in Kirov, a city 900km (560 miles) north-east of Moscow.
Mr Navalny denies defrauding a timber firm of 16m roubles (£300,000; $500,000).
In a live webcast from the courtroom, Mr Navalny said he and his colleagues "will do our best to destroy the feudal state that's being built in Russia, destroy the system of government where 83 per cent of national wealth is owned by half a per cent of the population''.
"If somebody thinks that upon hearing this threat of six years, I will run away abroad or go into hiding, they could not be more wrong,'' he said. "I don't have any other choice and I don't want to do anything else. I want to help the people of my country, work for my compatriots."
He inspired mass protests against the Kremlin in December 2011, and recently declared he would like to stand for president.
He is currently campaigning for election as mayor of Moscow in September.
He says the case has been fabricated to remove him from politics.
When the six-year demand was announced, Mr Navalny looked shocked and exchanged nervous smiles with his wife Yulia, who then embraced him when a short break in proceedings was declared, Reuters news agency reports from Kirov.
"I still hope everything will be fine," Mr Navalny told reporters.
The case against him is one of five opened by investigators in the year since Vladimir Putin was re-elected president.
He is accused of defrauding the Kirovles state timber company while working as an adviser to Kirov's governor, Nikita Belykh.
The judge in his trial has not acquitted anyone in more than 130 cases.
Childcare and early years researcher David Dallimore of Bangor University wants an overhaul of education provision for three to four-year-olds.
He told BBC's Eye on Wales: "It's one of the things we haven't done well in Wales is have a long-term vision for our early years services."
The Welsh government said it can consider its options once the detail of the proposed Childcare Bill is known.
Currently, all three and four-year-olds are entitled to a minimum of 10 hours education delivered through the Foundation Phase.
Each of the 22 councils choose how they deliver those hours for three year olds and how much they spend on it.
Because of this, levels and flexibility of provision vary enormously from county to county.
"It's a patchwork of provision, there's a different level of provision in different local authorities, it's a bit of a dog's dinner," said Mr Dallimore.
In contrast to England, this provision is mainly provided through state nurseries and schools, known as the maintained sector.
The problem for working parents is that 10 hours a week delivered over five days does not tie in easily with a working day.
Now there are calls to make the system work better for working families by offering a more joined up provision between education and childcare and enabling a larger range of providers to deliver the education entitlement.
Patricia Hanson from the National Day Nursery Association said: "Potentially we could be seeing parents and children in Wales missing out if something isn't done about it.
"We need to ensure that every provider, whether private, voluntary or maintained, that wants to participate in the delivery of the early entitlement is given the opportunity to do so."
Research for Eye On Wales showed there is a distinct north/south divide, with many councils in north Wales, such as Flintshire and Denbighshire, giving parents more options while in the south, councils such as Swansea only offering it through the maintained sector.
With England planning to expand its childcare and early years offer for three year olds, the pressure is now on the Welsh government to offer a better service for working families.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "We are very clear about the importance of accessible, affordable and high quality childcare in helping people to get back into work, or to increase their working hours.
"Once we know the details of the proposed Childcare Bill and any financial consequential which may be generated, we will be in a better position to consider the options for Wales."
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The 27-year-old Briton outpointed the 39-year-old Ukrainian in Dusseldorf, Germany to bring his nine-year reign to an end.
"I think you have seen 65% of what I am capable of," the self-styled 'Gypsy King' told Sky Sports News.
"That wasn't as good as I can do. I can go up another level."
The Manchester fighter insisted he would beat Klitschko again if the former champion takes up the option of a rematch - and would be happy for it to be in Germany.
"If he had 10 years to train, the result would be the same next time," Fury said. "I think he will take the rematch, but who knows when he gets home and has time to think about it.
"It doesn't really matter to me where I fight. Japan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, America - wherever it has to be. I'd like to come back to Germany again to fight Wlad. I enjoyed it here and I got a great reception from the German fans."
He added. "I might be allowed a voluntary defence [before a potential rematch with Klitschko] and I would like to have that back in England, probably in Manchester. It would be great to bring the titles back."
Fury is keen to spend time over the festive period with his family, including pregnant wife Paris, who he serenaded at ringside after his victory. The couple already have a daughter, Venezuela, and a son Prince.
But attention has already turned to who else Fury could face in defence of his titles.
Irish legend Barry McGuigan told BBC Radio 5 live that David Haye, the British former world champion, making his comeback in January after three years in retirement, is "the obvious fight" for Fury.
He added: "Anthony Joshua is full of promise but hasn't done anything at the top level yet. Deontay Wilder [the American WBC world champion] would be a great fight for him. Wilder is a slashing, hard fighter but he was hurt himself in his last defence by a journeyman fighter.
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"I don't think either of them are that fantastic to be honest. Both can look vulnerable at times. Fury is unbeaten and would be favourite but Wilder is a great puncher."
Fury himself has played down a potential bout against Wilder. "Why do we need to mention Deontay Wilder? Let's laugh at his name, shall we? Why would I be bothered about a novice like Wilder?
"He's a basketball player who took up boxing a couple of years ago. I'm a true natural fighter. I've been doing it all my life. You get horses and dogs and it's bred into them to be what they are, whether it's racehorses or show dogs. And it's bred into me to be a fighter.
"So, if Deontay Wilder wants a unification fight he is going to have to wait, because Wladimir Klitschko has a round two....ding ding ding!"
The pair were due to fight twice, in 2013 and 2014, but Haye pulled out on both occasions because of injury, leading to bad blood between the pair.
"I hope Fury can win a rematch and take the titles back to Britain again as a free agent," Haye told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek.
"It throws the division up in the air and makes it really exciting for once.
"We now have a crazy guy with the belts. It might be negative but it makes you laugh and it's better than being bored to tears by Klitschko.
"I would like my opportunity to work my way up the rankings and have a crack at him. As long as he takes belts away that makes him my target.
"Because of the history between us, Fury's camp won't give me any voluntary fights. We don't get on that great so I will have to work my way up to become the mandatory challenger for one of his titles."
Fury has paid tribute to his uncle and trainer Peter, who he believes revitalised his career after they started working together in 2012.
"When I started with Peter, I was going to stop boxing," he said. "I was flat, I was out of shape, I was 24 stone. I wasn't doing the right things, I was drinking and going out a lot," he said.
"But we stuck at it, trained every day, week on week. Since January 2012, we have only taken about two or three weeks off - and Peter has to take a lot of credit for that.
"It has been a long road to get here but I am finally here, parked up in front of view, in the shop window."
"Money, fame, glory…nothing changes the man unless they want it to," Fury said. "I am really comfortable with the man I am today. I will be the same person I was when I started boxing. Nothing is going to change me."
Fury has previously claimed he has no interest in being a role model and has been a controversial figure in the build-up to the Klitschko fight.
One of Britain's former world heavyweight champions, Lennox Lewis, believes he may need to modify his behaviour to assume the responsibility that comes with the title.
"Now he's champion he has to behave himself a little bit more because there are a lot of kids and people looking up to him," Lewis told Sportsweek.
"There are a lot of different boxers and people who will have a lot of things to say about him. If you allow [Fury] to say what he wants without coming back then you are soft to him. He won't respect you unless you directly come back at him.
"But he's a different character in the heavyweight scene. His character captures the imagination of people."
Donald Jones's funeral started at Gwent Crematorium at 11:00 GMT to commemorate his wartime service.
Mr Jones, of Pontypool, Torfaen, died shortly before his 94th birthday.
He parachuted into Normandy on 6 June 1944 and helped liberate the first French village to be freed from German occupation.
Mr Jones continued to return to France as recently as last summer, and earlier this year received the country's highest award, the Légion d'honneur.
One of his daughters, Jan Tucker-Jones, said he had not talked about his wartime experiences when she was a child.
But in later years he became more involved in D-Day commemorations in Normandy.
"He went this June and he would have gone next year if he could have done," said Mrs Tucker-Jones.
His son, Richard Jones, said his father had been happiest when visiting Normandy in recent years.
"That's why this ceremony today has had a slightly wartime, French theme to it," he said.
"He did have an affinity with the people of Normandy. They all treated him with such respect, all the veterans who go there are treated with respect."
Mr Jones's unit, 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion, were taken to the south of England and briefed on their D-Day mission - to secure land around the River Orne and Caen canal bridges.
They flew over Normandy in the early hours of 6 June with anti-aircraft shells exploding around them.
Last year, he told the South Wales Argus: "They were the most beautiful patterns dancing around the sky. It was like being at Blackpool for a display - but so much more dangerous."
Mr Jones, then aged 21, and his battalion helped liberate the village of Ranville.
His first contact with the enemy saw him firing his pistol at an approaching figure who failed to answer when he called out the password "overlord".
Mr Jones was injured in the leg by shrapnel and shipped back to England the next day. He returned to Normandy in August, but was back in the UK the next month.
After his military discharge, he was employed at Llanwern steelworks in Newport. He married Marjorie, who died eight years ago.
His children Janet, Alison and Richard arranged the funeral for 11 November. Another daughter Pamela died two years ago. Mr Jones also had nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
He continued to return to Ranville for D-day commemorations, and last January he and 11 other veterans received the Légion d'honneur in a ceremony at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff.
His daughter Alison Sutcliffe, of Pontypool, said: "He was a wonderful character, very knowledgeable and interested in everything."
The Serie A club have been owned by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi since 1986.
A new stadium is on the new owners' agenda, according to the club's general manager Marco Fassone.
"We want to give AC Milan a stadium in the short term," he said.
AC Milan and fierce rivals Inter Milan, also Chinese-owned, rent the 80,000-seat San Siro from Milan's city council.
"We know that in Italy it cannot happen straight away," added Fassone.
"Whether it's San Siro or a newly built stadium, as long as the club can have its own stadium."
AC Milan have not won Serie A since 2011 and finished seventh, 10th and eighth in the past three seasons.
They are sixth in the league, 20 points behind leaders Juventus.
The investigators examined thousands of still images of dead prisoners, many reportedly smuggled out by a defector.
A Syrian spokesman said the report had no credibility as it was commissioned by Qatar, which funds rebel groups.
The report comes a day before peace talks are due to begin in Switzerland.
The talks, known as "Geneva II", will open in Montreux, and continue in Geneva two days later.
It is seen as the biggest diplomatic effort yet to end the three-year conflict which has left more than 100,000 dead and millions displaced.
Meanwhile, in its annual report released on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch accuses Russia and China of allowing abuses to take place by blocking action through the UN.
It also accuses both government and pro-opposition forces of human rights abuses including torture and extrajudicial killings.
By Jim MuirBBC News, Beirut
There have been many reports and much evidence collected by human rights groups and international investigators alleging systematic torture and killings in Syrian government detention centres.
But the latest report carries such allegations into a new dimension. The figure of 11,000 victims documented in the 55,000 photographs is clearly just the tip of the iceberg, representing the numbers in one location only, and with a large number of the images (27,000) taken by one official photographer.
This man, codenamed "Caesar", was later smuggled out of Syria and questioned by three top war crimes prosecutors for several days at an undisclosed location. They concluded that his testimony was "not only credible, but most compelling".
Issues of political motivation - the commissioning of the report by Qatar, and its release just before the Geneva talks - should not obscure the reality of the evidence produced.
Graphic images of abuse
Geneva II, it says, "shouldn't become the latest excuse to avoid action to protect Syrian civilians".
The report by the former war crimes prosecutors is based on the evidence of a defected military police photographer, referred to only as Caesar, who along with others reportedly smuggled about 55,000 digital images of some 11,000 dead detainees out of Syria.
He said his job had been to take photographs of corpses, both to allow a death certificate to be produced and to confirm that execution orders had been carried out.
"There could be as many as 50 bodies a day to photograph which require 15 to 30 minutes of work per corpse," he is quoted as saying.
He did not claim to have witnessed killings or torture himself.
The photographs cover the period from the start of the uprising in March 2011 until August last year.
All but one of the bodies shown are male. Investigators say most were emaciated; many had been beaten or strangled.
Some had no eyes, and some showed signs of electrocution.
One of the authors of the report, Prof Sir Geoffrey Nice, told the BBC's Newsday programme that the scale and consistency of the killings provided strong evidence of government involvement that could support a criminal prosecution.
Forensic pathologist Stuart Hamilton told Newsday that in the images that he saw, a large number of detainees were showing "evidence of significant starvation".
Syria torture report
He said many looked as if they had been bound or restrained.
The report says the images are "clear evidence" of "systemic torture and killing of detained persons by agents of the Syrian government".
However, a spokesman for the Syrian ministry of information, Bassam Abu Abdullah, questioned the report's evidence, telling the BBC it was unclear where the information had come from or if the photographs were "from Syria or from outside Syria".
He said he was "astonished" at the figure of 11,000 victims, saying it had not been raised before this report.
He said: "I doubt this report. We should check these photos. Who are these people? Where are the names? From which prisons? Who is this person who has the authority to have these photos?"
Mr Abdullah said the international courts should direct their questions to Qatar.
He said: "If Qatar financed this report, there is no credibility because Qatar is one of the states who financed international terrorism and who sent killers to Syria. We have professional killers inside Syria from around the world. We are defending ourselves."
The Syrian government and the main exiled opposition alliance, the National Coalition, are due to send delegates to the Geneva II conference, which begins on Wednesday.
A UN-backed meeting in 2012 issued the document and urged Syria to:
More on the Geneva communique
Lyse Doucet on Geneva II
Who's going?
Geneva's key role in international talks
US President Barack Obama telephoned Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to "discuss the issues of the conference", the Kremlin said.
On Monday, the UN's secretary general withdrew an invitation to Iran - a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - over its refusal to endorse the Geneva Communique, the plan for a transitional governing body agreed at a UN-backed meeting in 2012.
The invitation to Iran had angered the US, while the Coalition had threatened to pull out if the invitation was not rescinded. It has since confirmed it will attend.
It is unclear whether Iran will be able to join the talks when they move to Geneva.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran regretted that the invitation had been withdrawn "under pressure", while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said not inviting Iran was "a mistake".
He added: "There is no catastrophe, we will push for a dialogue between the Syrian parties without any preconditions."
The job losses reflect the downturn in the oil and gas sector and weakness in Northern Ireland manufacturing.
The Unite union has said it will engage with management to mitigate the losses and to secure the best possible redundancy offer.
It said Northern Ireland is "still reeling at large-scale job losses across the manufacturing sector".
The former Bolton Wanderers centre-back has signed a one-year extension until the summer of 2018.
Finney, 20, moved to Loftus Road as a free agent in November and has featured regularly for Rangers' development side this season.
He started his career with Leyton Orient, and made two Championship and one EFL Cup appearances for Bolton before being released last year.
Researchers suggest £4m will be generated in additional sales of beer, confectionery and food.
Another £2.8m could be spent at pubs and fan zones during matches, including on transport and fast food.
The survey suggests £2.5m will be spent on NI home and away shirts and other official merchandise.
Andrew Webb, senior advisor at the Ulster University's economic policy centre, said: "The European Championship finals is a significant sporting event for Northern Ireland but with the added benefit of not having many of the associated costs that come with actually hosting the event.
"The buzz surrounding the tournament will bring more people to pubs and fan zones to watch the matches as well as see them organise get-togethers at home.
"As retailers benefit from the additional expenditure that comes from this, there is an increase in demand on their suppliers and so on down the supply chain."
Researchers categorised the impact in several ways
Mr Webb said the figure of £8.5m was "most likely conservative".
"There are, of course, a range of wider additional benefits which we can't quantify such as extra advertising and publicity for Northern Ireland as a result of the Euro 2016 qualification as well as sponsorship deals and television rights packages that may come later, with a higher profile team.
"So it is likely that the total economic benefit would be slightly higher than we have estimated."
The Northern Ireland football team secured their place at the Euro 2016 finals last October after beating Greece 3-1.
Michael O'Neill's squad is due to play against Poland in Nice on Sunday.
The 302ft (92m) long aircraft - which is part plane and part airship - was damaged during a flight from Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire.
The flight deck is now back in place after major repairs and testing has begun inside a hangar at the airfield.
Engineers will then be able to restart their flight test programme.
The developer, Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), claims the aircraft could be used for a variety of functions such as surveillance, communications, delivering aid and even passenger travel.
It says it will be able to stay airborne for about five days during manned flights.
The aircraft's cockpit was badly damaged when it nosedived at the end of its second test flight on 24 August.
In a statement a spokesman for HAV said the repairs had gone well.
He added: "The mission module build team has been turning their attention to the large number of tasks that will be required before hangar exit and recommencement of the Flight Test Programme.
"With the equipment installed, power on was achieved and on-aircraft testing has now begun."
The company hopes to be building 10 Airlanders a year by 2021.
Airlander 10 in numbers
Nordqvist was penalised for touching sand in a bunker with her club on the second hole of a three-hole aggregate play-off with Lang, 30, at CordeValle.
USGA officials told Lang of the penalty before her third to the last green but Nordqvist found out after her approach.
"I wish the USGA would have told me a bit earlier," said Nordqvist, 29.
"They approached me after I already hit my third shot into 18, then kind of ran up to Brittany to tell her that I got penalised.
"I don't know if it would have changed the outcome, but it certainly would have changed my aggressiveness into the 18th pin."
The penalty was incurred with the scores level, and was only picked up after television replays indicated the Solheim Cup player had moved sand as she addressed the ball.
Rules state a player 'grounding a club' in a bunker will incur a two-shot penalty because they are deemed to have been testing the conditions.
Lang made par on the final hole with Nordqvist three-putting the last green to make a bogey and lose by three strokes.
It is the second USGA-run major to be dominated by a ruling in three weeks after Dustin Johnson played the majority of his final round of the US Open at Oakmont not knowing if he would be penalised because his ball moved as he addressed it on the fifth green.
Nordqvist had forced a play-off with a five-under final round of 67, with Lang's one-under-par 71 leaving both women on six-under for the tournament.
Lang, who was addressed as Bethany by USGA president Diana Murphy at the trophy presentation, said: "I'm thankful they told me before my wedge shot so I could take a little bit more club.
"They should tell you as soon as they know. I really don't think today was that big of a deal. Anna happened to hit her third shot. They have to go look and check these things. It's not that easy.
"I just said sorry to Anna [at the end]. I know she is probably super mad."
Nordqvist agreed she should have been penalised, saying: "It wasn't on purpose. It's just one of those things. I have to deal with the consequences."
Murphy later apologised for getting Lang's name wrong, saying: "I have expressed my regret to Brittany personally and explained that in the heat of the moment, I became nervous and made these mistakes."
Overnight leader and world number one Lydia Ko, seeking her third major as a teenager, shot a three-over 75 to finish in a tie for third on four-under.
Ko made a double bogey and two bogeys in the middle of her round as she went from leading after eight holes to two adrift of Lang and Nordqvist.
England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff shot a two-under 70 to finish in a tie for eighth place.
A camp for displaced people has been set up near Bannu but it lacks food, water and electricity, locals say.
Many displaced families are seeking shelter with friends and relatives.
A curfew has been lifted to allow people in North Waziristan to escape - and officials expect thousands more to flee to safety in the coming days.
"We have been locked inside our homes for the past four days ever since the curfew was imposed," Muhammad Niaz, from the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, told the BBC.
"The markets were closed and we ran out of food. I couldn't even take my child to the hospital. It was as if we were cut off from the world."
Another man who had left his home, Khurshid Khan said: "I have come here with women and children. There was not a drop of water along the way. My son's face has gone yellow with thirst. And we still don't know where we are heading."
The army says at least 160 militants had been killed since it began air strikes on militant targets in Shawal and other areas of North Waziristan on Sunday.
There is no independent media access to the area and no way of confirming the casualty figures.
Tanks and troops are also being sent in for a full-scale operation to target Taliban and foreign militant networks based near the Afghan border, the military says.
Eyewitness: Riffatullah Orakzai, BBC Urdu, Bannu region
Displaced people are arriving carrying their few belongings and their children and trying to reach safety on foot, in the scorching heat.
They look tired and hungry. There are no places for them to stop and rest.
A few religious parties have now set up some relief camps along the way, with food and water, but not a single government camp could be seen.
Most of the families are choosing to stay with relatives and friends, because it is also considered culturally unacceptable to live as a displaced person in a camp.
On Monday, locals asked the government to allow them safe passage to leave the tribal agency.
The army had initially blocked all roads leading out of North Waziristan, ahead of the military operations.
Despite the lifting of the curfew, the government appears ill-prepared to accommodate the thousands who have been streaming out of the area since Wednesday.
Only one camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) has been set up in the semi-autonomous tribal area of Bakakhel near Bannu.
Only three or four families have settled there. They say they have not been provided adequate food or water supplies in scorching summer temperatures. The area also has a proliferation of snakes and scorpions, another discouraging factor for families trying to seek shelter there.
North Waziristan is thought to have a population of between 550,000 and 700,000. Officials say approximately 80% of the population is still living in the area as the military strikes escalate.
In its latest statement on the fighting, the government said 15 militants had been killed by helicopter gunships in mountain heights to the east of the main town in North Waziristan, Miranshah.
It also said eight Uzbeks had been killed by army snipers while planting improvised explosive devices on the road between Miranshah and the town of Mir Ali.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gave the go-ahead for the offensive after a deadly attack earlier this month on Karachi airport, which was claimed by an Uzbek militant group and the Pakistani Taliban.
Analysis: Saba Eitizaz, BBC Urdu
This new mass migration will be a major burden on the country's resources. Pakistan is already struggling to cope with almost two million people displaced during the military operations against militants in Swat in 2009.
Many of them have still not been able to return to their homes and are living in makeshift camps or in slums in Karachi.
The government is also still in the process of resettling IDPs from the devastating floods of 2010 that swept across one-fifth of the country and affected 20 million people.
The move was announced by separatist leaders after consulting supporters.
On Wednesday, Mr Putin called for a postponement to create the conditions necessary for dialogue.
Ukrainian authorities say they will disregard the results and that "anti-terror" operations will continue.
Millions of ballot papers have been prepared for the referendum.
By Richard GalpinBBC News, Donetsk
Inside the building which has become the headquarters of the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, there was an air of defiance. The leaders of the self-declared "People's Republic of Donetsk" flexed their muscles in front of the world's media, apparently demonstrating they would not be pushed around by Russia's Vladimir Putin.
In total 78 self-appointed "deputies" acting on behalf of those who no longer want to be part of Ukraine had taken the decision to ignore Mr Putin's suggestion that the referendum be postponed.
One of them, a man called Vladimir, told the BBC that they respected the Russian president. "But we have our own opinion and the people want a referendum like they had in Crimea," he said.
The head of the commission organising the referendum even joked that he was delighted Mr Putin had called for a delay. Thanks to the Russian president, he said, everyone even in the furthest corners of eastern Ukraine now knows about it.
The question put to voters is: "Do you support the act of proclamation of independent sovereignty for the Donetsk People's Republic?''
The decision to press ahead with the vote was announced by separatist leaders in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The leader in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, said the decision had been unanimous.
"We just voice what the people want and demonstrate through their actions," he said.
A spokesman for the Kremlin said there was "little information" and that it needed to analyse the situation further.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says Mr Putin may turn the separatists' decision to his advantage, claiming it is proof that Russia is not orchestrating events in eastern Ukraine - as claimed by the West.
Moscow has vowed to protect the rights of Ukraine's Russian-speaking population against what it calls an undemocratic government in Kiev.
Ukrainian authorities have rejected activist demands for greater autonomy and troops have been battling to regain official buildings occupied by rebels in the east.
The European Union weighed in on Thursday, warning that "such a vote could have no democratic legitimacy and would only further worsen the situation".
The separatists' decision to hold the referendum comes as a Pew Research Center poll released on Thursday shows that a strong majority of Ukrainians want their country to remain unified, even in the largely Russian-speaking east.
In related developments on Thursday:
By Fergal KeaneBBC News, Sloviansk
Sloviansk divided over identity
The US and the European Union have imposed sanctions against several Russian individuals and businesses and threatened wider measures if Moscow interferes further in eastern Ukraine.
Sunday's planned referendum was seen as a potential trigger for that.
Meanwhile Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says there is no sign of a Russian troop withdrawal from the Ukrainian border, which Mr Putin announced on Wednesday.
Unrest in the south and east of Ukraine has worsened since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in March.
That followed the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February by pro-Western protesters.
Inflation in the 19-nation bloc hit 2% in February, according to Eurostat, up from a rate of 1.8% the month before.
The rate is the highest since January 2013 and is slightly above the ECB's target of just below 2%.
However, the increase in inflation is largely due to rising energy prices, and analysts do not expect the ECB to alter its current stimulus programme.
In December, the ECB said it would extend its bond-buying programme until at least December 2017, although the €80bn-a-month quantitative easing (QE) scheme will be trimmed to €60bn a month from April.
The bank has cut its main interest rate to zero and embarked on the bond-buying programme to try to stimulate growth in the eurozone and avoid deflation, or falling prices.
Although inflation is now above its target rate, February's core inflation rate - which strips out the impact of energy and food prices - was unchanged at 0.9%.
The ECB is due to meet next week, but Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Markit, said: "We believe the ECB will remain wedded to its current monetary policy stance.
"The ECB has made it very clear that it wants to see sustained, decisive evidence that underlying eurozone inflationary pressures are picking up."
Separate figures from Eurostat found that the unemployment rate in the eurozone remained unchanged at 9.6% in January, which is the lowest rate since May 2009.
Eurostat estimates that the number of unemployed people in the eurozone fell by 56,000 to 15.6 million.
Fifteen people were killed and dozens more were injured in the blaze at the 16-storey block in the capital, Baku.
Several thousand said they would attend a protest on Wednesday but only around 100 people turned up.
Officials blamed the "low quality of plastic siding" on the building and said an investigation had begun.
Helicopters were scrambled as emergency crews fought to bring the blaze under control on Tuesday.
Local media said children were among those killed and one victim died after leaping from the building.
The head of the construction company deemed responsible was detained after the fire.
Meanwhile, opposition website Meydan TV posted an archive photo on its Facebook page showing President Ilham Aliyev inaugurating the Global Construction company's factory that reportedly manufactured the panels.
Fifteen thousand people responded to a Facebook invitation to "remember the people [who died] and demand the punishment of the culprits" but the page was taken down on Wednesday morning.
Some social media users also denounced calls for people to dismantle the cladding themselves.
At the scene - Naila Hasanova, BBC Azeri
Dozens of police watched the area as more than 100 people took part in a protest.
Police reacted violently towards at least one person, who was chanting, "Dismantle the cladding, remove the masks, people wake up!"
Flowers were laid near the burnt out building.
One of its residents spoke out, calling on the mayor to resign and for those responsible to be punished.
Baku has undergone an extensive urban redevelopment programme in the past few years as ex-Soviet Azerbaijan reaps the benefits of oil and gas profits.
The city of some two million people has seen crumbling Communist-era blocks and early 20th-Century tenement buildings torn down to make way for glitzy skyscrapers.
The radical overhaul by the authorities has sparked protests from rights activists who accuse the government of forcibly evicting residents without proper compensation.
The fire deaths come just weeks before the start of the 2015 European Games, which will be held in Baku between 12-28 June.
The local organising committee has spent billions of pounds on Games infrastructure, including a new 68,000-capacity athletics stadium, and international-standard aquatics, gymnastics, BMX and shooting venues.
Australian John Coates described the situation in the Brazilian city as the "worst" he had seen.
I want to underline I still believe the Rio organising committee can deliver an excellent Games
But he has now issued a statement saying work is moving in the right direction.
"I want to underline I still believe the Rio organising committee can deliver an excellent Games," he said.
He added: "Rio 2016 is addressing the specific concerns of the 17 international federations that were raised with the organisers at a meeting in Turkey in April regarding their venues and the progress overall."
Coates has made six trips to Rio as part of the commission responsible for overseeing the preparations.
On Tuesday, he said construction had not started on some venues, infrastructure was significantly delayed and added that the city had "social issues that need to be addressed".
Coatrs, who has been involved in the Olympics for nearly 40 years, said the IOC had taken "unprecedented" action by placing experts in the local organising committee to ensure the Games go ahead.
They took the lead when George Cooper's corner was not dealt with by Dale and Marcus Haber prodded home.
Brad Inman doubled the advantage on the stroke of half-time when he tackled Peter Vincenti in the centre circle and drove forward before striking home.
Ian Henderson should have reduced the deficit, but he drove across the face of goal when free in the box.
Crewe rise a place to 22nd after their first win in over two months.
Crewe manager Steve Davis told BBC Radio Stoke:
"When the lads play like that it's hard to think why we've only won three home games this season. It was a great three points. We deserved it.
"I've been onto the players all week that we've not done well enough at home. I've told them we need to start winning at home and if we can do that and win the majority of them then we have a chance of doing it.
"It was nice to score from a set-play. Ben Nugent made a run to the near post. It put a couple of their players off and Marcus has pulled off at the far post. And Brad's goal was fantastic. He has terrific pace. When he is in that mood then he is very hard to stop."
Rochdale manager Keith Hill told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"Unfortunately, defensively we made bad decisions and that's hurt us. It's difficult because you tend to forgive strikers for missing opportunities more than you do defenders for giving away opportunities.
"Crewe have taken advantage of our friendly nature today - we were very charitable.
"Defensively, I was found a little bit wanting and that's a concern. Even though we've won two of the last five games, within those we've conceded 12 goals."
Police rescued Aleksei Makeev, 42, on Friday night after the crowd stormed his apartment in the Caribbean resort.
The man had allegedly posted disparaging and insulting remarks about local people in videos on social media.
He was accused of fatally stabbing someone during the affray, the authorities said.
A crowd of locals tried to confront Mr Makeev over his comments, and managed to gain entry into his apartment after the encounter turned violent.
According to local official Guillermo Brahms, a young man who was injured later died in hospital.
Mr Brahms said police managed to rescue Mr Makeev and take him to hospital for treatment. Although he was bloodied in the attack, he is reported to be in a stable condition.
Footage of the attack circulated in Mexican media on Saturday, with the attackers heard shouting "You're going to die" and "I'm going to cut your head off".
Police say frequent complaints had been made about Mr Makeev's behaviour and requests had been made to deport him.
Some of the videos he had posted were against a backdrop of swastikas, officials said.
"Ali shook up the world - and the world is better for it," Obama said.
Foreman, who was beaten by Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974, said: "Muhammad Ali made you love him."
British Prime Minister David Cameron, musician Sir Paul McCartney, boxers Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather and golfer Tiger Woods also paid tribute.
Ali was admitted to a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease.
The three-time world champion died from septic shock caused by "unspecified natural causes", his spokesman Bob Gunnell said.
Ali's funeral will take place in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky at 19:00 BST on Friday, 10 June, where flags have been flying at half-mast since his death was announced.
Former US president Bill Clinton and comedian Billy Crystal will deliver eulogies at the service, which will be open to the public. A procession will also be held in Louisville on the same day.
In a lengthy statement, Obama said both he and wife Michelle "pray that the greatest fighter of them all finally rests in peace".
"Like everyone else on the planet, Michelle and I mourn his passing," he said. "But we're also grateful to God for how fortunate we are to have known him, if just for a while; for how fortunate we all are that The Greatest chose to grace our time."
Ali's quick wit and vocal indignation over racial discrimination made him a compelling character away from the ring. He also refused to be drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War because of his religious beliefs, resulting in him losing his licence and world title.
"He stood with King and Mandela; stood up when it was hard; spoke out when others wouldn't. His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing," Obama added.
"It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled, and nearly send him to jail. But Ali stood his ground. And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognise today.
"He wasn't perfect, of course. For all his magic in the ring, he could be careless with his words, and full of contradictions as his faith evolved. But his wonderful, infectious, even innocent spirit ultimately won him more fans than foes - maybe because in him, we hoped to see something of ourselves.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, two-time world champion Foreman said: "Muhammad Ali was what I call beautiful. He has been something special.
"The man was the greatest. Forget about boxing, he was one of the greatest men to appear on television, in the media."
Foreman's loss to Ali in Kinshasa, Zaire [now DR Congo] 42 years ago stands as one of the most iconic moments in any sport.
Ali's 'rope-a-dope' strategy tired the unbeaten Foreman in the 80 degree heat, allowing him to force a stoppage in the eighth round.
"Little did I know I would be facing something greater than a boxer," Foreman said of the fight.
"He stood the test. He took everything I had and gave back worse. I loved the man. I wanted to beat him and knock him out but I loved the man."
Don King, who promoted many of Ali's fights, including the Rumble in the Jungle, said: "It's a sad day for life. I loved Muhammad Ali, he was my friend. Ali will never die.
"Like Martin Luther King, his spirit will live on. He stood for the world."
Eight-weight world champion Manny Pacquiao described Ali as a "giant".
"Boxing benefitted from Muhammad Ali's talents but not as much as mankind benefitted from his humanity," the Filipino said.
Floyd Mayweather, a world champion across five divisions, added: "There will never be another Muhammad Ali. The black community all around the world, black people all around the world, needed him. He was the voice for us. He's the voice for me to be where I'm at today."
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Barry McGuigan, former world featherweight champion, said: "Everybody wanted to box because of him. He was just so amazing in every way. More than anything else, it was how humble and how brilliantly charismatic he was.
"He was a beautiful-looking man, a beautiful-looking individual and he had so much compassion. He was the greatest sportsman there has ever been and we were very lucky that he chose boxing."
World cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew described Ali as "the ultimate hero".
"It's heartbreaking news to wake up to. The greatest sportsman of all-time in my opinion. He transcended the sport and this is a sad day," he said.
"I hope something can be named after him. He can never be replicated."
Former world super-middleweight and light-heavyweight champion Joe Calzaghe said Ali was his "inspiration".
"People loved him, he was someone completely different, he backed it up in the ring and everybody wanted to tune in and watch him fight," the Welshman said.
"There'll never be another Muhammad Ali. He was a superstar."
British journalist Michael Parkinson interviewed Muhammad Ali four times and remembers him as boxing's biggest ever star.
"He was a rockstar," Parkinson told BBC World Service. "It was not often I was gobsmacked but as he walked across the studio floor I'd never seen a more graceful or beautiful man, he was extraordinary.
"He was a man who could fell you with a blow - kill you maybe - yet he had beautiful hands with long tapering fingers."
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Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney said "the world has lost a truly great man".
"Dear Muhammad Ali. I loved that man. He was great from the first day we met him in Miami, and on the numerous occasions when I ran into him over the years," McCartney said in a statement.
"Besides being the greatest boxer, he was a beautiful, gentle man with a great sense of humour who would often pull a pack of cards out of his pocket, no matter how posh the occasion, and do a card trick for you."
British Prime Minister David Cameron said: "Muhammad Ali was not just a champion in the ring - he was a champion of civil rights, and a role model for so many people."
Former US President Bill Clinton said Ali possessed "a blend of beauty and grace, speed and strength that may never be matched again".
"We watched him grow from the brash self-confidence of youth and success into a manhood full of religious and political convictions that led him to make tough choices and live with the consequences," he added.
"Along the way we saw him courageous in the ring, inspiring to the young, compassionate to those in need, and strong and good-humoured in bearing the burden of his own health challenges."
He delivered a speech commemorating "Bloody Sunday" on 7 March 1965, when security forces attacked black demonstrators in the city.
Mr Obama said the marchers, who were campaigning for equal voting rights, had "given courage to millions".
His wife Michelle and about 100 members of Congress also attended the event.
"Because of what they did, the doors of opportunity swung open not just for African-Americans, but for every American," he said, standing in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where the violence took place.
A crowd of some 40,000 people watched as Mr Obama and his family led a symbolic walk across part of the bridge, accompanied by those who had made the march in 1965.
Police beat and used tear gas on demonstrators as they made their way over the crossing, on a day that became known as "Bloody Sunday".
That event, and a follow-up march from Selma to Montgomery two weeks later, helped build momentum for approval of the Voting Rights Act by Congress later that year.
The legislation, pushed by President Lyndon Johnson, removed all barriers preventing African-Americans from registering as voters.
Mr Obama reminded the American public that despite progress the fight against racism was not over.
He addressed the recent police killings of unarmed black men and teenagers, which had triggered protests in several US cities.
"This nation's long racial history still casts its long shadow upon us. We know the march is not yet over, the race is not yet won," he said.
His comments followed demonstrations in the northern state of Wisconsin on Friday, triggered by reports that a black man had been shot by a police officer.
The 19-year-old, identified as Tony Robinson, was unarmed according to police. It is alleged he assaulted the officer before shots were fired.
Mr Obama also condemned new attempts by state governments to restrict voting rights.
"Right now, in 2015, 50 years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote. As we speak, more of such laws are being proposed," he said.
"Meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act, the culmination of so much blood and sweat and tears... stands weakened, its future subject to partisan rancour."
Georgia congressman John Lewis, a Democrat who was among those injured in the violence 50 years ago, also addressed the crowd of more than 40,000.
He said: "I want to thank each and every one of you who marched across the bridge on Bloody Sunday. You didn't have to do but you did.
"Six hundred people marched into history. We were so peaceful, so quiet. No-one saying a word.
"We were beaten, tear gassed, some of us were left bloody here on this bridge. But we never became bitter or hostile."
President George W Bush - who was in office between 2001 and 2009 - also took part in the commemorations.
Sales hit $29.1bn for the three months to the end of March, helped by rising sales of its Kindle reading devices and Fire tablet computers.
Both sales and profits were higher than analysts had been expecting and Amazon shares jumped in after hours trading.
The company reported strong growth in customers for its Prime service, which includes free delivery and TV shows.
The results were a positive sign for investors who had been rattled by disappointing earnings from Apple and Microsoft.
"It did restore my faith," said Dan Conde, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
Amazon's cloud services unit was an important source of sales growth.
The cloud business rents data storage space and software services to companies, and is Amazon's fastest growing unit.
Revenue rose 64% year-over-year, reaching $2.5bn.
Investors have been watching Amazon's cloud operation closely, particularly after one of its biggest customers, Apple, announced it would be moving some of its business elsewhere.
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Since the start of the year Amazon has added new televisions shows and films to its Prime service, which helped to attract new users.
In April, Amazon introduced options to pay monthly for the service.
The plan is part of an effort to compete with video streaming services like Netflix and Hulu.
The company also attributed the increased number of Prime members to the expanded list of products eligible for free two-day shipping.
Amazon did not detail sales of devices like the Kindle and Fire table, but did say that the division has seen growth.
"Amazon devices are the top selling products on Amazon, and customers purchased more than twice as many Fire tablets than first quarter last year," chief executive Jeff Bezos said.
The proposals to overhaul education provision in Jedburgh emerged earlier this year.
They would see Parkside and Howdenburn primaries and Jedburgh Grammar shut and replaced by a new campus for children aged two to 18 at Hartrigge Park.
The latest consultation event is being held in the Grammar School's assembly hall from noon until 19:00.
Scottish Borders Council has said the campus would have state-of-the-art classrooms and learning spaces, the very best IT infrastructure and first-class leisure and dining provision, as well as the very best sporting and PE facilities.
The project could be approved later this year with the new Jedburgh campus operational by 2020.
The French investigators found that fat cells release a protein that drives prostate cancer's spread in mice.
Human fat cells release the same protein, they told Nature Communications.
The researchers hope that drugs which block it could help treat men before the disease becomes too advanced.
Drugs that do this are already being tested in human trials for another, unrelated health condition - asthma.
In the UK, about one in eight men will get prostate cancer at some point in their lives.
Diagnosed early, the chances of survival are generally good. But prostate cancer kills more than 10,000 men a year in Britain.
Many cancers are linked to being overweight.
These include breast, bowel and womb cancer.
But any link with prostate cancer has been less clear.
Lead researcher Dr Catherine Muller, from Toulouse University, says while obesity may not make prostate cancer more likely, it does appear to fuel its growth if a tumour is already present.
"This is something people need to know. People are aware about obesity's importance in other cancers and diseases, but not for prostate cancer."
Her lab work shows how the protein CCL7 from fat cells signals for cancer cells to move out of the prostate gland and into the surrounding tissue.
In obese mice who had been fed a high-fat diet, tumour spread outside the prostate was greater than in mice with normal body weight and was linked to higher levels of CCL7 and its target receptor CCR3.
They then studied more than 100 human tumour samples and confirmed that the aggressive cancers tended to have more CCR3 receptors than less aggressive ones.
Dr Aine McCarthy, Cancer Research UK's science information officer, said: "This research in mice sheds light on why obese men with prostate cancer are more likely to have aggressive tumours. It shows for the first time how fat cells surrounding the prostate use chemical signals to talk to tumour cells, enticing them to move and spread around the body.
"Excitingly, the researchers proved that jamming communications between fat cells and tumour cells stopped the cancer spreading. The next step is to assess if this approach, using drugs that are already being developed, could benefit men with the disease."
Glencore, Fresnillo and Anglo American were all more than 3% higher, helped by rising commodity prices.
Shares in online grocer Ocado were down another 8%, adding to Tuesday's 14% slump after it said intense competition was hitting profit margins.
Shares in building firms were also among the big movers in trading in London on Wednesday.
Galliford Try was the biggest mover on the FTSE 250, with a 6% rise. It reported strong annual results and also proposed raising its dividend payout by 21%.
However, builders were also among the biggest losers on the FTSE 100.
Taylor Wimpey and Berkeley Group were down more than 1%.
One trader said those shares could be backtracking after recent gains.
Another trader said that investors might be switching into Galliford shares due to its higher dividend payout.
Overall the benchmark FTSE 100 index gained ground through the morning, adding 0.7% to 6,712.
Shares in European luxury goods firms were lower after France's Hermes warned of an "increasingly uncertain trading environment" and Switzerland's Richemont announced disappointing results.
That put pressure on Burberry shares which fell 0.7%.
Against the dollar the pound was little changed at $1.3201 and was also flat against the euro at €1.1756.
The benchmark FTSE 100 index closed up 55.5 points at 6,393.13, with shares in mining giant Glencore up 5.8%.
However, BHP Billiton fell 2.5% after JP Morgan cut its rating on the miner to "underweight" from "neutral".
Analysts said the recent dam failure in Brazil could be the "straw that breaks the camel's back" for its dividend.
Trading was quiet on Thursday with US markets closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Tesco shares rose 0.9% after the supermarket said it had paid $12m (£8m) to settle a US lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleged that Tesco's overstatement of its profits guidance, revealed last year, breached certain US securities laws.
Severn Trent shares rose nearly 1% after the water company reported flat half-year revenues of £896m and a 2.6% rise in underlying profits to £218m.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.07% against the dollar to $1.5120, and edged up 0.08% against the euro to €1.4253.
More than 3,000 legislators are meeting in the Great Hall of the People starting Sunday for 10 days.
They are expected to discuss ways to reform the economy while tackling pollution that has sparked public anger.
The Chinese economy expanded at its slowest pace in 26 years in 2016.
The rubber-stamp parliament and its advisory body hold ceremonial meetings every year known as "lianghui" or "two sessions".
The NPC's advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, began its meeting on Friday.
State news agency Xinhua said legislators and advisors would, among other issues, discuss globalisation "at a time when certain Western powers are retreating into protectionism and isolation".
The meetings are the first since the election of US President Donald Trump, who has called for higher tariffs on Chinese imports.
Xinhua also reported that national defence and relations with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau would also be discussed.
Prime Minister Li is also expected to provide more detail on Sunday about the country's defence budget, which is planned to rise by 7%.
This year's "lianghui" comes ahead of a major Chinese Communist Party congress, due to be held later this year.
That congress will confirm party chief and president Xi Jinping's second term in office, as well as announce changes in the party's top leadership.
Scott Diver, 16, was last seen at about 14:45 on Saturday 17 September at his home in Second Avenue.
Police Scotland said a body found in a wooded area at Old Kilpatrick last week had been identified as the missing teenager.
The death is not being treated as suspicious and a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.
In a statement, Police Scotland said: "Around 13:00 hours on Thursday 3 November, police were called to a report of the body of a young man found within a wooded area near to Old Kilpatrick.
"Sadly, the body has now been formally identified as that of Scott Diver who had been missing from his home in Clydebank since Saturday 17 September. Relatives are aware."
Scott, who moved to Scotland from the Isle of Man three years ago, was captured on CCTV walking through nearby Dalmuir Park on the afternoon of his disappearance.
His family later made public appeals for him to get in touch.
The 24-year-old was also charged with possessing class B drugs. He is due to appear at Antrim Magistrates Court next month.
He was bailed pending further enquiries in relation to a number of other offences.
Mr Cheung, 65, was attacked and stabbed near Randalstown, on 8 January.
He was attacked after his car was forced off the road. His wife, Winnie, 57, was injured in the attack on Caddy Road.
Earlier this year, two teenage girls arrested in connection with the murder were released on bail.
Three men have been charged with his murder. They deny the charge.
Dr Hugh McGoldrick, 59, of Crossgar Road East, Crossgar, County Down previously admitted two charges.
The offences took place at his Pound Lane GP practice in Downpatrick.
In April, McGoldrick, admitted conducting a clinical trial in breach of the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004.
The offences took place on dates between 27 November 2007 and 30 June 2008.
That previous hearing was told he had given an undertaking to repay all the money.
A survey of 198 employers in the UK indicated, for graduates, being good at communicating, a team player, confident and analytical were all more important than having technical knowledge.
But this changed after two years in the job, when firms said knowledge was increasingly important.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) supported the findings.
"Technical knowledge" was ranked 24th out of 30 competencies desired by employers at the recruitment stage, in the research, carried out by education provider Kaplan.
But after two years of employment, the importance of technical knowledge rose to second place.
Stuart Pedley-Smith, head of learning in the UK at Kaplan, said: "On the whole, we found that the employers we surveyed do not recruit graduates for the subject-specific nature of what they learned at university."
He said employers saw a university degree as proof that graduates had reached a certain level of competence.
Mr Pedley Smith added: "There is a well-known saying within recruitment - 'Recruit for attitude and train for skill.'"
Employers were happy to provide training for the more technical areas, he said.
Rob Wall, CBI head of education and employment policy, said: "The UK is facing a growing skills gap, so we must have an education system that better prepares young people for the world of work.
"That means not only do they need higher skills, but the character, determination and ability to communicate effectively and help forge successful careers."
Mr Wall said the CBI had found 89% of British firms had regarded attitudes to work and character as the most important factor when recruiting graduates.
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The 29-year-old Harlequins centre thinks the winners will go on to win the tournament and that Wales have a proven record of coming out on top.
"The stakes are high this week, there's no doubt about that," he said.
"And when I look back over the moments when the stakes have been highest we've delivered as a group."
Roberts, who lines up in an unchanged Wales side, highlighted the 2013 Grand Slam decider in Cardiff when Wales beat England 30-3 and last September's Pool A match in the World Cup when they triumphed 28-25 in Twickenham.
"Certainly, it's an experienced group and we go to Twickenham knowing what it takes to win there and we have to deliver," he added.
"It's 80 minutes. We get it right we win, we get it wrong we lose; so we know what's on the line, the stakes are high.
"And that high pressure environment certainly brings out the best of us."
England go into the game with a 100% record under new coach Eddie Jones, while Wales have beaten Scotland and France after drawing their opening game 16-16 in Ireland.
If England win they face a trip to France on 19 France chasing a first Grand Slam since 2003. A win for Wales would see them needing to beat Italy at home to win the championship.
"We won't leave any stone unturned in our preparation and it's amazing everything boils down to 80 minutes," said Roberts.
"It will take bodies on the line and full concentration because one missed tackle, one break, one unforced error or one penalty could decide the championship.
"Because if you fast forward a week and I'd like to think we won't lose at home to Italy, which we never have done, and I doubt England will lose in France if they're hunting for the Grand Slam.
"So this game will go a long way towards deciding the championship."
At Harlequins Roberts plays alongside Chris Robshaw, who lost the captaincy of England in the fall-out following the World Cup failure which the defeat against Wales instigated.
Coach Stuart Lancaster also lost his job following the tournament along with the bulk of the coaching team.
And Roberts is full of admiration for the way the team has recovered from adversity under Jones.
"It's a credit to Chris as a bloke the way he's been able to bounce back, especially after the flack he took personally at the World Cup and if anything he's playing some of his best rugby now.
"And that's a credit to the bloke more than the player.
"Full respected to England, they've come back very strong.
"Ultimately after going through a tough time like that as a side they're probably at their most dangerous, as we've seen.
"They are unbeaten - they're three from three and we'll be facing a very determined England side on Saturday."
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For the UK, where revealing someone else's tax affairs is a criminal offence, this is a pretty radical step. But for some countries this is nothing new.
In Norway, for instance, everyone has been able to see how much you earn and how much tax you pay since 1814. Until recently the data was only available at the town hall or in expensive printed books, rather like the Yellow Pages, but these days it is all available online.
For newspapers like Dagbladet, one of the top tabloids in Norway, this is a windfall. It can and does report on the lives and loves of the rich and famous just like many newspapers do in other parts of the world.
But in Norway they can spice up each and every report at the click of a mouse - the earnings, tax and wealth of everyone from the prime minister down is available online for anyone to see.
Dagbladet's editor-in-chief John Arne Markussen admits that this did go too far at one point, with stories on the richest and poorest streets in Norway and apps that let you find out who lived in a house you were passing and how much they earned.
Now if you look up someone's tax details they at least know who is doing it, but that doesn't stop journalists like Bjorn Bore. So I asked him to look up the editor's tax returns from last year. It was only mildly embarrassing for John Arne Markussen.
"You did good boss, congratulations," was his reporter's rather surprised sounding comment when he found his boss's salary and bonus from 2014. "He made 2.8m kroner but he paid 1.3m kroner in tax." That's more than £230,000 in wages and £108,000 in tax - it had been a good year for the newspaper apparently.
But this tax transparency is not just a matter of celebrity gossip or embarrassing the boss. It has had radical consequences for Norway.
It started when Norway won its independence and needed to set up a central bank. Taxes were raised and to make sure everyone was paying their fair share, all the details were published.
The above extract is from the booklet, Tax assessment 1871 for cities in Norway, and shows a table for the city of Sandefjord. The columns show:
As an attempt to increase openness and stop corruption, the news was also available to the illiterate - town criers stood on village greens and announced the whole village's taxes.
As a result Norway is one of the least corrupt countries in the world.
It has also reduced gender inequality and it is easy to see why at Opera, an internet company in Oslo. It has attracted top talent from around the world, including Ruth Orflack from Yorkshire.
In England, she told me, it was a bit of a taboo to discuss how much you earned. "Here you don't have to do that, it is available knowledge and that is very important for fresh graduates. You know what to expect, what people should be paying... in England you take what you are given."
It is so ingrained that I was amazed to hear one of Ruth's bosses complain that the system is no longer as open as it was. She sets people's wages but wants them to be able to see the rates she is offering are fair. She also helps friends in their wage negotiations and trade unions publish detailed lists of what everyone should be earning.
Even top bosses like the system. Ones I spoke to said they believe that paying taxes is a civic duty and huge wage differences between the best and worst paid are obscene.
But could it work in the UK? Is it just what David Cameron ordered?
Thomas Eriksen is a professor of anthropology at Oslo University. He doesn't think the system is easily transferable. "There are religious sects, Lutherans, here in Norway that forbade members from even having curtains because nothing should be concealed from the public eye," he says.
That openness and public scrutiny of private lives is part of a particularly Norwegian culture, as is not standing out or getting above yourself. Prof Eriksen says that also limits entrepreneurship and initiative in Norway and is the downside to all that openness.
In many ways Norway is like the UK, a wealthy open Western society with wide international links. But a country where a man's home is his castle and tax affairs are secret is far removed from one where curtains were banned just in case you were committing a sin in your own sauna.
Total tax transparency here in the UK? Dream on.
For more on this story, listen to BBC Radio 4's In Business: Why don't we talk about our pay?
The bombers, both female, detonated their explosives while the camp's residents were queuing for rations.
The victims, at the Dikwa camp in Borno state, were mostly women and children.
Islamist Boko Haram militants have been attacking civilian targets as the Nigerian military seeks to wrest territory from their control.
The group's six-year insurgency has killed some 20,000 people and driven more than two million people from their homes.
The camp at Dikwa is reportedly home to about 50,000 people displaced by the violence.
The attack took place on Tuesday morning, but details of it are only just emerging. At least 67 people had been injured, many of them severely, a local official told the BBC.
Three women equipped with bombs had entered the camp early, the chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Satomi Ahmed, told the AFP news agency.
He said the third woman had surrendered to the authorities, refusing to detonate her explosives "when she realised her parents and siblings were in the camp".
Last year, a military operation involving troops from several countries - including Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad - began to weaken Boko Haram's control over areas in north-eastern Nigeria where it had declared a caliphate.
The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar in Abuja says that while the militants may be unable to carry out major attacks on military targets, they seem to have no difficulty using young women to enter heavily guarded camps for the displaced.
Why Boko Haram remains a threat
The 75-year-old, dubbed the "King of Romance", is best known for his 1967 hit Release Me, which kept The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever off the number one spot.
The singer said it was "an absolute honour" to be taking part and was "excited and raring to go".
This year's competition will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 26 May.
The song Humperdinck will perform has yet to be announced but the BBC said it would be recorded in London, Los Angeles and Nashville.
It will be written by Grammy award-winning producer Martin Terefe and Ivor Novello winner Sacha Skarbek, who co-wrote James Blunt hit You're Beautiful.
Humperdinck - who was born Arnold Dorsey - has sold more than 150 million records worldwide during his 45 year career.
Born in Chennai to a British army officer, he took his stage name from a German composer best known for his opera Hansel and Gretel.
He scored a UK number one with The Last Waltz and had other hits including There Goes My Everything and A Man Without Love.
His last UK top 20 single was 40 years ago with Too Beautiful To Last which reached number 14.
The singer has received four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe for Entertainer of the Year and is one of only a handful of artists with a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Las Vegas Walk of Fame.
"It's an absolute honour to be representing my country for this year's Eurovision Song Contest," the singer said.
"When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision. I'm excited and raring to go and want the nation to get behind me!"
Humperdinck is the oldest ever Eurovision contestant and if he wins, will be the UK's first victor since Katrina and the Waves 15 years ago.
"Engelbert's age isn't the reason why we chose him to represent the nation for Eurovision, but it's nice to break a few records along the way," a BBC spokeswoman said.
Katie Taylor, BBC head of entertainment and events said: "Not since the 70s have we had such an established international musical legend represent the nation.
"We couldn't be more delighted. Engelbert's experience leaves us in no doubt that he will be able to deliver a standout performance in front of 120 million viewers worldwide."
At the Consensus 2016 conference in New York, attendees told the BBC they wanted to see more proof before they would be ready to believe the claims.
Mr Wright spoke to the BBC claiming he created the crypto-currency.
Gavin Andresen, chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, has confirmed the claim.
Mr Andresen said he travelled to London to meet Mr Wright who showed him proof that he and Satoshi Nakamoto - the pseudonym adopted by Bitcoin's creator - were one and the same.
"He signed in my presence using the private key from block one, the very first mined Bitcoin block, on a computer that I am convinced had not been tampered with," he said.
Each key is a unique digital code that is linked to specific bitcoins.
But even he added: "It is impossible to prove something like that 100%."
Scepticism about Mr Wright's claim has been fuelled by following the steps he put on his blog that, he said, show how to go about verifying cryptographic keys.
Some queried the complicated series of steps in this process and the information they called upon. Security expert Dan Kaminsky said the process was "maliciously resistant" to validation.
Mr Andresen said he could not explain why Mr Wright had chosen such a "funky" procedure as a proof.
Others at the Consensus conference were more openly sceptical. Vitalik Buterin, from the blockchain company Ethereum, said the very "noisy" way in which Mr Wright chose to make this announcement threw into question whether it was true.
"In general, signal theory says if you have a good way of proving something and a noisy way of proving something and you choose the noisy way chances are it's because you couldn't do the good way in the first place."
Eric Voorhees, founder of cryptocurrency trading app ShapeShift, also had his doubts.
"I generally trust Gavin [Anderseen]'s opinions so I want to believe this but I'm not convinced yet," he said.
Others were more willing to believe that the elusive Bitcoin creator had finally been revealed.
"I think it would be good news if Satoshi Nakamoto is found," said Daniel Lipshitz, from bitcoin infrastructure company Gap 600.
He said while public proof from Mr Wright would be good, he trusted Mr Andresen and was willing to believe that he had seen compelling evidence.
The digital currency industry is still developing. It has moved from the shady criminal underworld it was first associated with. Bitcoin, and the underlying blockchain technology it is based on, are now being invested in by the finance industry looking for the next place for innovation.
"It's not clear to me that if Craig Wright is Satoshi, or if it's someone else, that this is relevant to Bitcoin these days," said Dr Garrick Hileman, an economic historian at the London School of Economics, who has studied the genesis of the digital currency.
"Some would argue that we are now living in a post-Satoshi world," he said. "But I think Satoshi does matter, we should not dismiss their contribution."
However, he added, sessions at the Consensus conference and events in the wider world showed how the focus on the technology had shifted. Many financial firms were now looking at the blockchain that underlies bitcoin as a way to solve and streamline some long-standing payment processing problems.
"The industry has moved," he said. "The investment and interest is going into more and more non-currency uses."
The plane went down over what is now Zambia during a diplomatic mission to help broker a ceasefire in the Congolese civil war.
Pilot error was initially suspected.
However, new evidence has emerged which sceptics say could add weight to suspicions of foul play.
The UN resolution would seek to compel countries to hand over documents and radio intercepts to a special investigator, which might nail down the truth of what really happened, BBC South Africa correspondent Karen Allen says.
Dag Hammarskjold: Crash or a conspiracy?
Mr Hammarskjold and his aides had been flying to Ndola in what was then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, to meet Moise Tshombe, who had declared independence for the mineral-rich Congolese province of Katanga.
The DC6 aircraft crashed in darkness in a forest near Ndola shortly before landing, killing the Swedish diplomat and 15 others on board.
The reason for the crash has never been fully explained, despite three official investigations.
The third investigation, by the UN in 1962, reached an open verdict and did not rule out sabotage or attack.
Then in 2015, the UN set up a panel of independent experts to examine new evidence in the case.
Our correspondent says more recent information includes eyewitness accounts of white men in Land Rovers close to the crash site.
That has fuelled speculation that foreign agents could have been involved as part of a complex plot which put Cold War rivalries and European mining interests centre stage, she says.
This thought made the disability rights activist request a popular food app to list wheelchair-friendly restaurants in six India cities.
Zomato responded to Mr Malhotra quickly and started listing disabled-friendly restaurants in August.
Mr Malhotra told the BBC he was amazed when he travelled to the US in July and found that "it was so easy to search disabled-friendly restaurants on food apps".
"It was a struggle to find disabled-friendly restaurants in Delhi and other Indian cities before Zomato agreed to my request. Not many places advertised themselves as disabled friendly and that was disheartening," he said.
Most disabled people in India "do not visit restaurants very often and that severely restricts their social life", he added.
"We can't go to public parks to play sports because they lack proper facilities. So restaurants become very important for our social life, but then not many know how to find restaurants which welcome the disabled," he said.
Mr Malhotra wanted to change this, but did not know what to do.
"It was frustrating, very frustrating. But thankfully my visit to the US gave me this idea that food apps can help in solving this problem."
He said officials at Zomato were helpful and they finally added "wheelchair accessible" filter in August.
Three months later, the activist said he was happy with the progress but felt more efforts were needed.
India is not known for being friendly towards the disabled and most public places still lack basic facilities to help them in everyday life.　
And restaurants are no different.
Staff at most restaurants "do not know how to serve a person with disability", he said.
"In most places, staff either show pity or simply don't know how to respond to my requests."
The activist wants to change this attitude with a new campaign.
He has requested the National Restaurant Association of India to design a course to train staff on disability rights.
"I have noticed that some staff are reluctant to serve drinks to me. Once they do, they find it difficult to understand why I need a straw with my drink," he added.
And "they always give the bill to my able-bodied friends".
Mr Malhotra says the situation is much worse in smaller towns and that now he plans "to push food apps to add a similar filter for restaurants in smaller towns and cities".
He also wants food app services to start posting their menus in computer readable formats.
"Visually impaired struggle to read menus which are usually posted as images on these food apps. If the menus are in computer readable formats then it will make it easy for visually impaired people to order food," he added.
The activist said he didn't want "any special attention for the disabled through his campaigns".
"I just want Indians to understand that we are as normal as anybody else. Some of us walk on the wheelchair instead of walking on our feet. That's it," he said.
Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford told MPs earlier in December the package contained a decongestant but did not have supporting documentary evidence.
"What we hoped we might get is a paper trail - it should be really simple," Collins told the BBC's Today programme.
"But clearly that doesn't exist."
Collins, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, was speaking the day after five-time Olympic champion Wiggins announced his retirement at the age of 36.
He added: "It seems difficult to get precise records about what was in this package, why it was ordered - the detail you would want to know.
"Good practice in a case like this should be that these sort of records are kept, and therefore it's very easy to identify what's been couriered, what's been requested."
British Cycling's president Bob Howden told the Today programme he was unable to "talk in detail" about the case as it is subject to an ongoing UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) investigation.
He said that information about how the package was physically sent to Team Sky had been provided to the select committee, such as details of flights and other transportation, but stopped short of elaborating on the "exact medical requirements that were in place".
"The medical records are under the control of Ukad at the moment," he said. "The whole medical room at Manchester is under lockdown. We physically can't comment in respect of what that information is."
He added that British Cycling was "working towards" providing evidence for the contents of the package. "Our aim is to achieve that certainly," he added.
Team Sky have been under pressure to reveal the contents of the package following a Daily Mail allegation.
The package in question was delivered via courier to Team Sky on the final day of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine, and just weeks before the start of that year's Tour de France.
It contained the decongestant Fluimucil, which is legal in sport and was intended for then-Team Sky cyclist Wiggins - who went on to win the seven-day race.
The Daily Mail reports that it has seen evidence showing that it took four days and £600 in travel costs for British Cycling coach Simon Cope to courier the package to the French Alps.
But Collins said that the decongestant was "readily available in France and could easily be obtained".
"If it's as simple as that, why get a British Cycling coach to courier it from Manchester, via London to Geneva, when you could have just gone to a pharmacy in France and bought it over the counter?" he said.
"The answer we were given was that it can sometimes be easier and quicker if you know someone is coming out just to bring it from the British Cycling store in Manchester.
"But in this case, looking at the records we saw yesterday, it would appear that that process would have taken several days. A lot of people looking at this say that it just looks odd."
Speaking to Cycling News in October, Cope said he "didn't have a clue" what was in the package he was tasked with taking to France, adding that there was "no way" British Cycling would attempt to take "something dodgy or illegal" through customs.
"It's just not going to happen," he said. "You have to go through two sets of customs. Why are you going to take the risk?"
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Wiggins and Team Sky were under scrutiny in September 2016 for his use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs), after his confidential medical information was leaked by hackers 'Fancy Bears'.
TUEs allow the use of banned substances if athletes have a genuine medical need, and Wiggins, an asthma sufferer, said he sought them to "put himself back on a level playing field".
Wiggins was granted a TUE to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
Wiggins' TUEs were approved by British authorities and cycling's world governing body the UCI, and there is no suggestion either he or Team Sky have broken any rules.
The Scottish champions' 2-0 home defeat by Barcelona, thanks to Lionel Messi's killer double, means they will finish bottom of Group C.
"Getting to this stage is great for us but we want to try and push on as much as we possibly can," he said.
"We're disappointed we're not in Europe after Christmas, but we'll be back."
The midfielder believes Celtic have made progress under Brendan Rodgers since they began their campaign with a 7-0 hammering by the Spanish champions.
"There's been ups and downs but it's just the start of the gaffer's era and we're always improving," said Brown.
"We're now looking forward to next season and we need to try and be back in it again.
"We didn't have the best start, but we've kicked on after that with good performances though not the best results.
"That's what we need to try to do every year now, be in the Champions League season after season."
Brown believes he and his team-mates should take a lot of personal gratification from their five Champions League matches this season despite collecting only two points.
"There's a bit of frustration but there's a lot of pride as well," he told BBC Scotland.
"We played against a top team that has won Champions Leagues and a lot of the team have won a lot with Spain as well.
"It was hard. We dug deep and were a little bit unlucky. The penalty was quite soft, but they're top quality players.
"The first goal's just exceptional - it's a great ball, it's great movement and it's a great finish."
Brown was also keen to defend Moussa Dembele, the club's top scorer who missed a gilt-edged chance to level the match when 1-0 down before Messi's second from the penalty spot killed off the Scottish champions' hopes.
"Moussa's scored some great goals for us and has won us games himself to be honest," he added.
"Strikers miss chances and strikers score great goals.
"He's a great player and he's been fantastic all season. What a signing he is for half a million quid."
Celtic eyes will now turn to attempting to win the first major silverware of the Scottish football season when they take on Aberdeen in Sunday's League Cup final.
And the Parkhead captain believes a victory for his side would put down a serious marker.
"Yeah, I think so," he said. "Especially for the gaffer, it would be huge for him being a Celtic fan, coming to the club and getting us playing as well as we can.
"We now need to give something back to him."
But both Galashiels and Hawick (in strict alphabetical order) have some issues in common.
A recent report by consultants looked at the "challenges" facing the retail sector in the towns.
Its findings have now been presented to Scottish Borders Council and a number of community groups.
The local authority said its recommendations would be "carefully considered" before any action was taken.
Councillor Stuart Bell said: "This piece of work is an important step in tackling the challenges faced in both Galashiels and Hawick in terms of retailing, but we now need to go away and consider the recommendations and come back with an informed plan on where we go from here.
"It is important that community and business groups in both Galashiels and Hawick are engaged with the work that will result from this report, and as such it was vital to make them aware of the findings as early as possible.
"Change will not take place overnight, and we still have to take into account the wider economy across the Scottish Borders and nationally which has, and continues to, impact on retailing in our towns."
He said that he remained "hopeful" that working with partners like Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish government they could help both towns which were "clearly vital" to the local economy.
The report presents a number of key findings about the retail sector in the area.
It found that Borders towns were shifting from a traditional shopping offering (such as shoes and clothing) towards convenience and leisure.
It also concluded that retail premises were becoming more locally owned as major financial institutions moved out and that leases tended to be for shorter periods leading to quicker turnover of High Street tenants.
The study also said that towns in the Scottish Borders were "not particularly well understood by UK level decision-makers in the retail sector".
It suggested that a "prospectus" for Galashiels and Hawick should be drawn up identifying what the towns have to offer.
That would allow them to target operators with a "clear message around local trading conditions" and information about the retailers already present.
Consultants said that growth was coming from local retailers and added that current vacancies could provide an opportunity for them to "improve their trading location".
It said public sector investment could focus regeneration efforts in Galashiels on Stirling Street and the west end of Channel Street.
In Hawick it suggested a footfall generating "anchor" such as a major commercial outlet in the town centre might provide a boost.
All of which provides food for thought for both the council and community groups in the two towns.
It will then be up to them to decide if and how they take forward the recommendations made by the consultants.
The 27-year-old has joined on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee, reported to be £3.5m.
The former PSV Eindhoven man has played in the Champions League and Europa League more than 50 times.
"Mathias is another very good signing for our club as we prepare for our first Premier League season," said Huddersfield head coach David Wagner.
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The ruling means the six-month-old girl will move to a palliative care regime, allowing her to die.
Doctors believe her inability to smile indicates a lack of cognitive function.
She is in the care of Nottingham City Council, which opposed the medics' request to move her to palliative care.
The girl's mother wanted her daughter to "pass away peacefully", while her father wanted a judge to decide.
High Court judge Mr Justice Keehan ruled in favour of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which has been treating the girl and wanted her life-support to be withdrawn.
"I am completely satisfied that the only course to be taken in [her] best interests is to withdraw her current life-sustaining treatment and to move her to a palliative regime and allow her to die peacefully in the arms of her loving parents," he said.
The girl was born about 14 weeks premature and suffered brain damage during birth.
She has never left hospital and doctors thought she would die before she was five.
Mr Justice Keehan said evidence showed she felt pain but did not experience pleasure - and doctors feared they would not be able to relieve her pain.
One specialist said the little girl could not make "meaningful" noise and did not seem able to smile.
Babies initially acted on instinct and the emergence of a smile was an indicator of cognitive function, he said.
"She does not appear to have a smile," he told the judge.
"The first evidence that there is actually someone inside there is when a baby looks at something which it thinks is a face, processes that face and then smiles."
Specialists said she had a "complex pattern" of medical problems and would have no meaningful sight, would not be able to communicate, would have no significant voluntary muscle movement and would not be able to feed herself or enjoy food.
They said she was likely to need long-term respiratory support or ventilation, a tracheostomy and a feeding tube.
Doctors said the "significant burdens" that continued treatment would place on her outweighed any benefits, but lawyers for Nottingham City Council said bosses there disagreed.
Barrister Lawrence Messling said: "The local authority believes it is far too early to conclude that she will not be able to derive benefit from continued life.
"It has experience of other children who have confounded that initial very bleak prognosis."
The judge was told the girl's parents had health problems and learning difficulties.
Both were represented by lawyers at the hearing.
Her father had said that he loved his daughter deeply and he did not want her to suffer unnecessarily, but he could not bring himself to say treatment should be withdrawn, and wanted a judge to decide.
Her mother said she thought medics had done the "best possible" and she wanted her daughter to "pass away peacefully".
Lawyers for the trust said staff would make the little girl's final days as comfortable as possible - and said she would be placed in the "best possible setting" for her parents.
But what a weekend.
About 700 athletes will descend on Birmingham knowing a top-two finish will earn them their spot at London Stadium in August, providing they have matched the qualifying standards before 10 July.
World champions, such as Mo Farah, or Diamond League series winners, such as Laura Muir, are given a pass into the World Championship team, but there is little leeway for anybody else.
Finish outside the top two and the likes of Adam Gemili and Dina Asher-Smith know they will have to rely on the discretion of the selectors to fill one of the few remaining slots.
BBC athletics commentator Steve Cram, a former 1500m world champion and Olympic silver medallist, picks the races to watch out for at the Alexander Stadium.
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake is the fastest Briton in the world this year - having run 9.99 seconds in the United States in May.
He is a really exciting talent, but he may well concentrate on the 200m.
The thing about the trials is it is not about those headline times.
It is about turning up on that weekend and delivering with the added complication of negotiating the rounds as you have to do at the World Championships. It kind of sorts people out.
It is about beating people in races, rather than laying down times. CJ Ujah has been doing that - seeing off France's Jimmy Vicaut in winning at the Diamond League meeting in Rome and coming a close second to Canada's Andre de Grasse and ahead of domestic rival Adam Gemili in Oslo.
It could be that the seasoned campaigners like him come to the fore.
The depth is not there compared to the men's event, but it is still an intriguing race
Asher-Smith - the 2014 world junior champion and 2015 British champion over the distance - fractured a foot in February and I hope the selectors have told her to get herself right rather than putting pressure on her to qualify at the trials.
Even if she doesn't run all that well, if she just runs the qualifying standard, she should be able to get in.
Desiree Henry started the season really well with an impressive 11.09 in the United States, but has not been as quick on recent outings.
Daryll Neita is only 20 and has been selected in the team for the European Under-23 Championships in July, but has lowered her personal best to 11.20 and may well put her hand up for the senior championships.
Bianca Williams is running well as well. Somebody is going to miss out.
This race is absolutely fascinating. Six of those involved have achieved the qualifying standard and it will be a fabulous way to bring the meeting to a close on Saturday evening.
Danny Talbot is running really well, Zharnel Hughes is a massive talent and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake has already run faster than anyone.
It is Adam Gemili - who finished a fraction away from a medal in Rio - who is looking a little wobbly at the moment.
But you need to weigh up the fact the likes of Mitchell-Blake and Hughes are not UK-based. Running well in the big collegiate events in Florida in March and April and then peaking again, in very different conditions, for the UK trials is not easy.
That is why people who have done it in the past - the likes of Talbot and Gemili - will fancy their chances and back their experience.
I think Talbot could be the one coming under the radar here. The big names and new kids on the block attract all the attention, but I guarantee some of them will be looking at Danny - who has come in the top two for the past three years at this event - and think beating him will be enough for them to qualify for the Worlds.
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For the first time in a long time, the men's 1500m looks like a really good, competitive race.
Jake Wightman had a breakthrough Diamond League victory in Oslo recently but there is no guarantee he is going to get selected.
Chris O'Hare, Charlie Grice and young Josh Kerr, the US-based Scot who won the European junior title in 2015, have also got the qualifying time already.
Tom Marshall ran a personal best - three minutes 37.62 seconds - recently and Robbie Fitzgibbon, who was in that European junior final alongside Kerr, is not that far off the pace either.
For the past four or five years, we have just had the two Lauras - Muir and Weightman - and no-one else.
Muir is recovering from a stress fracture in her foot so we are not going to see her this weekend, but as Diamond League champion she doesn't have to worry about qualification.
Weightman, who I coach, is running well.
For the first time in ages, though, there are four others who have run the qualifying time.
Jess Judd, who is next fastest behind Weightman, is down to do the 1500m and 5,000m double in the European Under-23 Championships. I couldn't see her doing both that and the Worlds, so there may be a change of plan depending on how she goes.
There are another three athletes - Katie Snowden, Sarah McDonald and Melissa Courtney - who are all within a second of her, though.
This is going to be another good event.
There is good strength in depth here as well.
Of the three main contenders this weekend, Jazmin Sawyers - Britain's top finisher in the Rio 2016 final - is lagging third behind Lorraine Ugen and Shara Proctor. Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson is not competing.
But Sawyers won the British title in Birmingham last year with a leap of 6.75m, her personal best.
Will the return to Alexander Stadium inspire her to similar?
Turnout in Thursday's poll was 19.82% and the winner was announced at Kettering Conference Centre.
Five candidates were hoping to win the role to oversee policing of the county, which has a population of 692,100.
The new PCCs will replace police authorities.
They will have powers to set budgets and "hire and fire" chief constables.
Former senior officer at Northamptonshire County Council Mr Simmonds won against Lee Barron with 57.3% after second preferences were counted.
Mr Barron, who had been Labour candidate, tried to pull out of the election because of a conviction 22 years ago which would make him ineligible to be a PCC.
But Mr Barron came to the decision too late to withdraw as a candidate.
The Home Office said if a disqualified candidate won there would have to be a by-election.
During the campaign Mr Simmonds said: "I will be a progressive, considered and modern thinking commissioner. I will not intrude on police operational responsibilities.
"I do not want issues to become party political and will work closely and co-operatively with the new Northamptonshire Police and Crime Panel.
"I will listen to the experiences and concerns of ordinary people, especially where crime impacts most.
"I will ensure public concerns are reflected in policing priorities, while remaining vigilant champions of the civil liberties of local minorities."
He was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary after the incident during an under-19s match.
His family said they acknowledged "that this was a tragic accident".
"We are absolutely devastated to lose Ronan so tragically and suddenly. He was a loving and caring 17-year-old lad," they added in a statement.
"He was dedicated to his family and friends and was a credit to all of his family. We are so proud of him and his achievements.
"We are all truly heartbroken and Ronan will be missed and forever in our hearts."
Rugby Football League (RFL) chief executive Nigel Wood said: "We are all incredibly saddened by news of the death of Huddersfield Giants academy player Ronan Costello.
"It is a terrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers are with Ronan's family and friends at this time.
"We will work with both clubs involved in the game to ensure that the players, their families and friends are fully supported by the RFL Benevolent Fund and through Sporting Chance."
The Huddersfield Examiner reported it was believed the young player "sustained a serious head or neck injury during an unremarkable challenge".
The Giants have not disclosed how the teenager was injured but said in a statement: "It is with regret that Huddersfield Giants wish to inform everyone of the passing of 17-year-old academy player Ronan Costello.
"The club have been asked by the family to send their thanks for the messages of support they have received to date and have requested that all well-wishers now allow them to grieve and respect their privacy.
"The Huddersfield Giants are collating all messages, cards and tweets that they receive to pass to the family at the appropriate time."
Salford Red Devils posted this statement on their website: "The players, staff and fans of Salford Red Devils wish to extend their deepest sympathy to the family of Huddersfield Giants academy player Ronan Costello who passed away today after being injured in the under-19s game against us on Saturday.
"Our thoughts are with his family, friends and team-mates at this tragic time."
England internationals Sam Tomkins and Josh Charnley, plus Castleford's New Zealand international Denny Solomona were among those to pay tribute.
Huddersfield's Super League rivals sent messages of support to friends and family of the young player, who had yet to feature in a first-team game.
Warrington Wolves tweeted: "All at the Wolves send our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Ronan Costello."
Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, who beat Huddersfield 10-2 on Sunday, said: "Our sincere condolences go out to Ronan's family, friends and team-mates at Huddersfield Giants."
Wigan Warriors posted this message on Twitter: "Our thoughts go out to the family, team-mates and friends of Huddersfield Giants under-19s player Ronan Costello."
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The 28-year-old track cyclist won gold in the team pursuit at London 2012 and Rio 2016.
In a career spanning 10 years, Rowsell Shand was a five-time world and four-time European champion.
"The decision to step away has been the hardest I've ever had to make," she said. "I believe I have more to offer the world."
Rowsell Shand, who also won Commonwealth Gold in 2014 in the individual pursuit, says she will now focus on a coaching career and will be taking part in the L'Etape du Tour in July, an amateur race which covers the same route as one stage of the Tour de France.
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British Cycling tweeted: "One of the best there has ever been".
Rowsell Shand began competitive cycling aged 16, having been talent spotted by the British Cycling Apprentice Programme.
After success in the junior ranks she won her first world title in 2008 in the team pursuit and successfully defended the title a year later.
A third world title came in 2012 before she won Olympic gold in London, alongside Dani King and Laura Kenny. She was made an MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling.
Commonwealth gold, a fourth team world title and a first individual pursuit rainbow jersey, crowned a successful 2014 and two years later she completed the Olympic double in the Rio Velodrome, alongside Kenny, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker.
Over two Olympic Games she was part of a team that broke the world record on all six of its rides.
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British Cycling's chairman Jonathan Browning said: "As only one of a few women in Great Britain who has two Olympic gold medals to her name, Joanna can be extremely proud of what she has achieved.
"It's not only her on-bike achievements which have made Joanna an asset to British Cycling, it's also what she's done for the sport off the bike, epitomising the role of an ambassador and encouraging so many women and children to take up our sport of cycling."
Former team-mate Dani King on Twitter: Congratulations to @JoRowsellShand on such an incredible career. Thank you for making mine a more enjoyable one.
Seven-time Paralympic gold medallist Jody Cundy on Twitter: Amazing career, from one of the nicest riders you'll ever meet. Good luck with all the future brings.
British track cyclist Andy Tennant on Twitter: Congrats to @JoRowsellShand on her retirement. One of the all time greats and a fantastic role model and person, I wish her all the best.
The comedian and writer says: "I want to spot a young double act and say 'oh boy, it's still going'. But it hasn't happened for me yet."
At the start of his career he wrote for the gold standard of comedy duos, Morecambe and Wise.
"It's like telepathy," Cryer says. "It's rapport, a chemistry. They feed off each other."
At the height of their powers, Eric and Ernie raked in more than 28 million viewers.
But out in the Edinburgh drizzle, scanning the listings boards and combing through the pile of leaflets I've been handed, it's slim pickings for double acts.
They've overwhelmingly made way for stand-ups or comedy troupes.
"It's what my generation chose to watch," a lady waiting for a show to start tells me. "Your generation are happy with stand-up."
"No offence nana, but Morecambe and Wise - nobody would watch that nowadays," her granddaughter chips in.
For better or for worse they agree the comic double act is dead.
But this is the largest arts festival in the world. Spend enough time in the sticky beer-smelling student union rooms which have been trussed up as venues, as you'll find that old staple of British television in rude health.
The majority is sketch-based. Duos such as Goodbear or Studio 9. But old style variety has also had a revamp.
Double Denim, comprising of Australian comedians Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew largely consists of games with the audience and group renditions of Shania Twain classics.
Laura Anderson of Hurt and Anderson says double act stock is on the rise.
"Double acts mostly work as a sketch or a character comedy thing," she says. "And as far as I can tell sketch is getting more and more popular again. It ebbed away and I think it's coming back."
When they started in 2011, they say there were almost no female comic duos on the fringe.
"Now we're treading them under foot," she says. "They're everywhere!"
"On the circuit. Not the mainstream consciousness," her comedy partner Georgia Hurt adds.
After selling out their Edinburgh festival debut last year, Barney Fishwick and Will Hislop are back as the double act Giants.
For a large proportion of their act they are Norwegian pop sensations.
"The EU is a big, beautiful dance floor", they say. Everyone dancing together, "or as we like to call it, the free movement of peoples".
"The final product is this year", Hislop jokes.
They met at four days old and have been good friends ever since.
Why a double act? Fishwick says it allows "for conflict", adding: "It's that weird thing where there is this real chemistry, there's love at the basis of it."
"There's also hate", Hislop interjects.
They say a connection is required, a trust which allows them to veer off in different directions during their act.
"We know each other's rhythms as it were, so we know what we're likely to think," Hislop says.
"So if there's someone in the front row wearing Crocs, I know that Barney finds Crocs really funny so I'll leave that to him because I don't have a lot of Crocs material."
As I queue for another show, I get the family next to me to list comedy double acts.
"Can I say Torvill and Dean?".
It seems comedy duos aren't back in the mainstream just yet.
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In a surprise move, the leading conservative candidate blamed political slander and "various fake news" stories against him for his decision.
His withdrawal is a boost for liberal candidate and frontrunner Moon Jae-in.
South Korea is seeking to replace President Park Geun-hye, who was impeached in December after a long-running corruption scandal.
Mr Ban gave a brief press conference in which he said he wanted to use his 10 years' experience as UN chief to achieve national unity, but said he had been subjected to "malign slander akin to character assassination".
"With all kinds of fake news, my intention for political change was nowhere to be seen and all that was left was grave scars to my family and myself, and to the honour of the UN where I spent the past 10 years," he said.
He said he was "disappointed by old-fashioned, narrow-minded egoistic attitudes by some politicians, and I came to a conclusion that it would be meaningless to work together with them".
South Korea has been gripped by political chaos since Ms Park was unseated. Millions took to the streets to protest against her leadership.
She is now on a trial at the Constitutional Court, which will decide whether her impeachment is upheld or if she is returned to power.
If it is upheld, presidential elections will be held within two months rather than their proper date in December.
Mr Ban appeared to have significant support early in an unofficial campaign and was at one time the perceived frontrunner, but his approval ratings fell sharply as he faced criticism about his political competence.
He apologised in January after losing his temper at a press conference and calling reporters "jerks", and has denied allegations he took bribes from a businessman at the centre of a corruption scandal.
Ms Moon called Ban's decision "unexpected" and said she would be willing to seek his advice on international affairs.
A total of 234 bands from more than a dozen nations, such as Canada, the US, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, will contest "The Worlds".
The competition will be staged at Glasgow Green and is the culmination of the week-long Piping Live! festival.
Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia won the competition in 2015 and were the first Scottish winner since 2005.
This year the event welcomes one of the biggest fields in it history.
Ian Embelton, chief executive of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, said: "Glasgow has been home to the World Pipe Band Championships for the last 30 years and you can see from the strength of the entry that the appetite from bands to come and play at Glasgow Green remains as strong as ever.
"We are looking forward to a very strong day of competition from some truly gifted, dedicated and outstanding musicians."
The Lord Provost of Glasgow and Chieftain of the World Pipe Band Championships, Sadie Docherty, said: "It is an enormous privilege to be asked to be chieftain of this truly incredible event.
"Glasgow is proud to have such a long association with the World Pipe Band Championships."
The 28-year-old joined Hampshire in July following his release by Derbyshire, having previously also played for Nottinghamshire.
Carter took 170 wickets across all formats and his final game was against Yorkshire earlier this month.
"It's the right time for me to move to the next chapter and I'm excited about it," Carter said.
The trading update comes ahead of the final sale of the government's 15% stake in the 500-year old company.
Royal Mail said UK letter volumes declined by 5% in the quarter with revenue down 4%. But that was in line with forecasts.
UK parcel volumes were 3% higher and rose by 9% in Europe, with revenue up 2% and 8% respectively.
The company said its outlook for letter and parcel volumes remained unchanged from guidance issued with its annual results in May.
Royal Mail said it remained focused on cutting costs at its UK business this year.
It added that, as in all previous years, its performance would be weighted to the second half of the year given the dependence on its traditionally busy Christmas parcels delivery period.
Royal Mail's European parcel deliveries service, GLS, performed better than expected, the group said, largely driven by strong growth in Italy and Germany.
But the company added it was monitoring how the market reacted to changes to German minimum wage legislation.
Royal Mail chief executive Moya Greene warned that the trading environment remained "challenging".
The company was "stepping up the pace of change to drive growth, efficiency and innovation while maintaining a tight focus on costs".
Last month, regulator Ofcom said the regulation of Royal Mail would be reviewed after the withdrawal of rival Whistl from the direct delivery letters market. That removed any national competition for the direct delivery of letters.
Ofcom said the "fundamental" review would "ensure regulation remains appropriate and sufficient to secure the universal postal service".
The government sold half of its remaining 30% stake in Royal Mail in June, raising £750m for the Treasury.
In May, Royal Mail reported an increase in full-year profits to £740m, up 6% from a year earlier.
The Department for Business Industry and Skills also outlined its plan to hand 10 million shares - worth about 1% of the company - to employees this financial year.
GLS employees will be excluded from the scheme, as will employees at joint ventures.
Workers must also stay for three years after receiving their share allocation to be able to keep them, unless they retire, take redundancy, leave through illness or die.
Shares in Royal Mail closed down 0.3% at 510 pence per share, valuing the holding being distributed to workers at £51m.
Divided by 130,100 staff, the shares would be valued at about £392.
In the state capital, San Cristobal, most shops and businesses are closed and guarded by soldiers.
Three people, including two teenagers, were killed in Tachira this week.
Since the rallies for early elections and an end to the economic crisis began in early April, 43 people have died across the country.
President Nicolas Maduro has accused the opposition of inciting violence by calling people on to the streets.
Speaking on state television on Wednesday, Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said: "I have ordered the transfer of 2,000 guards and 600 special operations troops."
The minister said the deployment in Tachira was part of "Plan Zamora" designed to pacify the situation. He provided no further details.
Meanwhile, looting continued in parts of San Cristobal, reports say.
People made off with items including coffee, nappies and cooking oil, local residents were quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
A 15-year-old boy died in hospital, a day after he was shot during the spate of looting in San Cristobal. He was named as Jose Francisco Guerrero.
"My mom sent my brother yesterday [Tuesday] to buy flour for dinner and a little while later we received a call saying he'd been injured by a bullet," his sister Maria Contreras told Reuters.
The authorities earlier announced the deaths of Luis Alviarez, 17, and Diego Hérnandez, 33, who were fatally injured on Monday.
Defence minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said the military operation in Tachira was part two of Plan Zamora.
The government has said little about what the plan entails - but that it is designed to pacify the situation.
When part one was put into action in the Carabobo state it involved an increased presence of heavily armed troops and riot police brought in to quell a spate of violent looting.
According to civil rights groups it also led to large-scale arrests of anti-government protesters and the use of military courts to try them.
Mr Padrino Lopez tried to reassure Venezuelans, saying the armed forces would not use weapons against civilians and would not be carrying pistols and machine guns.
He also seemed to pin responsibility for the deaths during recent protests across Venezuela on the government's opponents, saying the fatal injuries had been caused by home-made weapons.
On Tuesday, President Maduro extended the nationwide state of economic emergency.
The decree gives Mr Maduro extra powers for another 60 days, from Saturday, including an ability to impose tougher security measures.
The opposition denounced the move as an ongoing rights grab.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles responded by urging his supporters to take to the streets and protest "more than ever".
The unrest was triggered by a Supreme Court attempt to take over powers from the assembly on 29 March.
It reversed its decision a few days later but by then the opposition had seized the momentum.
Despite having the world's largest known oil reserves, Venezuela is facing a shortage of many basic items, including food and medicines.
Its economy has collapsed, with inflation expected to top 700% this year, and crime is rampant.
The opposition is calling for early elections and the release of opposition politicians jailed in recent years, saying the socialist governments of Mr Maduro and his predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez, have mismanaged the economy since coming to power in 1999.
Mr Maduro accuses the country's business elite of boycotting the economy to create unrest and topple his democratically elected government. His term ends in January 2019.
Emmi, who has no management or record deal, was hand-picked to sing the film's only song, called Blind Pig.
She recorded the vocal in her childhood bedroom after being contacted out of the blue by director David Yates.
However, she was kept in the dark about his identity, and the song's destiny, for almost a year.
"It feels too good to be true," says the singer, who will see her song on the big screen for the first time at the film's premiere in London on Tuesday night.
"I feel like it's a bit of a joke. I don't feel like it's real."
The 29-year-old was born in Devon but raised in Perth, Australia. She now lives in London, where she has been making music full-time for seven years.
A former child actress, who had a small role in Home and Away, she has spent much of that time writing for other artists, but decided to make music under her own name in 2013.
Her second single, Sleep On It, attracted the attention of Taylor Swift, who tweeted it as part of her playlist: "New Songs That Will Make Your Life More Awesome".
Although that raised her profile, she decided not to capitalise on the hype.
"I had a couple of deals on the table but I felt I wanted to do things in a more independent, organic way," she says.
"I wanted to make some mistakes on my own, and create something that was wholly me before I got a whole team on board."
When Yates got in touch in summer last year, she was back at her parents' house for a holiday.
"I have two weeks with my family ever year and I got this email from someone I didn't know saying, 'Do you mind singing this? Here are some lyrics, give it a try,'" she recalls.
"I was like, 'Well, this is a difficult time for me. I'm on holiday with my parents and we're about to eat pizza, can we put this off?'
"And they were like, 'Probably not. You should probably give this a go.'"
When the singer looked at the lyrics, she found references to magical creatures like the Hippogriff and Billywig.
"I started thinking, 'This sounds like something from Harry Potter,' so I Googled the words and confirmed that for myself.
"I thought, 'This might be nothing, but it might be something??? And on the off-chance it is the something I think it might be, I'm going to do this.'"
Having completed a rough vocal in her bedroom, Emmi started receiving requests for more and more versions of the song: "Can you get more whispery? Can you do it more sexy? Can you do it more innocently?
"At the time I didn't know it was David Yates directing me. If I had, I might have been a little more nervous in my bedroom," she laughs.
However, having finally completed the song, everything went quiet.
"It wasn't until April of this year that I got a call saying, 'We'll be using your voice in a film, is that cool?'" she says.
The singer soon found herself on a movie set covered in green lycra, having her performance motion-captured so she could appear in the final film as a computer-animated character.
Even at this stage, she was not told that her song - a smoky jazz number - had been written by JK Rowling herself (along with film composer Mario Grigorov). That information only came to light when the film's IMDB page was updated a few weeks ago.
"I'm not sure if it's her first song or not," says Emmi, "but it's amazing to come so close to embodying something that came from her brain. Does that make me smarter by osmosis?"
The singer will see her performance for the first time at the London premiere of Fantastic Beasts on Tuesday evening, where she also hopes to meet Rowling.
"I'll probably say something nonsensical and embarrassing because I'm so nervous," she says.
"But what I'd like to say is, 'Thank you for a childhood of escapism'. I have so much respect for an imagination like that."
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That was the verdict of the trade body, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), as it reported record turnover for 2015.
While the UK's automotive sector has "gone from strength to strength", the leave vote may cause problems for the car industry, it said.
Turnover rose 7.3% to £71.6bn while jobs and vehicle production also rose.
However SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said that the outlook had been clouded due to uncertainty about dealing with trading partners in Europe.
"As a result (of the vote), the industry now faces new challenges. Uncertainty, economic instability and an undoubted impact in terms of cost, influence and ease of business," he said in a speech.
The number employed in the sector rose by 17,000 to 814,000 and there was a 5% rise in vehicle production to 1.7 million in 2015, the SMMT said, and car manufacturing output is already up more than 10% so far this year.
But the UK's future access to the single market has been brought into question following the vote to leave the EU.
Hawes said success has been due to unrestricted access to the single market, input to EU legislation to safeguard the interests of UK Automotive, and the ability to recruit talent from abroad.
He warned that the threat to this from leaving the union could jeopardise the ability to access important markets.
"We need full and unrestricted access to the single market now and in the future, 80% of what we produce is exported and the only way to succeed is through unrestricted and reciprocal access to the EU and global markets," he told an industry summit.
Jonty Bloom, business reporter
After the referendum British business is trying to explain to the government what it wants from the negotiations to leave the EU. What everyone seems to be talking about is "access" to the single market, but as the prime minister has said, "access to the single market has many potential different meanings".
Japan and the USA have "access", as one economist told me even Haiti does. But many countries have to negotiate a trade deal, pay tariffs, get through customs and all abide by EU rules and regulations to get their goods into the EU and they don't have a say on those rules.
By comparison, at the moment we are members of the EU's single market and have been for decades, we enjoy totally free movement of goods, finance, and people around the EU, without any tariffs and we have a say on how the rules are written.
That's why much of business thinks "access" should mean "membership of" the single market, what David Cameron today called the "best access".
That is why at its international conference today, the head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mike Hawes, said "80% of what we produce is exported and the only way to succeed is through unrestricted and reciprocal access to the EU and global markets."
And by "access" Mr. Hawes means "membership" of the single market.
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However Jaguar Land Rover's group strategy director Adrian Hallmark said the EU would be unlikely to take any action that would disrupt trade, at least for the luxury end of the market.
"It's in the interest of the EU to maintain access to the UK market, so I can't imagine that there would be any overly punitive measure in the premium end of the business. It would be cutting the European nose off to spite its face," he said.
He added that the business would remain UK focused and that there were no plans to change its headcount or employment strategy.
Demand for both cars and commercial vehicles in the UK reached record levels in 2015, with 2.6 million and 420,000 registrations respectively.
Investment in research and development by the industry also reached a record high of £2.5bn in 2015, representing around 12% of the country's total spending.
The Departments of the Army and Interior said they would consult further with local communities on the issue before making a decision.
There have been major protests against the plans in Standing Rock reservation.
The United Nations said security forces had used excessive force against demonstrators.
Maina Kiai, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, called for protesters to be treated humanely.
"Tensions have escalated in the past two weeks, with local security forces employing an increasingly militarised response to protests and forcibly moving encampments located near the construction site," he said.
Hundreds of people have been arrested during the weeks of mass protest over the $3.7bn (£2.8bn) Dakota Access construction project.
A "day of action" is set to go ahead on Tuesday, with groups assembling outside offices of the Army Corps of Engineers, banks and energy companies across the country.
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II said the news of the federal authorities' decision to delay its ruling implied his people were being heard.
"Millions of people have literally and spiritually stood with us at Standing Rock," he said, thanking them. "The harmful and dehumanising tactics by the state of North Dakota and corporate bullies did not go unnoticed because of you."
The community and environmentalists believe the project will pollute water supplies.
The Army Corps of Engineers had previously given permission for the project, and much of the construction for the 1,172-mile (1,885km) line has already gone ahead.
However, construction company Energy Transfer Partners is still awaiting approval for work under Lake Oahe, which sits beside the Standing Rock reservation.
The Army said on Monday it had decided to consult further with local communities "in light of the history of the Great Sioux Nation's dispossessions of lands" in the country.
But Energy Transport Partners - which insists the project will boost local economies and is much safer than transporting oil by rail or road - expressed dismay at the Army Corps of Engineers' decision.
"This action is motivated purely by politics at the expense of a company that has done nothing but play by the rules it was given," Chief Executive Kelcy Warren told Reuters.
Protesters have been using the slogan #noDAPL to condemn the pipeline project on social media. They also coordinated an online campaign where they encouraged people from around the country to "check in" at Standing Rock on Facebook to show solidarity and attempt to confuse the police on the scene.
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But it says it all about the revolution that relegated Worcester Warriors are undergoing with director of rugby Dean Ryan at the helm that they can justify such a claim.
Warriors have this week launched six new academy centres aimed at attracting the region's top young players.
And, by so doing, they are continuing to push the rugby boundaries.
Since millionaire owner Cecil Duckworth sold his heating empire and began fuelling the club's finances in 1996, the Warriors have taken massive strides forward, while clubs like Coventry and Moseley, the two traditional powerhouses of rugby union in the region, have struggled to adapt to the professional era.
Worcester's list of new recruits for next season's 16-man Academy squad, which will train alongside the first team, features three youngsters brought in from other clubs - tighthead prop Josh McNulty from Coventry, as well as two from Premiership clubs, Saracens hooker Jack Singleton and Leicester winger Perry Humphreys.
And now they will be hoping to tie up even younger talent at the six new centres, scheduled to open this autumn - two in Warwickshire, at Barkers Butts Rugby Club in Coventry and Warwick School; two in Herefordshire, at Luctonians Rugby Club and the Hereford Cathedral School; one in Shropshire, at the Telford College of Arts and Technology; and one in Birmingham, at a location still to be announced.
Running alongside the club's current youth development centre at their Sixways home, they will help Worcester reach out to the very edge of the catchment areas for this season's Premiership rivals, Leicester, Northampton, Gloucester and Sale.
"We have placed a huge focus on building relationships and finding the right locations to launch these centres to allow us to work with the best young players across the region," Ryan told BBC Sport.
"We will work with players to aid their all-round personal development and maximise their potential.
"The future success of this club will be determined by ensuring we develop our own young players who display the right attributes and motivations to play for the Warriors."
Since the arrival of high performance director Nick Johnston to join Ryan at Sixways in December, the club has built relationships with schools, colleges, universities and other clubs across the region and they have have now confirmed the six centres where youngsters between the ages of 13 and 18 will receive up to seven hours of rugby coaching every week.
A major focus of Ryan's attention, following his arrival a year ago, has been developing a sustainable Academy programme with a view to the achieving long-term success for the club.
His commitment to youth has been demonstrated by the fact that seven current Academy players have made their debuts this season.
And although being relegated, after just two wins in 22 Premiership matches this season, was certainly not part of the plan, the Warriors boss remains convinced the club is moving in the right direction.
"We're a year down now and it feels like we're in a tough space after being relegated," said Ryan. "But so much has been done over that time to put things in place to be able to grow this club. Further down the line, they'll look at this particular window of time and say the right things were being done.
"The club, the board and the shareholders were prepared to change. I wouldn't have come here if I didn't get those reassurances because I didn't want to go back into management just to be in survival mode.
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"And not only do people on the inside recognise the progress we've made, but people on the outside can see it."
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Butland, 23, will miss Euro 2016 in France following ankle surgery after being carried off during England's 3-2 friendly win over Germany in March.
"We've got the very highest expectations of him," Coates, 78, told BBC Radio Stoke.
"It was no surprise that he was the obvious choice to replace Joe Hart."
Butland, who recently signed a new long-term contract with Stoke, had been an ever-present in the Potters' Premier League campaign before picking up his injury in Berlin.
And although a likely return date for the former Birmingham City keeper is not yet known, Coates is certain Butland's international ambitions will not be harmed.
"We're hugely disappointed for him - he deserved his opportunity," Coates continued. "He's been through the England youth system and he's very highly thought of.
"We've seen him have his first full Premier League season and do really well."
In the absence of Butland, Stoke gave a Premier League debut to Jakob Haugaard in Saturday's 2-2 draw with Swansea.
The Dane was unable to prevent Stoke throwing away a two-goal lead but Coates was pleased to see Haugaard given his chance.
"We weren't surprised (he played) - the manager and his coaching staff all have great confidence in him," he said. "He had a good first game in the Premier League."
Eighth-placed Stoke's Europa League ambitions suffered a setback against the Swans but Coates says qualifying for Europe next season remains the target.
"It's something we'd like to do - for the club, the supporters and everyone connected to Stoke," Coates said.
"If we can be challenging that'll be good - Uefa are trying to encourage English clubs to take it seriously through the finances and I think we do."
He was once the richest man in Ireland and the 12th richest in the UK before his business empire collapsed in 2010.
The new firm is to be renamed Quinn Industrial Holdings Ltd and will be led by former Quinn Group employees who once held senior roles under Mr Quinn.
Mr Quinn's level of remuneration has not yet been decided.
John McCartin, who will be a non-executive board member of the new business, told BBC Radio Ulster that Mr Quinn still has "huge support" in his native County Fermanagh.
"Your credibility as a businessman is purely based on your ability to make money, in reality, and I think that's something that Sean Quinn has always been good at," he said.
"He's always been able to build a business and to run it well and to make money where others have failed and in that regard he has talents that are impossible to ignore."
Mr McCartin, who is a Fine Gael councillor and a businessman in County Leitrim, said the collapse of the Quinn Group had left a very "heavy legacy" in the north west of Ireland.
He said Mr Quinn would now play "a positive role" in rectifying that legacy.
Mr Quinn was a self-made man who started a multi-billion pound business empire by selling gravel quarried from his family's farm in Derrylin.
The Quinn Group gradually expanded, manufacturing and supplying other building products, glass and plastics, and eventually moved into insurance, hotels and property development.
Mr Quinn also invested in Anglo Irish Bank, one of the leading lights of the Celtic Tiger economy, and built up a 25% stake in the bank.
The investment went disastrously wrong in 2008, and the bank, which was facing collapse, was bailed out by taxpayers.
Anglo Irish bank was nationalised in 2009 and its affairs were taken over by the Irish Banking Resolution Corporation (IBRC).
For the last few years, the Quinn family has been involved in a high-profile legal battle with IBRC.
It claimed the Quinn family owes the former bank more than two billion euros and tried to recover the money from their assets.
Lawyers for the IBRC alleged that members of the Quinn family tried to strip assets from their firms, putting property worth millions of pounds beyond the reach of the former bank, in defiance of a court order.
In 2012, Dublin High Court ruled that Sean Quinn, his son Sean Quinn Jr and his nephew, Peter Darragh Quinn, were in contempt of that court order.
Sean Quinn and his son were both jailed for contempt and served short sentences in Dublin's Mount Joy prison.
Peter Darragh Quinn did not attend court for the sentencing and a warrant for his arrest was issued.
He left the jurisdiction and returned to Northern Ireland, where the arrest warrant could not be enforced.
Mr Cairns, 41, sued Lalit Modi, the former chairman of the IPL, the Twenty20 franchise in India.
Mr Modi has so far refused to apologise for the allegation he made in a tweet.
Mr Cairns's lawyer said the comments had tainted the career of his client, who played for Nottinghamshire before a spell in India.
It is the first Twitter libel case in England. Last year a councillor in Caerphilly, Wales, was ordered to pay £3,000 and costs to a political rival for posting a libellous comment on Twitter.
Mr Modi was also ordered to pay Mr Cairns' £400,000 legal costs.
Mr Cairns, who took more than 200 wickets and scored more than 3,000 runs in 62 Test matches, said Mr Modi's tweet in January 2010 was an "unequivocal allegation".
He was not at the High Court in London for the ruling by Mr Justice Bean.
But later he made a statement, saying: "I feel great relief that I am (now) able to walk into any cricket ground in the world with my head held high."
The judge, who sat without a jury, said Mr Modi had "singularly failed" to provide any reliable evidence Mr Cairns was involved in match-fixing.
He said: "It is obvious that an allegation that a professional cricketer is a match-fixer goes to the core attributes of his personality and, if true, entirely destroys his reputation for integrity.
"The allegation is not as serious as one of involvement in terrorism or sexual offences (to take two examples from recent cases). But it is otherwise as serious an allegation as anyone could make against a professional sportsman."
The court was told Mr Modi's tweet was picked up by cricket website Cricinfo, who withdrew its report, paid damages and apologised after Mr Cairns complained.
But Mr Modi declined to apologise and pleaded justification, maintaining the allegation was true.
Mr Cairns said the allegation was "wholly untrue" and could destroy the reputation he built up during a 20-year career.
Mr Cairns captained the Chandigarh Lions in 2007/8 in the Indian Cricket League (ICL), a rival to Mr Modi's IPL.
Lawyer and defamation expert Niri Shan, a partner at Taylor Wessing, said: "'This case demonstrates that posts on Twitter are taken as seriously, in the eyes of the law, as comments printed in mainstream press.
"Whilst people may feel less cautious about tweeting- the level of risk they are taking, and protection of those being referred to, remains the same.
"The fact that this will have cost Lalit Modi over £1m, if both sides' costs are accounted for, reinforces the point of how careful people should be."
After the ruling, Mr Cairns said: "Today's verdict lifts a dark cloud that has been over me for the past two years. I feel mixed emotions.
"Firstly, sadness that I should ever have had to put myself, my friends and my family through this because of one man's misdirected allegations.
"But I also feel great joy because my past career has come through unscathed and remains intact and because I had the courage to stand up in the highest court to defend my name.
"Lastly, I feel great relief that I am able to walk into any cricket ground in the world with my head held high."
The judge granted Mr Modi permission to appeal over the amount of damages but refused permission on the question of liability. However, it is understood Mr Modi's lawyers wish to pursue that application directly with the Court of Appeal.
Judge Bean rejected a claim by Mr Modi's lawyer, Ronald Thwaites QC, that the action amounted to "libel tourism".
He pointed out Cairns' children went to school in England, that he had played county cricket for seven seasons, and that Mr Modi had lived in the UK since the summer of 2010.
Cricketers Gaurav Gupta, Rajesh Sharma and Tejinder Pal Singh gave evidence on behalf of Mr Modi but the judge said it was not to be believed and he said hearsay evidence from two other players, Amit Uniyal and Love Ablish, was "inconsistent and unreliable".
"Even if I were applying a simple balance of probabilities test, the plea of justification would fail in both respects," he said.
The judge said he had increased the damages from the starting point of £75,000 to £90,000 to reflect the "sustained and aggressive" actions of Mr Thwaites, who had used the words "lie", "liar" and "lies" 24 times in his closing speech.
Christopher Halliwell, 52, initially admitted the double murder of Becky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan from Swindon in 2011.
But he evaded justice for killing Miss Godden until now due to a police error.
Miss Godden's mother thanked police "for bringing my little girl home".
A jury at Bristol Crown Court took less than three hours to find him guilty.
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The ex-taxi driver is currently serving life after stabbing and strangling Miss O'Callaghan, 22 in 2011.
The case came to court after Wiltshire Police unearthed new evidence in the case which centred on soil on a shovel found at Halliwell's home, witness accounts and Halliwell's wounds when he visited a GP two days after Miss Godden disappeared.
Halliwell, formerly of Ashbury Avenue, Swindon, confessed to her murder and described himself as "sick" to Det Supt Steve Fulcher, of Wiltshire Police, while under arrest for kidnapping Miss O'Callaghan.
He made the admission after leading officers to Miss O'Callaghan's grave near the White Horse in Uffington, Oxfordshire, where he took Mr Fulcher aside and told him there was "another one", meaning a body.
The body of Miss Godden, also known as Miss Godden-Edwards was found in Oxo Bottom field in Eastleach, Gloucestershire, in March 2011.
But because Det Supt Fulcher pressed Halliwell for details without cautioning him or allowing him access to a solicitor, the case was ruled inadmissible by a High Court judge.
As the verdict was read out, there were cheers in the public gallery.
Miss Godden's mother, Karen Edwards, was in tears. Her father, John Godden, had his head in his hands, weeping.
Halliwell, who is due to be sentenced on Friday, looked over at her family and smiled as he was taken down to the cells.
Outside the court, Ms Edwards personally thanked Mr Fulcher for his work on the case.
Fighting back tears, she said: "I would like to thank him from the bottom of my heart for bringing my little girl home.
"I will always respect him and will be indebted to him for making that moral decision as a police officer.
"He should never have suffered the terrible consequences, the loss of his reputation and career."
She also paid tribute to Miss O'Callaghan's family for having to relive the details of their daughter's murder all over again.
Ian Harris, Head of the Complex Casework Unit for the Crown Prosecution Service Wessex, said: "After Christopher Halliwell had led Wiltshire Police to the body of Sian O'Callaghan, he also confessed to the murder of Rebecca Godden, who had been missing since January 2003.
"That was in 2011. Since then, our focus has been to get justice for Becky and her family as well.
"Despite all the evidence, including his own confession, Mr Halliwell continued to fight the case.
"In the process, he has put Becky's family through untold suffering on top of the terrible pain he has caused them by murdering Becky."
He said he hoped the verdict would give them some comfort.
Shots were heard in the main city Abidjan, the capital, Yamoussoukro, and the western cities of Man and Daloa.
The latest unrest comes as the government has started paying soldiers who mutinied earlier this month a bonus of $20,000 (£16,000) each.
The gendarmes are believed to be demanding a similar payment.
The government agreed to pay off mutinous soldiers - for the most part former rebels who helped President Alassane Ouattara come to power in 2011, and were then integrated into the army.
This seems to have provoked jealousy among those who were not part of the deal agreed on Friday.
The development highlights the divisions in the country's security forces and raises fresh concerns about its stability, says BBC World Service Africa editor James Copnall.
A resident of Yamoussoukro told the Reuters news agency that he was was confused by the incident.
"I don't know why they are shooting, but we ran to get home. I live next to the camp; I can see them walking around inside the camp."
Another resident told the Associated Press news agency that the initial gunfire in the capital lasted about 20 minutes.
"There were shots, and now the traders have gone. They've closed up their shops in the city centre."
The AFP news agency is reporting that one soldier has been killed in the trouble in Yamoussoukro.
Actor Brian Cox appears in two of the films, a comedy, The Carer, and a western, Forsaken, which also stars Donald and Kiefer Sutherland.
Braveheart actor Angus Macfadyean will bring his first film as a director, Macbeth Unhinged, to the festival.
The film is a modern, black and white retelling of the Shakespearean tragedy.
Scot Dougray Scott will be starring in the apocalyptic thriller The Rezort.
The 70th edition of the film festival runs from 15-26 June. It will include feature films, shorts, documentaries and animations.
The opening night gala will feature the world premiere of Jason Connery's drama Tommy's Honour, about Scottish golfing pioneer Old Tom Morris and starring Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden.
It is based on a true story and focuses on Morris's turbulent relationship with his son, Tommy.
The festival will close with the world premiere of Gillies Mackinnon's Whisky Galore, featuring Gregor Fisher, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthrie, Sean Biggerstaff and Eddie Izzard.
Mark Adams, artistic director said: "We are delighted to once again cast the spotlight on great Scottish talent at this year's festival. It speaks so much about the breadth and variety of filmmakers, craftspeople and performers that our selection of projects featuring local talent shines so brightly."
Natalie Usher, director of screen at Creative Scotland, said: "EIFF is a key event in Scotland's cultural calendar, offering audiences inspirational, world-class cinema.
"EIFF is recognising and celebrating the wealth and depth of home-grown filmmaking talent supported by Creative Scotland."
The festival will also have a special screening to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and a world premiere screening of the newly 4K restored Highlander, attended by the film's star Clancy Brown.
He said the order followed allegations of unethical conduct. The bankers have not commented.
Two are from Chase Bank and six from the state-owned National Bank, which recently recorded unexpected losses.
Three Kenyan banks have gone into receivership recently, highlighting concerns with the banking sector.
Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Patrick Njoroge ordered Chase Bank to shut its doors on Thursday after "inaccurate" rumours on social media led to a run on the bank.
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Chase had recently released two conflicting financial statements, the BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in the capital, Nairobi, says.
A subsequent audit showed it had hidden loans to its directors, he adds.
National Bank has also run into problems with its accounts, recording a loss of $13m (£9m).
The central bank governor has tried to reassure Kenyans that the country's banking system is stable, but he has criticised some poor lending practices and mismanagement.
The police chief also warned Kenyans against spreading malicious rumours on social media and the police have arrested one man for "peddling falsehoods" about Chase Bank.
Oxford University Press analysed more than 120,000 short stories submitted to this year's 500 Words writing competition, run by BBC Radio 2.
It found the usage of the word refugee had more than tripled since last year.
Star Wars, Shakespeare, Tim Peake and social media were some of the other most common themes.
The 500 Words writing competition for children aged 13 and under was launched by BBC Radio 2 breakfast show host Chris Evans in 2011.
The OUP said in addition to the significant increase in the usage of the word refugee by this year's entrants, children were also using emotive and descriptive language around it.
Although it wasn't the most common word or theme overall, it was the most notable instance of children being influenced by events in the news.
Stories featuring the word refugee were most frequently about the plight of children the same age as the writers leaving home and undertaking difficult journeys.
Vineeta Gupta, Head of Children's Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, said: "The children writing in this year's competition have demonstrated a sophisticated use of language in their storytelling.
"They have used rich descriptions to convey emotion and have produced powerful stories that resonate with the reader."
Chris Evans said: "This analysis has once again proved fascinating. OUP's research has shown how aware and engaged children are with the world around them, not just at home, but globally and even inter-galactically.
"The imagination of kids never ceases to amaze me and I'm so proud the competition has again fired up their creativity and shown how talented and inspiring the young people of the UK are."
All the entries were analysed by an academic and technology team from Oxford University, using specialised software.
British astronaut Tim Peake was a new entry in the top 10 list of famous people most frequently appearing in the stories.
David Cameron, Barack Obama and Donald Trump were the most commonly mentioned politicians.
The release of the latest Star Wars movie also caught children's attention, resulting in an increase of words such as lightsabers and Stormtroopers.
The rise of social media remained a strong theme in 2016, after hashtag - and the symbol used to represent it '#' - was named Children's Word of the Year in last year's competition.
The top 10 characters from real life and fiction used in stories included Santa Claus, Zeus, Lionel Messi, Cinderella, James Bond, Snow White and Harry Potter.
William Shakespeare was also commonly used, as events took place across the UK to mark 400 years since the playwright's death.
The OUP said spelling had consistently improved over the last five years, but added some of the most commonly misspelled words included soldiers and minute.
The live final of this year's competition takes place on Friday morning at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London.
The Duchess of Cornwall, who is an honorary judge this year, will present the winners' prizes.
Julie Walters, Tom Hiddleston, Warwick Davis, Andy Serkis, Nick Jonas and Raleigh Ritchie will present the awards at the event,
All Saints, One Republic and Foxes will also be performing with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the London Community Gospel Choir during the show.
The event will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans show.
The health and safety ban came about after one postman complained about Severn View, Pontypool, on his round.
Bosses agreed a short stretch of grass between car tracks and residents' front doors was unsafe so the 10 homes need to collect mail from a Post Office.
Royal Mail said it would carry out a further "safety assessment".
Resident Richard Osborne, 70, said: "We still get all of our junk mail through the letterbox but anything important like the deeds to my house, are sitting in the Post Office, it's unbelievable.
"They even refuse to put slips through your door for parcels that are too big and need collecting - how will you know that if they don't put the slip through the door?"
Councillor Gwyneira Clarke added: "I can't believe it, how on earth can they allow this to happen and treat elderly people like that? We can't take away vital services, it's not right.
"It's safe enough for all these elderly people to walk up and down the road, and in my experience they deliver to some pretty remote places. Its health and safety gone mad."
Royal Mail apologised for the inconvenience caused.
A spokesman said: "We will conduct a further health and safety assessment of the area as soon as possible and notify customers of the outcome.
"In the meantime, customers can continue to collect their mail from the local Post Office."
North End won 1-0 and eventually went through as 4-0 aggregate winners.
It is alleged that both clubs failed to control their players in an orderly fashion in the 28th minute.
Preston assistant Glynn Snodin has been charged with misconduct as it is alleged his behaviour during the first half amounted to improper conduct.
Both clubs and Snodin have until 18:00 BST on Friday, 15 May to respond to the charges.
The Dutch currently hold the presidency of the EU, but it is not just the prospect of an unprecedented crisis happening on their watch that is causing jitters in the Netherlands.
Dutch politicians, especially on the right, regard Britain as a bulwark against the more protectionist tendencies of some of the bigger EU states.
As one of the grand old men of Dutch politics, the former leader of the centre right VVD party and former EU Commissioner Frits Bolkestein told me: "Holland and Britain look at the seas.
"We are maritime people and believe in trade with other parts of the world.
"Continental powers, like France and Germany, very important members of the EU, think differently."
So, what if Britain left the EU?
"The Dutch would feel they've lost an important ally in the balance of powers within the European Union," he said.
"Our message is, 'Hang in there, don't leave Holland, support free trade.'
"Try to be less Minnie the Minx, moaning on the sidelines, but come in there with both feet and fight."
A politician who has been less of a minx and more of a menace to the established parties for the past few years sees things very differently.
Geert Wilders is the leader of the populist, right-wing PVV, which currently tops Dutch opinion polls.
Overtly anti-Islam and anti-EU, he is hoping that a British vote to leave the EU would start a domino effect; that a Brexit would lead to a similar referendum on a Nexit.
"I think it will be a good thing if people from the UK vote to leave this political project," he told me in the Dutch parliament, where he is accompanied by ever-present security guards.
"I believe it will mean that other countries, like perhaps my own, will find it an enormous incentive to regain their national sovereignty.
"I'm talking about a patriotic spring.
"If we want to survive as a nation, we have to stop immigration and stop Islamisation.
"We cannot do that inside the European Union."
Although the Netherlands is seeing increasing numbers of Central European arrivals, the immigration debate tends to focus on larger communities that originally came from outside the EU - Morocco and Turkey - and their level of integration.
It was a debate that had existed in the background for decades, but only reached the forefront of Dutch politics about 15 years ago
And now it is taking parts of Dutch society in unpredictable directions.
Here is one example.
According to the Dutch-Turkish journalist Gulsah Ercetin, who covers integration issues for the state broadcaster NOS, some of the young, third-generation members of the country's large Turkish community are turning away from the Netherlands and towards the country their grandparents left.
"I find it interesting that some of them are feeling an emotional connection to Turkey," she told me.
"They follow everything there.
"When you ask them what's going on in Dutch politics, they're not well informed.
"Some of these young Turks who were born and raised in Holland don't feel Dutch.
"They feel more Turkish than Dutch.
"They say they're floating around between two cultures and two countries.
"They're constantly reminded they're from another country and they have another religion."
Despite being one of the founding members of the EEC, it is hard to find much love for the European Union in the Netherlands.
The VVD party of Prime Minister Marc Rutte calls itself Eurosceptic.
But the world-renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who recently chaired a 12-hour debate on "what is Europe?", argues the EU has been a good thing for his country and for the UK, where he began his architecture studies in the 1960s.
Sitting in his Rotterdam office, he told me the Brexit camp was full of people who "fundamentally want to change England back to the way it was before" and lamented the way, as he sees it, the EU has been used as a scapegoat.
"It is the nations and prime ministers that take the decisions, but because of this myth of Brussels, they are also able to blame Brussels for the decisions they took themselves," he said.
But Mr Koolhaas seems to be an increasingly rare voice in a country re-examining its own relationship with the EU and where fears are rising that the club of nations opposed to a more federal, political union is about to lose a member.
Sixteen-year old Harriet Karanja had been waiting a while in queue to buy a bus ticket in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, when someone else who was waiting was robbed.
When she retold her tale at school she found out her classmates had experienced the same problem.
What if, she asked, they could get rid of the queue for the tickets altogether?
She got together with four other school friends to make an app to buy a bus ticket, working with the support of a mentor as part of a scheme backed by Kenyan mobile phone company Safaricom.
They tested out a prototype version of the app on a long-distance bus across Kenya.
"The app takes you to the bus stop you prefer using GPS technology so you will only need to go to a bus stop to board a vehicle but not to wait for a vehicle."
They called it M-Safiri - which means "traveller" in Swahili.
Soon, the five young students were on the road themselves, travelling from Nairobi to San Francisco in the US to present their app at a global technology competition for schoolgirls.
The five, under the team name the Snipers, made it to the finals but missed out on the $10,000 (£8,000) top prize.
That went to a group of Mexican school girls who made an app which helps people volunteer to do social work.
But although the girls did not receive funding to develop the app beyond the prototype stage, they are hoping they can pursue private investment once they leave school.
But the experience could make a far bigger impact in their lives than the prize.
The girls have plans to transform their team into a technology company once they graduate from high school and are looking at patenting and rolling out the app.
Snipers teammate Priscilla Wambui says that having the support of a mentor was vital.
"We didn't know how to code, pitching, writing a business plan, all this takes long to learn and it was a big problem for us," she said.
The Snipers are not the only girls who have been helped by an app-making mentor.
Teacher Damaris Muteti learnt how to code on a course backed by US IT giant Intel.
So when she noticed her final-year high school student, 17-year-old Caroline Wambui, had come up with an idea to connect organ donors, patients and hospitals, she stepped in to assist.
"She had a good idea, and I thought if I could help a young girl, then she would also teach other women about technology, and that would help a lot of women not only in Kenya but Africa as a whole to know how to use computers.
"That would be a plus for our community."
Ms Wambui's idea was born out of a personal tragedy.
"My uncle died due to lack of a kidney match, it took a long time to find a kidney on the black market, it was a tragedy for us, and didn't want another family go through the tragedy that we went through," Ms Wambui said.
The app would allow you to know if you are eligible to donate an organ and to check the medical requirements of the patient in need.
The two built a prototype on a tablet and have found partners to work with.
But they have come up against an obstacle to rolling out the app.
They are waiting to see if a law will be passed to make it legal for people to donate organs after their death.
Currently, illegal organ sale cartels are thriving - it is a lucrative business where willing sellers are operated on in back-street dispensaries.
If the legal issues are resolved, Ms Wambui could make the biggest impact - meaning other girls like her do not lose their relatives.
But her story is rare.
A World Wide Web Foundation study found that only 20% of women from Nairobi's slums - like Ms Wambui - are even connected to the internet.
That's compared to 57% of men.
Mentorship is being hailed as the way to improve that situation.
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Pan-European party blocs get more funding, staff and speaking time in the parliament. The deadline for forming a bloc expired on Monday night.
The new 751-seat assembly, elected in May, holds its first session next week.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has formed a bloc with other Eurosceptics.
UKIP's new allies are the Italian Five Star Movement of comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, Lithuania's Order and Justice Party, the nationalist Sweden Democrats and a few anti-EU MEPs from Latvia, the Czech Republic and France. Jointly they are called the New EFD (Europe of Freedom and Democracy).
Under parliament rules, a faction has to consist of at least 25 MEPs from a minimum of seven EU countries. The EU has a total of 28 member states.
The FN and PVV failed to satisfy the seven-country rule.
Before the election Mr Wilders and FN leader Marine Le Pen had spoken of their common ambition to return powers from the EU to the nation states.
Ms Le Pen's triumph, leading the FN to first place in the French election, gave her party 23 seats. It was one of the biggest surprises on an election night that saw big gains for anti-EU parties across Europe. In the last parliament the FN had just three seats.
Mr Wilders was disappointed with the PVV's result, however. The party won just three seats and fell to fourth place in the Netherlands - well behind liberal and centre-left, pro-EU parties.
Both the FN and PVV want tougher immigration controls, reject the euro and want their countries to leave the EU. Both parties also campaign strongly against the spread of Islam in Europe.
Mr Wilders said forming a faction with Poland's Congress of the New Right would be "a bridge too far". The Polish party has been accused of anti-Semitism and misogyny.
But Mr Wilders said he still hoped for co-operation between his PVV and like-minded parties in the parliament over the next five years, including the FN, Belgium's Vlaams Belang, the Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) and Italy's Northern League.
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group - including the UK Conservatives - looks set to be the third-largest group in the parliament.
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives will sit alongside several nationalist Eurosceptic parties: The Finns, Belgium's Flemish separatist N-VA and the Danish People's Party.
The ECR group also includes Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD), a new German conservative anti-euro party.
Mr Cameron's alliance with the AfD is seen as another irritant in his relations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
He paid tribute to the legend of the Bokke - their two World Cup wins, their strength in depth and their monstrous 40-point awakening against Samoa after the horrors of Japan - while at the same time saying that their reputation will count for nothing when these teams start battering each other to a pulp in front of a Newcastle crowd that will be heavily lopsided in Scotland's favour.
"They're just 15 guys," said Scott of the South Africans.
"You can't put them on a pedestal. They're just like any other team. We'll detach the Springbok aura and analyse them as human beings."
And there's much to analyse in this World Cup match, on both sides. The Springboks have picked a side that is as close to full strength as makes no difference.
Scotland, on the other hand, have ripped up the starting team that beat the USA, some changes by necessity, others by design with an eye on Samoa in a week's time.
They are between two worlds right now; they'd like to beat South Africa, but they simply have to beat Samoa.
Scott is part of a midfield combination - with Richie Vernon - that has played the sum total of 68 minutes together in the centre.
They are playing behind a fly-half, Duncan Weir, who has started one Test match in 15 months, and behind a front row of the scrum that boasts 27 caps compared with South Africa's 210 and a Scottish back row that has 44 caps as opposed to the Springbok three, who boast 149.
In experience terms it's a rout. In their isolated pockets of success against the Springboks in recent times, Scotland have always gone in with a full metal jacket approach, with all their best players on the park, but are now trying to do it with depleted resources.
The team, and the management, rail against the notion of this being a second-string Scotland, but it is. It has to be. Three games in 10 days is a murderous regime, especially when your fourth is the biggest one of all. Key men need some breathing space before Samoa. That's the reality of squad management at a World Cup.
Only seven players who started the opening 45-10 win against Japan will start again on Saturday. Only four who faced the Americans from the beginning have been picked again. Mark Bennett, Finn Russell, Sean Maitland - all gone for different reasons.
The rock-like Alasdair Dickinson is on the bench. His replacement, Gordon Reid, has never started a tournament Test. John Hardie is missing again from the 23. His place in the team goes to Blair Cowan, who wasn't even in the original 31-man squad.
This will be a momentous occasion but it's also a mountainous task facing Scotland.
It doesn't seem to matter what combination of second rows South Africa deploys, they always seem to have the same untouchable quality out of touch.
Victor Matfield and Eben Etzebeth or Pieter-Steph du Toit and Lood de Jager or any combination of the four seems to produce a torrent of quality line-out ball on their own throw while inflicting a world of uncertainty on the opposition throw.
It's the launch-pad for everything they do. The beginning and end and in-between of their game-plan.
Against Scotland it's the 23-year-old phenomenon Etzebeth and the equally remarkable 22-year-old De Jager who team-up, with Du Toit on the bench and Matfield in the stand, injured. De Jager has played 14 Tests and has already scored four tries - two of them against Scotland in Port Elizabeth in the summer of 2014.
Nobody expects South Africa's line-out to miss a beat in Matfield's absence. As Jonathan Humphreys, the Scotland forwards coach, put it on Friday: "They have brilliant young locks. They seem to pull them off a conveyor belt."
South Africa have had 27 line-outs at this World Cup and have won all 27. Stretch it back another two games and their stats read 52 line-out wins from 54.
This is a double-edged weapon, of course. They dismantled Samoa's line-out last week, stealing six of their throws while also rendering the ball they did manage to win fairly useless. Samoa were under so much pressure that they could launch nothing off their set piece.
The same went for South Africa's revenge mission against the Pumas in the Rugby Championship. Having lost to Argentina in Durban in August, they turned around and beat them in Buenos Aires a week later and they did it, in part, by stealing 40% of the Pumas' line-out ball.
"There's been a talk of them changing their line-out calls," said Humphreys. "I don't think it's possible to change your complete book of line-outs in a week.
"Their lineout is very, very effective, it's very simple, so whether they have changed or not, I don't know. It's not something we have talked about. It's about doing what we need to do and if they have had some disruption, then great.
"We have to stop them turning that lineout into a line-out maul, though. They have probably the best line-out maul in world rugby."
South Africa have scored three tries off driven line-outs at this World Cup, so Scotland have been warned. Not that they need warning. This is hardly a secret weapon that the Springboks are packing. As a threat it's obvious but how to stop it is a conundrum that will have tested the combined wisdom of the Scotland management to the max.
"Their maul attack is the most potent in the world," said Humphreys. "You have to be extremely physical in those areas and if you're not then the game can quickly get away from you.
"I don't think there is any magic formula for stopping a maul. It's about being legal, trying to get there early and disrupt what they are trying to do. There are a variety of strategies you can adopt. We take a lot of pride in being very physical."
By his own admission, the line-out is an alien world to Scott, but the consequences of Scotland failing to disrupt the South Africans will soon be visited upon him by way of a bullocking forward coming at him or a blur movement in the shape of Jesse Kriel or Damian de Allende, his opposition in the midfield, or any number of other game-breakers in that Bok backline.
Of the line-out battle and the quest to stop the Springbok maul, Scott concludes: "That's the game right there. The forwards are going to have an extremely tough day at the office and as a backline we have just to help them out as much as possible.
"That means making our tackles and putting them backwards. I know from playing the Springboks that when they have that maul rumbling and have big players coming at you on second or third phase it can sometimes be too much to stop.
"They're going to come out of the traps quickly and we have to start well. They have to win, but I don't think there's much chance of them being stifled by the pressure. Two teams will go hammer and tongs. It will be a brutal encounter."
Vern Cotter's team are 13-2 to win, South Africa a virtually unbackable 1-8. The odds layers can see only one winner.
The Springboks' recovery from the nightmare of Japan was a thunderous one, but their diehard supporters need more evidence of a renaissance before they fully buy into it. After all, South Africa have still lost five of their last seven games.
In three of those defeats they capitulated late. Famously, they conceded at the death against Japan, they coughed up 10 points in the last seven minutes against New Zealand and 14 points in the last seven minutes against Australia.
Duane Vermeulen, the hulking number eight, spoke about this on Friday. "It's definitely a thing we need to work on," he said.
"We still haven't figured out what the problem is. Is it fatigue? Is it lack of effort. I don't think so. I think most of it comes down to discipline."
South Africa can be a devastating force when things are going their way, but if Scotland can stay with them then nerves and that strained discipline under pressure could yet play a part. In two matches in this World Cup they have conceded a whopping 27 penalties.
"If you've lost your first game then every game is a knockout game," said Humphreys.
"If things don't go your way, if you're not getting what you want early in the match, then the more the pressure mounts."
Piling the heat on South Africa and hoping they wilt in the endgame is Scotland's plan, but to get to that point you suspect they're going to need to deliver close to the game of their lives.
Local media say he will now face trial for criminal abuse of office.
Mr Tomana was suspended back in February 2016.
His removal came after he dropped charges against two army officers accused of plotting to blow up a dairy belonging to Mr Mugabe's wife, Grace.
The two men were among four arrested outside the dairy farm, north of the capital, Harare.
They were found carrying ammonia and petrol bombs.
The men were initially charged with possession of weaponry for sabotage, and with money laundering for terrorism purposes. Charges of treason were added later.
The four were accused of hatching a plan to set up a militia base to the west of Harare, with the aim of unseating Mr Mugabe's government.
Mr Tomana was accused of obstructing the course of justice by releasing two of the suspects, which he denied.
In 2015, Mr Tomana was convicted of abuse of power after refusing to prosecute a lawmaker with Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party for raping a child at gunpoint.
He was threatened with 30 days in prison over the matter, but eventually agreed to act.
The legislator, Munyaradzi Kereke, was later convicted of rape and imprisoned.
Same-sex pairs kissed outside several Chick-fil-A restaurants on Friday.
Chick-fil-A boss Dan Cathy has backed the "biblical definition of a family".
The "kiss-in" came two days after "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day", when customers went to the chain's outlets in defence of Mr Cathy's comments.
On Wednesday, Chick-fil-A restaurants in cities across the US, particularly in the South where the majority of its outlets are located, were reported to be bustling with supporters.
In a statement, the chain said that Wednesday had been "an unprecedented day", but it did not release exact sales numbers.
More than 13,000 people said on Facebook they would be attending "National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A" on Friday. It is not clear how many people actually took take part in the "kiss-in".
Carly McGehee, one of the organisers, told the Associated Press she hoped the event would help gay youths "who feel isolated and are victims of bullying".
The event had been organised before ex-presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee called on Wednesday for customers to support the chain.
In southern California on Friday morning police investigated graffiti painted on a Chick-fil-A restaurant that showed a cow painting the words "Tastes like hate" in the style of the firm's advertising.
Photographs from later in the day showed protesters holding signs and kissing outside restaurants in the cities of Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; and Decatur, Georgia.
Supporters of Friday's protest include the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (Glaad).
"Without question, Dan Cathy has every right to voice his opinions and beliefs," Herndon Graddick, Glaad's president, said in a statement.
"But he should meet and get to know the people that he's speaking out against - the people who are harmed by his company's multi-million dollar donations to anti-gay hate groups working to hurt everyday LGBT Americans and break apart loving families."
In 2010, Mr Cathy's non-profit group WinShape, largely supported by Chick-fil-A, donated $2m (£1.2m) to groups that oppose gay marriage, ABC News reported.
Among those was the National Organization for Marriage, which led efforts to ban gay marriage in California.
Mr Cathy's comments came last month in a religious publication, where he said he was "guilty as charged" in backing "the biblical definition of a family".
"We don't claim to be a Christian business," Mr Cathy said. "But as an organisation we can operate on biblical principles."
In a later radio interview, he said: "I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage."'
Mr Cathy is a Southern Baptist and his chain does not operate any of its stores on Sunday, in observance of the Christian holy day.
"The Chick-fil-A culture and 66-year-old service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honour, dignity and respect - regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender," the company said in a statement.
Transitions 20/40 is designed to widen access to the performance and production arts.
Supported by the Scottish Funding Council, it enables talented individuals from poorer communities to take part in RCS classes and workshops.
The actor said he felt "inspired" after meeting the students involved.
It is hoped the training provided by the scheme will prepare the students to go on to successfully interview or audition for further training at degree level.
The Glaswegian, who is best known for playing Hobbit Pippin in The Lord of the Rings films, trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD), which was renamed the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2011.
He said: "If I had this chance as a kid, it would have been a perfect start for me and allowed me to become an actor earlier.
"I had so many great memories of my time at the then RSAMD and feel truly inspired after meeting T20/40 students at RCS.
"It's an exciting place to be and has evolved into a dynamic, beautiful arts hub representing Scotland."
Principal of the RCS, Jeffrey Sharkey said: "We are delighted to have Billy, a world-renowned actor and musician, recognise the power of the arts to inform lives and careers.
"We look forward to working closely with him to ensure the message about the creative potential of young Scots, and the potential of projects like Transitions 20/40, is spread across the whole of Scotland.
"By using his own experience and our outstanding teaching, we can work together to help young people achieve their goals and dreams."
The T20/40 programme is part of the Scottish government's priority area for higher education institutions to "improve access to higher education for people from the widest possible range of backgrounds".
His whereabouts are unclear after he flew from Hong Kong to Moscow on Sunday. His passport has been revoked.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted Mr Snowden had not crossed the border and rejected what he termed US attempts to blame Russia for his disappearance.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the US did not seek "confrontation" but Russia should hand over Mr Snowden.
Correspondents say Mr Lavrov's comments suggest that Mr Snowden remained air-side after landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, and so has technically never entered Russian territory.
"We are in no way involved with either Mr Snowden, his relations with US justice, nor to his movements around the world," Mr Lavrov said.
"He chose his itinerary on his own. We learnt about it... from the media. He has not crossed the Russian border.
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"We consider the attempts to accuse the Russian side of violating US laws, and practically of involvement in a plot, to be absolutely groundless and unacceptable."
The 30-year-old IT expert is wanted by the US for revealing to the media details of a secret government surveillance programme, which he obtained while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA).
Speaking during a visit to Saudi Arabia, Mr Kerry said the transfer of Mr Snowden was a matter of rule of law, and that Russia should remain "calm".
He is charged with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence.
Mr Snowden has applied for asylum in Ecuador. The US has revoked his passport.
Reuters news agency quotes a Moscow airport source as saying that Mr Snowden arrived in Moscow from Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon and was due to depart for the Cuban capital, Havana, the following day, but did not use the ticket.
The source said he was travelling with Sarah Harrison, a British legal researcher working for the anti-secrecy group Wikileaks.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC diplomatic correspondent
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's assertion that the fugitive American "hasn't crossed the Russian border" may well be technically correct - Edward Snowden may. for all we know, remain "in transit" at the hotel, air-side, at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
But it is hard to believe that the Russians are not exploring what information they can get from Mr Snowden, if any.
He is at the very least a potential intelligence gift horse that has almost literally dropped into their laps.
Mr Lavrov was clearly irked by US pressure, saying that attempts to accuse the Russian side of flouting US laws were "unjustified and unacceptable". Moscow's annoyance is mirrored by Beijing.
As yet it is still too early to say what long-term damage this affair may do to China and Russia's relations with Washington. But the US-Russia relationship in particular could get seriously strained the longer this saga goes on.
Meanwhile, China has also described US accusations that it facilitated the departure of fugitive Edward Snowden from Hong Kong as "groundless and unacceptable".
A foreign ministry spokeswoman said the Hong Kong government had handled the former US intelligence officer's case in accordance with the law.
The White House had criticised what it termed "a deliberate choice to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant".
The Chinese government has expressed deep concern about Mr Snowden's allegations that the US had hacked into networks in China.
Tuesday saw the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party praise Mr Snowden for "tearing off Washington's sanctimonious mask".
In a strongly worded front-page commentary, the overseas edition of the People's Daily said: "Not only did the US authorities not give us an explanation and apology, it instead expressed dissatisfaction at the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for handling things in accordance with law.
"In a sense, the United States has gone from a 'model of human rights' to 'an eavesdropper on personal privacy', the 'manipulator' of the centralised power over the international internet, and the mad 'invader' of other countries' networks."
Speaking during a visit to India, US Secretary of State John Kerry said it would be "deeply troubling" if it became clear that China had "wilfully" allowed him to fly out of Hong Kong.
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"There would be without any question some effect and impact on the relationship and consequences," he said.
He also called on Russia to "live by the standards of the law because that's in the interests of everybody".
Mr Snowden was in hiding in Hong Kong when his leaks were first published.
He is being supported by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, which said on Sunday that he was heading to Ecuador accompanied by some of its diplomats and legal advisers.
Ecuador is already giving political asylum at its London embassy to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is wanted for questioning in Sweden over allegations of sexual assault - which he denies.
Mr Snowden's leaks have led to revelations that the US is systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data under an NSA programme known as Prism.
US officials have defended the practice of gathering telephone and internet data from private users around the world.
They say Prism cannot be used to target intentionally any Americans or anyone in the US, and stress that it is supervised by judges.
The BBC understands that the DE's aim is to have a common test in place by November 2017.
The DE have appointed Professor Peter Tymms, from the school of education at Durham University, to lead the initiative.
It is called: "Towards a common assessment for the purposes of academic selection".
However, Education Minister Peter Weir told the DUP conference at the weekend that he could not "impose" a state-run test.
"I have started work with the two testing organisations to see what common ground can be found, with the aim of agreement being facilitated between them," he said.
Mr Weir told BBC Northern Ireland's Good Morning Ulster it was clear that while there would not be political agreement around a "state transfer test", academic selection was "here to stay".
"It hasn't gone away because there is a strong demand out there for academic selection," he said.
"It is clear that academic selection, whether you are in favour or not, is happening and it is here to stay.
"I want to try and make the system as easy as possible for the parents of children that are going through this, I think that is a laudable aim."
The commissioner for children and young people in Northern Ireland, Koulla Yiasouma, said root and branch reform was needed, not a "further sticking plaster".
"No parent wants to subject their 10 or 11-year-old child to the stress of a number of academic tests, but parents have no choice within the system as it currently stands.
"While it is preferable that within a system of unregulated tests, all children take a single regulated test, it is extremely disappointing that the vision for education in Northern Ireland is firmly fixed on the perpetuation of "academic segregation".
"We need the equivalent of health's Bengoa, we need to get into the crevices of our education system and agree a vision that will result in a system that delivers for each and every child - it far from achieves this at the minute," she said.
Currently, there are two separate tests run by the Association of Quality Education (AQE) and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC).
Primary school children aged 10 and 11 can choose to sit either test, both tests, or decide not to sit them.
They are used to decide which pupils are admitted to the vast majority of grammar schools.
Some grammars in the Catholic maintained sector have recently announced that they will no longer decide their intake by academic selection.
This year's tests will be taken over five Saturdays in 2016, with pupils sitting the first AQE test on 12 November.
The final test is a GL Assessment exam, run by the PPTC, on 10 December.
Figures provided to the BBC by the two organisations, indicate a slight rise in the number of entrants sitting the tests in 2016.
There are, at present, 7,700 entrants for the AQE test, and 6,981 for the GL Assessment test.
That makes a total of 14,681, a rise from 14,575 in 2015.
However, both organisations said there may be a small number of late entries.
Around 2,000 children are expected to enter both tests.
Most grammar schools have been using one or both to select pupils since 2008, when the 11-plus exam was abolished by the then education minister, Sinn Féin's Caitríona Ruane.
Yet, the DUP's position on academic selection differs from their executive partners.
In September, Mr Weir changed long-standing DE policy by allowing primary schools to prepare their pupils to sit the tests.
Efforts to find a common test have so far failed.
The BBC understands that Professor Tymms will hold talks with AQE and PPTC in an attempt to agree a common test.
How the tests are paid for and what format they take are the main areas of difference between AQE and PPTC.
A representative from the PPTC told the BBC that they were "committed to working proactively and constructively towards a common assessment".
An AQE spokesperson said a formal response to the department's proposal would be issued "in due course".
"We are very much engaged in the process and want to move towards a single test," the spokesperson said.
Arafa Nassib conspired with her son Adil Kasim, 18, to commit fraud against Scottish Widows by pretending she died in Zanzibar.
They pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to making false representations between March and December last year.
Yusuf Abdullah denies conspiring with them and prosecutors will decide by 14 June whether to proceed with his case.
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The 24-year-old, from Lower Rushall Street, Walsall, is accused of conspiring to commit fraud by false representation.
Ms Nassib, 48, and Mr Kasim, also of Lower Rushall Street, made fraudulent claims against two policies. One was worth £115,267 and the other £21,263.
A sentencing date will be set once prosecutors decide on Mr Abdullah's case.
Michael Peter Hutchinson, 72, of Church Lane, Skegness, dumped bedding, furniture and a mirror, with a note saying "some things you didn't steal", Lincoln Magistrates' Court heard.
Some had been daubed with green paint and damaged with solvents.
Hutchinson was found guilty of two counts of fly-tipping and was ordered to pay £2,300 in fines and costs.
On Friday, the court heard his ex-wife recognised the items as coming from the house they had shared in Station Road, in Burgh le Marsh.
North Kesteven District Council, who prosecuted Hutchinson, said he had insisted he was simply "returning" the items.
But the court agreed it was waste and he was fined £625, with costs of £1,229.88, a victim surcharge of £63 and compensation to Mrs Hutchinson of £400, totalling £2,317.88.
Councillor Richard Wright said: "The district council has never tolerated fly tipping, and although Hutchinson considered himself to be returning the items, he was in fact committing an offence.
"We take this very seriously, and will prosecute anyone who is caught doing so."
New boss Louis van Gaal has already spent £56m on defender Luke Shaw and midfielder Ander Herrera.
And Woodward promised there would be no repeat of last summer's disappointments in the transfer window.
There is no fixed budget. Financially we are extremely strong. We want to do what it takes to win the title
"There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes," Woodward told MUTV. "Watch this space."
Last summer, following the appointment of David Moyes as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor, Woodward failed to secure the club's key targets and ended up signing only Marouane Fellaini for £27m from Everton before the transfer deadline.
Van Gaal is using the club's current trip to the United States to assess what further changes need to be made.
And Woodward has promised the funds are in place to back the manager's plans.
"There is no fixed budget," he said. "Financially we are extremely strong. We want to do what it takes to win the title."
New arrivals will be accompanied by departures. Nemanja Vidic has already joined Inter Milan while Rio Ferdinand has left for QPR and it is anticipated Patrice Evra will join Juventus imminently, having asked United to leave.
Van Gaal has a ready-made replacement for Evra in Shaw, 19, who became the fourth most expensive defender ever when he made a £27m move from Southampton in June.
Former Red Devils full-back Denis Irwin is confident the teenager has the ability required to be a long-term success at the club.
"He has pace, is great going forward and is still only young. He is going to be a fantastic signing for years to come," said Irwin, who made 529 appearances in his 12 years at United.
"Market forces dictate what you have to pay for players and there was talk of Chelsea being in for him.
"We have to accept he will make mistakes defensively. But he has been playing in the Premier League for the last two years with Southampton and he is only going to get better."
United were seventh last season - their worst finish since 1990 - and Van Gaal is looking for an immediate improvement.
Irwin believes United are capable of challenging for the Premier League title in Van Gaal's first season in charge.
"Manchester United have to aim for the summit," he added.
"There are still a lot of experienced players here who know how to get the job done and the manager has won trophies all over the world. With two or three more signings, I would expect us to challenge."
It has become known as the "Tangier Triangle". In the west, migrants mainly leave in the type of boat commonly seen on other European smuggling routes - small fishing boats and motorised rubber dinghies.
To the east of Tangier, migrants are crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in cheaper options: tiny, rubber paddle boats, with no motor and no need for smugglers and their fees.
Ben Khadair, from the Ivory Coast, said he put in €20 (£18; $23) to contribute to the €100 cost of a "toy boat" bought from a local shop. He and ten others spent 14 hours paddling in a boat designed for four, in a voyage he described as "suicidal".
He made it to a beach in Spain's southernmost city, Tarifa, but the majority don't make it to shore. Nor do they need to. Some aim only for Spanish waters, where they float and call for help.
This routine is now familiar. Some migrants are even using social media to alert the coastguard, dropping a Whatsapp location pin.
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Fewer migrants - those who can afford to - pay smugglers up to €4,000 to take them across by jet ski in just 35 minutes. The Spanish coastguard says it is almost impossible to prevent, and about four to five people are landing on the beaches this way every day.
So what are the reasons for the increase?
Authorities and aid workers say they do not know, but sense a number of things. One, that Morocco is a cheaper option than Libya for those using "toy boats", and one that bypasses the need for smugglers.
There is also a slight surge in the number of sub-Saharans travelling to Spain. Many migrants told me they had spent months researching the best routes, and via social media saw the Moroccan sea route had become more established, increasing the number willing to try.
EU coastguard staff at the border agency Frontex say that, from interviews they have held, another factor is the influence of some local Moroccan fishermen, who allegedly have become more willing to act as traffickers. It is apparently a quick way to make money - they allow migrants to disembark halfway across the Strait of Gibraltar, to make the rest of the journey in their smaller dinghies.
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.
Among those reported dead were the son of a late military leader, a current commander, and at least one Iranian.
Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said they were killed in Quneitra province "during a field reconnaissance mission".
Israel said it would not comment, though unnamed sources confirmed an Israeli helicopter strike.
They claimed those targeted were conducting reconnaissance for a Hezbollah attack.
Those who died include Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of a top military commander killed in 2008, and Mohammed Issa, a Hezbollah field commander, Hezbollah officials said.
One member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards had died, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Iran's semi-official Tabnak news agency said several Revolutionary Guards had been killed.
The incident comes days after a warning to Israel by the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, that his forces might retaliate against what he called repeated Israeli strikes inside Syria.
He said his forces had been stockpiling weapons for such a confrontation and that these included long range missiles that could hit every part of Israel.
Following Sunday's strike, al-Manar said Israel was "playing with fire that puts the security of the whole Middle East on edge".
Hezbollah militants have been supporting President Bashar al-Assad in a four-year Syrian conflict that activists say has left more than 200,000 people dead.
Israel has conducted several air strikes inside Syria since the conflict began, said to be aimed at preventing the transfer of stockpiles of rockets from the Syrian government or Iran to Hezbollah.
Israel fought a 34-day war with Hezbollah, a mainly Shia group backed by Iran, in 2006.
Jihad Mughniyeh is the son of Imad Mugniyeh, who was killed in a bombing in a bombing in Damascus in 2008. Hezbollah blamed Israel for the death, but Israel denied it.
Imad Mughniyeh was widely believed to be behind a wave of Western hostage-taking in Lebanon during the 1980s.
Most of the Golan Heights, a rocky plateau in south-western Syria, were seized by Israel from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Middle East War. About 200 sq miles remained under Syrian control.
The two countries remain technically in a state of war, and UN observers are deployed to monitor a 70km-long (45-mile) demilitarised zone.
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Durham were wobbling at 158-4 before Burnham (93 not out) and Pringle (62 not out) took the visitors to 285-4.
Resuming on 36-0, Michael Richardson chipped in with 62 but fell to South Africa spinner Imran Tahir (2-89).
The victory moves Durham, who started 2017 on minus 48 points, off the bottom of Division Two above Leicestershire.
Leicestershire are only into the second day of their match against Sussex at Arundel and five points behind Paul Collingwood's side, but Durham are now unbeaten in four matches.
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After being nursed back to health she found a happy home with Alison, Monty, Oscar and James who already had a rescue cat.
Leah has been to meet them at their house to see how Purdy has settled in.
The yellow accessory was donated to a church in Worcestershire, but thought too "hideous" to be a raffle prize.
Instead fundraiser Gill Edmonds put it on eBay with the tag "no redeeming features", and it sold for £26.
Since March it has been auctioned by five owners and has just been sold by a cancer patient, Natalie Hunter, of Newcastle, for £1,090.
Mother-of-four Mrs Hunter, of High Heaton, was diagnosed with bladder cancer in May and is undergoing chemotherapy.
She is blogging about her experience with cancer in the hope of leaving a legacy for her children Thomas, 10, Izzy, four, and 20-month-old twins Owain and Ruairidh.
The 37-year-old is raising money for a charity, Team Verricco, which supported her when she was getting a second opinion on her cancer.
The bag began its journey in March when an 89-year-old woman donated it to church fundraiser Gill Edmonds of Great Witley, Worcestershire.
It has even been sold to a woman in Norway and has raised hundreds of pounds for different charities.
Ms Edmonds said: "When I saw it I thought, 'no-one is going to want to win that in a raffle - the only way to sell it was to talk up its bad points.
"It's made of the worst possible plastic and is a mustard colour with a brown handle and added spikes which look like a stegosaurus back.
"I stuck it on eBay calling it an ugly yellow handbag with no redeeming features. The woman who gave it to me wasn't offended and thought it was hilarious."
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It had been discarded from carriages pulled by the Union of South Africa steam train over the last month.
Michael Hogg, of the RMT rail union, said workers who change sleepers and maintain rails on the line between Edinburgh and Tweedbank had dealt with human waste.
"It's disgusting and it's just not acceptable," he added.
The steam train transported the Queen to the Scottish Borders for the official opening of the £300m line in September.
Since then it has carried 6,500 railway enthusiasts and day-trippers on three return excursions a week.
Its run on the Borders Railway officially ended on Sunday but the popularity of the excursion means further charter trips could be arranged.
Diesel trains on the line's regular services retain human waste, but the use of older carriages to carry passengers on steam train trips skirts the rules for modern trains.
Mr Hogg said: "It's diabolical that in this day and age people have to put up with these kind of working conditions.
"It's bad enough having human waste on the tracks, but you're having workers stand back for a passing train and be sprayed with raw sewage.
"We're talking about people possibly being exposed to harmful bacteria that could cause illness and disease, such as hepatitis C."
He added: "We appreciate that these steam rail trips are very, very popular and are likely to continue, but we can't accept the use of old rolling stock which fails to prevent waste ending up on the tracks."
ScotRail confirmed that steam train toilets were not fitted with tanks to collect human waste.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) gave the rail firm permission to allow customers to use toilets between stations on the Borders Railway steam trips.
Onboard toilets remained locked when the train was stabled in or near a station.
A spokeswoman for the ScotRail Alliance said: "The line has been closely monitored and, now that the last steam train has run on the line, our specialist team will carry out a full track clean."
The Fancy Bears published documents stolen from Wada, claiming they wanted to highlight doping in sport.
Most records showed when athletes had been given permission to take banned substances to treat medical conditions.
A Wada investigation has now found "not all data released by Fancy Bears accurately reflects" Wada's own data.
Britain's most decorated Olympian Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mo Farah, the two-time double Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion, were among those to have medical documents released by the cyber-espionage team.
Others included Laura Kenny (formerly Trott) - who has won more Olympic gold medals than any other British woman - Britain's three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome, tennis players Serena Williams of the US and Spain's Rafael Nadal, and US gymnast Simone Biles.
The Fancy Bears described themselves as "an international hack team" who stood for "fair play and clean sport" when they published data from scores of athletes in six separate waves.
Almost all of those named by the hackers had been given permission by anti-doping bodies to take otherwise banned substances under the therapeutic use exemption (TUE) system because they had a medical need - many, including Kenny and Wiggins, have asthma conditions.
An initial Wada investigation questions the accuracy of some of the data the hackers claimed came from the anti-doping authority.
"We are continuing to examine the extent of this as a priority and we would encourage any affected parties to contact Wada should they become aware of any inaccuracies in the data that has been released," it said.
Wada employed cyber-espionage specialists to look into the data breach. They discovered hackers were able to access Wada's system "multiple times" in August and September after obtaining passwords and usernames with a 'phishing' attack on Wada and International Olympic Committee emails, tricking people into divulging personal information.
Wada added it had changed systems and procedures, introduced new IT measures and advised all users of its data system following the attack.
Tim Prottey-Jones said his wife Angela was getting into the sea at Illetas beach on the Spanish island on Saturday when the shark appeared.
It swam past "calmly, perhaps eerily calmly", but was "an amazing sight".
Mr Prottey-Jones, from London, said people rushed out of the sea but got back in again some 25 minutes later.
"We had been on the beach all morning because it was extremely hot and we wanted to leave it as long as possible to enter the water and cool off."
The 37-year-old said his wife was walking down into the water when he noticed everyone coming out of it in a rush to leave.
"I joked with Angela, 'It's because you're going in everyone's coming out'. That's when I saw this fin swim past in the shallow water very near to where everyone was standing, near where the water was," Mr Prottey-Jones said.
"The shark swam straight past us very calmly - eerily calm. It was an amazing sight because you just don't expect to see this beautiful animal."
Despite thinking the fish could have been between 6ft and 8ft long (1.8-2.4 metres), Mr Prottey-Jones said he did not feel scared. He shouted and pointed to Mrs Prottey-Jones to alert her and threw her his phone to capture the moment.
"I was more excited than scared because I'd never seen anything like it. It was a surreal experience - I want to see it again."
Asked how others on the beach reacted, he said there was "a little bit of hysteria but it wasn't manic screaming".
He added: "Parents with young children in the water were most recognisably worried by it. Having little kids in there was probably the biggest worry."
But Mr Prottey-Jones said that, with no further sign of the shark, it was less than half-an-hour before holidaymakers were venturing back into the sea. He said the shark "didn't feel threatening" but admitted that, if it had moved in an aggressive way, then it would have been different.
It was later reported the shark had been captured and killed. Ali Hood, director of conservation at the Shark Trust, said a hook was found embedded in the fish's mouth by local aquarium staff.
She explained this was likely to have affected the shark's "ability to hunt and feed effectively, and may explain its uncharacteristic behaviour, swimming so close in to shore".
Source: Shark Trust
According to the International Shark Attack File compiled by the University of Florida's museum of natural history, blue sharks have been responsible for 13 shark attacks since 1580, four of which were fatal. That compares with 314 for great white sharks, of which 80 were fatal.
Burke, who replaces Beverley Knight in June, said it was "a dream come true" to land the "iconic" part of troubled superstar Rachel Marron.
The film, which co-starred Kevin Costner in the title role, gave Houston one of the biggest-selling singles of all time with I Will Always Love You.
Burke beat JLS to win 2008's X Factor.
"I am a massive Whitney Houston fan so to be given the opportunity to play a role made famous by her every night will be a real privilege," said Burke.
The Bodyguard musical, directed by Thea Sharrock, is set to run at London's Adelphi Theatre until the end of August where it has been since 2012.
Burke added: "I start rehearsals very soon with my fellow cast mates and the brilliant creative team and, with a little trepidation, I am looking forward to our first performance in June."
Burke was mentored to X Factor success by Cheryl Cole and has since released two albums.
Her debut winner's single - a cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah - sold more than a million copies in the UK.
As well as the cover of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You, the musical features renditions of several other classic Houston tracks, including So Emotional, One Moment in Time and I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
Most of those are now living in tents in refugee camps in neighbouring countries such as Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon.
For the children it means cramped conditions, no school and nowhere to play.
Newsround's Nel looks at what life is like for the youngsters that escaped to Lebanon.
Chills had gone up some Blairite spines when Mr Lavery himself had suggested at the weekend the Labour "might be too broad a church".
But he sought to calm nerves which had been further put on edge by comments from Mr Corbyn's close ally Chris Williamson, recently re-elected as the MP for Derby North having been narrowly defeated at the 2015 election.
On Thursday, Mr Williamson said: "There are individual MPs in this party who think it's their God-given right to rule.
"No MP should be guaranteed a job for life. Labour is a big church, but we currently have a large bulk of MPs who represent one relatively small tendency in the congregation... it's unreasonable to think we as MPs can avoid any contest."
His words didn't sound like empty rhetoric to the MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Luciana Berger - seen as being on the moderate wing of the party.
She had resigned as a shadow minister when, a year ago, 80% of Jeremy Corbyn's MPs were expressing no confidence in his leadership.
A left-wing "slate" of candidates had succeeded in taking almost all of the key offices on her local party's executive.
And one of the winners - Roy Bentham - had shared his thoughts with the Liverpool Echo.
He suggested that Ms Berger, who was re-elected last month with an increased majority, publicly recant her criticism of the party leader and for the avoidance of doubt he declared: "She is answerable to us now."
The local party secretary Angela Kehoe-Jones distanced herself from the remarks and suggested the branch was "united" in fighting the Tories.
But there is little doubt that Ms Berger - who is on maternity leave - feels her job is under threat.
And she is not the only one.
A Labour MP who held her seat against the odds at the election told me she was threatened with de-selection within 48 hours of the result.
And you only have to visit websites which purport to back the Labour leadership to view a "rogues' gallery" of MPs who are seen as disloyal.
Featuring on most lists is Chuka Umunna, who upset those close to Mr Corbyn by pushing an amendment to the Queen's Speech to keep Britain in the EU single market - not official party policy.
This was seen as forcing the party leader in to sacking frontbenchers and was the first tangible sign of disunity following the euphoria of the election result.
And while he wouldn't want to see Mr Umunna unseated, even Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson regarded that amendment as bad politics.
But some left-wing activists don't need new offences to be taken in to account.
Some see those MPs who distanced themselves from Jeremy Corbyn as saboteurs of Labour's success.
And they are building a narrative that had they been more loyal - and party officials more ambitious - they could have propelled the party from second to first place at the election.
But don't expect a mass purge of Labour MPs.
Indeed, some Corbyn critics are likely to be offered junior spokespeople roles in the autumn.
But not all of those who are seen as beyond the pale are likely to be unseated.
Mr Corbyn has time and again stressed how much he supports party democracy.
So unless a local party has been - as in Luciana Berger's case - taken over by members and supporters of Momentum (the group set up to keep the spirit of Mr Corbyn's leadership campaigns alive) it would be difficult to dislodge the sitting MP.
And it should be said, not all local Momentum groups favour de-selecting sitting MPs in any case.
They would point out that they have campaigned for the re-election of MPs who aren't ideological fellow travellers.
Momentum nationally weren't chuffed with a Facebook post from the South Tyneside group suggesting MPs such as Chris Leslie and Jess Phillips should "join the Liberals".
Instead of pushing existing personalities out, largely beneath the political radar there are attempts to move Labour more solidly and permanently to the left and to ensure that, when the time comes, Jeremy Corbyn would be able to hand over the leadership to someone who largely shares his political outlook.
So at this year's Labour Party conference, there will be a move to shift the power in future leadership elections from MPs to party members.
This would mean just 5% of MPs - not the 15% of MPs and MEPs at present - would be needed to put a candidate on the ballot.
With a snap election, most anti-Corbyn MPs were returned to Parliament so while a left-wing candidate still might struggle to get 15% support, 5% is considered no barrier.
This move has already been reported extensively.
Mr Corbyn's internal opponents call it "the McDonnell amendment" - as shadow chancellor John McDonnell is a red rag to any of the party's more moderate bulls.
Groups of what were called Blairites and Brownites - they would call themselves modernisers or moderates - in organisations such as Progress and Labour First have been working hard to secure enough delegates to the annual conference to defeat the leadership changes.
With the deadline for deciding delegates drawing to a close, it's not clear yet who has the upper hand.
But something of a quiet revolution could be under way that would see the power of Jeremy Corbyn, and his supporters, entrenched.
Under Labour's rules, some topics need to be put on the table this year if they are decided next year.
So a slow burning fuse will be lit in the autumn that could blow up in to a more major row in 2018.
There are moves by those on the party's left to make it easier for local parties to oust sitting MPs in future.
This would involve party branches being encouraged to put forward alternative names for consideration, or for sitting MPs to be required to demonstrate they had 66% support locally to continue.
There will also be a move to increase the number members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), who are elected not by MPs or the unions, but by the rank-and-file members.
The assumption is that they are more in tune with Mr Corbyn's agenda.
The NEC approves party candidates for elections - and a panel of its members chooses by-election candidates.
There was an attempt to disbar the pro-nuclear and anti-Corbyn candidate John Woodcock at an NEC meeting just before the election.
That failed, but if the balance of power on the body were to change, so could the career prospects of the leadership's critics.
And indeed the career prospects of Labour's general secretary Iain McNicol would be called in to question by another proposed change.
There will be an attempt to give members the right to choose the party's top official in future.
Again, this can't be decided until next year but could put Mr McNicol on notice.
He is blamed for trying to deny new (and, it was assumed, more radical) members the right to vote in last year's leadership contest and for not putting enough resources in to Labour/Tory marginals at the general election.
He would contend that the party HQ's strategy of defending vulnerable seats - as well as swiftly moving resources to seats which looked promising as the campaign progressed - was a success.
So by its actions in the coming months, Labour - 8 points ahead in one opinion poll today - could choose to remain a broad church.
Or further expose the fact that many of its MPs and grassroots members aren't really singing from the same hymn sheet.
The test is designed to judge whether banks operating in the US can weather a major economic downturn.
Santander Holdings and Deutsche Bank Trust Corp had already failed last year.
The Fed said that "broad and substantial weaknesses" persisted in the banks' capital planning.
While all 31 large US banks passed the test, Morgan Stanley only got conditional approval and has to submit a new capital plan by the end of the year.
For Germany's Deutsche Bank it was the second year that the subsidiary of the German lender failed the test while for Spain's Santander it was the third time.
While the Fed noted improvements for the two banks, the regulator said there were continued substantial weaknesses.
The annual test looked at the 33 biggest banks in the US to see how they would be able to keep operating even in a severe financial crisis and economic downturn.
The tests were launched in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Banks that pass the test are effectively getting a green light to raise dividends or repurchase shares.
But these returns to investors cut into a banks' capital reserves, and can make firms more vulnerable during an economic downturn.
Therefore, regulators like the Federal Reserve want to keep check on whether or not a bank is permitted to raise its dividend.
"The participating firms have strengthened their capital positions and improved their risk-management capacities," Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo said. "Continued progress in both areas will further enhance the resiliency of the nation's largest banks."
Sony said it would cost about the same as the previous model.
The firm also announced a series of child-focused titles for the machine - an area where Nintendo's rival 3DS console has performed strongly.
One expert said that the lack of a price cut was likely to limit sales.
Earlier in the year Sony announced plans to stream games from its PlayStation 3 catalogue to smartphones and tablets.
However, the managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment said the firm had not yet decided whether that meant this Vita would be its last dedicated handheld console.
"We'll continue to monitor how the market evolves and will continue to listen to what gamers want," Fergal Gara told the BBC.
"It has a dual role as a standalone gaming device and an exciting accessory for the PlayStation 4 [the Vita can connect to a PS4 and play its games], so let's see what behaviour and gameplay pattern emerges."
Sony said the new model was 15% lighter and 20% slimmer than before, and the wi-fi only version would cost about £180.
It also gains 1GB of internal storage and boasts longer battery life - claiming up to six hours of gameplay and nine hours of video playback - thanks in part to the firm replacing the OLED touchscreen with a more traditional LED version. Early reviews suggest this makes it appear less bright.
The company spent more time at its London launch event focusing on forthcoming software than the hardware itself.
The new titles include Invizimals: The Alliance - an augmented reality title targeted at children that uses the Vita's cameras to show fantasy creatures interacting with views of the real world.
The franchise has been compared to Nintendo's bestselling Pokemon series.
"Invizimals in southern Europe is massive, with a TV show, a magazine and figurines," said Christopher Dring, editor of the video games trade magazine MCV.
"Over here in the UK it hasn't really taken off yet and Sony is trying to promote it in a big way when it launches in March. That may be a key to pushing the Vita."
Other child-focused games include a Lego Movie game and PS Vita Pets, a title which challenges the player to raise a virtual animal and then take them out into a virtual environment.
The Vita has sold a fraction of the 81 million units claimed by its predecessor, the PlayStation Portable - something Mr Gara said was due in large part to the rise of smartphones and tablets.
But he also acknowledged that Nintendo's efforts to target a younger market had meant that the Vita had also been outsold by the 3DS.
"Nintendo has done a great job I think in creating franchises for the kids market," he said.
"They kind of have that market quite firmly in their hands I guess.
"We've brought out a device more for the core gamer and not as many of those necessarily want that experience on the move.
"So, you'll see us moving more into that [kids] market, but we recognise that there's a strong player in that space."
Sony is also making greater efforts to promote games from independent developers, launching a £20 "megapack" containing 10 of the sector's best reviewed titles, including Hotline Miami and Limbo.
This may help it counter the popularity of low-priced games available for Android, Windows Phone and iOS devices.
But MCV's editor said the Vita might need to be priced £140 or below to drive a big rise in sales.
"They could do with lowering the price... but that may be to come," said Mr Dring.
"There is a die-hard fan group for the Vita, and while there may not be many devices sold, the number of games bought per device is relatively high when compared to the PlayStation 3.
"So, the Vita isn't like the Wii U where you think there's probably no way back - perhaps Sony can get some momentum behind it."
Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Féin's northern leader, said the SDLP should "do the right thing" and not field candidates in Fermanagh and South Tyrone and North Belfast.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the party will "stand on its own two feet".
The news came on the same day the two main unionist parties failed to strike an electoral pact deal.
Mrs O'Neill called on the SDLP to withdraw their candidates in the two constituencies, but did not offer to withdraw any Sinn Féin candidates in exchange.
When asked what the SDLP would gain from such an offer, she said: "They get the maximum number of MPs returned which are going to be anti-Brexit, which is their position."
However, Mr Eastwood rejected the offer citing Sinn Féin's policy of abstentionism at Westminster.
"We're not interested in standing aside for a political party that won't even take their seats to go and vote against Brexit, to go and vote against Tory cuts or to do any of that.
"They just want more seats for no particular reason, whatsoever.
"So, no, the SDLP will stand on its own two feet in this election, and run very hard in those constituencies to try to make sure we get a strong pro-European voice actually going to Westminster and making the case for people here."
Earlier, DUP leader Arlene Foster and UUP leader Robin Swann said they had not agreed an overall election pact but would continue to discuss better unionist co-operation beyond the election.
They have agreed to stand aside in certain constituencies to avoid splitting the unionist vote.
The DUP will give the UUP a free run in Fermanagh and South Tyrone and the Ulster Unionists returned the favour in North Belfast - both seats where outgoing unionist MPs face strong challenges from nationalist Sinn Féin candidates.
However, there had been speculation about a wider deal covering seats like South Belfast and East Belfast, where there was a unionist pact two years ago. in which only a single candidate for the two parties stood in either constituency.
In a joint statement, the two party leaders said they wanted to see "the strongest possible vote for pro-union candidates standing in all of the 18 constituencies across Northern Ireland".
"While our parties have not concluded any formal pact arrangements on this occasion we are resolved to continue discussions in the interests of better unionist co-operation beyond this election period."
Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election for 8 June in April.
The charity said the number of women seeking its advice after experiencing a cut in hours, being put on a zero-hours contract or being forced out of their job after becoming pregnant had risen by 25% in its last financial year.
It said it was "concerning" that the problem seemed to be growing.
Pregnancy or maternity discrimination by employers is against the law.
Is pregnancy costing women their jobs?
In the past financial year, 1,921 people turned to Citizens Advice for help with pregnancy and maternity discrimination, up from 1,540 in the previous 12 months, the charity said.
There was also a 22% increase in people seeking online help, with the charity's web advice viewed 22,000 times in the last year, it said.
One woman reported that her employer cut her weekly hours by more than half after she told them she was pregnant.
Her boss claimed there was not enough work available to keep her on her previous hours, despite taking on new staff at the same time.
Another woman contacted her employer to find out why she had not received any maternity pay, to be told they had ended her contract while she was on maternity leave.
Source: Maternity Action
Recent research by the Equality and Human Rights Commission found 77% of mothers reported a negative or possibly discriminatory experience at work during their pregnancy, maternity leave or on their return to work.
Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy said pregnant women should not be made to fear for their livelihood.
"People with a baby on the way will have a lot on their minds already. The last thing they need is a threat to their income or job security.
"All employers should respect and uphold the rights of staff who are new parents or expecting a baby."
She sustained leg injuries, not thought to be life-threatening, and was taken to hospital for treatment.
There was smoke damage to the house in the attack in Clara Street on Sunday about 23:30 BST.
Police have appealed for anyone who may have noticed any suspicious activity in the area to contact them on the non-emergency 101 number.
Alternatively, contact the independent charity Crimestoppers and speak to them anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Former Barrow striker Inih Effiong took just 18 minutes to open his Woking account, tapping in on the rebound after Heed goalkeeper James Montgomery saved his initial effort.
Danny Johnson, who notched 18 times for the visitors last season, equalised with a thunderous low volley from just outside the area after 26 minutes, but Joe Ward put the hosts back in front after being picked out superbly by Bobson Bawling just before the interval.
Chez Isaac skimmed the crossbar for Woking with a spectacular strike from 25 yards after 50 minutes while Effiong also spurned an open goal to make it 3-1 soon after, but they had already done enough to hand former Southampton and West Ham academy coach Limbrick his first win.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Woking 2, Gateshead 1.
Second Half ends, Woking 2, Gateshead 1.
Substitution, Woking. Kane Ferdinand replaces Joe Ward.
Substitution, Gateshead. Richard Peniket replaces Russell Penn.
Substitution, Woking. Jamie Philpot replaces Bobson Bawling.
Substitution, Gateshead. Robbie Tinkler replaces Fraser Kerr.
Second Half begins Woking 2, Gateshead 1.
First Half ends, Woking 2, Gateshead 1.
Goal! Woking 2, Gateshead 1. Joe Ward (Woking).
Goal! Woking 1, Gateshead 1. Danny Johnson (Gateshead).
Substitution, Woking. Charlie Carter replaces Fabio Saraiva.
Goal! Woking 1, Gateshead 0. Inih Effiong (Woking).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
26 September 2016 Last updated at 12:00 BST
Ben, from Sheffield, was 21 months old when he disappeared on 24 July 1991 during a family holiday.
A fresh line of inquiry suggested he could have been crushed by a digger.
South Yorkshire Police (SYP) said it continued to keep an "open mind" about what happened to Ben.
It will draw on the case of Elizabeth Dixon, from Hampshire, who died 14 years ago after a breathing tube was not dealt with correctly.
The CQC says it wants to identify what barriers can stop hospitals from providing good or outstanding care.
The report, expected to be published in March 2016, may lead to new guidelines.
The inspection will involve around 20 neonatal services in England. These services, both inside and outside hospitals, involve the care of babies born early and those needing treatment in hospital after birth.
Inspectors will look at how well staff spot problems that develop during pregnancy and how these are dealt with.
And in particular the commission will examine the care of babies who need breathing tubes.
This follows the experiences of the Dixon family.
Elizabeth Dixon died in 2001 as a result of failures in the tracheostomy care she received at home, while under the care of a newly qualified agency nurse.
Prof Edward Baker, deputy chief inspector of hospitals at the CQC, said: "Everyone has the right to care which is safe and effective but we know from our inspections of maternity services there is a marked difference in the quality of the care provided.
"We want to highlight good practice so that it can be shared, but also to identify what is stopping hospitals from providing good or outstanding care."
A video of Bi Fujian singing a parody song at a private banquet and insulting the former Chinese leader in strong language was posted online in April.
Mr Bi was taken off air shortly after the incident, amid great controversy.
But People's Daily said officials had ordered his employer, state broadcaster CCTV, to punish him for "a serious violation of political discipline".
Mao, who led the country through the Cultural Revolution and a crippling famine which killed millions, remains the subject of much debate.
Mr Bi hosts CCTV's annual hugely popular New Year variety show, and is best known in China for hosting the talent show Star Boulevard.
What did Did Bi Fujian sing?
He sang Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, a Mao-era song which dramatises a 1946 incident where a soldier infiltrated and helped to destroy a group of bandits.
In the video, he was seen singing part of the song and interjecting the lyrics with his comments.
"We are the peasant soldiers who have come to the deep mountains - come to the deep mountains to do what, eh?
"To vanquish the reactionaries - can you defeat them?
"Changing the earth and sky, several decades of revolutionary war in the north and south - it was tough enough.
"The Communist Party, Chairman Mao - Ugh, let's not talk about this son of a bitch any longer, he's caused us so much suffering."
Mr Bi's last statement on his Weibo microblog account was an April statement apologising for the incident, saying that his remarks had "created serious adverse consequences... as a public figure I must learn my lesson, and learn to have high standards and strict self-discipline".
News of his punishment has been greeted with a mixed reaction on Weibo, with some criticising the lack of freedom of speech and others arguing that he needed to be punished.
Some noted the swift clampdown on Mr Bi was reminiscent of the brutal purges of dissent during the Cultural Revolution led by Mao.
"He was a bit too much, but he was just talking at the dinner table and someone told on him. If this isn't the Cultural Revolution, then what is?" said user Call Me Lixiumei.
Others also noted that many Weibo posts on the topic had been deleted, particularly comments that praised Mr Bi. China regularly scrubs the microblogging network especially on sensitive topics.
While China officially acknowledges there were faults in Mao, he remains hugely respected, and insulting him and other leaders is a taboo.
His legacy is also growing in popularity among those who feel China has moved too far away from his communist ideals.
5 February 2016 Last updated at 12:39 GMT
The smoke lit up the sky with bolts of lightning, caused by tiny pieces of rock, ash and ice rubbing together and making static electricity.
Sakurajima's last major eruption was in September. This area of the country sits on the Pacific "Ring of fire" and has more than 100 volcanoes.
The Ring of Fire is an area where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen a lot.
There have been no reports of anyone having been hurt by Sakurajima's eruption so far.
If you want to learn more then check out Newsround's guide to what causes volcanoes.
Based at Segedunum in Wallsend, the 8ft 8in-tall figure was made from three tonnes of Corten steel, the same material used to construct the Angel of the North.
Named Sentius Tectonicus, it marks the end 73-mile (117km) Hadrian's Wall which stretches to Cumbria.
It was constructed by artist John O'Rourke for North Tyneside Council.
The soldier's name comes from an inscription recovered close to Segedunum which revealed that a centurion named Sentius supervised the building of a section of the wall.
The structure has an opening at the bottom, with ladders ascending throughout four levels.
Mr O'Rourke said: "Wallsend's more recent history revolved around the shipbuilding industry.
"Making a figure which adopted industrial materials and fabrication methods ensures that the work's structural and material substance forge those links."
The rise of 513,300 in the year to June 2015 was in line with average annual rises over the last decade, it said.
The increase was driven by "natural growth" (excess of births over deaths) of 171,800 people, and net migration of 335,600, according to the ONS.
The largest percentage increase was in England and the lowest was in Wales.
An increase of 5,800, covering armed forces personnel stationed in the UK and the prison population, was also a factor in the estimated growth of the population, according to the ONS.
The older population has continued to rise, with more than 11.6 million people (17.8% of the population) now aged 65 and over, and 1.5 million people (2.3% of the population) aged 85 and over in mid-2015.
Elsewhere, the figure for natural growth was at its lowest for 10 years.
This was caused by an increase in the number of deaths combined with a continuing decrease in the number of births - down 1,900 on the previous year.
An increase in immigration (up 53,700) and a smaller decrease in emigration (down 22,300) have both contributed to an increase in net international migration - the difference between the numbers of people coming to live in Britain and those emigrating.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled Dr Waney Squier misled courts and gave irresponsible evidence in cases where parents were accused of killing their children.
Dr Squier, 67, based at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, disputed the existence of "shaken baby syndrome".
Next week it will decide whether she can continue to practice.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
The MPTS considered her work as an expert witness in six cases, including the deaths of four babies and a 19-month-old child.
In each case, Dr Squier, a paediatric neuropathologist, gave evidence that the injuries were not consistent with non-accidental injury, or were more likely to have been caused by other means.
In its ruling the MPTS said she had provided "deliberately misleading and dishonest evidence" and so her integrity "cannot be relied upon".
It added: "The tribunal has determined that your fitness to practise is currently impaired by reason of your misconduct."
The company says the fault is rare but can prevent airbags from deploying during a crash. Seat belts may also fail, it adds.
Trucks, cars and SUVs from the 2014-17 models are to be recalled.
The company said it would contact customers and update their software for free.
General Motors, which is based in Detroit, said the recall would not have a material impact on its financial results.
Of the 4.3m vehicles, 3.6m are in the US, where the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the recall on Friday.
The company says the defect concerns the sensing and diagnostic module. In rare cases it can go into test mode, meaning airbags will not inflate in a crash.
The recalled vehicles are:
In 2014 the company recalled 2.6 million vehicles in connection with an ignition switch fault that disabled the airbags. It also paid compensation for 124 deaths.
The Saddlers arguably had the better of what few chances there were in a match in which defences were very much on top.
And after their 1-0 win at Port Vale on Boxing Day, Walsall can be satisfied with their end to 2016.
Oxford top scorer Chris Maguire drove over the bar from 12 yards after a smart link-up with Marvin Johnson, who was a threat down the left.
But Walsall, who had youngster Kory Roberts making his debut at the back, defended solidly and the U's had to work very hard to try to break them down.
Alex MacDonald managed to find space to send in a low shot early in the second half, but it hardly troubled keeper Neil Etheridge.
Saddlers striker Simeon Jackson fired Joe Edwards' cross over the bar at full stretch. And U's keeper Simon Eastwood had to be at his best to turn Flo Cuvelier's 20-yard effort around a post.
Eastwood also produced a superb reaction save two minutes from time when an Edwards shot deflected off Chey Dunkley.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Oxford United 0, Walsall 0.
Second Half ends, Oxford United 0, Walsall 0.
Attempt missed. John Lundstram (Oxford United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Philip Edwards.
Attempt blocked. Kieron Morris (Walsall) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Walsall. Andreas Makris replaces Simeon Jackson.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Joe Edwards.
Attempt saved. Joe Rothwell (Oxford United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Oxford United. Joe Rothwell replaces Alexander MacDonald.
Attempt saved. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Tyler Roberts (Oxford United).
Scott Laird (Walsall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Simeon Jackson (Walsall).
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by John Lundstram.
Attempt blocked. Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Oxford United. Tyler Roberts replaces Robert Hall.
Substitution, Walsall. Kieron Morris replaces Florent Cuvelier.
Substitution, Walsall. Erhun Oztumer replaces Amadou Bakayoko.
Foul by Chris Maguire (Oxford United).
Jason McCarthy (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Marvin Johnson.
Attempt saved. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Scott Laird (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Robert Hall (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Laird (Walsall).
Robert Hall (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Laird (Walsall).
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Simon Eastwood.
Attempt saved. Joe Edwards (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Simeon Jackson (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Foul by Ryan Taylor (Oxford United).
Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Oxford United. Ryan Taylor replaces Kane Hemmings.
Attempt saved. Alexander MacDonald (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Ryan Ledson (Oxford United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Adele Baumgardt was sacked alongside chairman of the troubled quango Paul Thomas on Wednesday.
Ms Baumgardt, who had worked for Sport Wales for more than 10 years, said Mr Thomas was not fit for the job - an allegation he denies
The Welsh Government said there were "lessons to be learned".
In November, the Welsh Government suspended the entire Sport Wales board, over concerns the organisation was dysfunctional.
On Wednesday Public Health Minister Rebecca Evans sacked Mr Thomas and Ms Baumgardt saying there had been "an irretrievable breakdown in relationships" in the board's leadership.
Speaking to BBC's Good Morning Wales programme, Ms Baumgardt said the board had been "well governed, managed and led" and would go from "strength to strength" under new leadership.
She claimed Sport Wales had been one of the most successful public organisations in Wales until the appointment of Mr Thomas in April 2016.
"To have ended up in this situation, I think serious questions need to be asked about how the process works with public appointments," said Ms Baumgardt.
"This is a really strong organisation with a strong board."
Ms Baumgardt, who worked at the organisation for more than 10 years, repeated claims that Mr Thomas was not fit for the job, an accusation Mr Thomas has rejected.
She insisted there was no evidence she had done anything wrong and there was no reason why she should have been sacked.
Mr Thomas has accused the Welsh Government of being "appalling" in its dealings with him, saying he had not been given the support he needed to change the organisation,
Sport Wales, originally called the Sports Council for Wales, was created in 1972 to promote elite and grassroots sport. It has an annual budget of £22m.
Over the last six months it has become embroiled in a series of rows over the operation of the board and the way it awards contracts.
A review of Sport Wales, by the Welsh Government, has been completed, but has not been released to the public.
A Welsh Government spokesman said a review examining Mr Thomas' appointment confirmed the proper process had been followed.
"The appointment process complied fully with the principles of merit, fairness and openness," he said.
"There are lessons to be learned from the situation that arose and what is required of individuals being appointed to a public leadership role."
But Sam Smith said that was not the case for charity single Band Aid 30, and everyone was "pretty chilled out".
"There's a really good spirit in there actually," he said, speaking to Newsbeat at the recording in London.
"There's not a lot of ego. Everyone's pretty chilled and just looking to do a good job for the cause."
One Direction, Emeli Sande, Rita Ora and Ed Sheeran are among some of the names set to appear on the song, which aims to raise money to help the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
"I'm very excited to do something for the cause and that's the main thing for me," said Smith.
"I really want to draw the focus in on that, that's what I'm excited about the most."
Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Chris Martin and Bono are also singing on the track, an updated version of Do They Know It's Christmas?
"I'm actually a bit nervous because the song might be in a really bad key but again it's not about how my voice sounds in terms of whether it's suitable for me," said Smith, before recording his part.
Many of the stars dropped other commitments in order to be a part of the fundraising.
Rita Ora was the first to record her lines and left early so she could travel to Salford to film BBC One's The Voice.
Ed Sheeran flew in from his tour in Germany, while Bastille cancelled two US arena gigs to be involved.
Other artists taking part include Elbow, Seal, Jessie Ware, Fuse ODG, Sinead O'Connor, Angelique Kidjo, Olly Murs, Paloma Faith, Queen drummer Roger Taylor, Clean Bandit and Foals.
Nick Grimshaw was also at the studio, to "help" with the recording.
"I really want to sing, like so much, but I've definitely been told I can't because my voice is awful," he said.
"But I keep saying to Bob [Geldof], surely it's a choir and I can just sneak in at the back."
Bob Geldof, who is behind the appeal and organised the original track in 1984, said he addressed the participants "like the headmaster" before they sang the chorus.
"I said, 'OK, this is what it's about. When you sing this, be aware that the rest of the world will be singing it with you.'
"I explained the situation in West Africa, I explained what the UN were saying, explained what we could do, and just geed them up."
Many of the musicians involved were children when the first Band Aid single was released 30 years ago - and some weren't even born.
"I grew up watching the two Band Aids that happened and watching Live Aid and all of that was incredible," said Smith, who is 22.
"This is all amazing but a day like today just highlights what it's really about if I'm honest."
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Closing the annual National People's Congress, he urged delegates to reject extravagance and fight corruption.
At a news conference later, new Premier Li Keqiang said sustainable economic growth would remain the top priority.
The comments come as the Communist government completed a once-in-a-decade leadership transition.
By Zhuang ChenBBC Chinese
So far there haven't been any significant deviations from their respective predecessors in the speeches made by China's new President Xi Jinping and new Prime Minister Li Keqiang. Mr Xi reiterated his ambition for China's rejuvenation - the "China dream" he mentioned after becoming Communist Party chief last November. Mr Li focused on the challenges of economic development and social inequality, echoing his predecessor Wen Jiabao 10 years ago.
But the styles are different. Both men avoided the slogans that characterised Hu Jintao's addresses. Mr Xi has used plain language in his comments about corruption, saying officials need iron-hard resolve to tackle the problem. Unlike Mr Wen, Mr Li has steered away from quoting ancient poetry, emphasising the need for action rather than words.
Both men's speeches are designed to give a sense of optimism to the people. But their words will fade quickly. They need to take action because many Chinese are already wondering if their new leaders will be any different.
President Xi's address was a patriotic speech urging greater national unity, the BBC's Martin Patience reports from Beijing.
Its nationalistic tone will reinforce the view that he will pursue a more assertive foreign policy during his decade in power, our correspondent says.
President Xi issued a warning to China's military, saying it should improve its ability to "win battles and... protect national sovereignty and security".
He also stressed that continued economic development was essential, urging the nation to achieve what he called "China's dream".
The same themes were taken up at a rare news conference by new premier Li Keqiang, who has taken over the the day-to-day running of the country, succeeding Wen Jiabao.
He addressed the growing inequality gap and public anger at corruption, promising to reform the central government, cut "extravagance" and shake-up "vested interests".
Spending on the government payroll, overseas trips and new offices would be cut while funding for social services would increase, he said.
"A clean government should start with oneself, "Mr Li asserted.
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Li Keqiang was elected for a five-year term but, like his predecessor, would be expected to spend a decade in office.
On foreign policy, Mr Li stressed on the importance of further developing relations with the US, saying that "common interests far outweigh our differences".
He described as "groundless" US accusations that China was behind recent cyber-attacks on American government agencies and companies.
On Saturday, the People's Congress approved a number of new ministerial appointments, including Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Finance Minister Lou Jiwei.
The four vice-premiers are Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yandong, Wang Yang and Ma Kai - all veteran Communist Party officials.
Goldenbridge Cemetery in Dublin was the first non-denominational graveyard on the island of Ireland - and was used by people of all religions and none.
O'Connell, an MP who led the campaign to end religious discrimination against Catholics, opened Goldenbridge in 1828.
It shut over a dispute with the British War Office but reopened at the weekend.
Until now, the gates of the two-acre site in the Dublin suburb of Inchicore had been locked and visits were permitted by appointment only.
About 250 people attended a rededication ceremony at the graveyard on Sunday, which marked the opening of the site as a historical landmark and a working cemetery.
The attendees heard an extract from one of O'Connell's speeches, in which he said: "We wish to live on terms of amity and affection with our brother Protestant fellow-countrymen.
"We earnestly desire to be united with them in our lives, and not to be separated from them in death".
The Irish barrister and politician founded the graveyard at a time when Catholics were banned from having their own dedicated cemeteries.
They were also banned from taking seats in the House of Commons and many other public offices.
That began to change when O'Connell, a Catholic Irish nationalist from County Kerry, won a Commons seat to represent the County Clare constituency in 1828.
His election helped to pressurise the government into passing the 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act, which restored some of the civil liberties they had lost after the Reformation.
Goldenbridge cemetery is now run by the Glasnevin Trust, and members of the public will now be able to buy new grave plots at the site.
The trust is the largest provider of funeral services in the Republic of Ireland and is governed by the Dublin Cemeteries Committee, which O'Connell established in 1828.
The chairman of trust, John Green, told BBC News NI that the British military authorities originally objected to Goldenbridge over fears that the burials would contaminate their water supply.
He said the cemetery was close to Dublin's Grand Canal, which at that time was used as a source of drinking water by British troops based at nearby Richmond Barracks.
The complaint went all the way to the Lord Chancellor's office, before a decision was taken to shut the graveyard.
However, Mr Green added that an inspection of the site revealed it had good drainage, and said a more likely reason for the military objection was that troops frequently ended up in pubs with mourners after the many funerals held at the site.
The project to reopen the cemetery coincided with the refurbishment of Richmond Barracks as an exhibition centre.
Sunday's ceremony was held on the eve of the 170th anniversary of O'Connell's death and a wreath was laid in his memory.
Among the graves at Goldenbridge is that of first leader of the Irish Free State - William Thomas (WT) Cosgrave.
He served as the first President of the Executive Council - effectively the first Irish prime minister - from 1922 to 1932.
Cosgrave's legacy divides opinion and his grave has been vandalised in repeated attacks.
Last year, it was one of 12 graves badly damaged days before the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
However, at the time Mr Green told the BBC he could not be sure the vandalism was politically motivated, as the site was regularly a target for serious anti-social behaviour, including drug dealing.
It is hoped the reopened graveyard will have potential as a tourist attraction.
Vytautas Jokubauskas, 57, of Mayor's Walk in Peterborough has been charged with murdering Ramute Butkiene.
The body of Ms Butkiene, 42, who was formally indentified earlier, was found with no arms, legs or head at a house in Mayor's Walk last Friday.
Mr Jokubauskas will appear at Huntingdon Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
Mother-of-one Ms Butkiene was an agency worker in the city, Cambridgeshire Police said.
Officers said "some body parts" had been found and searches were continuing.
The torso was found after other tenants in the shared house reported a "pungent smell" and called police.
A post-mortem examination failed to establish how Ms Butkiene died.
Ms Butkiene's family members in Peterborough and Lithuania have been informed, a police spokesman said.
The murder is being treated as an isolated incident and a dedicated team has been set up to investigate.
But we are also the most anxious, the survey of more than 300,000 adults across the UK found.
That "top of the mornin' feeling" peaks in Fermanagh and Omagh, County Tyrone, according to the latest figures.
That is where life satisfaction and happiness soar and people are walking - metaphorically at least - on sunshine.
However, the personal well being survey from the Office for National Statistics, (ONS) suggests people in Northern Ireland also tend to worry.
They were among the most anxious in the UK.
People were questioned on four measures of well-being; happiness, life satisfaction, feeling life was worthwhile and anxiety.
Overall, the survey, for the year ending 2015, put Northern Ireland on the top rating for life satisfaction with an average score of 7.9 out of 10. It was the only place to be significantly higher than the UK average of 7.6.
The happiness score came out at 7.8 - again significantly higher than the UK average.
But anxiety was slightly below the national average for both Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The people of Lisburn, Castlereagh and Belfast worry the most, the figures suggest.
On the positive side, when it comes to finding meaning in life, those living in Mid Ulster scored the highest when asked if they felt that the things they did were worthwhile.
Overall, the ONS said personal well-being had risen every year since 2011/12 when data was first collected, with the greatest improvement for levels of anxiety.
Northern Ireland recorded higher average ratings for well-being for all measures except anxiety, which the ONS says has been the case for the past five years.
People in London reported lower personal well-being, on average, for each of the measures than the equivalent UK averages.
However, the report suggests that London has seen improvements across all the average measures of personal well-being, particularly in reductions to anxiety since data were first collected.
"Reported personal well-being has improved every year since financial year ending 2012 when data were first collected, suggesting that an increasing number of people in the UK are feeling positive about their lives," the report states.
Overall those aged 65 to 79 are the happiest, the research states.
Those aged 45 to 59 reported the lowest levels of life satisfaction, with men on average less satisfied than women.
That age group also reported the highest levels of anxiety.
Researchers said one possible reason for the lower happiness and well-being scores among this age group might be the burden of having to care for children and elderly parents at the same time.
The club also have an option to extend his deal for a further 12 months.
Former Spain international Hernandez has made 15 Championship appearances since joining in August.
The 31-year-old previously played alongside - and under - Leeds head coach Garry Monk at Swansea between August 2012 and February 2014.
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The Department of Justice (DoJ) wants all visitors' IP addresses - some 1.3 million - to a website that helped organise a protest on the day of President Trump's inauguration.
DreamHost is currently refusing to comply with the request and is due in court later this month.
The DoJ has not yet responded to requests for comment from the BBC.
It is unclear why it wants the internet protocol addresses of visitors to website disruptj20.org, which organised a protest against President Trump on 20 January - the day of his inauguration.
"The website was used in the development, planning, advertisement and organisation of a violent riot that occurred in Washington DC on January 20, 2017," it wrote in its motion to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, which sought to compel DreamHost to hand over the information.
It suggested that "a particular customer" was the subject of the warrant, but does not explain why it needed so much information on other visitors.
In a blog post on the issue, DreamHost said that, like many other online service providers, it was regularly approached by law enforcement about customers who may be the subject of criminal investigations.
But, it added, it took issue with this particular search warrant "for being a highly untargeted demand".
In addition to the IP addresses, DreamHost said that the DoJ requested the contact information, email content and photos of "thousands of visitors".
Civil liberties group The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is helping DreamHost fight its case, said: "No plausible explanation exists for a search warrant of this breadth, other than to cast a digital dragnet as broadly as possible."
A hearing on the issue is due on 18 August.
Mae gan Extreme Sports Company sianel chwaraeon arlein sy'n cyrraedd 68 o wledydd ac yn trefnu digwyddiadau.
Yn ogystal â'r trac rasio beiciau modur, mae'r argymhellion newydd yn cynnwys traciau beicio mynydd, parc BMX, cyngherddau a safle sgïo dan do.
Roedd gweinidogion Llywodraeth Cymru wedi gofyn i benaethiaid i wneud mwy o waith ar y prosiect cyn y byddai modd cefnogi'r cynllun.
Cafodd Extreme ei lansio yn 1995, a bellach maent yn dweud bod eu darllediadau yn cyrraedd 400 miliwn o bobl y mis.
Yn ôl Alistair Gosling, cadeirydd a phrif weithredwr Extreme: "Gyda thwf a'r diddordeb yr ydym yn ei weld yn ein sector, mae'n wych cyhoeddi y lleoliad hwn, sy'n cyfuno casgliad o chwaraeon, adloniant a phrofiadau hamdden unigryw, nas gwelwyd o'r blaen."
Roedd Cylchffordd Cymru yn addo creu hyd at 6,000 o swyddi ym Mlaenau Gwent drwy adeiladu trac gyda sawl gwesty ac unedau busnes.
Mae'r cynllun hwn yn addo mwy o ddigwyddiadau chwaraeon a hamdden, gan gynnwys cyfleusterau trampolin, parc sglefrio, ardal rhithwirionedd a llwyfan ar gyfer cerddoriaeth fyw.
Dywedodd Martin Whitaker, Prif Weithredwr Cylchffordd Cymru: "Y bwriad yw darparu llawer mwy na chyfleusterau rasio yn unig; fe fydd yn safle ar gyfer hamdden a busnes 365 diwrnod y flwyddyn."
Mae'r partneriaid yn honni y gallai'r datblygiad ddenu 750,000 y flwyddyn gan roi hwb gwerth £50m i economi Cymru yn flynyddol.
Ond, mae'r rhai sydd y tu ôl i Gylchffordd Cymru yn dal angen cyrraedd cytundeb gyda Llywodraeth Cymru am gefnogaeth ariannol i'r prosiect, unwaith y bydd y trac wedi ei adeiladu.
Mae Cylchffordd Cymru yn dweud eu bod yn cyfarfod swyddogion yn wythnosol ers misoedd.
Roedd yna bryderon na fyddai'r prosiect yn llwyddo i ddenu cymaint o ymwelwyr a'r hyn oedd wedi ei amcangyfrif.
MotoGP oedd yr unig ddigwyddiad oedd wedi ei gadarnhau, gyda'r hawliau yn parhau tan 2024.
Fe allai'r datblygiad yma olygu mwy o ymwelwyr i'r safle, gan o bosib agor y digwyddiad i gynulleidfa arlein ar draws y byd.
Y banciwr Kleinwort Benson sy'n cefnogi Extreme, ac ymunodd gyda phrosiect Cylchffordd Cymru ddiwedd y llynedd fel ymgynghorydd.
Ni fydd Extreme yn cyfrannu unrhyw arian tuag at y gwaith o adeiladu'r trac, ond yn gweithio ar farchnata gan gynnwys ar blatfformau cymdeithasol er mwyn denu mwy o ymwelwyr.
At least 20 people died and scores were injured in the attack on the Erawan Shrine, a Hindu site which is also popular with Thai Buddhists.
Thai police say the main suspect is a young man seen entering the shrine with a backpack then leaving without it.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has said the incident was the worst ever attack on Thailand.
In a separate attack on Tuesday, an explosive device was thrown at a pier in Bangkok. No-one was hurt, but the authorities have not ruled out a link between the incidents.
National police spokesperson Prawut Thawornsiri said on Wednesday that police were also looking for accomplices of the main suspect.
"These types of attacks are not usually planned by one person alone," he said, according to Reuters news agency.
The shrine reopened at about 08:00 local time (01:00 GMT), with a handful of people arriving to place flowers or light incense in front of the slightly damaged statue of the Hindu god Brahma.
A BBC reporter at the scene says there appears to be low security in place, with the public free to walk in unchecked. She says the last human remains were only cleared from the site earlier on Wednesday.
The shrine was reopened 34 hours after the blast. The aim of the authorities is to say "business as usual" so the seat of the blast has been repaired, the fresh concrete still wet in the morning sun as worshippers entered a short distance away.
One man who had come from Malaysia told the BBC he was there, firstly, to remember the people who died but also to give thanks for a decision of fate which saved him.
He and his wife were going to the shrine at the hour of the blast but decided at the last moment to postpone their visit. There are many such fateful choices which people made in this city - for good and ill.
The opening of the shrine shows that you can concrete over material damage. You can't, though, concrete over human pain.
Most of the victims of Monday's attack were Thai, but nationals from China, Hong Kong, the UK, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore were among the foreigners killed.
No-one has yet claimed responsibility.
Maj Gen Weerachoon Sukhontapatipak, a spokesman in the military government, earlier told the BBC that the authorities were "quite close" to identifying the suspect caught on CCTV at the shrine.
The man is seen carefully and deliberately removing his backpack inside the shrine - at the spot the bomb went off - then getting up without it and immediately leaving.
Maj Gen Sukhontapatipak said no motive was being ruled out, but that the bomber did not appear to be Thai and the character of the bombing was "quite different" from previous bombings by Islamist separatists in southern Thailand.
Speaking in a television address on Tuesday evening, Mr Prayuth said the attack showed that Thailand "still has a person or a group of people with hostility to the nation operating actively".
"They may be doing it for a political motive or to undermine the economy or tourism or for other reasons," he said, according to the Bangkok Post.
He also warned against speculation on possible perpetrators, saying it could cause panic or mislead the investigation.
He has been replaced in the Welsh squad by Cardiff Blues' uncapped 23-year-old open-side Ellis Jenkins.
Wales play the first of three Tests against the world champion All Blacks on 11 June.
"It's hard for Dan because his tour is already over," said Wales head coach Warren Gatland.
Lydiate, who was captaining Wales in the absence of Sam Warburton, was taken off the field during the first half of the 27-13 defeat at Twickenham.
The 28-year-old also filled in for Warburton at open-side flanker, with Ross Moriarty taking Lydiate's place at six.
Jenkins' call-up means there is now natural open-side cover for his regional team-mate Warburton in the Wales squad.
The two have played together for the Blues this season, with Jenkins often wearing seven and Warburton switching to the blind-side.
The other back-rowers in the Wales squad to face New Zealand are Taulupe Faletau, Ross Moriarty, James King and Josh Turnbull.
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The Confederation of African Football awarded the 2019 tournament to Cameroon, the 2021 finals to Ivory Coast and the 2023 event to Guinea.
"They were politically aggressively awarded to those countries Only one region is benefiting," Chiyangwa said.
"There must be an inquiry and we are going to protest."
Chiyangwa was a key influence in the success of Madagascar FA chief Ahmad ousting long-time Caf president Issa Hayatou in last month's elections.
Ahmad has shown he is eager to review some of the decisions made by Caf under Hayatou, including the TV rights deal awarded to French broadcaster Lagardere Sports as well as the timing of Nations Cup tournaments.
Alexander McDonald, 27, of Hilly Park, Norton Fitzwarren, admits carrying out the fatal attack but denies murdering Catherine McDonald, 57, in their home in Somerset on 30 September 2014.
Exeter Crown Court was told he stabbed his mother with a kitchen knife, a knitting needle and scissors.
The trial continues.
The court was told McDonald woke his neighbours by revving the car at 04:45 BST on 30 September 2014 as he tried to get it into reverse.
He crashed it, turning it over at Burrows Corner, near Butterleigh shortly after 09:00 BST, and was seen by a father on his way home from the school run and by two horse riders and a farmer as he walked into Tiverton, Devon.
The court heard he called the police to report the accident then walked into a couple's home in Exeter Hill uninvited and was told to leave.
He was later arrested on Old Road.
The court was told McDonald had moved back to his mother's home five months earlier after splitting up with his girlfriend in Kent.
He was working at the Sausage and Wine Restaurant in Taunton as a waiter but got drunk at a wine tasting at the restaurant on the afternoon before the killing and had taken cocaine before returning home.
The jury was shown CCTV footage of him shopping at Tesco and Sainsbury stores in Taunton and played three calls he made to the AA after crashing the car.
The accused has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The trial at Exeter Crown Court continues.
Jane Taylor, head of Murrayfield Primary in Ipswich, also banned the end-of-term disco after pupils came to school "tired" and in the "wrong frame of mind".
She said some pupils were "irritable with each other and less tolerant".
But if behaviour improves, there will be a disco for well-behaved pupils.
The Nacton Road school, rated "requiring improvement" by Ofsted, still runs an early-morning breakfast club and clubs during the school day.
But Mrs Taylor said she had postponed the clubs for a fortnight, five weeks before the end of term.
A letter on the school website said: "As a staff we are becoming increasingly frustrated at a level of disruptive behaviour a number of pupils, particularly boys, are displaying."
Mrs Taylor added many children were tired and "in the wrong frame of mind to work".
Suspending the clubs meant she hoped pupils could "settle down to sleep at a reasonable bedtime".
Although the letter said there would be no disco at the end of term, Mrs Taylor later confirmed there would be two afternoon discos at the end of term for Key Stage One and Key Stage Two pupils.
She said: "Pupils whose behaviour through the year has been good will be invited."
Of nearly 400 children in the school, "probably only a handful" would not be invited to the disco.
Mrs Taylor said: "We are finding a significant number of children are coming to school feeling tired and I feel that keeping children in school beyond 3.30pm is not helping the situation.
"Hopefully after this two-week suspension of clubs, we will be able to reinstate them again."
A Suffolk County Council spokesman said: "The county council supports the autonomy of head teachers and governors to make decisions designed to ensure children achieve their potential."
Lush donated the money to homeless charities in Oxford due to "current uncertainty" over the burglary.
Lottie Pauling-Chamberlain said she challenged a thief on 10 February outside Lush in Oxford.
A £9,000-fund from public donations was suspended after Thames Valley Police arrested the 29-year-old.
Ms Pauling-Chamberlain denies any wrongdoing.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
Staff at the shop in Cornmarket Street said a laptop and large box of cosmetics had disappeared when they opened the shop earlier this month.
The next day Ms Pauling-Chamberlain, who sleeps rough in the area, returned the stolen items, saying she had thwarted a thief.
A donation fund set up by the store to thank her has raised £9,245, donated by 537 people, this was later suspended and the money has now been returned.
In a statement on the fund website, Lush said: "Due to the current uncertainty surrounding the recent burglary in our Lush Oxford shop, Lush have decided to return all of the money that has been kindly donated by the public and replace it with £20,000 of our own money."
The money is to be shared among Oxford Homeless Pathways, the Icolyn Smith Foundation and Oxford Community Soup Kitchen, Oxford Homeless Project and Aspire Oxford.
Lush said Ms Pauling-Chamberlain could access the fund through the charities.
Thames Valley Police said at the time of the arrest the 29-year-old woman was also being questioned on suspicion of possessing Class A drugs.
A man, 42, also of no fixed abode, has been arrested on suspicion of burglary. Both suspects have been released on police bail until 14 May.
Gary Clampett, 39, died after a disturbance in Fernie Place early on Sunday 18 June.
Barry Martin, 31, Gary Martin, 36, Joseph Martin, 39, Thomas Martin, 44, David Graham, 45, and John Henderson, 46, made no plea.
They were each charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder at Peterhead Sheriff Court.
All six were remanded in custody.
The pilot had crash-landed into the tree, about 30km (19 miles) east of Stuttgart in southern Germany, on Monday night.
Rescuers feared the plane might fall to the ground if they tried to rescue him overnight.
The 59-year-old pilot was eventually brought to safety on Tuesday.
Police in the south-western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg have not named the pilot.
The aircraft was lodged in the tree about 30m (98ft) above ground near Degenfeld and the rescuers had to abandon initial attempts to bring him down as night fell.
They have been on strike since 24 March in a dispute over cuts to pay and working conditions.
Management has said the changes are essential to avert the prospect of insolvency at the loss-making company.
The company said services may resume in some cities on Thursday, but the majority will not be operational until Friday morning at the latest.
The Labour Court has been considering the issues in the dispute after talks broke down at the Workplace Relations Commission earlier this week.
A court recommendation issued on Thursday stated that Bus Éireann told the Labour Court it was currently insolvent.
Labour Court chairman Kevin Foley describes this assertion as being of the "gravest significance" for those who work at the company and said the court had to give such a contention the most serious consideration.
The recommendation also acknowledges it must also give the most serious consideration to the effect of the proposed changes on Bus Éireann employees.
It notes there is little point in making a recommendation which would ensure that the company went out of business, or that did not give staff an opportunity to maintain sustainable employment on fair and reasonable terms into the future.
Mr Foley makes a number of recommendations including some pay cuts, voluntary redundancies, work practice reforms and depot closures in a bid to restore the financial viability of Bus Éireann.
In a statement on Thursday, National Bus and Rail Union general secretary, Dermot O'Leary, said: "Our contention that major cultural change is imminent has been borne out by this recommendation.
"We will now move immediately into a consultative phase with our members across Bus Éireann."
Union members will then hold a ballot on the recommendation.
SIPTU sector organiser, Willie Noone, said that the Labour Court recommendation had to be studied by every union member and the consequences of accepting or rejecting it considered.
"SIPTU representatives will endeavour to ensure all our members are fully informed prior to balloting on the recommendation," he added.
The original Super Nintendo Entertainment System, launched in 1990, sold 50 million units worldwide.
The SNES Classic follows the NES Classic, which went on sale late last year but abruptly discontinued in April - much to the frustration of fans.
Nintendo said limited resources were to blame, but insisted it would not make the same error with the SNES.
"We aren't providing specific numbers, but we will produce significantly more units of Super NES Classic Edition than we did of NES Classic Edition," a Nintendo spokesperson said.
The assertion follows accusations from the gaming community that Nintendo was engaging in so-called intentional scarcity. The marketing ploy was supposedly intended to drum up publicity for the Japanese company, which launched its flagship new console, the Nintendo Switch, earlier this year.
One industry watcher said it was notable that the firm had decided to release new hardware rather than release its old games as apps for smartphones and tablets.
"Nintendo still has the view that it likes to control the whole experience," commented Piers Harding-Rolls from the IHS Technology consultancy.
"Conceivably in the future it could release some of these titles for smartphones, but I think it's quite unlikely as these games weren't built for mobile devices."
He added that the firm's mobile strategy currently appears to be focused on in-app payments, which would not fit the selected titles' designs.
Nintendo would not confirm if it intended to keep making the SNES Classic beyond the end of 2017.
"Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Super NES Classic Edition is currently planned to ship from Sept. 29 until the end of calendar year 2017," the company added.
"Our long-term efforts are focused on delivering great games for the Nintendo Switch system and continuing to build momentum for that platform, as well as serving the more than 63 million owners of Nintendo 3DS family systems.
"We are offering Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Super NES Classic Edition in special recognition of the fans who show tremendous interest our classic content."
As well as the classic titles, Nintendo will also bundle in a game from the SNES era that was never actually released - Star Fox 2. The console will cost $79 in US, and £79.99 in the UK.
Other firms are also looking to capitalise on yesteryear gaming success.
Sega, whose Megadrive console competed fiercely with the SNES in the Nineties, recently said it would re-release a huge library of games as part of a Netflix-style scheme. The games have advertising unless a user pays a one-off $1.99 fee.
For some time, fans of old games have been creating game ROMs - read-only memory - that emulated the old titles so they could be played on a modern PC or other device.
However, ROMs are often fraught with bugs, and as games increased in sophistication became harder to reproduce. They were also, of course, illegal - though there are few cases of game companies going after ROM fanatics, although some websites distributing the software have faced legal action.
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The 30-year-old South Africa-born Canada international joined the west Wales region ahead of 2015-16.
Scarlets boss Wayne Pivac confirmed the player will depart when his contract expires in the summer.
Fly-half Rhys Patchell will miss the Pro12 match against Ulster on Friday with an ankle problem, while Scott Williams and Samson Lee are doubtful.
Pivac says Wales centre Williams is "beaten up" after their bruising festive derbies against Ospreys and Cardiff Blues and could be rested.
Wing Johnny McNicholl is also a doubt.
Van der Merwe has been linked with a move to Aviva Premiership club Newcastle.
"He is joining the fire service going forward and has three years left in rugby before he has to make that call because you have to be a certain age (to do so)," said Pivac.
"He is looking at a three-year contract and the money in England is a lot more than here so he is doing what is right for his family and we support that.
"We have got some good young players coming through the system that we are going to put a lot of time and effort into over the next 12 months.
"It is one of those where you have to weigh-up the financial side of things and where the player is at.
"DTH and I have had a long chat and we are on the same page and that's the right thing to do.
"Don't get me wrong, we put an offer to keep DTH, but the money in England is a lot more so when you look over that over three years, it's a no-brainer.
"We have made the decision to back the youngsters."
Patchell could face a long lay off if the injury suffered against Cardiff Blues on New Year's Day is serious.
"Rhys is seeing a surgeon tomorrow to see if he needs surgery," said Pivac.
"It is a high ankle sprain so there will be some weeks involved, it's just the number. We will know tomorrow.
"If surgery is required, it will be 12 weeks. Fingers crossed it's the lower end and not the higher end."
It follows the Volkswagen emissions scandal in which some diesel cars had software fitted designed to cheat emissions tests.
Parliament's Transport Committee said it would look into whether arrangements for testing noise, performance and emissions met EU standards.
The Vehicle Certification Authority oversees approval of UK vehicles.
Louise Ellman, chairwoman of the Transport Committee, said: "The Volkswagen scandal has raised serious concerns about whether vehicle type approval testing is fit for purpose.
"We heard evidence in October that the gap between emissions detected in test conditions and those detected in the real world significant. The testing procedure is clearly inadequate."
Investigations by several authorities across the world have been started since it was revealed in the US that VW used software to cheat tests for nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that can cause health problems.
Environmental campaigners have long complained that the performance of vehicles in "real world" driving bears little resemblance to the results achieved in laboratory tests.
Ms Ellman said: "It is essential to examine these allegations and to ensure that the government and EU take action to restore public confidence."
In the early hours of the morning, 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines attended the scene as flames burst from the top of the Market Hall building - next to the iconic railway bridge at the heart of the North London destination.
The top three floors of the former Pickfords stables and Grade II-listed horse hospital were engulfed in the blaze that took London Fire Brigade almost three hours to bring under control.
And as the traders arrived to the smoky remains of where they had once sold their creations, there was upset and confusion around how it could have happened.
Anna Sionek has been selling her artwork in the hall for four years and was devastated at what she may have lost.
"Every piece I had in there was handmade by me," she said. "That is my business, my livelihood, and I am very upset.
"But it is not just me who will suffer - it is the people we employ. They depend on us and now I don't know what we are going to do."
The famous market started in the 1970s with just 16 stalls and grew from a Saturday afternoon event to a seven-day-a-week shopping experience, with more than 1,000 places to shop, eat, drink and dance into the early hours.
Due to the hard work of the fighters - who were still on the scene come lunchtime - the blaze was stopped from spreading to nearby buildings, no-one is believed to have been hurt and much of the market remains safe.
One woman who runs a food stall near the entrance said: "We are going to be opening today and lots of the market is safe, so we are very lucky and very grateful."
But for those who worked out of the hall, this was their patch - a part of a larger community that they love dearly.
"This place is my heart and soul," said Laetitia Dupont, who has lived in Camden for 10 years and set up her stall selling lamps and jewellery just 18 months ago.
"Even if the things I sell survived the fire, they won't have survived the smoke and water.
"The firefighters are doing everything they can, but it is devastating for the people who work here."
This isn't the first time that Camden stall holders have been hit by fire.
On 8 February 2008, the famous celebrity haunt The Hawley Arms was severely damaged in a blaze, along with six shops and 90 market stalls.
And in 2014, some 600 people fled a blaze in the Stables Market, which saw the whole area destroyed and sold to new developers.
Ozgur Kaya, who works on a jewellery stall in the building, now fears for the market hall's future.
"We must protect this market," he said. "It is so unique and there is nothing left like this in London.
"Whether your stall was inside or not, it is so important to all of us and we really hope it will be back up and running soon, how it was."
The sense of community around the incident is palpable.
Jordan Lemon works on an Italian leather stall on the ground floor of the building - so his stock is safe - but he wanted to offer his support.
"There are people in tears that have lost everything," he said. "These are their jobs and their businesses.
"I wasn't even going to be working today, but when I heard the news, I wanted to come and be here for people."
Two fire investigation teams are trying to get to the bottom of what caused the blaze.
But, for the meantime, those world-famous traders will have to wait until the smoke clears to find out whether their future is bright.
The pet will be sent to a sanctuary in the state of New South Wales.
"Somebunny tried unsuccessfully to convince Springwood Police that this little guy was actually a guinea pig," Queensland Police posted to social media.
Queensland's anti-rabbit laws are the world's strictest.
While rabbits can be kept as pets in all other Australian states, Queensland banned the practice to protect its agricultural industry.
Owners without permits face six months' jail and fines of up to A$44,000 ($33,000; £23,000).
The Queensland Government says destruction caused by rabbits costs up to A$1b each year.
Nearly 300 people responded to a consultation about how the collection changes should be carried out, and the council agreed to more communication.
However the local authority also said "smelly" food waste would be collected weekly from special food waste bins.
The new rubbish collecting schedule, which covers general waste and recycling bins, will launch in October.
The leader of the Labour-run council, Richard Farnell, said financial pressures were partly behind the change.
And he pointed out that Rochdale had the lowest recycling rate of Greater Manchester's 10 boroughs.
Bury Council became the first local authority in England last October to only collect household rubbish once every three weeks.
Mr McCluskey, whose union is Labour's biggest donor, attacked a "cynical attempt to manipulate anti-Semitism for political aims".
Another Corbyn ally, Diane Abbott, said party members had been "smeared".
It comes after controversial comments by ex-mayor Ken Livingstone and MP Naz Shah saw both suspended from the party.
Mr Corbyn told a May Day rally in London his party stood "absolutely against anti-Semitism in any form".
Mr Livingstone, the former London mayor, was suspended from the party after saying Adolf Hitler had supported Zionism in the 1930s "before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews".
Speaking to John Pienaar on BBC Radio 5 live, Mr McCluskey said Labour had been right to suspend Mr Livingstone for his "bizarre" comments.
But he described the wider controversy as "mood music" being exploited by political enemies of Mr Corbyn.
The Unite chief said the row had been "got up" by the right-wing press, "aided and abetted by those Labour MPs who wake up and think what stick can we beat Jeremy with?"
Len McCluskey's comments are significant.
He is in charge of the union which donates the most money to Labour. And he sees the row over anti-Semitism as part of wider attempts to undermine Jeremy Corbyn's leadership - not just from the "right wing press", as he calls it, but from Labour MPs.
He knows some prominent party members are prepared to blame their own party leadership for what they expect to be poor election results this week.
So he is firing a shot across their bows to dissuade any of them from launching a leadership challenge.
The nature of the challenge is far from certain - Jeremy Corbyn's opponents have been described by one insider as "rival militias" who can't agree on an alternative, or on the timing of an assault.
But it would be wrong entirely to conflate the anti-Semitism controversy with anti-Corbyn plotting.
The anger some MPs feel over the handling of the issue isn't synthetic, and they fear it has harmed the party's reputation and not just that of the leader.
Mr McCluskey said he did not think there would be a formal leadership challenge to Mr Corbyn, but added that any MP "stupid enough to try" would have to "be accountable for their actions".
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Ms Abbott, the shadow international development secretary, said Mr Livingstone's remarks had been "extremely offensive", but defended the party's handling of the row.
She said there had been 12 reported cases of alleged anti-Semitism within the party since Mr Corbyn became leader, and each had led to a suspension - including Mr Livingstone who was suspended "within hours".
"It's something of a smear against ordinary members to say the party has a problem with anti-Semitism," she said.
But Labour's candidate for Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, warned the row engulfing his party had harmed his chances of being elected.
Mr Khan told the Observer Mr Livingstone's comments had made it "more difficult" for Jewish voters to support him in next week's election.
Labour is holding an independent inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism in its ranks - but the leadership's response to the allegations has been criticised by some Labour MPs.
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics, ex-minister Ben Bradshaw told the Sunday Politics members were "furious" at how the situation had been handled, and Labour MP Louise Ellman said the response had been "much too slow".
Ms Ellman, who is Jewish, said she had been subject to anti-Semitic abuse herself at a meeting of the local party. A complaint is being investigated.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World this Weekend, Labour donor Michael Foster, who gave the party £400,000 before the general election where he also stood as a candidate, said some members of the party's leadership "vilify Jews as part of their political shtick".
He called for the inquiry, led by former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, to be widened, and said he would not donate to the party nationally because of the leadership's approach.
Senior figures within Israeli politics also expressed their concerns about the party.
The new Israeli ambassador to London said elements of left-wing parties were "deluding themselves" if they presumed there was no problem with anti-Semitism.
Mark Regev said comments in the last few weeks had crossed from criticism of Israeli government policies to "demonising and a vilification of" the Jewish state and perpetuating racist stereotypes.
Israel's Labour leader Isaac Herzog also said he had been "appalled and outraged by the recent examples of anti-Semitism by senior Labour Party officials".
Mr Livingstone's comments were "horrific and unthinkable for a British politician in the 21st Century", he added.
The anti-Semitism row erupted last week when Bradford West MP Naz Shah was suspended after sharing a Facebook post suggesting Israel should be moved to America.
Mr Livingstone defended her in a BBC interview, saying that she was not anti-Semitic.
He went on to say: "When Hitler won his election in 1932 his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel."
Mr Livingstone was subsequently suspended but stood by his comments, saying he was "not sorry for telling the truth".
The 38th (Welsh) Division paved the way for control of the woodland - nearly a mile wide and more than a mile deep - in northern France. Its capture was of key importance in the Battle of the Somme where Allied forces would fight the Germans on a 15-mile front for five months.
During a bloody five-day battle, 3,993 Welsh soldiers were killed, missing or injured, putting their division out of action for almost a year.
In the first of two written documentaries, Lt Gen Jonathon Riley, late of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, described the events leading up to and during the battle. Here, in the second part, he explores the battle itself and the extraordinary literary legacy of Mametz Wood.
Gen Riley is a former Commander British Forces Iraq and Deputy Commander NATO forces in Afghanistan; now Visiting Professor in War Studies at King's College London and Chairman of the Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Trust. Editor of Llewelyn Wyn Griffith's memoir Up to Mametz - and Beyond and author of 17 other books.
Royal Welch Fusiliers rested on 2 July and on the night of 3 July was ordered, with the 2nd Royal Irish Regiment, to move up and secure a line from the south of Mametz Wood to Strip Trench, Wood Trench and the Quadrangle as far as its junction with Bottom Wood Alley.
It was believed that the position was only lightly held. This was not the case and the two battalions withdrew.
They were ordered to mount a formal attack during the night of 4-5 July, in conjunction with the 17th Division.
After a deal of confusion in the dark, the battalion gained its objectives, using once more the new bombing tactics, for the loss of eight killed and 55 wounded.
It was here that Siegfried Sassoon won his Military Cross, bringing in a wounded NCO from the German lines under fire. However there was more, as Robert Graves recalled in Goodbye to All That:
Siegfried had then distinguished himself by taking [on 3 July] single-handedly a battalion frontage that the Royal Irish Regiment had failed to take.
He had gone over with bombs in daylight, under covering fire from a couple of rifles, and scared the occupants out.
It was a pointless feat; instead of reporting or signalling for reinforcements he sat down in the German trench and began dozing over a book of poems which he had brought with him.
The colonel [Stockwell] was furious. The attack on Mametz had been delayed for two hours because it was reported that British patrols were still out. "British patrols" were Siegfried and his book of poems.
The bulk of Mametz Wood was, however, still in German hands.
The task of clearing it was now allocated to XIV Corps under Lt Gen Sir Henry Horne.
Horne decided to attack the wood from two directions using two divisions: the 17th Division would attack from the West, out of 1 R.W. Fusiliers' objective, Quadrangle trench at 02:00 on 7 July, to capture Quadrangle Support Trench and Pearl Alley.
If this succeeded, a combined attack on the wood would be mounted by the 17th and 38th (Welsh) Divisions, with 38th (Welsh) Division attacking across open ground from the east out of Caterpillar and Marlborough Woods.
If the first attack by 17th Division succeeded, the second attack would go in at 08:00; if it did not, there would be an additional 30 minutes of artillery preparation and zero-hour would be 08:30.
At its longest, Mametz Wood was about a mile (1,500m) from north to south and about the same in width. However, about half-way down, its width narrowed to no more than 500 yards and then tapered to a point.
Mametz Wood was a mature deciduous wood, with large trees and very thick undergrowth. It was dissected by a series of lateral rides running east to west and one long vertical ride running south to north.
The other woods around Mametz were smaller, but equally thick, and all were incorporated into the German defence scheme. Between the woods, the slopes were chiefly open meadows typical of chalk down land.
38th Division was to attack in echelon, that is, with the first assault brigade, 115, leading, followed by the second brigade, followed by the third.
The line of assault would take the troops parallel with the German second line trenches and without suppressing artillery fire and a smoke barrage, the troops would be raked by flanking fire from German strong-points in Sabot and Flat Iron copses.
Not long before the start of the Somme battle, Llewelyn Wyn Griffith had been posted as a staff learner to Headquarters 115 Brigade, which consisted of 17th Royal Welch Fusiliers, 10th and 11th South Wales Borderers, 16th and 19th Welch along with a field artillery brigade, machine-gun company, trench mortar battery and a field ambulance company.
The brigade commander, Brig Gen Horatio Evans, was an old soldier not at all in the mould of Price-Davies.
As Wyn Griffith recalled, Evans thought the attack plan was mad.
"The general was cursing last night at his orders," recalled Wynn Griffith in his memoir Up to Mametz.
"He said that only a madman could have issued them. He called the divisional staff a lot of plumbers, herring-gutted at that."
The first attack by 17th Division failed and so the second phase went in at 08:30.
16th Welch and 11th South Wales Borderers were stopped by heavy machine-gun fire and the attack failed to get within 300 yards of the wood, not least because the supporting artillery fire did not arrive.
A second attempt was made at 11:00 with a similar result.
Wyn Griffith - who was concerned with taking down messages to coordinate movements or resupply or artillery support, and sending them back or forward as required by runners and field telephone - met up with Evans and the Brigade Major, CL Veal, late in the afternoon
"I stood on a step in the side of the trench, studying the country to the east and identifying the various features on the map," he wrote.
"The thought of the day's torment, doomed, as I thought, from its beginning, to bring no recompense, weighed like a burden of iron."
A third attempt was ordered for 16:30. It had been raining hard all day, the ground was sodden, the trenches half filled with mud and water and the approach to the wood, which was down a slope which in places was almost a cliff had become near-impossible, and all the telephone lines used to call in artillery fire support had been broken.
Gen Evans was convinced that another attack under these conditions would end in disaster.
He had tried to get through to the divisional commander without success, but Wyn Griffith, who had been speaking to an artillery officer, took him to a captured German dugout, where a heavy artillery brigade had established a forward command post.
Here, after a cup of tea, a hard-tack biscuit and some cheese provided by Wyn Griffith from his knapsack, Evans spoke to the divisional headquarters and after some argument, got the operation called off, thus saving many hundreds of lives - but he knew that it had put an end to his career.
"You mark my words," he told Wyn Griffith, "they'll send me home for this. They want butchers not brigadiers... I shall be in England within a month."
He was in fact posted to a home appointment directly after the battle - found wanting in the offensive spirit by the high command, no doubt.
The next afternoon, 113 and 114 Brigades were ordered to attack the wood again on 9 July with 115 Brigade in reserve; this attack was postponed until dawn on 10 July because the conditions had not improved.
At this moment, Major-General Ivor Phillips was removed from command of the 38th Division - a serious decision by Haig and the corps commander who had lost confidence in Phillips's ability to plan and then control a complex operation.
That said, Phillips had been a political appointment based on his Liberal credentials with Lloyd-George, and he had long been resented by many regular officers.
Maj Gen Thomas Pilcher was also removed from command of the 17th Division for similar reasons.
Maj Gen Herbert Watts, from the 7th Division, was moved in to take over temporary command of the 38th Division in the middle of the battle - no easy task at any date, never mind July 1916.
114 and 113 Brigades were ordered to adopt bombing tactics similar to those used by 1 RW Fus - who had been in Watts' division - and move slowly and methodically up the wood.
There would be three lifts of the artillery barrage within the wood.
For 45 minutes hour from 04:15, the guns would bombard the southern edge of the wood with smoke. The fire would then lift at 05:00 and the infantry would take the southern edge of the wood, pushing through to the first lateral east-west ride, 113 Brigade on the left and 114 Brigade on the right, the boundary being the long central north-south ride in the wood.
The guns would now be firing on the area beyond the second ride and at 07:00 the fire would then lift again to the north edge of the wood, at 08:15 to the German second-line trenches beyond the Wood.
The artillery fire was to be supplemented by medium machine-gun fire from Marlborough and Caterpillar Woods onto the German communications trenches; while medium and heavy trench mortars suppressed Cliff trench; but remember the earlier point about the infantry having to conform to the supporting fire and not the other way around.
To everyone's astonishment, the attack succeeded.
Coloured handkerchief
113 Brigade was composed of four RW Fus battalions - the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th. 14th and 16th were to lead. The commanding officer of 16 RW Fus, Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Carden, spoke to the battalion before the assault.
"Make your peace with God," he said. "You are going to take that position, and some of us won't come back - but we are going to take it.'
Tying a coloured handkerchief to his walking-stick he said: "This will show you where I am."
The attack, once in the wood, became a very confused affair not least because of the dense undergrowth and the destruction caused by the artillery.
However, junior officers and NCOs kept a grip on the men and the first ride was reached, with many prisoners taken; the 13th and 15th Battalions were ordered to take over the attack so that at one point there were 11 battalions in the wood.
The 15th got into Wood Trench with the 16th but Wood Support was still held by the Germans; they were bombed out by 13th RW Fus and the artillery fire was shifted to the northern part of the wood.
Although the Germans still held on, by dark, the advance was reported to be within 100 yards of the northern edge of the Wood.
In the evening, 115 Brigade was ordered to relieve the two assault brigades and take over the defence of the wood against German counter-attacks.
Wyn Griffith recorded that Evans and the Brig Maj, CL Veal, went up to the Wood and that he followed slightly later.
'Gory scenes met our gaze'
Soon afterwards, Veal was wounded and Wyn Griffith found himself as acting Brig Maj.
In his book Up to Mametz, Wyn Griffith describes the scene in the wood in some detail: the shattered trees, the bursting shells, the litter of discarded equipment, the mangled corpses of the dead - an experience that stayed with him all his life and came back to him in snatches of nightmare.
Emlyn Davies, who had joined 17th RW Fus with Wyn Griffith's brother Watcyn, later wrote Taffy Went to War.
He said this of the inside of the wood: "Gory scenes met our gaze. Mangled corpses in khaki and in field-grey; dismembered bodies, severed heads and limbs; lumps of torn flesh half way up the tree trunks... Shells of all calibres burst in plenteous continuance; furies of flying machine gun bullets swept from three directions."
David Jones' poem is also very largely based on these same horrific scenes
When the shivered rowan fell
you couldn't hear the fall of it.
Barrage with counter-barrage shockt
deprive all several sounds of their identity,
what dark convulsed cacophony
conditions each disparity
and the trembling woods are vortex for the storm;
through which their bodies grope the mazy charnel-ways -
seek to distinguish waling men from walking trees and branchy
moving like a Birnam corpse.
The relief was completed at first light on 11 July.
There was a lot of wild shooting all night, with groups of men firing on one another, mistaking each other for the Germans.
British artillery fire continued to fall, much of it dropping short onto the Fusiliers.
Evans made what reconnaissance he could and found that the line was not as far north as had been reported and was about 300 yards short of the north-eastern extremity, diagonally to a point just above Wood Support Trench.
He proposed to straighten the line from the north by a surprise attack at 15:30 that afternoon, without a preliminary barrage - but before he could put this plan into operation, the brigade again came under fire from British artillery falling short of the German trenches.
This fire not only pinned down the brigade, but put a stop to any prospect of a surprise attack for the Germans were now thoroughly roused. Progress was made, however, on the western side and the line was brought up to within 300 yards from the northern end of the wood.
Around this time, Wyn Griffith met the brigade signals officer, whom he calls "Taylor". He told him he had met a Chaplain, referred to as "Evans". Evans had been walking the battlefield for days, trying to find his son, who had been reported killed.
Wyn Griffith knew the boy.
Taylor did not speak much Welsh and felt this keenly: "You could not," he said, "talk English to a man who had lost his son."
Evans never did find the boy or his grave.
The Padre was later identified by Patricia Evans as the Rev Peter Jones Roberts, a Welsh Methodist minister from Barmouth who had joined up as a chaplain aged 51, beyond the usual age limits.
He had four sons, all of whom were commissioned into the RW Fusiliers. The son second was captured in late 1916; the third badly wounded in 1918. The youngest got into the war in 1918 and survived.
The boy whom Roberts was looking for was his eldest, Glyn, who had been commissioned in 1915 and was serving in the 9th Battalion, which was not in the 38th Division but was close by. He had been killed on 3 July and Roberts had spent a week searching for him.
But there was much worse to come for Wyn Griffith.
The brigade signals officer had sent relays of runners back during the preparation for the surprise attack, to get the unwanted artillery fire stopped. One of these runners was Wyn Griffith's younger brother, Watcyn, who had enlisted into the 17th RW Fus and then transferred to the Divisional Signal Company.
Watcyn got through with his message, but on the way back he was hit by a shell and killed at once. Wyn Griffith learned of Watcyn's death within an hour - and clearly blamed himself.
As Brigade Major, he had ordered the signals officer to get a message through. "I had sent him to his death," he said, "bearing a message from my own hand, in an endeavour to save other men's brothers."
Watcyn's body was never found and he is one of those whose grave is unknown.
That night, the 38th Division was relieved in the line by the 21st Division and pulled back into rest.
Robert Graves was with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the 33rd Division when they entered Mametz Wood shortly afterwards and he described the scene thus in Good bye to All That:
"Mametz Wood was full of the dead of the Prussian Guards reserve, big men, and the Royal Welch and South Wales Borderers of the new-army battalions, little men.
"There was not a single tree unbroken... There had been bayonet fighting in the wood. There was a man of the South Wales Borderers and one of the Lehr Regiment who had succeeded in bayoneting each other simultaneously.
"A survivor of the fighting told me later that he had seen a young solder of the 14th Royal Welch bayoneting a German in parade-ground style, automatically exclaiming as he had been taught: "in, out, on guard..."
The 38th Division, much reduced by casualties, was moved away into rest.
A total of 190 officers and 3,803 NCOs and men of the 38th Division were killed, wounded or missing.
Casualties were especially heavy among junior officers and sergeants - leading from the front - but five of the infantry battalions lost their commanding officers.
It was this level of losses, approaching a quarter of the division's strength and probably one-third of the combat units, combined with the severity of the conditions, that made such a mark on the art and literature of the battle, so much of it created by Welsh officers and men.
And made such a mark on the individual and collective memory of the Welsh soldiers, who had endured something which to us is unimaginable.
It was also an experience that created an extraordinary bond between those who had been there - something that could not and cannot be understood by anyone who was not there.
Robert Graves's poem Two Fusiliers, which explicitly refers to Fricourt in one of its verses, and which captures this feeling, provides some fitting last words:
And have we done with war at last?
Well we've been lucky devils, both
And we've no need of bond or oath
to bind our lovely friendship fast.
By firmer stuff
Close bound enough
Show me the two so closely bound
As we, by the wet bond of blood,
By friendship blossoming from mud,
By Death: we faced him, and we found
Beauty in Death,
In dead men, breath.
The casualty rolls are incomplete, but the losses amounted to somewhere between one third and a half of the division's fighting strength.
The woman was dozing on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne when she was woken by the sound of an explosion.
She tore the headphones off to find them sparking, catching fire and beginning to melt.
The explosion and fire left her with a blackened face and blisters on her hands.
The passenger, who has not been named, told the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) she was listening to music when the explosion occurred.
"I just grabbed my face which caused the headphones to go around my neck. I continued to feel burning so I grabbed them off and threw them on the floor. They were sparking and had small amounts of fire."
Members of the flight crew rushed to help and eventually put out the fire by pouring a bucket of water on the headphones.
By that time, the battery and the plastic cover had melted and stuck to the floor.
"For the remainder of the flight, passengers endured the smell of melted plastic, burnt electronics and burnt hair," the ATSB said in its report.
The report did not mention the brand of headphones, but said it believed that a fault with a lithium-ion batteries was the likely cause.
The ATSB has published a set of guidelines for travelling safely with batteries and power packs, warning that "as the range of products using batteries grows, the potential for in-flight issues increases".
There have been a number of problems with lithium batteries on flights in recent years.
A plane about to take off from Sydney last year had to be stopped when smoke was coming from a piece of hand luggage. It was then found that lithium batteries had caught fire in the luggage.
An electronic device also began emitting smoke when it was crushed under a moving seat in the US, the ATSB said.
Last year, malfunctioning batteries in Samsung's Note 7 caused many of the smartphones to overheat, catch fire and melt.
Several such incidents also occurred on planes leading to international aviation authorities banning the device from planes. The Note 7 was soon recalled by Samsung and production has been scrapped.
The successful applicant will lead the university's new School of Social and Clinical Medicine.
The university said it came up with the alternative job title in a bid to capture people's imaginations and attract "extraordinary" candidates.
Prof Jonathan Sandy, university dean, said: "It's there to attract attention and it's certainly worked."
In its ad, posted last Friday, the university is seeking an "inspirational educational leader" to build on its "established reputation as a pioneering powerhouse".
The word "eureka" comes from an ancient Greek word meaning "I have found (it)" and is attributed to scholar Archimedes who reportedly exclaimed it while stepping into a bath and noticing that the water level rose.
This led to his discovery of the law of hydrostatics, stating that a body immersed in fluid loses weight equal to the amount of fluid it displaces.
Prof Sandy, dean of medicine and dentistry, said the successful candidate would not actually hold the title, but "may if they want to".
The rather more conventional title of associate dean of social and clinical medicine will be on offer for those who decline it.
Prof Sandy said the job title was the idea of recruitment agents to make people "stop and think".
He said: "It's to get people to look beyond the associate dean title because it's a really exciting opportunity."
"I've no idea yet what the response has been.
"But we're expecting to get some very strange applicants, but then we get completely inappropriate applicants anyway."
The Labour Party, defence and foreign ministries and the security service itself were among those hit, it said.
On Friday Norway announced it had chosen Germany's Thyssenkrupp (TKMS) to deliver four submarines to its navy, part of a wider military upgrade.
It comes amid tensions between Norway and Russia, which share a border.
On Wednesday, Norway summoned the Russian ambassador to complain after two Norwegian members of parliament were refused visas to travel to Russia.
It said Moscow had blocked the visas in response to Norwegian sanctions against Russia, imposed after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, and called the move "unjustifiable".
The opposition Labour parliamentarians had been invited by Russia's upper house, the Federation Council, Norway's foreign ministry said according to Reuters news agency.
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On Wednesday, the PST warned the Labour Party parliamentary group about the attempted hack in the second half of last year.
"We were informed by the PST that Labour's parliamentary group was subjected to an attempted digital attack by a group that the PST ties to foreign intelligence," Labour spokeswoman Camilla Ryste said.
The news prompted a warning to deputies to take special care in their handling of electronic communications.
On Friday, PST officials told Norwegian media that nine email accounts had been targeted in the Labour Party and other institutions.
They said the hacker group had been identified as APT 29, also known as Cozy Bear - with connections to the Russian security service FSB. The group has been linked to the attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the US election campaign.
Earlier this week, the PST released an annual assessment warning of a greater threat from Russian intelligence.
"Intelligence pressure from foreign states, especially from the Russian side, has been high and stable over the years," PST head Marie Benedicte Bjornland said, according to The Local Norwegian news site. "The intelligence activities of Russia in particular have the potential to be more dangerous now than before."
But the Russian embassy's Facebook page referred to the report as a "witch-hunt" which sought to return to "the times of the Cold War".
Last October, a Russian naval fleet including an aircraft carrier sailed past Norway and other Nato nations on its way to Syria.
Later the same month, Norway announced a break with peacetime tradition when it said it would allow more than 300 US troops to be stationed on its soil for a trial period in 2017.
And the list signing the pro-European letter - at least in part orchestrated by Number 10 - are certainly a hefty bunch.
But, a few of health warnings.
First, many of the people who have signed have long been public advocates of Britain remaining in the EU.
These include Sir Roger Carr of BAE, Iain Conn of Centrica, Dame Carolyn McCall of EasyJet and Bob Dudley of BP.
Second, some of the business leaders named say that although Britain would be better off economically in the EU, the UK is still a significant market.
Investment levels would remain high whatever the outcome of the referendum.
Paul Polman, the chief executive of Unilever and one of signatories, told me that directly when I interviewed him a few weeks ago.
The UK is the world's fifth largest economy with a 60-million strong population.
As such, it matters.
Third, many smaller businesses are much more sceptical about the advantages or otherwise of the UK's membership of the EU.
A large number do not export to the rest of Europe and their only experience of Brussels is directives on employment rights which some say are over-burdensome.
The British Chambers of Commerce represents many such businesses - and it has announced it will not be campaigning for either side in the referendum as "very real divisions" exist in the business community.
Actually, the most intriguing thing about this letter are the signatures of two banking executives few members of the general public will have heard of - Richard Gnodde and Michael Sherwood of Goldman Sachs.
Neither court the limelight but they are significant figures in the City, where the Wall Street giant employs several thousand staff and bases its European headquarters.
My banking sources agree that it is pretty unusual for their names to appear on a letter of this type.
In fact, it is the first time I believe they have done so.
It comes after Goldman Sachs pledged a large donation to the Stronger in Europe campaign.
The signal they are sending?
That the large US banks, based in London, are very concerned about Brexit and their ability to operate across the EU if it happens.
If the UK does leave, then some of their business divisions are likely to move to the continental financial centres of Frankfurt and Paris.
For those who support Brexit that might not matter much - some campaigners have dismissed them as part of the "elite establishment".
But for the City's position as a global financial centre, American banks starting to move away, even if not lock, stock and barrel, would be a significant moment.
He made the announcement on Twitter, saying they would be about an "ethical pirate".
The title of the series is Red Molucca and the Good Pirate and is due to be published later this year.
Mr Galloway has already written a number of novels for adults, including the Fidel Castro Handbook and Mr Galloway goes to Washington.
"I will shortly have four children under ten years old and I have four young grandchildren too, ranging from three to 14," he told the BBC.
"They read and I've bought (and read to them) a lot of children's books. All have been fascinated by pirates. Judging by the success of Pirates of the Caribbean so are many adults!"
But Mr Galloway said the rum-drinking, cut-throat, walking the plank-type characters were not the right role models.
"Enter an ethical pirate, Red Molucca," he said. "A husband and father whose family (and dog) pirate alongside him. A kind of Robin Hood of the high seas."
The new stories are set amongst the Spice islands of Indonesia during colonial rule.
Illustrator Joe Cook said the final style of the books is "top secret".
"I got involved because George represents an under-reported and undervalued perspective on the world," he told the BBC. "The project is great fun too!"
Mr Galloway, a former Labour and Respect MP, did not reveal who the publishers were but said the books would be released in English, Dutch and Indonesian.
Kenneth Walker chatted with the fictitious teenager online, and travelled to Newcastle to meet her.
However, the fake profile had been set up by the group Dark Justice, which contacted police on his arrival.
The 37-year-old, from Nottingham, pleaded guilty to attempting to meet a girl following sexual grooming and was jailed for three-and-a-half years.
The judge at Newcastle Crown Court also ordered him to be put on the sex offenders register for life.
The court heard Walker had contacted "Roxy" on a chat website and asked her if she was "looking for a boyfriend or sex".
Despite her reply that she was aged 13, almost 14, the conversation on Walker's side turned sexual, and he sent her explicit photographs.
On 17 April, he travelled by coach to Newcastle, bringing a blanket, alcohol and contraceptives with him.
Defence lawyer Jeff Taylor described Walker as a "very, very, very sad individual who led a solitary existence".
"His communication with the outside world appears to be with a computer because he can't communicate with individuals," he said.
Sentencing, Judge Jamie Hill QC told Walker: "It was said on your behalf that you're not a predatory paedophile, but when the opportunity was put your way, you seized it."
The three European countries have agreed to join the UK in becoming members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Xinhua News Agency reports.
The move comes after the US last week issued a rare rebuke to the UK over its decision to join.
The US considers the AIIB a rival to the Western-dominated World Bank and has questioned the governance standards at the new institution, which it sees as an attempt to spread China's "soft power".
The AIIB, which was created in October by 21 countries, led by China, will fund Asian energy, transport and infrastructure projects.
Excited with the latest development, the official Xinhua News Agency praises the three new members for making the "brave yet rational move".
"The AIIB is by no means a zero-sum game. It serves no one's appetite for hegemony or dominance… holding sour grapes over the AIIB makes America look isolated and hypocritical," says the news agency, while calling on Washington to join the bank.
The People's Daily highlights that "more and more Western countries are expressing interest to join the bank". It adds that China's strong development was "the source of confidence" for these countries.
A front-page commentary in the overseas edition of the daily says the new institution will bring "mutual benefits" to all parties involved, while criticising the US for "thinking of all ways to obstruct others to join".
"The US has been urging China to take on a more leadership role… When China proposed the establishment of the bank to take on more responsibilities, Washington is trying to stop it. This is short-sighted and hypocritical," says the article.
The China Daily and the Global Times dismiss views that the China-led bank has been created to counter Washington's influence in the global banking system.
"Such misrepresentation is harmful… US obstructionism has been less than effective this time because it has failed to see that Washington and Beijing have no reason to stand against each other on such matters," argues the China Daily.
"The US tries to contain it [the AIIB] with a geopolitical mind-set, but it lacks a strong case," notes the Global Times, adding that the "evolution" of the bank shows that China "is its own master".
Meanwhile, papers applaud the authorities' decision to launch a "comprehensive audit" of the overseas assets of the country's state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
According to the China Daily, China's top state-asset regulator has invited tenders to audit the overseas assets to "tighten oversight of state-owned firms' international operations".
The report says this is the first time the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has decided to audit the assets through a tender
China's authorities had earlier revealed that a large amount of overseas assets of state-owned enterprises, totalling more than 4 trillion yuan ($637bn; £415bn), had never been audited.
Xu Baoli, the director of the commission's research centre, points out that that there could be "potential risks or even serious problems with the overseas assets held by SOEs".
"Comprehensive auditing will allow the regulator to gain an overall knowledge of the situation and to learn how serious the problems are," the expert tells the daily.
And finally, several museums in Beijing have decided to ban selfie-sticks.
The National Palace Museum, Capital Museum and Beijing Art Museum announced on Tuesday that tourists will be prohibited from carrying selfie sticks, the Beijing News reports.
Selfie sticks are handheld poles that allow users to take better pictures on their smartphones.
"There are hidden dangers in using the devices, as they may hurt other visitors or damage the displays," a spokesperson from the National Palace Museum says.
Supporting the ban, Mr Gao, a cultural expert tells the paper that "museum is a place to learn".
"It is different from going for sightseeing… raising the sticks around the galleries will disturb the quiet environment in the museums," says the pundit.
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7th-9th century - Namri Songzen and descendants begin to unify Tibetan-inhabited areas and conquer neighbouring territories, in competition with China.
822 - Peace treaty with China delineates borders.
1244 - Mongols conquer Tibet. Tibet enjoys considerable autonomy under Yuan Dynasty.
1598 - Mongol Altan Khan makes high lama Sonam Gyatso first Dalai Lama.
1630s-1717 - Tibet involved in power struggles between Manchu and Mongol factions in China.
1624 - First European contact as Tibetans allow Portuguese missionaries to open church. Expelled at lama's insistence in 1745.
1717 - Dzungar (Oirot) Mongols conquer Tibet and sack Lhasa. Chinese Emperor Kangxi eventually ousts them in 1720, and re-establishes rule of Dalai Lama.
1724 - Chinese Manchu (Qing) dynasty appoints resident commissioner to run Tibet, annexes parts of historic Kham and Amdo provinces.
1750 - Rebellion against Chinese commissioners quelled by Chinese army, which keeps 2,000-strong garrison in Lhasa. Dalai Lama government appointed to run daily administration under supervision of commissioner.
1774 - British East India Company agent George Bogle visits to assess trade possibilities.
1788 and 1791 - China sends troops to expel Nepalese invaders.
1793 - China decrees its commissioners in Lhasa to supervise selection of Dalai and other senior lamas.
1850s - Russian and British rivalry for control of Central Asia prompts Tibetan government to ban all foreigners and shut borders.
1865 - Britain starts discreetly mapping Tibet.
1904 - Dalai Lama flees British military expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband. Britain forces Tibet to sign trading agreement in order to forestall any Russian overtures.
1906 - British-Chinese Convention of 1906 confirms 1904 agreement, pledges Britain not to annex or interfere in Tibet in return for indemnity from Chinese government.
1907 - Britain and Russia acknowledge Chinese suzerainty over Tibet.
1908-09 - China restores Dalai Lama, who flees to India as China sends in army to control his government.
1912 April - Chinese garrison surrenders to Tibetan authorities after Chinese Republic declared.
1912 - 13th Dalai Lama returns from India, Chinese troops leave.
1913 - Tibet reasserts independence after decades of rebuffing attempts by Britain and China to establish control.
1935 - The man who will later become the 14th Dalai Lama is born to a peasant family in a small village in north-eastern Tibet. Two years later, Buddhist officials declare him to be the reincarnation of the 13 previous Dalai Lamas.
1949 - Mao Zedong proclaims the founding of the People's Republic of China and threatens Tibet with "liberation".
1950 - China enforces a long-held claim to Tibet. The Dalai Lama, now aged 15, officially becomes head of state.
1951 - Tibetan leaders are forced to sign a treaty dictated by China. The treaty, known as the "Seventeen Point Agreement", professes to guarantee Tibetan autonomy and to respect the Buddhist religion, but also allows the establishment of Chinese civil and military headquarters at Lhasa.
Mid-1950s - Mounting resentment against Chinese rule leads to outbreaks of armed resistance.
1954 - The Dalai Lama visits Beijing for talks with Mao, but China still fails to honour the Seventeen Point Agreement.
1959 March - Full-scale uprising breaks out in Lhasa. Thousands are said to have died during the suppression of the revolt. The Dalai Lama and most of his ministers flee to northern India, to be followed by some 80,000 other Tibetans.
1963 - Foreign visitors are banned from Tibet.
1965 - Chinese government establishes Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR).
1966 - The Cultural Revolution reaches Tibet and results in the destruction of a large number of monasteries and cultural artefacts.
1971 - Foreign visitors are again allowed to enter the country.
Late 1970s - End of Cultural Revolution leads to some easing of repression, though large-scale relocation of Han Chinese into Tibet continues.
1980s - China introduces "Open Door" reforms and boosts investment while resisting any move towards greater autonomy for Tibet.
1987 - The Dalai Lama calls for the establishment of Tibet as a zone of peace and continues to seek dialogue with China, with the aim of achieving genuine self-rule for Tibet within China.
1988 - China imposes martial law after riots break out.
1989 - The Dalai Lama is awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
1993 - Talks between China and the Dalai Lama break down.
1995 - The Dalai Lama names a six-year-old boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, as the true reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism. The Chinese authorities place the boy under house arrest and designate another six-year-old boy, Gyancain Norbu, as their officially sanctioned Panchen Lama.
2002 - Contacts between the Dalai Lama and Beijing are resumed.
2006 July - A new railway linking Lhasa and the Chinese city of Golmud is opened. The Chinese authorities hail it as a feat of engineering, but critics say it will significantly increase Han Chinese traffic to Tibet and accelerate the undermining of traditional Tibetan culture.
2007 November - The Dalai Lama hints at a break with the centuries-old tradition of selecting his successor, saying the Tibetan people should have a role.
2007 December - The number of tourists travelling to Tibet hits a record high, up 64% year on year at just over four million, Chinese state media say.
2008 March - Anti-China protests escalate into the worst violence Tibet has seen in 20 years, five months before Beijing hosts the Olympic Games.
Pro-Tibet activists in several countries focus world attention on the region by disrupting progress of the Olympic torch relay.
2008 October - The Dalai Lama says he has lost hope of reaching agreement with China about the future of Tibet. He suggests that his government-in-exile could now harden its position towards Beijing.
2008 November - The British government recognises China's direct rule over Tibet for the first time. Critics say the move undermines the Dalai Lama in his talks with China.
China says there has been no progress in the latest round of talks with aides of the Dalai Lama, and blames the Tibetan exiles for the failure of the discussions.
A meeting of Tibetan exiles in northern India reaffirms support for the Dalai Lama's long-standing policy of seeking autonomy, rather than independence, from China.
2008 December - Row breaks out between European Union and China after Dalai Lama addresses European MPs. China suspends high-level ties with France after President Nicolas Sarkozy meets the Dalai Lama.
2009 January - Chinese authorities detain 81 people and question nearly 6,000 alleged criminals in what the Tibetan government-in-exile called a security crackdown ahead of the March anniversary of the 1959 flight of the Dalai Lama.
2009 March - China marks flight of Dalai Lama with new "Serfs' Liberation Day" public holiday. China promotes its appointee as Panchen Lama, the second-highest-ranking Lama, as spokesman for Chinese rule in Tibet. Government reopens Tibet to tourists after a two-month closure ahead of the anniversary.
2009 April - China and France restore high-level contacts after December rift over President Sarkozy's meeting with the Dalai Lama, and ahead of a meeting between President Sarkozy and China's President Hu Jintao at the London G20 summit.
2009 August - Following serious ethnic unrest in China's Xinjiang region, the Dalai Lama describes Beijing's policy on ethnic minorities as "a failure". But he also says that the Tibetan issue is a Chinese domestic problem.
2009 October - China confirms that at least two Tibetans have been executed for their involvement in anti-China riots in Lhasa in March 2008.
2009 January - Head of pro-Beijing Tibet government, Qiangba Puncog, resigns. A former army soldier and, like Puncog, ethnic Tibetan, Padma Choling, is chosen to succeed him.
2010 April - Envoys of Dalai Lama visit Beijing to resume talks with Chinese officials after a break of more than one year.
2011 March - A Tibetan Buddhist monk burns himself to death in a Tibetan-populated part of Sichuan Province in China, becoming the first of 12 monks and nuns in 2011 to make this protest against Chinese rule over Tibet.
2011 April - Dalai Lama announces his retirement from politics. Exiled Tibetans elect Lobsang Sangay to lead the government-in-exile.
2011 July - The man expected to be China's next president, Xi Jinping, promises to "smash" Tibetan separatism in a speech to mark the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist takeover of Tibet. This comes shortly after US President Barack Obama receives the Dalai Lama in Washington and expresses "strong support" for human rights in Tibet.
2011 November - The Dalai Lama formally hands over his political responsibilities to Lobsang Sangay, a former Harvard academic. Before stepping down, the Dalai Lama questions the wisdom and effectiveness of self-immolation as a means of protesting against Chinese rule in Tibet.
2011 December - An exiled Tibetan rights group says a former monk died several days after setting himself on fire. Tenzin Phuntsog is the first monk to die thus in Tibet proper.
2012 May - Two men set themselves on fire in Lhasa, one of whom died, the official Chinese media said. They are the first self-immolations reported in the Tibetan capital.
2012 August - Two Tibetan teenagers are reported to have burned themselves to death in Sichuan province.
2012 October - Several Tibetan men burn themselves to death in north-western Chinese province of Gansu, Tibetan rights campaigners say.
2012 November - UN human rights chief Navi Pillay calls on China to address abuses that have prompted the rise in self-immolations.
On the eve of the 18th Communist Party of China National Congress, three teenage Tibetan monks set themselves on fire.
2013 February - The London-based Free Tibet group says further self-immolations bring to over 100 the number of those who have resorted to this method of protest since March 2011.
2013 June - China denies allegations by rights activists that it has resettled two million Tibetans in "socialist villages".
2014 February - US President Obama holds talks with the Dalai Lama in Washington. China summons a US embassy official in Beijing to protest.
2014 April - Human Rights Watch says Nepal has imposed increasing restrictions on Tibetans living in the country following pressure from China.
2014 June - The Tibetan government-in-exile launches a fresh drive to persuade people across the world to support its campaign for more autonomy for people living inside the region.
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Napoli were utterly dominant in a one-sided first half and took the lead on 24 minutes when Marek Hamsik put Dries Mertens through on goal as Real's defence went missing.
But captain Sergio Ramos netted one and had another header deflected in by Mertens after the break to put the holders in control.
Alvaro Morata then followed up Cristiano Ronaldo's shot to complete a comfortable victory.
Real's defensive weakness was perfectly exploited by Napoli's game plan in the first-half - a high-press put Pepe and Marcelo under pressure before Hamsik threaded a perfect through ball to Mertens who finished well in the bottom corner.
But the Italian side ultimately failed to take their other chances - Hamsik fizzed multiple shots wide before Mertens hit the woodwork and Real eventually made them pay.
The Spanish giants have now reached their seventh successive Champions League quarter-final and are unbeaten in their last 12 Champions League matches (W7, D5); their longest run without defeat in the Champions League or European Cup.
Real Madrid increased their Spanish record of scoring in 47 consecutive games with a win in Italy, but their Portuguese star striker is enduring his longest barren patch in the Champions League - Ronaldo has now gone six games without a goal.
He has five assists in seven Champions League appearances this term - his most in the competition in a single season for Real - but despite playing his part in Morata's strike, he could claim neither a goal nor an assist as he twice hit the woodwork.
Back from injury, having missed Saturday's 4-1 win over Eibar, Ronaldo had Real's best chance in the first half, but he could only hit the woodwork from a tight angle having rounded Napoli goalkeeper Pepe Reina.
Once again Real looked leaky at the back - the likes of Hamsik, Lorenzo Insigne and Mertens carving them open with relative ease during the first half.
But captain Ramos came to their rescue and Real never looked back.
The 30-year-old may be a defender by trade and have a reputation for his red card collection, but he has also made a name for himself at the other end of the pitch.
Ramos is one of only three defenders to have scored in two different European Cup finals.
Alongside Tommy Gemmell (Celtic 1967 and 70), who passed away last week, and Phil Neal (Liverpool 1977 and 84), he scored in both the 2014 and 2016 Champions League finals against Atletico Madrid.
And he came to his side's rescue once again in Naples with two emphatic headers, one deflected by Mertens, at a crucial period in the second half.
With Real Madrid completely outplayed in the first 40 minutes and a goal down courtesy of Mertens' crisp strike, Ramos rose highest from two Toni Kroos corners straight after the break to silence a 57,000-strong crowd inside the San Paolo stadium.
On a tricky night in Italy, where Real Madrid's record is somewhat shaky (18 losses, eight draws and now six wins), the Spain international stepped up when Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Ronaldo flew under the radar.
Match ends, Napoli 1, Real Madrid 3.
Second Half ends, Napoli 1, Real Madrid 3.
Goal! Napoli 1, Real Madrid 3. Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcelo.
Foul by Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli).
Isco (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Amadou Diawara (Napoli) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Amadou Diawara (Napoli).
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Elseid Hysaj (Napoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid).
Attempt missed. Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Marko Rog (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Piotr Zielinski.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Isco replaces Luka Modric.
Foul by Dries Mertens (Napoli).
Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Real Madrid. Keylor Navas tries a through ball, but Álvaro Morata is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Marcelo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Toni Kroos.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Elseid Hysaj.
Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcelo with a cross.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Álvaro Morata replaces Karim Benzema.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dries Mertens (Napoli) because of an injury.
Faouzi Ghoulam (Napoli) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Substitution, Napoli. Piotr Zielinski replaces Marek Hamsik.
Corner, Napoli. Conceded by Daniel Carvajal.
Foul by Dries Mertens (Napoli).
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Napoli. Arkadiusz Milik replaces Lorenzo Insigne.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez replaces Gareth Bale.
Foul by Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli).
Casemiro (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Napoli. Conceded by Luka Modric.
Attempt missed. Marko Rog (Napoli) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Faouzi Ghoulam.
Dries Mertens (Napoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pepe (Real Madrid).
Offside, Real Madrid. Marcelo tries a through ball, but Karim Benzema is caught offside.
Offside, Napoli. Elseid Hysaj tries a through ball, but Dries Mertens is caught offside.
Marko Rog (Napoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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David West, 28, had a history of mental health problems. He died in 2013.
The Southampton man's father Richard West has accused the trust of producing false and misleading information, an offence under the 2014 Care Act.
Last month the BBC revealed the trust had failed to investigate hundreds of unexpected deaths since 2011.
A report, which was leaked to the BBC, showed there had been more than 10,000 deaths at the trust between 2011 and 2015.
Not all deaths require an investigation, but of the 722 unexpected deaths only 272 had been investigated.
In a statement, Hampshire Police said Mr West's complaint would be "assessed and investigated".
The statements at the centre of the complaint concern information on deaths and serious incidents published by Southern Health in reports for parliament and regulators.
Richard West, a former police officer, told BBC News: "We're talking about the deaths of people, this is really serious stuff.
"Behind all the figures there are lots of families that are in turmoil and if you aren't getting the correct information, they're not providing the right information, how can people really judge them and assess them."
He previously said staff had likened the death of patients to an airline losing baggage.
The specific clause of the Care Act being examined was brought in following the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust.
It makes it a criminal offence to publish misleading information even if there was no intention to deceive.
Southern Health, which provides services to about 45,000 people, has not yet commented.
Here is a selection of election-related April Fool's Day jokes:
Sun Nation, the newspaper's election website, revealed that Ed Miliband has secret plans to dye his hair blond. The Labour leader hopes to emulate Boris Johnson, it suggested, having seen his "blond bounce become political dynamite".
Mr Miliband also featured in a cheeky tweet from Channel 4 News political correspondent Michael Crick, who said sources had told him that Labour's leader held a three-hour meeting with UKIP counterpart Nigel Farage late on Tuesday.
Mr Farage corrected the journalist, saying the contenders had needed some notable snacks after the meeting went on for five hours.
The hot topics of debate at the alleged meeting? None really, according to LabourList website editor Mark Ferguson, who said the pair gave campaigning a break to unwind in front of the TV.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is reaching out to voters in an unconventional way, reported PinkNews. It said a profile for Mr Clegg had been spotted on Grindr, the popular dating app for gay men.
The website said a source close to the leader told them: "Nick has gone for a really hands on approach - and will be replying to all of the messages personally, no matter how raunchy."
A Liberal Democrat intern caused a stir at the party's campaign office in Oxford, according to BBC South Today political correspondent Emma Vardy, after telling his colleagues he had been working for their main rival. Unfortunately he revealed the prank a little too late.
Elsewhere, women's issue website Standard Issue Magazine reported that a UKIP candidate had called for a tax on childless women, dubbing it the Spare Womb Tax.
Political commentator Iain Dale joked that he was replacing Tory peer Lord Ashcroft in the House of Lords and would be taking on the title of Lord Dale of Leicester Square.
He denied the peerage was linked to his next book, David Cameron: Hero, Adonis, Possibly the Best Prime Minister in the History of Prime Ministers.
The Spectator got in on the act by exclusively revealing that Mr Clegg had enlisted the help of Lib Dem supporter and actor John Cleese. The magazine said the former Fawlty Towers star had been playing the role of Nigel Farage in sessions to prepare Mr Clegg for Thursday's debate.
But be warned - sometimes even the most bizarre of stories can turn out to be true, as pointed out by the BBC Magazine team.
David Cameron is a distant relative of American TV star Kim Kardashian, according to the Tory leader.
Asked by Heat magazine whether he liked to watch US show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Mr Cameron said: "No, but I'm related to them. Did you know I'm 13th cousins with them?"
Any interest in a family reunion? "I have no plans at the moment!"
A jury at Belfast Crown Court found Mark Daniel Ward guilty of beating Marcell 'Junior' Seeley to death in October 2015.
The remains of the 34-year-old father of four were found in the living room of his Dingwell Park flat in the Tagnaven estate in Lurgan.
The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.
As Ward, from Drumellan Gardens in the Moyraverty area of Craigavon, was being led from the dock, he turned to the public gallery and verbally abused Mr Seeley's family.
During the six-week trial, the court heard from a neighbour of Mr Seeley's, who saw Ward in the Dingwell Park area on Sunday 11 October.
Gerry Byrne gave evidence last month, and said that when he spoke to Ward, he noticed blood on his hand.
Mr Byrne said Ward told him he had "hit Junior" and also spoke about blood coming from an ear.
Mr Seeley sustained multiple injuries in the attack including fatal head injuries which produced both swelling and bleeding to the brain.
He also sustained two fractured ribs, a fracture to a bone just above his voice box and a shoulder injury.
Other evidence which the Crown said proved Ward's guilt was a distinctive shoe pattern left at the murder scene. The shoe print came from a pair of size nine Base London shoes.
Footprints were located on an envelope beside Mr Seeley's body, on a belt, on several areas on the floor, and there was also a footprint on the victim's shirt that correlated with bruising to his underlying muscle, which a pathologist concluded was caused "by a severe degree of force... such as a stamp."
It was the Crown's case that Ward - who wears size nine shoes - was seen in a police station for an unrelated matter the week of the murder wearing a pair of Base London shoes, which have never been recovered.
Ward chose not to give evidence at his trial, however, the jury heard that his version of events placed him at the scene on the night in question, but he denied killing Mr Seeley.
His version of events was rejected by the jury, who found Ward unanimously guilty of murder.
The judge said the tariff hearing, to determine how long Ward will spend in jail before he is considered eligible for release, will be held in August.
The judge said Mr Seeley's family had acted with "complete decorum."
"The family of the deceased, and others, are to be commended for the way in which they have conducted themselves throughout what must have been an extremely difficult trial for them to listen to," he said.
The two sides, which have been holding talks in Cuba for four years, said the revised plan incorporated proposals from the opposition and others groups.
The initial deal had been deemed to be too favourable to the left-wing rebels.
The new agreement is not expected to be put to another popular vote, but rather submitted to Congress.
"We have reached a new final agreement to end the armed conflict, which incorporates changes, clarifications and some new contributions from various social groups," the two sides said in a statement.
It was read by diplomats from Cuba and Norway, the mediating countries, in the Cuban capital, Havana.
The statement did not give details of the revised agreement but Colombia's lead negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, said it "resolves many criticisms" of the previous deal.
One new requirement was for the Farc to draw up a complete list of its assets, to be used for victim compensation, he added. Further details are expected to be released over the weekend.
However the leader of the "No" campaign, former President Alvaro Uribe, said the new proposals did not go far enough.
The previous deal was rejected by 50.2% of voters in a vote held on 2 October.
Many objected to the lenient sentences given to fighters who confessed to crimes. Some would have avoided serving any time in conventional prisons.
Those who opposed the deal also balked at the government's plan to pay demobilised Farc rebels a monthly stipend while offering those wanting to start a business financial help.
Polls had initially indicated that the agreement would be approved by a comfortable margin, but opposition to the agreement had been stronger than expected.
Despite the rejection of the deal by voters, President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in the negotiations.
Farc, Colombia's largest rebel group, was formed in 1964 with the stated intention of overthrowing the government and installing a Marxist regime.
After modest beginnings, the group rose to prominence through the 1980s and 1990s as its association with the drugs trade improved its financial standing.
At its peak it was the largest and best-equipped guerrilla force in Latin America.
But the number of active Farc fighters has diminished from its estimated high of 20,000 to about 7,000 after thousands of guerrilla fighters were demobilised or killed.
Colombia's second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), has also been engaged in an armed conflict for more than five decades.
About 260,000 people have killed and millions displaced in the 52-year conflict.
Jennifer Berry, 33, was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter at the court in the Bronx on Monday.
The girl was found in a rubbish-strewn alleyway last week, her umbilical cord still attached.
Prosecutors now say they are re-examining the March 2008 death of Ms Berry's infant son.
The death of the two-and-a-half-week-old boy was attributed to sudden infant death syndrome.
Ms Berry had worked for family charities and in the child protective services branch of the New York City Administration for Children's Services, according to the New York Times.
Ms Berry's friends and family did not even realise she was pregnant, authorities said - as she had told them she had miscarried or had an abortion weeks before.
Under questioning, she also initially denied having been pregnant before claiming to have given birth to a stillborn baby in the shower, they said.
But prosecutors say the baby died from blunt force trauma - meaning the baby was alive when she was thrown from the seventh-floor window of her boyfriend's apartment. They say Ms Berry knew she was alive.
Ms Berry is now in custody until the date of her next court appearance on 27 October.
"This situation has me really sad," a man who identified himself as Giovanni Johnson, Ms Berry's boyfriend, told the New York Times.
He said he believed he was the father of the dead baby.
"I lost a daughter, you know what I mean?"
Mr Johnson's mother, Tressonya Johnson, told the newspaper her family was "really going through something right now - a real big hardship. "We're torn apart."
The US held a one-point lead going into the final day's 12 singles matches and maintained that advantage at the Jack Nicklaus Club in Incheon, South Korea.
Bill Haas, the son of captain Jay, scored the winning point by beating South Korean Bae Sang-moon.
Haas secured victory on the 18th hole of a tense finale to the competition.
Jay Haas said he told his 33-year-old son: "Come on, win one for your mom, your mom deserves this."
He added: "We put him out 12th and had no idea this was going to happen. Couldn't even have dreamt this."
Sang-moon needed to win the final hole to halve his match with Haas Jr, but conceded after following a poor chip into the 18th with a missed putt.
The 29-year-old will now begin two years of compulsory military service in South Korea.
Haas was the fifth American to win his singles match, with Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Chris Kirk and Zach Johnson doing likewise.
Adam Scott, Hideki Matsuyama, Steven Bowditch, Marc Leishman and Branden Grace were the International winners, with two matches halved.
Mr Trump signed an executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim countries on Monday.
New York maintains the new directive is a ban on Muslims while Washington contends it is harmful to the state. Massachusetts later joined them.
Minnesota and Oregon are reportedly also filing lawsuits seeking to block the ban, which begins on 16 March.
The White House has said it is "very confident" the ban will win in court.
The renewed legal challenges come after attorneys for Hawaii filed a lawsuit against the revised order on Wednesday night, arguing it would harm its Muslim population, tourism and foreign students.
Hawaii was among other states that had previously sued over the president's initial travel ban, but the legal challenge was halted until courts ruled on similar cases across the country.
The revised ban bars new visas for people from: Somalia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Yemen. It also temporarily blocks all refugees.
The previous order, which Mr Trump signed in January, was blocked in federal courts and sparked mass protests as well as confusion at airports.
But critics maintain the revised travel ban discriminates against Muslims.
"President Trump's latest executive order is a Muslim Ban by another name, imposing policies and protocols that once again violate the Equal Protection Clause and Establishment Clause of the United State Constitution," said New York Attorney General Eric T Schneiderman after announcing his legal challenge.
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who was the first to sue over the original ban, said he would ask a federal judge to rule that the temporary restraining halting the first travel ban "remains in effect".
"We're asserting that the president cannot unilaterally declare himself free of the court's restraining order and injunction," he said.
Though the White House has faced mounting criticism over its immigration orders, Trump supporters say the president is fulfilling his campaign promises to protect Americans.
Citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, the other six countries on the original 27 January order, will once more be subject to a 90-day travel ban.
Iraq has been taken off the banned list because its government has boosted visa screening and data sharing, White House officials said.
The new directive says refugees already approved by the State Department can enter the US. It also lifts an indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees.
Green Card holders (legal permanent residents of the US) from the named countries will not be affected.
The new order does not give priority to religious minorities, unlike the previous directive.
Critics of the Trump administration had argued that this was an unlawful policy showing preference to Christian refugees.
The children were recruited by the Cobra Faction and the SPLA In Opposition, two armed groups which have been fighting the government.
They were freed in the eastern region of Pibor and "disarmed and provided with civilian clothes," Unicef said in a statement.
About 16,000 children are still in "armed groups", it says.
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The wounds of war in South Sudan
Unicef said it was the largest release of child fighters since last year but warned that children were still being recruited by various armed groups.
Mahimbo Mdoe, Unicef's representative in South Sudan urged all parties to "end the recruitment and to release children who are currently serving in their ranks".
I have been fighting for more than two years. I haven't seen my mother and father since last summer.
I've seen many people killed when I was on missions.
I had an AK-47. It was heavy. I was fighting to protect my family and village.
Now I want to go to school and learn. I don't want to fight anymore, I was scared.
Swapping guns for books
South Sudan plunged into internal strife in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his rival, former Vice-President Riek Machar of plotting a coup.
The two camps have broken a series of peace deals, the latest one in July, meant to resolve the crisis in the country
Hundreds of civilians have been killed and thousands forced from their homes in the latest fighting.
The visually-impaired athlete completed the 750m swim, 20km bike run and 5km run in one hour 14 minutes 53 seconds.
There were silvers for Ryan Taylor (PT2) and Kerry Large (PT4), ahead of debutant Ruth Wilson, who took bronze.
In another World Series Event in Yokohama, Japan, Mark Conway claimed bronze in the PT1 event.
The Series next heads to Strathclyde Park in Glasgow on 4-5 June as athletes continue to fight for ranking points ahead of the sport's Paralympic debut in Rio in September.
The World Triathlon Series: Yokohama highlights will be broadcast on BBC2 at 14:00 BST and then on the BBC Sport iPlayer.
Local officials are hoping that the church's quirky design will convince more people to attend.
The church is more than 16 metres tall - about the same height as four double-decker buses stacked on top of each other.
It is made out of blue tinted glass and took more than two months to build.
It's not the first time an architect has chosen to model a building on something else. We've been looking at some more unusual buildings around the world:
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Daniel Ramirez Medina was protected from deportation under one of President Barack Obama's policies.
He has a job, a young son and no criminal record.
Mr Ramirez was taken into custody on Friday and is being held in Tacoma, Washington.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had intended to arrest his father at home in Seattle, but also detained Mr Ramirez.
In a statement, an ICE spokeswoman said the 23-year-old had told agents he was a gang member, and was taken into custody for being a "risk to public safety".
Mark Rosenbaum, one of Mr Ramirez's lawyers, said he "unequivocally denies being in a gang".
He said Mr Ramirez had been "repeatedly pressured" by customs agents to falsely admit to gang links while in custody.
Mr Ramirez's legal team say this could be the first time under the Trump administration that a person covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, has been taken into immigration custody.
DACA was established in 2012 by President Obama to allow those brought to America while young to attend school and work without fear of deportation.
There are more than 740,000 people in the programme.
They are often known as "dreamers" - a name taken from the failed 2010 DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) - a bill which aimed to help young illegal immigrants become US citizens.
The arrest is being seen as significant given Mr Trump's long-standing promise of an immigration clampdown.
In January, he issued an executive order expanding the remit of Homeland Security officials so they can target not only immigrants with serious criminal records, but also those with minor offences or no convictions to their names.
Hundreds of undocumented migrants have been arrested in recent days, in at least 11 states.
"The crackdown on illegal criminals is merely the keeping of my campaign promise," the president wrote on Twitter. "Gang members, drug dealers & others are being removed!"
Mr Trump said he would scrap DACA during his election campaign, but his policy on those it already covers is not yet clear.
In an interview with ABC News last month, President Trump said they "are here illegally" but "shouldn't be very worried".
"I do have a big heart," he said. "We're going to take care of everybody."
Mr Ramirez has filed a lawsuit challenging his detention, which states: "The agents who arrested and questioned Mr Ramirez were aware that he was a DACA recipient, yet they informed him that he would be arrested, detained and deported anyway, because he was not 'born in this country,'".
A hearing in the case is due on 17 February.
Democrats have raised concerns over Mr Ramirez's situation, and called for his release.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer tweeted: "DACA recipients should not be an ICE priority. They are young people working & contributing to this great country."
"ICE must provide answers & release Daniel immediately. This action does nothing to make our country safe."
It is willing to pay up to £300,000 to recruit teachers from the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and the US.
It comes as the Migration Advisory Committee recommended widening the number of subjects for which schools could recruit from non-EU countries.
The committee held back from declaring a national shortage of teachers
Head teachers, most of whom have been struggling to recruit in all subjects areas, said the committee's findings were "very disappointing indeed".
It found a continuing shortage of teachers in physics and maths and added computer science and Mandarin to the list.
This justified the recruitment of teachers in these subjects from countries outside the European Union, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) said.
Placing these subject teachers on the shortage list effectively makes it easier for schools to recruit them, by lifting immigration controls on them.
The DfE's International Teacher Recruitment Strategy, initially in maths and physics for secondary schools, was revealed when the BBC obtained papers relating to the contract,
It involves employing a private company to "support schools in recruiting qualified teachers in shortage subjects from overseas into English secondary schools".
The contract, worth between £120,000 and £300,000, talks of recruiting 50 maths and physics teachers initially, but this may be expanded to cover other subjects, the paperwork shows.
It is thought to be the first government-sponsored international recruitment strategy since the mid-1970s, when teachers were also in short supply.
It may be seen as a way of side-stepping any potential impact of new immigration controls attached to Brexit.
Currently, schools recruit teachers from EU countries without any visa restrictions.
Malcolm Trobe, acting general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it was good that the DfE had recognised this was an issue that needed addressing but added: "Fifty teachers in these key subjects is a fairly low target figure given the scale of the problem faced."
The finding that there was no occupation-wide shortage of teachers "flies in the face of the evidence", he said.
"That is the experience of schools up and down the country which are dealing with a full-blown teacher recruitment crisis," he said.
"School leaders are reporting severe difficulties in recruiting staff in many subjects, and they are deeply concerned about the impact on their pupils."
The ASCL had called for the shortage occupation list to be extended in order to make it easier for schools to recruit from outside the European Economic Area to help plug these shortfalls, Mr Trobe said.
It was a shame that schools would be denied this opportunity in many subjects, he added.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "While the MAC's report highlights that there is no shortage of teachers nationally, we recognise there are challenges.
"That is why we are spending more than £1.3bn over this Parliament to help attract the brightest and best into the profession, including offering generous tax-free bursaries and scholarships in key subjects and through our teacher recruitment campaign: Your Future: Their Future."
But the Association of Teachers and Lecturers said it was deeply disappointed with the committee's findings, adding that the crisis would get worse with the bulge in pupil numbers, making it hard for schools to find a teacher for every class.
The Migration Advisory Committee was asked by then Home Secretary Theresa May to assess whether there was a national shortage of teachers or just a shortage in some subjects.
It comes after trainee teacher targets were missed four years running.
Currently, teachers who qualified in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, as well as in the European Union, are allowed to register their qualifications to obtain qualified teacher status in England.
The Texas Army base said the 2.5-ton vehicle was conducting a routine exercise when it was swept away by the current amid heavy flooding.
Three soldiers were found dead shortly after the incident and two more bodies were recovered late on Thursday night.
Three other soldiers were rescued and are in a stable condition at hospital.
US Maj Gen John Uberti told a news conference on Friday that a search was still under way for four missing soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division.
The Army did not identify those killed as it was still notifying relatives.
Chris Haug, a spokesman for Fort Hood, said the Light Medium Tactical Vehicle was at a low-water crossing when it toppled in a storm-swollen creek.
Aircraft, canine search teams and swift-water rescue watercraft have continued to sweep the 20-mile (32 km) Owl Creek about 12 miles north of the base.
News of the deaths come as torrential rains and flooding continue to grip large swathes of Texas. May saw record-breaking downpours. At least six people have died as a result.
Gov Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster in 31 counties across Texas. Severe storms were expected to hit the state Friday and Saturday, intensifying floods caused by swelling waterways and rivers.
Channel 4 News alleges 22 boys were beaten by former Christian charity head, John Smyth QC in the 1970s.
The Most Reverend Justin Welby worked at the charity's summer camps where the public school boys were said to have met Mr Smyth, but said he was unaware of the allegations until 2013.
Mr Smyth said he would not comment.
One of Mr Smyth's daughters, who asked not to be named, told the BBC she would "always love" her father, but if the allegations were true "he will have to face justice".
"That will be painful for everyone involved," she said.
"But I believe strongly in justice and would want that for someone who had done that to my child or my brother or my friend."
She added that teenage boys were "often" at their family home for barbecues and pool parties and she never saw any abuse.
The archbishop said he was unaware of any claims until the police became involved four years ago.
He said he was friends with Mr Smyth when they worked together at the camps but had then left England in 1978 to work for an oil company in Paris for five years.
He told radio station LBC: "I never heard anything at all at any point, I never had the slightest suspicion that there was anything going on."
He said he remembered Mr Smyth at the time as "a charming, delightful, very clever, brilliant speaker", but said they were not close friends.
"I went off to work in France in 1978, which is when I understand, I'm told the abuse began. It may have been earlier or later, I don't know, and I was abroad during the time that the report was done and had no contact with them at all."
The alleged assaults came to light in the early 1980s after one of the victims, a 21-year-old student at Cambridge University, reportedly attempted to kill himself after he was told to submit to another beating.
A report by the charity, the Irwerne Trust, in 1982 called the practice "horrific" but the claims were not reported to police until 2013.
A vicar, Mark Ruston, carried out the report for the charity, which has now been seen by Channel 4 News and the Daily Telegraph.
It reported that after identifying the boys, mostly from public school Winchester College, Mr Smyth took them to his home in Hampshire and carried out lashings with a garden cane in his shed.
It said eight of the boys received a total of 14,000 lashes, while two more received 8,000 strokes between them over three years.
Victims told the investigation they had to wear nappies to let their wounds heal and were left with lasting scars.
However, the police were not called by either the charity or the schools involved, the report remained private, and Mr Smyth was told to leave the country - he now lives in South Africa.
One of the alleged victims complained to the Church again in 2013 and it was only then referred to the police.
When approached by Channel 4 News about the claims Mr Smyth said: "I'm not talking about that. I don't know anything about that."
In a statement, Lambeth Palace said the Archbishop's Chaplain showed Mr Welby a letter that had been written by the Bishop of Ely in August 2013 to the Bishop of Cape Town, referring to "concerns" expressed by "an alleged survivor" after the police were informed.
It also said that while the archbishop knew Mr Smyth had moved overseas, he did not keep in contact with him, "apart from the occasional card".
"We recognise that many institutions fail catastrophically, but the Church is meant to hold itself to a far, far higher standard and we have failed terribly," added the statement.
"For that the Archbishop apologises unequivocally and unreservedly to all survivors."
The Titus Trust took over the Iwerne Trust in 2000 and said it was only informed about the allegations in 2014. It then submitted a serious incident report to the Charity Commission and provided full disclosure to the police.
A statement from the organisation said: "The allegations are very grave and they should have been reported to the police when they first became known in 1981."
Winchester College told Channel 4 News that it "deeply regrets the terrible ordeals of the victims and pays tribute to their courage in speaking out".
However, it said it did not contact the police after consulting parents.
"No report was made to the police at the time, not least because, understandably, parents of the victims felt that their sons should be spared further trauma, and these wishes were respected," it said.
Graham Tilby, the Church of England's national safeguarding adviser, said the abuse should never have happened, adding: "We utterly condemn this behaviour and abuse of power and trust".
He said: "Clearly more could have been done at the time to look further into the case. We now have a dedicated central team made up of six full time posts - we will be reviewing all files making further enquiries as necessary.
"We echo the Archbishop's unreserved and unequivocal apology to all the survivors and are committed to listen to anyone who comes forward and we would urge anyone with any further information to report it to the police."
The former pop star, 70, has been charged with six counts of indecent assault, one of unlawful sex with a girl under 13 and one count of administering a drug to obtain sex.
He appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court under his real name, Paul Gadd.
The offences are alleged to have taken place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Mr Gadd is to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 3 July.
Judge Emma Arbuthnot bailed him until that date.
Mr Gadd, who listened to the proceedings through a hearing loop, spoke only to confirm his name, age and address.
It's a long time since Gary Glitter's heyday as one of the stars of 'glam rock' in the 1970s.
But more than three decades on he still cut a flamboyant figure in the dock at Westminster Magistrates Court.
Looking healthy and suntanned, he was wearing a linen suit, cream scarf and - much to the concern of the district judge - a pair of sunglasses.
Judge Arbuthnot was assured by the defence lawyer that they were being worn for medical reasons and no disrespect to the court was intended.
The defendant's next appearance will be at Southwark Crown Court on 3 July.
The judge said that appearance must be without the sunglasses.
Dressed in a beige suit, pink shirt and cream scarf and wearing tinted glasses, he spoke clearly and spelled out his surname.
The deputy chief magistrate asked Mr Gadd's defence barrister, Christopher Ware, why he was wearing sunglasses, to which he replied that the defendant had a "medical condition".
Mr Gadd, whose hits include I'm the Leader of the Gang, is accused of "administering a drug, namely alcohol, to obtain intercourse".
He is also accused of one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with an under-age girl and two counts of indecent assault between 1 October 1979 and 31 December 1980 involving the second complainant.
Legions of fans have taken to social media to express their appreciation for the "legendary producer" who helped shape the sound of the Beatles.
Germany's public broadcaster said his work with the Fab Four had developed them into "musical and cultural revolutionaries".
The front page of the popular Russian news website Gazeta.ru carried the headline 'Fifth Beatle dies', and praised Martin for being the kind of producer who does not "think about money but is a full member of a group, helps musicians make their songs better".
Several Russian TV also channels also reported on the Sir George's death with most calling him a "legendary producer".
The news is currently one of Russia's top ten Twitter trends. "Thanks for the genius music. We wouldn't have got The Beatles without him. RIP" wrote prominent Russian blogger and radio presenter Armen Gasparyan.
There was initially some confusion in Russia over which George Martin had died. Blogger Artem Deryagin made things clear: "While the fans of Game of Thrones are sitting in a state of a shock, I'll clarify that it is George Martin who was the producer of The Beatles who died."
Germany's public broadcaster ARD said: "Martin shaped the extraordinary change which the Beatles went through in the 1960s. And he helped them to develop into musical and cultural revolutionaries."
The heavyweight French daily Le Monde noted Sir George worked with other artists after The Beatles, but "it is through this collaboration that he... will remain in the history of popular music."
A headline on the website Telerama described him as the "sorcerer of the studio."
Writing in the Spanish daily El Pais, Fernando Navarro said Sir George contributed to "the fascinating impact, freshness and innocence of the Beatles' original sound".
The Washington Post called Sir George The Beatles' "accountant, technologist and editor".
"Mr. Martin helped redefine a record producer's role in pop music. He was one of a handful of pop producers — Phil Spector and Quincy Jones among them — to become almost as famous as the musicians they recorded," the New York Times reported.
While the Los Angeles Times referred to him as The Beatles' "indispensable mentor and collaborator".
Papers in South America echoed many of those sentiments with the Brazilian daily O Globo describing Sir George as "a British gentleman".
The hashtag #BeatlesProducerDies on the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo has had more than 1.8m views.
'See Music' said: "There are only two Beatles left in the world" and posted an emoticon of a breaking heart.
Other Sina Weibo users gave thanks for Martin's work:
"The classics will always be remembered, I belong to the Beatles generation"
"Thank you for bringing supreme beauty to the ears and soul of all mankind, goodbye".
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It follows criticism over an opinion piece in which he compared Everton footballer Ross Barkley to a gorilla.
News UK said Mr MacKenzie, whose column on 14 April led to a printed apology, "will not return" to the Sun.
Mr Mackenzie said he would "refuse to allow" the controversy to tarnish his decades working with the newspaper.
The former Sun editor added that there were "plenty of opportunities out there".
A News UK spokeswoman said: "Further to our statement on 15 April that Kelvin MacKenzie's services as a columnist for the Sun were suspended, we can confirm that Mr MacKenzie's column will not return to the Sun and his contract with News Group Newspapers has been terminated by mutual consent."
The article featured a photograph of a gorilla's eyes below a close-up of Barkley, whose grandfather was born in Nigeria.
In the controversy that followed, Everton banned Sun journalists from its football facilities and Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson reported Mr MacKenzie to police for "racial slurs".
Mr Barkley's lawyers also made a formal complaint about the piece.
Mr MacKenzie had written: "Perhaps unfairly, I have always judged Ross Barkley as one of our dimmest footballers.
"There is something about the lack of reflection in his eyes which makes me certain not only are the lights not on, there is definitely nobody at home.
"I get a similar feeling when seeing a gorilla at the zoo. The physique is magnificent but it's the eyes that tell the story."
Mr MacKenzie was editor of the Sun when it wrongly claimed that Liverpool fans were to blame for the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.
He apologised in 2012, but the newspaper is still boycotted by some in the city.
The column appeared the day before the 28th anniversary of the tragedy, in which 96 Liverpool fans died at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield.
Last year, the Hillsborough inquests recorded that they were unlawfully killed, and Liverpool supporters had played no role in causing the disaster.
On his departure, Mr MacKenzie said: "I refuse to allow this latest controversy to cast a shadow over the decades of great times I have had with The Sun.
"There are plenty of opportunities out there and I agree with Winston Churchill who said: 'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm'."
The Sun's publisher, News UK, is part of News Corp, run by Rupert Murdoch.
The party is choosing a new UK leader after the resignation of Ed Miliband.
But Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews tweeted on Monday night: "I really don't care who English Labour choose #federallabournow."
He argued in a 2013 lecture that Labour was already "de facto" a federal party, with separate leaders in Wales and Scotland.
In an article for the Guardian last week, the Rhondda AM wrote: "Just what, after 7 May, does British Labour amount to?
"No one could have done more than Jim Murphy to raise Labour's fortunes in Scotland, but we were cuffed resoundingly there. In southern England outside London we barely have a seat, and in northern England, UKIP is eyeing up its chances.
"As [former cabinet minister] John Denham has argued, Labour in England needs its own identity.
"Is there space for a three-nations Labour in a federal British party? Time will tell."
Gwent Police said a 47-year-old man, from Pontypool, Torfaen, suffered torso wounds in the attack at Mill Court, Hafodyrynys, on Tuesday.
He remains in a critical but stable condition in Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.
A man, 35, from Risca, and another aged 32, from Hafodyrynys, appeared at Newport Magistrates' Court on Friday.
The case has been adjourned to 27 January and the pair remain in police custody.
Lord Morris of Aberavon said the inquiry committee was a "disgrace" for delaying its report, and parliament could vote to force it to publish.
Chairman Sir John Chilcot has previously written to the PM to say he cannot set a timetable for publication.
The independent inquiry was set up in 2009 and was meant to report in 2011.
Costing £10m to date, it was commissioned by the Labour government under Gordon Brown to investigate the background to UK involvement in the Iraq War, which began when Tony Blair was prime minister in 2003.
Speaking during a visit to Norwich on Friday, Mr Cameron said: "It's frustrating. We want this inquiry finished, it's for the good of the families, it's for the good of the country.
"People want to know the truth, they want this inquiry out, and so do I."
He has previously demanded a timetable for publication be set out "pretty soon".
British forces lost 179 personnel during the conflict, of whom 136 were killed in action.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians died, and many were also killed later as a result of sectarian attacks and a violent insurgency.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Lord Morris said families of those killed, and the public, had waited for "an unfair amount of time" for its findings, and were "not served well".
He said the prime minister "could pull the plug if parliament gives a decision".
"It's parliament ultimately that is the guardian of independence, if an inquiry of this kind shows no sign of resolving itself.
"The prime minister has said repeatedly he's lost patience, the chancellor has said he's lost patience - but there they are wringing their hands, and parliament hasn't had a debate in months and months on this issue."
A spokesman for the Chilcot inquiry told the BBC in a statement that "Sir John and his colleagues understand the anguish of the families of those who lost their lives in the conflict".
He added: "A timetable for the completion of the report will be provided once the Maxwellisation process is complete."
Much of the anger over the delay is focused on the "Maxwellisation" process, which gives the opportunity to individuals facing possible criticism in the report to respond.
Sir John has said he is making "significant progress", but is still awaiting responses.
But Lord Morris, who was chief legal adviser in Tony Blair's first administration from 1997 until 1999, said "Maxwellisation" could not be "elevated as a doctrine to the exclusion of the need of the public to know".
Fellow peer Lord Butler, chairman of the 2004 review which found that intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq was flawed, warned against rushing the inquiry.
"People have got to have confidence in it that it is right. All reasonable speed is the thing and where people would make a mistake is setting up an artificial timetable," he told the Daily Telegraph.
Sir Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, said some of his sympathy for the scale of the inquiry's task is "ebbing away".
"It ought, in ideal circumstances, to have been judge-led... supported by trained counsel, capable of presenting and cross-examining evidence," he said.
Sir Menzies also cited the recent judge-led Leveson Inquiry as an example of how to conduct similar proceedings.
"Sir John should give a general indication of when he's likely to publish. I find it very difficult to see why he won't do that.
"He should also tell us... how many people are being subject to the Maxwellisation process.
"He should say to [them], they have a legitimate private interest, no-one would deny that, but there is a legitimate public interest which they ought to observe."
Lord Owen, former Labour foreign secretary in the 1970s, said the main reason proceedings have taken so long "has been the withholding of evidence which the committee wanted, and had every right to demand, and that was particularly not what President Bush said to Tony Blair, the then prime minister, but what Tony Blair said to Bush".
Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve has told the BBC he disagreed with Lord Morris in calling for a parliamentary vote on the inquiry, to speed up publication.
He also called for "gentle pressure" from Parliament, rather than "shouting on the sidelines".
Chancellor George Osborne has also said the public were "running out of patience" - but in response to a question in parliament he indicated that the government would not step in.
The inquiry was "completely independent of government and we do not determine when it publishes its conclusions", he said.
A judge also ordered Crawford, 29, to serve two years probation and do 120 hours of community service.
He was found guilty of disorderly conduct and damage to property in April in the shop in Omaha, Nebraska, where his car was being resprayed.
His sentencing comes five days after he defeated John Molina to retain his WBC and WBO world super-lightweight titles.
During Thursday's sentencing, Judge Marcena Hendrix told Crawford: "You've continued to act as if you are above the law, and you are not".
He is expected to serve about 50 days under Nebraska's sentencing guidelines.
In April, Crawford confronted the owner of the shop which had been painting his 1984 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
Crawford, who had paid half of the fee for the work, refused to pay the rest, saying he was dissatisfied with the service.
That triggered the confrontation, during which Crawford managed to forcefully remove his car which was placed on a hydraulic lift.
Shop owner Michael Nelson said the boxer was able to push a 600lb (272kg) engine left underneath the lift so that the vehicle could be lowered to the floor.
The boxer then tied a rope to the car and towed it away, Mr Nelson said.
At least three Republicans - John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski - voted against the bill, which needed a simple majority to pass.
President Donald Trump said the three had "let the American people down".
The so-called "skinny" repeal, which would have scaled back some of the more controversial provisions, is the third failed attempt to repeal Obamacare.
It would have resulted in 16 million people losing their health insurance by 2026, with insurance premiums increasing by 20%, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The vote was delayed after Senate Republicans kept a procedural vote open before the actual Obamacare vote while they attempted to persuade their members to vote for the repeal.
Vice President Mike Pence was seen talking to Mr McCain for more than 20 minutes. But Mr McCain then approached a group of Democrats, who appeared happy to see him.
The bill was eventually voted down by 51 votes to 49 in the Republican-dominated Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, described the result as a "disappointing moment".
Democrat Chuck Schumer said his party was relieved that millions of people would retain their healthcare.
The arc of history is long, but it bends towards revenge.
Just over two years after candidate Donald Trump mocked John McCain's Vietnam War record, noting that he prefers heroes "who weren't captured", the Arizona senator stuck a dagger in President Trump's healthcare reform plans.
There were gasps when Mr McCain, after being furiously lobbied by Vice-President Mike Pence, joined two other Republican senators in voting against the so-called "skinny" repeal plan, considered the bare minimum Senate Republicans could agree on.
Instead of a big step toward becoming law - either in its skinny form or after further negotiations with the House of Representatives - the future of Obamacare repeal has been thrown into doubt.
The reality is, for now, there is no minimum level of change on which Senate Republicans can agree. They either have to work with Democrats or resign themselves to stalemate and move on to other topics, like taxes or infrastructure spending.
It will take some time for the enormity of this late-night Senate drama to sink in. No one really expected Mr McCain to be the decisive vote, but the man who once had a reputation as a Republican "maverick", now facing a dire brain cancer diagnosis, had at least one more surprise in his pocket.
The bill - officially known as the Health Care Freedom Act - would have eliminated parts of Obamacare - the Affordable Care Act - including the individual mandate requiring all Americans to have health insurance coverage, as well as a tax on medical devices.
The stripped down bill came after earlier Senate defeats for proposals to replace Obamacare and then to partially repeal it.
Sen 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.
He added that House Speaker Paul Ryan's assurance that the House would be willing to send the bill for further consideration by committee "did not ease my concern that this shell of a bill could be taken up and passed at any time".
There are not thought to be any further plans for a new bill to repeal Obamacare because the skinny repeal was seen as the bare minimum that Republicans could agree on.
President Trump has said he now plans to "let Obamacare collapse, then deal".
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.
The New Zealand-born rugby league convert, 30, has played infrequently this season after joining from Irish side Leinster in the summer of 2016.
He has suffered two separate concussion injuries, added to his England calls.
"It's been a little bit disjointed but I want to finish the season strongly," Te'o told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"I am definitely here for next season. I am flying the Worcester flag.
"I know guys like Tom Wood, Dylan Hartley and Matt Mullan were at Worcester previously. Unfortunately, they felt the need to leave. But, fingers crossed, it's not going to be the case in the future.
"I haven't even thought about it. If there are people out there thinking that (he is leaving), that's not the case."
Te'o, who was signed in December 2015 by then Warriors boss Dean Ryan on a one-season contract, has played in more international games for England this season (eight) than Premiership matches for Worcester (six).
He has scored four tries in his eight appearances for Worcester in all competitions, plus two Six Nations tries for England against France and Italy.
And, having been recalled for Friday's game at Sale, Te'o wants to be part of completing the job of ensuring safety for Warriors, who are nine points above bottom club Bristol with just four matches left.
Te'o, who has made six of his seven starts for Worcester at inside centre, said: "I see myself in the long term as a 12 because of the way I am built and what I am good at.
"A lot of things I am good at suits a 12 but I have also played a lot of 13. People like to talk about the two positions as a lot different but they are quite similar. We often play both roles."
Warriors' options in the number 12 shirt next season may hinge on where they opt to play Ryan Mills, boss Gary Gold having stated that the 24-year-old's preferred role is also at inside centre.
"Ryan is predominantly a 12 and wants to play 12," said Gold. "We want him at the club and want him to stay.
"It means we need to go out and find someone to replace him as a 10 or have another back-up as a 10."
If Mills were to leave when his contract expires at the end of the season, one option could be 66-times capped South Africa international Morne Steyn, who plays for French club Stade Francais.
"He would be one of the players we would look at," said Gold. "We are in the market for a world-class 10 and he would certainly be somebody we would look at.
"My understanding is he is under contract. It's a position we haven't denied we are looking at."
It will maintain up to 100 jobs and enhance skills at the plant in Larne, County Antrim, the US company said.
The decision to permanently source axles from Larne follows a preliminary production period over past months.
The company said it recognised the high standard of facilities, processes, and expertise in Northern Ireland.
Caterpillar Northern Ireland operations director Robert Kennedy added: "It is also a testament to the cost competitiveness of manufacturing in Northern Ireland and advantages the local facilities have in terms of proximity to customers, access to ports and other transportation infrastructure."
The company, formerly known as FG Wilson, has operations in Larne and west Belfast.
Caterpillar is a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.
The axles are a key part of trucks, which are used for earth moving, mining and quarrying throughout the world.
Caterpillar managing director for articulated trucks Phil Handley said: "Caterpillar NI operations are proven and very capable.
"We're happy with the level of quality we've had there, the team has been very responsive to our needs and has been really collaborating and working closely with us. It's an excellent source for these key components."
About 18 months ago, 700 staff were laid off as the production of one of its generators was moved to a Caterpillar plant in China.
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Emergency services were called to the scene at about 11:30.
One 16-year-old girl was taken to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary with minor injuries and four others were treated at the scene.
Police said arrangements were being made for the recovery of the bus and inquiries were ongoing to establish the circumstances of the crash.
They said the bus and pupils were from outside the Dumfries and Galloway area and the school involved had informed parents of the incident.
Did he really apologise? And has his campaign terminally imploded?
There have been many turning points in many campaigns in the long history of American politics, and for many US commentators, Donald Trump may have finally dropped off the edge of the cliff.
Glenn Thrush and Katie Glueck, writing for Politico, said it was "fitting that the election of Hillary Clinton as the first female president might have been sealed by Donald Trump's treatment of women as subordinate, interchangeable, pliable playthings.
"Trump - a compulsively public politician who has mouthed some of the most hilarious (intentionally or otherwise), offensive, fact-allergic and misogynistic statements by anyone competing in the public arena - might be ultimately undone by a private admission about a woman he wanted to have sex with."
Avik Roy in Forbes, cites a number of the faux pas that have dogged Mr Trump over the past few weeks.
He says: "None of this was enough to prevent nearly all leading GOP [Republican] lawmakers from endorsing Trump as their nominee. But the latest tape just might. Why?
"Because few Republican lawmakers have Muslim relatives. Few Republican lawmakers are of Mexican heritage. Few Republican lawmakers have faced discrimination based on the colour of their skin. But all of them have white female relatives. And therefore, when Trump talks about grabbing white women by the genitals, they can directly relate."
Stephen Collinson for CNN says the "stunning developments are forcing a moment of reckoning for Republican Party leaders who have made a pact with a nominee many of them privately view as vulgar and unacceptable, and must now decide whether to cut him loose".
Ali Vitali and Benjy Sarlin, for NBC News, start their article by saying that for "the second Friday in a row, Donald Trump's campaign is heading into the weekend in an existential crisis sparked by the candidate's behaviour toward women - and Republicans may have had enough this time. 'It's over,' a Republican strategist who has been supportive of Trump said. "Never seen anything like it. Never will."
They do say that "few high-profile Trump supporters rescinded their endorsement" and that Mr Trump might try to turn the tables on Mrs Clinton over the latest Wikileaks dump of material from her private speeches.
But they add: "With 30 days to go, every minute spent defending his behaviour is a minute closer to a loss."
Ryan Grim in the Huffington Post issues a rallying call for voters to punish the Republican candidate.
"If Donald Trump does what he claims he does to women, he's guilty of a crime punishable by time in prison. There's no telling what Trump's legal fate is over the next few years, but the first chance that the American public will have to cast judgment comes at the ballot box.
"And that judgment holds the potential to be devastating: The American people are within striking distance of delivering the most brutal rejection of a major party candidate in US history."
As far as the apology is concerned, Glenn Thrush and Katie Glueck say that for Mr Trump "defiance is no longer a luxury the brash candidate can afford" and that he appears "at long last, to have grasped the perils of non-contrition."
Maggie Haberman for the New York Times, is not convinced.
"For hours on Friday night, the political world waited for the rarest of expressions from Donald J Trump - a heartfelt apology. What viewers got was anything but.
"Oddly, Mr Trump seemed to frame his comments not as sincere concern about those he may have hurt or offended, but as part of his own journey, describing his growth as a person and how humbling it has been for him to campaign across the nation and learn of other people's worries and travails."
Ezra Klein, writing for Vox, was more outspoken.
"This isn't about fitness for the presidency. This is about basic human decency.
"Trump doesn't think what he said was so bad. He thinks it's... normal. He thinks it's how men talk in locker rooms. He is sorry if anyone was offended.
"This is not normal. This is not how men speak in locker rooms. And the problem here is not that someone, somewhere, was offended. The problem is if the rest of us are not offended."
Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post calls Mr Trump's comments "remarkable for their grossness".
"To imagine how men talk behind closed doors, to know the kinds of things that Trump has said in the past, is one thing. Hearing a tape like this and thinking about this man becoming the president of the United States is another.
"Trump has bragged that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and his supporters would stay loyal. Now we get to find out."
Strike action has been taken over new TA contracts, which could see them lose about £6,000 a year, says Unison.
City council leader Ranjit Banwait said the protests were having "little impact on children and families".
However, parents of children with special needs said their lives are being turned upside down by the action.
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The long-running row has led to strikes across schools in Derby in October, December and January, with more being planned next week.
Special needs schools are particularly vulnerable to disruption because of a lack of specialist staff, which volunteers cannot easily replace, according to families.
It has forced some special schools to close early, meaning parents have often had to pick up children - some with complex needs - in the middle of the working day.
Gemma Walker, whose son has autism, said the disruption has caused "challenging behaviour" in some of the children.
"[The children] don't know whether they are coming or going," said Mrs Walker, whose son attends St Andrew's school.
Jackie Cox, whose 10-year-old son is a pupil at Ivy House special school in Littleover, said she was upset at Mr Banwait's claim the disruption is having little effect.
She said there were difficulties facing parents of children with "severe medical complex needs" during industrial action, and it had an impact on their education and family life.
However, Simon Maingay, whose son is at Portway Junior School, in Allestree, said: "[Teaching assistants] need to be grateful they've got a job.
"They're brilliant guys, they do a great job, but the council aren't going to budge on this."
Unison spokesman Oliver Coppard said staff at special needs schools were "amongst the hardest hit because of the council's decision not to recognise their extra qualifications and responsibilities".
"No staff ever want to strike," he said.
City council spokesman Janie Berry said: "We are working with all of our head teachers to ensure that they are making use of all the resources they have to minimise disruption."
Avon and Somerset chief Nick Gargan has been told to quit by his Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Sue Mountstevens.
MP Charlotte Leslie said Mr Gargan had been tried in a "media court".
The PCC's office said Mr Gargan had lost the confidence of the force at "all levels".
Ms Leslie, MP for Bristol North West, is one of several local MPs to raise concerns about the investigation and the decision by the PCC to "call upon" him to resign, which effectively means he has to go.
The Conservative MP for Bridgwater, Ian Liddell-Grainger, likened the process to a "witch hunt" and said Mr Gargan had been "pilloried", after an independent misconduct panel recommended he keep his job.
North East Somerset MP Jacob Rees Mogg has also criticised the process.
Mr Gargan was suspended in May last year, amid allegations of inappropriate conduct towards female staff.
An IPCC investigation found those allegations were not proven, but that he had "repeatedly breached data protection principles" and had stored "intimate" material on his police-issue phone.
Ms Leslie, Mr Gargan's local MP, told the BBC she was concerned about the precedent set for future chief constables.
"I also have deep concerns over the way misleading accusations have been broadcast in the press while Mr Gargan has had no ability to defend himself during that process," she said.
"The whole case has been taken out of objective scrutiny and investigation and into a media court."
However, other local Conservative MPs, including Somerset MPs David Warburton, Rebecca Pow and James Heappey have backed Ms Mountstevens.
Mr Heappey said in August: "It is apparent that he no longer has the confidence of the men and women in his command, and both the complaints against him and the cost of the proceedings have outraged many of my constituents."
Ms Mountstevens said she had begun the process of requiring Mr Gargan to resign "following concerns raised to me from all levels of the police service that he had lost their confidence" as well as "hundreds of residents" and some MPs.
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The former Newport Gwent Dragon played an hour and received a standing ovation from the crowd in Colwyn Bay.
Bath scored four tries through Jeff Williams, Matt Banahan, Henry Thomas and Kane Palma Newport.
Rhys Patchell kicked a penalty, two conversions and scored a try for Scarlets with David Bulbring also crossing for a touchdown.
The game was Faletau's first since joining the west country club from Dragons at the end of last season.
The game also saw Wales internationals Ken Owens, Gareth Davies, Scott Williams and Liam Williams get their first run-outs after the summer break.
It was Scarlets' last friendly before they open their Pro12 campaign at home to Munster on 3 September and followed a 45-3 defeat by Exeter.
Coach Wayne Pivac said: "Today's performance was a big improvement, but there are still some areas that we need to work on.
"I thought we were very competitive in the first half. It was great to have players like Scott and Liam back and I thought they added a lot."
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Wales and Lions back row forward Taulupe Faletau made his debut for Bath in a 32-17 win over Scarlets.
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Richard Ball, who was known as Boyley, died in a motorcycle accident in May 2002, aged 24, and the Boyley Skate Park in Hastings, East Sussex, is named after him.
This year's BMX event at the skate park will make use of the newly-opened street section.
Sunday's Boyley Jam event includes competitions and demonstrations.
The skate park in White Rock Gardens, reopened in August 2010, replaced an existing facility Mr Ball had helped to design.
The Boyley Trust Fund, set up after the rider's death, donated £15,000 towards the cost.
The park cost £165,000, with £100,000 coming from Hastings Borough Council and £50,000 from the government's Play Pathfinder scheme.
Councillor Emily Westley from Hastings Borough Council said: "The park was already a popular well-used facility for our local BMXers and skaters but now, with this extension so much more is on offer.
"This new street section is suitable for all levels of ability which is something asked for within the extensive consultation we carried out."
Captain David Warner hit 69 off 38 balls and Ben Cutting a brutal unbeaten 39 off 15 in Hyderabad's 208-7, while England's Chris Jordan took 3-45.
Chris Gayle (74 off 38) and Virat Kohli (54 off 35) added 114 for the first wicket in reply, before Cutting (2-35) removed Gayle.
With 18 runs needed off the final over, Bhuvneshwar Kumar conceded only nine.
Bangalore, who hit 13 sixes in their innings, also lost the 2009 and 2011 finals.
England one-day captain Eoin Morgan, who is part of the Sunrisers squad, did not play in the final in Bangalore.
"We gig relentlessly," says frontman Steve Garrigan. "Even when we have days off we'll find a place to play."
The band are ostensibly promoting their second album, Coming Up For Air - but admit that touring keeps them afloat.
"We've never really had a big hit worldwide, but we have a big fanbase," Garrigan says. "At the moment, our live shows are what's driving us."
After racking up 222,137 miles on the road in 2015 alone, Garrigan shares the highlights and horror stories of their world tour.
I was out in Brisbane in a place called Lone Pine - which is actually a koala sanctuary. I got to hold a koala and feed the kangaroos, which was amazing, one of the things on my bucket list, but I didn't wear any sun cream.
Now, I have very pale and pasty Irish skin, so I ended up getting sun stroke. Before I went on stage that night, I could barely stand up. I was so dehydrated. My legs were shaking the whole time.
The only thing that got me through that gig was adrenalin but, even so, I dropped a few songs from the set, went straight to the hotel and spent the next day in darkness covered in after-sun and drinking buckets and buckets of water.
Our first time playing Glastonbury, two years ago, we were playing the John Peel tent and we were super-excited. The tent was packed, people were trying to get in and they couldn't make it. For us, it was a career-defining moment.
But when we play, we use these things called in-ear monitors, so we can hear everything we're playing. They were working perfectly and we were rocking out - but the crowd started chanting "off, off, off".
We were like, "Oh my God. That was our 30 seconds on stage at Glastonbury and we were terrible. I guess we'll go back to our day jobs and give up the dream."
But it turned out the PA system wasn't working and the crowd couldn't hear anything. They were actually chanting "up, up, up".
It worked out for the better in the end, because the crowd felt for us and they got back on our side.
We get a lot of presents from fans in Japan and America. Lots of cup cakes - I don't know why.
But I once said I'd like it if fans brought us socks. I've run out of socks before and when you're on a tour bus and you're wearing socks that are two or three days old, it can smell like a festival gone wrong.
So I put a tweet out and then fans started turning up and giving me socks. I haven't had to buy a pair of socks in ages. I've had them thrown at me on stage. Tom Jones gets knickers and I get socks.
Any time we have off, we'll spend in the studio. We wrote and recorded our last album in eight weeks. This next one, we're going to take a little more time. We're experimenting a bit with different sounds but it's still my voice, we're the same musicians. It'll still sound like Kodaline.
We're very aware that bands come and go. Every album could be our last, but our dream is to have a career that could span the rest of our lives. But you can't tell the future.
If you can do a good gig at a festival and hold a good crowd, I think it makes you better musicians and performers.
If we got to a stadium, that would be the dream. We got a taste of it, actually, when Ed Sheeran invited us on stage in Croke Park in Dublin. We played one of our songs, called All I Want, and the whole stadium sang every word back to us. It was 80,000 [people] and I almost fainted with the nerves.
Festival food is hit and miss. If you get there after everybody's gone in and they're running out of food, you get the stuff that's been sitting out all day.
The best catering I've had so far was at a festival in Poland. It was a sit-down thing with waiters - all very fancy, and we're not very fancy people. I had a carbonara, which is pretty standard, but do you ever eat something and they do something tiny, like add an extra spice, and it makes the whole dish taste a million times better?
I don't know what it was, but it was the best carbonara I've ever had.
At V Festival this year, it was my birthday so the lads brought a cake on stage - but they forgot to light the candles!
One of the crew just handed me the cake and I was like, "what am I supposed to do with this?" I had 20,000 people singing Happy Birthday to me, which was a bizarre experience. I was kind of embarrassed.
We were over in LA and we got the opportunity to go into the studio with Johnny McDaid - who used to be in Snow Patrol. Somebody told us he was engaged to Courtney Cox, which we didn't really know about, but we went over to her house, stayed a few days and we ended up writing Love Will Set You Free.
After that, we were hanging out and Courtney said she'd love to direct the video for it. We didn't really take her seriously but then she kept asking and we ended up shooting it in her house. We had some of our friends over from Dublin - girlfriends and fiancees - and I think she did a really good job capturing our personalities.
We are huge fans of Friends. We've all got the box sets at home, and we were quite nervous about meeting her at first. But she's very chilled out and very cool and she puts you at ease.
Luckily, we didn't call her Monica - but we were very, very aware of that.
Kodaline begin a 10-date UK tour in December, culminating with four nights at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire.
Their findings, reported in the journal Science, showed a fifth of melanomas (skin cancer), Ewing's sarcomas (bone) and glioblastomas (brain) had a defective copy of the gene STAG2.
It controls the way genetic material is divided between cells.
A cancer charity said the study provided researchers with new ways of tackling the disease.
Human genetic information is bound up in 23 pairs of chromosomes. When a cell divides in two, there should be 23 pairs in each of the two cells produced.
However, this does not always happen. Too many or too few chromosomes - known as aneuploidy - is common in cancer.
Researchers at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, have found a gene which controls that separation of genetic material.
Defective copies of STAG2 were found in 21% of Ewing's sarcoma tumours, 19% of glioblastoma and 19% of melanoma.
Professor Todd Waldman said: "In the cancers we studied, mutations in STAG2 appear to be a first step in the transformation of a normal cell into a cancer cell.
"We are now looking at whether STAG2 might be mutated in breast, colon, lung, and other common human cancers."
Researchers believe that if they can find a drug which targets cells with defective STAG2 they will be able to stop some cancers forming.
A separate study, also published in Science, looked at the affect of aneuploidy in yeast.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created 13 strains of yeast with an extra chromosome. In all cases, the yeast's genetic code become less stable and more susceptible to mutation.
The study's authors suggest the "instability could facilitate the development of genetic alternations that drive malignant growth in cancer."
Dr Julie Sharp, senior science information manager at Cancer Research UK, said: "Scientists have known for more than 100 years that having too many or too few chromosomes is linked to cancer and these results suggest that this is not just a characteristic but a cause of the disease.
"Their discovery sheds light on how chromosome numbers can be altered when cells divide and presents researchers with new ways to tackle cancer by designing drugs to upset this chain of events."
Archway Sheet Metal Works, in Paxton Road, Tottenham, north London, asked a judge to quash the order.
The firm argued the order was "unlawful and invalid".
But Mr Justice Dove ruled there was "no legal flaw" in the decision-making process.
If Archway - the last objector to the purchase order - had won it could have thrown plans for the new 56,000 capacity stadium into disarray.
Instead, unless there is a successful appeal against the ruling, it is believed the way is now clear for Tottenham Hotspur to go ahead and build a "world-class" football venue.
Josif Josif, 46, who runs the family business producing metal items for the catering and hospitality industry, was in court with other family members to hear the judge's ruling.
In November a mystery fire gutted the Archway premises, located yards from the White Hart Lane ground.
Pep Guardiola's side, looking to bounce back from a 4-0 loss at Everton, had swept into that commanding advantage courtesy of two uncharacteristic errors from Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris.
France international Lloris headed an attempted clearance straight at Leroy Sane four minutes after half-time to allow the City attacker a simple finish, then dropped Raheem Sterling's routine cross straight at Kevin De Bruyne's feet five minutes later.
Spurs responded swiftly through Dele Alli's header before they were the beneficiaries of a decision that left Guardiola raging and paved the way for the visitors to scramble a point.
Referee Andre Marriner ignored Kyle Walker's push on Sterling as he raced into the area - and seconds later Son swept a low finish past City keeper Claudio Bravo with 13 minutes left.
City pressed for a winner but were frustrated once more when Brazilian teenager Gabriel Jesus, on as for his debut as a substitute for Sterling, saw an effort ruled out for offside.
The result means Man City remain fifth, three points off second-place Tottenham and nine away from leaders Chelsea, who play Hull City on Sunday.
City boss Guardiola will have few complaints about the manner of their performance but they were let down by the familiar failing of a lack of ruthlessness in front of goal.
City played with verve and intensity as they penned Spurs back, but Sergio Aguero was frustrated on several occasions by Lloris, Pablo Zabaleta shot inches wide, Sterling missed that vital opportunity after he was fouled. New boy Jesus also headed inches wide.
Guardiola's animated body language spoke of his frustration - but there was also fury at the key incident - Sterling was shoved by Walker in the area seconds before Spurs attacked for Son to equalise.
He had every right to be angry. City deserved victory and for all the justified criticism aimed in their direction, there was not too much wrong with this performance.
Manchester City's Bravo provided the pre-match narrative with his growing reputation as the goalkeeper who rarely makes a save - but it was the man regarded as one of Europe's finest who was almost the real villain of the piece here.
Bravo was again the goalkeeping bystander as he extended his miserable recent sequence, but Tottenham's Lloris suffered a rare nightmare display and takes responsibility for both City goals.
He should have done better than head a routine long ball against Sane for the opener, while his fumble that led to De Bruyne's second was the sort of work he would normally complete without a second thought.
Bravo was powerless for the Spurs goals - although today's two goals make it 16 from the last 24 attempts on target against him - but Lloris' misfortune was proof of how matches, and the the reputation of even the best goalkeepers, can be decided by the finest margins.
Lloris has saved Spurs on many occasions but today he was saved by his colleagues.
Mauricio Pochettino's side would not put this display anywhere near the top of any list of their best performances this season - but they may come to regard this as a priceless point earned without playing well.
Spurs were over-run for much of the game, unsettled in possession by the pressure applied by City, but showed resilience and determination to get a draw they barely deserved.
They were also grateful for City's generosity in front of goal as they wasted as succession of chances, and to referee Marriner for refusing what appeared to be a clear penalty when Walker shoved Sterling as he raced clear in what proved to be a decisive moment.
Spurs' travelling fans celebrated as if this was a victory at the final whistle. Some days you just take the point and get home - to be able to do that at the home of close rivals will make it taste even sweeter.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola told BBC Sport: "We played good, it was an outstanding performance but it's a pity what happened. All you can do is create and play better and better but it is the same for the whole season. We are upset, sad at what happened but I am so proud about what we did and the players don't deserve that again.
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino told BBC Sport: "It was a tough game for both sides. It is true, they were better in the first half and maybe deserved more, it was lucky for us to be 0-0 but in the second half the game was more balanced. We conceded two and it was difficult to come back but they always believed, that is important. It's a massive point for us.
Tottenham return to league action on 31 January against Sunderland, after their FA Cup fourth-round tie with Wycombe next Saturday.
Manchester City travel to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup on 28 January before meeting West Ham on 1 February.
Match ends, Manchester City 2, Tottenham Hotspur 2.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 2, Tottenham Hotspur 2.
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur).
Foul by Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City).
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Manchester City. Fabian Delph replaces David Silva.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Moussa Sissoko tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.
Offside, Manchester City. Leroy Sané tries a through ball, but Sergio Agüero is caught offside.
Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur).
Attempt missed. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) header from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aleksandar Kolarov with a cross following a set piece situation.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Substitution, Manchester City. John Stones replaces Gaël Clichy.
Offside, Manchester City. Kevin De Bruyne tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by David Silva.
Attempt missed. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Substitution, Manchester City. Gabriel Jesus replaces Raheem Sterling.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Yaya Touré.
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Danny Rose with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Pablo Zabaleta.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Moussa Sissoko replaces Mousa Dembélé.
Goal! Manchester City 2, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aleksandar Kolarov with a through ball.
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Attempt missed. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Harry Winks.
Foul by Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City).
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Harry Kane.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Eric Dier.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Winks replaces Toby Alderweireld because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) because of an injury.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Toby Alderweireld tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.
Foul by Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City).
Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Manchester City 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) header from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Motorists have been warned to expect "difficult" conditions on Tuesday as a yellow "be aware" weather warning remains in place.
The A466 near St Arvans has been partially blocked by a fallen tree, while there are speed restrictions on Britannia Bridge in the north.
Emergency services reported no major problems despite the severe weather.
A wind gust of 93mph was recorded at the Met Office weather station in Capel Curig at midnight, with further gusts of more than 80mph over the following two hours.
Gusts of between 55mph and 60mph were seen along the south Wales coast at about midnight, while winds of 69mph were recorded in Rhyl.
The A477 Cleddau Bridge in Pembrokeshire has reopened after being partially closed on Monday, while a house in Mountain Ash had its roof blown off.
Motorists are advised to be aware of the risk of localised damage from the high winds and for minor disruption to travel.
The UK government announced in March that it plans to build a new prison on undeveloped land.
The site in Baglan is owned by the Welsh Government.
A spokesman for the Welsh Government said a new prison would bring economic benefits to the area.
Mr Rees, the AM for Aberavon, is not opposed to the idea of a prison in the area but said: "This is not the right site.
"It's in the heart of the town, it's in the heart of a residential area tied to an industrial estate which is in the economic enterprise growing area."
Mr Rees said there were rumours that Cardiff and Swansea prisons were likely to close as a consequence.
If that happened, "then this will not create economic opportunities because the jobs from those prisons will be transferred here", he said.
Mr Kinnock said: "The Baglan site is inappropriate, being too close to schools, a care home and residential properties, as well as being a greenfield site."
He added: "The land is part of an industrial park and the enterprise zone. It should be used to help businesses grow and not for a new prison."
Officials at the Welsh Government put forward 20 potential sites for a new prison but the list was whittled down to three before the land on the Baglan Industrial Park site was chosen.
As part of the UK government's £1.3bn commitment to create up to 10,000 modern prison places by 2020, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) asked Welsh Government officials to provide a list of potential sites in south Wales that met certain criteria.
Of the 20 sites submitted, nine were privately owned and 11 publicly owned.
BBC Wales understands the proposed prison will be designated Category C with space for up to 1,600 prisoners, although that has not been confirmed by the MoJ.
The proposed site is located in one of the three areas designated as part of the Port Talbot Waterfront enterprise zone set up by the Welsh Government last year.
It is one of eight enterprise zones established by the Welsh Government to provide business support including financial help.
Plaid Cymru AM Bethan Jenkins, who represents South Wales West, said the enterprise park is "meant to be dedicated to improving the private sector economy of Port Talbot".
She also called on the Welsh Government to tell the "MoJ that the site in Port Talbot is not for sale".
A firm based next to the Baglan Moors site has made a formal offer to buy it from the Welsh Government.
In its letter to the Economy Secretary Ken Skates, Envases, which produces aluminium packaging such as aerosol sprays, said the bid was made to protect the company and the community's interest.
Another neighbouring firm, Cultech, is concerned about the potential impact a "facility of that size" could have on the local transport infrastructure.
But Sue Plummer, co-founder of the company that manufactures pro-biotic supplements, said: "Personally, I've got no real problem in that it's located very close to us. We would just be able to continue manufacturing as is."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We recognise the concerns of local residents but are confident that if the UK government were to secure planning permission for a new prison this would bring economic benefits to the area, both through the prison itself and in the local supply chain."
The research, published in Science involved scanning the brains of both professional and amateur Japanese "Shogi" players.
Shogi is a Japanese game, similar to chess.
Scientists from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan said that intuitive playing was probably not due to nature, but brain training.
Shogi is a very popular game in Japan, played to professional level.
Professional players train for up to 10 years, three to four hours a day to achieve the level of expertise needed to play professionally.
They are able to make very quick "intuitive" decisions about which move in any combination on the board, would produce the best outcome.
The researchers recruited professional shogi players from the Japanese Shogi Association. They also had a control group of amateur players.
The researchers presented 17 professional with a game of shogi already in progress and given two seconds to choose the next best move - from a choice of four moves.
The researchers found that there were significant activations in the caudate nucleus area of the brains of professional players while they were making their quick moves.
In contrast, when amateur players were asked to quickly find the next best move, there was no significant activation in the caudate nucleus. This brain activity was specific to professional players who were making quick decisions about the next best move.
In addition, professionals did not use that area of the brain when they were given a longer time of eight seconds, to think strategically about further moves they could make. In this scenario, the caudate nucleus area of the brain was not activated.
The caudate nucleus area of the brain was historically thought to be involved with the control of voluntary bodily movements. However more recently it has also been associated with learning and memory.
A lead researcher on the project, Professor Keiji Tanaka said he was surprised by the findings as the area of the brain being used was in the basal ganglia region, which he did not associate with intelligence:
"The professional players started to use the parts of the brains that are well developed in mice and rats and not so well developed in primates, so the findings were a surprise - by becoming expert, shogi masters start to use all parts of the brain."
Professor Tanaka added that the findings supported the idea that the brain could be trained to be good at spotting patterns - and that it was unlikely that people were born with the requisite intuition needed to be good at board games.
Dean Ovel, 40, from Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, completed the challenge in Southend High Street from midday on Saturday to midday on Sunday.
Mr Ovel designed and built the 8ft (2.4m) tall wheel himself, and only escaped it for "short comfort breaks" during the challenge.
His efforts are part of a £100,000 dementia appeal at Southend Hospital.
Mr Ovel worked on a 1:15 scale Lego model before constructing the real wheel, which was positioned at the top of the street.
His two grandmothers both had dementia, and Mr Ovel said it was a cause close to his heart.
"Believe me, I have no strong desire to run on what is essentially a self-powered treadmill, within a 2m high cage, in Southend High Street, over a busy weekend," he wrote on his JustGiving page.
"But, the more I think about the reason why, the stronger my will to attempt it becomes."
Mr Ovel fell to his knees as he ran through the finish time, saying he was "glad it is over".
He said: "At about 6am this morning I wasn't sure I could get back in the wheel but friends picked me up and told me to get on with it. I really appreciate everyone who has got involved."
The money the hospital hopes to raise will be used to provide two therapeutic and interactive day rooms, as well as specialist hearing aids, bed and chair sensors, mobile sensory units and reminiscence items such as memory boxes.
However, the Professional Cricketers' Association chairman feels there remain a lot of questions to be answered.
Only three of the 18 first-class counties reportedly opposed further development of the proposed league.
"I think players are open to change, you watch great competitions around the world," Wallace told BBC Wales Sport.
"It's still early days, but it's exciting whatever way it goes.
"I think for players, playing Twenty20 cricket, be it in franchises or for your clubs, is a great way to play the game, though I'm sure there are plenty more meetings to be had."
The PCA, who were represented at Wednesday's meeting where five proposals were on the table, will now take the eight-team proposal to its members before a decisive vote by the England and Wales Cricket Board in October.
Wallace admits there is no real consensus among current county players, and more information is needed.
"The Big Bash (in Australia) is a good competition, it's about what deciding what's the best for English cricket now and cricketers in the future - but it's pretty exciting," he said.
Glamorgan's SSE Swalec Stadium is likely to be among the Test match grounds hosting the eight new teams.
The Welsh county attracted a club record 10,000 crowd for the T20 Blast quarter-final against Yorkshire this year, and Wallace believes the quality of the product could win over sceptical supporters.
"If you play good cricket it doesn't matter who you're playing for, I think people want to come and watch the best players playing their best cricket," added Wallace.
"People come along to watch high-quality sport, as cricketers we're basically in the entertainment industry and it's about us putting on the best show possible.
"Welsh people are very passionate for their sport and I'm sure they'd come down and watch some good cricket."
Three nations from the British Isles have not competed in the same tournament since England, Scotland and Republic of Ireland reached the 1990 World Cup finals.
But, after the latest round of qualifiers, there is a strong possibility that could happen in France next summer.
With four matches remaining, BBC Sport's football writers - Phil McNulty, Dafydd Pritchard, Alasdair Lamont and Lyle Jackson - assess the five nations' hopes of sealing a cross-Channel trip.
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty: "Efficient, routine, not always spectacular but getting the job done - as you would fully expect England to do considering the relatively easy group they were handed."
BBC Wales Sport's Dafydd Pritchard: "Absent from major tournaments since 1958, Wales entered this campaign with a renewed sense of hope which has evolved into delirious optimism after an unbeaten start which has exceeded expectations."
BBC Sport NI's Lyle Jackson: "There is huge optimism in Northern Ireland that the team can reach their first major finals since the 1986 World Cup. They were in with a chance of making Euro 2008 but, following boss Lawrie Sanchez's departure to Fulham, fell short. Hope turned to expectation when Michael O'Neill's men won their first three matches in Group F, now they have to finish the job following Saturday's 0-0 draw against Romania."
BBC Scotland Sport's Alasdair Lamont: "Largely positive for Scotland, with some much-improved performances and results compared to recent campaigns. However, Saturday's display in the 1-1 draw against the Republic of Ireland was the poorest in a while and Gordon Strachan's side can be thankful to have emerged with a point."
Lyle Jackson: "The increase to 24 teams for the Euro 2016 finals was seen as a positive development for the Republic of Ireland - but it looks like they might not be involved next year. Having taken just one point from their two games against qualification rivals Scotland, their hopes of even third place in Group D look slim."
Phil McNulty: "England's Roy Hodgson has done everything that has been asked of him. What more could he do than win six out of six qualifying games? Greater tests lie ahead and failings still have to be corrected but so far so good for England and Hodgson."
Dafydd Pritchard: "Booed during the opening game against Andorra, Wales boss Chris Coleman has transformed his reputation with a number of tactically astute decisions. Coleman has fostered an excellent team spirit, which has yielded memorable results on the pitch and reinvigorated the nation's support for its football team."
Lyle Jackson: "The Irish FA backed Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill with a new contract, despite just one victory in their World Cup group. That is now seen as a sensible move with the former midfielder's stock rising. The playing pool is limited, but O'Neill has instilled a great spirit within the squad."
Alasdair Lamont: "Scotland's Tartan Army have adopted the catchphrase 'In Gord We Trust' but that was put to the test in Dublin, with the selection of Craig Forsyth and Matt Ritchie raising eyebrows and not really working. However, Gordon Strachan has earned a bit of slack and he'll be given it."
Lyle Jackson: "With a contract that lasts as long as the Republic of Ireland are involved in Euro 2016, there is a growing feeling that Martin O'Neill's days as team boss are numbered. His appointment as Giovanni Trapattoni's successor was widely welcomed - and the draw against Scotland was one of the best performances of his tenure. But it seems poorer performances earlier in the campaign may prove his downfall."
Phil McNulty: "England must somehow find a way of making themselves more secure defensively. Slovenia exposed weaknesses in central defence and both full-back spots are up for grabs. Ball retention must improve in midfield because possession is king against quality opposition."
Dafydd Pritchard: "Strength in depth is always an issue, with injuries often stretching Wales' limited resources. There is also a dearth of attacking options, which means there is a heavy reliance on Gareth Bale to provide the goals. Burnley striker Sam Vokes' return to fitness could ease that burden."
Lyle Jackson: "Some key Northern Irish players, notably veteran defender Aaron Hughes and forwards Jamie Ward and Kyle Lafferty, are facing uncertain club futures. Boss O'Neill would prefer to see 'unattached' missing from future squad announcements."
Alasdair Lamont: "The game against the Republic aside, Gordon Strachan looks to have resolved many of Scotland's issues. Charlie Mulgrew and Russell Martin looked a decent central defensive pairing in Dublin and that has been an area of concern. Steven Fletcher needs to get back among the goals for club and country."
Lyle Jackson: "The Republic of Ireland lack bite, purpose and real quality in midfield and, apart from attacking midfielder Wes Hoolahan, it is difficult to see where it is going to come from."
Phil McNulty: "Wayne Rooney. Still shoulders the burden of responsibility of being England's match-winner, as he proved again with the crucial goal in Slovenia. If anything happens to Rooney between now and the start of the Euros, England's chances will immediately be diminished."
Dafydd Pritchard: "Gareth Bale. Who else? Although Ashley Williams is the cornerstone of the defence and Aaron Ramsey is yet to fulfil his potential in this campaign, Bale is utterly pivotal to Wales' hopes. The Real Madrid forward has scored five of Wales' eight goals in this campaign and has proven his ability to win games almost single-handedly."
Lyle Jackson: "Skipper Steven Davis is regarded by many as Mr Indispensable but, if Northern Ireland do make it, they will need key defenders, notably West Brom's Gareth McAuley, to bring their 'A' game to France. Despite a stuttering club career, striker Kyle Lafferty has netted five in the Group F campaign."
Alasdair Lamont: "Shaun Maloney has been absolutely inspirational for Scotland during this campaign, with key goals at crucial times in a number of games. Scott Brown and Ikechi Anya have also played a big part, but Maloney's goals give him the edge."
Lyle Jackson: "In the past Robbie Keane would have been seen as indispensable for the Republic of Ireland but, with the veteran striker past his best, many regard Hoolahan as the chief inspiration for the Irish. Norwich City's probing midfielder certainly made a positive impression before being strangely substituted in the Scotland game."
Phil McNulty: "Yes, England will qualify easily. But then the hard work starts. This qualifying group is not ideal preparation for the quality they will eventually have to face at Euro 2016."
Dafydd Pritchard: "Yes. There is an understandable tendency in Wales to treat any promising situations with trepidation, such is the nation's tradition of traumatic near-misses. But this is their best ever start to a qualifying campaign and, with favourable fixtures to come, this is a golden opportunity not even Wales can waste."
Lyle Jackson: "Northern Ireland have never qualified for the finals of the European Championship but are now daring to dream. If they win their next game in the Faroe Islands - not an easy task and O'Neill is concerned about the artificial surface - the 7 September game at home to Hungary could be a night of celebration."
Alasdair Lamont: "It's still too close to call but Scotland are certainly right in contention - at least for a play-off spot. The next match in Tbilisi is another massive one. Win that, beat Poland at home and they could be going into the last game against Gibraltar knowing victory would take them to France 2016."
Lyle Jackson: "Manager Martin O'Neill is staying upbeat about the Republic of Ireland's chances but it looks like they will go into their last two games at home to Germany and away to Poland needing points. They are currently fourth - and the chances are they will finish there."
Campaigners say it is a positive step in the right direction but say newspapers need to do more to represent women for the "amazing things they do" rather than for decoration.
Not everyone is happy with the decision though.
Three Page Three models have their say.
Emma is a Page Three star and she told Newsbeat that parents and feminists should be more concerned about access to porn that children have on their mobiles and tablets.
She told Newsbeat that she thinks campaigners should focus on bigger issues.
"There are way more important issues for feminist to be tackling than trying to ban a pair of boobs," she said.
"Whether you decide to get your boobs out doesn't define you as a person. I do have a brain, I have 11 GCSEs, 3 A-levels and a degree."
Emma told Newsbeat that she wishes feminists would stop singling out her profession.
"You see women's magazines and they are far more damaging to younger girls and women by putting down people's weight. I am confident with my body.
"I used to be bullied at school but it's given me so much confidence. It's empowered me and I get paid very well."
Emma told Newsbeat that campaigners say they are standing up for her rights but she wished they would leave her alone.
"The whole point of feminism is equal rights and for women to be able to do what they want from their own choice.
"I'm not being forced to do the job I do. I do it because I want to do it. "
One of the best known Page Three models is Melinda Messenger. She says her time doing it was fun.
"I will always have fond memories of working with The Sun even though it was only for a short while. I'm older and wiser, it's not something I would advise any girl to do.
"The paper has made the right decision, and it shows a great understanding from The Sun to end Page Three in this current climate.
"We live in a time now, where we are one click away from seeing thousands of naked images of both men and women.
"Our kids have full access to a whole gamut of images, a lot of which are potentially damaging to the development of their sense of self and I think this is the bigger issue we should be concerned about.
"As a mother myself I'm constantly worried about how easy it is for our kids to access porn, but also did they really need to see a topless woman in a family paper too?"
"I commend the Sun for taking out Page Three. That page should now be used for tackling the bigger issues of society, like abuse of all kinds and the readily available internet pornography that is having a damaging effect on how our kids view themselves."
Another Page Three pin-up, Jodie Marsh, has been defending her old job after being criticised on Twitter.
She said: "So-called 'feminists' really annoy me. Telling girls they shouldn't do Page 3 is not being a feminist; women should do whatever they want.
"I loved doing Page 3, it was good money. I thought 'Blimey, people are willing to pay to see my boobs'.
"I felt powerful, I was definitely in control and all the people (mostly women) I worked with were fab. I never felt exploited - in fact the opposite."
She denied that being a model meant she was selling out women.
"I am very much a feminist. I believe women can do it all and have it all. Women who slag off other women are just jealous and insecure.
"Women shouldn't be fighting to be equal to men. We are there already."
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The blockade is led by ethnic minorities who say they are discriminated against in the new constitution. The government also accuses India of deliberately worsening the embargo - something India denies.
The BBC looks at six ways the blockade has affected Nepal.
The crippling shortage of essential fuels such as liquefied petroleum (LP) gas, widely used for cooking in Nepal, has clearly put a lot of pressure on the country's forest resources.
Nepali newspapers are awash with reports of incidents of illegal logging in several forests in the unrest-affected Tarai plains of southern Nepal, which boasts some of the country's best lush green forests and national parks.
Officials say that, right now, things are still under control - but if the fuel supply situation doesn't return to normal, more and more trees could be chopped down by loggers and those in need.
Thakur Bhandari, an official at the Federation of Community Forest Users Nepal (FECOFUN), the umbrella body of the country's nearly 19,000 community forest user groups, says community-managed forests are safe as of now.
"But our forests have become vulnerable and difficult to protect now," as the demand for firewood for fuel surges, he told the BBC.
One of the worst-hit supplies has been essential medicines.
Procurement procedures, airport red tape and other factors have so far prevented hospitals in Nepal from flying in urgent medical supplies - and doctors warn of a humanitarian crisis within weeks if the shortages are not addressed.
Even major hospitals have said that they are running short of life-saving drugs such as those used in intensive care units.
In November, Unicef warned that more than three million children under the age of five were at risk of death or disease due to the acute shortage of fuel, food, medicines and vaccines.
The government says it is trying to "fast-track" the process of buying essential medicines.
The protesters are accused of failing to keep a promise to let essential medicines through the blockade.
Read more on Nepal's crisis:
Why is Nepal's new constitution controversial?
Why India is concerned about Nepal's constitution
Fuel crisis threatens Nepal's forests
Nepal blockade: Four die in clashes
Due to lack of diesel to run their buses, many schools have been forced to hold brief holidays.
The government has started rationing diesel to schools to twice a week. "We have not totally closed schools but we are hit very hard," says private schools association president Lakchyya Bahadur KC.
The lack of fuel, paper and ink have also obstructed the printing of textbooks.
"We need to print 15 million textbooks in next four months. If the situation does not change, we will face shortages shortly," said a senior official at the Janak Educational Materials Centre - a government body that prints school textbooks for public schools.
The Nepal earthquakes in April and May killed about 9,000 people, with nearly 600,000 houses damaged.
Now, the blockade has badly affected supplies of essential commodities, including construction materials and raw materials needed to run local industries, say government officials and UN agencies responsible for reconstruction work.
The bulk of vital supplies are stranded in border warehouses or in trucks on the other side of the Indian border, officials say.
Laxmi Prasad Dhakal, the spokesperson at the Ministry of Home Affairs, told the BBC: "We don't have enough fuel to ensure supplies of essential materials for reconstruction... to the earthquake areas.
"Until the crisis ends, rebuilding will remain in limbo."
Nepal is dependent on India for its fuel - which has been rationed ever since the blockade.
Nepalese authorities said the Indian Oil Corporation is refusing to load their tankers in normal numbers and that Indian officials are deliberately obstructing the flow of fuel tankers even from the peaceful border points. India denies this.
It has been several weeks since gas stations have stopped selling fuel to private vehicles. Amid these restrictions, there are reports of rampant black marketing of fuel.
The shortage of cooking gas has taken toll in almost all households in the urban areas forcing them to switch to other alternatives like induction stoves and firewood.
The daily power cut of eight hours, which is projected to go up to 12 hours in the coming weeks, has made the situation worse.
On the economic front, the effect of the blockade has been brutal.
In November, Nepal's finance minister said he was lowering the growth forecast this year to 2%, from 6%. The minister said in the last three months, total trade had come down by one-third compared to the same period last year.
The earthquakes of April and May resulted in losses of over $7bn - but government officials are now saying that the blockade is going to inflict even bigger losses on the economy.
Reporting by Mahesh Acharya, Surendra Phuyal and Sanjaya Dhakal of BBC Nepali.
BBC Surrey understands players and management were told at the start of the season to expect bonuses as usual.
But, Woking's board have since decided the bonuses will only be paid if the currently ninth-placed Cards finish in the top five promotion play-off places.
Director of football Geoff Chapple insisted the issue will be resolved.
"It's never helpful when matters such as these are discussed outside of any club," Chapple added.
"In the meantime, the club will not be making any further statements."
Woking's players, along with manager Garry Hill and his assistant Steve Thompson, locked themselves in the dressing-room after Saturday's 1-0 home defeat to Guiseley.
They are understood to be increasingly unhappy as the club struggles financially after recording debts of £437,000 in the last financial year.
Surrey-based businessman Ashley Read submitted a "statement of intent" in November to lead a consortium looking to buy a 75% stake in the club.
But, the club confirmed last month that the 34-year-old had withdrawn his interest.
"Woking fans will simply be wondering whether the bonus issue is just one of those problems that can surface at any cash-strapped club, or a symptom of a greater financial concern for the Cards.
"Potential new owners like Ashley Read may or may not be the correct solution. But fans will hope the current owners keep them, and the management team as well, abreast of any growing financial concerns.
"Expectations on the pitch must be balanced with the state of the club's accounts off it."
Lennon Lacy, 17, was found hanging in a trailer park in Bladenboro, North Carolina, in August.
An FBI spokeswoman confirmed that the agency was reviewing the investigation into his death "at the request" of the local federal prosecutor.
The state medical examiner initially ruled it a suicide based on reports from the police and the county coroner.
Lacy's mother, Claudia, wrote an article in the UK Guardian newspaper in which she said the police failed to fully investigate her son's death, including not asking why he "was found with a pair of white sneakers on his feet that he didn't own and were two sizes too small for him".
His family and the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has called for a federal investigation into his death and is holding a rally on Saturday.
The Reverend William Barber, president of the NAACP chapter told the Associated Press that many questions surrounding Lacy's death remain unanswered, including why he was found hanging from a belt he did not own.
"We don't know what happened that terrible night," Rev Barber said.
A spokeswoman for the State Bureau of Investigation said agents had addressed all viable leads and a district attorney had previously said he had seen no evidence of foul play.
Ms Lacy told AP she could not believe her son killed himself.
"When I saw him, I just knew automatically he didn't do that to himself," she said on Monday.
"I know my child. As a mother, I would have sensed if something was wrong to the point that he was going to harm himself."
The London march is part of a campaign against government plans to reform junior doctors' contracts in England.
A Department of Health spokesperson said assurances had been given that there would be no cuts to the pay bill.
Dr Poulter is a practising doctor and conservative MP.
He was a minister at the Department of Health between 2012 and May 2015.
During that time he was involved in contract talks with the doctors' union - the British Medical Association (BMA).
In the video he says on the issue of the contract reforms: "We need to make sure this is not a contract about delivering cuts in doctors' pay....but about making sure doctors are properly remunerated" delivering safe care and a seven-day NHS.
At the end of the video there is text which says Dr Poulter is unable to attend Saturday's march but "he wished through this video to show his support for junior doctors at this difficult time... He hopes the march is a success and results in junior doctors achieving a contract that is fair and safe".
It is not the first time that Dr Poulter has expressed support for the junior doctors' campaign, writing in The Guardian last week that medics were "rightly upset" about proposed cuts to their pay.
The BMA has announced that it will ballot members on industrial action over the government's planned reforms, claiming they will result in lower pay for some doctors and excessive hours being imposed.
The BMA argues that it was left with no choice but to withdraw from negotiations when it became clear that employers were "standing in the way of delivering reforms which would ensure a safe NHS".
The government and NHS Employers denied imposing preconditions and said they were willing to continue the talks.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Junior doctors work incredibly hard and, as we have consistently said, we want to reward them fairly while ensuring that patients get proper seven-day care.
"We have already given absolute assurances that we are not going to save a penny from the junior doctors' pay bill, and will reduce the number of hours doctors are asked to work."
General secretary candidate Len McCluskey met managers and shop stewards at the plant.
It is five months since Ford announced cut backs on its planned investment in the new Dragon engine but it said 1,850 workers would not be affected.
Mr McCluskey told BBC Wales he hoped it would not come to industrial action.
But he said he wants assurances about its future and added that the union would do everything it could to save the plant.
"There is a fair amount of pessimism about what the company plans," said Mr McCluskey. "Is there a hidden agenda to close the plant?
"We want them to demonstrate that there isn't and that they're working hard for product replacement and we'll work hard with them."
A mass meeting will be held on 1 March if the union does not hear from the company.
Ford announced in 2015 that Bridgend would be making its new Dragon petrol engine, with the aim of producing 250,000 engines a year.
The Welsh Government promised £15m state aid on the condition 500 jobs would be secured.
And on Tuesday, Economy Secretary Ken Skates told the Senedd the Welsh Government would work with all stakeholders to ensure the factory had a future.
The plant currently makes 250,000 engines a year for Jaguar Land Rover and also 500,000 of Ford's own Sigma engines but it is due to stop producing both in 2018.
Last September, Ford announced Dragon production would be cut to 125,000 engines a year and investment would reduce from £181m to £100m.
It said there had been "fluctuations" in global demand, predicting that required numbers of the new engine would be "lower than originally planned". However, Ford said the 1,850 workforce would not be affected.
Bridgend has a capacity to produce three times what the original Dragon deal offered and concern by unions has intensified that it signals the start of a run down of the plant.
Mr McCluskey said it starts to raise "serious doubts" about whether a plant of this size could be sustained producing such small volumes.
Susan Norman, 68, died in March 2013 when the landslide, during torrential rain, poured into her flat in Looe, Cornwall, burying her in her bed.
A post-mortem report read to the jury at Truro Magistrates' Court said Mrs Norman died immediately.
The inquest is expected to last until 24 November.
More on the landslide inquest and other news from Cornwall
Mrs Norman lived in the ground-floor flat of a house split into three apartments. It was built into the hillside with a retaining wall behind the property.
The jury also heard building work had taken place to the rear of the property before the incident.
Dwayne Bown, who was asleep in one of the first floor flats, said he initially thought a tree behind the house had fallen down before the house jolted and the ground dropped in front of him.
"I then saw mud and water coming down into the landing as I was trying to get out; the entrance was blocked completely and I had to climb over dirt and water and mud to get out," he said.
In the weeks before the landslide, the court heard a bulge had formed in the wall behind the house.
Rowan Beckingham, who lived in the other first-floor flat, said in the days prior to the landslide the landlady had told him she was commissioning repairs to the wall to the rear of the property. He said he had subsequently witnessed builders "digging a hole in the cliff behind the house and pumping concrete into it".
The collapse killed four workers - one body has been recovered - and injured five others.
Thames Valley Police say 20,000 tonnes of material remain, but the recovery operation was progressing to schedule.
The plant was set for demolition when it collapsed on 23 February.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), together with the police, are carrying out a joint investigation into the cause of the collapsed boiler house.
The recovery mission by RWE Npower began on 19 March and is being supported by forensic archaeologists, metallurgists and structural engineers, with drones and cameras gathering information.
Specialists from the police, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue's Urban Search and Rescue, and the South Central Ambulance Service Hazardous Area Response Team are also at the scene.
A police spokesman said: "The absolute priority of the multi-agency response to this incident remains the recovery of the missing men so they can be returned to their families.
"These debris removal works are ongoing seven days a week, from dawn to dusk.
"Whilst to date everything is progressing to plan, due to the complex nature of the collapse the recovery phase will still take some time."
The standing structure remains in an unsafe condition, he added.
He said officers were supporting the families affected, providing them with regular updates.
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, Teesside, was recovered from the site.
For every cafe or grocery that's open for business, there are perhaps a dozen that are permanently closed.
Some store fronts have been abandoned for so long that the "For Rent" signs in the windows have become discoloured by the sun.
It's in this setting that I come across a corner Kafeneio, or coffee house. Half a dozen Athenian men of pensionable age are chain-smoking under an awning, enjoying mezze dishes, alongside small carafes of red wine.
On Tuesday, most of them are due to receive their pension payments, which prime minister Alexis Tsipras has vowed will be disbursed.
The problem, at least for Yannis, who refuses to be photographed, is that he does not own an ATM card, and if the banks remain closed, he has no way of accessing his money.
Yannis wants this all to end. He will be voting "yes" on Sunday, and wants Greece to accept Europe and the IMF's bailout proposal, despite the potentially painful changes to pensions and taxes.
Dimitris, a "no" voter, is having none of it. When he hears I'm from the BBC, he launches into a series of invectives against David Cameron, the UK, and the richer European economies, but soon begins to tell me about his life.
Now in his late sixties, Dimitris had to close his stationery shop in February - after 43 years in business. His children are planning to leave Greece - one wants to go as far as Australia.
"I want to stay in Europe," he tells me.
"Just not this Europe".
Before long, I've kicked off a heated argument that will last for almost an hour, and encompass such diverse topics as World War II, the British Empire, and the birth of the Greek state after the end of the Ottoman period.
History means a lot to these men, particularly to Dimitris. They feel wronged by the powerful European nations.
An animated Dimitris wants me to tell the Queen that she should have "stood up for Greece" on her recent visit to Germany. I pledge to pass on the message when I next meet her.
Victor, another "no'" voter, worked in construction, and then as a security guard. He's been unemployed for the past four years.
"Maybe they are jealous of us, that we are sitting in the sun," he says, referring to the Germans, and the richer eurozone countries.
He lays the blame for Greece's current predicament squarely at their door. "They should have known that this small country can never repay this kind of debt - but they kept feeding us money".
"We're supposed to be equals," he adds. "All these big countries have so much experience - Greece is so small, can't they help us out of this mess?"
He's also bewildered by the sudden influx of foreign journalists and camera crews.
"Where have they been all these years? It wasn't much different a few years ago."
Thanasis won't be voting in Sunday's referendum, but not for political reasons. He's still registered to vote in the southern city of Kalamata, and can't afford to travel there. He's been working since he was 17, mainly as a bus driver.
Not one of them has ever considered leaving Greece.
By the time I get up to leave, I've been offered some Greek coffee - for which they refuse to let me pay - despite my protestations that this would be contrary to the BBC's editorial guidelines.
"We're all Europeans," Dimos, who works at the cafe, tells me as he rejects my cash, but warmly extends his hand.
"All we ask for is equal respect."
Four months later, he was reported to have masterminded two suicide attacks in Niger, targeting a military base in Agadez and the French-run uranium mine in Arlit, killing at least 25 people.
He has been declared dead many times, the latest by a US air strike on 14 June in Libya, according to the country's authorities. However, Belmokhtar has survived previous announcements of his death. In March 2013, the Chadian army claimed to have killed him, only for him to resurface months later.
For years, the US government has been offering a reward of up to $5m (£3.3m) for information leading to his location.
"He is one of the best known warlords of the Sahara," Stephen Ellis, an academic at the African Studies Centre in Leiden in The Netherlands, says.
He became known as "Mr Marlboro" because of his role in cigarette-smuggling across the Sahel region to finance his jihad, which he has recently waged under the banner of the Signed-in-Blood Battalion.
"Belmokhtar has been active in political, ideological and criminal circles in the Sahara for the past two decades," Jon Marks, an academic at the London-based think-tank Chatham House, told the BBC.
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Born in Ghardaia in eastern Algeria in 1972, Belmokhtar - according to interviews posted on Islamist websites - was attracted as a schoolboy to waging jihad.
Inspired to avenge the 1989 killing of Palestinian Islamist ideologue Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, he travelled to Afghanistan as a 19 year old to receive training from al-Qaeda.
"While there, Belmokhtar claims [on Islamist websites] to have made connections with jihadis from around the world," says the US-based Jamestown Foundation, in a report published on its website.
"Moreover, Belmokhtar claims to have been to battlefronts 'from Qardiz to Jalalabad to Kabul'."
When he returned to Algeria in 1993, the country was already in the throes of conflict after the French-backed Algerian military annulled elections that the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was poised to win.
Belmokhtar joined the conflict, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and became a key figure in the militant Armed Islamist Group (GIA) and later the breakaway Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
Algerian journalist Mohamed Arezki Himeur says Belmokhtar lost his left eye in fighting with government troops in the 1990s and now wears a false eye.
"He has been condemned to death [by Algeria's courts] several times," he adds.
When the GSPC merged with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Belmokhtar headed an AQIM battalion in the desert between Algeria and Mali.
After AQIM stripped him of his title as "emir of the Sahel" as a result of in-fighting, Belmokhtar launched a new jihadist group in 2012, known variously as the Signed-in-Blood Battalion, the Masked Men Brigade and the Khaled Abu al-Abbas Brigade.
The bloody attack on the In Amenas gas facility in south-eastern Algeria was its first big operation, showing that he remained influential despite his marginalisation within AQIM.
Among the hundreds of hostages seized were many Western workers. By the time Algerian forces had brought the crisis to an end, 38 people were dead, of whom all but one were foreigners.
It was thought Belmokhtar's aim had been to move the Western hostages to northern Mali, where French troops had intervened to oust an alliance of Islamist militants.
Sightings of Belmokhtar had been reported in the two main cities in northern Mali, Timbuktu and Gao, since the al-Qaeda-linked rebels seized control of the region in 2011.
"He knows the Sahara Desert very well," says Mr Himeur.
In recent years, Belmokhtar has gained notoriety as a hostage-taker across the vast Sahara, often demanding multi-million dollar ransoms from Western governments which - along with cigarette-smuggling - finances his jihad.
Former UN Niger envoy Robert Fowler was captured by Belmokhtar loyalists outside Niger's capital, Niamey, in December 2008.
"We were frog-marched and thrown into the back of a truck... We began our descent into hell - a 1,000km [600-mile] journey northwards, into the Sahara Desert," he told the BBC.
"I think I know instinctively what they [the hostages captured in Algeria were] going through."
In its report, the Jamestown Foundation said Belmokhtar had been able to operate across borders because of his deep ties to the region.
"Key to Belmokhtar's Saharan activities has been his strong connections with local Tuareg communities... Belmokhtar is reported to have married four wives from local Arab and Tuareg communities," it said.
In June 2012, Algerian media reported that Belmokhtar - described in 2002 by French intelligence sources as "uncatchable" - had been killed in clashes between Islamists and Tuareg separatists in northern Mali.
But this turned out to be untrue.
The Signed-in-Blood Battalion warned in December 2012 against any attempt to drive out the Islamists from Mali.
"We will respond forcefully [to all attackers]; we promise we will follow you to your homes and you will feel pain and we will attack your interests," the group said, according to Sahara Media.
The attacks in Niger, while planned by Belmokhtar, were allegedly carried out by his allies in Mujao fighters - angered by Niger's co-operation with France and involvement in Mali.
Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou believes the militants who carried out the attack came from new bases in southern Libya.
His country has contributed soldiers to the 6,000-strong West African force in Mali, which deployed following the French intervention in January 2012 and which will be incorporated into the new UN force in July.
After the Niger attacks, an statement allegedly posted online by the Signed-in-Blood Battalion and signed by Belmokhtar urged Niger's withdrawal with this warning: "Columns of commandos and those seeking martyrdom are ready and waiting for their targets."
The 25-year-old, who was dropped from the GB team after failing to qualify for Rio, said she spoke out against technical director Shane Sutton to change attitudes at the organisation.
She alleged Sutton made sexist comments and told her to "go and have a baby".
British Cycling said it was "fully committed to the principles and active promotion of equality".
"We must take any such allegations seriously," the organisation added, with the review to be conducted in partnership with UK Sport.
Sutton, 58, denies any wrongdoing and says British Cycling did not renew Varnish's contract because her times had slowed over the past three years.
Varnish has been been invited to meet the equalities officer of British Cycling to discuss her concerns.
In a statement released on Tuesday she said: "I remain open to sharing my experiences with both British Cycling and/or UK Sport, and will happily engage with any investigations into the comments that Shane Sutton has made to me, and other riders."
Olympic champions Victoria Pendleton and Nicole Cooke have both criticised British Cycling following Varnish's claims, although Joanna Rowsell Shand - also an Olympic gold medallist - said on Monday that she was "surprised" by the allegations.
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The special test is an event in its own right but also a qualifier for the showpiece freestyle test, set to music.
Dujardin scored 86.120%, well clear of Germany's Helen Langehanenberg who recorded 84.468% for second.
"It was a great ride. I had no team members to worry about, I thought I'd just go for everything," said Dujardin.
Dujardin and Valegro had already been instrumental in securing Britain team silver in Normandy on Tuesday, which also guarantees Britain's place at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Their score in Wednesday's special was the highest ever achieved by a horse and rider in that event at a World Equestrian Games - despite a bowel movement from Valegro mid-routine.
"I made three expensive mistakes - he needed to go to the toilet at the wrong time," admitted Dujardin, 29.
"That does happen but it's a bit easier if you're cantering or doing something else, not walking and trying to go into piaffe. That's not the easiest move - it was just unfortunate.
"The crowd were very hard to deal with. All I could hear were gasps, whether I did a good thing or a bad thing. I could hear the crowd the whole time in my head and it was very hard to concentrate."
Fellow British rider Carl Hester and Nip Tuck, an inexperienced horse making large strides in terms of performance, will join Dujardin in Friday's freestyle having finished 12th, as will Michael Eilberg and Half Moon Delphi in 13th.
"I love the freestyle and absolutely love my new music. I'm hoping I can pull it off here," Dujardin told BBC Sport.
After a bright start from the hosts, Mark Hughes' side dominated possession and Walters turned home Phil Bardsley's right-wing cross.
After Marko Arnautovic's goal was ruled out for offside, Joselu lobbed Heurelho Gomes after his poor clearance.
The Hornets struggled to create chances throughout but Troy Deeney scored a close-range header late on.
The victory moves Stoke up up seventh above Liverpool and Southampton, while Watford remain 14th on 37 points.
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Relive the action from Vicarage Road.
Much has been made of the change of style in Stoke's play since Mark Hughes took charge and nowhere was that more evident than with the opening goal.
Walters rounded off a superb 13-pass move at the back post in which eight different players touched the ball, which was worked from the edge of their own area.
Walters was a constant threat along with overlapping right-back Bardsley, with Ibrahim Afellay also tending to drift over to the right side in his free role as the Potters focused their attacks down that flank.
Without both Xherdan Shaqiri and Bojan Krkic, Hughes' men continued to impress and have now won four of their last six games to move within five points of the top four places.
"I spoke to Jonathan earlier in the week and told him he was playing," said Stoke boss Hughes.
"You could tell from the start that he was focused and ready to make an impact - he's not been playing for the last few weeks but he came in to good effect."
Despite securing a place in the FA Cup semi-finals last week by winning at Arsenal, Watford will be concerned at their league form so far in 2016.
The Hornets have lost their last three Premier League games and have only two wins from their last 13 matches.
Sitting on 37 points, 12 above the relegation places, their future looks pretty secure for next season, but they will not want their campaign to peter out with the prospect of a semi-final at Wembley on the horizon.
Problems stem from the reliance on the pairing of Deeney and strike partner Odion Ighalo for goals.
Captain Deeney's header was his ninth in the league this season, while Nigerian top scorer Ighalo has 14 - after that, Watford have five players who have scored one league goal. So if the Hornets' main men do not score, they tend not to.
Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "It got a little bit frenetic at the end and not the control we had for the most part, but in the end we got the job done. It was a great finish from Joselu as he hasn't had too many opportunities.
"We're just going to see how far we can go. We've got to take games to the opposition like we did today and be confident in our own ability - I sometimes think we don't know how good we are in full flow.
"We're not comfortable with the status quo and we want to keep on driving."
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Watford head coach Quique Sanchez Flores: "I think they had more intensity energy, velocity and focus on the match than our team did. We didn't play like a team in the first half, so we have problems.
"We didn't create a lot of chances, but maybe in the last 20 minutes when we played a bit better. We're not happy with the match, we started slow and didn't play how our team usually plays.
"We are not worried about the future of the team in the Premier League but we want to achieve 40 points as soon as possible."
Both teams have a two-week break because of the international games. Watford will return to Emirates Stadium three weeks after knocking out Arsenal out of the FA Cup, while Stoke will look to continue their push for Europe when they host Swansea.
Match ends, Watford 1, Stoke City 2.
Second Half ends, Watford 1, Stoke City 2.
Offside, Watford. Craig Cathcart tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Geoff Cameron.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Ikechi Anya.
Goal! Watford 1, Stoke City 2. Troy Deeney (Watford) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ikechi Anya.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Stoke City. Stephen Ireland replaces Marko Arnautovic.
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Ibrahim Afellay.
Delay in match Joselu (Stoke City) because of an injury.
Adlène Guédioura (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Adlène Guédioura (Watford).
Joselu (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Troy Deeney (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Nordin Amrabat (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jonathan Walters (Stoke City).
Attempt missed. Mario Suárez (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nordin Amrabat.
Offside, Stoke City. Marc Muniesa tries a through ball, but Marko Arnautovic is caught offside.
Foul by Nordin Amrabat (Watford).
Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Joselu.
Attempt saved. Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Watford. Ikechi Anya replaces Nathan Aké.
Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Miguel Britos (Watford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jonathan Walters (Stoke City).
Foul by Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City).
Etienne Capoue (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Nordin Amrabat (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Odion Ighalo.
Foul by Marc Muniesa (Stoke City).
Adlène Guédioura (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Philipp Wollscheid (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Odion Ighalo (Watford).
Attempt missed. Marc Muniesa (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ibrahim Afellay.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Heurelho Gomes.
Attempt saved. Ibrahim Afellay (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Substitution, Watford. Adlène Guédioura replaces Valon Behrami.
Substitution, Watford. Nordin Amrabat replaces Jurado.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Ibrahim Afellay.
Attempt saved. Joselu (Stoke City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marc Muniesa with a cross.
The Accounts Commission said nearly every council in the country had cut the amount spent on street cleaning in recent years.
In many cases this has also led to a drop in cleanliness.
The figures are contained in the local government spending watchdog's wide-ranging annual review of Scotland's 32 councils.
The annual review sets out the financial challenges facing the authorities.
In its 2017 report, the Accounts Commission outlined a decline in real terms in Scottish government funding - the government gives a typical council around 60p of every pound in its budget.
At the same time, the overview said pressure on services continued to increase. It argued this was particularly true in social care and education which together account for more than 70% of council spending.
The report said councils overall have maintained or improved their performance in the face of these challenges. But public satisfaction is declining and complaints are increasing.
Since 2010, councils have faced a 9.2% reduction in their revenue funding from the Scottish government.
The commission noted that many councils have cut staff numbers to save money but that many do not have actual workforce plans.
Since 2011, the number of people working for councils, expressed as a full-time equivalent, fell from 213,200 to 198,100.
A section on street cleansing highlighted one key area of council performance.
Between 2010 and 2015, all but four of Scotland's 32 councils cut the amount they spent on street cleaning.
The commission said the streets were less clean in 20 council areas.
The biggest drop in cleanliness cited by the commission was in Aberdeen - though a few councils, including Shetland, Angus and Moray, were able to reduce spending and improve cleanliness.
Aberdeen City Council defended its service, telling the BBC: "Additional staff have been brought in to be part of a City Centre Masterplan Hit Squad which targets areas for painting, graffiti removal, cleaning and chewing gum removal.
"The street sweeping service has been working to the budgets allocated, and is currently being reshaped and redesigned to face the challenges ahead. Staff will continue to work to reach the standards set by the city council's communities, housing and infrastructure committee."
On local services more broadly, the Accounts Commission noted that some councils were able to find new ways to provide services more efficiently, but others had not.
It said: "There are wide variations between councils. Some have grasped the nettle in finding new ways to provide services more efficiently.
"Others have been slower off the mark. Councils have made savings by cutting jobs but half of them still don't have organisation-wide workforce plans.
"Councils must learn more from each other and collaborate better to improve services and reduce costs."
It also said councillors elected in May must have the necessary training and tools to do an increasingly complex job determining local priorities.
Ronnie Hinds, deputy chair of the Accounts Commission, said: "New councillors will require time to settle in and develop skills to make strategic plans, consider options for service delivery and scrutinise how well this is happening in practice.
"But they have four years ahead of them, and they need to plan effectively for the longer term, work with their communities to decide key priorities and then make that plan happen.
"We hope our report is helpful to councillors and officers as they strive to maintain or improve services for the public with reduced resources."
Cosla, which represents most councils, said the commission was "100% right" that new councillors would face big challenges.
The organisation said the issue of street cleaning illustrated the challenges of prioritising services in the face of budget reductions.
Cosla president David O'Neill said: "Despite challenging financial circumstances councils continue to prioritise spend in frontline services and the vast majority of productivity, output and outcome measures within councils have improved."
He added: "I think it is a fair criticism in relation to better involvement of communities and hopefully this is something that we can build on positively post the May local government elections.
"However, it is missing a crucial point to suggest that the responsibility for this lies solely with local government.
"To realise true efficiencies and have much greater public involvement we need to look more broadly with joined up longer term planning across the whole of the public sector because it is that which will make the real difference to both individuals and communities."
The 530ft (162m) i360 tower is being built with help from Brighton and Hove City Council, which lent £36.2m to the £46.2m project.
A ground breaking ceremony took place at the site on Tuesday.
The architect behind the project, David Marks, called the tower the "son of the London Eye".
"Everyone knows and recognises the huge contribution [made by the London Eye], not just to the Southbank but to the whole of London and the tourist economy," he said.
"This is going to do something very similar here in Brighton, so there's a lot of good reasons to do it."
However, Roger Hinton, from the Regency Society, said many people feel the estimate of how many will use the tower is "ambitious".
"A lot of people in the city feel there's an element of risk there," he said.
The council will receive 1% of ticket sales and more than £1m per year in interest on the loan plus business rates.
Work to remove the remains of the West Pier and its columns from the beach to make way for the i360 tower were largely completed in June.
Mr Trump called Betsy DeVos - the second woman appointed so far to his cabinet - "a brilliant and passionate education advocate".
She shunned him during the election race, donating money to his rivals.
Mr Trump also named another former critic, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, as US ambassador to the UN.
Both appointments need to be confirmed by the US Senate.
The incoming president said of Mrs DeVos in a statement: "Under her leadership we will reform the US education system and break the bureaucracy that is holding our children back so that we can deliver world-class education and school choice to all families."
The announcement comes four days after a meeting at Mr Trump's golf club in New Jersey between Mrs DeVos, the president-elect and Mike Pence, the vice president-elect.
Mrs DeVos, a former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican party, said she was honoured to accept the appointment.
"Together, we can work to make transformational change to ensure every student has the opportunity to fulfil his or her highest potential," she tweeted.
However, in an interview last March she said of Mr Trump: "I don't think he represents the Republican party. I think he is an interloper."
She also contributed to the election campaigns of the Manhattan tycoon's presidential rivals, Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.
Mrs DeVos is an advocate of Republican-favoured charter schools, which are publicly funded and set up - outside the state school system - by teachers, parents, or community groups.
But she also previously supported the Common Core education standards that Mr Trump and many conservatives have pilloried.
Mr Trump has vowed to eliminate Common Core, a federal maths and reading syllabus set up in most states, calling the programme a "disaster".
During the primary campaign he even suggested abolishing the Department of Education altogether, saying that education "has to be local".
Opponents of Common Core assert that is a "top-down" takeover of state and local education systems by the federal government.
Mrs DeVos' husband, Dick DeVos, is one of the wealthiest people in the state of Michigan, and ran for state governor in 2006.
Forbes Magazine estimates his family fortune to be $5.1bn (£4.1bn) which Mr DeVos' father made after co-founding Amway, a direct-selling company.
Mrs DeVos' brother, Erik Prince, founded the private security firm Blackwater USA.
The Iron's 2-0 loss to lowly Boreham Wood left them seventh, but with a game in hand over fifth-placed Dover.
"You have to remember we're Braintree Town. Look at the clubs around us, the infrastructure, the size, the fact that they're full-time," he said.
"I see what the boys have done thus far as being a football miracle."
Tuesday's loss to the Wood came after a run of three wins from four for a side that also took League Two promotion hopefuls Oxford to an FA Cup first-round replay this season.
Cowley, who took charge in the summer, has previously criticised the scheduling of National League matches.
He continued to BBC Essex: "We've got ourselves in a great position and given ourselves a foundation and we'll work very hard and see where it takes us.
"But I don't see the play-offs as being a reality, not for this football club. That's not to say we won't be trying very hard to be in and around it, but I always think there has to be a touch of realism."
The Cod Army's first away defeat since November left them seven points adrift of second-placed Bolton with only four games to play, but the result was also a huge lift for Oldham's survival hopes.
Oldham's Lee Erwin missed a golden early chance, somehow firing over from three yards as he stretched for Aaron Holloway's deft touch.
But the home side broke through on 25 minutes when Paul Green crossed from the right and visiting defender Nathan Pond could only slice the ball past his own keeper at the near post.
It was almost 2-0 after 40 minutes as Ollie Banks hit a dipping free-kick which was well saved by Alex Cairns.
David Ball went close for Fleetwood, but Erwin deservedly scored 10 minutes after the break with a fine 12-yard volley from Holloway's assist.
Bobby Grant miscued a rare chance for Fleetwood before Oldham sub Michael Ngoo tested Cairns from the edge of the box as Fleetwood succumbed to a second loss in three matches.
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Albion broke the deadlock through Duffy's smart finish before Wes Burns' right-footed strike levelled the scores for Fleetowood against the run of play.
But the Brewers' pressure told as Duffy curled in from outside the box for his seventh goal of the season.
And Fleetwood's task was made more difficult by substitute Robert Grant's red card for violent conduct.
The result extends Burton's lead at the top of League One to six points after Wigan drew 3-3 at Colchester.
Eoin Morgan's team completed a 3-0 series victory over Sri Lanka with a 122-run win at Cardiff on Saturday.
Since a miserable World Cup in 2015, they have won three of their five ODI series, losing only to world champions Australia and South Africa, both 3-2.
"This is the best England ODI side I have seen us have by a country mile," Vaughan tweeted.
The ex-Yorkshire batsman, who won 86 ODI caps between 2001 and 2007, added: "This side are fantastic to watch - they have options, combinations, power, mystery, a great attitude and genuine world-class players."
England's limited-overs teams have been transformed under coach Trevor Bayliss, reaching the final of the World T20 this year.
Since being eliminated at the group stage of the last 50-over World Cup, they have consistently posted scores in excess of 300 - even topping 400 against New Zealand last summer.
Against Sri Lanka, five batsmen finish the series scoring at more than a run a ball, with only one - Jonny Bairstow (89) - having a strike-rate below 90.
Test Match Special analyst Simon Hughes says England "dominated" the 2011 World Cup finalists with a "ruthless brand of cricket".
"Their fielding has been slick, their bowling has been efficient, their batting has been deep," said Hughes. "Their depth, their range, their ability has been excellent."
They will include Aberfeldy-based furniture maker Angus Ross, Edinburgh designer Jennifer Gray and Fife-based creative studio Tom Pigeon.
Others taking part will be Linlithgow's Method Studio, Glasgow's Scotland Re:Designed and Scottish silversmiths.
National body, Craft Scotland, has arranged a showcase event for Ross and Gray.
Ross' products included the Unstable Stool, which is made from a single length of wood which is steamed and then bent into shape. The design was shortlisted for The Wood Awards in 2009.
Gray's jewellery has included a bracelet made to mark 20 years since the creation of Dolly the Sheep, a cloned sheep created at the Roslin Institute just outside Edinburgh.
Nicola Jones, who has learning difficulties, sustained full thickness burns to 40% of her body and was left without any flesh on her ankles.
The 32-year old was being cared for at the Real Life Options centre in Bathgate, West Lothian, in August 2013.
The company admitted breaching health and safety laws.
Support worker Sharon Dunlop, 41, from West Lothian, who had failed to check the water temperature, pleaded guilty last month at Livingstone Sheriff Court to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
During sentencing on Thursday she was made the subject of a community payback order and told to carry out 160 hours of unpaid work.
Sheriff Peter Hammond told her: "Unknown to you because of a technical fault in the water system the water flowing into the bath was scalding hot, but you failed to check the temperature of the water and when Nicola Jones stepped into the bath she was unable to communicate the nature of the emergency."
The sheriff said it had appeared to have been an "isolated error" but said it was a "serious and reprehensible" breach of duty of care.
Solicitor advocate Raymond McMenamin, defending, said his client, who has no previous convictions, had found the consequences "deeply upsetting".
"This was a single error, albeit a tragic one, there was no malice or intent to injure," he added.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found no risk assessment was in place at the venue at the time for the risk of exposure to scalding water.
It issued two improvement notices following the incident addressing this and the company has since complied, the court heard.
Solicitor advocate John McGovern, defending, said there was nothing he could say to detract from the "terrible and tragic nature of this incident", but said the company has apologised to Ms Jones and her family.
The sheriff said it had been a "serious failing" on the company's part but in determining sentence he said he took into account its "exemplary" record and the fact it was a not-for-profit organisation.
Speaking outside court after sentencing, HSE inspector Hazel Dobb said: "The injuries sustained by Nicola Jones were easily preventable by the simple act of checking the water temperature before she entered.
"Employers should ensure that their staff are provided with a thermometer and training in the safety aspects of bathing or showering people for whom they provide personal care.
"Thermostatic mixing valves that reduce the maximum temperature of the water at the tap have reduced the number of accidents such as this and are a requirement in registered care homes.
"However, they are no replacement for a physical check of the water temperature. I would also urge anyone with an immersion heater to check that it has a secondary thermostatic cut-out to prevent the hot tank boiling if it fails."
The 36-year-old club captain made 30 appearances on Wearside last season but was out of contract this summer.
New boss Simon Grayson has confirmed the Republic of Ireland defender has extended his stay at the club, for whom he has played since 2011.
O'Shea, capped 116 times by his country, is Sunderland's all-time leading appearance-maker in the Premier League.
Lady Sarah Gibbs told police at the time the Lucans' young daughters talked about a "boyfriend" at the home, BBC Inside Out has learned.
The 7th Earl of Lucan vanished after the death of Sandra Rivett in 1974 and an inquest found that he murdered her.
His brother Hugh Bingham has called for the evidence to be looked at afresh.
In the statement from November 1974, Lady Sarah said her four-year-old niece Lady Camilla Bingham told of a mystery man who sometimes slept in "nanny's room and nanny sleeps with us" and sometimes slept in "mummy's - she's got a gigantic bed".
Lady Sarah, who died in 2001, said in the statement: "We were talking about home, that is 46 Lower Belgrave Street and Camilla said the boyfriend always stays upstairs while we have lunch until we ring the buzzer.
"I said to her 'What's his name?'. She said 'I don't know, he hasn't told me his name'.
"I said 'Where does he live?'. She said 'He lives in the house with us'."
When asked whether the man was the boyfriend of Lady Lucan or the nanny, Lady Sarah said: "I wouldn't know, I'm assuming she meant the nanny because Frances [10-year-old Lady Frances Bingham] referred to the boyfriend when I told her that the nanny was dead."
Lord Lucan claimed later in a letter that on the night of the murder he witnessed a man fighting with his estranged wife Lady Lucan in the basement of the family home but the man fled.
Speaking from his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, Mr Bingham told BBC Inside Out South East he was annoyed the witness statement was not presented at the 1975 inquest into Mrs Rivett's death.
The jury found that Lord Lucan had murdered the nanny.
Mr Bingham added: "It is certainly the first time that I've heard of a second man established in the house.
"I'm encouraged by the idea that there is a fresh source of evidence and that I feel wants to be given a fair hearing and this seems to me to be one way of achieving that.
"Let us hope that now with the way in which the evidence seems to be gathering, there is a chance that maybe the inquest result could be set aside.
"If that happened then the warrant of arrest would fall away and my brother's situation would be restored to the normal situation of a man innocent until proven guilty."
Neil Berriman, who discovered in 2004 that Mrs Rivett was his birth mother, has backed calls for the claims in the witness statement to be investigated.
Mr Berriman, from Haslemere in Surrey, said: "As far as I'm concerned, he [Lord Lucan] murdered my mother - and if he never murdered my mother and if there is another murderer I need to get to the bottom of it."
Retired Det Sgt Graham Forsyth, who witnessed Lady Sarah's statement, told Inside Out he believed Mrs Rivett may have had a boyfriend who stayed over at the house.
He did not think the man was traced because the police believed Lord Lucan was the murderer "as was subsequently found at the inquest".
Lord Lucan's estranged wife Lady Lucan has not commented on the witness statement.
The new evidence came to light after BBC Inside Out South East was handed three boxes of notebooks, diaries, tapes and address books found by the daughter of the late Det Ch Insp David Gerring, a key detective in the Lucan case.
The documents also reveal that police believed Lucan may have visited a Scottish estate in the late 1970s and could have been in Mozambique up to 2002.
Lord Lucan, born Richard John Bingham in 1934, has not been seen since the day after Sandra Rivett was found murdered.
His car was later found abandoned in Newhaven, East Sussex.
The peer was officially declared dead by the High Court in 1999.
Since his disappearance at the age of 39 there have been more than 70 reported sightings of him in countries across the world including South Africa, Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Inside Out is broadcast on BBC One South East, South and London on Monday, 10 December at 19:30 GMT. It is also available nationwide on the BBC iPlayer for seven days thereafter.
Daryl Louden, 26, from Edinburgh, had pleaded guilty previously to embezzling £134,177.46 from the branch in RS McColl's in Ferry Road between 1 January and 29 September 2016.
Louden had taken the money to feed his gambling habit.
Sentence had been deferred for background reports.
At Edinburgh Sheriff Court, sheriff Frank Crowe told Louden his breach of trust had been enormous.
His actions, he said, had been devastating for those who worked with him and trusted in him.
Sheriff Crowe had heard that Louden had been in line for promotion to area manager when he wrote to his superior officer, David Richardson, saying he no longer wanted promotion and wished to stay where he was.
Mr Richardson had been curious about this and carried out a spot check at the office.
It revealed about £135,000 was missing. When Mr Richardson confronted Louden, he admitted to having a gambling addiction, which he said had ruined his life.
Defence solicitor, Jennifer McEvinney, previously told Sheriff Crowe Louden had had on-line accounts with two or three betting companies and was gambling on football and horse racing.
He had taken out a loan and was trying to repay it by gambling. When he lost money, he began betting more and more to try and recoup his losses.
A letter from Mr Richardson was handed to Sheriff Crowe by Ms McEvinney, which, she said, made it clear that Louden's actions had been "extremely out of character" and Mr Richardson was concerned about Louden's mental health.
Her client, however, had "turned the corner". She suggested a sentence be imposed which would allow her client to make recompense for the offence, perhaps by performing unpaid work in the community.
Sheriff Crowe, however, stated Louden had to face up to what he had done.
It was public money and he had disappointed his area manager, colleagues and friends and wasted the money on gambling.
Only a prison sentence was appropriate.
He did, however, reduce a sentence of two years to 16 months and added: "I will take steps to ensure you get proper support and help in prison and hope this will help you get on with the useful side of your life."
Machine learning algorithms will scour the images for signs of diseases such as macular degeneration and diabetes-related sight loss.
Moorfields is teaming up with Google's AI division DeepMind during the scheme.
Previously, DeepMind faced criticism over a little-known data sharing agreement with three London hospitals.
An agreement to share patient data from the Royal Free, Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals over the past five years and continuing until 2017 was revealed by the New Scientist in May.
In that case, Google said it was analysing kidney data in the hope of developing an app for medical staff.
The app, called Streams, would notify doctors should someone be at risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI).
Announcing the latest venture with Moorfields, Google has cited the support of the Royal National Institute of Blind people (RNIB) and sight charities such as the Macular Society.
"How it plays out over time remains to be seen," Sam Smith, a co-ordinator at patient data campaign group MedConfidential, told the BBC.
"But you do have organisations involved that aren't principally concerned with DeepMind - they care about blindness in the case of RNIB and long term medical research in the case of the National Institute for Health Research."
"Maybe they have learnt the lessons of their Royal Free fiasco," the MedConfidential Twitter account tweeted, "Not that they've shared what they learnt from that..."
One tech journalist, Gareth Corfield, tweeted that he "hit the roof" after reading the news. He has written a letter to Moorfields citing the Data Protection Act.
"This is a serious dereliction of your duties as a data controller," he wrote.
"To be crystal clear, I have not consented for my personal data to be used by Moorfields NHS Trust for any purpose other than treating me for genuine medical purposes."
However, current rules state that as long as data is anonymised it may be shared for ethically approved projects.
Moorfields has published a Q&A on the DeepMind collaboration which adds, "patients can opt out of any data-sharing system by emailing the Trust's data protection officer".
"Our research with DeepMind has the potential to revolutionise the way professionals carry out eye tests and could lead to earlier detection and treatment of common eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration," said Prof Sir Peng Tee Khaw, director of the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre in Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital.
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Heinrich Steinmeyer was 19 when he was captured in France and held in the PoW camp at Cultybraggan by Comrie.
Mr Steinmeyer, who died in 2013 aged 90, bequeathed the money in return for the kindness he was shown there.
He said in his will he wanted the money to benefit the village's "elderly people".
Part of his will reads: "Herewith, I would like to express my gratitude to the people of Scotland for the kindness and generosity that I have experienced in Scotland during my imprisonment of war and hereafter."
Comrie Development Trust, who Mr Steinmeyer asked to manage his legacy, has launched a consultation on how the money should be used.
Trust secretary Andrew Reid said: "Throughout his captivity, Heinrich Steinmeyer was very struck by the kindness shown to him Scottish people, which he had not expected.
"After the war, he visited Comrie and made lasting friendships in the village.
"He vowed to leave everything he owned for the benefit of older people in the place he wanted to thank."
Mr Reid said overseeing the will and the sale of Mr Steinmeyer's property had involved a "complex and very lengthy process" in Germany.
Mr Steinmeyer was held at Cultybraggan along with about 4,000 other prisoners.
Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess also spent a night there after parachuting into Scotland in 1941.
After the end of the war, Mr Steinmeyer worked on a farm before returning to Germany.
Mr Steinmeyer died two weeks after Comrie resident George Carson, who became a close friend of the former soldier.
Mr Carson said of Mr Steinmeyer: "He was a dyed in the wool Nazi and once thought that Hitler was the finest thing ever to happen to Germany.
"He was captured and taken to Comrie and eventually was allowed to work and was treated with great kindness by people."
Witnesses said it proved "traditional" fox hunting was still going on despite legislation introduced 15 years ago.
Father and son John Clive Richardson, 66, and Johnny Riley, 24, of the Jedforest Hunt, deny deliberately hunting a fox with hounds last year.
The offence is alleged to have taken place near Jedburgh in February 2016.
An investigator from the League Against Cruel Sports gave the court his verdict on two videos filming the activities of the Jedforest Hunt at Townfoothill Farm.
Peter Cross filmed the incident on a video camera from a distance of 650 metres along with fellow investigator Terence Hill after they both set an observation point for a covert operation.
The footage captured a fox being chased into the earth by the hounds and then a man spending more than 20 minutes digging a hole to locate the fox.
The law says the fox should be dispatched or killed by a hand pistol or shotgun.
However, the footage showed the fox being released from the hole and immediately pursued by the hounds.
The fox went out of sight behind a land ridge - a blind spot for the cameramen - and its fate could not be confirmed.
Mr Cross told the court: "What we have witnessed there is in direct contradiction of the Masters of Foxhounds Association rules.
"It is not only an illegal act but I think their governing body would like to have words about their behaviour too.
"If it is known a fox is in the earth they can be dug down and dispatched with a pistol if the farmer requires pest control."
Referring to the hounds chasing the fox he said: "It is just not necessary to do that to a fox. Personally I find it appalling."
The trial of the pair, both from Abbotrule, Bonchester Bridge, continues.
Students gave the university the best marks in the country for teaching and overall student experience.
Judges said the university's research was pushing back boundaries, and praised its impact on the city.
The newspaper also produced a league table of Scottish universities, topped by St Andrews.
The 2016 edition of the guide takes into account the National Student Survey, which recently ranked Dundee and Glasgow as Scotland's best.
Judges also noted that Dundee was ranked the UK's best university for research of biological sciences, and has recently opened a £50m research Discovery Centre.
Alistair McCall, editor the guide, said Dundee University was "the epitome of what a good university should be".
He said: "It provides an outstanding education and university experience for its students, is a key driver in the regional and national economy, and its researchers - particularly in the medical field - are pushing back the boundaries of knowledge and the treatments available to the wider benefit of society."
Principal Prof Sir Pete Downes said the university's goal was to "transform lives".
He said: "Our record in recent years on student experience is remarkable. I know from speaking to our students how much they enjoy their time here at Dundee.
"We are absolutely delighted to be named as Scottish University of the Year in the Good University Guide. This outstanding series of results and rankings is a tribute to the dedication of staff right across the University."
Trials of the Thermolicer device are under way in Shetland.
It works by bathing fish briefly in lukewarm water, capitalising on the parasite's low tolerance for sudden changes in temperature.
No chemicals are used and the fish are unharmed in the process, according to SSF.
The Thermolicer, which is made by Norwegian firm Steinsvik, is fitted on a boat or a barge. Each machine can treat up to 80 tons of fish per hour.
The sea louse is a naturally-occurring parasite that is responsible for significant losses to wild and farmed fish stocks.
It can latch on to salmon, eat their skin and blood, and cause infections.
SSF said it would share its experiences of using the Thermolicer with other salmon farmers in Scotland.
Ralph Bickerdike, head of fish health for SSF, said: "Sea lice is a challenge for all fish farmers in most salmon-producing areas.
"At Scottish Sea Farms we intend being part of the solution to this challenge.
"Our work with SAIC (Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre) and other industry partners in this area has already reaped huge benefits through our work with wrasse and lumpfish - varieties of cleaner fish.
"The Thermolicer is the latest step in developing alternative tools to maintain a sustainable solution to fish health management."
SAIC chief executive Heather Jones said: "We are delighted to see this level of innovation and collaboration happening in Scotland.
"The industry is tackling the biological issues it faces with energy and initiative, and with a strong commitment to sustainable practices."
Start midfielder Ajer, 17, has returned to his native Norway following a one-week trial at Celtic.
"When it [the transfer window] is closed we will say something if he does [join]," said Deila of his countryman.
Asked about a potential loan deal for teenage Manchester City winger Patrick Roberts, Deila replied: "I can't comment on anything."
Roberts, 18, has played three times for City after signing from Fulham, where he made 22 appearances. He has also played up to England Under-19 level.
Celtic have already signed Danish defender Erik Sviatchenko from Midtjylland and Ryan Christie has been recalled from his loan spell at Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
"I'm happy with what we have got in," said Deila.
"It is a very difficult window. The teams around us don't want to lose players when they are in the middle of the season but we'll see.
"We work on and everybody in the club is looking for options and seeing what is possible."
Reigning champions Celtic, top of the Premiership and also through to the fifth round of the Scottish Cup, will seek to maintain their hopes of a domestic treble when they face Ross County in Sunday's League Cup semi-final.
The tournament was Deila's first trophy win as Celtic manager last season and preceded the club's fourth straight league success.
St Johnstone face Hibernian in the first semi-final on Saturday and Deila has urged his players to maintain their recent form, which has yielded five straight wins in all competitions and 19 goals along the way.
"We have taken some steps now, lately, and we are getting some rest and you can see that it puts a lot of energy into the boys," added Deila.
"If we keep the tempo and intensity that we had in the last games, we know that we can beat anybody.
"To step up is important, you have to develop yourself during the season and you need to get better and better.
"If you do that then you have a chance to fight for trophies.
"To play semi-finals is something that we enjoy. We did it twice last year and we had a final as well and we really, really want to play here in March [at Hampden for the League Cup final] as well.
"We're looking forward to it. This is a big, big opportunity for us."
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He took advantage of a chaotic race and a stop for fresh tyres during a caution period to improve on team-mate Jenson Button's eighth place in Monaco.
"It is a present; at the moment we are not super-competitive," Alonso said.
"Fifth is a surprise but opportunity arrived in our hands. We took advantage and it is fantastic for the team."
McLaren have had a difficult season as they start their first year of a new engine partnership with Honda, whose engine is reputed to be in the region of at least 150bhp down on the best power-units in F1.
Honda have also struggled badly with reliability, which hit again in qualifying on Saturday, during which Alonso provided a defining image by trying to push his car back to the pits after it broke down on track.
Alonso said: "Monaco, Hungary, Singapore - these are circuits that are a little bit better for our performance and our car and we need take these opportunities.
"For the whole team working 24 hours a day to update the car, to get some results to touch some points is a good way to go into the summer break.
"What we need is a good second half of the season and increase our level because we need to get some good preparation for next year, which is the main target now.
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"We know the car is improving, we know we are getting more competitive but it is always nice to touch it with the hands and put some points on the board."
Honda has promised an upgraded engine for the next race, the Belgian Grand Prix on 23 August.
Sources say that if the revised unit produces the expected performance, it will be the first time all season that the engine produces more power than it did in the opening race in Australia back in March.
To add to McLaren's good weekend, Button scored two more points with ninth place, despite not stopping for fresh tyres under the safety car.
Button said: "We understand there were a lot incidents that helped us a lot but very happy we both got points. I would rather be up where Fernando is but he did a great job today.
"We need another step forward if we are going to repeat this."
"The next two races are going to be difficult for us and I am sure we will have some penalties [for fitting new engines] as well."
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Violette Uwamahoro appeared last week in court in Rwanda's capital Kigali, charged with spreading state secrets.
A judge said there was no evidence to warrant the detention of the expectant mother and released her on bail.
Mrs Uwamahoro, from Leeds, was arrested in February after going to Rwanda for a family funeral.
The prosecution has a window of five days to appeal against the court's decision, Mrs Uwamahoro's lawyer Antoinette Mukamusoni told the BBC.
She was immediately freed after the court's ruling but she is not allowed to leave the country, pending the appeal.
Beyond the issue of bail settled on Monday, prosecutors must prove their case against Mrs Uwamahoro within 30 days or all charges will be dismissed, Mrs Mukamusoni said.
The arrest of the Leeds youth worker had caused an uproar among rights groups with Amnesty International saying she was illegally held without access to lawyers or her family.
Her husband, Faustin Rukundo, an opposition activist, feared she would be denied a fair trial.
He had appealed for the intervention of the British government to secure her release.
Luke Durbin, 19, was last seen in Ipswich on 12 May, 2006 after a night out in the town.
CCTV pictures show a Volvo 440 in the town centre at the time of his disappearance.
Suffolk Police have now issued pictures of the same type of vehicle in the hope they can trace the actual car's occupants or jog someone's memory.
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The move by the inquiry team comes on what would have been Mr Durbin's 29th birthday and follows the offer of a £20,000 reward for information, issued in May.
Det Supt John Brocklebank said: "We are researching the information provided [so far] to see if this can be developed but we haven't got the crucial piece yet - and we believe there are still those that may be able to help.
"We appreciate that this is nine years ago but you may be able to help us identify who was driving this vehicle that night."
The CCTV images show a white or silver Volvo on Orwell Place near the Eagle Street/Fore Street crossroads at 04:09 BST on Friday, 12 May, 2006.
Police said they had confirmed there was a Volvo 440 in the Ipswich area with the number plate M206 LYE at the time, but it was registered under a false name and address.
They are keen to hear from its owner or anyone who recognises this number plate so they can confirm whether it was the car in the CCTV images.
The 23-year-old former Sheffield Wednesday and Bradford trainee made 23 appearances for the National League side last season.
Lacey has also had a stint with Altrincham but now has the chance to play his first Football League match.
"It's a big chance for me and I need to grab it with both hands," he told the club website.
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Former West Indies captain Adams, 48, left the Canterbury club this week after spending five years in charge.
"The moment the news went out there were a number of people in touch very quickly to express their interest," Clifford told BBC Radio Kent.
"I don't think we will lack for a strong candidate. There is a lot of interest already."
Kent finished second in Division Two of the County Championship this year, missing out on promotion to Essex, but Clifford believes the club are "an exciting proposition" for prospective coaches.
"We underestimate the profile of county cricket across the globe," he said. "It still has a high profile and coaches aspire to come here.
"We have not launched a job description or details of the role yet as we need to take stock and understand what we want next.
"We were thorough when we appointed Jimmy and I expect the process to be similar this time.
"Hopefully by early next year we will be in a position to make an announcement and have someone start."
Meanwhile, Clifford is still waiting for a response from the England and Wales Cricket Board after Kent called for arbitration with the governing body and Hampshire over the composition of Division One next year.
The south coast county were given a reprieve from relegation after Durham were demoted for financial reasons - but Kent believe they should have been promoted instead.
"We've made our point and asked the ECB a few questions," Clifford said.
"I can't believe it will take long for them to offer a response. When we have that response we'll see where we go next.
"We would have liked to have been consulted before a decision was announced.
"I think counties must have a voice on all matters in relation to the running of the game and speak up for what they believe in. Our moves in this regard are consistent with that."
The Oscar-winning actor was out for a jog in Central Park, New York, on Saturday when he bumped into Elisabeth and Ryan who, resplendent in white gown and tuxedo, were having their wedding photos taken.
Hanks posted his photo of the moment on Twitter, sharing it with more than 12 million followers and offering "congrats and blessings" to the couple.
The image has 11,000 likes so far on the social media platform, plus more than 67,000 likes on Hanks's Instagram account, and more than 33,000 people are talking on Facebook about Meg Miller, the New York-based photographer responsible for the official wedding images.
Ms Miller added on Instagram that the accidental meeting was the "icing on the cake" to a beautiful wedding.
"We were photographing the bride and groom in Central Park and a guy on a jog started to slow down near the couple, he leaned in close as he took off his hat and sunglasses and said, 'Hi, I am Tom Hanks' while reaching out to shake the groom's hand," she told the BBC.
"He asked their names and wished them congratulations, and before he left he asked to take a selfie with them. He posted it within minutes to his Instagram, Twitter and Facebook."
Ryan told the BBC, whilst honeymooning on the beach in Hawaii:
"A man tapped us on the shoulder and introduced himself as Tom Hanks. It was pretty surreal. I didn't register for a split second. I was shell shocked.
"He was so nice and kind. He could have just kept running but he posed for photos with us and my family. We invited him to the reception but he couldn't make it.
"He actually offered to perform our ceremony as he's ordained, but we'd only just taken our vows. Maybe he can help us renew them one day. We didn't realise how much was circulating about us until we landed here."
Far Gosford Street is described by the council as "one of the city's most important historic streets".
In April, £1m of Heritage Lottery funding was given towards a programme of restoring shop fronts.
The street has 14 Grade-II listed buildings, including a number with medieval timber frames.
The project is organised by a partnership between Coventry City Council and Complex Development Projects (CDP).
Chris Patrick, the council's conservation and archaeology officer, said the first phase of the scheme in 2012, which cost £2.7m, had seen the repair of two timber-framed buildings and a 19th Century weaver, among other projects.
The council hopes that by restoring the rest of the street, they will be able to turn it into a "bohemian quarter for the city".
Mr Patrick said: "Many of these historic buildings look a bit sad. We want to rescue them from a world of fried chicken and general grot."
He added the final phase would start in early 2014.
Councillor Lynnette Kelly said: "Far Gosford Street is one of Coventry's gems, a great survivor from the past.
"The regeneration that has taken place over the last few years has reversed decades of decline. But it remains a job half-done and this funding allows us to complete the job, tackling buildings that missed out in the first phase."
Details have been revealed of how prisoners took over four wings of the jail last month, causing £2m of damage.
The injured prisoner was put in front of a gate, but each time a squad tried to get him, prisoners became more aggressive, a councillor said.
About 500 inmates - a third of the jail's population - have been moved.
Investigations by the Ministry of Justice and West Midlands Police into what happened on 16 December at the category B prison run by G4s are ongoing.
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Councillor Roger Lawrence, chairman of the Birmingham prison and independent monitoring board, has revealed more details about the riot - described by the Prison Officers' Association as the worst since the Strangeways jail riot 26 years ago.
It is believed that trouble first began when N wing prisoners were being unlocked from their cells and six jumped on to balcony netting and threatened to take a guard with them.
The situation escalated and keys were taken from a guard on the safe side of a protective grille as he closed a door.
Another unprotected officer then used a key to double lock all the doors, preventing inmates from leaving.
After watching events unfold on CCTV in the command suite at the prison, Mr Lawrence said the snatch squad were repeatedly ready to get the injured prisoner.
"There was then a feeling that he was used as a bait, so that once the gates were open and the snatch squad was in, they would flood out into the rest of the prison."
Although prisoners smashed their way out of their block, 16 staff prevented them from accessing the rest of the jail by guarding a gate for 90 minutes.
"To hold it (the gate) and stop the prison being more taken over than it actually was was really very heroic, especially the person who double locked everywhere.
"That was a significant key moment in making sure things didn't get worse than they already had."
Prisons minister Sam Gyimah said he was "incredibly proud" of the officers at the jail and those who helped resolve the disturbance.
G4S managing director Jerry Petherick said the firm was working with police to help "bring the ringleaders to justice".
He said staff and their families were being offered support to "rebuild shaken confidence where required" while repairs were made to the four damaged wings.
Two people have appeared in court over the disturbance.
John Nimmo, 28, from South Shields, sent two emails to Luciana Berger in which he said she would "get it like Jo Cox" and "watch your back Jewish scum".
Emails to an anti-hate crime group also including threats to blow up a mosque.
Nimmo admitted a total of nine charges relating to online threats at Newcastle Crown Court.
One of Nimmo's messages to Liverpool Labour MP Ms Berger included a picture of a large knife and came just three weeks after MP Jo Cox was killed, the court heard.
Nimmo was jailed in 2014 for eight weeks for sending abusive messages on Twitter to feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez and MP Stella Creasy.
Ms Criado-Perez had led a campaign using social media for a female figure to appear on a Bank of England note.
Ms Berger, a former shadow minister for mental health, said the messages had caused her "great fear and anguish".
She said the incident had left her in a state of "huge distress" and "extremely concerned" for her safety.
Prosecutor Mark Giuliani told the court the messages to Faith Matters, which offer an online hate crime reporting system, included pictures of dead bodies and the words "Death to Muslims".
Nimmo, who appeared by video link from prison, was told by Judge Robert Adams that he had "caused terror, fear and paranoia".
He said the crimes were cowardly attacks "which caused misery to other people".
He said the attack on Ms Berger was the most serious of them all, because "it involved a lady who is Jewish and a democratically elected member of Parliament".
Vic Laffey, defending, admitted the offences had caused "enormous distress" to the victims and said Nimmo lived an isolated life and suffered from Aspergers Syndrome.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman added: "John Nimmo conducted an online campaign of hate-filled abuse in the belief his identity was securely hidden behind the fake accounts that he had created.
"Nimmo tried to cover his tracks but his clumsy attempts to do so were swiftly exposed and he was arrested."
Responding to the sentence, Ms Berger said: "Every day, up and down our country, people experience vile racist abuse, harassment and violence.
"Too often people feel that they can't report these horrific crimes. I hope that if any good at all can come from this traumatic experience it is that others will see that you do not have to suffer in silence."
The regulator says the move will cut the average bill for pre-payment customers by up to £19 a year.
The change, which takes effect on 1 October, is set to cut the average annual bill for dual fuel pre-payment customers to £1,048 from £1,067.
On Sunday, a review was launched looking at ways to reduce energy costs.
The independent review, launched by the government, will examine how the UK can keep household bills down while also meeting its climate change targets.
A temporary price cap on pre-payment meters was introduced in April this year. It is updated by Ofgem every six months to reflect the estimated cost of supplying energy.
Ofgem said the change to the cap would reduce bills for electricity customers by about £19 a year on average, while the cap on pre-payment gas prices would remain broadly unchanged.
Many pre-payment meter customers pay through token- or coin-operated machines. Some of these customers may have had difficulties paying in the past. Others include some tenants whose landlords have the meters installed in properties.
Ofgem has found previously that competition among suppliers for pre-payment customers is less developed than for those who pay by direct debit, cash or cheque. This means that there are fewer tariffs available and they are generally more expensive.
Figures published in August last year showed that pre-payment customers paid an average of £220 a year more than those on the cheapest deals.
Leading suppliers argue that while their price rises were based on a longer-term view, the original pre-payment cap was based on an overestimate of the cost of ensuring extra power capacity this winter.
An spokesman for Energy UK, which represents the major suppliers, said: "Ofgem's calculations are not based on the full range of costs that energy suppliers face, and how each company deals with these costs will vary depending on its individual business strategy.
"For example, Ofgem sets the pre-payment meter cap every six months based on actual and projected costs at a specific point in time, whilst suppliers may purchase energy up to two years in advance so need to set prices in anticipation of what their costs will be over that period.
"It is right that we invest in renewing our energy infrastructure which will create a low carbon economy and ultimately benefit consumers. This does however have an impact on cost, which is why we welcome greater transparency over energy costs as part of the government's review announced this weekend."
The bill for the North Fringe to Hengrove route has gone up to £117.9m since November, a report indicated.
Drivers in the city have faced months of delays caused by work on the network across Bristol.
South Gloucestershire blamed a series of construction delays for the extra costs.
The £216m MetroBus network aims to provide better public transport and cycling infrastructure across Bristol.
Campaigners said they were "not surprised" the costs had spiralled.
The report to cabinet said the scheme has "faced a number of issues during the delivery phase, which have now resulted in an estimated forecast outturn cost of £117.9m, an increase of £4.6m over the November 2016."
The bill for this section of the network is now £16m higher than forecast two years ago.
The South Gloucestershire authority will need to spend an extra £9.8m above its original £30.5m contribution to the scheme, to cover the increased costs.
It is recommending the extra is taken from the highways maintenance budget over the next 10 years.
Its senior environmental policy officer Jane Antrobus, said in the report: "Failure to support the extra funding needed for completion of this project would put these benefits at risk."
Commuters have been enduring roadworks associated with the scheme in the city centre, on the M32 and various other locations in South Gloucestershire.
In October, the mayor of Bristol said he would investigate complaints about a busy commuter route that was made one-way for the North Fringe-to-Hengrove construction.
Amanda Vinall, from the Stoke Lane Action Group, said costs had soared because multiple contractors had been hired.
"It's crackers and lessons have to be learned," she said.
Resuming on 65-1 in reply to the Kiwis' 261-9, England's Moeen Ali failed to add to his overnight 23 as the county side were reduced to 143-6 at lunch.
But Ross Whiteley hit an unbeaten 103 to allow the hosts to declare on 291-7.
Martin Guptill made an unbeaten 61 as the tourists, lacking some of their Indian Premier League players, reached 89-2 at the close, leading by 59.
Whiteley, who added 80 with Ben Cox (35) and 81 with Ed Barnard (26 not out) had scored two County Championship centuries for Derbyshire in 2011, but although he reached his maiden first XI ton for Worcestershire before the declaration came, this match does not have first-class status.
This is New Zealand's final warm-up game before the first Test against England begins at Lord's on Thursday.
A local official said many of those who died had been in the market in Bodo. At least three suicide bombers were said to be involved.
The Nigeria-based militant group Boko Haram is suspected of carrying out the attack.
Last month, two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in Bodo.
Cameroon is part of a regional coalition fighting Boko Haram, along with Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Benin.
Although the militants have been driven from most of the areas they controlled in north-eastern Nigeria, they have continued to carry out suicide bombings and raids into neighbouring countries.
One witness in Bodo told the BBC that at least two of the attackers were teenage girls who had hidden their explosives in sacks of grain.
Another witness said two blasts had hit the market and another had targeted a roadblock.
"We were in the market [at] around 10 in the morning when we heard a blast. The second one went off not more than two minutes after and we took to our heels," the witness said.
"There is a vigilante roadblock just outside town where another bomb went off and killed six people."
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The baton made its first stop in Glasgow, which hosted the last Commonwealth Games in 2014.
It is making a 142,915-mile (230,000km) journey over 388 days ahead of the Gold Coast 2018 event.
The baton's tour will take it through Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
It left Buckingham Palace in March carrying a message from the Queen and will arrive in Australia in December and travel through the country, finishing its journey at the Opening Ceremony on 4 April.
In Glasgow, the 42nd stop of its global tour, the baton visited a range of youth and community projects with a strong focus on the legacy of the previous games.
Michael Jamieson, Olympic and Commonwealth silver medallist in swimming, was the first baton bearer as the relay arrived at Glasgow School of Sport.
He was accompanied by Louise Martin, president of the Commonwealth Games Federation, and Jon Doig, chief executive of Commonwealth Games Scotland.
Accepting the baton on behalf of Scotland, Mr Doig said: "The Queen's Baton Relay is the iconic symbol of the Commonwealth Games and we are delighted to welcome the Gold Coast 2018 Baton to Scotland today.
"We have had tremendous enthusiasm and support from local authorities, schools and community groups across the country, helping to organise an exciting programme of events, using the QBR to connect their communities with the Games and embrace the values of the Commonwealth movement as a whole.
"The public support Team Scotland enjoyed for Glasgow 2014 was phenomenal and I look forward to seeing that passion sparked once again, as the baton journeys through Scotland this week."
The relay team was greeted by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Lord Provost of Glasgow Eva Bolander, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, and Angela Porter, director of the Glasgow School of Sport.
Ms Sturgeon said: "I am delighted to be able to welcome the Queen's Baton Relay to Scotland during its journey around the Commonwealth ahead of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
"Scotland hosted the most successful Commonwealth Games ever in Glasgow 2014 and we are looking to achieve our best away Games ever in Australia next year."
She added: "We will continue to invest for the future by creating world-class facilities and providing funding for coaching and training so that, from grassroots to elite, Scotland can be proud of its sporting achievements."
While in Glasgow, the baton is also visiting the former Commonwealth Games Village in Dalmarnock and the Cuningar Loop woodland park, a 2014 legacy project.
It is stopping at the Emirates Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and The Legacy Hub in Dalmarnock, finishing the day in George Square.
Ms Bolander said: "It only seems like yesterday that we were welcoming our own Queen's Baton Relay to the city ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The people of Glasgow were so excited and enthusiastic, and it really was wonderful to see."
She added: "If the excitement today is any indicator, everyone in the country will be behind the Scottish athletes next April, cheering Team Scotland on as it aims for its best ever overseas medal haul!"
The baton will spend five days in Scotland.
Designed for each games by the host nation, the 2018 Queen's Baton has a distinctive loop design and has been made using macadamia wood and reclaimed plastic, sourced from Gold Coast waterways.
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The man admitted charges of child cruelty by wilful ill-treatment and assault in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health.
The offences occurred on dates between 28 February and 10 August 2012.
Two additional charges of assaulting the children were withdrawn.
Dungannon Magistrates Court heard the little boy was in his primary school on 23 March 2012, and a classroom assistant noticed he had swelling and bruising to his nose.
She asked how this had happened and the boy said he had been doing his homework and was finding it very hard.
His father had hit him in the face causing the injuries.
Whilst this was noted, the school did not report it and opted to monitor the situation.
Just over four months later on 7 August 2012 the NSPCC contacted police to say an anonymous caller had reported the two children had told her their father beat them with a belt, and proceeded to show marks.
On being spoken to initially the little girl said this had not happened to her, but later claimed both her father and step-mother beat her with a belt.
The children were medically examined and a report found marks on the boy "could be consistent with belt marks".
Having been removed from the family home, the little boy gave a video-interview in which he stated both he and his sister were beaten with a belt by their father and step-mother.
He stated he was glad he did not have to go home as he was afraid of his father.
He further disclosed his step-mother had told both children they were not to tell anyone of the beatings.
It emerged on one occasion the children returned home from the park and their step-mother asked what they had talked about.
The children claimed they "had told the other boys and girls about the beatings", and this led the step-mother to beat them again with a belt.
Police arrested the father, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his children, and during interview he made no comment replies to all questions.
When his son's allegations were put to him he said it was all lies and he had never beaten his children.
He claimed to have punished them by taking things away or grounding them.
However, he accepted he had witnessed his wife strike the children once or twice, and it may have left marks.
In court, a defence barrister clarified, "My client accepts he used a belt to punish the children".
The judge ruled a pre-sentence report would be required.
The man, who was accompanied in court by his wife, was ordered to appear for sentencing next month.
He was warned by the judge: "I strongly advise you to co-operate with probation. These are very, very serious charges."
The University of Reading's students' union has voted not to take part, after hearing claims relating to a previous appearance on the show by the Reading team.
But the university says the programme is a "national institution" and will step in to ensure that Reading is represented in the contest.
"We want our brightest and best students competing against the top universities in the UK in front of millions of viewers - not waving the white flag and refusing to enter," said a University of Reading spokesman.
Reading teams have previously been organised by the university's students' union.
"The university now plans to step in and recruit a team, given the students' union has opted out," said the university spokesman.
He said the university did not know the details of the dispute between the team and the television programme.
The union's education officer, Niall Hamilton, said a confidentiality agreement meant it could not specify the comments that had caused concern - but the students' union believed that complaints had not been taken seriously enough.
"Misogyny and sexism are not about 'offending' contestants, but undermining and oppressing individuals due to their gender," he wrote on the students' union website.
"These forms of oppression should not be taken lightly," wrote Mr Hamilton.
The students' union voted 120 to 105 in favour of adopting a policy of boycotting the quiz show.
A boy aged 16 and an 18-year-old man have been arrested over the incident which happened in the Cutts area of Dunmurry on Sunday morning.
Insp Jim McGrillen said the taxi driver picked up two passengers in Divis Street, west Belfast, at 04:45 GMT.
He said one of them had a machete and an attempt was made to force the taxi driver from his vehicle.
The officer said two teenagers were arrested a short distance away on suspicion of attempted hijacking.
"The machete has been recovered by police and has been seized for examination," he added.
Paul Jones, 37, from Belper, died in hospital after becoming unwell at Chesterfield police station, on 26 June.
The IPCC said it has retrieved CCTV from the custody suite and accounts have been gathered from staff on duty.
The investigation will focus on whether Mr Jones was cared for properly.
James Dipple-Johnstone, IPCC commissioner, said: "We have met Mr Jones' family to explain our role and how the investigation will progress, and I offer them my sincere condolences at this difficult time."
An inquest at Derbyshire Coroner's Court was opened and adjourned on 7 July.
Almost half of the £33.5m profit was made by Edinburgh City Council where £15.3m was raised.
Glasgow City Council made £10.3m and Aberdeen City Council made £5m.
The analysis of data returned annually to the Scottish government by local authorities showed 16 councils made a profit, 13 made a loss and the Shetland Islands broke even.
A total of £73.3m was raised across the country through parking in 2013/14, while the combined cost to councils of running parking activities was £39.8m.
It left a profit of £33.5m, up £200,000 on the previous year.
The RAC said councils needed to set out where the profits were going.
East Lothian Council did not provide accounts and North Lanarkshire Council does not charge for parking at its car parks.
Not all councils provided information on the number of penalty charge notices issued over the year but there were 230,000 in Edinburgh and it is estimated there are about 700,000 issued each year across the country.
Prof Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said: "Not all authorities are generating a surplus but overall we are talking about big money.
"Nobody wants a parking free-for-all but when we are talking about such large sums, local authorities should be transparent with residents and drivers about what their parking policy is, why charges are set at the level they are and where the profits are going."
He met shepherds and hill farmers and those who are trying to help find sustainable ways of living high in the fells.
Among them were members of the Herdwick Project - an initiative designed to raise the profile of Herdwick Meat and to encourage wider trade links.
Later he spent more than an hour talking to local employers at the Westmorland County showground and praised the work of the organisers.
He ended the day with a visit to furniture maker Peter Hall and Son in Staveley near Kendal.
Work to bring the two taxes together would take many years and start with widespread consultation, Mr Osborne said in his Budget speech.
The move was planned to simplify, rather than raise tax, he said.
So there would not be an increase in taxes for pensioners and those who receive some forms of benefits.
"It is time that we take this historic step to simplify our tax system and make it fit for the modern age," Mr Osborne said.
The idea of merging income tax and National Insurance Contributions was mooted in a recent review by the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS).
The OTS described the idea as a "long-term project".
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Such a move would create a massive amount of upheaval for the tax system in the short term.
There would need to be some cover for groups, such as pensioners, who pay tax on their income but not National Insurance.
Those who have a series of small part-time jobs which bring small amounts of income could also be severely affected by such a merger.
People who receive work benefits such as company cars might also see the tax on these rise, as there is no National Insurance paid on these by employees at present.
Previously, the government announced income tax changes in April, with the personal allowance - the point at which income tax starts to be paid - rising to £7,475.
This will go up by another £630 in 2012, pushing it closer to the coalition government's aspiration of the first £10,000 a year of earnings not being subject to income tax.
But people will feel the effect of the decision to uprate direct tax by the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation, not Retail Prices Index (RPI) from 2012, a move that will gain the Treasury £1bn a year by the end of the Parliament.
The employee contribution of National Insurance is rising from 11% to 12% in April, as announced previously.
Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, described the mechanics of the income tax and National Insurance merger as a "minefield".
"It is a lot easier said than done," he said.
Key considerations would include how to prevent people who retired early being charged extra tax, he said, and how to replace the employers' National Insurance contributions.
And Tony Bernstein, senior tax partner at HW Fisher and Company chartered accountants, said: "At the very least, this is an admission that National Insurance is a tax.
"But in real life, merging National Insurance and income tax will be almost impossible to achieve in a simple fashion. Politically, will a much higher headline basic tax rate combining income tax and National Insurance contributions be palatable?"
Treasury committee chairman Andrew Tyrie said: "This has been a beguiling idea which successive chancellors have looked at very closely and then in the end rejected, largely because it hits the incomes of certain groups in unexpected ways.
"Maybe the time has come to implement it."
The woman, aged in her 80s, was pronounced dead at the scene in Ewhurst Road, Cranleigh, after she was hit by a Honda Civic at about 14:25 BST.
The female driver of the vehicle and the male passenger, both elderly, were flown to a hospital in south London with serious injuries.
Surrey Police has urged anyone who witnessed the incident or events leading up to it to come forward.
The New England Revolution striker, who is 32 on Thursday, returns a self-imposed 10-month international absence.
Kamara withdrew because he felt the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) "lacks respect for players".
Sierra Leone need to secure a victory to qualify for the Nations Cup finals for the first time in 20 years.
That would put them through as Group I winners, leapfrogging their Ivorian opponents, who currently lead them at the top of table by one point.
But a point for Ivory Coast would book their passage to next year's tournament in Gabon.
Kamara's return is a boost for Sierra Leone given his form in MLS.
He has scored nine goals so far this season for New England and his previous club Columbus Crew, where he had an outstanding campaign last year when he was the league's top goalscorer with 22 goals in the regular season and four in the play-offs.
SLFA public relations officer Abu Bakarr Kamara told BBC Sport: "Coach Sellas Tetteh said he has nothing against Kamara and he's welcomed back to the team.
"Kamara is now part of coach Tetteh's plan for the game and he's looking forward to him to giving his best against Ivory Coast."
Meanwhile, Leone Stars will have to play without China-based defender Gibril Sankoh, who has failed to honour Tetteh's invitation.
Ivory Coast will be without Hertha Berlin's Solomon Kalou, who has flown home after suffering two family bereavements.
But in the world of cricket the two proud counties could be willing to put differences aside and come together, if it offers them a chance to play at the highest level.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is currently reviewing the structure of the domestic game and one possibility could be to increase the County Championship from 18 to 21 clubs, split into three divisions, instead of the current two.
It has been suggested that Ireland and Scotland could take two of the extra places, and Devon and Cornwall are willing to unite to fill the third.
Devon has provided a number of well-known cricketers, including former England wicketkeeper Chris Read and brothers Craig and Jamie Overton, who play for Somerset and were recently called into the national one-day squad.
Cornwall, meanwhile, had a local boy in England's 1986-87 Ashes-winning team with Surrey wicketkeeper Jack Richards, who was born in Penzance, playing in all five Tests.
"I heard rumours over the winter that the ECB were looking to expand the County Championship and that they might be looking at Scotland, Ireland and one more team to join the championship," Sean Hooper, the chief executive of Cornwall Cricket Board told BBC South West.
"Someone suggested it might be a combined Devon and Cornwall team and I thought 'What a great idea that is'.
"In rugby, we have a lot of success with Cornish Pirates and Exeter Chiefs, so young kids have a way where they can play professional sport through rugby, but we don't have that in cricket, the nearest is Somerset which is two-and-a half-hours away, so they don't see any first class-cricketers."
His Devon counterpart, Neil Gamble, is also keen on the idea, if a little more sceptical.
"It's a very attractive idea, but I think there are a number of difficulties that would arise pretty fast that would make it somewhat impractical.
"In the first place, there are 18 first-class counties at the moment, of whom five or six find it very difficult to survive, and only survive because of help from the ECB.
"Probably, that's as many clubs as should exist, and if we try to expand the base even more, we may well have additional financial pressures on individual teams."
But he added: "I think if it was a real practical possibility, I think we would subsume any rivalries and hostilities and work very hard together to make sure it was a success."
The ECB is saying very little on the subject at present, apart from a statement saying that it is "at an early stage of the review process".
No decision on changes to the domestic programme are expected until late November, but there is no doubt that there is an appetite for first-class cricket in the south-west area.
Devon took the scalp of Leicestershire in the 2004 C&G Trophy and their one-day matches against first-class counties were always popular, with crowds of 5,000 regularly turning out at Exmouth.
Gamble said: "Devon has always been quite a strong minor county.
"In 1948, they applied to be first-class county to the MCC, who controlled things in those days, and they never received a reply, so it was obvious that the MCC didn't think it was a viable option."
Whether or not it is viable in 2015 remains to be seen, but the will is certainly there.
"I've always been a bit of an optimist and a dreamer," said Hooper.
"Is it realistic? I don't know. Could it happen? Yes it could. If the ECB want to talk to Devon and myself any further we'd be really keen to pursue that conversation."
Lt Col Oleg Peshkov's body was received by Turkish authorities at the Syrian border earlier in the day.
Turkish forces shot down the plane saying it had violated Turkish airspace, which Russia denies.
The incident has sparked a furious row between the two countries, with Russia announcing sanctions against Turkey.
Rebels from Syria's ethnic Turkmen community opened fire on Lt Col Peshkov and his co-pilot as they tried to parachute into government-held territory on Tuesday.
The rebels said he had died by the time he reached the ground.
His body was flown from the border to the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday afternoon, from where it will be taken to Russia.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu added that Lt Col Peshkov's body had been treated in accordance with Orthodox Christian tradition.
Another pilot in the plane, Capt Konstantin Murakhtin, survived and was rescued from rebel-held territory in Syria in a special forces operation.
Capt Murakhtin said he wanted to go back to duty and stay in Syria, saying "someone has to pay" for his colleague's death.
A decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday covers imports from Turkey, the work of Turkish companies in Russia and any Turkish nationals working for Russian companies.
The decree also calls for an end to charter flights between the countries.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to apologise to Russia over the incident.
On Friday, he accused Moscow of "playing with fire" in its Syria operations. But on Saturday, he said he was "saddened" by the downing of the jet.
Turkey and Russia have important economic links. Russia is Turkey's second-largest trading partner, while more than three million Russian tourists visited Turkey last year.
Party leaders spoke out about how they would use the Scottish Parliament's new powers to help the poorest in society and support local businesses.
Nicola Sturgeon addressed the annual meeting of the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Dundee, telling trade unionists that an SNP government would "use every power" to tackle poverty and inequality.
The SNP leader said if re-elected she would use Holyrood's new powers to make social security fairer, led by a Fairer Scotland Action Plan.
She said: "We did not argue for the new powers to use them in search of one day's headlines, we argued for them so we could address the poverty and worklessness that has lingered in some of our communities for far too long."
Ms Sturgeon also said she would reappoint an Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality - although the SNP has faced criticism for delaying its response to the findings of the last poverty advisor until after the Holyrood election.
Kezia Dugdale pledged to "stop the cuts that would trap a generation in poverty" while campaigning at a foodbank in Dumbarton.
The Scottish Labour leader said the next Scottish government had "a moral duty to break from Tory austerity".
Ms Dugdale also confirmed that opposition to the Trident nuclear weapons system will be included in Labour's election manifesto.
During a BBC Scotland radio phone-in programme, Ms Dugdale said there were "very mixed views" within Scottish Labour when she took over as leader, but said this had been settled through a "healthy democratic debate" and vote at last year's party conference.
Ruth Davidson underlined her ambition to be the leader of opposition at Holyrood during a speech in Perth.
The Scottish Conservative leader said the SNP were "a long way in front" in polls, and said her "realistic approach" was to "provide the strong opposition our country needs".
Ms Davidson also attacked Ms Dugdale's "bizarre" position on Trident, saying the Labour leader did not believe in her own policies.
She said: "Nothing shows the mess the current Labour party finds itself in more than its tortuous position on our national defence."
Willie Rennie voiced his support for small businesses while visiting Buckthorns House in Upper Largo.
The Lib Dem leader helped Fife Food Ambassador Christopher Trotter cook a meal using local produce, saying his party would work to change procurement rules to boost smaller food businesses.
He said: "Our small businesses sell some of the best food and drink in the world but at present, the way that the government chooses to buy produce locks them out of public contracts that would help them grow.
"We need to end the big business comes first mentality that has characterised the SNP government."
The "left alliance" of Rise published its manifesto at a launch event in Glasgow.
The party has issued a challenge to other pro-independence parties to back a second referendum within the term of the next parliament.
It has also proposed a "living income" for carers, a minimum income for public sector workers, higher taxes for the rich, free public transport, and the break-up of Police Scotland.
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Coventry Cat Group, which is run entirely by volunteers, can accommodate 100 cats at its centre in Allesley, and in foster homes. However, they say they are now at capacity and turning away stray animals on a daily basis.
Pat Whitehouse, from the charity, said she believed the reasons for the sudden rise in abandoned animals was a combination of hardship and ignorance.
"Most cats aren't intentionally stray, it's just that they are victims of society," she said.
Figures show that in 2012, when culling was postponed, the policy cost £2.5m. It then cost £9.8m in 2013 and £4.5m in 2014.
Anti-cull campaigners said the "disastrous" policy is now becoming "an unacceptable burden on the taxpayer".
Defra said operational costs had halved between 2013 and 2014 and additional costs were met by farmers.
Bovine TB, which can be passed from badgers to cattle, is one of the biggest challenges facing cattle farming.
Cattle are regularly tested are destroyed if they test positive for TB - 26,413 infected cattle were slaughtered in England in 2014.
But questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the culls in controlling the spread of TB and whether badgers, which are shot at night, are being humanely killed.
The figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, were revealed by The Badger Trust days after the government announced it would be rolling out the cull to Dorset.
The Trust said the cost to the public of killing each badger is £6,775.
Dominic Dyer, head of the Badger Trust, said: "Not only is the badger cull a disastrous failure on scientific and animal welfare grounds, it is also becoming an unacceptable burden on the taxpayer."
But Defra said farmers were footing the bulk of the costs, with the costs to government related largely to policing the culls and monitoring protocols in the first year.
A spokesman said: "TB poses a huge threat to our farming industry and has cost £500m over the last decade.
"We are pursuing a comprehensive strategy, including tighter cattle movement controls, badger vaccination and culling in areas where TB is widespread.
"Costs have been substantially reduced since last year and will be kept under review."
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Last week, clandestine online drugs market place the Silk Road was shut down after a lengthy investigation.
Andy Archibald, the interim head of the UK's National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), said his officers worked with the FBI to identify individuals who were buying and selling drugs through the anonymising networks.
But he added that different tools and methods would need to be adopted if his team is to keep up with the constantly-evolving threat.
About 1,000 tonnes of granite boulders have been used to plug the hole which opened up behind the Pyramids Centre in Southsea between 25 and 26 December.
Council leader Donna Jones said: "I'm very confident that what we've done will stop any further deterioration."
The authority said plans for a multimillion-pound replacement scheme for the sea defences was underway.
Portsmouth City Council said the cost of replacing the 40-year-old concrete defences was estimated at £87m.
So far this year, 95 officers have been murdered in and around the giant, sprawling city, according to official figures - up from 47 in 2011.
The spike in fatal attacks has been blamed on a powerful criminal gang known as the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), or First Command of the Capital.
The violence exploded back in May when six members of the PCC were killed in a shoot out with an elite police unit trying to clamp down on the drugs trade.
According to lurid newspaper headlines in Brazil, the gang's leadership swore revenge, and police officers immediately started being targeted in what has been described as an "undeclared war". Many have been killed in ambushes while they are off duty.
The fatal attacks on police officers come as the wider murder rate in Sao Paulo is also alarmingly high.
In October alone there were 176 murders in Sao Paulo city, and 571 in the wider Sao Paulo state region, mostly due to gang-on-gang violence.
For a country preparing to host football's 2014 World Cup - including the opening game in Sao Paulo - and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio, global reports of such a situation is a public relations disaster.
Yet, for the great majority of Brazilians, life continues unaffected, at a time when the football-mad country's economy is again starting to enjoy strong growth.
And with delegates from around the world preparing to attend the Soccerex global convention of football business and finance movers and shakers in Rio, Brazilian commentators say that despite the reputational damage, the country remains a safe place for overseas visitors.
Wilber Colmerauer is managing director of Brazil Funding, a private company that advises European investors on putting their money into Brazil.
He says: "We are seeing a big wave of crime in Sao Paulo, which is not good for its image or tourism. But Sao Paulo is a huge, sprawling city, we are talking 19 million people, and the violence is taking place in the very poor parts of the city on its outskirts. Most people are completely unaffected."
Julia Carneiro, the BBC's Rio de Janeiro correspondent, agrees with this analysis.
"In the central parts of the Sao Paulo there is concern but people haven't changed their routine," she says.
"The conflict has brought great fear to the poorer part of the population and to policemen and their families, but has not affected the richer neighbourhoods - Brazil's inequality is reflected also when it comes to security.
"If this situation doesn't change and crime does not spread to the central areas, it shouldn't be a matter of concern for tourists."
However, Professor Anthony Pereira, director of the Brazil Institute at King's College in London, said the situation in Sao Paulo would probably put people off visiting Brazil in general, or investing in the country.
"We have an organised criminal gang that is challenging the state, and doing it in a sophisticated way. It raises question marks about the capacity of the state to maintain order," he says.
In contrast to Sao Paulo, the murder rate in Rio de Janeiro has fallen in recent years, thanks to a policy known as pacification.
Under pacification, marines and police armed with machine guns, and using armoured vehicles and helicopters, have been entering some of the city's hundreds of favelas - or shanty towns - to drive out drugs gangs and restore order.
Once order is restored, and a permanent police presence is secured, the city's authorities then send in staff to establish social services, such as access to medical care and basic sanitation and waste collection.
As Rio prepares for both the World Cup - at which it will host both group games and the final - and the 2016 summer Olympics, favelas near to football stadiums and other sporting sites are among those being targeted.
"The UPPs [police pacification units] in Rio have been a great success," says Anthony Pereira. "The situation in Sao Paulo should not temper the genuine optimism coming out of Rio."
However, the BBC's Julia Carneiro is less upbeat about the situation in Rio.
"Rio has over 700 favelas and the pacification has only reached a small part of these communities, a little over 30," she says.
"Dozens of others remain under control of drug gangs and some say the situation is actually getting worse in some of them, with the migration of criminals expelled from the territories they once controlled.
"Another problem which is not very known abroad is a growing one: the control over many of Rio's favelas by the militias, groups of corrupt police or ex-police officers that force the population to pay fees for gas, water and their 'protection'."
One thing that has consensus is the fact that Brazil's rate of economic growth is now gathering speed once more, after it fell back from the highs of 2010.
While the economy expanded by 7.5% in 2010, it grew only 2.7% in 2011.
Although the government expects growth of just 1.5% overall this year, the economy is expected to expand by 4% in the last quarter of 2012, and by the same level in 2013.
Wilber Colmerauer says that the slowdown from 7.5% growth was in many ways welcome because the economy was over-heating, and inflation was rising too high as a result.
"2010 was an election year, so there were many economic stimulation measures in place to boost the economy and the consumer," he says.
"But the new government had to start to unwind a lot of these, to cool the economy down. This has enabled interest rates to fall from around 12% to 7% because inflation has also fallen back.
"You also had the impact of the debt crisis in Europe hitting Brazilian exports.
"Now, though, we are in a position where Brazil has never had inflation so low, more confident consumers are able to increase their spending, and exports are rising again.
"Plus there is the economic boost of all the infrastructure projects for the World Cup, and the Olympics in Rio," he adds.
With work on the new and renovated football stadiums due to be completed by late spring of 2013, and work continuing at pace at the Olympics sites, fears that Brazil may not be ready have largely receded.
Soccerex chief executive Duncan Revie said: "We are returning to Rio for the third time, with the city very much the focus of the sporting world as host for the 2014 Fifa World Cup Final and the 2016 Olympic Games.
"It is therefore a great time for the football world to be congregating in the city."
Labour made an election promise to more than double the amount people can keep from £24,000 to £50,000.
Social Services Minister Rebecca Evans said the limit would rise to £30,000 in 2017 as a first step in the process.
"This frees up more of people's money for them to use as they wish," she said.
The Welsh Government estimates up to 4,000 people currently pay the full cost of residential care and up to 1,000 of them could benefit from raising the limit to £50,000.
Meanwhile, Army veterans will have their war disablement pensions totally disregarded when councils assess charges for social care, Ms Evans added.
The Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset is sporting facial "hair" in support of Movember, which raises awareness of prostate and testicular cancer.
The National Trust's Rob Rhodes said: "It's all a bit of fun to highlight an important subject so we were happy to give our support and join in the fun."
He said the moustache would remain for one day, and that there would be no damage to the giant.
"I am sure the giant would approve," he added.
The 180ft (55m) tall giant's new moustache is 36ft (11m) by 9ft (2.7m).
A spokesman at British Seed Houses, which grew the whiskers, said it gave him a "rakish" appearance.
Local folklore describes the club-wielding figure, which dates back to at least 1694, as a symbol of spirituality and fertility.
The giant attracted attention in the summer of 2007 when a temporary chalk figure of Homer Simpson was drawn next to it, to promote The Simpsons Movie.
Money is raised for Movember during November each year by men growing moustaches to support health programmes that combat prostate and testicular cancer, and mental health challenges.
Mr Justice Coulson halted the trial of Dr Errol Cornish and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, saying it would be "unsafe and unfair" to go on.
Frances Cappuccini, 30, died after suffering a haemorrhage at Tunbridge Wells Hospital on 9 October 2012.
It was the first prosecution of an NHS trust for corporate manslaughter.
Dr Cornish, 67, of Holmbury Park, Bromley, south-east London, a consultant anaesthetist, had denied manslaughter by gross negligence.
The judge told the court there was little or no evidence he had done anything wrong that had contributed to Mrs Cappuccini's death and, likewise, there was no evidence of systemic failure at the trust.
"I am firmly of the view that it would be unsafe and unfair to everyone, including Mrs Cappuccini's family, to leave this case to the jury," he added.
"Her unexpected death can only properly be described as a tragedy."
He told the court Dr Cornish had taken actions that were "as far removed from a case of gross negligence manslaughter as it's possible to be" and he and the trust that employed him had "no case to answer".
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had "carefully considered" Mr Justice Coulson's judgement and decided not to appeal against his decision.
It is still deciding whether to continue proceedings against anaesthetist Dr Nadeem Azeez, who was not on trial because he had left the country.
Following the conclusion of the trial, it emerged Mr Justice Coulson had ordered the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to delete a tweet he posted on the second day of proceedings which said it was a "tragic case from which huge lessons must be learned".
In a statement following the collapse of the trial, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust said "no outcome from these proceedings could bring any consolation to the family" adding its sympathies were with them.
"The allegation of corporate manslaughter has been consistently denied by the trust and now also comprehensively rejected by the court," it continued.
"The trust regrets that the Crown Prosecution Service saw fit to pursue the charge in the first place, given the additional stress this will have caused all involved."
Dr Cornish said he was relieved with the judge's verdict and thanked "family, friends, legal team and all those who supported me through this difficult time".
"I would like to pay tribute to the family of Mrs Cappuccini for the restraint and dignity they have displayed throughout this trial," he added.
Jurors had been told Mrs Cappuccini lost more than two litres of blood when she gave birth to her second son Giacomo by Caesarean.
She was taken back into theatre for surgery for postpartum bleeding but did not regain consciousness.
Following the trial Mr Justice Coulson
The prosecution claimed the Dr Azeez, who was the anaesthetist, and consultant anaesthetist Dr Cornish failed to ensure Mrs Cappuccini safely came round from surgery.
It was the first time an NHS trust had been accused of corporate manslaughter since the charge was introduced in 2008.
The prosecution also claimed if one or both doctors were found to be grossly negligent then the trust could be said to have employed someone it knew or should have known was not suitably qualified or trained for their role.
The city beat off competition including Dublin and Glasgow to land the five-day world music showcase.
Up to 60 concerts featuring more than 300 artists will be held at the Wales Millennium Centre, with a fair trade exhibition at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the event would "allow us to grow the profile of Wales' traditional music".
Womex is described by UN cultural body Unesco as "the most important international professional market of world music of every kind".
Others have suggested that Womex is to world music what the Cannes Festival is to film, giving musicians the opportunity to make contacts for international touring and album distribution.
In addition to the concerts, the 2013 event, to run from 23-27 October, is expected to attract around 650 companies from more than 90 countries for the fair trade exhibition.
The year-long campaign to bring the event to Cardiff was led by Cerdd Cymru Music Wales, a partnership between the Welsh Music Foundation, and Wales Arts International, the international arm of the Arts Council of Wales, with support from the British Council and the Welsh Government.
The arts council said the world music gathering was a "real opportunity" to develop the music industry in Wales and showcase the cultural and economic value of its musical heritage.
Arts Council of Wales chair Dai Smith said: "This is a wonderful achievement for Wales.
"This event, of worldwide significance, is an important part of our wider plans to develop a vibrant and exciting music industry in Wales."
Copenhagen is hosting Womex this year for the third year running. Last year, Welsh harpist Catrin Finch hosted the Welsh evening at the event, featuring the bands Mabon, 9bach and Calan.
She said: "It's a chance to hear the best in the world on our doorstep and a chance to make sure that Welsh music is known and heard around the globe."
Welsh Music Foundation director Lisa Matthews said it was the "most amazing opportunity to get to learn about other musical cultures".
"It will open people's eyes to a wonderful celebration of world cultures," she said.
First Minster Mr Jones said: "Womex 13 Cardiff will place the music from Wales on the world stage alongside more established markets so that Wales' authentic music traditions become more widely known internationally and are positioned beside music from our Celtic neighbours."
Next year's event, Womex 12, is being held at Thessaloniki, Greece.
The 27-year-old struck an impressive 156 off 113 balls as Hampshire beat Somerset by four wickets in the One-Day Cup at Taunton on Wednesday.
The South African left-hander revealed Somerset overseas player Elgar "abused" him when he was still on nought.
"It was like a switch went on and I started middling everything from there, so thanks Deano for that 156," he said.
"I stayed in my bubble and didn't let the chirps or the bowlers get to me," the Kolpak signing told BBC Radio Solent.
"I'm not going to say what was said, but it was something to do with the pound. It was a switch and from there, I just started hitting boundaries."
Rossouw, 27, who joined Hampshire on a three-year deal in January, hit 24 fours and two sixes as his side chased 250 with almost 13 overs to spare.
"I really, really enjoyed that knock, I'd say one of my best knocks," he said. "I'm just really happy to get over the line with my first hundred for the club.
"I really hope this is the start of some great things to come for me and the club."
Hampshire's victory lifted them to fourth in the South Group with three games to play to keep their hopes of qualifying for the knock-out stages alive.
They face Glamorgan at home on Friday before Surrey at The Oval on Sunday and Sussex at home on Wednesday.
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He also says he will not discuss a new contract with the Reds until the summer, no matter how big a deal he might be offered in the meantime.
"It's not about the money at all," the England forward said.
"It's never been about money. I talk about winning trophies throughout my career. That's all I talk about."
He added: "I don't talk about how many cars I'm going to drive, how many houses I've got. I just purely want to be the best I can be."
Liverpool's last piece of silverware came in 2012, when they beat Cardiff on penalties to win the League Cup.
Sterling, who joined the Reds from QPR in 2010, did not become a first-team regular until the following season.
"I don't want to be perceived as a money-grabbing 20-year-old," said the player, who has two years left on a contract worth £35,000 a week.
"I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team."
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said in February that Sterling had been offered an "incredible deal for a young player" but now accepts talks will have to wait until the summer.
"I am sure it will be resolved and the concentration for Raheem is now on his football and it is clear the terms of when those talks will begin again," Rodgers said last month.
In the interview with the BBC, Sterling also said he would have accepted less than £100,000 a week had he been offered a new deal this time last year, when the Reds were chasing the Premier League title.
"If, at that point in time, I was offered a contract, I most definitely would have signed straight away, probably for far less money than being said now," he said. "I just think the timing was a bit off."
Sterling's future has been a source of almost endless speculation, with stories tipping him for a move to Manchester City, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
"I try to kill it off, but I don't think the public can see it that way," Sterling said. "I think they just see it as this 20-year-old boy being greedy.
"I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go and what I need to do to get better as a player."
Sterling said it was "quite flattering" to be linked with the Gunners, a team Liverpool visit in the Premier League on Saturday (kick-off 12:45 BST).
"I try to just block everything out and do well," said Sterling, who has 14 England caps.
"Next game is against Arsenal and I want to do my best. I won't be hiding. As I said, I'm just happy to be playing football."
In his interview, Sterling said one of his targets for the remainder of the season was to help Liverpool win the FA Cup.
If they beat Blackburn in a replay next week, the Reds will face Aston Villa in the semi-finals at Wembley on 19 April.
"I want to win something at the end of the season and the FA Cup's a great chance," Sterling said.
Liverpool, who finished second to Manchester City in the Premier League last season, have already had to deal with the loss of two key players.
Striker Luis Suarez joined Barcelona last summer, while influential captain Steven Gerrard will leave the club at the end of the season.
The potential departure of Sterling, who scored his first senior goal for England in a 4-0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 2016 qualifier on Friday, would be another big blow.
"I just want to focus on football and, when it gets to the end of the season, assess my position as a 20-year-old player playing in the Premier League," the Jamaican-born forward said.
If you want to hear more from Sterling, you can read some of his thoughts below or watch the embedded interview.
"I keep hearing I've rejected all sorts of contracts. Me, the club and my reps have spoken about it and put talks on hold until end of season, so it's frustrating to hear the contract situation keep going on and on. I just wanted to get my point across on the whole thing."
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"In my head I've sat down and thought about it. But, at the end of the season, I just want to sit down with the club and my representatives. I will definitely give guarantees when the season has finished."
"When I started out at QPR, I would never have dreamt of this day, to have such a huge offer in front of me. I'm really thankful. I just want to solely focus on my football right now. I want to win something at the end of the season and the FA Cup's a great chance."
"The public just think you want more and that's not the case at this moment in time. I'm just a kid that loves playing football. That's how it's been since I was a young kid. I've never ever wanted to demand anything off no-one, I'm just trying to demand the best of myself."
"I want the best for me and I want to reach my goals that I set out as a young kid. They've had their dreams when they were playing and that's no different for me. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I won't really take any notice of what they're saying."
"The fans get a bit frustrated with me because I'm not signing straight away. They can get on your back a little bit, but this is football and you have to accept these things. I try to block it out of my head, which is the whole reason why I've said I want to wait till the end of the season."
"I would never want the fans to think bad of me, to think I just want as much money for myself. I want them to understand it's been a bit much for me this season, with everyone talking about it every minute."
"Everyone's dream growing up is seeing themselves in an away kit somewhere in a sunny country. But, in reality, I'm happy to be playing for Liverpool and trying to win trophies."
"I speak to Brendan on good terms. He calls me when he needs to talk to me and I can talk to him when I want. There's nothing bad to say or think about Brendan. He's been really good to me since I came into the team and he's always tried to help me."
"You really want to be working with world-class players day in, day out. It's obviously left a little dent, these two world-class superstars leaving, but I think we have good players coming through at Liverpool."
There were also breakthroughs in a range of deadly diseases.
A year ago hardly anyone had heard of Zika virus. Now the birth of babies with underdeveloped brains - known as microcephaly - is all too familiar.
The World Health Organization declared the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes, a public health emergency.
The concern was initially centred on Brazil, but the infection has spread to 75 countries and territories.
Huge effort has been put into controlling the mosquito, but there remains no drug or vaccine for the disease.
Zika outbreak: What you need to know
The first baby conceived using a new method to combine material from two women and one man was born in Mexico.
The baby boy has a tiny section of DNA - about 0.1% of the total - from the second woman in order to prevent "mitochondrial disease" being passed from mother to child.
Meanwhile the UK - which pioneered the advanced form of IVF - has given the procedure the go-ahead and 30 babies a year are expected to be born in the country.
First 'three person baby' born using new method
Babies made from three people approved in UK
The transformation in Clara is amazing.
She has cystic fibrosis which leads to her producing really thick mucus that clogs and damages in her lungs.
Only half of patients with the disease make it into their 40s, but a new drug called Orkambi corrects the underlying genetic defect that causes cystic fibrosis.
Clara was on a trial of the drug and says her life has been transformed.
Doctors excited by cystic fibrosis therapy
Sarah sees things that aren't there: "I hallucinated that my body has morphed spiders' legs or rabbit ears, I've seen them there, I've felt them there," she said.
But doctors have discovered that the cause of her disease is a rogue immune system that is attacking a part of her brain.
It's part of the rapidly emerging field of immunopsychiatry - that the immune system causes mental health disorders.
She was treated with drugs to suppress the immune system and even had her blood filtered to remove the "rogue" components.
There are even suggestions the immune system is involved in depression.
BBC Radio 4 documentary: The Inflamed Mind
Some psychosis cases an 'immune disorder'
Depression: A revolution in treatment?
Surgeons say this laser could be "truly transformative" in the treatment of early stage prostate cancer.
Men currently have the choice of letting the cancer grow or risking impotence and incontinence by having surgery to remove a tumour.
Now drug has been made from bacteria that live in near-total darkness and becomes toxic only when exposed to light. Its injected into the prostate. Then ten lasers are inserted into the tumour to activate the drug.
It kills the cancer, while preserving the rest of the prostate and has no side effects in clinical trials.
Prostate cancer laser treatment 'truly transformative'
Prostate awareness 'dangerously low'
One of the most demonised patients in history - Gaetan Dugas - was convincingly cleared of claims he spread HIV to the US by scientists.
Mr Dugas was a homosexual flight attendant and gained legendary status in the history of HIV/Aids when he became known as "Patient Zero".
But a study showed he was just one of thousands of infected people in the 1970s and that New York was a crucial hub for the spread of the virus.
The Air Canada employee was labelled Patient O (the letter, not the number) by the US Centres for Disease Control because he was a case "Out-of-California".
Over time the O became a 0 and the term Patient Zero was born. It is still used to this day to describe the first identified case of an outbreak.
HIV patient zero cleared by science
Scientists say have grown embryos in the laboratory for longer than ever before and have now reached the legal 14-day limit.
It's the first time embryos have been grown past the point they would normally implant in the womb.
The researchers believe studying the embryos will improve fertility treatments and revolutionise knowledge of the earliest stages of human life.
Some scientists have now called for the legal limit to be increased.
Embryo study shows 'life's first steps'
Doctors have used sound waves to successfully operate deep inside the brain with no scalpels in sight.
They treated a man from Cornwall who suffered from uncontrollable tremors in his right hand.
Selwyn Lucas, who is 52, can now hold his hand steady and said he felt "fantastic".
The team at St Mary's hospital in London used focused ultrasound guided by an MRI scanner to destroy tissue causing the tremor.
Doctors use deep-brain ultrasound therapy to treat tremors
The unbelievable phenomenon in 2014 that was the Ice Bucket Challenge actually led to an important scientific discovery.
The viral videos of people pouring ice-cold water over themselves raised $115m (£87.7m) for the ALS Association, set up to raise funds for research into a form of motor neurone disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Research funded by the Ice Bucket Challenge uncovered a new gene - called NEK1 - that contributes to the disease.
Scientists claim to have developed an invisible elastic film that can be applied to the skin to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and eye bags.
Scientists say they have made a leap in knowing why some people retain their youthful looks while others age badly - and the answer is in the ginger gene.
Morning flu jabs provoke a stronger immune response than those given in the afternoon.
Human life spans may be limited to a maximum of about 115 years.
Early trial data shows a drug developed using artificial intelligence can slow the growth of cancer in clinical trials.
Custom-made, living body parts have been 3D-printed in a what could be a significant advance for regenerative medicine.
Lee Birch, 57, previously of Westgate-on-Sea, was jailed for a minimum of 25 years for strangling Anne-Marie Birch, 45, in 2013.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found several of the calls could have been "better handled".
Kent Police said it recognised that it should have "offered a better service".
The IPCC report revealed she called Kent Police hours before she was killed to report that her husband of 17 years was hiding in her back garden, but the call was not properly logged by a trainee call handler.
Later that day he attacked her while she was out walking dogs at Ramsgate harbour and strangled her to death.
The report found officers "failed to identify or investigate potential offences" committed by Birch including "harassment and making threats to kill" before she obtained a non-molestation order (NMO), which aims to protect victims of domestic violent from abuse.
It also said there was a lack of knowledge among some staff about NMOs.
Shortly after she obtained an NMO, Birch posted a threatening note through her door that was written on his copy of the order but officers told Mrs Birch they could not take action until notification of the NMO had appeared on their computer system.
The IPCC said eight officers and three call centre workers are to receive "specific learning points" so they do not make the same mistakes again.
In a statement, Kent Police offered its sympathies to Mrs Birch's family and said the report made for "disappointing reading".
"As soon as it became clear there were areas needing improvement, those improvements were made and they have been in place for a significant period of time.
While Kent Police recognises it could have offered a better service to Anne-Marie, it became clear in our investigation that her estranged husband had a very determined and clear intention to do her serious harm."
Maidstone Crown Court was told in April 2014 Mrs Birch had been stalked and harassed by her husband in the weeks before she died.
The seven-carriage train pulled into a new station in the city after travelling the 75-km (47-mile) route without any cargo.
The line was completed last year at a cost of $165 million (£105m).
The authorities hope to open up new trade routes and link Afghanistan to its neighbours' rail networks.
The new line could also become a key supply route for Nato forces in Afghanistan and help take military equipment out when the international troops withdraw, starting in 2012.
The US has been shifting its supply lines into the north and away from the volatile route from Pakistan.
The first journey on Wednesday was intended to test the track and signals, before the formal opening of the project at which President Hamid Karzai is expected to attend.
"This is a matter of pride for us and a very important issue for Afghanistan," said Deputy Public Works Minister Noor Gul Mangal, who was there to watch the train arrive in Mazar-e-Sharif.
He said the government planned to build another line into Turkmenistan, to the north-west.
The new line to Mazar-e-Sharif runs from the border town of Hairatan, which is currently a major bottleneck for goods entering Afghanistan.
Supplies have to be taken off Uzbek trains and loaded on to trucks to continue their journey.
The railway should enable goods to be taken straight to Mazar-e-Sharif, avoiding the queues and significantly increasing the volume of goods that can be transported.
Afghanistan's neighbours, including Pakistan and Uzbekistan, have good railway networks built by their former rulers, Britain and Russia.
However, Afghanistan has never had a functioning rail system.
Railway projects were started several times in the 19th and 20th centuries, by British and then Soviet authorities, only to be abandoned for political reasons.
Afghanistan has long been the missing link between the rail networks of China, India and the Middle East.
The new railway is part of the Central Asia Regional Economic Co-operation (Carec) project, under which it is intended that these networks will be joined up by 2,000km (1,300miles) of new track.
The plan is funded by the Asian Development Bank, the UN, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, but so far it is a very long way from being completed.
The operation by the Royal Navy and Metropolitan Police forced Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Bridge and Victoria Embankment in central London to shut.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said the WW2 device had been towed along the river to Tilbury, Essex, where it was safely detonated.
Police had been called to the river at 17:15 GMT on Thursday.
The device has been identified as a German SD 50kg bomb, a small armour-piercing ordnance dropped from an aircraft.
The Port of London Authority said the suspected bomb measured 2ft by 1ft (60cm x 30cm).
It was identified as a German SD bomb, a small armour-piercing device dropped from an aircraft.
Kris Van de Sander, a freelance journalist from Belgium, told the BBC "massive crowds" had spread around Westminster Bridge.
He said: "Everyone was a little paranoid."
Westminster Tube station was shut but has since reopened, as have the bridges, all surrounding roads and a section of the river between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge which had been closed overnight.
Lieutenant Mike St Pierre, the Royal Navy officer who led the bomb disposal team, said: "It was a long night for me and the team but this is exactly what we are trained for so it was a successful operation, although it was a little surreal carrying out our job right next to the Houses of Parliament."
The disruption had threatened to derail Lost In London, a "live cinema" project by Woody Harrelson.
The US actor planned to recreate a disastrous night out in the capital with the film broadcast directly into cinemas from location.
Some scenes were shot near Waterloo Bridge, but the event went ahead as planned.
In November, a shopping centre and homes were evacuated and ferry services halted when a World War Two bomb was found in Portsmouth Harbour.
The device was towed out to sea and blown up.
An unexploded World War Two bomb was also uncovered by builders near Wembley Stadium in north-west London in 2015.
The Army said it posed "a genuine risk to life" but it was removed by a specialist team and safely detonated.
Constantin Radu, 32, of Salt Hill Way, Slough, admitted causing death by dangerous driving after his car mounted a pavement on Wexham Road in September last year, hitting two men.
Jacob Chapman-Pickett, 20, died the following day and the other man was treated in hospital.
Radu was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Thursday.
Mr Chapman-Pickett was due to start university on the day he was hit by Radu's Rover 45.
His father, Keith Pickett, said: "His honesty, loyalty and sense of fairness, along with his sense of humour, cheeky grin and willingness to help anybody, were things that made this world a better place.
"A part of me died with Jacob and there will always be a part of myself missing."
Radu was also sentenced four months, to run concurrently, for driving with excess alcohol and disqualified from driving for 13 years and three months.
He had no insurance or UK driving licence and had a previous conviction for drinking and driving in Romania.
PC Victoria Jones said: "This is a tragic and unnecessary loss of life caused by the reckless behaviour of a driver who had been drinking.
"The result is that a young man, at the start of his adult life, has died."
Under a new Swedish law, transport companies will be fined if travellers to Sweden do not have valid photo ID.
SJ said it would not have time to check people travelling between Copenhagen and Malmo over the Oresund bridge.
Sweden has received about 150,000 asylum applications already this year.
The government has secured a temporary exemption from the European Union's open-border Schengen agreement, in order to impose border controls.
About 18,000 people commute to work daily across the bridge, Radio Sweden reports.
SJ said all services between Denmark and Sweden would be suspended from 4 January when the new law comes into force.
"Our planning of the introduction of ID border checks in Copenhagen before the departure of SJ trains bound for Sweden has shown that we are currently unable to carry out ID checks in accordance with the requirements of the new law in the amount of time allowed," the operator said on its website.
It added it had chosen to "cancel its departures until there is a working solution in place".
Oresundstag, another train operator which runs a Sweden-Denmark commuter service, said it would remain in operation after 4 January but scale back rush-hour traffic to allow time for the checks, according to reports.
One million migrants have arrived in Europe by land or sea in 2015, the International Organisation for Migration says.
Along with Germany, Sweden is one of the main destinations of choice - with some 150,000 applying for asylum in 2015.
In contrast, Denmark expects to receive about 20,000 asylum seekers this year.
Last week a Danish government proposal to seize asylum seekers' valuables to make them pay for their stay drew sharp criticism in international media.
I've often wondered if its tag line, "we can rebuild him, better than before, stronger...." was the inspiration for a number of projects on the Labour benches of the Commons in the last Parliament, where teams of MPs toiled to retrofit potential leadership challengers with such qualities as people skills, a sense of humour, policy grasp, or a political cutting edge.
With Jeremy Corbyn now secure in the Leader of the Opposition's office, their dreams have come to nothing....but over on the Tory benches I suspect a number of like-minded political engineers are seeking a suitable case for treatment.
The Conservative troops expect a Boris vs Amber leadership battle, when the moment comes for Theresa May to make way for the leader who will take them into the next election, but there might well be a wild card....a Macron, if you like.
To be sure, the British political system stacks the deck against a Macron-style pop-up political party, but the sight of a leader coming from nowhere to score a stunning electoral triumph attracts political romantics, and fascinates hard boiled professionals.
And fresh from their duffing-up in June, the Tory search is on for a middle-ranking minister with perfect teeth, a floppy fringe and a photogenic spouse, who can be moulded into a cyborg warrior capable of doing battle with Jezza.
After all, it's not as if this most protean of political parties has not pulled the trick before - John Major was virtually unknown outside Westminster a year before he became prime minister; David Cameron leapt to the Tory leadership on the basis of a good conference speech and a couple of femtoseconds as shadow education secretary after the 2005 election...
As Steve Richards writes in his new book, The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way, political outsiders can be a potent force in politics, as Jeremy Corbyn has demonstrated; the Conservative Party does not easily produce such figures, but the manoeuvre pulled off by President Macron to run as an outsider, despite being a quintessential product of the French political establishment, suggests that a gleaming new figure, untainted by years of infighting, can cut through - especially if they are not over-encumbered by ideology and faction.
Another key design requirement for the new Tory Terminator will be emotional intelligence - an ability to connect and empathise as effectively as Jeremy Corbyn did, and Theresa May didn't.
In the process, some traditional requirements may be watered down; beyond a minimal level of competence, ability as a Commons performer probably matters less these days - and the public may find mastery of its traditional debating style rather suspect and inauthentic. If there is a lesson to take from the last couple of years in politics, it is that what pleases the troops on the green benches of the Chamber seems to leave the country cold.
Maverick or mainstream?
So who might be in the frame? There are few obvious challengers within the Cabinet, although Priti Patel has her fans. Beyond that there are several middle-ranking figures who might emerge like (and this is all my speculation) Graham Brady, the formidable chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, or slightly maverick ministers like Rory Stewart, or Jesse Norman.
Then, there are current "outs" like Grant Shapps or the former chief whip Mark Harper, and a little further down the pecking order there are figures like Tom Tugendhat or Johnny Mercer, who have a sparkle of stardust about them.
But they need to be fairly non-factional figures and, I suspect, the winner will be the one who hits upon a position on Brexit that both fits the circumstances as they will be in 2019, or whenever (and who knows what those circumstance will be, it may be more a matter of luck than judgement) and does not alienate a critical mass of MPs.
The early symptoms of an embryonic Tory Macron are an interest in refining the party's "offer" for the next election, and an attempt to find ways of reaching parts of the electorate who have succumbed to the blandishments of Jeremy Corbyn.
They will strike up conversations in the Tea Room or the coffee queue at the Portcullis House. They will be found in earnest conversations with colleagues and be remarkably receptive to invitations to speak on any subject, anytime, anywhere. Of course, they will be available for media appearances at the drop of a hat.
And they're in no hurry. The Tory succession race is going to be a marathon, not a sprint, allowing candidates to hone their offer to MPs and demonstrate their political skills in Commons speeches and questions, in the select committees, at party conference in the TV studios and (but, of course) on social media.
And as they pound through the course ahead, factional credentials and Brexit positions will count for a lot, but above all, a bruised and traumatised Conservative Party wants a winner.
If you are an MP nursing a fragile majority, nothing matters more than that.
BOOKtalk with Steve Richards will be on BBC Parliament on Saturday 8 July at 20:45 BST.
Three cannon and part of a wooden hull lie on the seabed near Drumbeg in Sutherland.
Archaeologists believe it could be the remains of a Dutch vessel that got into difficulty between 1650 and 1750.
The site was given emergency protected status on 18 March this year, but the Scottish government has proposed giving it a more permanent designation.
Local scallop divers have known of the wreck site in Eddrachillis Bay since the 1990s, but only recently have archaeologists been able to make a proper assessment of it.
Archaeologists from WA Coastal and Marine examined the wreck last year on behalf of Historic Scotland.
It was confirmed to be of national historical importance and is now one of seven Scottish shipwreck sites proposed for the government's new Historic Marine Protected Area status.
WA Coastal and Marine, an educational charity, used a diver-based imaging technique to create 3D models of the site and the three cannon.
The models are being used in the effort to better understand the wreck's story.
Archaeologists said that the accuracy of the models allowed for the measuring and analysing of the remains on dry land.
They have already been able to establish more accurate measurements of the cannon. This has helped to match them to other cannons which in turn could reveal important details about the ship and its crew.
A historical record of the shipwreck has still to be found.
However, the cannons and a number of artefacts recovered from the site, including cannonballs and a piece of decorated tile, provide some clues to the vessel and its crew.
Charles Trollope, an independent cannon specialist, has identified the cannons as being of a type cast in Sweden for use by the Dutch.
The weapons could have been used by the Drumbeg ship's crew to ward off privateers, privately-owned armed vessels commissioned by a state to attack an enemy's shipping.
Today, the cannon are heavily encrusted and colonised by small red seaweeds.
Also recovered from the wreck was a broken Delft tile decorated with an image of a three-masted ship flying the Dutch flag. Delft is a blue and white pottery made in the Netherlands.
One theory is that the vessel was owned by the Dutch East India Company, also known as VOC.
Founded in 1602, it was the world's biggest and most powerful trading company until it collapsed in financial ruin in 1799.
Its vessels regularly sailed around the north of Scotland because of the favourable winds and also to avoid the English Channel, particularly at times of war and tensions in Europe.
The wrecking of VOC vessels in Shetland was recorded by the Dutch company, and centuries later the shipwrecks were located by divers.
One reported loss in Scotland outside the Shetland Islands, and which has still to be found, was the Trompetteer. It was seized and then burned by French sailors off the Scottish coast in 1692.
Some or all of the crew of the Drumbeg ship may have survived their ordeal, archaeologists have suggested.
There is possible evidence of foreign sailors setting up home in the north-west Highlands after their ships foundered off the Scottish coast.
The First Statistical Account of Scotland published between 1791 and 1799 records how the climate of the area was pleasant enough for "natives of the East and West Indies" to live there.
Philip Robertson, a Historic Scotland marine archaeologist, said the origins of the Drumbeg crew was still unknown.
But he added: "The wreck gives us a unique window into our history and, interestingly, the trading activity off the Scottish coastline and across the world."
Dr Jonathan Benjamin, of WA Coastal and Marine and the University of Edinburgh, said Scotland was a maritime nation with a rich seafaring history.
He added: "However, there are only a handful of underwater archaeological sites around Scotland's coasts that are over 200 years old.
"The wooden shipwreck at Drumbeg has remained on the seabed for three to four hundred years before it was discovered by a local diver and reported to Historic Scotland.
"This is an exciting and significant discovery. This site demonstrates the value of collaboration between archaeologists, local community members and divers to enhance our knowledge of underwater cultural heritage in Scotland."
John McCarthy, also of WA Coastal and Marine, added: "We have conducted a lot of research on new methods of underwater digital survey and the survey at Drumbeg gave us the perfect opportunity to apply this new technology to an entire wreck site for the first time, and with fantastic results."
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The Venice Biennale showcases the best contemporary art from around the world.
Richards has worked with Cardiff's Chapter arts centre to stage the show, which includes a 20-minute sound installation, a 40-minute film and still images.
The Cardiff artist was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2014.
He uses archive material and new recordings to create work that seeks to challenge the emotions of visitors to the exhibition.
A former chapel and school rooms on the banks of a Venetian canal host the exhibition, which is financed by the Arts Council of Wales with a budget of £375,000.
Richards, who lives most of the time in Berlin and London, follows previous artists Helen Sear and Bedwyr Williams in representing Wales at the Biennale, and he said it was an opportunity to "experiment" at a high-profile event.
"I don't reinvent the wheel with every work but each time you do something - especially a big project, a commission that's going to be exhibited on a highly visible platform - I want to use that as a chance to experiment and expand my language as an artist," he said.
"Often, my work is about my own encountering of a particular material that makes me want to try working with something. So you build from experiments and start thinking about setting a brief for yourself, almost.
"But also, in the meantime, you find things that you realise you want to somehow explore through the work."
James Richards: Wales in Venice
What do visitors see?
Room 1: Sound installation
The installation is called Migratory Motor Complex. Richards collaborated with Kirsten Evans and Samuel Williams, students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, to create a surround-sound six-channel electro-acoustic experience that "explores the capacity of sound to render artificial spaces and locate sonic and melodic events within them".
Room 2: Book
Visitors collect a small yellow book, Voce di Testa, published by Richards with Chris McCormack which "moves between the intimate and the scientific" in exploring the process of a male voice breaking.
Room 3: Film
A 40-minute film called What Weakens The Flesh Is The Flesh Itself. Made by Richards and collaborator Steve Reinke, the film shows a German man obsessed with tattoos and and large piercings, which the artists have combined with other archive footage that seeks to make the body a work of art in itself.
Room 4: Silent video
Music for the Gift. Two silent television monitors display abstract black and white images.
Room 5: Still images
An installation called Rushes Minotaur, which includes inkjet prints of human skin and the tarpaulin façade of a shop that have been cut together and rescanned to create new images that represent the way that images themselves can be as fragile as their subjects.
The exhibition takes place inside the Santa Maria Ausiliatrice. It incorporates work by students of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in its sound installation.
Richards has also collaborated with the artist Steve Reinke for the video work, while a short publication is given to visitors written by Richards and Chris McCormack which reflects upon the breaking of the male voice.
The exhibition has been curated by Hannah Firth, who said it was the result of a "year-long dialogue" with Richards, which included a residency at Chapter in Cardiff and then there was five weeks of installation.
"We had to ensure everything down to the last nail came on a truck from Wales to Venice," she said.
"We took on an agency within Wales which drove the trucks to the edge of Venice, where all traffic has to stop.
"All the work had to be then loaded onto a boat and it's incredible how it's all stacked up like a sardine tin and then it had to be uploaded up at this end."
She said there had been a "fantastic response" from visitors so far.
"One of the exciting and interesting things about James Richards' work is it's very visceral - you feel it and sense it. He's made a sound piece, which is in the main exhibition - the church space - and which you can really feel in your body as well as hear. And certainly with the film it's a very vivid, aesthetic experience.
"We really hope people will take away a very subjective reading, which has stimulated their sense while they've been here."
Phil George, chairman of Arts Council of Wales, said it was really important for Wales to be part of the international debate about art.
He called Richards' work a "remarkable exploration of the tension of what it is to be a human being in a very difficult world."
James Richards' work will be displayed at the Venice Biennale until 26 November 2017. It will then be exhibited in Chapter in Cardiff next year before going on tour.
The court said the UK-based Reckitt Benckiser had misled consumers.
It said products marketed to treat specific pains, such as migraine, were identical to one another.
Nurofen said the products had been "designed to help the consumer easily navigate our range", particularly in groceries where there was no pharmacy.
"Consumer research indicates that 9 in 10 people (88%) look for pain relief for a specific type of pain (eg headache, migraine, back pain) and 7 in 10 (71%) say pain-specific packs help them decide which product is best for their needs," said Dr Aomesh Bhatt, regulatory and medical affairs director for Nurofen.
"How to pick the best painkiller"
The products affected by the Australian court order include Nurofen Back Pain, Nurofen Period Pain, Nurofen Migraine Pain and Nurofen Tension Headache.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) watchdog had brought the matter to court earlier this year.
The ACCC said the court had found that the firm had "engaged in misleading conduct in contravention of the Australian consumer law by representing that its Nurofen Specific Pain products were each formulated to treat a specific type of pain, when the products are identical".
Each product contained the same active ingredient, ibuprofen lysine 342mg.
The ACCC said the products were found to be "no more effective at treating the type of pain described on its packaging than any of the other Nurofen specific pain products".
The comission's research also found that in Australia the products were sold for almost double the price of Nurofen's standard product.
The retail price for each of the pain-specific products was also found to be "significantly higher" than other comparable products, the ACCC added.
Manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser said the case related only to Australia, and that it was continuing to work with regulators there "to ensure Nurofen packaging continues to be fully aligned with all guidelines and requirements".
It said the ruling would not be applicable in other countries, including the UK, where it sells Nurofen Migraine Pain and Nurofen Tension Headache in caplets, as well as Nurofen Express Period Pain in soft capsules.
"As such all Nurofen products remain available and there will be no changes to packaging," the company added.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is responsible for ensuring the quality, safety, and efficacy of medicines including over-the-counter painkillers in the UK.
It said: "For over-the-counter medicines informative names are permitted to help patients select an appropriate product without input from a healthcare professional."
It added, that, with regard to '"informative names" - they are allowed as "an aid for patients to select the appropriate product without input from a doctor or pharmacist but they can't make misleading medical claims".
Richard Headland, editor of Which?, said: "Our research shows many painkilling medicines have exactly the same active ingredients, despite vastly different marketing, packaging and pricing. Our advice to people is to buy cheaper generic medicines wherever possible and, if in doubt, ask a pharmacist."
The Federal Court of Australia said the products must be taken off Australian shelves within three months.
Reckitt Benckiser said that it would comply with the Australian court order and that it "did not set out to mislead consumers".
Reckitt Benckiser makes a vast range of household products, including Nurofen, Dettol and Harpic, among others.
It has been ordered to publish correction notices in newspapers and on its website and to pay the ACCC's court costs.
This story has been amended to clarify that the products in question were different from the standard Nurofen product.
Eddie Needham was renovating a property on the island when the 21-month-old, from Sheffield, went missing in 1991.
South Yorkshire Police hoped he would be able to explain how the site looked at the time Ben vanished.
Police are investigating whether the toddler was accidentally killed rather than abducted.
Mr Needham spent around two hours touring the site with officers.
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Det Insp Jon Cousins, who is leading the investigation, said: "I want the experts who are here to have a good understanding of his [Mr Needham's] recollections around the day and the days after Ben's disappearance."
Mr Needham said in a statement he was grateful for everything being done and thanked the volunteers and police for their efforts.
"They are working tirelessly in difficult conditions and I am aware many have taken time away from their families to help our family," it said.
"It shows how much people care and how compassionate they are."
Tom Ingall, BBC Correspondent in Kos
Mr Needham was one of the last people to have seen Ben before he vanished 25-years-ago.
He is the first member of the Needham family to visit the site during this phase of the search for Ben.
He was shown the work being done in the olive grove and was also taken to see the team of volunteers who are raking through mounds of soil removed from the site.
As a direct result of his visit, police have removed a tree that had grown near the farmhouse which was not there when Ben disappeared in 1991.
The search was always intended to take around 12 days to complete and police tell me they are on target.
Det Insp Cousins said the site was now in the state he believed it to have been at the time Ben went missing.
"What we see now is what was there at that time," he said.
It follows the demolition of an extension to a farmhouse which had been built since Ben's disappearance.
A team of 19 South Yorkshire Police officers, forensic specialists and an archaeologist are excavating the site.
The search, now in its tenth day, was prompted by information given to police following a television appeal in May.
A friend of a digger driver, who had been clearing land with an excavator on the day the toddler went missing, told police the man may have been responsible for Ben's death.
The driver, Konstantinos Barkas, died of cancer in 2015.
Fresh from a 342-run first-wicket stand against Northants on Monday, openers Michael Lumb (133) and Riki Wessels (76) put on 178 against the Bears.
Dan Christian's rapid 94 off 47 balls pushed Notts to 415-5, as they became the first non-international team to pass 400 in successive one-day innings.
Warwickshire made 379 all out, Jonathan Trott scoring 100 and Ian Bell 60.
Sam Hain, a centurion in Tuesday's win over Leicestershire, made 69 and put on 106 for the second wicket with Trott.
A partnership of 95 between ex-England team-mates Bell and Trott set the platform for an unlikely run chase, but the visitors' challenge faded once skipper Bell had departed in the 34th over with 186 runs still required for victory.
Notts have won both of their games so far in the North Group, while Warwickshire have won only one of their first three matches.
South Africa are the only other side to have passed 400 in two consecutive one-day outings, doing so against West Indies and Ireland at the 2015 World Cup.
Lumb scored 184, Notts' highest individual limited-overs score, in a record-breaking victory over Northants and he followed that up with an 88-ball ton against Warwickshire.
Left-hander Lumb and Brendan Taylor fell in the same over, but Greg Smith (73) and captain Christian rebuilt with a fourth-wicket stand of 141 in 14 overs to help set a target beyond Warwickshire's reach.
Beginning the final over of the innings on 82, Australia limited-overs international Christian hit Oliver Hannon-Dalby for two consecutive sixes before falling six runs short of a century.
However, Samit Patel struck 17 not out in a five-ball cameo which took Notts to the 18th highest one-day score in history - and also the highest total conceded by Warwickshire in a limited-overs game.
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The 43-year-old sustained serious injuries to her forearms and face at the 300-acre (121 hectare) Shell Island campsite at Llanbedr.
Emergency services were called just before 08:30 BST, and the incident is under investigation.
Crews said it was understood to have involved a portable gas stove.
The accident follows a similar one last week in Denbighshire, in which a 14-year-old boy suffered neck and arm burns while refilling a camping stove with fuel.
He was taken to hospital after the incident at Hendwr, Corwen on 25 June.
Stuart Millington, the senior fire safety manager for North Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said: "I cannot emphasise enough how important it is for campers using gas to correctly follow the manufactures instructions and to make sure that all appliances are assembled correctly.
"Every year we see injuries as a result of camping incidents, some of them extremely serious.
"Four years ago two men tragically lost their lives after a caravan fire in Barmouth which also resulted in a two-year-old girl sustaining very serious burns."
The date is earlier than expected, as Venezuela's presidential polls are usually held in December.
President Hugo Chavez has said he will seek another term to continue his left-wing "revolution", despite undergoing treatment for cancer.
The main opposition coalition will choose a candidate to stand against him in a primary on 12 February.
Mr Chavez immediately expressed his confidence that he would win a third six-year term.
He wrote on Twitter: "7 October 2012: your destiny is written! We will write another revolutionary victory on your page! We will live and we will conquer!"
The left-wing leader, who has governed Venezuela since 1999, has said he wants to serve at least two more terms, which would take him through until 2025.
Mr Chavez, 57, says he is now convalescing after having surgery for cancer in June and subsequent chemotherapy, but the exact nature and extent of his illness has not been made public.
Speaking before the election date was announced, he promised an energetic campaign despite his ill health.
"You won't see Chavez hiding," he said.
"You'll see a recuperated Chavez touring the country as a candidate, touring the streets at a rhythm set by circumstances."
As well as giving Mr Chavez time to recuperate, the October election date gives the opposition Table of Democratic Unity (MUD) plenty of time to campaign.
The favourites to win the opposition nomination in February's primary are the governor of Miranda state, Henrique Capriles Radonski, and the governor of Zulia state, Pablo Perez.
Opposition leaders have welcomed the announcement of the election date, while expressing concern at the long transition period it will leave before the start of the next presidential term in February 2013.
"This election date, two months earlier than is traditional, has an advantage in that we now have a date," MUD executive secretary Ramon Guillermo Aveledo said.
"But the disadvantage is that it extends the lapse between the presidential election and the taking of office," he added.
The opposition alliance says Venezuelans have had enough of what they say is Mr Chavez's poor economic management and dictatorial style.
They are also hoping that dissatisfaction with high crime rates, inflation and electricity shortages will boost their support.
But Mr Chavez still has strong support, particularly among the poor who have benefited most from his socialist policies, which have seen Venezuela's oil riches spent on services including health and education.
Mr Chavez's personal charisma and promise of revolutionary change have helped him secure repeated election victories since he first won the presidency in 1999.
Parliamentary elections last year showed Venezuelan voters evenly divided between support for Mr Chavez's socialists and the opposition.
Management made the announcement at a Southern Health Trust board meeting.
It will bring together health professionals, the Public Health Agency and the Ambulance Service.
The trust's medical director, Dr Richard Wright, told the BBC the issue now requires regional support.
There were angry scenes outside the headquarters of the trust, as members of the public tried to gain access to the board meeting.
The meeting followed warnings from the trust that a temporary overnight closure of the department may be unavoidable due to staff shortages.
An announcement had been expected on Thursday, triggering a consultation on various options for its future.
The consultation process usually lasts 12 weeks and involves the trust liaising with the public and community groups.
Officials would then approach Northern Ireland's Health and Social Care Board with options, which would have to be approved by the Department of Health.
Earlier this month, the trust announced the emergency service at the Newry hospital was unsustainable as it relied too heavily on locums.
Health officials have claimed that creates an unreliable environment that is putting patient safety at risk.
Last month, the trust said a temporary suspension of the service overnight would be a last resort.
Sources have told the BBC that the Southern Health Trust considered putting forward proposals to deal with the issues at Daisy Hill Hospital at the start of 2016.
However, the BBC understands senior officials at the Department of Health advised against such a move in the run-up to the assembly election.
Attempting it now, just days after a public meeting that saw hundreds of people voicing their objections to closure, would not have gone down well.
Monday night's rally in Newry sent a strong message from the public that they would not take this decision lying down.
While their voices have not fallen on deaf ears - for just how much longer they can stall the decision remains to be seen.
A royal decree said ministers' salaries would be reduced by 20%, and housing and car allowances for members of the advisory Shura Council cut by 15%.
Lower-ranking civil servants will see wage increases suspended, and overtime payments and annual leave capped.
About two-thirds of working Saudis are employed in the public sector.
Their salaries and allowances accounted for 45% of government spending in 2015, or $128bn (£99bn), and contributed to a record budget deficit of $98bn.
BBC Middle East analyst Sebastian Usher says the unspoken contract that once existed between ordinary Saudis and the ruling elite - in which citizens could all but expect a none-too-stressful job for life in return for accepting the status quo - has long been eroding.
But, our correspondent adds, the deficit highlighted the urgent need for change.
In April, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled a reform plan intended to reduce the government's spending and lessen its dependence on oil revenue.
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80% increase in petrol prices last year in the country
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The "Vision 2030" initiative aims to cut the public sector payroll to 40% of the budget by the start of the next decade and boost private sector employment.
The government also cut the generous subsidies for petrol and utilities in December, but complaints prompted Prince Mohammed to sack the water and electricity minister six months later.
Some Saudis took to social media to express their support the cuts announced on Monday, using the Twitter hashtag "We are the children of King Salman".
But others lamented what they remembered as better days under the late King Abdullah, who responded to the Arab Spring in 2011 by launching a $130bn plan to raise public sector salaries, build subsidised housing and provide benefits to the unemployed.
The hashtag "stop allowances for princes" also trended among Saudi Twitter users. "If there is hardship, we should all share the cost," wrote @oamaz7.
Jamal Khashoggi, editor of Al-Arab News, told Reuters news agency: "It's one more economic measure to balance spending. Of course people don't like it, but it's a sign of the times."
"Probably the teachers and many others will be affected by it. It shows why it's important for the private sector and Saudi GDP to diversify," he added.
Martin declared himself unfit for their abandoned game at Reading after interest from Derby boss Steve McLaren.
And the 28-year-old was not in the side for Monday's defeat by Brighton.
But Jokanovic insisted: "We signed the contract, all three sides - Derby, Fulham and Chris Martin - and there is no option for a recall."
He continued: "This is nice because they offer him more money and more years, but this solution does not exist.
"He was going to stay until the end of the season. That is my position and Fulham's position. And that's it."
The Fulham boss says Martin claims he is not fit to play, but says his medical team have yet to find any problem with the Scotland international.
"He is still trying to explain that he is injured but my medical department did not find any problem at the moment. I am not doctor here, and we are going to try and find where this problem is," he said.
"When we played Derby three or four weeks ago Steve McClaren asked me about Chris Martin because he explained he likes this player.
"And I explained he is under contract, I want to keep him and recommended that he look in the market for another option. But he must not have understood my English."
After Derby's 3-0 loss at Norwich on Monday, McClaren, who took over in October, again confirmed he was keen on bringing back Martin.
The forward scored 46 goals in two seasons at Derby during McClaren's previous spell at the club, helping them reach the 2014 Championship play-off final.
"That's at board level at both clubs," he told BBC Radio Derby.
"They made an agreement to do the loan and if it needs to be terminated they have to make a decision to do that."
On 12 September, 43 sheep were put down after a lorry was stopped at the port, and two more died in another incident.
"Exporting animals is a legal trade," Peter Garbutt, the NFU's chief livestock adviser, said.
But Thanet District Council, which imposed the ban, said construction work was needed before any resumption.
"The health and welfare of the animals through transit is the top priority of farmers."
Thanet District Council suspended live exports through the Port of Ramsgate on 20 September and live animals were sent abroad from the Port of Ipswich.
Mr Garbutt said anyone transporting animals had a duty to use the shortest route to reach their destination.
"We have made it clear that the port of Dover would be the most suitable location, but as the boat being used is unable to dock there currently, Ramsgate is the next best option available," he explained.
Thanet council said that live exports had been "suspended until further notice" and its lifting would depend on the construction of "suitable facilities" at the port.
Live animal exports have been suspended from the Port of Ipswich, a week after sheep were sent overseas.
RSPCA chief executive Gavin Grant said: "ABP [Associated British Ports] have acknowledged to the RSPCA that, like Ramsgate, their port did not have suitable facilities to help the animals should an emergency arise."
The 43 sheep that were destroyed were examined by vets who found that one had a broken leg, another was so sick it had to be put down, and 41 were severely lame.
None of the animals could reach their drinkers in the vehicle, the RSPCA said.
Six sheep fell in the water while being taken off the lorry, and four were rescued by RSPCA officers, but two drowned.
In another accident, two sheep died when a loading area floor collapsed as the livestock was being taken off a lorry.
The 27-year-old scored four times for Liverpool in the WSL last year and has returned from a two-month loan spell at Australian side Melbourne Victory.
She has won 14 caps for England and was named 2013 FA Players' Player of the Year as she helped Liverpool win the first of two successive WSL titles.
She is the third Liverpool player to join Belles after Becky Easton and Katrin Omarsdottir signed on Thursday.
"I'm at a stage in my career where I have won a lot of things and I see Doncaster as an exciting, up and coming team with a great set-up," said Dowie, who scored the winning goal for Everton to beat Arsenal in the 2010 FA Women's Cup final.
"I know a lot of the players and think they, as well as the staff, are great characters on and off the pitch. The offer I was given ticked all of the boxes.
"I want to win silverware. I'm a winner full stop. I've come to Doncaster to win things or to at least challenge until the end.
"I want to bring lots of goals to the club this season. I'm a hard-worker who never gives up so I hope this will be appreciated by the players and fans," she added.
Doncaster boss Glen Harris feels the signing Dowie shows newly-promoted Doncaster will be a force in this year's Women's Super League.
"She is a winner and with her ability and desire to succeed, her arrival at the club is a significant statement of intent," he said.
"This was a considered decision from Tash. We know several clubs were keen to secure her signature but we are pleased she has committed to Belles - which again, with another quality signing, sends out a strong message."
The online article was published after the four-year-old prince was photographed with his hands on his face in a helicopter in Germany last month.
Jim Allister, leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) party, described the article as "outrageous and sick".
He has written to PinkNews demanding it withdraw the article and apologise.
However, the chief executive of PinkNews, Benjamin Cohen, told BBC News NI he had "no intention" of removing the article at the behest of a politician who opposed the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
He defended the feature, saying it was a "tongue-in-cheek" piece, based on the comments of "hundreds" of social media users.
Mr Cohen added that as a gay man, he was personally offended by some of the "repugnant" remarks contained in Mr Allister's letter of complaint.
The PinkNews website describes itself as the "premier LGBT news outlet in the UK and beyond".
The original article, by Josh Jackman, was published on 25 July with the headline: People think Prince George looks fabulous in this new photo.
It was a commentary on social media users' reaction to one of a series of press photos of the young prince exploring a helicopter during a family tour of an aviation factory.
Mr Jackman wrote: "Prince George has become a gay icon overnight.
"The monarch-to-be has always been cute and well-dressed, but one day before his fourth birthday, a photo of him excitedly holding his face changed everything.
"At least, that's what the people - sorry, his subjects - are saying."
In his complaint, Mr Allister told PinkNews: "Sexualising a young child in this fashion is entirely inappropriate.
"In reality, the photo which prompted the piece shows a four-year-old boy who is smartly dressed and excited about being on a helicopter with his male father and female mother.
"To take an image of a little boy and to fantasise of him being an icon for a life defined by sex is outrageous and sick."
Mr Allister also told the editor that Facebook users' reaction to the piece "should tell you that the piece was misjudged to say the least".
The TUV leader quoted one of the critical Facebook comments which said: "You are using 1970s stereotyping to come up with this nonsense... It is ignorant in the extreme to speculate about the sexuality of any child in such a public fashion."
In the piece, Mr Jackman acknowledged: "There are of course those who say that any discussion of the prince's sexuality is premature."
But he insisted that the discussion "isn't about his sexuality".
"As Madonna, Lady Gaga, the Babadook and yes, even Ariana Grande have shown, you don't have to be gay or even have a defined sexuality to be an LGBT icon."
The article added that children "are born with a sexuality, and should be encouraged to find it without it being assumed that they're straight".
Mr Allister said he was disgusted by the article.
The TUV leader added that he would have referred his complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), but PinkNews had not signed up to its code of practice.
But the publication's chief executive pointed out that PinkNews could not be a member of IPSO as it was a "digital media company", and not a newspaper or a magazine.
Mr Cohen said he was "surprised" that a UK politician was not aware of its membership rules or the regulations governing the media.
He also said that until today, he had "never heard of Jim Allister" and had not yet received his letter, but had read its contents in the press.
Mr Cohen argued that the 25 July feature was a "legitimate" piece of social commentary and rejected Mr Allister's claim that it had "sexualised" a young child.
He said the feature was no longer on the PinkNews homepage as it was three weeks old, but that it would remain available on the internet.
The chief executive added that he was "surprised that Jim Allister is such an avid reader of PinkNews" that he could find the piece online.
Mr Allister founded the TUV in 2007 after quitting the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
He holds a seat at Stormont for the North Antrim constituency and is also a barrister.
Nick Mann, 34, was travelling back from a concert in March when he was struck and killed by a train at Old Street Station.
His brother Robert had fallen onto the line and Nick was trying to pull him to safety as the train hit them.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded at St Pancras Coroners' Court.
Robert Mann was seriously injured and is still recovering.
Peter Darling, an inspector for the Office of Rail and Road investigations, told the court his investigations had found "no breach of health and safety" and called the death a "tragic accident".
Nick Mann, who lived in Wimbledon, south London, was originally from Shropshire. He had spent Saturday with his brother at a Shrewsbury Town FC game before going to a heavy metal concert in the evening.
A witness to the accident told the court they had been walking "really close" to the edge of the platform and "were jumping and celebrating, very cheerful".
He added: "One of them slipped, the other person was trying to pull him out. It was really, really fast."
The court also heard evidence from the driver of the train, who said he had seen "a male stumbling and fall onto the track just in front of me" and that he had immediately pushed the emergency brake.
Their mother, Pauline Mann, told the court in a written statement they had spent "the perfect day together" and said: "I will always miss my darling son."
Mr Mann's wife, Jennifer Kavanagh, described her husband as "selfless, kind, warm and loving and he put other people first. We had a wonderful decade together".
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The flyweight, 34, turned professional last month and faces her first fight on 8 April in Manchester before a bout in her home city of Leeds on 13 May.
Adams, whose first two opponents are yet to be named, says winning a world title next year is "realistic".
"I want to bring the belt home to Leeds," said Adams.
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"I've had over 200 amateur fights. I just have to adapt a little more for the times of the rounds and we've been working hard on slowing down my feet, getting more power in my punches.
"I know everyone wants to beat me, but they've got to get in the ring and put their money where their mouth is. I'm ready."
Having won gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016, Adams will not be part of the Great Britain squad in the build-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but has not ruled out competing at the Games.
"I have no regrets - I've found a good team that believe in my dream and what I can do," she said.
"They want to make me a world champion like my idol Muhammad Ali and that's what I want to be.
"I still do have a chance of winning the triple as professionals can now box in the Olympics, so who knows?"
Previous head coach Denis Pursely left after London 2012 and Australian Michael Scott resigned after a review concluded he would need to live full-time in the UK in order to continue.
In December, Rebecca Adlington attacked the sport for delaying new appointments and insisted they should be British.
Her long-term coach Bill Furniss has been strongly linked with the post.
If I was going to carry on, I would only want to be coached by Bill [Furniss]
Adlington, Great Britain's most successful swimmer of all-time, is set to make a "major announcement" about her future on Tuesday and has previously stated her decision whether to continue in the sport will be linked to Furniss' movements.
"If I was going to carry on, I would only want to be coached by Bill," Adlington told the BBC in late 2012.
British Swimming fell short of their Olympic medal target of five, winning three in London and although a subsequent review ruled the sport's programme was "not broken" they received a £4m funding cut for the Rio 2016 cycle.
John Atkinson, who as performance director to the ParalympicsGB swimming team led them to 39 medals at London 2012, was one of the favourites to switch over to the non-disabled discipline.
However, he has agreed to head up the Canadian Swimming high-performance programme.
The piece of performance art encouraged the public to say "He will not divide us" into a camera mounted outside the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
The Transformers star was arrested after a fracas at the site, which police began manning round the clock.
The actor criticised the museum's decision to shut down the exhibit.
On Twitter, he posted an image of the live stream, which now reads: "The museum has abandoned us."
LaBeouf co-founded the project, which was launched on the day President Trump was inaugurated, on 20 January, with artists Luke Turner and Nastja Ronkko.
The live-stream ran for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the artists had planned to maintain it throughout Mr Trump's presidency.
But in the early hours of 26 January, LaBeouf was charged with assault and harassment after a confrontation with a man that was broadcast on the live-stream.
The New York Daily News reported that a number of white supremacists turned up at the site over the past three weeks, including one apparently wearing a Nazi hat.
In a statement, the museum said the atmosphere at the exhibit, named HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US, "deteriorated markedly" after LaBeouf's arrest.
There had been "dozens of threats of violence and numerous arrests" and it had become "a flashpoint for violence", it added.
"Until public safety concerns overrode the intent of the installation, HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US generated an important conversation allowing interaction among people from many backgrounds and with different viewpoints," the museum said.
A statement on the exhibit's website says: "On February 10, 2017, the Museum of the Moving Image abandoned the project. The artists, however, have not."
The collapse of a dam last November, containing contaminated water and mud at the iron ore mine, killed 17 people.
The payment by BHP Billiton and Vale is to fund initial work, and the firms now have six months to present plans to clean up the remaining waste.
Last month, prosecutors filed homicide charges against 21 people.
They include several Brazilians, two Americans, a South African, an Australian, a Briton and a French man.
The accused were employed at the time by the companies involved - Brazil's Samarco and Vale, and London-listed BHP Billiton.
According to the lead prosecutor in the case, the companies were aware there was a risk of collapse but ignored it.
The companies rejected the charges and said they would defend their staff.
Before the case can go to trial, the charges need to be approved by a judge.
Ian Stewart is set to leave the newspapers where he has spent the majority of his career in March.
The announcement comes just three weeks before The Scotsman is due to celebrate its bicentenary.
Mr Stewart is in charge of The Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News, as well as sister title Scotland on Sunday. He first joined The Scotsman in 1991.
He has edited The Scotsman since 2012 and Scotland on Sunday since 2009.
Mr Stewart said: "It has been an honour and a privilege to have been editor of these titles through what has been a truly significant time in Scotland's history.
"I leave with the greatest respect and admiration for my colleagues who do an extraordinary job day in and day out."
Jeremy Clifford, editor-in-chief of owners Johnston Press, said they would be recruiting for Mr Stewart's successor "immediately".
He said: "I would like to thank Ian for his leadership of The Scotsman in challenging times and during one of the most important eras in modern Scottish history.
"As well as the editorial director, he also served on the editorial board as my deputy chairman when it was first set up just over four years ago.
"I would like to thank him for everything he has achieved and wish him every success for the future."
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals Trust declared a major incident in January while under "severe pressure".
The trust said extra beds will now be made available and "seven-day working practices" will be implemented.
It said last winter saw an "unprecedented demand" on NHS services.
A spokeswoman said: "One of the biggest issues last winter was managing frail and elderly patients. We have been looking to see how we can provide more care locally, out of hospital wherever possible."
It said in December the first of three "locality hubs" will open in Woking to provide vulnerable patients with preventative care.
Within the hospital it said services will be made available at weekends and over bank holidays, with additional capacity for x-rays, pharmacy cover and ward staffing.
The spokeswoman added: "Most importantly, the local health system - commissioners, primary and community care, social care and acute hospital services - is committed to ensuring a joint response, working together to collectively manage health and social care services over the winter period."
The scrum-half came off the bench, kicked a penalty and converted his own try as the Wallabies beat the All Blacks for the first time since 2011.
Prop Sekope Kepu and winger Adam Ashley-Cooper also crossed for the Australians with Nehe Milner-Skudder scoring twice on his New Zealand debut.
The All Blacks led 19-17 with 11 minutes left before White took control.
Victory gives Michael Cheika's side a boost before next weekend's Bledisloe Cup decider at Eden Park, as well as the forthcoming World Cup.
Dan Carter kicked New Zealand into a 6-3 lead in the first-half, with Matt Giteau responding for the Wallabies.
Aaron Smith's sin-bin started the second-half drama, and Australia capitalised on the extra man as Kepu danced over for his first Test try - to make amends for his early yellow card.
Carter's third kick of the game made it 10-9 and it saw the All Blacks fly-half become the first person in Test rugby union history to reach 1,500 points.
With Nick Phipps in the bin, Milner-Skudder raced over to put the Kiwis ahead again but Ashley-Cooper restored Australia's lead when he snuck in to score in the corner, and Giteau converted.
Winger Milner-Skudder scrambled over for his second to make it 19-17, but Carter missed his second conversion, and White stole the glory to win it late on for the Wallabies.
Australia: Folau, Ashley-Cooper, Kuridrani, Giteau, Mitchell, Foley, Phipps, Sio, Moore, Kepu, Mumm, Horwill, Fardy, Hooper, Pocock.
Replacements: Polota-Nau, Slipper, Holmes, Skelton, McCalman, White, Toomua, Beale.
New Zealand: B Smith, Milner-Skudder, C Smith, Williams, Savea, Carter, A Smith, Woodcock, Coles, O Franks, Retallick, Romano, Kaino, McCaw, Read.
Replacements: Taylor, B Franks, Laulala, Whitelock, Cane, Perenara, Barrett, Fekitoa.
Referee: Wayne Barnes (RFU)
The home side were in control after full-back Damien McCrory thumped home a low first-half shot from 20 yards.
Nasser El Khayati almost added a second, but Jon McLaughlin failed to hold a corner allowing striker Andy Mangan to net Shrewsbury's equaliser.
Mason Bennett headed El Khayati's cross over before Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro set up Whalley's 93rd minute winner.
Burton surrendered top spot in League One to Gillingham, who moved above them on goal difference, while Shrewsbury moved out of the relegation zone into 20th place.
Burton Albion boss Nigel Clough told BBC Radio Derby:
"It's disappointing that we've lost the game having been 1-0 up.
"I don't think we then did enough to go and get that second goal. We started the second half well and positively, then their goal has come out the blue. I did think it was a foul.
"At least nine times out of 10 you get those given - when a goalkeeper goes up, catches the ball and has the opposition interfere with him. The majority of the time you get those decisions. We didn't get one today."
Shrewsbury Town manager Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire:
"It's a fantastic result. We always knew with the pace of our players that we might grab a winner. Shaun Whalley has done fantastically to get on the end of it.
"There is still work to be done, but we have shown quality to come here to a side like Burton Albion and get a result. We have to try and put a bit of a run together now.
"The game was full of fine margins and we were disappointed to go a goal down, but it was nice to get a goal to equalise from the set-piece at that moment."
The detailed soccer development plan released on Monday by the State Council, China's cabinet, called for an overhaul in the administration of the sport to meet "serious goals", the official Xinhua News Agency reports.
The plan hopes to make the sport more popular in the country to attract young talent. The council also wants the country to host the World Cup tournament in the future.
Papers and local football fans have been critical of the national team's performance and its poor ranking.
China's soccer team is currently ranked 83rd by the International Football Federation (FIFA), the Global Times reports.
Welcoming the plan, Wang Dazhao, a Beijing-based sports commentator, believes the sport's development will "transcend the playing fields".
"Football, as the world's most popular sport, can drive huge economic growth and mass social participation in China. Its development will also boost the country's cultural soft power," the pundit tells the paper.
The China Daily agrees that though China is the world's second-largest economy, "its soccer performances have been sadly lacking on the international stage".
The daily highlights that corruption, including match-fixing and bribery, has "plagued" the game for a long time, prompting the state leadership to step in to take control.
A Xinhua commentary hails the reform as a "milestone" and an "unprecedented strategy" to clear obstacles for the development of the game.
"This is a reform plan from the party and the state council. It has clearly laid out the strategic position of football at the national level," the state media explains.
It points out that the plan is "also part of the comprehensive deep reform of the Chinese society".
Recalling that the national soccer association was mostly led by "non-professionals", the Beijing News says the revamp will change the much-criticised situation.
"It will even provide a good model for reforming other sports and even official organisations in China," adds the editorial.
Papers also criticise Western media's attempt to "demonise" Russian President Vladimir Putin with rumours about his "disappearance".
Mr Putin met Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev in St Petersburg on Monday, ending speculation about his absence since 5 March.
His disappearance from public view had sparked rumours that he might have fallen ill.
The Global Times lashes out at Western media outlets for trying to "demonise" Mr Putin.
"Mr Putin has been depicted as a dictator in Western rhetoric," says the daily, pointing out that "the foreign policy of the US and some European powers are made rashly and stubbornly".
The paper, however, adds that China's diplomatic strategy may "benefit from the confrontation between the West and Russia".
A Beijing News commentary believes that "strategic distrust, political and cultural differences" are some of the reasons behind the "low-class rumours" about "Mr Putin's disappearance".
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He has purchased the entire South Ayrshire complex, including the hotel, from Dubai-based group Leisurecorp for an undisclosed sum.
In a statement, Mr Trump said it was "an honour and privilege to own one of golf's greatest and most exciting properties".
The course will continue to be managed by Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
Turnberry is the only course in the Open circuit to be owned privately. Mr Trump has ambitions to host the Open at his other course in Aberdeenshire.
In a statement, Mr Trump said: "I intend to invest many millions of dollars (pounds) in order to bring the hotel to the highest levels of luxury.
"When completed, I believe that the Turnberry Hotel will be the finest and most luxurious hotel in all of Europe."
In February, Mr Trump indicated he had no further plans to invest in Scotland following a long-running dispute over a planned offshore wind farm.
He and his company had consistently opposed the plan, which he claimed would spoil the view from his development at the Menie Estate.
When the Aberdeenshire plan was approved, Mr Trump said: "We will appeal this decision, and in the meantime we will be focusing all of our investment and energy towards our new acquisition on the Atlantic Ocean in Ireland."
His campaign against the wind farm included an open letter to First Minister Alex Salmond.
In it he said: "Taxing your citizens to subsidise wind projects owned by foreign energy companies will destroy your country and its economy.
"Jobs will not be created in Scotland because these ugly monstrosities known as turbines are manufactured in other countries such as China.
"These countries are laughing at you."
In his response, Mr Salmond said he was "determined that communities across Scotland will benefit directly from offshore wind, which is forecast to generate about £30bn of investment and lead to the creation of up to 28,000 Scottish jobs".
Turnberry has hosted the Open Championship four times, most recently in 2009.
That year, it was won by Stewart Cink of the United States.
It has also been the venue for the Senior's Open and the Women's British Open.
The golf resort comprises three courses, a hotel, self-catering accommodation and a spa.
Its official website claims it was the first purpose-planned golfing resort in Britain.
Most people don't share the humdrum realities of parenthood and children on Facebook - the endless episodes of Paw Patrol on the "electronic babysitter", the fight over a long-neglected plastic toy from a Christmas cracker pulled in 2012, and the can't-be-bothered Sunday night teas of sugar-coated breakfast cereal.
But Gill Sims is not most people.
Her blog, Peter and Jane, is an honest, sweary, tongue-in-cheek account of a pretty normal, middle-class Scottish family. In less than a year, her daily Facebook posts about Mummy, Daddy, their two "precious moppets", and their pet "Judgy dog" has become a cult hit, attracting more than 250,000 followers.
They enjoy daily updates about mundane events which must happen in homes across the country - but they are recounted in a style which crosses Peppa Pig with Bridget Jones. In one popular recent post, she described a "major catastrophe" when her "busy and important" husband lost his car keys.
She wrote: "Mummy is sick to death of being expected to find things, and has told Daddy to find his own (expletive) keys.
"That's OK though, because Daddy has a special method of looking for things, which involves stamping around the house in a thunderous temper having a massive tantrum and shouting at everybody and blaming them for the missing car keys."
She eventually found the keys in the pocket of his jeans (obviously), along with £40 in cash - which she quietly pocketed as her "finders fee".
"Mummy is going to spend her £40 windfall on posh gin," she wrote. "Mummy is not going to share the posh gin with Daddy, but she may well brain him with the empty bottle when she has drunk it all."
Ms Sims, who has a background in engineering and works for a software company, told the BBC Scotland website that the blog was "a bit of light-hearted fun really, about the everyday, really dull bits of parenting - and marriage and family".
She said she started writing the posts after joking with her friend about how much she swears but she has been overwhelmed by the feedback she has received from other parents.
"It was never planned to turn into the something the size of what it's become," she said. "I suppose I do it because it's so nice to see that there are so many people are feeling the same, doing the same things, having the same experiences."
Her page really took off after she described a typical day keeping the family afloat during last year's school summer holidays. It was a post that was shared 67,000 times.
"It was about the middle of July and it was just a post about a really long day in the school holidays and all the things you end up doing in the school holidays to entertain the children and keep everything going and everything else, and then your husband comes home and says "so what did you do today?"
"For some reason that, I don't know why, that was the one that kind of just took off. I wouldn't even say it was particularly good post or one of the best I've done. But for whatever reason that seemed to be the one the struck a chord."
Another post about post-natal depression, during which she recounts being approached by two police officers as she tearfully pushed the baby in its pram at 02:00 one morning, also provoked a strong reaction.
"It seemed to really make a difference to a lot of people who spoke about their own experiences, for the first time in a lot of cases," she said.
"A lot of people messaged as well to say 'that's how I felt but I've never really been able to put it into words'. So from that perspective, I think that was probably one of the ones that I think was a good one in that it seemed to help a lot of people."
The camera-shy blogger generally illustrates her writing with two of the recurring elements of her musings - alcohol and her beloved Border Terrier, Buddy, who is known to readers as "Judgy Dog". Indeed, he has built up such a following he now has a Facebook page of his own.
"Some days I have no idea what I'm going to write about, it's just kind of let's see what happens today kind of thing," she said.
"Other days I've got a bit more of an idea. But sometimes it really is what silly thing are they going to do today, my darling children? Or indeed my darling husband?"
She added: "Sometimes I spend quite a lot of time on them and I think that's quite good and it's not that popular.
"Other times, I've got half an hour and I dash something off and everyone really likes it. I'm never able to tell what's going to resonate and what's not.
"I'm still very much winging it, I have to say."
She said her school-age children don't really want to feature in the blog - they are only referred to as the Girl Child and the Boy Child - but she has received warm praise at the school gates.
"It seems to have gone down really, really well. People who have never really spoken to me before have come over to me and said 'oh, we really like it'," she said.
"Online feedback is pretty much all positive as well. People find it funny, people feel it reflects their own experiences.
"There's the odd negative bit usually from - and this sounds really bad - but usually from a grumpy man saying you should get a life or whatever else. But that's really the odd comment. It's by and large positive."
Her work has inevitably led to comparisons with other "mummy bloggers", like The Unmumsy Mum and Hurrah for Gin, who have both both been snapped up by publishers since starting blogs.
Ms Sims is coy about any plans for a Peter and Jane book, though she admits there are a few projects in offing. "We'll have to wait and see," she said.
So how would she describe their genre of writing? Are they writing "angry mum blogs"?
"We are sometimes angry, I think just real mums, honest mums, slightly frustrated mums."
Vettel's best lap was 0.47 seconds quicker than Hamilton, doing little to diminish the sense that Ferrari may offer a closer challenge in 2016.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was third fastest, a further 0.6secs behind, with Williams' Valtteri Bottas fourth.
Jenson Button managed sixth fastest for McLaren-Honda, 1.8secs off the pace.
Read more: A closer look at the 2016 cars
Headline lap times in pre-season testing are notoriously unreliable indications of true competitiveness because the teams do not reveal the specifications the cars are running in.
Nevertheless, Vettel alternated fastest times with Mercedes' Hamilton throughout the day, giving the impression that Ferrari have, as promised, made a significant step forward this season.
Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg, who drives the Mercedes on Tuesday, said: "Ferrari are looking strong already and definitely we are expecting them to be a big threat."
However, Mercedes were as imposing as ever. Hamilton managed more than 150 laps - twice as much as any other car - and was fast throughout the day.
The world champion, gunning for his third consecutive title and his fourth in all, said he was "very satisfied" with his first day in his new car.
"It is a great start to the first day of testing," Hamilton said. "To get it to perform as well as it has with the least amount of problems, the guys have done a great job.
"It feels very much the same as last year's. It is an evolution so it doesn't really feel any different, but that is a good thing. It feels good and we have had lots of laps so far."
The US-based Haas team, who are joining F1 this season, had a difficult debut, their new car suffering a front wing failure on the main straight while Romain Grosjean was travelling at around 200mph.
This sort of thing is not unusual - Force India suffered a series of structural failures at the Hungarian Grand Prix last year - but it underlines the steep learning curve Haas will be on this year, despite their close links with Ferrari.
However, Grosjean did say his first impressions of the car were "great" and expressed his optimism the failure would not badly disrupt the team's programme.
The Franco-Swiss did run again towards the end of the day, finishing with the eighth fastest time.
Meanwhile, McLaren's testing programme did not get off to a great start.
The team hope for a significant improvement after a difficult 2015 season with the new Honda engine, which was both uncompetitive and unreliable.
The car ran reliably, completing about 80 laps, second best among the new cars after Mercedes.
But Button's fastest time was set on the 'soft' tyre - which is significantly faster than the medium used by Vettel, Hamilton, Ricciardo and Bottas ahead of him.
Racing director Eric Boullier said the new car's performance on its debut was "not good enough" because of a couple of problems that restricted mileage.
Boullier said: "The first data we have gathered on the car are looking as though the numbers on the car is correlating, so that's good. So that means we know the car is better than last year."
He added that Honda was "clearly on the right path" and that it had made some "good improvements" to the engine.
Honda is running an initial version of its engine at this test and plans to introduce an upgraded design at the second and final test next week.
The Japanese company said they expect to make step by step progress throughout the year as they seek to close on Mercedes.
Britain's Jolyon Palmer, embarking on his maiden grand prix season, was slowest of all after a problem-hit day in the Renault.
Although this year will have the shortest pre-season testing programme ever, at just eight days, it is far too early to draw any firm conclusions about the season ahead.
First impressions are that predictions of a closer fight between Mercedes and Ferrari look like being correct - and that could mean the first genuine two-way title fight since 2012, when Vettel and Fernando Alonso, then at Ferrari, disputed the championship.
Even at this stage, it seems relatively safe to say that it would be a surprise if any other team regularly challenged the top two.
And it is clear McLaren - and particularly engine partner Honda - still have a significant amount of work to do to realise their ambitions of returning to winning ways.
Fastest times
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Ferrari 1:24.939
2 Lewis Hamilton (GB) Mercedes 1:25.409
3 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Red Bull 1:26.044
4 Valtteri Bottas (Fin) Williams 1:26.091
5 Antonio Celis** (Spa) Force India 1:26.298
6 Jenson Button (GB) McLaren 1:26.735
7 Carlos Sainz (Spa) Toro Rosso 1:27.180
8 Marcus Ericsson (Swe) Sauber* 1:27.555
9 Pascal Wehrlein (Ger) Manor 1:28.282
10 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Haas 1:28.399
11 Jolyon Palmer (GB) Renault 1:31.006
*= 2015 car
** = development driver
Celis, Button and Wehrlein set best times on soft tyre; all others on medium
The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir's song A Bridge Over You topped the chart in 2015 ahead of Bieber's Love Yourself.
The deal with Decca Records will see them release their debut album Something Inside So Strong next month.
Decca is part of Universal Music, which is also home to Bieber.
The choir won the Christmas battle after the Canadian pop singer urged his 72 million Twitter followers to "do the right thing" and help the charity single get to the top spot.
Choir co-ordinator Caroline Smith, who works as a children's physiotherapist, said "I'm delighted to be able to represent and support the NHS with such a special album. When everyone comes together in the choir it's really powerful, I've never experienced anything quite like it."
The album, out on on 27 May, includes 12 songs including Bill Withers' Lean On Me, Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud and Carole King's You've Got A Friend.
Its release also marks the 70th anniversary of the passing of the NHS Act of July 1946.
The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust have directed that a minimum of £40,000 from the sale of the album are paid to its charitable funds.
The choir, which features physiotherapists, porters and administrators as well as doctors and nurses, were runners up on Gareth Malone's BBC Two show Sing While You Work in 2012.
The bomb exploded in a market in the city of Maiduguri, in Borno state.
"The explosive devices were wrapped around her body," a police source told Reuters.
No group has said it carried out the attack. The market is reported to have been targeted twice in a week by female bombers late last year.
Correspondents say that all the signs point to the militant Islamist Boko Haram group.
They have been fighting to establish an Islamic caliphate in the north-eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, which have borne the worst violence in their five year insurgency.
Borno State police spokesman Gideon Jubrin said that the girl bomber let off an improvised explosive device near the area of the Maiduguri market where chickens were sold.
The BBC's Abdulahi Kaura in Lagos says that this will not be the first suicide bombing involving young girls, part of a new militant strategy intended to capitalise on the fact that people in the Muslim-dominated north are less suspicious of women.
In other violence reported on Saturday a vehicle in Yobe state exploded at a checkpoint near a police station, killing at least two people.
The blast follows heavy fighting in the Yobe state capital Damaturu on Friday night, with buildings destroyed and civilian casualties reported.
Hundreds of people were killed on Wednesday in an assault by Boko Haram on the town of Baga, following on their seizure of a key military base there on 3 January,
Scores of bodies from that attack - described by Amnesty International as possibly the "deadliest massacre" in the history of Boko Haram - are reported to remain strewn in the bush.
District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims in the Baga attack were children, women or elderly people who were not able to escape when insurgents forced their way into the town by firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.
Boko Haram has taken control of many towns and villages in north-eastern Nigeria over the past year.
The conflict has displaced at least 1.5 million people, while more than 2,000 were killed last year.
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Some 10,000 people have fled to Chad over the last week to escape the violence, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis, officials say.
Others are fleeing to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, in buses provided by the government.
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The Keelman's Way, close to Ryton Golf Club, has been closed off, after what is thought to be coal waste from an old colliery caught fire.
Council officials fear some sections of the path could collapse.
Tyne and Wear Fire Brigade believe the blaze may have started in November and could continue burning for several months or even years.
Look North's Gerry Jackson reports.
The GM Health and Social Care Partnership Board said the move would make 24/7 urgent primary care provision easier for patients to access.
The additional access will revolve around neighbourhood hubs and "clusters" where weekend and evening appointments will be available.
The board said it hopes the plans will reduce pressure on hospital A&E units.
The investment will also provide patients access to a range of other health and social care services such as diagnostics, blood tests and X-rays as well as supporting nursing and residential homes.
Partnership chairman Lord Peter Smith said: "This £41m investment will ensure that our GPs across Greater Manchester are supported to provide high quality care now and in the future.
"Putting primary care back at the heart of our local communities is absolutely the right thing to do and shows how devolution can make gains for patients' right across Greater Manchester."
The plans do not mean that every GP practice in the region will have extra opening hours.
Instead it is envisaged patients having enhanced access at the neighbourhood level through "clusters" of practices working together, supported by a designated hub serving around 50,000 patients.
Dr David Wrigley, a Lancashire GP and BMA Council Deputy Chair, said: "It is good to hear about some new investment into general practice but I am concerned seven-day routine working is being rolled out when GPs struggle to provide a good five-day service, Monday to Friday, due to the years of under investment.
"We are short of thousands of GPs across the country and this new seven-day plan will seek to stretch my colleagues even more thinly across the week."
The board, which took control of the region's £6bn health and social care budget in 2016, was told 2,500 patients who could be treated elsewhere are dealt with every day in A&E units across the region.
The plan will build on some schemes already in operation in Greater Manchester, such as in Bury.
Bury has had full extended GP access in place since January 2015 with weekday appointments available up to 20:00, and from 08:00 to 18:00 at weekends, delivered from three hub sites.
Surgeries in England are currently expected to open between 08:00 and 18:30 on weekdays with extra funding available to those offering slots outside those hours.
But the government wants GPs to stay open longer unless they can prove the demand is not there.
Greater Manchester's primary care reform plans were approved at a meeting in Wigan.
The firm did not say how long the repurchase scheme would last. Its previous buyback, also worth $40bn, was announced in September 2013 and is due to be completed by the end of the year.
Share buybacks tend to support a company's share price and are popular with investors.
Microsoft also announced that it was raising its quarterly dividend by 8%, to 39 cents a share.
Microsoft shares rose 1% in after-hours trading.
Earlier this year Microsoft announced its biggest ever acquisition - the purchase of the professional networking website LinkedIn - for just over $26bn (£18bn) in cash.
That was considered a high price for LinkedIn, which reported an annual loss of $166m.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said it was part of Microsoft's transformation into a cloud computing business, providing a range of professional services to clients - including a social network to connect them to each other.
Sterling rose 1.86% against the dollar to $1.32.40, and was 1.73% higher against the euro at €1.19.57.
The FTSE 100 share index hit fresh 11-month highs before falling back and closing scarcely changed at 6,680.69, that is a slight fall of 2.17 points or 0.03%.
The more UK-focused FTSE 250 index rose 68.75 points, or 0.4%, to 16,775.14.
The property sector - which saw a steep sell-off immediately after the Brexit vote - received a boost from Galliford Try. The housebuilder said it still expected full-year profits to be in line with expectations sending its shares up 8.5%.
Financial stocks - another victim of the post-referendum sell-off - were also having a better day. Shares in insurer Aviva rose 4.26% while Lloyds Banking Group gained 2.55%.
"Theresa May's virtual 'coronation' as prime minister has delivered a boost to the pound as the clouds of uncertainty following the Brexit vote start to disperse," said Neil Wilson, markets analyst at ETX Capital.
"The leadership question has been settled and two months earlier than markets had been anticipating. This is feeding into strong bids for sterling and property stocks as investors eye potential bargains."
The removal of uncertainty at the top of the Conservative Party also provided a boost to sterling.
The rise came despite evidence to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee on Tuesday from the Governor of the Bank of England.
Mark Carney indicated that the Bank, whose monetary policy committee meets on Thursday, was ready to provide more stimulus to cushion the British economy.
"We see more downside for the pound both on Thursday and the months ahead," said Josh O'Byrne, Citi currency strategist in London.
The defence ministry said the aircraft, all of it made by the Soviet Union or China, would go under auction in the capital Tirana on 22 February.
The ministry said all the aircraft would be of "historic" value only, and "for a civilian purpose".
Various museums and private collectors had expressed an interest, a ministry spokeswoman told the AFP news agency.
Edlira Prendi said that although the overall auction value had been put at about 440,000 euros ($483,000), each aircraft could be sold individually.
The items for sale include 10 Mig-19s, six Mig-21s, six Yak-18s and four Mi-4 helicopters.
Ms Prendi said they had received expressions of interest from Greece, Germany, France and the United States, AFP reports.
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The 28-year-old former Wales non-league international previously made 38 appearances for Newport County in the 2015-16 season.
Gateshead boss Neil Aspin tried to sign him when he was in charge at Halifax.
"He's now got the chance to come back into professional football. He has the hunger to do well and is a proven player at this level," said Aspin.
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Mark Keary said pupils cannot access Twitter or Facebook on Bethnal Green Academy computers.
"Police have advised us there is no evidence radicalisation took place at the academy," he said.
Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, flew from London to Turkey on Tuesday.
UK police officers have gone to Turkey but their role has not been confirmed.
The girls were all studying for their GCSEs at the east London school, which reopened on Monday after half term.
The head teacher said the school was "shocked and saddened" by the girls' disappearance.
"This situation follows the earlier disappearance of a student in December of last year," he said.
"The police spoke to the student's friends at that time and, further to this, they indicated there was no evidence the girls were at risk of being radicalised or absconding."
Mr Keary said it was business as usual for the 1,200 pupils and staff, although "a full programme of briefing sessions" with police and counter-radicalisation groups was available.
"The priority for all of us is the safe return of the girls," he added.
The girls boarded a Turkish Airlines flight from Gatwick, and would have needed a visa for Turkey and a passport.
It has emerged that Shamima used the passport of her 17-year-old sister Aklima to travel.
Security services have been criticised after it emerged that, before leaving the UK, Shamima sent a Twitter message to Aqsa Mahmood, who left Glasgow for Syria in 2013 to marry an Islamic State fighter.
According to a lawyer for Ms Mahmood's family, her Twitter account has been "monitored" by police since she left Britain.
He said authorities should have seen Shamima's message and taken action before she and her two friends followed.
Their families have made appeals for them to come home.
Another of Shamima's sisters, Renu Begum, said she hoped her sister had gone to Syria to bring back the girl who had gone there from Bethnal Green Academy in December.
Ms Begum said Shamima and her friends were "young" and "vulnerable" and if anyone had tried to persuade them to go to Syria it was a "cruel and evil" thing to do.
Amira's father, Abase Hussen, said: "The message we have for Amira is to get back home.
"We miss you. We cannot stop crying. Please think twice. Don't go to Syria."
In an appeal to Kadiza, her sister, Halima Khanom, said: "Find the courage in your heart to contact us and let us know that you are safe and you are OK.
"That is all we ask of you."
It said a lack of online presence and competition by cut-price shops, such as Lidl and Aldi, were behind the fall.
Tesco's like-for-like sales also fell, down by 2.4% during the Christmas period, and its shares fell by 4%.
The supermarket giant said the fall was partly due to a "weaker grocery market" in the UK.
Morrisons said it had seen a "disappointing" performance because of difficult market conditions and the rival discounts. The like-for-like sales figures exclude new stores.
In a statement, the supermarket said: "The difficult market conditions were intensified for Morrisons by the accelerating importance of the online and convenience channels, where Morrisons is currently under-represented, and by targeted couponing which was particularly prevalent in the market this Christmas."
The BBC's business editor Robert Peston said:"A retailer without a substantial online presence... is on a fast road to obsolescence."
During a conference call with analysts, Dalton Philips, chief executive at Morrisons, said the supermarket's overlap with discounters was "significant", adding the threat posed "quite a challenge".
The supermarket chain predicted its full-year profit would be at the "bottom of the range of current market expectation".
Will Hedden, sales trader at spread-betting firm IG, said: "There is the impression that more and more business is going online, and Morrisons has been slow to come into that area.
"Their online offering is going to need to become pretty good, pretty quickly to compete."
Yorkshire-based Morrisons is set to enter the online shopping market on Friday, as it launches a trial in Warwickshire, covering parts of the Midlands.
It aims to provide 50% of the country with an online facility by the end of 2014, a spokesperson for Morrisons said.
Smaller distribution centres are planned in Yorkshire, London and the North West.
Tesco also said overseas sales were down 0.7%, citing political instability in Thailand as partly behind the fall.
Philip Clarke, chief executive at Tesco, said its move to open fewer stores in the UK was also behind the sales drop.
He said focusing on opening smaller, express stores in the UK would help.
Mr Clarke added: "Our overseas performance has improved since the third quarter, driven by an improving trend in Europe. This is despite continuing external challenges, including the recent political disruption in Thailand."
Tesco said its website had done well over Christmas, with a 14% rise in the number of UK online sales.
Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, said Tesco's competitors, the discount retailers had "loudly announced their arrival", while the supermarket's investment in its store revamp would continue to help profitability.
But he praised the strong performance of Tesco's website and its effort to concentrate on smaller stores, which bought a "record" trading day.
Responding to the news of today's retail figures, Chancellor George Osborne said it showed that the industry is "very competitive" and that the "economic recovery is not yet secure."
"We have to work through the long-term economic plan that is turning Britain around and we need to make sure we get balanced growth across the whole country and we get investments and exports alongside consumer spending.
"That is exactly what our economic plan is designed to deliver."
The figure was far lower than the 205,000 increase forecast by economists.
The number of jobs created in July and August were revised down by a combined 59,000.
Wall Street opened sharply lower, with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes both down about 1.3%.
However, both indexes later recovered to be up about 0.5% and 0.6% respectively.
The poor figures also resulted in a rollercoaster ride for the FTSE 100, which ended the day up 0.9% at 6,129.9 points despite also turning negative in afternoon trading.
The Labor Department numbers reinforced fears that the China-led global economic slowdown is hitting America's recovery, adding to doubt about whether the Federal Reserve will raise rates before 2016.
The number of new jobs for August was cut by 37,000 to 136,000 - in sharp contrast to the upward revision expected by economists.
The July total was also reduced, by 22,000 to 245,000.
There's no sugar coating it, this was an ugly report.
After months of solid growth, the US labour market took a break over the summer.
The number of Americans in the labour force dropped to a 38-year low. The labour force participation rate - those in work or seeking employment - plunged to 62.4% in September.
Just as bad for those with jobs, wages were flat and they worked fewer hours.
The slowdown is seen by many as evidence that economic difficulties abroad are beginning to wash up on US shores.
With the jobs report now pointing to slower US growth, stocks tumbled. Investors are nervous. This doesn't bode well for results season, which kicks off next week in America.
And the weak report will no doubt complicate the task of US Federal Reserve officials, deciding when to raise interest rates for the first time in a decade.
Many economists believe a rate hike is less likely this year.
Tom Porcelli, chief US economist at RBC Capital Markets, described Friday's non-farm payrolls report as "absolutely weak".
"So if you have a weak report here in combination with some of the other weakness that we are seeing across the globe, the odds [of a rate rise] get dinged for December," he said.
"Every aspect of the September jobs report was disappointing," said Michelle Girard, an economist at RBS Securities. She also believed that the Fed "will be forced to stay on hold over the remainder of the year".
The number of new jobs created in the US has averaged 198,000 a month for 2014 - below last year's average of 260,000.
However, the unemployment rate held steady at 5.1%.
The jobless rate, which is derived from a separate survey of households, was unchanged only because 350,000 workers stopped looking for work last month and were no longer counted as part of the labour force.
The proportion of Americans who either have a job or are looking for one fell to a 38-year low, partly reflecting retirements of older workers from the baby boomer generation.
Average hourly wages fell by 1 cent to $25.09 during the month and were only 2.2% higher than the same month in 2014.
The data also knocked the dollar lower, with the pound rising 0.6% to $1.5238 after the numbers were released. Yields on government bonds also fell.
Kevin Friend pointed to the spot after Norwich's Sebastien Bassong collided with Dele Alli in the box, and Harry Kane converted to put Spurs 2-0 up.
"The penalty was an extremely poor decision," Neil said.
"Dele Alli gets a shot at goal, if he ends up putting it in the net it's a goal."
Neil continued to BBC Radio Norfolk: "Bassong has no bearing on where the ball's going to go - as he hits it, he has a free shot at goal, (goalkeeper) Declan Rudd gathers the ball and then there's a collision of bodies.
"It happens all over the pitch on a regular basis and there's very few times you see a free-kick given - for him to make such a key decision in such a big game was really frustrating."
Neil was also unhappy with Kane's second goal just before full-time, which came after Christian Eriksen dispossessed Martin Olsson.
"The ball's on the wrong side of him, Eriksen's come in from the back and he's bumped Martin as he's tried to play the pass, put him on his backside and then runs through," he said.
"Nine times out of 10, the defender would get the benefit of the doubt with that one.
"There was one in the first half with Youssouf Mulumbu that happened with their defender and we didn't get a free-kick for it. I feel like nearly all the 50-50 contentious decisions went in their favour."
Following the defeat, Norwich - who have lost their last five games in all competitions - could find themselves in the bottom three on Wednesday if Newcastle beat Everton.
The mascot first appeared on a 1908 railway poster advertising the Lincolnshire coastal resort.
A new version is due to be placed in a plaza outside the railway station.
Officials had previously failed to agree, with one suggestion from the county council being described as "like a gargoyle" by Skegness Town Council.
Skegness Mayor Mark Anderson added: "It was completely against what our image of our town is."
He said in order to move things along quickly the town council has agreed to use the original design of Jolly pulling a suitcase along.
The county council had previously offered the local authority up to £30,000 for the new statue.
But Skegness Town Council said it did not have the resources to oversee the work.
Martin Hill, leader of the county council said "it has been a bit of a storm in a tea cup".
"Obviously, the first version didn't meet with the town council's approval - so we have said tell us what you want and we'll organise it.
"I'm pleased at last we've got a definitive answer."
The town's more famous Jolly Fisherman statue, which shows him with his arms outstretched on top of a water feature, will remain in Tower Gardens.
Federer, who was bidding for a ninth Halle singles title and his fourth in a row, lost 7-6 (7-4) 5-7 6-3.
Zverev, 19, claimed the biggest win of his career, becoming the first teenager to beat Federer since 2006.
The Swiss will begin his bid for an eighth Wimbledon singles title later this month.
Federer, 34, had previously won 15 straight sets at Halle but Zverev, standing 6ft 6in and ranked 38th in the world, dropped just four points on serve in the opener and won it 7-4 in a tie-break.
The 17-time Grand Slam winner hit back, claiming the first break of the match at 5-5 and serving out the second set.
But Zverev - born in Hamburg to Russian parents - broke in the sixth game of the decider and held on to win in just over two hours, becoming the first teenager to beat Federer since Andy Murray, then aged 19, in Cincinnati in 2006.
"It's a grass-court match - if you miss the chances you pay the price," said Federer. "It worked well for him. I missed too many chances. At the end he was just a little bit better."
Federer said he had work to do before the start of Wimbledon on 27 June after his second loss on grass this month.
He was also beaten by Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals of the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart last week.
"There are little things that have to fall into place then I will play better and feel better," added Federer. "I hope that happens sooner rather than later.
"I have to see how I feel at the beginning of Wimbledon. I know the dangers of the early rounds of any Grand Slam.
"I now know what I need to work on in the next 10 days. Clearly I need some rest. It has been intense and busy and that is exactly what I have needed, and at least I have a clear picture if where my game is at and what I need to do."
He will lead the White House National Trade Council, and serve as director of trade and industrial policy.
Mr Navarro advised Mr Trump during the campaign. His books include The Coming China Wars and Death by China.
Mr Trump has also named billionaire investor Carl Icahn to become a special adviser on regulatory reform.
Mr Icahn, who will not be a federal employee, has said that US businesses are being "crippled" by excessive regulations.
A statement from Mr Trump's transition team said the appointment of Peter Navarro showed his "determination to make American manufacturing great again".
During the election, the president-elect made trade issues a core campaign issue, criticising deals made with countries like China and Mexico.
Mr Trump has already angered China by speaking to the Taiwanese president by phone, in apparent contradiction with America's "one China" policy.
He has also criticised China on Twitter, recently accusing it of deliberately devaluing its currency, among other claims.
The latest move came as Chinese online retailer Alibaba was placed back on the US list of "notorious markets" over counterfeit goods sales.
Alibaba Group President Michael Evans questioned whether the move was "based on actual facts or influenced by the current political climate".
Mr Navarro adapted his book Death by China into a documentary film narrated by Martin Sheen. It is available to watch for free on YouTube.
In its preamble, he urges viewers "help defend America and protect your family - don't buy 'Made in China'."
The film highlights the sustained loss of American manufacturing jobs at a time of Chinese economic growth, as well as the environmental impact of Chinese industry.
Many other economists, however, fear that aggressive moves against Chinese trade could prompt a trade war, with repercussions on both sides.
Chinese media highlight Mr Navarro's strongly held views and his earlier literature on China. Many mention his book, Death By China, which alleges that the US is threatened by China's economic dominance.
Shanghai-based website Observer Net says Mr Navarro is well known as "an economist who advocates a tough stance on China". Phoenix News calls him a "Taiwan-friendly official".
But media largely play down any major shake-ups between the two countries.
Popular news site The Paper quotes trade official Bai Ming as saying that "appointing Navarro will of course increase the pressure on Sino-US trade" but says that "the United States' own national interests" will also be taken into account.
Reports from the UK Airprox Board reveal the incidents happened between 11 April and 4 October 2015.
In one incident a drone passed within 25m (82ft) of a Boeing 777 near London Heathrow Airport.
Pilots union Balpa wants the government and safety regulator to back research into how serious a strike could be.
The incident at Heathrow was one of 12 that were given an "A" rating by the independent board, meaning there was "a serious risk of collision". It is the most serious risk rating out of five.
Other incidents given the most serious rating include a drone coming within 20m (66ft) of a Embraer 170 jet on its approach to London City Airport above the Houses of Parliament on 13 September.
On the same day, a Boeing 737 had a near miss with a drone shortly after take-off from Stansted Airport in Essex.
Regulations set by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) prohibits unmanned aircraft from flying within 50m (164ft) of any vessel, vehicle or structure that is not in the control of the person in charge of the aircraft.
The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) wants the Department for Transport and the CAA to back research into the possible consequences of a collision with a passenger jet.
Former RAF and British Airways pilot Steve Landells warned that a drone hitting an airliner could result in an uncontrolled engine failure or a smashed cockpit windscreen.
Mr Landells, Balpa's flight safety specialist, said there was a large amount of data on the effects of bird strikes on planes, but he said specific drone research was needed because "birds don't have a big lump of lithium battery in them".
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Many pilots think it's a matter of time before one actually strikes a plane, yet no-one has any real idea what would happen if it did.
Balpa says it is possible a drone could smash the windscreen, showering the crew with glass, or even cause an uncontrolled engine fire which could bring down the aircraft.
In 2009, an airliner lost both engines coming out of New York after it hit a flock of geese. It was only the skill of the pilot, gliding the aircraft down in an emergency landing on the Hudson River, that saved everyone's life.
Balpa says a drone strike could be even worse, because they have powerful lithium batteries on board that could start an engine fire. It's now asking the government and the safety regulator to help pay for tests to see just how serious a drone strike might be.
Philippa Oldham, from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, said the consequences of a drone hitting an airliner would depend on a number of factors such as the size and speed of the drone and the location of the collision.
"The impact potentially could be anything from nothing to a destruction of an engine," she said.
People who fly drones close to planes could be convicted of endangering the safety of an aircraft, which has a maximum prison sentence of five years, the CAA said.
A spokesman for the regulator urged drone users to understand that the UK has "one of the busiest areas of airspace in the world".
A Department for Transport spokesperson said public safety was "our first priority" and it is working closely with the CAA and airline operators to "improve our understanding and knowledge this emerging technology".
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Juan Manuel Alvarez Inzunza, nicknamed "King Midas", was detained while on holiday in the southern state of Oaxaca.
Guzman, a former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, is currently awaiting extradition to the United States.
He was recaptured in January after breaking out of a high-security prison.
Mr Inzunza is suspected of laundering $300m-$400m a year for the Sinaloa cartel through a network of companies and currency exchange centres.
A US federal court in Washington had requested Mr Inzunza's arrest and he is likely to be extradited.
Guzman himself is also facing extradition to the US on charges of drug trafficking in California, and murder in Texas.
Earlier this month, he asked for the extradition process to progress rapidly so he could receive better treatment in prison.
Since Guzman's recapture in January, six months after he escaped from prison, he has been subject to a stricter regime.
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GB lost only three of the nine bouts, with Richard Kruse winning three, alongside team-mates Alex Tofalides and Marcus Mepstead.
There were six swimming medals, among them gold for Duncan Scott on the last day in the pool, but Natalie Powell and Gemma Gibbons missed out in the judo.
GB will finish with 47 medals in Baku; 18 gold, 10 silver and 19 bronze.
Kruse, who won the last bout against third-ranked Italy, said: "I knew we were capable of it.
"On paper they are the stronger team but we showed some real willpower today to come together and showed the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
In judo, Welsh fighter Powell lost her bronze medal -78kg meeting with Ana Velensek of Slovenia and finished fifth.
The 24-year-old Commonwealth champion had earned a spot in the third-place bout after winning her repechage against Hungary's Abigel Joo.
Earlier on, Olympic silver medallist Gibbons was beaten in the round of 16 in the same weight category by Ukraine's Victoria Turks.
Speaking after her second-round defeat in Baku, Londoner Gibbons, 28, told BBC Sport: "It was a fight I needed to be winning.
"At the moment I'm managing to take some good wins but I'm not able to put three or four of them together. That's what it takes to win a tournament like this. It's not good enough.
"It's a tough tournament here - probably just under the level of a World Championships or Olympics. It's not an easy event but it's one we [Team GB] should be winning a couple of medals in."
Duncan Scott and Cameron Kurle secured a one-two in the 200m freestyle as Britain won six medals on the final day of swimming action.
Charlie Attwood picked up bronze in the 100m breaststroke while Abbie Wood was the day's other individual winner with bronze in her 200m individual medley final.
And there was more relay success for the Brits as the women's 4x200m freestyle team (Hannah Featherstone, Darcy Deakin, Georgia Coates and Holly Hibbott) took bronze and the men's 4x100m medley quartet (Scott, Attwood, Luke Greenbank and Martyn Walton) won silver to take the tally to 23 for the competition.
The party's officers discussed what action to take against the former enterprise minister this weekend.
On Thursday, Mr Bell appeared on BBC NI accusing DUP advisers of delaying his plans to close down the controversial Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
However, the party has denied this and leader Arlene Foster has criticised Mr Bell over his handling of the matter.
The DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson said Mr Bell had been suspended without prejudice.
"If you look at the DUP rules, Jonathan did not seek permission for the interview that he did," he said.
"He did not tell the party in advance what he was doing and that's not the way that most political parties operate."
Mr Donaldson said Mrs Foster would not be "running away from her responsibilities".
"She's got nothing to hide, she's made absolutely clear she will make full disclosure of everything - all documents, papers, records of meetings," he said.
On Sunday afternoon, the DUP said it supported the need for an independent and speedy investigation and said the party had been working with officials to reach agreement on the details of such an inquiry.
The Assembly will debate a motion to exclude Mrs Foster as first minister on Monday.
The DUP has accused the BBC of falling for "spin" from Mr Bell over the flawed green energy scheme.
Mrs Foster has apologised for not putting a cap on the costs of the lucrative scheme but denies any intervention that may have prolonged it.
It is estimated the way the scheme was set-up will cost taxpayers £400m over its 20-year lifetime.
Mr Bell told the BBC that top advisers from his DUP party stopped him from restricting the RHI scheme.
According to Mr Bell, the advisers, who deny the allegations against them, secretly tried to "cleanse the record" of references to Mrs Foster.
Those alleged attempts to alter the papers were made "without my knowledge, without my consent", Mr Bell said, and were revealed to him by a senior civil servant at the department.
Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy has said the DUP needed to "do the right thing" over the issue.
"I don't believe that the DUP are immune from the anger that there is out there in the public," he said.
"This has placed a huge question mark over public confidence in the institutions and for that reason the DUP need to do the right thing - have their first minister step aside, agree to a full public independent inquiry and get to the core of these matters."
Meanwhile, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt has said he has asked the Equality Commission to investigate Mrs Foster's "failure to act" after comments she made "revealing alleged knowledge of intimidation in the workplace".
"She clearly stated knowledge of alleged intimidation of female colleagues, yet with no apparent discharge of her duty of care to intervene," Mr Nesbitt said.
"If this isn't investigated, what motivation is there for others in positions of leadership to act to protect colleagues?"
The incident happened on the northbound carriageway of the A90 near Gallowfauld, Tealing, in Angus at about 06:00.
The nearside lane of the northbound carriageway was closed while an inquiry was launched into the collision.
It is understood that the driver was the only occupant of the vehicle at the time of the crash.
It is something of a side-show to the headline acts here in New York - President Obama and President Putin.
But the prime minister does believe Britain has a role to play. RAF Tornadoes are already carrying out airstrikes against IS targets in Iraq and Britain is carrying out surveillance and air-to-air refuelling in Syria.
Mr Cameron has said he believes there is a strong case for extending that action into Syria. But he has always stressed that he would not take action in Syria without parliamentary approval and has made it clear that he won't put it to a vote unless he is confident of winning it.
I understand the government has already been working to try to establish how many MPs across all parties might be prepared to support such action.
So when might it be put to a vote? David Cameron and his senior aides insist the position has not changed but it is clear that the circumstances certainly have.
Downing Street officials accept that the Russian build-up in Syria complicates the international picture. Russia's actions and attitude are now key to Syria's future.
President Putin has made it clear he wants to keep President Assad in power in order to defeat the bigger enemy - IS extremists.
David Cameron still insists Assad cannot stay in power. Last night he told me: "I don't believe Assad can play a role in the future of Syria. He's part of the problem, not part of the solution."
But he also said: "You need to have a transition and the exact terms of the transition has to be worked out."
It is clear that Britain has had to accept that it may be necessary to allow Assad to stay on in some form of interim role if a longer term solution is to be achieved, not least because of the need to remain in step with the United States.
The other factor in all this is the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. The anti-war veteran is opposed to extending military action, though the shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has said Labour would look at any proposal to do so.
David Cameron has not even discussed the matter with the new Labour leader yet.
The government is well aware of the potential risks and consequences of any military mission in the Middle East and it seems the prime minister is carefully assessing the rapidly shifting political and military picture before reaching any decision on what Britain should do next.
Police fired smoke grenades to try to restore order.
Thousands of leaflets are to be distributed at the camp telling people they must leave before it is bulldozed.
Meanwhile the first unaccompanied children from the camp without family ties to the UK have arrived in Britain.
They came under the "Dubs amendment" rules which allow particularly vulnerable children - such as girls and those under 13 - refuge in the UK.
It followed the first wave of 39 boys on Monday - who all had UK relatives.
As many as 10,000 people are estimated to live in the camp. Most will be resettled in other centres across France from Monday.
A group of about 50 migrants was reported on Saturday to have thrown stones at French police. They responded with tear gas and baton charges.
There is concern among charities that some migrants will refuse to go to reception centres elsewhere in France, because they still want to get to the UK.
The BBC's Simon Jones in Calais says that amid the mud and squalor of the Jungle, there is a growing realisation among migrants who call the camp their home that their time there is almost up.
About 10,000 leaflets will be distributed by the French authorities, telling people to report from Sunday morning to a hangar, where they will be taken by bus to other parts of France and given the opportunity to claim asylum.
One French association, L'Auberge des Migrants, believes up to 2,000 of the estimated 10,000 people in the camp may refuse to go, because they want to stay in Calais and be closer to their dream of getting to the UK.
The authorities say they do not want to use force, but if there are migrants who refuse to leave the camp, they may have to intervene.
Citizens UK volunteer Esmat Jeraj told the BBC that the children arriving in the UK are being treated sensitively.
"Understandably some of them are quite reluctant to talk about their experiences," she said, "they've obviously been through hell and back."
The Jungle has played host to scenes of both filth and of violence, as migrants, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, attempt to board lorries bound for the UK, clashing with drivers and police in the process.
A UK-funded wall 1km (0.6 miles) long is being built along the main road to the port in an attempt to deter would-be stowaways. The UK government has not confirmed the cost, but it is reported to have contributed about £1.9m (€2.2m).
Work on the wall, which began last week, is due to be finished by the end of the year.
Although there is some discrepancy over when the inaugural event was held, the consensus is the first carnival was staged sometime between 1964 and 1966.
Organisers say they are marking the 50th anniversary of one of Europe's biggest street parties during the 2014, 2015 and 2016 events.
Held every August Bank Holiday weekend, Sunday is reserved for Children's Day.
We don't yet know what will fill the considerable void that the absence of a military career will leave in his life.
It's no surprise that Harry describes quitting the army as a "really tough decision".
He's cherished doing a job which he was given on merit - and not because he's a prince.
It's a job which, when he was in Afghanistan, included targeting and killing Taliban fighters.
In the coming months, as he undertakes voluntary work in Africa and the UK, he'll have to decide how to occupy himself in the years that lie ahead.
He's rejected, for now, the option of becoming a full-time senior royal.
Officials will be hoping he embraces something which fulfils him and which doesn't give him time to once again be cast as a party prince.
It's little wonder Harry himself talks of being at a crossroads.
The 22-year-old spent the first half of this season on loan at Portsmouth, scoring twice in 12 appearances.
His last game for Pompey was December's FA Cup tie against Accrington, meaning he will be ineligible for the Grecians' third-round replay at Liverpool.
"I've come up against Exeter City already this season and they were really impressive," he said.
"It's a team that I wanted to be a part of, and one that I wanted to see do very well. They beat us at Fratton Park, and the lads were really impressed with how they played."
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The base was given to the Northern Ireland Executive by the Ministry of Defence in 2011.
There has been at least one previous attempt to sell the site.
Demolition has taken place in a corner of the site that the Department of Agriculture plans to move into.
However, most of the 720 acre site is open spaces, empty offices, and aircraft hangars, and there are two airstrips.
Jo Gilbert brought the first films to studios in east Belfast which incorporate Harland and Wolff shipyard's former Paint Hall building.
Her company has now leased the Shackleton base and is turning it into production office and studio space to rent out to production teams for film and television shoots.
"We are here for the long term," she said.
"This site is absolutely tailor made to develop a whole new centre of excellence for the media and creative industries."
The army left the site in 2008, and much has become overgrown, but Ms Gilbert is using old army accommodation to house cast and crew.
One production is currently on site and will begin filming next week.
The film called Property of the State, is the first in a line of productions already on the books.
Generous tax breaks, access to locations both north and south of the border, and space to film pretty much anything you want are what Ms Gilbert thinks are the key attractions to Ballykelly.
"There's lots of interests from the States, this is a place with so much potential, we will have five productions running concurrently on this site," she added.
A British production of Jeffery Archer's prison diaries is one of a number of films that will arrive on site in the next few weeks.
A spokesperson for the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister said Shackleton Studios was one of more than 40 parties that had registered an interest in purchasing the site.
They said the site had been on the market in 2011, but the first and deputy first minister decided at that stage not to sell it "as they wanted to ensure that the sale would deliver maximum benefits for the North West".
Mr Zhou and a Communist party committee spent three years developing the Pinyin system in the 1950s.
It changed the way the language was taught and helped raise literacy rates.
Mr Zhou, who was born in 1906 during the Qing Dynasty, later became a fierce critic of China's communist rulers.
He died in Beijing on Saturday a day after his birthday, Chinese media reported.
As a young man Mr Zhou spent time in the US and worked as a Wall Street banker.
He returned to China after the communist victory in 1949 and was put in charge of creating a new writing system using the Roman alphabet.
"We spent three years developing Pinyin. People made fun of us, joking that it had taken us a long time to deal with just 26 letters," he told the BBC in 2012.
Before Pinyin was developed, 85% of Chinese people could not read, now almost all can.
Pinyin has since become the most commonly used system globally, although some Chinese communities - particularly in Hong Kong and Taiwan - continue to use alternatives.
It is also widely used to type Chinese characters on computers and smartphones, leading some to fear it could end up replacing Chinese characters altogether.
The achievement protected Mr Zhou from some of the persecution that took place under former leader Mao Zedong.
However, he was later sent to the countryside for re-education during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
In his later years he became strongly critical of the Chinese authorities and wrote a number of books, most of which were banned.
In a 2011 interview with NPR he said he hoped he would live long enough to see the Chinese authorities admit that the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 had been a mistake.
He said ordinary people no longer believed in the Communist Party, and that the vast majority of Chinese intellectuals were in favour of democracy.
The British Ironworks Centre was sealed off after the explosive was discovered at the bottom of a pile of metal.
Bedfordshire Police said a centre worker had picked up knives which had been placed in an amnesty bin.
The weapons had been collected by forces nationwide to help the centre create a "knife angel" sculpture.
The attraction in Oswestry, Shropshire, was evacuated on Thursday after the explosive Gelamex was discovered and a controlled explosion was carried out by the Ministry of Defence.
A statement from Bedfordshire Police said: "We are aware of reports that suspected explosives were found in amongst a large amount of knives that had been donated to the Ironworks Centre.
"Bedfordshire Police was one of the locations visited by a representative from the Ironworks Centre on Tuesday to collect the knives that had been placed in the knife bins following a recent knife surrender.
"We were alerted by the centre that suspected explosives had been found and we are looking into whether they originated from us."
The centre, which is also home to the Shropshire Sculpture Park, had asked police forces across the UK to send weapons to them to form part of the sculpture, which will be 20ft (6m) high when complete.
Tens of thousands of knives have been donated already, with 100,000 needed to finish it.
The centre was open as normal on Friday.
But now a source close to the player now says he "doesn't want to stay in Spain" because he is "upset" after being accused of tax fraud in the country.
Ronaldo, 32, joined Madrid from Manchester United for a then world-record £80m in 2009.
The Portugal legend has scored a club-record 406 goals in his 394 appearances for Real.
Only two weeks ago, he helped Zinedine Zidane's side win a 12th European Cup with two goals in a 4-1 victory over Juventus in the Champions League final in Cardiff.
Will that turn out to be his last appearance for Los Merengues? Where could he go? And what would Madrid do without him?
Ramon Calderon, Real Madrid president between 2006-2009, speaking to BBC Radio 5 live
Maybe he's just upset. Maybe it is something he said in a moment when he's really angry. We don't know yet. He's been happy here, he helped us to win three Champions Leagues over the past four years, so I hope he will stay.
But, if he's made his mind up, I don't think it's going to be easy to change. He's very strong-minded and clear in what he wants. If he leaves I don't see him in a place like China or the Middle East. He will be always playing for a big club and trying to get more titles and more personal awards.
He's a fighter and he's in good shape. He can play again for the best club and I think that club now is Real Madrid. I can't tell you what he's doing but I hope he will stay, I'm sure he'll stay.
Richard Martin, sports correspondent in Spain for Reuters
This is not the first time Cristiano Ronaldo has sought to demonstrate his power at Real Madrid by flirting with leaving. In 2012 he used a pitch-side interview to declare "I'm sad and the club know why," provoking panic among fans and at boardroom level.
This latest move, using a newspaper from his own country to declare his discontent, feels remarkably similar. It should also be noted that sources close to Ronaldo called the offices of all Spanish newspapers last night to inform them of the impending front cover story in A Bola.
This latest power struggle is likely to have the same outcome as the last: the offer of an improved contract to legislate for the damage caused by the tax scandal. There is also more than a whiff of deflecting attention from his wrongdoing to a soap opera of where his future lies, emphatically shifting the agenda.
Although he is their all-time top scorer, Ronaldo does not feel undying loyalty to Madrid and has repeatedly aired his grievances at being occasionally booed by supporters.
Even so, the four-time world player of the year believes he still has plenty to give at his 32 years and he knows there is no better club for him than the European and Spanish champions, which is why, in reality, he is going nowhere.
Pete Jenson, Madrid-based football writer
Ronaldo's intention of leaving Real Madrid may well come to nothing, but if he does not back down and looks to force his way out of the club, Madrid will not stand in his way providing they find a club prepared to make it worth their while.
The reaction in Madrid on Friday was one of calm acceptance. The player has indicated a desire to leave before, most notably in 2012 when he complained of not being supported by the club's directors.
The question will be: who buys him? His 1bn euro (£874.88m) buyout clause is beyond everyone's reach but Madrid would probably accept closer to 150m euros (£131m) and immediately look to reinvest it in 18-year-old Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe.
His former club Manchester United would be the romantics' choice to take him but Paris St-Germain are perhaps more likely suitors.
They have long been admirers and their president Nasser Al-Khelaifi is a friend of the Portugal international. Ronaldo would fill the hole left 12 months ago by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Rob Wilson, football finance expert and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University
Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Juventus would have the financial resources to put together a competitive offer within the realms of Financial Fair Play rules.
The other side of the question would be whether they would want to commit so much on one player.
It would be interesting to see what kind of fee Madrid would demand. I would estimate something in the region of £100-120m. To put that into a wider context, that's like a Premier League club spending the entirety of its TV deal money on one player. Plus of course, there's the wages on top of that.
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Another point to bear in mind is that this would not be a 'Galactico' move, where the value of commercial endorsements and merchandise sales would help a club recoup money spent on the transfer fee.
Ronaldo comes surrounded by a group of very well-informed advisors, who already have all various commercial deals in place. For a potential buyer like Manchester United, they might look to leverage something from the story of his return to the club, somehow make that commercially attractive, but we are scratching around on the margins really.
Where you can start to make leverage on players is when they are younger - which is why a player like 18-year-old Monaco striker Kylian Mbappe would be a far more attractive proposition. A buying club knows they can make an awful lot back.
BBC Sport's Simon Stone
Manchester United and all of their fans would love to have Ronaldo back. He made 292 appearances in his time at the club, scoring 118 goals. Wayne Rooney has played double the number of games and scored double the number of goals, but he is held in nowhere near as high esteem.
The fans still sing Ronaldo's name, and all the talk on social media today has been encouraging United chief executive Ed Woodward to get him back.
The problem for United is that they have been down this road before. They have thought they could get players from Madrid in the past, notably defender Sergio Ramos in 2015, who ended up signing a new deal with the Spanish club.
United will be surveying the situation, keeping their head down. They won't be telling anyone that yes, they want to sign Ronaldo, but if they got the chance they would be straight in there.
The word is that he and Jose Mourinho fell out when the latter was in charge of Madrid, but if you were to ask United fans to choose between the two, they would say Ronaldo.
It would be up to Jose to make it work, because I don't think many United fans would understand if they did not take the chance to sign him - if the option was there.
Ronaldo is only one of four players in the club's history to have won the Ballon d'Or while still a United player. The other three - George Best, Dennis Law and Bobby Charlton - have a statue outside the stadium.
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Eduardo Alvarez, Madrid-based football writer speaking to BBC World Service Sport
The reaction among Madrid fans has been one of shock and frustration after a fantastic end to the season. If the Spanish taxman wants him to pay his taxes and he feels mistreated there is not a lot the club can do. You cannot replace 50 goals a season for the past nine seasons. It would be huge if he left Madrid.
It just seems the wrong moment to do this, especially to say it through a Portuguese paper. But it is obvious he feels unfairly treated. He can voice his concerns but the reaction of many supporters is that he should talk to the club instead of talking to the press.
It is unbelievable, most Madrid fans felt like they had a good five years of success ahead of them. The fact that the top scorer seems to be leaving suddenly, out of nowhere, no-one will have expected that.
Rhondda Labour MP Chris Bryant, doyen of parliamentary historians, think so.
As part of the BBC's "Democracy Day" I appeared alongside Mr Bryant on a two-hour programme looking at democracy within and beyond the UK.
My role was to summarise developments in Welsh governance through the ages. I mentioned Owain Glyndwr in passing.
Chris Bryant took the earliest opportunity to correct me: "David Cornock said that Owain Glyndwr held a parliament. He didn't. That is complete myth.
"The only person who ever referred to it anywhere near contemporaneously was Geoffrey of Monmouth and he said he pretended to hold a parliament. Actually, if he gathered anybody he gathered a few barons."
Compared to James Blunt, I got off lightly, but then I did go to a comprehensive school.
The Geoffrey of Monmouth reference may though have come as a surprise to some people, not least because Geoffrey of Monmouth lived three centuries before Glyndwr's day.
A contrite Mr Bryant later realised he had got things wrong and gracefully corrected his own mistake on twitter.
"An apology. I corrected @davidcornock but I was wrong. It wasn't Geoffrey of Monmouth but Adam of Usk who wrote about Owain Glyndwr."
Aside from the reference to Geoffrey of Monmouth, was Chris Bryant right? Was the Glyndwr parliament a myth? Is the Owain Glyndwr industry under threat? Let me know what you think.
You can watch the programme again on BBC Parliament tomorrow at 8pm. If you can't wait until then, why not watch on the BBC iplayer here?
Inside the wood-panelled sanctuary of a small, North Philadelphia church, a group of men - and one woman - are busily folding handouts and talking strategy.
"I'm gonna be the one they attack," says Bruce Carter, gesturing to his T-shirt which says TRUMP in large red lettering. "They're comin' for me."
Calvin Tucker, a tall, nattily dressed Trump surrogate in a coat, tie and Make America Great Again cap, acts the moment.
"'Wow - you're supporting Trump?' … 'Man, what are you doing?'" he says, then answers himself: "Hey - we gotta try something different."
Parked just outside of First Immanuel Baptist Church in North Philadelphia is a line of vans and SUVs wrapped in various slogans, like "Black Republicans for Urban Communities", and "Famous Black Republicans" over photos of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
Then there's the lead van, plastered with pictures of the billionaire candidate's face.
"TRUMP for Urban Communities," it proclaims.
In neighbourhoods that vote overwhelmingly Democratic, in a city that hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1952, the vehicles are sure to draw plenty of attention, especially since there are pockets of these predominantly African American communities where Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote in 2012.
"It's real simple," says Carter, the founder of Trump for Urban Communities. "Your district has some of the deepest poverty in America and you've only voted for the Democrat. So it's reasonable for you to try something different."
This has been Trump's pitch to black voters as well: "You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58% of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?" He's called the inner cities of America war zones, and blamed Democrats - who often hold local power - for the cities' decline.
Trump's 58% youth unemployment figure is inflated and critics says his characterisation of black life in America as "hell" is out of touch with reality. But the predominantly African-American neighbourhoods in North Philadelphia do have the highest rates of violent crime in the city. The streets are lined with empty homes and businesses. A 2012 estimate for unemployment among high school drop outs in the area came close to Trump's figure: 50%.
While the message has not resonated with most black voters - various polling around the country shows Trump's African-American support somewhere between 0% and 4% - Tucker heard it loud and clear. A lifelong Republican, Tucker was Trump's lone black delegate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
As a loan officer and financial services contractor, Tucker loves what he sees as Trump's business acumen.
Back in September, Tucker moderated a panel discussion with Trump and black Philadelphian business owners as anti-Trump protesters demonstrated outside. At the time, Tucker thanked Trump for "being brave enough to come" to the neighbourhood.
"Typically, Republicans don't travel in the heart of the underserved communities and talk about issues," he says. "He's also talked about the solution, and the solutions are jobs and employment and opportunity and entrepreneurship - those are the kinds of things that our community needs to eradicate poverty and unemployment and reduce crime."
Ten minutes further north, the head of the Philadelphia GOP is leading a poll-watching training in the dim offices of an anti-violence non-profit called the Urban Crisis Response Center, which also houses a headquarters for the Trump campaign.
"I don't think we could have opened a Romney office [here]," says Joe DeFelice, Philadelphia's Republican Party chairman. He says black voters don't identify Trump as a Republican so much as his own brand of politician.
"Do I think he's going to win this neighbourhood we're standing in? No, I'm not naïve. I get it. Do I think he's going to do a hell of a lot better than Romney did? One-hundred percent."
Daphne Goggins, a North Philadelphia native and lifelong Republican, is in a bright orange "Hillary for Prison" T-shirt, handing out poll-watching packets The tiny former barbershop is filled with both the politically engaged as well as people with no love for Trump, just eager for the $100 pay.
"Donald Trump is already creating jobs in the black community," she points out.
Goggins resents the way that Democrats in Philadelphia have always been able to rely on the black vote, despite the fact she says most people she talks to don't even know why they vote the way they do. She is a social conservative - pro-life and against gay marriage - and wants lower taxes. Many black Democrats she speaks to agree with her.
"You're a Republican," she informs them.
"We have a violence problem - the Democrats [have done] nothing to really address these murders," she says. "There's no legislation, there should be a curfew, something - we're losing our babies just like in Chicago.
"Black children are just doomed to die and that's OK with America."
Back outside the church, the Trump for Urban Communities group doesn't even make it into their vehicles before the fireworks begin.
"You've got to be kidding me," one woman snarls, brushing past the men and refusing to talk.
"Trump is evil, Trump do not care about us," a young woman in a denim jacket calls out. "He is ignorant!"
Two women in a passing car flip the Trump van off, then drive away as Carter knocks on the windows calling, "Sister! Sister!"
In a nail salon with a Clinton-Kaine sign in the window, the group finds a captive audience - women with their hands under heat lamps.
"Dallas, where I'm from, we're number two in poverty in the black community - it looks similar to this," Carter tells the sceptical salon customers. "I know he understands economic development and I know he understands business - that's why I support him."
"Where were you guys the rest of the year?" a young woman with her feet in a bubbling bath chimes in.
Tucker turns to her.
"This is hard work getting folks to listen to a different philosophy," he says. "You've heard all this Hillary Clinton stuff - what are they going to do for your community? That's why we gotta bring young people like you into this process, that think differently, that's going to ask the hard questions."
Carter pays for one of the women's manicures and they leave, to a chorus of anti-Trump shouts from a man across the street. Standing outside, Tucker says he knows no one in the shop will likely vote any differently.
"I'm not necessarily here to convert, I'm just here to educate," he says. "When you are 95% in one party, Democrats take you for granted. When you're 2% Republican, they say, 'You don't make a difference, therefore why should we provide opportunities for your community?'
In front of the Trump van, Carter looks around at the blighted buildings, the mattresses and smashed TV sets laying in a vacant lot - he catches a whiff of what smells like raw sewage seeping out of an abandoned building.
"There's no way you can walk through these communities and not get mad," he says. "Yes, the Republican party has failed the black community because they have given up on them. But Democrats - they failed them far worse. The blacks belong to them, but they get nothing for it. It's political slavery."
Its investigation uncovered dozens of fake accounts on the social network, across a variety of industries.
Posing as recruiters, the fake accounts allow hackers to map the networks of business professionals and gain the trust of those in them.
The security firm has worked with LinkedIn to remove all of the fake accounts it identified.
By making these connections, criminals can entice users to give up personal details, direct them to malware-laden websites and, if they can get their email addresses, launch spear-phishing campaigns - targeted emails that aim to steal personal information.
"LinkedIn users expect to be contacted by recruiters, so this ruse works out in the scammers' favour," it said in its report.
"Most of these fake accounts have been quite successful in gaining a significant network - one had 500 contacts. Some even managed to get endorsements from others," Symantec researcher Dick O'Brien told the BBC.
In response LinkedIn said: "We investigate suspected violations of our Terms of Service, including the creation of false profiles, and take immediate action when violations are uncovered.
We have a number of measures in place to confirm authenticity of profiles and remove those that are fake. We encourage members to utilise our Help Center to report inaccurate profiles and specific profile content to LinkedIn."
The researchers found that the fake profiles tended to be made up of text that had been copied and pasted from the profiles of real professionals. They used photos, often of women, pulled either from stock image sites or of real professionals.
They also used keywords such as "reservoir engineer", "exploration manager" and "cargo securement training" which are likely to gain them visibility via the site's built-in search engine.
Many of the terms related to the logistics, information security and oil and gas industries, Symantec said.
Mr O'Brien had some tips for LinkedIn users worried that they might have befriended a hacker.
"You can do a reverse image search by dragging and dropping the profile picture into Google Images and see what it brings up.
"Copying and pasting the job information in Google can also reveal whether it has been taken from somewhere else."
Twitter and Facebook also have problems with fake accounts but LinkedIn seems to be particularly attractive to hackers, said Mr O'Brien.
"It reveals the greater sophistication of cyber-criminals that they are prepared to play the long game by gaining information for future attacks in this way," he said.
It is not the first time that researchers have pointed out the dangers of fake LinkedIn profiles.
In October, researchers from Dell's counter-threat unit identified a network of at least 25 fake profiles that had links to over 200 legitimate ones, belonging to people working in defence, telecommunications, government and utilities.
The fake accounts were linked back to an Iran-based hacker group.
A drop of gin was once advised to ward off the plague, a glug of wine to "defend the body from corruption" and a sip of absinthe to cure the body of roundworms.
Of course all this has changed.
As our understanding of the harms of alcohol on society and the individual has grown, it has given up its place on prescription pads - instead to be superseded by advice to refrain from all but cautious use.
An exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in London traces its use and sometimes fatal misuse by medical men and women of the past, up to the calls for greater regulation today.
One of the earliest records in the many leather-bound books on display is a translation of the work of Roger Bacon, a 13th Century English philosopher and writer on alchemy and medicine.
According to the translation (published in 1683) Bacon suggests wine could: "Preserve the stomach, strengthen the natural heat, help digestion, defend the body from corruption, concoct the food till it be turned into very blood."
But he also recognises the dangers of consuming ethanol in excess: "If it be over-much guzzles, it will on the contrary do a great deal of harm: For it will darken the understanding, ill-affect the brain... beget shaking of the limbs and bleareyedness."
Wine-based concoctions also make frequent appearances in the handwritten domestic cookery books of the 16th to 18th Centuries, sitting alongside tips on general food preparation.
One recipe for the discerning 17th Century householder recommends an "excellent drink against the plague". Its ingredients include rue, sage and two pints of wine - much more than the UK's daily recommended limits today.
Caroline Fisher, curator of the exhibition says: "While wine has its place in history as more of a fortifying tonic, spirits were seen in a different light.
"While considered as therapies in their own right, they also served as carriers and preservatives for substances that would be otherwise difficult to bottle and sell."
Absinthe, for example, distilled from herbs such as wormwood, has been documented for use against roundworms and other intestinal parasites for many years.
But according to Dr James Nicholls, of Alcohol Research UK, by the 18th Century spirits such as gin were considered by a growing number of people to be a major cause of drunkenness, poverty and crime.
In 1725, the first documented petition by the Royal College of Physicians expresses fellows' concerns about "pernicious and growing use of spirituous liquors".
A gin craze was sweeping across England, as improved distillation methods together with lax regulation in comparison with wine and beer, meant the spirit was affordable to much of the population.
Yet it was not until the 19th Century that alcohol was regarded as a problem in a consistent way, says Dr Virginia Berridge of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
As Britain became increasingly industrialised and urbanised it needed efficient and time-aware workers, making sobriety a virtue.
Temperance movements began to emerge - at first some advised restrictions on certain drinks only, but over time their stance shifted to call for total abstinence.
And by the mid-19th Century, physicians were involved in temperance movements of their own.
An 1871 statement from the British Medical Temperance Society, printed in the British Medical Journal said:
"As it is believed that the inconsiderate prescription of large quantities of alcoholic liquids... has given rise, in many instances, to the formation of intemperate habits the undersigned while unable to abandon the use of alcohol in the treatment of certain cases of disease, are yet of the opinion that no medical practitioner should prescribe it without a grave sense of responsibility."
Society's views of alcohol and that of the medical community gradually changed, heralded, in part, by an increasing focus on efficiency as World War One dawned, and as scientific advances provided compounds with much greater medicinal potential.
Yet one of the most modern pieces to feature in the exhibition is a bottle of Atkinson's Infants Preservative, a remedy for teething babies, dated between 1919-1941.
The packaging reassures parents it can be given "with the utmost confidence" as it had no narcotic content. It does however contain 50% alcohol among its ingredients.
John Betts, Keeper at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum says: "This is perhaps surprising considering what was known about the effects of alcohol by this time.
"But it wasn't until 1941 that legislation in Great Britain forced pharmaceutical manufacturers to list all the ingredients in their medicines."
Over the years the Royal College of Physicians has had a long history of raising awareness of the health damage caused by alcohol.
The college is currently calling for a range of measures, including a fifty pence minimum price per unit of alcohol in the UK and tighter restrictions on marketing and advertising, particularly where children may be exposed to it.
The college says: "Alcohol is a factor in more than forty serious medical conditions, including liver disease and cancer, and one of the major preventable causes of death in the UK."
They were seized on 26 October during a rebel ambush in which 11 soldiers and one policeman were killed.
The rebels turned them over to a delegation of the Red Cross and the Catholic Church in Arauca province.
The ELN and the government have been holding "exploratory talks" with a view to entering into peace talks.
At the time of the attack the rebels said that the attack did "not contradict" its wish for peace.
In a statement, the rebels said they were forced to respond to "intense counter-guerrilla operations".
After the release of the soldiers, the ELN published another statement on its Twitter account saying it had "kept its word and handed over the captured soldiers safe and sound".
Following the attack in October, President Juan Manuel Santos ordered the security forces to step up their attacks on the ELN.
The president has in the past said it wants the rebels to give up kidnapping people for good before it is willing to consider more formal peace talks.
Meanwhile, peace talks between government negotiators and members of Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), are continuing apace in the Cuban capital Havana.
President Juan Manuel Santos and the Farc have agreed on a deadline of 23 March 2016 to sign a final agreement.
Junior Bulumakau was gifted an early try at Murrayfield and Josh Strauss crashed through a rolling maul to restore the visitors' lead.
Duncan Weir had kicked the hosts in front with two penalties and added two more but that was it for Edinburgh.
In a largely scrappy contest, Alex Dunbar finished off the best move of the game for Warriors' third try.
Having won the last three derby matches, Edinburgh, who sit a lowly 10th in the table, will have to wait until the final weekend of the league campaign for the return, with the 1872 Cup at stake, since the traditional Boxing Day - New Year double-header has been removed from the calendar this season.
Edinburgh's start to the match could scarcely have been more calamitous. They lost their own line-out and when Glasgow spread the ball wide Dunbar dropped a clever kick deep into Edinburgh territory.
Full-back Blair Kinghorn looked to have the situation under control but his attempt to go down on the loose ball served only to knock it over his own try-line for Bulumakau to touch down inside a minute.
The sides spent the next 20 minutes feeling each other out. With the match drifting from set-piece to set-piece, two Weir penalties nudged the home side in front.
Warriors penalty count was becoming a problem, conceding seven to Edinburgh's none after half an hour. Only a lack of accuracy from the hosts in the attacking third kept the gap at one and they would soon be made to pay.
Glasgow elected to pop a very kickable penalty into the corner, and the gamble was rewarded when Strauss scored to finish off a highly effective rolling maul from the line-out. Russell converted to put his side 12-6 to the good.
Mark Bennett showed tremendous footwork and searing pace to slice through the heart of the Edinburgh defence. The home side scrambled to avert the immediate danger, but an infringement allowed Russell to kick Glasgow into a nine-point half-time lead.
The skill level on show was lacking quality, perhaps best summed up early in the second half when Russell passed up a straightforward penalty chance, only to put his kick to touch dead.
Scrappiness was the order of the day - as it is in so many derby matches - and yet Glasgow's game-changers can spring to life from nowhere.
Stuart Hogg, a peripheral figure, gathered a clearance kick and looked to be heading towards a mass of bodies, but in trademark style he tore through a tiny gap to take his side into the red zone. The attack yielded nothing though as Russell missed a straightforward penalty after an Edinburgh offside.
Weir made no such mistake as he brought Edinburgh back within six points.
The number 10s traded kicks, Russell improvising with a drop-goal when the ball wobbled off the tee, and, with the match delicately poised, the next score was crucial.
It was magnificently manufactured by Glasgow. After several phases spent pounding the Edinburgh line, a succession of stunning off-loads from Russell, Brian Alainu'use and Sean Lamont put Dunbar over. Russell's conversion sent Warriors 13 points clear.
Edinburgh tried to rally in the last five minutes but a lack of composure and the fearsome tackling of Warriors skipper Jonny Gray kept them at bay.
A consolation score looked certain when Damien Hoyland slalomed forward with the clock red and Viliame Mata plunged under the posts, only to be held up by three determined defenders.
An ugly but important win for Glasgow after three straight Pro12 defeats. For Edinburgh, the search for consistency continues, with eight losses from their 11 league outings.
Edinburgh: Blair Kinghorn; Damien Hoyland, Chris Dean, Phil Burleigh, Tom Brown; Duncan Weir, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford, Simon Berghan, Ben Toolis, Grant Gilchrist, Magnus Bradbury, Hamish Watson, Cornell du Preez.
Replacements: Stuart McInally, Allan Dell, Murray McCallum, Fraser McKenzie, Viliame Mata, Sean Kennedy, Jason Tovey, Glenn Bryce.
Glasgow Warriors: Stuart Hogg; Junior Bulumakau, Mark Bennett, Alex Dunbar, Lee Jones; Finn Russell, Henry Pyrgos; Alex Allan, Fraser Brown, Zander Fagerson, Brian Alainu'uese, Jonny Gray, Rob Harley, Simone Favaro, Josh Strauss.
Replacements: Pat McArthur, Ryan Grant, Sila Puafisi, Adam Ashe, Chris Fusaro, Ali Price, Nick Grigg, Sean Lamont.
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A judge at the California Public Utilities Commission - the regulator that allows the company to operate in the state - said Uber had not filed all the reports required by the body.
It was accused of withholding details on incidents such as accidents.
Uber has been involved in legal battles around the world over its operations.
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The San Francisco-based firm's services in US cities such as Portland, Oregon have been suspended after a disagreement with the city, while its practice of offering unlicensed taxi drivers has been banned in countries like Germany and Italy.
Uber's app allows passengers to request rides from drivers in the area and its fares are generally lower than those of traditional taxis.
The company has also been accused of not giving data on how often it provided access to disabled passengers in California.
Uber has defended its operations in the state by saying it has given enough information to the commission.
After the ruling, the firm said that it would appeal against the decision.
The company has up to 30 days to appeal before its licence to operate in California is suspended.
Jack Patrick was a supporter of Help for Heroes, and his friends and family have continued to raise funds since his death in November 2015 aged 20.
The annual Boxing Day wheelie bin race in Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire, has been renamed the Jack Patrick Trophy.
More than 200 people went along to watch eight pairs of competitors.
They raced from The Plough to The Joiner's Arms, where they had a drink, then raced back to the other pub.
Daniel Grundy, landlord and owner of The Plough, said a few people fell out of the bins.
"We had a couple of casualties but nothing serious," he said.
"It sounds quite easy but it isn't."
The total distance is about 0.3 miles (0.5km) and the route involves several inclines.
Despite this, the quickest men's time this year was only two minutes and 45 seconds, achieved by Nigel Green and Matt Kelly.
The quickest women's time was four minutes 30 seconds, and was achieved by Sharon Catherall and Kate Gutteridge.
The markings on the axes, unearthed near Shanghai, could date back at least 5,000 years, the scientists say.
But Chinese scholars are divided on whether the markings are proper writing or a less sophisticated stream of symbols.
The world's oldest writing is thought to be from Mesopotamia from 3,300 BC.
The stone fragments are part of a large trove of artefacts discovered between 2003 and 2006 at a site just south of Shanghai, says the BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing.
But it has taken years for archaeologists to examine their discoveries and release their findings, our correspondent adds.
The findings have not been reviewed by experts outside China, reports say.
"The main thing is that there are six symbols arranged together and three of them are the same," lead archaeologist Xu Xinmin told local reporters, referring to markings on one of the pieces.
"This clearly is a sentence expressing some kind of meaning".
Cao Jinyan, a well-known scholar on ancient writing, also told local media that the markings could be an early form of writing.
"Although we cannot yet accurately read the meaning of the 'words' carved on the stone axes, we can be certain that they belong to the category of words, even if they are somewhat primitive," he said.
Some scholars, however, remain unconvinced. Archaeologist Liu Zhao from Fudan University in Shanghai told the Associated Press news agency they "do not have enough material" to make conclusions.
If proven, the stone axes will be older than the earliest proven Chinese writing found on animal bones, which dates back 3,300 years.
The 19-year-old joined the Sandgrounders on a one-month loan in September, which was then extended until November.
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Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt were told less than 24 hours before the launch.
Costs of residential and domiciliary care were to be taken from the estates of pensioners bar a final £100,000.
But it proved so controversial that the proposal was changed within four days.
Prime Minister Theresa May embarked on a hasty retreat after Tory candidates complained that the policy was hugely unpopular. She said that an unspecified cap, which she described as an "absolute limit", would be imposed on care costs.
BBC Two's Newsnight has been told that Mr Hunt and Mr Javid were informed of the proposal for the manifesto at a late hour because future social care policy was being examined in the Cabinet Office rather than in their departments.
Ben Gummer, the then Cabinet Office minister who was co-author of the manifesto, was taking the lead in drawing up a Green Paper on social care due for publication later this year.
It is understood that the proposal to preserve a maximum of £100,000 in estates of pensioners who need residential and domiciliary social care had been examined in great detail ahead of the Green Paper. The cap was due to be included but was still being examined.
Cabinet ministers were consulted extensively in other areas of the manifesto. But ministers were only shown the whole document shortly before its launch in Halifax and 20 minutes before the media.
And the head of the prime minister's policy board during the election also told Newsnight that he was not even shown a draft of the manifesto.
George Freeman, the MP for Mid Norfolk, said: "This was a catastrophe of a campaign and I wouldn't expect necessarily in a snap election it gets signed off by cabinet and it goes through a series of negotiations presumably and discussions.
"So I wouldn't expect to be holding the pen on the last draft. But I didn't see any draft. And I think there was a culture in the campaign of 'we the five or six of us are going to do this'."
Members of Theresa May's inner circle feel deeply bruised by the fallout over the manifesto. Tory sources say that the prime minister was motivated by fairness on social care, asking why a 30-year-old in the north should subsidise the care needs of a pensioner living in a million pound house in the South East.
Lee Irving, 24, was found dead near a footpath in Fawdon, Newcastle, in 2015.
Two men are accused of murdering him at a house nearby, while two women are accused of causing or allowing his death. They all deny the charges.
One of the women, Nicole Lawrence, 22, must have known he had been injured, Newcastle Crown Court was told.
It is alleged Mr Irving, who had learning difficulties, had been sedated rather than taken for medical treatment by the defendants, who were all living at a house in Kenton Bar at the time of Mr Irving's death in June of last year.
The court heard how Mr Irving's body was found about half a mile from the house with 27 rib fractures and a broken nose and jaw.
The prosecution alleges that Miss Lawrence's boyfriend James Wheatley, 29, and Barry Imray, 35, beat Mr Irving over a 10-day period at the house. Mr Imray is said to have used a pushchair to move the body to where it was found.
The prosecution said an account given by Miss Lawrence to her sister after Mr Irving's death also proved she knew he had needed medical assistance.
Robert Smith QC, prosecuting, said: 'It's clear from her internet searches that she knew Lee Irving had suffered from a further life-threatening event which could only be another violent assault.
"She and the other defendants did nothing whatsoever to obtain help for him.
"Every one of them knew that he had been beaten, punched and kicked in that property, that he had been sedated with drugs and if he died there would be a police investigation into the conduct of all of them."
The court was also told the four defendants conspired to remove evidence by cleaning bloodstains from the house and hiding mobile phones.
The fourth defendant is Mr Wheatley's mother Julie Mills, 51, who is accused of causing or allowing Mr Irving's death, a charge also faced - and denied - by Mr Wheatley and Mr Imray.
Both women also deny perverting the course of justice, a charge admitted by both of the other two defendants.
The trial continues.
The Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) review made 13 recommendations for improvement for NHS Grampian.
It identified concerns about leadership and culture which are impacting on the quality of care.
The review was one of three critical reports into health care in the north east of Scotland published on Tuesday.
Following their publication, the whistleblower who went direct to the Scottish government to raise concerns about NHS Grampian has revealed he has quit his post in frustration.
Speaking exclusively to BBC Scotland, cancer specialist Malcolm Loudon said staff at NHS Grampian were "like an elastic that is stretched almost to breaking point".
He also talked of a "toxic culture" with low morale, high staff turnover and sickness and "no feeling of shared values between management and between those who are actually delivering the services".
NHS Grampian has declined to comment on his accusations.
On Tuesday, HIS also released a report into the care of elderly people, while recommendations from a separate report by the Royal College of Surgeons said a number of consultants were unable to work productively together.
The Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) report said the potential for patient care and safety to be further compromised was overwhelmingly evident.
HIS also said the NHS Grampian board was insufficiently aware of problems facing ARI.
It described one of the surgical units as significantly dysfunctional.
Dr Angus Cameron, chairman of the review team, said: "The issues are serious."
NHS Grampian said it accepted all the recommendations in the three reports.
Interim chief executive Malcolm Wright said: "These reports highlight issues with leadership and management, culture and behaviour, accountability and governance within NHS Grampian.
"We take these reports extremely seriously and we accept the recommendations that the reports make."
Mr Wright expressed disappointment at serious concerns raised in the older people's report, and apologised to patients and their families.
He said: "This is undoubtedly a challenging time for NHS Grampian.
"These three reports have highlighted a range of issues requiring immediate attention.
"I am confident in the ability of my colleagues throughout this organisation to address these issues and deliver a sustainable high quality health service for the future."
Niall Dickson, chief executive of the General Medical Council (GMC), said: "This report raises very serious issues about aspects of medical care at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
"In particular, those conducting the review found unprofessional conduct by senior doctors which had not been addressed, a significantly dysfunctional surgical unit, little evidence of effective performance management and a failure to follow up concerns raised by the GMC's survey of doctors in training at the hospital.
'We are also extremely concerned that large numbers of consultants had no job plans and there was minimal evidence that clinical governance structures were working effectively.
"The individual behaviours and the systemic failures described in the report are completely unacceptable.
"And while HIS found no direct evidence of patient harm, we agree with the authors when they conclude that 'the potential for patient care and safety to be further compromised is overwhelmingly evident in the findings of this report'."
Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Scotland associate director Ellen Hudson said: "We have been raising serious concerns both locally and nationally about the situation at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for quite some time.
"These have now been exposed with the publication of this report by HIS, which lays bare the failings of leadership and management at NHS Grampian."
The health board's chief executive and medical director have left their posts in recent months as the row between management and senior consultants deepened.
Mr Flores, who governed from 1999 to 2004, denied the funds were for his personal use.
He said Taiwan donated the money to El Salvador.
Current Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes last month suggested that the funds may have been misused.
"I would like to say that I have never deposited a cheque from Taiwan's government in any account; that is key for me, to make clear that I have never deposited a cheque from Taiwan's government in any account," Mr Flores told the congressional panel set up to trace the money.
Mr Flores said he had asked Taiwan for donations on three occasions.
The first time, he said, it was to help reconstruction efforts after two devastating earthquakes killed about 1,500 people and left more than 200,000 homeless in El Salvador in 2001.
Another time he had asked Taiwan for help in combating drug trafficking, and a third to crack down on crime and gangs, he explained.
According to Mr Flores, it was customary for Taiwan to make out cheques to the person soliciting the funds directly.
He said that El Salvador enjoyed "a privileged relationship" with Taiwan because it backed the Asian country's membership request to the United Nations.
But President Funes has alleged that the money never reached the government programmes it was intended for, instead being deposited in a bank in the Bahamas.
Mr Funes has also recalled the Salvadoran ambassador from Taiwan in protest at "Taiwan's delays" in answering requests for information about the donations.
The infra-red picture reveals the chemical profile of the skin, offering an insight into how it was preserved.
A team of UK scientists say the sample was so well preserved that it was hard to tell the difference between the fossil and the fresh samples.
The details appear in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"It is a relatively new technique - I think we are the first people to apply it to palaeontology," said co-author Roy Wogelius, a geochemist from the University of Manchester, UK.
He told BBC News that the technology allows non-destructive analysis, meaning that it could be used on rare, valuable museum specimens.
"Now we can apply this organic technique [it] means that there is an awful lot of material that we can analyse in ways people did not realise were possible."
Possible specimens could include invertebrates, marine creatures and plant material, Dr Wogelius said.
He explained that the the infra-red mapping technique worked in a manner that was similar to a record player.
"What you do is you take something that transmits light, so if you take a very small needle - about the size of an old phonograph stylus - and make it so it can transmit light," he revealed.
"You can shine light down through the needle and then when the needle is in contact with the specimen's surface, a little of that light will be absorbed - that is the signal that we use.
"When there is a little more absorption at a certain frequency, that is a fingerprint for a particular organic compound."
Dr Wogelius explained that the team of UK and US researchers had attempted to use the technology before, on a sample from a sample known as "dino-mummy", a 67-million-year-old fossil that still had much of its soft tissue intact.
"This was one of the best preserved dinosaurs discovered, and we were able to show that there was organic compound from the skin remaining (on the fossil)," he observed.
"The problem was that the (sample) fell apart so easily, we could not map anything. So while we were confident that what we had was skin residue, we just could not see if there was any biological structure there."
Prehistoric 'whiff'
With the latest sample, Dr Wogelius said that the preservation was both remarkable and, perhaps more importantly, solid.
"It was also flat which made it very, very convenient to map it," he added.
"So we took this new technology... and the detail of what we were able to reveal was quite striking."
Using the infra-red technique, as well as a series of X-rays, the team were able to confirm that soft tissue was present on the fossil.
They were also able to offer a hypothesis on how the tissue had survived for 50 million years.
The details from the study suggest that when skin's organic compounds began to break down, they formed a chemical bond with trace metals that, under certain circumstances, then go on to build a "bridge" with the surrounding minerals.
A result of this process meant that the skin and remaining soft tissue was protected from further decomposition or further erosion.
"These new infra-red and X-ray methods reveal intricate chemical patterns that have been overlooked by traditional methods for decades," Dr Wogelius explained.
"We have learned that some of these compounds, if the chemistry is just right, can give us a bit of a whiff of the chemistry of these ancient organisms."
He went on to say that the team's findings had offered an insight into a number of area.
"By doing the infra-red analysis, we get some detail about the soft tissue that remains," he said.
"In fact, the chemical remains - in terms of the organic compounds - very closely resemble what we get when we look at modern gecko skin. That means that some of the organic components have been conserved over that period of time.
"Some of the trace metal chemistry is also original to the organism, and that give us hope in terms of understanding some bio-metallic complexes, in particular understanding the colouration and pigmentation of the skin.
"It is very exciting because we can start to pull out more detail."
Dr Wogelius said that this sort of information could unlock a better understanding of a range of research avenues, including prehistoric creatures' diets.
The ban is said to be for "national security reasons" and not driven by religious ideology.
BBC North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad says it will affect all passengers transiting through the east.
Libya is divided between two authorities - one in the east and an internationally recognised one based in the capital, Tripoli.
The eastern government is based in al-Beyda and the ban was first enforced in the city's Labraq international airport.
The authorities in the east under the command of Gen Khalifa Hefter have control over an area stretching from Ajdabiya to Tobruk.
A spokesman for eastern Libya's Chief of Staff, Abdulrazzak al-Naduri, confirmed the new measure to the BBC.
In a TV interview, he claimed that women representing civil society groups, who frequently travel abroad for work, are being used by foreign intelligence.
The directive was not voted for by the parliament but it is already being implemented in the east.
Officers say it is to be enforced on travel by land, air and sea.
The restriction highlights the growing political divide in Libya, with each side enforcing its own rules in the area it controls, our correspondent says.
Libya has been beset by chaos since Nato-backed forces overthrew long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011.
Eastern Libya is under the control of commander Khalifa Hafter who is leading the battle against Islamist militias.
It follows controversy over payouts such as £277,000 for Pembrokeshire chief executive Bryn Parry-Jones.
Redundancy payments will be capped at £90,000 for NHS and council staff, the Lib Dems said, if it came into power after the 2016 assembly election.
People on low and middle incomes would be exempt, following consultation on where the line should be drawn.
Local government spokesman Peter Black said the Lib Dems would end the "golden goodbyes" that had cost "hard-pressed taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds".
"At a time when nurses, teachers and police have all either had their salaries frozen or they've seen a minimal pay-rise, it is simply not acceptable that their bosses are on the receiving end of six-figure redundancy payments," he said.
"For too long the Welsh Labour government has sat back and accepted these pay-outs; this complacency must end."
The Welsh government said it was not currently a devolved matter but it supported "consistency of treatment for public sector employees across the UK".
The Conservatives have pledged to cap public sector pay-offs at £95,000 if they win the 2015 general election.
Plaid Cymru's Welsh local government spokesperson Rhodri Glyn Thomas said: "The issue of payouts for fat cats needs to be dealt with but shouldn't distract from the real problem at the bottom of the workforce, where we need to give local authorities in particular the funding they need to meet the living wage."
The Blues also announced the 22-year-old has signed a new six-year deal with the club as he joins the Potters for the 2016-17 campaign.
Zouma, a France international, joined Chelsea from Saint-Etienne for £12m in January 2014.
He played 13 times for Antonio Conte's Premier League champions last season, having recovered from a knee injury he suffered in February 2016.
Stoke manager Mark Hughes described Zouma as "undoubtedly one of the most talented young defenders in the game".
He added: "Whilst injury unfortunately hampered his progress at Chelsea last season, we are certain that we can give him the platform to recapture the form he showed prior to his setback."
Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo said it was "fantastic" Zouma had "chosen to commit his future to Chelsea".
He added: "Now he has the opportunity to play regularly in the Premier League and we will be monitoring his progress closely while he is at Stoke."
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I could see how her day had begun because we were on the same plane.
I am here to try to work out what it is Ms Sturgeon thinks she can achieve for Scotland in the wake of a UK wide vote to leave the EU.
The Scottish Parliament voted overwhelming yesterday to give the First Minister a mandate to try to maintain Scotland's links with the EU.
And she has not wasted any time in flying over to Brussels so she can be seen to be doing just that.
Even though the president of the European Council Donald Tusk refused to take a meeting - saying it would not be appropriate at this time.
But she has scored a meeting with Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
So when Ms Sturgeon sits down with European leaders what will she be asking for?
Does she have a plan for some kind of special arrangement that could somehow protect Scotland's place in the EU?
Frankly no.
It's hard to see how Scotland and the UK could possibly have different relationships with the EU if they are still part of the same country.
And that's the point.
Ms Sturgeon has also made very clear that if the only way to keep Scotland's place in the EU is to have a second referendum on Scottish independence then that's just what she will do.
Today Scotland's first minister will focus on reminding the EU that Scotland voted to remain.
Scotland "did not let them down" as SNP MEP Alyn Smith put it yesterday.
And she will ask that Scotland be given special consideration in the Brexit negotiations.
But this trip is also about telling Europe that Scotland may soon be an independent country which wants to remain inside the EU or, if it has to, rejoin on the most favourable terms possible.
If there is to be another referendum on Scottish independence it is vital that Scotland is made to feel it will receive a warmer welcome in Europe than was on offer in 2014.
Ms Sturgeon may not have a precise road map for the way forward but it does her no harm at all that she is about the only UK political leader right now who looks like she is taking charge and plotting a path forward.
Part of a commission entitled "Land", the sculpture at Clavell Tower, Kimmeridge Bay, was created to mark 50 years of UK building conservation charity Landmark Trust.
At the time Gormley said the artworks were "catalysts for reflection".
The figure was supposed to remain in place until May 2016.
Howard J Curtis, who spotted the statue lying in the bay, said: "I know it wasn't popular with everyone."
The Landmark Trust told the Bournemouth Echo: "We are aware that the "Land" sculpture has come down in the storm at Kimmeridge Bay and we are taking steps to deal with it asap."
Four other statues in the series stand at Lengthsman's Cottage, Lowsonford, in Warwickshire, Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, Martello Tower, Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, and Saddell Bay, Mull of Kintyre, in Scotland.
With George Kruis injured, Lawes and Joe Launchbury have started in the second row so far this Six Nations, with Maro Itoje switching to the flank.
"I've had to raise my game," Lawes, 27, told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I've had to push myself a lot harder in the last year and a half than I have done previously in my career."
The Northampton lock added: "It's really good for me because I get to really find out where my potential is and how far I can go."
And while he says he is playing "near enough" the best rugby of his 55-cap England career under Eddie Jones, Lawes feels there is still more to come.
"I'm just really looking forward to pushing on, keeping on going, because I still have a lot more to give," he said.
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In his 13 appearances under Jones, Lawes has excelled in terms of tackling and ball-carrying, with the head coach citing a marked improvement in his performances.
"I've just started ball-carrying again," Lawes said.
"I've always been pretty solid in defence, but the biggest change has been getting my hands on the ball and being effective there.
"Eddie told me from the start he wanted me to be a big hitter and a big ball carrier, and that's what I am going to be for him."
Defending champions England beat France and Wales in their opening 2017 Six Nations games and face Italy at Twickenham next - on 26 February - as they seek extend their national record of 16 Test victories in a row.
Police Scotland said the accident happened at about 14:50 while the bridge was closed to high-sided vehicles amid 50mph winds.
The lorry was righted at about 17:00, and escorted off the bridge an hour later.
Both carriageways, which had been closed over fears the trailer could move in high winds, are now open.
No-one was injured in the incident.
Transport Scotland said engineers loaded the lorry with concrete blocks to weigh it down before it could be towed off the bridge.
Engineers inspected the central barrier and reported no damage.
Earlier, bridge operators said: "Our team is on site assessing the situation - we'll get the lorry removed as soon as it is safe to do so."
It is understood the lorry crashed near the North Tower, close to where another truck crashed in January.
Then the bridge was shut for more than 19 hours after an HGV was blown from the northbound onto the southbound carriageway.
The 54-year-old driver of the lorry involved in that incident was charged with dangerous driving. A hearing on that case is due to take place on Wednesday at Edinburgh Sherriff Court.
Traffic had backed up on both sides of the bridge during the evening rush hour.
Motorists were being diverted via the A985 Kincardine Bridge and faced significant queues.
Police Scotland said: "Warning signs were in place prohibiting high-sided vehicles from crossing the bridge due to high winds.
"Inquiries are ongoing into the full circumstances."
Armed police shot dead two pitbull-type dogs in Queens Park, Bolton on Sunday.
Daniel Hennessy, of Halliwell, Bolton was charged with two counts of allowing dogs to be dangerously out of control, affray and possession of cannabis.
The 39-year-old has appeared before Bolton magistrates and was remanded in custody for a hearing at the town's crown court on 2 May.
Alan Sothern scored the only goal in the first minute of the fourth quarter to book Ireland's place in Sunday's fifth-place play-off.
Victory against Malaysia will boost the Irish team's chances of reaching next year's Games in Rio.
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Ireland goalkeeper David Harte made a number of crucial saves late on.
Pakistan spurned a number of open goal opportunities in the first quarter and the Irish struggled in the second quarter with only 4% possession.
With chances limited, Ireland worked a good set piece and Sothern scored from a penalty corner at the the start of the final quarter.
Ireland survived a late scare when a Pakistan shot was deflected wide with 42 seconds remaining.
About 17,000 properties have been affected in Tameside, Saddleworth and Greenfield, United Utilities said.
The fault at Buckton Castle has now been fixed but some untreated water has entered the local pipe network.
The company said the advice will stand for at least another 48 hours but schools could open as normal on Monday.
Martin Padley, director of water and scientific services, said the warning was a "precaution".
Water should be boiled for drinking, food preparation and brushing of teeth.
Customers can continue to use tap water for general domestic purposes such as bathing and flushing toilets.
If the water looks dirty or cloudy, the company recommends waiting until the water has cleared before washing clothes.
A list of postcodes affected is on the United Utilities website.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) has written to more than 250 prospective parliamentary candidates ahead of May's Scottish elections.
It wants to see greater enforcement of legal powers to protect hills and mountainous areas from development.
The MCofS has also called for guaranteed protection for areas designated as wild land.
The council represents the interests of climbers and hillwalkers.
It has campaigned against the proposed construction of large-scale wind farms in parts of the Highlands.
Mike Watson, president of the MCofS, said: "Our world-renowned mountains are cherished by hillwalkers, mountaineers and climbers from all parts of Scotland and beyond, so their future should be a concern for every MSP, regardless of where their constituency lies."
"Scotland's mountain landscapes are essential to our communities in so many ways: recreation, tourism, employment, cultural identity, wildlife and biodiversity, peat conservation and carbon storage, energy production, water quality and flood mitigation to name but a few."
He added: "Striking a balance between these is a challenge and an opportunity that we need the Scottish government and parliament to take seriously."
Coventry councillor Philip Townshend, who died last year, took out a mortgage on the elderly woman's house without her knowledge, a source said.
A relative branded the police inquiry "disgraceful".
West Midlands Police defended its investigation but declined to say why no interview took place.
His daughter Kirstie Logan-Townshend, 26, rejected the allegation, and said police "made a mistake" by not interviewing him sooner as "he would have co-operated fully".
Mr Townshend was able to get the mortgage as he had been granted power of attorney over the homeowner, who was in her 70s, the BBC understands.
An allegation of irregularities in her finances was made in May 2015, said police, and the case given to an investigating officer in July.
When Mr Townshend, a solicitor, died last October, aged 57, he had not been interviewed, a BBC Freedom of Information (FoI) request revealed.
West Midlands Police said four officers had worked on the investigation, but would not explain why Mr Townshend had not been questioned.
A relative of the woman said: "He should have been brought in at the first opportunity.
"He was being paid by the public purse and should have been whiter than white, holier than thou."
A source told the BBC Mr Townshend applied for equity release on the property, which was priced at £325,000 according to Land Registry documents.
Mortgage papers and bank statements were held by police, according to an FoI request released after a BBC appeal.
The documents show Mr Townshend benefitted to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds, a source said.
Before his death, Mr Townshend allegedly told a mortgage company which attempted to take possession of the home it would be vacant, even though the woman still lived there.
It ceased repossession proceedings when it was made aware of the alleged fraud, a source said.
The councillor's former company, Townshends LLP solicitors, was wound up by court order and still had unpaid debts of more than £688,000.
By March this year, liquidators had found "no areas for recovery", according to official documents. The firm's biggest creditor was HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Police also had a warrant application to search Coventry City council house, but it is not known if the authority was searched.
However, police said any suggestion of a "cover up" was "wholly inappropriate and does not reflect the complex and protracted nature of the investigation".
The force, which declined to provide further details of its investigations, said its inquiries covered "all relevant parties".
Ms Logan-Townshend said: "If police had not investigated, they would have faced scrutiny because he was a public figure. They raided my home as well.
"I knew all his sides and this allegation would have been completely out of character."
The Solicitor's Regulation Authority (SRA) began to investigate Mr Townshend in May 2015 but stopped when he died. A spokesperson said "no further work or action could be taken" now.
At an inquest in April this year, a coroner ruled Mr Townshend died of natural causes.
Mr Townshend became a councillor in 1999, served as a school governor and held the role of Chair of University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust for five years.
He is set to become the first recipient of a posthumous degree from the University of Warwick next month.
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Murray, the first British men's singles finalist since 1938, lost 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4 as Federer won his seventh title at Wimbledon and 17th Grand Slam crown.
"It's hard, it's tough to take, but you need to show strength of character to come back from it," said Murray.
"We're talking about one of the greatest athletes of all time. You've got to put it in context a little bit."
Murray went into his fourth Grand Slam final under a huge weight of public expectation as British tennis fans relished the prospect of a first homegrown champion since Fred Perry in 1936.
Even though 25-year-old Murray was considered the underdog, many observers rated his chances given the 30-year-old Federer's slide down the rankings and lack of a Grand Slam title since the 2010 Australian Open.
World number four Murray broke the Swiss in the very first game and went on to take the first set, but from then on Federer eased his way to victory to equal Pete Sampras's Open-era record for Wimbledon titles.
The win also took him back to the top of the world rankings above Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
Murray, having had a shot at sporting immortality, will be haunted by this one for a while. But while it will be of little comfort to him now, another rather different battle might finally have been won.
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"Was it my best chance? I don't know," said Murray. "I lost to a guy that's now won this tournament seven times and is number one in the world.
"He's still playing amazing tennis. A lot of people have been asking me, 'Has he started slipping? Is he not playing as well?' If you look at the matches he lost in the last couple of years, they were very close matches that he definitely could have won.
"He could be sitting on 20 Grand Slams but for one point or a couple of inches here or there. He's still playing great tennis. I don't think you get to number one unless you deserve it."
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In his other Grand Slam final appearances, Murray lost to Djokovic in Australia in 2011 and to Federer in Melbourne in 2010 and at the US Open in 2008.
"I'd say that's the best I've played in a Grand Slam final," he said. "I created chances, I went up a set. It was a long match. Even the last two sets, I still had chances.
"It wasn't like I gave away bad games or stupid games. I played a good match. I made pretty good decisions for the most part, so I'm happy with that.
"I felt more comfortable this morning and before the match than I had done maybe in the previous slams."
"Murray wasn't passive today. He gave 100%, his attitude was good and from the start he didn't get negative. He was taking chances and taking the ball on and, to me, it was a very good performance. There's still plenty more Grand Slams left yet. What Murray has had to go through these last two weeks, to go out there and win the first set... the momentum was going his way but after that Roger just stepped up. As we've seen over the years, when it counts Federer just goes up to a level no-one can live with. When Federer's on he's just too good."
Murray gave an emotional speech on court after the match, stepping away from the microphone at one point to collect himself.
"I'm getting closer," he said on BBC TV, before adding, "I'm going to try this and it's not going to be easy."
He went on to congratulate Federer and thank his family, support team and the fans, and admitted later that he had apologised to the Swiss for allowing his emotions to detract from the result.
"I just said to him, 'Sorry'," said Murray. "I didn't obviously want that to happen. You feel like you're kind of attention seeking or something. It was not like that at all, but I knew it was going to be hard.
"I've seen Roger do the same thing a couple of times before, so he kind of knows what it's like. He just laughed. He said, 'This is meant to be the easy part, doing the speeches after the match'. But sometimes it feels quite hard compared with playing a tennis match."
Murray also reinforced his belief that the huge public support is far more of a help than a hindrance at Wimbledon.
"It's been amazing," he said. "They're certainly not the ones that make it hard to play. They make it much, much easier, you know. When you have a crowd like that behind you, it's a lot easier to play.
"Thanks for the dedication. Sorry I couldn't do it for them."
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The EU imposed disciplinary measures against Greece when its deficit ballooned after the financial crisis.
Years of austerity have seen the country repair its finances and last year it posted a small budget surplus.
The European Commissioner for economic affairs, Pierre Moscovici, said it was a "very symbolic moment" for Greece.
Member states still need to approve the ending of the so-called excessive deficit procedure.
Greece is likely to be in deficit again in 2017, but it will be comfortably within the EU limit of 3% of GDP.
Although the government's finances have improved, Greece still has huge debts and many economists question whether the country will ever be able to pay them off.
The years of austerity have hurt the economy and contributed to an unemployment rate of 21.7% - the highest among European Union member states.
The Greek economy is expected to grow by 2.1% this year, above the eurozone average. If the restrictions are lifted, the country will be able to resume selling government debt, or bonds.
The 70-year-old, who has not been named, was hit by the Astra on Penistone Road at its junction with Bradfield Road at 18:20 GMT on Saturday.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and South Yorkshire Police said an investigation into the circumstances of the collision was under way.
The force said it offered its sincere condolences to the man's family.
The contract with private firm G4S sees one doctor covering every custody suite in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Another covers Norfolk and Suffolk. Before, each county had one doctor.
G4S said it did not accept lives were being put at risk and it monitored detainee welfare very closely.
The £5m contract - which started in April this year and covers Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk - halves the number of doctors on call, replacing them with healthcare professionals with additional training.
There are currently 50 full-time professionals with 16 more being trained, G4S said.
The new roles they carry out include drink and drugs tests on detainees and attending sudden deaths. When called upon, they are expected to reach cells within an hour.
A health worker, who asked not to be named, told the BBC: "The staffing numbers are so low we are struggling to meet needs of detainees.
"It's impossible to get around to see everybody who needs to be seen because the staff are not there and it's going to end up causing someone to be extremely unwell or a death in custody.
"Staff are breaking down in tears on the job. We are all so overworked.
"When we do arrive on site we are greeted by police with anger because they have been waiting for medics to arrive to attend to healthcare needs of detainees for five to eight hours at times."
Trudie Needham, independent custody visitor at King's Lynn police station, in Norfolk, said: "The distances that people have to travel is huge.
"How can you have one doctor for all of the area, you need more people.
"The staff here feel... they'll alert people to the need but they are in the hands of the service provider and if they've only got one person... they could be in Great Yarmouth... and for them to travel over to King's Lynn can take some significant time."
John Shaw, managing director for public services at G4S, promised the 16 extra staff would be in place by June, adding that "no welfare of any detainee is being put at risk."
He denied reports detainees were waiting hours for medics, but accepted there was a "high degree of travel" for staff, which would improve once the extra staff are drafted in.
"We are asking staff to work with us and to bear with us while we make this transition," he said.
Lorraine Ridout, from Cardiff, was last seen at the Premier shop on Gabalfa Avenue on 31 January and there have been no confirmed sightings since.
Police said the river was also searched using sonar equipment as it was "where the family believe Lorraine might be".
There was no evidence Ms Ridout had entered the river, police added.
On Tuesday, police dogs were searching the Gabalfa area. To date the police search has involved a specialist search team, house to house inquiries and air support.
Charity Missing People has produced more than 1,000 appeal posters.
South Wales Police asked anyone with information to call 101.
Officers cordoned off a large part of the Gronland area on Saturday evening, before the bomb squad detonated the suspect device.
A police spokesman said the noise was "louder" than their explosives alone would have caused. A suspect is in custody.
Police were already on alert after an attack in Sweden on Friday.
A truck ploughed into a Stockholm department store, killing four people and injuring 15 more.
It was the worst attack to hit the Nordic region since the far-right extremist Anders Brevik killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.
Swedish police confirmed on Saturday they had found an unknown device on the driver's seat in the abandoned lorry, which they were testing.
The device in Oslo was capable of causing only limited damage, police said. The investigation has been handed over to Norway's Police Security Service.
Green Party politicians Caroline Lucas and Baroness Jenny Jones and former Respect MP George Galloway say a doctrine protecting MPs' communications is being breached.
Their lawyer told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal strict safeguards on the power were "an important bulwark".
The tribunal investigates complaints against the security services.
The trio say MPs' communications with the public are being intercepted as part of the Tempora mass data collection programme exposed by former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.
The Wilson doctrine, named after former prime minister Harold Wilson, protects MPs' phones and electronic communications, including emails.
The politicians want an independent judge to sign off any surveillance that does take place.
Counsel Ben Jaffey, who is acting for Ms Lucas and Baroness Jones, told the hearing: "The Wilson doctrine does not exclude any possibility of surveillance or intercept of MPs. Nor should it.
"MPs are human, as are judges, lawyers and journalists.
"But given their important constitutional function, strict safeguards to protect parliamentary communications are an important bulwark for the protection of the public interest."
Earlier, speaking ahead of the hearing in London, Baroness Jones said: "As parliamentarians, our job is to hold ministers to account.
"If our communications are subject to blanket surveillance, and people are less able to freely contact us with important and sensitive revelations, then our ability to do our job is hugely curtailed."
She said there was "a clear public interest" in protecting the communications of parliamentarians from "unnecessary surveillance".
They want to stop any attempt to "trample" on the Wilson doctrine, she said.
Ms Lucas said surveillance of the communications of parliamentarians "could have a deeply chilling effect on our relationship with the public".
"Parliamentarians must be a trusted source for whistleblowers and those wishing to challenge the actions of the government," she said.
"It's absolutely vital that the trust between MPs and constituents is maintained - and that people feel able to communicate freely with their representatives in Parliament."
Mr Galloway filed a separate case against the government, but this has been incorporated with that of Ms Lucas and Baroness Jones.
The hearing follows revelations of the monitoring of calls between MPs and prisoners.
Since 2006, prison staff recorded 3,150 prisoner calls to MPs, and downloaded 280 for playback - but most were listened to "in error", chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick said.
An inquiry earlier this month found "no evidence of a widespread, deliberate attempt" to monitor calls.
UK surveillance agency GCHQ was officially censured in February for not revealing enough about how it shares information with its American counterparts.
Agents found the basement of Geoffrey Portway's Massachusetts home equipped with a steel cage and a child-sized home-made coffin, in a raid last year.
The 40-year-old had spent months discussing the kidnap and murder online with an American, Michael Arnett.
Portway pleaded guilty to soliciting the kidnap of a child and distribution and possession of child pornography.
His admission on Monday was part of a plea agreement, the US Attorney's Office said. Under the terms he must serve between 216 and 327 months in jail before he is deported to the UK.
Detectives said Portway used programmes such as Skype to communicate with Michael Arnett over several months, asking him for help with the kidnap and setting out his preferred age range.
They said records of the conversations revealed the two men discussed real children - by name and photo - whom Arnett claimed to know and have access to.
According to US court documents, Portway had solicited several people for help in obtaining a child, including Arnett.
Police believe he began making inquiries from at least 2010 and was informed that Arnett had previously helped others with such requests and had "experience" with the abduction and sexual abuse of children.
During their web conversations, Portway boasted of his intention to lock children in his basement, referencing scalpels, butchering kits, freezers and castration tools.
Detectives also found material showing that the men had shared child pornography and images of injured, mutilated and dead children.
During last year's raid, federal agents found a locked door in the basement, which led to a second door that opened into a dungeon lined with sound-deadening material containing a small makeshift coffin with external locking devices.
Nearby were a steel cage with multiple locks, and a steel table top with steel rings at six points, which police believe were intended to restrain victims.
The dungeon was further kitted out with a chair, a television, and what appeared to be cable access to the internet, officers said.
Outside the room detectives found a chest freezer and an upright freezer, along with some disposable scalpels, butchering kits, and castration tools.
Various computers and digital devices containing Portway's child pornography collection were seized during the raid.
A forensic examination of the material revealed more than 4,500 pieces of child pornography traded with others online - including images and videos which appeared to depict dead children and cannibalism.
Authorities believe Portway was part of a worldwide network of offenders and, in many cases, distributed the material based on the preferences of his contacts.
A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office in the district of Massachusetts said: "This dungeon was described in detail by Portway in recovered chats as a place he intended to use to keep kidnapped children while he sexually abused them and as a place to eventually murder and cannibalise the children."
The UK Foreign Office said it was aware of the arrest of a British national in Massachusetts in July 2012 and consular assistance had been offered.
His career at the corporation spanned two decades and he was a driving force behind the launch of Reporting Scotland in 1968.
He left the BBC in 1987, later setting up an independent production company.
Broadcaster Kirsty Wark, who was given her first presenter job by Mr Sinclair, described him as a "first class journalist".
She said: "The things I remember most about him are that he was thorough, fair with a dry sense of humour and most of all he was a consummate journalist."
Mr Sinclair began his journalistic career in newspapers, working in Fleet Street, and later becoming the youngest news editor of the Daily Mail in Scotland at the age of 27.
Longstanding BBC correspondent Colin Blane recalled: "He brought with him a fierce sense of competition. He wanted BBC Scotland's television news to be the sharpest and to be the best - and he drove the newsroom very hard."
After leaving the BBC, George Sinclair worked briefly for Radio Clyde and then set up an independent production company, producing a weekly programme looking at the Scottish newspaper industry for STV.
BBC Scotland director Ken MacQuarrie said: "Many present day broadcast journalists owe their careers to George Sinclair who led the BBC newsroom for many years with great flair and dedication.
"He was an old style journalist who led by example and many young journalists honed their skills under his guidance. Our thoughts are with his family."
Former BBC colleague and later STV head of programmes David Scott said Mr Sinclair had been "a good influence on many aspiring reporters".
"There was not a single journalist who worked for George who wasn't a better journalist after they'd worked for George," he said.
The Dow Industrials declined 364.81 points or 2.2% to 16,151.41 and the S&P 500 fell 2.5% to 1,890.28. The Nasdaq shed 3.4% to 4,526.06.
Microsoft ended the day down 2.2%, having earlier risen 2% after analysts at Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock.
Oil prices dipped below $30 per barrel, but have bounced back, with West Texas Intermediate now at $30.72.
The Home Depot retail chain was the Dow's biggest faller, shedding 4.8%.
Exxon Mobil, the only gainer on the Dow, managed a 0.6% rise, which analysts said was a move to safety within the energy sector. However, rival oil firm Chevron fell 1%.
Shares in General Motors added 0.6% after it raised the size of its share buyback scheme by 80% to $9bn, increased its dividend and raised its profit outlook for 2016.
General Electric fell 1.4% after announcing 6,500 job cuts at its operations in Europe over the next two years.
Following in the footsteps of Basil, his grandfather, and father Damian, D'Oliveira made 128, sharing an opening stand of 179 with Daryl Mitchell (66).
The hosts ended on 226-5 after a Graham Napier-sparked late clatter of wickets.
Earlier, Joe Leach took five wickets as Essex declared on 451-9, England Test captain Alastair Cook finishing on 142.
Resuming on 335-2 after two days of rain interruptions and runs, it was suddenly hard work for the batsmen on a breezy morning at New Road.
At one point, Worcestershire vice-captain Leach took four wickets in 23 balls, including a superb one-handed return catch moving to his right to remove Cook who received a standing ovation for his 284-ball innings.
He struck one six, off England team-mate Moeen Ali, and 22 fours in making his third Championship hundred of the campaign.
After he had gone, ex-skipper James Foster's 42-ball half century steered Essex past the 400 mark in the 109th over to ensure maximum batting bonus points.
But, after taking five wickets for 56, including England's Moeen cheaply for eight, the Division Two leaders will have to take 15 more on the final day if they are to pick up their third win in four matches.
Brett D'Oliveira told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"My first thought after reaching 100 was 'yes I've done it'. Obviously my dad is never too far away from my thoughts.
"It is amazing to get the first Championship century but it means nothing if we get nothing out of this game now.
"It was nice with the new ball because the ball came onto the bat easier but as it got older it was tougher to score. I'd like to think I cashed in on the bad balls.
"You are always nervous when you get into the 90s but I just kept my head down and got through it. And it was good to bat with Mitch as he got me through some tough times out there.
Essex head coach Chris Silverwood:
"I was delighted with the way the boys fought back in the final session.
"We certainly did not have the second session of play. They batted very well. Our bowling wasn't at its best.
"But the way we responded in the last session showed our character and it could still be an interesting final day."
The Euro 2016 semi-finalists begin their Group D campaign at Cardiff City Stadium on 5 September.
Robson-Kanu, who left Reading in the summer, has not played a game since Euro 2016 and Wales boss Coleman was emphatic when asked if the forward's lack of a club would affect selection.
"Yes, of course," he said.
"We know what he's capable of. But I will know when they're all with us. In the training sessions and the preparation I'll know who's really on it ready [to play].
"I'll look at the players, see who's ready physically and psychologically. If I have to upset one or two it's not the first time I've done it."
Robson-Kanu, 27, scored twice as Wales reached the last four of Euro 2016 and has been linked with Premier League sides Hull City and Crystal Palace.
Coleman says there can be no excuses for Wales ahead of the Moldova game, irrespective of who is fit and available for selection.
Crystal Palace's Jonny Williams and Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey have already been ruled out.
"We've threatened before, promised everything and then delivered nothing," said Coleman.
"How many times have we finished strong at the end of one campaign and we say the next one is going to be the one? Then wallop, nothing.
"So this first game - doesn't matter if it's home or away - you set your stall out, set down a marker. That's what we're going for."
Figures vary between local authorities, with 16 children from Swansea in care outside of Wales, but none from Carmarthenshire or Denbighshire.
Action for Children said some were being placed "hundreds of miles away", making them feel "disconnected".
The Fostering Network said without more foster carers, some children would end up living a long way from family.
BBC Wales asked all 22 local authorities in Wales how many children and young people they currently have placed in foster care outside the country.
Eighteen councils provided figures, showing at least 131 have been placed outside Wales - either with a foster carer, a relative or friend, or in a home.
Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Vale of Glamorgan and Wrexham councils did not provide figures.
Placement authorities include Southampton, East Sussex, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Doncaster, London, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Somerset.
Jennie Welham, from Action for Children, said she had noticed an increase in children being placed outside Wales in the last 18 months.
Ms Welham, children's services manager for Torfaen's Multi-disciplinary Intervention Service (Mist), said: "As a child, if you're placed out of an area, out of Wales in particular, away from your family, your community, your school, your friends, activities you might have been doing, it's a big deal.
"Children find themselves in a strange environment, a different culture, so it's not only that you might lose your home, you lose everything that goes with it.
"You might have a child who's from a Welsh valleys culture being placed within a suburb in England, in Surrey, and I think that's huge for your identity."
But she added sometimes the placements were for good reasons if, for example, the child would be living with relatives, which she said was "preferable for identity purposes".
The Fostering Network said last week at least 440 foster families were needed across Wales.
And Dr Jael Hill, a consultant clinical psychologist at Torfaen Mist, said the lack of foster carers - particularly for children with specialist needs - was at the heart of why youngsters were ending up out of Wales.
She said many foster carers had "inadequate support from mental health services and therapeutic services to really understand those children's needs".
"What we've learned is meeting these children's needs really does require people to work together across health, education, social care and the voluntary sector and that's sometimes difficult to pull off," Dr Hill said.
"There are projects that do that really well, but it takes a shared vision across the agencies and that willingness to collaborate."
Colin Turner, director of the Fostering Network in Wales, said the charity was urgently calling for more families in Wales to come forward, "especially those able to foster teenagers and groups of brothers and sisters".
And Des Mannion, head of NSPCC Wales, said: "The majority of children who need foster care have suffered from abuse and neglect in their birth families and they are taken into care to protect them from significant harm.
"It is often challenging to find a placement that will meet the child's needs, but moving them outside of their local area often makes it difficult to provide the best possible support to them."
For some, they represent the pursuit of excellence and the opportunity for bright children to be challenged to excel, and for others, the entrenching of advantage and privilege at the expense of the majority of children.
And for the first time in years they are controversially firmly back on the agenda, with a grammar school educated Prime Minister who has expressed sympathy for demands for one in her own constituency.
Lifting the ban on grammar schools would have a huge symbolic value for some within the Conservative party.
But it would be a strange signal on social mobility from a new Prime Minister who has promised to govern for those who feel shut out of opportunity.
And it is social mobility which Education Secretary Justine Greening has been told to put at the centre of education policy.
The research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Cambridge University in 2013 found some striking social differences in grammar school intakes.
If you look just at the children gaining the top level in their end of primary tests, the chances of a child receiving free school meals going to grammar school are lower than their better off classmates.
So take two children who are at the top of their class, and the poorer child is less likely to end up in the academically selective grammar school.
Some schools and counties have tried to mitigate this effect in tests, but they are up against the buying power of parents willing to invest in tuition.
But nothing softens the fact that grammar schools do nothing for the majority of children who don't go to them, apart from skim off the pupils it is easiest to help to do well.
So any decision about grammar schools will have to be weighed politically against other pressing priorities in education.
While the attempts to force the pace of the academy programme were dropped earlier this year, there is no reason to believe the incremental shift towards more academies will do anything but continue.
Both Theresa May and Justine Greening have supported both academies and free schools.
So any shift on grammar schools is likely to be presented within that context, as part of an increasingly mixed economy of schools, rather than an attempt to re-introduce a system which hasn't existed for decades in many parts of the country.
That wouldn't reduce the controversy, nor the substantial opposition in parliament, which would include some Conservative MPs.
There is a precedent for another model too.
In Kent a new grammar school "extension" has already been allowed in Sevenoaks, around ten miles from its nominal base.
Allowing high performing schools, including grammars, to expand was in the Conservative manifesto.
A return more broadly to a grammar system was not.
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The attack reportedly occurred during a change of guard at the rebel-controlled Atmeh crossing, in Idlib province.
It was not immediately clear whether the blast was caused by a suicide bomber or a remote-controlled device.
A news agency linked to so-called Islamic State (IS) said a suicide car bombing had targeted a rebel convoy.
But an opposition activist network, the Local Co-ordination Committees, reported that a suitcase filled with explosives had been planted at the scene.
In mid-August, 32 rebels were killed in a suicide attack claimed by IS at the Atmeh crossing, which they use to travel from Idlib, via Turkey, to battle the jihadist group in other parts of north-eastern Syria.
The LCC reported that 30 people had been killed and 40 others wounded in Thursday morning's attack, while the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 29.
Photographs and videos purportedly of the aftermath showed the bloodied bodies of more than 20 men, some of them wearing camouflage trousers.
Turkey's deputy prime minister called the attack a "crime against humanity".
The president of the Higher Judicial Council in the rebel-held east of the nearby city of Aleppo, Sheikh Khaled al-Sayyed, its attorney-general Mohammed Faraj, and a field commander of the rebel group Ahrar al-Sham, Husham Khalifa, were among those killed, the LCC said. But most of the victims were Faylaq al-Sham fighters.
The rebel faction is participating in a Turkish-led offensive against IS militants and Kurdish fighters along another stretch of border, 60km (37 miles) to the north-east.
The rebels - assisted by Turkish warplanes, tanks and artillery - quickly seized the former IS stronghold of Jarablus in late August and are now heading towards Dabiq.
The small town holds great symbolic value to jihadists as it is named in Islamic apocalyptic prophecies as the site of an end-of-times showdown between Muslims and their "Roman" enemies - a term IS has now expanded to include the US and its allies.
BBC Turkey correspondent Mark Lowen says Thursday's attack by IS highlights the danger of the mission - Turkey's biggest offensive in Syria since the country's war began in 2011.
Ankara says it will push on with Operation Euphrates Shield, hoping to create a de facto buffer zone close to its vulnerable border, to where some of the 1.5 million Syrian refugees sheltering in Turkey could return.
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Amherst College, a top-ranking liberal arts college in Massachusetts, is facing a campaign by students to scrap its "Lord Jeff" mascot.
The "Lord Jeff" in question is Lord Jeffery Amherst, the colonial soldier after whom the college and the town of Amherst are named.
Many universities have had to reconsider associations with dubious historical figures, but the Lord Jeff case is more extreme than most.
Lord Amherst, a governor-general in pre-independence America in the 1760s, is accused of advocating the wiping out of Native Americans by deliberately giving them smallpox, by means of a gift of infected blankets.
In the university's own account, it quotes the general as writing to an officer: "Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians?"
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He spelled out the plan later: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race."
Lord Amherst, who was born and died in Sevenoaks in Kent, was also sympathetic to the idea of hunting down the local Native American population with dogs.
Amherst College's reputation is based on the cultivation of the arts, with links to poets such as Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson.
The associations with ethnic cleansing are becoming increasingly awkward.
Students at the college are campaigning to scrap the mascot as part of wider concerns about being inclusive and tackling racism. There have been sit-ins and a vote on the mascot is being held this week.
Virginia Hassell is supporting a student campaign to end the use of the Lord Jeffery mascot.
She says the mascot's associations are "racist and offensive" and it is not how the university should be represented and it shouldn't be appearing on clothing associated with the college.
As campuses become more diverse in their intake, she says there is going to be more scrutiny of such symbols.
The dispute at Amherst comes amidst a wave of protests and arguments over race and identity in US universities.
Ms Hassell, who has been in talks with college authorities, says she is confident that the mascot will be changed, but not as quickly as campaigners might want.
"I'm feeling optimistic about the direction we're heading in right now. The conversation has shifted from, 'Are we going to change the mascot?' to 'What are we going to change it to?'"
And there are students opposed to losing the Lord Jeff mascot.
Thomas Sommers says he is sensitive to the concerns about Lord Amherst's "atrocious" behaviour, but he doesn't associate the mascot with the 18th Century general.
"Personally, the way I see it is that the mascot is just an embodiment of Amherst College. It's a mascot and nothing more.
"Like the name of the college or the town of Amherst, when I think about the name I don't think about Lord Jeffery Amherst. And when I think about the mascot I don't think about the historical figure."
Both his parents went to Amherst and he says changing the mascot would mean losing a tradition that links present and past students.
Any decision on scrapping the mascot should take into account the views of such alumni, he says.
The college remains non-committal: "There are understandably mixed views about changing it," says a statement.
And it says that "people at Amherst will continue to think about the issues in all their complexity".
The college's board of trustees is expected to examine the issue early next year.
But both Thomas Sommers and Virginia Hassell, on either side of the argument, believe a change is ultimately likely.
It's part of a wider pattern of controversies over emblems and the legacy of universities' links with the past. Should universities change symbols to reflect changed attitudes? Or should they keep them in place and accept that in the past people had views which now seem repellent?
At Harvard Law School there is a growing campaign to change the school's seal, which includes the family crest of an 18th Century donor Isaac Royall.
The wealth that allowed him to leave land to Harvard was drawn from being a particularly brutal slave-owner and slave-dealer who, it's claimed, burned slaves to death in reprisal for a revolt.
Opponents have argued that altering the emblem would only be a cosmetic change and wouldn't address the issue of how or whether an institution should be held accountable for its past.
But the campaigners argue that the school should rid itself of such visible associations with slavery and have adopted the slogan Royall Must Fall.
The slogan links the campaign to the Rhodes Must Fall student protest in South Africa, which earlier this year saw a colonial-era statue of Cecil Rhodes being attacked and ultimately removed from the University of Cape Town.
The statue, which had been on the campus since the 1930s, became the focus of student protesters who saw it as a surviving symbol of an era of discrimination against the black majority.
Academic and social commentator Frank Furedi says there is a "powerful impulse" on US campuses at the moment to question "traditional conventions, rituals and symbols".
He says it is part of the "ascendancy of identity politics" on campus, where politics are based around issues such as race, gender, religion or sexuality.
With such an approach to politics, he says, students are seeking symbolic ways to assert their identity.
"Consequently anything can become an object of protest.
"Increasingly identity in the present is being affirmed through insisting on the erasure of the traditions of the past."
Prof Furedi predicts: "There is little doubt that this trend will intensify."
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The 45-year-old "used abusive and/or insulting language" towards an official at the end of their League One defeat by Gillingham on 11 March.
Alexander has accepted the standard penalty, which includes a £1,000 fine.
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Lieutenant General Manas Kongpan could face a criminal trial. He is willing to hand himself in, Thai reports say.
The warrant is part of efforts to close down smuggling routes through Thailand.
Meanwhile Myanmar's navy is reported to be escorting a boat with about 700 stranded migrants to a "safe" location.
Information Minister Ye Htut told the AFP news agency that the migrants were being taken to an undisclosed but safe area and had been given food and water.
He declined naming the location because of "security and safety concerns".
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Tuesday's move to arrest Gen Kongpan is part of an effort by Thailand to close down a human smuggling route through the country.
Migrants from Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh have previously been detained in camps in southern Thailand before being sent to Malaysia.
In 2009, the general told the BBC that Thailand treated migrants humanely after he was accused of ordering more than 1,000 Rohingyas to be set adrift at sea on boats with no engines.
Correspondents say that he is the first member of the military in army-ruled Thailand to be implicated in the trafficking of migrants.
Rights groups have long maintained that the country has not addressed the issue and may even be complicit in the trade.
The warrant against the general was issued by a court on Sunday, police chief Somyot Poompanmoung was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
"[We] are confident in the evidence [and] I am confident he will not flee."
The Thai News Agency on Tuesday interviewed Gen Kongpan, who said he was going to surrender himself to the police in Songkhla province. He said he was willing to co-operate with officers and was preparing to defend himself.
Police have not given details over his alleged role in the multi-million dollar criminal network which authorities believe over the years has been responsible for smuggling migrants through the south of Thailand to Malaysia.
Gen Kongpan, 58, was a senior army officer in the south, where police are examining dozens of shallow graves found last month in a remote migrant camp bordering Malaysia.
Thousands of Rohingyas have in recent months attempted to travel to Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia and many are still believed to be stranded at sea.
Emergency services and the Red Cross were called to the Penge Lane and Queen Adelaide Road area of Penge following the leak at 22:30 GMT on Saturday.
Gas distribution firm SGN said it had made a temporary repair overnight.
Residents moved to four reception centres were allowed to go home from 05:00 and engineers were working on a permanent repair, a spokesman said.
It said it aimed to complete the repair work by Sunday afternoon.
A member of the public reported smelling gas shortly after 22:30 on Saturday and called the national gas emergency number, SGN said.
It was initially thought more people had to leave their homes as a precaution but police later said about 150 people were affected.
Neighbourhood policing team @MPSBromley tweeted: "Huge Gas Leak Penge Lane / Queen Adelaide Road. Houses being evacuated. Please avoid this area."
A second tweet from the account at about 02:00 said: "Road closures remain in place in #Penge ... 4 reception centres housing evacuees. Community spirit pulling through. Updates to follow."
Sgt Lance Chenery tweeted: "On scene with @MPSBromley dealing with a serious gas leak in #Penge #SE20 large evacuation of residents."
Sgt Gareth Starr said some residents were moved from reception centres to hotels, with others escorted home by police officers from about 05:00.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said road closures were put in place as a cordon was set up around the site. Gas engineers remain at the scene.
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On a surface that was prepared only an hour before play began, Somerset started well, with Chris Rogers' 57 helping them to 115-2.
But as the bowling improved, Somerset lost their last eight wickets for 121, Harry Podmore claiming 4-54 on his Middlesex Championship debut.
The visitors reached 51-1 by the close, with Nick Gubbins unbeaten on 31.
It left Division One leaders Middlesex in the stronger position at the end of a day punctuated by rain delays and dominated by the pitch on which the match is being played.
The contest was set to be played on a used, straw-coloured surface, but Somerset took the late decision to play on one so green it was barely distinguishable from the rest of the square, presumably backing their bowlers over a Middlesex attack without Steven Finn, Toby Roland-Jones and Tim Murtagh.
Though they were asked to bat without a toss, it was a plan that looked to be working as Rogers and Marcus Trescothick (35) punished some wayward pace bowling in the first hour.
But after Rogers was brilliantly caught down the leg side by wicketkeeper John Simpson off Podmore, Middlesex chipped away, with only James Allenby resisting for a patient 44.
Last-wicket pair Tim Groenewald and Jack Leach added 23 before the latter was wonderfully taken by Ollie Rayner at second slip off James Fuller.
Craig Overton pinned Sam Robson leg before with the second ball of Middlesex's reply, but the home attack were woefully inaccurate after that breakthrough.
Gubbins shared an unbroken stand of 51 with Steve Eskinazi.
Wreaths were laid at the event in the September 11 Memorial Garden near the US embassy in Grosvenor Square.
Earlier, families of some of the UK victims attended services at Grosvenor Chapel and St Paul's Cathedral.
Services have also taken place in Glasgow, Birmingham and Belfast.
The Grosvenor Square event was organised by the September 11 UK Families Support Group, which set up the memorial garden in 2003.
Family members read the name of their loved ones and laid a white rose at the memorial, a small pavilion with three bronze plaques containing the names of the deceased Britons.
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The Stars and Stripes flew at half mast from the roof of the US embassy.
In the green square below, the families took turns to lay a single white rose in the memorial garden. The motto inscribed there reads "Grief is the Price we Pay for Love".
Underneath are the names of the 67 British citizens who died
The families added their tributes to flowers already there. Some offerings were formal like the spray of white lilies from Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the firms which lost so many staff at the World Trade Center.
Others were basic but heartfelt - a single rose in a plastic water bottle, sitting on an envelope marked "To the People of America".
Rob Halligan, who lost his father Bob, recalled the quiet time he has spent in this garden over the years.
But he added: "After 10 years, many of the families want to be able to move forward. They'll never forget. But they don't want to be defined by 9/11 for ever."
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The Duchess of Cornwall, London mayor Boris Johnson, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Labour leader Ed Miliband and the US ambassador to the UK Louis Susman were also in attendance.
The US flag on the embassy flew at half mast as Mr Susman led a minute's silence and Dame Judi Dench gave a reading.
Mr Susman said: "For those here remembering someone close, torn from you in the most brutal way, deprived of some of life's most treasured moments, 9/11 of course has touched your life immeasurably.
"Yet our societies are still strong, our political institutions and justice systems still function..."
Prince Charles, Mr Cameron and Mr Susman laid wreaths at the memorial, which also provided the backdrop for an evening concert.
In his speech Prince Charles spoke of the "continuing, awful agony" suffered by the bereaved but said he hoped for the "healing the world so desperately needs".
Nearly 3,000 people died when four hijacked airliners were crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
Kevin Dennis, who was working as a stockbroker for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 101st floor of the WTC's North Tower, was one of the Britons killed in the attacks.
Ahead of the event, his mother, Patricia Bingley, told the BBC: "I just want to keep his memory alive, and with Grosvenor Square, with the anniversary, I lay a rose for him and then I call his name and that's his day."
The UK commemorations began just after 08:00 BST at the nearby Grosvenor Chapel.
It was an intimate and low-key service, said BBC News correspondent Andy Moore.
The centrepiece of the service was the lighting of a single candle by deputy American ambassador Barbara Stephenson, in memory of those who died.
Canon Jim Rosenthal, who led the service said the attacks knew "no race, creed, gender, age or status" but remembrance "gives us the opportunity to take hold of the past and transform it to reach out with grace, understanding and healing".
US cleric Dr Courtney Cowart, was nearly buried alive in the WTC rubble, recalled the "extreme acts of love drove the darkness out".
The families of the dead Britons were later joined by about 2,000 representatives from the fire, police and ambulance services at St Paul's Cathedral.
Members of the UK's Firefighters Memorial Trust laid a wreath in memory of the 343 members of New York's fire department killed while responding to 9/11.
Sir Ken Knight, from the trust, told the BBC: "The fire service around the world is a very large family and we face the same hazards and the same risks and the same challenges."
At 13:46 BST, a minute's silence was held outside the US embassy in London to mark the time American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the WTC.
About 60 protesters, including members from the Muslims Against Crusades group, were present in Grosvenor Square and set fire to a US flag during the silence.
A similarly sized group of English Defence League protesters gathered in response to the demonstration, while another group held up placards reading Muslims Against Extremism.
Scotland Yard said four people were arrested for public order offences.
Later, two men were stabbed at a pub in central London where the EDL says its members gathered after the demonstration.
The two were taken to hospital but their conditions are unknown.
The Met Police said there have been 10 arrests after an attack at the Tyburn Pub on Edgware Road.
A service was held at Westminster Abbey and other ceremonies took place in Plymouth and at Birmingham Cathedral, Truro Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral.
In Cornwall, there was a minute's silence at the Rick Rescorla memorial in Hayle. Security manager Mr Rescorla, 62, who grew up in the town, died after leading more than 2,000 people to safety on 9/11.
Meanwhile, faith leaders and politicians took part in a peace walk in Edinburgh, and the first minister attended a service at St Nicholas Kirk in Aberdeen. Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones said 9/11 saw "the best and worst of humanity" and sent his condolences to the US ambassador to the UK.
By Nicola PearsonBBC News
On a bright sunny day at St Paul's Cathedral a guard of honour from UK firefighters greeted the 2,000 members of the congregation as they arrived for the service.
The hour-long memorial service, titled Remembering with Hope, was led by the Dean of St Paul's, the Right Reverend Graeme Knowles.
There were moments of silence as three candles were lit - one for those who died on 11 September 2001, one for firefighters who have died in the line of duty and a third to remember those who have died in terror attacks around the world.
In the US, commemorations were held at the British embassy in Washington, and in New York the consul general attended a memorial concert at the British Garden in Hanover Square where the 67 UK victims are commemorated.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who was in Manhattan just two blocks away from the World Trade Center when the South Tower collapsed, told BBC Radio 2's Sunday Programme: "I think that was one of the deep moments, that everybody just wanted to pray together. And we did that as we heard the unforgettable noise of the first tower coming down."
Foreign Secretary William Hague paid tribute to the "courage and dignity of the American people" and the victims of other attacks including the London bombings of 2005.
In a statement, Mr Hague added: "So while we remember the victims of 9/11, stand firm with our allies and remain tirelessly vigilant against future threats, we also face the future with confidence in our values and faith in human nature".
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, US President Barack Obama said 9/11 "was not only an attack on the United States, it was an attack on the world and on the humanity and hopes that we share".
Stephen Beadman, 29, had previously admitted the murder and rape of Kayleigh Haywood in Leicestershire.
The jury is yet to reach a verdict on co-defendant Luke Harlow, 28, who admitted engaging in sexual activity with the teenager, but denied a false imprisonment charge, last year.
Jurors will resume deliberations on Harlow's charge on Tuesday.
Both men, of George Avenue, Ibstock, Leicestershire, are due to be sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court next week.
The jury deliberated for just under six hours to find Beadman guilty of false imprisonment.
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Harlow, who is facing the same charge, has pleaded guilty to meeting Kayleigh following sexual grooming.
Her disappearance on 13 November prompted an outpouring of support from the community in her home village of Measham and the wider area.
The 15-year-old's body was found in a field outside Ibstock five days after she was last seen outside Ibstock Community College. An inquest heard she died from head and facial injuries.
Kayleigh was kept prisoner at Harlow's home between about 21:00 BST on Saturday 14 November and 03:00 on 15 November, the prosecution told the court.
She and Harlow had been exchanging messages via social media.
The unemployed former media studies student has admitted attempting to meet two other 15-year-old girls for sexual purposes and had contacted a 13-year-old too.
On the evening of Friday 13 November, Harlow and Kayleigh met for the first time. He admitted sexually touching her after she had been drinking heavily.
Earlier in the trial, he denied Beadman's barrister's suggestion Kayleigh had escaped after she awoke to find he and Beadman arguing because Harlow had allegedly attempted to rape her while she slept.
In the early hours of Sunday Kayleigh was seen leaving the flat.
A witness said she was naked from the waist down and Beadman was pinning her to the ground.
Beadman, who pleaded guilty to her rape and murder, opted not to give evidence in the trial.
He told police he could not remember what had happened because he had been drinking but later confessed to first raping the teenager, then killing her with a brick.
He told officers: "When I drink I just switch. But when I switch I get violent."
The jury of six men and five women at Nottingham Crown Court unanimously agreed he had kept her prisoner but could not reach a verdict on which they all agreed on Harlow.
They will resume deliberations on Tuesday.
The pair are due to appear again at the same court on Friday to be sentenced.
William Hope pleaded guilty to 14 charges including six counts of rape and four sexual assaults when he appeared at Carlisle Crown Court.
Three victims were targeted in the abuse, the court heard.
Hope, 56, of no fixed address, was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 9 June.
He has also admitted four counts of indecent assault on a child.
Hope's offences were committed during a period between the early 1990s and March this year, the hearing was told.
Judge Peter Davis told him a prison sentence was "inevitable".
Rooney scored in United's 3-0 win over Stoke City that allowed under-pressure Van Gaal to enjoy an emphatic win.
It leaves his captain Rooney just five goals behind Old Trafford legend Charlton's record of 249.
"It will be good for him and good for me because when he scores we win," said Van Gaal.
Jesse Lingard and Antony Martial were also on target as United remained just five points behind fourth-placed Arsenal while ending an embarrassing run of 11 home games without a first-half goal.
Van Gaal, who praised the contributions of Juan Mata and Martial in a fine all-round team display, called on United to produce the consistency that will put recent troubles behind them.
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He said: "Mata participated in all three goals and that is what I like to see, but every player has to prove it every week - even my captain Wayne Rooney. He has to do that. Everybody forgets he was substituted against Stoke City on Boxing Day, but it is always the same with me.
"You have to prove it every game and in every training session, and if you do you play. But when Rooney plays like this you cannot say to him 'come to the bench.'"
Jesse Lingard's 14th-minute goal eased Old Trafford tensions - ending the run without a first-half goal stretching over eight hours 40 minutes.
And Van Gaal said: "It was a great performance, not only defensively but in attack. The difference in the first half was that we scored and that made things easier. Michael Carrick said to me that when you score early like that everything goes more easily."
Van Gaal took his first chance to welcome Pep Guardiola, who played under him at Barcelona, after it was revealed he will take over at rivals Manchester City next summer.
"He was my captain at Barcelona so I will be very pleased to see him," said Van Gaal. "I can also speak Spanish which is convenient for him."
Dave Artell picked up his first win as the Railwaymen's boss to ease the club's relegation fears.
George Cooper and Chris Dagnall both hit a brace to sweep the strugglers into a four-goal lead before the half-hour mark.
Cooper tucked the ball past James McKeown from the tightest of angles to give his side a flying start in the second minute.
Grimsby responded with Jamey Osbourne - who had an unsuccessful trial at Crewe last summer - forcing a good save out of Ben Garratt with a rasping drive.
Opportunist finishing from Dagnall in the 16th minute doubled the lead with the striker hooking a low shot under the despairing McKeown.
Defender Ben Nugent and Jordan Bowery went close and the Railwaymen looked threatening whenever they piled forward.
They had been the joint lowest scorers in League Two before the game, but they surprised even their die-hard fans when they picked off two more goals in quick succession.
First Cooper curled a superb free-kick from the edge of the D over the wall after 25 minutes. Then four minutes later Dagnall also grabbed his second when he was on hand to prod home from close range after Bowery helped on Cooper's low cross.
Grimsby improved slightly after Marcus Bignot made a triple substitution at the break, but Tom Bolarinwa blazed high and wide with an easy late chance.
Crewe still piled forward with McKeown pushing Bowery's fierce drive around the post before excelling himself when tipping over an ambitious volley from the halfway line from the impressive Cooper.
Callum Cooke then wrapped up it up three minutes from time on his home debut when he slid a low shot into the corner of the net from Callum Ainley's ball.
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Match ends, Crewe Alexandra 5, Grimsby Town 0.
Second Half ends, Crewe Alexandra 5, Grimsby Town 0.
Attempt saved. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top right corner.
Ben Nugent (Crewe Alexandra) is shown the yellow card.
Gavin Gunning (Grimsby Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum Ainley (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gavin Gunning (Grimsby Town).
Goal! Crewe Alexandra 5, Grimsby Town 0. Callum Cooke (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Callum Ainley.
Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Davies (Grimsby Town).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Callum Ainley replaces Chris Dagnall.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Alex Kiwomya replaces George Cooper.
Delay in match Zoumana Bakayogo (Crewe Alexandra) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Akwasi Asante (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Zoumana Bakayogo replaces Jon Guthrie.
Attempt missed. Chris Clements (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by George Ray.
Attempt missed. Tom Bolarinwa (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Tom Bolarinwa.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by James McKeown.
Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by James McKeown.
Attempt saved. Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Gavin Gunning (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) is shown the yellow card.
Brandon Comley (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Bowery (Crewe Alexandra).
Sam Jones (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Ray (Crewe Alexandra).
Shaun Pearson (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra).
Hand ball by Jordan Bowery (Crewe Alexandra).
Gavin Gunning (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt saved. Akwasi Asante (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Tom Bolarinwa (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra).
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Tom Bolarinwa.
Second Half begins Crewe Alexandra 4, Grimsby Town 0.
19 January 2016 Last updated at 07:21 GMT
Pete and Andrew both love to surf, but got fed up of sharing the ocean with tonnes of rubbish.
They decided it was time for a clean-up, and have invented a 'sea bin' which is specially designed to float on the surface of the ocean, and vacuum up the rubbish.
And it's not just surfers who will benefit - rubbish in the ocean can cause much more serious problems for sea-life.
Experts say that animals like turtles, dolphins, whales, and sea birds are all at risk because of the litter.
The inventors are hoping that their creation can help to protect the environment, and make oceans a nicer place for everyone.
York Minster dismissed its 30 volunteer bell-ringers in October due to "safeguarding issues".
The York Press has reported that bell-ringers in Leeds have opted to stand by their colleagues and refused York's offer.
The Dean and Chapter have not responded to the BBC's request for comment.
A source close to the sacked bell-ringers told the BBC they would be willing to return for the Christmas period should the Minster have "a change of heart".
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The Minster says it has always intended to recruit a new team of volunteers by Easter 2017 and has previously said all the dismissed bell-ringers were welcome to apply.
Chris Mew, president of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers, confirmed ringers elsewhere had been approached by the Minster.
He said: "It is, however, a pity that some of the former ringers could not have been suitably passed through the latest processes for volunteers including, where appropriate, [criminal record] checks, since this could have been achieved between October and December."
Mr Mew added that ringers approached by the Minster to stand in at Christmas would have to "follow their own consciences".
The Dean of York, The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, initially said the team had been dismissed because of health and safety issues, and a wish to bring it into line with other volunteer groups.
It later emerged that there were also safeguarding issues relating to a member of the team.
Same-sex marriage policies were associated with a 7% fall in reported suicide attempts, according to analysis of 17 years of data.
The drop was particularly evident among "sexual minorities" - which saw a 14% drop in suicide attempts.
It concluded that same-sex marriage laws had "mental health consequences".
But the report also said it could not say exactly how policy on same-sex marriage reduces suicide attempts - just that there is evidence of an association.
Suicide is the second-largest cause of death among 15-24 year olds in the United States, according to the report's data.
About 29% of gay, lesbian, and bisexual high school students reported at least one suicide attempt in the 12 months before answering the survey - compared with just 6% of heterosexual teens.
The new study compared the change in suicide rates from 32 states permitting same-sex marriage - before and after the policy was implemented - with 15 states which did not allow same-sex marriage.
The report's author, Julia Raifman, said the drop-off in suicide attempts, particularly among lesbian, gay, and bisexual teens, was interesting because "high school students are unlikely to marry in the immediate future - so that suggests that it's not a direct benefit from marriage."
"It's likely that something about having equal rights, or having more hope for the future, is driving the results," she said.
In an editorial accompanying the paper in the the Journal of the American Medical Association Paediatrics, Columbia University's Mark Hatzenbuehler wrote that "stigma is one of the most frequently hypothesised risk factors".
But, he wrote, research into stigma and mental health is almost exclusively at the personal level, rather than looking at factors in society at large.
"That literature has tended to overlook what we call structural forms of stigma - which include ... laws and policies," he said in an interview.
"Those results really highlight the fact that the legal climate surrounding LGB adolescents really deserves greater attention," he added.
The study analysed data on 762,678 teens from the Youth Risk Behaviour Surveillance System - a large-scale US-wide survey carried out every two years.
The report's data, however, depended on teens self-reporting a suicide attempt and found that there was "limited data" on sexual orientation. It also did not include suicidal actions which resulted in death.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was a right in every state in June 2015 - after the period covered by the new study.
Currently just the US dollar, the euro, the yen and the pound are in the group.
The IMF said the yuan ``met all existing criteria'' and should become part of the basket in October 2016.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde said it was "an important milestone in the integration of the Chinese economy into the global financial system".
She added it was also a recognition of the progress that the Chinese authorities have made in the past years in reforming China's monetary and financial systems.
The yuan will now make up part of the IMF's Special Drawing Rights (SDR) - an asset created by the IMF which serves almost as a currency.
It is used for transactions between central banks and the IMF, and is used to decide the currency mix that countries like Greece, for example, receive when the IMF provides financial aid.
The last change made to the basket was in 2000, when the euro replaced the German mark and the franc.
China is the world's second largest economy behind the US and asked for the yuan to become a reserve currency last year.
More than anything this move is a symbol - a powerful one - of China's meteoric rise, from poverty to pillar of the global economy.
Until now only the currencies of the four leading developed economies were used in the basket that determines the value of the SDR.
So for China to join this very small club is quite a statement of how the world economy has changed. There could also be some real benefits to China.
If the currency's elevated status leads to more being held by central banks businesses and businesses, it would be helpful for the government's finances. A state's monopoly over the issue of currency indirectly gives it an extra source of revenue.
But the main point is that the decision is new way of conveying the increasingly apparent message that China has a central role in driving the performance of the world economy.
Vaswani: The Chinese yuan is going global
Some analysts have suggested that by 2030 the yuan will become one of the top three major international currencies, together with the dollar and the euro.
Concerns about Beijing keeping the yuan artificially low to help exporters is one reason the currency has previously failed to meet the criteria for reserve currencies set out by the IMF.
However, Chinese officials have a made a concerted effort to build support for the yuan's inclusion, and a recent IMF staff report endorsed such a move.
Initially, the currency's inclusion would be largely a symbolic gesture, some analysts have said.
They have also said the yuan's continuing inclusion in the basket would depend on whether China progresses with its financial reforms.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was at a service in France to remember the lives lost in the Battle of the Somme.
Prime Minister David Cameron, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry were also at the ceremony at The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.
Earlier a two minute silence marked the exact moment the first wave of men went over the top in the battle.
It brought to an end an overnight vigil by members of the armed forces at the National War Memorial in Edinburgh.
More than a million men were wounded or killed in the 141-day battle, the most devastating encounter of World War One.
A ceremony has been held at the Lochnagar crater which was created by an explosion at the start of the battle in La Boiselle, France.
And wreathes have been laid at a memorial to the 15th and 16th battalions of the Royal Scots in the French village of Contalmaison.
In Glasgow two paving stones have been unveiled honouring local soldiers who received the Victoria Cross for bravery at the Somme.
Meanwhile, men dressed as World War One soldiers were spotted in Glasgow and Shetland handing out cards detailing casualties of the Battle of the Somme.
The hashtag #wearehere, which features on the cards, trended on Twitter as pictures of the tribute are shared.
It was later revealed to be a Somme commemoration project by National Theatre head Rufus Norris and artist Jeremy Deller.
Commemorations began at Scotland's National War Memorial on Thursday evening when hundreds of people joined military personnel, veterans and descendents at an overnight vigil.
Prayers were said before candles were taken inside the war memorial and placed on a casket containing the original Roll of Honour for the fallen of the Great War.
The candles were guarded overnight by representatives from units including the Wrens, the Royal Navy and several Scottish Army regiments, standing by the casket with their heads bowed.
A two-minute silence, which began with the firing of the One O'Clock Gun, ended at 07:30 when Lt Col Alan Hamilton sounded a whistle used by his great uncle, Robert Hamilton, in the trenches of the Somme.
"It was quite emotional, the hairs on the back of my neck went up," he said afterwards.
Ms Sturgeon, Mr Cameron, and senior members of the Royal Family were among around 10,000 people marking the anniversary at the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
About 70,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave are commemorated at the site.
Speaking ahead of the service, Ms Sturgeon said: "Fifty-one Scottish battalions were involved, and the losses suffered by those units - and those from the other countries involved - were on an almost unimaginable scale.
"Barely a single community in Scotland was left untouched by the battle.
"Across Scotland communities are now remembering those who gave their lives, and a whole century on from the devastation and suffering of the Battle of the Somme, we should all reflect on the horrors of the Great War and give thanks that our continent now lives in peace."
Hundreds of people gathered around the memorial cairn in front of the church here in the French village of Contalmaison.
It was on the front line of the battle of the Somme and on this day 100 years ago, men from the Royal Scots climbed out of their trenches to attack the Germans lines in the surrounding fields.
Within one hour, of the 800 men attacking, 670 of them were dead or injured.
A colour party from the Royal Regiment of Scotland stood guard as tributes were paid, a two minutes silence observed and the last post sounded.
The veterans minister Keith Brown was also here to represent the Scottish government.
He said it was almost impossible to take in the losses but it was essential for the country to remember the sacrifice.
Sgt James Turnbull and Drummer Walter Ritchie have been remembered outside the People's Palace on Glasgow Green.
In ceremonies led by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, and attended by the men's relatives, commemorative paving stones have been unveiled.
Both men were awarded a Victoria Cross for acts of bravery on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Sgt Turnbull, who was hit by a sniper's bullet, died shortly afterwards, but Drummer Ritchie survived the war and later picked up his VC at Buckingham Palace.
The Lord Provost, Sadie Docherty, said the men showed "extraordinary courage" on the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army.
"One hundred years ago the heroism of both men was very well documented by the media in our city and beyond," she added.
"Today, we hope that by unveiling these commemorative paving stones we will ensure their story isn't forgotten for this generation and generations to come.
"I am particularly pleased that their families are able to take part in these ceremonies - and to be able to express to them the city's gratitude, and my own."
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The Switch is designed to work as both a home console and a handheld device, like a DS.
There's a portable tablet-like gadget that becomes a home console you play on TV when it goes into the docking station.
The Switch has control panels on the side, which can slide off in a similar style to the Wii remotes, using movement.
Well, £279.99 to be precise. But still, a lot of money.
Plus there are accessories that will cost extra - like additional controllers or spare docks.
The games on offer at launch include The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Just Dance 2017.
But some fans have said there aren't enough games available.
The Switch's creators have defended themselves.
They told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat: "We're thinking long-term about our release schedule - we wouldn't want to put everything out at first."
Bosses at the Japanese company will be hoping the Switch sells.
The last console, Wii U, didn't do very well against Sony's PS4 and Microsoft's Xbox One.
This time there's competition from the PS4 Pro, which was released in November, and Xbox's Project Scorpio - that's due later this year. Read more on those consoles here.
The defender, 35, joined the squad last week and played in Saturday's 1-1 friendly draw with Marseille at Ibrox.
And Caixinha says summer signing Alves is already making a significant impact.
"He's a great man that this club needs, especially having at the back that leadership, experience and understanding of the game," boss Caixinha told the Rangers website.
"He's being a quiet boy, just observing and just getting to know everything around him, but he's that type of leader that doesn't need to express too much.
"Just his presence makes all the guys understand what is going on. In just a small conversation, a one-on-one situation, everybody understands.
"So that's the type of leadership Bruno has, more by his presence, and you ask me if I want more from him, I want a little bit more communication and also coaching from the back because he is seeing all the game.
"I really want Bruno to represent me on the pitch. That's one situation that I've been talking with him about and he's going to do it very easily.
"Bruno, when he just touched the first ball against Marseille, everybody was happy with him, everybody was happy with his leadership."
Also making his debut on Saturday was Graham Dorrans, and Caixinha says the 30-year-old Scot was among a number of players to make a big impression against Marseille.
"Dorrans in the middle of the park did great," the manager added. "Both of them (Dorrans and Alves) are not at the best fitness level, we need to put them up to that in the next two weeks.
"But only by understanding the game and understanding what it really means to play for this great club they can make the difference.
"Ryan Jack is another one that is getting used to it and adapting, and he is also helping us a lot to keep the balance of the team.
"It doesn't matter which way the team is playing, he is always down there to give us the balance and the other one that has also conquered a little bit our fans in Ibrox was (Daniel) Candeias.
"He also understands the way he needs to perform. He can do even better and give us a fantastic relationship on the right along with James (Tavernier). I'm very glad that things are going in that direction.
"I do believe that we are building a good team, a strong team, a competitive team and one that needs to be like all the great teams in the history of this great club."
Sami Khedira put the visitors ahead after just seven minutes following a deft one-two with Miralem Pjanic.
Napoli captain Marek Hamsik levelled after the break from Dries Mertens' reverse pass.
Mertens then hit the post from a tight angle after beating goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon to Kwadwo Asamoah's back-pass but Juve held on.
The build-up to the game had been dominated by the return to Naples of former striker Gonzalo Higuain, but the 29-year-old was unable to have a meaningful impact on the match.
Roma's 2-0 victory over Empoli on Saturday had cut the advantage of Massimiliano Allegri's side to five points, while Napoli remain third, four points ahead of Lazio.
Elsewhere on Sunday, fifth-placed Atalanta thrashed Genoa 5-0 away and bottom club Pescara held AC Milan to a 1-1 draw at home.
Match ends, Napoli 1, Juventus 1.
Second Half ends, Napoli 1, Juventus 1.
Foul by Dries Mertens (Napoli).
Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Faouzi Ghoulam (Napoli) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Juan Cuadrado (Juventus).
Hand ball by Paulo Dybala (Juventus).
Hand ball by Paulo Dybala (Juventus).
Substitution, Juventus. Tomás Rincón replaces Miralem Pjanic.
Hand ball by Jorginho (Napoli).
Foul by Faouzi Ghoulam (Napoli).
Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Juventus. Paulo Dybala replaces Claudio Marchisio.
Substitution, Napoli. Faouzi Ghoulam replaces Ivan Strinic.
Foul by Marko Rog (Napoli).
Miralem Pjanic (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Marko Rog (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Raúl Albiol.
Ivan Strinic (Napoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus).
Substitution, Napoli. Marko Rog replaces Marek Hamsik.
Attempt missed. Jorginho (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Dries Mertens (Napoli) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lorenzo Insigne.
Foul by José Callejón (Napoli).
Kwadwo Asamoah (Juventus) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Marek Hamsik (Napoli).
Sami Khedira (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by José Callejón (Napoli).
Miralem Pjanic (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Napoli. Piotr Zielinski replaces Allan.
Ivan Strinic (Napoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Juan Cuadrado (Juventus).
Dries Mertens (Napoli) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box.
Substitution, Juventus. Juan Cuadrado replaces Mario Lemina.
Goal! Napoli 1, Juventus 1. Marek Hamsik (Napoli) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Dries Mertens with a through ball.
Attempt blocked. Dries Mertens (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jorginho.
Foul by Jorginho (Napoli).
Miralem Pjanic (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Napoli. Dries Mertens tries a through ball, but José Callejón is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Dries Mertens (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marek Hamsik.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
St Peter's Hospice has been awarded £15,000 from a programme financed by the St James's Place Foundation.
Julia Di Castiglione, from the charity, said the grant meant it could continue to help seriously ill people live in comfort until they die.
"It will also enable us to provide support for their family and friends," she said.
"Last year our team cared for over 350 patients at home - it's great that we will be able to help even more people this year."
Beamish, in County Durham, appealed for semi-detached houses built between 1950 and 1959 to use as a design base to replicate at a new attraction.
Built as social housing, nine entries were chosen as finalists, from people's childhood homes to their current ones.
Esther Gibbon, 92, whose house in Redhouse Estate, Sunderland, was chosen as the winning property, said it was "great" her "happy home" had won.
Esther's house, where she has lived since 1952, will be replicated, rather than rebuilt, brick-by-brick like the properties in the older parts of the museum.
Her daughter Linda, who was born in the front room of the house, said: "I think I already view it [the house] as iconic but it's going to be more iconic now - we're really looking forward to it."
The museum's project officer Geraldine Straker, said it was a "wonderful house" with a "strong story" which would "really represent" the 1950s and 1950s housing in the new area.
The 1950s-style development, costing £10.75m, will also include a cafe, shops, police house, cinema and recreation area.
North Yorkshire Police said it began an inquiry into the Jack Raine Community Foundation, in York, in 2016.
The Charity Commission said it was also investigating the charity, which helps vulnerable children and young people.
North Yorkshire Police said a 55-year-old man and a woman, 59, had been arrested and bailed pending further inquiries.
The charity has yet to respond to a request from the BBC for a comment.
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The Charity Commission said after being alerted by the police it had undertaken an unannounced inspection in November 2016.
It found "insufficient financial records and no evidence of trustee meeting minutes to reflect any decisions taken by the trustee board".
It then decided to launch a full statutory inquiry into the organisation.
It will focus on financial management, general administration and whether trustees complied with their legal duties and responsibilities.
The charity's bank accounts have also been frozen in order to protect its assets, the commission added.
Sean Heiss, from Surbiton, south London, killed Margaret Sheehy, 58, at her home in Kingston in June 2012.
Three months later, he nearly beheaded Clementina Liscano in Barcelona.
Heiss admitted killing Ms Sheehy, but denied murder on grounds of diminished responsibility. He must serve at least 27 years and three months in jail.
Judge Gerald Gordon sentenced Heiss at the Old Bailey after a jury convicted him by a majority of 10 to one on Wednesday.
The court had heard Ms Sheehy considered selling her flat and using some of the proceeds to help pay off her son's debts, but had then changed her plans.
But Judge Gordon ruled out greed as the motive for her murder and said: "In my view the cause of the killing that night was anger."
Heiss had quit his job and was £200 overdrawn in one bank account when he throttled Ms Sheehy on 11 June 2012.
He then stole her bank cards and escaped by Eurostar to Paris, travelling from there to Spain.
In October, he was arrested by Spanish police for stabbing Ms Liscano to death after she disturbed him while he slept rough by a cash machine.
Heiss, 30, who had suffered from psychotic illness in the past, did not dispute that he killed his mother but denied murdering her on grounds of diminished responsibility.
He was sentenced to 22 years in jail for the Spanish murder and extradited to the UK for murdering his mother.
Judge Gordon said Heiss' life sentence would run alongside any outstanding sentence for Ms Liscano's murder.
The part-plane, part-airship Airlander 10 was badly damaged when it nosedived during a test flight on 24 August.
After extensive repairs, it has now been moved back to its mooring mast at Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire.
Manufacturer, Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), said it would not announce a flight date in advance but that final tests were under way.
It said the aircraft, which is the length of a football pitch, was "flight-ready" and was expected to be airborne "very soon".
HAV chief executive Stephen McGlennnan said: "With our next flight just round the corner, this opens a new chapter in aviation history.
"An aircraft that flies in an entirely new way and which can do so many useful things is about to be a regular sight over the UK. I think we'll amaze people."
Airlander was moved out of its hangar at Cardington shortly after 21:00 on Friday to complete final preparations.
HAV believes it could be used for a variety of functions, such as surveillance, communications, delivering aid and even passenger travel.
The £25m aircraft was given a pair of "giant inflatable landing feet" as part of improvements following its crash on 24 August.
No-one was injured in the accident, but the cockpit was effectively destroyed.
It happened when Airlander climbed to an excessive height because its mooring line became caught on power cables, an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report found.
Airlander 10 in numbers
The five men and two women were east of Bramble Bank when their yacht Ino collided with another named Valkyrie.
Cowes RNLI lifeboat and Gosport independent lifeboat rushed to the scene and pulled the people out of the water.
The Cowes-based Corby 36 yacht Ino sank very quickly, according to the lifeboat team.
All people on board were wearing lifejackets and were taken to Trinity Landing in Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
No-one was seriously injured.
The 29-year-old man was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of assisting an offender in relation to the death of Assel Al-Essaie. He was later released on bail, South Yorkshire Police said.
Mr Al-Essaie, 23, died in hospital after being shot in the chest in Daniel Hill, Walkley.
Four men, two women and two teenage boys, have previously been bailed.
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Mr Al-Essaie was believed to be in a black Mercedes C class car when he was shot on Saturday 18 February.
Armed police sealed off surrounding streets and he was taken to hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Officers are still asking for anyone with information about Mr Al-Essaie's death to come forward.
A number of "refusenik" cases are piling up.
Top of the list is Mike Ashley, the owner of Sports Direct, who, after refusing earlier invitations, has been summoned to give evidence to the BIS Committee on 7 June, and so far shows no sign of being prepared to appear.
And there's also the case of Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Vote Leave, who has displeased the Treasury Committee by failing to appear for its Brexit inquiry.
If a witness declines a select committee summons, their refusal can be treated as a matter of Parliamentary privilege, which would require the committee to seek leave from the Speaker to bring a motion before the House of Commons.
Were the motion to be passed, we could then have the entertaining sight of the Serjeant at Arms, in full regalia, setting off to apprehend the miscreant and bring them to Westminster. Except for the minor difficulty that the Serjeant has no powers of arrest or entry, and the police would have no legal basis to assist him, so the whole thing could become rather embarrassing.
The reality is that the House's powers to compel reluctant witnesses are legally pretty shaky. But witnesses could find that there is a price to pay if they refuse to turn up. Rupert Murdoch originally declined a request from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to give evidence on phone hacking - but eventually did attend the session where he was, famously, custard-pied. Why? Because his company was suddenly facing considerable reputational damage over phone-hacking, and possibly because suggestions were made that a failure to appear could lead to questions about whether he was a "fit and proper person" to run a TV company in the UK.
Such considerations will not apply to all witnesses.
So what happens if someone either refuses point-blank, or simply fails to turn up at the appointed hour?
Here the plot thickens.
It is possible to imagine that there may not be unanimous support for going nuclear and treating non-attendance as a matter of privilege. This could manifest itself on the select committee in question, or at the Liaison Committee (the super-committee of all select committee chairs) which might also wish to weigh in. Or a motion to the House might be opposed by some MPs, especially if the government, for whatever reason, wasn't keen.
The motion could either condemn refusal by the witness, or, more likely, refer the issue to the Privileges Committee - so that the original committee would not be acting as judge and jury in hearing its own complaint. It would also give the reluctant witness another opportunity to comply, or to make their case to the Privileges Committee itself. But any hint of dissent or doubt among MPs would weaken the pressure on them to play ball.
So suppose the witness remains obdurate? The Privileges Committee would be left with little option but to rule that their refusal was contempt of Parliament.
At that point they hit real difficulties; the Commons' ancient powers to fine, or even jail, offenders are incompatible with human rights law. No-one has been fined by the Commons since 1666, and no-one has been jailed for contempt since 1880.
The alternative of summoning the witness to the Bar of the House for a telling-off by Mr Speaker is fraught with danger; they might refuse to appear, at which point we're back to Square 1, or they might turn up and stage an embarrassing, and televised, scene by answering back as the Speaker attempted to rebuke them.
There are, however, other sanctions - the Privileges Committee could recommend that the offender should be formally "admonished" by a resolution of the House, after a fair process of investigation had established that they were in contempt; that could have all kinds of implications - they could be disqualified as a company director, or lose "fit and proper person" status to hold some kind of licence in the UK.
And similar issues might arise if the witness did appear, if they were to be over-combative, or if they refused to answer certain questions.
Today's news that Sir Philip Green is prepared to appear before the BIS and Work and Pensions committees, to answer questions arising out of the troubles of BHS, removes one possible refusenik from the list accumulating on the committee corridor - but there could be a real issue about what he was able to say while under investigation by the Insolvency Service.
So all of this awaits a test case.
In the past few weeks alone it has welcomed people from Kuwait, mainland Europe, the United States and Canada, as well as Scotland and the rest of the UK. This week it celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Housed in the old Bridgeton library in Glasgow's east end, the warm wood and painted pillars speak to the golden age of libraries. And while in many ways it still looks like a regular library, there are clues that things are a bit different.
There is the healthy noise level for a start and then a beautiful old umbrella stand, said to have been painted by suffragettes being held in a nearby prison.
Adele Patrick was one of the founders of the library in 1991 and is now creative development manager.
"We're hugely ambitious that a resource like ours can change lives when people come into contact with wonderful art, wonderful literature, wonderful books - so we're advocates for culture, but to the widest range of people," she says.
The origins of the library came as Glasgow was nominated to be European city of culture in 1990.
There was a feeling from some women, Ms Patrick included, that it would be great if "women's culture and creativity was actually part of the mix, was part of what people would be seeing when they're looking at Glasgow in this new light".
After the year was over, they felt there was still a need for a resource where women could come together, support each other and develop projects. It began with a lot of ambition, but very little money and over the past 25 years it has had a number of different homes across the city.
Now though, it is the UK's only accredited museum dedicated to women's history. Last year it was awarded Recognised Collections of National Significance status by Museum Galleries Scotland.
In the library's first floor museum and archive store, rows of shelving can be opened up to reveal more rows of green boxes. These protect the library's thousands of documents and objects, covering the gamut of female experience.
They include suffragette jewellery and postcards, knitting patterns, girls' annuals, as well as material about Greenham Common and the Commonwealth Games.
All of the material is donated and for Wendy Turner, the library's first professional museum curator, part of the excitement is that she just does not know what the next phone call offering a donation may bring.
"The challenge really is what story to tell," she says, "because every object will tell a different story for different people."
The library is in the early stages of trying to arrange community curators to talk to people in the local area "to look and engage with the collections and see the stories that the objects tell for them, so not just the story that came with the object".
In the main space on the day I visit, a regular lunchtime reading group is taking place. Women of all ages are sitting round a table, bringing their unique experiences to discussing a book over a cup of tea and food.
"I read all the time and I've got opinions about everything," says book group regular, Annette Gray. She has followed the library since the beginning.
"It was the fact that your input was as valuable as anyone else's," she says. "Then there're all these books around that you could be encouraged to borrow."
Mary Kenealy has also been coming to the book group as often as she can. As someone who is profoundly deaf, she has found it an inclusive place where she can nurture her love of reading.
"I think it's a treasure we have in Glasgow," she says.
As she contemplates the library's anniversary, Ms Patrick thinks about some of the other changes she has noticed over the past 25 years, like a blossoming of women in art and literature.
She says: "There's this sort of strange paradox that I'm seeing this massive wealth of fantastic women succeeding across a range of fields but that's still not being felt in the DNA of young women coming forward."
For that reason, she concludes, "there's still a job to be done there".
Airdrie-based TOM Vehicle Rental paid an undisclosed amount for Stockton-on-Tees company Transflex.
The deal sees Transflex's 3,500 cars and light commercial vehicles, four depots and 80 employees join the larger TOM business.
The Scottish company now has a rental fleet of more than 16,000 vans, trucks, trailers and cars.
Its UK depot network has increased to 15 sites - six in Scotland, five in the north of England and four in the south.
TOM chief executive Robert Stewart said: "The purchase of Transflex Vehicle Rental comes at the right time and is a strong fit with our strategy to increase our UK market share by adding to our existing network, increasing our fleet size and customer base.
"Transflex has built a strong reputation for providing high-quality vehicles and excellent customer service over many years and this will continue going forward.
"The acquisition enables TOM to continue improving customer service through greater UK coverage and a larger available fleet offering."
The acquisition follows a management-led buyout of TOM in December, supported by private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe.
The 31-year-old paceman has flown to Dublin as cover, despite not being in the Black Caps' Champions Trophy squad.
He could be absent for Essex's next four One-Day Cup matches and the County Championship Division One game against Hampshire, which starts on 19 May.
Wagner has taken 21 wickets for the county so far this season.
And Essex say they will be keeping "an open line of communication" with New Zealand as the tri-series progresses.
Wagner is due to be replaced at Essex later this summer by Pakistan's Mohammad Amir.
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Ewen Reynolds, 44, spoke to confirm his name, date of birth and address at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court before being remanded in custody.
He will appear at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday.
Zac Evans died outside The Pike and Musket pub in Tuffley at about 00:40 GMT on Saturday. Two others were injured during the attack.
Mr Reynolds, of Foley Close in Tuffley, has been charged with one charge of murder and attempting to murder a second man.
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Essex are through to the T20 Blast quarter-finals and currently sit top of the South Group in the One-Day Cup.
"The team's in a great place, especially in white-ball cricket," 20-year-old Velani told BBC Essex.
"We've won five of our last seven T20 games and now won our first two one-dayers. Hopefully we keep this momentum going throughout the competition."
Essex's 152-run victory over Warwickshire on Wednesday was built on a 191-run opening partnership between Tom Westley and Mark Pettini, with both hitting centuries.
"Tom Westley and Mark Pettini batted fantastically; they set the platform for us," said Velani.
"With the strength of our batting, that's all we can ask for - to keep wickets at the end and then the lower order can come in and bat freely."
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In a trading update, the Glasgow-based company said underlying revenue for the quarter was 14% behind last year, with reported revenue down 17%.
It warned that some of its markets continued to be "challenging".
However, it said it still expected pre-tax profits for the year to be "slightly lower" than in 2015.
Aggreko reported that first-quarter revenue for its rental solutions division was down 9% on last year, while its power solutions industrial arm saw revenue fall by 10%. Sales from its power solutions utility division were 19% lower than last year.
Chief executive Chris Weston said Aggreko's performance in the first quarter had been in line with the board's expectations.
In its update, the company said: "As indicated at our full year results in March, the timing of contract start and end dates will have an impact on first half year-on-year profitability.
"Overall the guidance of slightly lower year-on-year profit before tax and exceptional items on a constant currency basis remains unchanged."
In December, Aggreko announced that it had pulled out of bidding for a contract to power the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
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Church, 27, has scored three goals in 23 appearances for the English Championship side this season.
However, starts have been hard to come by for the former Charlton forward.
Goodwillie, 26, has featured in 25 matches for Aberdeen during this campaign, scoring twice, and his switch is also on a loan basis.
However, the striker will be ineligible for County's League Cup final meeting with Hibernian as he has already featured in the competition for the Dons.
Capped three times by Scotland, Goodwillie had started the last two matches for the Dons.
After five years at Dundee United, he moved to Blackburn in 2011 for a fee in excess of £2m.
He failed to establish himself at Ewood Park and signed for Aberdeen in 2014 after loan spells at Crystal Palace, Dundee United and Blackpool.
Church has 33 caps for Wales and was used four times as a late substitute last year in their successful Euro 2016 campaign.
In the first, five people died when two suicide bombers targeted a government compound in the Mohmand tribal region.
Three of the dead belonged to a tribal police force, while two were said to be civilians.
A faction of the Pakistani Taliban, Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, said it was behind the bloodshed.
In the second attack on Wednesday, a bomber on a motorbike rammed a government van carrying four judges in the city of Peshawar.
The driver and a pedestrian bystander were killed, and the four judges were injured. They have been transferred to a nearby hospital.
Peshawar police chief Tahir Khan told media at the scene that the judges appeared to be the bomber's target.
Pakistan has seen an upswing in militant attacks of late, after a period of relative calm.
On Monday, a suicide bombing in the eastern city of Lahore killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 100, most of whom are still being treated in hospitals.
The blast occurred when owners of medical shops were demonstrating against amendments to a law governing drug sales in Punjab province.
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar said it had carried out the attack, as well as two gun assaults in Karachi on 12 February.
Two victims were thrown from the Thunder River Rapids ride and two were trapped inside in the tragedy on 25 October.
Dreamworld said it would demolish the ride and conduct a "multi-level" independent safety review.
The park, on Queensland's Gold Coast, will reopen with a charity weekend in time for local school holidays.
The families of the victims - Kate Goodchild, 32, Luke Dorsett, 35, Roozbeh Araghi, 38, and Cindy Low, 42 - are understood to have been informed about the development.
Dreamworld's owner Ardent Leisure said the attraction and its adjoining water park, Whitewater World, would only offer rides that had passed rigorous safety checks.
"Dreamworld's other rides will progressively open as they are signed off as part of the safety review process," the company said in a statement.
Dreamworld chief Craig Davidson said four independent safety investigations will have been conducted by 10 December.
One investigation, by Queensland Workplace Health and Safety, last week issued seven improvement notices for Dreamworld and Whitewater World.
The investigation found a faded "emergency stop" button on the Green Room Waterslide, outdated protective equipment on the Flowrider and a register to notify authorities about storing hazardous chemicals.
Mr Davidson said Dreamworld would donate A$25 (£15; $19) to the Red Cross for every ticket sold at the "Open Hearts - Open Doors" charity weekend.
In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange, Ardent Leisure said the closure of both parks throughout November 2016 would "result in no significant revenue being recorded for that month".
It noted that the parks earned A$7.6m in the corresponding period last year.
Ardent said the parks incurred operating costs of between A$4m and A$4.2m for the period and that the company expected to incur "one-off costs of A$1.6m associated with the tragedy" through insurance claims.
A coroner's investigation into the deaths is ongoing.
Dreamworld has hosted 30 million people since opening in 1981, with October's tragedy its first fatal accident.
Former Edinburgh University lecturer Mike Porter and his brother were knocked to the ground by the herd as they crossed a field near Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire in May 2013.
A witness has described the cows "going mad" as they surrounded the men.
The Health and Safety Executive had visited the farmer, Brian Godwin, after another attack in his fields in 2011.
Salisbury Coroner's Court heard how Mr Porter's death came after a previous attack in Elbow Field, in Turleigh, in 2008 and two in a neighbouring field in 2011.
The father of two, 66, from Edinburgh, had been visiting his brother John, 74, at his home in Monkton Combe, near Bath.
They had been walking their dogs on leads on a public footpath through Elbow Field when they were attacked. The younger brother died at the scene.
Mr Porter's brother told the inquest on Wednesday how the herd knocked them down repeatedly and seemed to "deliberately trample" on them "as if it was something they really wanted to do".
The inquest heard that of the 57 animals on the farm at the time of Mr Porter's death, 49 were continental breeds or cross-breeds.
Thirty-one had been there during three previous attacks, but there was no evidence about which cows in particular were involved.
Dawn Lawrence, from the Health and Safety Executive, told the inquest the HSE had visited the farmer after a 2011 attack and explained his duty to "reduce the risk as far as one possibly can".
Local TV showed images of officers beating a handcuffed protester on Wednesday in some of the worst clashes since the street demonstrations began.
The protester's lawyer told the BBC his client had suffered serious injuries.
Hong Kong's security chief said the officers had been "temporarily removed from their current duties".
The incident occurred as police cleared an underpass near government buildings.
In a separate development, the BBC's English-language news website has been blocked in mainland China.
It was unclear whether the blackout was connected with the Hong Kong situation.
The police advance came when protesters blockaded the underpass after being cleared out of other areas of the city late on Tuesday.
Overnight, police used pepper spray and batons to remove protesters from Lung Wo Road, which they said had to be cleared as it was a major thoroughfare.
They also arrested 45 people for "unlawful assembly" and "obstructing police officers in the execution of duties".
Local TV network TVB aired footage showing a group of plainclothes policeman dragging a handcuffed and unarmed protester and placing him on the ground.
They then assault him, kicking and beating him for minutes.
The man was named as Ken Tsang, a social worker and member of the opposition Civic Party. He was later taken to hospital.
Mr Tsang's lawyer, Dennis Kwok, told the BBC the protester had serious injuries and the beatings had continued while he was in custody.
"My understanding from Ken Tsang is that when he was taken away by the police officer they have already immediately put plastic strip across his arms to cuff him basically," the lawyer said.
"But after they took him to that corner... they punched him, they pushed him down on the floor and they repeatedly kicked him for about four minutes.
"And then - when he was taken to the police station - he was abused again by the police officers present."
Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok said there was "concern" over a video clip "showing police officers who used inappropriate force against an arrested person".
He said the officers seen on the video would be removed from their current duties and an investigation would be carried out.
The footage shot by broadcaster TVB has been widely shared on social media.
Accusations of police using excessive force were made when authorities fired tear gas as the protests first erupted in late September. But this incident, which took place at around 03:00 on Wednesday (19:00 GMT Tuesday), was different. Ken Tsang had already been detained and no longer posed any threat to law enforcement.
Hong Kong's police force has for years prided itself on its professionalism, political neutrality and experience with crowd control. Now, citizens are asking, why did officers appear to behave with impunity toward a protester who had been subdued?
Police spokesman Hui Chun-tak later said the officers "repeatedly gave advice and warnings" before the operation began.
He said the officers had to act after the protesters "advanced forward in an aggressive manner, kicked our officers".
In all, 37 men and eight women were arrested, Mr Hui added. Five police officers were injured.
The protesters are now in their third week of occupying key parts of the city in a bid to put pressure on China and Hong Kong's authorities to answer their calls for political reform.
Thousands of people took to the streets at the beginning of the demonstrations but the numbers have dwindled in recent days.
They are demanding fully free elections in a vote for the territory's leader in 2017. China, which has control over Hong Kong, says residents can vote - but it will vet which candidates are eligible to stand.
Occupy Central and the Hong Kong Federation of Students, the two main groups behind the protests, have condemned the violence and asked authorities to investigate.
On Wednesday, China's People's Daily, the Communist Party's official newspaper, said the protests were "doomed to fail" in a front-page editorial.
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The 30-year-old was reported for a suspect action following his second one-day international appearance against Zimbabwe earlier this month.
Asif was recently called up to the Pakistan Test squad but did not play in the second Test win against England.
Uncapped in Tests, he has only appeared in those two ODIs for his country.
However, pace bowler Imran Khan's injury could mean a Test debut in the final Test at Sharjah on Sunday if Pakistan select him as a third front-line spinner.
Asif's action was independently tested in Chennai, India, but all of his deliveries were found to be within the 15-degree level of elbow extension permitted by the ICC.
Talking to BBC News after fleeing Maldives fearing for his life, Ismail Rasheed, nicknamed "Hilath", alleged that the radicals were operating with impunity under the new government in the island nation.
The government denies the allegation and has condemned the attack.
The T-shaped wound from the slashing of his throat is painfully visible on the neck of Hilath, a blogger with liberal views who used to edit the Haveeru Daily newspaper.
At first, he could not speak and doctors gave him only 1% chance of survival. Now he talks fluently with occasional gulps to catch his breath.
The 36-year-old recalls what happened in early June in an alleyway by his flat in the capital, Male.
"Three blokes came from behind me, one held me and the other took out a box cutter [knife] and started slashing my throat.
"They even cut the tip of my fingers. Then they very calmly walked out of the alleyway as if nothing happened.
"The doctors said my trachea was cut through. I survived because a vital artery was missed by millimetres."
He could smell alcohol on the attackers' breath and believes they were "gang members radicalised by Islamic extremists".
Hilath said he believes the island nation, with its young population, is getting more socially liberal but this has provoked a backlash from a hardline minority who object to some of his writings.
He started getting regular death threats after writing in 2009 that some extremists were keeping under-age girls as concubines - something he says was borne out when police made arrests.
Later, he recounts, he leaked a video showing that a young Maldivian jihadist had blown himself up in Pakistan.
He says many of his countrymen have done the same thing in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. While their families mourn the deaths, they try to keep it a secret from their neighbours in this tiny country.
This was the third physical assault on him since December.
He says the primary reason for attempts on his life is his conviction that Maldives should become a secular country. At present every citizen is compelled to be a Sunni Muslim.
"It is ridiculous because it infringes basic freedom of thought, conscience or religion," Hilath said.
Two years ago, a young Maldivian hanged himself after admitting he was an atheist and being widely taunted for apostasy.
In February, the country's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, was forced to resign amid a police mutiny. He described it as a coup and was swiftly replaced by his former deputy, Mohamed Waheed.
Hilath says these changes have brought in greater intolerance but adds that the Nasheed administration was not blameless.
It included the ultra-conservative Adhaalath Party, which now has two cabinet ministers.
The blogger says many people blame the former president for letting extremism spiral and for not putting and end to "imams' hate speech, bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia" on some media channels.
But he adds that Mr Nasheed at least acknowledged that there was a problem of extremism whereas the new government does not.
President Waheed's spokesman, Abbas Adil Riza, told the BBC that he strongly condemned the attack on Hilath and others. But he insisted that the attempted murder was a personal matter and not connected to religion.
He said the most serious radical cell was broken up in 2008 by the government preceding Mr Nasheed's, and that "only Mr Nasheed and his supporters" believed religious intolerance was on the rise.
Foreign governments, including India and the United States, have for years been concerned at the increased influence of radicals and the recruitment of some Maldivians to al-Qaeda.
Hilath said he would like to return to journalism, but for the moment felt it was not safe for him to be in Maldives now.
The former Chelsea striker, 38, was accused of refusing to play against Toronto on Sunday.
Impact coach Mauro Biello suggested Drogba had reacted badly after being told he would not start the game.
"We met with Didier. The situation has been resolved to the club's satisfaction," Saputo said.
"Didier has accepted to assume the role that the head coach sees fit while contributing to the success of this club moving forward."
Drogba was absent from the Saputo Stadium on Sunday, when the Impact claimed a 2-2 draw to seal a Major League Soccer play-off spot.
Montreal had initially explained his omission by saying he had a back injury.
But Biello said after the match: "He didn't accept that he would come off the bench and, in the end, he didn't want to be in the 18.
"There was tightness in his back, yes, but he was capable of playing."
Drogba, who left Chelsea in July 2015, has been used as a substitute in two of the Impact's past four games.
The former Ivory Coast international has scored 10 goals in 21 appearances this season.
In a tense first half, during which Leicester's injury-plagued England winger Manu Tuilagi limped off, the scores were locked at 6-6 as Farrell traded penalties with Owen Williams.
Farrell scored and converted the only try after adding a further penalty.
Williams kicked two penalties to ensure Leicester took a losing bonus point.
Leicester pressed until the final moments as they looked to avoid just their second defeat in 15 home games in all competitions, but two missed penalties from Williams proved costly.
In a game England boss Eddie Jones watched from the stand, much attention was focused on centre Tuilagi, who was called up on Saturday for a national team training camp.
But it proved little more than a cameo showing by the 25-year-old as he was forced off with an apparent right knee injury, suffered as he came down in a tackle.
Saracens were dealt a setback of their own as winger Chris Ashton - making his first start in 15 weeks after serving a suspension for biting - was forced off after a clash of heads with Jack Roberts.
However, despite losing the prolific Ashton, Saracens came up with the game's only try soon after - Brad Barritt collecting the ball from Williams after a poor Ben Youngs pass before Farrell threw a dummy to race clear.
Saracens did enough to hold on for the win, moving them to within one point of Wasps at the summit.
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill:"It was tight, we played very well, they played well. We defended outstandingly well and our set-piece was dominant.
"Saracens' pack don't get dominated very often but we dominated their pack today. Our boys were fantastic.
"There are a lot of positives. I know we are five points from the top four but we were playing the best side in Europe last season.
"If we can play like that away we will win more than we lose and we will keep in the mix."
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall: "We are chuffed to bits to come here and win where they have not lost this season.
"Not everything in our game was perfect, far from it. But what was tremendous was the fight we had and the effort we showed all the way through the game.
"We had to win without a platform because our scrum today was poor. To get a result without a scrum is tough."
Leicester Tigers: Burns; Betham, Roberts, Tuilagi, Thompstone; O. Williams, B. Youngs; Genge, T. Youngs (c), Cole, Slater, Fitzgerald, M. Williams, O'Connor, McCaffrey.
Replacements: McGuigan, Cilliers, Bateman, Kitchener, Evans, Harrison, Worth, Brady.
Saracens: Goode; Ashton, Bosch, Barritt (c), Maitland; Farrell, Spencer; Barrington, George, Figallo, Skelton, Itoje, Rhodes, Burger, Wray.
Replacements: Brits, Thompson-Stringer, Lamositele, Hamilton, Brown, De Kock, Lozowski, Earle.
Ref: JP Doyle
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The official Saudi Press Agency reported that the arrests had taken place since December and that all but five suspects were Saudi nationals.
The group had set up training sites in a remote area of the al-Qassim region and planned suicide bombings, it added.
Among the alleged targets was the US embassy in the capital, Riyadh.
The Gulf kingdom is part of a US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against IS militants, who control a large swath of Syria and Iraq.
The Saudi interior ministry statement quoted by SPA called IS a "deviant group" and said its supporters were seeking to "undermine the security of this country".
"They are ceaselessly seeking to achieve this through their criminal plans," it added.
The ministry said those arrested included 65 members of a cell involved in a plot to target "residential areas, and operations to incite sectarian sedition".
Another cell, which included 15 Saudis, was testing car bombs and planning attacks on security headquarters, soldiers and residential areas, the ministry added.
Two Syrians and a Saudi were also allegedly intending to launch a suicide car bomb attack on the US embassy before two of them were arrested in mid-March.
US diplomats halted all consular services for a week from 15 March at the embassy and the consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran, citing security concerns.
Earlier on Tuesday, the interior ministry announced that police had arrested a suspected IS operative wanted for shooting dead two police officers in Riyadh earlier this month.
Nawaf al-Enezi, a Saudi citizen, was detained after police received a tip-off that he was at a hideout about 100km (60 miles) east of the capital. He was wounded by police gunfire during the operation.
Another suspect in the shooting of the policemen was arrested last week. He allegedly confessed that he was following orders from IS commanders.
Last November, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on supporters to launch attacks in Saudi Arabia, but also referred to the country as "Bilad al-Haramayn" - the land of the two holy mosques, meaning Mecca and Medina.
He set out a target list which included the ruling Saud family, Western expatriates, and the country's Shia minority population whom Sunni jihadists view as heretics.
The following month, IS supporters said they had shot a Danish man in his car in Riyadh as he left work. A Canadian man was stabbed a week later in Dhahran.
Seeing khaki military trucks near the EU's main buildings, police on the streets locking down security before tomorrow's summit certainly changes the atmosphere. But for the prime minister, it's tense for a different reason.
By his own admission, David Cameron is trying to do something that has never really been tried before - change a country's relationship with the rest of the EU while already being a member.
What he is demanding are fundamental changes to the institution in a negotiation that will be mind-bogglingly complex. Trying something that is politically bold, even though the actual changes he wants to make are often criticised as being tame, comes with significant risk.
In the short-term, if he fails to persuade other countries that Britain should be able to limit benefit payments to EU workers in the UK he faces serious political embarrassment at home, not least from eurosceptics in his own party, including some cabinet ministers who have made this a red line.
The focus on that measure is intense - not surprisingly. It is a promise the PM made in the Conservative manifesto, an area of huge public concern and serious political conflict.
On the eve of the summit, there are all sorts of suggestions being made about the likelihood of a compromise. Several EU countries' officials have today made it absolutely plain that they have absolutely no intention of agreeing to the notion of Mr Cameron's four-year ban.
So there is feverish anticipation of what the alternatives might be. One EU source told me that Angela Merkel had told the PM to make three years, rather than four, his opening bid in the negotiations.
There's a suggestion that countries could agree to a proposal where during a so-called "ban", the same benefits would be paid, but the costs of those benefits could be covered by the worker's home country, rather than the UK.
It is though, a very fluid situation and there is no one proposal on the table that is likely to be agreed this week. Instead, the PM's goal is to inject a hefty dose of political momentum into the process so that officials can get on with the nitty gritty in the next couple of months.
In the next 36 hours, he needs his political counterparts to show they are willing to help.
But is there a risk that all the speculation over benefits distracts from the bigger issue?
In recent weeks there's been a building sense that the three other areas of reform are agreed. I understand that although there has been progress, concluding that those areas are somehow complete is a rather kind interpretation of where the discussions have really got to.
Talking this week to people familiar with the talks, there are nerves, a frustration even, that misleading assumptions are being made about the rest of the process.
In addressing the short-term political focus on whether a benefit ban could work, bigger questions about Britain's place in the EU as a country almost certain to never join the euro mustn't be ignored.
The QC said there were strong grounds to investigate the bank for "cheating" HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
He added that HMRC's decision not to prosecute was "seriously flawed".
Allegations emerged earlier this month that the bank had helped hundreds of people evade UK tax using hidden HSBC accounts in Geneva.
Also on Sunday, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander told the BBC the Liberal Democrats wanted to introduce new laws on tax evasion.
He told the Andrew Marr Show the party wanted to make those who facilitate any tax evasion, for example lawyers, accountants and banks, as culpable as those who evade tax themselves.
He said the party would "seek to pursue this [in government] over the next few weeks" but, if there was not enough time before the general election, the proposal would form a key part of the party's manifesto.
In a legal opinion prepared for consumer group SumOfUs, Lord Macdonald said: "It seems clear, from the evidence we have seen, that there exists credible evidence that HSBC Swiss and/or its employees have engaged over many years in systematic and profitable collusion in serious criminal activity against the exchequers of a number of countries.
"The corporate and wholesale nature of HSBC's Swiss' apparent involvement in what amounts to grave cross border crime makes it all the more obvious that the relevant evidence, once it came the attention of HMRC, should have been the subject of urgent and sustained criminal investigation."
Despite the evidence being in the hands of HMRC for nearly five years, no action has so far been taken against the bank.
Top HMRC officials have been lambasted by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee for their "pathetic" response to the evidence.
Last week, the Financial Conduct Authority said it would look into the scandal, while the Bank of England and the Serious Fraud Office have indicated they may do the same.
HSBC published a full-page apology in several Sunday newspapers last week for the past behaviour of its private bank in Geneva, and reports suggest it could make another apology this week.
The bank publishes its full-year results on Monday morning.
The 26-year-old, drafted to Indianapolis in 2012, is now contracted to the Colts until the end of the 2021 season.
Luck's wages take him above the annual average of $22.1m collected by Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens, the previous record earner.
"I am thrilled and excited," Luck said.
The Colts made the play-offs in Luck's first three seasons with them but he suffered an injury-hit 2015, missing two early matches with a shoulder problem before suffering a lacerated kidney that ruled him out after week nine.
Colts owner Jim Irsay said: "This is an exciting day for the organisation and Colts fans around the globe.
"Andrew is the consummate professional, possesses extraordinary talent and is our leader on and off the field."
Fergus Ewing was updating MSPs on issues encountered by a new Scottish government computer payments system.
Almost 500 farm businesses in Scotland are still waiting for their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies.
However, 17,634 businesses had been given what they were owed.
Holyrood's Rural Affairs committee heard that 473 businesses had not received any EU payment and 230 had received a partial payment.
MSPs also learned that farmers had not been left out of pocket because all those who had encountered problems getting their money had been offered loans.
The latest figures were made public during an evidence session to the committee by Mr Ewing and government officials.
The minister made clear it would be up to parliament to decide if an independent inquiry was needed, but he believed at this time it was not "sensible or prudent" to conduct one now.
Problems with the £178m computer system have caused delays to many claimants who were due to receive their money by the end of June.
Under CAP, about £4.6bn in European and Scottish government funding will be paid out between 2015 and 2020.
The money is mainly given to improve agricultural productivity and to ensure farmers have a reliable income.
The CAP Futures programme in Scotland was meant to make the rural payment process more efficient.
EU officials have given the Scottish government until 15 October for the payments to be made.
Mr Ewing emphasised that 99% of farmers had been given money, either through the awarding of the payment, or a loan from the Scottish government.
He said: "Getting this sorted in full is my top priority - a huge amount of work has gone into that and I personally won't be satisfied until every farmer has received payment of their due in total."
An Audit Scotland report earlier this year said there had been "serious cost and operational issues" associated with the payments.
Mr Ewing was asked by committee member Rhoda Grant whether an independent inquiry would take place.
The minister said: "The priority for us and for farmers is to resolve the remaining difficulties with the IT system and to restore the operation of the system to a proper footing and anything that detracts from that process, taking senior officials away from focusing on that, would I think be counter productive and would certainly be most unwelcome."
He admitted that lessons needed to be learned.
Mr Ewing went on: "Of course we have had the benefit of a very thorough series of inquiries by the auditor general - we have had a Rolls-Royce inquiry already and it has looked specifically at this, and moreover members will recall that in this report it goes into the difficulties.
"It already has conducted a forensic inquiry into these difficulties - that process continues.
"I believe there has been an appropriate inquiry - it is not over, the work is continuing, and we are appropriately being subjected to scrutiny today, that is the purpose of today.
"Questions have been asked and answered and further information will be provided."
There were also reports of loud bangs or explosions coming from inside the prison.
Police and specially trained guards were called to the Category B prison at about 17:00 GMT.
Ambulance and fire services were on stand-by, although no casualties were reported.
In a recent report on HMP Bedford, inmates claimed it was easier to get hold of drugs than clothes or bedding.
"We do know there's concerted ill-discipline, if not a riot situation going on at Bedford," said Steve Gillan, general secretary of the Prison Officers Association.
He said some guards at the prison had retreated to a "safe place" and teams of riot-trained officers had been deployed.
"There could be anything up to 200 prisoners involved. We don't know how many are out of the cells, some are still locked up," he added.
Mobile phone footage apparently from inside the prison was posted online, revealing chaotic scenes, with scores of prisoners out of their cells and in the prison's gangways, shouting and bellowing.
One video showed what appeared to be paper and furniture strewn across an atrium floor, although the footage could not immediately be verified.
However, Mr Gillan said: "The POA has been warning about this situation of violence in our prisons - it would appear it's coming to fruition."
The Ministry of Justice said it had no reports of any prison officers being injured in the disturbance.
A spokesman said: "Specialist staff are on site trying to resolve the situation as quickly and safely as possible. This is very much an ongoing incident."
A Prison Service spokesman said: "We are clear that prisoners who behave in this way will be punished and could spend significantly longer behind bars."
Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon said on Twitter: "More troubling news concerning our prisons. The Justice Secretary needs to do more urgently to tackle crisis."
Last week Justice Secretary Liz Truss unveiled a White Paper detailing £1.3bn investment in new prisons over the next five years, and plans for 2,100 extra officers, drug tests and more autonomy for governors.
HM Inspectorate of Prisons also discovered incidents of self-harm had almost doubled from 67 to 121.
In a report on Bedford Prison published in September, almost twice the number of prisoners said it was "easy" to access drugs, compared to a previous inspection in February 2014.
The number saying they had developed a drug problem while at the prison increased from 4% to 14%.
The report found that of 72 recommendations made after the prison was last inspected more than two years earlier, only 12 had been achieved and four partially achieved.
It also said the use of drugs previously known as "legal highs" was having a "serious impact" on safety at the prison.
The inspection found that the physical condition of the prison, which has been on its current site since 1801, was poor, with many inmates living in cramped conditions.
Peter Clarke, chief inspector of prisons, wrote: "Standards in the prison have declined to unacceptable levels."
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said after the report was published Bedford was "a good example of everything that is wrong with the prison system".
The prison held just under 500 male prisoners at the time of the inspection.
Crews were called to the field in Northallerton at about 14:35 BST and attempted to release the cow using strops and farm machinery.
A vet then had to be called to sedate the animal, with firefighters using a circular saw and a chainsaw to free the cow.
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service tweeted: "A happy ending for all".
Policymakers "generally agreed" that the jobs market was improving faster than expected, revealed the minutes.
The Dow Jones closed up 59.54 points at 16,979.13, while the S&P 500 rose 4.91 points to 1,986.51.
However, the tech-heavy Nasdaq slipped 1.03 points to 4,526.48.
The Fed had said in its policy statement following its July meeting that there was "significant" labor market slack, but the minutes said "Labor market conditions had moved noticeably closer to those viewed as normal in the longer run."
Capital Economics economist Paul Dales said the statement suggested the committee "had started to shift its stance".
"The Fed has moved closer towards raising interest rates," he added.
The US central bank has kept benchmark interest rates near zero since December 2008, but has indicated it plans to move them up sometime next year.
Meanwhile, on the stock market shares in teenage fashion chain American Eagle Outfitters were one of the top risers, jumping 12% as its latest earnings beat forecasts.
And shares in Bank of America rose 0.5% on reports the company was close to a $17bn (£10.2bn) agreement with the Justice Department to settle charges it misled investors on mortgage-linked securities in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis.
On the night that Jumai was kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, she called her dad.
She was in the back of a truck, packed in with her schoolmates as men with guns tried to take them away. Her father, Daniel, told her to jump out of the van - but then the line crackled and the signal dropped.
He ran out of the house to try to find phone signal. When he called back, a man answered: "Stop calling, your daughter has been taken away". Daniel realised then that her fate was "in the hands of God". The next day he tried to call again but the line was dead.
Although some families of the missing girls were happy for us to use their photos and names, we have changed the names of Jumai and her father to protect their identity.
Until the girls were taken, the area around Chibok had been relatively peaceful. Islamist militant group Boko Haram had attacked villages further north and east but this busy market town had escaped.
Daniel, who lives in the nearby town of Mbalala, sent his daughter off to school on 14 April 2014 to sit the first of her final exams.
But late that night, in one of the most organised attacks of its insurgency, Boko Haram stormed the school compound and kidnapped Jumai, along with 275 of her classmates.
His daughter never managed to jump off the truck, like some girls who managed to escape. But Daniel has not yet given up hope that he will get her back. The two were very close.
"I understood her the best," he says. "She worked harder than any of her three brothers and she rode a motorcycle like a man."
A few months ago, Daniel decided to try his daughter's phone number again. A man's voice answered:
"This phone belongs to my wife, what do you want?"
"Who are you?" Daniel replied.
The man said: "Who are you?" Daniel ended the call.
A few days later he called the number again. Again the man answered.
"Why are you calling this number?" he asked.
Daniel lied: "I am calling you because I knew you from Maiduguri" - the largest city in Borno state.
"If you did know me you would not dial this number," the man replied.
He called himself Amir Abdullahi - addressing himself as a militant leader. After that, Daniel didn't call again.
Jumai is from Mbalala, a town about 11km south of Chibok and one of the worst-hit by the kidnapping. Twenty-five girls went missing from Mbalala alone.
Once a busy market town, where traders went from as far as Kano to buy beans and livestock, now the stalls are empty. The wooden bones of market stalls still fill the main square.
These days the army restricts everything people do here - they can't buy food in bulk or even cooking gas, generators can't run at night, so people just go home to darkness.
With no schools and no work to do, young people no longer stay here if they have the choice. Boys leave to find work elsewhere, girls of age get married as soon as they can.
Plying the little trade they can, women sell homemade snacks from plastic tubs at the side of the road.
When she wasn't at school, Maryam Abubaker used to help her mum sell these snacks, bean cakes and noodles. On the day that Maryam was kidnapped, just before she headed off to school, she was helping her mum at the stall.
"She made $50," her mum told us. "She is a great businesswoman. She was very lazy on the farm, but she was great with customers."
That was the last moment that Binti had with her daughter.
Maryam's best friend was her half-sister Hansatu. They did everything together, they shared the same friends and even made matching outfits for each other.
Hansatu loved fashion and wanted to be a designer. Just before she was kidnapped, she begged her mum to buy her a sewing machine.
After she disappeared, her younger brothers and sisters would see the clothes she left behind, they would ask where she had gone and when she was coming back. Eventually her mother bundled the clothes into a bag to stop the questions.
She shows us the outfit that Hansatu was supposed to wear on her friend's wedding day, a few days after the exam, which never happened.
"I am going to keep it until they come back," she says.
These belongings are the little that these parents have left to hold on to. Since their daughters were taken, they've received no information from the government on where they might be.
The last president refused to engage with the parents but even the new administration has done little to try to track them down. The truth is, no-one has any real idea where they might be.
For the family of Grace Paul, one photo is all they have to hold on to. Grace would be 19 now. She was a lovely singer, according to her dad. She loved maths and wanted to be a doctor.
The family have entrusted their last photo of her to their neighbour Aboku Samson to make copies of it for them.
The girls at Chibok secondary school represented the most ambitious young people in their village.
In a country where less than half of young people finish secondary school, they were the few in their community pushing for an education. And some had to fight for it.
Aisha Greman was 17 when she was kidnapped. Her father says she refused to get married while she was at school, though she was asked.
She was a hard worker and wanted to get to university so she could be a health professional.
Jinkai Yama was the oldest in a family of four girls. She desperately wanted to join the army and was a proud member of the cadettes girl's brigade.
Her three younger sisters ask about her all the time. Last month, when there were reports that a girl from Chibok had been caught alive in Cameroon, they were convinced it was her. But the girl turned out to be from Bama, a town much further north.
Whenever it is dark and raining outside, Jinkai's father closes his eyes and tries to imagine where his daughter is. Like many of the parents here, he has almost given up hope.
He and his wife don't believe the government is doing anything to find them. If they did, her mother says, they would have sent a team to Cameroon straight away. Instead, it took three days.
The mistrust is so deep that conspiracy theories abound.
Jumai's father Daniel believes his daughter's phone number is key to his daughter's whereabouts but thinks the government can offer him no help at all. He refuses to hand over the number to them.
The army seldom come to Mbalala, but every Sunday they pass through to shoo small traders away from the marketplace. The region is under lockdown after a series of suicide attacks. They are afraid of any place that people might gather.
When we visited, the army told us to watch out, that anyone could be a suicide bomber. By that, they even meant girls. Over the past two years, many of the suicide bombers used by Boko Haram have been girls.
They've attacked refugee camps and market places all over the region. In February, they attacked the market in Chibok town, just down the road, killing 13 people.
This fact hasn't escaped the parents here, though it can't be easy for them to accept. One mother told us how she felt about these accusations - that her daughter could be a killer. She refuses to believe it.
"I gave birth to that baby," she said. "Even if she comes to me with a gun in her hand, let her kill me, but I will still welcome her."
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The UK team at Sheffield University deployed the magnetic power of MRI scans to control the movement of a specially designed injectable cancer therapy.
Early trials in mice suggest the novel delivery method works.
But years more of studies are needed before it could be used in patients.
The hope is it will revolutionise the way doctors treat cancers that are tricky or impossible to remove surgically - tumours in the brain and spine and cancers that have spread around the body, for example.
A benefit of the new MRI method is it appears to hone in on cancerous cells with little collateral damage to the surrounding healthy tissue, which should mean fewer side effects for patients.
The scientists tested the method in mice with prostate cancer that had also spread to the lung.
They used a special cancer medicine - human white blood cells modified to carry a cancer-killing virus - to treat the mice.
Before injecting the treatment, they "magnetised" it by loading it with microscopic iron particles.
Once injected into the mice, the researchers were able to use the strong magnets in the MRI scanner to tightly control where the drug travelled.
Dr Munitta Muthana and colleagues say the technique is promising not least because it combines treatment and equipment that is readily available.
Dr Muthana told the BBC: "We need to do more studies first, but hopefully we will be able to start testing it in patients.
"We'd need to check that clinical scanners are strong enough...and if we can reduce the length of time that a patient would need to be in the scanner. The treatment took 30 minutes to a hour in mice.
"An advantage of using MRI is that you can also track where the treatment is going. It could be really useful," she said.
Dr Nick Peel, senior science information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "Using viruses to kill tumour cells is one of many ways researchers are using the immune system to attack cancer. But getting the virus precisely on target is a real challenge.
"This early research in mice suggests that using a magnetic field from the MRI scanner could help propel the virus towards cancer tumours using metal nanoparticles.
"It's a fascinating idea - but more studies are needed to see if this approach could work in people, especially for tumours located deeper within the body. And we need even more research to show whether this could actually improve treatment."
Mayka Kukucova, 26, has been charged with murdering former jewellery store owner Andrew Bush, 48, from Bristol.
She said Mr Bush began to "shout" at her, "hit" her and "shot at" her when he returned to the house unexpectedly.
She left the courtroom in Malaga after breaking down in tears as images of her former partner's body were shown.
The court heard Mr Bush returned to his luxury villa near Marbella on 4 April 2014 with his new girlfriend Maria Korotaeva while Ms Kukucova was collecting her belongings.
Ms Kukucova's defence said "she shot him" during a violent struggle but the Slovakian swimwear model insisted she did not realise he was dead.
Giving their evidence at the Ciudad de la Justicia in Malaga, forensic medics showed the court images of Mr Bush's body, explaining that he had suffered three gunshot wounds.
They said the third, to Mr Bush's head, was the cause of his death.
Ms Kukucova told the court she fled the Costa del Sol mansion in Mr Bush's Hummer.
She later handed herself into police in Slovakia.
She was detained on suspicion of "consumed intentional homicide", before being extradited back to Spain. She has not entered a formal plea.
The court also heard the prosecution suggesting she may have been still in love with Mr Bush.
One lawyer asked her: "Were you jealous after seeing pictures of Mr Bush together with his new girlfriend online?"
A police officer, who attended the scene, told the court he found Mr Bush's body "face down on the floor, near the front door".
He said: "There was blood everywhere. A revolver was in his left hand."
The forensic medic said that when he arrived at the scene he had heard about a possible suicide.
But he added: "I only had to take one look to tell the police that this was not a suicide."
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"There was complete silence. The crowd was frozen still. It was like they weren't even breathing," he recalls. "They couldn't even raise their voices to cheer on Brazil. That was when I realised they weren't going to do it and that we'd won."
The slicked-back hair is thinner now, the pencil-thin moustache grey. But at 87, Ghiggia, the sole survivor from that 1950 winning team, is still recognisable as the pivotal figure of arguably the greatest upset in World Cup history.
Few expected a Uruguay victory. Certainly, no Brazilians did. A day earlier, São Paulo's Gazeta Esportiva newspaper proclaimed: "Tomorrow we will beat Uruguay!" Rio's O Mundo printed a photo of the Brazilian squad accompanied by the caption: "These are the world champions."
After a goalless first half, one minute into the second period Brazil took the lead through Friaca. But in the 66th minute, Uruguay's Juan Alberto Schiaffino equalised after connecting with Ghiggia's cross into the box.
The goal quietened the partisan crowd. But as victory in this World Cup was determined by points, rather than knock-out phases, a draw would still have seen Brazil crowned champions.
Ghiggia, a gifted right-winger in his prime, able to dribble the ball at great speed, has told the story of what happened next thousands of times. He tells it sparingly, matter-of-factly, with no sentimental indulgence.
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"I took the ball on the right," he recalls. "I dribbled past Bigode [the Brazilian left-back] and entered the box. The goalkeeper [Moacyr Barbosa] thought I was going to cross it, like with the first goal, so he left a gap between himself and the near post. I just had a second so I shot low between the keeper and the post."
The ramifications of that moment, 11 minutes from the end of the match, are still felt acutely to this day.
For Brazil the result was considered a national catastrophe. The match remains etched solemnly on the national consciousness as O Maracanaço (a Portuguese term roughly translated as 'The Maracana Blow', which became synonymous with the match). With just a touch of hyperbole, not to mention bad taste, the Brazilian writer Nelson Rodrigues referred to the defeat as "our Hiroshima".
Vilified by their fans, many of the squad slunk into retirement; others were never selected again. With the home strip, a white shirt with a blue collar, now considered jinxed, Brazil then adopted its famous yellow and green uniform. Five World Cup victories followed, but they have never fully erased the trauma of that defeat.
Barbosa, the Brazilian goalkeeper, never got over it. His miscalculation made him the obvious scapegoat. Despite a long career with the Rio de Janeiro club Vasco, he only played once more for the national team. Colleagues shunned him. After he was barred from visiting the Brazilian squad ahead of the 1994 World Cup, he told reporters, "In Brazil, the maximum penalty for a crime is 30 years; I've spent 44 years paying for a crime I didn't even commit."
Ghiggia says he thinks Barbosa was blamed unfairly. "I spoke to him years after the World Cup. I told him football is 11 men against 11 men. Goalkeepers are always under-appreciated. You can play well the whole match, but you let in a goal and they blame you. My marker didn't stop me, why didn't they blame him? Barbosa died [in 2000] with the ingratitude of the Brazilian people."
No match in Brazil's football history has been as analysed as the Maracanaço. Every 16 July is a time of reflection and introspection. Last year, the 63rd anniversary was marked with the publication of "Dossier '50", yet another contribution to the publishing empire built on critiques of the defeat.
Ghiggia has remarked previously that "sometimes I feel like I am Brazil's ghost. I'm always there in their memories."
Yet, given the pain he inflicted, the country's citizens seemingly bear him no ill-feeling. "They are always very affectionate towards me. Despite all that happened, people in Brazil still recognise me, they still come to talk to me about it. Recently, I was in Bahia for the World Cup draw and everyone treated me well."
Ghiggia travelled there from his home in the small city of Las Piedras, about an hour north of the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo.
Between two of its central streets, down a narrow whitewashed alley, the World Cup winner lives in a modest semi-detached bungalow, with his 40-year-old wife, Beatriz, and their large German shepherd dog.
On the walls of the front room hang the many trophies he collected in a career spanning 24 years, six clubs, and two countries. Above the fireplace is a line drawing of the player in profile, aged 24, signed by all the members of the Uruguayan squad. Opposite, an oil painting of the Maracana, as seen from above, on 16 July 1950, the day of their famous victory.
For Ghiggia, who scored in each of the four matches he played in that World Cup, the overriding memory is one of joy. "I remember the happiness that we felt. That's what I remember the most. The satisfaction of beating the whole world."
The celebrations, by today's standards, were modest. "We looked for the team treasurer but we couldn't find him, so we had a whip round among the players and bought some sandwiches and a beer. Then we went to the dormitory to celebrate." It was Uruguay's second, and last, World Cup victory.
Ghiggia remained in the Uruguayan squad for the next two years, but never added to his tally of international goals. In 1952 he left the Uruguayan side Penarol to become one of the first South American players to move to Europe, spending eight years at AS Roma in Italy.
In 200 league games Ghiggia scored 19 goals, though Roma never finished higher than third in Serie A during his time there. He became a naturalised Italian citizen in 1957, which made him eligible to play for the national side. The following year he was selected to play for Italy in the qualifying rounds of the World Cup; he scored one goal in five appearances, but it was the only time the Azzurri failed to qualify.
In 1950 Ghiggia became one of only two players - the other to date being Brazilian legend Jairzinho, in 1970 - to score in every game of a World Cup
Did he feel divided loyalties playing for two different countries? "It was difficult, but I was also very proud. Of course my Italian inheritance qualified me, but it was something very special for them to select someone who had been born and brought up in another country."
After a short spell with AC Milan, Ghiggia returned to Uruguay in 1963, where he played six seasons for Danubio, before retiring in 1968, just days before his 42nd birthday.
Following their retirement from football, all the members of Uruguay's World Cup-winning team were given jobs by the government. Ghiggia's was to ensure gamblers did not try to cheat the Casino Montevideo. On leaving that post, in 1992, he was entitled to a state pension of around $700 a month.
To make ends meet, he moved from Montevideo to Las Piedras. He even sold his World Cup winner's medal, but a Brazilian-Uruguayan business magnate bought it and returned it to him. He supplemented his income giving occasional driving lessons. Beatriz, his third wife, was his first student.
Ghiggia's World Cup exploits did not make him rich, but he will be forever revered. His image adorned a special postage stamp on his 80th birthday with the words 'Ghiggia nos hizo llorar' ('Ghiggia moved us to tears'), and a mould of his feet lies alongside Pele, Eusebio and Franz Beckenbauer at the Maracana's walk of fame.
Brazil will play host to a very different World Cup this time, Ghiggia believes. "Before, football was more of a spectacle. It was friendlier, more beautiful. Now football is about business. There's a lot of money in the game. That's why football has changed so much."
But with Uruguay and Italy in the same World Cup group, alongside England and Costa Rica, he will have a keen eye on events.
Ghiggia expects Uruguay and England to qualify - "Italy are not so good at the moment" - but despite a high regard for Liverpool striker Luis Suarez and Paris St-Germain forward Edinson Cavani, elsewhere he thinks the Uruguay squad is due an overhaul. "They will have to refresh the team," he adds. "There are a few of them who have been playing for years and they shouldn't be there anymore."
Maybe they are holding on for their own shot at World Cup immortality, their own moment to silence those who have dismissed their chances. Ghiggia, the great survivor, could tell them a thing or two about that.
Summer signing Ajose bundled home Athletic's opener just before half-time and netted the winner, also from close range, on 74 minutes, moments after Kieron Morris had fired Walsall level.
Walsall had the best of the opening half-hour but Charlton goalkeeper Declan Rudd made a superb double save on 29 minutes, foiling Simeon Jackson's point-blank strike and Morris' follow-up.
Back came Charlton as Ajose's classy 20-yard chip clipped the top of the bar.
The Addicks claimed a 42nd-minute lead as Ajose netted home from close range after Josh Magennis nodded down Ricky Holmes' inviting cross.
Walsall levelled on 72 minutes as Rudd allowed Morris' speculative 20-yard strike to find the bottom corner.
But the Addicks were back in front within two minutes as Magennis raced past James O'Connor and crossed for Ajose to poke home from a couple of yards.
Walsall almost levelled deep into stoppage time but Rudd pulled off a spectacular save to tip Jackson's volley onto the bar.
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Match ends, Walsall 1, Charlton Athletic 2.
Second Half ends, Walsall 1, Charlton Athletic 2.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Chris Solly.
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.
Attempt missed. Florent Cuvelier (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall).
Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Patrick Bauer replaces Nicky Ajose.
Substitution, Walsall. Erhun Oztumer replaces George Dobson.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Tareiq Holmes-Dennis replaces Ricky Holmes.
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic).
Nicky Ajose (Charlton Athletic) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the right side of the box.
Attempt saved. Florent Cuvelier (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Declan Rudd.
Attempt saved. Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Walsall. Florent Cuvelier replaces Franck Moussa.
Goal! Walsall 1, Charlton Athletic 2. Nicky Ajose (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Josh Magennis.
Goal! Walsall 1, Charlton Athletic 1. Kieron Morris (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Franck Moussa.
Attempt missed. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
James O'Connor (Walsall) is shown the yellow card.
Chris Solly (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Franck Moussa.
Attempt missed. Matt Preston (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Chris Solly.
Substitution, Walsall. Amadou Bakayoko replaces Andreas Makris.
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Ademola Lookman replaces Johnnie Jackson.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Jason Pearce.
Attempt missed. Andreas Makris (Walsall) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Johnnie Jackson.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Johnnie Jackson.
Attempt missed. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) header from the right side of the six yard box is too high.
Attempt missed. Johnnie Jackson (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Neil Etheridge.
Attempt saved. Chris Solly (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Second Half begins Walsall 0, Charlton Athletic 1.
This is the deep scar made in the Earth's surface 66 million years ago by the asteroid that scientists believe hastened the end of the dinosaurs.
Today, the key parts of the crater are buried beneath 600m of ocean sediment.
But if researchers can access its rocks, they should learn more about the scale of the impact, and the environmental catastrophe that ensued.
They are particularly interested in a feature called the "peak ring".
This was created at the centre of the impact hole where the Earth rebounded after being hit by the city-sized object.
In geophysical surveys that can sense beneath the ocean bed, the ring looks like an arcing chain of mountains.
"We want to know where the rocks that make up this peak ring come from," explained Prof Joanna Morgan, the co-lead investigator from Imperial College London.
"Are they from the lower, mid or upper crust? Knowing that will help us understand how large craters are formed, and that's important for us to be able to say what was the total impact energy, and what was the total volume of rock that was excavated and put into the Earth's stratosphere to cause the environmental damage," she told BBC News.
The cataclysm that occurred at the end of the Cretaceous Period doomed many species, not just the dinosaurs. All the material hurled upwards would have darkened the sky and cooled the planet for months on end.
But even as it took life away, the event also opened up new opportunities for those species that survived. And the expedition team wants to know if the impact zone itself became a life cradle.
Because the asteroid hit what was back then a shallow sea area, it is likely the newly created crater was quickly filled with water.
This water would have infused the hot and fractured rocks, leaching chemicals that could then sustain micro-organisms. Very similar conditions are seen today along the volcanic ridge that runs down the centre of the Atlantic Ocean.
"So it's possible we may encounter some exotic life in the fractured rocks we drill," said Prof Morgan.
"This is very interesting for Chicxulub, but it's also fascinating to consider in terms of the early Earth or even Mars. On the early Earth, there would have been many more, larger impacts. We think life may well have originated in impact craters."
The team is using a "liftboat" called Myrtle as its drilling platform.
This will position itself close to the Yucatan Peninsula coast, jacking itself up on three legs to make for a steady station.
To reach the rocks of the peak ring, the drill will first have to navigate the thick muds on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.
"There's less interest in the first 650m before the K-Pg (Cretaceous-Palaeogene) boundary, which is the carbonates," said Dave Smith, from the British Geological Survey.
"We've taken the view that we will open the hole to 500m and then set a casing and start coring. And we'll core continuously then down to the target depth which is 1,500m," the operations manager on the project added.
Some of the early core samples to come up should show evidence of how quickly life returned to the impact zone. Marine organisms should have re-established themselves in this sterile area on the scale of thousands of years.
Deeper cores are likely to make contact with the tsunami deposits that sloshed back and forth in the immediate aftermath of the impact.
The true peak ring rocks are at a depth of about 800m and below.
The team has given itself two months to get the job done.
"We've developed a drilling strategy that gives us multiple chances of getting to 1,500m, but at any stage you could get stuck for various reasons," explained Mr Smith.
"We're 30km off-shore, which allows us to re-supply easily. We've also timed the project so that we're pre the hurricane season. Hence starting now and trying to finish before June."
The science team has members from the US, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Canada, and China, as well as the UK and five other European countries.
The project is being conducted by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP).
Although the Myrtle carries labs to do some initial investigations, the main study will be done after the cores have been shipped to the IODP's repository in Bremen, Germany.
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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta described her as an "inspiring figure" whose death was a "big blow".
She was the lead singer of the main anthem for celebrations marking the adoption a new constitution in 2013.
A fellow singer said her death was cruel at a time when her son, who had sickle cell disease, "needed her most".
"The gap she has left will never be filled," Princess Jully told Kenya's Standard newspaper.
The newspaper quoted a family source as saying that Ms Abura was admitted to the intensive care unit, before she died on Thursday.
On 7 October, Ms Abura wrote on her Facebook account that she had lost more than 50kg (eight stone) in the last three years and she felt weak.
"Walking is a problem with pains all over. Doctor says I must add 30kg then lose it as I exercise and firm up," she wrote.
"The irony of life. I was not even losing weight intentionally! I allowed life to get the better of me. Learn from my mistakes." she added.
Ms Abura started as a gospel singer, releasing her debut album, I Believe, in 1990. She later branched out into afro-jazz and afro-fusion, with her last album, Rebirth, released earlier this year.
In a statement, Mr Kenyatta said her death was a deep loss to the nation.
"But even as we mourn Ms Abura, let us also celebrate her life and achievements. She was a good and inspiring figure in the music industry, and a great mentor to upcoming musicians," he added.
The Standard newspaper reports that popular signer Suzzana Owiyo visited Ms Abura in hospital on Wednesday and described her condition as unstable.
Kenya had lost one of it "greatest" musicians, it quoted Ms Owiyo as saying.
Ms Abura's exact age was unclear, but she was believed to be in her early fifties when she died.
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Southern paid £1,623,000, Southeastern paid £1,351,000, and First Capital Connect, which later became Govia Thameslink, paid £923,000 for the financial year 2014-15.
The three operators said they operated a compensation scheme for customers.
Passenger groups said the compensation process still had to be made simpler.
After the Department for Transport released the figures, rail minister Claire Perry said: "I have been clear with the rail industry that it must make it easier for people to claim, and I am pleased to see these measures are working."
David Sidebottom, from Transport Focus, which represents passengers, said research two years ago had shown people were not aware they could claim compensation, and many "couldn't be bothered with the hassle".
He said his organisation had been working with the regulator and rail operators to tell customers they were entitled to claim.
And Transport Focus wants to see compensation to be paid automatically using technology, such as cards similar to Oyster.
Southern said compensation payouts had increased because more people were becoming aware they could claim, and work would continue on raising awareness of the system.
Southeastern said it operated a nationally-agreed compensation scheme that was advertised on posters, social media and its website.
Govia Thameslink said punctuality was improving and it understood delays were frustrating, and in the future smartcards would provide automatic alerts to passengers when they are entitled to claim.
Daniele Polito, 23, was in a car on the A27 when a vintage jet crashed and exploded during a display last August.
His mother Leslye said the family initially felt sorry for pilot Andy Hill, but revelations about his involvement in an earlier air show scare had made them feel "more angry".
Mr Hill, 52, is the subject of a manslaughter investigation.
His Hawker Hunter crashed into four pieces, killing eleven people.
It later emerged Mr Hill was involved in another less serious flying occurrence at the Southport Airshow in 2014 when his Jet Provost T5 was seen too close to crowds and below the height set for the event.
The British Air Display Association said it was not serious and Mr Hill was always in control of the aircraft.
Nevertheless, Mrs Polito said hearing about what happened at other air shows made the family "feel more angry".
"If he (Mr Hill) is at fault in any way whatsoever - if he made an error of judgment, showing off or anything, then I want it to be a strong case brought against him.
"If he is found guilty then he has to pay."
Mr Hill, a former RAF pilot from Sandon, near Buntingford in Hertfordshire, was in hospital for several weeks after the Shoreham crash.
Sussex Police went to the High Court in July to ask for access to Air Accidents Investigation Branch material relating to the crash.
It emerged in papers filed to the court that Mr Hill was interviewed under caution in December but not arrested.
Mrs Polito said the family is dreading the first anniversary of the Shoreham air crash, on 22 August.
They will attend a church service on Saturday and a minute's silence on Monday in memory of the Daniele and the other victims.
"We don't want to mourn him, we want to celebrate him," she said.
They have a 33-year-old rookie manager - their fourth of the season and 10th since 2014 - who is tasked with prolonging their unbroken 112-year stay in the Football League.
Off the field, the O's owner Francesco Becchetti has been in the spotlight for a number of reasons, including a stadium ban in January 2016.
It has led to former manager Martin Ling describing the club as "a madhouse".
BBC Sport asks what next for the east Londoners?
Orient had just lost the League One play-off final on penalties when Italian businessman Becchetti bought the club from Barry Hearn in the summer of 2014.
They have not been able to capitalise on his investment; suffering relegation to League Two the following year, missing out on the play-offs last season and sinking to 23rd in the table this term.
"All the major decisions which have resulted in us dropping down the leagues at this rate ultimately come down to one man," said Jim Nichols, the editor of the Leyton Orientear fanzine.
"Since Becchetti took over it has been a quite steep decline. He never outlined his vision more than big words about how he'd invest money and move up the leagues.
"There has never been a plan. Every few months he loses patience, realises something isn't working and tries something completely different."
From commissioning a reality TV show where Italian players could win a contract with the O's, to successfully fighting extradition to Albania and receiving a stadium ban and £40,000 fine for aiming a kick at a member of the coaching staff, Becchetti has made the headlines himself.
Chief executive Alessandro Angelieri recently questioned the commitment of former players and described the 2013-14 side which secured Orient's highest league finish for 32 years as "a squad without future".
However, he has said that the actions of the board have been "in good faith" since the takeover and they remain confident the team will avoid the drop this season.
But with the club at such a low ebb, Becchetti is now prepared to consider offers for Orient.
Last Saturday, Orient slipped into the relegation zone for the first time this season after suffering a fourth-successive league defeat.
A day later Andy Edwards resigned as manager to take a role in the England youth set-up.
Taking over in November after Alberto Cavasin's seven-week spell in charge, Edwards was forced to rely on youngsters following an exodus of senior players and won just two of his nine games in the dugout.
"Because of the mess that has been created above him, Andy was stuck there doing the job with his hands tied behind his back," Ling, who was in charge of Orient from 2003 until 2009, told BBC Radio London.
"He's better off out of the madhouse that Leyton Orient has become."
Angelieri has partly blamed the club's recent slide on the fact that Becchetti has been unable to visit the players at training or attend matches because of personal business issues.
"Mr Becchetti has a great charisma and the players definitely feel his absence," he added.
Orient were founded in 1881, and have been members of the Football League since their election in 1905 - but their status is now in jeopardy.
"The club are too big to go down, but the way it is going it looks like a distinct possibility," former O's player Matt Lockwood, 40, said.
"If Orient let things slip now, it is a long way back coming out of the National League."
Former Southend and Hull striker Danny Webb is now the man in the Orient hot-seat.
He only joined Orient's first-team coaching staff last summer, after five years working in the club's academy, and stepped up to become Edwards' number two in November.
"Management is something I always wanted to get into but it has come a bit earlier than I ever planned," he said.
"The fact I have been here since the start of the season in a first-team capacity has helped, because I have been able to learn and develop my philosophy."
Former Arsenal trainee Omer Riza and sport scientist Michael Amoah have been promoted from youth team duties to assist Webb and complete an inexperienced backroom staff team.
However, Webb also has his 70-year-old father David, the former Southend, Chelsea and Brentford manager, to call on for guidance.
"The biggest advice my dad has given me is to stay true to yourself; in how you are as a person and the way you have said you wanted to do things if given a chance," he said.
"You can't veer away from that."
From the outside it looks like a real tough job. I'd like to think I'll come in and make things work, but life isn't a fairytale.
But can Webb inspire a squad who have lost 10 of their 14 league games this season at the Matchroom Stadium?
"Danny's age and lack of experience doesn't bother me," said Lockwood, who played over 380 games for the club.
"It doesn't matter what level you've played at, as to be a good manager and coach is completely different.
"Orient have just got to concentrate on the here and now and fight their way out of the relegation battle."
A statement from Angelieri last month said Becchetti remains committed to funding the club "within the bounds of common sense" but the Leyton Orient Fans' Trust (Loft) are calling for the Italian to sell up as soon as possible.
They are so concerned about Orient's financial status they are preparing a 'disaster recovery' plan to be shared with their members at their next meeting in March.
"What is happening here is the sheer destruction of the club," Loft spokesperson Mat Roper said.
"We are a dead club walking. Even beyond this season, if we did survive, are Orient fans hopeful Becchetti will make the right decisions?
"If we go down to the National League there is an inevitability about possible administration and liquidation. This club may be no longer come the summer."
Loft have written an open letter to show their support for the players and Webb, who takes charge of the O's for the first time against promotion-chasing Carlisle on Saturday.
"We are odds-on to go down with the bookies but we are desperate to not be playing at Guiseley next year," Webb said.
"We shouldn't be written off yet."
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The five-year joint Welsh and Irish study aims to find out how quickly remote coastal areas in Wales are disappearing due to climate change.
Data from the project will help the Welsh Government to manage heritage sites and communities at risk.
Researchers said it would create a "better understanding of how to map this coastal erosion".
The EU-funded project will be led by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, along with Aberystwyth University, the Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland and Geological Survey, Ireland.
It will focus on cultural heritage sites, such as pre-historic hill forts and ancient ruins along the coast, as well as the Welsh islands in the Irish Sea.
To get the best view the team will fly over some of the most inaccessible parts of the coast to take photographs, which will be used to create 3D computer models of each area.
Researchers from Dublin will also scan the sea bed. The work will give a more accurate picture of the coastline along the Irish Sea than ever before.
Dr Toby Driver, a senior aerial investigator on the CHERISH project, said, in certain parts of Wales, they do not know what has already disappeared into the sea.
"That's what this new project hopes to address, to really get a good idea of what's been lost in the last few years and what's been lost over the last century and how fast is this coastal erosion happening," he said.
"We've got the best computer software we can get, the best experts we can get in this project, working together to get a better understanding of how to map this coastal erosion."
Geographers from Aberystwyth University will also analyse historical records of extreme weather to see how coastal communities coped in the past.
They will be looking for patterns in storm activity to see if understanding what happened in the past can increase resilience in the future.
Hywel Griffiths, a senior lecturer in physical geography at Aberystwyth University, said it was important to know how quickly things were changing.
"There are communities living on these coastlines which have to manage and adapt to a changing coast on a yearly basis," he said.
"But there are also important cultural and historically-significant sites right on the coastline which could potentially be under threat from increased stormy conditions in the future as a result of climate change."
The project will also look at how the coast could change over the next 100 years.
The home side were cruising after Rooney swept in a Rafael cross and Robin van Persie rifled in a low shot.
But Diafra Sakho nodded in for the Hammers before Rooney was sent off for a reckless tackle on Stewart Downing.
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Enner Valencia shot wide and Kevin Nolan had an effort ruled out for offside as the home side held on.
The relief was palpable around Old Trafford at the final whistle, while there was also anger at referee Lee Mason for his decision to dismiss Rooney just before the hour mark.
However, the England striker kicked out at Downing as the Hammers threatened to launch a counter-attack and is now set to miss games against former club Everton, West Brom and Chelsea.
West Ham will be left to rue being on the wrong end of a close offside call when Nolan's last-gasp prod was disallowed but they have now lost 20 of their last 22 league games at Old Trafford.
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal had been looking for a response from his side following their 5-3 humbling at Leicester last Sunday and, although his side won, it was almost a similar story.
Injuries in defence saw the Dutchman start with 19-year-old Paddy McNair in central defence, while £27m left-back Luke Shaw also made his debut.
But, for all of the home side's struggles at the back, they still had a vast array of attacking artillery and it did not take long for that to fire.
Rafael raced down the right flank and delivered a cross which Rooney converted with a first-time glanced shot to the far post.
Van Gaal has questioned his captain's ability to play as a striker but Rooney's finish was clinical and took his tally to 176 as he overtook Thierry Henry to move into the outright third position in the Premier League's record of all-time top scorers.
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The home side almost ruined their eye-catching forward play when a poor back pass from midfield released Enner Valencia on the home goal only for the Ecuadorian to blaze his effort over.
United's second came when Ander Herrera dispossessed Alex Song before Radamel Falcao slid a pass through to Van Persie, who angled in a right-foot shot.
But, Van Gaal's side had shown against Leicester that they have a propensity for hitting the self destruct button and they again made life difficult for themselves.
Referee Lee Mason denied the Hammers a penalty when Morgan Amalfitano's hooked cross appeared to strike the arm of Falcao before the visitors pulled a goal back.
Home keeper David De Gea missed punching away a corner and, after Valencia's header came back off the crossbar, Sakho was on hand to nod home for his fourth goal in five games.
Rooney's red card then gave the visiting side hope but, despite a Sakho header into the side-netting and Nolan's late effort, Van Gaal's side secured a much-needed victory.
Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal:
"The win is very important, you can imagine that. We played a very good first half with attractive football. We conceded again a goal from a set play.
"But OK, I am very happy that we hold the result until the end because it is very difficult to play against a team who not only have have one more player but who also play a lot of high balls. I am very pleased with the attitude of my players."
On Rooney red card:
"It was a break out of a set play of ours and he makes a professional foul, I think you can call it like that. I don't think Wayne wanted to do it that way but he did it and you can give a red card."
West Ham boss Sam Allardyce:
"I've looked on the laptop and Kevin Nolan made a good run from deep and put the ball in the net. Unfortunately for us, the assistant saw something we didn't.
"It's unfortunate when you've worked so hard to get back in the game.
"We gifted Manchester United two goals and at 11 v 11 we had the best chances. Diafra Sakho could easily have had a hat-trick."
The robberies, which have included of three cricket clubs and two golf clubs, started in October, Greater Manchester Police said.
A woman was "viciously" beaten with the metal end of a snooker rest and a pool cue in the most recent at Chadderton Cricket and Bowling Club, Oldham.
Police are warning clubs to tighten up security particularly at closing times.
The first attack happened at Rochdale Cricket, Lacrosse and Squash Club, in October. Three men made off with cash after threatening members of staff with an axe and hammer.
The most recent was at at Chadderton Cricket and Bowling Club, Bowling Green Lane, on 16 January.
Police said the victim of the pool cue attack has been left traumatised and with severe bruising to her face and body.
Det Roger Smethurst said: "What started as a handful of seemingly isolated robberies has become a noticeable trend, predominantly at sports and social clubs and often around closing time.
"Some of these crimes have been extremely violent, leaving staff with injuries and customers totally distressed by what they have been forced to witness."
Other robberies have taken place at:
Labour AMs in key marginal seats told Sunday Politics Wales Mr Cobryn has boosted party membership and enthused supporters.
Some party figures have concerns about how voters will see his left-wing policies, particularly in seats where there is a challenge from the Tories.
First Minister Carwyn Jones met Mr Corbyn for the first time this week.
The new UK party leader has said he will visit Wales once a month in the run up to the election.
Cardiff North AM Julie Morgan said Mr Corbyn's success has almost doubled the party's membership in her area.
The Conservatives won the seat in the general election, but the constituency has been closely-fought between Labour and the Conservatives in recent years.
"One of our key tasks in Welsh Labour is to convert all that enthusiasm for the hard work we need to get done in the Labour party - the door knocking, the envelope filling, the telephone canvassing", she said.
Ms Morgan, who supported Yvette Cooper in the leadership election, warned that Welsh Labour's voice could be drowned out by the focus on its new parliamentary leader.
She said: "What we've got to make sure is that we do hear the voice of the leader in Wales and the voice of Welsh Labour, because what we've done in Wales and what we plan to do is a really good platform to fight the election."
Another Labour backbencher claims the new UK party leader can give the party a fillip in another key seat.
Labour lost Gower to the Conservatives at the general election - a seat it had held for more than 100 years.
Swansea East AM Mike Hedges, who backed Mr Corbyn in the leadership election, said some Labour voters in Gower stayed at home during the general election "because they couldn't see enough of a difference between Labour and the Conservatives".
He added: "He might enthuse a large number of people who I know living in places like Clydach and other working class villages around Clydach who stayed at home."
Llanelli MP Nia Griffith said there will not be any no-go areas in Wales for Mr Corbyn.
Speaking to Sunday Politics Wales, the shadow Welsh Secretary rejected the idea that Mr Corbyn would not visit marginal constituencies ahead of next year's assembly elections.
"He has an appeal right across the spectrum," she said. "He appeals to the idea that he is genuine and sincere".
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies warned on Saturday Mr Corbyn and Mr Jones were the "two most dangerous men for Wales' future".
But Vale of Clwyd AM Ann Jones said the Conservatives' claim that Labour are a threat to national security is "appalling".
"I was disappointed to see the prime minister say that people like me are now a national threat because of my UK leader.
"The real threat to hard-working families - those who are now working but still having to go to food banks because of the Tory cuts - the Tories have got a lot to answer for, they are the real danger in Wales."
Mohammad Arshad, 35, of Luton, groomed his underage victims online and paid some for sex, St Albans Crown Court heard.
He also raped a 14-year-old on the back seat of his car.
Arshad was convicted of 17 charges relating to 12 teenage girls last month.
Judge Jonathan Carroll called him a "dangerous offender" and gave him a jail term of 15 years plus an eight-year extended licence period, which means he will be supervised by probation officer on his release.
He began abusing girls in 2012, when he was a CCTV operator in Luton town centre, before he joined Bedfordshire Police in April 2014.
Arshad was suspended six months later when the investigation began, after the mother of one of the victims came forward.
He used Facebook, Blackberry Messenger, WhatsApp and text messages to groom his victims, the jury was told.
Arshad's youngest victim was 13, while he paid a 16-year-old girl for sex.
In a victim impact statement one girl said: "He abused my childhood and that of other girls."
Arshad said he could not recall how many teenagers he had sex with, saying: "I don't remember. It is hard for me to put a number on it."
He was convicted of nine counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, three of sexual activity with a child, two of meeting a child following sexual grooming, one of rape, one of causing a child to watch a sexual act and one of paying for the sexual services of a child.
He was cleared of five similar charges.
Bedfordshire Police said it had reviewed its vetting process to prevent the likes of Arshad from joining the force again.
The 34-year-old ex-Manchester United trainee has been an ever present since making the first of his 13 starts following his signing in January.
Pugh had his contract terminated at League Two side Blackpool to join Vale.
He signed for the rest of the season, but has now made it more permanent.
Pugh, who has had spells with Leeds United, Preston North End, Stoke City, Sheffield Wednesday, Coventry City and Bury, is the first Vale player to commit his future to Vale since confirmation of Michael Brown's appointment as manager.
Brown was installed as new Vale manager on Wednesday, three days after the club's return to League Two, following four seasons in League One.
In what is expected to be a summer of departures at Vale Park, the first guaranteed exit will be defender Remie Streete, the club have confirmed.
Following "amicable discussions", the former Newcastle United youngster has turned down a new offer from the club as he wants to play at a higher level than League Two.
A club statement said: "Remie's contract was set to come to an end following the conclusion of the 2016-17 League One campaign.
"He has expressed his desire of wanting to play at the highest level that he can."
Streete, 22, one of Vale's most marketable assets along with young centre-back partner Nathan Smith, has scored six times in his 60 times for Vale since arriving from Newcastle, initially on loan, in 2015.
David Baazov was charged with using "privileged information" when trading Amaya shares between December 2013 and June 2014
Mr Baazov denied the charges and said he would "vigorously contest" them.
The alleged insider trading occurred while Amaya was being purchased by the Oldford Group for $4.3bn (£3bn).
Amaya - the operator of Pokerstars and European Poker Tour - said in a statement that the charges against its chief were "without merit" and that the company is cooperating with Quebec's market regulators - the AMF.
The body has also executed search warrants on a group of 13 individuals.
The charges include communicating privileged information and attempting to influence stock market prices.
In a statement Mr Baazov said, "These allegations are false and I intend to vigorously contest these accusations. While I am deeply disappointed with the AMF's decision, I am highly confident I will be found innocent of all charges."
Amaya's share price fell over 20%.
County passed up a host of chances before Liam Boyce finally put them in front, heading home for his eighth goal of the season.
The home side's dominance continued after the break until Crawford's moment of brilliance brought Accies level.
Both sides had chances near the end, but neither could find a winner.
One week ago Ross County were bottom of the Premiership. They looked on course for the top six but simply failed to convert their chances and paid the price.
The home side were full of attacking intent from the off as Andrew Davies saw an early header well saved, and Michael Gardyne's strike brought Gary Woods into action again.
Jay McEveley then tried to bundle home, but could not get his shot off.
It was one-way traffic but Hamilton gained a foothold and began to frustrate.
It needed the talismanic Boyce to intervene and once again he did so in style. Gardyne's delivery was perfect, with the striker easing off his man and directing a header back across goal into the corner.
They had numerous chances to finish it, substitute Alex Schalk off target with a couple when he should have hit the target then denied late on by Woods.
In fairness Schalk did find the net and was incorrectly ruled offside. That would have probably settled the match.
On paper County look like a side that should challenge for the top six. Results like this after being on top for so long are undermining that challenge.
Chances for the visitors were few and far between, with the home side controlling the match for long periods.
They stuck to the task admirably but just could not get the likes of Crawford on the ball to ask questions of the home defence.
When they did he took advantage, sizing up a free-kick on the edge of the box, picking his spot and finding the corner sublimely.
It was such an important goal as it kept his side off bottom spot. He nearly went further with a brilliant long-range effort which cleared the bar by inches as Hamilton began to threaten a winner.
Crawford really has the talent to play at a higher level and, with no disrespect to his team-mates, better players around him would surely enhance his game.
Martin Canning's side have a habit of pulling results out of the bag and did so once again here.
It could prove to be vital come the end of the season.
Ross County manager Jim McIntyre: "We put in a very strong performance. Unfortunately for us the quality we showed in front of goal against St Johnstone was missing today.
"We created enough chances to win three matches today but just didn't take them. While the score is 1-0 you always have a chance of conceding.
"Ali Crawford's come up with a fantastic free-kick when we're sloppy in the middle of the park, give possession away and we've been punished. It's been the sucker punch so it's hard to take.
"I can take the positives of the performance. The type of chances we created were gilt edged. We certainly did a lot of things well within the match. We've been flagged offside and the goal (Alex Schalk's disallowed effort) was onside.
"The players worked extremely hard for each other. The goal that we scored was a fabulous goal.
"They're down but they shouldn't be down with what they gave us. If we play that type of football, like we did last week as well, we'll start winning more games."
Hamilton player-manager Martin Canning: "I've said after many games that we've deserved to win the game and today it's the opposite.
"Ross County were better on the day. It's a bit of progression for us.
"I think last season we may have lost that game. This season we've got the desire to dig in. You've got to find a way at times to stay in a game when you're not performing well and things aren't going for you.
"You always know when you've got guys like Ali on the park, it only takes one moment of quality and you can get back in the game.
"It's strange we could have been bottom. If Ali's one that flies just over the bar goes in, we could have been sixth. That's in the space of 15 minutes. It's a good point. Just now the squad is very strong."
(On Crawford) "He definitely could (play at a higher level). We definitely don't want to lose him as he's so important to us in the way we play.
"He's got individual quality that can change a game in a second. Thankfully today he was able to do it."
Match ends, Ross County 1, Hamilton Academical 1.
Second Half ends, Ross County 1, Hamilton Academical 1.
Liam Boyce (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical).
Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
(Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical).
Tim Chow (Ross County).
(Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Christopher Routis (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt saved. Alex Schalk (Ross County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Tim Chow (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Rakish Bingham (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Marcus Fraser.
Attempt missed. Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Alex Schalk (Ross County) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses the top right corner.
Substitution, Ross County. Tony Dingwall replaces Michael Gardyne.
Foul by Alex Schalk (Ross County).
Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Ross County 1, Hamilton Academical 1. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Foul by Liam Boyce (Ross County).
Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Ross County. Jonathan Franks replaces Ryan Dow.
Ryan Dow (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical).
Foul by Christopher Routis (Ross County).
Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Christopher Routis (Ross County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Tim Chow (Ross County).
Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Boyce (Ross County).
Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andrew Davies (Ross County).
Rakish Bingham (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Alejandro D'Acol replaces Gramoz Kurtaj because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ryan Dow (Ross County) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Dougie Imrie replaces Danny Seaborne.
Alex Schalk (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
He told a cheering crowd in Arizona that he would secure the border, and left open the possibility that millions of illegal immigrants be deported.
Hours earlier, he met Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto but said they had not discussed financing the wall.
The president later insisted he had told Mr Trump Mexico would not pay.
There had been speculation that the Republican candidate would back off his plan to deport the estimated 11m undocumented immigrants living in the US.
In his speech in Phoenix, there were conflicting signals about this. He said their fate was not a "core issue" and that deporting "criminal aliens" would be the priority.
"We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity," he said.
But later he struck a more uncompromising note when he added: "Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws."
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Attacks on illegal immigrants have been central to Donald Trump's campaign and key to his popularity with a section of the American public.
But the Republican is trailing Hillary Clinton in the polls and he needs more support from minorities, including the country's 55 million Hispanics, if he is to have any chance of winning.
For a very short time, that problem seemed to explain his trip to Mexico City, to meet the president and preach friendship.
The softening of Donald Trump didn't last long.
By the time he got to Phoenix the candidate's rhetoric had hardened dramatically.
He promised to deport two million "criminal aliens" in his first hour in office; warned that millions more would be "subject to deportation" and re-stated his signature pledge, to build that "beautiful" wall.
This was not the policy pivot that many were expecting - and that many think Mr Trump needs if he is to keep his presidential dream alive.
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Mr Trump said it was the right of the US to choose immigrants that "we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us".
Elaborating on that idea, he said his "extreme vetting" would involve an ideological test for immigrants applying to live in the US.
"Applicants will be asked for their views about honour killings, about respect for women and gays and minorities, attitudes on radical Islam," he said.
Mr Trump, a New York hotel developer, stormed to an unlikely victory in the Republican primaries partly due to his tough talking on immigration.
And in Phoenix he vowed to protect the interests of Americans who he said lose out to new arrivals.
"We have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and its impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions," he said.
He accused his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of wanting to grant amnesty to undocumented immigrants and of advocating "open border" policies.
Reacting to Mr Trump's visit to Mexico, she said he had "choked" by not asking his hosts to pay for his wall.
Mexico anger at president for Trump visit
Soon after his speech, Politico reported that Jacob Monty, one of Mr Trump's 23-member National Hispanic Advisory Council, had quit the board, saying: "What I heard today was not realistic and not compassionate."
Another supporter, Alfonso Aguilar, President of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, also told Politico he may withdraw his backing, later tweeting that he felt "disappointed and misled".
Mr Trump was not the only one to depart later in the day from the cordiality of the joint press conference in Mexico City.
Amid an outcry that he had invited such an unpopular figure to Mexico, President Pena Nieto said some of Mr Trump's policies posed grave threats to his country.
The Local Government Association (LGA) and all fire and rescue authorities in England and Wales are calling for the current limit to be lowered from 80mg to 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood.
The move could save 170 lives in the first year, according to the LGA.
The government said UK roads were "amongst the safest in the world".
The Scottish government reduced its legal limit for drivers to 50mg in December 2014.
Northern Ireland will also soon drop its limit to the same level, and even lower for professional and learner drivers.
But last year, the government said there were no plans to lower the drink-drive limit in England and Wales to bring it in line with Scotland.
Fall in drink-drivers after limit cut
The LGA said it was estimated that lowering the limit in England and Wales could save up to 170 lives in the first year, rising to more than 300 lives in the sixth year.
A lower limit could also save £300m annually by reducing the number of 999 responses and hospital admissions, the LGA said.
It cited provisional government figures showing that reported "serious" drink-drive accidents between 2014 and 2015 in Britain had risen from 880 to 980, an increase of 11%.
Total reported drink-drive accidents had increased by 2% from 5,620 to 5,740.
The same figures showed the number of people seriously injured in reported drink-drive accidents between 2014 and 2015 had risen from 1,070 to 1,170, an increase of 9%.
Between 2010 and 2015 the number of people killed in reported drink-drive accidents has remained between 220 and 240 a year.
Simon Blackburn, chairman of the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, said the fact that England and Wales would soon have the highest drink-drive limit in Europe "is not sending the right message to motorists".
He said: "The government should be leading by example by toughening up drink-drive laws in line with other European countries which will make roads safer and save lives.
"A lower alcohol limit would help to deter motorists from drinking at all before getting behind the wheel and encourage them to have 'none for the road'."
Motorists 'getting' drink-drive message
The Department for Transport spokesman said the government believed that rigorous enforcement and severe penalties for drink driving were a more effective deterrent than changing the drink-drive limit.
He said: "Those over the current drink driving limit cause a disproportionate amount of harm. These are the people we need to focus our efforts and resources upon.
"Our roads continue to be amongst the safest in the world because we crack down on those who break the law."
Caryl Thomas's close-range score after 16 minutes helped Wales to a 10-0 lead, with Elinor Snowsill kicking a penalty and conversion.
Italy cut the Welsh lead to 10-8 at the break after Manuela Furlan's try.
But full-back Dyddgu Hywel and hooker Carys Phillips crossed for Wales in the second period before the Welsh defence held out in the closing stages.
Wales dominated the early territory thanks to an astute kicking game, with Snowsill chipping over a 25 metre penalty after nine minutes.
The visitors then made the most of running a tap penalty, with prop Thomas emerging from underneath a pile of bodies as the Welsh pack drove over, Snowsill converting.
Italy mounted a storming comeback in the second quarter as winger Michela Sillari knocked over a penalty after the Welsh scrum was put under severe pressure, to the delight of a noisy home crowd.
Then full-back Furlan made the most of room out wide to cross in the corner, leaving Wales hanging on to a precarious 10-8 advantage at half-time.
A similar move then saw Wales' number 15 Hywel match Furlan, cutting inside to score the visitors' second try five minutes after the break.
Wales had their fair share of defending to do, but proved more efficient in turning pressure into points as captain Phillips crashed over from a driving maul with 10 minutes left.
Wales then held out in defence for a fifth straight win under new coach Rowland Phillips, the former Wales flanker.
Hywel was named woman of the match for a commanding all-round performance in attack and defence.
Wales Women: Dyddgu Hywel (Scarlets); Elen Evans (Scarlets), Kerin Lake (Ospreys), Robyn Wilkins (Ospreys), Adi Taviner (Ospreys); Elinor Snowsill (Newport Gwent Dragons), Keira Bevan (Ospreys); Caryl Thomas (Scarlets), Carys Phillips (Ospreys, capt), Amy Evans (Ospreys), Rebecca Rowe (Dragons), Mel Clay (Ospreys), Sioned Harries (Scarlets), Rachel Taylor (Scarlets), Shona Powell-Hughes (Ospreys).
Replacements: Lowri Harries (Scarlets), Cerys Hale (Dragons), Gwenllian Pyrs (Scarlets), Siwan Lillicrap (Ospreys), Alisha Butchers (Scarlets), Sian Moore (Dragons), Gemma Rowland (Dragons), Jessica Kavanagh-Williams (Scarlets).
Referee: Rose LaBreche (Canada)
Assistant referees: Jadezweni Cwengile (SA), Clara Munarini (Italy)
TMO: Neil Paterson (Ireland)
These are people who have either engineered airline IT networks or actually worked on British Airways' systems in the past.
What I've heard is a lot of confusion and scepticism at the idea that a local power surge could have wreaked such havoc.
There is also confusion as to why back-up systems didn't do their job.
Only the people in the room know exactly what happened, so these views are based on the information made public, and bucketfuls of IT experience, including at BA.
One put it like this: "BA has two data centres near Heathrow, about a kilometre apart, so how could a power surge affect both?"
Then there are all the fail-safes in place.
The two data centres mirror each other I'm told, so when one collapses the other should take over.
All the big installations have back-up power. If the mains fails, a UPS (uninterruptable power supply) kicks in. It's basically a big battery that keeps things ticking over until the power comes back on, or a diesel generator is fired up.
This UPS is meant to take the hit from any "surge", so the servers don't have to.
All the big servers and large routers, I'm told, also have dual power supplies fed from different sources.
I'm also told that, certainly a while ago, they used to have regular outages to confirm all the back-up bits were working. And daily inspections of the computer room. There is no reason to think these were stopped.
It's not even clear who was monitoring the system at the crucial time. Was it a contractor? How much experience did they have?
The point is this: certainly up until a while ago, British Airways' IT systems had a variety of safety nets in place to protect them from big dumps of uncontrolled power, and to get things back on their feet quickly if there was any problem. I'm assuming those safety nets are still there, so why did they fail? And did human error play a part in all this?
British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz told me recently that the company has launched an exhaustive investigation into what went wrong, although no-one can say when it will report back, and whether the findings will ever be made public.
If BA wants to repair its reputation, its owner IAG needs to convince the public that making hundreds of IT staff redundant last year did not leave them woefully short of experts who could have fixed the meltdown sooner. And that it won't happen again - at least not on this epic scale.
Mr Cruz was adamant, by the way, that the outsourcing did not contribute in any way to this mess.
The Trotters moved into the automatic promotion places in League One after claiming an eighth win in nine matches, with this result their third victory in a row.
However, it was the Cobblers who started the brightest as David Buchanan's shot on the turn tested Ben Alnwick and Matt Taylor rattled the upright after good work from Kenji Gorre.
In between, Bolton's Sammy Ameobi volleyed straight at David Cornell.
Ameobi also had a close range effort blocked and Jay Spearing fired over before the Cobblers went close again through Sam Hoskins.
But Bolton broke the deadlock in the 25th minute when neat play on the left ended with Ameobi putting in Clough and he beat the advancing Cornell from 10 yards.
The impressive Clough was just off target with an overhead kick moments later as Bolton continued to look a threat going forward.
Northampton upped their tempo after the restart and began to ask questions of the Bolton defence, with substitute Marc Richards having an effort ruled out for offside.
But the visitors went close when Tom Thorpe tested Cornell from distance.
The hardworking Hoskins was denied by Alnwick as Northampton sensed a deserved equaliser.
They forced the issue in the latter stages, with Richards having another close range effort scrambled clear while Taylor was twice denied by Alnwick, who also thwarted substitute John-Joe O'Toole.
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Match ends, Northampton Town 0, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 0, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by James Henry.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Proctor (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Ben Alnwick.
Attempt saved. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Chris Taylor replaces Zach Clough.
Hand ball by Jamie Proctor (Bolton Wanderers).
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Jamie Proctor replaces Gary Madine.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Derik.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alfie Potter replaces Paul Anderson.
Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers).
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Jay Spearing.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Lawrie Wilson.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. James Henry replaces Sammy Ameobi.
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).
Derik (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Tom Thorpe (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Lawrie Wilson.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Lewin Nyatanga.
Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Marc Richards replaces Kenji Gorré.
Substitution, Northampton Town. John-Joe O'Toole replaces Jak McCourt.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Derik.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Gabriel Zakuani.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Gabriel Zakuani.
Attempt blocked. Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Derik.
Second Half begins Northampton Town 0, Bolton Wanderers 1.
First Half ends, Northampton Town 0, Bolton Wanderers 1.
The activity, known as urbex, is carried out around the world, and often entails illegally trespassing on private property. Their motto is 'leave only footprints, take only photos' and they say they never cause damage to gain access.
"The main philosophy is that you don't move anything; you photograph the building as you see it. Change nothing," said one urban explorer, who wished to be known only by his first name, Stephen.
Photography expeditions are planned in advance. They usually work in groups of three or more because the buildings are often unsafe, and they might encounter homeless people. The risk of being caught by security guards is part of the attraction, they say.
Historic venues including Belfast's Crumlin Road courthouse, before it was burnt out, have been documented. Pictures are uploaded to Facebook and Flickr, for "bragging rights".
"It's challenging photography because you're looking for colour and patterns in low light. I use handheld torches and long exposures," said Stephen. Occasionally the group are given official permission to enter derelict buildings.
Not only do the photos capture the aesthetic of decay, they also raise curiosity over the reasons that lead to the venues being abandoned.
The Black Watch Museum is the first location in mainland Scotland to host Weeping Window by artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper,
By the end of WW1, almost 9,000 Black Watch soldiers were killed and almost 20,000 wounded.
The sculpture flows from the castle's second floor turret window.
It has been installed as part of the UK-wide tour of the poppies by 14-18 NOW, the arts programme for the World War One centenary.
The exhibition runs at the museum in Balhousie Castle until 25 September.
The Black Watch Museum chief executive, Anne Kinnes, said: "We are honoured to have been chosen to host this commemorative sculpture here at the home of the Black Watch.
"We hope that over the next 12 weeks we will welcome many visitors who will be able to reflect and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice and those many individuals who are still today affected by conflict."
Nigel Hinds, executive producer of 14-18 NOW, said: "Telling the story of Scotland's premier Highland regiment, the Black Watch castle and museum is a poignant and fitting place for the poppy sculpture Weeping Window to be presented as part of its tour of the UK.
"The poppies have an incredible ability to bring generations together to share stories of the First World War."
Weeping Window is one of two sculptures taken from the installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, which was displayed at the Tower of London in 2014.
The installation featured 888,246 poppies, one to honour every death in the British and colonial forces of World War One.
He installed the webcams on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of his 81 days of detention during a crackdown on political activists last year.
The Chinese authorities called him on Wednesday afternoon ordering their removal, he said.
Ai is currently fighting tax evasion charges related to his company.
Tax evasion charges were brought against his design company, Fake Cultural Development Ltd, when he was released from detention last June.
Activists have argued that the charges are politically motivated, as the internationally renowned artist has at times been an outspoken critic of the government.
Speaking to the BBC, Ai said he did not know the reason behind the order to shut the webcams.
"I don't even have a reason for why they put me away for 81 days," he said. "There's never clear, rational discussion."
Ai described the project as "a negotiation between private space, the public nature of security, and the power of the state".
Following his period of detention last year, many people were concerned about his activities and whereabouts, he said.
He had decided to put up the webcams so that his family and friends, and the authorities, could see his every movement.
He said that he had hoped to encourage transparency and openness from all sides.
Following the closure, Ai announced on his Twitter feed: "The cameras have been shut down. Bye-bye to all the voyeurs."
Men in most areas of England aged 65 and older are invited for a scan to check for AAA - when the body's main blood vessel is abnormally enlarged and without repair risks a fatal rupture.
Before screening began in 2009 the UK had the highest death rate in Europe.
The Department of Health said screening would be rolled out by April.
The UK's death rate for AAA repairs was 7.5% in 2009 but in England it is now 1.6%.
As some people get older, the aorta - the large blood vessel that carries blood from your heart to your body - can get weak and swell up.
It is estimated that about 1 in 25 men in England aged between 65 and 74 have an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Most of these are small and not serious but with larger ones comes a greater risk of rupture - a medical emergency that is fatal in about 80% of cases.
Studies suggest that screening should reduce AAA-related deaths by up to half by detecting aneurysms early so they can be repaired.
For every 200 men screened by the NHS AAA Screening Programme (NAAASP), eight will have an aneurysm but only one will have one large enough to require treatment.
By April 2013, the programme should cover the whole of England - Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are in the process of adopting it.
Annual data from the NAAASP shows that 190 men had elective surgery in 2011-12 to repair aneurysms detected by screening and there were three deaths - a mortality rate of 1.6%.
Of a reported 8,380 patients in the UK who had AAA surgery between 2008 and 2010, 197 died, giving an elective hospital mortality rate of 2.4%.
Experts say the improvement is partly due to the introduction of screening - which means more patients are being treated earlier when complications are less likely.
Another reason cited is the reorganisation of services to ensure that only hospitals with the most expertise in treating AAA carry out this type of surgery.
Jonothan Earnshaw, NAAASP director, said: "Research shows hospitals that do a lot of these operations get better results, and this is also reflected in the latest mortality figures."
Prof Ross Naylor, president of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, said: "The UK can be justifiably proud of being one of only a few countries to have implemented a national aneurysm screening programme which has met every quality target regarding deliverability and low procedural risks."
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Screening can save lives and improve the health of the nation - by detecting abdominal aortic aneurysms early, they can be monitored or treated where necessary, saving the lives of thousands of older men.
"Full roll-out of the screening programme is expected by April 2013."
Questions are being asked about the security of Pakistan's vital military installations after a well-organised group of gunmen held off Pakistan's equivalent of the US Navy Seals - the Special Services Group-Navy (SSG-N) - for 15 hours.
The SSG-N is said to be the most formidable fighting force in Pakistan, but - for a few hours at least - they appeared to be at the mercy of a brazen group of fighters.
"They weren't any ordinary militants - certainly not the Taliban," said one security official, who wished to remain unnamed.
"The aim of all Taliban attacks is maximum death and destruction - these men were very focused on what they were after."
From the beginning it was clear the attackers had an intricate knowledge of the base and its vulnerable areas. They were tactically assured and the operation had clearly been long in the planning.
"They came over the wall cutting the wire on the eastern side of the base," another official told the BBC, adding that it was one of the weak points. The militants knew and exploited this - just one piece of inside knowledge they had.
"That side is just next to the runway - and the guard tower is at a distance because planes land regularly."
The first time the militants were seen was when they appeared on the runway, weapons at the ready. "The [navy] men couldn't believe their eyes," says the official.
A number of officials listed to me their observations, which reinforced the conviction that they were being confronted with a new kind of militant attack:
Officials says all of this is in strong contrast to the Taliban, who adopt an equally brutal but more chaotic mode of attack. "Their best weapon is the suicide bomber - they are notoriously poor shots," one official told me.
"They were the exception to every rule of Pakistan militant tactics.
"They were also not about killing people," the official said. "It was clear they were interested in the destruction of equipment, a much more 'military' aim."
Shock and disbelief
It was only the sheer numbers of the naval personnel that prevented further damage to the aircraft in the base, one naval spokesman said.
Even so, the ferocity, speed and organisation of the onslaught still came as a shock. The planes were in flames and a gun battle was being fought within minutes.
But one of the attackers in particular caught the attention of those who were watching and bearing the brunt of the attack.
"A small young man with a light beard who later dropped his M16 for two Uzi submachine guns. He was particularly deadly - he killed one soldier with a single shot at over 600 yards."
Another clue as to the level of their training and proficiency was their ability to change tactics. One witness recounted how in the midst of the firefight the attackers appeared to change their minds and back off.
They appeared to be going for the barracks housing the Chinese engineers. Another firefight broke out until a new detachment of naval marines got to the Chinese barracks. The militants, when they realised what was happening, opened fire on the armoured vehicles the Chinese engineers were being taken away in.
Everything about the attack pointed to a detailed knowledge of the barracks. After the Chinese engineers were taken away, they broke up into groups and one group took refuge in a nearby barracks.
"They used the building to maximum effect - they knew it and the surrounding area inside out," the official said.
"We later discovered plans to the whole compound on them."
The SSG-N finally got into the barracks and killed the remaining militants. The attackers had clearly come prepared for a long siege, bringing bags of dried fruit as rations.
Officials dismiss the explanation that the attack was in retaliation for Osama Bin Laden's death. "This took months of planning - the only parallel I can think of is Mumbai [Bombay]," one said.
Gunmen killed 165 people in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and India has repeatedly accused Pakistan and its ISI intelligence agency of involvement in them.
"This maybe the first attack of its kind [in Pakistan]," the security official said. "But it's definitely not the last."
Officials say the only other time they have encountered such ferocity and training is in fighting al-Qaeda militants - especially Chechens and Uzbeks - in Pakistan's tribal areas.
"The way they went about their business - I could almost say they were our own commandos," says the security official.
He is not the only one who thinks that some of those involved in the attack may be serving military personnel or ex-servicemen.
Pre-tax profit for the first quarter was £1.682bn, up from £793m for the same period last year.
Chief executive Jes Staley said it had been "another quarter of strong progress towards the completion of the restructuring of Barclays".
He said there was good reason to feel optimistic about the firm's prospects.
The figure was better than analysts had predicted and comes despite a one-off goodwill impairment charge of £884m on the bank's stake in Barclays Africa Group, which it intends to sell in the next two to three years.
"On Africa, we await approval for the separation arrangements already agreed with local management, following which we will be able to make further progress towards regulatory deconsolidation," Mr Staley said.
In early trading, Barclays' shares were down 3.5%.
Analysis: Simon Jack, business editor
Getting rid of Barclays chief executive Jes Staley would be bad for Barclays and bad for UK banking.
That's the view of some current and former shareholders who tell me that not only would Barclays suffer if the US boss was pushed out during his so-far successful turnaround of the 360-year-old bank but also, weakening the UK's last major investment bank would be bad for the entire UK financial landscape.
Jes Staley is under investigation by authorities for twice trying to identify the author of a letter raising questions about Staley's decision to recruit an old colleague from his JP Morgan days who had been through personal issues that had led to "erratic behaviour".
One city source told me: "Replacing Jes Staley with another FCA-approved (the regulator) apparatchik would be a disaster."
Read Simon's view in full
Mr Staley said Barclays planned to hire about 2,000 new staff in the UK in the next three years, focused on technology.
He told Bloomberg the bank wanted to bring technology development back in house and reduce reliance on external contractors.
He also said it would increase the number of staff based in the EU, following the UK's Brexit vote.
In its statement, Barclays said that "certain legal proceedings and investigations relating to legacy issues" were still outstanding.
In particular, it said the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) intended to make a decision shortly about "matters relating to our capital raisings in 2008".
This refers to a long-running SFO investigation into a cash injection received by Barclays from Qatari investors at the height of the financial crisis.
Marine Sam Alexander, 28, of west London, and Lt Ollie Augustin, 23, of Kent, both of 42 Commando, died on Friday after an explosion in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province.
Marine Alexander's wife, Claire, said he was "so special" and Lt Augustin's parents said their son was "beautiful".
Some 368 UK service personnel have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001.
Marine Alexander, from Hammersmith, was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry two years ago after saving the life of a wounded colleague in Afghanistan.
According to the citation for his award, he charged at the Taliban with his pistol to provide cover "despite being completely exposed to heavy and accurate enemy fire".
He joined the Royal Marines in 2006 and had trained as a heavy weapons specialist.
He married his wife, Claire, two years ago and the couple had a son, Leo, born in July last year.
"Sam was so special. He was the gentlest of men but tough when he needed to be. He risked his safety for his friends but never batted an eyelid," she said.
"It was his job and a job he did well. Sam was a loving husband and a wonderful father. He was our rock and my best friend. He has been taken from me all too soon.
"We both love him and will miss him very much. These are all special guys who, for whatever reason, join a very tough band of blokes who willingly die for each other without a second thought. I just hope his death was not in vain."
Commanding officer of 42 Commando, Lt Col Ewen Murchison, said he was "truly remarkable".
"Decorated during his last tour of Afghanistan for gallantry, he embodied all the finest attributes of a Royal Marines Commando," he said.
"He was courageous, selfless, resolute, loyal and cheerful in the face of adversity."
He and Lt Augustin, from Dartford, were on patrol "disrupting insurgent activity" when they were killed.
Lt Augustin is survived by his father, Sean, his mother, Jane, and his sister, Sarah.
In a joint statement, his parents said: "Ollie was a much loved and cherished son. He was a beautiful boy who we were very proud of.
"He had many friends that he loved and who loved him in return. His warmth and humour lit a room and infected all around him.
"He dealt with people in a thoughtful and compassionate way. His independence and sense of adventure meant that he embraced life and his chosen path. Ollie we will all love and miss you forever."
Before joining the marines, Lt Augustin left Dartford Grammar School aged 18 to travel for a year and spent two months volunteering at a school in Kenya.
Lt Col Ewen Murchison said he had "considerable potential and a bright future ahead of him".
"As a leader he was inspirational, passionate and selfless, putting the welfare of his men above all else - they adored him and looked to him for direction, but looked on him as a brother in arms," he added.
The battalion-sized formation of 42 Commando is based at Bickleigh Barracks in Plymouth, Devon.
If confirmed, it would be Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test since 2006 and mark a major upgrade in its capabilities.
But nuclear experts have questioned whether the size of the blast was large enough to have been from an H-bomb.
South Korea called the test a "grave provocation" but said it was difficult to believe it was from such a device.
China, North Korea's main ally, said it "firmly opposes" the test, saying it was carried out "irrespective of the international community's opposition".
Suspicions first emerged when an earthquake was registered near the Punggye-ri nuclear site in North Korea at 10:00 Pyongyang time (01:30 GMT), with the tremors rattling Chinese border cities.
Hours later, in a surprise announcement, a newsreader on North Korean state TV said: "The republic's first hydrogen bomb test has been successfully performed at 10:00 am on January 6, 2016."
Hydrogen bombs use fusion to create a blast far more powerful than a more basic atomic bomb, which use fission.
Bruce Bennett, an analyst with the Rand Corporation, was among those casting doubts: "The bang they should have gotten would have been ten times greater than what they're claiming.
"So Kim Jong-un is either lying, saying they did a hydrogen test when they didn't, they just used a little bit more efficient fission weapon - or the hydrogen part of the test really didn't work very well or the fission part didn't work very well."
Despite North Korea's claims, experts are sceptical that North Korea can make a nuclear weapon small enough to fit on a missile.
Observers agree a nuclear explosion of some kind took place and it seems to have been a bit bigger than the last test in 2013, but not nearly big enough to be a full thermonuclear explosion - an "H-bomb" - as Pyongyang claims.
North Korea has a determination to defy both world opinion and heavy sanctions to reach its nuclear goal. Crucially, its main ally, China, has proved either unwilling or unable to help.
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Charlie Walker danced through to give Quins an early lead at Sixways before Luke Wallace bundled over as the visitors led 17-3 at half-time.
Walker added his second try following Danny Care's fine kick along the turf.
Worcester earned a bonus point through Marco Mama's score, a penalty try and Phil Dowson's try but were unable to overturn a 21-point deficit.
There was little sign of what was to come from Warriors in the final 30 minutes when Walker's converted try put Harlequins 24-3 in front shortly after the break.
As the visitors started to lose their discipline in the muddy conditions, Warriors' pack began to dominate and ran in 17 unanswered points.
But with just over 10 minutes left for the hosts to find another try, Quins' defence held firm to move up to third in the Premiership table.
Worcester have not beaten Harlequins since a 15-9 victory at the Stoop in February 2005 and their task was made even more difficult when wing Walker exchanged passes with Ross Chisholm to score after just three minutes.
George Lowe was sent to the sin-bin for Quins for coming in at the side of the ruck, but Warriors were only able to add a Tom Heathcote penalty with their man advantage.
Flanker Wallace extended the lead following a big drive from the line-out which Nick Evans converted to take him past 1,500 points in the Premiership.
Harlequins continued their dominance after the break as Walker did well to pick up Care's clever grubber kick and touch down before Mama was driven over for Warriors.
However, as lack of discipline began to creep into Quins' game, Jamie Roberts was shown a yellow card, leading to a penalty try which Ryan Mills converted to reduce the arrears to just nine points.
Worcester captain Dowson crossed in the corner to set up a fascinating finale, but it proved to be the final score of a thrilling match.
Worcester: Pennell; Heem, Olivier, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Arr; Leleimalefaga, Annett, Schonert, O'Callaghan, Barry, Cox, Mama, Dowson (capt).
Replacements: Sowrey, Bower, Milasinovich, Cavubati, Betty, Mulchrone, Lamb, Biggs.
Harlequins: Brown; Walker, Lowe, Roberts, Chisholm; N Evans, Care (capt); Marler, Ward, Jones, Horwill, Matthews, Robshaw, Wallace, Easter.
Replacements: Buchanan, O Evans, Sinckler, Merrick, Clifford, Dickson, Botica, Sloan.
Sin-bin: Lowe, Roberts
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According to the 46-year-old Swiss, 16 countries would be eliminated after a preliminary knockout round.
The rest of the tournament would then be the same as it is now, with 32 teams competing in the group stages, followed by further knockout rounds.
Infantino said a decision on possible expansion would be taken in January.
"These are ideas to find the best solution," he said. "We will debate them this month and we will decide everything by 2017."
Infantino took charge of world football's governing body in February.
One of his election promises was to expand the World Cup to 40 teams.
But his idea now is that 32 teams take part in a preliminary knockout round in the host country, with the winners joining 16 seeded teams in the group stages.
"It means we continue with a normal World Cup for 32 teams, but 48 teams go to the party," said Infantino, who replaced Sepp Blatter.
"Fifa's idea is to develop football in the whole world. The World Cup is the biggest event there is. It's more than a competition, it's a social event."
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Richard Conway, BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent
This is all part of Gianni Infantino's plan to expand the tournament because there is a lot of discontent from some continents who feel World Cup places are not allocated in the right way.
It could be something like England against Iceland in the first round if England were not seeded.
It is very high risk - and it would be dramatic and exciting for TV, I am sure. That is what is on the table and a decision will be made in January next year.
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William Broadway invented the ISOBAR device as part of his final year project at Loughborough University.
The industrial design and technology graduate received £2,000 to develop his prototypes.
He will compete against entries from 22 countries to win the international James Dyson award and £30,000.
Mr Broadway, 22, said: "Winning the UK James Dyson Award gives me the confidence to pursue my invention with my whole heart in the knowledge that yes, I can actually make this device, and that it could have a great impact for the benefit of thousands of people."
He came up with the idea partly while on a surfing trip.
"I was surfing in Mexico and we were taking a five day trip out and we had 13kg of ice [with us] and I thought this is stupid, we have propane burners, is there not some way we can use that energy in the right way?" he said.
"So I just looked up old fashioned refrigeration methods and found a really neat one used for rural farmers without access to electricity and just took it from there."
He said the device could also be used for organ donation, blood transplants and stem cell research.
One of the judges, Raspberry Pi co-founder and chairman Jack Lang, said: "ISOBAR is a brilliant invention. It solves a real problem and is a complete, well-thought-through system."
In 2014, another Loughborough University graduate, James Roberts, the international won the international James Dyson Award for his inflatable incubator for babies born prematurely.
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The ceremony took place near St Michael's Mount in Marazion on Saturday.
Canine groom Dexter and his bride Maya are said to be "besotted with each other".
About 15 dogs and their owners came to the service.
Fraudsters are able to work out expiry dates and security code numbers by making multiple invalid attempts on different websites, the team claims.
It is thought a similar method was used in the recent Tesco Bank fraud hack.
Visa said the research did not take into account other layers of security such as its Verified by Visa system.
According to the research, which has been published in the journal IEEE Security & Privacy, fraudsters use a so-called Distributed Guessing Attack to get around security features put in place to stop online fraud.
Mohammed Ali, a PhD student at the university's school of computing science and lead author, said: "The current online payment system does not detect multiple invalid payment requests from different websites.
"This allows unlimited guesses on each card data field, using up to the allowed number of attempts - typically 10 or 20 guesses - on each website.
"Also, different websites ask for different variations in the card data fields to validate an online purchase. This means it's quite easy to build up the information and piece it together like a jigsaw.
"The unlimited guesses, when combined with the variations in the payment data fields make it frighteningly easy for attackers to generate all the card details one field at a time."
The team said MasterCard's security network detected similar attacks after less than 10 attempts.
A spokesman for Visa said: "The research does not take into account the multiple layers of fraud prevention that exist within the payments system, each of which must be met in order to make a transaction possible in the real world.
"Visa is committed to keeping fraud at low levels and works closely with card issuers and acquirers to make it very difficult to obtain and use cardholder data illegally."
It said it also had its own Verified by Visa system which offered improved security for online transactions.
Otto Perez Molina, 64, rejected allegations that he was the mastermind of a customs corruption scheme dubbed La Linea, or The Line.
At least 100 people are being investigated over the scheme.
A judge in Guatemala City ordered his detention on Thursday while hearings over the corruption allegations took place.
After Friday's second day of hearings, Mr Perez Molina was again taken from court to a military prison in the capital.
Mr Perez Molina addressed the court on Friday.
"The first thing I want to deny: I don't belong to La Linea," he said.
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He denied taking any bribes and promised to co-operate with the investigation.
"Your honour, I am not going to risk my dignity, my work, nor all the effort I have made for Guatemala in return for $800,000,'' he said, in reference to the amount prosecutors say he received illegally.
Investigators say the scheme involved businesses paying bribes to government officials and customs officers in return for being allowed to evade import duties.
Mr Perez Molina reminded the court that he had rejected much higher bribe offers from the fugitive Mexican drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman in 1993.
Mr Perez Molina led the operation that led to his arrest in Guatemala.
"After his capture, I was offered 10, 15 times more than that amount in bribes [to let him go]. I didn't do it because that goes against my principles," he said.
Guzman, who is the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was extradited to Mexico, but escaped from a high security jail for a second time earlier this year.
Guatemala's Congress stripped Mr Perez Molina of his immunity from prosecution on Tuesday.
That opened the way for criminal charges to be brought against him.
The vice-president was sworn in as interim head of state ahead of elections this Sunday after Mr Perez Molina resigned on Thursday.
Alejandro Maldonado is expected to govern until the new president is sworn in on 14 January.
Guatemalans go to the polls on Sunday to take part in scheduled general elections.
Mr Perez Molina is constitutionally barred from seeking re-election.
Mr Maldonado had only been in the post of vice-president since mid-May, when his predecessor Roxana Baldetti resigned.
Ms Baldetti is accused of involvement in the same corruption scheme that Mr Perez Molina is said to have masterminded. She is also being held in prison.
Mr Perez Molina's resignation on Thursday and arrest are a huge victory for an unprecedented anti-corruption protest movement that had swelled in recent months, with regular marches in Guatemala's major cities.
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Defender Blackett, 22, moved to the Royals from Manchester United in August and has become a regular starter.
"I remember watching Jaap Stam from a young age," Blackett told BBC Radio Berkshire. "I grew up watching that treble-winning Manchester United team.
"I've seen the way he played and to work with him every day is great."
Blackett, who has predominantly played at left-back since his arrival, said ex-Manchester United and Netherlands defender Stam's attention to detail is keeping the squad focused in his first season in charge.
"There's lots of different things he helps me with every day in training," he continued.
"I try to implement them in training and in games as well, but he's the same with every player, be it a defender or an attacker."
Third-placed Reading head into a home match against Bristol City on Saturday on a run of four successive Championship wins, but Stam is still demanding more from his squad.
"We know as a team and as a club what we're collectively trying to achieve," Blackett added. "It's a process and a progression and we're trying to build on every performance in a bid to be better each time."
The details include more than £13,000 for an official trip to Australia with an aide, and almost £1,000 for a car journey from Halifax to London.
The Speaker was invited to address foreign parliaments, and visited UK schools and organisations to boost awareness of Parliament.
A spokesman for Mr Bercow said he was "always mindful of costs".
But Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands said MPs "should be setting a much better example".
And the Taxpayers Alliance said the sums incurred were "obscene".
Fresh details of Mr Bercow's individual receipts for travel and accommodation over the past three years have been published in response to a Freedom of Information request by the Press Association.
Between April 2014 and April 2015, he claimed more than £31,000 in travel and accommodation expenses.
Of these, the largest claim was for an official trip to Australia in September 2014, where he addressed the country's Parliament. Mr Bercow claimed £13,331.88 for the seven-day visit.
The total included the cost of flights, travel to and from the airport, and "subsistence and visas" for him and a member of staff.
The Speaker also claimed £983.40 for a one-way drive from Halifax to London on 6 November 2014, for a parliamentary outreach event which seeks to spread awareness of and encourage engagement with Parliament.
Mr Bercow's "wait and return" car journey from the Commons to a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, which is about 0.8 miles away, on 3 March 2015 cost £126.72.
He also submitted a claim for £138 for a return drive from the Commons to Battersea, London, where he and an aide attended an Education Outreach event on 11 September last year.
Referring to the story, Mr Hands wrote on Twitter: "All MPs should be setting a much better example than this, when it comes to spending public money."
A spokesman for the Speaker said: "One of the Speaker's duties is to represent parliament at home and abroad. The Speaker attends funerals and memorials for former parliamentarians as both a mark of respect and as a representative of his parliamentary colleagues."
He added: "The Speaker is committed to encouraging public engagement with Parliament and regularly visits universities, charities and other organisations around the UK to explain the work of the House of Commons.
"The Speaker is always mindful of costs, and travels standard class in the UK and when away from home, stays in hotels that offer value for money.
"In some instances a car service is required to facilitate timing requirements. In line with the Speaker's commitment to greater transparency details of these costs have been published on a quarterly basis since 2013."
Itemised details of the Speaker's travel and accommodation claims are published every quarter on Parliament's website. Between 2010 and 2013, Mr Bercow's claims totalled £96,000.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which oversees MPs' expenses, said it does not authorise Mr Bercow's claims in respect of his duties as Speaker, only those relating to his constituency business as MP for Buckingham.
The 54-year-old Frenchman left his position after just seven games in charge, having lost five matches since taking over in June.
His assistant Bernard Rodriguez, who joined with Anigo, is to take over, club officials said.
The defeat to Ahly confirmed Esperance's exit from the competition.
Holders Al Ahly guaranteed their semi-final spot after that victory over Esperance in Rades on Saturday.
Ghana-born John Antwi scored the only goal of the Group A fixture to send the Egyptian club temporarily to the top of the group with one game remaining.
Former African champions Esperance exit the second-tier continental club championship after four defeats at the group stage.
Etoile du Sahel also advanced to the semi-finals after a 1-1 draw in Bamako with Stade Malien on Sunday.
Guinean striker Alkhali Bangoura gave visiting Etoile the lead on the hour mark before the hosts grabbed an equaliser six minutes into injury time through Moussa Coulibaly.
Ahly and Etoile both have 10 points going into the final group games when the Egyptians host Stade Malien while the other match is a Tunisian derby.
In Group B, Orlando Pirates of South Africa beat AC Leopards of Congo Brazzaville 2-0 on Saturday to ensure both they and Zamalek of Egypt advance.
Goals from Terrence Makola and Oupa Manyisa gave Pirates the victory, earning them a place at the last four together with five-time African champions, Zamalek.
Egyptian champions Zamalek drew level with Pirates at the top of Group B with a 3-1 win in Tunisia over three-time Confederation Cup winners CS Sfaxien.
Mahmoud Kahraba opened the scoring for Zamalek in the 54th minute before Ali Maaloul scored an equaliser from the penalty spot.
New signing Ahmed Hamoudi then scored twice to seal the win for Zamalek.
Orlando Pirates will travel to face Zamalek in the final group game in September to decide who finishes top of the table.
Under the tournament regulations if two or more sides are level on points at the end of the group stage the head-to-head record is used to decide who progresses.
The translation of works from one of India's most famous poets was by Chinese novelist Feng Tang.
His publisher said on Monday that it was removing the work from sale following the "huge debate" in China's literary and translation circles.
Mr Feng has defended his translation, saying a previous version lacked style.
Tagore, known as the Bard of Bengal and seen as a literary god in India, was the first non-European to win the Nobel prize for literature.
Chinese media picked up on Mr Feng's version of Tagore's Stray Birds poetry collection in recent days, noting that it differed greatly from past Chinese translations.
A review by the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpiece People's Daily savaged the work, saying Mr Feng used "inelegant and vulgar words that makes one look askance".
Much of the criticism appeared to centre on one particular poem, but others in the collection were heavily criticised as too inaccurate, or for using speech that was too informal.
Mr Feng had based his translation on an English version of Tagore's original poems which were written in Bengali.
Tagore's original (English version)
The world puts off its mask of
vastness to its lover.
It becomes small as one song,
as one kiss of the eternal
Feng Tang's translation
The vast world unzips its trousers in front of its lover
Long as a tongue kiss
Slim as a verse
Publisher Zhejiang Arts and Culture Press noted on its microblog that the Stray Birds translation had "elicited a huge debate among our domestic literary and translation scenes".
It said that the books would be pulled off shelves nationwide while a group of experts evaluated the translation.
Mr Feng is known for his racy depictions of Beijing youth in the 1990s in his works, reported AFP news agency.
The author defended his work in an interview with the Dongfang Daily newspaper, saying he did not believe he had mistranslated Tagore.
Responding to criticism that his translation style had "gone below the baseline", he said: "There are different understandings of original works and their authors' intentions. Who gets to decide what should be the baseline?"
He added that a previous Chinese translation of the same work, which many had compared his work to, was basically accurate but "lacked childlike, spiritual, animalistic and natural poetic meaning".
The decision to pull the translation off shelves, however, sparked another backlash, as netizens complained that this amounted to censorship.
"Whatever the reason, a published book should not be pulled off the shelves, this is the responsibility of a publisher and is its most basic undertaking," said Weibo user Tuke2012.
Another user, AhRRRQ, said: "I'm not a fan of Feng Tang and especially don't think much of his translation. But I hope this action was borne out of a decision by the publisher, and not because of some cultural agency or leader's 'administrative intervention'."
This has never been documented before and is probably a new behaviour, say scientists.
Zoologists at the University of Cambridge filmed a group of mallard ducks hunting other birds on a reservoir in Romania.
Two fledglings - a grey wagtail and a black redstart - were chased and swallowed when they landed in the water.
Mallards are one of the most abundant types of wild duck, and a common sight in parks and on lakes.
The duck normally snacks on seeds, acorns, berries, plants and insects.
It has, on occasions, been seen to eat small fish, but bigger vertebrates are normally strictly off the menu.
Dr Silviu Petrovan noticed the unusual behaviour of a group of mallards while he was out bird watching with friends near a national park in southwest Romania.
He saw the adult female duck grab the grey wagtail in her beak, and repeatedly submerge it in the water, before eventually eating it.
A second bird - a fledgling black redstart - then landed in the water, where it was chased by juvenile mallard ducks.
"The poor bird landed on the water and was screaming and trying to navigate itself out of danger," said Dr Petrovan. "Then it was almost instantaneously attacked by the mallards."
The bird eventually disappeared - assumed to be drowned or consumed.
The scientists could find no record of mallard bird predation in the scientific literature, which suggests such behaviour is both "very rare" and newly-learned.
"The mallard was massively struggling to eat that wagtail, presumably because it couldn't actually tear it to pieces because the bill is flattened - it's not designed for ripping prey apart," said Dr Petrovan.
"Digesting bones and feathers - that's not something that mallards have really evolved to do."
Ducks by nature are seldom aggressive and tend not to enjoy novel food.
However, mallards in California have been seen to enter the sea to feed on sand crabs, perhaps to find new sources of high-energy protein.
The same may be happening at the reservoir, which is largely deep-water.
"Potentially there is quite a lot of pressure for those fast-growing juveniles to get animal protein intake, and therefore they are looking at opportunities to supplement that," said Dr Petrovan.
"But, the fact that these individuals seem to have learnt how to hunt birds is pretty extraordinary."
The findings are published in the journal, Waterbirds.
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Protests against the move led to looting in parts of the country, with shops attacked and roads blocked.
Some cash machines on Thursday were still issuing the old 100-bolivar notes, hours before they expired.
President Nicolas Maduro said new higher-denomination bills would be fully distributed in January.
He has closed the borders with Brazil and Colombia until Sunday to stop "mafias" hoarding the currency abroad.
Anger over the move led to skirmishes in six cities on Friday, the Associated Presss reported the authorities as saying, with 32 people being taken into custody and one injured.
The sense of frustration has been compounded because there has been no official explanation as to why bank branches throughout Venezuela do not yet appear to have the larger denomination bank notes intended to replace 100-bolivar notes.
The opposition argues the currency initiative is another sign that President Maduro is ruining the economy and must be ousted.
Venezuelans have been queuing outside banks after they were given 72 hours to exchange the 100-bolivar note for new larger denomination notes and coins.
The 100-bolivar note is worth just two US cents on the black market.
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Some people on Thursday still received the 100-bolivar notes when they withdrew money at ATMs, then immediately had to queue up again to re-deposit the soon-to-expire notes.
"I don't get the joke," office worker Yarelis Carrero, who lives in the capital Caracas, told the AFP news agency. "When you withdraw cash at the ATMs, they give you 100-bolivar bills. And you can't get the new ones inside the bank, either."
Another bank customer said no-one had seen the new bank notes yet. "A guy I know who works for an armoured truck company said even they haven't seen them. Pure lies!" Saul Bernal said.
But President Maduro praised Venezuelans for their understanding in a televised address on Thursday.
"This is a big effort we're doing to tackle so many evils and tricks. We're burning the hands of the mafia," he said, quoted by Reuters news agency.
He said the new bills were already being distributed and would be fully circulated in January. However, the replacement bills have yet to be seen in the streets.
He also extended the border closure with Colombia and Brazil - in place since Tuesday - by another 72 hours.
Central Bank data suggests there are more than six billion 100-bolivar notes in circulation, making up almost half of all currency.
Buying almost anything with cash means a dangerous exercise carting around hundreds or thousands of bank notes in a country where robbery and violent crime is rife, says the BBC's South America correspondent Wyre Davies.
President Maduro has blamed currency speculators and gangsters in neighbouring Colombia for inflation that has reached 500%.
Economic experts, however, say the measure to take the note out of circulation will have little positive effect on the country's chronic economic and political problems.
Mark Karpeles was chief executive of MtGox when it collapsed in 2014, following the loss of 850,000 bitcoins, then worth nearly $0.4bn (£0.3bn).
In its bankruptcy filing, MtGox blamed the loss on hackers.
It later said it had found 200,000 bitcoins in old digital wallets.
The prosecution claims that Mr Karpeles transferred 341 million yen ($3 million) from a MtGox account into an account registered in his own name during the last quarter of 2013.
Mr Karpeles' lawyers deny that this was embezzlement.
"I swear to God that I am innocent," he is reported to have told the court.
Today, one bitcoin is worth £1,800, or $2,300, but the digital currency is notoriously volatile.
To process bitcoin transactions, a procedure called "mining" must take place, which involves a computer solving a difficult mathematical problem with a 64-digit solution.
For each problem solved, one block of bitcoins is processed. In addition, the miner is rewarded with new bitcoins.
This provides an incentive for people to provide computer processing power to solve the problems.
To compensate for the growing power of computer chips, the difficulty of the puzzles is adjusted to ensure a steady stream of new bitcoins are produced each day.
There are currently about 15 million bitcoins in existence.
To receive a bitcoin, a user must have a Bitcoin address - a string of 27-34 letters and numbers - which acts as a kind of virtual post-box to and from which the bitcoins are sent.
Since there is no register of these addresses, people can use them to protect their anonymity when making a transaction.
These addresses are in turn stored in Bitcoin wallets, which are used to manage savings.
They operate like privately run bank accounts - with the proviso that if the data is lost, so are the bitcoins owned.
Each of the dogs had to be put down after being walked in Forthquarter Park in Granton.
Two of the animals suffered internal bleeding.
The City of Edinburgh Council's environmental health team said there were no plans to close the park to the public.
A spokesman for the council said: "We have found no evidence so far to link the deaths of any dogs with Forthquarter Park.
"Preliminary investigations are still continuing, but the park will not be closing."
Concerns about the dogs' deaths were initially raised by the Friends of West Pilton group.
After learning of the deaths of six dogs with links to the park, they alerted the council and local politicians.
The park is owned by the National Grid and sits beside a former gasworks.
Extensive ground decontamination work was carried out before the park opened 10 years ago.
Adam Howells, Dean Thomas and Paul Sulley were among nine men arrested after repeated disruption saw flares thrown during Coventry's 3-0 defeat to Northampton Town on Saturday.
Sky Blues fans are unhappy at the way their club is run by owners Sisu.
Coventry City said the "repeated disruptions" were "unacceptable".
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Northamptonshire Police said six arrests were made when spectators from the away stand invaded the pitch and a further three when smoke bombs were let-off.
All nine individuals were bailed.
Mr Howells, 38, Mr Thomas and Mr Sulley were given interim three-month banning orders, but said the only way to "hit Sisu where it hurts is to keep disrupting games".
A statement on behalf of the three men apologised to families.
It said: "We are not thugs, [nor] did we want to cause distress to any fans, including children."
But it added: "Enough is enough for us all."
They said: "Our decision to interrupt the game was not an easy thing to do, but Sisu is destroying a community - this is more than just a football club."
"No-one is calling for violence, we are the first to disown that idea.
"We thought if we caused a delay it might keep us [Coventry City] in the spotlight.
"Does anybody think we want to never be able to watch our City play again? That we want to risk a life ban?
"We just want to be able to take our children to the football on a Saturday and meet up with our friends we have grown up with and their kids and have day out watching our Coventry City."
The coalition says 800 militants were killed in the first hours of a joint operation across the south of Yemen.
But Mukalla residents said there had been little fighting in the city, with the militants apparently withdrawing.
Al-Qaeda's local offshoot has taken advantage of Yemen's civil war to seize territory, weapons and money.
Over the past 13 months, pro-government and coalition forces have focused on battling Houthi rebels and military units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
More than 6,400 people, half of them civilians, have been killed in the conflict, while almost 2.8 million others have been displaced, according to the UN.
On Monday, the coalition command announced that the Yemeni army and Saudi and UAE special forces had launched an operation against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
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They aimed to clear cities and towns controlled by AQAP, the most of important of which was Mukalla, and bring them under the government's control, it said.
The operation "resulted in its first hours in the killing of more than 800 elements of al-Qaeda and a number of their leaders and that the rest of them fled", SPA added.
Residents and local officials said about 2,000 Yemeni and Emirati troops had advanced into Mukalla on Sunday, swiftly taking control of its seaport, oil terminal and airport, and setting up checkpoints.
AQAP militants initially asked people to support them as they confronted "the invaders", but by nightfall they had quietly withdrawn from the city, the New York Times reported.
A local security official told the Wall Street Journal the militants had decided to pull out of Mukalla and flee westwards towards Shabwa province following mediation by Muslim clerics.
Mukalla, which is home to as many as 500,000 people, was AQAP's stronghold in Yemen and some 1,000 militants were based there.
Earlier this month, the Reuters news agency cited two senior Yemeni security officials as saying that when AQAP captured the city last April it seized $100m (£69m) from the local branch of the central bank.
Over the next year, the jihadist group reportedly extorted a further $1.4m from the national oil company and earned up to $2m a day by imposing customs duties on goods coming into Mukalla's port and smuggling fuel.
A tribal leader and two senior officials told Reuters AQAP had even sought permission from the government to export oil in October and collect a share of the profits. However, the government rejected the deal, they said.
AQAP and the rival jihadist group, Islamic State, are excluded from the ceasefire between the government and Houthi movement that took effect on 10 April and paved the way for UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait.
The US considers AQAP as one of the deadliest offshoots of the jihadist network founded by Osama Bin Laden. The group attempted to bomb a US-bound airliner in 2009 and said it was behind the attack on the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last year that left 12 people dead.
Germany's justice minister has drafted a law that seeks to impose the fines as part of efforts to police toxic chat.
Heiko Maas said the voluntary efforts of social networks to tackle the problem had not gone far enough.
The proposal requires sites to run 24-hour helplines and to delete flagged content within seven days.
Social media firms such as Twitter and Facebook were getting better at handling illegal content, said Mr Maas, but both had a long way to go.
Mr Maas quoted research which suggested Twitter deletes only 1% of the hate speech it is told about by users, and Facebook, 39%.
"This isn't sufficient yet," said Mr Maas.
Racism and hate speech are believed to have become more prevalent on German social media following the arrival of large number of refugees in Germany.
Any content that was "clearly criminal" would have to be removed within 24 hours under conditions outlined in the draft law. If, after an investigation, content is found to be criminal then that must be removed in seven days. The people who posted the illegal content must also be told about its deletion.
The proposed law would require each network to run fully staffed, round-the-clock reporting systems and to name an individual responsible for handling complaints. That person could face an individually levied fine of five million euros if companies break laws governing what can be published.
Mr Maas said the law could apply to fake news articles if they proved to be slanderous, defamatory or libellous.
Facebook did not comment directly on the proposal but said tests it commissioned showed it removed a higher percentage of illegal content than Mr Maas claimed. The social network said it expected to have 700 people employed in Berlin by the end of 2017 overseeing its efforts to review flagged content.
German digital trade association Bitkom criticised the proposed law. It told the Financial Times that the requirement to remove material within 24 hours on sites that handle more than one billion posts per day was "utterly impossible to implement in operational terms".
Mr Irranca-Davies, a former minister, was appointed to the Manor of Northstead, the traditional process by which MPs are able to quit their seats.
A by-election is expected to be held on 5 May, the same day as the assembly election.
Labour's majority in Ogmore was over 13,000 at the 2015 general election.
Mr Irranca-Davies entered Parliament in a by-election in 2002, following the death of Sir Ray Powell, and revealed he intended to stand down in October.
He served as a minister in the Wales Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs between 2007 and 2010 and was also a member of Ed Miliband's shadow team from 2010-15.
The 19-year-old has yet to make a first-team appearance for his parent club but has previously been loaned to Cheltenham, Luton and Gillingham.
Inniss was recommended to Glovers manager Gary Johnson by former Palace counterpart Tony Pulis.
"We have kept an eye on him and it's good timing on our part," Johnson told BBC Somerset.
"He certainly looks the part so hopefully he can strengthen our squad."
Johnson met with Inniss on Wednesday and added: "I didn't really want to walk up the high street with him, as he's 6ft 6in and I'm less than that.
"We certainly looked like the odd couple, like Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film Twins."
Johnson added that he would decide on Friday whether Inniss was ready to feature in Saturday's League One clash with Swindon.
The world, European and Commonwealth champion will now meet Ukraine's Tetyana Kob or Bulgarian Stanimira Petrova on 15 August.
Fifth seed Muhammad Ali progresses unchallenged in the men's fly, as does third seed Joe Joyce at heavyweight.
Team GB, who won five medals at London 2012, have a squad of 12 boxers in Rio, each in a different weight class.
During a confusing draw process, officials made no mention of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ratifying a decision to allow 11 Russian boxers to compete at the Games.
The IOC asked individual federations to decide whether Russians could compete following the country's doping scandal.
No Britons drew a Russian opponent.
Commonwealth middleweight champion Anthony Fowler's draw is arguably the toughest as he faces fifth seed Zhanibek Alimkhanuly of Kazhakstan.
Savannah Marshall, also Commonwealth champion, meets Sweden's Anna Laurell Nash at middleweight and could face Dutch second seed Nouchka Fontijn if she wins.
Ireland's Olympic champion Katie Taylor received a bye at lightweight.
Women's fly: Nicola Adams (1) v Bye
Women's middle: Savannah Marshall v Anne Laurell Nash (Swe)
Men's light-fly: Galal Yafai v Simplice Fotsala (Cmr)
Men's fly: Muhammad Ali (5) v Bye;
Men's Bantam: Qais Ashfaq v Chatchai Butdee (Tha);
Men's lightweight: Joseph Cordina v Coronel Charly Suarez (Phi)
Men's light welterweight: Pat McCormack v Ablaikhan Zhussupov (Kaz)
Men's welterweight: Josh Kelly v Walid Mohamed (Egy)
Men's middleweight: Anthony Fowler v Zhanibek Alimkhanuly (5) (Kaz)
Men's light heavyweight: Joshua Buatsi v Kennedy Katende (Uga)
Men's heavyweight: Lawrence Okolie v Igor Pawel Jakubowski (Pol)
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There are many types of epilepsy and epileptic seizure, including both convulsive (involving shaking/body spasms of some kind) and non-convulsive (where people might show no signs of having had a seizure). We spoke to Sophie Harries, who had her first convulsive seizure at the age of 15.
So, what is epilepsy?
Epilepsy is a neurological condition which leads to the person to have seizures. These occur in the brain and can be focal or generalised.
What kind of epilepsy do you have?
I have generalised idiopathic epilepsy with photosensitivity, which means that the cause is thought to be genetic and I have generalised seizures. I have tonic clonic or grand mal seizures, which is the stereotypical shaking and grunting.
Also, my epilepsy is triggered by flashing lights which is the photosensitivity part. Only 5% of people have photosensitive epilepsy and it is typically triggered by flashing lights such as strobes, camera flashes or bicycle lights - but sunlight flickering through trees is another trigger.
Can you describe what it's like to have a seizure - do you remember it?
I can never remember my seizures, I've lost up to four days before. Afterwards I sleep for a very long time - I also ache, and have a really bad headache that lasts the whole day.
Do you get any warning signs that you're about to have a seizure?
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Most of my seizures have occurred when I'm either asleep or going to sleep - however I have had one whilst awake and I didn't get any warning signs like some people get.
How does someone get epilepsy - were you born with it?
Epilepsy can be inherited (idiopathic) or caused through injury such as stroke or a tumour (symptomatic). Although my epilepsy is thought to be genetic I developed my epilepsy at 15; this may be due to my seizure threshold (the level of stimulation at which your brain will have a seizure) becoming less but no one can say for certain.
Do you remember your first experience of epilepsy?
My first experience of epilepsy was really scary. I was abroad, the doctor spoke broken English and I was being given a drug to help my muscles relax. I had no idea what had happened and when I found out I was even more scared.
Why now? What caused it? What's wrong with me? So many questions which didn't have answers, and not all of them will ever will be answered. Even now when I have a seizure it knocks all my confidence and all the questions get asked again.
What do you have to do to control your epilepsy?
I take medication daily to control my epilepsy and will have to for the rest of my life. I also have to avoid triggers, make sure I get enough sleep and don't get too stressed.
How does it affect your day to day life?
Day to day my epilepsy doesn't have a massive impact but I do have to be mindful of situations - especially if there is anything to do with lights. Bicycle lights that flash when I'm walking home are a particular issue in the winter, and then in the summer I have to cover one eye if the sun is flickering through trees.
Do you feel like people treat you differently because you have epilepsy?
Most people don't treat me too differently if at all, although they are mindful of my triggers and try to avoid them.
However, some people do treat me differently. I've been called "Epi" instead of my actual name (which the person didn't bother to learn!), and I've been told that I am possessed and have the devil in me, when I was on a bus. I have also been told that epilepsy isn't a disability and that I'm making a fuss out of nothing.
Is there anything you can/can't do as a result of your epilepsy?
I can't go to the cinema or nightclubs with my friends where there are strobing lights, and I have to ensure I get enough sleep and don't get too stressed.
Do you feel it's had a positive or negative effect on your life, overall?
Overall I feel that epilepsy has negatively impacted my life, but I have been able to work with Epilepsy Society to raise awareness which I see as really valuable.
What advice would you give a young person who's just been diagnosed with epilepsy?
I would say to get stuck in raising awareness - it will be incredibly valuable and help you come to terms with your diagnosis.
Also be open and talk about it with people. Initially I didn't want to tell people I had epilepsy and it made it difficult to say and explain it - it became my big secret.
Finally, focus on the positives and the milestones. This month I'm a year seizure free :)
The tests threaten to cause new tensions between the two nations following their landmark nuclear deal.
Iran fired "several unguided rockets" about 1,370m (1,500 yards) from two US vessels and a French frigate, US military spokesman Kyle Raines said.
The tests were "highly provocative", said Cmdr Raines.
The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that provides passage for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea. The strait is also crucial for ships taking part in the war against so-called Islamic State.
In 2012 Iran threatened to block the strait, which lies at the entrance of the Gulf and is 33km (21 miles) wide at its narrowest point.
The latest incident, which took place on Saturday according to the US, follows a series of weapons tests by the Islamic Republic. Iranian media and officials did not immediately comment on the reports.
Iranian ships announced over maritime radio their intention to carry out the test 23 minutes before the rockets were fired, Cmdr Raines said.
"Firing weapons so close to passing coalition ships and commercial traffic within an internationally recognised maritime traffic lane is unsafe, unprofessional and inconsistent with international maritime law," he said.
The US Navy's 5th Fleet is based in nearby Bahrain. It conducts anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf and serves as a regional counterbalance to Iran.
Iran signed a long-term deal with six world powers in July to limit its sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of crippling sanctions.
However, this year it has also broadcast footage of a missile attack on a mock-up of an US aircraft carrier and aired film on state TV of an underground missile base.
The Strait of Hormuz was the scene of a battle between the US and Iran in April 1988, when the US attacked two Iranian oil platforms used for surveillance and sank or damaged six of its vessels, including two naval frigates.
Tensions had erupted after the near-sinking of missile frigate USS Samuel B Roberts by an Iranian mine.
In July 1988, the USS Vincennes was patrolling the strait when it shot down an Iran Air flight heading to Dubai, killing 290 people on board. The ship's crew apparently mistook the plane for an Iranian F-14 fighter.
Andrew Coogan was found dead at the scene of the fire in stables at Shorrocks Hill Country Club in Formby.
An investigation began, but police have now confirmed it is not being treated as a suspected crime.
Mr Coogan's family described him as "a devoted uncle" who "helped many people and was a pleasure to be around".
"We will miss him dearly," they added.
Firefighters said Mr Coogan's body was found in a caravan and the dead horses in a stable.
Merseyside Police said a post-mortem had taken place but the cause of death had been withheld until toxicology tests had been completed.
The Kodu Kup challenges children to create their own game using Kodu, Microsoft's visual programming language.
The winning game was a futuristic one in which players compete to defeat an evil robot.
The competition is part of a huge push to get children doing more coding.
Alfie Finch-Critchley, aged 14, and 12-year-old team mates Joseph Banerjee and Jonathan Haley are from Uppingham Community College in the East Midlands.
Their futuristic game, Confined - which was inspired by Valve's title Portal - won the 12-16 age category.
They competed against teams from Portugal, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Greece, Lithuania and Estonia in the final, in which they had to complete a Dragons'-Den style pitch to a jury of MEPs, education and gaming experts.
"Computational thinking helps our young people to understand and play an active role in the world that surrounds them," commented Simon Peyton-Jones, chair of the Computing at School campaign
"The Kodu Kup provides an opportunity for children to creatively engage with computing, whilst also teaching them the coding skills which will help them to secure the jobs of the future."
Speaking about the process, Alfie said: "Apart from the event itself, the best part of participating in the Kodu Kup for me was the teamwork. We worked together and we were able to take our individual talents and combine them to get the best result possible.
"Kids don't always need to be told what to do to understand things, through computational thinking and perseverance you can find out for yourself, and if you can get a grasp of computers and computer science you can understand the world around us."
Judge Kelly Smith, head of television and games at BAFTA, said that the standard of the competition "blew me away".
The winners were chosen for their presentation, the details they had put into their game and the way they had worked as a team.
"They had really thought about the design, usability and where their product would be placed in the market, which is remarkable for a group of 12- to 14-year-olds," she said.
The competition is part of EU Code Week, an initiative aimed at getting more children interested in coding.
Microsoft, together with Facebook, Rovio, SAP and Liberty Global, have formed a coalition to launch a pan-European online platform to drive participation in coding.
In September, coding in English schools was made mandatory for all children aged five to 16.
The BBC is a partner in a UK-based coding initiative dubbed Year of Code, which aims, among other things, to crowdsource funding to help parents, pupils and educational organisations get involved in coding.
The new law states that anyone found with such images can be jailed for up to a year, or fined up to $10,000 (£6,000).
The ban does not apply to animation or to comic art known as manga.
Japan was previously the only country in the 34-strong Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) without such a prohibition.
Opponents of the bill say that freedom of expression needs to be protected in a country that once suffered heavy government censorship.
Analysts say there was strong resistance from manga artists, free-speech advocates and publishers.
They said it would impinge on freedom of expression and allow authorities to make arbitrary decisions about art.
The Japan Magazine Publishers' Association, which represents over 90 publishing companies, posted a statement on its website earlier in June saying the law could "put a strain" on artists and publishing culture.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says Japan is still considered one of the world centres for the exchange and consumption of images of child sexual abuse.
Crimes related to child sexual abuse have reportedly been on the rise in Japan.
Police uncovered 1,644 cases last year, about 10 times higher than a decade ago.
More than half of the cases involved sharing or selling photos or videos over the internet, police said.
The new law will allow those who do possess such material a year to get rid of it.
Japan had earlier banned the production and distribution of child pornography in 1999.
A spokesperson for the PSNI said young people threw stones at the officers while they were responding to the call in Falls Park.
"No officers were injured as a result of the incident and the person in distress was located and tended to until the arrival of paramedics a short time later," they said.
The company, which was owned by Rutland Partners, was sold to food tycoon Ranjit Boparan in September.
Mr Boparan also owns the 2 Sisters Food Group, which produces about a third of all poultry products eaten in the UK.
The Boparan Private Office has declined to comment on the inquiry.
Bernard Matthews was bought by investment company Rutland Partners in 2013.
The take-over by the Boparan Private Office, Mr Boparan's private investment arm, was done under a deal struck prior to administration, but the sale has left former suppliers unlikely to get back what they are owed.
The CMA said it would be looking at whether the deal would lead to a "substantial lessening of competition" in the UK markets.
While this review takes place, the company has been told to stop any further integration but it will still continue to operate.
Sebastian Chrispin from the BBC's business unit said the CMA has a number of methods at its disposal if it finds the merger is anti-competitive.
"[These range from] blocking the merger, unwinding the transaction, ordering the company to sell bits of its business to competitors, or get the company to promise it will behave in a certain way," he said.
"But they are only things it will deploy if, after this quite intensive review, it finds there is a risk to competition by the merger going ahead."
Two top-tier Australian rules football teams have played a match in China for the first time.
About 10,000 fans watched Port Adelaide Power beat Gold Coast Suns 110-38 in the Australian Football League (AFL) game at Shanghai's Jiangwan Stadium.
As part of a final fling before closing its doors for a two-year, multi-million pound redevelopment, the art gallery held two events - Extreme Makeover, for the over 18s and Breaking the Rules, for families.
There were DJs, a ceilidh and a picnic area.
Hundreds turned up, some queuing for hours.
Christine Rew, Aberdeen's art gallery and museums manager, says: "It has been overwhelming.
"We have been absolutely staggered at the number of people who have been queuing, very patiently, to get into the gallery.
"It is really positive. You can just see on people's faces, they are really enjoying themselves. They are enjoying interacting with the gallery in a different way."
By far the most popular feature was the chance to doodle on the wall and unleash the inner artist.
One mum said she hoped her child would be inspired to have a painting on the art gallery wall one day.
But for most it was a chance to make their mark in the art world, if only for a short time.
Christine Rew says drawing and doodling is "a natural thing".
She says: "We all do it but generally in an art gallery you are not allowed to.
"This event is called Breaking the rules, so we are letting people break that rule."
Ms Rew adds: "Downstairs we have got a couple of walls that are not going to be changed with the development. They will be covered over and we are asking people to leave messages for the future.
"Who knows in 50 or 60 years time there might be more building work going on and we hope it will be like some kind of time capsule and people coming after us will find all these messages."
The redevelopment has not been without controversy.
Some have criticised the new design.
Christine Rew says there is an appetite to do art differently.
She says: "There is a perception that art is always high-brow but actually it is for everyone.
"The gallery is for everyone and we really hope that message will come through and people will remember it over the next two years and come back in 2017.
"People want to come and do a whole range of activities at the gallery not just come and see paintings and sculpture and art work.
"In the redevelopment we've got three new spaces that we are creating for events and activities but we also be looking to see how we can continue to programme events like this in the future."
The refurbishment is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
Some of the galleries art will go on show at a new collection centre being currently built.
There are also plans to put pieces out to Drum Castle and other venues throughout the north east.
The nuclear plant at Wylfa on Anglesey was shut down in December.
Over the two years leading up to the closure, the artist group X-10 has been creating responses to it in the form of video, photography, sound, sculpture and installation.
The exhibition, Power in the Land, has opened in Powys and will tour Wales.
Each artist has made an individual response to the physical and energetic presence of the power station, the future legacy for the Anglesey site and to the complex associations of nuclear power.
The artists were interested in looking at the site's physical, political and cultural contexts as well as surveying the actual landscape and its geographical situation.
The exhibition will be at the Oriel Davies gallery in Newtown until 6 April, before moving to Aberystwyth Arts Centre between 14 May and 2 July, and ending at Bay Arts Cardiff in January 2017.
Karen Thompson, 24, was left in tears after being told items like teddy bears broke crematorium regulations and they had to be cleared by 13 April.
Swindon Borough Council has agreed silk flowers and cards can remain at the grave in Kingsdown Cemetery.
Items like stones, teddy bears, solar lights and wind chimes must be removed.
The council said site maintenance, such as grass cutting, was made more complicated if graves had many items placed on them "because they can be accidentally damaged, which in our experience can cause further distress".
During a meeting earlier this week, the crematorium director advised Ms Thompson that items such as silk flowers, plastic daisies and birthday or Christmas cards can be left on the grave for up to two weeks.
She was also told the memorial must be reduced in size to 12 inches squared - the standard allocation for an ashes burial plot.
The council said the appearance of the cemetery "can be an emotive issue" and it was difficult to reach a decision that satisfies everyone.
Ms Thompson lost her daughter suddenly to illness in 2013 and said leaving gifts at the grave "means the whole world" to the family.
"We haven't got Mya here today to buy her gifts for her birthday, Easter eggs for Easter or Christmas presents, so instead we give her a little gift... for her little garden."
The Public Health Wales dental survey showed those from the most-deprived backgrounds have had the biggest reduction over the last decade.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said he was "pleased" by the progress.
But chief dental officer, Dr Colette Bridgeman, said there was still "scope for improvement".
The report, based on a survey of about 8,000 five-year-old children at more than 500 schools in Wales in 2015-2016, is the latest carried out by the Welsh Oral Health Information Unit.
It showed in 2007-08, about 14 out of a class of 30 (47.6%) children had decay, with an average of 4.2 teeth affected.
But by last year, this had fallen to about 10 children out of a class of 30 (34.2%), with an average of 3.6 teeth affected.
Only Cwm Taf University Health Board has not seen a "statistically and clinically significant reduction" in tooth decay among this age group, the report said.
It said dental disease levels in children in Wales continued to improve across all social groups, with the most deprived fifth seeing the largest reduction in decay - 15%.
This improvement is "likely to be due to the impact" of the Welsh Government's Designed to Smile programme, a scheme introduced in 2009, which encourages children to brush their teeth and provides dental care equipment.
The report said that, while there had been "great improvements" over the last nine years, there is plenty of scope for further improvement for the third of children still experiencing decay.
Dr Bridgeman said, typically, half of decay experienced by five-year-olds will have been evident from when they were three, so the government was "re-focussing" Designed to Smile on children aged zero to five.
Vaughan Gething said: "It's clear that our Designed to Smile programme is making a real impact in improving the oral health of children across Wales but we know that we have to continue seeing these improvements."
The Tories said a Labour-SNP deal after the election would be "a fine mess," whilst the Liberal Democrats criticised the SNP's economic policy.
The leader of Labour in Scotland, Jim Murphy, attacked the "cruel cuts" being planned by the Conservatives.
Meanwhile, the SNP are hosting their largest ever conference in the SECC in Glasgow.
An advertising van with a Conservative poster showing Ed Miliband and Alex Salmond as the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy was parked nearby.
It is the latest in a line of Tory campaign material focussing on the idea that were Labour to require support from the SNP as a minority government, this would have negative consequences for the UK as a whole.
The poster read: "Only the Scottish Conservatives will secure a better future for Scotland. Don't let Labour and the SNP wreck it."
The Liberal Democrats have launched an attack on SNP economic policy, saying it will "wreck the recovery".
Scottish Liberal Democrat party president Malcolm Bruce MP said: "It is not liberal or progressive to leave an ever-growing mountain of debt for future generations to pay.
"The Conservatives want to cut too much, putting at risk public services, and the SNP want to borrow even more than Labour, threatening our economic recovery.
"We will not spend today what our children should have tomorrow. Only the Liberal Democrats have a clear and affordable plan to create a stronger economy and fairer society for Scotland."
Meanwhile, Labour said that 340,000 disabled Scots would be at risk from Conservative benefit cuts, after leaked documents appeared to show that taxing Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payments and Attendance Allowance were ideas being considered to reduce the welfare budget by £12bn.
Jim Murphy, leader of Labour in Scotland, said: "These cuts would be cruel blow to those Scots who are already struggling with personal difficulties to make ends meet.
"It is a mark of a civilised society that those who have most help those who have least and are less fortunate. Around 340,000 Scots currently receive Disability Living allowance and if these proposed cuts were introduced, their benefit would be taxed.
"The scale of these cuts show why it is imperative that Labour wins the General Election."
At the SNP conference, which the party said 3000 people attended, leader Nicola Sturgeon promised to reform Westminster for ordinary people, wherever they lived in the UK.
Addressing "people of progressive opinion all across the UK", Ms Sturgeon said: "As long as Scotland remains part of the Westminster system, we will be your allies in seeking to shake up and reform that outdated and discredited system once and for all.
"Westminster needs to change. To be more responsive to the needs and demands of ordinary people, wherever they are in the UK.
"So to people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, I make this promise. The SNP stands ready to work with you in making that positive change for all of us."
He was best known for presenting BBC's Play School for 21 years from 1964, and Play Away from 1971 to 1984.
His agent said he had been living with Parkinson's disease and died at Denville Hall, a retirement home often used by those in the entertainment industry.
A statement from the family said: "He lived courageously with Parkinson's disease for a long time."
Cant was also a guest presenter on Jackanory and appeared on ITV's Dappledown Farm, which ran from 1990 to 2003.
He got his big break when he auditioned for Play School, when part of the audition required him to climb into a cardboard box.
His voice was known to millions in shows such as Trumpton, his most famous line being the fire brigade call-out: "Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub."
For millions his voice immediately evokes childhood.
In the early '60s - an audition in which he was asked to sit in a cardboard box led to a job on a new programme called Play School.
Born in Ipswich, he trained as a printer before having a go at acting.
The warm, friendly voice was perfect for another children's venture - Trumpton, Camberwick Green - and the slightly more industrial Chigley.
If it sounds as though it was recorded in a cupboard, it's because it was.
Along with Play Away, Bric a Brac and other programmes he was part of children's TV for more than 20 years.
He wrote and appeared on stage, but more than anything he was - for many - a much loved part of childhood.
Cant's Play School co-presenter and former Coronation Street star Derek Griffiths paid tribute on Twitter, posting a reunion picture of the team.
Former Blackadder star Sir Tony Robinson also tweeted: "Brian Cant was my mentor and friend on Play Away. We wrote and performed together for two years. Always patient, courteous and funny P-L-A-Y R-I-P."
Cant was honoured with a special Children's Bafta award in 2010.
In a BBC interview, he explained that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1999.
He said the one thing he wanted children to take away from his work was "that I made them laugh, I made them feel happy".
On receiving his Bafta, Cant said: "One of the main rules of those Play School days was that we should play to the camera as though we were talking to one child, in whatever circumstance.
"It could be somebody in a tower block, a nice semi-detached somewhere, or a Royal palace. You had to phrase everything so, whoever was watching it, they felt you were talking to them."
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The Brazil right-back, 34, confirmed his departure via Instagram before the club also confirmed the move.
"Today our professional relationship ends and I will carry with me all of those who with love and a true heart make Juve a great club," he wrote.
City have been linked with a move for Alves with Juve saying they would release him from his contract.
Alves added: "I apologise to the fans of Juventus if they at some point thought I did something to offend them. Never had ever the intention, just I have a way of living things spontaneously that few understand. Even if it seems I'm not perfect, but my heart it is pure. "
"I would like to thank all the Juventus fans for the year I've had, to my team-mates who welcomed me like the professionals they are, for a club that wins and reaches finals."
His final game for Juventus was the 4-1 Champions League final defeat by Real Madrid in Cardiff. Alves made 33 appearances as the club sealed the domestic double for the third successive year.
21 March 2017 Last updated at 14:25 GMT
It's a new craze that is sweeping the internet, where you try to blow one cup into another.
We went to a school to meet some of you guys to find out a bit more about it.
Can you do it?
The S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq also achieved new highs, fuelled by hopes that President Donald Trump's policies will boost the US economy.
The Dow, which has nudged the 20,000 milestone during January, rose 0.8% to 20,068.51.
Investors' cash has poured into shares on hopes of tax cuts and higher growth.
The Dow had risen above 20,000 early into the trading day, prompting Mr Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to tweet that the landmark was down to "The Trump Effect".
"It was definitely a milestone that the market has been focused on for really the better part of two months and you were starting to get a little bit of anxiety as to whether it was going to be surmounted or not," said Julian Emanuel, Equity Strategist at UBS.
The Dow reached its latest 1,000-point milestone two months after closing above 19,000, making it the second quickest 1,000 point rise ever.
The index rose from 10,000 to 11,000 in only 24 trading days between 29 March and 3 May, 1999, while the rise from 18,000 to 19,000 took 483 trading days (nearly two years).
Financial stocks have been a major factor in the gain - with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan accounting for around 20% of the rise.
This is because investors believe that some of Mr Trump's policies will trigger inflation and produce a rise in interest rates.
Also on Wednesday, the broad-based S&P finished up 0.8% at 2,298.37, while the Nasdaq advanced 1% to 5,656.34 - both fresh records.
Finally, the Dow hit 20,000 at the US market open after being tantalisingly close for weeks.
When the moment came, floor traders at the New York Stock Exchange were ready.
Long before the opening bell rang, one trader yelled 'get your hats on, get your hats on'.
He was referring to the baseball caps emblazoned with Dow 20,000 on the front.
It's a tradition dating back to the first time the Dow passed 10,000. To mark the occasion, they made hats. And the habit stuck.
Wall Street veteran Art Cashin, director of floor operations at UBS had his on.
When asked if the Dow at 20,000 matters, he answered that the publicity would make people think about their own investments and that was a good thing.
For many though today's historic milestone is just a round number. Its value is symbolic.
In part that has to do with the index itself.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is made up of only 30 companies compared with 500 in the S&P 500. So it is far from comprehensive.
Then there is the way it is calculated.
The Dow puts too much emphasis on share price, unlike the S&P 500 which reflect its members market capitalization. As a result, a few names have the power to significantly move the index.
Make no mistake though, this will be front page news. And for market professionals, it's a moment to pop the champagne, celebrate and pull out their Dow 20,000 baseball caps because who knows when they'll be able to wear it again.
Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of financial management firm Solaris Group in New York, said: "There is a real belief that [Mr] Trump is real, he has been extremely active these first couple of days of the presidency and a change may happen faster than people had thought."
Neil Wilson, senior market analyst at London brokers Capital, said: "It's psychologically huge and, after a bit of pullback ahead of the inauguration, really confirms that the 'great rotation' from bonds to stocks is definitely upon us.
"Fears about protectionism are running second to optimism about inflation and growth - for now at least.
"The question now is how long can this last?
"Mr Trump's first steps as president have confirmed much of what investors had hoped for and that he's extremely pro-business and light on regulation for energy and financials. That's what's driving this renewed rally.
"The other argument claims that this is a massive bubble and if this is a real rotation from bonds into stocks, ending a 30-year bond bull market, there is still a huge amount of cash piled up that could yet pour into equities and power further gains through 2017.
"It might not be too long before 21,000 is in sight."
Dr David Rosser said she was making good progress, but has a long way to go and is not out of the woods yet.
The 14-year-old schoolgirl was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for her campaign for girls' education.
Pakistan's president described it as an attack on "civilised people".
Speaking in Azerbaijan on Tuesday, President Asif Ali Zardari said: "The Taliban attack on the 14-year-old girl, who from the age of 11 was involved in the struggle for education for girls, is an attack on all girls in Pakistan, an attack on education, and on all civilised people."
Malala was flown to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham on Monday night for treatment.
Security is tight at the hospital, with a police presence in place to deal with any unauthorised visitors.
On Monday night a number of well-wishers turned up hoping to see her but were turned away by West Midlands police.
Dr Rosser described the incident as "irritating", but said the hospital and its partners are "comfortable with security arrangements".
The Taliban have threatened to target Malala again and she was given tight security for her journey to the UK.
Dr Rosser said the team of specialists working with her have been pleased with the teenager's progress.
"There's a long way to go and she is not out of the woods yet... but at this stage we're optimistic that things are going in the right direction," he added.
Once Malala recovers sufficiently, it is thought she will need neurological help as well as treatment to repair or replace damaged bones in her skull.
She was flown to the UK from Pakistan by air ambulance on Monday, almost a week after she and two other schoolgirls were attacked as they returned home from school in Mingora in the Swat Valley.
The gunman who boarded the van in which she was travelling asked for her by name before firing three shots at her.
Malala is widely known as a campaigner for girls' education in Pakistan. In early 2009 she wrote an anonmyous diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban, who had banned all girls in her area from attending school.
It has taken a 112bn yen ($1bn; £780m) charge, citing "an acceleration of market decline".
The rise of online streaming services has hit demand for traditional media such as DVDs and blue-ray discs.
Sony's movie division has also struggled, with recent flops including an all-female Ghostbusters sequel.
Sony had warned earlier this year its movie division could post more losses.
The Japanese firm, which reports its third-quarter results on Thursday, is still assessing whether the impairment charge will affect future earnings.
It plans to offset the loss by selling shares in medical web service M3.
The head of Sony's entertainment business, Michael Lynton, recently announced he would be stepping down in February after more than a decade at the firm.
The gambiense strain of the trypanosoma parasite is resistant to proteins the immune system produces to fight the infection.
Belgian researchers have developed a mutant version of the protein, which early tests show can kill a wide range of trypanosomes including gambiense.
The study was published in the journal Nature.
The gambiense strain causes more than 97% of sleeping sickness cases in western and central Africa. According to the World Health Organization, there were 7,197 cases in 2012.
The immune system produces apoL1 to try to attack the parasite.
In the study, researchers from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles outlined how gambiense evolved a three-part defence mechanism against the protein apoL1.
ApoL1 is normally taken up by the trypanosoma parasites, as it tricks the parasite into believing that it is beneficial.
The protein then embeds itself into the walls of the gut membrane, where it kills the parasite.
The first step in gambiense defence is they "create a protein that stiffens the membranes against the apoL1 protein," said Prof Etienne Pays, lead author of the research. "This acts as a barrier."
The second stage is to make it more difficult for the parasite to absorb the protein.
Finally, if the protein was to get through the other barriers, gambiense is able to digest apoL1 quicker than other forms of the parasite, so that it cannot be absorbed by membranes.
Prof Pays said: "The crucial thing here is that apoL1 is still there. It has not been absorbed. It can still be used to kill the parasite."
This led Prof Pays and his team to develop a mutant strain of apoL1. This not only kills gambiense, but "it kills all African trypanosomes, pathogenic for humans or for cattle".
But Prof Pays said the research was still in the early stages.
"Needless to say, this is a promising discovery," he added.
"However, it remains to be seen if this apoL1 variant could be used to treat sleeping sickness. In the blood, this protein could be either unstable or toxic in itself, so more work is needed to appreciate the potential of this finding."
In 1998, the same group of researchers discovered how rhodesiense, another strain of the parasite trypanosome, resisted our defences.
Rhodesiense uses an anti-protein to disable apoL1 so that we cannot fight against it.
Wendy Gibson, professor of protozoology at the University of Bristol, who has been studying the evolution of trypanosome said: "They've finally solved the mystery of how the gambiense has been fighting our defences. It is a meticulous piece of work."
The musical is based on Mel Brooks' Oscar-nominated film which starred Gene Wilder as Dr Frederick Frankenstein, a descendant of the deranged Victor.
Living in New York, he tries to play down the family name, until he inherits the infamous castle and discovers Victor's book: "How I Did It".
Noble will play Frankenstein's hunchbacked servant, Igor.
Joseph will appear as housekeeper Frau Blucher, whose very name causes horses to rear in fright; while West End star Hadley Fraser will take the main role of Dr Frederick Frankenstein.
Brooks will produce the show, which will open for a pre-West End season in Newcastle on 26 August until 9 September.
It will then open at the Garrick Theatre on 28 September.
The musical previously ran on Broadway between 2007 and 2009.
The cult film on which it's based was co-written by Brooks and Wilder, and earned them an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay.
Beachgoers saw a "massive fire" spread quickly up East Cliff on Bournemouth beach at about 15.30 BST.
Firefighters said a patch of gorse was alight behind some beach huts near Undercliff Drive and Pier Approach and part of the promenade was evacuated.
Dorset Police advised people to avoid the area and said no injuries had been reported.
Bournemouth Council said its seafront rangers guided beachgoers away from danger and ensured the area was clear.
Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood posted on Twitter: "Huge praise for Bournemouth's Emergency Services in responding to major grass fire that spread rapidly on East Cliff cliff top above packed beach."
The 53-year-old, who denies nine sex offences against six complainants, allegedly "forced his tongue" into the mouth of a girl aged 13 or 14.
The allegations, spanning more than two decades, also include a charge that he grabbed hold of a 16-year-old girl at Chessington World of Adventures.
Mr Fox is due in court again on 30 April for a case management hearing.
Details of what the Magic FM presenter, known as Dr Fox, is alleged to have done can be reported after his barrister, Jonathan Caplan QC, asked for the usual reporting restrictions that apply to preliminary court hearings to be lifted.
Mr Caplan said there had been a lot of false reports about what his client had allegedly done.
Mr Fox faces seven charges of indecent assault and two of sexual touching without consent, over a period from 1991 to 2014.
One of the complainants alleges that Mr Fox, from Fulham in south-west London, repeatedly assaulted her at Capital Radio's studios in London's Leicester Square.
Two other women claim to have been sexually touched against their will at Magic FM's premises in Winsley Street in central London, between January 2003 and August 2014.
Prosecutor Darren Watts told the court: "The Crown argue that the complaints show a consistent and determined pattern of sexual predatory behaviour on the part of the defendant which spans some 23 years."
He said Mr Fox assaulted two girls at a motor show in Bromley, south-east London, in summer 1991, at which he was appearing in his capacity as a DJ.
Mr Fox is also alleged to have kissed a girl aged 13 or 14 and forced his tongue into her mouth after she asked for a photograph with him.
The court heard a second teenager was assaulted by Mr Fox in a similar manner at the event, and she claims he also put his hand up her skirt.
A third complainant, who was also under the age of 16, alleges that, while she was at Chessington World of Adventures theme park in April 1996, she asked the DJ for a photo and a kiss.
He allegedly grabbed hold of her, causing her to back away.
The ages of the complainants range from the 13 or 14-year-old to a woman who was 36.
By Lisa Hampele, BBC News correspondent
In an unusual move, Neil Fox's barrister asked for regular reporting restrictions which apply at this stage in court proceedings to be lifted.
Jonathan Caplan QC made the request because he said he wanted to "safeguard a fair trial".
He said there'd been a lot of speculation on social media about what his client had allegedly done, and that created prejudice against him.
The chief magistrate at Westminster Magistrates' Court, Howard Riddle, granted the application.
So, details of the allegations can be given. The alleged victims will remain anonymous.
Four of the alleged indecent assaults are said to have taken place at Capital Radio between January and December 2003.
It is alleged that on one occasion he put his arms around a woman and squeezed her breasts, that he would regularly touch her bottom, and that one incident involved him simulating sex with one of the complainants.
During one of the alleged assaults at Magic FM, Mr Fox is said to have walked up behind a complainant and kissed her shoulder.
"When questioned about his actions, he has said 'Oh, I just had to. You look as if you taste so good'," Mr Watts said.
Mr Fox, who was first arrested in September last year, then again in December and last month, has been granted bail.
He has elected to have his trial at the magistrates' court.
The DJ, who rose to fame presenting the chart show on Capital Radio, was a judge on Pop Idol between 2001 and 2003 alongside Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman, and Nicki Chapman.
Not only is the first royal tour for the newlyweds a photo opportunity to die for - just think of all the different hats and dresses Kate will wear - for Canada, it's a matter of cultural identity.
While Canadians remain deeply divided on the issue of the monarchy, support for Crown rule appears to be gaining ground, thanks to what will be three royal tours in as many calendar years and a staunchly traditionalist Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper.
When Charles and Camilla popped over for a visit in November 2009, loyalist crowds were embarrassingly thin on the ground. An Angus Reid poll conducted at the time found that two-thirds of Canadians wanted to see an elected home-grown head of state.
But just seven months later when the Queen came to stay, royal support had perked up. A record-breaking crowd of over 100,000 turned up to greet Her Maj on Parliament Hill - more than double the regular turnout.
Surveyed at the time, Canadians reported overwhelmingly positive feelings for the Queen and the number who felt the monarchy was outdated then dropped to just under half - not exactly a 21-gun salute, although we gave her one of those as well.
Presumably the Palace learned its lesson: If Britain wants to strengthen Commonwealth bonds, send over your most charismatic royals. And it helps if they are extremely good-looking.
Now that Canada is the first to officially welcome Will and Kate, the nation is poised to return the love.
And what better choice of host could there be? Like the royal couple themselves, Canada is young, clean-cut, polite, uncontroversial and financially secure. A bit dull, perhaps, but we make up for it with upbeat small talk and unfailing good manners. It's an approach to life the Royal Family instinctively understands.
Last spring, Canadians got up in droves in the wee hours to watch the royal wedding - a reception that could only have validated Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own not-so-covert monarchist agenda.
In the past couple of years, his Tory government has re-introduced the crown to Canada Customs agents' badges, emphasised the swearing of allegiance to the Queen in the Oath of Citizenship and reportedly has plans to to tie together the bicentennial of the War of 1812 (in which Canada, as a colony, fought with British troops against the US) with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee next year.
When asked during last spring's election campaign whether he supported UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's wish to abolish male primogeniture in the Royal Family (a move that would have serious constitutional ramifications for Canada), Mr Harper was dismissive.
"The successor to the throne is a man. The next successor to the throne is a man. I don't think Canadians want to open a debate on the monarchy or constitutional matters at this time. That's our position, and I just don't see that as a priority for Canadians right now at all."
Judging by the warm-to-slathering reception William and Kate have received from the Canadian media so far, the PM's instincts are right.
While Canadians might have strong opinions about the monarchy when polled, the Monarchist League of Canada estimates that in fact fewer than 0.6% of the population is actively engaged in the debate over the issue of republicanism.
The prevailing mood in parliament is, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
John Fraser, author of the forthcoming book The Secret Crown: Canada's Fling With Royalty, recently observed: "The idea of a Canadian monarchy, derived from our history and evolved through our federal and provincial offices of governor general and lieutenant governors, rests on a firm foundation of two sturdy and irrefutable facts: It exists and it works."
Maclean's, a popular Canadian news magazine (for which Fraser and I occasionally write), has produced four special commemorative issues and a royal wedding book since the the royal couple announced their engagement late last year - that's over 500 glossy magazine pages devoted to a pair who live an ocean away.
Cathrin Bradbury, editor-in-chief of Maclean's Intelligence Unit, says Canadians can't get enough of the young royals.
"It's a love story - a happy, well-matched, stylish pairing of two great-looking young people with the future gleaming in their eyes," she said in an interview, adding that the fascination is not just about celebrity.
"Canadians, many Canadians, are proud and serious monarchists. It's part of who we are, and how we govern ourselves.
"And it's a very visible way that we are not American, and not being American is central to our identity. There are some who say the monarchy will survive longer in Canada than in Britain, and they might be right. William, King of Canada."
Or perhaps King Harry instead, if you agree with Etienne Boisvert, the Quebec provincial spokesman for the Monarchist League of Canada, who this week told the press he thought William's younger brother ought to take up residence across the pond.
Being third in line to the throne, Prince Harry "has virtually no chance of becoming king and could set himself up here and found a Canadian branch of the Royal Family", Boisvert suggested.
It's an odd notion, especially coming from a Francophone Quebecker. While the monarchist love-in is expected to predominate in the rest of Canada, La Belle Province, as it is known, with its history of separatist tension, is the one place royal visitors can expect to feel some resistance.
A small crowd of 100 protesters disrupted the Prince of Wales' last tour in 2009, and it is expected the Duke and Duchess will be forced to keep calm and carry on through more of the same.
The Quebecois Network of Resistance has announced it will demonstrate at Quebec City Hall against the royal visit's cost to tax-payers (which, according to the Monarchist League of Canada, works out to only a few cents per citizen).
But William and Kate would be wise not to take such insults too personally.
The late separatist politician Rene Levesque once said, "I have great respect for the Queen... but what the hell part should monarchy have in Quebec?"
Until recently one could have said the same for the rest of the country. But once Kate and William have their way with us, I suspect Canada will be singing God Save the Queen.
Leah McLaren is a London-based columnist for The Globe and Mail newspaper.
Police said Rashan Jermaine Charles was followed on foot after officers tried to stop a car in Kingsland Road, Hackney, at 01:45 BST on Saturday.
He then tried to swallow an object but died later in hospital.
Following a vigil outside Stoke Newington police station, some people threw bottles and sticks at police and set fire to rubbish bins in the road.
A mattress was placed across the road and one protester's car was parked across the street, BBC reporter Andy Moore said.
Police were monitoring the situation and would intervene if necessary, The Met said.
A spokesman for the force said no officers had been injured.
Earlier people held Black Lives Matters placards during the vigil organised by Stand Up To Racism.
Campaigners said they were "enormously concerned and angered" about the death of 20-year-old Mr Charles.
Ch Supt Simon Laurence, the borough commander for Hackney, said officers "understand they will be asked to account for their actions and they would not want it any other way".
He said the death "has had an impact on some members of the local community" and police had met with community representatives "so we can hear the community's concerns and how they are feeling."
Scotland Yard said the officer involved "intervened and sought to prevent the man from harming himself".
A force medic provided first aid at the scene before London Ambulance Service paramedics arrived.
Mr Charles was taken to the Royal London Hospital in east London and was confirmed dead at 02:55.
The police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, is investigating.
A spokesman for the heavyweight told the Tass news agency the 36-year-old returned "low concentrations" of the substance in a blood sample in April.
Povetkin's promoters say the WBC will now decide whether the 21 May fight with Wilder in Moscow can go ahead.
The World Anti-Doping Agency said in September it was adding meldonium to its banned list from 1 January 2016.
Andrei Ryabinsky, the head of Mir Boksa promotions, described the situation as "ambiguous".
"He consumed it in September last year. He has not taken it since 1 January," he added.
"We have been in contact with the World Boxing Council, which is to decide if Povetkin's boxing bout against Deontay Wilder will take place or not."
Povetkin's fight against American Wilder, the reigning WBC heavyweight champion, is due to take place at the Megasport complex in the Russian capital.
Povetkin is the latest among several Russian athletes to fall foul of the new meldonium ban.
Tennis player Maria Sharapova was the first high-profile athlete to test positive for the Latvian-made drug - in a test taken at the end of January - but since then leading Russian athletes from boxing, skating, swimming and winter sports have all failed tests for the substance.
Recent Wada figures showed there had been 172 positive tests for meldonium this year - 27 of those involving Russians.
Wada says it is aware of the possibility of the drug remaining in an athlete's system long after taking it, as is claimed by Povetkin's management.
The organisation admitted last month there was "a lack of clear scientific information on excretion times".
It said that athletes might be able to show that they "could not have known or suspected" meldonium would still be in their systems having taken it before it was banned.
In a matter of three years, the Saudi-born dissident had emerged from obscurity to become one of the most hated and feared men in the world.
Osama Bin Laden was born in 1957, apparently the 17th of 52 children of Mohamed Bin Laden, a multimillionaire builder responsible for 80% of Saudi Arabia's roads.
His father's death in a helicopter crash in 1968 brought the young man a fortune running into many millions of dollars, though considerably less than the widely published estimate of $250m.
By Frank GardnerBBC security correspondent
Osama Bin Laden has gone to his grave with some of his life's aims achieved, and some frustrated.
Following the 9/11 attacks he said he did not care if his life ended now because his "work was done", having "awoken Muslims around the world to the injustices imposed upon them by the West and Israel".
But al-Qaeda and its affiliates have failed to remove any Arab "apostate" regimes, nor instigated a transnational conflict between mainstream Muslims and the West. The global jihadist movement has been sidelined by this year's largely secular revolutions in the Middle East.
With Iraq now calmer and with Nato forces helping anti-Gaddafi rebels in Libya, al-Qaeda's world view of perpetual confrontation with all non-Muslims is holding a diminishing appeal.
All the more reason, say experts, to be vigilant for desperate acts of violence by hardcore extremists in the movement's dwindling ranks.
While studying civil engineering at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden came into contact with teachers and students of the more conservative brand of Islam.
Through theological debate and study, he came to embrace fundamentalist Islam as a bulwark against what he saw as the decadence of the West.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 changed Bin Laden's life forever. He took up the anti-communist cause with a will, moving to Afghanistan where, for a decade, he fought an ultimately victorious campaign with the mujahideen.
Intelligence experts believe that the US Central Intelligence Agency played an active role in arming and training the mujahideen, including Bin Laden. The end of the war saw a sea change in his views.
His hatred of Moscow shifted to Washington after 300,000 US troops, women among them, were based in Saudi Arabia, home of two of Islam's holiest places, during the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. Bin Laden vowed to avenge what he saw as blasphemy.
Along with many of his mujahideen comrades, he brought his mix of fighting skills and Islamic zeal to many anti-US factions within the Middle East.
American pressure ended brief sojourns in Saudi Arabia - which removed his citizenship in 1994 - and then Sudan, and Bin Laden moved back to Afghanistan in January 1996.
The country, in a state of anarchy, was home to a diverse range of Islamic groups, including the fundamentalist Taliban militia, which captured the capital, Kabul, nine months later.
Though geographically limited, Bin Laden's wealth, increasing all the time through lucrative worldwide investments, enabled him to finance and control a continuously shifting series of transnational militant alliances through his al-Qaeda network.
Sometimes he worked as a broker, organising logistics and providing financial support. At other times, he would run his own violent campaigns.
In February 1998, he issued a fatwa - or religious edict - on behalf of the World Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, stating that killing Americans and their allies was a Muslim duty.
Six months later, two bombs rocked the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Some 224 people died and nearly 5,000 were wounded. He was indicted as chief suspect, along with 16 of his colleagues.
Almost overnight, Bin Laden became a major thorn in the side of America. A byword for fundamentalist Islamic resistance to Washington, he soon appeared on the FBI's "most wanted" list, with a reward of up to $25m (£15m) on his head.
The US fired 75 sea-launched cruise missiles into six training camps in eastern Afghanistan in a failed attempt to kill him. They missed their target by just one hour.
As well as the African bombings, Bin Laden was implicated in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, a 1995 car bomb in the Saudi capital Riyadh and a truck bomb in a Saudi barracks, which killed 19 US soldiers.
"I always kill Americans because they kill us," he said. "When we attack Americans, we don't harm other people."
In the case of the bombs in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, his words rang hollow. The vast majority of the dead and injured were African, not American.
The arrogance of wealth saw Bin Laden make the government of Kazakhstan a multi-million dollar offer to buy his own tactical nuclear weapon.
It comes as no surprise, then, that both the US and Israel are believed to have sent assassination squads after him.
Then came the events of 11 September 2001. Two hijacked aircraft smashed into, and destroyed, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
Another aircraft ploughed into the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Altogether more than 3,000 people died in the attacks, which led to the US-led operation against the Taliban.
Allied forces moved into Afghanistan late in 2001. At the time, it was believed that Bin Laden might have been killed during the battle for the Tora Bora cave complex.
In reality, he had slipped across the border into Pakistan, a country in which he achieved the sort of cult status usually reserved for pop stars or film actors.
In February 2003, an audio tape, purporting to be of Bin Laden, was delivered to the al-Jazeera television company.
Of the impending US-led invasion of Iraq, the voice said: "This crusaders' war concerns, first and foremost, all Muslims, regardless of whether the Iraqi socialist party or Saddam remain in power.
"All Muslims, especially those in Iraq, should launch a holy war."
The US conceded that the voice was probably Bin Laden's.
The last known sighting of Bin Laden by anyone other than his very close entourage remains in late 2001 as he prepared to flee from his Tora Bora stronghold.
In Pakistan, he was given hospitality and shelter by some local Pashtun tribesmen loyal to the Taliban and opposed to their own government then led by President Pervez Musharraf.
The hunt for Bin Laden took a dramatic turn with the arrest in Pakistan, in 2003, of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The head of al-Qaeda's operations and the suspected mastermind of the Twin Towers attack, it seemed as though the net had begun to close in on Bin Laden himself.
A major offensive to capture Bin Laden was launched by the Pakistani army along the Afghan border in May-July 2004.
But a year later, Mr Musharraf admitted the trail had gone cold.
Though al-Qaeda has been prolific in issuing audio messages, often on the internet and featuring the network's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, videos of Bin Laden himself have been rare.
His appearances have been carefully timed and aimed, analysts say, at influencing Western public opinion by driving a wedge between citizens and their leaders.
One such video was issued in 2004 - the same year as the Madrid bombings - and days before the US election.
A second surfaced as the sixth anniversary of the 11 September attacks approached, timed to quell rumours that he had been dead for some time.
To his supporters, Bin Laden was a fighter for freedom against the US and Israel, not, as he was to many in the West, a terrorist with the blood of thousands of people on his hands.
Robertson took charge of his first competitive game in his second spell as boss of the Highland side as they swept aside Brechin City 3-0 in League Cup Group A.
Falkirk beat Stirling Albion 4-1 in the group's other match.
"It was a situation I never thought I'd find myself in," Robertson told BBC Scotland.
"I hadn't applied for the job. I wasn't 100% sure if I would go back into management, I had a good job at Hearts. I spoke to the club, it was a very positive chat. It was a complete shock.
"In the end I spoke to family members and they said 'would you regret it if you didn't take it?'
"They were spot on - in a year's time I would have regretted it."
Robertson was Inverness CT manager from 2002 to 2004, leading the club to the top flight for the first time in their history.
It is a feat he hopes to repeat after the club's relegation last season, and has been encouraged by the recruitment of eight players over the summer.
"It'll be a positive, attacking team, that's the way I try to play, and try to entertain people," said Robertson.
"I've been encouraged by the talent that's out there. I can assure everyone they're not coming here for the money, they're coming here for the chance to stay full-time and play and get their careers on track.
"We've got a good squad of players together. We want to be in a place to try and qualify from the group stage and then be ready for an absolute blockbuster of an opening league game against Dundee United."
Gary Warren scored a first-half double for Inverness before George Oakley added a third to give them a winning start to their League Cup campaign.
It is Falkirk who occupy top spot in the group, though, after Nathan Austin, Joe McKee and Alex Harris' first half goals were added to by Aaron Muirhead's penalty.
Darren Smith's goal three minutes from time gave the Binos a consolation.
Match ends, Inverness CT 3, Brechin City 0.
Second Half ends, Inverness CT 3, Brechin City 0.
Corner, Brechin City. Conceded by Gary Warren.
Attempt missed. Collin Seedorf (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. John Baird (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jordan Sinclair (Brechin City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Willie Dyer (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Baird (Inverness CT).
Substitution, Brechin City. Elliot Ford replaces Euan Spark.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Matty Elsdon replaces Iain Vigurs.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Euan Spark.
Substitution, Brechin City. Jordan Sinclair replaces Ally Love.
Joe Chalmers (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joe Chalmers (Inverness CT).
Kalvin Orsi (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Kalvin Orsi (Brechin City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Joe Chalmers replaces Jake Mulraney.
Foul by Collin Seedorf (Inverness CT).
Ally Love (Brechin City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Riccardo Calder (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT).
Ally Love (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT).
Ally Love (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. George Oakley (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Inverness CT 3, Brechin City 0. George Oakley (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Iain Vigurs with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Willie Dyer.
George Oakley (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Fusco (Brechin City).
Attempt blocked. Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Paul McLean (Brechin City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul McLean (Brechin City).
Attempt missed. John Baird (Inverness CT) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high following a set piece situation.
Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aron Lynas (Brechin City).
Foul by Collin Seedorf (Inverness CT).
Fallan Kurek, from Tamworth, died on 14 May, six days after going to Robert Peel Community Hospital complaining of chest pains.
A coroner ruled she died from a "massive" pulmonary embolism after side-effects from the pills were not treated properly.
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust claimed it had learned lessons from the case.
In a statement after the inquest, Ms Kurek's aunt Rebecca Loeve said the family was "devastated" by her death.
"We love Fallan so much and we miss her desperately," she said.
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The inquest heard Ms Kurek had been taking the pill to regulate heavy periods.
She had prescriptions from her GP, Christopher Jones, from October 2014, as well as January and March last year.
Mr Jones said she had been assessed as being at "extremely low risk" of deep vein thrombosis.
The inquest heard users of contraceptive pills are issued with a leaflet warning of a raised risk of the condition.
Ms Kurek went to the hospital on 8 May where a nurse assessed her and gave her painkillers for muscular pain. She collapsed at home three days later.
Recording a narrative verdict, South Staffordshire Coroner Andrew Haigh said Ms Kurek had probably suffered "irrevocable" brain damage by the time she arrived at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield.
A spokesman for Burton Hospitals NHS Trust said: "The trust wishes to express its deepest sympathy to the family of Fallan Kurek."
Leigh Griffiths had turned the game on its head, netting two stunning free-kicks on 87 and 90 minutes to give the Scots a 2-1 lead.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had given the visitors a 70th-minute advantage.
England lead Group F with 14 points from six games, Scotland are fourth with eight points.
The result means England are now unbeaten in 35 qualifying fixtures, a run stretching back to 2009.
When Scotland needed someone to believe, to insist that they were not beaten in the game or in this qualifying campaign, Griffiths stepped to the fore.
With two sweeps of his left foot he turned the contest and gave Scotland fresh hopes of qualification. The striker had been an effective presence throughout the game, holding up the ball well, releasing it at the right times and showing clever awareness.
No chances were created for him, but he took the two opportunities that came his way with devastating accuracy from free-kicks 25 yards out. Having the nerve and presence of mind, only moments after scoring his first, to be as accurate and poised again for the second was remarkable.
At that moment, Scotland would have felt elated, but the game still had one cruel twist to deliver.
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The dilemma for Gordon Strachan was where best to place Kieran Tierney. He knew that the Celtic left-back would be a solid and dependable figure at right-back, but that would mean leaving out Ikechi Anya, one of the other players in his squad who is quick across the ground.
When England were likely to be sending out Marcus Rashford, Kyle Walker and Ryan Bertrand, Scotland needed as much pace in their side as Strachan could muster. There was the threat, too, of the combinations between Kane and Dele Alli in attack, so the prospect of a three-man defence, with Tierney on the left, Charlie Mulgrew playing as the spare man at sweeper, and Anya at right wing-back made sense.
It was a bold decision by Strachan, since the left-footed Christophe Berra played on the right of the three and Tierney is a dynamic, attacking full-back. He is also, though, a clever defender with shrewd instincts. For long periods of the game, the back-three looked stable enough to justify Strachan's decision.
Mulgrew tended to offer security between his two centre-back partners, and Kane was seldom a threat, yet he slipped free once, in time added on, to stab home the equaliser and reduce Scotland's haul from this game to one point.
Scotland ought to have been most competitive in midfield. Scott Brown and Stuart Armstrong have been in excellent form all season for Celtic, while James Morrison was a vital figure in the last game, a 1-0 win over Slovenia.
Brown was booked in the third minute, but he remained his usual bullish self. Morrison took a knock early on and never really recovered, needing to be replaced at half-time.
The change improved Scotland since his replacement, James McArthur, was more dynamic and assured on the ball. In the early stages of the second half, Scotland pressed England back and made their defenders look rattled at times.
Replacing the subdued Robert Snodgrass with Ryan Fraser was also the right move by Strachan, while the third substitute, Chris Martin, earned the second free-kick that Griffiths scored.
Strachan made a series of decisions before and during this game, and almost pulled off a famous victory. Yet that will feel like only a small consolation.
Match ends, Scotland 2, England 2.
Second Half ends, Scotland 2, England 2.
Joe Hart (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Scotland).
Goal! Scotland 2, England 2. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a cross following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Eric Dier (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, England. Jermain Defoe replaces Jake Livermore.
Harry Kane (England) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Martin (Scotland).
Ryan Bertrand (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Fraser (Scotland).
Goal! Scotland 2, England 1. Leigh Griffiths (Scotland) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Foul by Jake Livermore (England).
Chris Martin (Scotland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Scotland 1, England 1. Leigh Griffiths (Scotland) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top right corner.
Foul by Gary Cahill (England).
Ryan Fraser (Scotland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, England. Raheem Sterling replaces Dele Alli.
Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Scotland) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.
Attempt saved. Adam Lallana (England) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Substitution, Scotland. Chris Martin replaces Ikechi Anya.
Dele Alli (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christophe Berra (Scotland).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ikechi Anya (Scotland) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong.
Attempt missed. Adam Lallana (England) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with a cross.
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (England) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ryan Bertrand with a cross following a set piece situation.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Kieran Tierney (Scotland) because of an injury.
Dele Alli (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Scott Brown (Scotland).
Attempt missed. Kieran Tierney (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong.
Goal! Scotland 0, England 1. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Foul by Chris Smalling (England).
Leigh Griffiths (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Bertrand with a cross.
Substitution, Scotland. Ryan Fraser replaces Robert Snodgrass.
Substitution, England. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain replaces Marcus Rashford.
Marler, 24, came through the Quins academy and has made 105 appearances for the club since his debut in 2009.
Flanker Robshaw, 28, has captained Harlequins for the past four years.
Quins director of rugby Conor O'Shea said he wanted to relieve some of the pressure on Robshaw in the run-up to next year's Rugby World Cup.
"I have been speaking to Chris about the dual role of captaining both England and Harlequins for some time," O'Shea said.
"He has a massive year ahead of him. It will allow him to focus on being at his best for both club and country.
"We want him to be at his best for Harlequins, win trophies here and also lift the World Cup next year.
"To do so, we believe he needs to be fresh both mentally and physically, hence why we have made this decision now."
Eastbourne-born Marler, who made his England debut in 2012 and has won 22 caps, paid tribute to his predecessor.
"Chris led us through the most successful period we have had as a club," Marler said.
"It will be good to be able to take the pressure off him as he heads into a huge year with England.
"I'm really honoured to be asked to lead a special group like this and a great club."
Patients at the Tawel Fan ward at the Ablett Unit at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Denbighshire were treated "like animals in a zoo", a report in May found.
The latest inspection found Tegid ward provided a "caring approach" but was unable to meet patients' needs.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said progress was being made.
It added: "The report highlights a number of significant issues that we are working to address with urgency.
"Progress is being made, with six of the recommendations completed. We are on schedule to deliver actions with a 31 October target date."
The Ablett Unit has four wards including Tawel Fan, which was closed in December 2013.
The three others, Cynnydd, Dinas and Tegid, were given an unannounced inspection in July by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, which found "significant environmental issues on the unit".
Inspectors found problems with the layout and decoration of Tegid ward, which caters for older people, including cramped eating areas, dirty and worn dining chairs and insufficient space for wheelchair users.
The report noted staffing level problems on Tegid and Dinas wards which had the potential to compromise patient safety.
Inspectors also found male patients could be put in the female area on Tegid ward due to bed shortages.
However they reported positive improvements since a 2014 inspection, including the appointment of an activities co-ordinator which had "really helped by enhancing the social and recreational activities for patients".
The inspectors made more than 20 recommendations, saying: "The significant environmental issues identified on Tegid ward clearly highlighted that the ward was not fit for purpose and was unable to meet the needs of the patient group.
"The health board must review and address the concerns and provide assurance of long and short term provision."
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board was placed in special measures in June after the original report was published.
The Edinburgh-based publisher announced the move in a memo to staff on Friday.
The number of planned redundancies was not specified but the National Union of Journalists said 32 posts in Scotland were at risk.
The move comes as the company, whose titles include The Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, continues to cut costs following a decline in revenue.
The memo, sent by editor-in-chief Jeremy Clifford, said: "We're reviewing the structures within every newsroom, considering if we are best placed to deliver the content to our audiences in the fastest, most efficient way, and if not, identifying how we need to organise ourselves better.
"We need to consider if we have we got the right mix of managers, writers and those who curate and collate content from our communities.
"Other considerations include looking at the print portfolio, and have we got the websites most appropriate for our markets."
He added: "We expect the review of our newsroom structures will lead to a reorganisation for some of our teams as well. In some cases that will mean a reduction in team sizes.
"We have identified a number of areas where job reductions will come from and how that may affect different teams directly.
"Later today a number of announcements will be made about some of those proposals.
"These will set out our intention but it will take some time to work out the detail of those changes and how we want our organisations to operate in future."
Johnston Press, which also publishes the Edinburgh Evening News, later said it would be making no further comment.
NUJ Scotland national organiser Paul Holleran said: "It would be an understatement to say that journalists across Johnston Press are shocked at this latest round of job cuts.
"The NUJ will work with local management to mitigate the redundancies and their impact on the quality of titles but we are seriously concerned at this announcement."
Earlier this week, Newsquest announced plans to cut editorial jobs at the Herald and Times newspaper group.
The group said the move was aimed at ensuring "the long-term sustainability of the business" in the face of "challenging" trading conditions.
The reigning world champion fluffed the 12th red in the opening frame of his 6-1 victory in York.
But the miss was not as costly as it could have been, with the rolling prize money of £5,000 meaning the total top break fund stood at £10,000.
"A 147 is nice but it still only wins one frame. It's good if the money is a substantial amount as well," he said.
Selby, the 2012 UK champion, hit a memorable 147 at the Barbican in 2013.
"That was for about £59,000 and it wasn't at that yet. But it would have been a nice way to start the tournament," Selby added.
"I didn't make up my mind when I played the red I missed. I should have got up off the shot and started again."
But the Leicester potter, 33, said negotiating a tough opening match was all that mattered:
"Andy has been a semi-finalist at the World Championship and the UK and he is a difficult opponent," Selby added.
"I knew it would be tough and I would have to be on my toes so I am happy to get through."
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After all, it provides the right amount of glamour in Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain, the right kind of third seed in Anderlecht - challenging but beatable - no long trips to eastern Europe, no rematches with overly familiar foes, a shot at European football post-Christmas, if they're good enough.
It's been 14 years since Celtic played Bayern in the Champions League, 14 years since they played Anderlecht and 22 years since they played PSG. The last time the French side visited Celtic Park in European competition, Patrice Loko did the damage in a 3-0 win.
Now, they have Neymar, the planet's most expensive footballer, the most curious thing on two legs, the player who everybody will be watching.
For PSG, only the Champions League title itself will be good enough, given the vulgar sums of money they've doled out on the great Brazilian.
The same can be said of Bayern. Of the eight groups, there are probably only two that contain a pair of clubs who would see anything other than ultimate victory as failure - Group D with Juventus and an admittedly ailing Barcelona, and Group B with the twin behemoths, Bayern and PSG.
The Germans last won it in 2013. They went through the Pep Guardiola years without winning it. That was a sore chapter in their great story.
They lost a semi-final, to Real Madrid, in 2014; lost another semi-final, to Barcelona, in 2015; lost yet another semi, against Atletico, in 2016 before losing to Real in the quarter-final last year.
Their hunger is as obvious as their class. Manuel Neuer, Mats Hummels, Javi Martinez, David Alaba, Franck Ribery, Arjen Robben, Arturo Vidal, Thomas Muller, Kingsley Coman. They've also got James Rodriguez on loan from Real Madrid.
PSG might have a goalscoring, goal-creating star in Neymar, but Bayern have a machine all of their own in Robert Lewandowski. The Pole has scored 39 Champions League goals in his past five seasons. In the past two seasons only Ronaldo has scored more goals in this competition.
Last weekend, Bayern began the defence of their Bundesliga title - they've won five in a row - against Bayer Leverkusen. They won 3-1 in front of 75,000 at the Allianz Arena in Munich. It's one of European football's great arenas housing one of the Champions League's greatest threats.
With all the hubbub over the cosmic transfer fee that took Neymar to Paris from Barcelona, it could easily be forgotten that, for all their riches, PSG are not France's champion team. They finished eight points adrift of Monaco last season.
They're also the side that made a dramatic exit from the Champions League in March. With a 4-0 advantage in the first leg of their last-16 tie against Barcelona, they proceeded, infamously, to fold in the second leg to the tune of 6-1.
Neymar's arrival is not merely intended to make the domestic title a formality, it's the most jaw-dropping assault on the Champions League we have ever seen.
PSG are not one a one-man team, though the coverage, inevitably, will be all about one man.
They have stellar names in defence in Neymar's countrymen, Thiago Silva, and the new signing, Dani Alves. In midfield they have Angel di Maria - they paid what now seems like a modest £44m for him - and Julian Draxler, the fine German.
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Up front, along with Neymar, they have Edinson Cavani, third top-scorer in the Champions League season.
It seems that Bayern are interested in signing Draxler, though. This is partly because PSG are not done with adding players to their squad and maybe Draxler is wondering where he's going to fit in when all of this stops.
Stories persist that they might be back in the market for Monaco's precocious youngster, Kylian Mbappe. The fee mentioned is £138m.
Celtic can look at this in amazement - while privately wondering how sweet it would be if they managed to turn over these "Galacticos" in Glasgow.
A tall order, for sure, but it's one that Brendan Rodgers' team will surely relish. It's a shot to nothing against Bayern and PSG.
Nobody will expect them to take any points from those games. Nobody expected them to take any points from Manchester City last season, but they got two draws. And Celtic, if all are fit and well, are probably a better side now than they were then.
European football after Christmas is the objective. Qualification for the Europa League is the most realistic target. That means getting the better of Anderlecht, which will take a lot of doing.
You look at the Champions League group-stage story over the past two seasons and the Belgians have played no part in it. They haven't made the elite since 2014-15. What they've done in the Europa League has been seriously impressive, however.
Last season they came through their group, beat Zenit in the last 32, beat APOEL - now a Champions League team - in the last 16 and only lost their quarter-final against Manchester United 2-1 after extra-time.
The season before they beat Spurs and Monaco in the group stage, beat Olympiacos in the last 32 before getting knocked out by Shakhtar in the last 16.
One of their stars of recent seasons was a Ghanaian striker, Frank Acheampong, who has now left to play in China. That's a plus for Celtic, but Anderlecht have a team that will make these games against Rodgers' side very close calls. They've achieved a lot more - and beaten a better class of opponent - in Europe in recent times than Celtic.
This is a brilliant draw, loaded with glitz and star quality and danger, but optimism, too. And noise. Lots and lots of noise.
The visitors collapsed to 89-7 before George Bailey (145 not out) and Kyle Abbott (56) shared a stand of 152, a List A record for the eighth wicket.
It helped Hampshire to reach 271-8 but the hosts made easy work of the chase.
Sangakkara hit his first hundred of the competition before rain halted Surrey's innings on 238-2 from 38 overs.
With both teams needing to win to keep alive their hopes of progressing to the knockout stages, Hampshire's decision to bat first looked a poor one as the Curran brothers - Sam and Tom - ran through the away side's top order.
Ben Foakes took a brilliant one-handed catch to have Rilee Rossouw caught behind off Tom Curran, before younger brother Sam dismissed Tom Alsop and James Vince (20).
West Indian bowler Ravi Rampaul then took 3-22 in seven overs, but Bailey remained calm and vigilant as his team-mates fell around him.
The 34-year-old former Australia one-day captain's record 152-run eighth-wicket stand was only ended when Rampaul - who finished with figures of 4-61 - bowled South African Abbott for 56.
Although Abbott dismissed Surrey opener Jason Roy for just one, the home side rarely looked troubled in their reply.
Sangakkara's 38th 50-over century of his career came off just 100 balls, with 12 fours and a six as he led his side to a dominant position before the rain began to fall.
Surrey still need to win their final group match, the day-nighter against Gloucestershire at Bristol on Wednesday, when Hampshire and Sussex meet at Southampton, also be vying for a third-place finish.
Surrey opener Mark Stoneman:
"We are very pleased to win, because it keeps us alive in the competition. But we were slightly disappointed to let them get that sort of total in the end.
"We should have kept them to 150-180 but George and Kyle batted very well so full credit to them.
"We got two partnerships going, myself with Sanga and then him and Rory Burns and that's the key to success in any cricket."
Hampshire batsman George Bailey:
"It was slow going for us at the start. The ball nibbled around a bit too. It was a bit of a grind. It's hard to get the balance right between trying to push on when you lose early wickets in a bid to get the 300 you think is par.
"Perhaps we played a few too many poor shots but Surrey also bowled very well early on. Kyle and I just wanted to see how far we could take it and by the end we were really enjoying ourselves and having a lot of fun.
"It was a half decent score but we still knew it was a bit under par. But, if we beat Sussex on Wednesday then we can still qualify, if Surrey lose their game."
The report, covering the last three months of 2013, was published by Ofcom.
The communications watchdog ranks the five biggest internet providers based on the number of complaints it receives about them adjusted according to the number of customers.
It marks the first time EE has not led the name-and-shame list in over a year.
Virgin Media had the lowest level of complaints, followed by Sky for the fourth quarter running. TalkTalk came third.
According to the figures, Ofcom received 32 complaints for every 100,000 BT fixed-broadband customers between October and December last year. They related to service faults and the way BT's staff had initially attempted to handle the reported problems.
The firm was also found to have generated the highest level of complaints about its subscription TV service: 31 per 100,000 customers. The category covers access to the facility and billing, but not the quality of its programmes.
"BT is disappointed with the results in broadband and TV, despite the fact that we've improved from last quarter," responded Libby Barr, managing director of BT customer service.
"BT is the fastest-growing business by far in the UK for both pay TV and broadband, and as we process more transactions we have unfortunately suffered more disruption than companies with static or declining customer bases."
In response to this claim, Virgin Media noted that it had increased both the number of its broadband and pay-TV customers over 2013.
The level of complaints about EE's broadband reported by the regulator was nearly 60% lower than for the same period a year earlier. But the firm said it still had room to improve after Ofcom reported receiving 29 complaints for every 100,000 subscribers over 2013's final quarter.
"We are of course disappointed by these latest results and will take on board the findings of the Ofcom report. We have an ongoing programme to improve service performance," said a spokeswoman.
Andrew Ferguson, editor of the Thinkbroadband news site, told the BBC there was plenty to be positive about.
"The general trend over time is that the average number of complaints is down, so broadband does seem to be a sector that is improving," he said.
"It may be a factor that people have become better at understanding the problems you can have with it and also the various regulations that have come out of Ofcom.
"For example, firms must now let customers walk away if they change prices."
Damian Kazimierczak, of Salt Hill Park, left his victim semi-naked and badly injured, Reading Crown Court was told.
Kazimierczak was caught on CCTV and blood was later found on his shoes. He will be sentenced at a later date.
Dep Supt Kevin Brown said the attack on 28 December left the woman "with severe injuries, as well as mental scars that cannot be healed."
Jones, 39, will lead Gloucestershire out against Surrey in the One-Day Cup final.
"To think this will be my last professional game in England, I must admit, I'm ready for it," Jones told BBC Radio Bristol.
"The fact it is a final at Lord's, is helping with that."
Jones, who was part of England's 2005 Ashes-winning side, says he is determined to end his career with a trophy for Gloucestershire - who he joined this year after more than 10 seasons at Kent.
His last domestic final was the Friends Provident Trophy final in 2008 when Kent were beaten by Essex, and he says the team are desperate to end the campaign with some silverware.
"When I spoke to Richard Dawson mid-season and said my plans and thoughts of retirement I would never have thought there was a chance of doing it this way," he added. "I'm going to make sure I enjoy it on Saturday.
"I'm not going to do any big Churchillian speech, because I don't need to. These lads grew up on a diet of watching Gloucester in One-Day finals at Lord's so they know the importance and meaning."
Jones admitted Saturday will be an emotional day for him and his family.
"I could be a blubbering mess," he said. "My family will be there, my two boys are coming up on the train to London.
"It will be a nice little honour but ultimately the day is not about me, it is about Gloucester, and I want to walk off that field lifting the trophy together."
A statement to the stock exchange on Friday morning said it was facing problems with the conditions attached to a contract in Bangladesh.
It is also facing challenges from the break-down of security in Yemen.
In North America, it has suffered the impact of the slump in the North American shale oil and gas sector.
It is now being hit by a slump in offshore power provision in the Gulf of Mexico.
Aggreko's statement profits this year are likely to be between £250m and £270m - at least 8% lower than previously forecast in a poll of business analysts. In response, the share price fell 12%.
Chris Weston, the chief executive, will issue results for the first half of this year, setting out his plans and priorities.
The under-shoot in financial performance could hit production at the Aggreko plant in Dumbarton, where its generators are assembled.
A statement in May said: "We anticipate fleet capital expenditure to be around £300m for the full year, with £140m now expected in the first half, reflecting planned investment in our gas fleet.
"As we have said in the past, our model allows us to flex this number up and down, and we will continue to do this based on the opportunities that we see in front of us."
The Wales and Swans captain moved to Everton to replace Man City-bound John Stones in a deal Swansea 'reluctantly accepted' for a fee around £12 million.
"We need just one more signing - a central defender," Guidolin explained.
The Italian is yet to decide on Williams' replacement as Swansea captain. "When Leon Britton plays he'll be captain. After that I don't know."
Replacing Williams, who departed after eight years with the Swans, is Guidolin's priority.
"I have something [in mind] and with the chairman we have a short list of players," he told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"When a player decides to move for a new challenge then its best to let him go."
Swansea begin their Premier League campaign with a trip to Burnley on Saturday.
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Pulis has a year left on his deal at The Hawthorns and says he will sit down with chairman Jeremy Peace in the summer to discuss his future.
Albion are 11th in the Premier League, 13 points clear of the relegation zone with seven games remaining, before a trip to Manchester City on Saturday.
"I would prefer to sit with Jeremy and have a nice glass of wine and a bite to eat," said the 58-year-old.
"We'll talk about the season and talk about the future. That's what I have done for years.
"I still have a year left, there's no rush in doing anything else."
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It was named best film while DiCaprio won best actor and Alejandro G Inarritu best director.
The Mexican director described the win as "overwhelming". He said DiCaprio's "talent and commitment" to the "risky project" had "kept the film breathing".
The ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on Sunday was hosted by Stephen Fry.
Reaction to Bafta winners
DiCaprio, who plays fur-trapper Hugh Glass, said he was "humbled and honoured" and praised the influence of British actors on his acting career. He also used his win to wish his mother a happy birthday.
Many of Monday's newspaper front pages carried pictures of DiCaprio, with The Independent noting that his win "puts him in pole position to win his first acting Oscar" at the end of the month.
This years Bafta awards was watched by a live audience of 4.5 million people - slightly down from last year when nearly five million tuned in.
It's also less than the 5.06 million that the 9pm slot on Sunday usually attracts for BBC One.
Apocalyptic action movie Mad Max: Fury Road took four awards: for make-up and hair, editing, costumes and production design.
Brie Larson won the best leading actress award for her role as a kidnapped mother in Room.
Director Lenny Abrahamson, who picked up the award on her behalf, called her "one of the best actors of her generation."
Both supporting acting prizes went to British winners.
Steve Jobs star Kate Winslet was named best supporting actress, beating double nominee Alicia Vikander, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rooney Mara and fellow Brit Julie Walters.
Picking up her statuette, Winslet praised her fellow nominees - saying it had been "an extraordinary year for women".
She also gave thanks to the real Joanna Hoffman, Jobs's loyal colleague, who she said was "so wonderful telling her stories to me".
Writing in the Guardian, Peter Bradshaw says Kate Winslet's award confirmed she is "almost uniquely capable, at this stage of her career, of playing the lead or the character support".
Mark Rylance won best supporting actor for his role as a British-born Soviet agent in Bridge of Spies.
The first award of the night, for outstanding British film, went to period drama Brooklyn, in which Saoirse Ronan plays a young Irish woman who emigrates to New York.
Its director John Crowley said: "One of the things this film is about is kindness of strangers - as this film has made its way out into the world the warmth of response has been overwhelming."
Star Wars actor John Boyega won the Rising Star Award, the only one of the awards to be voted for by the public.
"I haven't been doing this for a long time - it's a fluke," said the London-born actor, who had earlier got the loudest shouts from film fans along the red carpet.
"I'm going to share this with all the young dreamers who are determined and hard-working - this is for you."
Best documentary went to Amy Winehouse film Amy, about the singer who died in 2011.
Director Asif Kapadia said he had wanted to show "how intelligent and how witty she was before it all went out of control".
Producer James Gay-Rees took a swipe at the way she was treated by the media: "Next time someone like that comes along let's try to be a bit more grown-up about it."
But Mitch Winehouse, Amy's father, tweeted: "Please don't congratulate me on the Amy film winning Bafta. This is a one dimensional, miserable and misleading portrayal of Amy. Asif knows."
Emmanuel Lubezki 's win for cinematography for his work on The Revenant was his fourth Bafta.
The Mexican has won for the past three years, having previously picked up statuettes for Birdman and Gravity. He will be hoping to repeat that feat at the Oscars in two weeks' time.
Some critics praised the Baftas for giving The Revenant so many trophies, given its popularity with audiences as well as critics.
The Telegraph noted: "Here's the unexpected lesson of this year's Bafta Film Awards: the industry and the public are more closely in sync than you'd think," wrote Robbie Collin.
Film awards often go to industry favourites rather than crowd-pleasing hits.
But The Revenant has topped the UK box office chart, grossing more than £18m to date.
Financial crash comedy The Big Short won the award for adapted screenplay.
Director and writer Adam McKay thanked studio Paramount "for taking a risk on this movie".
"This movie is not just about banking, it's about income inequality, and making choices for society that are made by all of us and not just by a select few," he said.
The obituary section included tributes to Alan Rickman, Maureen O'Hara, Omar Sharif, David Bowie, Ron Moody, Frank Finlay, Saeed Jaffrey and Sir Christopher Lee.
Sir Sidney Poitier was honoured with the Bafta Fellowship for his outstanding contribution to film. He was unable to attend the ceremony in person due to health reasons.
However, in a video message from his home in Los Angeles, he said: "Thank you for your warm embrace and this extraordinary moment - a memory I shall cherish always."
Angels Costumes, the world's longest-established costume house, now in its 175th year, received the outstanding British contribution to cinema award.
The Baftas have largely avoided the diversity row that has engulfed this year's Oscars.
A small demonstration by members of the Creatives of Colour Network took place near the red carpet.
Australian actress Rebel Wilson made light of the diversity issue on stage when she presented the award for best supporting actor, saying she had been "practising my transgender face" in the hope of winning a future award.
"The Baftas have diverse members, and that's what we all want to see in life isn't it? Diverse members," she said.
Her speech went down well on Twitter, credited with lightening the mood of the ceremony which was otherwise serious in tone.
In contrast, host Stephen Fry upset the social media community with comments about Jenny Beavan, who won the best costume design award for Mad Max: Fury Road.
"Only one of the great cinematic costume designers would come to an awards ceremony dressed as a bag lady," he said.
After ruffling feathers on Twitter with the comment, he later posted a picture of himself with Beavan, taken after the ceremony.
"So just a word to the tragic figures who think calling Jenny Beavan a bag lady was an insult. She's a dear friend and she got it. Derrr." He said, trying to defuse the criticism.
But Fry has since deleted his Twitter account.
The Guardian noted that his comment was one of the few controversial moments in this year's ceremony: "On the plus side, it's the closest thing we had to drama this year," wrote Benjamin Lee.
In a year where there has been no clear front runner during awards season, The Revenant's five wins puts it in pole position for best picture at the Oscars in a fortnight.
The omens are good.
With the exception of last year's Boyhood, for the past seven years the best film winner chosen by Bafta voters has gone on to win an Academy Award.
So why did it win? Maybe it was that The Revenant is unashamedly cinematic. Its chilly widescreen vistas and adrenalin-pumping action sequences demand to be seen on the big screen.
Leonardo DiCaprio finally shook off his bridesmaid status - he's been nominated for lead actor four times - and won his first acting Bafta.
Many think his Oscar is already in the bag.
Only The Revenant and Mad Max - with four awards - were multiple winners on Bafta night.
Bridge of Spies and Carol both led the Bafta field with nine nominations.
In the end, Steven Spielberg's espionage thriller won just one prize - for Mark Rylance's performance - while love story Carol left empty-handed.
A Football Association commission ruled the player should not have been sent off during Saturday's 2-1 victory.
Referee Lee Mason dismissed the forward in added time following an aerial challenge with Erik Pieters.
"The red card is a big mistake of the referee or maybe of the fourth referee or maybe the linesman," said Saints boss Ronald Koeman after the match.
"Sadio is trying to put his head to the ball. Even Pieters told me afterwards there was nothing," he added.
Stoke boss Mark Hughes said he was "as surprised as anybody" at the dismissal.
"I don't think that he has caught him. I think he has challenged for the ball. He hasn't thrown an arm or anything," said Hughes.
Mane will not now have to serve any suspension.
Barcelona FC filmed the delighted nine-year-olds meeting Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez after the team's win over Celtic on Wednesday.
Leo Conway and Calum Adamson, both from Saltcoats, were taken to the airport by their mums.
Wearing team tracksuits, the boys jump up and down with excitement as they secure autographs from the Barca stars.
In an interview with BBC Scotland, new internet stars Calum and Leo said meeting the players was the best experience of their lives.
Calum said: "I think that's the only time I'll ever see Messi, but if I see him again I will be the exact same."
Leo added: "My school friends thought it was amazing, but some of them, I don't know if they actually believe me.
"We were shaking, we were so excited."
The boys have been friends for years, and play together for a local football team.
Next spring, their team - Tass Thistle - is going to participate in a tournament in Barcelona.
The boys hope to visit Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium during their visit.
"If we win the tournament there, that will be even better," said Leo.
Calum added: "Yeah, if we go to the Nou Camp and then we win, it will be amazing, the best."
The video has been viewed more than five million times after Barcelona posted the footage on their Facebook page.
Leo Conway's mum Louise, 37, said she was delighted that the boys had met the players.
"The team were fab with them. The boys were so hyper! Now they can't believe the response the video has had.
"Leo was so excited to take his book of autographs and pictures in to school."
But he told the BBC it would be better that the centuries-old tradition ceased "at the time of a popular Dalai Lama".
The Dalai Lama suggested the UK had taken a soft line with China over Hong Kong's recent student-led pro-democracy protests for financial reasons.
He also said the international community needed to do more to encourage democracy in China.
"China very much wants to join the mainstream world economy," he said.
"They should be welcome, but at the same time the free world has a moral responsibility to bring China into mainstream democracy - for China's own interests."
The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after Chinese troops crushed an attempted uprising in Tibet.
Beijing views the Nobel Peace Prize-winner as a "splittist", though he now advocates a "middle way" with China, seeking autonomy but not independence for Tibet.
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme, during a visit to Rome for the 14th World Summit of Nobel Laureates, the 79-year-old spiritual leader conceded that he may not have a successor.
Whether another Dalai Lama came after him would depend on the circumstances after his death and was "up to the Tibetan people", he said.
He pointed out that the role no longer included political responsibilities; in 2011 the Dalai Lama handed these to an elected leader of the Tibetan government in exile, Lobsang Sangay.
The move was seen by many as a way the Dalai Lama could ensure the Tibetan community would have an elected leader in place outside the control of China.
China has said repeatedly that it will choose the next Dalai Lama.
"The Dalai Lama institution will cease one day. These man-made institutions will cease," the Dalai Lama told the BBC.
"There is no guarantee that some stupid Dalai Lama won't come next, who will disgrace himself or herself. That would be very sad. So, much better that a centuries-old tradition should cease at the time of a quite popular Dalai Lama."
Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest figure is the Panchen Lama - a figure who is meant to play a key role in the choice of the next Dalai Lama.
A young boy was named as Panchen Lama by the Dalai Lama in 1995, but China rejected this and chose its own candidate. The whereabouts of the Dalai Lama's choice are unknown.
A disciplinary hearing found Det Sgt Jan Beasant guilty of misconduct following a review of the investigation into the murder of Blackpool teenager Charlene Downes.
Iyad Albattikhi was cleared in 2008 of killing her after "grave doubts" were raised around the evidence.
Lancashire Police said Ms Beasant had shown conduct that "let everyone down".
Two other officers who retired prior to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation could not be considered for disciplinary sanctions.
Charlene Downes, 14, disappeared in 2003 and has not been seen since. Mr Albattikhi was arrested for her alleged murder in 2007, following covert surveillance.
A jury at Preston Crown Court was discharged in 2007 after failing to reach a verdict and a subsequent retrial collapsed after the Crown Prosecution Service conceded it had "grave doubts" about the reliability of the covert surveillance.
Ms Beasant had the job of transcribing secretly recorded conversations between Mr Ilbattikhi and another man, spending 2,500 hours over two years listening to 52 audio tapes.
The quality of the covert recordings was criticised during the trial by defence barristers as "poor" with confidence "low" in the accuracy of the transcriptions.
A review by the IPCC concluded the investigating team were guilty of a strategic and tactical failure in the management of the material.
Naseem Malik, IPCC Commissioner for the North West, said it was "abundantly clear" that the covert surveillance was "handled poorly and unprofessionally".
The watchdog recommended Ms Beasant face a disciplinary hearing, one officer should receive a written warning and five others should receive words of advice.
At a hearing earlier this week, Lancashire Police found her guilty of two counts of misconduct and forced her to resign.
Supt Simon Giles said the force "expects the highest professional standards from all our staff and the panel has found this individual's conduct has fallen well short of these standards".
"This sort of behaviour and conduct lets everybody down - not just the police service but those the police serve," he said.
"It is appropriate they have faced the consequences of their actions."
Amy Gough, 34, from Derbyshire, died several days after suffering stomach injuries inflicted by Andrew Maling.
The 46-year-old, of Sigglesthorne, near Hull, was convicted of manslaughter at Nottingham Crown Court.
Police said he had inflicted serious injuries to Ms Gough "over a period of several years". She died on 29 March, 2015.
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Det Insp Graham Prince, from Derbyshire Police, said many of Maling's assaults had gone unreported and were unknown to Ms Gough's family.
"By pleading not guilty Maling subjected Amy's family to a full trial, where they had to listen to details of what happened to Amy and how she died," he said.
"Amy was a young woman with her life ahead of her. Sadly, Amy's history is similar to many domestic abuse cases we come across where victims suffer in silence."
Michelle Lewis discovered the move while visiting Addenbrooke's in Cambridge, when she asked for ice for her friend's water on an oncology ward.
The hospital, which has a deficit of about £1.2m per week, said the move would save almost £40,000 per year.
Ice was "still freely available for clinical use only", including mouthcare and ice packs, a spokesman said.
Mrs Lewis requested ice for her friend, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, during a visit on Sunday, as "very cold water makes it easier for her to swallow her tablets", she said.
She said she was "horrified and gobsmacked" when two healthcare workers and a member of catering staff told her ice had been removed from jugs "because of budget cuts".
Ms Lewis said staff also told her she could not bring her own ice "for health and safety reasons".
A hospital spokesman said it was "reviewing who needs ice for clinical treatments".
"Wards need to call patient catering and it is issued on a bag-by-bag basis," he said.
"We are looking at how we save money across the trust. Currently £39,000 [per year] is spent on ice in water jugs."
"We also need to ensure that the water is coming out of the taps at the right temperature and there is a piece of work we will be undertaking into that," the spokesman added.
He was unable to provide details of how this would be carried out.
The 29-year-old has previously played in the Super League with St Helens, winning two Challenge Cups.
He told BBC Radio Leeds: "It's a good opportunity for me to play back in the Super League with a team with a strong squad.
"All I can do is turn up for pre-season and challenge for a place in the starting line-up."
Mr Kerry was speaking after four hours of talks at the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He said they also agreed to press the Syrian government and rebels to speed up talks on a political transition.
A round of indirect peace talks in Geneva between the Syrian government and opposition concluded on Thursday.
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said he had found a lot of common ground between the two sides.
The talks have now gone into a planned recess and Mr de Mistura said they would re-start next month.
Mr Kerry arrived for talks in Moscow 10 days after President Putin announced he was withdrawing the bulk of Russia's military force from Syria.
"We agreed on a target schedule for establishing a framework for a political transition and also a draft constitution, both of which we targeted by August," Mr Kerry said at a joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Mr Kerry would not say if the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had been discussed in his talks with Mr Putin.
But he said they agreed that Mr Assad "should do the right thing" and engage in the peace talks.
The US backs opposition calls for Mr Assad to step down, but Russia, an ally of the Syrian leader, says it is a decision for Syrians alone.
Mr Lavrov said the US and Russia would press the Syrian government and opposition to hold "direct talks" in Geneva that will move toward "a transitional governance structure".
He and Mr Kerry both said they would seek to reinforce the cessation of hostilities that has largely held since it began on 27 February.
So-called Islamic State (IS) and the rival jihadist group al-Nusra Front are excluded from the truce.
Earlier on Thursday, Syrian state TV announced that government forces had entered the ancient town of Palmyra seized by IS militants last year.
Officials launched an offensive to retake the city earlier this month, backed by Russian air strikes.
Reports said a Russian special forces officer had been killed in fighting near the city.
IS seized the ruins of Palmyra and the adjoining modern town in May. It subsequently destroyed two 2,000-year-old temples, an arch and funerary towers, provoking global outrage.
The explosion targeted a checkpoint and left the nearby police HQ in ruins.
The banned Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, said it was behind the attack. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim vowed to give the "vile attackers the answer they deserve".
Cizre has often been under curfew since last July when a two-year ceasefire with the PKK collapsed, heralding a return to deadly violence.
The UN and human rights organisations have demanded an investigation into allegations that more than 100 people were burned to death while sheltering in basements in Cizre during one of those curfews.
The Turkish government has rejected allegations that it targeted civilians.
A string of PKK attacks have targeted Turkish security forces recently.
On Friday, the Kurdish militants denied deliberately targeting Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), near the north-eastern city of Artvin, on Thursday.
Mr Kilicdaroglu escaped unharmed.
Turkish military operations in the south-east and retaliatory attacks by the PKK have left hundreds of people dead.
Turkey's PKK conflict shows no sign of abating, says the BBC's Mark Lowen, and the government has ruled out any negotiations until the group completely disarms.
The latest violence comes as the army reels from a huge purge following a coup attempt in July.
As well as fighting the PKK, Turkey is battling so-called Islamic State, whose militants have carried out a series of bloody attacks over the past year.
The PKK, which is banned in Turkey, launched its insurgency in 1984, alleging widespread abuse and discrimination against Kurds by Turkish authorities.
The first page of my notebook holds a column of place names, some cuneiform letters taken from a tomb in the British Library and a collection of oddly-named English meadow flowers (wet-the-bed, yellow rattle, adder's tongue fern).
Turning the page, I find a list of books with library numbers from the British or London libraries, then caravan names (Sprite, Lunar, the Senator range) then some players of un-credited guitar solos: Eric Clapton on When my Guitar Gently Weeps, Brian May on a Black Sabbath track, a few others. Turning to the back, I write the word Letter.
I am travelling on a German train between Hannover and Osnabruck. Letter is the name of the station through which I have just passed.
The next is Haste. I write that too. What, I wonder, if the name of every station on the line turns out to be cognate with English words? What if the stations form a sentence? A paragraph?
Unfortunately, the next station is Gummer.
A writer's notebook is a junkyard; a junkyard of the mind. In this repository of failed attempts, different inks speak of widely-spaced times and places, the diverse scrawls of varying levels of calligraphic awkwardness, lack of firm writing-surfaces, different modes of transportation.
All the places a good idea might blossom into something bigger and better.
No writer should believe in serendipity. All of us do.
Thomas Hardy kept 'literary notebooks', a 'Poetical Matter' notebook and a 'Studies, Specimens, etc' notebook. But the richest to my mind is one with the bare title, 'Facts'.
Here Hardy and his first wife, Emma, noted down incidents culled from local newspapers. One entry (barely three lines long) is headed Sale of Wife. Out of that fragment came The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Of course, almost everything else in the Facts notebook resulted in nothing at all. A notebook is an act of triage on the world outside. A little 'fact' goes a long way in fiction.
My German train slides past the backs of factories, blocks of flats and houses. Heading out into the countryside, I see two imposing hills.
Halfway up the nearest slope, a large statue stands within a structure that resembles an ancient Greek bandstand.
The statue will be some comically-obscure German official. The Elector-Palatinate of Gummer perhaps.
I note down the nearest station and make a bad ink-sketch of the bandstand. Then I arrive at Osnabruck.
Franz Kafka wrote in quarto-sized notebooks before trading down to octavo near the end of his life. Jean-Jacques Rousseau made notes on playing cards during walks that were later written up as his Reveries of a Solitary Walker.
I make notes on library slips, envelopes, junk mail, whatever's lying about. All these scraps end up shoved into notebooks.
I'm not particular about brands (the moleskin is high-end for me), only size, specifically whether they require a pocket or a bag, and how much I can get on one page.
The research for my book Lempriere's Dictionary was written in spiral-bound shorthand notepads, filled with notes on classical mythology, late eighteenth century newspaper reports, clothes descriptions, weather reports, ship catalogues, details of the siege of La Rochelle and early automata.
Later I switched to larger format books. These were between A4 and A3 size and the obvious drawback was portability but I lugged these volumes back and forth to libraries nevertheless.
At first I simply jotted stuff down as before but gradually I noticed that my note-taking had changed. With this new expanse of space, certain pages would take on their own momentum.
A map of Himmelbett German radar stations began life as research for a scene in which a German World War II night-fighter pilot flies his newly-delivered Messerschmitt Bf-109 E-series (an Emil in the slang of the time) down the coast of Holland, accidentally setting off alerts among the different Himmelbett radar stations which monitored the coast against English bombers.
These stations divided the airspace into sectors of operation (or boxes) which were code-named for different animals and fish. I had in mind a German fighter pilot flying through an airborne zoo.
I collected these box code-names from the memoirs of German night-fighter pilots who would routinely refer to flying and making contact in Lobster or Oyster or Polar Bear.
Then I collated these references on a map to discover which box the particular creature referred to.
I never wrote the scene. But long after I'd abandoned the idea, I was still collecting Himmelbett box code-names and fitting them into my plan.
Similar projects (in the same book) include a table (eventually, several tables) of the sound shifts which mark stages in the development of Middle High German, plans for a radio transmitter using only technology available in the fourth century AD and a catalogue (still being compiled) of books which once existed but now have vanished.
No sensible writer intends projects like these. At the same time, no writer using a notebook can guard fully against them. They just happen.
A notebook accumulates its value slowly, line by line and page by page. Like Hardy's Wife for Sale, who knows what will prove a dead-end and what the inspiration or material for a book?
A detail jotted down in two minutes might occupy you for the next three years. The protagonist of your next book might turn out to be the Elector-Palatinate of Gummer.
A full notebook potentially contains the rest of your writing life. Or nothing of value at all. It is transitional. Work passes through it on the way to becoming something else.
I used the caravan list in a short story about two lovers not quite falling apart during an impromptu visit to Little Rollright (the easternmost stone circle in Britain, also from the notebook). The un-credited guitar soloists went into that story too.
Of the remainder, I don't know. Not the railway station names anyway. And I never found the identity of the statue, the Elector-Palatinate or whoever he was. I got off at Osnabruck. I left the notebook on the train.
Lawrence Norfolk will be talking to writers including AS Byatt, David Mitchell, and Wendy Cope on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking on 21 May at 2200 BST.
The Labour leader said Trident renewal would go ahead because MPs had voted for it and the Labour Party backed it.
But he told the BBC's Andrew Neil that nuclear weapons would be included in a defence review if Labour won power.
He also insisted he has never supported the IRA, after being questioned about past meetings with Sinn Fein leaders.
Asked if he urged the Irish republican paramilitary group to stop their bombing campaign, Mr Corbyn replied: "I never met the IRA.
"I obviously did meet people from Sinn Fein, as indeed I met people from other organisations, and I always made the point that there had to be a dialogue and a peace process."
Asked if he supported the armed struggle for a united Ireland, and whether he was now distancing himself from that position because he wanted to be prime minister, Mr Corbyn said "No. What I want is peace.
"What I want is to learn the lessons from Northern Ireland and also to make sure during the Brexit negotiations we don't return to or receive any kind of hard border between the North and the Republic."
On Trident nuclear weapons, he said: "I voted against the renewal, everybody knows that, because I wanted to go in a different direction. That decision has been taken, I respect that decision."
He added: "It's there in the programme, it's there in the manifesto, it will be carried out... it's the position we are adopting as a party and we will take into government."
But he said that if Labour won power, there would be a defence review which would "look at the role of nuclear weapons".
"I want to achieve a nuclear-free world through multilateral disarmament, through the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," he told Andrew Neil.
Earlier on Friday, the Labour leader said in a speech that he would change UK foreign policy if elected to one that "reduces rather than increases the threat" to the country.
He said "many experts" had linked UK involvement in wars abroad to terrorism at home. He also pledged to reverse police spending cuts - but stressed the blame for attacks lies with the terrorists.
Opponents criticised his speech, which came days after the Manchester Arena attack that killed 22 people.
Speaking at the G7 Summit in Sicily, Theresa May said: "Jeremy Corbyn has said that terror attacks in Britain are our own fault.
"And he's chosen to do that just a few days after one of the worst terrorist atrocities we have experienced in the United Kingdom."
She added: "There can never be an excuse for terrorism. There can never be an excuse for what happened in Manchester."
She said voters faced a choice "between me working strongly to protect the national interest and Jeremy Corbyn who, frankly, isn't up to the job".
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it was "absolutely monstrous" that the Labour leader had attempted to "justify" or legitimise the actions of terrorists.
And Lib Dem Leader Tim Farron accused Mr Corbyn of using the "grotesque" attack in Manchester to "make a political point".
Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, also said he had a "different view" to Mr Corbyn on the issue.
"[There's] a tendency to blame governments for everything, and I don't think we should," he told Talk Radio.
"Actions of governments can contribute, but let's remember 9/11 happened before interventions anywhere."
MPs 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.
Last week, Mr Corbyn stressed that Labour was "committed" to renewing Trident after a dispute between two of his frontbenchers over whether it would be reviewed if Labour won power.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to revoke the man's citizenship amid speculation he was trying to join a Syrian rebel group.
Witnesses reported intensive activity in the border area, including Israeli aircraft dropping illumination flares.
Israel officially maintains a neutral stance on the Syrian conflict.
Its citizens are banned from travelling there, but a small number of Israeli Arab citizens are understood to have gone to fight in Syria nonetheless - though few arrive by air.
It was believed that the man who flew into Syria on Saturday night was from Jaljulia, a mainly Muslim Arab town north-west of Tel Aviv, the military said.
The military said it had been unable to find the man despite intensive searches in the area where he landed near the Golan Heights - an area in south-western Syria annexed by Israel in 1981, in a move not recognised internationally.
Reuters news agency quoted a Syrian rebel whose group operates in the area as saying the paraglider had come down either in Syria's Quneitra province, which includes the Golan Heights, or in the neighbouring Deraa province.
Israel's Ynetnews reported he had been picked up by someone on the Syrian side after landing.
Israel's intelligence services are now said to be continuing the search.
A minister from Prime Minister Netanyahu's rightist Likud party, Ofir Akunis, is quoted as telling reporters that the Israeli Arab had "crossed to the border into Syria... to join ISIS [so-called Islamic State] forces".
"Whoever joins the enemy's ranks to fight Israel will not be an Israeli citizen," Mr Netanyahu said at the start of his regular Sunday cabinet meeting.
There were initial fears that he may have been blown into Syria by accident and could have been taken hostage.
But Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sources later said he had flown against the prevailing winds, suggesting the journey was undertaken deliberately.
"IDF surveillance post identified a paraglider entering Syria," the force said in a tweet. "Initial investigation suggests Israeli-Arab crossed intentionally."
The fire broke out at about 23:00 BST on Sunday at JWS Waste in Frederick Road and was tackled by 40 firefighters from six fire stations.
About 25 firefighters were still at the scene during the morning and fumes from the fire could be smelt more than three miles away.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said the cause was not known.
Firefighters are still damping down pockets of fire at a holding building, 195ft (60m) by 96ft (30m) in the plant, which deals with "general household waste".
The fire crews found a large blaze and lots of smoke when they arrived, said Jon Aspinall, Group Manager for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.
Mr Aspinall said: "I would like to ask local residents to keep their windows and doors closed until further notice.
"In addition to fighting the fire, we are also conducting an environmental plan to make sure that any water used is disposed of safely."
Frederick Road, has reopened, after being closed both ways between Lissadel Street and Seaford Road to allow firefighters to take water from the River Irwell.
Buxton, 28, who joined from Mansfield Town in 2009, had a year to run on his deal but has agreed new terms which include the option of a further season.
Manager Nigel Clough told the club website: "His all-round game has improved since he joined.
"He has an unbelievable desire to get his head on the ball in both penalty areas, he's just our kind of player."
Buxton has scored five goals in 27 games this season despite missing around two months with a knee injury.
There are white and green tents dotted around housing destitute African migrant families who fled the violence meted out to them by their South African hosts.
Two weeks ago locals began attacking and looting properties owned by fellow Africans, calling them "kwerekwere", a derogatory word in South Africa for African migrants.
I did not even have to ask Memory Mahlatini, a Zimbabwean who works as a nanny, what happened to her because her story was written all over her face.
Her eyes alone made me look down in shame as she explained how a group of South Africans came to her rented home last Monday evening just as they were preparing to sleep and demanded that they go back to where they came from.
While taunting Ms Mahlatini and her husband, electrician Innocent Chazi, the crowd were banging doors saying "shaya, shaya", which means "beat, beat" in Zulu.
Ms Mahlatini said that their four children - Melissa 11, Milton, who is eight, and three-year-old twins Modify and Mollify - began to cry.
They left the children with their South African neighbour and they fled.
Ms Mahlatini said: "We are scared and we don't know where to go."
It was getting dark as Ms Mahlatini told me this numbing tale whilst queuing for some soup and bread prepared by sympathetic locals in Chartsworth.
Elsewhere on the football field, some of the displaced are huddled around small fires to keep warm. The marquees where they sleep have been supplied by the local authorities.
The camp houses at least 1,500 people who lost everything when their properties were ransacked; they are left with what they could carry on their backs.
This part of the country is particularly beautiful with green sugar cane-covered hills.
But when so many stories of pain are repeated again and again, somehow it diminishes the beauty of the Zulu kingdom.
It is believed that this latest round of xenophobic attacks comes in the wake of alleged comments by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini telling migrants to go home - although he says he was mistranslated.
He blamed the media for deliberately distorting his speech in order to sell newspapers.
President Jacob Zuma has condemned the violence and has established a team of ministers to put an end to it.
The president, like many anti-apartheid activists, was hosted by other African countries while in exile.
And there is some irony that that solidarity is not working the other way.
Dennis John, a local pastor and camp volunteer, explained why he was helping out: "It is sad because we are Africans.
"We are supposed to take care of each other. It is criminal the way we treat our own."
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The AC Milan striker's goal from the narrowest of angles helped earn the Netherlands a 2-0 victory over USSR in the Munich final and the country's first major title.
However, with the Soviets missing a penalty late in the game, it is often forgotten how close they came to piercing the orange bubble.
Though the final signified a new chapter in Dutch football, the class of 1988 succeeding where the 1970s crop had fallen short of silverware, it also ended a golden period for the Russian game as the fall of communism began to divide its nations.
It is worth remembering that the runners-up - led by legendary coach Valery Lobanovsky - beat the Dutch 1-0 in their opening game of the tournament in the former West Germany.
They then went on to top their group, beating England along the way, and swept aside a strong Italian team 2-0 in the semi-finals, before coming up against the likes of Van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Ronald Koeman in the final.
But the fact it needed Van Basten's special goal to beat the Russian team showed the depth of talent which ran through a side that included eight players from club side Dynamo Kiev.
It was no coincidence, given that Lobanovsky was still in charge at Dynamo, one of the strongest club sides in Europe.
He led them to the Cup Winners' Cup in 1986, having won the same competition nine years earlier.
"It was the best chance for the Soviet Union to win a trophy," former Dynamo and Soviet defender Sergei Baltacha told BBC Sport.
"At that time we were a good team, most of our players were from Kiev and we dominated Europe. We knew we would do well."
Baltacha, who came on as a substitute in the 1988 final, cites a golden generation of Dynamo players that included the now Ukraine boss Oleg Blokhin, Vasily Rats, Alexei Mikhailichenko and Igor Belanov as the reason why the team made such an impact at international level.
But the 54-year-old, father of Britain's number one woman tennis player Elena Baltacha, also believes the strength of the Soviet domestic league played its part in developing such a talented group.
"At that time, the Russian championship was very strong, because it had six different republics," he added. "All 16 sides were very strong.
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"It's why the Russian national team was very good. Every game was like the Champions League. It was why European games were quite easy because every week you were playing at the top level anyway.
"After the Soviet break-up, there are only a few countries left at the top level: Russia and Ukraine. The rest, like Georgia, are not playing in the World Cup a lot. Big damage happened to USSR football after that."
Once the Soviet Union began to splinter, so did the strength of the national team. Many players had already headed west, with Baltacha joining Ipswich after the 1988 European Championship.
By the 1990 World Cup, Lobanovsky was shorn of his most talented Dynamo players and USSR finished bottom of their group. At the 1992 Euros, the country competed as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
In the 1970s he played the kind of pressing game that Barcelona do now
Through no fault of his own, Lobanovsky's powers at international level were fading. A shame for a man who had transferred his culture of excellence to the national team, says Baltacha.
"Lobanovsky was everything for Dynamo Kiev and Russian football," he explained.
"Ukraine cannot reach that level now. At that time a lot of people knew the city of Kiev because of Dynamo and because of Lobanovsky and the players that played for him.
"He was the best coach I've ever seen. He was a coach who brought a scientific background to football in the early 1970s and, when I joined Kiev in 1976, we had a background of doctors and scientists, the kind of thing that not even now many countries have.
"He was very tactical, too. We played the kind of pressing game like Barcelona do now. It was a new era for football. As a person he was very demanding and was an example for us because he was a top professional."
After a stint in the middle east, Lobanovsky returned to Kiev where he oversaw the development of former AC Milan and Chelsea striker Andrei Shevchenko and led Dynamo to the 1999 Champions League semi-finals. In 2001, he then managed the Ukraine team for another year.
Following his death from a stroke in 2002, Dynamo named their stadium after Lobanovsky, but Baltacha says the club does not hold the same standing in Ukrainian football now he has passed away.
"People stopped believing in his philosophy," Baltacha said. "That's a shame. People used to learn how to play football from Lobanovsky."
Few knew that once Van Basten struck, it would have such a significant impact on Russian and Ukrainian football.
It means tonnes of unsold items are being collected daily in UK cities by one - The Real Junk Food Project.
Supermarkets have rejected the claims, saying all stores have targets to reduce waste.
But one food expert said bread is used as a loss-leader in a bid to emphasise the value of higher-priced items.
Corin Bell, director of the Real Junk Food Project (RJFP) in Manchester, told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours that fresh products are used as marketing tools because they are seen as a "mark of quality and freshness".
"It's one of the things that consumers notice," she said. "There's lots of research out there that shows when bakery goods are still hot they move way faster and it's something that entices customers into a store."
However, the waste issue can arise because the items are "quickly perishable", said Ms Bell.
At the charity's outlet in Leeds, for example, warehouse manager Phil Cash said he collects up to two tonnes of bread products a day across the city - the largest volume from M&S and Sainsbury's - but has to spend up to £3,500 a year itself to dump perished items.
"Particularly with things like baguettes, they have a particularly short shelf-life so being able to re-distribute them, we just can't do it fast enough... some things still get wasted," he said.
Mr Cash said one branch of M&S told him it had a food "wastage allowance" of 3% of its £1m weekly takings, although the company said it "did not recognise" the figures.
Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Bad Food Britain, said bread has been used as a loss leader for years.
"They are what's known as "value items"... to put a kind of halo around everything else that's on the shelf. So people will look at it and say, 'Ooh, cheap bread, that must mean it's a cheap chain', and it clearly isn't," she said.
Tristram Stuart, founder of Feedback, a charity that combats global food waste, said the problem is at its biggest in supermarkets' supply chains.
"[They are] overstocking and using food like Christmas decorations as a marketing ploy - and putting in place trading agreements with their suppliers that force them to overproduce in order always to be able to meet the supermarkets' last minute changes in orders," he said.
But M&S said it had a policy to track and measure its waste in all stores.
"None of our stores have a waste allowance. We have an overall target to reduce food waste in our stores by 20% by 2020," a spokesman said.
"Whilst there will always be some unsold food we are committed to ensuring this gets put to the best possible use by continuing to grow our charity partnerships."
Sainsbury's said it works with more than 1,000 charities, including RJFP, to help redistribute its leftover food.
"With regards bread, this isn't a marketing tool but a staple item for the majority of our customers," a spokesman said.
"Our aim is to sell everything we make and we manage volumes in a number of ways to best achieve this."
The fall was said to have been due to recent housing options and homelessness prevention actions offered by councils.
There was also a reduction in the number of households with children in temporary accommodation.
And the number of people made homeless or threatened with homelessness fell by a 10th to 7,649.
The statistics showed that the number of people in temporary accommodation increased slightly over the year to June (0.3%) to 10,494 but was about 6% lower than the peak period in early 2011 when temporary placements were in excess of 12,000.
The 2,821 households with children in temporary accommodation was a decrease of 472 households (14%) from the previous year. These households contained a total of 4,574 children, a decrease of 727 children (14%).
The number of children in bed and breakfast accommodation halved to nine.
However, the statisticians said there had not been a major change in the underlying drivers of homelessness.
Scottish Housing Minister Margaret Burgess welcomed the "continued fall in homelessness across Scotland", which she said built on the Scottish government's "historic achievement" in meeting the homelessness 2012 target.
She added: "Over the past few years councils have been developing services in which staff assist households to consider their range of housing options to address their individual housing needs in order to help prevent homelessness before it occurs.
"Alongside this we want to increase housing supply to ensure settled accommodation can be accessed by households as quickly as possible and avoid them spending too much time in temporary accommodation.
"Increasing the supply of affordable housing is a vital part of our efforts to build a better and fairer Scotland."
The Scottish government aims to deliver 30,000 affordable homes - including 20,000 for social rent - over the life of the current parliament.
It is also to make £900m available for affordable housing over the next three years.
The Scottish Conservatives said the number of people in temporary homeless accommodation had increased from 8,523 to 10,494 since the SNP came to power in 2007.
The party claimed a failure by the Scottish government to build new houses had contributed to the issue.
Scottish Conservative housing spokesman Alex Johnstone said: "There will always be a need for temporary accommodation in Scotland.
"However, the use of B&Bs and hotels should be absolutely discouraged, because this is not suitable accommodation for anyone.
"Some families and individuals can be in these settings for long periods of time, a situation which is anything but temporary."
Scottish Labour welfare spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "Whilst the number of households with children in temporary accommodation is decreasing, the fact that there are a thousand more such households now than a decade ago raises significant questions about how the SNP government is trying to tackle homelessness.
"It can be no surprise that the numbers have remained stubbornly high after the SNP withdrew millions from the house building budget, which has seen a collapse in the number of new homes for rent."
Graeme Brown, director of housing charity Shelter Scotland, said: "It is good news that 11% fewer families and individuals are experiencing the trauma of homelessness.
"However, homelessness in Scotland is still too high and we cannot afford to be complacent or lose sight of the fact that over 7,649 households found themselves homeless in just three months."
He added: "The root cause of homelessness is a housing crisis which has seen the housing safety net stripped apart after decades of under-investment.
"The only way forward is for the Scottish government to build at least 10,000 new social homes a year to bring hope to the 155,100 on local authority housing waiting lists and much-needed jobs to the construction sector."
David Ogilvie, policy manager for the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, said the ongoing reduction was down to the strong emphasis in Scottish government policy placed upon homelessness prevention and tenancy sustainment.
But he added: "We are concerned that, with the rollout of the UK coalition government's welfare reforms, come some serious challenges to homelessness service provision which could undermine some of the excellent homelessness prevention and tenancy sustainment work carried out by social landlords and others here in Scotland."
The individuals had not previously been commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
It said they may have come home and died of injuries or illnesses from the war and it had not been informed.
The CWGC said there were "still many cases to be resolved" and the memorial had room for further names to be added.
The new memorial to the fallen of World War One was unveiled at the cemetery last year.
Most of the names have been inscribed on panels at the CWGC's workshop in France, but more than 15 have been engraved at the site.
The Brookwood 1914-1918 War Memorial commemorates the missing and casualties with no known grave.
The majority are servicemen and women from the land forces of the UK.
Brookwood Military Cemetery contains 1,601 Commonwealth burials from World War One and 3,476 from World War Two.
Called the Geckolepis megalepis, this little gecko can be found on the island of Madagascar.
It has the largest scales of any gecko, and is a member of the fish-scale family.
But, the interesting thing about this gecko, is it can shed its scales very quickly if it feels scared.
This doesn't hurt the gecko, and the scales grow back in a few weeks.
However this made it quite tricky for the scientists to study the gecko, as they used its scales to tell it apart from other geckos.
Some species of gecko also shed their tails if they feel scared, but can re-grow them again.
The Geckolepis megalepis is the first new species of this type of gecko to be discovered in 75 years.
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The home team needed to avoid defeat to reach the final at Anfield next weekend but, after taking an early lead, they were comprehensively outplayed by a team that superbly built pressure and cruelly exposed England's weaknesses.
England led 6-2 at the half-hour mark after a try from Jermaine McGillvary, but Australia dominated territory and eventually scored when a brilliant pass from full-back Darius Boyd saw Blake Ferguson touch down out wide.
The Kangaroos, already assured of a place in the final, opened up a 10-6 advantage at the break and after Sam Burgess failed to collect a pass from Josh Hodgson under the sticks shortly after the restart, they quickly took the game beyond England.
Greg Inglis scored from a scrum, Matt Scott barged over and Josh Dugan finished a clinical break as the Kangaroos moved 28-6 in front.
Gareth Widdop and Ryan Hall scored for England and Matt Gillett and Valentine Holmes did likewise for the Kangaroos in an entertaining last 20 minutes as the green and gold won by 18 points in front of 35,569.
England coach Wayne Bennett has made it clear through this campaign he thinks England have the ability to win at the highest level, but questioned whether they have enough 'smarts'.
Bennett was talking about his team's performance at key moments in matches, and England gave penalties away at poor times here, as well as twice failing to find touch after being awarded a penalty - an almost unforgivable failure at this level.
There were also examples when England could not quite convert promising openings into points - centre Mark Percival failing to hold a difficult pass in the opening half and Burgess likewise early in the second half - both of which were when the result was still in the balance.
And while Australia brilliantly built pressure, it was 51 minutes before England forced a repeat set and their kicking game too often failed to ask questions of the opposition.
Yet there were also times when it seemed what separated the teams was not the little details at key moments but a huge gulf in class, with Australia a well-oiled, methodical machine England could not live with.
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Bennett is a coaching legend, having won the NRL title in Australia seven times with Brisbane Broncos and St George, as well as coaching Australia twice and Queensland in the State of Origin.
But there has been little evidence of his alchemy during a scratchy Four Nations campaign for his team - his first as coach of England.
They failed to build on last year's series win against New Zealand - which came under previous coach Steve McNamara - with a slender one-point defeat against the Kiwis in their opening game and briefly trailed against Scotland before rallying to a 38-12 win.
They were unable to resist Australian pressure on Sunday and will need to show a significant improvement if they are to go deep in next year's World Cup.
Bennett played three different combinations in as many games in the halves - suggesting he has yet to work out his best team - and found himself the unwanted centre of attention after being accused of not doing enough to help develop the game.
It might have been a miserable afternoon for England but it was anything but that for their opponents.
Mal Meninga's Kangaroos remain unbeaten in 2016 and have now won their last 11 matches against England, a sequence that stretches back to 1995.
They went into match assured of a place in next Sunday's final and fielded arguably their strongest side of the Four Nations so far, with man-of-the-match Cooper Cronk and Thurston together in the halves for the first time.
Cameron Smith's team built pressure from the off, completing their sets and playing the majority of the match in England territory.
And although England showed plenty of guts and skill in defence during the opening 40 minutes, the Kangaroos pin-point kicking game eventually told and their opponents cracked.
England: Lomax, McGillvary, Watkins, Percival, Hall, Brown, Widdop, Hill, Hodgson, Graham, Bateman, Whitehead, S. Burgess.
Replacements: T. Burgess, G. Burgess, Cooper, Williams.
Australia: D. Boyd, Holmes, Inglis, Dugan, Ferguson, Thurston, Cronk, Scott, Smith, Woods, Cordner, Gillett, Merrin.
Replacements: Klemmer, Morgan, Frizell, Thaiday.
Referee: Robert Hicks
Known as Djene, the 25-year-old defender joins from Belgium's Sint-Truidense.
This is his second spell in Spanish football after playing for second-tier Alcorcon between 2014-16.
In 2013, Djene played every minute as Togo reached the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in their history.
Since making his Togolese debut in 2012, Djene has earned over 30 caps for the West Africans.
Relegated in 2016, Getafe returned to La Liga at the first opportunity after coming up through the play-offs last season.
It felt like a busy place, somewhere that mattered, where significant things happened.
People were striding hither and thither with a self-important sense of purpose in their pace, and there was something in the air suggesting a self-conscious satisfaction that, once again, the members of the second chamber of the British Parliament had proved a point.
The curious irony, however, underlying this latest constitutional clash between the elected government of the UK and the unelected upper house - "the other place" as they call it in the Commons - is that for once it was a Conservative government that was failing to secure the passage of a piece of controversial policy because of the strength of the combined opposition in the House of Lords.
The irony derives from the fact that throughout the history of the last century conflict has previously always arisen because of an attempt by a Labour government to enact something radical against the wishes of what was, until 1999, the overwhelmingly Conservative majority in the Lords.
For example, in 1968 Harold Wilson's government embarked on one of the many attempts to reform the House of Lords but was scuppered by an alliance of Enoch Powell and Michael Foot (for differing reasons) in the Commons and by the hostility of the Tories in the Lords.
That all changed two years into Tony Blair's government, with the first step towards some sort of serious reform and the introduction of a limit of 92 in the number of hereditary peers.
Now, there are 249 Tory peers ranged against 500 Labour, Liberal Democrat and cross-bench peers - plus an awkward squad of 25 bishops to be taken into account, let alone another 42 non-aligned others.
The Conservatives' dominance in the Lords, which was once taken for granted, is well and truly over.
There were some disputed technical issues to this week's challenge - should the measure have been proposed as a statutory instrument? Was it primarily a financial issue or one of welfare? - which need not detain us here.
The point is that the Lords overturned a decision of the Commons in unprecedented circumstances.
In recent history, the challenges that have occurred since the majority of the hereditary peers were shown the exit door for the grouse moors have led to bills being sent between the two Houses in what is now known as "parliamentary ping-pong". It was previously called "lutte a la corde" (tug-of-war) because much of the formal language of the Lords is in Norman French.
In 2005, for example, the two chambers sat for over 30 hours sending the Prevention of Terrorism Bill between them for two days and a night in the longest continuous sitting for 99 years.
The issue was whether provisions in the bill would lapse after a year, but the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, gave up on the second day and offered an acceptable compromise.
David Miliband, as the Schools Minister, had trouble with an Education Bill in 2002 and Charles Clarke, Home Secretary, with an attempt to introduce identity cards in 2006.
The coalition government had serious problems with the legislation to allow a referendum on changing the voting system in 2011, which was strongly resisted in the Lords.
All led to "ping-pong" and eventually some form of mutual agreement.
There have been murmurs about packing the Lords in the past, but only ever murmurs.
This week, the suggestion David Cameron might create 100 new peers was floated as a threat, but would have caused more of a constitutional outrage than anything that was voted through on Monday.
As Prime Minister, Mr Cameron has already appointed more peers than any of his predecessors since 1958 - when life peerages were introduced - but with 816 members, the Lords is not only the largest unelected second chamber in the world, they don't even have the space to sit down.
Instead, the government is playing for time on the substantive issue, and Lord Strathclyde, the Leader of the Lords at the time of the referendum row - who pleaded then with his fellow peers to "respect the will of the elected chamber" has been charged by Mr Cameron with a rapid review of the constitutional niceties of what happened this week and what should prevail in future.
Scarcely a coincidence; we may presume this is because the prime minister knows, at least, where his lordship is coming from.
"Politics like a tarnished mirror must always retain some reflection of the national destiny," wrote George Dangerfield in his seminal work The Strange Death of Liberal England about the collapse of the Liberal Party at the beginning of the last century.
That was where this chapter began, with the rejection of Lloyd George's "People's Budget" in 1909 and the subsequent Parliament Act of 1911 to limit the authority of the Lords and remove all power over financial issues.
But that act specifically predicated reform of the Lords to a "popular" chamber, and in the intervening century that has still not yet been achieved.
The Blair government put forward seven options in 2003, and Jack Straw had another crack in 2007.
All three major parties were committed to Lords reform in the election of 2010, and the coalition had a go in 2012. None of these ships sailed, no balloons flew.
The tarnished mirror reflects instead just a constitutional mess of pottage.
But as Dangerfield also wrote, in his chapter Their Lordships Die in the Dark: "There is a barbarism in politics, not unhealthy, which decrees the death of any institution which has lost its economic meaning."
That is something that might perhaps focus the minds of those who wonder what the Lords is for.
Source: www.parliament.uk
Darren Williams watched the abuse of children more than 3,500 miles away in America on his computer in Blackwood, Caerphilly county.
Cardiff Crown Court heard the 44-year-old posted during a live steam: "Prove the video is live and smack him."
He admitted encouraging or assisting the rape of a child and encouraging the distribution of indecent images.
The court heard he watched the live streams from Pennsylvania between July and October 2015.
The American man who hosted the chats was arrested in the US and handed a "substantial" prison sentence.
Williams was caught when police tracked the IP address of his computer.
Prosecutor Charlotte Newell said: "Children were being raped and forced to perform sex acts.
"During the abuse the participators contributed to a rolling group chat that was visible to all."
Recorder of Cardiff Eleri Rees QC said: "There was a man raping children with you encouraging him for your sexual gratification.
"You all shared responsibility for the undoubted psychological and physical harm done to the children.
"You had enthusiastic participation in the streaming of videos of young children being raped for the sexual gratification of men like you."
Williams was ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.
Speaking after the sentence, specialist CPS prosecutor Laura Tams said Williams had taken "sadistic pleasure in the pain and horrendous sexual abuse being inflicted on very young children".
Colin Radcliffe, of the National Crime Agency, said: "As it's clear that he believes children can be horrifically abused for his pleasure, his arrest was a vital intervention."
The player was fined for failing to disclose his wife was driving his car when it was caught speeding on the A66 at Appleby.
He claimed he missed notices of prosecution because he was away from his Billingham home for three months.
Carlisle magistrates told the 29-year-old, who is on loan at Marseille, he needed to organise his post better.
The footballer was fined £1,000 and given six penalty points. He was also ordered to pay £620 costs and a £100 surcharge.
The court heard he was sent several letters requesting information on who was driving the car and given notice of an intended prosecution.
He had denied failing to disclose the information but magistrates found him guilty after a two-hour trial concluded he should have had a more effective system for dealing with post in his absence.
Fletcher signed for Sunderland from Wolverhampton Wanderers for £12m in 2012 and went on to score 23 goals in 94 games for the Black Cats.
He joined Marseille on loan in January and has scored two goals in 12 games.
St Johnstone keeper Mannus and MK Dons defender Hodson missed June's draw with Group F leaders Romania in Belfast.
Trevor Carson, Daniel Lafferty and Luke McCullough drop out of the 26-man panel named by boss Michael O'Neill.
Northern Ireland, who lie just a point behind Romania, face the Faroes on 4 September and Hungary three days later.
Kyle Lafferty, Chris Brunt and Jamie Ward are included in the squad despite injury concerns over the trio.
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Lafferty, who has scored five times for O'Neill's side this campaign, has been ruled out of Norwich's opening matches of the season through injury.
However, the striker returned to first-team training with the Canaries earlier this week.
He will be available for selection for the trip to the Faroes and the Windsor Park clash against Hungary, who are third in the group and two points behind Northern Ireland.
West Brom midfielder Brunt limped off after 14 minutes in Tuesday night's Capital One Cup clash against Port Vale with a hamstring problem.
There were concerns a hamstring injury earlier this month would force Nottingham Forest striker Ward out of international duty.
O'Neill said on Wednesday that the fitness of Shane Ferguson and Ben Reeves is also being monitored.
Jonny Evans, out of favour at Manchester United, has also been included.
West Brom and Everton are both said to be interested in signing the defender who has yet to play for Louis van Gaal's side this season.
Northern Ireland squad:
Goalkeepers: Roy Carroll (Notts County), Michael McGovern (Hamilton Academicals), Alan Mannus (St Johnstone)
Defenders: Aaron Hughes (Melbourne City), Chris Baird (Derby County), Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion), Jonny Evans (Manchester United), Craig Cathcart (Watford), Shane Ferguson (Newcastle United), Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town), Paddy McNair (Manchester United), Lee Hodson (MK Dons)
Midfielders: Steve Davis (Southampton), Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion), Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers), Oliver Norwood (Reading), Pat McCourt (Luton Town), Stuart Dallas (Leeds United), Ben Reeves (MK Dons)
Forwards: Kyle Lafferty (Norwich City), Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock), Will Grigg (Wigan Athletic), Niall McGinn (Aberdeen), Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest), Caolan Lavery (Sheffield Wednesday), Liam Boyce (Ross County)
However the news coincided with two surveys showing UK manufacturing struggling to maintain growth.
Productivity is a key indicator for the Bank of England as it considers whether to put up interest rates.
Output per hour rose 0.9% between April and June, the biggest quarter-on-quarter rise in four years.
Output per hour expresses the amount produced by a company after all its costs have been stripped out. The more efficient, or productive, the company, the greater its level of output per hour.
Since 2009 output per hour has expanded at an average quarterly rate of between 0.2% and 0.3%.
The ONS also said unit labour costs - the cost to companies of employing staff - rose 2.2% in the second quarter versus the same time last year - the fastest rate since the fourth quarter of 2012.
But surveys from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and Markit said confidence among UK manufacturers is "low", export growth is falling, and jobs are being lost.
The BCC survey showed growth is in decline in both manufacturing and services.
But manufacturing confidence, sales, prices, and growth forecasts are dropping more sharply.
The Markit survey added that manufacturers are starting to cut jobs.
Its jobs index slipped below the 50 mark for the first time since April 2013 indicating a reduction in staff across manufacturing.
Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit said: "Job cuts send a signal that manufacturers are becoming more cautious about the future, which may lead to a further scaling-back of production at some firms in coming months."
Markit's overall purchasing managers' index for September is still above the critical 50 level. But at 51.5, it has fallen 0.1 from August and is close to the two-year low that it hit in June.
Speaking about his organisation's economic survey for the third quarter, John Longworth, Director General at the BCC said: "The real area of concern is manufacturing."
"Confidence is low, as growth continued to fall, and our measure of manufacturing export growth hit a six year low.
"Services growth, on the other hand, dipped only slightly and overall trends show the sector remains relatively strong and stable."
The BCC blames global uncertainty, weakened demand from China and the strength of the pound for the slow down.
However, it added that the results signal moderate economic growth over the next year, with the UK recovery facing serious global challenges.
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He sustained head injuries but was said to be conscious when ambulance crews arrived at the scene in Pinkhill at 07:45. He was taken to the ERI.
Meanwhile, a tree fell onto the roof of a bus on Corstorphine Road near Ormidale Terrace at 07:35.
There are no reports of injuries. The road was reopened at 09:49.
The tree has now been removed.
The Forth Road Bridge was closed to all traffic at 07:15 due to high winds and reopened at 12:30. The highest recorded gust on the bridge was 91mph.
An inspection was carried out before it was reopened to check for damage as the high winds had put a lot of stress on the structure, officials said.
Oxgangs Primary has also been forced to close after part of the wall was blown off. The school will remain closed on Monday.
Elsewhere in Edinburgh, fallen trees caused road closures on city routes during the morning rush hour.
Among the roads affected were Liberton Brae, Corstorphine Road, Bonaly Road and Hermitage Drive, with congestion reported on some diversion routes.
Edinburgh Zoo said it would not be opening this morning due to the weather conditions.
Camden Council says residents in 161 flats in the Taplow block, one of five towers on the Chalcots estate, will be moved for "urgent fire safety works".
Similar cladding was used on the building to that on the Grenfell Tower.
A total of 79 people are feared dead after the Grenfell fire.
Camden Council had said it will remove external thermal cladding from five tower blocks on the estate.
The council said it would carry out regular fire safety patrols and safety checks to reassure residents.
Council leader Georgia Gould said: "Camden Council is absolutely determined to ensure that our residents are safe and we have promised them that we will work with them, continue to act swiftly and be open and transparent."
She said London Fire Brigade had completed a joint inspection of the blocks with Camden Council technical experts.
"Together we decided the Taplow block needed to be temporarily decanted while we undertake urgent fire safety works so that residents can be fully assured of their safety. This means that we need to move residents from their homes and into temporary accommodation."
Ms Gould said the work is expected to take three to four weeks.
The announcement came as the Metropolitan Police said the Grenfell Tower fire started in a fridge-freezer, and outside cladding and insulation failed safety tests.
Detectives say manslaughter, health and safety, and fire safety charges will be considered as part of their investigation.
A national operation to identify buildings with cladding similar to that used in Grenfell Tower has seen local authorities send samples for independent tests.
The Department for Communities and Local Government said 14 residential high-rise buildings in nine local authority areas have now been found with cladding that raises safety concerns.
The remains of Saima Ahmed, 36, were discovered on Saturday 9 January at Gogar Mount House, on the edge of nearby Gogarburn Golf Club.
Officers say she may have been spotted months earlier on Portobello beach - after travelling to the city in August.
Ms Ahmed's death is still being treated as unexplained.
A man walking his dog spoke with a woman on the city beach, who was walking alone and who closely matched Ms Ahmed's description, at about 10:30 on a Monday in August, possibly 31 August, although an exact date is unknown.
The woman said she had wanted to see the beach and how she had travelled up from London and was going back down later the same day.
The police want to know if she stayed in a guest house there the night before, possibly on Sunday 30 August.
Ms Ahmed's exact movements as she travelled to Scotland remain unconfirmed.
However, detectives now believe she bought a Birmingham to Edinburgh rail ticket at Birmingham New Street Station at about 17:00 on Sunday 30 August 2015.
Officers said there is a strong possibility she then boarded one of two Edinburgh bound services - either the 17:15 Virgin service due to arrive at Edinburgh Waverley at 22:22, or the 13:30 Virgin Cross Country Network (via York), which was due to arrive at 22:21.
Det Ch Insp Martin MacLean, of Police Scotland, appeared on the BBC's Crimewatch Roadshow on Wednesday to appeal for information.
He said: "Saima's death remains unexplained, and, at this time, whilst there is nothing to suggest any criminality, we need to keep an open mind and strive to find the answers to many questions that remain for Saima's family.
"My team's investigations have uncovered new evidence that appears to help narrow down Saima's arrival time into Edinburgh although admittedly we cannot be sure which train she boarded.
"We also cannot discount the possibility that once in Edinburgh she travelled to the beachfront at Portobello and I would be very interested to hear from anyone who might have seen her in that area.
"Given that she is not from the area it is likely that she would have relied on public transport in order to get around the city and as such I would urge regular users of buses or trams, including drivers of course, to think back and get in touch with police if you have any relevant information."
Her brother, Sadat Ahmed, also took part in the three-minute live TV appeal. He said: "Saima was a very loving and caring person and part of a very close family. We are just devastated.
"There was nothing out of the ordinary on the day she left and we have absolutely no idea why she travelled to Edinburgh as we have no family links there."
Ms Ahmed, a 36-year-old divorced librarian, left her home in Wembley on 30 August.
The group's finance and administration centre of excellence officially opened in the city's enterprise zone on Wednesday.
David Sproul said the lower cost of office space gave Cardiff an edge over Birmingham and Manchester.
Half of the promised 700 staff are already in place; the remaining jobs will be created over five years.
It comes as ministers said they had supported 10,000 new finance and professional jobs in Wales since 2011.
As for the future, Mr Sproul added: "There's no reason that we couldn't be twice as big here as we look forward and have 1,500 people here instead of 700."
The company - which has a technology centre of excellence in Belfast - had looked at a number of cities before opting for Cardiff as an "attractive" location.
He said: "We knew we could get a broad range of graduates, it was a great location in terms of office facilities and also in terms of commuter distance back into London - for those who need to see clients there it's only two hours on the train."
Deloitte also looked at the cluster of other finance companies like Admiral and legal firms in the city.
Mr Sproul, Deloitte UK's chief executive and senior partner, said the £3.5m of Welsh government support was linked to jobs and what they would do for the economy.
"We're creating 700 new jobs that wouldn't be here otherwise," he told BBC Wales.
The posts include tax, IT and administrative support for clients and the group's other offices.
Most will be on entry-level starting salaries of around £20,000 but more senior staff were on up to £80,000 a year.
Fewer than 50 people had relocated from Bristol and Reading.
"We're creating career opportunities for all these people. Nationally, we employ 15,000 and recruit 1,500 a year at entry level."
He said the quality, diversity and ambition of graduates in Cardiff was equivalent to Manchester and Birmingham but the rental and infrastructure costs were lower.
Mr Sproul said Cardiff was one of the options for other companies in the sector.
"Once you have people in the city that prove it successful, why would others not want to replicate it and come here? The infrastructure and support structure are already here."
Around 140,000 people work in the finance and professional sector in Wales, an increase of 14,000 since 2011.
First Minister Carwyn Jones, who officially opened the offices, said it was a "vote of confidence" in the city's enterprise zone.
He said he was confident that growth would be felt beyond the zone in years to come.
They were all shot in the head in four different locations southwest of Piketon. There is no information about a possible motive.
Officials say they are tracking down at least one assailant who is considered armed and dangerous.
Meanwhile, a man shot dead five people before killing himself in Georgia.
Officials said the shootings at two separate locations on Friday night stemmed from a domestic dispute.
The suspect was identified as 50-year-old Wayne Anthony Hawes.
Authorities believe the victims are connected to the gunman's wife, who had walked out on him a week before.
In Ohio, investigators interviewed 30 people, but no arrests had been made.
Seven of the victims were adults and an eighth was a 16-year-old boy. Several were apparently asleep in bed when they were killed, officials said.
They were all members of the Rhoden family, said Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader, but they have not been individually identified.
The bodies were found in four separate homes along Union Hill Road in Pike County, in rural Ohio.
Three children, including a four-day-old baby found in bed with her mother, were spared, authorities said.
"There is a strong possibility that any individual involved in this is armed and incredibly dangerous," Mr Reader said.
Authorities have recommended that residents be wary.
Investigators said they were following up on an "overwhelming" amount of tips, and that it was still unclear if the shootings were carried out by only one person or more.
Mr Reader said he would "suspect the family was being targeted". He said he had met about 100 relatives of the victims at a church and they were being offered protection.
The exact timing of the shootings remained unclear. Mr Reader said authorities were first alerted by an emergency call shortly before 08:00 on Friday, mentioning two possibly dead men.
A Cincinnati-area businessman offered $25,000 (£17,000) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in case.
Ohio Governor John Kasich has promised that those responsible will be found.
"We'll find them, we'll catch them and they'll be brought to justice,'' he said, while campaigning in Connecticut for his Republican presidential bid.
Lyudmila Savchuk says she and hundreds of colleagues at Internet Research in St Petersburg flooded websites with pro-Putin commentary.
A Russian court ordered the secretive agency to pay her symbolic damages.
An agency representative said it did market research and he was not aware of "trolling" activities, reports say.
Ms Savchuk, 34, sued the secretive company for alleged moral damages, non-payment of wages and for failing to give workers proper contracts.
She said she worked for the network for two months for a salary of about 40,000 roubles a month, but was fired in March after speaking to the media about her employer.
Petrogradsky district court on Monday set the damages at one rouble following an agreement between the parties.
Ms Savchuk said she was happy with the result because she had succeeded in exposing the work of Russia's internet "trolls".
Russian media quoted a spokesman for Internet Research denying the accusations.
The Kremlin says it has no links to Internet Research's operations.
Since leaving the agency, Ms Savchuk has been organising a public movement against online trolling.
Over the past year, Russia has seen an unprecedented rise in the activity of bloggers allegedly paid by the Russian state to criticise the West on social media over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and post favourable comments about the leadership in Moscow.
Rachel Fee, 31, has been told her lawyers can argue the judge in her trial earlier this year made mistakes when addressing jurors about the law.
Judge Lord Burns jailed Fee for 23-and-a-half years for murdering her two-year-old son at their Fife home at the High Court in Edinburgh in July 2016.
Her civil partner Nyomi, 24, was jailed for 24 years for murdering Liam.
The trial heard that the pair, who are originally from Ryton on Tyneside, spent two years torturing the toddler before finally killing him at their home near Thornton in March 2014.
They left Liam with heart injuries similar to those found on car crash victims.
They also abused another two boys by imprisoning one in a homemade cage and tying another naked to a chair in a dark room that stored snakes and rats.
The two women tried to evade justice for murdering Liam by forcing one of the other children to take the blame for the crime.
They also Googled whether they could serve their prison sentences alongside each other in the same jail.
Police discovered the apparent confession made by the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been made under duress.
They found Nyomi had attempted to frame the child by forcing him to leave his DNA on Liam's body.
After a short hearing at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh on Friday, a panel of judges gave permission for Fee's legal team to appeal against her conviction.
Judges Lady Paton, Lord Bracadale and Lord Turnbull agreed with submissions made by defence counsel Gavin Anderson.
Mr Anderson argued evidence was available to suggest Lord Burns misdirected jurors over the legal requirements needed to secure a murder conviction against Rachel Fee.
The advocate also argued the judge did not properly explain to the jury about the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
Jurors considering their verdict against Fee may have felt that the evidence presented to them meant that it was more appropriate to return a guilty verdict to culpable homicide than murder, he said.
Rachel Fee's appeal hearing will be heard sometime in the near future.
The 78-year-old is understood to have leant into the car outside a house in Cornwall when it lurched forward, trapping her arm.
She was airlifted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth at about 15:50 BST on Saturday.
It was hoped surgeons would be able to reattach the arm, cut off above the elbow.
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "What appears to have happened is that she leant into the car to close the electric windows.
"She turned on the ignition to get the power for the electric windows, but unfortunately the car was in gear and lurched forward - trapping her hand or arm.
"In the process of doing that, it has taken her arm off."
Police said although the pensioner had suffered "life-changing injuries", it was hoped she would make a good recovery.
Nicole Kidman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gemma Arterton and Adrian Lester are also up for awards.
Musical Gypsy leads the pack with eight nominations, and Kinky Boots has seven.
The awards, now in their 40th year, are being given out at London's Royal Opera House in a ceremony hosted by Michael Ball.
Nominations in full
Rylance, recognised for Farinelli and the King at Duke of York's Theatre, learned of his nomination just hours after winning a best supporting actor Oscar for Bridge of Spies in February.
The play, about a castrato opera star and staged at Shakespeare's Globe, was written by Rylance's wife, Claire van Kampen.
Her play received six nominations in total. It goes up against The Father, Hangmen and People, Places and Things for the title of best new play.
Cumberbatch is up for his sold-out performance of Hamlet, while Sir Kenneth Branagh is nominated for A Winter's Tale, which he co-directed. Scottish Kenneth Cranham is nominated for The Father.
Dame Judi Dench's turn in A Winter's Tale sees her nominated in the best supporting actress category.
The nominees for best actress are Arterton, Denise Gough, Janet McTeer, Lia Williams and Kidman, who returned to the West End in Photograph 51.
In the new musical category, Kinky Boots goes up against Bend It Like Beckham, In the Heights and Mrs Henderson Presents.
The musical revival shortlist includes Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Bugsy Malone and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
Theatre fans have had the opportunity to vote for their favourite production for the Magic Radio Audience Award, the only award chosen by the public.
The contenders are Jersey Boys, Les Miserables, Matilda and The Phantom of the Opera.
Melissa Swift, 25, spiked water jugs and drinks bottles at Goldfield Court care home, West Bromwich, in July 2014.
Seven members of staff and 23 residents were taken ill.
Care worker Swift admitted three counts of attempted murder. She was ordered to serve at least eight years before she is eligible for parole.
She will be treated in a secure mental institution until she is well enough to be taken to prison.
The ex-special constable, formerly of Hambletts Road, West Bromwich, also admitted threatening to kill another colleague as well as her stepsister.
Birmingham Crown Court heard Swift, who has depression and an undiagnosed personality disorder, represents a significant risk of causing serious harm to the public.
Commenting on the case, Det Ch Insp Michaela Kerr, from West Midlands Police's Public Protection Unit, said: "Melissa deceived her colleagues and hatched a plan to cause ill to those she worked with as a result of some malice, for which we have never truly discovered the cause.
"Thankfully no one was seriously injured as a result of what she did, but the story could so easily have been different."
In a statement, Housing & Care 21, which runs the home, said it welcomed the conclusion of this case.
A spokesperson said: "We thank the staff at Goldfield Court for the way they conducted themselves during the incident and subsequent investigation, and for the way they have continued to provide excellent support and care to our residents throughout.
"We are also grateful to residents for their continued co-operation and understanding."
About 40,000 birds were culled after a case of H5N1 avian influenza was identified among chickens in January.
A one-kilometre protection zone was put in place around Craigies Poultry Farm near Dunfermline following the case.
The restrictions were later lifted after the cull.
The Scottish government said "swift and robust contingency measures" to contain and control the infection were successful and there have been no further cases of avian influenza in Scotland.
Poultry producers have been urged to remain vigilant following the results of the official investigation.
Sheila Voas, Scotland's chief veterinary officer, said: "Investigations have concluded that indirect contact with wild birds is the most likely source of the case of very mild avian influenza near Dunfermline.
"Tests also found it was a different strain of H5N1 to those previously seen on the continent.
"We know that infections such as this constantly circulate in wild bird populations at a very low level and therefore remain a constant, low-level threat to poultry in Scotland.
"That is why I am writing to all registered poultry keepers in Scotland with advice about how to maintain good biosecurity on their farm."
It comes as the Scottish government publishes a new five-year strategy aimed at further protecting animal health and welfare in the livestock industry.
Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "Scotland is renowned for high standards of animal health and welfare.
"They are the foundation of our £1.6bn livestock industry which supports 35,000 jobs. We must therefore do all we can to safeguard animal welfare and protect ourselves from the threat of disease.
"But we cannot be complacent - as demonstrated by the recent outbreak of very mild bird flu at a broiler-breeder unit near Dunfermline.
"It is thanks to the company and its private vet that the infection was caught at a very early stage which undoubtedly was a major factor in preventing its spread and ensuring it could be quickly stamped out.
"This isolated case highlights the importance of constant watchfulness and good biosecurity, and the need for individual keepers, industry and the authorities to continue to work together."
The bird was shot with two bolts from a crossbow on Sunday in Upwell in what the charity said was part of "a sustained attack on the wildlife of the area".
The swan had been cared for at the RSPCA's hospital at East Winch, Norfolk.
Last month a goose was found near Elm with a crossbow bolt in its back.
Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act it is an offence to take, injure or kill a swan. Punishment can include fines up to £5,000 or a prison sentence of up to six months.
Steven Welsby, 40, attacked Aneirin Hughes during the incident in the town in July.
Mr Hughes, who plays Ch Supt Brian Prosser in the bilingual drama, sustained injuries to his mouth, ear and eye.
Welsby, who pleading guilty to common assault, was also ordered to pay £50 compensation.
He had originally denied a charge of causing actual bodily harm, but the charge was changed to common assault on Monday.
Two other men, Robert Edwards, 52, and Dewi Edwards, 24, were fined at an earlier hearing after pleading guilty to their part in the assault.
The three men were on a stag do when the assault - over a long-standing dispute about agriculture land - took place, Aberystwyth Magistrates Court heard.
The young female was discovered on a beach in Deerness on the east of the Orkney mainland.
Local marine mammal experts worked alongside the Scottish SPCA and tourists in a bid to help keep the animal alive on Wednesday.
They managed to refloat the whale at high tide, and it has not been seen since.
Last week, 21 long-finned pilot whales stranded on the shore at Staffin on Skye.
While the majority were successfully floated back out to sea, several of the whales then stranded on the shores of nearby Staffin Island.
Eight whales died, including a female and her newborn calf.
The court rejected a challenge brought by lawyers for one detainee who argued the policy was unconstitutional.
The ruling means more than 250 people, including 37 babies, are likely to be deported to a detention camp on the Pacific island nation of Nauru.
Anyone who tries to reach Australia by boat to claim asylum is taken to Nauru or Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
The policy has been fiercely criticised by rights groups and the UN, while Australian senators have said Nauru is not safe for children.
Analysis: Jon Donnison, BBC News, Sydney
This is a significant victory for Australia's conservative government and its tough stance towards asylum seekers.
Despite considerable pressure from human rights groups as well as the United Nations the government has not shifted course.
For several years now Australia has effectively outsourced its asylum seeker problem, paying hundreds of millions of dollars to both Nauru and Papua New Guinea to house offshore detention centres. The court ruling judged that to be legal.
Human rights groups say the ruling will mean more than 200 asylum seekers who came to Australia to seek medical treatment including 37 babies born here as well as around 50 children will be forced to leave and return to Nauru.
There has been particular controversy around the case of a 5-year-old boy who was allegedly raped while being detained in Nauru but who could now be forced to go back.
The government says it will seek medical advice before making a decision regarding the boy. Despite widespread criticism internationally towards Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, polls show the policies which have stopped asylum seekers trying to reach Australia's shores are broadly popular here with the public.
The High Court case was brought by an unnamed Bangladeshi woman who was held on Nauru but taken to Australia for medical treatment.
In what was seen as a test case for other detainees, her lawyers had argued her detention was unconstitutional. But the court rejected this.
Human rights lawyer Claire Hammerton told the BBC said the deportations now expected to take place would double the child population on Nauru.
Ms Hammerton said the evidence of extreme mental health problems suffered by children in Nauru was compelling, but that the ruling was the last chance to challenge it.
"Unfortunately this is it, given that this is the highest court of the land there are no options for appeal," she said.
"Children in detention in Australia who are slated to be transferred to Nauru consistently tell us they are living with daily fear and anxiety about being sent there. These children they don't understand why they are being treated like criminals."
Rights groups said the government did not have the right to send the detainees back to the camps. They argued that the government was violating the constitution by funding offshore detention.
They have reported harsh conditions, violence and abuses at the camps.
Demonstrators have gathered outside the High Court in the capital Canberra, and nationwide protests are being organised.
The duo had been in interim charge of the Reds since Philippe Montanier's sacking on 14 January.
Since then, Forest have won three of their four matches and risen to 15th in the Championship table.
Former Preston and Fulham forward Brazil, 54, had been in his second temporary spell as Forest boss, while Lester, 41, had been Under-23s coach.
Burton Albion manager Nigel Clough, son of legendary Reds boss Brian Clough, had turned down the chance to take over at the City Ground because he felt unable to leave the Brewers during the fight against relegation.
Clough insisted that uncertainty surrounding Forest played no part in his decision, with the club having been subject to two failed takeovers in the past 12 months, and fans having staged protests at the City Ground in recent weeks.
Many Forest supporters have become increasingly angry and disillusioned with the current Fawaz Al Hasawi reign, which has seen the club fail to pay bills on time, be placed under a transfer embargo and part company with seven managers.
However, last week a US group still said it was keen on taking over the club from the Kuwaiti.
It will give the Chancellor the power to veto decisions made by the Bank of England when dealing with bank bailouts and other interventions.
One aim is to prevent a repeat of the Northern Rock collapse.
The bill will replace the so-called Tripartite structure, introduced by the previous Labour government.
The structure was made up of the FSA, the Treasury and the Bank of England, a system George Osborne said was "incoherent" and "without clear lines of accountability".
One major change will see the abolition of the Financial Services Authority.
The bill will create three new bodies, the first two within the Bank of England, to regulate financial services:
"The Financial Services Bill will overhaul the failed system of financial regulation which allowed such dangerous levels of leverage to emerge," Mr Osborne said in a speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
"Everyone was so focused on ticking off a regulatory checklist that nobody felt it was their responsibility to use their judgment."
The Chancellor said that lack of clarity meant the Royal Bank of Scotland was allowed to take over the Dutch bank ABN Amro when the credit markets had already frozen up, something which ultimately led to its £45.5bn bailout.
He added: "We are putting in place clear lines of accountability, and restoring that crucial element of judgment."
The bill means that, during "normal" times, the Bank of England will be responsible for regulation and stability and accountable to Parliament.
But in a crisis, when taxpayers' money is at risk, both the responsibility and the power to act will rest with the Chancellor of the day.
This system would mean there would be no ambiguity about who was in charge, according to Mr Osborne.
Sarah Brooks, the director of financial services at Consumer Focus, said the plans were good news for personal finances.
"Particularly welcome steps include early interventions on banning products," she said.
"This should help stop many of the issues which have been endemic in this market in recent years. Transferring responsibility for credit over to the Financial Conduct Authority is also a good common-sense move."
The Financial Services Bill must go before parliament before it becomes law.
Separately, in a BBC interview at the WEF in Davos, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said the government's austerity package, which was implemented in response to the debt crisis, was "the right thing to do".
"Under the current circumstances, the policy in place that consists of letting the automatic stabilisers move without readjusting and tightening the principles is the right thing to do," she said.
He had been due to speak at the annual Mansion House dinner on Thursday night.
Mr Hammond said he had withdrawn from the speech "in view of the Grenfell Tower tragedy", adding: "My thoughts are with the local community."
A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation, which organises the event, echoed the chancellor's comments.
"In the light of the tragedy at Grenfell Tower we are cancelling tonight's Mansion House Dinner. Our thoughts are focussed with the victims and their families and friends."
Figures including Bank of England governor Mark Carney and the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Andrew Parmley, had been due to attend the Bankers and Merchants Dinner along with the chancellor.
A Treasury spokesman said Mr Hammond would deliver the speech intended for the Mansion House dinner in the near future.
His address was set to offer clues on the government's approach to the Brexit talks.
The chancellor had been expected to say that £48bn of funds from the European Union's investment bank would not be put at risk following Brexit.
Homes had to be evacuated and areas of Croydon, Whyteleafe and Woldingham near the A22 were under water when the Caterham Bourne flooded in February.
A "major incident" was declared in Kenley, Purley and South Croydon.
Sandbags and pumps had to be installed to divert flooding away from water treatment works in Godstone Road.
Tandridge District Council said it was working with Surrey County Council to submit a joint £4.2m funding bid to the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership, with the county council providing £700,000 match funding.
The money will pay for new drainage from junction six of the M25 via Wapses Lodge to the Croydon border.
It will also pay for resurfacing the A22 between Oxted Road and Wapses Lodge and footpaths from Wapses Lodge to New Barn Lane.
During the floods four emergency reservoirs were built on fields in Woldingham to slow and divert the Caterham Bourne river.
Two permanent water storage areas have now been installed with control sluice gates and a third is planned between Stuart Road and Bug Hill subject to agreement with the landowner.
Woldingham Road has been resurfaced and a new flood relief pipe system installed under the road.
The councils will find out if their funding bid has been successful in February 2015.
If so, work on the scheme will start next summer.
Haseeb Hamayoon, 28, told Woolwich Crown Court he regretted posting material online in favour of the so-called Islamic State extremist group.
He insisted he had no intention of attacking anyone.
He and cousins Nadir and Yousaf Syed deny preparing for acts of terrorism using knives.
But prosecutors say the friends were preparing an attack in the run up to Remembrance Sunday and wanted to copy the Woolwich killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
They were allegedly inspired by an Islamic State ruling to its overseas followers last year to carry out attacks on police or other security forces in the West.
Earlier in the case, the jury saw a large amount of extremist material that the men had shared online, including footage of beheadings in Syria.
The jury had also seen a video of Mr Hamayoon showing off a large new knife bought in London and, separately, a video of his co-defendants stamping on a poppy.
But opening his defence, Mr Hamayoon said he had no plan to attack anyone.
Speaking from the witness box, he acknowledged that he had shared deeply offensive material among a group of online friends.
But he insisted he had only bought a knife because he had trained as a chef and was buying kitchen equipment for his new home he shared with his wife and baby boy.
"I did not have a plan to harm anyone with a knife," he said. "I was not involved in any plot."
"Did you intend to injure a police officer or soldier or anyone else?" asked Joel Bennathan QC, defending.
"No I did not. My real intention last year was to look after my wife and my son."
Asked about the extremist material he had posted, he said: "I regret making those comments… I apologise for making them."
Mr Hamayoon told the court that he lived in Australia before marrying his British wife - and while he was there he had studied commercial cookery and hospitality management.
Mr Bennathan told the jury that over the course of his evidence, his client would show that his training as a cook was the only reason why he was showing interest in knives.
"The prosecution case must be that his life was going to stop forever [by carrying out an attack]," said Mr Bennathan.
"We say that we have to look at what else he is doing. On the internet, job applications and his relationship with his son and wife. He had no intention that his life was going to stop."
Haseeb Hamayoon, 28, from Hayes, west London, denies preparing for acts of terrorism between 20 September and 7 November last year.
Yousaf Syed, 20, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Nadir Syed, 22, of Hounslow, west London, deny the same charge.
The trial continues.
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Cheltenham midfielder Kyle Storer was sent off for lashing out at James Jones in the first half and the hosts still managed to take the lead through Billy Waters.
But Jones had the final say when he finished a well-worked move after 73 minutes.
Waters missed a good chance in the 33rd minute, but he rolled his shot past the post after James Dayton's cross found him in the six-yard box.
The 10 men went closest to opening the scoring before half-time when Dayton's corner found Aaron Downes, whose header was cleared off the line by Oliver Turton.
Alex Kiwomya set up Ryan Lowe for a chance in the 56th minute, but Russell Griffiths blocked the shot, which was straight at him.
Cheltenham took the lead two minutes later as Rob Dickie's close range attempt was well saved by Ben Garratt, but Waters followed up to score his sixth goal of the season.
Harry Davis saw a shot bounce just wide in the 69th minute as Crewe searched for an equaliser, which eventually came when Cooper set up Jones.
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Match ends, Cheltenham Town 1, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Second Half ends, Cheltenham Town 1, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Danny Parslow (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Danny Whitehead replaces James Dayton.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Amari Morgan-Smith replaces Daniel Wright.
Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town).
James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).
Perry Ng (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Danny Parslow.
Attempt blocked. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Foul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).
Zoumana Bakayogo (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Zoumana Bakayogo.
Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Crewe Alexandra 1. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by George Cooper.
Foul by Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town).
Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Harry Davis.
Attempt missed. Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Aaron Downes.
Attempt blocked. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Perry Ng replaces Oliver Turton.
Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).
Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town).
George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Crewe Alexandra 0. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt saved. Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by George Cooper.
Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
The incident happened on the B4591 between Newport Bridge and Queensway at about 14:00 BST.
The A4042 Kingsway was shut in both directions but has since reopened.
Traffic had been affected between the M4 and the A48 Southern Distributor Road.
According to local media, the US company is under investigation for "organising private drivers to provide unlicensed businesses".
The local transport, police and industry bodies are said to have seized equipment including mobile phones.
Guangzhou considers car-hire services that involve private drivers illegal.
"Law enforcement departments have come down hard on such illegal businesses as they disrupt the market and we will not be soft on these activities in the future," the Guangzhou Transport Commission said in a recent statement.
Uber first launched in China last year and its service is now available in the capital, Beijing, as well as the cities of Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
According to reports, Uber's offices in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen were also visited by authorities this week for a "routine inspection".
In a statement, Uber said it "prides itself on providing efficient and convenient transportation options for riders to get from point to point, helping cities reduce congestion pollution.
"We have maintained open channels of communications and are working closely with local authorities in co-operation."
Analysis: John Sudworth, BBC Shanghai correspondent
China's transport authorities, like those in many other countries, have been struggling to cope with the impact of mobile phone based taxi hailing apps, in particular the huge popularity of the so called ride-sharing service provided by unlicensed, private drivers.
Popular, it seems, because they offer cleaner, more modern cars and, often, a higher level of customer service compared to traditional taxis.
In recent months, some of these drivers, in a number of Chinese cities, have been stopped and fined up to $5,000.
Uber's market share is dwarfed by that of the larger home-grown taxi app companies, Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache, which recently merged. If the Guangzhou raid is a sign that the government is preparing to get tougher, then some observers will wonder if the smaller, foreign-owned target has been chosen for reasons of political convenience.
Uber has been expanding aggressively in recent years, but has run into problems in a number of countries, including South Korea and India.
The San Francisco-based firm has seen its service banned in both Asian nations - as well as Germany and Sao Paulo in Brazil - because of safety concerns and industry opposition.
In India, for example, Uber came under fire and was banned after a driver in Delhi allegedly raped a female passenger.
The fast-growing start up, which was founding in 2009, is estimated to be worth $40bn following its most recent fundraising round.
Uber operates in more than 250 cities in 57 countries, according to its website.
Moyes resigned after one season in charge at the Stadium of Light, his side finishing bottom to exit the Premier League after a 10-year stay.
McInnes' Dons are in Saturday's Scottish Cup final against Celtic.
The 45-year-old's side also finished runners-up to Celtic in the league and lost to them in the League Cup final.
McInnes, who was appointed by the Scottish Premiership club in 2013, has had a previous stint as manager in England's second tier.
He took charge of Bristol City in October 2011 and steered them clear of relegation trouble in his first season.
However, he was sacked in January 2013 with his side again in the drop zone.
McInnes, who led St Johnstone to promotion to Scotland's top flight before moving to the Robins, was heavily linked with the Rangers manager's job after Mark Warburton left Ibrox in February.
Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne announced that he would refuse any approach from Rangers for permission to speak to his manager.
McInnes subsequently had a public disagreement with the man who did succeed Warburton, Pedro Caixinha, saying Rangers should be embarrassed to finish behind Aberdeen in the league considering their superior financial resources.
Sunderland chief executive Martin Bain was at Ibrox during McInnes' five-year spell as a Rangers player.
The former midfielder also played for Greenock Morton, Toulouse, West Bromwich Albion, Dundee United, Millwall and St Johnstone.
Sunderland have had eight permanent managers since Roy Keane parted company in December 2008 and four since Martin O'Neill exited in March 2013.
Whoever is their next manager will face a difficult financial environment, with the Black Cats' last annual figures showing a loss after tax of £33m and a net debt of £110.4m, while relegation from the Premier League will also drastically reduce revenue.
The 24-year-old, who earlier this summer had a trial with Birmingham, has appeared just eight times for the Italian club since joining in 2015.
Atlas are based in Guadalajara, and captained by Rafael Marquez, the former Barcelona defender who in August denied US accusations of links with a drugs cartel.
Seven matches in to the Mexican league season they are 13th in the table, 10 points adrift of leaders Monterrey.
Morrison, an ex-England Under-21 international, played only 122 minutes over the whole of the 2016-17 season, having moved to QPR on loan in January.
He began his career at Manchester United, before moving to West Ham in 2012, and to Lazio three years later.
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While his talent has never been in question - former Birmingham manager Lee Clark described him as "the best English player since Paul Gascoigne" - he has been involved in various troubling incidents away from the pitch.
In 2008, he was cautioned for common assault, and in February 2011 pleaded guilty to witness intimidation.
Three months later he was fined £600 for throwing his girlfriend's phone through an open window during an argument.
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Troels Oerting, head of Europol's cybercrime centre, told BBC Click people should send personal data only across networks they trusted.
He said the warning was motivated by the growing number of attacks being carried out via public wi-fi.
Europol is helping a number of countries after such attacks, he said.
"We have seen an increase in the misuse of wi-fi, in order to steal information, identity or passwords and money from the users who use public or insecure wi-fi connections," he said.
"We should teach users that they should not address sensitive information while being on an open insecure wi-fi internet.
"They should do this from home where they know actually the wi-fi and its security, but not if you are in a coffee shop somewhere you shouldn't access your bank or do all of these things that actually transfer very sensitive information."
Mr Oerting said Europol, which helps co-ordinate investigations into organised crime across Europe, was assisting several member states who had seen attacks carried out on wi-fi networks.
The attackers were not using novel techniques, he said, but relied on well-known approaches that attempt to trick people into connecting to a hotspot that, superficially, resembles those seen in cafes, pubs and restaurants and other public spaces.
The attacks meant that data swapped when people communicate with a bank, shop via the web or log in to social media sites could be captured by attackers.
"Everything that you send through the wi-fi is potentially at risk, and this is something that we need to be very concerned about both as individual users but also as police," he told Click.
Mr Oerting's warning comes only a few months after the European parliament turned off its public wi-fi system after it was discovered that a "man-in-the-middle" attack was being perpetrated via the service.
As its name implies, in this attack thieves attempt to insert themselves between users and a hotspot to gather all data passing between the two points.
The warning was echoed by Charlie McMurdie, former head of the UK's cybercrime unit and now a senior security analyst at PWC.
"A lot of mainstream criminals have identified there are easy opportunities and vulnerabilities just walking down the street and exploiting wi-fi networks that exist in every coffee shop," she said.
Large companies were also falling victim to this type of crime, said Ms McMurdie, because they were not watching out for the rogue hotspots that are regularly turning up.
Sometimes, said Ms McMurdie, attackers used hotspots to get at particular individuals rather than to grab all the data flowing from everyone using a public network.
Everyone needed to be aware of what they were putting at risk when they use wi-fi networks and the data it can potentially hand over to criminals.
"There is the need for raising awareness of what the vulnerabilities are and what you should be doing to protect yourself whether you're on the move or in a physical location," she said.
The BBC Click investigation into how safe public wi-fi hotspots are can be seen on the Click TV show this weekend.
It's far less easy to see why a British foreign secretary might choose the early stages of a general election campaign to speculate on the matter aloud.
Unless, of course, you remind yourself that the foreign secretary and Boris Johnson happen to be the same man.
Asked - just theoretically, you understand - whether UK missiles might fly alongside American ones in a future strike on Syria if President Assad's blamed for another chemical attack on his own people, a more, well, normal minister; a politician more sensitive to the risks of giving interesting answers to direct questions, would have said little or nothing.
Might even have dismissed the question as "hypothetical".
That was Theresa May's choice of word. It's now the official line.
David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, was the latest minister to be challenged in the aftermath of Boris Johnson's remarks.
He said: "There's no option on the table at the moment to do anything in Syria. We've got six weeks when we're not sitting in Parliament.
"But when an option comes we'll look at it properly."
He added: "The US is an ally of ours. If they come and ask for help we'll look at it as we always do with a sympathetic eye."
So, the approved line goes so far as to suggest an inclination in government to help the US out when, and if, necessary.
But the operative word here is "if". And ministers seem not to be going out of their way to encourage closer interrogation.
Conservative ministers are keen to keep as close alongside the Trump administration as possible.
Leaving aside the UK government's keenness to work up a closer trading relationship.
And leaving aside the reports that Britain may be falling behind the EU in the queue for a trade deal (and these things might, arguably, be usefully kept in mind), Britain has long wished to act as a close partner to America in matters of global security.
Remember, Mrs May was part of the Cabinet that tried, and failed, to win Parliamentary approval for military action against the Assad regime after the chemical attack in 2013, long before a Trump administration, and for that matter, Brexit, were considered serious possibilities.
But did the foreign secretary need to get this debate started now, and in the way he did?
After all, the chances of nerve-agents being rained so horribly on innocent Syrian men, women and children anytime soon must surely seem limited.
The White House has been clear it has no plan for further action.
Encouraging speculation about British involvement in military action against Assad - let alone answering the question with a clear yes - could only open tricky questions of Parliamentary accountability and UN involvement, which is exactly what has happened.
A more cautious minister, Theresa May, say, might calculate that these issues and the case for military action itself divide public opinion. And they, or she, would be right.
Rightly or wrongly, Conservatives are daring to dream optimistically of an election victory on a huge scale.
If they're right, the prime minister need not fear the verdict of the Commons on a hypothetical future request to support US military action.
Just now, Theresa May, being a naturally cautious politician, is disinclined to pick unnecessary arguments with sections of the British voting public.
Boris Johnson is different. He tends to err on the side of being interesting.
What he said was certainly interesting. From a conventional point of view at election time - and, I suspect we may assume Theresa May's - he erred in saying it now.
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It gave the Reds a 3-1 aggregate victory over the Luxembourg side with David McDaid's early strike followed by a second-half Jay Donnelly goal.
Differange had Tom Siebenaler sent-off nine minutes before Donnelly made it 2-0 with 15 minutes remaining.
Gerard Lyttle's side booked a meeting with AEK Larnaca of Cyprus.
McDaid gave Cliftonville the perfect start, latching on to Donnelly's flick and bursting past two defenders before firing into the bottom corner in the second minute.
It was a high temp opening from the hosts and Donnelly's acrobatic volley flew just over.
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Differdange went close from a corner when Omar Er Rafik saw his header saved by new Reds keeper Jason Mooney.
Devijvid Sinani dragged a shot wide for Differange early in the second half and the visitors were reduced to 10 men when Siebenaler was dismissed for a last-man foul on Donnelly.
Chris Curran created the second goal, reaching the byeline before crossing low for Donnelly to slot in at the backpost.
Differdange remained a threat and it required a good save from Mooney to keep out Antonio Luisi's strike.
Daniel Hughes should have added a third late on but after weaving his way clear the substitute failed to beat keeper Andre Almeida Rodrigues.
The move by the former world champions comes after months of uncertainty about Red Bull's future in Formula 1.
The team scrapped its previous contract with Renault, which ran until the end of next year, and was looking around for an alternative supply.
After failing to find one, Red Bull have negotiated a new Renault deal.
Renault will be assisted in its development of the engine by British company Ilmor, which has been acting as a consultant for Red Bull on engine design for more than a year.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said Ilmor's involvement "gives us confidence" in Renault's ability to improve the engine's performance.
Renault announced on Thursday night it was returning to F1 as a constructor by taking over the Lotus team.
Relations between Red Bull and Renault soured as the car giant failed to produce a competitive engine under the new turbo hybrid rules introduced into F1 in 2014.
After telling Renault they no longer want to be their official partner, Red Bull were rejected by Mercedes and Honda and were unable to reach a satisfactory deal with Ferrari.
The team therefore had to renegotiate its contract with Renault, and the TAG Heuer deal is way of helping the team pay for the engines.
TAG Heuer has moved to Red Bull after ending its 31-year relationship with McLaren.
That started when the brand's parent TAG paid for the development of a Porsche engine that, under the TAG name, powered McLaren to three consecutive drivers' titles, in 1984 with Niki Lauda and in 1985 and '86 with Alain Prost.
The TAG Heuer brand split from the TAG parent group in 1999 when it was sold to the luxury goods group LVMH.
The wider TAG Group is still run by Mansour Ojjeh, a 25% owner of McLaren Group.
A council report said the £14m expansion was needed as Tomlinson's Dairies at Minera had outgrown its facilities.
The company plans to double its production to 195 million litres of milk a year.
Wrexham councillors approved the plans on Friday.
The dairy business currently employs about 170 staff and uses milk from 71 farms across the area.
The business was established in 1983 by brothers Philip and John Tomlinson, expanding from a doorstep round using milk from the family dairy farm at Minera.
Wrexham councillors held a site visit to consider concerns about the scale of the development and its effect on local roads, before making a final decision.
Three planning applications for a three-phase development were approved during the meeting at the Guildhall.
This is 550 million years older than it was previously believed to be.
Scientists at Rochester University in New York analysed crystals found in Western Australia.
Data on our planet's magnetic field was found to be preserved in ancient crystals embedded in rock formations in the region.
The findings have been published in the journal Science.
As the Sun slowly loses mass, it emits particles which have the potential to erode the Earth's atmosphere. The magnetic field protects Earth from these solar winds.
The research has overtaken the 2010 estimate of 3.45 billion years.
"Understanding how the magnetic field is generated is important because it's a fundamental property of the Earth. It sets it apart from other planets," Dr Jonathan Mound, from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, explained to BBC News.
The Earth's magnetic field is generated because of the motion of molten iron in its outer core, referred to as a geodynamo. To work, heat must be regularly released, which is aided by plate tectonics.
The team collected rock samples from Jack Hills in Western Australia, an area that has been studied for many years.
"The spin in iron atoms align relative to the Earth's magnetic field, and preserve that information unless the material is heated above a property called the Curie temperature," Professor John Tarduno, a geophysicist at the University of Rochester and a leading expert on Earth's magnetic field, told BBC News.
"For magnetite this is 580C. When a mineral is heated to above its Curie temperature, it loses that information."
Thousands of tiny zircon crystals were separated by hand from the bulk rock, as magnetic separation techniques would have contaminated the samples.
An iron ion micro-probe was used to determine the age of the zircon. It detected lead and uranium, and radioactive decay enabled age determination.
The magnetisation was then determined with a magnetometer.
"It's a technological challenge to measure the magnetisation of zircons so we built a special magnetometer for these studies," Prof Tarduno explained, referring to the SQID (superconducting quantum interfering device), which unlocks the magnetic field record held in the zircons.
After the analysis is finished, only a few percent of the data collected pass the rigorous reliability tests, to ensure the calculated age is reliable.
"The event which formed the Moon means that we can never see what happened in the first 100 million years of Earth's life as the information was wiped out by that event," Prof Tarduno said.
"To get older data, we need to be sure that the zircons have been preserved and have not been reheated above their Curie temperature."
"Something that is important to establish for the future is whether the field has been continuously present for four billion years or if it died away and then a new field came back," Dr Mound commented.
The group is also working on samples from Zimbabwe, which are thought to hold zircons with an age of 3.8 billion years old.
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A vote to leave the EU would say "we are closed for business", he argued, and risk Wales' "better tomorrow".
Speaking in Swansea, he also warned a leave vote would jeopardise efforts to save Welsh steel plants.
But Vote Leave Wales leader David Jones said Britain could only be "independent again" outside the EU.
In his first major speech setting out the case for EU membership during the referendum campaign, the first minister focused mainly on jobs and the economy.
He described claims that poorer parts of Wales would still benefit from hundred of millions of pounds of European aid after Brexit as a "dangerous fantasy".
"The money wouldn't come from Brussels any more - it would get lost in the post," he said, "last spotted somewhere around Whitehall".
"I've spent nearly seven years as first minister of Wales, almost all of them sadly with the Tory Government at the other end of the M4.
"Getting a single extra penny out of the Treasury in that time has been like trying to get blood out of a stone."
The EU, Mr Jones told an audience of Labour politicians and activists, was a "safety net for all of us", adding that "everyone who values agriculture, apprenticeships, and better jobs should get real about this".
"We lose that European lifeline, and Wales loses money," he said.
Speaking for the Leave campaign, Conservative MP and former Welsh Secretary Mr Jones agreed the EU referendum was much bigger than the one on Welsh devolution, calling the vote on 23 June the "biggest decision of our lifetime".
"It's far more important than any referendum we've had since 1975 [when the UK voted to remain part of the then Common Market], far more important than any general election or assembly election.
"This will determine whether or not Britain becomes an independent country again, or whether we become part of what will be an increasingly powerful EU which will be well on the road to becoming a superstate."
This speech by Carwyn Jones attempts to set out the most positive vision for the EU by any leading Welsh politician in the campaign so far.
Delivered at Swansea University's gleaming bay campus, the poster boy for so many EU launches, he claimed that it was not just big business, but also those on the lower rungs of the ladder in society who benefit.
But if membership is that important, why has the first minister waited three weeks since he formed his new cabinet to deliver it?
Labour's remain campaigners believe now is the time to step up the momentum as we reach the business end of the campaign.
There's a degree of honesty when he acknowledges that dyed in the wool Labour voters have been hesitant and that the benefits of free trade have not fallen equally.
But with a bit of old-fashioned rhetoric that will play well with the party faithful, he says the alternative is City boys with friends in the wrong places pocketing Wales' cash.
Interestingly, and like Jeremy Corbyn in Cardiff last week, there is barely a mention of immigration.
Leave campaigners will claim that as another example that the remain side is out of touch with the realities and concerns of working people.
They will also be more than happy to engage with the claims that EU-funded projects, like the new south Wales metro rail scheme, would suffer if there is a Brexit.
The leave side insist that rather than there being a loss, Wales would see significant benefits from extra money remaining in the UK, rather than being sent to Brussels on a weekly basis.
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The proposed change would replace consultant-led maternity services at Friarage Hospital in Northallerton with a service led by midwives.
Pregnant women at risk of complications would have to travel to Middlesbrough, 22 miles (35km) away, to give birth.
The Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said current services were unsustainable.
The plans have been heavily criticised and the local Conservative MP, Foreign Secretary William Hague, led a march of several thousand people through Northallerton last year.
In May Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt rejected the campaigners' call for an independent review.
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"The case for change is clear, and it would not be safe for the service to remain as it is currently."
The consultation runs until 25 November.
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Querrey, seeded 28th, completed a 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 3-6 7-6 (7-5) third-round win after rain had suspended play on Friday evening.
It was the Serb's first loss at a major since the 2015 French Open final.
Britain's Andy Murray, seeded second, made it into round four with a 6-3 7-5 6-2 win over Australia's John Millman.
Djokovic had hoped to win his third straight Wimbledon title and secure the third leg of a calendar Slam.
The 29-year-old has already won the Australian and French Opens this year, and was also trying to become only the second man to win five successive major titles.
Asked whether he was 100% healthy, Djokovic said: "Not really. But it's not the place and time to talk about it. The opponent was playing on a very high level and he deserved to win."
"It's incredible, especially to do it here at Wimbledon," said 28-year-old Querrey after ending one of the most dominant runs in tennis history.
"I'm so ecstatic, so happy. I played the break points well and every time he had a break point I was able to come up with a big serve.
"He came out and got the first four games, fortunately for me we had another rain delay and I got to regroup. I'm just taking it one round at a time, I'm not even sure who I'm playing next."
The 6ft 6in Querrey has a huge serve, and grass-court pedigree as a former Queen's Club champion, but there was no reason to think he might be the man to finally derail Djokovic.
Even when the world number 41 headed off with a two-set lead on Friday evening, having played superbly, there were few at the All England Club confidently backing him to finish the job.
Djokovic had looked strangely out of sorts in the first chapter of the contest but he took advantage of an edgy Querrey to build a quick 4-0 lead on Saturday's resumption.
The third set was duly taken either side of another rain delay but try as he might, the 12-time Grand Slam champion could not break away in the fourth.
The pair shared 16 break points before Djokovic finally moved ahead with a forehand for 5-4 - only to give the break straight back with a poor attempt at a drop volley.
When the rain returned just after Querrey had held for a 6-5 lead, it left Djokovic heading for the locker room knowing he would have to serve to stay in the match on the resumption.
A little over an hour later, the top seed played a nerveless service game to force the tie-break but once again he could not find his usual clinical edge.
A 3-1 lead disappeared and despite Djokovic saving a first match point with an ace, it was Querrey who was leaping in the air in celebration when the Serb pulled a forehand wide on the second.
Tim Henman, four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist:
"You were waiting for Sam Querrey's level to drop and it never did. That was when you saw the first signs of Djokovic not engaging mentally.
"When we came back after the rain delay that was when you felt Querrey was aware that he had something to lose. Then he lost the first four games in a row in that third set.
"Once it got to the end of that fourth set, and Djokovic was serving for the set, you thought that was the moment he would turn it around. Querrey always had belief that he could hang in there and all credit to him.
"Querrey had to give himself an opportunity and he hit 31 aces. Djokovic is probably the best returner in the history of the game.
"So to serve as well as he did, as aggressive as he did and keep going in the important moments was unbelievable.
"If I was going to question something about Djokovic, it was more mental than physical. There was a lot of eye contact with the box.
"Normally he is so clear in his mind and the consistency of his performances in the majors has been unbelievable. It was a bizarre performance."
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A Naples court sentenced Berlusconi to three years in jail and banned him from holding public office for five years.
The four-times prime minister denied the charges.
He will not have to serve his sentence because a statute of limitations comes into effect later this year, before any appeal can be held.
The billionaire was accused of giving 3m euros (£2.5m; $4m) in 2006 to Sergio De Gregorio, then a senator from the anti-corruption Italy of Values party, to switch to Berlusconi's People of Freedom party and thus undermine the government of the time.
The trial was held in Naples as it was the seat occupied by Mr De Gregorio.
Italy's former prime minister is appealing against a prison sentence for having sex with an under-age prostitute and abuse of office, and another for leaking a confidential police wiretap.
He was also found guilty of tax fraud last year - his first definitive conviction.
The man, identified by French media as Gregoire Moutaux, 25, was arrested on the Ukrainian border with Poland.
Intelligence chief Vasyl Hrytsak said the man had planned 15 attacks and was driven by ultra-nationalist views.
He had amassed guns, detonators and 125kg of TNT, Mr Hrytsak said.
Mr Hrytsak listed bridges, motorways, a mosque and a synagogue among the suspect's potential targets. He was being prosecuted for arms smuggling and terrorism, he said.
It was not clear if the tournament itself was being targeted and Paris police prefect Michel Cadot told reporters there was "no specific threat against any [Euro 2016] site".
News of the man's arrest on 21 May first emerged in a report by French TV network M6. The suspect was described as a worker at a farming co-operative from the Lorraine area of eastern France. He had no previous criminal record, reports said.
French authorities have been on high security alert ahead of the European championships, amid fears that the tournament could be targeted by Islamist militants. President Francois Hollande said on Sunday that "the threat exists" but that France should not be daunted.
The French police and judicial authorities are saying very little about Gregoire Moutaux. They clearly want to know more from the Ukrainians before they pronounce on any possible terrorist link.
What's significant is that so far the French investigation is not in the hands of anti-terrorist specialists, but of the unit that looks into organised crime.
This would suggest that the initial suspicion in Paris is that Mr Moutaux was engaged in arms trafficking.
His home in north-east France has been searched by police, who - according to media reports - found a T-shirt bearing far-right insignia. The Ukrainians say he was motivated by hatred of immigration and globalisation.
Ukraine's SBU security service said it had been watching the suspect since December last year and that he had picked up five Kalashnikovs, two anti-tank grenade launchers, some 5,000 rounds of ammunition and 100 detonators, as well as a large quantity of explosives.
An SBU video was shown of the dramatic moment of the suspect's arrest along with the weapons that intelligence officials said they had found. The arrest was said to have taken place at a border crossing close to the Ukrainian town of Yahodyn.
The footage also revealed a second person being wrestled to the ground on the passenger side of the car.
The SBU chief said the French suspect had been in touch "with military units fighting in Donbass", a reference to the eastern areas of Luhansk and Donetsk, where pro-Russian rebels have seized large areas of Ukrainian territory.
"The Frenchman spoke negatively of the activities of his government on mass migration of foreigners to France, the spread of Islam and globalisation. He also said he wished to stage a number of terrorist attacks in protest," Mr Hrytsak said.
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A search was carried out at the suspect's home in the tiny village of Nant-le-Petit and police sources told French media that explosive material and balaclavas were recovered.
An inquiry has been launched by France's organised crime agency, OCLCO, and by regional authorities in Nancy.
However, French police sources told AFP news agency that Ukrainian officials had yet to send them any details. There was some scepticism that the suspect could have been anything more than an arms trafficker.
Residents in Nant-le-Petit were stunned by the arrest of Gregoire Moutaux, who lives there with his grandfather and works as a cattle inseminator.
"He's a rather nice guy, who I think is actually rather well-educated. I've even invited him over for a glass of wine. I just can't understand this," neighbour Jean-Jacques Renck told France 3 TV.
Anti-terrorism specialist Alain Bauer said Ukraine had become a big source of arms because of the continuing conflict in the east of the country.
The man detained did not fit the usual profile of an attacker, he said, pointing to the arrest last year of far-right activist Claude Hermant, accused of providing weapons to a jihadist who murdered four people at a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015.
Liverpool punished Brighton with a 6-1 win at Anfield, giving them the chance of a cup double - FA Cup and Carling Cup - for the first time since 2006.
Stevenage had an exciting tie with Tottenham Hotspur, and everyone assumed Spurs would win. But the game finished 0-0, which means there'll now be a replay between the two sides at White Hart Lane.
On Saturday Birmingham held on to a 1-1 draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, meaning they too will have a replay.
Leicester City finished Norwich City's hopes of cup glory with a 2-1 victory, while Stoke did the same to Blackpool 2-0.
In a north-south battle, Bolton beat Millwall 2-0.
Arsenal's 2-0 defeat to Sunderland leaves the team with hardly any chance of lifting a trophy for the seventh season in a row.
Manager Arsene Wenger says it's the lowest point of his career at Arsenal so far.
The Royals missed out on promotion to the Premier League when they were beaten 4-3 on penalties at Wembley.
"I'm still happy to be here, to work here, to live in the area," the Dutchman said afterwards.
"I still have a contract at Reading, there's nothing that's going to take me away from the club."
Stam guided Reading to third place in the Championship table in his first campaign in charge and his impressive start to management has seen him linked with a potential job in the Premier League.
But the former Manchester United defender refused to entertain questions about him leaving behind Reading's ambitions of reaching the top flight.
"Of course you want to work at the highest level," he said. "You want to work at the absolute top eventually as I've played there myself as well.
"But it doesn't mean, 'OK we've achieved this, so next season I need to go away'. We just need to have a look at what's going to happen in the summer."
They led 3-1 in the shootout at one stage before Liam Moore's miss and Huddersfield keeper Danny Ward's save from Jordan Obita gave the Yorkshire club the advantage.
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However, Stam believes Reading have what it takes to be in promotion contention again next term.
"Before I came here last season, we spoke about what the club wants to do, the ambition that we eventually want to end up in the Premier League," he said.
"How long does it take? Is it two or is it three seasons? Normally you don't succeed straightaway to get into the play-offs and the final in the first season.
"We did it because we've got a great bunch of lads and I'm very proud of them and what they've done this season."
Speaking after the final, Reading co-chairman Sir John Madejski admitted rumours of Stam being tempted away from the club were inevitable after his first-season success.
"Every manager that's successful is always under the spotlight," he told BBC South Today.
"I hope he will stay, he's very happily ensconced in Berkshire, so it would be a pretty big tempting offer in my estimation to take him away from Reading.
"I would expect to see him back here next season.
"He's done a fantastic job as has his support crew. Nobody for one moment at the start of the season thought we'd be here in a play-off final, so there's an awful lot to be proud of and to build on."
Stam's disappointment was shared by his players at full-time, including goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi, who had saved a penalty from Huddersfield's Michael Hefele in the shootout.
"We've had such a great season," the Oman international told BBC Radio Berkshire.
"It's difficult to take, but we did a fantastic job in a great game where we dug in for 120 minutes, but that's the way of penalties."
Defender Tyler Blackett urged his team-mates to pick themselves up and go again for next season.
"Hopefully we'll learn from what we could've done better this season," he said. "We're a strong team and we'll grow from it."
Grainger, 40, and Thornley, 28, re-established their partnership in the double scull after missing out on GB's women's eight for the Rio Olympics.
The duo began Sunday's race positively but faded in the closing stages.
Overall it was a positive regatta for the British team, who won two golds, three silvers and three bronze medals.
Grainger and Thornley had their partnership dissolved in May and were given the opportunity to be considered for the eight.
However, they were not among the 43 rowers named in the Team GB squad on 9 June.
British Rowing performance director Sir David Tanner said earlier this month it was his "confident intention" to get them back into the doubles boat for Rio.
Earlier in Poznan, Britons Helen Glover and Heather Stanning saw off a late surge from New Zealand duo Genevieve Behrent and Rebecca Scown to retain their women's pair's title in a new World Cup best time of six minutes 52.79 seconds.
"We didn't want a race with all the bells and whistles today and we've been training pretty heavily coming into Poznan", said Glover. 'Over the next few weeks is when we will add those bells and whistles".
Alex Gregory, Mohamed Sbihi, George Nash and Constantine Louloudis won gold for Britain in the men's four.
Britain's former Olympic champion James Cracknell told BBC Sport that Grainger and Thornley had "a lot to do" before Rio.
"I don't know where Katherine and Vicky's heads are at the moment," he said.
"They haven't been rowing together a lot in the double scull and this performance is perhaps just a reflection of where they are at.
"It's not such a bad race given that they haven't spent that much time rowing together.
"Over the next five weeks they need to get their boat speed up to be able rattle crews if they want to get on the podium in Rio."
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Scans of 25 first-time mums showed these structural brain changes lasted for at least two years after giving birth.
European researchers said the scale of brain changes during pregnancy were akin to those seen during adolescence.
But they found no evidence of women's memory deteriorating.
Many women have said they feel forgetful and emotional during pregnancy and put it down to "pregnancy" or "baby" brain - and, it seems, with good reason.
Pregnancy is characterised by extreme surges of sex hormones and involves drastic physiological and physical changes in the body, the researchers say.
During those nine months, women experience a flood of oestrogen which is greater than for the whole of the rest of their lives.
Yet research on the effects of pregnancy on the human brain is scarce.
This study, from researchers at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Leiden University and published in Nature Neuroscience, looked at the brain scans of women before they became pregnant, soon after they gave birth, and two years later, to see how the brain changed.
And they compared these women's brains with those of 19 first-time fathers, 17 men without children and 20 women who had never given birth.
The researchers found "substantial" reductions in the volume of grey matter in the brains of first-time mothers.
The grey matter changes occurred in areas of the brain involved in social interactions used for attributing thoughts and feelings to other people - known as "theory-of-mind" tasks.
The researchers thought this would give new mothers an advantage in various ways - help them recognise the needs of their child, be more aware of potential social threats and become more attached to their baby.
Just by analysing the brain images, computers were able to pick out the women who had been pregnant.
In one task, women were shown pictures of their own babies and other babies and their brain activity was monitored.
The parts of the brain which lit up when they saw pictures of their own babies closely matched the areas where grey matter had been reduced or "fine-tuned" during pregnancy.
The same areas did not light up when pictures of other babies were viewed.
Elseline Hoekzema, study author and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said: "We can speculate that the volume reductions observed in pregnancy represent a process of specialisation or further maturation of this Theory of Mind network that, in some way, serves an adaptive purpose for pending motherhood."
The study found that pregnant women were all affected in similar ways, regardless of whether they conceived naturally or underwent IVF.
And there were no changes in first-time fathers' grey matter in the study when their brains were monitored before and after their partners' pregnancy.
The research team also found no major changes in white matter in the brain.
Ministers had been urged to make it clear abroad that there was no cap on the number of foreign students who can study in the UK.
But they are standing by a definition of migrant which includes students.
Vice-chancellors and academics said there was a risk international students would not feel welcome in the UK.
The refusal to budge follows pressure from five select committees, academics, vice-chancellors and experts to change the way students are accounted for in migration figures, which the government is trying to cut by "tens of thousands".
It comes in a response to the Commons Business, Innovation and Skills committee report on overseas students and net migration.
The committee had called on the government to urgently re-think its position, saying: "The inclusion of overseas students at accredited institutions in the overall total is misleading. Furthermore, it runs the risk of undermining a world class export market."
Universities UK president Eric Thomas said he was concerned the government's response to the select committee "was not justified by the evidence".
He said the number of international students coming to the UK was already falling and that feedback from universities suggested a decline.
He added: "The government's decision to ignore the recommendations of five parliamentary committees that students should not be included in the government's net migration target is disappointing.
"The more positive tone of the government's statement is important, but we also need action. We need the Home Office and the UK Border Agency to work constructively with universities to ensure that genuine international students are not discouraged from coming to the UK because of an unnecessarily obstructive visa system."
Last week the Prime Minister visited India, partly to drum up business for universities, and stressed there was no cap on the number of genuine foreign students.
General secretary of the academics' union, UCU, Sally Hunt said: "The government has made it very clear it wishes to reduce net migration, but its chaotic approach risks doing real damage to our standing on the global stage.
"Just last week the prime minister had to try and convince Indian students that Britain still welcomed foreign students.
"International students bring social and economic benefits to the country and the government could have sent a bold message today that British universities are open for business. Sadly, it is once again pandering to a domestic audience in a desperate effort to sound tough on immigration."
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Home Office stressed in their joint response to the committee that they would "place no cap on the number of genuine students coming from across the world to study here".
But they stressed that they were sticking by what they describe as the international definition of net migration. This includes anyone "changing their normal place of residence for 12 months or more", even though students are required to leave when their student visa runs out.
The response said "the government recognised the important contribution that international students make to the economy", but that it was "also committed to reducing net migration".
"Eliminating the abuse of student migration route which has occurred in recent years, primarily in the private college sector, is a key part of that programme."
But it also cited a Home Office study from 2010 which showed about one in five international students who came to the UK in 2004 were still in the immigration system five years later.
And it said that the Office for National Statistics had made its migration statistics clearer, so that it was more easy for students to be identified in emigration flows "to give a more accurate measure of the contribution of students to overall net migration".
The Committee's chairman Adrian Bailey MP, said: "Our report called for urgent action. The government replies with a response that is almost four months late. This is not acceptable.
"Given the delay, we expected a substantial piece of work. However, the response appears to offer nothing new and manifestly fails to give a clear answer to our key recommendation."
The National Union of Students said in response it was urging students to write to Home Secretary Theresa May and call on her to stop treating international students like a political football.
NUS International Students Officer Daniel Stevens said: "Since taking office the coalition government have continually treated international students as a political football so now we're asking people to contact the Home Office and give them the yellow card.
"The cross-party case for changing international student visas policy is overwhelming and has been backed by five committees. The government must urgently follow the lead of Australia and the United States and recognise that international students should not be included in net migration figures."
He added: "The government must now listen to experts and reverse their position before further damage is done to both the UK's global standing, the vibrancy of our campuses and the prospect of economic recovery."
The actor, best known for playing Jon Snow in the HBO fantasy show, will play the lead in Christopher Marlowe's famous 16th Century tragedy.
"The subject matter is very enticing," Harington said of the play. "It's very dark and funny."
Directed by Jamie Lloyd, it opens at the Duke of York's Theatre in April.
It's Harington's first stage role since he appeared in the original production of Laura Wade's Posh at the Royal Court in 2010.
Doctor Faustus tells the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in return for magical powers.
Two new acts by Colin Teevan will explore how Faustus becomes a world-famous conjuror in a celebrity-obsessed society.
"I see him as a magician in the vein of David Copperfield or David Blaine," Harington told the BBC.
"In preparation I've been to see an old friend who's getting me au fait with the rules of magic.
"The show is going to have a big fantastical element. It's wild and atmospheric. It's got some David Lynch influence behind it.
"There will be things that delight an audience while they watch this man being dragged to hell."
Harington said the role of the demon Mephistopheles would be played by a woman, but casting is still to be announced.
Harington said he had been looking for the right stage project since finding fame as Jon Snow in five seasons on Game of Thrones.
"I desperately wanted to do theatre in London," he said. "I've been doing a lot of screen work for a long time - so this was right time, right place, right people."
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Asked about his future in Game of Thrones, after the apparent death of Jon Snow at the end of season five, Harington urged fans to stick with the show.
"They should tune in and watch because whatever happens in the next season will be very exciting. But John Snow is dead I'm afraid.
"I think [fans' speculation] is great for the show - but they shouldn't get their hopes up about anything because Game of Thrones is very good at dashing hopes.
"It's been a gateway into many things for me - including this play - and I love it and owe it a lot. I hope that people keep watching it as it comes to a slow, gradual end."
Dolores Kelly was speaking after the former SDLP leader Mark Durkan said the party leadership needs to change in time for next year's assembly election.
Ms Kelly said voters had expressed concerns during the Westminster election campaign trail.
Alasdair McDonnell has made it clear he does not intend to stand down.
"I had every empathy with what he said in relation to the message on the doorsteps because what Mark said was not unique to Derry, it was right across the north," the SDLP deputy leader said.
"But what I do think now in the interests of the party - and that's my only interest - the debate now has to come back into the party itself.
"We need to discuss it in a mature way within the party so that we can give hope to the people that we represent and the people we hope to represent and hope to represent after next year's assembly elections.," Ms Kelly added.
Speaking on BBC One programme The View, Mr Durkan, who stepped down as leader in 2010, said Dr McDonnell's leadership was "a real issue" posed by voters on the doorstep during general election canvassing.
"If Alasdair thinks that just resigning from the assembly deals with the questions, well it won't because these questions will all surface again once he resigns from the assembly," he said.
"As we move towards an assembly election, the questions won't go away and therefore I think if we're going to be in a better position to fight the election, then the leadership needs to change."
Dr McDonnell earlier rejected criticism by party grandees Seamus Mallon and Brid Rodgers that he should step down, telling the programme: "I'm not going to run away from a task half done."
Joan Carlile's Portrait of an Unknown Lady is the earliest work by a female artist to enter the Tate's collection.
Other new acquisitions include 1882's Le Passeur (The Ferry) by William Stott of Oldham, described as "an exceptional work of early British impressionism".
Mark Wallinger has also donated State Britain, a Turner Prize-winning replica of Brian Haw's anti-war protest camp.
The British artist's reconstruction of Haw's one-man protest in Parliament Square won the £25,000 award in 2007.
According to the Tate, Carlile was the first woman in Britain thought to work as a professional portrait painter in oil.
Portrait of an Unknown Lady, painted between 1650 and 1655, is one of a small number of her surviving works.
By Rebecca Jones, BBC News arts correspondent
You can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of British female artists working in the mid-17th Century. For a start, women did not have access to formal artistic education. Women were not accepted into art academies until the mid-19th Century.
But they could also work professionally only with the say-so of their husbands.
Painting would have been regarded as an amateur activity - merely an extension of feminine virtues. Few would have been able to have a commercial studio.
Nonetheless Joan Carlile proves there were exceptions. And yet they are not represented in our galleries.
Tabitha Barber, a curator of British Art at Tate, says "it's a built-in prejudice".
"You begin to think that great artists are male artists," she said.
Tate wants to reflect more diversity.
"We have a big strategy in trying to make women more visible on our walls," she added.
Stott's painting, widely regarded as his crowning achievement, depicts two girls watching a ferryman at dusk.
The work will be displayed at Tate Britain in April 2017 before going on tour to three other UK galleries.
"We have the greatest collection of British art in the world and it gets better ever year," said Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson.
Tate Britain has also announced major solo exhibitions for David Hockney and Rachel Whiteread.
The Hockney show will open in February and is to be the most extensive exhibition of his work ever held, spanning his six-decade career.
The mid-career retrospective of sculptor Whiteread will be held next September.
Earlier this month it was announced that Sir Nicholas Serota is to step down as director of the Tate galleries next year. He will become chairman of Arts Council England.
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It was Northern Ireland's second victory in Group 6 and keeps alive their hopes of Euro 2017 qualification.
Captain Marissa Callaghan hit the top corner to make it 2-0 at Solitude before completing her double with a low strike five minutes before the break.
Rachel Furness added the fourth in the second half to seal a comfortable win.
It completed a double over Georgia with Northern Ireland securing a 3-0 victory in their opening qualifier in Tbilisi last October.
Northern Ireland lie in fourth place with six points from four qualifiers while bottom team Georgia are still seeking a first point of the campaign.
Next up for Northern Ireland is an away qualifier on Tuesday against the Czech Republic, who sit third and ahead of Alfie Wylie's side on goal difference.
The 28-year-old has agreed a three-year deal with the Royals.
Beerens, who spent two seasons in the German capital, has played twice for the Netherlands at senior level.
"He can play on either the left or the right, and technically he is very strong," manager Jaap Stam told the club website.
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His exit raises questions that go far beyond Greece, to the heart of Europe's future, so naturally I wanted a word.
A minder gently interposed himself. I reminded the ex-finance minister that I'd interviewed him recently, so he politely shook my hand, saying he wasn't doing any interviews and wanted a break from all that.
He added that it was good to be able to have a beer at lunchtime. But he made it clear he still had a role as an MP. He wasn't going away.
I bet he isn't. He is still a huge international celebrity with all the clout that brings.
During this brief and trivial conversation, I was entranced not only by his warm smile and engaging gaze, but by the vibrant deep blue of his shirt and its subtly rounded black squares.
I wondered where he had bought it. Not that it would fit me. Mr Varoufakis, unlike your humble correspondent, is a fitness fanatic and a hunk.
The Essex University-educated Marxist economics professor is in political terms, a rock star. He famously wears a leather jacket, but never a suit and tie. He rides a motorbike rather than take a ministerial car. He oozes charm and charisma.
No wonder the other leaders can't stand him.
Half the world has a crush on Mr Varoufakis. The other half would simply like to see him crushed, and perhaps he has been.
You can argue about his intrinsic merits, but his appeal tells you several important things about politics at home and abroad. On one level, it is fairly simple.
My 17-year-old daughter is one of Mr Varoufakis's fans. It is not the Marxist economics. The looks have something to do with it.
But before she saw any pictures, she heard him on the radio - and for the first time ever she showed an interest in one the politicians who provide the soundtrack to our lives on BBC Radio 4.
His words seemed fresh - his directness, his ability to engage with the question - and, impressively in a foreign language, to use language both precisely and playfully.
It should be obvious by now, to everyone but mainstream politicians themselves, that there is a hankering for authenticity.
Evasive carefully crafted non-answers are expected and scorned. Those who both talk straight and are ready to exploit their own personality, rather than retool it by focus group, score well.
I am thinking Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Chris Christie - and none of them have Mr V's pecs. But it goes deeper than that.
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On my last evening in Athens, I went for a quiet kebab in a side street in a working-class area. The owner, who has had a cafe for 10 years and opened this little joint three years ago, was eager to talk politics.
He said Syriza was "an experiment" and Mr Varoufakis a rarity - he said what he meant and stuck to it.
That was a good thing - but meant he had to go. He was not really a politician - he was too straight - most of them had to be a little crooked. He did not mean corrupt - he meant they took the less-than-direct path, leading to deals and compromises.
One close observer of the Greek crisis and Syriza, Paul Mason of Channel 4 News, makes exactly this point in his engaging blog, adding the party is changing. How Mr Varoufakis responds to any deal, any imposition of austerity, will be worth watching.
The man behind the check-in desk at the airport also wanted to talk politics. "It's because he's from Crete," he said of Mr Varoufakis. "Strong," he said, raising his clenched fists, "stubborn."
Many of Syriza's supporters will see stubborn Yanis as the single victim of a failed coup.
One Greek minister, George Katrougalos,told me: "Some political circles in Europe are afraid that we may prove that there is an alternative to this orthodoxy of neoliberalism, because we are going to have elections in Spain, Portugal and Ireland.
"What if we had success here in Greece? That would clearly be seen as a bad example."
It is true the first democratically elected government of the hard left in Europe in my lifetime, believes in the sort of economics specifically rejected by the rules of the European Union.
The car crash we are seeing now is not an accident - it is the result of neither side wanting to move out of the road.
The Greek government fundamentally sees the EU as a capitalist club, with rules designed to benefit the rich, the bankers and big business. They want to break that. Critics say they want to emulate Venezuela.
The stunning victory of Syriza in January was a big moment for the left, and the next few days are even more important.
Whether the Greek government wins or loses, stays in the EU or is chucked out, is vitally important for other newly minted hard-left parties in Europe.
The minister is right - Tempo de Avancar in Portugal and Podemos in Spain will be watching and drawing lessons.
The danger for the EU is that the supporters of the hard left decide that staying in turns the old leftist slogan on its head and: "The people united, will always be defeated."
But the meaning of Mr Varoufakis's exit after a popular vote goes even beyond the call to redesign the nature of the European Union's economic fundamentals.
It is about democracy in the European Union. The relationship between what individual states want and the collective will of those joined in federation, or nation or organisation, is no simple thing.
It is a vital question stretching way back into the past and is certainly worth another article.
But Mr Varoufakis, accused of naivety and childishly sticking to his guns, believed that the election of Syriza back in January, and this referendum, was a clear mandate to abolish austerity.
The other members of the eurozone disagree.
Mr Cameron's mandate is less clear and less precise, and he is not the sort to offensively flaunt stylish menswear or toned muscles.
But he might want reflect not only that that confrontation appears to be against the club rules, but that all the other prime ministers and presidents around the table have a mandate too.
Mr Varoufakis has exited stage left. Greece may follow.
As often in a drama, the shocking killing off of a central character throws into stark relief the uncertain denouement of an unfolding story.
Ferrari were one-two with the four-time world champion 0.345 seconds ahead of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas 0.435secs off in fourth.
Vettel's title rival Lewis Hamilton was only fifth, 0.835secs off the pace.
Jenson Button was 12th fastest on his one-off return to Formula 1 and has been hit by a 15-place grid penalty.
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McLaren's engine partner Honda discovered after second practice on Thursday a problem with the MGU-H, the part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the turbo.
It and the turbo - which are one unit - had to be changed and as those are the fifth examples of those parts that car has used this season, penalties were inevitable.
It means Button, whose team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne was 10th fastest, will almost certainly start from the back of the grid, which means a difficult race on a track on which it is extremely difficult to overtake.
The session was interrupted towards the end by a crash by Force India's Esteban Ocon.
The Frenchman, driving at Monaco for the first time, clipped the inside barrier at the second Swimming Pool chicane, breaking his right front suspension and catapulting him into the barrier on the exit.
The car was removed from the impact-absorbing barrier within a few minutes and the session restarted for a final four minutes.
But although both Mercedes sent both Hamilton and Bottas out for a final lap, they could not close on the Ferraris.
Mercedes will have some thinking to do ahead of qualifying, which will be held under beautiful blue Cote d'Azur skies at 13:00 BST.
The world champions appear to be struggling around the streets of Monaco just as they were at the Russian Grand Prix two races ago.
Both circuits have similarities, in that they have low-grip, low-abrasion track surfaces. Coupled with the fact that the softest 'ultra-soft' tyre is durable enough to do an entire race distance around the principality, it is giving Mercedes difficulties in getting the Pirellis into the right operating window.
However, in Russia, Bottas managed to find a solution to qualify third, close behind the Ferraris, and jump them at the start before winning the race.
Mercedes will get a performance boost by turning their engine up for qualifying but at this stage it does not look as if the 0.2-second gain they get from that will be enough to allow them to challenge the Ferraris for the front row.
They may struggle to beat the Red Bulls, with Verstappen just 0.11secs behind Bottas and Daniel Ricciardo 0.162secs off Hamilton despite stopping on track at the end of the session with a failure of the brake-by-wire system.
The two Toro Rosso cars look set to contend for the positions in the top 10, after Carlos Sainz and Daniil Kvyat ended the session seventh and eighth, ahead of Haas driver Kevin Magnussen.
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The man was taken to hospital for treatment following the incident, The Evening Echo reports.
He later complained to local councillor, Noel Collins.
Mr Collins said the council had a responsibility to investigate the incident.
Speaking at a meeting of the Southern Committee of Cork County council on Thursday evening, he asked whether it would be possible to flush rat poison through the sewer system.
"Flooding has resulted in another problem for residents, that of rat infestation, which really upsets many families, mentally and physically", he said.
"One elderly gentleman suffered a rat bite to his posterior while using his toilet, and had to receive immediate medical attention."
It is understood that a plumber found a broken sewer pipe nearby, which is believed to have allowed the rat to enter the system.
The council said flushing rat poison through the public system could lead to contamination of other water sources.
It also said that Irish Water were responsible for vermin control within the system.
Cllr Collins added: "I would advise homeowners to keep their toilet seats down when not in use, and to watch their posteriors."
The resolution paves the way for the UN to bolster the international presence in the African nation.
There are fears of a Rwandan-style genocide in Burundi, which also has a history of tensions between Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
At least 240 people have been killed there since protests began in April.
The cycle of violence began with demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term.
He argued that his first term as president did not count towards the constitutional two-term limit as he was chosen by MPs.
Mr Nkurunziza was duly re-elected with 70% of the vote in July.
The French-drafted resolution, which was passed unanimously, condemns the wave of killings, arrests and human rights violations, and paves the way for a possible deployment of blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers.
The resolution requests that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reports within 15 days on options for increasing the UN presence in the country.
UN officials are considering a number of alternatives, including rushing in peacekeepers currently deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, says the BBC's Nick Bryant.
But that would require another vote in the Security Council.
"Our primary objective, of course, is to ensure that Burundi does not descend into mass violence," US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power told reporters on Thursday.
The resolution calls for urgent talks between the government and the opposition to end the crisis.
It stops short of imposing sanctions against Burundian leaders.
The United Nations, African Union and European Union warned earlier on Thursday that political division in Burundi threatened to create a "deep regional crisis" and called on both sides to meet for mediated talks.
"No effort can be spared to achieve an end to the violence and to foster a political solution," the organisations said in a joint statement.
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50 years - life expectancy for a man
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Pillow fights took place in cities around the world to mark International Pillow Fight Day.
Feathers flew in London, Hong Kong, New York, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, as well as lots of other places.
Some people were dressed up as famous cartoon characters and celebrities, and others wore their pyjamas.
The event takes place every year and was started in 2005 by two students at the University of Toronto.
As crazy as the fight may appear to be, it has strict rules. The friendly fighters can only use fluffy pillows, they need have to take their pillow home and they can't hit anyone without a pillow or a holding camera.
Model Laura Lacole is due to marry footballer Eunan O'Kane, who plays for Leeds United and the Republic of Ireland, in Northern Ireland in June.
Humanist weddings are not recognised by law in Northern Ireland, so couples must also have a civil ceremony.
Northern Ireland's Attorney General is expected to intervene in the case.
The couple attended a judicial review hearing at Belfast High Court on Friday to challenge the current legislation.
Opening the case, their lawyer claimed the pair were being denied rights afforded to religious couples.
He said all they were asking for was the same protection afforded to those of different belief systems.
Ms Lacole, from Belfast, and Mr O'Kane, from County Londonderry, have both described themselves as humanists - a non-religious combination of attitudes, ethics and beliefs centred on human experience and welfare.
Humanists adhere to a scientific view of the world and believe humans steer their own destiny.
Ms Lacole, 27, is also vice-chair of Atheist NI.
"Religious people, from pagans to Free Presbyterians and everything in between, enjoy a substantial legal privilege under law," their lawyer said.
He argued that the State "gives its legal blessing to such marriages" but "denies the same privilege to equally valid groups".
Their lawyer added that, as the law stood in Northern Ireland, the couple's wedding on 22 June would be "legally meaningless".
Humanist wedding ceremonies are legally recognised in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland but not in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.
The couple are taking the judicial review against the General Register Office for Northern Ireland and Stormont's Department of Finance.
Their lawyer told the court the case was of "huge public interest".
He pointed out that were 4,290 humanist weddings in Scotland in 2015 - more than those conducted by the Church of Scotland.
Northern Ireland's Attorney General, John Larkin QC, has applied to participate in the landmark legal challenge and could make submissions on Friday.
Totti, 40, will retire at the end of the season after scoring 307 goals in 783 games since his debut in 1993.
Totti was denied a farewell appearance at the San Siro when Spalletti, who rejoined Roma last year, did not bring him on in a 4-1 win against AC Milan.
"I must manage Totti the footballer," said Spalletti after criticism.
Second-placed Roma were leading 3-1 against Milan when Spalletti decided to bring on Brazilian defender Bruno Peres - his third and final substitution - for the final five minutes.
And questions about why Totti was not introduced left Spalletti clearly irritated in his post-match news conference.
"If I could go back in time, I would never have come to coach Roma," said the 58-year-old, who also managed the Giallorossi between 2005 and 2009.
"When I bring him on for the last five minutes you say I'm making a fool of him and I lack respect. Let's take the time to agree on what I should do.
"When I took over, I said that it's not for me to manage Totti's legacy.
"Next time, we'll form a co-operative. We'll have a collective vote and the ones who get the most votes will play."
Totti has made 15 Serie A appearances for Roma this season, but has only made one start with the other 14 coming from the bench.
The Giallorossi have three matches left this season, with the final game of the season - at home to Genoa on 28 May - set to be Totti's farewell.
The festival was founded in 2005 and is usually held on or near 6 August, Jamaican Independence Day.
In recent years the event, which is free, has attracted up to 15,000 people and closed roads in the area.
The organisers said they were "incredibly disappointed" by the decision.
Lambeth Council refused their application to hold the event this year, saying in a statement the 2015 event drew "a large number" of complaints from local residents.
The council stressed that the cost of policing and cleaning up afterwards "ran into hundreds of thousands of pounds".
A council spokeswoman said: "Sadly, last year's event became a victim of its own success and we need to pause it for this year, let the community take it back to its roots as a safe, fun event for everyone with professional organisation."
The founder of the festival, Ros Griffiths, joined the council in appealing for more people to get involved in order to ensure the event could go ahead in 2017.
She said: "The community needs to reclaim this as a celebration of Brixton, not a free-for-all that creates chaos, mess and unease."
But organisers who were in the process of planning this year's Brixton Splash spoke out against the decision, saying they feared it did not fit with the council's "gentrified image" of Brixton.
Brixton Splash director Shezal Laing claimed: "We've been trying to ensure we plan a safe event, we've been seeking meetings with the council and other stakeholders, including the police, and at every level we've been blocked."
The moment in this context is the highlight or the one event which has set the tone for others to follow.
If I had to make that call now I'd say the moment came late on Tuesday March 29, when it emerged from Mumbai that Tata's UK steel operations were being put up for sale.
Despite the fact that there are limits to what any Welsh government is able to achieve because of its lack of financial muscle, steel has dominated the campaign so far.
No-one should be surprised. We're talking about the potential end of one of the last forms of heavy industry, and that was always going to strike a chord in Wales more than anywhere else.
The winner from the emergency of steel has got to be Labour. It has allowed Carwyn Jones to portray himself as batting for Wales in Downing Street and beyond.
The opposition parties are desperate to get the agenda back onto problems in the NHS.
Their wish may be granted if the steel story settles down slightly for a week or two as the hunt for a buyer continues.
I've just listened to a BBC Radio Wales hustings in Haverfordwest with regional candidates, where Labour's Eluned Morgan faced some very hostile questions from the audience annoyed by the downgrading of some paediatric services at Withybush hospital.
And Carwyn Jones himself was put on the spot on Friday night's Ask the Leader event in Llangollen when the first question was about why Labour had screwed up the NHS.
The YouGov poll for ITV Wales last week suggested that support for the Conservatives had fallen away, indicating that problems at Westminster over tax affairs, welfare reform and the response to the steel crisis was taking its toll.
The Welsh Conservatives are trying hard to regain the initiative with a number of measures like a higher proposed cut to the basic rate of income tax than was expected, and 80mph speed limits.
We've also had the manifestos now of Plaid, the Liberal Democrats and UKIP.
Plaid's was striking for scale of the efficiency savings in the NHS, and more broadly in the public sector, it wants to make in order to plough the money back into services.
As expected, the Lib Dems focused on a handful of policies like smaller class sizes which could in theory be taken off-the-shelf and slotted into another party's programme for government.
And UKIP's nearly fifty pages, which was appropriately launched at a theatre after all the dramatic infighting, was an attempt to show that it is serious about devolution without one mention of immigration.
Police are investigating the incident at a property near the village of Lochfoot between 4 and 6 April.
A "large amount" of cash and a number of expensive items - including a Ebel gent's gold watch worth more than £20,000 - were taken.
Other goods taken included diamond rings, bracelets, chains and gent's cufflinks.
Det Con Martin Lumsden said: "This break-in appears to have happened some time between Monday and Wednesday of last week.
"We are asking for the community in the Lochfoot area to get in touch if they saw or heard anything suspicious, however small or insignificant it might have seemed at the time, to let us know on the 101 number.
"Sightings of anything suspicious over this period, or even in the days before the break-in might help us catch those responsible."
Stars have been paying tribute to a man whose music influenced artists from around the continent.
I'm sad, and I've been struggling since the death of Prince and now we have the passing of Papa Wemba and I'm wondering what this is all about.
I worked with Papa Wemba and he was a very nice, genuine soul and very shy at the same time.
I did a duet with him, Ami Oh, on a Manu Dibango album, and when you heard him sing it was magical that a guy who was that big had such an angelic voice.
He was a generous soul when it came to helping people, and he didn't say much, but he observed a lot and when he spoke in that gentle voice everything he said was right on the spot.
His whole attitude about dressing well was part of the narrative that we Africans have been denied our humanity for so long.
People have always had stereotypes about us, and he was saying dressing well is not just a matter of money, not just something for Westerners, but that we Africans also have elegance. It was all about defining ourselves and refusing to be stripped of our humanity.
Angelique Kidjo was speaking to the BBC's Newshour programme
Africa has lost another worthy son in the shape of Papa Wemba. It's a painful beginning to 2016.
He was the voice of Africa.
We are all orphans... May the heaven and the spirits welcome him in peace. Papa Wemba will remain forever in our hearts.
Manu Dibango left this message on his Facebook page.
It's a catastrophe. Congolese music has been decimated, it's been blown apart. I don't know what to say.
I refused to believe it when the Ivory Coast government official told me. To be honest, from now on, life means nothing, we are nothing.
Today, with God's forgiveness, I want to ask Him to accept Papa Wemba. He is His son.
I don't know what to say. I want to give my condolences to all Congolese people and all Africans.
This is an extract from a video Koffi Olomide posted on his Facebook page.
I was quite shocked because we were just getting over Prince's death and then hearing this it was sad.
He was performing in a period of people like my father Fela Kuti, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masakela, Manu Dibango - the African greats who have always opened doors for people like me.
They have always done Africa proud anywhere in Europe and America where they performed, and they opened doors for African musicians to tour Europe with great pride and respect.
Especially when you are playing African music in Europe and America, Papa Wemba's name will be in the forefront of great names.
It's a name that was always there and will always be there. It's not a name that will go away any time soon.
Femi Kuti was speaking to the BBC 's Focus on Africa radio programme.
It was such a shock when I received the news it was something I didn't see coming.
He was one of the people whose stars shone so brightly. I tried to innovate through my music and Papa Wemba innovated though his.
He had so much love for it. He's helped so many people through his music and lifted them up.
We won't be able to forget him, the death of Papa Wemba is a huge blow.
King Kikii was speaking to the BBC 's Focus on Africa radio programme.
What a sad way to start the day by learning of the passing of this monument of Africa.
We got chills listening to Wake Up, Okoningana, Ye Te - to name a few.
I'm all the more affected by this sad event as I'm a big fan of Congolese music.
Papa Wemba so loved his music that he left while performing.
Samuel Eto'o left this message on his Facebook page
Why have so many celebrities died in 2016?
A jury in Pittsburgh found the firm guilty of infringing two hard disk innovations owned by local university Carnegie Mellon.
It said Marvell should pay $1.17bn (£723m) in compensation - however that sum could be multiplied up to three times by the judge because the jury had also said the act had been "wilful".
Marvell's shares fell more than 10%.
The maximum penalty would be close to the $3.96bn value of the company, based on its market capitalisation.
Marvell told the Wall Street Journal it would try to convince the judge to reverse the judgement, and would appeal if that failed.
The university's law firm issued a statement saying it took "pride" in securing the award following Marvell's failure to license the university's intellectual property.
Marvell makes a range of chips which includes processors which power devices including Blackberry smartphones, Sony Google TV internet video boxes and LED lighting controllers, as well as hard disks.
Among the disk makers, Western Digital has been its biggest customer over recent years.
Carnegie Mellon had accused Marvell of including technologies - invented by one of its professors and a student - designed to increase the accuracy disk drives read data at high speeds.
The university told the court the firm had sold 2.3 billion chips incorporating the disputed inventions between 2003 and 2012.
Marvell had argued both that its chips had not used the university's tech, and that the patents should never have been awarded in the first place - but the jury disagreed.
The damage award has the potential to be the biggest in US patent history.
There have only been two larger previous awards, according to law data provider Lex Machina.
In 2007 Microsoft was ordered to pay Lucent Technologies $1.52bn in damages over disputed MP3 and MPEG video technologies; and in 2009 Abbot Laboratories was ordered to pay Centocor Ortho Biotech $1.67bn for infringing its antibodies biotech patents - however, both judgements were later overturned.
That leaves the recent $1.05bn jury award to Apple in its case versus Samsung as the largest outstanding figure - the judge in the case has yet to finalise the sum.
However, one expert said it would be some time before the details of the disk drive dispute would be finalised.
"It is generally the case that US juries make large awards, and it is generally the case that they get reduced on appeal," Ilya Kazi from the UK's Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys told the BBC.
"If history repeats itself Marvell could face a smaller sum - but it's still too soon to be sure how the process will play out."
The sums - paid on top of basic salaries and bonuses - have been criticised at a time when the health service is trying to save money.
Consultants have been accused of playing the system, but doctors said poor planning by managers was to blame.
Overtime rates vary, but are often about £600 for four hours - treble what senior medics get for contracted work.
Basic pay for consultants stands at just under £90,000 a year on average. For full-time consultants, this pays for 10 separate four-hour blocks a week.
Consultants who do private work are also obliged to do an extra four-hour session paid at their basic rate if their NHS trust needs them.
Any extra work beyond that is then done at a higher rate under a system known as waiting list initiative payments (WLIs).
These are negotiated individually by each trust so there are no figures for how much is spent nationally.
The Department of Health stressed the need for the efficient use of money in the current climate.
However, the BBC has learnt that many trusts pay between £500 and £700 for the four-hour sessions.
Depending on what speciality they are in, consultants can earn tens of thousands of pounds on top of their basic pay.
Figures seen by the BBC show that, in some cases, consultants are making more than £100,000 a year.
Consultants involved in common forms of surgery, such as ear, nose and throat and hip and knees, tend to do the most overtime alongside anaesthetists. Others, working in areas such as geriatrics, are likely to get very little.
At Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, one ear, nose and throat specialist made more than £105,000 in 2009-2010 in overtime. Another three consultants from other areas made in excess of £80,000.
Similar figures were also seen in the previous years.
Ed Burns, from Newton Europe, a consultancy which has carried out work for NHS trusts to improve productivity, said figures in excess of £60,000, including those above £100,000, would not be seen in every trust but were "not unusual" either.
He said poor job planning was the most common cause of high overtime payments, but added sometimes consultants fought against giving them up by employing tactics such as under-booking theatre sessions to make sure there was a need for overtime.
Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is finding itself paying more and more to consultants in overtime.
The total bill for the waiting list initiative payments has nearly doubled in two years to £2.35m in 2009-10 for the trust, which runs two major hospitals for a population of over 1m in the West Midlands.
And despite attempts to curb the amount being spent this year, latest figures suggest it will rise again.
Like many NHS trusts, consultants are offered up to £600 for a four-hour session. Some are only too happy to accept.
One ear, nose and throat consultant made more than £105,000 in overtime payments last year. Another three from other specialities got in excess of £80,000.
Not everyone gets the extra work. In total, 123 consultants out of a total of 350 did overtime.
A spokeswoman for the trust said such payments were unavoidable to ensure patients received "timely" care. She added the trust always sought to use resources "as responsibly as possible".
"Consultants work hard to provide the best possible patient care, and by volunteering for WLIs they help keep waiting times down. However, for a few, WLI payments can serve as a disincentive to working more efficiently because they face a loss of earnings."
His claims are supported by the experience of some NHS trusts.
Managers at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust tried to reduce the rate for overtime for orthopaedic surgeons from £1,000 to £500 for a four-hour session. But minutes from official meetings showed consultants would be "downing tools" if they did so. In the end, managers had to compromise on a fee of £750.
Paul Flynn, from the British Medical Association, admitted some of the higher sums "sounded unhealthy", but pointed out research by the union also suggested consultants were doing six hours a week extra for free.
He also rejected suggestions that consultants were blocking moves to make hospitals more productive.
"WLI is a quick fix and consultants certainly would not want to come to rely on the payments as they are unpredictable."
He said hospitals could reduce the reliance on overtime by easing the load on consultants by recruiting extra staff or giving admin tasks and duties such as routine follow-ups to other staff.
But Professor Alan Maynard, an expert in health policy from York University and former chairman of a hospital, said NHS trusts often faced a "challenge" managing consultants.
"They don't always keep to their job plans and then get to do the overtime. I think there needs to be much more transparency about consultants' pay.
"The public are just not aware of the sums they can earn. If the data was published it would put pressure on them and reduce some of the figures we are seeing."
News of the overtime payments comes after the BBC reported at the end of last year that doctors were getting bonuses of up to £75,000 a year.
It means overall pay, once basic salary, bonus and overtime are totted up, can be well in excess of £200,000 a year.
The Department of Health said it did not want to comment on individual payments.
But a spokeswoman said: "We expect the NHS to increase productivity and improve health outcomes - this includes making effective use of consultants' time.
"Consultants and managers should work together to ensure that clinicians' time is planned cost effectively whilst delivering high quality patient care."
The judge said there was insufficient evidence that Thomas Beatie was male when he married; the state bans same-sex marriage.
In 2008, Mr Beatie, who had lived as a man for decades, gave birth to a girl, the first of three pregnancies.
He is legally male but kept his female reproductive organs and bore children because his wife was infertile.
A spokesman for Mr Beatie, Ryan Gordon, said Maricopa County Family Court Judge Douglas Gerlach's comments came as a shock. He said his client, who hopes to marry his current girlfriend, planned to appeal the ruling.
"It's unfortunate that the judge out here doesn't recognise marriage in another state,'' Mr Gordon said.
In his ruling, Judge Gerlach wrote that the couple had failed to prove Mr Beatie was a male when they were married.
"The decision here is not based on the conclusion that this case involves a same-sex marriage merely because one of the parties is a transsexual male," he wrote.
Mr Beatie began taking testosterone in 1979 and underwent a double mastectomy in 2002. His birth certificate was changed to male at the same time.
He and his wife Nancy married a year later in Hawaii.
Mr Gordon said Mr Beatie, 39, was legally married as a man and never was required to disclose that he retained female reproductive organs when applying for the birth certificate in Hawaii as a man.
Mr Beatie halted testosterone treatments so he could give birth to his children after the couple found out his wife could not get pregnant.
"I'm clearly a man: socially, legally, psychologically, physically - the whole ball of wax," Mr Beatie told the Arizona Republic in December.
Nancy Beatie's lawyer David Higgins said Judge Gerlach's decision was thorough but not the one she had hoped for.
"He still sees a same-sex marriage, but he gave us all the rulings that we're asking for as far as the children,'' Mr Higgins said.
Police and Environmental Crime Unit workers searched a site near Dungannon.
It showed there was controlled waste on the site, mainly plastics, with some evidence of tyres and other mixed waste.
Two diggers were also seized as part of the investigation, which is at an early stage.
The search was carried out on 8 June under warrant, but the details have only just been revealed.
An area of one acre was searched using exploratory boreholes to recover material for testing.
Five arrests came in Huddersfield where police said youths had tried to "copy the disorder and theft seen in other parts of the country".
In Wakefield, a 19-year-old woman was arrested after posting an invitation to a riot on Facebook.
Youths torched the Leeds carnival centre, destroying some of 40-year archive about the annual carnival.
Elsewhere, an Asda supermarket, a working men's club and a carpet shop were attacked.
Ch Supt John Robins, divisional commander of Kirklees police, said: "There have been a number of incidents of localised disorder last night [Tuesday] in communities around Huddersfield, but thankfully we have not had the serious urban disorder that other parts of the country have seen.
"It is clear that local youths were trying to copy the disorder and theft seen in other parts of the country, but thankfully the actions of brave police officers last night prevented this.
"Five local youths have been arrested for burglary and damage last night.
"We have set up criminal investigations into every single report and we will pursue those responsible relentlessly."
He said extra officers would remain on duty "to ensure that our communities, homes and businesses are kept safe".
Tuesday night's disorder started at the town's Deighton and Sheepridge Working Men's Club where windows were smashed and a cash machine stolen by a group of youths.
A 26-year old man suffered a leg injury.
Dozens of youths surrounded the club, throwing bricks and stones at the building while people were inside.
Kevin Boyle, club member, said: "We were just under siege, just brick after brick, stones after stones coming through the window."
Minutes later four youths smashed windows at the Asda supermarket off Bradford Road and stole five televisions which were found abandoned in the car park after alarms were activated.
At 00:50 BST on Wednesday a group of people wearing masks broke into Chestnut Medical Centre on Chestnut Street, damaging the centre and stealing a cash machine and cash from a till.
At 01:17 BST, a failed attempt was made to set light to United Carpets on Union Street.
At the same time, John Brierley Ltd on Turnbridge Mills had a window smashed by a paving slab.
In Leeds, arsonists targeted the carnival centre in Sheepscar at about 00:30 BST.
Preparations have been taking place there for the annual event, which takes place over the August bank holiday weekend.
Arthur France, founder of the longest-running West Indian carnival in Europe, said: "I cried this morning when I saw the damage.
"People are very, very upset. It is sad times when the carnival is so close."
Elsewhere in Leeds, a van was set alight during disorder in the Roundhay Road area of Harehills, late on Tuesday night.
One woman said she had been left "terrified" after her car was attacked by a group of teenagers as she drove through the area.
Katy Norville, 25, a medical rep from York, said: "They were running out into the road and trying to stop my car. There were big groups of them carrying big metal bars."
Meanwhile, student Niall McGlion, 20, is studying politics at the University of Leeds and travelled to Manchester on Wednesday to help with the cleaning operation.
He said: "I followed the Twitter feed for riot clean-ups and there's' a lot of stuff happening (on social media) at the moment so I thought I'd join in as well.
Mr McGlion said he had been taken aback as the events spread across the country over several days.
"The shops in Manchester that were targeted were those with shoes, fashion items and jewellery, people were just out for what they could get," he added.
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A joint operations centre is to be established in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, state media reported.
Countries from Asia, Africa and the Arab world are involved in the alliance but Saudi Arabia's main regional rival Iran is not.
It comes amid international pressure for Gulf Arab states to do more in the fight against so-called Islamic State.
Saudi Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman said the new alliance would co-ordinate efforts against extremists in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Afghanistan.
Neither Iraq nor Syria, whose governments are close to Shia-ruled Iran, are in the coalition, nor is Afghanistan.
Two things stand out immediately about this new Saudi-based Islamic Coalition.
The Shia-majority nations of Iran and Iraq are noticeably absent, as is their ally Syria.
It is far from clear how, in practice, the coalition would conduct counter-terrorism operations in IS-plagued Iraq and Syria without the agreement of those governments.
Secondly, there is the question of the exact definition of terrorism. The Saudi authorities' interpretation of it extends far beyond the violent actions of armed insurgents.
Recent legislation has branded peaceful opposition activists and reformers, whether online or in the street, as suspected "terrorists" and a security risk to the state.
Amnesty International said it had concerns that this new coalition could be used to further restrict human rights.
Speaking at a news conference in Riyadh, Prince Mohammed said the counter-terrorism force was borne out of "the Islamic world's vigilance in fighting this disease [terrorism] which has damaged the Islamic world.
"Currently, every Muslim country is fighting terrorism individually... so co-ordinating efforts is very important."
The coalition would not just focus on fighting IS, he added. Few other details have been given.
The SPA state news agency said 10 other "Islamic countries" had expressed support, including Indonesia.
Prince Mohammed said: "These countries have procedures to go through before joining the coalition, but out of keenness to achieve this coalition as soon as possible, [the alliance of] 34 countries has been announced."
In announcing the coalition, SPA stated that Islam forbids "corruption and destruction in the world" and that terrorism represents "a serious violation of human dignity and rights, especially the right to life and the right to security".
Saudi Arabia is part of the US-led coalition against IS and is also leading a military intervention in Yemen against Shia Houthi rebels.
The list of 34 members: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Palestinians, Qatar, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
It doesn't look like a business in turmoil and many regular customers are surprised to hear that its future is in doubt.
"It's always busy," says Nayeli Gonzalez as she bags her groceries with her two young children.
"It's convenient. I can walk from home. Otherwise I have to take a train."
When Britain's largest supermarket chain opened in California six years ago, there was talk of revolutionising the way Americans shop and bringing fresh, wholesome food to all neighbourhoods, rich and poor.
The stores had only self-checkouts, for example, an unusual concept in the US where Americans were used to being helped by a clerk, and typically having someone bag their groceries for them, or at least offer to help.
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But on Wednesday, Tesco announced it would be abandoning its 199 Fresh & Easy stores, which are all on America's West Coast.
Critics say the chain miscalculated the market and failed to cater to American tastes. It has been an expensive mistake, costing Tesco ??1.2bn.
"My sense is that what they tried to do was make a European model," says Prof Anthony Dukes, at the USC Marshall School of Business.
"Europeans tend to make more frequent trips to grocery stores, maybe every day or every other day, where Americans are used to going for bigger trips less frequently," he says, adding that busy Americans prefer to buy in bulk.
Nearly half of British retailers believe the US remains the hardest market in which to achieve commercial success, according to the findings of a survey released by Barclays last week.
Despite a shared language and heritage, Britons view the US as more difficult to master than China, which ranked second in the survey.
"The mistake many British retailers have made is to treat the US as one country," says Richard Lowe, head of retail at Barclays.
"The US is a little bit like Europe. When you go there you have be more targeted.
"Different states are not exactly like different countries, but they have very different markets."
According to Prof Dukes, Fresh & Easy's shop-more-often convenience store format may have worked better on the East Coast of America.
"The East Coast is denser and has perhaps more pedestrian traffic, on the West Coast we have more cars. That might make a difference," he says.
But some UK retailers have had great commercial success in the US, and getting the location right played a big part, analysts say.
By Shanaz MusaferBusiness reporter, BBC News, New York
Early lunchtime in Manhattan and the Pret on the corner of 29th and Seventh is already filling up.
"I come here every day," says one female customer. "I work right down the street. It's easy and fast and healthy."
Convenience and a healthier alternative to other fast food outlets make Pret a popular choice in New York.
There is no noticeable difference with the portion sizes in the UK, despite Americans' infamous love of large helpings.
Despite its French name, most people seem aware that the company is actually British, though few in this cosmopolitan city seem to care.
Some point out that the prices aren't always that cheap, but as one customer puts it, "This is New York, nothing's that cheap."
Topshop now has four stores here including a new 25,000 sq-foot store in Los Angeles. Its boss Sir Philip Green has decided to concentrate on big cities and has said he hopes to turn the fashion into a $1bn US business in the next five years.
And it is difficult to walk a few blocks in Manhattan without stumbling on a Pret A Manger restaurant.
The chain has purposely grown gradually since it launched in 2000 and now has 34 locations in New York City, with another opening soon; seven in both Washington DC and Chicago and two in Boston.
Pret A Manger's choice of New York as its entry point to America was a shrewd one, according to Faith Hope Consolo, chair of the retail group at Douglas Elliman Real Estate, which advises international retailers looking to enter the US.
"London and New York are so similar in many ways, both demographically and architecturally. Both cities are on the go, with a desire for quick meals, not fast-food," she says.
"Pret A Manger satisfies that. [It offers] quality food, but also the ability to grab it and go.
"They're a natural for any great busy city, so yes, they really did choose their entries well."
The packaged sandwich chain has also tailored its UK products to the local market, according to its marketing director Mark Palmer.
"Rather than crayfish and rocket sandwich on sale in the UK, Pret has a Maryland spiced shrimp and spinach sandwich in the US," he tells BBC News.
"Pret has also learned that there is a distinctive difference in the coffee tastes in the US. In the UK Pret sells more cappuccinos and lattes than the US, the US customers prefer filter - or drip - coffee."
Fresh & Easy did its homework. It hired anthropologists and studied Californians' eating and shopping habits.
Its stores opened to great fanfare in neighbourhoods around California considered "food deserts," dominated by the cheap, fast-food driving America's obesity epidemic.
That noble goal to locate in gentrifying and poor neighbourhoods may have hurt their prospects, says Bryan Roberts, the UK-based director of retail insights for Kantar Retail.
"No doubt they made some fundamental mistakes in terms of store locations, merchandise and marketing," Mr Roberts says, adding that the recession played a big part in Tesco's failings in the United States.
"Not to absolve responsibility from Tesco but it was unfortunate timing. No one could have predicted the sub-prime crisis and the consequences of it. If they'd timed it five years earlier, it might have been a different story."
It is also worth noting that the stores' smaller, neighbourhood market feel is one being adopted by mega discount retailer Wal-Mart.
The big box chain plans to open a smaller store in LA's Chinatown - if it can get by a lawsuit filed by neighbourhood activists fighting its plans.
The confirmation of Tesco's exit from the US puts the future of the stores in doubt, although it said it had received some expressions of interest from third parties.
The Hollywood Fresh & Easy is one of the chain's busier branches and it is in an area with a lot of foot traffic, located on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
"I love it because it's a neighbourhood market," says aspiring actor Yohan Lefevre, while enjoying his Fresh & Easy sandwich after working out at the gym next door.
"I like the size, there is not much else like this in Hollywood. I can walk here. If they close I will take a national day of mourning and mark it every year! I'm serious. I will be really sad."
The designation is given to cities to promote reading and literature. Oxford is aiming to become the first English-speaking location to hold the title.
If successful, a programme of events would be staged, including conferences, festivals, plays and writing competitions.
Bid director Kathelene Weiss said the events planned would "promote a love of reading" in the city.
Oxford's bid coincides with the redesign of the Bodleian Weston Library as well as the completion of the Story Museum of children's literature and storytelling.
The Bodleian Library's Mike Heeney said: "It is the opportunity to energise everyone - publishers, booksellers, readers authors and libraries. It's a great catalyst."
The name of the 2014 winning city is due to be announced by Unesco in June.
Phone footage showing Kashif Samuels hurling racist and Islamophobic abuse at the Turkish man in Tottenham, north London, went viral on 15 October.
Samuels, 25, who handed himself into the police, said he was "ashamed and disgusted" at his actions.
Speaking before sentencing by Highbury Corner magistrates, he said he saw a "monstrous person" in the footage.
Samuels, who pleaded guilty on 21 October to a racially aggravated public order offence, said: "It's definitely nothing I can be proud of."
He told BBC Radio London: "I saw a monstrous person to be honest I didn't realise existed within me, and now that I've seen it all I can try and do now is prove through future actions that that is not who I am or what I want to be."
Samuels, of Duffield Drive, Tottenham, described himself as "a person of colour" and said: "I can't ask for forgiveness, all I can say is my remorse and sorrow is genuine."
Lewis Hamilton kept his word at the Hungarian Grand Prix by handing back third place to his team-mate Valtteri Bottas - a promise made during the race as Hamilton attempted to chase down the leading Ferraris.
But could it come at a price?
Finishing fourth instead of third cost Hamilton three points, meaning Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel leads the Briton by 14 points heading into the summer break.
Since the very first Formula 1 world championship in 1950, 27% of seasons have been decided by three points or fewer, so Hamilton has definitely taken a risk.
There's been plenty of thrilling title tussles over the years but these are the 18 that were decided by three points or fewer:
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Output fell by 0.4% in the final quarter of the year, compared with growth of 0.9% in the third quarter. Analysts had been expecting the growth to continue.
The country is in the throes of difficult bailout talks with international creditors.
Overall, eurozone growth was revised down to 0.4% for the fourth quarter.
An initial estimate had put the growth rate at 0.5%, but the estimate was reduced partly as a result of slower than expected growth in Germany.
However, Germany's 0.4% growth rate in the final quarter of 2016 was still better than the 0.1% rate recorded in the previous three months.
A separate report from the German economy ministry said that rising orders in manufacturing and construction pointed to "solid" growth in the first three months of 2017.
"Economic indicators are pointing to a solid start for the year 2017," it said.
"However, uncertainties remain especially in the trade environment. The outlook for the global economy remains subdued."
The disappointing Greek figures come as fears grow that the debt crisis could resurface.
The country is under pressure to step up economic reforms, including pension cuts and tax rises.
In its latest assessment on the Greek economy, the International Monetary Fund argued that "Greece should deepen and accelerate reforms, which, together with further debt relief, are needed to allow the economy to return to a sustainable growth path".
But the call for more leeway for the country to pay its debts, prompted opposition from the eurozone, which has already given the country significant debt relief and is reluctant to go much further.
The issue will be discussed at a eurozone finance ministers meeting on 20 February. A Greek government spokesman said he was hopeful of agreement.
Surfers found the body of Raveshan Pillay, 27, washed up on a beach on Wednesday, the coroner said.
Six people died when the Leviathan II capsized on 25 October after being struck by a wave.
Mr Pillay's partner, UK citizen Danielle Hooker, was on board the sinking vessel. Her father, Nigel Hooker, also died in the incident.
Investigators said the vessel may have become unstable, with most passengers standing on the left side when the wave struck. Twenty-one people were rescued after the boat capsized.
Mr Pillay's family reportedly returned to Sydney from Canada last week.
Local newspapers published a thank you letter from the family, detailing their experiences in the Tofino district.
"Every shop we walked into was welcoming, every person we spoke with so kind," the letter said.
"Nobody is to blame. We lost our son, but we only lost his physical body. His spirit is here. And we gained a family, friends, a community. We will be back."
David Thomas had worked for technology giant Microsoft, which said it was "shocked and saddened" by his death.
His son Stephen was described by the Down's Syndrome Association as "a very talented young man and a gifted photographer".
Nigel Hooker had been visiting Canada from Southampton. He worked for Airbus Defence and Space as a programme assurance manager in Portsmouth. They said he was "a well respected and popular colleague, and will be greatly missed by everyone he worked with".
Jack Slater was born in Salford but had lived in Canada for more than 30 years. His daughter, Michele Slater Brown, said he was "larger than life, a charmer, handsome, entrepreneur" and a "lovely dad".
Katie Taylor was also an ex-pat, and was originally from Lichfield in Staffordshire, but lived in the ski resort of Whistler. She was described as a "vibrant, outgoing and lovely young woman" by her family.
Raveshan Pillay was an Australian citizen who was originally born in South Africa. An electrician by trade, he was described as "loving, caring and popular" by his family.
The care workers were charged after an investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme into the Old Deanery care home near Braintree in Essex.
Adeshola Adewura, 33, Lorna Clark, 45, and Anita Ray, 47, will be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court in February.
The Panorama programme, broadcast in April 2014, showed an elderly woman with dementia being slapped and goaded.
Essex Police started the investigation into the abuse by Adewura, of Clockhouse Way, Clark, of Hammond Place, and Ray, of Victoria Street, after detectives saw the programme.
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A care worker, who was seen to slap a resident, had been sacked earlier on after an eyewitness made a statement to independent investigators.
Doug Mackay, district prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "When a loved one is admitted into a care home, their family trusts the staff to look after them and treat them with respect.
"By their guilty pleas, these three women have shown that they assaulted Mrs Maddison and betrayed the trust placed in them by her family."
In April 2014 the Old Deanery's owners Anglia Retirement Homes said managers were "shocked and saddened by allegations made by the BBC's Panorama programme of inappropriate behaviour by some members of staff".
The home is now called the New Deanery Care Home and is owned by Sonnet Care Homes.
Julia Clinton, chief executive of the New Deanery, said it had been an "extremely distressing time for all involved".
"We had only just bought The Old Deanery residential care home when the allegations first surfaced, and we immediately suspended a number of employees.
"We then launched a thorough investigation which culminated in their dismissal.
"In order to reflect we are a new business we changed our name to The New Deanery and have invested substantially in our building and particularly in staff training, and reinforcing our ethos of 'kindness, comfort and respect'."
Every day, it seems, another service joins the Bitcoin revolution, accepting payment in the so-called virtual currency.
As its popularity has soared, so has its price. On Wednesday it breached the $1,000 (£614) mark on Japan's MtGox exchange for the first time. That's nearly five times the price it was at earlier in the month.
Several reasons have been given for the surge:
If all of that makes it sounds like more of an asset than a real currency, then that's probably because it's a fair description.
Unlike "real-world" currencies, there is no central bank backing Bitcoin and anyone with a powerful enough computer can create one as part of a technique called "mining", which is used to process transactions.
Understanding exactly how the Bitcoin system works is only marginally easier than tracking down its mysterious creator - Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the author or authors of the 2008 research paper that sparked its existence.
And, in truth, interest in Bitcoin arguably outweighs its role in the wider economy, with the possible exception of the way it has facilitated illegal trades on underground sites such as the Silk Road.
But what makes it important is what it tells us about the role virtual currencies might play in the years to come.
On this point, however, there is a divide between those who think it is a fantasy destined for failure, and those who think it will underpin the future of finance.
The BBC invited a Bitcoin advocate and a sceptic to explain their views:
Why does Bitcoin have value?
Over the past few years, I must have been asked this hundreds of times.
I first used Bitcoin in April 2009, just a few months after it was first released to the world. Back then, it had no value at all - there were no users and no trade, no exchanges and thus no exchange rate.
Now Bitcoin is reaching new heights thanks to a combination of speculation on future value and genuine, undeniable usefulness.
Think about it: Why can it take days or weeks for banks to send money around the world, when an email travels in seconds?
Does the money travel by steamboat?
Are they loading gold bars onto the side of a camel and sending it over the mountains of Mongolia?
Of course not.
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The real answer is depressing - banking is a stagnant market running on long-obsolete infrastructure, which improves only when forced to by government.
Same day payments happened only after banks were dragged into the 19th century by the Office of Fair Trading. When Metro Bank opened in 2010, it received the first new UK banking licence issued in 150 years.
Bitcoin has created a firestorm of excitement throughout the world because it's a new financial system, designed from scratch by the people, for the people.
It's not only fast, cheap and easy. In Bitcoin, every participant has equal power.
There are no bankers, because there are no banks.
There are no banks because there is no need for them: People can control their own money.
The rules of the system are enforced on everyone by each other. Not even the current software developers can tamper with it against the wishes of the users.
With better technology comes new features.
The web is powered by advertising because credit cards are too inefficient to pay for most content.
Bitcoin enables micropayments - instead of ads, tiny fractions of a penny could flow from your browser directly to sites you visit, with no middleman fees making the scheme impractical.
Crowdfunding doesn't need to be restricted to sites like Kickstarter, which have complex policies and fees - people can do it themselves.
Even something as trivial as a child running a lemonade stand can now be made digital, because anyone with a smartphone can accept Bitcoin: No complicated merchant bank accounts are needed.
Bitcoin is barely five years old.
It has its problems - volatility, geekiness and an appeal to criminals come to mind. With your help the project can overcome these issues and change the world. Trade on!
Bitcoin is a beautiful example of what the psychoanalyst David Tuckett calls a "fantastic object" - unreal but immensely attractive.
The Bitcoin experience accesses notions of stateless money, peer-to-peer exchange, and of course, no regulation or financial intermediation.
The origin story is clever and cute, and just hard enough to understand to induce a belief in the stability of the supply of the bitcoins, leading to a rush for them now, as opposed to later.
Bitcoin's value is dependent entirely on what you, the buyer, are willing to pay for it. If there were no users, there wouldn't be any value.
Because it has no use value, only exchange value, Bitcoin can have literally any price, and so the market for Bitcoin is permanently in a bubble as a result.
This bubble will form and burst many times, making and losing fortunes in the process.
I'm Irish. I know exactly what crazy bubbles look like.
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The Bitcoin phenomenon is the purest manifestation of what Charles McKay described in his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
At the psychological level of the investor, there's no difference between bitcoins, tulips, railways, or the stock market bubbles of the 1920s, 1990s, or the mid 2000s.
In this case a lot of people are deciding a string of electrons are worth something, as opposed to nothing, and they want to sell it to the next guy as soon as possible.
As long as you pass your Bitcoins on to the next guy while extracting a profit, you'll be happy.
There is always a greater fool. Right up until the moment there isn't one.
Economically, Bitcoin is nothing special.
It's a speculative asset people are buying primarily to flip onto someone else.
The "money 2.0" stuff is just marketing, and has been tried before, in the US in the 1850s during the free banking period, for example.
As I've said elsewhere, this time really isn't different, but you can tweet about it.
The fact Bitcoin isn't regulated is a big plus for some.
As one Bitcoin promoter boasted to me recently- and he did this himself - you can move $1m worth of Bitcoin across a border on a Zip Drive and not be detected.
The authorities won't allow this to last for long. Bitcoin's biggest boosters are also holding large amounts of the stuff, so beware, buyers.
My colleague Karl Whelan has suggested Bitcoin may simply be competed out of existence by other services like LiteCoin, TerraCoin, and AllahCoin, or regulated by national and international governments if it becomes associated with largely criminal activity.
Readers holding Bitcoin will be shaking their heads reading my piece - the value has exploded by thousands of percent in a single year!
To which I respond: Exactly.
Get into Bitcoin or another digital currency if you want.
I hope it makes you rich. But don't kid yourself this is anything more than speculation for a quick buck.
The messianic stuff will go out the window once it collapses. There are lots of things in the real economy to invest in too.
The big advantage of Bitcoin as "stateless money" is that when it collapses, the government won't have to bail it out.
Brown joined City after his contract at Cheltenham Town, who were relegated from League Two in May, came to an end.
"There was a lot of chopping and changing last year. Four managers and 44 players is a lot to deal with," the centre-back told BBC Sport.
"There seems to be a definite stability here with the manager, who's been here for a number of years," he added.
Brown was a virtual ever-present in the Cheltenham side last season as they finished four points from safety and were relegated to the National League after 16 years in the Football League.
But he feels that he could be fighting at the opposite end of the League Two table with Exeter this season:
"Everyone really gets on and there's a good bond there, and that's me saying that and I'm new coming into it.
"That bodes well for the season as out on the pitch everyone will be fighting for each other.
"We've got the quality there to match so I don't see why we can't be challenging for good things."
Aluko met a Beth England pass to put last season's double winners ahead at half-time with a curled finish.
Ji So-Yun turned home Ana Borges' cross for Chelsea's second before Aluko made it 3-0 by shooting in off the post.
England completed the win from close range, consigning Doncaster to their second successive 4-0 defeat.
The loss leaves the Belles without a point from six games in Women's Super League One.
Although they are five points adrift of nearest rivals Reading, Doncaster have played as many as five games fewer than some other top-flight clubs.
Chelsea Ladies forward Beth England: "I've been here six months now and things are starting to gel a little bit. So hopefully we can continue this run and keep scoring goals.
"All week in training we've been doing a lot of pairings, so trying to find what works and what system is best for us.
"It's just about getting the goals and Gemma (Davison) coming on obviously had a massive impact for us."
Doncaster Rovers Belles manager Emma Coates: "They're last year's double champions, we're newly promoted and we're competing.
"The good news is we're competing for longer periods of time, now we've got to sustain it for 90 minutes."
Chelsea Ladies: Spencer; Fahey, Flaherty, Bright; Borges, Ji, Carney (Taylor 82), Bailey (Davison 59), Rafferty (Blundell 53), Aluko, England.
Substitutes not used: Kitching, Cross.
Doncaster Rovers Belles: Hobbs; Barker, Roberts, Tierney, Pacheco, Lipka (Cresswell 74), Omarsdottir (Bakowska-Mathews 82), Simpkins, Humphrey (Smith 70), Murray, Sigsworth.
Substitutes not used: Moorhouse, Newborough, Mosby,
Attendance: 1,803
Referee: Carl Brook
Match ends, Chelsea Ladies 4, Doncaster Rovers Belles 0.
Second Half ends, Chelsea Ladies 4, Doncaster Rovers Belles 0.
Foul by Miri Taylor (Chelsea Ladies).
Christie Murray (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Miri Taylor (Chelsea Ladies).
Emily Simpkins (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Chelsea Ladies 4, Doncaster Rovers Belles 0. Bethany England (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Gemma Davison.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Conceded by Niamh Fahey.
Goal! Chelsea Ladies 3, Doncaster Rovers Belles 0. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Chelsea Ladies. Miri Taylor replaces Karen Carney.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Martha Bakowska-Mathews replaces Katrin Omarsdottir.
Attempt missed. Bethany England (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Chelsea Ladies. Conceded by Nicola Hobbs.
Attempt missed. Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Bethany England (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Bethany England (Chelsea Ladies).
(Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Chelsea Ladies. Conceded by Emily Simpkins.
Foul by Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies).
Emily Simpkins (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Lauren Cresswell replaces Kasia Lipka.
Attempt blocked. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Sue Smith replaces Carla Humphrey.
Attempt missed. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Goal! Chelsea Ladies 2, Doncaster Rovers Belles 0. Ji So-Yun (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ana Borges.
Attempt missed. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from long range on the right misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Chelsea Ladies. Conceded by Nicola Hobbs.
Attempt saved. Bethany England (Chelsea Ladies) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Foul by Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies).
Katrin Omarsdottir (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Chelsea Ladies. Gemma Davison replaces Jade Bailey.
Attempt blocked. Bethany England (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mayumi Pacheco (Doncaster Rovers Belles).
Foul by Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies).
Samantha Tierney (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Ji So-Yun (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws.
Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. The firm says it was diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.
In response, the hackers group Anonymous has targeted the FBI and US Department of Justice websites.
The news came a day after anti-piracy law protests, but investigators said they were ordered two weeks ago.
The US Justice Department said that Megaupload's two co-founders Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand along with two other employees of the business at the request of US officials. It added that three other defendants were still at large.
"This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime,"said a statementposted on its website.
The FBI website was intermittently unavailable on Thursday evening due to what officials said was being "treated as a malicious act".
The hackers' group Anonymous said it was carrying out the attacks.
The Motion Picture Association of America's website also suffered disruption.
The charges included, conspiracies to commit racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering.
A federal court in Virginia ordered that 18 domain names associated with the Hong Kong-based firm be seized.
The Justice Department said that more than 20 search warrants had been executed in nine countries, and that approximately $50m (£32m) in assets had been seized.
It claimed that the accused had pursued a business model designed to promote the uploading of copyrighted works.
"The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content, and publicised their links to users throughout the world," a statement said.
"By actively supporting the use of third-party linking sites to publicise infringing content, the conspirators did not need to publicise such content on the Megaupload site.
"Instead, the indictment alleges that the conspirators manipulated the perception of content available on their servers by not providing a public search function on the Megaupload site and by not including popular infringing content on the publicly available lists of top content downloaded by its users."
Before it was shut down the site posted a statement saying the allegations against it were "grotesquely overblown".
"The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay," it added.
"If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch."
The announcement came a day after thousands of websites took part in a "blackout" to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa).
The US Chamber of Commerce has defended the proposed laws saying that enforcement agencies "lack the tools" to effectively apply existing intellectual property laws to the digital world.
Industry watchers suggest this latest move may feed into the wider debate.
"Neither of the bills are close to being passed - they need further revision. But it appears that officials are able to use existing tools to go after a business alleged to be inducing piracy," said Gartner's media distribution expert Mike McGuire.
"It begs the question that if you can find and arrest people who are suspected to be involved in piracy using existing laws, then why introduce further regulations which are US-only and potentially damaging?"
They lost by 221 runs in the first Test and by 356 runs in the second Test.
Australia were also beaten 4-0 by India last year and Clarke said: "I think we've got to talk about what happened.
"We were hopeful that we'd learnt some lessons from our trip to India, but it doesn't look that way."
This latest defeat was Australia's 10th in their last 14 Tests in Asia.
"Our performances this tour were not any better than in India," Clarke continued.
"We must look to improve next time we get to the sub-continent but as a team there's no doubt the players are happy we're going home to play in conditions we're accustomed to.
"The best teams win away from home consistently, so it shows there's still a lot of work to do."
Australia now host South Africa in a tour featuring three Tests, five one-day internationals and three Twenty20 internationals, with the first T20 in Adelaide on Wednesday.
Clarke reserved his most damning criticism for himself, after another disappointing display with the bat in the middle order.
"I'm probably most angry with myself, most disappointed with my own personal performance," said Clarke, who emerged from the series with just 57 runs to show from his four innings.
"I've always prided myself on leading by example. I don't have any excuse for underperforming. That's probably what burns me most at this moment in time."
Pakistan now move above England to third in the world Test rankings and captain Misbah-ul Haq praised an all-round team performance.
"We always had the belief, and which is why we delivered," said Misbah, who on Sunday scored the fastest 50 in Test cricket and equalled the record for quickest century.
"We knew if we could put up some decent totals, we could bowl them out. As it happened, it was a complete team performance and each member of the team contributed towards the team cause."
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The group, including a former vice-president and two ex-foreign ministers, were arrested after calling for reform.
"We've had no contact since he's been arrested," ex-Foreign Minister Haile Woldetensae's brother told the BBC.
An Eritrean official said the 11 had "committed serious crimes against the national security of Eritrea".
President Isaias Afewerki, who led Eritrea to independence in 1993, has little tolerance for criticism.
Eritrea does not allow opposition parties, independent journalism or civil society organisations.
Amnesty's Eritrea researcher Claire Beston told the BBC's Network Africa the prisoners, who include one woman - Aster Fissehatsion - were all "celebrated veterans" of the independence war and members of the ruling party.
"In May 2001, with four other people, they published an open letter to the president calling for reform, calling for democratic dialogue, rule of law and justice," she said.
"Whilst three of them were out of the country and one withdrew his support, the remaining 11 were arrested on 18 September in 2001 - only later were they accused of committing crimes against the security of the nation."
Michelle Kagari, Amnesty's Africa deputy director, said the anniversary was "a harrowing reminder of President Afewerki's complete disregard for the essential right of freedom of expression".
Eritrean presidential adviser Yemane Gebreab refused to go into details of the case but said the 11 had not been arrested for calling for democratic reforms but for threatening national security.
"If they had succeeded in their plans Eritrea today would no longer exist as an independent sovereign state, or it would have been another Somalia," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
"Eritrea should be commended for showing restraint on how it has handled this matter."
Haile Woldetensae's brother Daniel said no-one dares to ask the authorities about his brother's whereabouts fearing they too will face detention.
"They've never been tried; they've never had any consular access; no-one has visited them once they were taken from their houses at around 06:30 in the morning - they've never been seen," he said.
He described his brother as "a just an ordinary man, fighter for the liberation of Eritrea".
He said that he had found out from reliable informants that the political prisoners were being kept in solitary confinement in an isolated location.
"We fear the worst - and the president knows that they were psychologically prepared for it and he put them in the conditions that is degrading to human beings, there's no medical treatment and food and everything is very harsh," he told the BBC.
Ms Beston said detainees in Eritrea are often held in underground cells or shipping containers, which are unbearably hot by day and freezing at night..
"The temperatures can be so extreme former detainees have told me that they can't sit or lie down without blistering their skin off their bodies," she said.
Tim Yeo, MP for South Suffolk 1983-2014, is suing The Sunday Times for libel over three articles from 2013.
The paper claimed he told reporters he could promote business concerns in return for cash, the High Court heard.
Mr Yeo's counsel said his client never said he could act as a "paid advocate".
The court heard two journalists posed as representatives of a solar energy firm and had lunch with Mr Yeo, who was then chairman of the Commons' Energy & Climate Change Select Committee.
At an earlier hearing, Mr Justice Warby said the articles alleged Mr Yeo, 70, had offered to act as an advocate to push for new laws to the company's benefit.
The judge said the articles suggested Mr Yeo would approach ministers, civil servants and other MPs for a daily fee of £7,000.
Times Newspapers Ltd said the articles were true, it was fair comment and responsible journalism on a matter of public interest.
Desmond Browne QC, Mr Yeo's counsel said the paper had acted "with a singular lack of responsibility both at the journalistic and the editorial level".
"Mr Yeo was the unfortunate victim of that irresponsibility. He says that in his last years of service as an MP, his reputation was trashed.
"At no stage during the lunch when he spoke about ways in which he might be able to assist the journalists, did Tim Yeo understand that what he was being asked to do was act as a paid advocate in breach of the rules."
Mr Yeo was cleared of breaking House of Commons rules by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in 2013.
The libel trial is due to last for seven days.
There will be three stages to the race - a 22 km time trial around Belfast, a loop around the north coast and a cross border final stage.
The Giro d'Italia is one of cycling's three prestigious grand tours.
It is understood Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster is travelling to Milan next week for the official launch.
However, although cycle fans will be keen to try out the route, not everyone is happy.
Sinn Féin has said it is disappointed that the race circuit ignores west Belfast.
The stages will take place in Northern Ireland from Friday 9 May to Sunday 11 May, 2014.
The Belfast route on Friday 9 May starts at Titanic Belfast and takes in the Newtownards Road, Stormont, Queen's Bridge, the Ormeau Road, Stranmillis and Belfast city centre.
The Saturday leg - a 218 km cycle - starts on Belfast's Antrim Road and goes to Antrim, Ballymena, Bushmills, the Giant's Causeway taking in the coastline from Cushendall to Larne on to Whitehead and Carrickfergus and back to Belfast.
On day three, Sunday, the final stage of the Ireland leg, the riders will embark on a 187km cross border section.
They will leave Armagh and travel to Richhill and Newtownhamilton before heading south, crossing the border at Forkhill en route to Dublin via Dundalk, Castlebellingham and Drogheda.
It is the first time the international event is beginning outside continental Europe. The Northern Ireland Executive is paying £3m from Tourist Board, EU and Department of Enterprise (Deti) funds to host the event.
All the routes are preliminary at this stage, but they are unlikely to change.
Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey said he was disappointed that the circuit did not include west Belfast.
"The image of cyclists going up and down the Falls Road would send out a massive positive signal right across the world," he said.
"This is about advertising the city. This is about promoting the city, and nowhere else can do it better than the Falls Road, and I think it's a shame that Deti have excluded west Belfast from this competition.
"What we will see is all other parts of the city being touched and being seen world-wide, except west Belfast, and it is just not good enough. We will campaign to meet whoever we have to meet, to ensure this race comes to this part of the city."
Others are happier. Former champion cyclist Dave Kane cannot believe his luck. The time trial route will pass the front door of his bike shop on the Upper Newtownards Road in Belfast.
Mr Kane said: "I've been in Italy and I've seen the Giro and to get the Grand Depart here, it's unbelievable. The people here just don't know what this is going to be like. It's not to say you have a bunch of cyclists going through.
"These are the top pros in the world and they'll be here for roughly a week.
"They'll be out routing the stages and then you'll have the prologue which is the team time trial which goes past the door here and round Stormont and it's unbelievable for the people of Northern Ireland, for the tourism, for the economy to be able to support something like the Giro."
The Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana are the most well known and prestigious Grand Tours for top cyclists.
The start of the 104-year-old Giro has traditionally taken place in Italy, but in recent times has been awarded to an outside country every two years.
Two of cycling's Grand Tours will make visits to Britain and Ireland next year, with the 2014 Tour de France starting in Yorkshire.
The rainfall follows one of the worst droughts in more than 50 years, made worse by the El Nino phenomenon.
Administrators in the southern district of Wolaita said 41 people had died in landslides on Monday.
Nine other people drowned in floods in the south-eastern area of Bale that also killed hundreds of head of cattle.
The flooding in Bale, in the south of the Oromia region, has reportedly affected 559 hectares (1,381 acres) of farmland too, washing away seeds.
Rescue efforts are under way to save people missing in the landslides, Wolaita police commissioner Alemayehu Mamo told Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC).
But a major road and bridge had also been damaged in the SNNP region, hampering rescue efforts, he said.
The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza in the capital, Addis Ababa, says more than 10 million people are already in need of urgent humanitarian assistance because of the drought.
The government and aid agencies have launched a $1.4bn (£970m) appeal to help those requiring urgent food assistance.
The cars were all parked in an area of the city known as The Glens when they were damaged.
Police Scotland said they believed the incident took place between 20:00 on Friday and 02:00 on Saturday.
Officers in Tayside have appealed to anyone with information about the vandalism to contact them.
Out of 1,000 people questioned in the Red C survey, 53% said they would vote Yes in the 31 May referendum, up six points on the last poll two weeks ago.
The poll suggests 31% would vote No, down four points, while 16% were undecided, down two points.
The referendum will decide Ireland's support for the treaty, designed to tighten budgetary rules across Europe.
Those advocating a Yes vote say the treaty will bring stability to Ireland's bailed out economy, while those on the No side believe it would mean years of further austerity.
Only the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom refused to sign up to the pact.
In terms of party support, the poll commissioned by the Sunday Business Post suggested that Taoiseach Enda Kenny's Fine Gael party has dropped three points to 29%, while coalition partner Labour is down to 13%.
Fianna Fail is up two points to 19%, while Sinn Fein is also up two to 21%, the party's highest ever rating in a Red C survey.
Independents and others are unchanged at 18%.
Twenty-one people were killed on 21 November 1974 when bombs exploded in two city centre pubs.
Six innocent men were wrongfully convicted. No-one has ever been brought to justice for one of the worst single losses of life in the Troubles.
Michael Christopher Hayes said he was sorry innocent people were killed.
The 69-year-old, who now lives in south Dublin, refused to say who planted the bombs in the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town, but said he was speaking out to give "the point of view of a participant".
The bombs had not been intended to kill people, he said, adding that there had been a crucial eight-minute delay before police were warned of the bombs' location.
Once he became aware of the death toll from the two bombs, he personally defused a third bomb left on Birmingham's Hagley Road, said Mr Hayes.
Relatives of those killed have rejected the apology as "gutless and spineless".
An inquest into the bombings has been re-opened following a campaign by victims' families, who feel they have been denied justice and that their loved ones have been forgotten.
Victims' relatives have always wanted the names of the suspects to be disclosed at the inquest.
But just last week the coroner ruled that suspects' identities would not be discussed - a ruling denounced by the families as a "whitewash".
West Midlands Police said their investigation remained open and they would respond to "any new significant information to bring those responsible to justice".
"An inquest is due to start and we will not be providing any further comment until the proceedings have concluded," said a police spokesperson.
In 1990, Michael Hayes was named in a landmark Granada TV programme as one of the men who placed the bombs in the two pubs.
He said he was arrested and questioned by West Midlands Police about the bombings in 1974, but was released.
When asked last week if he planted the bombs, he told BBC News NI: "No comment. No comment.
"I've been accused of a lot of things, without one shred of forensic evidence, without one statement made, without one witness coming out against me."
He said the bombs were made of gelignite, and were planted by two individuals.
Asked if he was one of the two, he replied: "I'm not telling you."
However, he said he took what he called "collective responsibility" for all the IRA's actions in England - including the Birmingham pub bombings.
He said he was in the IRA for more than 30 years in both Ireland and England, adding that he was "a participant in the IRA's activities in Birmingham".
He said: "We were horrified when we heard because it was not intended. I personally defused the third bomb."
Asked what expertise he had that allowed him to do that, he said: "Quite a lot. I specialised in explosives. I knew what I was doing."
Michael Hayes said the IRA unit in Birmingham had been shocked by the scale of the death toll.
"It was not the intention of the IRA to kill innocent people," he told BBC News NI.
"That wasn't meant. It wouldn't have been done if that was the case."
He said he thought they had given sufficient time for the police to evacuate the buildings.
"We believed that we gave adequate warnings," he said.
"It was only later on that we realised there was eight valuable minutes missed. We were going to give them a half-hour warning.
"Out of that half hour, eight minutes elapsed - eight priceless minutes."
He said that as he understood it one of the phone boxes used for the telephone warnings was broken and another one was being used.
The former IRA man said he was sorry for the hurt caused to the relatives of those killed.
"My apologies and my heartfelt sympathy to all of you for a terrible tragic loss that you have been put through," he said.
"In all these years that you have been trying to find closure, I hope at last God will be merciful and bring you closure.
"I apologise not only for myself, I apologise for all active republicans who had no intention of hurting anybody and sympathise with you."
Julie Hambleton, whose 18-year-old sister Maxine was killed in the explosions, said an apology from the IRA would be offensive.
"He's a coward, as simple as that," she told the BBC.
"He'll take collective responsibility for those unarmed, innocent people, but won't say who done it?
"He's gutless and spineless," she added. "He's told us nothing, he's admitted nothing."
Michael Hayes has said he would not be attending the inquest into the bombings.
"I would not go along to it. Why should I? What reason would I have to go there? I am just kind of giving this interview.
"That is sufficient. I'm not going back to England."
Meanwhile, the former IRA man insists he has a clear conscience.
"Very much so," he said. "I can sleep at night. Because I am not a murderer."
He said he would rather die than become an informer by naming the real bombers to help free the Birmingham Six, who served 16 years in prison before their sentences were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991.
He said: "You would want me to go in and give the name of other men, to become an informer? I'd sooner die in front of you than become an informer."
There will be a BBC News NI special programme on the Michael Hayes interview on BBC 1 Northern Ireland at 22:40 and on the BBC News Channel at 23:30
Irani told BBC Essex: "We need to try to get into Division One of the County Championship. We've fallen short of that for quite a few years now.
"We have to change and we have to improve massively."
Essex were last in the top division in 2010, when they were relegated after winning just two matches.
Irani, who played for Essex between 1994 and 2007, has recently replaced Graham Saville, who held the post for 27 years, as committee chairman.
"Our performance levels haven't been as high as they should have been and a lot of the members would probably say that," added Irani, who won three Test and 31 one-day international caps for England.
"We need to keep working hard and improving in all areas.
"Top players who want to achieve and be successful aren't necessarily bothered about the type of beer in the members' bar. That's down to the members, but the players themselves want to win things.
"We know the Test grounds have always got a bigger wage structure and bigger budgets, but there are ways and means.
"There's an amazing heritage here, and we're not actually far behind when it comes to wage structure."
The stock phrase cropped up again on the occasion of Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond's visit to Tehran to reopen the British embassy nearly four years after it was closed amid attacks by hardline protesters.
Conservative daily Hemayat carried a front page report headlined "The old fox arrived with its lights turned off". Another conservative daily, Resalat, published a report entitled "No-one is happy with the return of the old fox".
As in many other countries, foxes symbolise a cunning and sly character in Persian literature but where does the term "the old fox" come from?
In the Persian language, a poet who died in Tehran around 85 years ago was the first to promote the phrase.
Seyyed Ahmad Adib Pishavari (1844-1930) was an expert in literature and philosophy, whose work was characterised by anti-British sentiment.
Born in Peshawar, in today's Pakistan, he lost many of his relatives during the wars with British forces in 1857-58. Adib later moved to Iran where he continued his education.
There, he experienced major events such as the Constitutional Revolution, in 1905-07. The revolution led to the establishment of the parliament during the Qajar dynasty.
Despite the fact that the majority of people backed the creation of the constitutional monarchy, Adib described the revolution as a "plot" hatched by Britain.
His anti-UK feelings emerged in his poetry, particularly during World War One. In fact, he wrote several poems in support of the German Kaiser.
Throughout his works, he often likened the UK to animals - an "old fox", an "ominous raven" and a "venomous viper" - to attack British colonial policies in Iran and the region, policies which he saw as "evil". The term, the old fox, however, remains popular to this day.
The following is a translation of one of Adib's poems:
Many an ancient house
Was razed after you crept in
You seized lands through your fox games
You have escaped hundred of traps, like an old fox.
There's been an orchestrated media campaign against the reopening of the British embassy. Conservative media outlets are highlighting key moments in Iran and Britain's troubled history including Britain's complicity in the CIA 1953 coup which toppled the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq.
They also accuse Britain of helping mastermind and provoke the mass street protests against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which followed the disputed presidential elections in 2009. Conservatives refer to those protests as "sedition".
"Such documented historical evidence is only one part of the treason and deception of the evil British government against the noble people of Iran. That's a strong reason for the historical hatred by Iranians towards Britain and that's why they call it 'the old fox'," says a commentary from the conservative Mehr news agency.
Some hardline users also took to social media platforms to criticise the perceived thaw in the bilateral relations by posting pictures and cartoons of "the old fox".
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The target, to be met by 2021, is double that set by Welsh Labour ministers in the current assembly term.
Lib Dem AM Peter Black said the Lib Dems would fund the proposals using new borrowing powers and by scrapping plans for an M4 relief road.
He said action was needed to tackle a "crippling undersupply of housing".
The Republican presidential frontrunner claimed that research by the respected Pew organisation showed a "great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population" - but he did not refer to any specific study to support that claim, and we can't find one that does.
Mr Trump did cite a specific a study by the Center for Security Policy - "very highly respected people, who I know, actually" - which he said showed that 25% of Muslims in the US believed violence against America was justified "as part of the global jihad".
Mr Trump's press release:
But what exactly is the Center for Security Policy, and just how highly respected is it?
The CSP was founded in 1988 by Frank Gaffney Jr, a former staffer in the Ronald Reagan administration who has been accused of Islamophobia. On its website, the centre calls itself a "Special Forces in the War of Ideas" which offers "maximum bang for the buck" to its donors.
The CSP does not publish information about who those donors are, but according to a 2013 report by Salon they include some of the US's biggest aviation and defence companies - Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and General Electric.
Promoted on the organisation's website are reports and books with titles such as Star Spangled Sharia, Civilisation Jihad, and Muslim Colonisation of America. Responding to the controversy over Mr Trump's remarks, the CSP said it was "necessary to respond to the threat posed by jihadist terror in a way that ... calls it what it is".
The CSP has been criticised across the political spectrum - by high-profile Republicans as well as Democrats - and by organisations which monitor extremist groups. Terri Johnson, executive director of the Center for New Community and J Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, called it "an extremist think-tank" led by an "anti-Muslim conspiracist".
The group was heavily criticised in 2012 after it repeatedly accused Huma Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton, of being a secret member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Leading Republicans including John McCain and John Boehner denounced the accusations.
The CSP has been criticised by a wide range of extremism monitoring organisations, including the Anti-Defamation League, and Center for Democratic Values at City University of New York.
Arguably, no. According to the Bridge Initiative, a Georgetown University Islamophobia research project, the CSP survey was an online, self-selecting poll of 600 people, meaning respondents opted in to taking part.
Self-selecting internet surveys are less reliable that more traditional, random polling methods, because the opt-in element can lead to bias. Then there are the existing views of the organisation commissioning the poll - the CSP - which may have influenced the outcome.
The Washington Post called the poll "shoddy". According to the Post, the question had an agree/disagree answer format with agree in each case linked to the more controversial option - favouring Sharia law or supporting violence. Researchers say this format is affected by "acquiescence response bias" - we are generally more likely to favour agree options.
The CSP said in a statement on Sunday that its research methods were "consistent with international industry standards".
Mr Gaffney Jr served in the Reagan administration during the 1980s but left in 1988 to form the CSP, after his nomination as assistant secretary of defence was rejected by the Senate.
"Once a respectable Washington insider," according to the Southern Poverty Law Centre, which monitors US hate groups and extremists, Mr Gaffney Jr became "one of America's most notorious Islamophobes", the SPLC said.
Mr Gaffney Jr has repeatedly accused parts of America's Muslim population of what he calls "civilisational jihad". He has also called for Muslims to be investigated by a "new and improved" House Un-American Activities Committee - a highly controversial Cold War-era body which questioned and blacklisted US citizens accused of being communists.
Frank Simpson veered off the road at 50mph in an 18-tonne lorry and failed to slow down before smashing into John Trimble's parked Vauxhall Corsa.
Simpson, who admitted causing death by careless driving, only braked after hitting Mr Simpson's car.
He was also given a six-month curfew.
In addition, the 35-year-old, from Edinburgh, was disqualified from driving for 30 months and ordered to re-sit the extended driving test.
Sheriff William Wood told Perth Sheriff Court that the offence was in the mid-range of careless driving.
The court heard previously that Simpson was driving a refrigerated HGV for DHL and heading to the Vue Cinema in Inverness when the crash happened on 4 November 2014.
Fiscal depute Sue Ruta said Mr Trimble was parked in layby 33 on the northbound carriageway of the A9 at 07:50. He was wearing his seatbelt.
Ms Ruta told the court: "A witness observed the accused's lorry start to drift slowly to the left towards the entrance of the layby.
"That witness had a clear view of the lorry and could see the car parked in the layby. He thought the lorry was going to hit the car because it did not slow down and the brake lights did not come on.
"He saw the accused's lorry plough into the back of the car, propelling it into the air. He saw it turn over before coming to rest on its roof."
Mr Trimble was declared dead at the scene.
Ms Ruta said the lorry's tacograph showed it had gradually slowed down before the impact, but the brakes were only applied two seconds after the vehicles collided.
"There were no mechanical defects. The driver would have had a clear view of the layby for 32 seconds before impact.
Simpson's solicitor Gary Foulis said: "He is truly and deeply remorseful for what's happened here.
"He fully understands and comprehends the catastrophic consequences of his actions.
"There is understanding on his part of the devastating impact it will have on the victim's family."
Sheriff Wood said: "It's certainly nowhere near dangerous driving, yet it's not simply momentary inattention, because there was 32 seconds where he should have seen the vehicle.
"These are serious matters. You caused the death of a man who was in the prime of his family life.
"This was a man with very close relationships to his three daughters and son, and a wife and grandchildren.
"You have denied all of those generations a future with John Trimble.
"You will need to live with that. It will not be an easy thing for you to deal with."
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The Shrimps are 19th in League Two having lost four of their last five matches, though they remain 13 points clear of the relegation zone.
That run has coincided with chairman and majority shareholder Peter McGuigan placing the club up for sale.
"The players deserve criticism because they're the ones out there," Bentley, 39, told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"But I've got to take it on the chin as it's me that picked the team, it's my team.
"I'll be asking serious questions of myself as I think this is the lowest I've been.
"We're in a poor run of form - we're nearly safe but you can never take anything from granted in football.
"It was a shocking day for us. Terrible in regards to performance but I'm captain of the ship and I've got to be the one who is going to come out and say it as it is, and I've got to look at myself as well."
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The Islamabad High Court's order prohibits all Valentine's Day festivities in government offices and public spaces with immediate effect.
It also directs the media not to promote or cover Valentine's events.
The orders were a response to a private petition which argued that Valentine's Day was contrary to Islamic teaching.
According to the Dawn newspaper, the petition argued that the festival promoted immorality, nudity and indecency under the cover of spreading love.
Valentine's Day has grown in popularity in many cities in Pakistan over the past decade, but some religious groups have denounced it as decadent.
The ban does not affect shops and restaurants, but it is the first time such a ruling has been imposed in the capital.
Countries out of love with Valentine's Day
It comes a year after Pakistan's President Mamnoon Hussain said Valentine's Day should be avoided, calling it a Western tradition that was not part of Pakistan's culture.
There have been other localised measures. Last year local officials in Kohat, in north-west Pakistan, banned the sale of Valentine cards and goods, and Peshawar local council banned celebrations.
However, officials in both places later said the bans had been discarded or ignored for being unpopular.
This is not the first time that Valentine's Day has made the news in Pakistan for the wrong reasons. Last year it was vigilantes burning Valentine cards, but now for the first time a court has barred it. Many believe this shows the reluctance of religiously conservative parts of Pakistani society to assimilate international events or ideas.
Many religious hardliners believe Valentine's Day is a foreign idea with no roots in Pakistan. They argue that it is is essentially a Christian festival. Last year one conservative newspaper ran an advertisement which described it as "a festival of obscenity". They fear in the future they will also be celebrating Diwali, Christmas and who knows what else.
Also creating concern among ordinary Pakistanis is the fact that it is the commercial entities that are out promoting these days to make them spend their hard-earned money. Online stores and restaurants offer special deals, while prices of flowers, especially red roses, soar on the day.
But the real problem is probably the narrow definition of the Valentine's Day message. It is not seen as promoting love, but perceived in a more sexual way.
How the ban is implemented depends on how the government and, especially, the police interpret it. If they think it means going after shops selling Valentine's Day items, it could mean a ban on them too. But so far we have seen no such action.
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A court in Pakistan has banned public celebrations of Valentine's Day in the capital, Islamabad, on the grounds that it is not part of Muslim culture.
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Health Minister Mark Drakeford has urged families to discuss their views on donation, 100 days before Wales adopts a system of presumed consent.
Bethan Lewis of Cardiff-based Brighter Comms welcomed hard-hitting TV adverts as necessary to make people think.
"You're relying on the public to take action at a time when the message may not seem relevant to them," she said.
As well as TV advertising, a roadshow has been touring supermarkets across Wales to raise awareness of the new system, which comes into effect on 1 December.
Known as a "soft opt-out" system, people are invited to register their wish to donate their organs or not, with the assumption that they consent to donation if they do not register a view.
The Welsh government said 39,500 people in Wales have registered their wish to opt out of organ donation from December, while 1,062,000 people were currently registered as donors.
Ms Lewis told the Sunday Supplement programme on BBC Radio Wales: "Research shows that we have to see an advert seven times before it sinks in.
"So it's clear that the advertising campaign needs to continue in the run-up to the change, across as many channels as possible."
Mike Stephens, a consultant transplant surgeon at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, said: "We want to encourage families to have this conversation before they die so that families can be sure of the wishes of their relatives."
He added that families would still be consulted about donation following a death, but said use of the register would make "a sensitive issue easier to discuss".
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A "blustery weekend" is expected with westerly and south-westerly winds of up to 60mph (97km/h) hitting on the coast on Saturday, the Met Office said.
Saturday's Irish Ferries fast craft sailings from Anglesey have been cancelled, and a speed limit is in force on the A55 Britannia Bridge.
Gusts around western coasts could reach 70mph (113km/h) on Sunday.
Irish Ferries said adverse conditions for Sunday also mean its Rosslare-Pembroke ferry crossing are "in doubt", and passengers are advised to check with the operator before travelling.
Highways officials say the A477 Cleddau Bridge at Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, has been closed to high-sided vehicles due to the wind.
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A yellow "be aware" warning of high winds issued by the Met Office remains in place across Wales for the weekend.
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Michel Barnier was addressing at a joint session of the Irish houses of parliament in Dublin.
He is the first non-head of state or prime minister to make such an address.
Mr Barnier told Irish parliamentarians he had a duty to speak the truth and that the "UK's departure from the EU would have consequences".
He said the Irish border issue would be one of his three priorities in negotiations.
But he emphasised that customs controls were part of EU border management.
The British and Irish governments have both said they do not want a return to customs posts on the border.
The EU's negotiating guidelines call for a "flexible and creative" approach to the customs issue.
They also state that issues relating to the Irish border will have be resolved in the first phase of its talks with the UK.
No solid plans have yet been advanced by either the EU or the UK.
Mr Barnier said that whatever happened in negotiations, "nothing should put peace at risk".
He added that he wanted to "reassure the Irish people" that in the Brexit negotiations the Republic of Ireland's interest will be the EU's interest.
Mr Barnier said the EU wants the negotiations with the UK to succeed.
"We will need to negotiate a 'bold and ambitious', but fair, free-trade agreement," he said.
Addressing Mr Barnier in the joint committee, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams told him he wanted to see a border poll within the next five years.
The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) has described Brexit as being bad bad for the UK, for Europe and the Republic of Ireland.
Enda Kenny said it challenges Ireland's peace and prosperity, although he said the country would maintain its close relationship with the UK.
The Republic of Ireland's economy is particularly vulnerable to any new tariff or regulatory barriers with the UK, which may arise as a result of Brexit.
The chief economist of the Irish Central Bank has warned that within 10 years of a "hard Brexit", the number of people employed would be 40,000 fewer, compared with a no-Brexit scenario.
Gabriel Fagan said that some small and medium-sized Irish businesses are "likely to be among the hardest hit by Brexit".
Seán Ó Fearghaíl, the speaker of the Dáil (Irish parliament), said Mr Barnier's address was "timely and appropriate" given that Brexit "could have a greater impact on Ireland than any on other EU state".
"As legislators there is an onus on us to be fully informed on the implications of Brexit on this country in particular and on the EU in general and to communicate our particular concerns on Brexit," he added.
Mr Barnier is expected to visit a food production business close to the Irish border on Friday.
Across the country, ballot boxes and other paraphernalia are being moved in to the schools and community buildings that will become polling places.
A total of 4,285,323 people have registered to vote.
With turnout expected to top 80%, Thursday looks like being the busiest day in Scottish electoral history.
There are an estimated 4,410,288 people over the age of 16 resident in Scotland, according to 2012 figures from the Scottish government.
This suggests that 97% of the total number of people eligible to vote have registered.
Across the country, local councils will be responsible for the operation of some 2,608 polling places with a total of 5,579 polling stations from 07:00 until 22:00.
The polling places are the schools and halls that voters attend to cast their votes. The stations are the designated rooms within the polling places which handle voters based on where they live.
In most areas, a maximum of 800 voters have been allocated to each polling station and many will allocate additional staff to assist during busy times.
In Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, the council is providing 483 ballot boxes across 483 polling stations in 200 polling places.
The council said that 97.2% of Glasgow's eligible population was registered to vote in the referendum - the highest ever level of registration in the city.
To cope with the large number of voters expected, the council will have 1,188 people working at its polling stations, including 185 5th and 6th year pupils.
When polling places close at 22:00 on Thursday, 113 vans will be used to transport the ballot boxes to the Emirates Arena near Celtic Park, where about 700 people will work on the count.
Similar arrangements are in place across all 32 council areas, although variations in approach will be taken to account for population size and geography.
Local authorities such as Orkney Islands Council do not have polling stations on their many isles.
Instead, voters will have to travel to the Mainland of Orkney to vote, if they have not already cast a postal vote.
Nationally, a total of 789,024 people applied for a postal vote, which is the largest volume of registration for postal votes ever in Scotland.
When the polls close, those postal votes returned will be the first to be counted.
Across each local authority area, the process of verifying each postal votes has begun.
When postal votes are completed, the vote is cast but the voter must also provide their date of birth and a signature.
That signature is then compared to the one which the voter provided when they applied for the postal vote.
For the first time, this stage of verification will be carried out by a machine which uses specially configured scanners and software designed to make sure it is a valid vote.
If the vote is validated it will then be counted by hand.
Chief counting officer for the referendum, Mary Pitcaithly, said any problem which a machine identified with a signature would be subject to human review.
"The computer can accept the signatures if they are close and if there's any doubt at all they will throw it out," she said.
"It's only throwing it out so there can be human intervention at that stage."
The former England captain was commentating for Sky Sports on the MCC v Rest of the World match at Lord's when he made the remark to Nick Knight.
Sky were on a break but viewers of Fox Sports in Australia, who take Sky's commentary, heard the exchange.
He referred to Pietersen in very derogatory terms
"I apologise unreservedly, particularly to Kevin Pietersen. I am mortified and profusely sorry," Strauss said.
In an earlier statement, Sky apologised for the "language used" by Strauss.
BBC Radio 5 live's Pat Murphy said: "We understand he thought he was off air but the comments were broadcast in Australia. Apparently during an advert break, Strauss was talking to Nick Knight, his co-commentator, and he referred to Pietersen in very derogatory terms."
Strauss, 37, was captain of England when Pietersen was dropped for sending derogatory text messages about his team-mates - and Strauss in particular - to members of the South Africa team in 2012.
Strauss retired shortly after that controversy and Pietersen was eventually brought back into the fold.
However, Pietersen's return was short-lived and in February was informed he was no longer part of the national team's plans.
The NCA said there were more than 300 live policing operations currently, with cases affecting "every large town and city in the country".
The agency estimated that there were tens of thousands of victims.
It said previous estimates of 10,000-13,000 victims in the UK were found to be the "tip of the iceberg".
"The more we look, the more we find," the NCA's vulnerabilities director Will Kerr said.
Mr Kerr said he had been shocked by what he had seen during this year's intensive efforts to break up gangs, with almost every major operation triggering even more investigations.
He warned that trafficking into modern slavery was now so widespread that ordinary people would be unwittingly coming into contact with victims every day.
The NCA said the growth in modern slavery was being driven by international gangs increasingly recognising the amount of money they could make by controlling people within a huge range of economic sectors, rather than just dealing drugs.
It warned that the key sectors for slavery now included food processing, fishing, agriculture, construction, domestic and care workers and car washes.
Mr Kerr said: "We have been shocked by the scale of what we have seen...
"As you go about your normal daily life there is a growing and a good chance that you will come across a victim who has been exploited and that's why we are asking the public to recognise their concerns and report them."
The NCA said that signs of abuse included anything that suggested someone was being controlled or coerced into work, such as:
Modern slaves in the UK, often said to be hiding in plain sight, are working in nail bars, construction sites, brothels, cannabis farms and in agriculture.
Traffickers are using the internet to lure their victims with hollow promises of jobs, education and even love.
Albania, Nigeria, Vietnam, Romania and Poland are the most likely countries of origin, but some victims are from the UK itself.
There is no typical victim. They can be men, women or children of all ages but it is normally more prevalent among the most vulnerable, minorities or socially-excluded groups.
Many believe they are escaping poverty, limited opportunities at home, a lack of education, unstable social and political conditions or war. But their slave masters are usually out to make financial gain.
Sexual exploitation is the most common form of modern slavery reported in the UK, followed by labour exploitation, forced criminal exploitation and domestic servitude.
Sources: Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Strategic Plan 2015-2017 and Modernslavery.co.uk
People from Eastern Europe, Vietnam and Nigeria were the most common victims brought to the UK, Mr Kerr said.
He gave one example of a 12-year-old Roma girl who was stopped at border control and had been bound for a life as a domestic slave.
He said: "She was being brought in to work for a family in part of the UK, where she had effectively been sold by her father - or it had been facilitated by her father - and she was being brought in to take this family's children to school and pick them up every day, and clean the house in between.
"Twelve years old, same age as my youngest son."
Mr Kerr said criminal charges were pending against those involved in the case.
He added that the problems authorities are facing are further complicated by the fact some people do not realise they are a victim of slavery.
BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani
This stark assessment of the growing scale of modern slavery is a story of our times: Criminal gangs looking to maximise the profits from globalisation by coercing and controlling people, as they move them around the world like commodities.
It is obviously impossible to fully assess a hidden problem. And while the NCA says it has been shocked by what it has seen over the last six months, there are also criticisms.
On Wednesday the anti-slavery commissioner questioned in an interview with the Evening Standard whether the NCA had previously failed to act quickly enough on its own existing intelligence.
In its defence the agency says there has been a "sea change" in response across the board.
Four years ago the former home secretary, now Prime Minister Theresa May, said it was time for a tougher response.
The question remains whether this extraordinary modern crime has grown because too little has been done since then.
The Modern Slavery Act was introduced into law in 2015.
It states an offence is committed if someone holds another in slavery or servitude or requires them to perform forced or compulsory labour.
The legislation also increased the maximum jail term for people traffickers from 14 years to life.
Cherie Blair, the human rights barrister and anti-slavery campaigner, said the revelations came as "no surprise whatsoever to anyone who's been working is this area".
"Modern slavery's always been a hidden problem and what's happened since we passed the Modern Slavery Act in 2015 is more and more light is being thrown onto this problem, and rather like child abuse in the past, it's always been there but people were not aware of it, and as they become more aware of it, we uncover the true extent of the problem."
Figures released earlier this year by the NCA showed the number of suspected victims of slavery and human trafficking had more than doubled in three years.
It said there were 3,805 people reported as potential victims in 2016 - an increase from 1,745 in 2013.
A Home Office spokesman said the government had taken "world-leading action" to tackle modern slavery, including toughening up sentences and increasing support and protection for victims.
"We continue to support the work of the National Crime Agency to leave criminal networks of traffickers and slavers nowhere to hide.
"Earlier this year we launched the Joint Slavery and Trafficking Analysis Centre to provide high quality intelligence analysis to assess the threat posed by modern slavery, and to support an increased operational response to this horrendous crime."
The accusations relate to violence outside the presidential palace in Cairo last December when at least seven people were killed in clashes.
Fourteen other members of the Muslim Brotherhood are to stand trial on the same charges.
Mr Morsi has been held at a secret location since he was deposed in July.
He faces a number of charges but this case is his first referral for trial.
Since he was ousted from power, the military-backed interim government has cracked down on Brotherhood supporters, who are demanding Mr Morsi's reinstatement.
Last month, hundreds of protesters died when security forces stormed pro-Morsi camps in the capital.
The state prosecutor referred the former president for trial late on Sunday, Egypt's state media reported.
They said he would go on trial on charges of "incitement to murder and violence" in December 2012.
The date for the trial is yet to be announced.
The case relates to clashes outside the presidential palace in early December 2012.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators had rallied outside the building on the night of 4 December and the following day in protest at what they described as Mr Morsi's illegal decrees giving him sweeping powers and also his drive to change the country's constitution.
On Sunday, state media said an investigation revealed that Mr Morsi had asked the Republican Guard and the minister in charge of police to break up the protesters' sit-in, but they had refused to obey the order.
Mr Morsi's aides are then alleged to have called their supporters to deal with the demonstrators.
At least seven people died in the clashes and hundreds more were injured.
Mr Morsi's supporters say they were defending the palace after being attacked by opposition activists.
Among the other 14 suspects due to go on trial with the ousted president are leading figures in the Brotherhood's political wing, Mohammed al-Beltagi and Essam El-Erian.
Mr Morsi has previously been accused of the "premeditated murder of some prisoners, officers and soldiers" when he and several Muslim Brotherhood leaders were freed during a breakout at a Cairo prison in January 2011.
He is also alleged to have plotted attacks on jails in the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak and of conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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The 28-year-old was released from hospital on Sunday after being struck by a straight drive from Birmingham Bears' Sam Hain during Saturday's game.
The decision was taken after further tests in hospital on Tuesday.
It will allow Fletcher, who suffered a concussion, "adequate time to recover and complete a monitored care plan".
"While we are all obviously very disappointed, Luke's health is of paramount importance and comes first," said Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell.
"We will continue to give him every support as he undergoes his recovery."
Fletcher told BBC East Midlands Today: "I am disappointed, but after the head scan, one of the doctors did mention that I might not feature again this season.
"I got my head around it pretty early on. I went back to see the surgeon in Birmingham and he just told me that it would be it for the season.
"It is hard to take. I worked hard this winter to make sure I could put the performances in to help Notts.
"But if you look back at the footage, I feel lucky in other ways to still be around."
The Intelligence and Security Committee's annual report said spy chiefs considered this UK's "the most worrying emerging terrorist threat".
They also had no doubt that "vast stockpiles" of chemical weapons had been amassed in Syria, the ISC said.
Al-Qaeda and "individual jihadists" were both seen as threats, it added.
"There is a risk of extremist elements in Syria taking advantage of the permissive environment to develop external attack plans, including against Western targets," the ISC, which oversees the work of the intelligence agencies, said in its annual report.
Protests in Syria, inspired by the Arab Spring which saw changes of government in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, were brutally suppressed by security forces in 2011.
The stand-off has since escalated into a civil war which has claimed tens of thousands of lives so far, according to UN estimates.
By Gordon CoreraSecurity correspondent, BBC News
The annual ISC report provides a unique insight into the work of Britain's intelligence agencies - but it has its limits.
It makes clear that cyber is moving up the agenda, although terrorism remains the biggest concern thanks to the impact of Syria and the danger of chemical weapons getting into the wrong hands.
More is being done in conjunction with allies to the point where the committee was told that, in the recent campaign in Libya, Britain "went to war on German maps".
There is also the intriguing fact that MI6 is questioned over a payment of several million pounds "relating to an operation with a foreign intelligence service which was not adequately documented".
No more detail on this, nor on two of the most controversial issues of recent months: the killing in Woolwich of Lee Rigby and revelations by Edward Snowden about GCHQ.
Those issues are being looked at separately.
After hearing evidence from senior members of the intelligence agencies and the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), the committee highlighted "serious concern" among its witnesses that Syria's weapons stockpiles might be compromised.
Assessments of their contents "vary considerably", the report said, but suggest they include sarin, ricin, mustard gas and VX, which the committee described as "the deadliest nerve agent ever created".
"There has to be a significant risk that some of the country's chemical weapons stockpile could fall into the hands of those with links to terrorism, in Syria or elsewhere in the region," the committee concluded.
"If this happens, the consequences could be catastrophic."
The ISC also warned: "Large numbers of radicalised individuals have been attracted to the country, including significant numbers from the UK and Europe.
"They are likely to acquire expertise and experience which could significantly increase the threat posed when they return home."
The report said there was a growing threat of attacks by "lone actors", like the assailant who stabbed Labour MP Stephen Timms while he was holding a surgery in his east London constituency in 2010.
By their nature, lone actors are much harder for intelligence agencies to detect, it added.
One Home Office official reportedly told the committee: "There is no doubt that the more sophisticated people in al-Qaeda recognise that groups are, in some ways, a thing of the past; and that encouraging lone acts of terror is exactly the way forward."
The ISC expressed concern that the agencies were struggling to make projected efficiency savings, due to be completed by 2014-15.
It highlighted a forecast £59m shortfall in the £220m savings that the agencies - MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - were supposed to have achieved through more collaborative working.
While the agencies said they were "fairly confident" that the targets set by the Treasury would be met, the committee said it "does not fully share that confidence".
The committee said: "It is essential that real and sustainable efficiencies are delivered if frontline capabilities are to be protected. More needs to be done urgently."
Leo Stacey was taken to Luton and Dunstable Hospital in 2015 after vomiting repeatedly.
He died as the result of a problem with his bowel and viral gastroenteritis before he could be treated further.
His mother said staff had not taken her concerns seriously, had failed to diagnose her son or to rehydrate him.
Nathalie Aubry-Stacey, from Harpenden in Hertfordshire, said: "I firmly believe that if Leo had received competent and timely care, he would not have died and Marc and I and the rest of the family would not have been left scarred and devastated by these events.
"There was ample information that Leo needed to be referred to a paediatric surgeon but this was not done in a timely manner."
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She told Ampthill Coroner's Court her son was not adequately rehydrated and there had been a delay in transferring him to Great Ormond Street Hospital for further care.
He died on 6 October 2015, before he could be taken there.
Dr Jeremy Pryce, a paediatric pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination, said tests showed Leo was suffering from an intussusception of the bowel - a condition where part of the intestine folds into another section, causing an obstruction, and viral gastroenteritis.
He said it was impossible to say which came first and what the cause was.
Dr Pryce also said Leo's body weighed 14% less than the last time he was weighed, which would be "in keeping with dehydration".
The hearing continues.
The 28-year-old West Ham United youth-team product left Dagenham at the end of last season and has agreed a two-year contract with their National League rivals.
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He has also had loan spells with Rotherham and Morecambe.
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England striker Welbeck, who joined Arsenal from United in a £16m deal on deadline day in September, scored the goal that gave the Gunners their first win at Old Trafford since 2006.
It ensures Louis van Gaal, the manager who sanctioned his sale, will almost certainly end his first season at Old Trafford empty-handed.
Nacho Monreal gave Arsenal a first-half lead but Wayne Rooney equalised with a flying header from Angel Di Maria's cross - the high point of the Argentine's night as he was later dismissed for two yellow cards after Welbeck had restored Arsenal's advantage.
Di Maria was first booked for diving, then tugged at referee Michael Oliver's shirt as he walked away, with inevitable consequences.
On a great night for Gunners manager Arsene Wenger, Arsenal are now huge favourites to reach another FA Cup final after drawing either Reading or Bradford City in the semi-final.
United had won 11 of the past 15 meetings between the sides in all competitions.
But the hero of the night was Welbeck as he punished the club for whom he scored 29 goals in 142 appearances before switching to Arsenal after Van Gaal brought in Radamel Falcao.
The Colombian was not even called from the bench amid United's increasing panic, which saw the great tactician Van Gaal end with the giant figures of Marouane Fellaini and Chris Smalling up front.
United have sailed close to the wind on many occasions on the back of average performances this season, digging out victories without looking convincing.
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There was no reprieve here, though, and now a place in the Premier League's top four and a return to the Champions League is their sole aim for the rest of the campaign.
For Arsenal, this was a demonstration of the sort of resilience that saw them win at champions Manchester City in January and ends that recent curse at Old Trafford.
And in a season when so much criticism has been aimed at referees, praise must be reserved for a magnificent performance by Oliver, who remained calm and got the big decisions right in an increasingly frantic environment.
Old Trafford has been the scene of many low-key games this season - but there was a big-match atmosphere around the stadium as United and Arsenal produced a first 45 minutes to savour.
Arsenal's crisp passing had already caused United problems before they took the lead in the 25th minute. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was the creator with a weaving run along the edge of the area before finding Monreal, who beat David De Gea at the near post with composure.
The lead lasted only four minutes, United replying with quality of their own as Di Maria's perfect delivery dropped between Arsenal's defenders to be met by the flying figure of Rooney, who directed a powerful header beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
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Di Maria was looking much more comfortable, as well as dangerous, on the flank and he stole in behind Arsenal to get in a low effort that Szczesny blocked with his legs at the near post.
Van Gaal made a double change at the interval, sending on Phil Jones and Michael Carrick for Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw, but there was no instant cure for the uncertainty that had plagued United's defence.
And it was in evidence again as Arsenal went back in front just after the hour. Antonio Valencia's back-pass sold De Gea short and Welbeck reacted quickly to nudge the loose ball around the keeper and roll it into the unguarded net.
Welbeck received warm applause from large sections of United's support when he was replaced by Olivier Giroud. There were some jeers mixed in but he clearly remains a popular figure at Old Trafford.
Seconds after that switch De Gea produced a miraculous piece of goalkeeping to keep United in contention, somehow clawing out Santi Cazorla's shot from Alexis Sanchez's cross.
United's play, as well as the noise from their supporters, carried an air of desperation and their cause was not helped by a moment of madness from Di Maria that saw him sent off with 13 minutes left.
It was one of many lows on a night when the frustrations of United and their supporters bubbled to the surface - and their trophy hopes ended.
Match ends, Manchester United 1, Arsenal 2.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 1, Arsenal 2.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mesut Özil (Arsenal).
Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ashley Young (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal).
Attempt missed. Santiago Cazorla (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Alexis Sánchez.
Adnan Januzaj (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Adnan Januzaj (Manchester United) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Offside, Manchester United. Ashley Young tries a through ball, but Marouane Fellaini is caught offside.
Offside, Arsenal. Aaron Ramsey tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Hand ball by Nacho Monreal (Arsenal).
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Francis Coquelin (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ashley Young (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Olivier Giroud (Arsenal).
Foul by Daley Blind (Manchester United).
Calum Chambers (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Second yellow card to Ángel Di María (Manchester United).
Ángel Di María (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Ángel Di María (Manchester United) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Francis Coquelin (Arsenal).
Offside, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini tries a through ball, but Adnan Januzaj is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Santiago Cazorla (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Alexis Sánchez.
Substitution, Arsenal. Olivier Giroud replaces Danny Welbeck.
Substitution, Manchester United. Adnan Januzaj replaces Marcos Rojo.
Offside, Manchester United. Michael Carrick tries a through ball, but Ashley Young is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) header from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ashley Young with a cross.
Speaking in neighbouring Turkey, Antonio Guterres warned of the "risk of an explosion" across the Middle East if the crisis continued much longer.
Fighting flared up again on Sunday as rebels reportedly launched a surprise attack inside the city of Homs.
As many as 70,000 people have died in the two-year conflict, the UN believes.
More than a million Syrians have now been registered as refugees by the UN in neighbouring countries.
"If this escalation goes on and nothing happens to solve the problem we might have in the end of the year a much larger number of refugees - twice or three times the present level," Mr Guterres told reporters in Ankara.
He urged countries to help support Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and other countries sheltering the refugees.
The reports of fighting in Homs on Sunday could not be verified independently.
A UK-based monitoring group opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said rebels had launched an attack on the Baba Amr district early on Sunday.
Pro-Assad forces regained control of the district a year ago after fierce fighting.
"The rebels infiltrated Baba Amr during the night," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP news agency.
"Those manning the army checkpoints barely had time to realise what was going on."
Activists later reported government forces had launched strikes on Baba Amr to counter the rebel offensive.
Unverified video said to show fighting in Homs has been posted online. Shooting can be heard and smoke is seen rising over a built-up area.
Reports have also emerged of new air strikes by government forces on the northern city of Raqqa, which was captured by rebels less than a week ago.
According to the Observatory, 14 people died in the bombardment on Saturday.
The 38-year-old shot a five-under-par final round of 67, including a birdie-birdie finish, to claim one of the three Open spots on offer.
He was set for a three-man play-off for the title until Darren Fichardt birdied the final hole to win.
Manley's Open debut will come at Royal Birkdale from 20-23 July, 2017.
That will also be his debut at one of golf's four major championships.
Manley said: "I'm really chuffed to be playing in my first Major, I'm really excited.
"I've been trying for many years through pre-qualifying so to get there I'm pretty pleased.
"The Open is massive and I can't wait to get my teeth stuck into that golf course. I've never experienced anything as big as The Open before, but I can't wait for it."
"We no longer have a position with Apple," he told CNBC.
Reports say Mr Icahn made $2bn (£1.4bn) from selling his stake in Apple. At one point last year, he owned 53 million shares worth $6.5bn.
He blamed China's economic slowdown and worries over government interference for selling out of Apple.
In March China passed a law that required all content shown in China 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.
Earlier this week, Apple reported in a 13% drop in its second quarter revenue as sales of iPhones slipped.
Mr Icahn started buying Apple shares in the third quarter of 2013 when they were trading at about $68 a share.
Shares closed down 3% to $94.83 on Thursday and have shed 27% in the past 12 months.
Mr Icahn said he spoke to Apple chief executive Tim Cook to tell him about the share sale.
"I called him this morning to tell him that, and he was a little sorry, obviously. But I told him it's a great company," he said.
The stock sale has not been disclosed in a filing to the stock regulator.
Mr Icahn is the majority shareholder in Icahn Enterprises - a holding company with a range of investments, with interests ranging from mining to automotive to real estate and food packaging.
The BBC hasn't announced which part she'll play, but lead writer Steven Moffat says: "She is going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways.
"This time he might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him exactly the right sort of hell."
She says she's looking forward to filming the show as "it's such a big and important part of British culture".
"I can't wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we'll be shooting not too far from my home town," she says.
Bristol-born Maisie has played Arya Stark in the fantasy drama Game of Thrones since 2011.
Arya is a young girl from a noble family, who brandishes a sword and is often mistaken for a boy.
She's only 17, but she's a three-time Screen Actors Guild Awards nominee. In February she was given a Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
She won the 2013 BBC Radio 1 Teen Award for Best British Actor.
Maisie has starred in the one-off docu-drama Cyberbully and was one of the leads of Carol Morley's BBC One drama The Falling.
Series nine of the relaunched Doctor Who returns to BBC One this autumn.
Two period adventures are being filmed - 'The Girl Who Died' written by Jamie Mathieson and Steven Moffat; and 'The Woman Who Lived' by Catherine Tregenna.
Comedian and actor Rufus Hound - who recently appeared in the Channel 4 series Cucumber - also joins the guest cast, alongside BBC Three's Siblings and CBBC's Horrible Histories star Tom Stourton.
Doctor Who is one of BBC One's most highly regarded dramas, with 7.4 million people globally watching the last series.
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Only Italian sides Treviso and Zebre lie below Dragons in the Pro12, with the Welsh team and Zebre having won four Pro12 games each this season.
Jones told Scrum V a gulf is opening between Scarlets, Cardiff Blues and Ospreys and the nation's strugglers.
"It wouldn't be a bad thing if they were to become more developmental in their philosophy," said Jones.
Another Scrum V pundit, former Wales dual-code star Jonathan Davies, recently said Treviso and Zebre should consider leaving the Pro12.
Jones added the fact Zebre and Dragons are level on wins underlines his view of Wales' eastern-most team.
The former Llanelli and Cardiff flanker said: "It's pretty stark reading, isn't it - 26 points behind the Blues who are one step ahead of them and there's a gulf developing.
"And people have been quite rightly, perhaps, questioning what the value of the Italian teams are in the Pro12.
"Well, the Dragons have won the same number of games as Zebre and not just this season, but over the last 11 seasons they've been the bottom Welsh region on nine occasions.
"And unless something substantial changes you feel they're in this cycle of existing hand to mouth and just reproducing the same cycle each year."
Jones believes Dragons should occupy the sort of role Irish team Connacht fulfilled until this season that has seen them become a top-four Pro12 team.
He said talented players from Wales Under-20 could develop at such a team rather than possibly finding themselves under-used by rival regions.
"Look at Connacht - they are the model. They're now doing well and are in the top four so it (changing philosophy) isn't consigning them there for history.
"And the other thing is, do they become perhaps more regional in their outlook - incorporate more of the (local) clubs?"
Dragons, beaten 34-20 by Scarlets on Saturday, parted company with director of rugby Lyn Jones in April.
Earlier the same month, they began a search for fresh investment and independence that would see governing body the Welsh Rugby Union relinquish their 50% stake in the region.
Jones contends Dragons "are not even spending their whole player budget" when "the other regions are doing it".
He added: "Why can you complain about the standard of your players if you don't fully spend your money on your budget?
"Of course we want four strong regions, but we haven't got four strong regions and we haven't had for some time.
"Let's be perfectly honest with you - there are some journeymen in that side who are not Welsh who are contributing very little to the future of Welsh rugby."
Dragons' season ends at bottom side Zebre on Saturday, but they cannot finish lower than 10th in the Pro12.
BBC Wales Sport has asked Dragons if they would like to comment.
At the second regional rail summit at Westminster, MPs, councillors, business leaders and industry representatives moved closer to drawing up a wish list of projects which will need to be funded over the next 20 years.
They'll present it to ministers in the summer and perhaps just as importantly, they've all agreed to campaign with one voice to get them achieved.
"The reason nothing has been done for so long in the East is that everyone campaigned for their own individual issues," says Ben Gummer, the MP for Ipswich and one of the main organisers of the summit.
"We want everyone across East Anglia to come together and campaign with one voice."
"Here we have representatives from four counties all hopefully agreeing on the same thing," agrees Norwich MP, Chloe Smith.
"This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for a commitment to the long term benefit of the East Anglian, Norfolk and Norwich economies."
There is still more work to be done before the manifesto is ready but the draft prospectus makes a compelling argument.
It maintains that the eastern region has suffered from inadequate investment in infrastructure over many years, while commuters from Essex and Cambridgeshire suffer amongst the greatest congestion of any travellers to London.
Rail passengers, it says, want a more reliable service, faster journey times and better quality rolling stock.
The document quotes a recent study which claims that improving the Great Eastern Mainline - running from Norwich to Liverpool Street - would generate £3.7 billion for the local economy, while investment in other parts of the regional rail network would result in greater investment in the key centres of Ipswich, Colchester, Cambridge, Norwich and Peterborough.
Most people at the summit agreed that speeding up journey times along the intercity line to London was a priority.
Improvement work to the junction at Ely North, which would allow for more services from Kings Lynn and Norwich through Cambridge, is also at the top of the list.
There is a growing feeling that upgrade work on the line from Ipswich to Peterborough would also be beneficial but exactly which projects will be chosen is still being decided.
Getting representatives from four different counties to agree is not always easy.
Colchester MP Sir Bob Russell expressed his fear that faster trains from Norwich could mean fewer stops at stations in Essex.
"Remember the population of Essex is greater than that of Norfolk and Suffolk combined," he warned the meeting.
He was assured that there were no plans to reduce services through the county but we understand that several people from Essex are still concerned and will be holding their own meeting to discuss this issue further in the next few weeks.
Other MPs also thought it was important that their local schemes were not forgotten.
Julian Huppert (Cambridge) wanted to mention Chesterton station, Norman Lamb (North Norfolk) talked about the Bittern Line, Therese Coffey (Suffolk Coastal) was worried about whether improvements to the Ipswich Chord would really take enough freight traffic off the passenger line.
Stewart Jackson (Peterborough) said it was important to remember that rail improvements did not just mean getting more people to London.
"We must remember to talk about how rail travel can benefit our local economies: developing telecoms in Ipswich, retail in Norwich and the environmental sector in Peterborough."
Representatives from Network Rail reminded everyone present that there would be few quick fixes.
If funding was found to take forward some of these projects it would take time and money to improve rolling stock and improve level crossings (an essential requirement if trains are to go faster).
They also said that until cross rail is operational in 2018 there will not be space at Liverpool Street to take extra trains.
So we are not talking any time soon.
The hope is that the rail manifesto will be completed by the summer so that ministers can be lobbied as they make their minds up about the new rail franchises and future spending commitments.
And all the delegates left happy feeling that things are slowly moving forward.
"There's never been an opportunity like this before," said Jonathan Denby, from rail operator Abellio.
"We're passionate about making this happen."
Just don't hold your breath.
The 22-year-old Englishman will spend a season on loan with Accies in the Scottish Premiership.
He becomes Accies' second signing of this week after the arrival of full-back Jack Breslin, released by Celtic.
Former manager Alex Neil, now Canaries boss, said: "Remi needs to go out and get some games."
Matthews has already had two loan spells with Burton Albion and ended last season playing nine times for Doncaster Rovers in England's League One.
"He'll go up to Hamilton and hopefully get a good season under his belt," said Neil.
"You've got Celtic and now Rangers in that league, so it will be really competitive for him."
Matthews, whose new deal with the English Championship club includes with the option of a further 12 months, arrives at New Douglas Park as McGovern considers his options after rejecting a new contract amid fresh offers following his fine performances at Euro 2016.
He will make his debut as Accies kick-off their season with a Scottish League Cup tie away to Ayr United on Saturday.
"It's always nice to have that security behind me, so to have another year under my belt is a positive step," Matthews told Norwich's website.
"I was out on loan twice last year and felt like I was improving with every game, so I'm looking to build on that and show everyone what I can do."
Breslin has signed a permanent deal with Accies from Celtic after the 19-year-old played seven times in his second loan spell with Annan Athletic in League Two.
Accies player-manager Martin Canning had already added to his defensive options by signing centre-half Jordan McGregor after the 19-year-old was released by Hibernian after a loan spell with Berwick Rangers.
Heather Cho demanded the removal of a crew member from a flight last Friday for failing to serve nuts on a plate.
Ms Cho, a vice-president of the firm, forced the Incheon-bound flight to taxi back to the terminal in New York.
The airline said checking service standards was part of her job, and she had the pilot's backing. But officials said she was a passenger at the time.
Local media reports said that a junior attendant had offered Ms Cho macadamia nuts in a bag, instead of serving the nuts on a plate.
Ms Cho, daughter of company boss Cho Yang-ho, then questioned the chief flight attendant over in-flight service standards and ordered him off the plane.
Korean Air said the plane arrived 11 minutes late, and that the decision to expel the senior flight attendant had been made in consultation with the pilot.
The airline told Korea Times that checking of quality of service was one of Ms Cho's jobs, as she is in charge of in-flight service for the carrier.
The transport authorities are investigating whether Ms Cho's actions infringed aviation law.
"Even though she is senior vice president at the company, she was a passenger at that time, so she had to behave and be treated as a passenger," a South Korea transport ministry official told reporters.
Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino sold in five minutes with six bidders battling for the work which has only come up for sale once before, Sotheby's said.
The previous record was the £20.5m paid in 2006 for Venice painting Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio.
Modern Rome, which had an estimate of £12m-£18m, was the top seller at the Old Master and British Paintings sale.
Other highlights included Dutch artist Jan Lievens' study of the head and shoulders of an old bearded man wearing a cap (circa 1629), which brought £2.5m against an estimate of £2-3m.
Painted in 1839, Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino shows Turner at his "absolute best" and was bought by a London dealer on behalf of The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Prior to Wednesday's sale, the painting had only appeared on the open market once in the 171 years since it was painted.
It was offered for sale at Sotheby's by a descendant of the 5th Earl of Rosebery, who bought the painting in 1878 while on honeymoon with his wife Hannah Rothschild, and it had remained in his family collection ever since.
The painting has been on loan to the National Galleries of Scotland for the last 30 years.
David Moore-Gwyn, deputy chairman, UK and senior specialist in British Paintings at Sotheby's, said: "Turner's Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino has achieved a tremendous and much-deserved result this evening.
"This breathtaking image shows the artist at his absolute best and, for collectors, it ticked all the boxes - quality, superb condition, provenance and freshness-to-the-market.
"Over the last few months it has been wonderful to observe the response that the painting has received from collectors who come from all over the world."
Aeth Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant at y llywodraeth i ofyn am arian cyhoeddus wedi i'w cais am arian Ewropeaidd gael ei wrthod.
Mae disgwyl y bydd £3m arall yn dod o fargen ddinesig Bae Abertawe.
Dywedodd Ysgrifennydd yr Economi, Ken Skates, y byddai'r cynllun yn rhoi bywyd newydd i'r economi leol.
"Bydd y buddsoddiad hwn yn helpu i ddarparu'r seilwaith angenrheidiol i gefnogi gweledigaeth y brifysgol o glwstwr o fusnesau creadigol yng Nghaerfyrddin," meddai.
"Bydd hyn, yn ei dro, yn helpu i chwistrellu bywyd newydd i'r economi leol, yn dod â swyddi ychwanegol o ansawdd uchel i Gaerfyrddin, a gwella enw da cynyddol Cymru fel cefnogwr talent, dychymyg a chynhyrchiant."
Ychwanegodd y byddai'r gefnogaeth ariannol yn gymorth i "ddarparu gofod a chyfleoedd rhwydweithio ar gyfer busnesau eraill, y brifysgol, myfyrwyr ac entrepreneuriaid".
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi dweud o'r blaen ei fod yn "siomedig" fod bwlch cyllido wedi ymddangos ers i'r prosiect gael ei gyhoeddi gyntaf yn 2014.
Yn ôl panel annibynnol sy'n cynghori'r llywodraeth ar y diwydiannau creadigol, ni ddylai'r Egin dderbyn arian gan y trethdalwr.
Cafodd y cyhoeddiad ei groesawu gan S4C a Phrifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran S4C: "Bydd yr adeilad yma, nid yn unig yn gartref i bencadlys S4C, ond hefyd yn gartref i glwstwr o gwmnïau sy'n gweithio o fewn y diwydiannau creadigol.
"Bydd y ganolfan yn hwb economaidd i gefn gwlad Sir Gaerfyrddin ac yn dod â swyddi da i ardal lle mae'r Gymraeg dan bwysedd."
Ar ran y brifysgol, dywedodd llefarydd fod hwn "yn brosiect trawsnewidiol sy'n cynnig y cyfle i ddwyn ynghyd amcanion polisi economaidd, ieithyddol a diwylliannol Llywodraeth Cymru fel y nodwyd yn y rhaglen ar gyfer Llywodraeth, Symud Cymru Ymlaen".
"Rydym yn edrych ymlaen at weithio gyda Llywodraeth Cymru a rhanddeiliaid eraill wrth ddatblygu'r fenter hon, a fydd yn gatatalydd ar gyfer adfywiad economaidd a diwylliannol yn y rhanbarth."
Cafodd y cyhoeddiad ei groesawu gan AC Plaid Cymru yn Nwyrain Caerfyrddin a Dinefwr, Adam Price, ac AC Arfon, Sian Gwenllian - oedd yn gynharach wedi galw ar S4C i ailystyried lleoliad ei phencadlys yn sgil yr ansicrwydd.
"Mae'n hanfodol nawr, wrth i ni geisio gweld mwy o'n sefydliadau cenedlaethol a'r sector gyhoeddus yn symud o Gaerdydd, ein bod ni'n edrych ar y broses ynghlwm â phrosiect Yr Egin S4C a sut gallwn ni ddysgu gwersi ar gyfer y dyfodol", meddai.
Fe ddywedodd AC Ceidwadol Gorllewin Sir Gâr a De Penfro bod gan y cynllun "arwyddocâd economaidd a diwylliannol enfawr" i'r ardal.
Ychwanegodd Angela Burns: "Mae gorllewin Cymru yn ardal sydd â brwdfrydedd creadigol enfawr ac rydw i'n edrych ymlaen yn fawr at weld y gronfa hon o dalent yn cael ei ryddhau gan y cynllun."
Public Health England's laboratory at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham has become the largest centre in the UK for faecal transplants.
Scientists there claim a 90% success rate in people whose treatment with conventional antibiotics has failed.
Liquid stools are now being sent from Birmingham to Stoke-on-Trent and Cambridge as part of a wider programme.
Clostridium difficile - or C. diff - is a bacterium which causes extreme diarrhoea in some patients.
Patients who contract it are given three courses of antibiotics to clear it up, but about 10% fail to respond to conventional treatment and become extremely weak.
Professor Peter Hawkey from Birmingham University's School of Immunity and Infection, says about a third of these people can die.
The first patient Prof Hawkey's team treated had been in hospital for 100 days.
Within 24 hours of the transplant, the patient was able to walk around the ward.
Since then, the public health laboratory has treated more than 60 patients.
Clostridium difficile is a bacterium which lives harmlessly in the gut of 10% to 15% of adults.
It causes diarrhoea when the delicate balance of gut flora is disturbed, often following a course of antibiotics.
It is easily spread via airborne spores.
Older people are most at risk from infection, especially those who are frail or with medical conditions. People over the age of 65 account for three-quarters of all cases.
But the technique is not new. It was first used by the Chinese thousands of years ago and has now become the last resort for patients with C. diff in hospital.
Effectively, the patient's gut is being re-colonized with good bacteria which competes with the C. diff and forces it out.
Volunteer faecal donors are screened for diseases before providing samples for five days.
The stools are stored at -80C (-112F) until needed. They are then filtered with a sterile solution to make a liquid.
A 50ml prescription of the liquid is given to the patient via a tube placed down their nose into their stomach.
Prof Hawkey said: "It looks like black coffee. They don't taste it, they don't vomit. It is very straightforward.
"This is a very nasty disease. In this extreme group, you are looking at a 30% mortality rate - which is a frightening thought.
"We have conservatively saved 20 lives, possibly more."
He said it works better than expensive antibiotics in these patients and is a far cheaper option.
Patient Louise Storer, 46, from Kingsbury was told a faecal transplant was her last option.
"By that stage, I was so ill I would have tried anything to put me out of my misery," she said.
"After 24 hours, I could feel the difference.
"After 48 hours, it was like a miracle. At the time, I didn't like the idea at all, but I can only thank the person who donated for giving me back my life."
Hayley Gascoigne, who was in her 30s and from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, was taken ill in the Combined Court Centre in Hull on Thursday.
Witnesses said court staff and paramedics tried to revive Ms Gascoigne, but she was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.
A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out.
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Her family said in a statement: "As a family we are trying to deal with the loss of Hayley. She will be dearly missed by all.
"Her death came as a terrible and sudden shock and we would politely ask that our privacy be respected at this very difficult time."
A Humberside Police spokesman said: "A woman in her 30s collapsed in the public concourse area of Hull Crown Court at approximately 3pm.
"She was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary, where she was sadly pronounced dead."
Ms Gascoigne's friends posted Facebook tributes to her.
One said: "Lost for words. Absolutely heartbreaking. Thinking of your four beautiful children. Rest in peace Hayley xx".
Another said: "She was a lovely, warm kind person and this is just so tragic. Love n strength to all her family n friends."
It will mean another real-terms pay cut for more than 500,000 teachers in England and Wales.
The pay review body - which was obliged to keep pay rises to 1% - has expressed its concern.
The cap on pay, initially of 0% and then 1%, has been in place since 2010, as part of austerity measures.
The National Union of Teachers says that successive years of below-inflation pay deals has seen teachers' pay fall in real terms by 13%.
Head teachers' leader Geoff Barton accused ministers of "playing fast and loose with children's education".
"Teachers are facing a seventh year of real-terms pay cuts at a time when we are in a full-blown recruitment crisis," said Mr Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union.
The Department for Education said that it was striking a balance between being fair to teachers and to taxpayers.
The decision over teachers' pay will be seen as sending a signal over pay for more than five million public sector workers.
In the wake of the general election, there were reports of debates within the Cabinet about whether to ease the constraints on public sector pay and try to reverse wage stagnation.
The School Teachers' Review Body is an independent pay body that provides recommendations to ministers about the pay of more than 500,000 teachers in England and Wales.
But for the past seven years decisions have been determined by the government's limit on public sector pay.
The review body made its recommendation in line with the limits on public sector pay, but warned ministers of potential problems of teacher shortages and funding pressures.
The pay review body said there was a "real risk that schools will not be able to recruit and retain a workforce of high quality teachers to support pupil achievement".
There is also a warning that schools are "working under increasing financial constraints".
"Between now and 2020, many schools will face both real-terms reductions in the level of per-pupil funding and growing cost pressures. Difficult choices may be inescapable," says the pay body.
The pay limit was part of the government's efforts to reduce the budget deficit following the financial crash.
Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the outcome was "deeply disappointing".
He criticised that the pay review body "had its hands tied" and could not recommend a pay award "based on the evidence".
Kevin Courtney, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said that after successive years with pay falling behind inflation that some teachers were "finding life very difficult".
"The public sector needs a pay rise," said Mr Courtney.
James Westhead, executive director of Teach First, said that "recruiting teachers is becoming more and more challenging. We need to ensure teaching is fairly rewarded".
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Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the government needed to clarify how schools would pay for the increase - or whether it would be "squeezed" from budgets that were already under pressure.
"There are now more questions than answers about their education policy, and schools urgently need some certainty," said Ms Rayner.
Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman, said: "Giving teachers another below inflation pay-rise is frankly an insult to these incredibly hard working and dedicated professionals."
A Department of Education spokeswoman said: "We recognise and value the hard work of teachers which is why we have accepted the pay deal proposed by the independent School Teachers' Review Body, in line with the 1% public sector pay policy.
"This will ensure we continue to strike the balance between being fair to public sector workers and fair to taxpayers."
The dispute centres on a tendering process which could see the Clyde and Hebrides routes taken over by a private firm.
The strike, which began at midnight, follows a two-day work to rule.
State-owned CalMac has uploaded revised timetables to its website.
It hoped to operate a third of its ferry services on Friday, with nine of its 27 routes sailing as normal or to an amended timetable.
In total, CalMac said it would still be able to carry about 40% of normal passenger capacity across its network.
The routes mainly affected will be those serviced by the company's larger vessels including the Outer Hebrides, Mull, Colonsay, Coll, Tiree and Islay.
A number of the smaller routes that attract large numbers of passengers such as Iona will operate as normal.
CalMac's contract to run the Clyde and Hebrides ferry services comes to an end next year.
The Scottish government has put the contract out to tender, in line with European rules.
The RMT union has concerns that, regardless of who wins, the new contract will see changes in employees' current terms and conditions.
A reduction in staff numbers and pensions are key areas of concern.
The RMT has asked that the government guarantee in the new contract that compulsory redundancies do not happen and existing terms and conditions are continued.
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CalMac and Transport Scotland have also made contact with bus, rail and aviation operators to arrange additional services to help mitigate the impact.
RMT members make up about half of the state-owned ferry company's 14,000 employees.
A second trade union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA), which represents 100 ticket-office staff and managers at CalMac Ferries, will also ballot its members on industrial action next week.
The dispute between CalMac and its employees was triggered by the Scottish government's tendering process for the contract to run the Clyde and Hebrides ferry network.
CalMac is facing a challenge from private operator Serco to renew the contract.
Scottish ministers have said they are forbidden by EU competition regulations from favouring one bid over another, and that an independent panel would ensure the procurement process was "fair, open and transparent".
They have also said that breaking the law would leave ministers open to a costly legal challenge with the likelihood of substantial fines.
But union leaders have said that if Serco won the contract it would mean the privatisation of Clyde and Hebrides ferry services.
And they have raised concerns about the potential impact on jobs and employees' current terms and conditions, regardless of who wins the contract.
Further talks between CalMac and union representatives are due to be held in London next week.
The RMT has secured support for its call for the ferry routes to remain in public sector operation from members of the SNP, Labour and the Independent Green coalition.
General secretary Mick Cash said his members remained "rock solid" in their support for industrial action to "defend CalMac from an unnecessary and damaging attack".
CalMac's managing director Martin Dorchester described the strike action as "limited in scope", but acknowledged it would "undoubtedly still hit the communities we serve hard."
Mr Dorchester said: "It is not just an inconvenience at the start of the tourist season - it will impact island businesses where it hurts most, in their pockets."
On Thursday, Deputy First Minister John Swinney chaired the third meeting this week of the Scottish government's resilience team.
He said CalMac had done a "commendable job" in putting on enough services to carry about 40% of normal passenger capacity.
Mr Swinney added: "I would urge common sense to prevail and for the islands to be provided with certainty so that they can plan ahead with confidence in future."
Allegations of abuse at Medomsley Detention Centre near Consett are being investigated by Durham Police.
More than 900 former inmates have come forward to say they were sexually or physically abused in the 1970s and 80s.
The detective leading the operation said the force would be contacting "a number" of other former employees.
"There is still a huge amount of work which has to be done and we are in close contact with the Crown Prosecution Service, who ultimately will decide if there are grounds to charge individuals with criminal offences," Det Supt Paul Goundry said.
The four prison officers, who worked at Medomsley at different times between the 1970s and 1980s, have been formally but voluntarily interviewed by detectives. They have not been arrested.
When a grown man tells you he would have killed himself if he could, during his time at Medomsley, you know that any legal case won't make a huge difference to many of their daily lives.
Things went badly wrong behind the high security fences on a County Durham hilltop decades ago. Unspeakable things were done to some of those young men - often there for things you would never be jailed for today.
After locking away those painful memories for so long they are now speaking out, hoping for justice.
The investigation was triggered after former prison officer Neville Husband was jailed for eight years in 2003 for abusing five youths.
The publicity surrounding the trial led to others coming forward and he was subsequently jailed for a further two years for other attacks.
He died in 2010, after being released from prison.
His former colleague Leslie Johnson, who was jailed for six years in 2005 for sexual offences, has also since died.
Police no longer believe the pair were operating alone.
One alleged victim, Stephen Branley, described how the experience had made him suicidal.
"They would punch you in the ribs and in the head, bending your fingers back. I wanted to kill myself," he said.
"If I'd had the chance to get hold of a razor blade I would've done it."
Another alleged victim, who spoke anonymously, previously told the BBC: "Some of the boys would lay at the bottom of the stairs and ask another boy to jump off the stairs on to their legs so they could break a leg and be removed from Medomsley Detention Centre in order to not be subjected to any more beatings."
Another, Ray Poar, has waived his right to anonymity. He was 17 when he was sent there for stealing biscuits from a factory and said the experience "ruined my life".
He said he was woken up after wetting his bed and was forced to bunny hop naked to the showers. When he couldn't make it to the showers he was kicked, he said.
Mr Riggio, who owns almost 30% of the company, notified US regulators that he would seek to purchase the loss-making firm's stores and online business.
The news sent Barnes & Noble's share price 11.5% higher in Monday trading.
Like book retailers worldwide, the firm has struggled to compete with cheap online vendors and downloads.
Main rival Borders was liquidated in 2011, after it succumbed to the pressure from digital competitors.
Barnes & Noble has sought to stay ahead of the game with its Nook product, which seeks to compete for readership with Amazon's Kindle and with tablet computers.
The e-reader attracted significant investments from Microsoft and UK media group Pearson last year, leaving Barnes & Noble with a 78% share in the product, which Mr Riggio does not propose to buyback.
There was talk early last year of spinning off the Nook, along with its successful digital college business, into a separate joint venture.
However, the firm's sales of both Nook products and of traditional books have both struggled.
Barnes & Noble reported a $39m loss for the last six months, and said sales through its stores and online platform over the critical Christmas period fell 11% from a year earlier.
The firm plans to shut a third of its stores by the end of the year.
Mr Riggio's offer follows similar moves by Michael Dell of Dell computers and Richard Schultze of electrical retailer Best Buy to buy out the struggling firms they founded.
Barnes & Noble was originally a New York bookstore, which Mr Riggio bought out the branding rights to in the 1970s, before building out a successful US-wide chain.
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Banners reading "Build bridges not walls" were hung at points across Wales, including Pont y Werin bridge in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan.
Cardiff Hope Not Hate also arranged a demonstration in the city.
Mr Trump's win has received support in Wales, including from UKIP's Neil Hamilton.
Mid Wales Refugee Action unfurled its 5m (16ft) banner at the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth in Powys.
A spokesman said: "We want 2017 to be a year of building bridges not walls, for a world that is peaceful, just and free of oppression."
Banner drops were also planned in Bangor in Gwynedd, Llanidloes in Powys, and Lampeter in Ceredigion, among other spots.
It comes as the Stand Up To Racism group were set to hold a protest outside the US Embassy in London, with similar events planned in Swansea and across Britain.
Aberystwyth University's Department of International Politics was hosting a special screening of the inauguration of Mr Trump as the 45th President for staff, students and members of the public from 17:00 GMT.
Flint-based David Soutter, a former head of candidates for UKIP, told BBC Radio Wales Mr Trump "wanted to do something for the people of America".
"He's not a traditional politician and I think he sees things differently.
"He's going to bring a completely different view to the White House and, I think, he's going to reach out to a lot of people."
While First Minister Carwyn Jones said after Mr Trump's election win that he would have "much work to do to repair a divided nation", other Welsh politicians were more supportive.
Welsh Conservatives leader Andrew RT Davies said the result represented a "bloody nose for the political establishment", with UKIP's leader in the assembly, Neil Hamilton, calling it "good news for Britain".
Mrs Foster told the BBC's Inside Politics she wants the negotiations with the EU to adopt a flexible innovative approach to Northern Ireland's circumstances.
However, she argued that Northern Ireland would have a much stronger platform in relation to the Brexit negotiations if there was a devolved executive at Stormont.
Questioned about whether meeting Irish language activists had changed her position on ruling out an Irish language act under her watch, Mrs Foster said few people other than political activists had told her they wanted such an act.
The DUP leader said the Irish language should not be in the political arena, adding that one language or one culture should not be elevated above another and there should be respect and tolerance for each other's culture.
Asked what extra legal provision might be made for the Irish language, Mrs Foster said this was a matter for the negotiations due after the general election.
She hopes that Sinn Féin will show the same level of respect towards the Ulster Scots, Orange and British heritage of unionists as they are asking to be extended towards those who cherish their Irish culture.
Mrs Foster argued that the scandal over the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme had been the excuse for the March assembly election, not the cause.
She claimed that since the Assembly election there has been no dialogue about RHI at all, it has all "gone by the wayside" but was used in an attempt to get rid of her and damage her party.
On legacy matters, the DUP leader said she was glad there were now attempts to rebalance what she regards as a tainted disproportionate way of looking at the past.
However, Mrs Foster indicated opposition to any move to extend a statute of limitations which would end Troubles-related prosecutions beyond the ranks of the military and police.
The DUP leader said that in cases where people had never been investigated properly it was important to maintain the hope of justice for victims.
On unionist cooperation, Mrs Foster said she would continue to work with the UUP leader, Robin Swann.
She denied taking too tough a line early on in their discussions about a wider unionist pact.
On the decision of key DUP adviser Richard Bullick to take a job in public relations, Mrs Foster said Mr Bullick has been out of a job since January and it was wrong to expect him to continue working for no wage.
She said Mr Bullick would continue to support the DUP and she wished him well in his new career.
Sandy caused a record surge of seawater in New York City, flooding subway and road tunnels and plunging much of Lower Manhattan into darkness.
President Obama has declared a "major disaster" in New York state, AFP says.
An estimated 50 million people could be affected by the storm, with up to one million ordered to evacuate homes.
At least five million people across several states are without electricity.
The full extent of the damage may not be known until daybreak.
Over the past week Sandy has killed dozens of people as it carved a path of destruction through the Caribbean.
Public transport has been halted in several eastern US cities, and thousands of flights have been grounded.
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Both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney cancelled campaign appearances little more than a week before the presidential election.
The storm made landfall close to Atlantic City in New Jersey at about 20:00 local time (midnight GMT), packing winds of more than 80mph (129km/h).
Much of Atlantic City is under water, and 30,000 residents were evacuated.
Sandy threatens an 800-mile (1,290-km) swathe of the US, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes in the Mid-West.
It lost its hurricane status late on Monday as it neared the coast and collided with winter weather systems, but was still packing hurricane-strength winds.
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At 05:00 EDT (09:00 GMT) the National Hurricane Center placed the centre of Sandy about 90 miles (145km) west of Philadelphia with maximum sustained winds of 65mph (105km/h) with higher gusts.
In New York, some 375,000 residents were ordered out of Lower Manhattan and other areas, as the Hudson and East rivers began overflowing.
A record storm surge of 13.7ft (4.15m) swept into Lower Manhattan, flooding seven major subway tunnels.
"The New York City subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night," city transport director Joseph Lhota said early on Tuesday.
"Lower Manhattan is being covered by seawater," Howard Glaser, director of operations for the New York state government, was quoted as saying. "I am not exaggerating. Seawater is rushing into the Battery Tunnel."
Battery Tunnel links Manhattan with Long Island.
The city's Consolidated Edison utility provider said some 500,000 homes in Manhattan were without power.
There were reports of an explosion at a Con Edison power station on the east side of Manhattan.
Vice president John Miksad said it was caused by flooding or flying debris, and he added it could take a week to restore power completely.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the storm surge was higher than the highest forecast, but he expected the waters to start receding from midnight local time.
Elsewhere in the city, the storm left a construction crane bent double next to a skyscraper and caused the facade off a four-storey building to collapse.
The UN headquarters in New York is also to stay closed.
Officials reported at least 12 deaths in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut - several due to fallen trees. AP news agency put the death toll at 16.
In addition to the US deaths, a Canadian woman was reported killed by flying debris in Toronto.
Forecasters have said Sandy could linger over as many as 12 states for 24-36 hours.
President Obama declared emergencies in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
In Washington DC, federal government offices are closed until Wednesday.
Public transport was suspended in the US capital, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.
Amtrak has suspended passenger train services across the north-east, while nearly 14,000 flights were cancelled, according to Flightaware.com.
Up to 3ft (91cm) of snow is expected to fall on the Appalachian mountains in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky.
The disaster estimating firm Eqecat has forecast that Sandy could cause economic losses to the US of between $10bn and $20bn (£6.2bn-£12.4bn).
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10 October 2015 Last updated at 14:26 BST
The fires have been burning across the country in south-east Asia for weeks and the special rehabilitation centres where the orangutans live are under threat.
The orangutans get food and medical care from teams at the centres and can't just be moved to a different part of the forest. It needs to be a specially protected area.
Teams looking after the animals are working hard to find new homes and are confident they'll find them soon.
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He added that such people had "sworn personal allegiance" to Islamic State (IS) and therefore could potentially have committed the offence.
The last UK prosecution for treason was in 1946, when William Joyce was hanged for Nazi propaganda broadcasts.
Committing the offence involves being disloyal to the Crown.
Mr Hammond revealed that UK jihadists could be tried for treason when he was asked a question in the House of Commons by Conservative backbencher Philip Hollobone.
Mr Hollobone said: "Their [UK jihadists'] actions are treachery against Her Majesty, and aiding and abetting enemies of Her Majesty is one of the greatest offences a British citizen can commit."
Mr Hammond replied that there were "a number of offences under English law with which returning foreign fighters can be charged".
He added: "We have had a discussion about the allegiance question. We have seen people declaring that they have sworn personal allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.
"That does raise questions about their loyalty and allegiance to this country and about whether, as my honourable friend rightly says, the offence of treason could have been committed.
"I will certainly draw his remarks to the attention of the home secretary, who ultimately will be the person who needs to look at this."
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard's head of counter-terrorism Mark Rowley said that "dozens" of UK families have contacted the police in a bid to stop their relatives travelling to fight in Syria.
He also said "many" Britons, known to have travelled to Syria, had now returned to the UK and that police were in the process of attempting to arrest and prosecute them.
Supporters Gabe Turner, Ben Turner and Leo Pearlman from Fulwell 73 had shown an interest in buying the club from American Ellis Short.
However, in a statement to Sunderland fanzine ALS they said they have now decided against the move.
"Due to our other TV and film commitments, now isn't the right time for us to get involved," they wrote.
"It's where our hearts are and would demand a huge personal commitment, and we wouldn't want to give anything less than our all to the club."
Another takeover bid, from a German consortium, is still in the running, with Sunderland stating on Friday that they are keen to finalise a sale of the club quickly, with finding a new manager also a priority.
The Black Cats, who face a first season in the Championship since 2007, are without a manager following David Moyes' departure in May.
St Peter's Church of England Primary was chosen by the UK Literacy Association (UKLA) which aims to raise standards in literacy.
Head teacher Livvy Sinclair-Gieben said the "recognition meant a lot" and it "felt very prestigious".
UKLA assessors said they had been "impressed" by the staff who ensured no child "slipped through the net".
The school, rated by Ofsted as outstanding, is located in Bishopsworth, an area with high social deprivation, and has almost 400 pupils.
Ms Sinclair-Gieben said: "We've spent a lot of time and money investing in having a class library in every classroom and the children help and select the books.
"There's enough books for the children to have one in school, one at home and a different book every day of the year."
She said the school believed all children needed to be able to read "with a fair degree of fluency" by the age of six.
She added they had a support programme called Reading Recovery which started in year one and gave those who needed it 100 one-to-one lessons.
22 October 2015 Last updated at 12:07 BST
The star doesn't stand a chance as the incredible gravitational pull from deep within the black hole sucks it apart.
Some broken up parts of the star are whipped outwards at super high speeds, like food in a kitchen blender, whilst the rest of the star is sucked into the black hole causing a flare.
What is a black hole?
A black hole is a dying star that has collapsed inward from its own weight.
The pull of gravity from its centre becomes so strong that even light can't escape, which is why it looks black.
The badge was the biggest one created and given to Holyhead in 1991 to cheer up residents after a flu bug ruined Christmas for many in 1990.
Radio 1 DJ and BBC presenter Savile died in 2011, a year after allegations of sexual abuse became public.
The badge has been stored away since then but will now be destroyed.
The metal badge worded "Jim fixed it for Holyhead" was created after local man Jeff Evans wrote to the Jim'll Fix It programme.
Thousands of people turned out to see Ruth Madoc and boxer Frank Bruno present the badge as the town recreated Christmas day in August 1991.
"I think I recall it was only displayed at the time of the event and then forgotten about," said Holyhead mayor Ann Kennedy.
"We managed to locate it after some brought it along a couple of days ago.
"We won't be retaining it. I suppose the obvious way to do [destroy] it would be to recycle it."
Mr Trump will travel to Laredo, Texas, on Thursday to meet border control agents and local police officers, according to his campaign office.
In June, he sparked controversy after calling undocumented Mexican immigrants "rapists" and "criminals".
Some recent polls put him top of a crowded field of Republican candidates.
But most of them were conducted before Mr Trump's comments on Senator John McCain's military record, in which he questioned the veteran Republican's "war hero" status because he was captured.
The attack was widely condemned and his rivals, who are increasingly frustrated by him dominating media coverage, hope it could damage his standing.
Mr Trump was invited to the Mexican border by the Laredo group of the National Border Patrol Council earlier this month.
Hector Garza, president of Laredo border agents, told reporters he was looking forward to giving Mr Trump "a boots on the ground perspective".
Earlier this week, the outspoken businessman received heavy criticism after giving out the mobile phone number of a rival at a campaign rally.
Mr Trump told supporters Senator Lindsey Graham was an "idiot" and told his supporters to call the number.
It followed Senator Graham denouncing Mr Trump as "a jackass" after condemning the real estate mogul's comments about John McCain.
On Wednesday, Republican favourite Jeb Bush criticised Mr Trump's rhetoric on immigration and his comments on Mr McCain but said his supporters had "legitimate concerns".
"I respect the sentiments people feel when they hear Trump talk," he said at a campaign event.
"The problem with Mr Trump's language is that it's divisive, it's ugly, it's mean-spirited. We have to separate him from the people that have legitimate concerns about the country," he added.
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Phillip Potter, 19, and Matthew Gordon, 29, both from Dauntsey in Wiltshire, appeared before Bath magistrates.
Mitzi Steady, four, Stephen Vaughan, 34, Phil Allen, 52, and Robert Parker, 59, all died in the crash last year.
The case will be heard again at Bristol Crown Court for a preliminary hearing on 22 February.
Mitzi was walking with her grandmother in Lansdown Lane, Bath, in February 2015 when she was hit by the truck. The three others victims, from Swansea and Cwmbran, were in a taxi.
Mr Potter, of Little Middle Green Farm, has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Mr Gordon, of Chestnut Farm, has been charged with two counts of aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring to cause serious injury by dangerous driving.
The 29-year-old is also charged with one count of dangerous driving.
Both men have been released on bail until the next court hearing.
That is how Maria Apichella describes Psalmody - her poetry collection about a religious woman and an atheist who fall in love near Aberystwyth.
Having jointly won the Melita Hume Prize in 2015, her work was published and has now been shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prizes for Poetry in September.
"It's a love story between two people who are very different and disagree on everything," she told BBC Wales.
"It's written from the woman's perspective, who is unnamed. She's very religious and passionate, she believes in the supernatural and the unseen.
"She's loved by David, an atheist, a man of the earth - a soldier, who is Welsh and from near Aberystwyth, that's where they meet."
Maria, having found inspiration for her poetry during her 10 years studying at Aberystwyth University, said she wanted her writing to be about the seaside town.
She wrote Psalmody while living in student halls, studying part-time for her PhD - which was not funded - and having to work various jobs.
"Every aspect of life feeds into writing, from teaching to cleaning toilets, to working in a call centre by night to sitting in the Welsh National Library reading Dylan Thomas in rainy afternoons," she said.
"I wanted it to be a love story about Wales as well, the Wales I knew, the love of God, romantic love and love of place."
But Maria said she did not set out to write this particular tale and instead found her poems shaped themselves into a story as she drew on her surroundings.
"I did lots of walking around, daily, and it was just normal things and being in that environment," she said.
"You hear different voices, get different impressions. I feel your antennae is up all the time when you're working like that.
"If I was just in my room, that wouldn't happen."
Maria did not know her work had been entered for the Forward Prize until two months before the nominations were announced and then had to keep it quiet until the shortlist was made public.
The ceremony takes place on 21 September.
"It's crazy, I'm surprised this has happened. It's not the kind of thing you imagine will ever happen - I mean, you fantasise about it.
"They [the organisers] haven't told me a huge amount, I'm not quite sure what to expect but it sounds like an Oscars-type ceremony where you find out there and then and everyone's facial expressions are scrutinised. It's quite exciting."
Looking 4,000 miles west, Richard Georges' Forward Prize entry focuses on the "submerged narratives" of the British Virgin Islands.
Richard, an Aberystwyth University alumni himself, said the focus of his work was the sea's ability "to be at once a vault of forgotten histories, an eternal graveyard, while still being an almost mythic font of restorative power".
He added that his inspiration for Make Us All Islands, which is shortlisted in the same category as Maria's work, had been "to write into the landscape of the British Virgin Islands which remains largely underwritten".
Richard said that, despite being a British citizen, he had not lived in the UK until he moved to Aberystwyth to begin his MA in creative writing in 2005.
"The culture and smallness of the place, its relative isolation, the seaside environs, the melodic Welsh accent - it was as close to being in a Caribbean environment I could have asked for," he said.
"I might have to single out the poet Matthew Francis as having the biggest impact on me while there.
"In the years in and since leaving Aber, he has been the most gracious with his time, and the aesthetic and voice I have been working on these past years was born in a very rough state in his workshops."
Maria and Richard will not find out whether either of them has won The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection for another three months.
Richard said he had been unaware that his editor had entered his work for the prize and was "surprised" when he heard he was shortlisted.
"Ultimately, it is an incredible honour, and I see it as a sort of an encouragement to keep on with the work I feel called to do," he said.
Maria said the fact two Aberystwyth alumni had been shortlisted alongside just three others was a credit to the university and its creative writing department.
The Forward Prizes describes itself as "the most coveted awards for poetry published in Britain and Ireland".
This year's judging panel will be chaired by journalist Andrew Marr and takes place at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre.
The documents relate to 8,000 men whose cases were heard by the Middlesex Appeal Tribunal between 1916 and 1918.
The National Archives has digitised the papers to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict this year.
They reveal the human cost of the war, as well as the attitudes of some people to those seen as trying to avoid their duty.
Munitions worker from Harlesden. His four brothers had already died in the conflict. His mother had a broken leg.
A note from the appeal tribunal chairman said: "The man concerned in this appeal... has peculiarly hard domestic circumstances. His four brothers who joined the Forces have all been killed, and the applicant lives at home to assist and support a crippled mother.
"The appellant's father is in the home defence. The local tribunal... were of the opinion that the mother is entitled to the comfort she will obtain by the retention of this last son."
His appeal was successful.
Foreign correspondent and book-keeping clerk from Ponders End.
He appealed against conscription on "conscientious grounds".
He wrote: "I am an International Socialist and believe that war is a violation of the ethics of man's relationship to man."
He insisted: "If my appeal is rejected I shall still be determined to abide closely by my principles no matter what may be the penalties for refusing to obey any government order."
The tribunal chairman noted that "as a socialist, he could not possibly have a conscience".
His appeal was dismissed.
Master butcher, from Cricklewood.
An anonymous letter from a local resident, sent to the tribunal, calls him a "proper rotter of a man", and asks why he is allowed to keep his shop while "married men have had to shut up their shop and go".
Mr Busby later served with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force between 1917 and 1918.
Fruiterer and greengrocer, from Brentford.
He wrote: "I have a wife and two children dependent. I have been in business in Brentford for the past 20 years. I supply well over 200 regular customers, most of whom are poor families. My wife and I are working the business without any other assistance, therefore if I am called upon for military service, I shall be forced to close the business".
The appeal tribunal chairman ruled that Mr Brown's business "could be carried on in his absence by his wife, who now actively assists him therein".
His appeal was dismissed.
The 38-year-old allegedly confessed to taking the lives of the patients by injecting them with an overdose of heart medication.
He made the confession to a psychiatric expert who relayed the evidence in court.
Investigators said his motive was to improve his own resuscitation skills.
The former nurse has been on trial since September and is accused of murder and attempted murder.
He is alleged to have killed three patients and tried to kill two others at a clinic in Delmenhorst, near Bremen in north Germany.
But a psychiatric examiner told the court in nearby Oldenburg that he had confessed to as many as 30 killings.
The patients are believed to have been injected with heart medication between 2003 and 2005.
In a further 60 cases he injected patients but managed to revive them, according to the psychiatric assessor.
Police are investigating more than 100 suspicious deaths at the Delmenhorst clinic.
The nurse, identified by the authorities only as Niels H, had already been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison in 2008 for attempted murder.
Pembrokeshire council owns 11 cemeteries but says the current burial and memorial fees "contribute very little" to their ongoing maintenance.
A report to go before cabinet on 25 April says an extra £50,000 a year is needed to cover the council's costs.
It recommends increasing charges across a range of services from reserving a plot to digging a grave.
If the plans are agreed, the cost of excavating a new single grave will increase from £464 to £760, while the cost of burying cremated remains will go up from £151 to £160.
The cost of installing memorials are also recommended to rise.
But today, Mr Kumar is the go-to guy not just for Indian-Americans chasing opportunities in the new administration but apparently for the Indian officials seeking contacts with Trump aides.
A leading Indian TV channel NDTV introduced him as "the man with a direct line to Trump" on their show. Another top-ranking Diaspora website, The American Bazar, has called him "the most influential Indian-American power broker" in DC.
And Kumar isn't complaining about this new celebrity status. "I would like to be the bridge between the two sides," he told the BBC. "I have arranged two big meetings between Indian officials and leading figures in the Trump team."
A majority in the Indian immigrant community have traditionally supported Democrats and Trump's anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric seemed to have further alienated many.
Kumar says he and his Republican Hindu Coalition mobilised Hindu Indian-Americans votes in swing states like Florida.
Their message? Trump was the anti-terrorism candidate, and would help India and US see greater collaboration in defence, energy and manufacturing.
Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric did appeal to some Hindus, but whether that actually swayed the community at large is unclear.
Kumar is not the only one whose stock has soared with a Trump victory.
Pakistani-American Sajid Tarar, who is a Muslim, and Sikh-American Jesse Singh, sided with Mr Trump at the peak of his anti-Muslim barbs. They were pilloried by their own communities for doing so. One exit poll suggested more than three-quarters of Muslims voted for Clinton.
Mr Tarar's Facebook inbox used to be swamped with negative messages, calling him a "disgrace to Pakistan and Islam".
But on the morning of 9 November, his phone wouldn't stop ringing. Mr Tarar had more than 80 messages congratulating him on Mr Trump's victory and how he had made Pakistan proud.
He says the Pakistan embassy reached out to him to facilitate a call between Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the President-elect.
"I sent out a few emails and the call happened," says Mr Tarar, a real estate businessman.
"The ambassador later called to thank me."
Mr Singh was branded a "traitor" for supporting Trump and claims to have been subjected to "personal attacks at community gatherings".
"I was always confident that he would win. But I also realised that when he wins, our community will be nowhere on his radar.
"So, despite all the hate messages I decided to stick with him,'' says Mr Singh.
Both Mr Tarar and Mr Singh have been approached by community members with resumes, looking for jobs in the new administration.
On Saturday, they were also part of the group leading the prayers at the National Cathedral as part of Mr Trump's inauguration celebrations.
Kumar, Tarar and Singh were high-profile examples of diverse supporters for the Trump campaign, which relied primarily on a predominantly white support base to win the election.
But with the need for photo-ops gone, will there still be a role for them in the coming days?
Mr Kumar, who was part of the transition team on finance, says he is working to triple the amount of trade between the US and India and create jobs in both countries.
He's made three trips to India since the election results were announced. His Twitter account has a picture of him hugging Indian Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, mentioning a discussion to create 100,000 yoga related jobs in the US.
Those tagged in the tweet are the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, his treasury secretary nominee, Steven Mnuchin, and former speaker Newt Gingrich.
He says he's always been a strong advocate for "establishing a Hindu-American voice on public policy".
Does that mean seeking a position in the Trump administration?
"I have been my own boss in the past 44 years. But I will be happy to help where I can be most of service,'' says Mr Kumar, adding it would be too premature to talk about specific posts.
When probed further, he did seem interested in the ambassador's job to India or a position in the commerce department.
For Tarar, the state's department's Special Representatives to Muslim Communities, or as envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would be Trump administration posts worth aspiring to.
But if he doesn't get the job "it will not be end of the world".
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In a close fight, in which two of the three judges scored it in favour of Argilagos, 23-year-old Yafai was narrowly edged out.
Richie Woodhall, who won Olympic bronze in 1988, said he was "proud" of Yafai.
"The fight warranted either a semi or a final," he said. "They are two of the best in the world at this weight."
Elsewhere in the men's light-flyweight, Ireland's Paddy Barnes - bronze medallist in 2008 and 2012 - suffered a surprise elimination at the hands of Samuel Carmona Heredia by points decision.
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The 29-year-old helped Watford win promotion from the second tier in 2014-15, playing nine times as the Hornets finished second behind Bournemouth.
Motta has also played for Atalanta, Udinese, Roma and Juventus in Italy's top division.
But he is unable to make his debut against Cardiff on Saturday.
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Jolly Tumuhiirwe, 22, was charged in court with the torture of a girl of 18 months. A video of the assault caused outrage when it was posted online.
The child's father, Eric Kamanzi, had installed a camera in his home after noticing his daughter was bruised and limping.
Ms Tumuhiirwe asked the court, the parents and Ugandans to forgive her.
The graphic footage, which is taken from a camera hidden in the corner of the living room, shows Ms Tumuhiirwe hitting the child when she resists feeding and then throwing her to the floor, beating her with a torch before stepping on her and kicking her.
The footage of the abuse, which was not shown in court on Monday, has been seen or shared thousands of times on social media.
After capturing the violence on film, the girl's father reported the incident to police on 13 November.
Ms Tumuhiirwe, who was not represented by a lawyer in court, now faces up to 15 years in prison for the crime or a fine of about $400 (£260) or both.
One of Uganda's leading advocates offered to represent her but the magistrate denied his request saying he had not formally notified the court.
The BBC's Patience Atuhaire in the capital, Kampala, says the toddler's father broke down in court when the maid said she was sorry.
The magistrate granted the state attorney's request for an adjournment of two days so that she could gather more facts on the case.
After the public outrage that followed the video, police had issued a statement saying the charge of torture would be amended to attempted murder.
But the directorate of public prosecutions was quoted in local media on Monday as saying that investigations were still on-going and the charge remained torture under the Anti-Torture Act.
Our reporter says the courtroom was packed and people were running and craning their necks to have a good look at Ms Tumuhiirwe as she was led away by prison officers after the session.
Alban Church of England Academy in Great Barford reversed the decision after complaints from parents.
The school said children had turned up without a packed lunch or dinner money more than 100 times in the past month.
In a letter to parents, headteacher Sue Lourensz wrote: "I apologise if this has caused any offence."
She said the meals cost £2.10 a day and that its suppliers, Caterlink, had a strict "no debt" policy.
That meant The Alban had to fund the cost of each meal and would then have to recoup the money from parents.
She wrote: "Pupils are reminded to bring the money in the next day but frequently forget and parents then have to be sent texts and even letters if they fail to pay.
"As I am sure you can appreciate, this takes a considerable amount of time to administer and incurs extra costs to the school, which can be ill-afforded with the increasing tightening of school budgets."
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The Bedfordshire school had decided that from next month, if a child arrived without dinner money or a packed lunch, office staff would first try to call parents.
However if no provision were made "the child will be provided with a drink and bread and butter only."
However following complaints from parents, Mrs Lourensz wrote a second letter.
It said: "Following a number of parental concerns regarding the recent school meals letter we have decided to re-think our policy and will not be introducing the new system outlined in that letter.
"I apologise if this has caused any offence, this was not our intention.
"The letter itself was intended to explain the situation and trial a policy that has been successfully adopted by other schools. Please accept our sincere apologies."
The last of the 29-year-old's 39 international appearances came against New Zealand in June 2014.
Ashton will be free to play again on 19 December after Sarries decided not to appeal against his suspension.
"It may seem a long journey back, but I will do everything to get back to where I feel I belong," he said.
"My clear ambition is first to regain my place in the Saracens team and then to regain my place in the England side."
Ashton was named in England coach Eddie Jones' Six Nations squad earlier this year, but was ruled out of the tournament when he received a 10-week ban following an eye-gouging incident in a European Champions Cup game.
And despite helping Saracens win the Premiership title and the Champions Cup last season, he was left out of the England squad which toured Australia in the summer.
The former Northampton player subsequently turned down a call-up to the England Saxons squad for their tour of South Africa.
He maintains his innocence of both the gouging and biting incidents, the latter occurring in Saracens' 27-12 win over Saints on 17 September.
"Both panels chose to accept the opposing version of events," he told the Saracens website. "I did not agree with either verdict, but I must and do accept the sanctions.
"I would like to thank Saracens for their support during these times, and I am wholly committed to repaying the faith of all the staff of this special organisation."
The first incident happened at Drumby Service Station in Eastwoodmains Road, Clarkston, at about 06:05 on Wednesday 23 November 2016.
The second robbery was at about 16:20 on Thursday 9 March at the Co-op on Eaglesham Road, Clarkston.
The third incident took place on Main Street, Busby, at about 16:40 the same day.
The man was expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court.
"Among the strongest and most remarkable quarters in our over 23 years as a public company," is how boss Howard Schultz has described its third quarter performance.
The rise was mostly thanks to it buying out its previous Japanese partner Starbucks Japan and new store openings.
The world's largest coffee chain opened 431 new stores in the period.
Like-for-like sales - which strip out the effect of new store openings - increased by 7%.
And total net profit rose 22% to $626.7m.
Mr Schultz said the sales increase meant it had served 23 million more customers in the quarter compared to the same period last year. Of those 18 million were from the US.
It said its loyalty programme had helped to drive its strong performance. The chain has worked with other firms such as ride-sharing service Lyft and music streaming firm Spotify.
Both firms give their customers a chance to earn Starbucks "starts" which can be used in the coffee chain's shops.
Shares rose more than 3% in after hours trading.
The 26-year-old forward was released by Carlisle United in June, after making 10 appearances for the League Two club.
Balanta has been training with the Wood during pre-season.
"I'm taking him to play up top, he'll be competing with two other forwards and he'll be judged on his work rate, attitude and, of course, his goals," manager Luke Garrard told the club website.
"Angelo knows he needs to kick-start his career here at Meadow Park, as he's not a wonder kid any longer.
"He must show me he has the desire to succeed everyday as nobody can question his ability."
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The leg-spinner took 4-16 as Kolkata were skittled for 107 runs.
After Kolkata slipped to 31-5, Suryakumar Yadav (31) and Ishank Jaggi (28) gave some resistance before Jasprit Bumrah (3-7) and Mitchell Johnson (2-28) cleaned up the tail.
Krunal Pandya's 45 not out helped to steer Mumbai home in just 14.3 overs.
They face Rising Pune Supergiant in the final in Hyderabad at 15:30 BST on Sunday.
NBC gymnastics announcer Al Trautwig referred to the Olympic gymnast's adoptive parents, Ron and Nellie, as her grandparents.
But the remarks have ignited a debate on social media, because as well as being her biological grandparents, they adopted her when her mother struggled with drug and alcohol addictions, in Columbus, Ohio.
Trautwig's comments were made during NBC's broadcast on Sunday. During the commentary, he remarked: "Biles was raised by her grandfather and his wife, and she calls them 'Mum and Dad'."
Social media users turned to Twitter to correct the commentator, but his response, which has since been deleted, attracted a barrage of comments, as Twitter users debated the gaff.
@Angryeditorials posted: "They are her grandparents, for heavens sake! Would you prefer 'adoptive parents'?"
@jenunexpected responded with: "She said they are her parents. They legally adopted her. Why not refer to them that way?"
Adoption groups joined the conversation as the debate continued.
Simone Biles's coach also weighed in.
Some social media users were so upset by the remarks that tweets with the hashtag #FireTrautwig were generated.
On Monday, Trautwig offered an apology as reported by USA Today.
"I regret that I wasn't more clear in my wording on the air," he said in a statement emailed by NBC Sports.
"I compounded the error on Twitter, which I quickly corrected.
"To set the record straight, Ron and Nellie are Simone's parents."
The BBC has contacted NBC sports for a statement.
Ealing centre Joe Munro powered over for the opening try midway through the first half but the Reds hit back through Simon Kerrod's score.
Aaron Penberthy and Sam Katz traded penalties in the second period but the Trailfinders were never behind.
Ealing climb back into the play-off zone, while Jersey are in eighth spot.
"It was very frustrating," Jersey skipper James Freeman told BBC Radio Jersey.
"Credit to Ealing, I thought they played well, especially their line-out defence in the first half which kept us out of a few shots that we thought we had."
The visitors were the brighter of the two sides in the early stages and deservedly led 10-0 thanks to Penberthy's drop-goal and Joe Munro's try.
Fly-half Penberthy, facing his former club, dictated a lot of the early play but Jersey were just three points behind at half time thanks to Kerrod's try in the left corner and Sam Katz's superb conversion.
In a scrappy second half Penberthy extended the Trailfinders lead to six points on three occasions but Katz was accurate with the boot at the other end to keep his side in touch.
The Reds looked like they might snatch the win at the death, when they won two penalties and a free-kick at a scrum on the five metre line, but the penalty-try never came and Ealing eventually got the penalty themselves and, with it, took the victory.
Jersey: Adair; Watkins, Ma'afu, Stevens, Davies; Katz, Hardy; Thomas, Buckle, Kerrod; Campbell, McKern; Graham, Freeman (capt), Haining.
Replacements: Macfarlane, McCarthy, Tampin, Kolo'ofa'i, Argyle; Fisilau, Dudley.
Ealing: Daniels; Harries, Jones, Munro, Cordy-Redden; Penberthy, Carter; Gibbons, Walker, Thiede; Maddison, Townson; Murphy, Nagle-Taylor, Bright (capt).
Replacements: Cornish, Davis, Rodman, Casson, Preocanin, Walker, Peters.
Attendance: 1,596
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Shell will sell around 156.5 million shares, which represents 19% of Woodside's issued share capital.
Upon completion, the European firm's stake in Woodside will be reduced from its current 23.1% to 4.5%.
Shell has said in a statement it wants to focus its "Australian growth in directly owned assets."
The company's chief executive Ben van Buerden added: "It doesn't change our view of Australia as an important player on the global energy stage, or Shell's central role in the country's energy industry.
We continue to see Australia as an important place for us to invest and grow our business."
Earlier this year Shell reported a 44% drop in first-quarter profits after it wrote down the value of refineries in Asia and Europe.
The cutting of its Woodside stake will take place over two stages.
Shell will offload a 9.5% stake or 78.3 million Woodside shares to institutional investors, at a price of $41.35 Australian dollars per share, by Wednesday.
It will also be selling another 78.3 million shares to Woodside in a buyback programme, at $36.49 Australian dollars per share.
The buyback is subjected to approval by Woodside's shareholders, as well as independent expert opinion that the transaction is "fair and reasonable" to all Woodside shareholders.
Chief executive of the Australian gas and oil firm, Peter Coleman, said in a statement submitted to the Australian stock exchange: "This combined transaction is an efficient and disciplined use of capital and creates value for all our shareholders.
"The combined transaction will also increase our liquidity in the market and resolve the uncertainty in relation to Shell's shareholding that has existed for several years."
The firm had originally sold one-third of its Woodside stake in November 2010, for $3.3bn.
Trinh Xuan Thanh said he had turned himself in to the Vietnamese authorities after returning there.
The German foreign ministry said he had been abducted in an "unprecedented" breach of German and international law.
Mr Thanh is accused of causing $150m (£114m) in losses at state oil firm PetroVietnam.
"I wasn't thinking maturely and decided to hide, and during that time I realised I need to return to face the truth and... admit my faults and apologise," Mr Thanh, 51, said during his appearance on Vietnam Television.
In what was termed a signed confession dated 31 July, the state broadcaster quoted him as saying: "Because of fear I decided to hide in Germany, where I lived a precarious and anxious life.
"I returned to Vietnam and presented myself at the investigative authority."
Germany has ordered a Vietnamese intelligence officer to leave Germany, and demanded that Mr Thanh should be allowed to return to Germany.
Mr Thanh's lawyer, Petra Schlagenhauf, condemned the Vietnamese authorities.
"This is a forced 'confession'... he was kidnapped. We know it, the German police know it, the German government knows it," she told BBC Vietnamese in an email.
"I fear for the health of my client. He looks very bad."
It is unclear if Mr Thanh has legal representation in Vietnam. Trials on camera are common in Vietnam.
Dissent in the one-party state is not tolerated, but despite that, activists have publicly criticised the government amid the kidnapping allegations.
A Vietnamese foreign ministry spokeswoman said earlier that she felt "great pity" about the German government's stance.
"Vietnam very much respects and wants to develop the strategic partnership relation between Vietnam and Germany," she added.
Justine Allingham from Portchester, Hampshire has been photographed standing on her hands at hundreds of sites in southern England.
The former martial artist, 24, has flipped upside down on a bouncy castle, outside an EU referendum polling station and at several fire stations.
She is raising money for The Fire Fighters Charity.
Ms Allingham, who works as a licensing officer, is more than 300 days into her challenge and has performed handstands at Winchester Cathedral, Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower and the Ageas Bowl cricket stadium.
She was inspired to begin the quest by her stepdad, Ian Harper, is a firefighter for Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.
"My connection with the fire service is through my stepdad, and it is through him that I know how much they do,
"I think it takes a very special kind of person to do the things they do and risk their lives to keep other people safe. They are heroes," she added.
Many of her hand stands have been captured on camera and shared on her social media feeds.
Justine Greening told MPs expanding grammar schools would help families who could not afford to buy houses in the catchment areas of good schools.
Ms Greening said the proposals would create a "truly meritocratic" system.
But Labour's Angela Rayner said: "Stop your silly class war."
The plans for expanding selection in schools, announced by the prime minister last week, have been presented to Parliament.
Ms Greening said it would increase the number of good school places and make sure there is a school system that "works for everyone, not just the privileged few".
Labour's shadow education secretary Ms Rayner said the new mantra of the Conservative party should be "segregation, segregation, segregation".
And she asked the education secretary to explain who would decide which non-selective schools should be able to convert to become selective.
Ms Greening said: "We want to look again at selective schools and how they can open up excellent places to more children - particularly the most disadvantaged.
"We will therefore look at how we can relax the rules on expanding selective schools, allow new ones to open and non-selective schools to become selective where there is a demand."
The plans were challenged by former education secretary Nicky Morgan who asked how creating more grammar schools would help pupils who were already underachieving or in schools that were underperforming.
Mrs Morgan's own flagship education policy - forcing all schools to become academies - was sunk this year by a backbench rebellion by Conservative MPs.
But another former education secretary, Michael Gove, gave his backing to the plans.
Another former Conservative education secretary, Ken Clarke, cautioned on the impact on those pupils who did not get into a grammar school and urged that it should not "distract from raising standards".
Former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said the school system should be based on examples, such as London, which had many successful schools without selection.
Conservative backbencher Keith Simpson said he was uncertain about putting an emphasis on grammars, rather than focusing on the achievement of mainstream schools.
But Conservative Edward Leigh backed the government plans, saying it was "perverse" not to allow good grammars to be able to take more pupils.
And he supported the removal of the cap on faith group places in free schools - saying that it had been a mistake from the outset.
If the government faces rebellions from its own MPs over grammars, there will be questions on whether the Scottish National Party would vote on this English issue.
The party has kept its options open so far, saying: "We will closely examine any proposals brought to the House of Commons to identify any potential impact on Scotland's budget."
But Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has written a warning to Conservative MPs saying that the proposals for grammars could be as damaging to them as tuition fees were to his own party.
He said more admissions tests would not be popular with voters, who could find their children without places in a school which had become selective.
Kevin Courtney, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said: "This is a backward-looking policy. Promoting grammar schools as the elite academic option instantly casts all other schools into the role of supporting actor."
Head teachers' leader Russell Hobby said the "rhetoric does not match the reality" with grammars and "social mobility will be reduced, opportunities will be narrowed and life chances will be limited for the majority of pupils in this country".　
A report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies concludes that grammars can "stretch the brightest pupils, but seem likely to come at the cost of increasing inequality".
The think-tank study argues that grammars do well for those who get places, but those who do not get in are likely to do "worse than they would have done in a comprehensive system".
The education proposals include:
This is how many Ukrainians start and finish their summer holiday in Russian-annexed Crimea.
Queues of cars snake for several hours as people wait to visit relatives or get to the peninsula for a beach break.
Lorry-loads of watermelons are sold by the side of the road while people wait to be checked or waved through, in the southern region of Kherson, next to Crimea, where Kiev's vast Dnipro river enters the Black Sea.
Aside from the odd soldier dug in by the side of the road and the vigilance of Ukraine's border guards, there is little to suggest that the country is preparing for Russian military action from the south.
Most analysts think any such action would be highly unlikely.
But after Russia seized Crimea in March 2014 without firing a shot, Ukraine has learnt to expect the unexpected from its powerful neighbour.
Vigilance is the watchword of Ukraine's National Border Guard.
Spokesman Ivan Shevcov said his colleagues were "prepared for any type of action from the Russian side".
The war of words between Russia and Ukraine has intensified following Moscow's accusation that Kiev plotted a sabotage attack in Crimea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised a response.
Russia has moved more military hardware on to the peninsula. And pictures of the Russian navy carrying out military drills in Crimea to counter the threat of saboteurs were quickly beamed around the world.
This week Russia is carrying out more exercises in Crimea to counter the threat of weapons of mass destruction.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has put his military on high alert. He insists the Russian claim of a sabotage attack by Ukrainian special forces was cooked up by the Kremlin to justify future attacks.
However little, if anything, has changed at the checkpoints in and out of Crimea.
One man from the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa said he went there only to visit his elderly mother who lived there and wouldn't leave.
When she dies, he will not travel there any more.
For Igor, travelling to Crimea to visit relatives, the latest rhetoric is "mostly exaggerated".
"Whatever you see on TV, (with) saboteur groups arrested, I think this can be faked by any side. Each side can create provocations."
With his tennis racket bag slung over his shoulder, Artyom, a Ukrainian probably in his 20s, explains how pleasant his holiday in Crimea has been, and how friendly the people there were. And he is not alone.
"The Russians say one thing and the Ukrainians another. I don't know who to trust," says an elderly woman with sunglasses.
The line between fact and fiction is often blurred when it comes to Russia's tactics and actions in relation to Ukraine.
Kiev calls this "hybrid warfare", which mixes propaganda with cyber attacks and semi-clandestine operations.
Tamara is driving across to Crimea, where she owns property, with her chihuahua Charlie.
She might not believe all the rumours in Kiev. However, she does not trust the Russian version of recent events.
"I think [the Russians] did this intentionally. But I don't know why they did this during the holiday season. Everything was fine when I came here in June with my mum."
Tamara's mother-in-law and daughter were going to join her on the trip to Crimea, but because of what they had seen on the news they decided to stay in Kiev.
Across the water from Crimea in the small town of Skadovsk, the melee of swimsuits and food-sellers on the beach is proof that many Ukrainians will simply not travel to Russian-annexed Crimea as a point of principle.
Few seem to notice the Ukrainian National Border Guard soldiers high above in their concrete look-out post at the back of the beach, behind an invisible network of trenches.
For all the political rhetoric of recent days, the fun-loving normality of the summer season in southern Ukraine goes on.
Preeti Rathi, who was 23 when she was murdered, had just arrived from Delhi to join the Indian navy as a nurse.
Her neighbour Ankur Panwar attacked her after she rejected a marriage proposal.
It is the first such sentence for an acid attack in India. Many such attacks go unpunished, campaigners say.
Panwar, 25, was convicted of murder and other offences at a special court in the city on Tuesday. He is likely to appeal against the verdict in a higher court.
On Thursday, the special court said that the crime fell within the "rarest of rare" category which justified the death penalty.
Ms Rathi, who suffered severe injuries to her lungs and eyes in the attack on 2 May 2013, died a month later.
A month after her death, India's Supreme Court ordered federal and state governments to regulate the sale of acid.
The court ruled that acid could only be sold to people who showed a valid identity card. However, critics say that it is still widely and easily available.
According to government figures, there are hundreds of such attacks a year; but campaigners say the real figures are much higher.
Andrew Conway's early try put the visitors in control, with the hosts struggling to find any cohesion.
Warriors were hindered by injuries to Peter Horne and Rory Hughes but stole a line-out for Ali Price to score.
Mark Bennett raced clear to nudge Glasgow ahead but the conversion was missed and Keatley had the last say.
The visitors got off to a flier against a dreadfully poor Glasgow; Keatley banging over an early penalty before Conway scored the game's first try. That score had its origins in a sliced clearing kick from Peter Murchie that gave Munster a line-out, then a collapsed maul gave them a free play.
Keatley hit a crossfield kick to the right-hand corner where Darren Sweetnam and Murchie missed it in the air. Conway followed up to touch it down. Keatley's conversion made it 10-0.
Until their dramatic recovery, Glasgow were uninspired and utterly unable to break down a terrific Munster defence.
They had 60% possession and 60% territory in that first half, they played a quarter of the half with a one-man advantage when Dave Kilcoyne was binned, they were awarded seven penalties - and gave away only three - and still all they could do on the scoreboard was three points from Horne's boot.
Glasgow turned down kickable penalties and went for touch instead. Dubious decision-making that led to frustration after they ran into one red wall after another.
Munster didn't have to be anything other than aggressive and well-organised in defence to have a 13-3 lead at the break. They even won the 10 minute sin-binning period 3-0.
Glasgow scrum-half Price made his international debut last weekend in the final minutes against Georgia. He helped create a try that day and he scored the one that woke Glasgow up in this game.
Price had been one of the few home players who stood out in the first half and, on the hour, he came alive with a try. Glasgow stole line-out ball and Price saw his chance, taking it brilliantly.
He darted through the visitors' defence, eluding Sweetnam and Keatley and going in by the posts. Clegg converted.
Glasgow hit Munster with another try nine minutes later, attacking from their own 22; Tommy Seymour slipping a lovely offload to Bennett who ran 60 metres to put Glasgow ahead 15-13. There was no conversion - and it was costly.
With three minutes left, Munster worked good field position and Keatley kept his nerve wonderfully to strike the winning drop goal straight and true.
Munster, deservedly, had continued their winning run and Glasgow had continued a losing sequence that is now looking deeply concerning for them. That's three in a row in the Pro 12 - for the first time since 2011 - and four losses in five in all competitions.
A terrific night for Munster, but a grim one for the hosts.
Glasgow: Murchie, Hughes, Grigg, Bennett, Seymour, Horne, Price, Reid, Brown, Puafisi, Swinson, Harley, Strauss, Fusaro, Wilson.
Replacements: Jones for Hughes (45), Clegg for P. Horne (22), Allan for Reid (51), Flynn for Brown (51), Rae for Puafisi (61), Haupeakui for Strauss (57), McAlpine for Fusaro (78). Not Used: Kenatale.
Munster: Conway, Sweetnam, Taute, R. Scannell, R. O'Mahony, Keatley, Williams, Kilcoyne, N. Scannell, J. Ryan, Kleyn, B. Holland, P. O'Mahony, O'Donnell, O'Donoghue.
Replacements: Goggin for Keatley (78), Toma for Williams (65), Marshall for N. Scannell (78), Archer for J. Ryan (61), D. Ryan for Kleyn (41), Copeland for P. O'Mahony (57), du Toit for O'Donnell (28). Not Used: Wootton.
Sin Bin: Kilcoyne (27).
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales).
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That way, if you see or are sent anything that makes you feel uncomfortable or upset while you're online, you can tell them.
Don't give out any personal information online as people may use it to contact you when you don't want them to.
Unless you have an adult's permission, never give out:
Don't arrange to meet anyone you've met online, no matter how well you think you know them, without your parent or carer's permission.
Meeting someone you've only been in touch with online can be dangerous as they may have been lying about who they are.
Even if you get permission, make sure you have an adult with you when you meet for the first time.
If a website asks you to register online and you have to fill out an email form, always ask for an adult's opinion.
There's a few websites where you can get help and advice, both on CBBC and elsewhere.
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If you do register, never use your real name as your online screen name or nickname.
Very often the website is just trying to sell you something.
Only if you keep them completely secret - don't even tell your best friend.
And try not to use names of your family or pets, because people can guess them quite easily.
Use a mix of letters and numbers instead.
Sending and receiving emails between family and friends is usually OK.
But don't open emails, downloads or attachments from people you don't know or trust as they could contain a computer virus or unwanted messages.
The best thing to do is to delete them.
If you get an email with rude or unpleasant things in it, tell a responsible adult straight away and DON'T REPLY to it!
Remember that it's not your fault someone has sent it to you.
Spam, or unwanted emails, make up half of all emails sent around the world. They are usually meant for adults and can be upsetting for children.
But you don't have to accept it or put up with them.
There is special software which can stop spam getting into your inbox.
Speak to your parents about the software if you are at all worried.
Most internet and email companies, like yahoo, hotmail and AOL, have systems in place to block spam, and they're working to improve them all the time.
If you need more information about what they can do, email them for help.
This is using part of a chatroom where other people can't see what you're saying.
Never agree to a private chat with someone unless you already know them face-to-face, in real life.
You can also have private chats on "instant messaging".
Instant messaging - sometimes shortened to IM - is a computer program that allows you to send messages that other users receive straight away.
It is best only to do this with people you already know in real life.
If you get to a chatroom through instant messaging, remember to follow the same safety rules you would use if you were chatting anywhere else.
Social networking sites are places where you can keep in touch with friends and let people know what you're up to. Popular ones include Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
You normally have to be at least 13 to register on them, and even then you often need your parents' permission.
They can be dangerous though because you must be careful not to post personal information about yourself.
Also, you must keep your password to yourself, or else people could write nasty things pretending to be you.
Swimmers have been warned by Brighton and Hove City Council to stay away from the sea over the winter.
The beach around Brighton Pier will be closed in a bid to stop swimmers entering the water on Christmas Day, the council said.
Chris Ingall said inexperienced swimmers entering the water were "an accident waiting to happen".
Mr Ingall, the seafront manager, said: "Sea swimming takes skill, stamina and knowledge of the physical dangers and should only be for the very experienced, using suitable wetsuits, in very calm conditions.
"The combination of the amount of people and their inexperience, and some of the drinking as well, it's an accident waiting to happen, and accidents have happened."
Brighton Swimming Club has been organising the swim on 25 December since 1860.
Dozens normally take part in the event in the English Channel at 11:00 GMT near Brighton Pier.
Fiona Southwell, from the club, said those entering the water were risking their lives.
She said: "Those people jumping in on Christmas morning are totally unaware of the environment they're jumping into, as well as the sea temperature."
The former first minister said it would put Nicola Sturgeon in a powerful position in negotiations over the UK's exit from the European Union.
His comments came ahead of the UK's biggest constitutional case in decades.
The Supreme Court is due to decide how the UK government can trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, beginning the process of leaving the EU.
In the case that will begin on Monday, it will also hear evidence on whether Holyrood should give its consent to the process.
On the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland, Mr Salmond was asked what would happen if the judges ruled in favour of a legislative consent motion.
He said: "It would certainly be a constitutional crisis that would have to be resolved.
"It's true that the House of Commons could try to invoke an override clause but of course you've got to remember that the House of Commons, the MPs, are more or less lined up in favour of Brexit because of the result of the referendum.
"But that's an altogether different thing if you start saying we're going to overturn a legislative consent motion or for that matter have a guillotine in constitutional legislation. The votes change given the question being asked.
"And certainly it would result in a constitutional crisis and that crisis might be an extremely good thing for Scotland because it would put us in an extremely powerful position in terms of securing the interests of Scotland in the negotiations."
UK chancellor Philip Hammond angered the Scottish government last week when he appeared to rule out a special deal for Scotland in Brexit negotiations during the visit north of the border.
Mr Salmond, the SNP's foreign affairs spokesman at Westminster, predicted that Mr Hammond would "beat a road back to Edinburgh and adopt an altogether different tone" if the Supreme Court ruled in favour of a legislative consent motion.
The Scottish Conservatives branded Mr Salmond's comments a "shameless admission".
Their chief whip John Lamont said: "This is Alex Salmond confirming what we already knew. The SNP is quite happy with constitutional upheaval so long as it forwards its separation goals.
"This is a shameless admission, and perhaps explains why the SNP didn't bother campaigning hard during the EU referendum."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said it proved the SNP "thrives" on constitutional crisis.
She said both the Conservatives and the SNP were putting the union at risk.
"More than ever, we have two governing parties in Scotland that are out of step with what the majority of people in Scotland want," she said.
"The Tories want Scotland in the UK and out of Europe, and the SNP wants Scotland in the EU, but out of the UK. Continuing to pull our country in each of these directions risks breaking the union once and for all."
The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Willie Rennie MSP said: "Alex Salmond's comments confirm that the SNP are only using the European issue to advance independence."
They say Michael Vance died in the "dramatic" shootout on Sunday night nearly Leedey, west of Oklahoma City.
The 38-year-old suspect earlier in the day shot and wounded a police officer, triggering a police chase.
Last week he posted two Facebook videos after wounding two police officers. He is suspected of killing two relatives.
Vance had indicated he intended to target several people linked to a sexual assault case against him.
"Letting y'all know, look, this is real," the suspect, wearing a blood-soaked shirt, said in one of the Facebook videos, which police believe was filmed inside a police car he had stolen during last week's shooting of the two officers.
"If you want to know what's up next, stay tuned to your local news," said Vance.
He had been recently released from Lincoln County Jail in Oklahoma, where he was being held on an allegation of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl.
Vance, according to the Oklahoman newspaper, had been scheduled to appear in court next month to face the felony charges.
The piglet was nestled among straw used by mustangs, but the stables owner has no idea where it came from.
Martine Lettau, from Tuddenham St Mary in Suffolk, said: "Mustangs are quite renowned for seeing off predators."
The piglet was taken to a nearby pig farm, but its manager said it was "unlikely" it had come from there originally.
Ms Lettau said she found the piglet "rustling and squeaking" in the stable on Monday morning.
"The only thing I can imagine is that a fox carried the piglet off when it was born, carried it over a mile here and happened to come through the paddock," she said.
"The foals might have then chased the fox off and the piglet got herded into the stable.
"When I found the piglet and it started squealing, some of the mustangs came over from the paddock to see what I was doing to it, so they must have taken ownership."
Ms Lettau said she took the piglet to a neighbouring farm in the Mildenhall area.
The farm manager, who did not wish to be identified, said that as it was only a day old he could not confirm if it had been born in one of his fields, but the piglet had put it with a sow and it was weaning.
He said: "I think it would be highly unlikely for a fox to carry a piglet for a mile, let alone for it to have no mark or injury as a result.
"If the piglet's temperature dropped by even a couple of degrees it would not have survived."
The teenager is charged with the murder of James Attfield, 33, and Nahid Almanea, 31, in Colchester, Essex.
Guildford Crown Court heard there was "no dispute" he killed the victims.
The boy, who cannot be named because of his age, has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but denies murder.
Prosecutor Philip Bennetts told the court material had been found on the teenager's phone and at his home about serial killers including Sutcliffe and "Stockwell Strangler" Kenneth Erskine.
DVDs about Sutcliffe, and films including horror series Wrong Turn and Snowtown - inspired by a real-life string of killings in Australia - were found by police when they searched the boy's home.
He had also used his phone to look up a report into a man who had killed several elderly victims and had entered a diminished responsibility plea.
After his arrest in May last year, the defendant told police he "heard voices telling him to sacrifice people", Mr Bennetts said.
He was detained after a member of the public called police to report someone acting suspiciously near the site where Saudi Arabian student Ms Almanea, 31, was found dead on Salary Brook Trail.
Mr Attfield, 33, was found with 102 knife wounds three months beforehand in Castle Park.
Both victims had been found with stab wounds around their left eyes, something the court heard was "quite uncommon".
Mr Bennetts told the court during the course of the trial, which is set to last one week, a psychiatrist would argue that the teenager was able to form rational judgements at the time of the killings.
Judge Robin Spencer QC told jury members they had to decide whether the accused was suffering from diminished responsibility at the time of the killings in 2014.
On the first day of the trial, the defendant changed his plea to a third charge, of possessing an offensive weapon, to guilty.
The trial continues.
Michael Jordan McGuire, 19, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, also had to pay £1,000 costs in a hearing at Swansea Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Police said the order also stopped McGuire from entering towns and cities where Swansea or Wales were playing.
They added that McGuire contested their court application to ban him.
A spokesman said the court was shown video footage of McGuire during disorder at three games - Wolves versus Swansea in 2008, Swansea versus Charlton Athletic in 2009, and Swansea versus Leicester City last year.
The court was also shown photographs from the Swansea versus Cardiff City fixture in 2009.
The order was made on the basis that McGuire caused or contributed to violence and disorder at these matches, said South Wales Police.
Police said the court agreed he should be banned despite having never been arrested or convicted of football-related violence.
They said the ban extended to matches in the UK which were regulated under the Football Spectators Act 1989.
Supt Phil Davies of Swansea police said: "South Wales Police can, and will, pursue civil banning orders against those who are frequently and actively engaged in incidents of disorder at football events regardless of whether they have been arrested or convicted.
"I'm sure no Swansea City fans will want to miss any of this season's Premier League fixtures and therefore this case should be a deterrent to anyone thinking of getting involved in disorder.
"The feedback we have had following the opening three matches of this season has been extremely positive, including positive comments from Greater Manchester Police on the behaviour of the Swans fans and from Sunderland fans about the good atmosphere during their visit to Swansea last weekend."
Lewis became the first NFL player to score on a kick-off return, pass and run in a play-off game.
His team will face Kansas or Pittsburgh next week for a Super Bowl place.
In Saturday's other match, the Atlanta Falcons made the NFC title game by beating the Seattle Seahawks 36-20.
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The Falcons, who had lost 26-24 at Seattle in the regular season, will play either Dallas or Green Bay on January 22 for a berth in the Super Bowl.
Lewis scored on a 98-yard kick-off return, caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Tom Brady and ran for a one-yard touchdown in the final quarter.
Brady finished 18-of-38 for 287 yards with two interceptions for the Patriots, who are chasing their fifth Super Bowl championship.
In Atlanta, quarterback Ryan threw for three touchdowns as the Falcons overpowered the Seahawks.
Ryan - the favourite to win the MVP award - has won both his play-off games against the Seahawks but is winless in four post-season starts against other NFL teams.
It is the story of a wily political operator, backing the right political horses and shifting allegiances when expedient.
Given slightly different circumstances, according to one observer, it could have seen Ibori in the presidential villa rather than a British jail cell.
Ibori's defence in the face of allegations had always been that he had a successful business career and had made money independent of government.
But in 1991, he was working in a hardware store in the London suburb of Neasden.
The prosecution in this trial told a judge he was earning around £15,000 ($24,000) a year.
He was caught by his employer allowing his wife to walk through the till he was manning without paying for goods.
They both pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court and were fined.
In 1992, he was convicted for possession of a stolen credit card, which had £1,000 spent on it, and was again fined in a UK court.
Ibori then returned to Nigeria intending to become a political operator. The country was about to be tipped into a tumultuous period.
Military leader Ibrahim Babangida had scheduled elections to return Nigeria to democracy in June 1993.
Ibori worked for the governorship campaign of a friend.
The experience gave him good connections with the parties that would eventually merge to form the People's Democratic Party, currently ruling Nigeria.
The 1993 elections were cancelled by Mr Babangida. Later that year, Gen Sani Abacha staged a coup, cementing the military's grip on power for another five years.
According to Antony Goldman, who worked as a journalist in Nigeria for many years and has followed Ibori's career closely, this is when Ibori made his first shift of political master, offering his services to Abacha.
"He had an unspecified role in security," Mr Goldman said. "That could be anything, it was a very murky business."
Abacha was accused of murdering political opponents and ruthlessly crushing dissent and pro-democracy movements.
In the mid-1990s, Ibori was questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in the US about how he came into the possession of millions of dollars that he transferred to accounts in the US.
The FBI suspected the money came from advance fee fraud, the infamous Nigerian 419 scam, but he was able to prove the money came from his work with Abacha, Mr Goldman said.
Abacha died in 1998 and Ibori switched horses again, attaching himself to influential northern politician Atiku Abubakar, who went on to become vice-president.
In 1999, Ibori took out a mortgage on a property in Abbey Road, London.
To do that, he got a new passport with a false birth date to mask his previous convictions.
The birth date he chose was in fact medically impossible as it was only a month after his sister's birthday, the prosecution told the court.
Ibori was installed as the governor of the oil-rich Delta State in the 1999 elections.
In order to take office in Nigeria, he had to swear an affidavit that he had no convictions. To do this, he used the same birth date he had made up to acquire his mortgage.
It was this evidence that would, in a London court 14 years later, spell the end for Ibori.
Soon after he became governor, Ibori paid off the Abbey Road mortgage in cash.
He went on to buy three other properties in the UK. He paid £2.2 million in cash for a house in the plush London suburb of Hampstead.
In 2005 the Metropolitan Police began to take an interest in Ibori after they came across a purchase order for a private jet, made through his solicitor in London.
It was just after this that Ibori shifted horses again, switching his allegiance from Mr Abubakar to the then President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In 2006, President Obasanjo recruited Ibori to help him force through a change in the constitution to allow him to run for a third term as president.
When that plan failed, Ibori promised his allegiance to Mr Obasanjo's anointed successor, Umaru Yar'Adua.
At the ruling party's pre-election convention in 2006, Ibori was on hand to lift up the northern governor's hands in a display of victory - hours before delegates from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) voted to select him as their candidate.
Ibori is then accused of bankrolling the 2007 Yar'Adua election campaign, although this has been denied.
Mr Goldman says he understands Ibori was promised the vice-president's job, in return for his support.
But Mr Yar'Adua, who had been ill for many years, died in office.
His Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan succeeded him and remains Nigeria's president.
Despite being a fellow former governor of a neighbouring oil state, Ibori and Mr Jonathan were by now political enemies.
In 2010, President Jonathan set the country's anti-corruption police, the Economic and Financial Crimes commission on him, but their officers were ambushed when they came to arrest him.
Ibori left Nigeria shortly afterwards.
He went to Dubai, whose government arrested him and transferred him to the UK to face trial.
Mr Goldman says had Yar'Adua lived, and made Ibori his vice-president, he would have had a clear run to become president.
"Then Mr Ibori would have met Queen Elizabeth at the state house, instead of serving at her pleasure," Mr Goldman said.
More than 250 riders, including 2016 Downhill World Champions Danny Hart and Rachel Atherton, will be competing.
This year, Salisbury-born Atherton is seeking a 15th successive World Cup circuit win.
The Fort William competition forms the third stage of the UCI World Cup Downhill championships.
Held at Nevis Range, the weekend of events usually draws a crowd of almost 20,000 people.
Atherton won the women's final for the ninth consecutive time last year, and South African Greg Minaar won the men's final.
Sam Davies starts at fly-half instead of Biggar, who is joined as a replacement by Wales team-mate, lock Alun Wyn Jones.
Paul James returns at prop following injury and flanker Justin Tipuric leads the Welsh region at open-side.
Former New Zealand full-back Mils Muliaina makes his Zebre debut after joining from Connacht in the summer.
Ospreys lie eighth with three wins from eight competition starts this season while Zebre are 11th win two wins.
Biggar came off in their 13-6 win over Cardiff Blues because of a back problem.
Hooker Baldwin (calf) and prop James (shoulder) missed that game because of injuries suffered in Ospreys' 34-29 European Champions Cup defeat at Clermont Auvergne.
Ospreys' ex-New Zealand scrum-half Brendan Leonard will return to Zebre for the first time since joining from the Italian team before the 2015-16 season.
Head coach Steve Tandy hopes Ospreys' recent form will continue to improve against Zebre.
"They've got an excellent record at their place, are a very dangerous side, and if we are just a couple of percent off our game then we won't get what we need from the game," said.
"Our slow start in the Pro12 means there's no margin for error for us. Our form over the last few weeks, in the league and in Europe, has been better, but there is still some way for us to go."
Zebre: Mils Muliaina; Dion Berryman, Tommaso Boni, Gonzalo Garcia; Kayle Van Zyl, Carlo Canna, Marcello Violi; Andrea Lovotti, Andrea Manici, Dario Chistolini, Valerio Bernabo, George Biagi (capt), Jacopo Sarto, Johan Meyer, Paul Derbyshire.
Replacements: Oliviero Fabiani, Andrea De Marchi, Guillermo Roan, Marco Bortolami, Federico Ruzza, Guglielmo Palazzani, Giulio Bisegni, Edoardo Padovani.
Ospreys: Dan Evans; Jeff Hassler, Jonathan Spratt, Josh Matavesi, Eli Walker; Sam Davies, Tom Habberfield; Paul James, Sam Parry, Dmitri Arhip, Lloyd Ashley, Tyler Ardron, James King, Justin Tipuric (capt), Dan Baker.
Replacements: Scott Otten, Nicky Smith, Ma'afu Fia, Alun Wyn Jones, Olly Cracknell, Martin Roberts, Dan Biggar, Hanno Dirksen.
Referee: John Lacey (IRFU)
Assistant referees: Elia Rizzo, Luca Trentin (Italy)
Citing commissioner: Stefano Marrama (Italy)
TMO: Stefano Penne (FIR)
Greg Wallace, of Best Start Federation schools, was sent home in July amid claims he awarded a contract to C2 Technology, a company run by a man he had a close personal relationship with.
Mr Wallace's resignation will take effect from 31 December.
Hackney Council said its investigation into the allegations would continue.
Mr Wallace, an executive principal, was suspended on full pay in July and, in his absence, the five schools he managed - Burbage, Whitmore, Mandeville, London Fields and Woodberry Down - were run by their individual head teachers and Hackney Learning Trust (HLT).
At the time a statement on the federation's website said Mr Wallace was "always open" about his connection with C2 Technology and the "contract was judged on its value and its quality".
Following his letter of resignation Mr Wallace said his job was the "hardest thing I ever did - but also the best. It is a job I am very proud to have done."
He also said he hoped that under the new leadership all five schools would gain and maintain "outstanding" grading from Ofsted.
Councillor Rita Krishna, Hackney Council Cabinet Member for Education and Children's Services, said: "Our priority is to ensure that children's education is not disrupted.
"Steve Belk, former Chief Executive of The Learning Trust, has been appointed to support Best Start Federation until the investigation process has concluded.
"We will publish the findings of the investigation in due course which will include any relevant disciplinary action in its recommendations."
Previously, education secretary Michael Gove described Mr Wallace as one of a "magnificent seven" head teachers running outstanding schools in deprived areas.
The 26-year-old, who became well known as Lady Sybil Crawley, will play Ophelia in the production at the Almeida Theatre in London.
Sherlock actor Andrew Scott will play Hamlet in the 400-year-old Shakespeare play while Juliet Stevenson will play Hamlet's mother Gertrude.
Robert Icke will direct the production, which opens in February.
Brown Findlay has also previously appeared in Jamaica Inn, Misfits and The Outcast, with film credits including Winter's Tale and The Riot Club.
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The women were assaulted as they walked home after a night out in Portsmouth at 23:30 BST on Easter Sunday.
The victims, who were in a group of eight, say they were set upon by seven men who shouted homophobic abuse before kicking and punching them.
One woman lost seven teeth when she was punched in the face.
The women, who wish to remain anonymous, said others in their group were punched, kicked and stamped during the assault on Kingston Road.
In a joint statement, they said: "This was a brutal homophobic attack on innocent women trying to get home after a night out."
The group said they were singing "I'm in the mood for dancing" as they walked home from a karaoke night in the North End area of the city when a man ran towards one of them, a 25 year old, and punched her in the temple.
When her 23-year-old friend tried to come to her aid, she was hit in the face, knocking out seven of her teeth and breaking her jaw.
A 32-year-old woman "was quickly surrounded by seven men, she tried to cover her face while being hit and grabbed as another woman pleaded for them to stop," the women said.
"Once they had finished attacking [her], they threw her against the shutters on which she was previously beaten." She was left with extensive bruising to her breasts and upper body.
The victims said the men then attacked a 27-year-old woman who had tried to intervene. "She was kicked to the floor, following this her head was stamped on," they said.
Another woman, 21, was punched, leaving her with a black eye.
The 25-year-old victim also sustained a black eye, as well as bruised kidneys and liver and a dislocated knee and shoulder.
The group added: "All involved have been left with injuries and many left emotionally scared.
"We are angered but overall we are fiercely upset. Innocent women trying to get home to their families should not be disgustingly attacked due to being homosexual."
Hampshire Constabulary has appealed for witnesses to come forward.
The force said a 27-year-old man from Portsmouth was arrested on suspicion of affray.
A 23-year-old man, a 25-year-old man and a 26-year-old man, all from London, were arrested on suspicion of assault causing actual bodily harm.
All four men have been released but remain under investigation.
Players are allowed to enter eight tournaments based on the ranking they had before a long-term injury lay off.
Robson made her comeback from a wrist injury in June having not competed since the 2014 Australian Open.
The 21-year-old was a wildcard entry at Wimbledon, losing 6-4 6-4 in the first round to Evgeniya Rodina.
She is currently competing in an ITF tournament in Granby, Canada, which is a level below the WTA Tour, and is set to play Naomi Osaka on Wednesday night in the first round at about 00:00 BST.
Should she win, it would be the Briton's first singles victory since September 2013.
Robson ended 2013 ranked 46 in the world but her absence from the sport means she is now 913 in the world.
The layouts seem to converge over time to a similar structure regardless of where or over how long they were built.
The study,
in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface
, analysed 14 subway networks around the world.
It found common distributions of stations within the networks, as well as common proportions of the numbers of lines, stations, and total distances.
In some senses, it is unsurprising that the study found that networks tended over time to comprise a dense core of central stations with a number of lines radiating outward from it.
By choosing the world's largest networks, from Beijing to Barcelona, the results were bound to represent networks that serve city centres with a dense collection of stations and bring commuters inward from more distant stations.
But the analysis shows a number of less obvious similarities across all 14 networks.
It found the total number of stations was proportional to the square of the number of lines - that is, a four-fold increase in station number would result in a doubling of the number of lines.
The dense core of central stations all had the same average number of neighbours in the network, and in all cases, about half the total number of stations were found outside the core.
In addition, the length of any one branch from the core's centre was about the same as twice the diameter of the core.
The number of stations at a given distance from the centre was proportional to the square of that distance, but only up to the edge of the core; at more distant reaches of the network, the number of stations contained was directly proportional to distance.
The authors analysed how the networks grew and added lines and stations, finding that they all converged over time to these similar structures.
They authors point out that the similarities exist regardless of where the networks were, when they were begun, or how quickly they reached their current layout.
"Although these (networks) might appear to be planned in some centralised manner, it is our contention here that subway systems like many other features of city systems evolve and self-organise themselves as the product of a stream of rational but usually uncoordinated decisions taking place through time," they wrote.
The authors say that the systems do not appear to be "fractal". Fractal systems follow mathematical patterns that seem equivalent in a number of physical and social systems ranging from the movements of planets to the movements of depressed people, but they
may or may not reflect a deeper, more universal organisational principle
.
Nevertheless, the team wrote that some underlying rule is likely to be driving the way subway systems end up worldwide.
"The existence of unique long-time limit topological and spatial features is a universal signature that fundamental mechanisms, independent of historical and geographical differences, contribute to the evolution of these transportation networks," they wrote.
A leaked report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there were 2,784 centrifuges at Fordo, and that Iran could soon double the number operating from 700 to 1,400.
The development is likely to fuel Western suspicions that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
The government in Tehran insists the nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.
Talks this year about the uranium enrichment programme between Iran and the so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - have made little progress.
Iran's progress at Fordo was disclosed in a leaked report based on the findings of the IAEA's inspectors, who visit the facility regularly.
While the uranium enrichment plant is not yet fully operational - with only about 700 of the 3,000 centrifuges the facility is designed in use - experts say it could be within months.
The IAEA report said four new cascades of 174 centrifuges each "having been subjected to vacuum testing, were ready for feeding" with uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas.
Once the new cascades were in operation, monthly production of 20%-enriched (medium-enriched) uranium would be about 25kg (55lb) per month, compared with 15kg at present, one official said.
The facility at Fordo, which is buried deep under a mountain inside a military base near the holy city of Qom, is designed to contain 16 cascades producing medium-enriched uranium, which experts say could be enriched to about 90%, or weapons-grade, in a relatively short time.
The IAEA also revealed in its report that Iran had produced about 233kg (512lb) of higher-grade enriched uranium since 2010, an increase of 43kg since August.
Earlier this year, the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) used 96kg of its supply of 20%-enriched uranium for conversion into fuel for its medical research reactor in Tehran. Experts say it would be difficult to turn the fuel into weapons-grade uranium.
Nuclear fuel had also been removed from the core of the nuclear reactor at Bushehr without a reason being given by Iran, the IAEA added.
The report also said that "extensive activities" at the Parchin military site had seriously undermined an investigation into indications that experiments related to nuclear weapons might have been carried out there. Iran is suspected of attempting to removing evidence.
Iran has denied that there are any nuclear-related activities at Parchin.
The IAEA's report concluded that the agency was "unable... to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities".
The ex-Team Sky rider, who was second in the past two years, finished behind compatriot Caleb Ewan in a bunch sprint on the 90km final stage in Adelaide.
Porte, who now rides for BMC Racing, had won Saturday's fifth stage to lead by 48 seconds.
"It's just incredible to come back here and win after being so close the past two years," he said.
"I had a good break at the end of last season and I've come back refreshed - physically and mentally - and to win this race, it means a hell of a lot."
Porte maintained his 48-second overall advantage over Colombia's Esteban Chaves with Australia's Jay McCarthy a further three seconds back in third overall.
Ewan's sprint victory, where he edged out world champion Peter Sagan, gave him his fourth stage win as he joined Germany's Andre Greipel (2008) and Australia's Robbie McEwen (2002) as the only riders to have won four stages in the same edition of the race.
OVERALL RESULTS
1. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing) 19 hours 55 minutes 49 seconds
2. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica) +48secs
3. Jay McCarthy (Aus/BORA) +51secs
4. Nathan Haas (Aus/Dimension Data) +51secs
5. Diego Ulissi (Ita/UAE Abu Dhabi) +59secs
Selected others
38. Ben Swift (GB/UAE Abu Dhabi) +4mins 16secs
49. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) +6mins 27secs
97. Luke Rowe (GB/Team Sky) +21mins 03secs
107. Ian Stannard (GB/Team Sky) +24mins 56secs
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The organiser said the play portrays him as "evil" throughout so should not be performed where he rests.
The petition has been handed in to Leicester Cathedral.
Both the cathedral and theatre company Antic Disposition say they still intend to go ahead.
The play, which is touring the country, is due to be performed in Leicester on 19 and 20 July.
Joanne Larner, petition organiser, said: "It is inappropriate and disrespectful to perform that play, which blackens his name, where he is buried. He is meant to be buried in dignity and honour.
"The whole play is completely degrading. He is displayed as the personification of evil."
Joanne, 59, of Essex, added she does not mind it being held somewhere else, just not the cathedral.
A spokesman from Leicester Cathedral said it had no intention of changing its plans.
He said: "These performances will go ahead as we engage in the dynamics between the man and the myths of King Richard III. The performances will take place in the main body of the building. We continue to work with the public day by day to ensure that the King's grave is respected."
Ben Horslen and John Risebero, directors of Antic Disposition, added: "As a company that specialises in site-specific productions, we've found that staging Shakespeare's work in historic venues adds an extra dimension to his stories, and we are always excited to use our settings to allow audiences to connect with his work in new ways.
"Our two performances in Leicester Cathedral sold out within five days, demonstrating the support for and interest in the production."
The attack, which happened on Tuesday at 06:30 local time (04:30 GMT) near Sulz village, is the third stabbing on a European train in a month.
Austrian police say the man, a German national, appeared mentally disturbed.
He resisted arrest but officers used pepper spray and had the help of a 22-year-old bystander. Together they managed to arrest him.
The perpetrator lunged at a 19-year-old man on the seat opposite him, police said, before attacking a 17-year-old boy. It is not clear whether the victims were travelling together or whether they knew each other.
The 19 year-old has suffered wounds to the stomach and back. The 17 year-old's throat has been injured.
Austrian police said they were searching for a motive.
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Seventy-nine "viable" weapons were recovered from the car's trailer when it was stopped by UK Border Force officers at Coquelles near the Channel Tunnel terminal on Saturday.
Two men, a Polish and a Czech national, have been remanded in custody at Uxbridge magistrates' court in connection with the operation.
The guns were concealed in specially-adapted engine blocks.
The seizure follows a joint operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Metropolitan Police working with Border Force officials in France.
Graham Gardner, the NCA's deputy director of investigations, said: "Our recent threat assessment highlights that handguns are still commonly favoured by some criminal groups in the UK.
"They may not be the largest firearm, but they are easily concealable and lethal in the hands of anyone prepared to use them."
Denis Kolencukov, 23, originally from the Czech Republic but living in the UK, and Polish national Janusz Michek, 59, are each charged with two firearms offences.
No further action will be taken against six other Polish nationals arrested in Coquelles.
8 April 2017 Last updated at 09:53 BST
A group of 82 hot air balloons took off from Dover and travelled to France.
It took them three hours to make the 26 mile journey.
If confirmed by officials, this attempt will beat the current world record of 49 balloons making the trip.
Sion Bedwyr Evans, 41, of of Llanrug, and Garry Vaughan Roberts, 43, of Caernarfon, had faced 50 charges between them.
They were alleged to have happened at Canolfan Brynffynnon in Y Felinheli between September 2006 and March 2014.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the charges had been dropped after new information from the police.
Catrin Evans, head of the CPS Cymru-Wales Complex Casework Unit, said they had written to the court confirming the prosecution will offer no evidence against Mr Evans, who was acting head teacher at the unit, and his colleague.
The family act, who made their debut in 1973, said they were "absolutely honoured" to be recognised.
Folk singer Martin Carthy, who has been performing for 50 years and recorded more than 40 albums, will also be given a special award.
The awards, marking their 15th anniversary, will be held at London's Royal Albert Hall on 19 February.
Clannad, which comprises siblings Moya, Ciaran and Pol Brennan and their twin uncles Noel and Padraig, shot to fame with their theme to TV drama Harry's Game in 1982.
Their younger sister was recruited to the band in the late 1970s and went on to have an internationally successful career as solo star Enya.
"We are really looking forward to being part of the big night at the Royal Albert Hall," added the band, who will also perform at the awards ceremony.
Their previous accolades include a Grammy for the best new age album in 1999, while they won a career achievement honour at the Ireland's Meteor Awards in 2007.
Carthy said: "I've just been lucky enough to follow my heart and pretty much do what I want over the past 50 years or so.
His wife Norma Waterson and daughter Eliza are also well-known and respected folk musicians.
"If, along the way, I've been able to play a part, however small, in keeping the traditional music of these islands alive, then I consider myself a fortunate man," added the 72-year-old.
Carthy has won four folk awards at previous ceremonies, including folk singer of the year in 2002 and 2005.
Bob Shennan, the controller of Radio 2 and BBC 6Music, said: "Clannad and Martin Carthy have made magnificent contributions to folk music over the years and are thoroughly deserving of these prestigious accolades."
The full nominations for this year's event have also been announced, across nine categories.
The 23-year-old Nigeria international has yet to play for the Blues since signing in January 2012 and is out on loan for a fourth time - this time at Turkey's Alanyaspor.
Omeruo, who won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria, admits he is unhappy with his situation.
My priority is to play at the top, to find a place where I get to play regularly
"It might happen that I get to play for Chelsea but it is no longer my immediate priority," Omeruo told BBC Sport.
"You have no idea how frustrating it is to always go out on loan," added the Nigeria defender.
The season-long move to Turkey was a swift return to the Super Lig for centre-back Omeruo after another loan stint at Kasimpasa last term.
He was a regular in the Kasimpasa side, making 26 appearances, but the Turkish club could not take up the option to buy him at the end of his loan spell.
And it is unlikely Alanyaspor could make the switch permanent because last August Omeruo signed a contract extension with Chelsea, keeping him on the club's books until July 2019.
Despite watching his compatriot Victor Moses establishing himself under Antonio Conte at Stamford Bridge this season, Omeruo concedes he may have to look elsewhere for regular football.
"Last season I had an opportunity to go to one of Turkey's biggest clubs [Besiktas] but the deal collapsed two days to the end of the transfer window," he added.
"This season I was lucky I could find a place where I could still play because they want me to come to Alanyaspor.
"My priority is to play at the top, to find a place where I get to play regularly.
"Next season will be interesting because I'm looking to be in one of the top leagues, so we'll see what happens."
Omeruo joined Chelsea from Belgian side Standard Liege and has since been on loan at ADO Den Haag in Netherlands and twice at English side Middlesbrough.
Despite not making a competitive appearance for Chelsea, Omeruo was called up by Nigeria for the first time in January 2013 and went on to play at that year's Africa Cup of Nations and Confederations Cup and at the 2014 World Cup.
Britain Stronger in Europe says it has the backing of five political parties and David Cameron to make the case for the UK's continued EU membership.
Grassroots Out, which is vying with Vote Leave to lead the Out campaign, has Nigel Farage among its backers.
The Electoral Commission is expected to make a decision by 14 April.
The watchdog can select one designated lead campaign for both the "Leave" and "Remain" sides ahead of the referendum on EU membership on 23 June.
The chosen campaigns will get access to a grant of up to £600,000, an overall spending limit of £7m, campaign broadcasts, free mailshots and free access to meeting rooms.
It will judge each applicant's merits on the basis of a range of criteria, such as level of cross-party support, campaign tactics and organisational capacity.
Britain Stronger in Europe is expected to be the only group seeking the formal In designation.
In its submission, it says it has the support of Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and three Northern Ireland parties - the Alliance Party, the Green Party and the SDLP.
Mr Cameron, who has become the overall figurehead of the In campaign, says he fully backs the application, saying it draws support from "every corner of the UK" and that its opponents are "divided into at least two camps who can't agree on very much".
While it backs staying in the EU, the SNP is running its own separate campaign in Scotland, while the Green Party of England and Wales has affiliated itself to Another World Is Possible - a different group formed by Labour MPs on the left of the party.
The Grassroots Out application will be submitted by Mr Farage and Tory MPs Peter Bone and Tom Pursglove. It says it has the support of Tory, Labour, UKIP and DUP politicians.
Vote Leave, which is vying with Grassroots Out, will submit its application at a later date.
It said key individuals backing Britain Stronger in Europe were past supporters of joining the euro while several organisations supporting the campaign group received EU funding.
Political parties and other groups can run their own campaigns but they will be limited to a spend of £700,000 if they register with the watchdog and will have to report the source of donations.
If they don't register with the Commission they will be limited to spending less than £10,000.
The Batley Variety Club, now known as Batley Frontier, is being converted into a gym.
A special event called 'It's the Final Frontier' was held at the West Yorkshire venue on Saturday to mark its last night.
Organisers said it was a sell-out and thanked people for their support.
Posting on the club's Facebook page, Jackie Hatfield, said: "Was a fabulous night the Final Frontier for young and old - my dad Dennis is 82 and had a fabulous night never came off the dance floor."
Another reveller tweeted: "Thank you Batley Frontier for the memories. You will be missed."
The Bradford Road club opened in 1967 with The Bachelors playing to a crowd of around 2,000 people.
It was opened and run by Jimmy Corrigan who, along with wife Betty, built the club on the site of a former sewage works.
He succeeded in attracting some of the music industry's biggest names including Louis Armstrong who played the club in 1968 just weeks after he knocked the Beatles off the number one spot.
Dame Shirley Bassey played at the venue a number of times and was regularly booked for three-week runs which would sell out.
Reflecting on the closure, she said: "I have many happy memories of singing at the Batley Variety Club so sorry to hear it is closing.
"I remember the opening night and I walked into my dressing room the owner had found out I liked Mars bars and there to greet me was a mountain of Mars bars. It took me a year to eat them and put me off Mars bars for life."
The Crues hold a one-point lead going into the final three rounds of matches.
"These games will be hotly contested. We can't have any slip-ups at this stage," said Crues boss Stephen Baxter.
"It's going to be a tough ask for us but we just have to keep winning our games and you never know what happens," stated Linfield captain Jamie Mulgrew.
"We have all worked incredibly hard all season and I don't think anyone would have thought that we would be this close at this stage," added the midfielder.
Linfield are unbeaten in 16 fixtures in all competitions and have not conceded a goal in 10 of their last 15 outings.
"Linfield are a top, top team and I always knew how difficult it would be. We are both fighting it out and we have to keep going," observed Baxter.
"People got carried away three months ago and said it was all over when we were seven points clear but now one more defeat and it could be away from us.
"There is one point in it and it can swing either way at the stroke of a foot or a head.
"You have to put your bodies on the line at this stage and we are just trying to prepare everybody as best we can and concentrate on what we are doing."
Crusaders' opponents Glenavon have drawn 13 of their matches in the league this campaign, the most of any side, leaving manager Gary Hamilton to lament the absence of clinical firepower in front of goal from his sixth-placed side.
"We have dominated a lot of games and created plenty of chances but can't find that winning goal. If we did we would be a lot higher up the table than we are," argued the Lurgan Blues boss.
"We are hoping that Andy Mitchell will come in next season and turn those draws into wins."
Meanwhile Coleraine manager Oran Kearney has banned any dressing room talk about the Irish Cup final as his charges prepare to face the Blues at Windsor Park in the second of their top-flight fixtures over the Easter period.
"We have no focus on the Irish Cup at this stage. I won't allow it. It's unprofessional to think in that way about the future and we have so much on our plate at this point in time," insisted Kearney, whose side are without a loss in 17 matches.
"We must do our job in the league first and the cup will look after itself."
Ballymena United will aim to end a run of five league games without a win, four of those defeats, when they play Cliftonville in the evening's other top-six encounter at the Showgrounds.
In the bottom half, Portadown must win again away to Ards and hope that Carrick Rangers lose at home to Glentoran as they try to further postpone their probable relegation to the Championship.
Ballinamallard United face Dungannon Swifts at Ferney Park.
Former Crusaders title-winning manager and ex-Glenavon and Ballymena United boss Roy Walker:
"This is one of those title races that we all long for and there is every chance that both Crusaders and Linfield will win their next two games and it will go right down to the wire.
"Linfield did a very professional job at Ballymena on Saturday and have a lot about them both offensively and defensively.
"It's a case of whoever blinks first and Crusaders have got to be single-minded and just chalk off the games as they come. They are still in pole position and the ball is firmly in their court. If they win their games, that's it.
"The Crues have Stephen Baxter at the helm, who has done it all before as a player and a manager, and has led them through choppy waters. There's no reason he can't see them through again."
Former Glentoran manager Scott Young:
"Crusaders have shown character throughout the season and have big-game players in the likes of Paul Heatley, Jordan Owens and Sean O'Neill, but there is no way the league title is in the bag yet.
"They haven't necessarily been playing the free-flowing football of previous seasons or shown those wee bits of magic but they are still in front.
"Both clubs deserve huge credit that we have the title race that we have and they are both in there fighting with three games to play.
"It's great for Irish League football and there could be a twist to the plot still to come."
Italian Giovinazzi replaced Wehrlein for the season-opener in Australia after the 22-year-old German withdrew because of a lack of fitness following a back injury.
Giovinazzi, 23, finished 12th in Melbourne on his grand prix debut.
Wehrlein hopes to be fit for the third race of the championship in Bahrain or the following race in Russia.
"For me the most important is that I can train intensively to ensure a 100% performance from my side as soon as possible," said Wehrlein.
"I will then be well-prepared for my first complete grand prix weekend for Sauber."
Wehrlein, a Mercedes protege who was in the running to replace retired world champion Nico Rosberg at the factory team before losing out to Valtteri Bottas, injured his back in a crash at the Race of Champions in Miami in January.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has backed Wehrlein to "come back strong".
"I feel for Pascal, because he has had all the bad luck," said Wolff.
"I'm impressed with the maturity he has shown to inform Sauber that he wouldn't be able to perform at the level required in Melbourne.
"That took courage and selflessness, which I know earned him a lot of credit within the team."
Burgess, 26, took time off to contemplate his future after criticism of his role in England's World Cup campaign, before returning to Bath.
He has been heavily linked with a move back to former club South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League.
"We have registered an interest," Hetherington told BBC Sport.
"We are fully aware that he is contracted to Bath, but we are waiting in the wings if Bath allow him to speak to clubs.
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"Any Super League club or NRL would be interested in a player like Sam.
"Sam may well remain at Bath or go back to Souths, but if he was available, and we recognise that a transfer fee would be required, we are keen."
Bath coach Mike Ford remains confident that he can persuade the Dewsbury-born forward to stay at the Premiership club and continue his development as a union player.
"Sam's frame of mind since he's come back has been brilliant. He's come in and cracked on and has trained very well for these couple of days," said Ford on Tuesday.
He told BBC Radio Bristol: "Sam attracts media attention, we can handle it, we laugh about it at times. Nothing's changed."
One stumbling block that could delay any return to the Rabbitohs is the salary cap which would need to accommodate Burgess' pay, as their recruitment has largely been completed for 2016.
Leeds have the ability to offset £175,000 of any potential annual salary away from the Super League salary cap, under the new Marquee Player Rule.
"Yes he would [be suited to that], we supported the principle of a marquee player system," Hetherington added.
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"However, we always said it was unlikely we'd take up the option unless they were exceptional, and Burgess falls into that exceptional bracket."
The former Bradford Bulls forward left for Australia at the start of 2010 and was part of a quartet of Burgess brothers at Souths until the end of the 2014 season.
After helping Souths win their first NRL title for 43 years, Burgess switched to Bath.
Twins Thomas and George remain contracted to Souths, and the former told BBC Sport on Sunday that Sam was "at a crossroads" regarding his future, while oldest brother Luke now plays for Manly.
The family's lawyer Aamer Anwar said they wanted to express confidence in Police Scotland's new investigation.
He warned that this trust was "not unconditional" and that detectives from the original inquiry needed to answer for actions which had "betrayed Emma".
The family had been meeting the Lord Advocate James Wolffe at the Crown Office in Edinburgh.
Emma Caldwell, a 27-year-old heroin addict who had been working as a prostitute, was discovered dead in woods near Biggar in May 2005.
In May 2015, the Lord Advocate had told Police Scotland to reinvestigate her murder after the most senior officers in the Crown Office considered the case.
Reading a statement outside the Crown Office, Mr Anwar said the family had felt let down by the original investigation, which had failed to bring Emma's killer to justice.
He said: "The Caldwell family made it clear to the Lord Advocate that they had not forgotten that senior detectives from Strathclyde Police had betrayed Emma and they must answer for their actions one day."
He also said they had been frustrated about the length of time the new investigation was taking.
"The Lord Advocate tried to reassure the family that this is a painstaking complex investigation begun from scratch," he said.
Senior investigating officers told him that thousands of documents are being re-examined, which have generated numerous lines of inquiry that need to be investigated.
Police Scotland have also invited the Metropolitan Police to review its investigation strategy.
Mr Anwar said it had robust and painful meeting for the family, but they had welcomed "the dedication and commitment show by Police Scotland and the Lord Advocate to securing justice".
Making a direct appeal to the killer, he said: "Eleven years ago when you took Emma's life, you tore apart her family's lives forever.
"They were unable to bury Emma for some two years.
"Her mother Margaret has never been able to grieve and when William, Emma's father, died in 20001 he made his family promise they would never give up fighting for justice.
"Sadly it is inevitable that other women will have suffered at the hands of this killer and he will have aroused suspicions in his friends and family.
"The Caldwell family urges those who have such information to have the courage to come forward and speak to the police in total confidence."
After the meeting, a Crown Office spokesman said: "In May 2015 Crown Counsel instructed a re-investigation of the murder of Emma Caldwell.
"That investigation is complex and ongoing.
"The Lord Advocate today had the opportunity to meet with Emma Caldwell's family and to discuss the case with them."
The new investigation was launched after a BBC File on Four programme claimed that a local suspect was dropped in favour of prosecuting four Turkish men.
The programme revealed that officers who wanted to charge the local man, one of Emma's clients, were stopped by senior detectives investigating the Turkish suspects.
One of the Turkish men, who was charged with murdering Ms Caldwell, was awarded an out-of-court settlement after suing police for false arrest.
Bottom side Notts, who began the day on 61-3 in pursuit of an unlikely 452 to win at Scarborough, lost Tom Moores in the first over the day.
They never recovered as Tim Bresnan finished with 5-36 and Jack Brooks 4-35 as Notts were bowled out for 146.
Defeat leaves Notts 35 points adrift of safety with with only three games left.
Yorkshire, who are chasing a third successive County Championship title, and Middlesex have four games to play and meet at Lord's in this season's final round of matches next month.
A Yorkshire victory looked unlikely when they slumped to 51-6 on the opening morning after being put in by Notts captain Chris Read.
But a fourth win of the season never looked in doubt after they recovered to post 282 in their first innings before skittling the visitors for only 94.
Moores, who resisted Yorkshire's bowlers on day three for an unbeaten 41, fell to the fourth ball of the final morning when he edged Bresnan to Adam Lyth at second slip.
Bresnan removed Samit Patel and Chris Read in quick succession to complete his first five-wicket haul of the summer before Yorkshire wrapped up victory shortly after lunch.
Ryan Sidebottom had Ben Hutton caught behind off the third ball after the interval, and in the next over Brooks had Brendan Taylor caught at cover and bowled Luke Fletcher with successive balls.
Imran Tahir survived the hat-trick ball but soon became the last man to fall when he fended Brooks to Alex Lees at short leg.
The trial is part of an effort to cut down on binge drinking, but the students' union said it cannot be the only reason to refuse entry to someone.
A spokesman said the union was "happy to support any campaign that promotes and encourages responsible drinking".
Random breathalyser tests are carried out on night-time events and the scheme is being run with South Wales Police.
A Students' Union spokeswoman said: "Commercial impact, either positive or negative, had no bearing whatsoever on the Students' Union's decision to be involved in this trial scheme."
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At the entrance to Touba, Senegal's second-largest city, is a gateway arching over the road under which a sign urges visitors to respect the orders of the local Islamic leader and to not smoke.
Touba, a four-hour drive east of the Senegalese capital Dakar, is the spiritual home of the Mouride Brotherhood, a branch of Islam which holds the sanctity of work as one of its core beliefs. Perhaps this explains why the city is covered in adverts for international banks and money transfer services.
Amadou Bamba was born in Baol, in central Senegal, in 1853. A renowned poet, mystic, and prayer leader, he founded the Mouride Brotherhood in 1883. He was renowned for his emphasis on work, and his disciples are famous for their industriousness. Bamba led a peaceful struggle against French colonialism.
As his popularity grew, the French government sentenced Bamba to exile in Gabon and later in Mauritania. By 1910, the French recognised he was not a threat, and he was released. In 1918, he won the French Legion of Honour for enlisting his followers in World War I. He died in 1927.
Today, followers donate earnings to the Mouride Brotherhood, who in turn provide social services and business loans. This is the only surviving photo of Amadou Bamba. His image adorns buildings, buses and taxis all over Senegal.
I am taken on a tour of Touba's great mosque by Cheikh Sene, a Mouride scholar from nearby Bambey University.
In a quiet corner of the mosque men sit chatting, while in a nearby room younger men are busy, hunched over computers working on the mosque's website.
A constant stream of people come to the mosque to pay homage at the tomb of Amadou Bamba - a Sufi mystic and founder of the Mouride Brotherhood.
For true believers, says Mr Sene, the path laid down by Bamba is nothing short of "the real practice of Islam". It is also a path of which many other Muslims in the world strongly disapprove.
"They think we are nothing," says Mr Sene, referring to many Arab Muslims, whom he says have done much to rid their own countries and east Africa of Sufi traditions.
"They think we are crazy. They think they are superior."
However, without a flicker of a doubt, he adds that if they come to Touba, "they will be dazzled by the light of Amadou Bamba".
Following his death in 1927, Amadou Bamba was buried in the then small settlement of Touba, which he founded in 1887.
Today, Bamba has achieved saint-like status among his followers, and the great mosque, with four towering minarets and a green dome over his mausoleum, has grown and grown.
It can accommodate more than 7,000 people for Friday prayers, and is constantly being improved. When I visited, crates containing air conditioning units sat ready to be unpacked, the gift of a wealthy follower.
Replacement marble slabs, which are cooler on the feet in the heat, were also being laid.
Like the mosque, Touba itself has grown exponentially. Hot and dusty, it is now Senegal's second city, with an estimated population of one million.
But this can double during the Mouride festival of the Grand Magal, which is held early every year, and which can bring more than a million visiting pilgrims on to the streets.
Amadou Bamba's vision of Islam was one which has at its very core the precepts of non-violence and hard work.
Since his death, Touba and the Mouride Brotherhood have been controlled by Bamba's sons, and grandsons, several of whom have held the position of Caliph - the spiritual head of the order.
Out of a population of some 14 million, there are thought to be anything between three and five million Mourides in Senegal.
They include the humblest of peasants to Senegal's now somewhat beleaguered president, Abdoulaye Wade, who has recently faced intense criticism amid recent protests against proposed changes to the constitution.
Perhaps the best-known follower of Mouridism is the musician Youssou N'Dour.
When I met him in the television station he owns in Dakar, he talked about his 2004 Grammy award-winning album Egypt, which celebrated Amadou Bamba and Mouridism.
He argues Mouridism is a counter to the post-9/11 stereotype of Muslims. "In the West, you read all about terrorism... we're all lumped together. But those of us who understand that it's a religion of peace, love and sharing mustn't give up.
"Mouridism is for me two paths - one is the way to God, the other path is the doctrine of work and dignity. Because if you don't work, you hold your hand out and lose your dignity."
Amadou Bamba was exiled by the French, the colonial power in Senegal during his lifetime. So as well as preaching the virtues of hard work, N'Dour says Bamba inspired his followers to travel.
Of course, like other migrants from poor countries, many Senegalese go abroad because they are looking for work and because they want to send money home to their families, but Mourides have an additional spiritual motivation.
Abroad and at home, Mouridism not only preaches self-help, but also the responsibility to look after others within the Brotherhood.
One of the things that distinguishes Sufism from other branches of Islam is the role of spiritual guides, known in Senegal as marabouts.
These marabouts help their followers make business deals and introduce their followers to important contacts.
After fighting through the choking traffic on the outskirts of Senegal's capital, Dakar, I visit Oumar Fall, the commercial director of Diprom, a major oil and gas firm.
It owns a chain of petrol stations called Touba Oil, whose logo is an image of the tallest minaret of Bamba's mosque.
He tells me that the firm has done well with contacts made through marabouts. Marabouts will even help negotiate and settle disputes, he says.
And if a business deal is successful, a marabout can expect financial compensation, and followers will usually donate money to the Brotherhood.
Ninety five per cent of Senegal's population is Muslim, and the vast majority belong to one Sufi brotherhood or another.
Mouridism is the youngest, and said to be the most dynamic, not least because it is organised in a strict pyramid structure headed by the Caliph.
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The structures of the others are far more dispersed and thus arguably weaker.
Another reason for the popularity of Mouridism is that it is the only brotherhood founded by a Senegalese. The image of Amadou Bamba is everywhere in Senegal, plastered on car and bus windscreens, in shops and carried in charms around people's necks. Giant portraits of him loom out at you from painted city walls.
But, says Latir Mane, the political editor of L'Observateur, a newspaper owned by Youssou N'dour, many non-Mourides chafe at what they see as the overweening economic and political power of the Mourides.
All politicians he says, even non-Mourides, look for endorsement from Touba because they want Mouride votes.
"Nowadays religion is deeply immersed in politics," he says.
If the Caliph issues an ndigel, or order, all Mourides are bound to follow, says Mr Mane, which gives the Caliph significant political clout.
However, he says, the fact that there are now so many Mourides, whose political interests are not all the same, means that the Caliph's power is less than it would have been in years gone by.
Still, with an aura of success about it, Mouridism is a growing movement and now says Mr Mane, many are joining, not because they believe in it as such, but because they see it as good way to get ahead in life.
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But after a strong performance from the Tories in last year's general election - Labour's majority was cut to under 2,000 - Wrexham is something of an emerging battleground.
In fact the Conservatives believe they're in with a chance of breaking Labour's dominance in the north east. Clwyd West aside, the four other seats in the region have been Labour at every assembly election since 1999.
Wrexham might not be the number one Tory target, but if it does turn blue it'll be a sign on election night that things aren't going in Labour's favour.
The Conservative party would also score a ministerial scalp if they were to win - Labour communities and tackling poverty minister Lesley Griffiths is defending an assembly election majority of 3,337 seats.
Speculation about the Tories' north Wales chances in at the assembly election was sparked by their surprise general election win in the Vale of Clwyd.
There Labour lost to Conservative GP James Davies in a razorsharp result - with just 237 votes between them.
In Wrexham itself the Conservative party's Andrew Atkinson squeezed Labour down to a majority of 1,831.
The result led the Tories to feel bullish about a range of seats for the assembly, including the one held by Ms Griffiths as well as Delyn.
The Tories are targeting the seat again with the same candidate, and the party's manifesto launch in the town is a signal of how serious the Conservative campaign is.
Labour is also taking the Tory threat in the region seriously, demonstrated by the recent push for a specific set of regional pledges and early promises of an upgraded transport network for north east Wales.
One big issue locally is health - particularly given some of the bad news stories in recent years that have come from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, which runs health care across north Wales.
The Welsh Government put the board in special measures following the emergence of a report that alleged neglect at the Tawel Fan mental health ward at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd.
Progress is said to have been made since then, but the state of the health board still dominates political debate.
Professor Roger Scully of the Wales Governance Centre said: "There is a feeling in both the Conservative and Labour parties that Labour are potentially vulnerable in the north east of Wales."
The Labour-held seats of Vale of Clwyd, Delyn, Clwyd South and Wrexham would all need "significant, not completely ridiculous swings" for the Conservatives to capture them from Labour, he added.
"I think certainly a month or two ago serious people in the Labour party were getting very worried about those seats," said Prof Scully.
Conservative troubles over the last few weeks "have eased those concerns somewhat, but not entirely", he added.
"It is not at all implausible to imagine the Tories possibly winning one of those - if they were having a really good election and Labour a really bad one, possibly winning all four of them."
But Prof Scully said Wrexham in particular would need a "fairly substantial swing, which is certainly beyond anything we're seeing in the national polls at the moment".
Candidates in the seat are:
Welsh Conservative - Andrew Atkinson
Welsh Liberal Democrat - Beryl Blackmore
Wales Green Party - Alan Butterworth
Welsh Labour - Lesley Griffiths
Plaid Cymru - Carrie Harper
UKIP Wales - Jeanette Bassford-Barton
Results on the night itself can be found here.
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The organisation plans to appeal, reports said.
The court set a six-month timescale for the Church to close, the ministry said.
Created by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard in 1954 and based in Los Angeles, California, the Church of Scientology has generated controversy around the world.
Critics say that it is a cult and that it scams its members, while supporters maintain that it provides spiritual support to its followers.
Having a baby there however, costs a little more than the seven guineas the first patients paid for a week's stay when it opened in 1937.
The basic cost, for 24 hours' care including a normal delivery stands at £5,215, rising to £6,745 for a Caesarean section, though the royal couple may be entitled to take up the hospital's offer of a 10% discount for returning parents.
Prince George was born at the Lindo Wing on 22 July 2013, weighing 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).
It is now the usual venue of choice for royal births. Princes William and Harry were born there, as were the children of Princess Anne, the Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Michael of Kent.
The Lindo Wing, which is part of the St Mary's NHS Hospital in Paddington, west London, describes itself as having offered "leading private obstetric and neonatal care for 60 years".
Recently refurbished, each room has a satellite TV with major international channels, a radio, a safe, a bedside phone and a fridge.
The expectant or new mother and her visitors can access the internet on wi-fi, and there is a choice of a daily newspaper delivered to the room each morning.
All meals are freshly prepared by chefs in a dedicated kitchen and tea and coffee are provided for mothers and guests throughout the day.
And should new parents wish to celebrate their happy event, the wing also offers a "comprehensive wine list should you wish to enjoy a glass of champagne and toast your baby's arrival".
If Prince William wishes to stay, he will be provided with a fully reclining chair next to his wife's bedside, and breakfast in the morning.
But aside from these hotel-like luxuries, staff in the Lindo Wing are experienced in catering for complex pregnancies and deliveries.
It has the benefit of being attached to St Mary's, with access to top-notch hospital specialists and facilities for premature babies.
While modern royal parents have opted for the Lindo Wing, a home birth would be more in keeping with tradition.
The Queen was born at a home belonging to her mother's parents at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London.
The current heir to the throne, Prince Charles, was born at Buckingham Palace, while his sister was born at Clarence House.
Alan Farthing, the current surgeon-gynaecologist to the royal household and fellow obstetrician Guy Thorpe-Beeston are believed to be set to lead the medical team who will deliver the baby.
The team who delivered Prince George was led by Mr Farthing's predecessor Marcus Setchell, who has since retired.
He helped save the lives of the Countess of Wessex and her elder child Lady Louise Windsor in 2003.
The countess was rushed to a hospital in Surrey after complaining of severe internal pains when she was eight months pregnant.
She was dangerously ill from blood loss and doctors performed an emergency Caesarean.
There may be less of a media scrum outside the hospital this time than occurred for Prince George's birth, when the world's press waited for weeks for the first glimpse of the future heir to the throne.
But there will still be many eager for the first sight of his new brother or sister when he or she emerges on to the steps of the Lindo Wing.
Wiggins, 35, wants to ride on the track at the Olympics in Brazil in August ahead of a potential British finale.
Tour of Britain director Mick Bennett said: "The Wiggins team have verbally committed to me, and hopefully that can be a lap of honour for them with gold medals around their necks."
The tour runs from 4-11 September.
Wiggins, who won the Tour de France in 2012 and is a four-time Olympic gold medalist, is riding at the Track World Championships in London in March.
"Bradley is such an icon, such a rock star, and it would be great for him to tour the country before closing down an amazing career," added Bennett.
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"Spectators will be able to see far more of the race than ever before."
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It will feature a return to the popular summit finish at Haytor on Dartmoor, a split-stage in Bristol, which includes a time-trial and a five-lap road race, ahead of the circuit finish in London.
Last year's race was won by Edvald Boasson Hagen, racing for the MTN-Qhubeka team, which is now known as Team Dimension Data and includes British sprinter Mark Cavendish.
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Nearly 100 "support-based employees" will continue to work at the base.
Jabil said a strategic review had concluded there was "unsustainable" demand to support manufacturing at the West Lothian site.
It has launched a formal consultation process with employees.
Jabil said its plant in Ayr would not be "impacted" by the move.
The news comes less than two years after Jabil announced it was creating more than 200 jobs with a £12.5m expansion of the site.
The move was supported with a £450,000 grant from government agency Scottish Enterprise.
The Livingston plant, which is owned by US-based manufacturing services company Jabil Circuit, builds systems for firms developing emerging technologies in sectors such as energy generation and telecommunications.
In a statement, Jabil said: "Following a detailed strategic review of the Jabil Livingston site business plan and future loading requirements, we have concluded that there is unsustainable current and future demand to support the viability of manufacturing at the site.
"After careful consideration of all possible options, we are today announcing the commencement of a formal consultation process with our employees, with the intention of a phased run down of manufacturing at the site.
"It is anticipated that manufacturing will cease by the end of calendar year 2017."
It added: "This announcement is in no way a reflection of the hard work, dedication and loyalty of our Livingston-based employees.
"We are committed to supporting them throughout the consultation process and subsequent career search."
West Lothian Council said it would do all it could to help those affected by the proposed closure.
A spokesman said: "News that the plant is to close is extremely disappointing and our immediate thoughts are with those staff affected and their families.
"We will seek to meet with the Jabil's senior management and our partners as quickly as possible to discuss all and any alternatives to safeguard these jobs."
West Lothian suffered a major jobs blow earlier this month, when pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson announced plans to close its surgical suture manufacturing plant in Livingston, threatening about 400 jobs.
Prof Stuart Parkin developed a type of data-reading head capable of detecting weaker and smaller signals than had previously been possible.
The innovation allowed more information to be stored on each disk platter.
The foundation behind the award said he had made Facebook, Google, Amazon and other online services possible.
"Parkin is a leading innovator in the field of spintronics, which relies on the magnetic spin of electrons rather than their charge to store bits and is one of the most successful fields of nanotechnology yet," said Technology Academy Finland.
"[His] innovations have led to a huge expansion of data acquisition and storage capacities, which in turn have underpinned the evolution of large data centres and cloud services, social networks, music and film distribution online."
Previous winners of the one million euro ($1.38m; £824,000) award - which is announced every other year - include web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and the Linux operating system kernel developer Linus Torvalds.
Those selected are judged to have invented something that either has changed or has the power to change people's lives for the better, ideally on a global scale.
Prof Parkin's field of expertise is a branch of physics called spintronics - or spin electronics.
In this case, the word "spin" refers to a quantum mechanical property of an electron that can be likened to a planet turning around its axis.
Just as planets can rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise, electrons are said to be able to spin up or down - an action that sets up a magnetic field.
The analogy is not perfect, but in short the phenomenon can be exploited to store bits of data on atomically-thin magnetic structures.
Prof Parkin made this possible by building on the observations of two Nobel Prize winners - Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg - to create a highly sensitive detector capable of discerning small magnetic fields at room temperature.
"The spin valve sensing device allowed one to detect much tinier magnetic fields and therefore smaller magnetic regions in a magnetic disk drive," he explained to the BBC.
"The information in a disk drive is basically stored as magnetic regions in a very thin magnetic film.
"So, now we could detect much smaller regions than was possible before, in fact about 1,000 times smaller because of the extreme sensitivity of the spin valve sensing device."
The work was carried out for IBM, and the firm commercialised the technology in 1997. It soon became an industry standard, allowing disk capacity to quadruple roughly once a year for several years.
That not only made it possible to store more information in computers but also meant it became affordable to build giant data centres.
"The modern world is sustained by our ability to store all our information in magnetic disk drives essentially in the cloud, so that you can instantaneously carry out Google searches, instantly stream music and movies," added Prof Parkin.
"None of those things would be possible without the immense capacities of magnetic disk drives at the very low cost that is possible today... thanks to this spintronic sensing device."
Racetrack memory
The professor continues to work for IBM, and is hoping to spearhead a further storage revolution with an experimental technology he is developing for the firm called Racetrack memory.
The goal is to exploit spintronics to create a new type of storage that would consume less energy than magnetic disk drives but be as high-performing as solid-state flash memory - a more expensive alternative.
"By building a three-dimensional device with tiny nanoscopic wires in which a whole series of magnetic regions are raced to and fro, it can increase the storage capacity of conventional solid-state memory 100-fold," he said.
"It would be as fast and reliable as conventional solid state memories but would be as cheap and capacious as a magnetic disk drive - basically containing the best of both worlds."
While the professor is keen to highlight how his work has made it possible for the internet to offer vast amounts of information and entertainment, he acknowledges that the technology has also been used for more controversial purposes - including the storage and analysis of large amounts of information about the public by cyber-spy agencies.
Even so, he said he had few regrets.
"Of course it's a concern if people misuse data if they can," he said.
"It's like any scientific discovery or development - it can be used for good and sometimes used for bad.
"In my mind the goodness certainly outweighs any downside. The discoveries that can be made possible and the knowledge that can be gained by having access to the information certainly outweigh any negatives in my mind."
The 18-year-old, who has made three starts in his 11 first-team appearances for Swindon, will go straight into Scott Sellars' Wolves Under-21 squad.
Randall, who signed for Swindon as an academy scholar, made his debut on the final day of the 2013-14 season - the day after his 17th birthday.
Swindon rejected a bid last July of about £150,000 from Bournemouth.
Randall's arrival at Molineux on an 18-month deal comes in the same week that top scorer Benik Afobe was sold to Bournemouth for a reportedly eight-figure fee.
"This is a great move for me for the stage I am at in my career and my development," he said. "When I came here last Friday for the meeting and had a look around the facilities I was blown away by everything.
"I have been at Swindon's academy from the age of seven right through to now at 18 and have nothing but good things to say about them. But it is a really good time to get this move.
"Playing in front of big crowds and getting that experience of men's football will help me as I aim to push on."
Meanwhile, Wolves Under-21 regular Eusebio Bancessi is to sign on loan for the club's non-league neighbours AFC Telford United.
The young striker is set to make his debut in Tuesday night's rearranged National League North game at home to Hednesford.
Former Benfica youngster Eusebio has not played for the Wolves first team, but had a month out on loan last season with Cheltenham Town, who were then in League Two.
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The 114,500-tonne ship ran aground on rocks off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January, with more than 4,200 people on board.
The number of people known to have died in the disaster stands at 17, with another 15 still unaccounted for.
Bad weather has already delayed searches and fuel pumping operations.
Dutch salvage company Smit had begun to remove the more than 2,300 tonnes of fuel on Friday, but says it now hopes to begin work next week, amid fears the fuel could leak and damage the vulnerable coastline.
Franco Gabrielli, head of Italy's civil protection agency, said the first goal of the recovery mission had been to find survivors.
"Now we have a single, big goal, and that is that this does not translate into an environmental disaster."
He said it would take up to two months for salvage companies to respond to a call for tenders from the ship's owners, Costa Corciere.
"Taking into account the constraints that weather and sea conditions may impose, it will take seven to 10 months to remove the wreck," he told the Ansa news agency.
"We already knew that this was a very long, drawn out case but I think it's important that everyone is very aware that it will have a very significant timeframe."
Experts monitoring the ship's stability on the rocks said it had shifted 3.5cm overnight on Sunday because of high winds and waves.
That forced divers to suspend their searches of the ship on Sunday morning amid safety concerns.
But Mr Gabrielli said searches for the missing passengers and crew would resume quickly, citing "the moral imperative to return the bodies to their families", AFP news agency reports.
The captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, is under house arrest in his home town of Meta di Sorrento, near Naples, while his actions are investigated.
He is accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and abandoning ship before all passengers were evacuated. He denies the allegations.
The first episode looks at the colourful forests of New England, on the east coast of the US, where the vivid greens of summer give way to the golds and reds of autumn.
This programme revels in the full glory of the spectacle, and reveals how this vibrant fiesta is created by the battles between the trees and the forests' inhabitants.
Moose, chipmunks, rattlesnakes and a bizarre mixture of caterpillars all play a crucial role.
But, surprisingly, the forest itself was made so colourful thanks to the hard work of a combination of beavers, ants and humans.
Here, we present a few images of some of the moments explored in the film.
Earth's Greatest Spectacles can be seen on BBC 2 on Friday 5 February 2016.
These come from the spacecraft's altimeter instrument.
A lot of work still needs to be done to get the Sentinel-3a tool ready for full science operations, but the first data look extremely encouraging.
The sample track on this page clearly shows features of the Gulf Stream.
This dominant flow of warm water that crosses the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico towards Europe stands proud against the surrounding ocean surface.
Seeing such currents in action will be just one type of observation made by the new Sentinel altimeter.
It will also assess the general height of the global oceans, measure wind speeds out at sea (by examining the state of the ocean surface), and track the size of waves.
In addition, it will sense oil slicks in pollution incidents; and in polar regions, it will even gauge the shape of the ice sheets and the thickness of marine floes.
"All this will feed into a range of different services," said Dr Craig Donlon, the senior scientist on Sentinel-3a for the European Space Agency (Esa).
"For example, the maritime sector can use ocean current data to plot more efficient courses for ocean passages.
"By working with currents, as opposed to against them, ships can reduce their fuel costs and limit their carbon emissions.
"But perhaps the most important measurement we will make with the altimeter is the direct measurement of sea level changes.
"As you know, there is a big challenge this century for coastal communities and small island states to be able to cope with global ocean rise, and with Sentinel-3 we will be contributing to these critical observations."
Sentinel-3a was launched two weeks ago. It is one in a series of Earth observers being procured for the European Union's Copernicus programme.
The data from this ambitious, multi-billion-euro project is expected to drive myriad applications, ranging from air quality updates to crop-performance monitoring, from water-resource management to transport infrastructure planning.
Esa acts as the technical agent on the Sentinels, scoping their design and then getting industry to build them.
The radar altimeter on Sentinel-3a works by constantly throwing down pulses of microwave energy at the ocean.
The time taken for these pulses to bounce back can be assembled into a map of surface topography.
Numerous measurements made over the ocean and averaged over a long period will eventually reveal millimetric trends.
Data-sets gathered by previous generations of satellites - and to which Sentinel-3a will now contribute - show that globally, seas have been rising at a rate of just over 3mm/yr over the past 20 years.
The European-funded Sentinel series
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Mark Jones, chair of ColegauCymru / CollegesWales, said three years of cutbacks will make it a "difficult" time for adult learners.
His warning comes as £28m could be cut from education and skills in the Welsh government's draft budget for 2015/16.
The Welsh government said it will work to manage the impact of any cutbacks.
Mr Jones, who is also the principal of Gower College in Swansea, said there are inefficiencies within other areas of the education sector in Wales.
Speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme, he said: "We've had two tough years already, we had a cut two years ago, we had a cut this year.
"The sector, for example, spent £9m on restructuring last year to get ready for this year.
"The sector this year will have a surplus of about 1% which isn't enough money to reinvest in all the facilities and equipment and the staff we need.
"On top of that 1% we're expecting somewhere between a 3.2% and 5% cut going forward."
He said he understood many cuts would affect adult learners aged 19 and over.
"Adult learning is very complex - it's not just about adults coming in to do a two-hour week IT or French course," he explained.
"It's all about apprenticeships, it's all about us working in industry to develop employees - there are different parts of adult learning, but that's likely where the hits are going to be."
Mr Jones said further education in Wales had been through lots of changes but the quality has improved "dramatically".
Julie James, the newly appointed Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology, conceded further education colleges faced difficult times.
"They are hit, there's no doubt that," she said.
"But they agree with our priorities and they've been extremely cooperative with us. We've put an enormous amount of additional funding into college buildings.
"We agree lots of the courses are going to be struggling a little but we have European Social Fund bids in to mitigate some of that and we expect our employers to step up to the plate as well."
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Hart, who is on a season-long loan from Manchester City, allowed Geoffrey Kondogbia's shot to slip under his body as Inter took the lead on 27 minutes.
Daniele Baselli and Afriyie Acquah put Torino ahead before Hart contributed to Inter's 62nd-minute equaliser.
The 29-year-old misjudged Cristian Ansaldi's cross, allowing Antonio Candreva to score from close range.
The draw leaves Inter in fifth place, five points behind third-placed Napoli, who fill the final Champions League spot.
Napoli face Empoli on Sunday, while leaders Juventus are at Sampdoria, and Roma, in second, host Sassuolo.
In Saturday's other match, AC Milan beat Genoa 1-0 to move up to sixth, with Matias Fernandez scoring the only goal.
Match ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.
Second Half ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.
Maxi López (Torino) is shown the yellow card.
Maxi López (Torino) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Hand ball by Maxi López (Torino).
Foul by Jeison Murillo (Inter Milan).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Éder following a fast break.
Foul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).
Sasa Lukic (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan).
Cristian Molinaro (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Antonio Candreva.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Luca Rossettini.
Attempt blocked. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.
Attempt saved. Andrea Belotti (Torino) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sasa Lukic.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Emiliano Moretti.
Miranda (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Maxi López (Torino).
Foul by Miranda (Inter Milan).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).
Substitution, Torino. Maxi López replaces Daniele Baselli.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Afriyie Acquah (Torino) because of an injury.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Joe Hart.
Attempt saved. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.
Attempt missed. Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Afriyie Acquah (Torino).
Foul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).
Daniele Baselli (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).
Hand ball by Andrea Belotti (Torino).
Substitution, Inter Milan. Marcelo Brozovic replaces Geoffrey Kondogbia.
Attempt missed. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Roberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
His hiring follows the sacking of Tykes assistant Tommy Wright, who was named in a Daily Telegraph investigation alleging corruption in football.
Wright has denied breaking any law or Football Association and Fifa rules.
Clapham, 40, left his previous role as first-team coach at League One side Coventry on 29 September.
He joined the Sky Blues coaching staff in June 2015, having previously worked alongside manager Tony Mowbray at Middlesbrough.
Pressure on the beef, cereal and vegetable sectors means the total reduction in spending power could be almost double that figure.
The claim was made by the head of a body set up by the Northern Ireland Executive to oversee expansion in the agri-food industry.
Tony O'Neill said the food industry was Northern Ireland's "economic priority".
The chair of the Agri-Food Strategy Board, which was established several years ago, said that in the face of an "unsympathetic" response from Westminster it was up to the assembly to take the lead in pushing for significant EU support to shore up the milk price.
The Ulster Farmers' Union is planning a protest of the agri-food sector at Stormont on Friday.
The Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association called on its members to support the protest.
It said that with a turnover of £4.8bn and employing about 100,000 people, the agri food sector's importance could not be "overstated".
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill, Northern Ireland's MEPs and the chairman of the assembly agriculture committee met the EU Farm Commissioner Phil Hogan on Tuesday.
Mr Hogan had been resistant to calls for an increase in the so-called intervention price at which the EU buys product to support the market.
There have been some indications in recent days that he may be reviewing that position.
Ms O'Neill said the delegation had emphasised the "unique circumstances" of Northern Ireland's farmers who are heavily reliant on export markets.
The milk price issue will be discussed again at a meeting of EU Agriculture ministers on 7 September.
The WHO's Bruce Aylward said it was confident the response to the virus was now gaining the upper hand.
But he warned against any suggestion that the crisis was over.
The WHO later said the number of cases globally had risen more than 3,000 to 13,703 since its last report, but that this was due to reporting reasons.
The number of deaths was put at 4,920, roughly the same as the last report four days ago. All but 10 of the deaths have been in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
In other developments:
The latest WHO figure of 13,703 cases is a significant leap on its previous situation report on Saturday, which showed cases rising above 10,000 for the first time - to 10,141.
But Dr Aylward, the WHO's assistant director general, said that this increase was due to data being updated with old cases, rather than new cases being reported.
Saturday's situation report put the death toll at 4,922.
The similar death toll in the latest report was mainly a result of a revision of the Liberian statistics.
Cases there rose from 4,655 to 6,535 but reported deaths dropped from 2,705 to 2,413.
Deaths in Guinea rose from 926 to 997 and in Sierra Leone from 1,281 to 1,500.
Liberia's Red Cross said its teams collected 117 bodies last week, down from a high of 315 in September. Treatment centres also have empty beds available for patients.
Dr Aylward said : "It appears that the trend is real in Liberia and there may indeed be a slowing."
"Do we feel confident that the response is now getting an upper hand on the virus? Yes, we are seeing a slowing rate of new cases, very definitely."
Dr Aylward said there had been "a huge effort to inform the population about the disease, to change the behaviours that put them at risk".
And he said there had been "a real step up in the work to put in place safe burials".
But Dr Aylward said the data was still being examined and cautioned against thinking the crisis was over.
He said: "A slight decline in cases in a few days versus getting this thing closed out is a completely different ball game.
"It's like saying your pet tiger is under control."
Later, US President Barack Obama praised the progress made in Liberia, but also warned: "This is still a severe, significant outbreak... We've got a long way to go."
He said again that the disease had to be tackled at its source in West Africa, adding: "If we don't deal with the problem there, it will come here."
Until Ebola was contained, he said, there could be more individual cases in the US.
On Wednesday, South Africa's first black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, donated $1m (£620,000) to Guinea to help the country fight Ebola.
The mining magnate said he hoped it would assist with clinical management, social mobilisation and other key steps in controlling the deadly virus.
His donation was announced as the US welcomed the international aid effort.
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While councils are recording greater numbers there is no way of knowing whether some of that reflects a better understanding of home educating families.
Social media and access to a wide range of education material online may be making it easier for families to take on what is clearly a major commitment of time and energy.
There is a strong tradition in some rural areas of families organising themselves to help their children learn at home.
Others may arrive at the choice after an unhappy or difficult experience of their child not getting on well at school or not getting a place at their preferred school.
We don't have definitive data on what happens to home educated children, but there is no reason to think they can't do as well academically or otherwise as children who go to school full time.
That's partly because they are very likely to be the children of middle class, quite educated parents who are able to afford for one person to be at home.
Although it is a minority choice, home education does reflect reservations many parents will experience at some point about whether their child fits completely into a very structured school system.
Those reservations are not enough for the vast majority to ever step out of a system which is familiar, regulated and provides an immediate social network.
Home education also provokes uneasiness because by its nature it is outside the system, an alternative choice.
Local authorities have the power to intervene if there are concerns about a child's welfare, or ask for evidence if they are worried a suitable education isn't being provided.
But from time to time there are calls for greater monitoring or regulation.
The last major bout of this was in 2009 when the Badman review raised concerns that a lack of monitoring created opportunities for child abuse.
Plans for registration were dropped in the last stages of the Labour government amid strong opposition from home educating families.
Now another concern has emerged, that a small number of children may be at risk of being radicalised, or places in unregulated or illegal schools.
A government consultation is underway now on further regulation of anywhere teaching children for more than six to eight hours a week.
Perhaps in the light of the bruising arguments over implementing the Badman review the government has made clear it has no intention to intervene in the right to choose to home educate.
The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) made unannounced visits to Monklands Hospital on 16 and 17 March.
Inspectors praised staff for infection control procedures but found evidence of some dirty patient equipment and outstanding maintenance work.
NHS Lanarkshire said it had taken steps to comply with the four recommendations made by the HEI team.
Claire Sweeney, interim director of Quality Assurance for Healthcare Improvement Scotland, said the inspection had covered wards and theatre departments at Monklands.
"We found that staff demonstrated good knowledge of standard infection control precautions and were generally complying with hand hygiene practice," she said.
"In addition, we found that theatre department renovation works were being well managed.
"We also identified a number of areas for improvement however. For example, NHS Lanarkshire must ensure that the environment and all patient equipment is safe and clean."
The HEI inspection report found evidence in ward four of dust on patient scales and boxes storing needles, contaminated blood glucose monitors and commodes and intravenous lines with "splash marks and sticky residue".
Inspectors also noted: "We found that the general environment in many of the areas inspected had outstanding works such as damaged walls and doors, exposed and damaged woodwork, and exposed and protruding pipe work.
"This means that these surfaces cannot be cleaned effectively.
"Staff told us that this pipe work had been reported to the estates department over one year ago and that staff had scraped their leg on the pipe work. Staff also told us that the advice they had been given by the estates department was to cover the pipe with a dressing to stop staff injuring themselves."
Calum Campbell, chief executive of NHS Lanarkshire, said he was pleased that the report had acknowledged the efforts of staff and the health board had a "detailed action plan" in place to address the issues raised.
"I can give an assurance that they have either already been resolved or are in the process of being completed," he said.
"We will continually monitor progress to ensure we strive for the highest standards of cleanliness and infection control at Monklands."
Emer Shepherd, head of infection prevention and control at NHS Lanarkshire, added: "Inspectors commented that the majority of wards at Monklands were clean and the majority of staff demonstrated good working knowledge of infection control policies.
"Inspectors also reported from their observations and from talking to our patients and visitors that staff routinely wash their hands.
"This is positive feedback to note and tells us that our staff are committed to the highest standards of patient care."
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The Swans suffered their heaviest defeat of the season when losing 5-0 at Tottenham.
The defeat means they are bottom of the table after Sunderland's win over Leicester.
"We will be ready against Sunderland, which will be the start of an important run of games that are going to spell out what's happening," Bradley said.
"We know it's all to play for in the next five or six matches between now and the start of the new year."
Bradley says the controversial decision to award Tottenham a penalty was a "big turning point" in their 5-0 defeat at White Hart Lane.
Harry Kane converted from the penalty spot on 39 minutes to give Spurs the lead after Dele Alli appeared to dive in the box.
"For me it's a wrong decision. The penalty was a big turning point," Bradley said.
"And then Son's strike minutes later totally changes the game."
South Korea international Son Heung-min doubled the home side's lead before the break with Kane's second and two goals from Christian Eriksen sealing Swansea's fate.
The former United States coach acknowledged his side were "not good enough" against a team who had won just once in their past 10 matches in all competitions.
"We just weren't good enough, we were second best most of the time and when they pressed us we couldn't get the first pass out of pressure," Bradley added.
"There is a lot there in which we need to work on to get ourselves out of pressure now we have to focus on the important run of games.
"I still felt even in the first 39 minutes at times we were second best in terms of some of the duals.
"We all know that to get where we need to go, we cannot concede the number of goals we have in the last two games."
We're spending more than ever online, choosing to shop via the internet and eschewing the seasonal High Street struggle to find that perfect present - or at least something that won't need to be returned in the New Year.
Here are the most striking of this year's seasonal shopping figures:
And online spending is expected to carry on rising in the coming years as well, forming a greater proportion of all our shopping.
44.9%
Forecast growth in online retail spending over the next five years
£62.7bn Estimated online spending by 2020
17.1% of retail sales will be online by 2020 - up from 13.8% now
As the value of what we spend online goes up, so do the number of orders and parcels. And all this shopping is heavily skewed towards the Christmas shopping season, with almost one in four of the year's online orders being placed in November and December.
One result of this is that there are more delivery vans than ever before on UK roads.
The number of miles driven by vans and light trucks has soared by 70.4% over the past 20 years, according to the Department of Transport; far outstripping the growth in cars and heavy goods vehicles - up 14% and 2.9% since 1995, respectively.
312,369
New vans registered in the UK in 2015
46.9bn miles
Distance covered by van drivers in 2015
Since 1995 this mileage has risen by 70%
There is some evidence that shoppers actually slow down their shopping ahead of the discount period. This then creates a spike in shopping - what some have called an "online tsunami".
Last year UK retailers and logistics firms were taken by surprise by this. There were delays and bottlenecks and lots of disgruntled online customers.
This year firms have been making significant investments to deal with the online rush - DPD, for example, has opened a new £100m "super hub" in Leicestershire. And all have been taking on more staff.
But despite the headlines and the seemingly impressive sale numbers, it is worth bearing in mind that for retailers, turnover by itself does not necessarily translate into profits.
And if you are all distinctly unimpressed by it all - then you are not alone.
A recent survey of online shoppers by eDigitalResearch and IMRG found that while 31% of shoppers either "like" or "love" major discount events such as Black Friday, a further 30% "don't like" or "hate" them. The other 39% were unsure.
University of Leicester scientists said the moist environment combined with nutrients leaching out of chopped leaves created the perfect breeding ground for bacteria.
The researchers said they were shocked at the way the bacteria thrived, even in the fridge.
They advised people to eat bagged salad on the day they bought it.
Despite their wholesome nature, fresh green leaves and salad foods are often involved in food poisoning.
An outbreak that affected more than 2,000 people across Europe in 2011 was traced back to bean sprouts and this year, officials in England traced an outbreak that killed two people back to bags of rocket leaves.
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Studies have shown that salad can carry bacteria, but the research team showed the bag made things much worse.
Bags are often moist to help keep the salad crisp and fresh and the plants have often been chopped into individual leaves for convenience.
The study showed sugars, proteins and minerals escaped from the cut leaves into the water in the bag.
"That's a reasonable amount of nutrients if you're a bacterium," said researcher Dr Primrose Freestone.
The study, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, showed that an initial contamination of 100 Salmonella bacteria would increase to 100,000 within five days.
"That's more than an infectious dose," Dr Freestone said.
She said she was also "shocked" that the bugs did so well in the chilled environment in the fridge.
The studies showed that Salmonella did especially well in bags containing spinach, while E. coli loved rocket leaves.
Dr Freestone told the BBC News website: "Juices that naturally leach from the leaves have the potential to increase the growth of any pathogen that might be present and establish them so strongly that washing wouldn't be enough to eradicate them.
"Don't be alarmed, we still eat bagged salad, but don't keep bagged salad any longer than you need to, we normally buy it on the day we eat it.
"Buy the bag with the best sell-by date, avoid lots of mushed leaves and if it's inflated then don't use it."
There are also suggestions that the bacteria become more dangerous in the bags.
A genetic analysis of the Salmonella showed they had gained the mutations that would help them to infect people.
Dr Freestone told the BBC: "We did see bacteria whose behaviour had turned more to virulence.
"I think the bacteria are making a molecular mistake and mistaking chemicals in the salad leaf for ones in the host."
Giannis Koukkidis, who also worked on the project, added: "Despite a number of published reports on improving the microbiological safety of salad leaf production, very few studies have investigated the behaviour of Salmonella once the leaves have been bagged.
"Salmonella also attaches more aggressively to the inner surface of salad plastic bag when it comes in contact with salad juices."
Dr Jeri Barak, from the Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: "It would be fair to conclude that if Salmonella is present in salads, it might grow to infectious doses.
"The rates of produce that have been found to be contaminated are between 0%-3%.
"Consumers should treat bagged salads as temperature-sensitive food products, like milk and ice-cream."
Dr Kimon Karatzas, from the University of Reading, said: "Avoiding fresh produce is not a solution, but if possible, it would be preferable to buy uncut fresh produce over chopped, and to always wash it before you eat - even the ones that are already washed.
"Furthermore, keeping these foods in the refrigerator is important."
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The Nigerian government is sending parents to Cameroon to attempt to identify the girl.
She told investigators in Cameroon she was one of 270 kidnapped in Chibok by jihadist group Boko Haram.
The abductions sparked international outrage and the #bringbackourgirls social media campaign.
While about 50 of the girls managed to escape, 219 of these girls remain missing. They were taken by the militants from the Chibok community in northeastern Nigeria.
Reuters news agency reported that one of two girls arrested in northern Cameroon on Friday carrying explosives claimed to be one of the missing Chibok girls.
The girls were arrested after being stopped by local self-defence forces in Limani near the border with Nigeria, the target of frequent suicide bombings in recent months.
"We hope that the Chibok parents will be able to identify the girl and determine whether she is indeed one of their missing students," Garba Shehu, a spokesman for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Mr Shehu said the government was keen to ascertain the girl's identity so she could be brought back to Nigeria and possibly assist the government in investigating the abductions.
He said the two parents from Chibok selected to embark on the trip to Cameroon are Yakubu Nkeki, chairman of the Chibok Abducted Girls Movement, and Yana Galang, the women's leader in the group, whose 16-year-old daughter Rifkatu is among the missing.
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was criticised for his slow reaction to the Chibok abductions. Mr Buhari, his successor, ordered a new investigation into the kidnappings in January.
Although Boko Haram has been driven out from most of the areas it controlled in north-eastern Nigeria, it has continued to carry out suicide bombings and raids into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
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Administrators have been appointed to run the newspaper. There is no explanation for the court's decision.
Zaman is closely linked to the Hizmet movement of influential US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally.
Turkey describes Hizmet as a "terrorist organisation" aiming to overthrow the government. Many of its supporters have been arrested.
Mr Erdogan's government has come under increasing international criticism over its treatment of journalists.
Press freedom 'a major concern'
In a statement, Zaman said the country was going through its "darkest and gloomiest days in terms of freedom of the press".
It expressed "deep concern" at the latest court order - the culmination of pressure for more than two years on Turkey's "highest circulating newspaper, Zaman, and its sister publication Today's Zaman". It said the pressure had been through "accreditation bans, tax inspections, meddling with its advertisers and threats to its readers".
Editor-in-chief Sevgi Akarcesme told Reuters news agency this was "the practical end of media freedom in Turkey".
"The media has always been under pressure, but it has never been so blatant," she said.
Dozens of supporters gathered outside the paper's Istanbul headquarters after the announcement of the court decision.
One held a placard saying, "We will fight for a free press."
Amnesty International's Andrew Gardner said: "By lashing out and seeking to rein in critical voices, President Erdogan's government is steamrolling over human rights.
"A free and independent media, together with the rule of law and independent judiciary, are the cornerstones of internationally guaranteed freedoms which are the right of everyone in Turkey," he said.
The move against Zaman comes days after Turkey's Constitutional Court ordered the release from detention of two Turkish journalists charged with revealing state secrets.
Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, from the newspaper Cumhuriyet, were detained in November over a report alleging that the Turkish government tried to ship arms to Islamists in Syria.
The pair still face possible life sentences at their trial on 25 March.
Two newspapers and two television channels were put under state administration last year over their alleged links with the Hizmet movement.
The Turkish government has accused Mr Gulen, Hizmet's spiritual leader, of trying to run a parallel state.
On Friday, state-run Anadolu news agency said police had detained four senior officials of a company linked to Mr Gulen in the central city of Kayseri.
Turkey has asked the US to extradite Mr Gulen. The exiled cleric has allies in the Turkish police and judiciary, media and financial interests as well as a network of schools.
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Police said the men and women were found by officers in the back of the HGV.
They were given medical treatment by ambulance crews and then taken into custody by Border Force officers on suspicion of being in the UK illegally.
The driver of the lorry was also arrested, on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry into the UK.
The US Department of State released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report on Thursday, and downgraded China to one of the worst offenders.
The reports highlights the treatment of North Koreans who may have been trafficked and then sent home by China.
There has been no response from China, which could now face sanctions.
Countries placed in the third tier of three in the report - including North Korea, Sudan and Venezuela - can lose non-humanitarian aid. But Associated Press reports that presidential waivers mean Tier Three countries do not always get punished.
Afghanistan, Qatar and Malaysia were upgraded to Tier Two as they were seen to be making efforts to crack down on the practice, and improve conditions for those who have been trafficked.
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said China was downgraded "in part because it has not taken serious steps to end its own complicity in trafficking, including forced labourers from North Korea that are located in China".
Too often, the report says, China sends North Koreans home without having screened them for signs of human trafficking - even though they could face torture or execution on their return.
Mr Tillerson said an estimated 50-80,000 North Koreans were working overseas in forced labour, often up to 20 hours a day.
While the report comes from the Department of State rather than the White House, it is nevertheless the most significant rebuke against the Chinese government by the US since President Donald Trump took office in January.
However, Reuters reported that Mr Trump was becoming "increasingly frustrated" over Chinese inaction on North Korea, and that he was considering trade actions in response.
The human cost of trafficking
Among the other findings on China highlighted in the report:
The report, which covers 180 countries, is billed as the most comprehensive resource of efforts being done to stop trafficking.
China was among 21 countries downgraded by the State Department, perhaps for good reason.
Beijing made it off the lowest rank of the US human trafficking index four years ago, but has hovered just above it ever since.
This year it was determined that Beijing simply wasn't doing enough to protect victims and prosecute traffickers. But it's also true that the political preoccupation of the moment is North Korea.
The Trump administration has become concerned about North Korean labourers who are forced to work abroad, many in China, with their pay directly funding the leadership in Pyongyang. So it was interesting that Secretary Tillerson chose to highlight this issue in his comments about China's record.
Li Heping was sentenced in a closed-door trial, Chinese state media say.
He has defended other prominent lawyers, including Chen Guangcheng and Gao Zhisheng, as well as practitioners of the banned Falun Gong movement.
A representative of campaign group Amnesty International questioned the validity of the allegations against Li.
The lawyer was detained in 2015 as part of a wider government crackdown on dissent under President Xi Jinping.
His trial took place on Tuesday in the Tianjin City Number Two Intermediate People's Court and concerned state secrets, the court said on its Weibo social media account.
In its ruling, the court said that since 2008 Li had used social media and foreign media to "smear and attack state organs and the legal system".
It also said he had used foreign funds to "interfere in high-profile cases" and colluded with several people "harbouring subversive ideas", including lawyers and those "involved in illegal religious activities".
His jail sentence had been suspended for four years and he would be denied his political privileges, the court said.
The suspension means Li could be released imminently, although it is unclear whether he has been. His time spent in detention should also count towards his jail sentence.
Amnesty International's China researcher, Patrick Poon, said that holding the trial in secret showed allegations against Li were "groundless and weak".
Wang Qiaoling has not seen her husband for the best part of two years but, like a number of other wives of the lawyers detained in July 2015, she has been a tireless campaigner for justice.
Despite the risks, she has continued to conduct media interviews about the lack of due process in the case against her husband.
The suspended prison sentence, announced without warning, will on the one hand be a relief because it ought to mean that Li will now be released. But it will also almost certainly mark the beginning of another long period of surveillance and control for the family.
Ms Wang has already refused a request from the authorities to travel to Tianjin to meet her husband, insisting instead that he should come home to her.
"He is not free, the authority wants to keep controlling him, that's why the authority tried to take me to Tianjin to meet my husband to legitimise their unjust means," she told the BBC.
Gatland led the Lions to a 2-1 series win over Australia in 2013, with Richie Gray the only Scot to taste Test action as a replacement in the third Test.
"I watched Scotland train on Wednesday and I was impressed," said the Kiwi ahead of the 10-match New Zealand tour.
"What I saw four years ago to what I saw this time there was no comparison."
After years of struggling to score tries and secure wins against the top sides in the tournament, Scotland have discovered a cutting edge in attack that has helped them beat Ireland and Wales in this Six Nations.
Gatland believes having the Scots back competing with the traditional heavyweights of England, France, Wales and Ireland is good for the Six Nations and the Lions.
"In the last couple of years we've seen the resurgence of Scottish rugby," the Lions head coach told BBC Scotland.
"Having won two of their first three Six Nations games, it's great for the competition.
"You want to feel like when you go into a Six Nations competition with a bit of luck and a couple of results anybody has a chance of winning it.
"You want a good representation from a Scottish contingent of players. It's important for the brand, it's important for the Lions and you want Scotland to be going well to enable that to happen. The next couple of weeks they've got a couple of important games."
The Scots face an England side on Saturday looking to equal the All Blacks' international record of 18 consecutive Test victories for a tier-one nation. Gatland says it will be an important test of the Scottish players' Lions credentials at Twickenham.
"Scotland need a good performance away from home. We're going to have a close, competitive game, there's a huge amount at stake.
"For us as coaches and selectors, you're going to get 50/50 calls and you're going to get a toss of the coin. So how those players perform in the next couple of weeks is going to make the difference to them being selected or not selected for the tour.
"I don't think it's all about the result this weekend for Scotland, it's about the performance. The thing for the Lions is you're playing away from home every four years against normally one of the top three teams in the world with limited preparation time, limited time together, gelling as a squad as quickly as you possibly can. So it's the type of characters and individuals in the squad, that becomes important."
After a man-of-the-match performance against Wales, Scotland fly-half Finn Russell has been touted as a potential Lion and Gatland admits he is looking forward to seeing the Glasgow number 10 go up against England's George Ford.
"I'm looking forward to that battle," Gatland added.
"I thought Russell played pretty well against France. He challenged the line, his footwork was good and he was unlucky in almost making a couple of breaks. I was really impressed with him in a losing side.
"The performance against Wales was a little bit more controlling. Obviously his goal-kicking was significant and made a difference having taken over from Greig Laidlaw.
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"I'm looking forward to the midfield battle as well. Scotland at the moment in certain positions have discovered a bit of depth. Tommy Seymour and Tim Visser obviously had a really good game against Wales and Sean Maitland is knocking on the door having played pretty well and playing well for Saracens. Obviously Stuart Hogg has been pretty outstanding from an attacking perspective.
"In the forwards the two Gray brothers (Richie and Jonny) have been performing well and the back row will fancy themselves against an England back row that you would sometimes still question the balance of.
"It's a lot to play for and it's great for me because I just look at all the battles, all the match-ups and who responds. It's a massive weekend for Scotland because if they win they potentially set themselves up for the championship."
The South Wales Police officers are accused of taking bundles of notes from the home of a suspected criminal.
Former Det Sgt Stephen Phillips, 46, of Swansea, and PCs Christopher Evans, 37, of Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, and Michael Stokes, 34, from Glynneath, Neath Port Talbot, deny theft by a serving police officer.
They were bailed to reappear at Cardiff Crown Court in June.
The court heard they were arrested as part of an ongoing investigation carried out by the force's professional standards department.
Real Madrid forward Bale, 27, had ankle surgery on 29 November and is expected to be out for four months.
Wales are third in their qualifying group, four points adrift of the Republic, who they visit on 24 March.
"If anybody is going to be back before the time that has been given to us it will be Bale," said Coleman.
"With that type of injury you are looking at three months-ish.
"But three months is a long time. You can get a setback, or be fast-tracked if anything is going really well.
"We are hoping it's the latter but we have a bit of time between now and March and he has a bit of time to make sure he gets himself right."
Coleman was speaking at the Wales Sport Awards in Cardiff, where he was given a Special Recognition Award after guiding Wales to the semi-finals of Euro 2016.
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Bale was runner-up to Olympic taekwondo gold medallist Jade Jones for BBC Wales Sport Personality of the Year.
The player posted a video message on the social media site Dugout.
Standing with the assistance of crutches, Bale said: "The recovery's going well, my ankle's feeling better every day."
The Cardiff-born forward injured an ankle tendon during a Champions League match against Sporting Lisbon on 22 November.
Bale has scored 26 goals for his country and is key to the team's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals for the first time since 1958.
Coleman hopes Bale's professionalism and strength mean he has every chance of being back in time to play in Dublin.
"He is OK. People were talking about a three-month period and if anybody is going to get back before then it will be him," he said.
"He is an absolute machine, such an athlete.
"Physically he is probably one of the fittest players I have ever seen. He is a consummate professional and lives his life right and if anyone has a chance of getting back before it will be him."
Glandŵr Cymru, the Canal and River Trust in Wales, took the measure at the Brecon basin on Thursday.
The industrial revolution paths are now "busier than ever" with walkers, cyclists, anglers and animals, it said.
The charity called on visitors to make canals "preserves for old-fashioned good manners".
James Taylor has given up the captaincy of their limited-overs sides because of his likely England commitments.
His decision also means wicketkeeper Chris Read will be captain for the One-Day Cup as well as the Championship.
"Dan brings a great deal of knowledge of how to be successful in T20 cricket," director of cricket Mick Newell told the club website.
"He has leadership experience and it will be good to have a T20 captain who can very much focus on that form of the game."
Taylor led Notts to the One-Day Cup semi-finals in 2015, but they were less successful in the T20 Blast, in which they finished fifth in their group.
"Having recently got back into the Test side, and being around England's team full time in 50-over cricket, it's right that James focuses on his own game this year," Newell added.
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Mourinho, 53, regularly clashed with the Frenchman while managing Chelsea.
The Portuguese is the subject of a new biography in which he is quoted as saying he would break Wenger's face.
Asked if it is true that he made the comment, Mourinho said: "No, I met Arsene Wenger a couple of weeks ago and like civilised people we shook hands, we sat on the same table."
Mourinho described Wenger, 66, as a "voyeur" in 2005, after his rival questioned Chelsea's transfer policy.
The former Real Madrid boss referred to Wenger as a "specialist in failure" in February 2014 after the Frenchman said other Premier League managers were playing down their title chances because they "fear to fail".
In the aftermath, Mourinho is quoted - in a book serialised in the Daily Mail - as saying: "I will find him one day outside a football pitch and I will break his face."
Mourinho played down the contents of the book, which details alleged conversations with a football journalist, adding: "I don't think it will be in the gallery of the Shakespeares and so on and I prefer just to not comment.
"It is my last word about it and again I repeat, he is making his money. That's fine by me."
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Wenger, who apologised for pushing Mourinho during a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea in October 2014, said: "I have no personal problem with anybody. I respect everybody in our game.
"What is amazing is that this has nothing to do with our game. I am just focusing on doing my job well and respecting everybody else.
"Maybe I will make a book one day but I am not ready for that yet."
Manchester United host Leicester at 12:30 BST on Saturday in the Premier League while Arsenal entertain Chelsea at 17:30.
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The incoming England and Wales Cricket Board chairman made the comments before the tour, which ended with England drawing the three-Test series 1-1.
"It was a big, bold statement from Colin Graves," said Hoggard. "But it was not that far away from the truth.
"England would have expected to beat the West Indies."
Hoggard added: "I fully expect whoever comes in as director of cricket to lead that inquiry as the chairman wants. It'll be interesting to see the fallout from it."
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Graves said the current West Indies team were "mediocre", and the hosts suggested those comments were a source of motivation to win the third Test in Barbados last weekend.
England skipper Alastair Cook said Graves had provided West Indies with a team-talk, but Hoggard, 38, disagreed: "You can't hide behind an incoming chairman's comments."
The first Test in Antigua was drawn, with England winning the second in Grenada by nine wickets.
However, they were bowled out for 123 in their second innings of the third Test and Darren Bravo led West Indies to only their second Test win over England in 29 attempts.
"I don't think we're a million miles away... but to say we had a good series is a little bit optimistic," added Hoggard, who took 248 wickets in 67 Tests.
"Alastair Cook is scoring some runs; James Anderson is going from strength to strength; Joe Root and Gary Ballance continue improving.
"There are some good signs to have come out of the West Indies, but there's a lot of improvement to go."
Councillors were told the building, Reynard's Garage on Piccadilly, was in a dangerous state of repair and at risk of collapse.
Built as a trolley bus depot in the 1920s, it was leased by Shute, whose investors included aviator Amy Johnson, in 1931 for his Airspeed Ltd factory.
The decision was opposed by the city's Civic Trust and the Green Party.
Airspeed Ltd moved its base to Portsmouth in 1933 and since then the building has been used as a garage and was home to a laser game but has been derelict since the mid-1990s.
Attempts to have the building listed have failed.
Historic England said its Art Deco detailing had been damaged by decay and the use of render.
It also judged there was no significant physical evidence of its links with Airspeed and the development of the aviation industry in the 1930s.
The Ivorian stabbed home from close range early on after a series of errors and doubled his tally by firing a pacey shot past Trevor Carson.
Pompey's Gavin Mahon was sent off for elbowing Filipe Morais before David Connolly's 71st minute tap-in gave the vocal visiting fans hope.
Joe Devera and Danny East both had late chances to level but Stevenage held on.
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Portsmouth manager Guy Whittingham speaks to BBC Radio Solent:
"We're out of the FA Cup and that's very disappointing having been far the better side. I think everybody here would say that.
"We suffered to a couple of clinical finishes that they had in the first half and that's what you've got when you go a step up into a league above, but I think over the whole game we've created far more.
"I'm extremely proud (of the players). I think the energy levels were fantastic. We kept going at them, we wouldn't let them rest. I think to come here and do that against a Stevenage side that have picked up of late and show the spirit that we've shown and the bravery shown on the ball, very proud of the performance altogether.
"They had two clinical finishes in the first half that cost us goals, but apart from that I thought we played the much better football."
Norwood, 26, later deleted the post, which anti-racism charity Kick It Out told The Sun was "well-intended" but "ill-thought out and out-of-date".
Rovers have since put their squad on a Professional Footballers' Association Equality and Diversity workshop.
"The Kick It Out response was balanced and fair," Tranmere's statement said.
"It was an error of judgement rather than an intention to be racist or cause offence and James has apologised for his actions."
Norwood added: "I would like to apologise for any offence I have caused, it was certainly not intentional."
Manchester City Women and England striker Toni Duggan made a similar apology after attending a party with her face painted black in March 2014.
1) A post box
A pair of blue tits appear to have moved into a post box in Essex. Royal Mail has put up a notice asking people to use other post boxes in the area instead after the birds were spotted inside.
1) Town Christmas tree
It's not just post boxes. Last year a 10 metre tall Christmas tree in Kent had to wait to be taken down thanks to a dove nesting in its branches.
Council workers discovered the bird when they started taking down the tree's decorations.
The collared dove had settled into her festive home and laid eggs, so work was immediately stopped so that she wouldn't be disturbed.
2) In the middle of a footpath
Or why not just in the middle of a path?
A footpath in Norfolk unveiled by Sir David Attenborough was forced to close just three days after opening, because a bird made its nest there.
An oystercatcher liked "Attenborough's Walk" so much that it decided to move in.
3) Cathedral Christmas tree
Christmas trees seem to be popular - this robin made its home in one that stood inside Liverpool Cathedral.
It's thought it got into the branches while the tree was being stored outside and staff at the cathedral only noticed the robin after the tree was put up inside.
4) Cathedral spire
It's not just inside, at Norwich Cathedral a breeding pair of peregrine falcons nested on its spire outside.
They originally made their home there back in 2011 and must have liked it so much they decided to stay put!
Here's a clip of them in 2014 with their recently hatched chicks.
The account was one of a number gleaned from survivors of the downed German Heinkel aircraft in Victoria Road, Clacton, on 30 April, 1940.
Frederick and Dorothy Gill both died when the plane landed on their home.
Sunday's service will take place at the refurbished memorial site nearby where a commemorative stone is to be placed.
The memorial works have been funded by an air disaster fund originally set up in 1940 but forgotten about following the war.
The original fund was established by the Rev HG Redgrave, then chairman of Clacton Urban District Council (CUDC), after the crashed German bomber caused "severe damage and considerable distress".
The council added £10,000 to the existing £1,700 fund to improve the landscaping around the memorial bench and plaque.
After 1946, the fund was deposited into a Post Office Savings Bank Account.
The amount of £243, 13 shillings and six pence held in the account in 1950 is now worth around £1,700.
Items preserved from the scene of the crash 77 years ago will be brought to the service by the Clacton VCH Group (Clacton at War) group.
In March, the council asked for relatives or those who remembered the crash to come forward.
Although they have not been named, the council said a number of people had come forward to share their memories of the crash.
Michael Talbot, the council's cabinet member for environment, said: "We had a good response to an appeal for anyone connected - or with family connected - to the plane coming down in 1940 to contact us.
"Through the appeal we have received eye-witness accounts and we are hoping that some of those who came forward will be able to turn up on Sunday for the ceremony."
They only spent two years together at Celtic, but the store of one-liners and anecdotes never seems to run dry.
McAvennie delights in recalling a moment on the team coach after Miller's second game for Celtic. The team had defeated Motherwell and a director, Jimmy Farrell, said to Miller: "Well done, good game."
McAvennie was standing nearby, so heard the rest of the conversation. Farrell asked Miller if he liked "playing in that position? Do you not think you were too far forward?" It took a moment for the two players to realise that Farrell thought he was speaking to Willie Miller, the renowned Aberdeen defender.
Quick as a flash, McAvennie said: "Do you not prefer him without that moustache." The camaraderie between the pair was immediate, but it also underpinned the most satisfying spell of either of their careers.
McAvennie arrived at Celtic in October 1987 from West Ham in a deal worth £750,000. He was already a brash, prolific striker - blonde, cocky and brazen.
The plan was for him to strike up a partnership with Andy Walker, but it was not until winger Miller's arrival from Aberdeen the following month in a £600,000 transfer that the goals began arriving regularly.
"Every time I got to a club, it seemed to be that they brought a winger in," McAvennie explains.
"When I signed for Celtic, they brought Joe in and from day one it clicked. We used to have some good laughs off the park, which makes a difference. It just worked."
Click here to listen to the BBC Scottish football podcast featuring the McAvennie and Miller interview
Walker was the third part of the equation, but McAvennie and Miller clicked in every way. They understood each other, and their humour. When the diminutive Miller walked into the dressing room on his first day, he found a baby-sized Celtic strip hanging from his peg.
"We used to get baby chairs for him when we went away on trips," McAvennie chuckles.
By chance or by design, then Celtic manager Billy McNeill encouraged what turned out to be an essential relationship.
When Miller arrived at the club, McNeill asked him to pair up with McAvennie in training, because he felt the striker was "as slow as a week in the jail".
They became a partnership that operated on and off the field.
"A lot of people were saying it was the final piece of the jigsaw," Miller says.
"Frank and Andy tried to strike up a partnership and the goals weren't flying in. I was asked to provide the service. The three of us just clicked and bang, he's scoring hat-tricks and braces, Andy's banging in goals."
There was a unique pressure on that Celtic team. Rangers had embarked upon an ambitious recruitment campaign the season before under Graeme Souness, signing the likes of Terry Butcher, Chris Woods, Graeme Roberts and Ray Wilkins, and it was also Celtic's centenary year.
As Celtic supporters, McAvennie and Miller understood the significance of the campaign, but neither was burdened by it. They were sharing a dressing room with strong characters, like Mick McCarthy, Tommy Burns, Roy Aitken and Paul McStay.
"That's why we scored so many goals in the 93rd minute, we kept going and never gave up," McAvennie says. "It was a desire for the team to do well.
"Most of us were Celtic supporters anyway. We had to beat [Rangers]."
McAvennie and Miller joke that the most difficult partnership they came up against that season was "the two bouncers at the Cotton Club". In truth, though, that Celtic team was deeply self-assured.
"We knew when we were going out on the park that we were going to win," Miller says. "The question was how many we were going to win by."
McAvennie scored 15 times that season, culminating in the two goals that won the 1988 Scottish Cup final and secured Celtic a historic double. Miller says "the only worry big Billy had was what time we were coming home from the nightclubs", but McAvennie was given leeway by the manager.
"He heard a lot of stories about me, and God they weren't true," McAvennie says. "I wish I'd done half of the things I'm supposed to have done."
Yet he was straight out of Celtic Park on Saturdays for the flight to London, where he spent his time partying.
On occasion, McAvennie missed the start of the following week's training, but several of the players urged McNeill not to drop him, even on one occasion when he was very late, and Miller had been trying to cover for him.
"I was always first to get asked, 'where is he'?" Miller recalls. "[McNeill] said, 'tell him he's finished'.
"So the Wednesday night comes and I get a phone call. It's the bold boy here. He said, 'aw wee man, what a night out I've had. Tell the gaffer I'll be in on Tuesday'. I said, 'Frank, this is Wednesday'."
The pair dissolve into laughter.
Their playing partnership was short, but pivotal and memorable, because on the pitch they could count on each other. Their closeness off the pitch remains, for the same reason.
It added, however, that there could be "no certainty that an offer for the bank will be made".
The bank, in which the Co-operative Group still has a small stake, was rescued from the brink of collapse by a group of hedge funds in 2013.
Earlier this month, it reported its fifth annual loss in a row.
The loss for 2016 was £477m, which represented an improvement on the £610m loss recorded in 2015.
The bank was forced to offer itself for sale after it was unable to reach a strong enough footing to satisfy the Bank of England's regulatory requirements.
It blamed low interest rates and the higher-than-expected cost of its turnaround plan for its failure to meet the Bank's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) rules.
In a statement issued on Friday, the bank said: "A number of credible strategic and financial parties have expressed interest in the sale process and are currently evaluating information on the bank.
"The bank has requested that preliminary expressions of interest should be submitted in the first half of April."
The Co-op Bank has four million customers and is well known for its ethical standpoint, which its board said made it "a strong franchise with significant potential" to prospective buyers.
On Thursday, it emerged that the Bank of England had placed the Co-op Bank under "intensive supervision" as survival options for the ethically-based lender dwindle.
The BBC understands contingency plans to ensure the "orderly failure" of the 150-year-old bank are well advanced.
Private cars with even and odd number plates would only be allowed on alternate days from 15 to 30 April, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said.
A fortnight-long trial from 1 January took more than a third of the city's three million private cars off the road, easing congestion.
However, it is not clear whether it helped to bring down pollution.
The local government announced the scheme after a court ordered authorities to tackle pollution levels which stood at more than 10 times the World Health Organisation's safe limits this winter.
On Thursday, Mr Kejriwal said public consultations held on the internet, through phone responses and town-hall community meetings had revealed a massive support for the plan with 81% respondents in favour of continuing it.
The chief minister said a major complaint was that the capital lacked sufficient public transport and promised that an additional 1,000 buses would be added to the fleet by May and another 2,000 by the end of the year.
Like the last time, emergency vehicles like ambulances, police cars, fire engines and taxis would be exempt from the campaign.
Single women and two-wheelers would also be allowed to drive every day.
The chief minister said the government would make a decision later on whether the "odd-even plan" would be repeated every month.
Although the trial in January helped decongest traffic-choked streets, there is no clarity on whether it helped curb pollution.
Authorities said there was "more than 50% drop in air pollution primarily caused by vehicular traffic".
But the state-run System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research showed levels of PM 2.5 particulates - the most hazardous to health - hovering between "very poor" and "severe" and well above the World Health Organisation's safe limit.
Correspondents say that during the trial in January, most drivers followed the restrictions and viewed the drive favourably.
Traffic policemen and several thousand volunteers checked cars at intersections and violators were fined 2,000 rupees ($30; £20) and asked to return.
New car sales are soaring in India, with 1,400 extra cars taking to the capital's streets every day.
In March this year there were 4,138,345 people on the electoral register, the Electoral Commission has revealed.
That was a drop of 3.4% - or 145,593 registrations - from the high point of 4,283,938 in September 2014.
The figure was still down by 75,592 when 16 and 17-year-olds were excluded.
Sixteen and 17-year-olds were allowed to vote in the referendum but do not have a ballot in May's general election.
The number of registered voters in Scotland remains higher than it was in March 2013, having increased by 0.4%.
The report said this slight increase compared to a "decrease of approximately 2% in England and Wales, where the December 2014 registers contained approximately 920,000 fewer entries than the registers published in February/March 2014".
The Electoral Commission report said that the position last September "represented a high point against which any subsequent registers were more likely to decrease than increase".
It added: "The lack of comprehensive household canvass activity since the end of the 2013 canvass is likely to be a key reason for this fall."
Electoral Commissioner for Scotland John McCormick said: "The registers published on 2 March are a snapshot of the electorate at that time and work is continuing to get as many people as possible registered in time for the May election.
"There is still time to register before the 20 April deadline and we would urge anyone who is not registered to take action now by going to www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. It's easy and only takes a few minutes."
Bayer said the bid was an "extraordinary opportunity to create a global agriculture leader."
Monsanto is primarily known for genetically modified crops, often leading to vocal activist criticism.
Last week, news of the deal angered Bayer investors, with one describing it as "arrogant empire-building".
The offer marks the biggest ever bid by a German company, dwarfing the Daimler's $38.6bn acquisition of Chrysler in 1998.
John Colley, a Professor of Practice at Warwick Business School, said it was an unusual approach for a German firm, which he said typically opted for lower risk expansion.
"The Bayer bid is clearly designed to leave the board of Monsanto with little room for manoeuvre. The large cash bid means - despite Monsanto's dislike of European ownership - they will appear as though self interest is prevailing if they reject it.
"Few megabids go well and research shows more than half destroy value, and only around a quarter deliver on their promises," he said.
Bayer's farm business produces seeds as well as compounds to kill weeds, bugs and fungus, but it is better known for its healthcare products such as Asprin and Alka-Seltzer.
Analysts said if the deal went through, almost half of the merged firms' business would be agriculture, a mix likely to displease investors who had bought shares in Bayer for its pharmaceutical offering.
Bayer's shares, which fell 8% when the merger talks were announced last week, fell 3% in early trading.
The offer comes amid a wave of mergers in the industry.
Rivals Dow Chemical, DuPont and Syngenta have all announced tie-ups recently, although they have yet to be cleared by regulators.
The drop in commodity prices has put pressure on firms such as Monsanto, with farmers' cutting orders for supplies.
Bayer said the offer of $122 per share represented a 37% premium on the price of Monsanto shares before rumours about the takeover bid emerged in the media.
"Monsanto is a perfect match to our agricultural business. We would combine complementary skills with minimal geographic overlap.
"At the same time, ongoing consolidation activities in the industry make this combination by far the most attractive one," Bayer's chief executive Werner Baumann said in a statement.
He said he was confident that the Monsanto board would accept the offer, saying "we fully expect a positive answer".
Both companies had confirmed last week that they were in talks over a possible deal.
Bayer has a market value of about $90bn, making it the second-largest producer of crop chemicals after Syngenta.
Monsanto, which has a market capitalisation of $42bn, attempted to buy Swiss rival Syngenta last year.
However, Syngenta ended up accepting a $43bn offer from ChemChina in February, although that deal is still being reviewed by regulators in the US.
After the unsuccessful bid, Monsanto announced plans to cut 3,600 jobs by the end of next year in a massive restructuring.
Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto is expected to be bigger in value than the ChemChina-Syngenta deal.
The biggest merger in the chemicals industry took place late last year when Dow Chemical teamed up with Du Pont to form a new $130bn company.
Former Everton Ladies left-sided player Alexander, 22, joined the Women's Super League One club in 2016.
Defender Matthews, 23, who can also play in midfield, has been with the Vixens for six years and helped them reach the 2013 Women's FA Cup final.
Former Aston Villa forward Fergusson, 21, has been with Willie Kirk's side since February.
Newly-promoted Bristol City will play their first 2017 Spring Series game against Reading at Ashton Gate on Saturday, 22 April.
Ethan McKen, 24, from Nottingham, was hit by a wave at a Black Sea resort in Bulgaria on 8 August.
A silence was held at all matches in the Notts Senior League and across the Central Midlands league.
Mr McKen played as a defender for the Bulwell FC reserve team.
He taught PE at several primary schools in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire.
Ben Moore, manager of Bulwell FC reserves, said: "It was a mark of respect from the league to him - he had played for several teams in the league.
"He was a determined and confident lad - he stamped his mark on our team in a very short time."
Bulwell FC reserves captain Darrell Hatton said: "He was a talented player - we were were very shocked to hear about his death."
Friends said Mr McKen was kind and naturally clever, gaining a first-class honours degree in sports science and management from Nottingham Trent University.
The poll suggests services like Spotify and Apple Music should "experiment with pricing" to woo the 90% of the British population who are not subscribers.
The research shows the 10% who do subscribe to music streaming services pay an average of £7.07 a month.
More than 2,100 adults were involved in the YouGov and Zuora study.
Revenues from music streaming grew by 49% to £251m in 2015, according to UK Music.
Yet the reach of music streaming services in the UK is much less than that of video streaming services, to which 27% of the population subscribe.
The pollsters said there was a huge number of potential customers for service providers that could be accessed "via innovation in pricing and packaging".
"There is a lot more room to grow," said Tien Tzuo, chief executive of Zuora - a firm that sets up and runs subscription billing services.
The research suggests that more than half of the 5.2 million people who subscribe to music streaming services have no plans to purchase a CD again.
The online survey was conducted between 27 April and 4 May 2016.
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Eifion Hughes, 84, died six days after the incident outside Britannia building society in Bangor on 6 August.
The retired lecturer at Bangor Normal College was originally from Wrexham where his father was a Baptist minister.
His wife Caryl said he would be "very much missed" by family and friends.
Mr Hughes, who completed a botany degree at Swansea University before teaching at Llandeilo Grammar School, had been married to Caryl for 54 years.
North Wales Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
A remote demolition brought down the decommissioned site at about 06:00 BST in a unique operation using remote-controlled robots.
Ken Cresswell, 57, and John Shaw, 61, and Chris Huxtable, 34, were trapped under rubble on 23 February.
The body of Michael Collings, 53, of Teesside, was recovered.
The building - which was due for demolition when it partially collapsed - had been too unstable to be approached afterwards.
RWE Npower, which owns the site, said the demolition had "gone as planned" and all of the structure was brought down.
A spokesman said: "Now the building has been brought down, an inspection has confirmed the area and debris pile are safe and our contractors have resumed the recovery operation.
"We will continue working seven days a week, 12 hours a day to help return these families' loved ones to them as soon as possible."
The firm added it understood the time it was taking to recover the bodies had been "deeply upsetting" for their families.
BBC News correspondent Amanda Dellor, who was at the scene, said the charges went off one minute after six and the building came down "very quickly", covering the entire site in a dust cloud.
Families of the missing men watched from within the boundary of the power station.
The search was halted in May when contractors reached a 50m (164ft) exclusion zone, beyond which it was considered too dangerous to continue.
The families of the three men yet to be recovered had opposed plans to use explosives for the demolition.
Ken Cresswell and John Shaw were both from Rotherham, while Chris Huxtable was from Swansea.
Steve Hall, son-in-law of Mr Cresswell, previously said: "We want the men back in one piece, not many pieces."
A small crowd gathered to watch the controlled demolition from Ladygrove Mound, around a mile from Didcot Power Station.
Just after 06:00 BST one large bang was heard, followed by several smaller ones, and the building came down in a matter of seconds. A blanket of dark grey dust covered the entire site and the famous cooling towers were hidden for several minutes.
Last night, I spoke to one family member who told me that they just wanted everything to go to plan today and they would quickly get to the men.
They just want the men returned back to their families and back home.
Roland Alford, the explosives contractor at the power station, said the four-month delay in completing the demolition was necessary on safety grounds.
He added: "It was almost unthinkable to send people to work underneath there and place charges, given the fact the building could come down at any moment - you legally can't justify that."
Residents took to social media to report the size of the explosion and to send their wishes to the men's families.
Victoria Martin tweeted: "Sobering hearing the rest of the boiler house at #Didcot come down this morning. Thoughts are with the families of the men still there.
Morts Lindholm said: "So, the boiler house at #didcot power plant was just demolished - what a bang! Now, let's recover the remains of the 3 missing bodies #rip."
Leanne Avis also tweeted: "Goodness me, what a bang! #Prayfor Christopher Huxtable, Ken Cresswell and John Shaw, find them and bring peace to their loved ones #Didcot."
Coal-fired Didcot A Power Station was turned off in 2013, after 43 years in service.
It included six cooling towers, measuring 375ft (114m) in height, of which three were demolished in the early hours of 27 July 2014.
A gas-burning power station - known as Didcot B - opened in 1997 on the site and continues to operate.
A major fire was declared at Didcot B in October 2014, with 20 fire crews sent to tackle the blaze at its peak. The cause was later confirmed as an electrical fault.
Further demolition work took place at Didcot A, until a major incident was declared on 23 February when part of a the boiler house collapsed, killing four demolition workers.
A local district lawyer said the shootings were being investigated as an "act of domestic terrorism".
The gunman, who was shot dead, was named as 24-year-old Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez by the FBI and local reports said he was born in the Middle East.
President Barack Obama said the attack was "heartbreaking" and said the suspect appeared to be a "lone gunman".
Abdulazeez is believed to have been born in Kuwait, but has lived in the US for several years.
He was arrested earlier this year in Chattanooga for driving under the influence of alcohol.
A spokesman for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga said a student with the same name graduated in 2012 with a degree in engineering, according to local media reports.
The Chattanooga Times newspaper reported that he went to a local high school and competed on the wrestling team.
He left this message in his school yearbook: "My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?"
The investigation is still at an early stage, but it appears that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was acting alone. What made him do what he did will be the subject of intensive inquiries that will delve deep into his past and that of his friends and family, and into his state-of-mind.
But lone wolves, as such men are often described, are the hardest to stop.
Both the president and the head of the FBI have recently underlined this problem and called on local communities to be vigilant for the signs of any radicalisation.
It is also hard for the authorities to protect all potential targets. The first location at which Abdulazeez began firing was an army recruitment office, in the middle of a strip mall - flanked by a mobile phone shop and an Italian restaurant - in other words, firmly within the local community. Many will not want the military to completely retreat behind barbed wire and concrete barriers.
Armed police raided the house where he lived, a few miles outside Chattanooga in Hixson, after the shootings and an AP reporter said two women were led away in handcuffs.
In a statement, the FBI confirmed his identity but said it "would be premature to speculate on the motives of the shooter at this time".
Officials told the AP news agency that Abdulazeez was not known to federal law enforcement before the attacks.
Earlier, US officials said authorities were investigating whether the gunman was inspired by or had links to the Islamic State (IS) group or other jihadist organisations.
IS leaders have called on their followers to launch attacks during the month of Ramadan, which comes to an end this weekend.
FBI agent Ed Reinhold, who is leading the investigation, said the first shooting occurred at about 10:45 local time (14:45 GMT) at a US Navy recruitment centre in the east of the city.
After opening fire on the building, the gunman then fled the scene in a Ford Mustang and was pursued by Chattanooga police, Mr Reinhold told reporters.
He was shot dead after a gunfight at a US Navy reserve centre about seven miles (10 km) away on Amnicola Highway.
The US Marines confirmed in a statement that there were "four Marine fatalities" at the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Centre in Chattanooga.
They said one Marine Corps recruiter was wounded but was later released from hospital. Two other people are believed to have been treated for injuries.
"This is a sad day for the United States. These service members served their country with pride," Bill Kilden, the federal prosecutor for eastern Tennessee, said.
"We are investigating this as an act of domestic terrorism," he told reporters.
But other officials expressed caution at jumping to conclusions.
"We are looking at every possible avenue - whether it was terrorism, whether it was domestic, international or whether it was a simple criminal act," Mr Reinhold said.
City Mayor Andy Berke tweeted: "Horrific incident in our community."
"Our hearts are broken for the families of the four Marines killed in today's terrible act of violence. They are in our prayers," he added.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing the gunman firing from inside a car outside the recruitment centre.
Gina Mule, who works at a local restaurant, told CNN she heard "really loud noises" and saw a man with a "high-powered rifle".
"A lot of shots were fired," she added.
A statement from the US Department of Homeland Security said it was "enhancing the security posture at certain federal facilities, out of an abundance of caution".
Mr Young held off an SNP challenge at Midlothian Council.
He took a Midlothian East seat which had been won in 2012 by a party member who later became independent.
His victory margin was 69 votes at the fifth count.
De Montfort University (DMU) and Beaumont Town FC both train and play on pitches at Beaumont Park, in Leicester.
On Monday, DMU said a student was "dragged" across a road, while the club claims children were "goaded".
Leicestershire Police said it was investigating an alleged assault that took place on Monday evening.
DMU invested £2.3m in Beaumont Park in March 2015 to "boost community sports and support student teams".
However, a row recently broke out over access to the pitches and changing facilities.
It came to a head on Monday after members of Beaumont Town FC organised a protest, saying they had been locked out of the ground.
DMU said in a statement that protesters disrupted its football matches and claimed one of its students was "bruised" after being dragged across a road and knocked to the floor.
A security guard also said he was punched.
However, Nick Langton, Beaumont Town's general secretary, told the BBC the university's claims were "misleading" and an "exaggeration".
He said, while he was not there, parents had told him that students from DMU were "winding up the children".
The university said Mr Langton was the "cause of the problems" between the two sides but it would work with a "reconstituted committee".
In response, Mr Langton said he was trying the prevent the break-up of the football club.
He said: "My heart and soul is in the club. I would step down if I was to blame."
A spokesman for the Leicestershire & Rutland County FA said: "Various allegations have been made and the County FA is subsequently in communication with parties involved and an investigation is under way."
Witnesses in Damaturu, in Yobe state, say a suicide bomber in a tricycle taxi detonated explosives as people watched Brazil's match against Mexico on TV.
At least 27 people are said to have been seriously injured.
Public screenings of the World Cup in some parts of Nigeria have been banned because of threats by Boko Haram.
Three states, including Yobe, are under a government-imposed state of emergency following years of attacks.
No group has said it was behind the latest blast.
Kaduna's football fans have mixed views. While some say they will now stay away from viewing centres because they are scared, others say they will still go, but with caution.
Many say they enjoy going to the centres too much to stop. As well as watching the games with their friends, they enjoy arguing, analyzing and betting on the matches. Others say that after the bombing, they will stay away as they do not want to lose their lives for the sake of watching a football game.
Lynda, a student and a football fan says: "During the Champions League final between Atletico and Real Madrid, I was in a viewing centre when I heard that another one was bombed in Jos. I was scared but I had to finishing watching the match before going home.
"In as much as they are bombing, we just hope that it does not get us, but it is not enough to make people stop going to viewing centres."
There have also been warnings of potential attacks at venues showing the World Cup in East Africa - Somali Islamist group al-Shabab killed 76 people watching the 2010 World Cup final at two restaurants in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
Both Boko Haram and al-Shabab say watching football is unIslamic - a view rejected by mainstream Muslims.
The Yobe local police chief has told the BBC that the attack happened outside a shop with a television, where people had gathered to watch the game.
He said it was not a viewing centre where Nigerians often watch football matches, as these have been banned in the state.
Other sources say it was a viewing centre which was attacked.
While the police say 13 people died, the hospital worker told the BBC he had personally counted 21 bodies.
Correspondents say Nigeria's authorities often downplay the number of casualties.
In another development, the authorities say a senior Boko Haram militant was among almost 500 northerners arrested as they travelled to Nigeria's oil hub of Port Harcourt earlier this week.
The authorities did not name the suspect. Relatives of those arrested say they had no links to Boko Haram and had gone to southern Nigeria for economic reasons.
The Damaturu hospital worker said truckloads of injured people were being treated in overcrowded wards after the explosion on Tuesday evening.
"The military and police trucks that brought them in have made four return trips so far ferrying them in," the worker said.
"Every single truck was full of the injured. And all of them are young men or children."
The worker said that the injuries suffered by people caught up in the blast were "horrific".
Damaturu resident Mohammed Kurkure Yobe told the BBC that the venue where the attack took place was very popular and often crowded with people watching big events.
Open-air viewing centres - where people pay to watch live football - are popular throughout Nigeria.
On 1 June at least 14 people were killed in a bomb attack on a bar in Adamawa that was screening a televised football match. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
In March, many people were also killed in explosions while watching football in a video hall in Borno's Maiduguri town. On both occasions, Boko Haram was blamed for the blasts.
Boko Haram - which means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language - wants to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
The group captured international attention in April after it abducted more than 200 girls in Chibok in Borno state.
The states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa have been under a state of emergency since May 2013. Thousands have died in the north-east since Boko Haram launched an insurgency in 2009.
Nigeria's military has promised increased security but there are still daily reports of attacks on villages in parts of the north-east.
The Blues drew with Swansea and lost to Liverpool in their last two league games before coming back from 2-0 to beat Leicester City 4-2 in the EFL Cup.
"It is normal when you start work in a new team and you bring a new idea and method of football you need time," said the 47-year-old Italian.
"But I'm confident about this and trust in the work. We can improve a lot."
Chelsea face London rivals Arsenal on Saturday at 17:30 BST and Gunners boss Arsene Wenger will celebrate 20 years in charge of the Emirates outfit on 1 October.
Conte will be the 12th Chelsea manager Wenger has faced in the Premier League.
"It is fantastic if someone is able to stay for 20 years in the same club," added Conte. "There is satisfaction in both sides.
"Sometimes I think it is important to value a manager not only if he wins, loses or draws.
"Sometimes if you judge only if they win you make a big mistake and you pay for this in the future."
Chelsea, who let in 53 league goals last season, have kept just one clean sheet in seven games this campaign.
"When we concede a goal, all the team concede a goal, not only the defenders," said Conte, who will be without injured centre-back John Terry against Arsenal.
"It means we must work together to improve the defensive situation. This problem was already there last season.
"We must work a lot on this aspect because if you want a great championship you mustn't concede so many goals."
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On Wednesday, Mr Devenney announced that after much consideration he would run for an Assembly seat on 5 May.
He was suspended from the DUP amid claims he had brought the party into disrepute, an accusation he denied.
Some former colleagues within the party have warned that the move could split the unionist vote.
The DUP's Gary Middleton, who replaced Maurice Devenney as the party's MLA, said they want to maintain a strong unionist voice in the assembly.
"It's not going to be a bitter fight but I think people will judge it on the series of events which have happened over the course of the last 16 months," said Mr Middleton.
"When Maurice was co-opted to the assembly we did try and support him as best we could, writing his speeches and his questions, but unfortunately we couldn't actually sit in the chamber.
"I gave my all and he was a very close friend. We certainly haven't been as close as we have been, he's certainly not an enemy."
Last month, the Ulster Unionist Party released a statement welcoming Mr Devenney into its fold.
The former MLA said he made the move after some "intense discussion within the broader unionist family".
He was even photographed with the UUP leader Mike Nesbitt but his stay was short lived.
Party leader Mike Nesbitt expressed his surprise when just a few days later "unresolved issues" prevented Maurice Devenney from joining the party.
Mr Devenney has now said that after much consideration he will run as an independent.
"I will be providing an independent voice and offering to continue my lobbying and work on the ground that I already do as a councillor, albeit on a larger scale to a greater number of people.
"I have a track record of delivery which I believe stands the test of time particularly over the last 11 years of continuous service in council."
In 2014, Maurice Devenney was co-opted by the dup to replace former speaker William Hay.
In that time, the club appointed a new coaching team and also had an overhaul of the playing squad.
Gloucester also won the European Rugby Challenge Cup, the club's first silverware for four years.
Profit on ordinary activities before taxation was £286,026, while the club's long-term debt was also reduced by 18%.
The club increased turnover by 21.3% over the previous year and the footprint of the stadium was also increased with the purchase of the former Cooper Cowan car site.
"It's been a really good year, it's been a very tough year," managing director Stephen Vaughan told BBC Gloucestershire.
"In business parlance our costs have gone up dramatically in the past 12 months, so we've had to work even harder to keep a self-sustainable model. So I'm really pleased we've been able to do that when we've invested not just in the playing department, but have also bought a big chunk of land at Kingsholm for work in the future out of working capital."
The club also held two successful concerts at their Kingsholm Stadium home in the summer, with over 26,000 people watching Madness and Elton John perform.
Gloucester are controlled by Ryan Walkinshaw, who took over following the death of his father Tom - a former Formula 1 team owner - in 2010. They have been owned by the Walkinshaw family since 1997 but are currently looking for new owners.
"We are still talking to people," added Vaughan.
"Have we found the people that are right? not yet. I'd like to be in a position in the next six to eight weeks where I would like to say categorically we've either got a new direction or we are comfortable how we are."
Nigel Farage's party is standing in 624 of the 650 Westminster constituencies, according to the Press Association. That is 66 more than 2010.
Natalie Bennett's Green Party is standing in 571 seats - far more than the 335 they contested last time.
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are fielding full slates in England, Scotland and Wales.
Those three parties will not be contesting the re-election of Commons Speaker John Bercow in Buckingham, in accordance with tradition, but Mr Bercow will face a challenge from Green and UKIP candidates.
The Conservatives are also standing in 16 of Northern Ireland's 18 constituencies.
Meanwhile, the SNP is contesting all 59 seats in Scotland and Plaid Cymru all 40 in Wales.
The British National Party is standing in just eight constituencies.
That is a dramatic reduction from the last general election, when it stood 338 candidates.
The overall number of candidates across the UK, including all parties and independents, appears to be down slightly, from 4,150 to 3,963.
Figures also suggest more woman are standing than in 2010, with 1,020 compared to 854 last time.
George Galloway's Respect is standing in four constituencies- seven fewer than 2010.
UKIP's Mr Farage said: "We are delighted to be standing in almost all constituencies in the country.
"It is a significant increase on 2010 and means that in all four nations of the UK, there is now the chance to vote UKIP, a chance that we hope millions will take up."
BNP spokesman Simon Darby denied the decline in the number of candidates for his party reflected a collapse in the party's support and membership.
He said the party could have fielded more candidates, but took the decision not to waste deposits.
Nominations closed on Thursday.
The first section will link the Kenyan port of Mombasa to the capital, Nairobi, reducing the journey time from 15 hours to about four.
It is said to be the country's biggest infrastructure project since independence 50 years ago.
The cost of the railway will be $5.2bn (£3.2bn) - mostly funded by China.
Some Kenyans have complained that the contract was given to the Chinese state-owned China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) without going to tender.
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed the deal in August in Beijing.
It is also hoped that the railway will reduce congestion in Mombasa, one of Africa's busiest ports.
The current railway network dates back to the colonial era.
After the Nairobi section is finished, with completion due in 2017, it will be extended through Uganda, with branch lines west to Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo, south through Rwanda to Burundi and north to South Sudan.
Passenger trains will travel at a top speed of 120 km/h (75 mph), while freight trains will have a maximum speed of 80 km/h.
"What we are doing here today will most definitely transform... not only Kenya but the whole eastern African region," President Kenyatta told crowds at the ceremony, calling it an "historic milestone", the AFP news agency reports.
"As a result East Africa will become a competitive investment destination," the agency quoted him as saying.
Earlier, he said the railway was one of the flagship projects of his government's ambitious Vision 2030 initiative to improve much-neglected infrastructure.
"The project will define my legacy as president of Kenya and it is my personal desire that the implementation is done to the standard," he said in a statement on Wednesday after meeting CRBC officials.
He also thanked the Chinese government for the "massive infrastructural projects in the country", which "reduced the cost of doing business and created employment through increased investments".
Kenya would be working closely with Uganda and Rwanda during the first phase, which would boost ties between the neighbours, he added.
"Kenya will fully meet its obligations towards the project. I will personally oversee its implementation," Mr Kenyatta said.
By the age of 30, young men have earned £12,500 less on average compared to those born between 1966 and 1980, according to the Resolution Foundation.
It suggested that men now were more likely to be working in basic service jobs, or part-time, with lower wages.
The result was a narrowing pay gap between men and women.
The Resolution Foundation is a not-for-profit research and policy organisation, which says its goal is to improve outcomes for people on low and modest incomes.
Torsten Bell, executive director at the Foundation, said: "The long-held belief that each generation should do better than the last is under threat. Millennials - those born between 1981 and 2000 - are the first to earn less than their predecessors.
"While that in part reflects their misfortune to come of age in the midst of a huge financial crisis, there are wider economic forces that have seen young men in particular slide back."
The think tank said that young men have earned less than the generation before them in every year of their working lives - a pay deficit that adds up to £12,500 by the time they reach the age of 30.
Many found themselves working on reduced hours in shops, bars and restaurants, whereas their predecessors were more likely to have been employed in manufacturing.
The proportion of low-paid work carried out by young men has increased by 45% between 1993 and 2015-16, compared with a fall among young women, the report said.
This has narrowed the gender pay gap, but for the wrong reasons, it said.
"In one sense this is a story of female progress on a massive scale. Women are leaving low paid occupations in their thousands. As public policy has supported female employment, with better maternity and childcare policies, and cultural norms have shifted, more women are finding work that pays a good wage," said report author Daniel Tomlinson.
"But, on the flip side, the fact that the UK has a large low-paid service sector economy is something that increasing numbers of young men will now be able to testify to. It's good news that low-paid roles are now more evenly shared between men and women but the way in which this is happening raises serious concerns about what the world of work has to offer some young men.
"Young women are seeing a lack of generational pay progress and they are only catching-up with their male counterparts because of a deterioration in outcomes for young men.
"Until robots can stack shelves or serve pizzas, there will always be a lot of work to be done in the UK's low-paid service sector. The burden of low paid work is becoming more gender balanced but it is far from being eliminated."
Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown, 95, was the first person ever to land a jet on an aircraft carrier and holds the record for the most flight deck landings.
The former Royal Navy pilot, who has survived 11 crashes, said the honour was a "humbling experience".
The bust was unveiled by Desert Island Disc's presenter Kirsty Young.
Nicknamed "Winkle" - after the small mollusc "periwinkle" because of his height - Capt Brown is one of the only pilots who has the Distinguished Service Cross as well as the Air Force Cross.
Over his career, he flew 2,407 aircraft carrier landings and 487 different types of aircraft, a world record that is unlikely ever to be matched.
Today's test pilots average fewer than 100 flights, according to Rear Admiral Simon Charlier, former Commander of the Fleet Air Arm.
"Over 50 is deemed a large number," he said.
"We can't imagine in this day and age how dangerous his job was."
At the end of last year, he appeared on the 3,000th edition of Desert Island Discs, during which he was described by presenter Young as a "remarkable, dare-devil".
"When you read through his life story, it makes James Bond seem like a bit of a slacker," she said.
"He is a real life hero."
The bronze bust, created by sculptress Jenna Gearing, was funded by the Society of Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
The LÉ Róisín was deployed by the Italian Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre to find the migrants' boat off the Libyan coast on Thursday morning.
The rescue began at 06.50 local time and within three hours, the crew had taken 111 people on board, giving them food, water and medical treatment.
Two women had died before the rescue.
Their bodies were taken out of the long rubber boat and placed on board the LÉ Róisín.
The Irish naval ship is now sailing to Port of Lampedusa where the survivors will be placed in the care of the Italian authorities.
The LÉ Róisín left Cork in the Republic of Ireland on 2 May to join the international search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean.
Before Thursday's operation, the ship had rescued 782 people to date.
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.
Andrea Dumitru, 18, and 23-year-old Stelata Serban from Grove Place in Derry are alleged to have committed the offences between 30 January and 27 March 2015.
Both women pleaded guilty.
The court was told that the defendants set up their own website where they advertised services for sale and that they managed the brothel themselves.
The defendants, each of whom has a child back in Romania, were both remanded in custody until Thursday to allow police to check a bail address.
He believes the publication of the public inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal - led by Robert Francis QC - has been a catalyst for improving care.
But is this really true?
On one hand, most people agree it has refocused minds in an era when there is so much attention given to targets and balance sheets.
When the 1,800-page report was published on 6 February 2013 one phrase stood out.
The NHS system, it said, had "betrayed" the public and patients by putting corporate self-interest ahead of care.
That criticism sent shockwaves through the system.
Much of the past year has been spent with hospitals - and other providers for that matter - looking for ways to improve services, as Jocelyn Cornwell, of the Point of Care Foundation, explains.
"The Francis Inquiry has made a difference and inspired positive change. Senior managers have become more focussed on the quality of care and are listening more intently to feedback from both patients and staff about how services are delivered."
This, according to Mr Hunt, has resulted in something tangible: an increase in the number of nurses working on wards.
To prove this point, he has highlighted data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre - the official statistics body for the NHS - which shows the number of acute, elderly and general nurses (most of which work in hospitals) has risen by 3,500 in the past year to over 172,000 in October, the latest month for which figures are available.
But it is important these figures are seen in a wider context. If you look back over a longer time frame - say three years - overall nurse numbers (including the likes of midwives and health visitors) have hardly changed.
And, in fact, once you strip out those working in maternity care (increased to keep pace with the rising birth rate) the numbers have actually fallen.
This suggests the boost in hospital nurse numbers has come at a price: there has been a drain on other areas of the workforce.
Other key steps highlighted by Mr Hunt include the introduction of tougher inspections and a better regime for dealing with failing hospitals.
The Care Quality Commission launched its new way of inspecting hospitals in September.
This was widely welcomed as officials promised the visits would be longer and more expert-led - that is to say led by doctors and other staff who have experience of working in hospitals.
Although arguably these changes were set in train in 2012 following the appointment of a new leadership team at the CQC.
The point about failing hospitals relates to the 14 trusts placed in special measures, which has led to new management or extra support being put in place.
Again, there is praise for these steps.
Julie Bailey, of Cure the NHS, which helped bring the scandal of Stafford Hospital to national attention, called Mr Hunt "brave" for standing up for patients when she addressed the conference, Francis: A Year On, this week.
But it is also clear there have been some negative consequences, according to Sir Richard Thompson, president of the Royal College of Physicians.
He said the last year has seen a tendency to "beat up" the NHS, and hospitals in particular.
And this seems to have had an effect on morale.
In the latest quarterly report by the King's Fund think-tank staff morale was highlighted as the number one concern for finance directors above other factors such as finances and waiting times.
Sir Richard said it was now important to start "celebrating success" to improve wellbeing and morale.
His point is this: happy staff deliver good care.
The two sides are seeking to improve relations more than two decades after the conflict during the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was quoted as saying that Serbia wished to become Bosnia's largest trading partner.
Both countries aspire to European Union membership.
Security has been tightened in Bosnia for the visit.
In July, Mr Vucic was attacked by stone-throwing mourners at a commemoration service in Srebrenica, where thousands of Bosnian Muslims were massacred by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995.
More than 100,000 people were killed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, during which Serbia backed Bosnian Serbs in their effort to secede and join Serbia.
Mr Vucic is scheduled to return to Srebrenica on 11 November for a development conference.
The joint session was expected to see agreements signed on the protection of cultural heritage, the search for missing persons, environmental protection and telecommunications.
The two sides also discussed infrastructural and energy projects, including a Belgrade-Sarajevo railway, Serbian news agency Tanjug reported.
Ahead of the joint session, Mr Vucic said that despite the arguments of "hotheads" on both sides, it was impossible for the two states to avoid cooperating with each other.
He said they were "so intertwined that we will have to be together for hundreds of years," according to Bosnia's private Onasa news agency.
Denis Zvizdic, the chairman of Bosnia's Council of Ministers, was quoted as saying the visit was important not only for development but also "in a symbolic sense".
Two Peter Whittingham goals helped the Bluebirds keep their Championship play-off ambitions alive with a convincing display.
Cardiff, who appointed Slade in October 2014, are now seventh in the table, four points short of the play-offs.
"That was probably the best performance of my time in charge," he said.
"It would be up there certainly, but it wasn't too many weeks ago I was very happy with how we played at Wolves."
Cardiff's draw at Charlton the previous week was their 13th of the season, more than any other team in the Championship.
That was the Bluebirds' second successive goalless stalemate, and Slade was pleased with their improved finishing against automatic promotion contenders Brighton.
Cardiff led 3-0 within half an hour, and were never troubled.
"Sometimes you work hard and create chances, as in recent weeks, without the reward, but today our movement was good and our finishing was ruthless. It was good to see," he added.
"We can improve and we are improving, we have still got new partnerships out there on the pitch.
"We have Tom [Lawrence] and Lex [Immers] settling into a new environment. It is quite a new team and quite a young team as well.
"We are maturing and it was a mature performance, that was the most pleasing thing."
The animal welfare charity rescued 728 rabbits in 2014 and has already taken 550 into care this year.
The Scottish SPCA, which is holding its annual rabbit awareness week, said it was concerned hundreds more were living lonely lives in small hutches.
It said they are intelligent, social animals, requiring lots of care and interaction from their owners.
Scottish SPCA chief superintendent Mike Flynn said: "One of the most common excuses we hear is that the children in the family, who asked for the rabbit in the first place, have become fed up now that the novelty of the new pet has worn off.
"Another reason is that the owner simply doesn't have the time to look after their rabbit.
"One of the biggest issues is rabbits being left in a hutch with no interaction other than a brief visit from their owner to bring food and water."
He added: "These poor rabbits are literally suffering in silence, living a miserable and lonely life."
The Scottish SPCA hopes to rehome many of the rabbits it has taken in.
Last year, an animal welfare scientist said the pets needed better legal protection against neglect.
James Oxley said that unlike some EU countries, the UK does not have legal requirements on the size of hutches, or that rabbits be kept in pairs.
Writing in the World Rabbit Science Association's journal, he suggested a review of how existing laws impact on rabbits.
Scottish organisation Rabbits Require Rights has also been calling for greater legal protection for the pets.
It said rabbits were the UK's third most popular pet, but were the most neglected.
The revamped Cornhill in Ipswich will include a water feature and sculpture after plans for a tower were dropped.
Work is due to start on the scheme, which was given the green light by the council's planning committee, in January.
Former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose had previously criticised the main town centre square.
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The design, drawn up by Belfast-based architects Hall McKnight, revealed a revised "more traditional" design in March after a widespread consultation.
A previously selected vision proposed levelling the Cornhill, which is on a slope, by using a large ramp.
It also featured a "delicate steel and glass" tower in front of the town hall.
Last year, the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership announced it is providing £1.6m in funding towards the project.
Suffolk County Council and Ipswich Borough Council have already committed £1.75m.
The 4-2 win over the Londoners kept alive hopes of a play-off place and means the Rams have seven points from nine since Rowett's appointment.
Derby are seven points adrift of the top six with six games remaining.
"When we are out of possession of the ball, we have to be better," 43-year-old Rowett told BBC Radio Derby.
"Our forward players will hurt any team and that is why our defensive structure is even more important."
Derby's win on Tuesday cut the gap to Fulham to five points.
Sheffield Wednesday are still seven points clear in the final play-off spot, but must play both Derby and Fulham before the end of the season.
Rowett said the players are responding well to the changes he has made but said they must work harder in the six-game run-in.
"We have to be far more aggressive and intense in the way we defend," he added.
"If we can get that right more consistently then we have the quality to win games against any team."
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Leanne Wood said if Plaid wins power in Thursday's election ministers could call a public vote if the UK government refused to negotiate on devolution.
Plaid wants new powers that include policing, income taxes and reforms to the way the Welsh government is funded.
UK ministers' have delayed their further devolution proposals until the summer, after criticism of the plans.
In February, the previous Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb promised "significant changes" to the draft Wales Bill, after claims it was confusing and would leave Welsh ministers with fewer powers.
Plaid Cymru's manifesto states that within days of winning power its ministers would begin urgent talks with the UK government seeking "immediate progress" on implementing constitutional changes.
Speaking on the BBC Radio Wales Good Morning Wales programme, Ms Wood said: "We have a whole raft of things that are yet to be implemented that have got cross-party agreement.
"If people vote for a Plaid Cymru government next Thursday than they will be voting for a mandate for us to implement all of those policies and recommendations, from the Silk Commission and so on, that have already been agreed cross-party.
"The point is that if the UK government refused to consider to negotiate with us - we've got an unwritten constitution [and] all constitutional changes are done by negotiation.
"And we reserve the right to hold a referendum on the principle of making sure that we get the powers we need in this country."
Plaid's manifesto says independence "remains our long-term aspiration" but it can only be achieved "stage by stage".
The last devolution referendum was held in Wales in 2011, in which 63.5% of voters backed giving the assembly direct law-making powers, 14 years after the referendum that established the institution.
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At the northern tip of the island, a vicious north wind blew over the Aegean, whipping up an angry sea and howling over the rocky beaches of Lesbos. It felt arctic.
Robin Jenkins, a lifeboat man more used to pulling drunken tourists out of the Thames, took his rigid inflatable - a gift from Atlantic College in South Wales - out over the surf to show his eager Greek volunteers how to operate in challenging waters. The tiny boat soon disappeared among the churning waves, occasionally lurching into view, almost vertical, silhouetted against the black water and the nearby Turkish coast.
Eventually, they gave up and came ashore - the sea was simply too rough. The only thing visible between here and Turkey were serried rows of whitecaps. Along this stretch of coast, it seemed, the exodus was on hold.
Just 24 hours earlier, at the other end of Lesbos, it was a very different scene. The sun beat down brightly on a dead calm, glittering sea, with barely a breath of wind. And from the crisp horizon, a succession of distinctive flat specks, approaching, one after another, and resolving into the unmistakable outlines of overloaded life rafts, crammed with refugees.
Some were exhausted after their brief, and for many, first, encounter with the sea. Others were clearly delighted that this, the most anxiously anticipated stage of their long journey, was over and that their feet were still dry.
On the shore were legions of volunteers, handing out sweets to the children. Local gypsy families mingled with the new arrivals, looking for a share of the handouts.
And off to one side, the boats - ferries to freedom now quickly forgotten as islanders descend, knives in hand, to take them to pieces in the blink of an eye. All over Lesbos, chicken coops are being cobbled together from these salvaged boats. There's a healthy trade, too, in discarded outboard motors.
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As the new year gets under way, Lesbos is catching its breath and taking stock.
Almost half of all the migrants who have entered Europe this year have come this way. Almost all, of course, have moved, but even in December, there were about 2,000 new arrivals every day.
Conditions on the island are a little less chaotic now than before. The refugees and other migrants are processed a little more efficiently, and Greece has finally allowed the European border agency Frontex to lend a hand with fingerprinting and the scanning of documents.
But in Moria, the camp just north of Mitilini, anxious migrants still huddle among the olive trees, wrap themselves in blankets, and discuss what their next moves should be.
On the quayside, an Iranian family asked us about the Greek-Macdeonian border. Was it open? Should they hurry north? If they did, could they make it through to Germany and waiting relatives? Apply for asylum here, a UN official advised them, then ask for family reunification. It's your best bet.
The Iranians looked dubious. They fear being sent home if they register. The family wandered off among the migrants resting on the pavement, still debating what to do.
One small sign that the island is getting a grip is that the beaches are being cleaned up. Teams of Boy Scouts are on hand when the migrant boats come ashore, life jackets are gathered into bundles, and a rubbish truck passes by to collect them. Up in the hills, landfills are now full of discarded jackets: orange, red, purple and blue.
In the north, on the scrubby hillside high above the village of Molyvos, a day-glo mountain is taking shape, the jackets piled 20ft (6m) for 100 yards and more. Flimsy thermal blankets rustle and flutter in the winter wind and up on a ridge, an incongruous row of smuggler boats, perched like so many Noah's Arks, stranded on the top of Mount Ararat.
As a monument to the half-a-million people who have come this way, it is a powerful statement.
On the way here from Mytilene, we passed the salt pans near Kalloni, shimmering in the morning sun. On this island of migrants, a host of graceful flamingos was grazing in the shallow water. But alone among the travellers on Lesbos, the flamingos appeared to be in no hurry at all to move on.
2015 witnessed one of the great human migrations of recent times. But a new year doesn't mean it's over. Winter may bring some respite, but all over Lesbos, volunteers are waiting for the next boats to arrive. More Syrians will cross for sure, but in recent weeks, slightly higher numbers of Iraqis and Afghans, with a handful from Iran, Pakistan and Morocco.
All will pose a challenge to the island, and, in time, to the continent beyond.
European leaders spent much of 2015 struggling to identify a coherent response to this extraordinary event. When the cold wind abates and the boats start crossing again, that challenge will only increase.
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2015 was a record year for migrants crossing to Europe by sea - and the winter weather is unlikely to slow arrivals for long, writes the BBC's Paul Adams, on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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But he was also responsible for building a musical outpost to record some of the biggest-selling albums of the 1980s - in the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat.
To those who lived and worked there, he will be fondly remembered as the owner of AIR Studios Montserrat, where a who's who of top musicians recorded hit albums throughout the decade.
Yvonne Kelly worked as managing director of the studios from 1981 to 1989 and says Sir George "changed the world of music, as well as my world and my life".
"I was working for Doncaster Council [in Yorkshire, England] when I read about him opening the studios," she says.
"I decided right then and there that I'd leave my job and move to Montserrat to work at his studios. I had spent some time there when I was younger, so I knew the island.
"I opened a restaurant at first when I got there, but when he came to the restaurant, I met him and got the job managing the studios."
The Police, Dire Straits, Elton John, Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder were among just a few of the names who recorded albums there.
"It was an incredible experience," says Ms Kelly, who's now 59. "We had some great times. I was afforded a fantastic opportunity by George.
"I met a lot of stars and road crew, but most importantly, some fantastic people.
"It was a really nice environment to work and record in and it was all down to George."
Sir George opened the studio in 1979 after he "fell in love with Montserrat and decided to build the ultimate get-away-from-it-all recording studio", which offered "all of the technical facilities of its London predecessor, but with the advantages of an exotic location", according to its website.
Martin had founded Associated Independent Recording (AIR) studios in London in 1969.
Having played host to the recording of many best-selling rock albums - including The Police's Synchronicity and Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms - the studio was forced to close in 1989 after much of the island was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo.
Sir George kept close ties with the island however, and helped to raise funds for the victims and families of those affected by the hurricane, as well as the enormous volcano eruption in 1997, which left 19 people dead.
"He maintained a relationship with the island ever since the studio closed," Ms Kelly says.
"He still had a home there. He loved the island and brought his family there. You could say George Martin was integral to the island and to why it became so popular.
"His involvement with the island was such a positive note for Montserrat, as it struggled compared to other Caribbean islands to attract tourists.
"I grew up having to explain where the British colony of Montserrat was, yet thanks to George, Montserrat is now known as the home of some of the best music of the 1980s.
"I am forever grateful to have known him and his family. He was a truly talented gentleman. Montserrat - and the world - mourn his passing and salute his work."
Luke Hamilton crossed early in the opening period, before a penalty try extended the hosts' advantage.
Gloucester rallied after half-time with two penalties but could not find a try.
Tigers, inspired by the excellent Luke Williams, crossed again through Adam Thompstone, and French debutant Maxime Mermoz secured the bonus point late on.
Defeat ended Gloucester's five-match winning run in all competitions and left them in ninth place, while the victory was Leicester's first in the league since 3 December.
Williams shone as Tigers battled through a testing second half to eventually secure a victory that lifted them back above Harlequins, who won at Bristol on Friday.
Experienced France centre Mermoz's try, from a driving maul in the final attack of the game, was the perfect finale for the hosts following his arrival from Toulon until the end of the season.
Interim Leicester Tigers head coach Aaron Mauger:
"That performance was something we have always known we are capable of.
"We are still a long way away from where we can get to. But we can take a lot of confidence from it. Everything we had talked about we went out and proved, which is exciting for us.
We can take a lot of belief out of that performance. I am really proud of the way the boys went out there today. There was lots of energy, commitment and belief in what we are about."
Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys:
"We pride ourselves, no matter where we play and who we play against, of having a physical edge.
"We were second best in everything. We were not competitive.
"Our set-piece let us down. We know when we come to Welford Road that we have to have a set-piece to allow us to play. We did not have that."
Leicester: Tait; Thompstone, Roberts, Smith, Brady; Burns, Kitto; Rizzo, T Youngs (capt), Cilliers, Slater, Barrow, Fitzgerald, O'Connor, Hamilton.
Replacements: McGuigan, Genge, Bateman, M Williams, Thacker, Harrison, O Williams, Mermoz.
Gloucester: Marshall; Sharples, Symons, Twelvetrees, Purdy; Burns, Heinz (capt); Hohneck, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Thrush, Ludlow, Rowan, Kalamafoni.
Replacements: Matu'u, Thomas, Ma'afu, Galarza, Kvesic, Braley, Hook, Scott.
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They marched from Custom House Square to the city hall and back.
Organisers said they were delighted with the turn-out. A small group of pro-choice demonstrators gathered at the front of the city hall in protest.
The pro-life protest was over proposed changes to Northern Ireland's abortion laws.
The laws covering abortion in Northern Ireland are the 1861 Offences against the Person Act, and the Criminal Justice Act 1945.
Terminations are only permitted to save a woman's life, or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.
Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has said he is going to consult on changing abortion laws to allow women carrying babies with fatal foetal abnormalities to have a termination.
The protest on Saturday was against that.
Among the demonstrators was singer Dana Rosemary Scallon.
"It's a great turnout, it's a celebration of life and these people want to protect life at all its stages," she said.
"No outside force should ever force the people of any sovereign nation to change their laws or in any way to bring in agendas that the people are not in agreement with."
The pro-choice group said they held their protest to show there was an alternative view.
"I believe that a woman who has an unplanned pregnancy or an unwanted pregnancy in Northern Ireland should have the same access to abortion as every other sister in the United Kingdom," the group's Brenda Callaghan said.
The Mastermind and Today programme host earns between £600,000 and £649,999.
Other Welsh stars who made the highest paid list included BBC News presenter Huw Edwards, One Show host Alex Jones and Radio Wales and sport presenter Jason Mohammad.
Rugby pundit Jonathan Davies and journalist Jeremy Bowen also earned more than £150,000 a year at the BBC.
Former Top Gear host and Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans tops the overall list, earning between £2.2m and £2.25m in 2016/2017
Schmeichel, 30, injured his right hand during the goalless draw with FC Copenhagen in the Champions League on 2 November but finished the game.
Leicester have won just two of their eight league and cup games since.
"Kasper trained very well today," said Foxes boss Claudio Ranieri on Thursday.
"I will check on him tomorrow [Friday]. He feels good. The hand is OK."
Denmark international Schmeichel signed a new five-year deal with Premier League champions Leicester in August.
He played in all 38 of the Foxes' league fixtures last season, keeping 15 clean sheets.
Schmeichel has made more than 200 appearances for Leicester since arriving from Leeds United in 2011, having started his career at Manchester City.
Ron-Robert Zieler is Leicester's back-up keeper.
The claim: Pensioners would be £872 worse off if the triple-lock was taken away. The triple-lock is a commitment to raise the basic state pension by average earnings, inflation or 2.5%, whichever is higher.
Reality Check verdict: In the long-term, pensioners would be worse off without the triple-lock. How much worse off would depend on what replaces it. Ian Blackford's figure is a forecast of what would happen if the state pension was only increased in line with inflation predictions for the next five years. He appears to have misspoken, because the research actually said that pensioners would lose £817 over five years.
Responding to a question from Angus Robertson, the SNP's leader in Westminster, she pledged that pensioners' incomes would continue to rise, but would not specify by how much.
The government is currently committed to maintaining the pension triple-lock until 2020, which means it will raise the basic state pension by average earnings, inflation or 2.5%, whichever is higher.
Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP are all committed to maintaining the triple-lock.
But the Work and Pensions Committee has said it should be scrapped on the grounds that it is "unsustainable" and "unfair" on younger families.
It suggested that pensions should rise in line with earnings and be protected against inflation being higher than earnings, but with no minimum annual increase.
John Cridland, who published a report on the future of state pensions last month, suggested that the triple-lock would also eventually need to be abandoned in favour of an earnings link.
In the long-term, the triple-lock is a big issue, with the number of people of pension age per person of working age forecast by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to rise considerably over the next 50 years.
Speaking on BBC Newsnight, Mr Blackford cited research from the House of Commons Library, which found that "over a five-year period, pensioners would be £872 worse off if the triple lock was taken away".
Giving a bit more detail, the library was asked to take Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts for the next five years of inflation and average earnings figures.
It then compared what would happen to pensions under different scenarios.
It turned out that protecting it in line with with earnings would make almost no difference, because average earnings are expected to be more than 2.5% throughout the period.
Protecting only in line with inflation would cost a total of £642 over five years for a pensioner on the basic state pension and £817 over five years for someone on the new state pension.
Mr Blackford presumably remembered that figure wrongly when he said it would cost £872.
Clearly these figures are based on forecasts for what will happen in the future, which are uncertain. An alternative is to look at how much the triple-lock has cost in the past as the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has done.
The triple-lock makes a particularly big difference in periods of relatively low earnings growth and low inflation as the UK has experienced recently.
It found that the triple-lock had cost about an extra £6bn a year compared with only protecting with earnings and £4bn a year compared with adjusting in line with inflation.
The IFS made this chart showing the difference in the percentage of national income spent on the state pension with or without the triple-lock, also based on OBR forecasts.
The IFS suggested that the government should decide what proportion of earnings it wants the state pension to be and then stick to that, rather than arbitrarily increasing it gradually through the triple-lock.
What happens to the triple-lock is highly significant because it has made such a difference in incomes for pensioners compared with workers.
In-work benefits are protected less generously than state pensions.
The Resolution Foundation brought out research recently suggesting that pensioner households on average are better off than working households after housing costs have been taken into account.
Taking income after housing costs makes a huge difference because pensioner households are more likely to own their own homes and to have relatively small or paid-off mortgages.
Former pensions minister Baroness Altmann told Newsnight that the triple-lock was particularly unfair on younger families because it was putting pressure on the government to keep raising the pension age to keep pension costs down, so the time when they could claim their own pensions was being delayed.
Among the options for replacing the triple-lock are:
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Before the operation, Rosie Davies, from Walsall in the West Midlands, was "basically a timebomb", her family said.
Missing bones in her spine meant her upper body weight was unsupported and her inner organs were being crushed.
The lifesaving surgery came at the cost of her lower legs, which she had always been unable to move.
Rosie was born with a very rare disorder called spinal segmental dysgenesis. Five bones which made up part of her spine were missing, leaving a 10cm gap in her backbone. Her legs were also contorted up against her belly and she had very little feeling in them.
She was slowly running out of space in her chest - and running out of time. Eventually the internal crush would have led to Rosie's organs failing, which would have killed her.
In her last scan before the operation there was evidence of her kidneys being crushed.
Rosie's legs were amputated from the knee down and a section of bone was taken to bridge the gap in her spine.
Two metal rods were then bolted to the upper spine and the hips to provide extra support.
The operation at Birmingham Children's Hospital took 13 hours.
Her dad Scott said: "Before she was basically a timebomb - we never knew how long it would take to go off, we never knew how long we actually had with her.
"Since having the op she's now had her life expectancy increased to that of a normal child."
Since the surgery there have been early signs of sensation returning to her legs, which means it may be possible for Rosie to one day walk with prosthetic legs.
Her mum Mandy said: "Rosie is such a strong character. You give her the equipment to use and she'll do it, whether it's sticks or artificial legs or her hands - she'll make a way of walking.
"All she has ever wanted to do is be like her sister. All she's wanted to do is ride her bike like her sister, run like her sister."
Rosie's parents said she now had more confidence.
An operation of this scale has never been attempted in Europe before. The only similar procedure took place 10 years ago in New Zealand.
Mr Guirish Solanki, one of the consultant neurosurgeons who operated on Rosie, said: "We are delighted with the results of this operation.
"This is only the second time in the world that a surgical team has attempted to fix the thoracic spine to the hip side bones for a condition as rare as Rosie's.
"This case was very complicated as normally children with this condition do not have a working spinal cord or nerves but Rosie did. So in carrying out this procedure we had to be extremely careful not to damage her nerves."
Pauline Monteith travelled to Nice for a two-night holiday with her children, mother and aunt, who are both elderly.
She got a text from Easyjet on Wednesday night saying their flight home had been cancelled.
The family have spent the last day and a half trying to get to Belfast via Paris and London.
She said it was "especially distressing" for her autistic son.
Hundreds of flights across Europe were cancelled on Wednesday and Thursday as the result of a two-day strike by air traffic controllers in France.
Mrs Monteith, from Crumlin, County Antrim, contacted the BBC on Friday morning to say the family had only made it as far as London and were waiting in Gatwick airport for a flight back to Belfast.
After she got the text on Thursday, she said she tried to contact Easyjet twice without success, each time spending more than 20 minutes on a UK mobile phone. Internet access at her hotel was also poor.
"When I eventually got on to the Easyjet website there were no flights available to Belfast from Nice for the next five days that I checked," she told the BBC.
"I think it is terrible that they can just send a simple text with no advice number to contact and no accountability."
The Monteiths were due back in work and school on Monday, and had only packed enough luggage for two days.
"Luckily an English holidaymaker in my hotel came to my aid and told me to act quickly as everything was being booked," Pauline said.
The Monteiths decided to try to make their own way home and opted to take a train to London, thinking they would have a better chance of getting a flight to Belfast from there.
The five Eurostar tickets alone cost over £1,000.
Mrs Monteith said it was "pandemonium" trying to get through the Paris underground with two pensioners and her 16-year-old son.
They arrived in London at about 22:00 BST on Thursday and then had to find a hotel for the night, which cost more money.
Mrs Monteith said the extra bills had put "a dampener on the whole holiday" and said she did not know if she was entitled to a refund because of the difficulty she has contacting the airline.
She said she spent four hours online looking for an alternative way to get home and wondered how people who did not have internet access would cope.
However, the airline did allow the family to use their Nice tickets in exchange for a flight from Gatwick to Belfast, free of charge.
Mrs Monteith also said it was a useful experience for her daughter Chloe, who has just begun to learn French.
She added that because they paid £210 each for a one-way 2.5 hour train journey, her family had dubbed them "golden tickets" and intend to frame them when they get home.
In a statement, an Easyjet spokeswoman said: "We apologise that Mrs Monteith and her family were affected by this strike. EasyJet did everything possible to limit the inconvenience of this strike for passengers.
"We advised Mrs Monteith of the cancellation via SMS text and gave details within that text about how she could rearrange their flights or obtain a refund.
"For customers such as Mrs Monteith whose flights were cancelled, EasyJet offered a free of charge transfer to another flight or a refund if they preferred not to take a flight transfer.
"EasyJet also provided hotel accommodation where passengers required it and we are in direct contact with Mrs Monteith to discuss this."
The airline took more than 25,000 calls during the two-day strike and had 500 staff working in its contact centres to assist passengers in rebooking cancelled flights.
Downey and Ireland team-mate Felix English from Brighton claimed victory with 57 points.
The Irish team pairing saw off runners-up Denmark and New Zealand in third.
In the Colombian round of the World Cup earlier this month, Dromore man Downey won the points race and came second with English in the 30k Madison.
Downey's next target will be the World Championships in Hong Kong in April.
The rail infrastructure group said the fall was largely the result of the rail regulator's decision to reduce its income by £246m this year.
Profits were also hit by an accounting loss on "financial hedges", recorded as a £304m gain last year that turned into a £41m loss.
Network Rail stressed this had no effect on railway investment.
Revenue for the year ended 31 March fell to £6.08bn from £6.3bn a year earlier.
Network Rail said the number of people travelling by train grew by 67.3 million to a record high of 1.65 billion passengers.
Passenger numbers have more than doubled in the past 20 years, since privatisation, Network Rail said, which meant it missed its punctuality target once again this year.
Last year, the percentage of trains that ran on time fell to 90%, down from 90.9% in 2013 and below Network Rail's target of 92.5%.
Patrick Butcher, Network Rail's finance director, said: "The railways continue to grow in popularity and we continue to invest heavily to respond to that demand.
"While progress is being made in improving performance, safety, asset reliability and delivering more renewals and projects, our rate of acceleration in these areas isn't yet where we want it to be."
Mr Butcher added that with more than a million more trains on the network than 10 years ago, there were "inevitable challenges".
A vet will help officers inspect the mixed rice dish in Mewat district, Hariyana Cow Service Commission Chairman Bhani Ram Mangla said.
India's Hindu majority see cows as a sacred animal but many other Indians eat the meat.
Beef is banned in Hariyana.
"We have been getting lots of complaints that beef is mixed in the biryani in Mewat district so I have ordered the police to physically check the biryani sold in eateries there," Mr Mangla told the BBC World Service's Amitabha Bhattasali.
Meat samples would be sent to a laboratory for testing, he said.
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Mewat, located 100km (62 miles) from the Indian capital Delhi, is a predominantly Muslim area and has seen communal riots in the past.
A special police task force has been set up in Hariyana to prevent cow slaughter and cow trafficking.
Volunteers are also being trained to keep watch in remote villages whether anyone is slaughtering a cow.
Nooruddin Noor, a member of the Mewat Bar Association and a prominent social activist, said the idea that Muslims in Mewat were putting beef in mutton biryani was a "baseless allegation".
"It's an attempt to disturb the communal harmony we have here in Mewat," he said.
"Biryani has been sold in our district for ages. They never mix beef. However if the police wants the check, we don't have any problem."
The 25-year-olds signed for the Pirates in 2013, and both featured in the club's recent thrilling 54-46 win over Bedford Blues.
Andrew has made 63 appearances for the Pirates, having previously played for Plymouth Albion and Exeter Chiefs.
Pope previously captained the England University sevens squad in the BUCS Home Nations.
The Sky Blues, who are 21st and on their worst run for 43 years, looked to have earned a draw when Dan Agyei equalised Sharp's first-half opener.
But there was a late twist after home fans protesting at City's owners Sisu had held up the game for six minutes.
When play resumed, Sharp hit a late winner to lift the Blades to second.
The visitors led when Sharp pounced on the loose ball from Jordan Turnbull's clearance to drill a low, angled right-foot shot into the right corner - his first goal in six games.
Andre Wright powered a volley just over for the home side as half time approached and, within six minutes of the restart, Coventry were level from Agyei's deflected left-foot shot.
The Blades' Caolan Lavery twice curled shots against the right post, either side of Marvin Sordell shooting just wide at the other end.
Then came the pitch invasion which stopped the match and forced referee David Webb to take both teams off.
After a public address system announcement pleading with fans to leave the pitch while respecting their "right to protest", the game restarted.
Shortly afterwards Sharp blasted home from close range after his first effort was saved to give Chris Wilder's side all three points.
It is more than two years since Coventry returned to the Ricoh Arena after a season in exile in Northampton, thinking their troubles were over. But they are now a club in crisis.
They do not own their ground, their academy has been taken over by their Ricoh landlords Wasps and they are in danger of a return to the Football League's basement for the first time since 1959.
And Coventry fans' protests against Sisu, the club's owners for the past nine years, have become increasingly hostile this season.
They co-staged a plastic 'pigs might fly' protest with Charlton fans, then held a mock funeral procession at their last home game against MK Dons.
This time, after a peaceful anti-Sisu carol singing protest outside the stadium, with witty, adapted lyrics, the mood became more ugly inside.
There was constant loud whistling from the first minute, followed by an intimidating mass procession in the direction of the pitch-side stewards, with a lone fan getting on the pitch in the first half and briefly stopping the game - all to a constant backdrop of chants of 'We Want Sisu Out'.
Coventry interim boss Mark Venus told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire:
"The pitch invasion had no bearing on the result. They had more quality but we matched them up until the last few minutes. It is 90 minutes, then we came back on and it didn't happen for us. But we have to be more street wise in both boxes.
"We worked really hard and the longer the game went on the more threat we had. But to give a late goal away says where we are at the moment. Everything seems to go against us.
"The football club needs a manager to take the team forward and we will work hard to get that person in before January. The boys have to pick themselves up, dust themselves down and keep working hard.
"Everyone could see the effort. Everyone gave it their best shot. But we didn't get over the line with a point, we got over the line with nothing."
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder told BBC Radio Sheffield:
"That's twice that's happened to us, at Charlton, now here. It was all set up that something was going to happen. It's disrupted the game. It's poor.
"I have a bitter sweet taste in my mouth. We're talking about stuff that's off the pitch, in the stands, which is a sad day.
"We haven't played well. The opposition can count themselves unlucky not to get a result. This has been our least impressive performance in this run.
"But the heart and desire to go and win was immense. We're lucky we've got someone like Billy Sharp to get us a result."
Match ends, Coventry City 1, Sheffield United 2.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 1, Sheffield United 2.
Foul by Chris Basham (Sheffield United).
Chris McCann (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Marvin Sordell (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Benjamin Whiteman replaces Mark Duffy.
Attempt blocked. George Thomas (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Goal! Coventry City 1, Sheffield United 2. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Foul by Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City).
Caolan Lavery (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Hand ball by Leon Clarke (Sheffield United).
Attempt saved. Mark Duffy (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Mark Duffy (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Leon Clarke (Sheffield United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City).
Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. John Fleck (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Chris Basham (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Chris McCann.
Caolan Lavery (Sheffield United) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.
Attempt missed. Marvin Sordell (Coventry City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Leon Clarke replaces Paul Coutts.
Foul by Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City).
John Fleck (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Coventry City. Ruben Lameiras replaces Andre Wright.
Jordan Willis (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Billy Sharp (Sheffield United).
Caolan Lavery (Sheffield United) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.
Attempt blocked. Chris McCann (Coventry City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Chris McCann (Coventry City).
Caolan Lavery (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Coventry City. George Thomas replaces Daniel Agyei.
Attempt missed. Daniel Agyei (Coventry City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Gael Bigirimana (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Fleck (Sheffield United).
Foul by Mark Duffy (Sheffield United).
Texas resident Araceli King received 153 computer-controlled "robocalls", which continued after she had asked the company to stop.
US district judge Alvin Hellerstein said Time Warner Cable had acted in a "particularly egregious" manner.
The company said it would review the ruling before deciding how to proceed.
Making unwanted automated calls is illegal in the US, and companies breaking the rules can face a fine of $1,500 for each call.
Mr Hellerstein said he had tripled the penalty for Time Warner because it had made 74 calls to Ms King after she had registered her complaint.
The judge said any company that "robodials the same person hundreds of times over many months without pausing to wonder why it cannot reach him" could not complain about the higher fine.
The US made it illegal to make unwanted automated calls in 2009.
Since then the Federal Trade Commission has announced a "crackdown" on the practice.
The law says marketers must have written permission from a person before robocalls can be made, although exceptions are made for surveys or if the subject matter is political or to do with a charity.
In June, online payment service PayPal updated its user policy to suggest that its US customers would have to agree to accept automated marketing calls and messages before backtracking over the issue.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) enforcement bureau chief Travis LeBlanc has said "customers are not required to consent to unwanted robocalls or robotexts".
On 2 July, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it had received a record number of complaints about nuisance calls in the past year.
It received 180,188 complaints, of which 45% were about automated calls that played a recording down the telephone.
Consumer watchdog Which is running a campaign to make company executives accountable for the nuisance calls their firms make.
"Regulators, government and industry must work harder to cut off unwanted calls and texts that annoy millions of us every day," said the organisation's executive director Richard Lloyd.
Ben Megarry faces more than 20 charges over an alleged campaign targeting landmark locations across America.
One threat was allegedly directed at Columbine High School in Colorado where two students killed 13 people in 1999.
A previous court hearing was told that Mr Megarry, 19, of Harmin Park in Newtownabbey, has "severe autism".
Mr Megarry is alleged to have targeted international airports in New York, Los Angeles and Kansas City with false warnings, as well as a baseball stadium in Kansas and Mann's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.
Several other locations, including schools and police office and a supermarket, are also said to have been the subject of hoaxes, according to the case against Mr Megarry.
He was 15 at the time of the alleged offences that are said to have been committed over a six month period in 2012.
The case was referred to the Police Service of Northern Ireland after an investigation by US authorities.
Mr Megarry appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Thursday for a hearing to decide if he had a case to answer.
He was accompanied by a representative from the National Autistic Society.
The judge granted an application to have Mr Megarry returned for trial at Belfast Crown Court and released him on bail until the proceedings begin.
A defence lawyer told the court the prosecution was "novel and voluminous".
"The case itself is a complex one, involving multi agencies and FBI witnesses," he added.
The judge said: "I certainly haven't come across this type of case where someone in Northern Ireland is allegedly making these types of calls to schools in America."
23 August 2016 Last updated at 17:13 BST
The rig was being transported by sea from Norway to Malta when stormy weather hit and it became separated from the boat that was pulling it along.
It was carrying 280 tonnes of diesel oil when it ran aground.
Some of the oil escaped when the rig was washed ashore, but it's thought to have evaporated.
Once the rig is moved clear, it will be checked for damage, then the company who own it will decide whether it can be repaired or will have to be scrapped.
Check out Naz's report for more on how it ended up there in the first place.
The Somali born British athlete fought hard against a strong field and even came close to falling over twice in the exciting race.
But in his usual style, he pulled away on the final stretch to take home the gold.
With his retirement edging closer, Mo will be working hard to end on a high.
In second place was Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei and Kenyan, Paul Tanui in third.
Both put huge pressure on Mo throughout the race and showed they were serious competition to the British champion.
Mo will no doubt be chuffed with the result and be hungry for more gold medals before he hangs up his spikes.
Go Mo!
Wall Street nearly clawed back all the way from an early slump that dragged the Dow Jones down as much as 180 points in the first half-hour of trading.
The Dow ended just 36 points, or 0.2%, lower at 18,068 points.
The S&P 500 lost 6.2 points, or 0.3%, to 2,099, while the Nasdaq dropped 0.4% to 4,976.
The sell-off in government bonds, a trend partly blamed on rising inflation expectations, has sent yields - which move inversely to bond prices - higher.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond rose as high as 2.36%. The selling eased by late afternoon and the yield fell to 2.25%, down from 2.28% late Monday. The yield was below 2% as recently as 28 April.
The yield on the 10-year German government bond rose to 0.67% from 0.61% the day before. It traded as low as 0.08% last month.
"Bonds had been at such lofty prices that a sell-off was somewhat expected," said Chris Gaffney, president of EverBank World Markets.
Investors also had their eye on the latest batch of corporate results and some headline-grabbing deals.
Verizon agreed to buy AOL for about $4.4bn - a 15% premium to its closing price on Monday. Shares in AOL jumped 18.6% to $50.52, while Verizon fell 0.4% to $49.62.
The lack of progress in the Greek debt crisis was also unsettling.
It emerged on Tuesday that Greece had used its emergency reserves at the IMF to make the latest €750m (£538m) payment to the Fund.
Yet here I am, looking at the pale, blood-splattered face of a zombie - and a head zombie at that - named Alex.
But despite his tormented demeanour, torn clothing, and repeated insistence of "braaainns", I am not overly concerned.
For Alex is not a real zombie.
Of course he's not, zombies are not real. But Alex Noble, to give him his full name, is surely the next best thing.
He is part of a growing craze where zombie lovers take part in a survival scenario game spread out over a major city.
I am at the dress rehearsal for this year's game, set in Cardiff and called 2.8 Hours Later - a nod to director Danny Boyle's zombie film '28 Days Later'.
Stood in a dilapidated warehouse on the outskirts of the city, I watch as Alex and his fellow feet draggers get into character and practice their zombie moves - their moans, groans, snarls and growls.
Warmed up, they and a few actors perform a typical game scene for me.
Like Boyle's film, the game has a narrative.
Set years after the first outbreak of zombie infection, the Cardiff landscape has been left decimated and the population diminished.
Players must survive the wasteland and find the last hope for humanity - a group of children immune to the zombie virus.
Players do their best to avoid Alex, and others, while trying to navigate their way from a "safe zone" to the game's end point within 90 minutes.
Making a £1m turnover last year, and expecting to make £1.5m this year, Slingshot, the company behind the game, has clearly tapped into something.
Director and co-founder Simon Johnson, 39, explains:
"At the end of the day it's a zombie game," he says, "people like to be chased by zombies."
Pointing to what he calls a "wide demographic" of those taking part - all ages, men and women - he believes the game will only become more popular.
"We're a generation where video games and gaming have become a cultural art form, and games like ours have removed the stigma of it as child's play."
Not that the experience comes cheap. At £58 a ticket Simon agrees it can be "an expensive venture", but points out that, after five years, "we're still here".
And he has a point. While this year's game marks the fifth time it will be held in Cardiff, it will also head to Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Gateshead, Glasgow and elsewhere.
Simon believes there is a political element to the genre too, and one everyone can relate to.
"Zombies are the perfect monster for our culture," he says. "The fear of zombies reflects the fear of a culture that is terrified of its own destruction."
He points out the game, and its evolving storyline, has kept up with recent times.
"We started off as a recession game - abandoned buildings, shops out of business. Then the story became about transitory people in a post-apocalyptic world, people without a home - asylum seekers."
It is a sentiment his head zombie shares.
"The genre peaks in popularity during times of hardship, like austerity," says Alex, "and often reflects the collapse of society and a lack of community.
"If you look back at the films of George A. Romero, they weren't just about zombies - they were about issues like racism, the threat of nuclear war and growing consumerism. There's a social commentary there."
Like Alex, die-hard fans will go all the way back to director George A. Romero's cult classic 'Night of the Living Dead'.
More recent devotees, however, are likely to cite TV shows such as 'The Walking Dead' and big screen events like 'Resident Evil' and 'World War Z' - which, coincidentally, features a scene set in Cardiff.
Built on a mountain of video games, graphic novels, films and television shows, the zombie genre has become a billion dollar industry.
Not that this level of success is unprecedented.
It was not that long ago the world seemed engulfed with all things vampire after the success of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books.
Countless films, TV shows, games and books sprung up about the sun-wary bloodsuckers too, and all made a healthy profit in the process.
Critics argue it went too far though, and the market became oversaturated.
Asked if the same could happen to the zombie genre, Simon appears unconcerned.
"People love to suspend their disbelief," he says, "and there's nothing like the adrenaline rush of running from a zombie.
"We provide that experience. It's not on screen, you're in it, you're there."
Again, Alex agrees.
"Everyone enjoys the chase," he says. "And for me, chasing 12 rugby players down the street and having them scream like little girls is certainly good for the ego."
It also appears to be good for business.
The first game gets under way on Thursday and Simon is expecting 500-600 players a night, every night, for four nights.
Going by those numbers, there is clearly more than a healthy appetite for the dead-eyed flesh-eaters to descend on the Welsh capital this year.
Brian McTaggart is accused of a catalogue of rapes and assaults in Dundee, including an allegation that he attacked a pregnant woman and caused her to have a miscarriage.
The 52-year-old, of no fixed abode, made no plea or declaration to the 18 charges at Dundee Sheriff Court.
A hearing on whether he will be granted bail is to be held at the High Court.
Mr McTaggart is accused of having 11 different victims over the duration of the offences, and is also accused of setting fires at three separate addresses in Edinburgh in the past year.
One charge alleges that in 1983 he attacked one alleged victim at addresses across Dundee, kicking her down a flight of stairs and kicking and punching her in the ribs and back while she was pregnant, causing her to have a miscarriage.
He is also accused of driving a car at the woman in an attempt to run her over, and in another incident holding a hairdryer over a bath full of water, threatening to drop it in.
Sheriff Alastair Brown committed Mr McTaggart for trial and granted him bail, but this was opposed by the Crown. A bail appeal will be heard at the High Court.
Film critic Mark Adams will replace Chris Fujiwara, who stepped down from the role this year.
Mr Adams, who writes reviews for the Sunday Mirror and trade magazine Screen International, said he would help the annual festival "develop and grow".
He was head of programming at the National Film Theatre in London and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Next year marks the 69th Edinburgh Film Festival. The celebration of UK and world cinema has seen admissions increase by about a third in recent years.
Mr Adams, who will take up the role in March, said: "I'm thrilled to be helping the Edinburgh International Film Festival develop and grow, and am looking forward to bringing new, challenging, entertaining and exciting cinema to the city.
"This is a great festival that deserves its recognition and can only get better and better."
Ken Hay, EIFF chief executive, said: "We are delighted to have Mark joining the team.
"His passion for film, his fantastic experience as a programmer, journalist and critic, along with his reputation in the UK and internationally, make him the ideal choice to drive the future success of the festival."
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You've hired a bar in east London, which comes with an empty basement. What would you do?
The obvious answer to Wenny Armstrong was to fill it with 250,000 balls and call it Ballie Ballerson.
"The idea came out of nowhere," she says adding that "as soon as I thought about it, that's what I was going to do. I had a feeling that it would be popular".
It certainly is - 18,000 people have been since its November launch.
It will close for a short time in February so they can fill it with clear balls and LED lights which will change colour in time to the music. It'll then be called Glowy McGlow.
"We're attacking people's senses. It's a natural progression and you have to keep changing it up and play with it again.
"There are so many restaurants in London that you have to do something completely different," she said.
There isn't anything the internet loves more than cats, and it's thanks to social media that England's first cat cafe exists.
Lauren Pears, the owner of Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium, used Twitter and Facebook to raise more than £100,000 that was needed to open the cafe in Shoreditch back in 2013.
But social media also brought the customers in and despite being open for three years in March, there is still a waiting list.
It also inspired more cat cafes to open across the country.
"There was a lot of hype in the beginning," she recalls. "We had an exceptional level of demand with people coming down from across the country to visit so now that there are more cat cafes, it is making it easier for us to cope with the demand."
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It could be argued that the two most popular dishes in England are roast dinners and burgers.
Figures from the Local Data Company show in London, the number of American restaurants has grown from 159 in 2011, to 319 last year, while there are nearly 270 British restaurants, an increase of a third.
One restaurant that is combining the two is Roast in Borough market.
"Burgers in London have taken off massively. There's a lot of competition so I thought why not try and do something different," said head chef Stuart Cauldwell.
Squeezed in between the bun is beef, kale, red cabbage, carrot piccalilli, horseradish and melted cheddar. It's then topped off with roast potatoes and has gravy on the side.
"The culture in London has completely changed. You've got all these street food fairs, you've got smaller restaurants popping up everywhere and then you've got the restaurants that are standing tall," he said.
To get into ABQ in Hackney, you have to don a yellow boiler suit. Upon entering the "lab", test tubes, beakers, goggles and gas masks then greet you in preparation for you to "cook" your cocktail.
Based on Breaking Bad, the popular US TV series about a high school chemistry teacher who turns to crime, the bar is the idea of pop-up specialist Seb Lyall.
Other ventures he's created include a Naked Restaurant, Owl Cafe and his latest venture, The Bletchley London, which aims to decode each guest's personality by creating a one-off cocktail based on the recipient's name, date of birth and favourite colours.
"We base our ideas on human anthropology; we look at what people want and how people behave and then come up with a concept based on that. We don't follow trends," he said.
"Pop-up culture is a way to launch and test an idea," he added.
Each pop-up runs for several months to see if there is a market and so far there is - the waiting list for the owl cafe was 80,000, ABQ has 65,000 and the Naked restaurant saw 46,000 put their names down.
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If you fancy a bowl of peanut butter cereal served with bubble gum flavoured milk and topped with Milky War stars, then the Cereal Killer Cafe is where you need to go.
Serving more than 100 different types of cereal, its cafe on Brick Lane is filled with kitsch interior from the 1980s and 90s.
Since opening in 2014, they have now spread out to the Middle East, and have found licence partners in Dubai, Kuwait and Jordan.
Co-owner Alan Keery says the benefits of focussing on one food means they can "concentrate on one area and offer the best we can".
"We are offering something that others aren't, so it gives our customer a completely different experience," he added.
In 2015, the cafe was vandalised by anti-gentrification protesters.
Then, Mr Keery spoke out, saying it was "incredibly unfair to target a small business for a larger problem".
Looking back, he said: "People were very supportive, from neighbours to businesses, and we had huge support on social media.
"I wouldn't say it changed perception, but got us into a lot of people's heads."
Alex Dunbar and Duncan Weir ran in tries as the Warriors won 18-15 at Rodney Parade on Thursday evening.
"We had to play much better in the second period so that we could win as we didn't perform well in the first half," Townsend told Glasgow's website.
"We stepped up in the set piece and defensively we got a lot better."
Defending champions Glasgow moved up to fifth and now have 39 points from 14 games with Connacht currently leading the Pro12 with 50 points from 15 matches.
"We came out in the second half with much more resolve, determination and we were more direct which led to Alex Dunbar's try," added Townsend on the performance in Newport.
"We did enough to win but we put ourselves in a tricky situation after the first half.
"At half-time we spoke about fronting up as we weren't listening to the referee on a couple of occasions and we didn't look after ball.
"Gordon Reid performed a great turnover later on which illustrated how much we improved.
"Alex played well and was always looking to win the tackle contest. His run was excellent, picking up the ball from Mike Blair who also played well on his return.
"The players are delighted and the win helps boost us up the table a little more with eight games to go.
"We've got Cardiff at home in 10 days so we know that if we keep on winning we'll put pressure on those teams in the top four."
The hexagon is essentially a rotating cloud pattern; its shape may originate as the result of large differences in the speeds of Saturn's winds.
The observation was made by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft, which has been exploring the sixth planet since 2004.
The change in colour is thought to be the result of seasonal changes on the planet.
In particular, the amount of sunlight falling on the poles affects the production of suspended particles - aerosols - in the atmosphere.
Scientists think the shift from a bluish colour to a golden one may be due to more aerosols being produced through reactions involving sunlight and the atmosphere.
This could be happening as the planet's north pole reaches its summer solstice in May 2017.
Cassini was despatched to Saturn in 1997, to better understand the processes operating on Saturn and perhaps other giant planets.
Using computer simulations, scientists have shown that small perturbations in winds flowing around the north pole can form a hexagon shape rotating at speeds close to those of the real one.
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The 38-year-old cyclist won three gold medals at Rio 2016 to take her tally to 14, three more than former wheelchair racer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.
Storey competed at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Paralympics as a swimmer, before switching to the velodrome.
"Four Games in each sport sounds rather cool," she told BBC Sport.
"Once everything calms down I'll start to look at what's happened in Rio with an analytical mind and say 'this is where we were, this is where we could go, is that possible or is that asking too much?'.
"You don't want to push your luck as an athlete."
Storey won two road events - the C5 time trial and C4-5 road race - and one on the track - the C5 3,000m individual pursuit - in Rio.
She now has just two gold medals fewer than swimmer Mike Kenny, the most successful British Paralympian of all time, who won his 16 titles between 1976 and 1988.
And she is glad the questions she has been asked since Rio are different - albeit only slightly - to those that followed her success at London 2012.
"After London, the first question I was asked was: 'Are you going to retire?'," she said. "This time the question people ask is: 'Are you going to Tokyo?'
"It's exactly the same question just asked in two different ways. I really like the positive one."
After winning four gold medals in London, Storey missed the 2013 season to have her first child, returning the following year.
She said: "I wanted to be an athlete for as long as I possibly could. But I also assumed I'd be married with four kids by now, and taking them to school and doing runs for their sporting stuff.
"I'm amazed to still be an athlete."
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The match in Limerick comes less than a week after the sudden death of Munster head coach Anthony Foley.
"It'll be a great occasion," said Townsend. "There will be a lot of emotion at the game.
"It's a game to remember all of what Anthony did and helped create at Munster."
Townsend admits it's been tough to lift his players in training this week after the news broke of Foley's passing.
"It's been a tough week for world rugby," he explained. "You saw the reaction from all over the world, not just in rugby but in sport, it's such a loss for our game.
"A huge loss for Munster Rugby and our thoughts go with them and Anthony's family.
"It's been different. It's certainly been much more subdued around the place, just the shock that everybody felt over the weekend.
"The players have gone about their jobs and worked hard. Beginning of the week we didn't know if the game would be on but we prepared as if it would be played.
"Our players appreciate the enormity of what's happened and being involved in the game will hopefully bring out the best in both teams."
Having opened their Champions Cup campaign with a memorable thrashing of Leicester Tigers at Scotstoun last weekend, Warriors have a chance to take another step towards making the quarter-finals for the first time.
"We always knew going into this game it was going to be a huge occasion," said Townsend. "Munster in the Champions Cup are a different team.
"Thomond Park is full of people, they play at a much more intense level, so I'd imagine this will be a huge game now in terms of crowd support."
The global craze involves half-filling a plastic bottle with water and throwing it in the air in the hope it will land upright.
North Walsham High School in Norfolk banned it for "safety reasons".
The school said it "did not want to spoil fun" but minor injuries involving plastic bottles made the ban necessary.
The challenge became an internet sensation after a video was posted in May of US high school student Mike Senatore performing tricks at a talent show.
Since then people have been trying to outdo each other, landing their bottles on surfaces including walls and windowsills.
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The ban was posted on the school's website and Facebook page on Monday.
The school wrote: "Following a misunderstanding today, we would like to confirm that the 'bottle flip challenge' is not permitted in school.
"Students caught doing this will have an immediate C3 detention."
The Facebook post elicited more than 120 comments.
"It never fails to amuse me how much schools care about ridiculous things," one person wrote.
"It's flipping lost its bottle," said another while others said the school was being "ridiculous" and "pathetic".
One parent, however, supported it saying "they are there to learn, not to mess about".
The Facebook post was later removed after the school said "inappropriate language" was being used in comments, but the detention notice remains on the website.
Head teacher Neil Powell said: "Following one or two minor injuries sustained by students when water bottles hit them, we decided that for safety reasons we would ban the practice in school, before a more serious injury occurred.
"We are aware of several schools in Norfolk taking similar action to ban the challenge."
Mr Ruddy, 32, was murdered and secretly buried in France in 1985 by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
His remains were uncovered at a site in a forest at Pont-de-l'Arche outside Rouen in northern France in May.
Mourners gathered at St Catherine's Dominican Chapel for the Requiem Mass to pay their respects.
The burial took place in Monks Hill cemetery in Newry.
The Disappeared are those who were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republicans during Northern Ireland's Troubles.
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In his homily, Bishop John McAreavey said: "Whatever about the circumstances of Seamus' death, one thing is certain - his death represented the snuffing-out of a life that had many wholesome qualities.
"It also cut off the promise of a new life in France."
He added that Mr Ruddy's family were now able to say "a personal and dignified farewell to him", and "in the months and years ahead they will be able to visit the grave where Seamus lies".
New information given to the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) prompted a fresh search for Mr Ruddy's remains.
It is understood that the information came from the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), which has close links to the INLA.
There had been three previous searches in the area, the latest of which was in 2008.
Of the 16 Disappeared victims, three have still not been found.
They are Columba McVeigh, Joe Lynskey and Army Capt Robert Nairac.
The pile, estimated to be about 15ft (4.6m) high, was found by a press photographer out taking pictures of the sunset on Sunday in Frankley.
"To my left was a glorious sunset, to my right was about 20 tonnes of rubbish," he said.
The council said the rubbish had been there for a few weeks and it had offered to help the landowner move it.
Guy Revans, head of environmental services at Bromsgrove District Council, said: "This case is a few weeks old and the Environment Agency, as well as the police, county and parish councils and even the MP, are aware of it.
"It seems to be the latest local symptom of a growing regional problem, where we see large scale fly-tips of what appears to be commercial waste of the kind that is subject to Environment Agency rules."
He said the council had offered to help the landowner remove the waste at a reduced cost.
"Unfortunately such fly tips on private land leave the landowner to foot the bill, often at great expense.
"The sign in the photos actually went up after the incident had been reported, as part of multi-agency attempts to support the landowner in various ways and discourage repeat incidents," he said.
The parish council has been contacted by the BBC but has not yet responded.
The Environment Agency said waste crime takes as much as £1bn from legitimate business and the treasure every year.
"Unfortunately, often landowners are left with the responsibility and costs of disposing of the waste dumped on their land. The cost of this can be considerable," it said.
But last week the paper ran a stinging editorial questioning the wisdom of the human rights group.
It said Amnesty would make a "serious mistake" if it advocated the decriminalisation of prostitution - a decision the group's international council will vote on later on Tuesday.
It's not just The Guardian that is upset. Several women's groups have got together with a host of big-name actresses - including Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet - to criticise Amnesty after a draft of its policy proposal was leaked.
Former US President Jimmy Carter has also urged Amnesty to be very careful before it changes its stance.
Amnesty's leaked proposal says decriminalisation would be "based on the human rights principle that consensual sexual conduct between adults is entitled to protection from state interference" so long as violence or child abuse or other illegal behaviour isn't involved.
Those who favour decriminalisation say it removes the stigma of prostitution and makes it easier for sex workers to go to the police if they need protection from violence.
It's also argued that it empowers prostitutes to strike open deals with their clients about safe sex. There are various groups across the world that support decriminalisation, such as Durbar in India.
Germany is one of the countries which liberalised its prostitution laws, together with New Zealand and the Netherlands.
One of the main reasons the Germans opted for legalisation in 2002 was the hope that it would professionalise the industry, giving prostitutes more access to benefits such as health insurance and pensions - just like in any other job.
Felcitas Schirow, a German brothel owner and sex worker, says the 2002 law has helped give prostitutes self-confidence.
"The owners of brothels could invest money," she says, "and the women could pick a good employer where they felt at home and who met their requirements."
But there are many who argue that the German experiment has gone badly wrong with very few prostitutes registering and being able to claim benefits. Above all, the number one criticism is that it's boosted sex tourism and fuelled human trafficking to meet the demand of an expanded market.
Figures on human trafficking and its relationship to prostitution are hard to establish. But one academic study looking at 150 countries argued there was a link between relaxed prostitution laws and increased trafficking rates.
Other critics of the German model point to anecdotal evidence of growing numbers of young Romanian and Bulgarian women travelling to Germany to work on the streets or even in mega-brothels.
An investigation in 2013 by Der Spiegel described how many of these women head to cities such as Cologne voluntarily but soon end up caught in a dangerous web they can't easily escape.
The Coalition Against Trafficking In Women argues that pimps would be the only ones to benefit from decriminalising prostitution.
The women's groups and anti-trafficking campaigners opposing the Amnesty motion start from the premise that most prostitutes are victims who sell sex simply to survive.
They argue that human trafficking and prostitution are inextricably linked.
They think the best approach to prostitution is the "Nordic model". This is where the police go after the purchasers of sex by handing out tough fines or prison sentences to punters, and leave the sex workers in peace. In other words, the aim is to stifle demand.
It was a policy adopted by Sweden in 1999 and it's since been copied by a host of other countries including Iceland, Canada, Norway and most recently Northern Ireland.
The European Parliament wants more member countries to adopt the model.
Some MPs at Westminster also believe it should replace the confusing patchwork of laws in England and Wales (in summary: buying and selling sex isn't illegal but brothel-keeping, kerb-crawling and soliciting sex in a public place are).
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But there are critics of the Nordic model too. Dr Jay Levy has studied the Swedish example and he's not convinced by police figures suggesting prostitution is in decline there.
Instead, he thinks the Swedes have just succeeded in pushing prostitution into more clandestine spaces, making it even more risky.
"It basically reduces safety," he says. "It reduces the amount of time that sex workers have to suss out a situation. And because clients are criminalised, they are reluctant to leave any information by which they can be traced."
Those pushing for decriminalisation inside Amnesty International and their newfound opponents both say they want to protect the human rights of prostitutes.
But there's no getting around it - they each have very different approaches about how that's best achieved.
And they can't both be right.
Riven Vincent, of Staple Hill, near Bristol, says she cannot cope and may put her disabled daughter into care. She said: "We are crumbling."
Ms Vincent posted a message on the Mumsnet website saying her council had said it could not provide more help.
The prime minister said he was "very concerned" and would write to her.
Ms Vincent's six-year-old daughter Celyn is blind, quadriplegic and has cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
David Cameron had visited Ms Vincent and her family at their home near Bristol during the general election campaign.
It was a private visit after she had spoken to him online in April 2010 during a Mumsnet discussion.
Ms Vincent posted a message on the website yesterday, saying she had contacted social services for respite help with her daughter but was told that none was available.
She said: "Have asked ss (social services) to take dd (dear daughter) into care.
"We get 6 hours respite a week. They have refused a link family. They have refused extra respite. I cant cope.
"I don't know how to email Dave now he's PM or I bloody would.
"I have called local MP Jack Lopresti too. I dont know what else to do."
Since her original post yesterday, at least 1,300 Mumsnet users have replied with messages of sympathy.
Ms Vincent said in a statement: "It's the last thing we want for her [Celyn] but we just can't see any other option.
"Caring for my daughter is relentless. She needs someone 24 hours a day. Caring takes over your whole life.
"Carers across the country are struggling the same way. It's not a new thing. It's been going on for years and no one government is to blame.
"I had hoped that after David Cameron came to visit me earlier this year following our exchange on Mumsnet, he would have done more to protect families like ours.
"The money the government has allocated for short breaks and respite care - £800m over four years - is not enough and worse still it's not going to be ring-fenced."
A Downing Street spokesman said: "The prime minister is very concerned at what he's heard.
"He's writing to Riven Vincent and in conjunction he's also asked her local MP for all the details of the case urgently.
"He's also asking the MP to speak to the local council to make sure that she's receiving all that she's entitled to."
A spokesman for South Gloucestershire Council said they had been supporting Ms Vincent and her family since Celyn was a baby and there had been no reduction in the care the council provided.
The spokesman said: "Needs were last reviewed in November 2010. However, Ms Vincent contacted the council yesterday to ask for further help. A meeting has been arranged to discuss her requirements."
He added: "We understand the difficulties facing parents of disabled children, particularly those with complex needs such as Celyn's.
"We recognise that there are times when difficulties can appear overwhelming and we hope that we can resolve the present difficulties in the best interest of the family."
The council said Ms Vincent's family received a range of services, including a full-time specialist school placement, individual support for Celyn, funding for additional help around the home, a respite service during the school holidays and overnight and music therapy.
Alex O'Dwyer, from the disabled charity Scope, said: "Some local authorities are facing up to 28% cuts and we know that disabled people and their families are proportionately much more reliant upon social care and those services.
"We're also concerned because there is some money that's been put aside that David Cameron talks about for respite care, but that hasn't been ring-fenced, so councils can actually choose to spend that money elsewhere.
"Fundamentally I think they don't actually understand the reality of the lives of some families with disabled children."
The 33-year-old has yet to score since his £3m summer move from Liverpool, and has not netted a first-team goal for nine months.
"I'm more desperate than anyone else. It's what I get paid for," the England forward told BBC WM.
"I'm just going to keep working hard and hope it comes this Saturday."
Lambert spent a frustrating season at Anfield, where he made only seven Premier League starts, following the arrival of Mario Balotelli.
And he has again been confined largely to the bench at The Hawthorns, having started just three top-flight games so far.
He hopes that if he keeps working hard under Albion boss Tony Pulis, then the chances will come - starting this Saturday at Carrow Road against promoted Norwich City.
"I know there's more to this role under Pulis than just scoring goals," he said. "You get asked a lot more defensively than I've had in the past, but it's something you have to get used to and I'm trying to get as fit as I can.
"He's decided to go with Salomon Rondon at the minute, but I'm on the bench waiting for my chance."
Having managed seven goals from nine games, three by Saido Berahino, 13th-placed Albion are the Premier League's second-lowest scorers.
"We want to improve our attacking," he added. " We want to be more adventurous and score more goals. But we want to keep our strength as a team, which is that we do not concede goals."
Rickie Lambert was talking at the 25th anniversary of the WBA Foundation, a registered charity which works alongside the Baggies.
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The ex-PM said his refusal to express regret for the decisions that led to war at his first appearance before the committee had been misinterpreted.
But his words were met with cries of "too late" from the public gallery.
Mr Blair also urged the West to stop apologising for its actions and warned of the threat from Iran, during a four-hour grilling by the inquiry.
Asked whether what had happened in Iraq had made the risk from Iran and other countries developing nuclear weapons worse, rather than better, he said: "I don't think so."
Mr Blair, who is now a UN Middle East peace envoy, said there was "a looming and coming challenge" from Iran.
"I am out in that region the whole time. I see the impact and influence of Iran everywhere. It is negative, destabilising and it is supportive of terrorist groups," Mr Blair told the inquiry.
He said Iran "is doing everything it can to impede progress in the Middle East peace process, and to facilitate a situation in which that region cannot embark on a process of modernisation it so urgently needs".
He added: "And this is not because we have done something. At some point - and I say this to you with all the passion I possibly can - the West has got to get out of what I think is this wretched policy, or posture, of apology for believing that we are causing what the Iranians are doing, or what these extremists are doing. The fact is we are not.
"The fact is they are doing it because they disagree fundamentally with our way of life and they will carry on doing it unless they are met with the requisite determination and, if necessary, force."
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Q&A: Iraq war inquiry and Blair
In a personal statement at the end of his evidence session, Mr Blair said it was never his "meaning or intention" to say he had no regrets about the loss of life in Iraq when he appeared before the Iraq inquiry last January.
"I wanted to make that clear, that of course, I regret deeply and profoundly the loss of life, whether from our own armed forces, those of other nations, the civilians who helped people in Iraq, or the Iraqis themselves and I just wanted to say that because it is right to say that and it is what I feel."
Committee chairman Sir John Chilcot had to tell the public gallery to be quiet as some members shouted "too late".
Several people walked out and Rose Gentle, whose son was killed in Iraq, told the former prime minister that she did not believe him, adding: "I hope you can live with it."
Earlier, Mr Blair revealed that he had privately assured US President George Bush "you can count on us" eight months before the invasion.
He also revealed he disregarded Lord Goldsmith's warning that attacking Iraq would be illegal without further UN backing because the advice was "provisional".
The ex-PM said he had believed his top legal officer would change his position on whether a second UN resolution justifying force was needed when he knew the full details of the negotiations.
Sir John repeated his call for the private statements Mr Blair made to Mr Bush and then US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld in July 2002, to be made public, saying the panel was "disappointed" that this had not happened.
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The panel have seen the notes but they will remain secret after Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell said releasing them would compromise diplomatic confidentiality.
Mr Blair said that, although he agreed with Sir Gus's decision, he was "not going to hide behind the cabinet secretary".
Summing up the contents of the statements, he said he had told Mr Bush: "You can count on us, we are going to be with you in tackling this, but here are the difficulties."
The message he wanted to get across, he added, was "whatever the political heat, if I think this is the right thing to do I am going to be with you, I am not going to back out if the going gets tough. On the other hand, here are the difficulties and the UN route is the right way to go".
Mr Blair was also quizzed about apparent discrepancies between what he told the committee in January 2010 and recent statements to the committee by his Attorney General Lord Goldsmith.
Lord Goldsmith said he had been "uncomfortable" with statements Mr Blair made in the Commons ahead of the war suggesting Iraq could be attacked without UN authorisation, when he was warning at the time that such a move would be illegal.
Mr Blair said he was also "uncomfortable" at the time but was trying to make the "political" case for military action, rather than a "legal declaration".
Asked if Lord Goldsmith's legal doubts constrained him from making a commitment to the US, Mr Blair said "No", adding that airing legal doubts at that time would have damaged the coalition and encouraged Saddam.
He said he was convinced that if Lord Goldsmith spoke to Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the UK's then ambassador to the UN, and to "the Americans" he would change his mind on the legality of war, which turned out to be the case.
Mr Blair issued a 26 page written statement ahead of his appearance in response to more than 100 detailed questions from the inquiry panel, in which, among other things, he set out the process by which he said Lord Goldsmith changed his mind.
The inquiry also released a note from Mr Blair to Jonathan Powell, his chief of staff, shortly before his visit to then US President George Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002, in which he argued that Labour should be "gung-ho" about dealing with Saddam Hussein.
Giving his reaction to Mr Blair's appearance, Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell said Mr Blair's "evangelical, even messianic, determination" to confront Saddam Hussein meant he had ignored anyone with misgivings.
The public were not given the "full information" about the extent of division in the government over the issue, he told the BBC.
SNP leader and Scottish first minister Alex Salmond accused Mr Blair of weaving a "tapestry of deceit".
Bottles, glasses and chairs were thrown as Nottingham Forest and Notts County fans clashed in the city's The Major Oak pub on 19 March 2016.
Jake Bramley, 28, and Ryan Wales, 21, were among 10 men who pleaded guilty in July to affray. No-one else was hurt.
Sentencing Judge Gregory Dickinson said the brawl, which happened after both teams lost games, was "stupid".
The court heard there were up to 250 people, including children, inside the pub when Notts County fans drinking there were involved in a stand-off with Forest fans who had just arrived.
Violence erupted among the fans and spilled into the pub.
Prosecutor Phil Gibbs said there was panic as innocent customers tried to get out of the way and it was "fairly miraculous" no members of the public were injured.
Earlier Mr Dickinson described the fight as a "serious disorder", and told the group: "Some of you have escaped prison by the skin of your teeth".
Bramley, of Valley Road, Carlton, received a 10-month prison sentence and Wales, of Maltby Close, Aspley, was ordered to serve 10 months' detention in a young offenders institution.
The eight other men involved were:
International air strikes led by the US helped to push back IS fighters, allowing Kurdish fighters to eventually regain control of the town at the start of 2015.
But the victory, heralded by some as a symbolic defeat for IS, was not to last, with IS militants launching a fresh attack on 25 June.
Here's a look at how the crisis there has unfolded, featuring stories from BBC reporters on the ground.
In just four days, the UN says over 130,000 people have fled across the border into Turkey as IS forces advance through the countryside and surround Kobane.
As Kurdish fighters battle IS inside Syria, refugees clash with security forces on the Turkish side of the border. All the while, civilians continue to bear the cost, as one mother who had just given birth told the BBC's Mark Lowen.
The US-led aerial coalition, which has been conducting strikes against IS targets in Iraq since August, launches its first attacks on the group near Kobane.
The strikes come as IS continues to close in on the town, which at this point has become a focus of dogged resistance on a stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border that IS otherwise controls.
Despite US air strikes and Kurdish resistance, IS fighters break through into Kobane in early October and take districts in the east and south of the town. Their black flag can be seen from inside Turkey, where refugees can only stand and watch.
At least 533 people are reported to have died in almost a month of fighting, including 298 IS fighters.
The US-led coalition steps up strikes on militants in the town, and a counter-offensive by Kurdish fighters sees them take back an important hilltop overlooking Kobane which was captured by IS 10 days previously. The Kurds sense momentum but they are exhausted by weeks of fighting, as one fighter tells BBC Arabic's Wael El Hajjar.
On 20 October, the US military air drop much-needed weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to anti-IS fighters. Ten days later, the first contingent of Kurdish Peshmerga militia men from Iraq cross from Turkey into Syria to join their Syrian Kurdish allies, the People's Protection Units (YPG), in the fighting.
The Islamic State siege of Kobane enters its second month, with many of the town's residents now gone. One woman, who stayed in the town having moved there not long before the attack, tells the BBC's Mehrdad Farahmand what life there is like.
Meanwhile, a video journalist who managed to get access to the town shoots footage of Kurds on the front line, revealing the full scale of the destruction.
Aided by air strikes, Kurdish fighters continue to steadily push back the IS advance over the coming weeks.
Kurdish fighters manage to seize a key district and activists say they now control 80% of the town.
Two weeks later, the Kurds regain control of another strategic hill top, putting key IS re-supply routes within the line of fire. Analysts say the recapture of Mishtenur hill could prove to be a defining moment for the fate of Kobane.
Officials say IS militants have been driven out, ending a four-month battle for the northern Syrian town.
The pivotal moment follows several days of heavy aerial bombardment by coalition aircraft, with 17 air strikes carried out in the 24 hours from the morning of 25 January.
Activists say the fighting left at least 1,600 people dead, among them 1,196 jihadists.
The BBC's Middle East correspondent Jim Muir warns that while Kobane has been almost entirely recaptured by the Kurds, the fight is by no means over.
Kobane residents in Turkish refugee camps are eager to return to their homes.
Journalists, including the BBC's Quentin Sommerville, enter the town for the first time since fighting began. Their cameras reveal scenes of destruction, with many buildings in ruins and streets full of rubble.
"Every building, home, shop and street is ruined," he says. Refugees in Turkey start returning to their homes.
An analysis of satellite imagery by the UN shows more than 3,200 buildings were destroyed or damaged during the four months of fighting.
Kobane: Inside the town devastated by fight against IS
Following a string of defeats to Kurdish forces, IS launch a two-pronged offensive in the north, including a fresh attack on the border town of Kobane. The militants detonate a car bomb, killing at least 25 people. This is followed by an assault from dozens of IS fighters from a number of directions.
Syrian state TV says the attackers entered Kobane from Turkey, but the Turkish government has denied this.
Turkish officials say between 30,000 and 35,000 people from a population of about 400,000 have returned to Kobane since January.
In 2010/11, 12 emergency journeys were handled by private vehicles but this jumped to 246 in 2012/13, with the cost rising from £638,000 to £3.5m.
Bosses at EMAS said private firms had to meet high standards and allowed the service to cope with peaks in demand.
But Unison said it was vital that money was invested in the NHS rather than given to outside firms.
In April, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham claimed a national rise in the use of private ambulances meant services were "being privatised without proper debate".
The government accused Labour of "rank hypocrisy", saying private ambulances were introduced by the last government.
A spokesman for EMAS said: "Private ambulance services provide qualified paramedics and urgent care ambulance crews who have the same skills and qualifications as our paramedics and urgent care crews.
"We use them in the same way to enable us to provide a fast response and quality emergency clinical care at times of high demand."
They added the money to pay for private ambulances was short-notice cash to help with heavy demand.
Mark Ward, from Unison, said the service had faced a 6-7% annual increase in emergency calls.
"Because of under-funding, the service struggled to cope and turned to the private sector.
"But the new clinical commissioning groups have invested in new staff and we will see them coming on line in the next couple of months and that should make a real difference," he said.
In 2010/2011 all 12 emergency journeys covered by private ambulance firms were undertaken by St John's Ambulance.
In 2012/2013, 150 of the 246 emergency journeys covered by private vehicles were undertaken by Amvale. The rest were handled by St John's Ambulance.
Mike Godfrey, CEO of Amvale, said: "We have rigorous standards which we have to meet and all our staff are fully qualified - people in our ambulances would see no difference in the level and quality of care they would receive.
"We provide the flexibility which allows the service to cope with periods of high demand, like in particular hot, or cold, weather."
EMAS has faced criticism for missing some response time targets. At the beginning of the month the service's chief executive Phil Milligan resigned.
After an open but goalless opening 45 minutes, Rangers led when Washington took a Massimo Luongo pass to fire past Jordan Smith and break the deadlock.
Ex-Forest defender Lynch headed in Rangers' second to stun his old club.
Forest must now at least match 22nd-placed Blackburn's final-day result to avoid being relegated to League One.
Blackburn are at Brentford on Sunday, 7 May while Forest will host Ipswich, with both relegation-threatened sides level on points but separated by a goal difference of just one in favour of the Reds.
Wins for both Rovers and Forest would save both sides from the drop if 20th-placed Birmingham fail to win at Bristol City.
At Loftus Road, there seemed little tension between the teams in the first-half of an entertaining tussle, as they exchanged decent chances apiece from Pawel Wszolek for the hosts and Mustapha Carayol for Forest.
Birmingham's opener at home to Huddersfield did not seem to have any impact on the tempo of the game, but Washington's opener after half-time certainly did.
News had barely filtered through that Blackburn were beating Aston Villa when Rangers scored their second, with Lynch towering to meet a corner.
Forest woke up and set about clawing back the deficit, peppering the goal with chances from Ben Osborn, Jamie Ward and Matty Cash who were all denied by Rangers' player of the year Smithies.
Six minutes of added time meant for a frantic finale, but Rangers clung on to spread relief around Shepherd's Bush.
It was only QPR's second win against Forest in 11 games, and their first since April 2014.
QPR manager Ian Holloway:
"It (the threat of relegation) has been on everybody's mind, including the supporters. It's a relief for everybody, but the job starts now.
"I'm delighted with the lads. They needed the fans and the fans were absolutely brilliant - they must have felt nervous but it didn't transmit to my team.
"I know I haven't won enough games. But no-one wants it more than me and I want this club to move forward."
Nottingham Forest boss Mark Warburton:
"We had to expect other teams to win. We know what we have to do. We're at home and our focus is now on preparing well and getting a good performance.
"It's up to us. We're at home. We can't control what happens away from us, and we have enough quality.
"We have been in it (danger) for a number of weeks now and every time they've played the players have had the talk of the threat of relegation and I've been saying they're handling the pressure very well.
"But we've got to take our chances. We looked more desperate and hungry to score after we conceded and we had chances and didn't take them."
Match ends, Queens Park Rangers 2, Nottingham Forest 0.
Second Half ends, Queens Park Rangers 2, Nottingham Forest 0.
Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Jamie Mackie tries a through ball, but Yeni N'Gbakoto is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Massimo Luongo with a cross.
Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by David Vaughan.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Alex Smithies.
Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie Ward.
Attempt saved. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pawel Wszolek.
Attempt saved. Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Osborn with a cross.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Pawel Wszolek.
Matt Mills (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Mackie (Queens Park Rangers).
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Jordan Smith.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Michael Mancienne.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Michael Doughty replaces Luke Freeman.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Yeni N'Gbakoto replaces Matt Smith.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Alex Smithies.
Attempt saved. David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Chris Cohen (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Ward.
Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card.
Matt Mills (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Perch (Queens Park Rangers).
Chris Cohen (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by James Perch (Queens Park Rangers).
David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest).
Luke Freeman (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Jamie Ward.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Alex Smithies.
Attempt saved. Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Luke Freeman.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eric Lichaj.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Matt Smith.
Attempt saved. Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Joe Worrall (Nottingham Forest) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ben Osborn with a cross.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by James Perch.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Jamie Mackie replaces Conor Washington.
Foul by Britt Assombalonga (Nottingham Forest).
Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Steve Rotheram tweeted thanks to the Alpha Taxi driver who drove 30 miles to search for the two girls and his two nieces after the concert bombing.
He said: "I am forever grateful to that person".
Twenty-two people, including some children, were killed and 59 injured in the Manchester Arena attack.
Rotheram described how his daughters saw people "with blood on their faces" and witnessed "huge panic" in the city.
He said: "While I've got huge relief this morning my girls are safe, there will be parents waking up without children and unfortunately children waking up without parents this morning because of this horrendous act."
The Liverpool City Region mayor also praised the "spirit" of local people and the "spontaneous acts of great kindness by ordinary people in Manchester to perfect strangers".
The graffiti, which appeared on the side of a shop at the junction of Tottenham High Road and Philip Lane in 2009, is to be sold for charity.
Janet Cooke, who works nearby, said an "iconic bit of Tottenham" had gone.
The firm managing the sale - the Sincura Group - said it had not been appreciated in situ.
Events company Sincura Group also put the Banksy mural Slave Labour up for auction in June.
The artwork, showing a boy making union jack bunting on a sewing machine, was taken from a wall in Wood Green, north London, in February.
It had been sprayed on to the side of a discount store just before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012.
The group's director Tony Baxter said he had been approached and asked if he could manage the sale of No Ball Games.
He declined to say who approached him.
He said the piece, one of Banksy's largest, had to be removed in three pieces.
The last section featuring a girl will be removed later, he said.
He said the artwork had been defaced a number of times and people's view of it had been spoilt by renovation work in the area and a "pylon" being placed in front of it with a security camera.
He said it would be restored over six months before being auctioned in spring next year with profits going to charity.
He added: "It's a beautiful piece."
Mrs Cooke, of Cooke Estates, said she saw workers plastering both sides of the wall on Thursday.
"Everybody knew it around here and went to have a look at it. It was a little iconic bit of Tottenham," she said.
"Now it's going to be famous for being a place where a Banksy was once."
Councillor Alan Strickland of Haringey Council said he was "very disappointed" that a "community landmark" had been removed.
Haringey Trades Council secretary Keith Flett said: "The Banksy was an important cultural feature of the area and if it has been removed it will be another indication that local people's wishes come second to the interests of profit."
Anna-Louise Bates paid tribute to husband Stuart, 43, and seven-year-old son Fraser at an event where hundreds of people released balloons in their memory on Saturday,
The pair died after being struck on the A4119 at Talbot Green, Rhondda Cynon Taff, on 6 December.
Mrs Bates described the two as "vivacious and funny".
More than 300 people gathered in a park near Watkins Square in Cardiff to release orange and blue balloons to celebrate the lives of the pair, who lived in the Llanishen area of Cardiff.
Mrs Bates said: "They were the most vivacious, funny, entertaining and inspirational two boys that anyone could ever dream of meeting, let alone being part of your family."
Mr Bates and his son were hit while crossing the carriageway near Arthur Llewellyn Jenkins furniture store near Llantrisant.
The driver of the car was arrested and bailed.
Mr Bates, an IT programme manager for PHS in Caerphilly, died at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital shortly after the crash.
Fraser, a pupil at Llysfaen Primary School in Cardiff, died later at the Bristol Children's Hospital.
His organs were later donated to transplant patients.
Sussex had conceded a 242-run deficit and survival was their only objective on the final day at Tunbridge Wells.
First-innings centurion Ross Taylor (68) and Harry Finch (66) helped them to 255-5 before a draw was agreed.
Sussex have drawn eight of their nine Championship games in 2016, while Kent have eight draws in 11 outings.
Taylor, who added another half-century to the 142 not out he made in the first innings, is departing Sussex to join up with New Zealand on their tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa.
The tank at Watery Lane Industrial Estate, Willenhall, contained an estimated 35,000 litres of the corrosive mixture, which was diluted.
About 40 people were evacuated from the premises involved and most sent home. It is not yet known how much of the tank's contents has leaked.
The Environment Agency is investigating a spill that has entered Waddens Brook, a tributary of the River Tame.
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A Severn Trent Water spokeswoman said investigations were being carried out as to whether acid had entered the sewers, but confirmed the general water supply was not affected.
The fire service has said its immediate priority was to manage the flow of acid and how it was dispersing to stop it entering the drains and water system.
It said it believed the premises specialised in galvanising and the immediate site had been cordoned off.
No-one is believed to have been hurt and the cause of the collapse was yet to be determined, the service said.
Staff from nearby factories were earlier asked to stay indoors and close windows.
Lime has been used to neutralise the acid and this "has to be done in a slow and controlled way", the fire service said earlier.
In the 55-minute video posted online, Zawahiri pledged renewed loyalty to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
Correspondents say his stated allegiance is an apparent snub to Islamic State (IS) militants.
IS is challenging al-Qaeda to lead worldwide Islamist militancy.
Announcing the formation of "al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent" using a mixture of his native Arabic and Urdu widely spoken in Pakistan, Zawahiri appeared eager to regain some of the limelight, correspondents say.
"[Al-Qaeda] is an entity that was formed to promulgate the call of the reviving imam, Sheikh Osama Bin Laden. May Allah have mercy upon him," Zawahiri said.
He urged the "umma", or Muslim nation, to "wage jihad against its enemies, to liberate its land, to restore its sovereignty and to revive its caliphate".
Zawahiri said "al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent" would be good news for Muslims in Myanmar (Burma), Bangladesh and in the Indian states of Assam, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir, where they would be rescued from injustice and oppression.
It was always going to be a challenge for Osama Bin Laden's successor to match his iconic status and maintain al-Qaeda as the most powerful jihadist group in the world.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the nominal leader of al-Qaeda, is a 63-year-old former Egyptian eye surgeon said to be long on words and short on charm.
For over a decade he has dodged drone strikes and hit squads by hiding out in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
But apart from issuing occasionally long-winded treatises and videos, his critics say he has allowed al-Qaeda to wither while Islamic State (IS) has grown into everything al-Qaeda tried - and failed - to be.
While al-Qaeda's remaining leaders hide away in farms and flats in Pakistan, IS has seized and held actual territory.
It has a de facto capital, Raqqa, a disciplined command structure, an estimated $2bn (£1.2bn) war chest.
It has the world's attention and despite its sadistic atrocities, it is enjoying a surge in recruitment that Zawahiri could only dream about.
India's intelligence and security services are studying the announcement by Zawahiri very closely and have also asked their state units to remain vigilant on any possible threat.
A spokesperson for India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) told the Associated Press news agency that the statement was "a matter of serious concern".
"But there is nothing to worry about. We have a strong government at the federal level," the spokesperson said.
Counter-terrorism experts say al-Qaeda's ageing leadership is vying with IS to recruit followers after the success of militants in the Middle East in attracting young followers worldwide by conquering large amounts of territory across Iraq and Syria.
IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi describes himself as a "caliph" - or head of state - and has called for the support of all Muslims around the world.
The two groups fell out in 2013 over the IS expansion into Syria, where Baghdadi's followers have carried out mass murder, decapitations and crucifixions.
On Wednesday it emerged that Pakistani militants linked to IS have been distributing pamphlets in the north-western city of Peshawar calling on people to support their idea of creating an Islamic caliphate.
Graffiti and car stickers supporting IS have also started appearing in the city and its outskirts, reports the BBC Shahzeb Jillani in Pakistan.
The material, published in the Pashto and Dari languages, urges people to support IS in its fight for a grand Islamic rule.
Patients are at risk of "unsafe care" if additional pressure is piled on already heavily burdened general practices, according to RCGP Scotland.
Planners should be obliged to ensure safe healthcare provision when considering new developments, it said.
The Scottish government wants to see 50,000 affordable homes by 2021.
It said it was considering recommendations from an independent planning review report relating to infrastructure.
Plans to build 1,000 new council houses were announced by North Lanarkshire Council in August.
And earlier this month Springfield Properties revealed plans to build 1,700 new homes at 13 sites across Scotland.
However the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) claims major developments could have a "direct impact" on GP surgeries in the areas concerned.
Chairman Dr Miles Mack said: "Any attempts to tackle Scotland's insufficient housing supply must consider the impact upon local general practices, many of which are struggling to survive while serving the size of communities they are already responsible for.
"Many GPs simply do not have the capacity to deal with larger lists of patients.
"What appears to be good news for housing could have disastrous implications for the healthcare service."
He said that each new home was likely to house at least two people. The average size of a household in Scotland is 2.19, according to the 2011 census.
Dr Mack added: "What consideration has been given to the capacity of the existing local GP practices?
"Clearly, these people will mostly already be accommodated elsewhere but at a time when practices are restricting their lists across the country it is absolutely crucial that serious thought be given to the services for patients once they arrive in their new area.
"The planning system must take responsibility for the impact of decisions on GP services. Until they do, patients face uncertainty with the possibility of their practices simply buckling under added pressures."
Earlier this week the Scottish government came under fire after it emerged that Scotland will face a shortfall of 830 GPs in 2020.
It emerged in June that one in five GP surgeries in Scotland has a vacancy.
The Scottish government's planning minister, Kevin Stewart, said he was working on recommendations from an independent planning review report, which relates to the planning and funding of infrastructure.
He added: "Planning authorities can draw from a range of sources to support infrastructure, including the use of planning conditions and legal agreements."
At least 4,000 people are besieged in the town by Syrian government forces.
Speaking in Geneva, UN emergency relief co-ordinator Stephen O'Brien said the Syrian government had ignored "countless" requests for aid to be allowed in.
Residents of the town last received a delivery of aid in November 2012.
UN officials were able to make a needs assessment earlier this month, and found a severe lack of food and medicine and near complete destruction of the water supply, leading to shortages of safe drinking water.
The town's electricity supply was cut off more than three years ago.
"We will continue to press the Syrian authorities relentlessly for us to have that safe unimpeded access to Daraya," Mr O'Brien said.
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The UN says Syria's shaky cessation of hostilities has allowed significant aid to 12 of 18 other besieged areas, the most recent being this week to the northern town of Rastan, whose 120,000 people had received no aid for over a year.
Almost half a million people live under siege in Syria, the UN estimates. Last week, relief agencies evacuated 500 wounded people from four besieged Syrian towns, in what has been described as the largest such operation so far in the five-year conflict.
Half were brought out from towns blockaded by pro-government forces, and half from towns blocked off by rebels.
Meanwhile, peace talks that restarted in Geneva earlier this month are in difficulty. It is not clear whether a partial truce that has so far lasted eight weeks will hold.
Opposition representatives walked out of the talks last week, blaming government violations of the ceasefire.
Scott Wiseman, Joe Anyon and Jamie Ness will also leave the Iron.
The club have taken up the options on the contracts of Noel Burdett, Jack Dyche and Levi Sutton.
New terms are currently being offered to Stephen Dawson, Neal Bishop and Kyle Wootton, while the club say negotiations are continuing with Luke Daniels and Craig Davies.
Officials said the voter turnout was 66% - unusually high for the city.
The ruling Congress party - which is seeking a fourth consecutive term - and the main opposition BJP are the main rivals for the 70-seat assembly.
But the new Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party has emerged as a critical player.
Led by a former civil servant Arvind Kejriwal, the party was born out of a strong anti-corruption movement that swept India two years ago.
Though both the Congress party and BJP have dismissed talk about the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) being a serious contender, a number of pre-election polls suggest that the new party could upset their calculations.
More than 10 million voters were eligible to cast their ballots at 11,753 polling stations in Wednesday's polls. Over 800 candidates are contesting seats.
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Delhi, which has traditionally seen low turnouts in local elections, seems to be in a rush to vote this time.
Polling stations saw huge crowds as soon as voting began.
There is a heavy police presence and numerous checkpoints on major roads.
Voters appear baffled by a new rule which bars them from carrying their mobile phones inside the polling booths.
Many of them are stranded outside the booths wondering what to do with their phones.
Some people who say they have voted for decades are complaining that their names are missing from the list.
Tens of thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers were deployed to help conduct a peaceful election.
Long lines of voters outside many polling booths forced the Election Commission to extend voting hours to 19:15 India time (13:45GMT) - the official closing time was 17:00.
"It has been a good turnout all over Delhi," the Press Trust of India quoted Delhi's Chief Electoral officer Vijay Dev as saying.
In the last assembly polls held in 2008, turnout was 57.58%.
Officials said the polling had been "peaceful and there were no reports of any untoward incident".
The AAP and the Congress party have fielded candidates in all 70 constituencies, while the BJP fielded candidates in 66 seats.
The Congress campaign has been led by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit, 75, who is seeking a record fourth consecutive term in office promising "inclusive development".
The BJP's campaign has been led by the chief ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan, a doctor who has promised to cut electricity costs and bring down rising vegetable prices if voted to power.
Mr Kejriwal's AAP, which drew big election crowds, has promised to set up a citizens' ombudsman, also known as the Jan Lokpal, cut electricity prices and supply free water, among other things.
Both the Congress Party and BJP see Delhi as critical to its ambitions of winning next year's national elections.
Both the parties put up their top leaders, including the BJP's prime-ministerial candidate for next year's general elections Narendra Modi and Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, to campaign in the Indian capital.
But a robust performance by the AAP could upset calculations and even lead to a hung assembly, experts say.
The Times of India has called this a "historic" poll and the "most interesting" election Delhi has ever seen.
Delhi's polls conclude key assembly elections in five Indian states - Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram - held between 11 November and 4 December. Votes will be counted on 8 December.
A total of 110 million voters were eligible to cast their votes in the five states.
Correspondents say the results will give a sense of how the electorate may vote in the general elections due in 2014.
At a heavily guarded courtroom in Amsterdam, the eight men and a woman were sentenced to up to six years.
Six men were convicted as members of a network aiming to recruit young people to fight with Islamic State (IS) and other jihadi groups in Syria.
Two of those are believed to be in Syria and were tried in absentia.
Three were described as followers, including the woman, who was jailed for seven days for a retweet which constituted incitement.
The nine were arrested last year in a large police investigation into jihadist activities in the Schilderswijk suburb of The Hague.
"The criminal organisation aimed to incite and recruit 'brothers' to travel to fight in Syria and financed them to that end," presiding Judge Rene Elkerbout said.
Prosecutors said the group had formed "a criminal and terror organisation".
The nine had all denied any wrongdoing, saying that religious freedom and freedom of speech had allowed them to proclaim a pro-jihadist message.
The BBC's Anna Holligan, who was in court, says the trial has raised fundamental questions in the Netherlands about the limits of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and activism.
The defendants' full names were not given in court. Azzedine C, 33, was sentenced to six years in jail, as were two men tried in absentia - Hatim R, 26, and Anis Z, 24, who are believed to be fighting in Syria.
Hicham El O, 30, who was described as a returned fighter from Syria and active in the group, was sentenced to five years in prison.
Rudolph H, 25, and Oussama C, 19, were both jailed for three years.
Jordi J, 22, was sentenced to 155 days and Moussa L, 41, was jailed for 43 days. Imane B, 26 - the only woman in the group was given seven days in jail for sending an inciting message.
With one last chance to make a pitch to the American public that he should be trusted with the presidency, the Republican nominee had to make efforts to expand his base of support.
He had to find a way to distance himself from the allegation that he has a history of sexual harassment.
He had to position himself as the change candidate - just days after a Fox poll showed that Hillary Clinton, whose party has held the presidency for eight years, was beating him on the question of who would "change the country for the better".
Instead, after roughly half an hour of something resembling an actual policy debate about the Supreme Court, gun rights, abortion and even immigration, the old Donald Trump - the one who constantly interrupted his opponent, sparred with the moderator and lashed out at enemies real and perceived - emerged.
He called Mrs Clinton a liar and a "nasty woman".
He said the women accusing him of sexual harassment bordering on assault were either attention-seekers or Clinton campaign stooges.
He said the media were "poisoning the minds" of the public. And, most notably, he refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election if he loses.
Mrs Clinton had her own moments where she was put on the defensive - on her emails, on the Clinton Foundation and on embarrassing details revealed in the Wikileaks hack.
The difference, however, is that Mrs Clinton largely kept her poise and successfully changed the topic back to subjects where she was more comfortable. It was, in fact, a master class in parry-and-strike debate strategy.
The key takeaway from this debate, however - the headline that Americans will wake up to read in the morning - will certainly be Mr Trump's refusal to back way from his "rigged" election claims.
That was what Mr Trump wanted to say, but it isn't something the American people - or American democracy - needed to hear.
Mrs Clinton's skill at deflecting attacks and baiting Mr Trump into unhelpful answers first was on display when moderator Chris Wallace brought up a line from one of her Wall Street speeches - revealed in the Wikileaks hack - that she endorsed a hemispheric free-trade and open-immigration zone.
After saying she was only talking about an open energy market - an assertion that seems somewhat questionable - she tried to turn the question into a discussion of whether Mr Trump would denounce the Russian government, which US officials have said is behind the cyber-attack.
Mr Trump actually called Mrs Clinton out on her attempted "great pivot" - but then he went on to get bogged down on the Russian issue.
He said he'd never met Mr Putin (although he boasted during a primary debate that he had talked with him in a television green room), and said that Mrs Clinton was a liar and the real Russian "puppet".
Oh, and this all came up when the debate topic was supposed to be immigration.
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Mrs Clinton's next chance to pull a rhetorical switch-a-roo came during the economic portion of the debate. After a discussion of their tax proposals - and a predictable exchange of allegations over who's cutting and who's raising them too much - Mr Trump went after Mrs Clinton on her past support of trade deals.
When she waffled a bit, he tried to tag her with a line he used in an earlier debate with some success.
Why didn't Mrs Clinton enact her economic reforms over her 30 years in the public sphere? Mr Trump asked.
"You were very much involved in every aspect of this country," he said. "And you do have experience. I say the one thing you have over me is experience, but it's bad experience, because what you've done has turned out badly."
The problem with reusing attack lines is that sometimes your opponent prepares a defence - and Mrs Clinton had a scathing response ready to fly.
She said that while she was defending children's rights in the 1970s, Mr Trump was defending himself against charges he engaged in housing discrimination against African-Americans.
When Mrs Clinton was speaking out for women's rights as first lady in the 1990s, Mr Trump was taunting a beauty contest winner about her weight. And when she was in the White House situation room watching the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, Mr Trump was hosting a television reality show.
"I'm happy to compare my 30 years of experience, what I've done for this country, trying to help in every way I could, especially kids and families get ahead and stay ahead, with your 30 years," she said.
"I'll let the American people make that decision."
It was a scripted set-piece, yes, but it drew blood.
Quick on the heels of the exchange about experience came the question Mr Trump had to expect - but didn't appear ready for. What did he think of all the women who had come forward since the last debate to allege that, when it came to sexual harassment, Mr Trump's actions matched his candid words in that recently revealed recording?
The Republican nominee's response was that the women were either attention-seekers or Clinton campaign stooges and that the allegations have been "largely debunked" - which, when you think about it, isn't exactly a blanket denial.
In the last debate, Mrs Clinton appeared to hold back a bit in her condemnation of Mr Trump on the topic.
This time - perhaps inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama's well-received speech condemning Mr Trump last week - was much sharper.
"Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger," she said.
"He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like. So we now know what Donald thinks and what he says and how he acts toward women. That's who Donald is."
Mr Trump's response, that no one respects women more than he does, was met by laughter in the debate hall and the nearby media hall.
Mrs Clinton brushed off his efforts to turn the topic to her private email server.
He may have lost this election even without the live-mic revelation two weeks ago, but it's becoming increasingly clear his campaign has been irreparably wounded by it.
During the presidential "fitness" portion of the debate, Wallace had some pointed questions for Mrs Clinton, as well.
He asked her to defend the Clinton Foundation against allegations it was a pay-to-play organisation that granted insider access to the state department in exchange for big-money donations.
Mrs Clinton responded by defending the foundation's actions - noting its high ratings from non-profit watchdogs and its global health efforts.
Mr Trump called it a "criminal enterprise" - but then Mrs Clinton was able to push the conversation to Mr Trump's foundation, which has had its own share of controversies.
She noted that Mr Trump had used foundation money to purchase a six-foot portrait of himself. "Who does that?" she asked.
Mr Trump tried to defend himself, but Wallace wouldn't let him off the hook, asking him why he used charitable money to settle a fine levied on his Florida resort.
The Republican's response was only that the money had gone to charity.
An exchange on the Clinton Foundation could have been - perhaps should have been - a winning moment for Mr Trump. Instead, it was another opportunity for Mrs Clinton to knock him off his stride.
Mr Trump was already largely sunk at this point in the debate. Mrs Clinton had managed to dodge his most dangerous attacks and goaded him into the kind of badgering behaviour that had garnered him negative reviews after the first debate. He needed a clear victory and, at the absolute best, he had fought Mrs Clinton to a draw.
Then he was asked whether, despite his talk of rigged voting at his rallies this week, he'd follow his running mate's lead and pledge to accept the results of the election.
"I will look at it at the time," he said. "I'm not looking at anything now."
It was a comment that will launch a thousand headlines and dominate discussion in the days ahead.
It was also just the start of a full-spectrum tirade by Mr Trump against a media that "poisoned the minds of voters" and Mrs Clinton, who he said should have been prohibited from even running for the presidency.
Mrs Clinton's response was that the Republican's remarks were "horrifying".
She then deftly expanded her response to paint Mr Trump as a man who cries "rigged" whenever he faces a situation he doesn't like - whether it's the FBI decision not to prosecute her for her email server, his loss in the Iowa caucuses earlier this year, the lawsuit against his eponymous for-profit university or even his reality TV show's defeat at the Emmy Awards. ("Should have gotten it," Mr Trump piped in.)
"He's talking down our democracy," she concluded. "And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position."
Talking to Republican officeholders in the media spin room after the debate, their discomfort with Mr Trump's statement was palpable.
Some explained it away as a tongue-in-cheek joke. Others said it was simply Mr Trump not wanting to consider defeat before Election Day.
The reality, however, is Republican politicians owe their positions - past, current and future - to the people's vote, and they rely on the legitimacy granted by opponents who concede when defeated.
Mr Trump has called American democracy into question - and when he shakes that particular tree, it's impossible to determine who might get crushed by falling branches.
Polls suggest Mrs Clinton is ahead nationally and in key battleground states.
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Plans for the move from its site next to the tram station to a more prominent position in St Peter's Square have been approved by the city council.
The proposal arose from a competition to re-design the square and the proposed Metrolink extension.
English Heritage and the War Memorial Trust opposed the plans, fearing damage to the Grade II-listed memorial.
Other veterans' groups had supported the move.
Lt Col Richard Jordan, of 103 Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers), said: "I believe its new location will provide a fitting and peaceful place in which members of the public, service personnel and veterans can continue to pay their respects to the city's fallen soldiers, sailors and airmen."
The cenotaph will move from its current site between the St Peter's Square Metrolink platform and Mosley Street to a spot opposite the Cooper Street entrance to the town hall.
City council leader Sir Richard Leese said: "The cenotaph is a tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our city and our country and respect for what it represents is, and will remain, our paramount consideration.
"Now the planning committee has approved the proposals, we will continue to liaise closely with veteran's groups, church authorities and heritage bodies throughout the process."
Instead the Volkswagen Golf topped sales, according to the country's carmakers' association, although Volvo still had the largest share of the country's car market overall.
The Golf made up 5.9% of new cars bought in the country, while Volvo's V70, S90 and V90 took 5.7% together.
Volvo was last knocked off top spot in 1962 by a Volkswagen Beetle.
Despite Volvo's car business now being owned by a Chinese firm, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, it is still viewed as an iconic Swedish brand.
And it still sells the most cars in Sweden, with more than one in five cars (21.5%) on the country's roads, compared with Volkswagen's 15.7%.
However, Volvo's V70, the most popular car in Sweden for the past two decades, has ceased production in favour of the newer V90 model.
Sweden is Volvo's second-biggest market behind China.
The Swedish carmakers' association said 2016 saw record car sales with 372,000 new registrations, up by 8% on the 2015 figure, helped by a strong economy, while truck sales were up by more than 15%.
Doctor Adam Winstock, founder of the Global Drug Survey, the world's biggest drug poll, told Newsbeat cannabis can be as tough to give up as heroin.
"We haven't invested enough in helping people who use cannabis use more safely - or stop," he said.
But health officials say there are properly funded services out there.
Dr Winstock said in the last 20 years services have focused too heavily on treating heroin and crack cocaine addicts "because they're the people the government sees as causing crime and disruption".
"I don't think people with problems with cannabis have easy access to services," he explained.
Cannabis use is falling across the UK but the number of people getting help with addiction is rising.
Experts say this is because cannabis is getting stronger and users are more likely to admit they have a problem with it.
In 2005 the number of 18 to 24-year-olds in England coming forward for treatment was 3,328. In 2013/14 that figure had risen to 4,997 and now accounts for nearly half of all new cases.
Newsbeat gained exclusive access to Marijuana Anonymous (MA), a group which helps addicts.
We met one 25-year-old, "John", who explained how addiction took over his life.
"I would sit willing myself not to smoke even as I rolled a joint. My brain said no but my hands kept rolling and smoking.
"The drug wasn't making me happy, the weed was the cause and I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop.
"I have a hole inside me that I tried to fill. Weed fit the hole.
"It was the perfect match, it filled all the gaps and that's why I went back to it. Now I fill that with MA."
Dr Winstock told Newsbeat that 50% to 60% of dependent users have serious withdrawal symptoms when they come off the substance.
"Some people become violent, some young people can't sleep and get very irritable".
Many claim that cannabis is different to other drugs and isn't physically addictive like heroin or cocaine.
Dr Winstock told us that argument misses the point.
"I think people get confused with physical withdrawal symptoms and equating those to being addicted.
"Addiction for me is a loss of control and when you stop you feel uncomfortable.
"[It] could be you feel miserable, you can't sleep, you lose your appetite or it can be very physical as it is with heroin or alcohol".
He said the younger the user the more likely they are to have problems in the future.
"About 10% of people who use cannabis are dependent and two-thirds of those people, when they stop, will experience withdrawal symptoms.
"They last seven to 10 days for most people. You are more likely to run into those problems if you start using early."
23-year-old Lee got help from MA but before that he says his life was a blur of "joint after joint".
"Cannabis was my drug of no choice," he said.
"I found myself smoking even though I didn't want to be doing it. Physically it drained me, it made me very unhealthy. I was a broken man.
"I wasn't eating and I was just over five-and-a-half stone. Eating got in the way of my smoking.
"And I would go a week without having a bath or shower.
"I would smoke before work, during work, after work, I would lie to people just so I could be on my own smoking."
Cases like Lee's make up most of the workload for drug workers like Phoebe Crowder from the charity Addaction, who works with young addicts in east London.
She told Newsbeat: "I have some young people saying 'I want to stop, but I am going to hang out with my friends. I have to physically not see my friends because I know they are going to smoke cannabis'.
"For some young people they feel it is around them all the time and that can be one of the biggest hurdles for someone looking to quit".
There are lots of departments responsible for drug addiction services across the UK. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and England have separate systems.
Public Health England says waiting times are low for people looking for help with addiction,
A spokeswoman said: "Young people moving from young to adult services can be a really difficult transition; however services should be sensitive to the age and needs of the people they're working with and have the right arrangements in place to accommodate these."
Cannabis is a class B drug and carries a maximum prison sentence of five years for possession and up to 14 years for supply and production. You can also receive an unlimited fine for possession, supply or production.
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Lord Bew wrote to all the major parties about the issue after last year's election - but only the Conservatives and SNP replied, he said.
He argued that the public were also "not sympathetic" to state funding.
The committee has recommended parties get an extra £23m of state cash.
Its 2011 inquiry also recommended a £10,000 annual cap on individual donations from 2015 and the idea that union members should have to "opt in" to fees paid to Labour if donations were to be counted individually.
'Deeply rooted' perception
But during a Lords committee on trade union and political party funding, Lord Bew said: "The difficulty of the issues relates not just to the attitude of the parties."
In their letter back to him, the Conservatives pointed out that voters were also not sympathetic to state funding, he said.
While the public was in favour of electoral reform, there was also a "deeply rooted" perception that money was only given to political parties with the expectation of something like a peerage in return.
"All I can do is write to the parties, which I do periodically, and I have no reason to believe that there's any enthusiasm to address this," he said.
'Price worth paying?'
Sir Christopher Kelly, a former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said "it was wrong that any of the parties should be wholly reliant on significant sums from significant donors" whether from individuals, those donating through private companies or trade unions.
But Liberal Democrat treasurer Lord Wrigglesworth said: "I can't see a time when the political parties are going to be willing to go to the taxpayer and ask for money for their organisations."
Sir Christopher conceded that if members of a focus group were asked if more money should go to political parties, they would say "not on your Nelly".
But if they were pressed: "Do you think it's a price worth paying to... take big money out of politics?" They would say "of course", he said.
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A Fifa taskforce has recommended the 2022 World Cup take place in winter to avoid Qatar's hot summer temperatures.
It did not mention exact dates, saying only that "end-November/end-December" was the "most viable" period, but an early rumour to emerge from the Qatari conclave is that the governing body is considering 26 November to 23 December, four days shorter than the 32-day tournament in Brazil last year on account of it being staged in a single-city state.
But that is just two days short of Christmas, which even the otherwise supportive Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce admitted might cause officials, players and spectators a few difficulties at airports around the globe.
A finish that close to the Queen's Christmas Speech would also make it unlikely that fans of Premier League football will be able to gorge themselves in the customary manner over the holiday period: there were 30 games from Boxing Day to New Year's Day this season.
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said one of his priorities was to "keep the Christmas and new year programme intact", and this is clearly one of the areas now very much up for debate.
Could, for example, a World Cup final on 18 December, a Sunday and also Qatar's National Day, be a better option for all concerned than the last Friday before Christmas?
It would certainly placate the broadcasters who recently teamed up to hand the Premier League more than £5bn for three years' worth of domestic TV rights. BT and Sky televised 25 live games from 1 December to 1 January this season, and at a current going rate of £10m a game, that's a lot of unscripted drama to replace.
The Premier League TV rights for 2022 have not been sold yet, and anybody bidding for them will clearly be able to price 2022's break into their bid, but keeping that intermission as short as possible will be their main concern, particularly if they are without rights to the big show in Qatar.
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It should also be noted that the Football League might be quite excited about the prospect of the Premier League cancelling Christmas. Its 72 clubs could probably live without a similar number of players to the 14 they sent to Brazil, giving them a clear run at home throughout November and December.
The Scottish Premiership, with a similar number of absentees, might also be minded to take a leaf out of club rugby union's book and carry on regardless.
That is not to say those leagues will not be affected by Fifa's decision to do what Stoke City chairman Peter Coates described as "promising one thing", a normal World Cup, and "delivering another", a winter warmer.
England's preparations for the World Cup in Brazil started at a training camp in Portugal three weeks before their first game, and continued with a farewell friendly against Peru at Wembley on 30 May and then two more games in Miami over the following week.
Whoever is tasked with delivering the World Cup win for England in 2022 - something Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has listed as a key performance indicator for the national game - can forget having three weeks to prepare. They will be lucky to get a fortnight.
Scudamore and co will be keen to see if they can trim a few more days off that 28-day tournament estimate, too, although it was interesting to note the comments of the German Football League's managing director Andreas Rettig, who said Fifa must "consider the strain on top players".
"A shorter match schedule cannot mean that the same number of matches must be played in a briefer period of time," he added, which suggests he wants to re-open all manner of debates about the size of the tournament.
But if we take a two-week call-up period and four weeks for the competition itself as a starting point, we are talking about a cessation of hostilities across Europe's big leagues from the first week of November to Christmas.
"It's going to be hugely difficult," said Coates.
"But I think they'll try to get it done in one year, rather than spread it over three years. It's better to have one bad year, when everything is messed up, than three. It's about making the best of a bad lot.
"It will have to be a break. The biggest teams won't want to carry on - they'd be decimated."
The current Premier League season started on 16 August, 14 weeks after last season finished.
If Coates is right - and the early indications are he is - players can forget their schoolteacher-like holidays that year and make do with a fortnight between the end-of-season do and pre-season.
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Because it is not just a question of squeezing in six or seven weeks' worth of league fixtures.
The Football League is currently preparing for one of its two big weekends, the League Cup final, with the play-off finals being the other.
Continuing the league programme is one thing, but doing without Premier League clubs in its premier cup competition is unthinkable, which means shunting the whole thing at least a month forward. This season's first round started on 11 August.
The FA Cup will also be affected. Its preliminary round started on 15 August, with rounds one and two taking place in November and December.
OK, the Premier League is not involved at that point, but will the FA want to put its showcase club competition up against its international endeavours?
Whichever dates Fifa settles on, and the Premier League and other leading leagues respond to, one thing is certain: there is going to be an awful lot of summer football that year.
But there is also going to be a lot of winter football, as you simply cannot take six to seven weeks out of the calendar and hope to make it all up during the cricket season.
Take, for example, Uefa's two big club money-spinners, the Champions League and Europa League.
As Scudamore noted, Uefa was quick to welcome Fifa's November-December choice for Qatar, something he considered a bit cheeky given the winter breaks that are currently built into its two club competitions.
But with the qualifying rounds for those tournaments already starting on 1 July, can Uefa really expect clubs to be ready to play in early June? And if so, does this mean the transfer window is open earlier, too?
It is when you consider all of these permutations that you start to wonder whether the man who did the technical reports on the bidding nations for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, Chile's Harold Mayne-Nicholls, was underestimating things when he said a winter World Cup would have an impact on 50 leagues around the world.
Mayne-Nicholls, of course, completely discounted the prospect of Qatar ever winning the bid.
They did, though, and despite everything we have been through over the past four years since that remarkable decision was announced, it seems Qatar really will get the World Cup it has spent so much money to secure.
Some of that money may now have to be shared, though, as the issue of "compensation" is likely to become an even more contested area in the club versus country debate. However Fifa says it will not pay clubs as they have seven years to prepare.
Scudamore did not answer questions on compensation, but Coates was less squeamish about it.
"Absolutely," was the 77-year-old businessman's succinct reply when asked if Fifa owed the clubs some money for their trouble.
"There could be all sorts of contractual implications and effects on clubs and their incomes that year, so we're more than entitled to expect compensation. We've been misled," he said.
Compensation, however, can take many forms, as was seen when Fifa quietly gave the television networks that broadcast football in North America the rights to the 2026 World Cup without so much as a contest - a magnanimous gesture to companies who might have been peeved that they now have rights to a 2022 tournament that will have to battle with the business end of American football's NFL and college seasons.
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Another way of looking at that deal, though, is to say that where there is a will there is a way, and that was certainly the view of former England, Everton and Manchester United utility man Phil Neville.
As well as suggesting that a winter World Cup could actually help a team that traditionally arrives at summer tournaments utterly exhausted, the BBC pundit and Salford City co-owner also sounded a note of cosmopolitan optimism.
"The problem is that we are very traditional in this country," he said.
"We like to have our 10 weeks off in the summer and we like to have our games over Christmas. But I think the game has changed now and we've got to change our views a little bit.
"I remember when we went to America in 1994 and there was a little bit of nervousness going to that country because they weren't really into football, but they put on an amazing World Cup.
"I think Qatar with their wealth will put on a fantastic World Cup."
Perhaps Dyke and Neville are not so crazy, and England can win a World Cup in 2022. As ideas go it is hardly more outlandish than staging the tournament in a small, scorched country that has never qualified for the competition.
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The show, based on Michael Morpurgo's novel, tells the story of Joey, a horse who serves in World War I.
Murpurgo said it was "a show like no other, with puppets at its heart" and that it had "moved millions in London and all over the world".
The last performance at the New London Theatre is scheduled for 12 March.
War Horse, which also won five Tony Awards on Broadway and has been seen in 10 countries, is the most successful play in the National Theatre's history. It was also adapted into an Oscar-nominated film by Steven Spielberg.
When it closes, the London production will have played over 3,000 performances and been seen by over 2.7 million people. A UK tour will begin in autumn 2017.
The National Theatre's artistic director, Rufus Norris, announced the show's closure as he unveiled details of the NT's new season in 2016.
"We could keep it going for longer, we could put a new cast in and drag it out, but our subsidy is to make work here and to reach out to audiences around the country." Norris told The Guardian.
"We always knew it would come to an end and nobody expected it to last as long as it has."
Directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, War Horse received its world premiere on 9 October 2007 at the National Theatre, where it played for two seasons before opening at the New London Theatre in March 2009.
Producer Chris Harper said: 'War Horse has wowed audiences around the world, and we are incredibly proud of what the show has achieved over the last eight extraordinary years."
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Racing meet Saracens in the final in Lyon on Saturday, with both clubs bidding to win Europe's premier club competition for the first time.
"One of our big strengths this year is how united we are," said O'Gara.
"Our values now are a lot better than they were 12 months ago, and people are putting it in for each other."
The Parisians have a multinational squad, including All Black great Dan Carter, but last won the French title in 1990.
They struggled after the arrival of professionalism but, under the ownership of real estate magnate Jacky Lorenzetti, they have re-established themselves among the leading clubs in France.
"We've installed a different culture and identity, because there's no [recent] history of winning anything at this club apart from a [second division] Pro D2," the Irishman, speaking to BBC 5 live, added.
"Now I feel there is a grip on the club which means the club can do something. Previously it wasn't possible because of the standards, but we have something very good building."
Bolstered by the deep pockets of Lorenzetti, Racing have spent heavily in the past few years.
Carter, the most expensive player in the world, and Welsh duo Mike Phillips and Luke Charteris are part of a squad packed with internationals. Some might be nearing the end of their careers - but O'Gara insists the new arrivals are motivated by success on the pitch.
"People coming from all different corners of the world doesn't mean they are money-grabbing people," the former Munster, Ireland and Lions fly-half said.
"I could tell you how motivated these guys are, and what playing for this club means to them, and you would be shocked.
"Twenty-four months ago I would agree with the perception that it's easy to pick up a cheque in France and it's easy to make a great living, but once you're a winner I think it doesn't leave you, and we have plenty of winners in our group."
No one embodies this winning mentality more than Carter, who is one victory away from lifting the Champions Cup, a matter of months after guiding New Zealand to back-to-back Rugby World Cups.
"He's fascinating," O'Gara said. "Extremely humble and extremely respectful. He always finds a way of getting the job done, and he doesn't do stress.
"He's very polite - a breath of fresh air - and you can learn an awful lot just from watching him."
Carter's fly-half head-to-head with Saracens' Owen Farrell could be decisive on the weekend, with O'Gara describing the Englishman as "the most improved player in Britain and Ireland over the last six months".
"He's a big threat now," O'Gara said. "Saracens play for each other, and that's the most important thing. You look at [wing] Chris Ashton - it's incredible to think he is surplus to requirements at Test level."
Despite his relative inexperience as a coach, O'Gara has the responsibility of being second-in-command to joint head coaches Laurent Travers and Laurent Labit at Racing.
The 39-year-old recently extended his stay in Paris until 2019, a clear sign of how much he and his family are enjoying the experiences of the French capital.
"It's only until you leave your own home and comfort zone you realise what is out there," O'Gara admitted.
And while O'Gara is widely tipped to eventually return to coach in Ireland, he says he is focused on Racing for the foreseeable future.
"I'm not thinking about anything bar here. I have my hands full but I love it."
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The Department for Work and Pensions annual estimate shows the proportion affected - almost one in six - was unchanged from 2011-12 to 2013-14.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said UK poverty levels were the "lowest since the mid-1980s" and showed government reforms were working.
But charities said proposed welfare changes would leave families worse off.
A child is defined as being in poverty when living in a household with an income below 60% of the UK's average.
Average household income in 2013-14 - before housing costs - remained unchanged from 2012-13, at £453 a week - making the poverty line £272 a week.
Mr Duncan Smith told the Commons that government reforms of the welfare system were focused on "making work pay" and getting people into employment.
He said he remained "committed" to dealing with the "root causes" of poverty, saying employment was up by more than two million since 2010.
Shadow chancellor Chris Leslie accused the government of failing to make progress in cutting child poverty and raising incomes.
The figures represented a "depressing slow-down in the progress we should be making as a country", he said.
Javed Khan, chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, said every child living in poverty was a child that was being "let down".
He said: "Government plans to cut struggling families' incomes further by changing tax credits is deeply concerning... this government must ensure that change to the benefits system makes work pay for those on low incomes."
Matthew Reed, chief executive of the Children's Society, said there has been a "steady rise" over the last five years in the numbers of children living in poverty in households where parents work.
He said 200,000 more children have been pushed deeper into poverty over the past year.
Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, said the figures made "grim reading", adding: "The government is not going to meet the child poverty targets."
It comes as the government has said it wants to change the way child poverty is measured - as it believes the current measurement is inadequate.
David Cameron's official spokeswoman said the prime minister "remains committed to doing more work to eliminate child poverty and that is precisely why the government wants to look at having an approach that is focused more on tackling the root causes of poverty than treating the symptoms."
The "experts" are scratching their heads. Today was the day, we were told, when we'd see a sharp rise in poverty as official figures included the full impact of welfare cuts for the first time.
But, instead, the numbers have remained broadly flat and the government is able to claim that "the proportion of individuals with low income is now at the lowest level since the mid-1980s".
The Child Poverty Action Group said the figures still made grim reading. "Make no mistake, we are facing a child poverty crisis in the years ahead," it said. But one cannot help but think their statement would have been rather different if the expected rise had come to pass.
So what is going on? Is it time to ask if welfare reform is working?
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Jonathan Cribb, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said the child poverty figures appeared to have remained stable despite cuts to working age benefits because of the rise in employment.
"That seems to have off-set the impact of cuts to working age benefits which will have suppressed incomes," he said.
The DWP figures have mostly been estimated from a survey of 20,000 households in UK.
The data for 2013-14 includes figures suggesting the number of children living in relative poverty before housing costs were taken into account was 100,000 lower than the previous year. However, the DWP said it was "not trumpeting" the finding as the polling was subject to a margin of error.
The figures also showed that 9.6 million people - about 15% - were on relative low incomes in 2013-14.
The figure represented a fall of 100,000 on the previous year - and is down from 11.2 million in 1998-99 when comparable records began.
The number of pensioners living in poverty increased by 100,000, the DWP said.
Janet Morrison, chief executive of Independent Age - the older people's charity - said pensioner poverty remains a "significant and widespread problem".
For many the reality was not "foreign holidays, but finding the cheapest food and managing to keep the heating on in winter", she said.
A Crocodile Shark carcass was discovered on a beach at Hope Cove near Plymouth and was reported to the National Marine Aquarium.
Experts think the animal, normally found in tropical waters, may have died from the shock of UK's colder seas.
It is commonly found in Brazil and Australia growing to about 1m (3.3ft).
Steven Greenfields spotted the shark washed up on the beach while walking with his family.
Mr Greenfields said: "We regularly visit this beach and have never seen anything like this before. My whole family was stunned as the animal had really unusual features but was unmistakably a shark.
Because it was so unusual we consulted our local aquarium to confirm what species it was."
James Wright, curator at the National Marine Aquarium, said: "This species has never been recorded in the UK before, as it is normally found in deep waters during the day in tropical climates, such as Brazil and Australia, then coming shallower at night to feed.
"With the Crocodile Shark accustomed to much warmer waters, travelling so far and reaching colder waters would have caused a shock to its system and account for the cause of death.
"We would urge the public to share any other unusual sightings with us or The Shark Trust, so we can monitor any trends."
Paul Cox, managing director of the Shark Trust, said: "Any information that we can get is useful so it's great that this one has been reported and identified."
Great Charles Street northbound went down to one lane between Suffolk Street Queensway/Severn Street and Newhall Street in the early hours.
The city council urged drivers to leave extra time for journeys and to use public transport where possible.
The 10-year Paradise Circus scheme will see new offices, shops, restaurants and a hotel built.
Great Charles Street southbound will have single lane traffic between Newhall Street and Suffolk Street Queensway/Brunel Street from 2 August.
The restrictions will remain in place until next year.
Some overnight closures of the A38 tunnels and other restrictions may be needed, the council said.
The incident happened on a footpath at the rear of Inverkip Drive, Dykehead, between 08:45 and 09:00 on Wednesday.
The girl kicked the man and managed to run off. She was uninjured but left badly shaken by the incident.
Police said the man ran off in the direction of Dyfrig Street. He was white, aged between 18 and 23, about 5ft 7in and slim.
He was wearing a black jacket and black trousers - possibly jogging trousers - and a black beanie hat.
Police have been carrying out door-to-door inquiries and reviewing CCTV footage.
Det Insp Kenny Dalrymple said: "It's imperative we locate this man and I am appealing to people in the local community to consider if they heard or saw something.
"At that time of the morning, people may have been getting ready to go out, perhaps to buy newspapers, take children to school or make their way to work, so you may have noticed something unusual or you may have seen the suspect running off.
"If you have any information, please do contact us and pass it on.
"I'm aware that this matter will be of concern to local people and I would like to reassure everyone that additional police officers will be on patrol in the area and anyone with any concerns can speak to these officers."
West Berkshire Council voted on Tuesday to close Wash Common Library in Newbury, saving it £580,000 a year.
At seven other sites the council is to cut the number of full-time librarians by more than 40%. It wants volunteers to help keep services afloat.
The council said it faced "squeezed" budgets.
It had planned to close eight out of nine of the borough's libraries, but has decided only Wash Common will be shut.
Newbury Library will retain a full service but staffing levels will in time be reduced though review and restructuring.
The council's mobile bus service will also be cut from two vehicles to one.
Councillor Dominic Boeck said: "The grim reality we face in terms of squeezed budgets is that we can no longer afford to run the service as we've done in the past."
But resident Tim Sims said: "Berkshire's a rich county with hundreds of hi-tech businesses... and yet it can't afford to keep up a few libraries which serve young and old alike."
Last year campaigners marched with mock gravestones to Newbury MP Richard Benyon's office to protest against the planned closures.
Singapore Airlines was the launch customer for the two-deck jet in 2007.
The airline has decided not to renew the A380 plane when the ten-year contract expires next year.
The news comes after Airbus more than halved its delivery target for the A380, raising fears it could slip back to making a loss from the aircraft.
A Singapore Airlines spokesperson said: "Our first five A380s are on 10-year leases, with options to extend. The first expires in October 2017, and we have decided not to extend it.
"For the other four, decisions will be made later."
But they added the airline had orders for five separate A380s with Airbus, which will start being delivered in the second half of 2017.
The A380 only began breaking even for Airbus last year.
In July, Airbus said it would still avoid losing money on the jet in 2017 with as few as 20 deliveries, but gave no further guidance.
Analysts say that big aircraft like the A380 and Boeing's 747 series have fallen out of favour.
Smaller jets can be more profitable as they are easier to fill and are cheaper to operate, analysts say.
Under the proposals, the amount of money paid to home owners and businesses producing electricity from roof-top solar and small wind turbines will be limited from January 2016.
Subsidy schemes could be closed to new entrants from the start of next year.
Ministers want to ensure that consumers who pay for the schemes through their bills get the best deal possible.
They admitted in July that spending on renewable energy schemes was set to be higher than expected.
Having already announced plans to limit cash paid to on-shore wind generation and large-scale solar farms, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is now proposing significant cutbacks for small-sized green energy producers.
Solar and wind energy installations of less than 5MW are supported by feed-in tariffs - schemes that pay producers a subsidy for the electricity they generate, plus a bonus for any electricity exported back to the national grid.
Under the new proposals, the amount to be paid from next year will fall to 1.63p per kilowatt hour from a current level of 12.92p for a new residential solar system.
The consultation says that government spending on feed-in tariffs should be limited to between £75m and £100m from 2016 to 2018/19.
But DECC warns that if that limit is breached then "the only alternative would be to end generation tariffs for new applicants as soon as legislatively possible," which is expected to be January next year.
The Solar Trade Association (STA) says the proposals are not good news and the idea that the scheme might end for new entrants could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"We regret that proposals to suddenly cut tariffs combined with the threat of closure of the scheme next January will spark a massive market rush," said Mike Landy from the STA.
"This is the antithesis of a sensible policy for achieving better public value for money while safeguarding the British solar industry."
In their risk assessment published with the proposals, the government acknowledges that there is a chance that the changes may result in "significantly reduced rates of deployment" but they expect the industry to prove resilient, and point to the fact that the UK has already exceeded installation levels for small-scale solar and wind that were expected by 2020.
This rapid uptake of the technologies over the past few years means there has been considerable overspend on tariffs, according to the government, and that has to be curtailed.
"Our support has driven down the cost of renewable energy significantly," said a DECC spokesman.
"As costs continue to fall and we move towards sustainable electricity investment, it becomes easier for parts of the renewables industry to survive without subsidies. The consultation launched today is the next part of the action we promised to take to ensure bill payers get the best deal possible".
Environmental groups were not impressed.
Greenpeace pointed out that the government's maximum additional spend on green technologies by 2018 would be approximately half of what it spends subsidising the coal industry.
Other groups called the changes "absurd".
"Of course the feed-in tariff should fall as solar becomes cheaper, but the government clearly plans to remove support entirely," said Alasdair Cameron from Friends of the Earth.
"This is politically motivated, and will take away power from people and hand it back to big energy firms."
The consultation period on the proposed changes will run until 23 October.
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The visitors deservedly went ahead as they capitalised on a defensive mix-up for Sone Aluko to nod home his first goal for Fulham from four yards.
The advantage was doubled when Tom Cairney cut through the home defence to tee up Matt Smith, who swept home.
New signing Callum Robinson headed in Jermaine Beckford's cross to halve the deficit, but Fulham held on.
Simon Grayson's Preston, who finished 11th in the Championship last season, improved as the game progressed and thought they had a late equaliser but Beckford was flagged offside after heading in from six yards.
The Lilywhites haven't won at home since February, and after only managing three shots on target against Fulham, they did little to suggest an upturn in fortunes.
The Cottagers sold their top goalscorer for the past two seasons Ross McCormack to Aston Villa, but they have now won both their opening league games including a fine win over Newcastle on the opening weekend.
Fulham announced the capture of Rayo Vallecano's Jozabed Sanchez Ruiz on Friday, who becomes Slavisa Jokanovic's ninth signing of the summer.
Preston manager Simon Grayson:
"When you go 2-0 down it's difficult to come back from but we certainly made Fulham work for the win.
"We gave away two disappointing goals. In the second half we started better but gave another bad goal away when three of our lads should have made challenges.
"It was disappointing in the end, there were positives from the game but we have to be better all round really."
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic:
"The season is very long and at the moment we are lucky to find good results.
"Matt Smith works very hard and I am sure he will help us in the future but I need more people in this position. The league has so many games, and we don't have a big enough squad to be ready for what is in front of us.
"I have talked about signings, Fulham need them. I want to be successful and so I need more options in my squad."
Match ends, Preston North End 1, Fulham 2.
Second Half ends, Preston North End 1, Fulham 2.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Tom Clarke.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Clarke (Preston North End).
Offside, Fulham. Tomas Kalas tries a through ball, but Cauley Woodrow is caught offside.
Substitution, Fulham. Tim Ream replaces Scott Malone.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Chris Humphrey.
Attempt missed. Alan Browne (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Paul Gallagher with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Lasse Vigen Christensen.
Offside, Preston North End. Tom Clarke tries a through ball, but Jermaine Beckford is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Bailey Wright (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Gallagher with a cross.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Scott Malone.
Attempt missed. Joe Garner (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Callum Robinson with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Foul by Kevin McDonald (Fulham).
Jermaine Beckford (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Alan Browne (Preston North End) header from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Chris Humphrey.
Substitution, Preston North End. Chris Humphrey replaces Liam Grimshaw.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Fulham. Lasse Vigen Christensen replaces Floyd Ayité.
Foul by Scott Parker (Fulham).
Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tom Cairney (Fulham).
Paul Gallagher (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Anders Lindegaard.
Attempt saved. Scott Parker (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Offside, Fulham. Kevin McDonald tries a through ball, but Floyd Ayité is caught offside.
Substitution, Fulham. Cauley Woodrow replaces Matt Smith.
Tomas Kalas (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Garner (Preston North End).
Foul by Matt Smith (Fulham).
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Preston North End 1, Fulham 2. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jermaine Beckford with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match David Button (Fulham) because of an injury.
Substitution, Preston North End. Callum Robinson replaces Ben Pringle.
Substitution, Preston North End. Jermaine Beckford replaces Eoin Doyle.
Goal! Preston North End 0, Fulham 2. Matt Smith (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a fast break.
Attempt saved. Matt Smith (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Tom Cairney.
The 25-year-old Brazil international joined Chelsea in 2012, for £25 million.
Since then, he's appeared 203 times for the club, and scored 38 times.
In four and a half years at Stamford Bridge, he's won the Premier League, Europa League, and League Cup.
It's reported he will earn £400,000 a week playing for the Chinese Super League Club.
He was accompanied by Omani companions Mohammed Zadjali and Amer Al-Wahaibi.
The trio arrived on Wednesday in Doha, Qatar, after a 49-day trek on foot and by camel across 1,200 kilometres of Arabian desert known as the Rub' Al-Khali, meaning "The Empty Quarter".
They are the first people to complete this coast-to-coast journey, from Salalah in Oman to Doha, in 85 years.
They were following the route of an earlier British explorer, Bertram Thomas.
Mr Evans, 54, told the BBC the worst part was negotiating 250m-high dunes "like Alpine peaks" where their camels sank to their knees in the sand.
In a week that has seen the tragic death of another British explorer, Lt Col Henry Worsley, 55, after crossing Antarctica, this desert journey is a welcome piece of good news.
More than 1,000 well-wishers saw the team off in Salalah when they set out in December, carrying all the food they would need for the seven-week crossing.
Some accompanied the men for the first few kilometres and Evans said they were overwhelmed by hospitality from local tribes people in Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
"Twenty-eight goats, seven camels and three sheep have been slaughtered in our honour," he said.
Snakes and scorpions were frequently sighted and in southern Oman there was plentiful wildlife, which was all protected by law.
But once they crossed into Saudi Arabia, said Evans, there was almost no wildlife to speak of.
Just before halfway through, they reached towering sand dunes that left all three travellers dripping in sweat while the camels bellowed in protest, their knees sinking into the sand, and sometimes refusing to budge.
Throughout their journey their thoughts turned often to Bertram Thomas, who took 60 days to cross the sands with his Bedu guide. When he reached Doha in 1931 telegrams of congratulation poured in, including from King George V.
"Sometimes we went to wells that had been visited by both Bertram Thomas and [legendary British explorer] Sir Wilfred Thesiger," Mr Evans said.
The latter, who undertook a similar crossing in the late 1940s but did not reach as far as Doha, wrote in his book Arabian Sands of the extraordinary beauty and solitude of the desert.
He also complained that the discovery of oil had ruined the region.
He once told me that since it was now possible to drive across the desert in a 4x4 vehicle, "walking across it would be completely pointless".
That is clearly not a view shared by the trio who completed their crossing today.
"I have just sat in a chair for the first time in 49 days," Mr Evans added.
"We're about to have a big meal now… What a great adventure that was."
"Light Through Tall Windows" was recorded in the Mackintosh library by the GSA choir on Sunday.
It will be released next year to help pay for the restoration of the the Grade A-listed building whose upper floors were gutted by fire in 2014.
It will also fund a planned expansion of the art school's Garnethill campus.
"Light Through Tall Windows" is a collaborative work between two GSA alumni.
The lyrics were penned by writer and broadcaster Muriel Gray while the music was composed by Jamie Sansbury, founder and musical director of the GSA Choir.
Describing the work, Mr Sansbury said: "This piece is an attempt to set down, in a more tangible way, the joy the Mackintosh building instils in students and staff at the school, the enduring enlightenment it represents, and the impact that has upon them for the rest of their lives.
"The work is dedicated to the staff, students and alumni of the GSA.
"When we completed the piece we knew that we wanted the choir to premiere the work, and we hoped that it would be an important creative response to the fire, but it was only much later that the possibility of recording in the library itself - the very heart of the building - came about."
The work is now on pre-order with a release scheduled for early 2017.
All proceeds of sale will go directly to the Mackintosh Campus Appeal.
The art nouveau Mackintosh building was badly damaged by fire on 23 May 2014.
An investigation by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service concluded the blaze was caused by flammable gases from a canister of expanding foam.
The report said the gases ignited as they came into contact with the hot surface of a projector.
A blue Dacia Sandero mounted a kerb on the A4106 Tythegston road, just before the A48 roundabout, and struck the 19-year-olds at about 16:00 BST on Friday.
The critically injured man has been flown by air ambulance to University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
A 49-year-old driver of the Dacia is helping officers from South Wales Police with their enquires.
The second injured man, understood to be less seriously hurt, is being treated at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.
The 23-year-old suffered a significant tear in his quad and is likely to miss the autumn internationals having become the latest player to get hurt during England's training camp in Brighton.
Wasps' Sam Jones broke his leg while Bath's Anthony broke his jaw.
"He was loaded pretty heavily on Monday, far heavier than we would have loaded him with his training," he said.
Nowell had missed the start of the season after having surgery on a thumb injury, and had only made one replacement appearance.
But Baxter was particularly critical of the England medical team for failing to realise the extent of his star player's injury.
"We were told there was no significant injury and England didn't feel it was a big issue, just an overload issue, but when we get him back here and we scan him we find a significant tear of his quad," the former lock added.
"It's not a one or two centimetre tear, we're talking a nine or 10 centimetre tear.
"For that not to get picked up is a bit annoying and now we've realised that he's going to be out for a significant period of time."
Premiership rugby have criticised the timing and intensity of the training camp, which also led to Ollie Devoto and Henry Slade missing training time when they returned to Sandy Park.
Baxter says Premiership clubs must get together with England to ensure this situation does not happen again.
"Injuries will happen, but the amount of injuries that came out of this two-day camp are so significant that if questions weren't asked, it wouldn't just be remiss of us as Premiership coaches, it would be very remiss of England not to ask how all those injuries happened.
"I don't really care if England think they have an unlimited supply of players, that's fine, but there isn't an unlimited supply of players.
"You don't have to have many training camps where you pick up five or six significant injuries before you get through your whole playing group."
Mr Jones announced the Welsh Government had appointed officials to represent Wales in EU negotiations.
He reiterated his support for the UK remaining in the single market - but said he was not making the same demands on Europe's system of freedom of movement.
Opposition parties have accused him of being slow to respond to Brexit.
"We've got to sell Wales to the world... like never before," Mr Jones said, speaking at Cardiff's Cathays Park.
"We need to reassert our confidence and we need to do it now."
Mr Jones revealed he is visiting the US next week as part of his drive to drum up business, while Economy Secretary Ken Skates is heading to Japan in October.
Mr Jones said the Welsh Government had "appointed a team of senior government officials to represent Wales in the forthcoming EU negotiations and to fight for Wales' best interests on an international stage".
Asked for further detail, a Welsh Government spokesman said the "European Transition Team", had been set up as part of the office of the first minister to support him in co-ordinating the Welsh Government's negotiating strategy.
Calling for the UK to stay in the single market, Mr Jones told the press conference: "I don't advocate that things should stay as they are for the free movement of people.
"What I advocate is that things should stay as they are regarding the free movement of goods and services."
But he said it was "right to say the only model at the moment that exists involves accepting both".
Mr Jones also set out Welsh Labour's law-making priorities at the press conference, called to mark 100 days since he was reinstated as first minister.
He said an assembly bill on what will replace stamp duty in Wales - Land Transaction Tax - would be introduced next month, followed "swiftly" by a new public health bill, a law on landfill disposal tax, a trade union bill and legislation to abolish the Right to Buy.
A law to amend the Welsh Language measure will be introduced in the new assembly term and a development bank for businesses in Wales would be operational by the second quarter of 2017, he said.
News earlier in August of a committee to advise on Brexit was dismissed by Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies as a "last-minute scramble for ideas".
A spokesperson for the Welsh Conservatives said: "Catch-up Carwyn's approach to governance has to date been defined by a distinct lack of proactivity and a drought of ideas - and this announcement is more evidence of that."
Analysis by BBC Wales political editor Nick Servini
It has become clear that Carwyn Jones will define his approach to Brexit negotiations around the need for the UK to remain in the single market.
The problem is that the free movement of goods and services may be entirely connected to the free movement of people, which could be unacceptable to many of those who voted to leave.
He is banking on access to the single market still being possible at the same time as the UK regains more control of its borders. That could be a big ask.
His tone was markedly different to the Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns, who will represent Wales at the cabinet, where the big early decisions on Britain's negotiating position will be made.
Mr Cairns talked about opportunities and entrepreneurs thriving on change, while Mr Jones spoke of investments being put on hold and potential problems for attracting investment.
There have been reports that Tevez, 33, who joined Shanghai from Boca Juniors in December, wanted to leave the club.
The ex-Manchester City striker has asked Shanghai to allow him to return home for treatment on a calf injury.
Tevez, who signed a two-year contract, has scored twice in 11 games.
He is one of the world's highest paid players, earning £634,615 a week, according to the Sun.
"According to the request from Carlos Tevez to our club, after discussion, we now approve his request," Shanghai were reported as saying in the South China Morning Post.
"He's permitted to go back to Argentina and receive treatment at the Clinica Jorge Bombicino and he must rejoin the team on 30 August and participate in training."
During the 2010-11 season, Tevez fled to Argentina for three months following a disagreement with Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini.
He lost almost £10m in wages, fines and lost bonuses during the dispute.
Robin Garton, 69, from Devizes, Wiltshire, has not been seen since 25 September.
He disappeared while on a hillwalking trip in the north west Highlands.
Extensive searches have been made of Glen Coe since then involving helicopters, mountain rescue teams and search dogs.
Police divers have made searches of the River Coe.
Mr Garton, a former art dealer and the founder of a climate change charity, is described as 6ft 2in tall, of slim to medium build, with fair, thinning hair. He occasionally wears glasses.
Winnall's 10th of the season from Conor Hourihane's cross gave the Tykes the lead, while fellow striker Tom Bradshaw was denied by goalkeeper Jason Steele.
Rovers, who had Darragh Lenihan sent off late on for chopping down Sam Morsy, pressed for an equaliser.
However, Watkins' injury-time strike ensured the points for the hosts.
With three wins from their past four games before Boxing Day's match, Barnsley had resurrected their early-season form and this victory kept them in touch with the top six going into 2017.
Their rediscovered confidence was reflected in their start, as Bradshaw had chances to score before Winnall nodded in the opener.
The goal sparked the visitors into a response, with Adam Davies in the Reds' goal worked hard by efforts from Marvin Emnes, Wes Brown and Sam Gallagher.
Blackburn's desperation for points was evident in their efforts towards the end of the game, first in further chances for Corry Evans, Gallagher and Emnes again, and then in the frustration of Lenihan's dismissal.
Watkins' goal was the final act for Barnsley, condemning Rovers to a fourth defeat in succession.
Barnsley head coach Paul Heckingbottom:
"Avoiding relegation wasn't our focus. That limits you to wanting to finish fourth from bottom.
"Our focus is to be as good as we can be so we won't limit ourselves in that respect, we'll just try and pick up as many points as possible.
"The players have got every right to be buzzing, they've been terrific and long may it continue.
"You are where you deserve to be, so as we're ninth we deserve to be ninth. We won't get carried away and will keep trying to get better."
Blackburn head coach Owen Coyle:
"There's a sense of frustration for me at the end when there's a stonewall penalty as far as I was concerned. Then of course a couple of minutes later we're down to 10 men.
"There were little things we could have done better in the game, we created chances to get back into it.
"We certainly know we're capable of turning things around quickly and moving up the table to where we want to be."
Match ends, Barnsley 2, Blackburn Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, Barnsley 2, Blackburn Rovers 0.
Attempt saved. Liam Feeney (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sam Gallagher.
Hand ball by Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers).
Goal! Barnsley 2, Blackburn Rovers 0. Marley Watkins (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Bree following a fast break.
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Morsy (Barnsley).
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Adam Davies.
Attempt saved. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Hope Akpan with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marvin Emnes.
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the red card.
Sam Morsy (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers).
Substitution, Barnsley. Jacob Brown replaces Tom Bradshaw.
Attempt missed. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Marley Watkins.
Sam Morsy (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Morsy (Barnsley).
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Tom Bradshaw (Barnsley) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Conor Hourihane.
Hand ball by Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers).
Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marley Watkins (Barnsley).
Attempt saved. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Liam Feeney with a cross.
Substitution, Barnsley. Adam Armstrong replaces Sam Winnall.
Substitution, Barnsley. Marley Watkins replaces Ryan Kent.
Attempt saved. Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Kent.
Foul by Sam Winnall (Barnsley).
Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Liam Feeney replaces Craig Conway.
Attempt missed. Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) hits the right post with a left footed shot from more than 35 yards.
Attempt saved. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Sam Winnall (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers).
Foul by Sam Morsy (Barnsley).
Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The survey of more than 2,000 UK adults for the British Council found 40% were embarrassed by their language skills.
But nearly two-thirds (65%) thought it was important to learn a few local words or phrases before going abroad.
The poll comes as exam regulator Ofqual notes a decline this summer in A-level and GCSE entries for languages.
While other traditional subjects have seen a rise in entries this year, Ofqual said languages were continuing to fall in popularity.
The Russell Group of research intensive universities said this further fall in the number of students studying foreign languages was concerning.
"Languages are vitally important to the UK if it is to be fully engaged with the world," said the group's director general Dr Wendy Piatt.
The British Council poll found a quarter (25%) of the 2,098 UK adults surveyed said the thought of having to speak a language on holiday made them feel nervous.
Over a third (36%) said they relied on the assumption that everyone would speak English in the country they are visiting.
Just under a fifth (19%) said they would choose a holiday destination where they knew they would not have to communicate in another language.
Only 16% of those surveyed said that they could speak a foreign language to a high level.
But almost half (48%) said they enjoyed trying out their language skills while on holiday.
Mark Herbert, head of schools programmes at the British Council, said: "While it's good to see that Brits are generally willing to have a go at speaking the local language when on holiday, too many of us still rely too heavily on English while abroad.
"The reality is that speaking a foreign language doesn't just help you to get the most out of your holiday - it is a rewarding way to connect with another culture and, with employers now crying out for more language skills, it can boost your job prospects too.
"Ultimately having more of us being able to speak at least a little of a foreign language is good for the UK's long-term competitiveness in the increasingly globalised world."
The Association for Language Learning said learning a language was not just important for education and skills, but also for the economy, security and community relations.
President of the association, René Koglbauer, said: "At times of fear of 'otherness', it is crucial to emphasise the importance of language learning and its unique contribution to broadening the minds of our youngsters, their awareness of cultural differences and their critical appraisal of misconceptions."
Andy Dowie's own goal gave the visitors the lead before Dumbarton hit back through Christian Nade.
Two goals in the last 20 minutes from Declan McDaid and Robbie Crawford kept Ian McCall's men three points ahead of Ayrshire rivals Kilmarnock.
Killie were 4-2 winners over Clyde to gain their first points of the group.
Rory McKenzie gave Killie an early lead before Darren Ramsay and Kevin Nicoll edged Clyde in front.
That is how it stayed until 53 minutes when summer signing Dominic Thomas scored, with the former Motherwell man adding his second soon after.
After McKenzie scored again to make it 4-2, Jordan Stewart was sent off for the visitors following a late challenge to curtail any hope of a Clyde comeback.
In Group F, Greenock Morton scored twice in the final five minutes before beating Queen's Park 4-2 in a penalty shootout.
The Spiders had taken the lead through Bryan Wharton with 20 minutes to go, and when Thomas Orr scored with nine minutes left it looked to have earned the League One side a shock win.
Bob McHugh turned in Scott Tiffoney's cut-back to set up a frantic finale, and Darren Barr's volley two minutes into time-added-on took the game to penalties.
Morton won the bonus point to stay top of the group on five points with Tiffoney, Andy Murdoch, Ricki Lamie and Gary Harkins all scoring from the spot for the hosts, with Adam Cummins and Bryan Wharton netting for the visitors.
Elsewhere in Group F, Berwick Rangers also needed a late goal in the 90 minutes, but lost 4-2 on penalties to Edinburgh City.
Ashley Grimes had twice given Edinburgh the lead but goals from Aaron Murrell and Pat Scullion pegged them back.
The capital side won the shootout after Chris MacDonald and Andrew Irvine missed for Berwick.
It follows a police operation which removed a protest camp set up on a test drilling site since April 2014.
About 30 protesters were evicted on Tuesday, after being served with a court order compelling them to leave the area in November.
Up to 400 campaigners chanted and made speeches during a protest at the site which has been cleared by bailiffs.
They claim they were "denied their right to peacefully protest" after police closed off Duttons Lane during the eviction.
Nine people were charged with a number of offences after the eviction, including aggravated trespass and obstructing a police officer.
Cheshire Police warned on Twitter the event could lead to disruption on the roads around Upton and Chester.
Patrols were deployed for reassurance, the force added.
A Frack Free Dee Coaliton spokesperson said: "The events of Tuesday have merely strengthened the resolve of our communities to continue in our opposition to extreme energy technologies being utilised here or anywhere.
"The protests will continue daily, outside of the police blockade whilst it remains in situ and then outside of the site once it is removed.
"Upton Community Protection camp may be gone but the community is not."
An IGas spokesman earlier told the BBC the company respected "the right to peaceful protest, [but] these protesters [at the camp] were trespassing as determined by the High Court".
Planning permission for IGas to run tests at the site runs out on 28 May.
David Lee, 56, of Carrickaness Road, Dungannon, showed "complete disregard" for rules protecting the food chain.
He was convicted of fraud and several other charges, ordered to pay £6,000 compensation and fined £3,600.
Lee turned up late at night at Patrick McGorrey's farm at Clonoe in August 2015 with more cattle than agreed.
The animals were not the specification ordered, thus affecting their resale value.
A number were also sick, leaving the family with a £2,000 vet's bill.
The McGorreys said they believed their elderly father had been "taken advantage of".
The judge at Dungannon Magistrates' Court said Lee had demonstrated contempt for the rules on which food safety in Northern Ireland are based.
Lee plans to appeal the fraud conviction, effectively postponing the compensation payment.
The judge said the Northern Ireland farming community depended on the "integrity" of the animal movement system.
He said it not only underpinned human health but provided assurances in the event of an animal disease outbreak.
The judge said he found it "alarming" that someone like Lee with his "contemptuous attitude to the rules" could be so heavily involved in the cattle trade.
The court was been told that he had sold 3,000 cattle in a ten-month period.
His record keeping was described as "shambolic".
Lee was given a three-month prison sentence suspended for two years on the fraud charge.
He got further suspended sentences for failing to notify the Department of Agriculture on the animals' movements and failing to keep a herd register.
Spanish giants Real have made a world record £86m bid for the forward.
Bale, 24, was due back at training on Tuesday after a break in Marbella.
It is a dream move for him but I think in the end this could have happened in a different way
"He is involved in a big transfer to Real Madrid and, if it happens, we wish him all the best, but the fact that he hasn't turned up is not the correct behaviour," said Villas-Boas.
"I gave the player the weekend off. Monday was a day off for the squad. It is up to the club now to decide if it's a fineable offence. I've given my opinion on it, it's up to them to decide whether they act on it or not."
Under rules laid down by the Professional Footballers' Association, a player can only be fined two weeks' wages, which in Bale's case would amount to around £160,000.
Bale has not featured for Spurs or Wales this season due to a foot injury.
He has been left out Tottenham's squad for Thursday's Europa League second leg against Dinamo Tbilisi but has been called up by Wales for this month's World Cup qualifiers against Macedonia and Serbia.
Bale has been linked with Real all summer and Villas-Boas says the record-breaking transfer "could happen very, very soon".
The former Chelsea boss added: "It is a dream move for him but I think in the end this could have happened in a different way.
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"At the moment, the two clubs are speaking. I suppose it could go to the last day or it could happen in next two days. But you wouldn't expect the biggest transfer in world football to happen easily."
Tottenham are reluctant to sell until they have signed a replacement.
They have been linked with Roma's £30m-rated Argentina forward Erik Lamela, but they missed out on Brazil midfielder Willian, who joined Premier League rivals Chelsea.
"I have told you that we will continue re-strengthening the squad, so we are looking at different positions to make us stronger," said Villas-Boas.
"In the next couple of days, we will have further news and I think we will see further additions at Tottenham."
Villas-Boas is also annoyed with England manager Roy Hodgson for not consulting him before selecting Andros Townsend for international duty.
Tottenham have spent £59m this summer.
In July, they broke their transfer record to sign Brazil midfielder Paulinho for a fee of just under £17m from Corinthians.
In August, they spent £26m on Valencia's Spain striker Roberto Soldado (pictured).
Spurs have also bought 25-year-old French midfielder Etienne Capoue, 25, for £9m from Ligue 1 club Toulouse and Belgium international winger Nacer Chadli from Dutch club FC Twente for £7m.
"I would like to give you a little bit more information but the fact (is) that I wasn't contacted in any way or form by Roy Hodgson regarding the player call-up," said Villas-Boas.
"I would have preferred to give my opinion on the fact that he gets called up so soon."
Hodgson handed call-ups to Steven Caulker and Tom Huddlestone for last year's friendly in Sweden, but they have not played since, while Jake Livermore has been discarded by England after just one cap.
Villas-Boas worries that Townsend may end up in a similar position.
"If there is continuity to the future of Andros in the national team, it's a great step for him," said Villas-Boas.
"If there is no continuity in the future, if his performances change in some way or if the player doesn't get involved in Tottenham and, in the end, he gets dried out, then it's a big surprise for me, because I think a player who gets called up for the national team after two games should have respect and continuity towards the future.
"So I assume from this moment that there will be that belief. I can recall, last season, we had Jake Livermore, Tom Huddlestone, Steven Caulker, called up for England.
"At the moment, it doesn't seem to have any continuity there."
The service in Flatiron Copse cemetery was organised by the south Wales branch of the Western Front Association.
The cemetery is located just yards from where 3,993 Welsh soldiers were killed, missing or injured during the five-day battle in World War One.
A Welsh flag and poppy was placed on every Welsh soldier's grave.
The 38th (Welsh) Division attacked Mametz Wood between 7 and 14 July 1916, with more than 4,000 of them killed or injured.
The battalions were drawn from all over Wales and represented north, south, rural and industrial areas, as well as men from the London Welsh.
The band of the Royal Welsh also took part in the short service on Friday.
Phil Davies, secretary of the south west branch of the Western Front Association, said the cemetery was a very special place for Wales.
"It is important that what these men did is never forgotten," he said.
The visitors included a number of people who were visiting the graves of family members.
Robert Tedstone from Abercarn laid a wreath on the grave of his ancestor, Thomas Tedstone, who came from Maesycwmmer in Caerphilly county and died on 7 July 1916.
On Thursday, a memorial service took place at the site of the Welsh dragon memorial, facing the wood.
The service was led by Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan and included an address by First Minister Carwyn Jones.
BBC Wales Today reporter Roger Pinney was at Thursday's ceremony
The old general called it the butchers bill. We would think of it as the human cost of war.
At a centuries distance it's easy to talk of slaughter and sacrifice. But for many of us who attended the centenary service at Mametz Wood one fact will stand out.
It came from Lt Gen Jonathon Riley, one-time commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
"Here," he said, "we lost as many of our people in 15 minutes as we did in 15 years in Afghanistan."
For the ceremony we stood in a pretty valley drenched in bright sunshine.
A delightful place. Looking down on us a defiant dragon, the prominent memorial to the men of the 38th (Welsh) Division.
One hundred years ago they gave this same ground in front of Mametz Wood a name. Death Valley they called it.
In five days, 4,000 were killed or wounded here.
The music, the speeches, the hymns made the ceremony an emotional experience.
The First Minister Carwyn Jones summed up the sentiment of many. "We came to remember," he said, "and give thanks."
George Osborne said departmental budgets would fall by £3bn in 2015/16.
However, Scotland's Finance Secretary John Swinney said that the cut was an "unexpected and unwarranted" imposition of further austerity.
Mr Osborne made the announcement ahead of his emergency budget which will take place on 8 July.
The Tory minister believed it was vital to tackle UK debt "as quickly as possible".
During a debate in the House of Commons the Chancellor also confirmed that the government's remaining stake in Royal Mail - currently valued at £1.5bn - would be sold when ministers could be sure they would get value for money.
Mr Swinney, who is due to meet Mr Osborne in London on Monday, said that the people of Scotland had clearly voted against austerity in the recent general election.
He explained that the billions the Chancellor planned to take from departmental budgets in the 2015/16 financial year would have a knock-on consequence of £176.8m in Scotland.
Mr Swinney said there had been no prior discussion with the Scottish government over the cuts.
He added: "The Scottish Parliament has already agreed our budget for this year and that should be respected, not slashed as part of George Osborne and David Cameron's ideological obsession with austerity.
"Scotland has already seen our overall budget cut by 9% and our capital budget cut by 25% since 2010.
"Further cuts risk more damage to public services and will hold back economic growth, as underlined in the latest report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)."
By Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland political editor
Why now? Why cut now rather than wait for the coming Budget in a few weeks time? A range of motivations suggest themselves with, perhaps, two to the fore.
Getting out the bad news about spending now allows Mr Osborne, perhaps, to offer a few goodies to those who voted for the UK government and its policy programme.
Secondly, it is possible that the Chancellor anticipates that it might be even more difficult than previously thought to find the promised £12bn of savings in the welfare budget - particularly as the PM keeps denoting areas which he regards as sacrosanct, such as child benefit.
However, the Treasury insists that today's announcement is not designed to offset decisions on welfare.
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The UK government has pledged to clear the deficit by 2018/19.
Mr Osborne must find a further £30bn of savings over the next three years, including £12bn from welfare spending and £13bn from government departments.
He told MPs: "We set out two weeks ago that we were going to find further efficiencies and savings in government. That is what we deliver today.
"Further savings in departments this year, selling our stake in the Royal Mail, getting on with what we promised, reducing the deficit, that is how you deliver lasting economic security for working people.
"As everyone knows, when it comes to living within your means, the sooner you start the smoother the ride.
"Sharing resources and risks across the UK is a much better idea than full fiscal autonomy that would cost Scotland £10bn a year."
The group Justice for Health, which is mounting the legal challenge, says the contract is "unsafe and unsustainable" and it accuses Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of acting outside his powers.
The Department of Health says the case is without merit.
Ministers insist the new contract is needed to improve levels of medical cover in hospitals at weekends.
The hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London will run for two days.
The medics are arguing that, although Mr Hunt is entitled to "recommend" a new contract, he is attempting to go significantly further even though he has no power to decide the terms and conditions under which the NHS and other bodies should employ junior doctors.
The group's founding members are all junior doctors - Dr Nadia Masood, Dr Ben White, Dr Fran Silman, Dr Amar Mashru and Dr Marie-Estella McVeigh.
The new contract is due to be rolled out from October.
Dr White said it was "incredible" that junior doctors have had to take the government to court.
He said: "Jeremy Hunt's own civil servants in the Department of Health said there was a very high risk to trying to bring in seven-day services without the required investment and staffing.
"And actually you've got us, the doctors and the nurses on the front line, saying, 'This is not going to be safe.'
"So that forms a key part of one part of our legal argument. That there's no definition even of a seven-day service."
Dr Mashru said the legal challenge would look at three areas: the lawfulness of the imposition of the contract; whether Mr Hunt had properly informed the public and Parliament about the plans; and the evidence behind Mr Hunt's reforms.
Junior doctors had planned a series of five-day strikes in September, October, November and December in protest against the new contract.
They called off the September strike after senior colleagues said the action was disproportionate and risked patient safety.
Barrister Clive Sheldon, who led Mr Hunt's legal team, told Mr Justice Green in a written statement: "The claim is wholly without substance."
He said Mr Hunt had felt that a new contract should be introduced by the NHS.
He argued that Mr Hunt had not decided to "compel" NHS employers to use the new contract, but had decided to "approve" the new contract.
The area is said to be claimed by both Inner Mongolians and residents of neighbouring Gansu province.
About 100 masked attackers reportedly beat staff and damaged checkpoint buildings on Sunday before escaping.
Reports said that an undisclosed number of suspects have been identified by police.
Some 13 people were injured in the early morning attack in Ejin Banner county, which lasted about two hours, reports said. Two of them were checkpoint staff, while the rest were "herdsmen and farmers defending the frontier", said a Global Times report.
The attackers were armed with sticks and pepper spray. Those at the checkpoint were reportedly beaten, robbed of their valuables, and then tied up and left outside in freezing -20C weather.
Two forklifts were then used to smash into checkpoint buildings as well as several vehicles, local media said.
Initial investigations have shown the incident occurred due to a provincial border dispute between Ejin Banner county and Jinta county in the Gansu province, Xinhua news agency quoted the local police authority.
Local official Li Yanbo told reporters that the area has long been the source of dispute among locals due to the repeated redrawing of provincial boundaries in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Global Times said there had been several clashes between Inner Mongolians and residents of Gansu province in the area.
In September, the same outpost had been visited by masked men carrying sticks who intimidated staff. The men later drove away after staff persuaded them to leave.
The region has in the past also seen tensions between minority ethnic Mongolians and Han Chinese.
While not fully self-driving, the software means the Model S and new Model X can "automatically steer down the highway, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic".
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said the autopilot mode was designed to increase driver confidence on the road.
However, Mr Musk said users adopting the software - available in North America from Thursday - should exercise caution while using it.
"It should not hit pedestrians, hopefully," he told the media. "It should handle them well."
He added that if the car is involved in a collision, the driver is still liable.
"The driver cannot abdicate responsibility. That will come at some point in the future."
Other regions of the world would be updated in the next couple of weeks pending regulatory approval.
The software uses a combination of cameras, radar, ultrasonic sensors and mapping data to determine its position and navigate.
When the car has arrived at its destination, it is able to scan for an available space and park itself.
Unlike Google, which is aiming for a fully-autonomous vehicle, Tesla's approach is to gradually introduce features which take away the need for drivers to carry out certain functions.
Currently there are limitations to the software which would improve over time, Mr Musk said.
"If there's heavy snow it's going to be harder for the system to work, so we'd advise caution.
"Essentially it's like a person - how well can a person figure out what route they should take. Over time it will be better than a person.
"Long term it will be way better than a person. It never gets tired, it's never had anything to drink, it's never arguing with someone in the car. It's not distracted."
Other car manufacturers such as BMW and Volvo are also developing, and implementing, autonomous features to their cars.
Google's entirely self-driving car has clocked up well over one million miles on public roads, mostly in California.
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The 36-year-old veteran will take over the role lined up for Australian opener Phil Hughes, who was recalled to the national team over the winter.
Hughes is now expected to be named in the Aussies' squad for this summer's Ashes series, forcing Worcestershire to look elsewhere.
"Thilan's Test average of 48.76 speaks volumes," said coach Steve Rhodes.
"We've been searching for an overseas batsman once we realised that Phil Hughes was not going to be available.
"It's wonderful to have him available for the whole season. It gives us real stability," Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"Thilan's wealth of experience is a big boost for the squad in general, but particularly our talented young batsmen who will benefit from his wily words of wisdom."
Samaraweera has twice toured England with his national team, in 2006 and 2011, but has never previously played any form of county cricket.
"Playing county cricket has been one of my long-term career ambitions," he said. "I am extremely grateful to Steve Rhodes and Worcestershire for giving me the opportunity to fulfil this ambition.
"And I look forward to repaying this faith by making significant contributions on the field this season.
"I can't wait to arrive in April and get started with the boys and pull on the Worcestershire shirt for the first time."
Investigations are continuing into the incident on Ferry Road in the Drylaw area at 18:35 on Saturday.
Police said it appeared two motorbikes went through a red light at a pedestrian crossing and the boy was "mown down" by one of them.
He is in a stable condition in hospital and due to have surgery.
Detectives said there had been a number of reports of motorbikes being driven dangerously and recklessly in the area on Saturday evening.
The drivers of the two bikes involved had their faces covered with scarves.
Police are reviewing CCTV and carrying out door-to-door inquiries.
Det Ch Insp Paul Grainger, who is leading the investigation, said: "The boy remains in hospital and his condition is now described as stable.
"He is currently undergoing surgery as a result of the injuries he sustained in this collision and it is too early to assess what impact these injuries may have on his life moving forward.
"At this stage we are keen to hear from anyone who may have been in the Ferry Road area last night around the time of the collision, or indeed before or after it."
The first motorbike involved was red and driven by someone wearing a red and black ski-type jacket and a full-face crash helmet which was white with a purple and orange design.
The second motorcycle, which was the one that struck the boy, was a white Triumph Daytona 650cc. The rider was wearing a grey hooded top, dark tracksuit bottoms and a white full-face helmet with a coloured design.
Det Ch Insp Grainger added: "This was a terrifying incident which could easily have had fatal consequences and both the boy's mother and I would urge anybody that has any information to contact the police or Crimestoppers.
"We need the help of the community to catch those responsible for this.
"This young boy was going about his own business, making a routine crossing of a busy road at what should have been a safe pedestrian crossing when he was mown down by this motorcycle.
"Nobody should be attempting to assist, hide or cover up for the people responsible who have shown a reckless disregard for other people's safety with terrible consequence."
Earlier, local community group Trim and Friends of West Pilton posted an update on Facebook from the boy's mother which said he was undergoing surgery and described him as "brave" and a "wee trooper".
Robert Pearson, chairman of the community group, told BBC Scotland there have been ongoing issues with people riding motorbikes dangerously in the area.
He added: "We as a community have said for years it is not a case of if somebody gets hit by one of these bikes, it's a case of when.
"Last night a young child going about his normal business innocently was struck by a bike and left for dead."
Supt Mark Rennie said: "This has been a shocking incident which has deeply affected the local community.
"For over a year now Police Scotland has engaged with a significant range of partners and the City of Edinburgh Council to target offenders and also deal with the root cause of this type of reckless offending and risk taking behaviour.
"Despite that a small minority of offenders continue to steal motorcycles and put themselves and others at risk.
"I would reassure local residents that patrols are ongoing across the area in this regard, and anyone who has any concerns, or indeed information which they would wish to pass on should talk to our officers."
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Ayrshire coast services have been cancelled, delayed or are starting and terminating at Paisley Gilmour Street.
Commuters faced long queues for replacement bus services from Paisley into the city.
Buses were running between Glasgow Central and Paisley, and from Glasgow Central to Prestwick Airport and Ayr.
ScotRail said disruption was expected until the end of the day. It was understood the fault was not related to adverse weather conditions.
The firm said anyone with a valid train ticket or smart card could use First Glasgow Bus services in both directions between Glasgow Central and Paisley Gilmour Street, and Glasgow Central and Paisley Canal.
Tickets could also be used on McGills buses on the direct route between Inverclyde and Glasgow.
Extra McGill buses are running between Paisley and Glasgow. However, customers were advised to pay for these bus journeys and claim back on their rail ticket.
He is being questioned about what police said was a "substantial bomb".
It was found at the Crumlin Road junction with Brompton Park on Friday 1 May after a phone warning to a local priest.
The teenager was arrested following a series of searches in north Belfast on Thursday morning. He is being held at Antrim police station.
The new national archaeological collections store at Wrest Park in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, will offer guided tours in June, English Heritage said.
The purpose-built store cost nearly £2m and holds more than 153,000 artefacts spanning more than 2,000 years.
A spokeswoman said it was "proud" items not usually displayed would be seen.
The artefacts, which make up a third of the organisation's total stored collection, include a variety of items from buckles, brooches and coins to fireplaces and doors.
All had previously been held in five leased buildings around the country, English Heritage said.
Curators, museum technicians and archaeologists have checked, documented, repacked and managed the movement of 83 lorry loads of items over the past two and a half years to the central location.
Now recorded on a database, the artefacts are being held floor-to-ceiling at the 15,650 sq ft (1,450 sq m) site, which visitors can tour with a conservationist from June on the first Monday of every month.
The archaeological pieces come from sites including Wroxeter Roman site and Haughmond Abbey in Shropshire, Kirby Hall in Northamptonshire, and Essex's Hill Hall and Audley End House.
More than 6,000 objects from 17th to 19th Century London houses, including nearly 1,000 wallpapers, are also stored.
The oldest objects come from Neolithic flint mine Grimes Graves in Norfolk, and the tallest is an 11ft (3.5m) high tower for changing light bulbs in Covent Garden.
The guided tours of the £1.86m site will also demonstrate how English Heritage cares for the objects.
Curator Charlotte Newman said: "We are really excited to show visitors behind the scenes in the store and give them a chance to see our collections not normally on display."
Authorities have warned of flooding in low-lying areas near the dam but don't expect any homes to be at risk.
Residents south of Sydney are still waiting to return to their flood-affected homes after the wild weather.
Emergency crews have warned locals in the city's south and west they may find roads and bridges cut off.
The dam, about 70km west of Sydney, is the largest urban water storage in Australia, supplying about 80% of the Sydney region's drinking water.
The Bureau of Meteorology said most of the dam's spill would happen on Thursday afternoon and early evening.
"We don't anticipant any properties to be flooded," the bureau's Gordon McKay told the BBC, but adding that low-lying farmland was at risk.
The Sydney Catchment Authority said Warragamba Dam will spill for several days through its central drum gate.
The Authority will then lower the water level of the dam to just below full as part of normal post-flood procedures.
Evacuation orders for 320 properties in St Georges Basin and Sussex Inlet, about a 190km south of Sydney, are still in place.
There have been nearly 90 flood rescues of people and animals since severe weather first lashed the greater Sydney region on Monday.
The State Emergency Service (SES) is assessing damage in the area amid unconfirmed reports of loss of livestock.
In October, 81% of patients diagnosed with cancer began treatment within a 62 day target down from 85.6% in September - the worst figures since April 2013.
The Aneurin Bevan board in south east Wales did best with 88.5%, and Cardiff and Vale the worst with 62.9%.
The Cardiff and Vale health board blamed temporary staffing issues.
However, Mr Gething said certain health boards "need to work hard" on cancer times.
The health boards' plans, announced on Wednesday, prioritise:
"I have met all the health boards to discuss how the Welsh NHS can improve its performance in this area and asked them to produce 100-day action plans aimed at improving local services and encouraging them to work collaboratively at a regional level," Mr Gething said.
"I expect the NHS to implement these plans immediately so patients and the public sees an improvement in performance in the months ahead."
Lowri Griffiths, from the cancer charity Macmillan Wales, said it had been "concerned about the lack of improvement in cancer waiting times over the last 12 to 18 months" and was "dismayed" at the latest deterioration in the figures.
"We welcome this decisive action and expect to see a marked improvement across health boards before the 100 days allocated," she said.
Cardiff and Vale chief operating officer Alice Casey said a temporary lack of capacity in some areas was having a disproportionate effect on the overall picture on the board's cancer care.
"The health board provides a wide range of cancer services and the majority of patients receive treatment within an appropriate time," she said.
"But we know there are some who are not and we are doing all we can to put that right."
Conservative Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar said Labour ministers' targets had been "routinely missed for seven years" and "communities will rightly question when performance is ever going to reach an acceptable standard".
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams called the situation "verging on the ridiculous" and said it was "mind-boggling" how ministers were "content to allow so many cancer patients to face such lengthy waits".
Artist Brent Watanabe has programmed the virtual deer to wander around the large San Andreas game world.
In its first few days of wandering, the deer has been caught in a gangland gun battle, invaded a military base and been chased by the police.
More than 200,000 people have tuned in to watch the deer via a video stream on the Twitch site.
The project uses a modified version of GTA V that let Mr Watanabe change the player to look like a deer. The animal wanders around the virtual 100 square miles of the San Andreas world in which the game is set.
"The most difficult thing during the creation of the project was simply teaching myself to modify GTA V," Mr Watanabe told the BBC. "There is an incredibly active modding community and I figured out how to programme the mod through a lot of forum searches and trial and error.
"The biggest difficulty was getting it stable enough to run for 12-14 hours at a time without crashing," he said.
He made the deer impervious to harm so it can keep on wandering despite being regularly shot at, beaten up, run over by cars and trucks, shelled by tanks and falling off buildings.
The trouble it has caused on military bases, beaches and on city streets led, at one point, to it having a four star wanted rating.
The deer regularly teleports to a new position on the game map so it does not get stuck in one part and to make sure it samples the games's many different environments and meets lots of its artificial inhabitants.
"I was really drawn to the project because of the slapstick but tragic nature of it," he said. "And then there is an odd draw to simply keep watching, to see what the deer is going to do next."
Mr Watanabe said he was "surprised and thrilled" by the popularity of his creation.
"This is the best version of GTA V," wrote Adam Smith on the Rock, Paper Shotgun game news website. He said he enjoyed the stream for the way the AI-controlled deer triggered responses from the other computer-controlled elements of the game.
United are ready to allow the England Under-21 forward, 19, to go on loan to a Championship club, although with an instant release clause.
Bolton Wanderers and Derby County are other potential suitors.
"It would be wrong if nobody turned their heads if there was an availability for James Wilson," Cardiff manager Russell Slade said.
"He's a player of strong ability. He's somebody Manchester United think an awful lot about."
Wilson has scored four goals in 18 first-team appearances, including two on his debut against Hull City in May 2014.
He is yet to feature for United this season, but he scored the winner for England Under-21 against the United States Under-23 on 3 September.
The Bluebirds look to continue their unbeaten Championship start on Saturday at home to Huddersfield Town.
Gabon defender Bruno Ecuele Manga is among a number of players who Slade can consider for the game after international duty.
Romanian defender Gabriel Tamas, signed before the transfer window closed, will be in a 20-man squad.
But another new signing, French striker Idriss Saadi, will not be considered because he is not fully fit after injury.
Huddersfield have yet to win a league game this season, but Slade knows they will end that run at some point.
"That's why they are a dangerous team to be playing," Slade said.
"They've not scored many [goals], they have not conceded many. I think it will be a tight game.
"It's one we feel we want to be winning but we know it'll be tough."
US Brig Gen Kevin Killea said they had found traces of chemical agent sulphur mustard on mortars used by IS to attack Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.
But he said the tests were not conclusive and final testing was due.
US officials have been looking into reports that IS used chemical weapon mustard gas in an attack earlier this month in the town of Makhmour.
IS has previously been accused of using chlorine gas against Kurdish fighters.
Mustard agent, or sulphur mustard - more commonly referred to as mustard gas - causes blistering of the skin, eyes and respiratory tract.
The mortar shell fragments undergoing tests were handed over by Kurdish forces from an attack on 11 August, Brig Gen Killea told reporters on Friday.
They had been fired at Kurdish Peshmerga positions near Makhmour, close to the city of Irbil.
"We were able to take the fragments from some of those mortar rounds and do a field test...on those fragments, and they showed the presence of HD, or what is known as sulphur mustard," Brig Gen Killea said.
He described sulphur mustard as a Class 1 chemical agent, one that is rarely used outside of chemical warfare.
US officials recently suggested IS may have obtained the mustard agent in neighbouring Syria, despite the Syrian government saying that all of its stockpiles of such weapons had been destroyed.
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein also used weapons such as mustard agent against the Kurds and against Iran.
The US military announcement comes two years after US President Barack Obama issued a "red line" to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over a chemical weapon attack in eastern Damascus that killed hundreds of civilians.
In a UN-backed deal that followed, Mr Assad handed over 1,180 tonnes of declared toxic agents and precursor chemicals to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Coach Baciro Cande has picked a squad entirely made up of players based in Europe.
Among the new names on the list is former Everton player Francisco Junior, who is now based in Norway.
They will play the opening match against the hosts Gabon in Libreville on 14 January.
It is unclear whether the Confederation of African Football will penalise the small West African country for the late submission of their squad.
Guinea-Bissau eliminated two former champions - Congo Brazzaville and Zambia - in the qualifiers and despite a lack of cash for preparations they will aim to continue their fairytale run.
Cande had hoped to persuade Barcelona's Edgar le and the Leeds United teenager Ronald Vieria to join them in Gabon but was unsuccessful.
Left out of the pre-selection were Amildo Balde, the former Celtic striker now at Maritimo, and Crawley Town's midfielder Aliu Kaby Djalo, formerly on the books of Chelsea.
No plans have yet been announced for pre-tournament preparations.
Guinea-Bissau squad:
Goalkeepers: Jonas Mendes (Salgueiros, Portugal), Rui Dabo (Cova da Piedade, Portugal), Papa Massé Mbaye Fall (Aguadulce, Spain)
Defenders: Emmanuel Mendy (Ceahlaul, Romania), Rudinilson Silva (Lechia Gdansk, Poland), Juary Soares (Mafra, Portugal), Agostinho Soares (Sporting Covilha, Portugal), Mamadu Candé (Tondela, Portugal), Eridson Mendes Umpeça (Freamunde, Portugal)
Midfielders: Nani Soares (Felgueiras, Portugal), Jose Mendes Lopes Zezinho (Levadiakos, Greece), Bocoundji Ca (Reims, France), Tony Silva Brito (Levadiakos, Greece), Toni Silva (Levadiakos, Greece), Piqueti Djassi Brito (Braga), Idrissa Camara (Avellino, Italy), Jean Paul Mendy (US Quevilly-Rouen, France), Francisco Santos Junior (Strømsgodset, Norway), Lassana Camara Sana (Académico de Viseu, Portugal)
Forwards: Joao Mario Fernandes (Chaves, Portugal), Abel Issa Camara (Belenenses, Portugal), Amido Baldé (CS Marítimo, Portugal), Frederic Mendy (Ulsan Hyundai, South Korea)
It is a rain-sodden American flag, half-hidden under the green leaves of fallen trees.
A few paces away Judie McRae, 44, is inspecting the damage to her trailer home.
Judie has lived more than half of her life here but she says this is her first hurricane. She spent it hunkered down in bed, unable to sleep.
She does not want to see another one.
"I just felt like my roof was going to come off at any minute," she says, describing a terrible sound of "cracking and creaking" that only stopped for a few minutes of calm when the eye of the hurricane passed directly over her head.
"I was very fortunate that only two little windows got broke," she says.
Exactly how fortunate is obvious. Three of her neighbours' houses lie in ruins. Sheet metal has been twisted out of shape and insulation foam hangs from the trees. Books and clothes are soaking in the rain. One powder blue trailer home has caved in completely, its wooden skeleton broken and exposed.
As we examine the damage a young man arrives, agitated. He asks us if we have checked inside for the owner. We have not.
"Dan, are you in here?" he shouts.
We climb into the wreckage to help search for Dan, gingerly stepping over the missing man's possessions and clambering around his bathtub. There is no-one here.
Judie, meanwhile, is worried about two other neighbours. Both got out before the storm struck and have not yet returned to learn that their homes are destroyed.
She is particularly concerned about the elderly woman who lives two trailers along.
"She has no money and that was her home and it was already crap so..." Judie tails off as if she can think of no useful way to complete the thought, no hope to offer.
Meanwhile, down on the shore of Rockport, Robert Zbranek, 56, is trying to secure his boat to the dock after it broke free during the storm.
Alongside, a small sailing yacht is under water.
The yacht, Robert explains, was his home. He was inside when the hurricane swept over, smashing the hull. At the height of the most powerful storm in Texas since 1961, with winds blowing at 130mph (215km/h), he had to get out and scramble into his car, which he had parked behind a truck for shelter.
Even then he did not feel safe as, he says, the vehicle was lifted off the ground by the high winds but it worked.
What was it like? "Rough," he laughs.
I suggest that some people might question his sanity.
"I know I'm crazy," he says with a smile. "It was supposed to be a category two, maybe a category three but it didn't turn out that way. It was absolutely ridiculous. Ferocious."
"I still got a house," he adds. "It's just a little tore up."
As we are chatting Robert's friend, Craig Hack, 56, appears. He too rode out the storm on a small sailing yacht.
"I just about lost my mast," he says, cackling when I ask how it was. "No brains" is his answer.
Both men say they stayed because they wanted to be with their boat homes and their vehicles. They agreed that many folk like them would have lost money in the storm because they did not have insurance.
Here in this coastal town that is a familiar story, of people struggling to make ends mean, let alone to thrive.
Rockport was founded as a cattle abattoir and meat-packing port after the American civil war of 1861-1865.
Named after its geology - it sits on a solid rock ledge - the town and its adjoining neighbour, Fulton, did well for many years, first on the beef trade and later thanks to fishing and shrimping.
By the time the 20th Century had dawned, a railway was bringing in tourists too.
They still come, spending time and money boating and birdwatching, with ornithologists keen to see whooping cranes and hummingbirds.
But their money does not seem to have done much for the people of the port or of its wooded suburbs.
"Hardscrabble" is the word Americans use to describe a place like Rockport. It is overwhelmingly white (88.7% at the last census in 2010) and voted decisively for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Life here is tough, says Judie, never more so than now.
There is some good news though. Judie thinks that Dan, the missing man, got out with relatives or friends just before the storm.
"God was with us," she says of her own survival though as she glances around at the destruction, she sounds a little unsure.
Judie stayed, she tells me, because she had no means to leave and no place to go.
"I had some problems getting out of town, a little broke and stuff, so I had to come home and, you know, tough it out," she says. "We're all the working class people.
"We're the ones who go to the restaurants and wait on you and pick up your trash and do all that work. We don't have a lot of money."
"Fighting for the American dream," she adds, with a rueful laugh.
The attack on Rosedernat Orange Hall on Lislaban Road is believed to have happened between 23:30 BST on Saturday and 11:30 BST on Sunday.
Also on Sunday, a union flag was stolen and a flag pole was damaged at Roden Orange Hall in Kilkeel, County Down.
Police are investigating a possible link to similar thefts of union flags at addresses in Kilkeel at the weekend.
Several flag poles were damaged when flags were stolen between the Manse Road and Knockchree Avenue on Saturday night.
Officers have appealed for witnesses.
In a statement, a Grand Lodge spokesman confirmed senior members would be raising hall security with the PSNI.
"These latest attacks, though separate, are yet further examples of the intolerant sectarianism displayed by a minority who continue to manifest their hatred towards the Orange Institution, by attacking our properties on a regular basis," he said.
"Although the nature of the incidents is clearly different - the criminal intent is very much the same by the bigoted and narrow-minded individuals responsible."
Sinn Féin North Antrim MLA Philip McGuigan condemned the attack: "Sectarianism is wrong no matter where its source and sectarian attacks like this need to be condemned by us all."
He added those responsible "have nothing positive to offer the local North Antrim community".
She died on Sunday at her home in Tucson, Arizona, after a long illness, according to her manager and biographer Larry Ward.
Neill played the Daily Planet reporter in the 1948 and 1950 movie serials alongside Kirk Alyn as Superman.
She also played Lois Lane in the TV series Adventures of Superman alongside George Reeves between 1953 and 1958.
Neill also made appearances in the 1978 Christopher Reeve Superman film, in an uncredited role as Lois Lane's mother Ella, and in the 2006 Superman Returns film, starring Brandon Routh.
She also appeared in a 1992 episode of the TV series Superboy, based on Superman's younger years.
Born in Minnesota, she was the daughter of Minneapolis Star Tribune news editor David Neill and New York vaudeville performer LaVere Neill.
She started singing and dancing as a child and performed at county and state fairs throughout the midwest in the 1930s.
Neill moved to Hollywood at 18 and soon got her big break when she was hired by Bing Crosby to sing at his Turf Club at the race track in Del Mar, California.
In 1941 she was signed up to a contract by Paramount Pictures.
Noel made close to 100 films in her career and worked with directors including such Cecil B DeMille and Vincent Minnelli and actors Bob Hope, Crosby and Gene Kelly.
In the 1940s and 1950s she appeared in many Westerns and was awarded the 2004 Golden Boot Award - for her many Western films.
There is a statue of Lois Lane in her likeness in the town of Metropolis, Illinois.
Ward said she was still making personal appearances and attending book signings into her 90th year.
"Noel truly was Lois Lane, and for many of us, she was the first working woman seen on television. Few of her fans actually knew her real name, almost always simply calling her 'Lois' to which she would unfailing answer with a bright smile and a kind word.
"It was more than a role to her. 'Lois' was someone she believed in and a character she happily and warmly embraced," he said.
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has also paid tribute - "They say your 1st is always your favourite. I LOVED Noel Neill as Lois. She was sweet warm & wonderful in person too!" he tweeted.
A public memorial to the actress will be held later this year.
The character of Lois Lane went on to be played by Margot Kidder in the four Christopher Reeve Superman movies in the 1970s and 80s and Kate Bosworth in 2006's Superman Returns.
The role has also been played by Amy Adams in the most recent Superman films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel and she is currently filming Justice League.
On TV Teri Hatcher in the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures in the 1990s and Erica Durance in Smallville between 2004 and 2011.
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Addressing a sustainability conference in Llandovery College, Carmarthenshire, he said humans were "doing our utmost to test to destruction" the living system of nature.
The speech was part of the Prince's annual summer tour of Wales.
He later described the Welsh dairy industry as of "great importance".
During the 20-minute speech, the Prince of Wales said traditional architecture, crafts, music, education and engineering could be used to tackle the "enormous problems we face".
"This is not backward-looking and anti-science, it is reinstating the discarded baby that was rashly removed with the bath water," he added.
Prince Charles later opened an extension at Rachel's Organic yoghurt factory in Llanbadarn Fawr, near Aberystwyth, where he opened an earlier expansion almost 20 years ago.
He said: "I do hope that it will make an enormous difference not only in terms of sales but also in terms of the dairy sector in Wales which is of such great importance."
On the second day of his five-day tour, the Prince also visited the historic Strata Florida site in Ceredigion and wore white gloves to examine the Nanteos Cup - considered by some to be the Holy Grail.
Linda Tomos, the national librarian for Wales, told him: "The Holy Grail legend dates to 1905, when it was very fashionable.
"The healing properties are undoubtedly very, very old."
TalkTalk said it was subjected to a "significant" attack on its website on 21 October, with fears that customers may have had bank details stolen.
The man, the third to be arrested in relation to the alleged data theft, was held on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act.
He has been bailed until early March.
Police have also arrested and bailed a 16-year-old boy from west London and a 15-year-old boy from Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber attack.
Both were arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, with the 16-year-old bailed until an as-yet unconfirmed date and the 15-year-old bailed until November.
Police have confirmed that officers also carried out a search at a residential property in Liverpool in connection with the cyber attack.
TalkTalk's chief executive Dido Harding has said the scale of the attack was "much smaller than we originally suspected" but she said the company still needed to "work hard to earn back your trust".
The phone and broadband provider has said hackers accessed up to 28,000 obscured credit and debit card details, with the middle six digits removed, and 15,000 customer dates of birth.
It said any stolen credit or debit card details were incomplete - and therefore could not be used for financial transactions - but advised customers to remain vigilant against fraud.
The investigation into the attack is being carried out by the Metropolitan Police's cyber crime unit, the Police Service of Northern Ireland's cyber crime centre and the National Crime Agency.
The latest breach is the third in a spate of cyber incidents affecting TalkTalk in the last year.
Ryan Counsell, 28, denies four charges, including trying to join an Islamic terrorist group in the Philippines.
Woolwich Crown Court heard the e-book suggested using a fake beard or moustache as a disguise and playing console games like Call of Duty.
It also advised against going Paintballing "because they write down the names of every Muslim who goes".
Counsell, who worked at the Hyson Green branch of Asda, in Nottingham, used annual leave to travel to remote parts of South-East Asia, prosecutors said.
Dan Pawson-Pounds, for the Crown, said the defendant spent two years stockpiling equipment for his trip.
Items included Kevlar-lined underpants called "Blast Boxers" and badges with the words, "Zombie Response Team," "I love my beard," and "We do bad things to bad people", he added.
Counsell is charged with preparing acts of terrorism by obtaining information about Islamic terrorist groups in the Philippines, arranging to travel to the Philippines to join and fight for an Islamic terrorist group, and purchasing equipment and clothing for use when having joined such a group.
The married father, from Nottingham, also faces a charge of possession of electronic documents containing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
The trial continues.
Trading on the MTGox exchange, which handles most trades in Bitcoins, was sluggish yesterday as the site fought off an attack.
The attack helped to force a swift fall in the price of Bitcoins.
In addition, the Instawallet website - where people store Bitcoins - is offline indefinitely after an attack.
The value of Bitcoins surged to a new high this week with each one worth about $142 (£94). Barely a week ago, each virtual coin was worth only $90.
But Bitcoins dropped sharply in value as the MTGox exchange came under a sustained attack by hackers. The vast majority of trade in Bitcoins takes place via the site.
In a tweet on its Twitter feed, MTGox said it was fighting off a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which involves a site being bombarded with huge amounts of data. The attack was one of several against the site this week,
The attacks, coupled with a spike in trading volumes, combined to cause delays in trades being confirmed and led the value of Bitcoins to drop sharply to about $120.
The attacks could be the work of malicious hackers who were trying to "game" the exchange and manipulate the value of Bitcoins so they could cash in, MTGox said in an interview with ComputerWorld. Attackers are thought to be working to a cycle in which they sell Bitcoins when values are high, then mount an attack that forces prices to crash, buy up the cheaper coins and then let the value climb again.
MTGox said it did not know when or if the attacks would cease but said Bitcoin owners should not panic and sell off as values fluctuated. A spokesman for the exchange added that it was in the middle of rebuilding its trading technology but the new system, which would do a better job of handling the high volume of trades, would not be ready until the end of this year.
In a separate development, Instawallet has shut down "indefinitely" after hackers "fraudulently accessed" its core database. In a statement posted on the Instawallet site it said it planned to open a claim process shortly so people could reclaim their Bitcoin balance.
The collie ran from junction 13 of the M5 at Stroud to junction 12 at Gloucester on Thursday.
Gloucestershire Police closed the motorway and asked drivers to stay in their cars while they captured it.
Officers from North Wales Police were criticised earlier in the week for deliberately running over and killing a dog that was loose on a main road.
After they caught the black and white collie, Gloucestershire Road Police tweeted a picture of the animal in the back of a police car with the caption: "Err, the vets please driver."
The force later tweeted that the dog had been reunited with its owners after it had been checked by a vet.
"PC Wood, who also ran from junction 13 to 12, wasn't taken to the vets and didn't require a defib. Both are recovering well," they added.
North Wales Police received thousands of complaints after the dog was run over on Monday.
The force has since been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
Dozens of demonstrators appeared on a big screen near the main gate of Seoul's historic Gyeongbokgung Palace.
Officials had earlier said the rally's application was submitted incorrectly, warning of a "stern response". But the event was peaceful.
The demonstration was organised by Amnesty International Korea.
"Authorities are banning more and more public protests, especially in central Seoul, citing reasons like traffic jams or public inconvenience," Amnesty's Kim Hee-jin was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
"We wanted to show that the situation has become so restrictive that only ghosts like these may freely march on the street," she added.
The South Korean authorities have been recently been accused of using excessive force to disperse public protests and even banning rallies under the pretext that they cause traffic jams and inconvenience to local residents.
The government in Seoul has repeatedly denied such claims.
The firm said it had identified a battery issue but did not elaborate.
But if a lithium-ion battery cell charges too quickly or a tiny manufacturing error slips through the net it can result in a short circuit - which can lead to fire.
One expert urged the industry to find safer alternatives to lithium.
"I think one should be concerned and push towards safer battery tech," said energy storage expert Professor Clare Grey from Cambridge University.
"That should be an important focus on research and industry development.
"While most manufacturing flaws will be picked up during initial testing, it's not an infallible process."
However Prof Grey also said that people should not panic.
"I'm standing at an airport - every single person would have to stop what they are doing if we took their batteries away from them," she said.
"We all take risks in our lives - we drive cars sitting on top of flammable organic liquids. Other tech is coming along that is safer."
There have only been 35 cases of the Galaxy Note 7 catching fire reported worldwide following 2.5 million sales, Samsung says.
The lithium ion batteries used by Samsung are common across the tech industry - so what makes them hazardous?
It's important to understand a little about how they work. Simply they contain a cathode, an anode and lithium.
The cathode and anode are separated by an organic liquid called an electrolyte and a porous material called the separator.
The lithium travels through the separator, within the liquid, between the two.
If the battery charges too fast, generating heat, lithium plates form around the anode which can create a short circuit.
"Normally you would have a battery management system that controls the rate at which you charge," said Prof Grey.
"Batteries are optimised so that you don't charge too fast - if you do that you will plate the lithium."
This is also why battery charging can be a frustratingly slow experience, she added.
Other faults that can cause a short circuit include contamination by tiny fragments of metal during the production process or minute holes in the sealing, which might not become apparent until the battery has been charged a few times as the materials expand and contract.
"The manufacturing has got a lot more standardised than it was 10 to 15 years ago," said Prof Grey.
However battery packs - combining battery cells to generate more power - can be problematic and this is increasingly common. Batteries containing 12 cells, for example, are readily available for laptops.
"The more you put together, the higher the likelihood that some will fail," she added.
"There are still flaws emerging but it's getting better. It is a challenge - with so many being produced, you just need one error."
There can be symptoms indicating that a battery is about to fail, said support and repairs provider Geek Squad.
"Sometimes, a battery will start to swell and bulge before it fails completely, as the internal cells rupture and break," it says on its website.
"But the bulge doesn't always happen. If not, you might notice that your device is a little warmer than usual - but let's be honest, our phones get fairly warm during standard usage anyway."
The firm suggests disposing of any batteries displaying these signs.
Medway Street, which is just off Dee Street, was closed by police at teatime on Thursday and a number of premises were evacuated.
Police said a pipe-bomb type device had been found and made safe by Army bomb officers.
Residents were allowed to return to their homes at about 22:00 GMT on Thursday.
The Bangor-Belfast rail line was closed for a time as a result of the alert but has since re-opened.
Sheriff Michael Wood took the unusual step of convening court inside a G4S prisoner transport van for a hearing.
Staff were concerned that accused Jamie Wisbey could have scabies, or a similar transmittable condition.
Wisbey, 49, made no plea or declaration over allegations he had a crossbow in Perth, and was remanded in custody.
Wisbey, originally from Plymouth, gave his address as "no fixed abode".
He appeared on a petition alleging he had a crossbow in South Inch, in the centre of Perth, in the early hours of Monday morning.
He was also accused of having been in possession of a bow and arrows at the same place and time, and is charged with having a locking saw blade at the park at at Perth railway station.
His solicitor Billy Somerville had a brief consultation with his client inside the van, where Wisbey was kept in a plastic cell, before Sheriff Wood, the court clerk and procurator fiscal depute Joanne Smith joined them.
A court bar officer and a police officer were also present, but remained outside the van with G4S crew members while the private hearing was conducted.
The case was continued until a later date.
The Group B game in the French city of Lens kicks off at 14:00 BST on Thursday, 16 June.
The BBC will also broadcast Wales' game against Slovakia and Northern Ireland's Group C matches against Poland and world champions Germany.
The Group E matches between the Republic of Ireland and Sweden and Belgium against Italy will also be shown live on the BBC.
The BBC's head of TV sport Philip Bernie said the BBC had got "the most talked about match of the draw" in England v Wales, and will also show the opening matches for Wales and Northern Ireland in what is "such a special year for the home nations".
"Euro 2016 promises to be a standout event in a busy sporting summer on the BBC and we will bring audiences closer to the action than ever before with our most extensive coverage," Bernie added.
"We expect record numbers to enjoy our comprehensive range of content and catch-up services across TV, radio, online, digital, social media and the iPlayer."
Saturday, 11 June:
Albania v Switzerland, 14:00
Wales v Slovakia, 17:00
Sunday, 12 June:
Poland v Northern Ireland, 17:00
Germany v Ukraine, 20:00
Monday, 13 June
Republic of Ireland v Sweden, 17:00
Belgium v Italy, 20:00
Tuesday, 14 June
Portugal v Iceland, 20:00
Wednesday, 15 June
Russia v Slovakia, 14:00
Thursday, 16 June
England v Wales, 14:00
Friday, 17 June
Czech Republic v Croatia, 17:00
Saturday, 18 June
Iceland v Hungary, 17:00
Portugal v Austria, 20:00
Sunday, 19 June
Romania v Albania, 20:00
Switzerland v France, 20:00
Tuesday, 21 June
Ukraine v Poland, 17:00
Northern Ireland v Germany, 17:00
Wednesday, 22 June
Iceland v Austria, 17:00
Hungary v Portugal, 17:00
BBC has the second, third, sixth and eighth picks in the round of 16; first and second pick of the quarter-finals; second pick of the semi-finals, with both BBC and ITV showing the final live on Sunday, 10 July.
Jacqui Thompson, from Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, was sued by Mark James over five posts she made on her blog.
Mrs Thompson also faces a £230,000 legal bill after losing a bid to sue Mr James for libel.
Mr James said he was pleased that the Appeal Court had "dismissed completely" Mrs Thompson's case.
The legal spat developed in June 2011 after Mrs Thompson was removed from a council meeting and arrested after refusing to stop filming it.
The case led to a critical report by the Wales Audit Office (WAO) after Carmarthenshire council indemnified Mr James in his libel counter-claim against Mrs Thompson.
Carmarthenshire has paid out more than £26,000 in external legal costs since 2012 under the decision.
A WAO report found that Carmarthenshire council's decision to pay the court costs of its chief executive in the case was unlawful.
The council said it had taken external legal advice and had consulted the WAO prior to deciding to cover Mr James's court costs. It said the WAO had not raised concerns at that time.
In February councillors agreed to accept the WAO findings but they have not withdrawn the indemnity provision.
Announcing on Wednesday that she had lost her appeal, Mrs Thompson said she found the judgement against her a "miscarriage of justice which I cannot accept but will have to live with".
In a statement via Carmarthenshire council, Mr James said: "I am obviously pleased that Mrs Thompson's appeal was dismissed completely, and that the court agreed with the original judgement and views of the judge. They also awarded her to pay further costs for the appeal.
"Mrs Thompson has conducted a long-running campaign of harassment and defamation.
"It is time Mrs Thompson finally realised that she has done wrong, has been found by the High Court and Court of Appeal to have done wrong and cease her pointless campaign against the council and its officers."
The deal, which has been approved by the boards of both companies, will create the second-biggest firm in the oilfield services industry.
It comes as oil firms react to weak prices by cutting back on exploration.
As a result, they have less need for the hardware and other technology that oilfield service companies provide.
Under the terms of the deal, GE will own 62.5% of the merged company, while Baker Hughes shareholders will own the rest.
The new company will have annual revenues of $32bn (£26bn) and have operations in more than 120 countries.
"Oil and gas customers demand more productive solutions," said GE chief executive Jeff Immelt, who will be chairman of the new business.
"This can only be achieved through technical innovation and service execution, the hallmarks of GE and Baker Hughes."
Singapore has been gripped by the plight of a holidaying Vietnamese factory worker scammed of two months' wages when trying to buy an iPhone 6.
The case and subsequent attempts by Singaporeans to help him have made headlines regionally.
Singapore has long prided itself on being a safe tourist-friendly spot.
An advisory posted on China's Consular Services website noted that there had been "many cases last year" where Chinese tourists were cheated when buying electronic goods.
It said that Chinese tourists who wish to buy mobile phones or other expensive electronic devices in Singapore should first check if the shops they are patronising have had complaints lodged against them.
The Consumer Association of Singapore maintains a list of errant retailers.
China is the fastest growing source of tourists to Singapore, which is also popular with other Asian visitors.
Earlier this week, Singaporean media reported a case where Vietnamese tourist Pham Van Thoai was tricked into signing a phone warranty contract at a mobile shop in a well-known electronics shopping centre,.
The same shop had previously made the news for refunding a Chinese tourist hundreds of dollars in coins.
Concern had already been mounting in Singapore of persistent tourist scams.
But Mr Pham's case provoked nationwide sympathy and outrage at the shop when newspapers published a photo of him sobbing and a video of him begging on his knees for a refund, filmed by shop staff, surfaced online.
Though he called in the police and consumer association officials, he still lost S$550 (£266; $440) - the equivalent of more than two months' worth of wages - and left without a phone.
The incident sparked concern about consumers' rights and apparent damage to Singapore's image as a tourist destination.
Frustrated at the lack of punishment, some netizens have named and shamed the shop's owner and published online his personal details, including his address, phone numbers and photos of him posing shirtless.
Others donated to a crowdfunding campaign started by a Singaporean to reimburse Mr Pham, which has gathered nearly US$12,000. "This is not okay. This is not right. We are not a nation of thieves and cheats," the campaign website said.
Mr Pham however has reportedly said a Singaporean businessman gave him money for a phone, and declined to accept more donations.
The response has been widely covered by Vietnamese media, as well as other South East Asian news outlets, and has drawn appreciative comments from the Vietnamese.
"Thank you Singaporean people... I really admire your kindness and devotion to foreigners like us," said one on Facebook.
Tom Adeyemi gave Rotherham a surprise lead in the 19th minute when he turned in a rebound from keeper Ali Al-Habsi.
Lewis Grabban swept in a powerful volley to level against his former club just two minutes after coming on.
The hosts completed the comeback when John Swift turned in Chris Gunter's cross at the back post to move past Huddersfield into third place.
The Terriers will have a chance to reclaim their position when they play Derby at 17:00 BST, but with Sheffield Wednesday and Fulham both winning, this was an important result for Jaap Stam's side.
Reading were made to work for their win, with Rotherham, who had taken just one point from their last 22 away league games, going in front when Adeyemi bundled in a rebound from Josh Morris' initial header.
The hosts responded with Yakou Meite threatening and Millers defender Semi Ajayi producing a goal-saving challenge on Swift to keep out a rebound off goalkeeper Richard O'Donnell.
Roy Beerens, Yann Kermorgant and Swift all had chances before the one-way traffic finally told; Grabban running onto Garath McCleary's deep cross to smash it low past O'Donnell.
Gunter then overlapped and squared for Swift to tap in and make it 2-1, extending Rotherham's rotten form and keeping Reading in the mix for promotion.
Reading manager Jaap Stam:
"We need our fans even more when we are behind. They need to know that they should support their team, not boo them, when they come off the pitch.
"Compared to what the team has done in the past two seasons, they should appreciate what the players are now doing for them. But if they react like that, I'm not very happy with it.
"The fans need to stick with their team and help them out."
Rotherham manager Paul Warne:
"We tried to keep it and cause Reading problems. To go in 1-0 up at half-time was a good thing.
"I thought that if we could ride the first 20 minutes of the second half, we might be able to get a positive result and then Grabban comes on and scores a worldie and Reading put a lot of pressure on us.
"We didn't keep the ball as well in the second half. We didn't have the ball a lot and when we did get it back, we were a bit fatigued."
Match ends, Reading 2, Rotherham United 1.
Second Half ends, Reading 2, Rotherham United 1.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Richard O'Donnell.
Attempt saved. Danny Williams (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Adrian Popa (Reading) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Mattock (Rotherham United).
Substitution, Reading. Adrian Popa replaces Garath McCleary.
Hand ball by Yann Kermorgant (Reading).
Offside, Rotherham United. Joe Newell tries a through ball, but Jonson Clarke-Harris is caught offside.
John Swift (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Newell (Rotherham United).
Foul by Tyler Blackett (Reading).
Jonson Clarke-Harris (Rotherham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Lewis Grabban (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Garath McCleary with a cross.
Joe Mattock (Rotherham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Danny Williams (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Mattock (Rotherham United).
Substitution, Rotherham United. Jerry Yates replaces Tom Adeyemi.
Hand ball by Joe Newell (Rotherham United).
Foul by Liam Moore (Reading).
Jonson Clarke-Harris (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Reading 2, Rotherham United 1. John Swift (Reading) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Chris Gunter.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Richard O'Donnell (Rotherham United) because of an injury.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Jonson Clarke-Harris replaces Darnell Fisher.
Attempt saved. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris Gunter with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Darnell Fisher (Rotherham United) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Joe Newell (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Reading 1, Rotherham United 1. Lewis Grabban (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Garath McCleary with a cross.
Substitution, Reading. Lewis Grabban replaces Roy Beerens.
Foul by Jordan Obita (Reading).
Darnell Fisher (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Jon Taylor.
Attempt blocked. Liam Kelly (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Joe Mattock.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Semi Ajayi.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Richard O'Donnell.
Attempt saved. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Garath McCleary with a cross.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Darnell Fisher.
Kenny, champion at London 2012, came out on top in the first two races to win the best-of-three final.
Russian Denis Dmitriev beat Australia's Matthew Glaetzer to take bronze.
"It is special, really special," said Kenny, who has now won as many Olympic golds as rower Sir Steve Redgrave and fellow cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins.
Only Sir Chris Hoy, also a cyclist, has won more but Kenny, 28, can equal his mark when he races in the keirin on Tuesday.
"I'm really grateful," he told BBC Sport. "When we win, it feels like the team is winning and we have everyone behind us, pushing us."
"A Great Britain one-two is amazing," said BBC pundit Hoy. "Jason had so much in the tank. He had phenomenal power."
Victory takes Kenny's gold tally in Rio to two after he and Scottish rider Skinner were part of the British team that won the men's team sprint on Thursday.
As well as winning the individual sprint title in 2012, Kenny also claimed a team sprint gold in London.
He also won the team sprint at the 2008 Games, with his solitary silver coming in the individual sprint in Beijing, when he was beaten in the final by Hoy.
The Bolton cyclist's success also continued Britain's track cycling dominance in Rio. They have won four of the six events entered.
Kenny is engaged to Laura Trott, who became the first British woman to win three Olympic golds after helping win the team pursuit title on Saturday.
Trott, 24, won gold in the team pursuit and omnium at London 2012.
She will add a fourth if she defends her title in the latter event, which starts on Monday and concludes on Tuesday.
By the time the Rio Games are over next weekend, the pair could have amassed 10 Olympic golds between them.
After Kenny's win, Trott tweeted: "Ohhhhh myy!!!!! Jason Kenny you are my superhero!! Two down one to go. Can he do the triple?"
British badminton player Chris Adcock: "Fifth Olympic GOLD medal. Unbelievable!!! Absolute Monster. And huge congrats to @CallumSkinner on an amazing Silver!"
British BMX cyclist Liam Phillips: "If only you could see the state of @JasonKenny107 & @CallumSkinner's room... Deffo not Olympic standard!!! #Bombsite."
British cyclist Dame Sarah Storey: "Great job by Jason Kenny & Callum Skinner. That was brilliant."
Former Bolton striker Kevin Davies: "Well done to Bolton's finest Jason Kenny, another gold to add to his collection!!"
Younger people are leading a trend towards buying products without dairy and gluten in particular.
UK supermarkets are increasingly stocking aisles with wide ranges of the products, from biscuits to bolognaise.
"Consumers are associating 'free from' with a natural form of health in general," said Fraser McKevitt of the consumer research firm.
He said that while only about 5% of the population needed to avoid certain food groups for medical reasons, 54% of households joined the trend in the first three months of this year by buying at least one product from the category.
In recent years, a fashion for "clean eating", paleo, vegan and other diets popularised online has boosted the market for specially manufactured products and encouraged supermarkets as well as specialist stores to stock more of them.
Compared with last year's survey, 3.3 million more people had purchased a "free from" product, said Mr McKevitt.
Households containing people aged under 45 were 20% more likely to buy from these ranges. Sales of "free from" products grew 36% compared with a year earlier, he said.
Kantar monitors shoppers' habits using a sample of 30,000 households.
"The majority of products are bought by people who do not identify as having an intolerance," said Mr McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar.
He said shoppers used the label as a short-cut to identify products they believed would be healthier.
Ursula Philpott, a dietician at Leeds Beckett University, said that for the section of the population that did suffer from allergies and intolerances, the increased availability of these products was very helpful, but most of people did not need to avoid any specific food groups.
"A lot of people will be buying these because they've been sold the idea that gluten or dairy are in some way bad for you and that that's science-based, which for most people just isn't the case," she said.
"If we look at studies over the long term, we know the types of diets that lead to us having longer lives or having less disease states are things like Mediterranean diets, which don't include cutting out lots of things."
Kantar Worldpanel's survey also indicated that sales of "free from" products were higher amongst a more affluent demographic, reflected in higher sales of the products at Waitrose and Sainsbury's, compared with those grocers' market share.
But discounters Aldi and Lidl were also selling significant amounts of these products, said Mr McKevitt.
"Meanwhile, inflation shows no signs of abating. The price of everyday goods is up by 2.3% compared to this time last year, and rising prices cost the average household an additional £21.31 during the past 12 weeks," he added.
"We expect inflation to continue to accelerate, and as a result, we're likely to see consumers looking for cheaper alternatives."
The latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel indicate that prices for butter, fish, tea and skincare have risen in the 12 weeks to 26 March, while categories including crisps, bacon, chocolate and fresh poultry have seen prices fall.
Discount retailers Aldi and Lidl have continued to increase sales by about 15%, whereas Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda saw their sales decline slightly. Iceland has also seen a boost to sales.
Aldi and Lidl now account for 11.7% of the UK grocery market.
US comedian Ari Shaffir is 15 minutes late for our interview.
"I get lost a lot," he says apologetically. He is in Scotland, performing at the Edinburgh fringe festival.
He couldn't map app his way to the BBC studio because, for the past 20 months, he has been without a smartphone.
In December 2014, Shaffir was growing concerned about the amount of time he was spending using his iPhone - especially on social media - and was considering abandoning his data plan so that he could only access the internet via wi-fi.
"I was noticing a lot of distraction on my part - constantly checking social media, not to mention email and text," he says.
"You need some of it for work and the rest is distracting you from doing your work. If you post a photo on Instagram you don't need to watch the people saying, 'Yeah I like it' - people are constantly checking their 'likes'."
So when one evening he accidentally left his handset in the back of a taxi, he decided to go cold turkey.
The first six months were difficult.
"I felt withdrawal symptoms at first, kind of the way I felt when I quit smoking," he said.
But he says he now sleeps better, talks to more people and takes more interest in his surroundings as a smartphone-free individual - and jokes that he feels "superior" to his smartphone-absorbed friends.
"I see myself as a sober alcoholic - I can't handle it," he says.
"A lot of my friends said, 'Just use [the phone] less', but that's like walking around with a pack of cigarettes in your pocket and saying just don't smoke."
Dr Andrew Przybylski, an experimental psychologist and research fellow at Oxford University's Internet Institute, thinks the comparison is a little strong.
"There is no scientific evidence that smartphones are addictive in the clinical sense," he told the BBC.
"But because they put so many possibilities at our fingertips they are very attractive."
Dr Przybylski added that there "isn't any good research" as yet to suggest that heavy use of social media causes changes in the brain.
"If anything, brain activation is analogous to having a good conversation with friends or having a chocolate," he added.
Shaffir is not so sure - and he is not alone. Hollywood actor Bill Murray is said never to have had a smartphone and Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur Steve Hilton has written about his decision not to own any sort of mobile phone for the last three years.
"I find the idea that we should all be connected and contactable all the time not just bizarre but menacing," said Mr Hilton, a former adviser to David Cameron.
He admitted to borrowing other people's phones "four or five times a month".
"That's the sum total of the times I find I really need a phone's functionality," he wrote.
Meanwhile Ann Makosinski gave a TEDx Teen talk at the age of 18 about never owning a smartphone.
Like many others, the young Canadian inventor argued that they stifle creativity.
"Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with," she said of her childhood.
"I think in terms of creativity these technologies are a net positive," said Dr Przybylski.
"Looking at the way that younger people use Snapchat and apps to create mash-ups is probably a step forward."
For Ari Shaffir, the constant attention demanded by handsets needs rebalancing.
"It's every moment of your life," he says.
"There needs to be an etiquette built around it and we haven't built it yet."
Perhaps that revolution is under way.
A cocktail bar in East Sussex has "banned" mobile devices by building a Faraday Cage into its walls to block phone signals and Apple has patented technology to prevent smartphone cameras from working at concerts.
Meanwhile, Shaffir is now using a six-year-old Samsung Gravity 3.
"It can text, you can make the font bigger or smaller, and it has over 10 different ring tones," he jokes.
"You cannot get on email, you cannot get on any website. You can tweet via your texting, you just can't check responses."
Should the smartphone industry be worried? Analyst Ben Wood from CCS Insight doesn't think so.
"The smartphone has become part of the fabric of today's society," he said.
"It is the most prolific consumer electronics device on the planet and it seems most people can't live without one.
"As if to underline how pervasive they are as a phenomenon we've now reached a point that there are more smartphones than people in the UK. It seems like the whole population is hooked."
Aguero, who scored five goals in City's win against Newcastle on 3 October, was carried off after 22 minutes.
The 27-year-old is set to have a scan and looks likely to miss Argentina's game against Paraguay next week.
Aguero had only just returned to fitness after a knee injury earlier in the season.
A statement on the City website said: "The striker pulled up holding his left hamstring while chasing a long ball downfield."
The Premier League leaders are next in action against Bournemouth on 17 October.
Elsewhere in South America, Brazil were beaten 2-0 by Chile in their World Cup qualifier, with Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez and Eduardo Vargas scoring the goals.
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Forbes' annual survey of National Football League teams' valuations put the Cowboys at £2.6bn.
It means the American Football side go above Real Madrid, who had topped the magazine's annual poll of the world's most valuable franchises in July.
The Spanish club now trail the Cowboys by £500m according to the new figures.
Last year the Cowboys' revenue was £402m, a record for a US sports team.
Forbes also puts the Cowboys' rise to the number one spot down to the "shrewd" marketing of owner Jerry Jones and the revenue from their home ground, the AT&T Stadium.
The team have the highest NFL average attendance (90,000) and the stadium brings in £78m in revenue from matchday tickets every season and £19m from other events.
The Cowboys have not reached the Super Bowl for 19 years but this is the ninth consecutive year that the Cowboys have been the most valuable NFL team.
The average NFL team is now worth £1.3bn according to Forbes, a 38% increase on last year.
Forbes say one reason is the revenue from their TV deal which last year saw the 32 teams share £2.9bn in national broadcasting revenue.
The team at CR Archaeology discovered the bones in a stone cist grave beneath a wall at Old St Mary's Church, Nefyn - now a maritime museum - 18 months ago.
Tests confirmed she was aged 60 when she died and was buried around 1180.
The team are now working to find out more about her lifestyle and diet.
Archaeologist Matthew Jones, who helped uncover the remains, said the discovery was unusual because while part of the rib cage and spine no longer remained, most of the skeleton was still intact.
This is not often the case for discoveries of this age in Wales because the acidic soil erodes bones, he said.
Mr Jones believes the grave could be one of only a small number of a similar date known in the UK.
Initial tests show the woman was in relatively good health when she died but had arthritis. She had strong bones and muscles but would probably have had a "hard life", Mr Jones said.
Analysis of her bones showed her diet lacked fish, which was unusual as Nefyn was a famous port town at the time she lived.
Further tests are continuing with the hope of finding out more about where the woman came from.
The departures of Opeti Fonua to Newcastle and Jordan Crane to Bristol has weakened Tigers in the back row, but Lachlan McCaffrey and Ed Slater have both played as a number eight.
McAffrey started the first Premiership match of the season against Gloucester.
"We have got good coverage," Cockerill told BBC Radio Leicester.
"We have guys doing a very good job there but they are probably a hybrid of all three [back-row] positions.
"But we are looking for someone to potentially come into that starting slot.
"When we find the right person we will try to make that signing. If we don't find the right fit, then the lads that are there now are doing a great job and will get better the more they play.
"There is no point rushing in and getting the wrong person. The quality of the person and the dynamic of the fit with the profile of the player we want is the key part."
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Sheriff David Clarke is being sued by Dan Black, who claims he was held after he spoke to the police official on board a flight from Texas to Wisconsin.
Mr Clarke allegedly texted a police official to follow Mr Black to baggage at the airport, federal records show.
He claims Mr Black stood over him in a "physically threatening manner".
"Just a field interview, no arrest unless he becomes an a**hole with your guys," the Milwaukee County sheriff allegedly wrote in a text message to Captain Mark Witek, the Milwaukee Journal-Setinel reported.
"Question for him is why he said anything to me. Why didn't he just keep his mouth shut. Follow him to baggage and out the door. You can escort me to carousel after I point him out."
A copy of the text messages was given to the newspaper by an attorney for Mr Black, who is suing the sheriff, Milwaukee County and several deputies over the matter.
A spokeswoman for the sheriff, Fran McLaughlin, declined to comment on the text messages, according to the newspaper.
Mr Black said he approached Mr Clarke to ask him if he was the sheriff after boarding a flight from Fort-Worth Dallas, Texas, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 15 January.
He claimed he shook his head after the sheriff asked him if he had a problem and walked away.
Mr Black said he was later detained, questioned and escorted out of the airport upon arrival by several officers in uniform and a police dog.
The sheriff's lawyers claim Mr Black approached Mr Clarke, stood over him in a threatening manner and stared before he "shook his head at him for a prolonged period of time", according to court records.
Federal investigators launched an inquiry into the incident, but said earlier this month they would not criminally prosecute any civil rights offences.
After Mr Black filed the complaint in January, the sheriff's office mocked him in a Facebook post, calling him a "snowflake" and saying anyone who would harass him on a plane might get "knocked out".
Milwaukee County auditors are also probing whether Mr Clarke abused resources in ordering Mr Black's detention.
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The footage shows two officers confronting Alfred Olango before one of them shoots him dead in a car park in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon.
The police said the man, a Ugandan refugee, had been behaving erratically at the time.
But his mother said he was having a mental breakdown and needed help.
The shooting of Mr Olango led to violent protests in El Cajon.
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Police said they shot the 38-year-old when he pulled an object that turned out to be an e-cigarette from his pocket and pointed it at a police officer.
One of the videos of the incident was recorded by a surveillance camera mounted at the window of a drive-through restaurant, while another came from the mobile phone of a bystander.
In the second video, which lasts less than 20 seconds, a woman can be heard shouting: "Officer don't shoot him!" before at least four shots ring out and she screams.
El Cajon police chief Jeff Davis said Mr Olango died after one officer fired an electronic stun gun and another officer simultaneously fired his firearm several times.
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The man - whose name has not been released - is now in quarantine at an infectious diseases facility outside the capital Bangkok.
Thai health officials said the 75-year-old from Oman was seeking treatment for a heart problem in Bangkok.
Nearly 60 people who came into contact with the patient have been identified.
That includes three relatives who travelled with him on the plane.
Thailand is a medical tourism hub, popular with patients from the Middle East.
"We advise the public not to panic because the patient and his family members were separated since the beginning," Thailand's Health Minister Rajata Rajatanavin said.
"Our system is ready and we are monitoring the cases closely."
South Korea on Friday reported the 24th death from Mers and said there were now 166 people infected. Thousands are still in quarantine.
The number of new cases in recent days has been low and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Margaret Chan expressed optimism over containing the outbreak being contained there.
South Korean health official Kwon Deok-cheol told reporters Mers had "levelled off" but added: "We need to watch further spread, further cases from so-called intensive control hospitals."
The outbreak in South Korea began in May with a 68-year-old South Korean man who had travelled to the Middle East.
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Sadiq Khan told the BBC: "I'm keen for it to happen."
But he said he needed to speak to the government to find "the best way" to mark the athletes' achievements in Rio de Janeiro.
A Downing Street spokesman said the government would set out its plans for a celebration in due course.
"We want to make sure that the fantastic achievements of our Olympic heroes are properly recognised and we are working on plans to celebrate their success," he said.
Team GB is currently ranked second in the Rio 2016 medals table, with 56 in total - including 22 gold.
London has hosted victory parades for returning Olympic and Paralympic athletes since the 2004 Athens Games.
But four-time Olympic gold medal winner Sir Matthew Pinsent has raised doubts as to whether a parade will happen.
He tweeted: "Heard from 2 different sources today that there won't be a @TeamGB parade this year."
Meanwhile, there are calls for the parade to be held outside the capital.
On Thursday, former Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme "there should certainly be a parade", but it was a question of where to have it.
"We don't necessarily want to insist that every moment of national celebration is held in London. What about Birmingham? What about Manchester? Hull will be the city of culture," she said.
Former Labour Sports Minister Richard Caborn told the Daily Mail: "It should not just be another big event in London for the tourists - why shouldn't it be in Sheffield, or in Leeds?"
Smaller parades are expected to be held for individual athletes in their home towns.
The town council in Stone, Staffordshire, has said it will hold a parade for K1 slalom gold medallist Joe Clarke, 23, who will be hoisted aloft in his kayak on 29 August.
Recent photos of Major Mariam al-Mansouri in her F-16 jet were released as a report circulated that she had led her squadron in Tuesday's raids.
While the UAE is a largely conservative state, it has seen pioneering efforts to allow women to occupy top jobs.
A son of Saudi Crown Prince Salman, Khaled, also joined the air strikes.
Commenting on the involvement of Major Mansouri, a UAE source told AFP news agency that a "coalition Western officer was surprised when she called in to refuel from [an] aerial tanker".
News of her mission electrified sections of social media, with tweeters hailing her as "the woman of the day" and using the hash tag "ladyliberty" to praise her. Angry Islamist sympathisers denounced her "criminal" act.
Some 38,000 out of 199,000 international flights that ran at least once a day departed late between June and September 2016.
Most were from London airports - Luton, Stansted, Gatwick and Heathrow.
The BBC analysed Civil Aviation Authority data from 25 airports.
The figures do not cover flights that were cancelled.
Gatwick had the biggest proportion of flights delayed by 30 minutes or more, with almost a third of all international departures affected.
BBC England's data unit found:
Radio presenter Steve Power was flying on a British Airways flight from Gatwick to Limoges in France last week that was delayed by almost three hours.
He said: "It's the total lack of information as to why there is a delay. So many social platforms and nothing but estimated time of departure updated. Other passengers were equally in the dark and shared the exasperation over the lack of detailed information.
"Surely in these days of social media platforms a little more transparency would go a long way in raising passenger confidence in the service."
Under EU law, you have the right to claim compensation if your flight arrives at its destination over three hours late. EU law covers flights departing from or arriving to an EU country.
You can claim compensation if the delay was the fault of the airline, such as aircraft problems or flight crew being unavailable, according to the Civil Aviation Authority.
However, delays caused by extreme weather, airport or air traffic control employee strikes, airport closures or other extraordinary circumstances are not eligible for compensation.
Even if you cannot claim compensation, your airline must provide you with care and assistance.
Care and assistance include a reasonable amount of food and drink and accommodation if delayed overnight, as well as transport to and from the accommodation.
If you end up paying for any of the above yourself, the CAA recommends keeping every receipt and not spending more than is reasonable.
Advice on claiming compensation and a standard letter are available on the CAA website.
A spokesman for Gatwick said the airport would continue to do everything possible to prevent delays occurring.
"Repeated strike action on the continent over recent years and heavily congested airspace above parts of Europe and London, have led to a significant increase in the number of delays caused by wider air traffic control issues outside Gatwick's control," he added.
"Gatwick has more flights to Europe than any UK airport and is impacted disproportionately by events on the continent."
A spokesperson for Belfast International Airport said: "We do all we can to minimise delays.
"Our on-time performance is generally very good but sometimes we, too, fall victim to things that are outside our control.
"There is congested airspace in London and across Europe and it is clear there is a need to make improvements in aviation infrastructure."
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The long-running Yorkshire-based series beat EastEnders, Coronation Street, Doctors and Hollyoaks.
Emmerdale's Danny Miller, who plays Aaron Livesy, won both best actor and best male dramatic performance.
EastEnders actress Lacey Turner picked up the best actress and best female dramatic performance awards for her role as Stacey Branning.
The award for best storyline went to EastEnders for Stacey's postpartum psychosis.
Fellow EastEnders star Steve McFadden, who has played Phil Mitchell for 26 years in the BBC One soap, received an outstanding achievement award.
In a pre-recorded message broadcast at the London ceremony, he paid tribute to Dame Barbara Windsor, who played his mother in the soap and left the show earlier this month.
"Last but not least, I must mention Barbara Windsor, who has been an absolute pleasure to work with, and a wonderful, wonderful person and friend in my life.
"Thank you Barbara for everything."
Other winners included BBC One's Doctors for best episode for the Heart of England, while EastEnders' Bonnie Langford was named best newcomer.
Coronation Street's Connor McIntyre won best villain for his portrayal of Pat Phelan in the ITV soap.
The awards, voted for by the public, took place at the Hackney Empire and were hosted by Phillip Schofield.
A sharp rise in cases was seen in women under 50 in low-income nations, say US experts.
Women in richer countries fared better due in part to screening, medicines, anti-smoking policies and vaccines, they report in the Lancet.
The research backs calls for world leaders to make cancer prevention a priority in the developing world.
The new global statistics from hundreds of cancer registries worldwide found there were about 2 million new cases of breast and cervical cancer in 2010, and 625,000 deaths.
The analysis, by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Seattle, highlighted a sharp rise in breast and cervical cancer among younger women in developing countries.
Cancer charities and scientists are calling for these diseases to be given a similar global priority to maternal mortality.
Worldwide figures on breast cancer show cases are rising every year at a rate of about 3%, while death rates are also rising - at about 2% a year.
According to experts, this is driven partly by the ageing population and partly by a host of other factors, including diet, obesity, genetics, economics and the availability of national screening programmes.
Research evidence shows that some of these deaths are preventable, through early screening and treatment for breast cancer, HPV vaccination for cervical cancer, cervical cancer screening and anti-smoking measures.
The question for policy-makers is how to make such programmes available to more women around the world.
Vaccines against the virus linked to cervical cancer, for example, will only be used more widely when the cost falls.
Broad actions are warranted, supported by global funds, say public health experts.
In the past, complications during childbirth and pregnancy were among the leading causes of death in women of reproductive age in the developing world.
However, current trends suggest breast and cervical cancer deaths are starting to overtake, in poorer countries.
Study co-author, Dr Alan Lopez, of the University of Queensland, Australia, said: "We have poured an enormous amount of resources into addressing the serious concern of maternal mortality worldwide, and we've seen a great deal of progress.
"To expand that commitment, breast and cervical cancer need to become a standard part of the efforts aimed at saving more mothers' lives."
The research in 187 countries for the period 1980-2010 highlighted stark differences in a woman's chances of developing, and surviving, cancer.
In the UK, a woman's risk of dying from breast cancer has fallen from 1 in 32 in 1980, to 1 in 47 by 2010. In countries such as Rwanda, however, the trend has reversed, with 1 in 60 women now at risk, compared with 1 in 97 in 1980.
Dr Rafael Lozano, professor of global health at IHME, another co-author of the paper, said the world used to think of breast cancer as a problem for high-income countries but as the world has become more globalised, this is starting to change.
"The main known risk factors for breast cancer - poor diet and obesity - are now becoming more commonplace in poor countries," he said.
"We have found that while countries such as the United States and United Kingdom have been able to lower the risks of women dying from breast cancer, through better screening and treatment, countries with fewer resources are seeing the risks go up."
With cervical cancer, the number of cases and deaths are rising more slowly than breast cancer, he added, with the number of deaths from cervical cancer going down in high-income countries.
"Our concern is that this is a disease that is almost entirely preventable through safe sex practices and early detection, yet it continues to kill nearly a half a million women every year.
"With the right investments and targeted policies, like the ones we have seen in places such as the UK, we can reverse this trend."
The Editors Guild said it "condemns any attempt to muzzle the media".
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided the offices of NDTV and the homes of its promoters on Monday in connection with an alleged case of financial misconduct.
NDTV denied any wrongdoing and accused the government of "a witch hunt".
The channel, which has often criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies, said in a statement that "the ruling party's politicians cannot stomach" its independence and fearlessness.
"The raid is merely another attempt at silencing the media," it said.
The CBI said it was investigating claims that the channel's promoters had "caused a loss of 480m rupees [£5.8m; $7.5m] to a bank".
The agency said NDTV founder Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika took a loan of about 3.5bn rupees from ICICI bank in 2008 after pledging their entire shareholding (about 61%) in the company as collateral.
The CBI said a private complainant had accused NDTV's promoters of violating banking laws, which do not permit more than 30% of the share capital to be pledged as collateral.
It further added that the bank also gave the Roys a waiver of about 10% in interest payment, leading to the loss of $7.5m.
"Consequent undue advantage was accrued [to the Roys]. It was also alleged that the bank did not insist on recovery of the entire loan amount when the promoters had adequate source of funding," the agency said.
In a later statement the CBI denied it had raided the newsroom of NDTV.
The channel said in a statement that the entire loan amount was paid in full seven years ago.
"Even though millions of rupees of dues have not been paid by several industrialists and no criminal case has yet been registered against any of them by the CBI," it said.
"NDTV and its promoters have never defaulted on any loan to ICICI or any other bank."
Several journalists have defended the network, saying the government was trying to silence the media through CBI raids.
This is not the first time the government and NDTV have been at loggerheads.
Last year the information and broadcasting ministry banned NDTV India, the network's Hindi channel, for a day on the grounds that it had aired sensitive information about a key military operation.
The channel had denied the allegation.
Mr Modi's government has also been accused of cold-shouldering news organisations which criticise its policies.
Earlier this year his entire cabinet boycotted The Economic Times newspaper's summit, which ministers have traditionally attended in the past.
Let it Shine, co-presented by Graham Norton and Mel Giedroyc, will search for a band to take part in a stage show featuring the music of Take That.
Barlow will be joined by three mentors each week in the eight-week run.
The announcement comes after the BBC lost the rights to their Saturday night talent show The Voice to ITV.
A statement about the show said they will be looking for people who "exude the charisma, showmanship and stage presence" of Take That.
Barlow said the secret to the band's success was their chemistry, which is what they will be looking for with the new show.
"Back in 1989, we were just a group of normal guys from Manchester who came together.
"The secret to our success was that each of us brought something different to the group and that the five of us had real chemistry.
"Now with Let It Shine we're looking for people from all walks of life to form another unique group who can recreate that magic. If you think you've got what it takes, we want to see it!"
Graham Norton has hosted a number of talent search shows for the BBC, including finding stars of Oliver!, The Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz.
He said he believes this show will follow in their successful footsteps.
"The combination of the BBC, everyone's favourite band and Saturday nights made this an offer I simply couldn't refuse. If I wasn't a part of Let It Shine, I know I would be watching it at home - this way I just get the best seat in the house."
The press release for the new programme reveals footage seen on 30 May, when Gary Barlow surprised shoppers in Bristol with an impromptu concert, was a promotion for the new show.
Charlotte Moore, BBC Controller of TV Channels said they hope the show "will bring families together to celebrate Britain's love of musical theatre, combining singing, performance and dance in a hotly contested search to find a new group."
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) will analyse how forces in England and Wales respond, Amber Rudd said.
It comes after figures showed there have been more than 6,000 reports of hate crime to police since mid June.
The review will also look at how hate crime and abuse is handled in schools.
Meanwhile, the government has announced its plan to tackle hate crime in England and Wales.
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Ms Rudd has commissioned HMIC to carry out a "scoping study" into forces' understanding of and response to hate crime of all types, including crimes against the disabled.
"That will help to give confidence, to give reassurance, and also to make sure communities who feel they're experiencing too much hate crime are able to get that confidence back from the police that it's being addressed," she said.
The government's action plan includes:
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There is clear evidence that hate crime is under-reported to police - perhaps only a quarter of incidents get logged - and victims are more likely to be dissatisfied with the response they receive than people reporting other crimes.
So a great deal of this new action plan is squarely aimed at improving what the police and officials know about what's going on and how they then respond.
One potentially important measure is a renewed push to get hard-to-reach groups, such as some minorities, to record incidents accurately to help the police see the bigger intelligence picture.
Other measures will need manpower and resources - such as a proposed database of the often coded symbols and slogans used in online hate.
But the fact that the Home Office is going to renew what it knows about neo-Nazis arguably speaks volumes: the government wants to be seen to be taking hate crime seriously.
Its critics ask why has it taken so long.
On Monday, the government urged prosecutors to push for tougher sentences for people committing hate crimes, following a rise in incidents after the EU referendum.
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Figures released last week showed more than 6,000 alleged hate crimes and incidents were reported to police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in four weeks from the middle of last month.
The daily rate peaked at 289 on 25 June, the day after the referendum result was announced.
Incidents of hate crime in late June included the distribution of cards bearing the words "no more Polish vermin", and numerous reports of non-white people being told to leave the country.
Ms Rudd said hatred had "no place whatsoever in a 21st Century Great Britain".
"We are Great Britain because we are united by values such as democracy, free speech, mutual respect and opportunity for all," she said.
Professor Peter Davey said a culture of fear prevented errors being reported and lessons learned.
He highlighted a pilot project in Tayside in which trainee doctors and medical students are encouraged to record adverse incidents.
It has led to a 17-fold increase in the number of reported mistakes.
The trainees and students are actively supported when they report errors, which are then reflected on and reviewed alongside senior colleagues so that lessons can be learned.
The intention is to provide a non-judgemental means of learning from the incidents so they are less likely to be repeated.
Prof Davey, the lead for clinical quality improvement at the University of Dundee, said this was crucial in allowing future standards of care to be improved.
Data from the National Patient Safety Agency has suggested that only 10-15% of adverse incidents across the UK are currently reported by doctors.
Prof Davey said this was largely because the culture within the NHS discourages doctors from reporting errors for fear of having blame apportioned.
In contrast, the pilot has led to a dramatic increase in the number of adverse incidents reported by foundation year trainees in Tayside, from about five reports in 2005/06 to more than 90 in 2011/12.
Prof Davey said the Tayside approach had much wider potential and should now be rolled out across Scotland.
He added: "Traditionally, clinical advice has been cascaded from senior consultants down to trainee doctors and medical students and the culture within the profession and the NHS has not encouraged the open reporting of mistakes.
"This model turns this on its head and is about the tremendous positive potential for trainee-led, or bottom up, quality improvement."
The professor pointed to the Francis Report into events at Mid Staffordshire, which highlighted the negative culture within the NHS, the need to put patients at the centre of care and the need for a range of quality improvements.
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh has recently highlighted the potential for these events to be repeated in any hospital in the UK, including Scotland, and called for the NHS to refocus on the quality of patient care.
Prof Davey said: "Trainee-led quality improvements as demonstrated in Tayside offer an innovative and potent method of doing this and it is important that the NHS engages and harnesses the potential of these doctors if we wish to improve standards of care."
The professor is due to speak at a conference on professionalism and excellence in modern medicine in Edinburgh on Thursday.
The conference has been organised to provide a focus for discussing how doctors, including trainee doctors - the next generation of consultants - can influence improvement in all aspects of medical care within the NHS.
Dr Kerri Baker, chairwoman of the Scottish Academy Trainee Doctors' Group, said: "Today's trainee doctors will be the consultants of tomorrow and the future of patient care in Scotland.
"As such, it is essential to instil in them the values, standards and practices that both patients and doctors aspire to for healthcare in Scotland.
"We must also aim to treat patients in a way that we would expect our own families to be treated when receiving care."
The party lost a legal challenge to its rules banning anyone who joined as a member after 12 January from taking part unless they paid an extra £25.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour's appeal was "disappointing".
The party said it would defend the right of its governing NEC "to uphold the rule book".
The court's decision, handed down on Monday, could add between 126,592 and 150,000 people to the list of those eligible to vote in the contest - according to different estimates.
The ruling is thought likely to benefit leader Jeremy Corbyn over challenger Owen Smith, who earlier branded Mr Corbyn "useless" and said he had "fractured" the Labour Party.
Mr Corbyn, speaking in Bristol, where he is attending a campaign rally, said: "The judge seemed very clear that his decision was all members of the party should have a right to vote in the leadership contest. Surely that has to be the right decision."
A Labour spokesman said: "The Procedures Committee of the NEC has decided that the Labour Party will appeal [against] this ruling in order to defend the NEC's right, as Labour's governing body, to uphold the rule book, including the use of freeze dates."
Mr Smith is calling for the leadership contest - due to end on 24 September - to be extended "so that all members have the opportunity to engage with Jeremy and me before making their choice".
Mr McDonnell, who is running Mr Corbyn's re-election campaign, claimed the decision to appeal had been taken by a "small clique" that opposed the Labour leader and warned it could cost the party "hundreds of thousands of pounds".
It was "an attack on the basic democratic rights of members in our party", he said.
Mr Smith said it was up to the NEC to decide whether to appeal and it was not right for Mr McDonnell, or himself, to "interfere" in its decisions.
But he added: "Whatever the rules are I am just going to play by them and continue to make my case and at the end of this I am confident that I can persuade the Labour Party that I am the right man to lead us."
The judge was unequivocal - the five Labour members who had claimed they had been disenfranchised in the leadership contest had "wholly succeeded" in establishing their right to vote.
But the implications aren't as clear cut.
Certainly it's an administrative nightmare for Labour officials - they will have to send out something in the region of an extra 125,000 ballot papers in the next two weeks, unless the party wins its appeal on Thursday.
But the key question is: Who benefits if the newer members are allowed to vote?
The widespread assumption is that they are likely to be more sympathetic to Jeremy Corbyn - joining to help rescue his beleaguered leadership.
That's why a narrow majority of Labour NEC members introduced the six month rule at a controversial meeting in July when the leader had left the room.
But many of the "disenfranchised" are likely to have registered subsequently as supporters, gaining a vote by this route.
Owen Smith says he is happy with the outcome but the fact that the ruling was welcomed most warmly and swiftly by those close to Jeremy Corbyn is a big clue as to which side sees this as a victory.
The five members that brought the legal challenge argued the ban amounted to a breach of contract, saying they had "paid their dues" for a right to vote.
The High Court case was triggered after the NEC decided that full members could only vote if they had at least six months' continuous membership up to July 12 - the "freeze date".
But the party offered a window from 18-20 July when they - and non-members - could pay £25 to become "registered supporters" and gain the right to vote.
Delivering his judgement, Mr Justice Hickinbottom said: "For the party to refuse to allow the claimants to vote in the current leadership election, because they have not been members since 12 January 2016, would be unlawful as in breach of contract."
The judge said at the time each of the five joined the party "it was the common understanding" that they would be entitled to vote in any leadership contest.
Kate Harrison, solicitor for the claimants said it was "a good day for democracy".
She said that under the ruling, those who had paid £25 to become a registered supporter could now claim their money back.
It is not known how many of the new members paid extra to get a vote in the contest.
Asked whether they should be refunded if they are allowed a vote after all, a move that could cost the party several million pounds, Mr McDonnell said the NEC "will have to abide" by the court's decision.
Reacting to the ruling, Edward Leir - one of the claimants - said the court's ruling was a "victory for equality and inclusion".
The others in the group - who have been crowdfunded and are seeking to raise £40,000 to cover their legal costs - were Christine Evangelou, Hannah Fordham, Chris Granger and "FM", a new member aged under 18.
Mr Hunt said an annual review of 2,000 cases of patients who later died would allow hospitals to be ranked according to avoidable mortality rates.
Mr Hunt said there were about 1,000 avoidable deaths in the NHS per month.
Labour called the plans "insufficiently ambitious" and said it would review the case notes of all such patients.
The announcement from Mr Hunt comes as new research suggests hundreds of deaths were probably avoided because of a decision to put 11 failing English hospital trusts into special measures.
Mr Hunt said the notes taken by staff relating to the treatment of a sample of 2,000 patients who later died would be examined every year to determine whether mistakes had been made.
These statistics would be used to establish a national rate of avoidable deaths.
As part of the drive, hospital chairmen will have to update the health secretary every year with their plans to eradicate avoidable deaths.
Mr Hunt also promised additional training for new clinical staff.
"I'm determined to go even further in rooting out poor care, and have ordered a national case-note review to work out the percentage of avoidable deaths by hospital," he said.
"I want all hospital boards to have a laser-like focus on eradicating avoidable deaths in their organisation; even one life lost to poor care or safety error is too many."
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "The review will be used to establish a national rate of avoidable deaths every year, and on that basis place individual hospitals into bandings according to the number of deaths estimated locally."
Labour said it would "look at the detail, but from what we have seen this does not appear ambitious enough". It added it was "looking at whether we can go further and have a mandatory review of case notes for every death in hospital - not just for a sample of cases as Jeremy Hunt proposes".
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said that with the general election just three months away, the prize of being perceived as a trusted custodian of the NHS was highly sought after by all political parties.
He said the existing estimate of 12,000 annual avoidable deaths in the NHS was seen by the health secretary as broadly in line with similar healthcare systems abroad, such as those in France and Germany, but was still too high.
Hospital mortality rates expert Professor Nick Black said: "A national annual review would place England as the first country in the world to monitor the extent of avoidable deaths, and provide a basis for stimulating quality improvement in each individual hospital."
On Saturday, the health service ombudsman warned the NHS over shortcomings in the way it investigated cases where poor care resulted in death or injury.
Dame Julie Mellor said she had found that 40% of investigations into patient complaints were inadequate.
That month I met Dr Sue Black outside one of the dilapidated huts where Alan Turing and thousands of others had worked to break German codes.
Dr Black, then a lecturer at the University of Westminster, had got a hundred fellow computing academics to sign a letter to the Times lamenting the neglect of Bletchley Park.
That helped to start a hugely successful campaign to restore the site, and now her contribution has been recognised with the award of an OBE in the New Year Honours list.
Today, many of the huts at Bletchley have been refurbished and the museum, which tells the story of a place which Churchill said had shortened the war by at least two years, has attracted nearly 300,000 visitors in 2015.
Sue Black had launched her campaign after a visit to the site had left her upset by what she saw, describing Bletchley Park as a "gem" whose condition was a "national disgrace".
Others had been battling for years to make the same case without much success, but in 2008 social media was just beginning to play an important role in campaigning, and Dr Black made full use of it.
Twitter luminaries including Stephen Fry added their voices to the call for action, and Google was among a number of technology companies to put both money and influence behind the campaign.
The Bletchley Park Trust congratulated Dr Black on the award and said: "Thousands of people, including Sue Black, contributed to the saving of Bletchley Park over more than two decades. Without their collective work, the site would have been lost forever."
Sue Black told me the award of the OBE for services to technology was a "wonderful surprise", and she describes the Bletchley Park campaign as "my proudest achievement."
But she has also been an inspiration to women wanting to get involved in the technology world.
Having left school at 16, she only began her university education at the age of 25 as a single mother with three children, and went on to found the UK's first online network for women in tech.
And another woman who has been an inspirational figure in technology is also recognised in the New Year Honours.
The co-founder of Code Club, Clare Sutcliffe, receives an MBE for services to technology education.
The organisation, which uses volunteers to teach children how to program computers, was launched in 2012 and now runs clubs in schools right across the UK.
The announcement comes on the fifth day of a general strike over the removal of a fuel subsidy, which has caused fuel prices and transport fares to double.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets, while several people have died in clashes with police.
A union official told the BBC the government had offered to reintroduce a small subsidy at talks on Thursday.
Nigeria Labour Congress chairman Abdul Waheed Omar said this would mean petrol would now cost 120 naira ($0.74; £0.49) a litre, down from the new price of 140 naira but still far higher than the former price of 65 naira.
He said this offer would now be put to NLC members.
Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the government had "put an offer on the table" during "very encouraging" talks.
Is Nigeria on the brink after north-south clashes?
NLC official Isa Aremu told Reuters news agency that protests on Friday would be "minimal".
"We are conscious of the security situation given it is Friday and Friday is a day of prayer" for Muslims, he said.
The mass action over the fuel subsidy comes as President Goodluck Jonathan also tries to tackle a new wave of sectarian violence.
'Energised'
The main unions jointly announced there would be no mass rallies or protests over the weekend and flights would resume, enabling delegates to travel to the capital, Abuja, for talks.
The oil workers' unions had said they would cut oil production in Africa's biggest exporter, starting from Sunday.
By Richard HamiltonBBC News
As a new wave of sectarian violence hits Nigeria, the government has been unable to solve the deep historical rifts between the mainly Muslim north and the Christian-dominated south. But it seems to have unintentionally brought people together in their anger about the removal of the fuel subsidy - an unexpectedly positive consequence.
Over the last few days in Kaduna - normally one of the most volatile regions - thousands of Muslims and Christians came together wearing T-shirts and holding placards with slogans such as "Stop Fighting" and "Nigerians Unite".
When Muslims prayed, Christians formed a human chain to protect them and vice versa. Hundreds acted out a similar scene in the northern city of Kano on Monday and two days later in the capital, Abuja.
On Friday, a special prayer session is being held in Lagos with Christians and Muslims coming together.
Of course Nigeria's deep-seated divisions are not going to disappear forever, but for now at least Nigerians appear to be speaking with one voice and forging unusually strong bonds.
Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who has backed the subsidy removal, told Reuters the strike was costing the economy more than $600m (£391m) a day.
"We want to make sure that [on] Saturday and Sunday people - we - relax and get energised," the NLC head told a rally in Abuja.
If the government does not reverse its decision to the cut the subsidy over the weekend, the strike would resume, he warned.
"We are going to come out on Monday very strong. It is going to be the mother of all crowds."
Oil accounts for some 80% of Nigeria's state revenues but after years of corruption and mismanagement, it has hardly any capacity to refine crude oil into fuel, which has to be imported.
The government has promised to use the $8bn it spends each year on the subsidy to improve schools, health care and electricity supply.
But many poor Nigerians fear it will just end up in officials' pockets, while they see cheap fuel as the only benefit they get from their country's oil wealth.
Last month, the government released a list of the biggest beneficiaries of the subsidy, who included some of Nigeria's richest people - the owners of fuel-importing firms.
The industrial unrest in Nigeria - along with the increasing threat of an embargo on Iranian fuel exports - has led to a rise in international oil prices.
While the strike this week has paralysed the country and brought tens of thousands onto the streets, oil workers had not yet moved to halt output of crude.
Some analysts have suggested the unions would not be able to halt production, but the authorities have expressed concern about the prospect.
Presidency sources told Reuters that both sides in the negotiations may have to agree on a temporary fixed price for petrol.
Nigerians are heavy users of fuel, not just for cars but to power generators that many households and businesses use to cope with the country's erratic electricity supply.
Pakistani authorities on Tuesday released a video in which the man is shown confessing that he was involved in spying activities.
"There can be no clearer evidence of Indian interference in Pakistan," army spokesman Lt-Gen Asim Bajwa said.
Delhi said the man was an Indian national, but dismissed spying charges and said he was "clearly tutored".
"Government categorically rejects allegations that this individual was involved in subversive activities in Pakistan at our behest," India's foreign ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said in a statement to media.
Mr Swarup added that India was "concerned" about the arrested man's well-being and added that "it is also relevant to note here that despite our request, we have not been given consular access to an Indian national under detention in a foreign country, as is the accepted international practice".
Pakistan officials have said the man was a serving Indian navy officer and was trying to "sponsor terrorism" in Balochistan.
"If an intelligence or an armed forces officer of this rank is arrested in another country, it is a big achievement," Lt-Gen Mr Bajwa said.
Hooker Richard Hibbard and prop John Afoa return as David Humphreys makes 10 changes to the team which beat the French side 35-14 on 8 December.
Lewis Ludlow, Jacob Rowan and Ben Morgan also start in the pack, while Callum Braley starts at scrum-half.
James Hook takes David Halaifonua's spot at full-back, with Jonny May and Charlie Sharples on the wings.
Stade Rochelais: Murimurivalu; Lacroix, Jordaan, Aguillon, Rattez; James, Bales; Corbel, Forbes, Atonio, Qovu, Tanguy, Sazy, Eaton (capt.), Vito.
Replacements: Maurouard, Priso, Boughanmi, Cedaro, Francoz, Retiere, Holmes, Botia.
Gloucester: Hook; Sharples, Scott, Atkinson, May; Burns, Braley (capt.); Hohneck, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Thrush, Ludlow, Rowan, Morgan.
Replacements: Matu'u, Thomas, Doran-Jonesm Latta, Galarza, Heinz, Purdy, Kvesic.
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The petrochemical company's licence covers 329 square kilometres of the Midland Valley around its Stirlingshire site.
The British Geological Survey has estimated there are "modest" shale gas and oil resources in the area.
Grangemouth is being developed to import shale gas ethane from the US.
Vast amounts of the gas have been extracted in the US using the controversial process of fracking.
The announcement came as campaigners staged protests around the country for a day of action against developing fracking in the UK.
Gary Haywood, chief executive of Ineos Upstream, the company's new oil and gas exploration and production business, said: "This is a logical next step for Ineos and we are very excited about it.
"With our large asset base, existing operational capabilities and exemplary safety and environmental record, we are well placed to become a major player in the UK onshore gas production sector."
He added: "Over the last year Ineos Upstream has been drawing together a team of experts in the sector, including a number of leading shale exploration and development specialists from the US.
"This expertise gives us the perfect platform to move into onshore exploration."
Thomas Telfer, 48, and his nephew James Telfer, 31, both of Maryhill, used air guns in the raid on Price Cutter, in the Riddrie area, in October 2015.
They left empty-handed after staff forced them out and were traced through a tobacco pouch they left at the scene.
Both men admitted assault, robbery and firearms charges. Thomas Telfer was jailed for five years and James Telfer was ordered to serve 45 months.
Passing sentence at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lady Scott said she had no other option but to send the pair to prison.
The court heard that following the failed raid, police discovered a tobacco packet which was of a type the shop did not sell.
This later linked the two men to the raid and they were arrested by police.
Thomas Telfer's solicitor advocate, Philip McWilliams, told the court that his client owed money to drug dealers.
Mr McWilliams added: "He was blamed by drug dealers for a package which had gone missing from a bookmakers in the Maryhill area of Glasgow.
"This package was worth approximately £40,000 and he was told he must recompense the people concerned for the loss of this package.
"He expresses remorse for his role in the incident."
James Telfer's solicitor advocate, Eddie Gilroy, told the court that his client had appreciated that he had placed the two shop workers under stress.
He added: "He fully appreciates that this was a terrifying incident for those individuals who were caught up in the incident."
The number of people who stated they had no religion increased from 269,800 to 468,400, the census found.
Some 3,729,100 people identified as Catholic - 78.3% of the population - compared to 84.2% in April 2011.
The census was held in April 2016; its details were released on Thursday.
The number of people identifying as members of the Church of Ireland dropped by 2% to 126,400.
There were 63,400 Muslims in the state compared to 49,200 in 2011 - a percentage change of 28.9%.
Orthodox Christianity saw a rise of 37.5% to 62,400 adherents, while the number of Hindus rose by 34.1% to 14,300 practitioners.
The country's overall population increased by 3.8% between April 2011 and April 2016 - to 4,761,865.
Mayo and Donegal were the only counties to see a population decline.
The census found there were 810,000 foreign-born people in the Republic.
There were 98 men for every 100 women in the country, it revealed, and 37.6% of the population was married.
The 2016 results show a reversal in a steady decline in average household size, which rose slightly from 2.73 people per household in 2011 to 2.75 in 2016.
Some 22,323 more people were in rental accommodation in 2016 than in 2011, with 497,111 people renting in total.
The number of people who stated they could speak Irish dropped for the first time since 1946.
Of the 1.76m people who stated they were able to speak Irish, 73,803 spoke the language daily outside the education system - 3,382 fewer than 2011.
The number of people who said they spoke the language on a weekly basis rose slightly.
The Donegal Irish-speaking region, popular with visitors from Northern Ireland, saw a big drop in the number of people who said they spoke the language on a daily basis.
There are 5,929 daily Irish speakers in the county, a 15.8% drop since 2011.
They say the deal would drive down wages, and weaken environmental protection and labour rights.
US President Barack Obama - who is pushing hard for the agreement - says it would create millions of jobs and increase trade by lowering tariffs.
On Sunday, he will visit the northern city to open a huge trade fair.
TTIP: The EU-US trade deal explained
German police estimate that more than 30,000 took part in the peaceful protest rally in Hannover.
Many carried placards with slogans that read: "Stop TTIP!"
The demonstrators have also been voicing their anger over the secrecy surrounding the ongoing TTIP negotiations.
"The TTIP between the American continent and Europe is very dangerous for the democracy, for our nature and for the rights of the workers," protester Florian Rohrich told the BBC.
"The rights in America for workers are much lower. It's like the Trojan horse. They can't change our whole system. But they will - because TTIP is written by the groups, by the companies, not by the politicians," he added.
The negotiations were launched three years ago, and the next round is due to open on Monday in New York.
Defending the TTIP, President Obama has said that the agreement would mean "new growth and jobs on both sides of the Atlantic".
The TTIP aims to cut tariffs and regulatory barriers to trade between the US and EU countries, making it easier for companies on both sides of the Atlantic to access each other's markets.
Industries it would affect include pharmaceuticals, cars, energy, finance, chemicals, clothing and food and drink.
The aim is to boost the economies of the EU and the US by removing or reducing barriers to trade and foreign investment.
By eliminating almost all tariffs (taxes applied only to imported goods) on trade between the US and the EU.
Much of the concern is about the regulatory aspect: that it would lead to lower standards of consumer and environmental protection and safety at work.
TTIP: Why the EU-US trade deal matters
But he told the show's official magazine that "for various reasons, it didn't work out".
Moffat said the show had "no excuse" not to feature a more diverse cast, adding it would be "amazing" for it to have two non-white lead actors.
Pearl Mackie, whose father is from the West Indies, was recently cast as the Doctor's companion.
"We decided that the new companion was going to be non-white, and that was an absolute decision, because we need to do better on that. We just have to," Moffat said.
"I don't mean that we've done terribly - our guest casts are among the most diverse on television - but I feel as though I could have done better overall."
Moffat did not reveal name of the actor who had been approached to play the Doctor.
Prior to the casting of Peter Capaldi in 2013, there had been calls for a black actor to take on the role.
Earlier this year, Undercover became the first BBC One drama to feature two non-white actors, with Adrian Lester and Sophie Okonedo in the leading roles.
Moffat, who is also Doctor Who's lead writer, said he would be keen for his show to do the same thing.
"Two non-white leads would be amazing. In fact, a lot of people would barely notice," he said.
"I certainly don't think there's ever been a problem with making the Doctor black, which is why it should happen one day.
"Sometimes the nature of a particular show - historical dramas, for instance - makes diversity more of a challenge, but Doctor Who has absolutely nowhere to hide on this," he said.
"Young people watching have to know that they have a place in the future. That really matters. You have to care profoundly what children's shows in particular say about where you're going to be."
He added a more diverse cast would send out a positive message to the entertainment industry.
"Outside of the fiction, it's about anyone feeling that they can be involved in this industry as an actor, a director, a writer... It's hugely important, and it's not good when we fail on that. We must do better," he said.
Moffat is due to step down as executive producer at the end of next year's series and will be replaced by Chris Chibnall, the writer best known for ITV drama Broadchurch.
Moffat said the show must find new ways to get ethnic minority actors on screen in future.
"We've kind of got to tell a lie. We'll go back into history and there will be black people where, historically, there wouldn't have been, and we won't dwell on that.
"We'll say, 'To hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we'll summon it forth'."
The BBC said it does not comment on its casting process.
Gavin Phillips, 27, from Narberth, died in the single-vehicle crash on the the A4139 at Penally on Thursday.
A family tribute said: "Gavin was a much-loved son, brother and father who will be sorely missed by all who knew him."
Mr Phillips was travelling east when his motorcycle left the road.
In the 1960s, they found two gigantic dinosaur arms underground. For decades, scientists have wondered what kind of beast they belonged to.
Now, two near-complete skeletons have been found in Mongolia in Asia.
The researchers say that the creature is even more bizarre than they first thought.
They say it was huge, with a beak, a humped back and giant, hoofed feet.
Lead researcher Yuong-Nam Lee, from South Korea's Institute of Geo-science and Mineral Resources said,
"It turned out to be one of the weirdest dinosaurs, it's weird beyond our imagination."
For half a century, all that was known about this dinosaur was that it had enormous forearms, that measured 2.4m-long (8ft).
They were tipped with three giant claws.
Its name Deinocheirus mirificus means unusual, horrible hands.
Scientists say the beast was very large, measuring about 11m (36ft) long and weighed six tonnes.
It had an elongated head with a duck-like beak, and a large humped sail on its back.
Its legs were short and stumpy, but its feet were very large with hooves, which would have prevented it from sinking into the boggy wetlands where it lived.
The researchers think that the beast was probably a very slow mover.
The contents of its stomach suggest that it ate plants and fish.
Dr Yuong-Nam Lee said: "We did not know their function before, but the long forearms with giant claws may have been used for digging and gathering herbaceous plants in freshwater habitats."
The study by the London School of Economics and the Guardian newspaper involved interviews with 270 rioters.
Of those interviewed, 85% cited anger at policing practices as a key factor in why the violence happened.
The Association of Chief Police Officers said it was not surprised such a study saw police cited as a factor.
"But August also showed the ability of our police to restore order using robust, common sense policing in the British way," it said.
Four consecutive nights of looting and arson in August left five people dead and led to more than 4,000 suspects being arrested.
'Daniel' was on holiday abroad when he started receiving viral messages about the unrest, including images of burning police cars in Tottenham.
"As soon as I saw that, I was happy, like. For some reason I just wanted to be there. I actually wanted to burn the cars," he said.
"What I've been through my whole life, police have caused hell for me... now was my opportunity to get revenge."
Interviewed on the BBC's Newsnight, he said the government had made it hard to get jobs, cut people's benefits, and made university unaffordable.
"We thought, 'Okay, you want to financially hurt us?' We'll financially hurt you by burning down buildings.
"That was the best three days of my life."
The riots broke out in Tottenham, north London, on 6 August, two days after the fatal shooting by police of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, and subsequently spread to other parts of the capital and other English cities.
Rioters from London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Salford were questioned for the LSE-Guardian project.
It is the only study so far into the worst civil unrest for a generation involving in-depth large-scale interviews with people who actually took part in it.
Of the 270 rioters interviewed only about 30 have been arrested as a consequence of their involvement.
The riots were characterised by widespread looting and arson attacks on both businesses and homes.
The BBC's Newsnight programme has had exclusive access to the results of the LSE-Guardian study.
At the time Prime Minister David Cameron said the unrest had been driven by criminality and devoid of political meaning.
"This was not political protest, or a riot about politics, it was common or garden thieving, robbing and looting," Mr Cameron told the Commons.
Many of those interviewed admitted they had been involved in stealing, saying that a perceived suspension of normal rules presented them with an opportunity to acquire goods, often describing the riots as a chance to obtain "free stuff".
However, time and again the interviewees, regardless of where they lived, said they felt like they had been taking part in anti-police riots.
"When we came across a police car it felt like we hit the jackpot," one rioter said. "We thought we'd just kind of violate just like they violate us."
Of the 270 people interviewed, 85% said policing was an "important" or "very important" factor in why the riots happened.
It was second only to poverty, which saw 86% of rioters class it as one of the main causes. Eighty percent claimed that government policy was an "important" or "very important" factor, while 79% said the same of unemployment.
The interviewees repeatedly expressed frustrations about their daily interactions with the police, saying that they felt hassled, bullied and complaining that they were not treated as equals.
The focus of much resentment was police use of stop and search which was felt to be unfairly targeted and often undertaken in an aggressive and discourteous manner.
Seventy per cent of the rioters said they had been stopped and searched in the last year.
And time and again interviewees described the violence as a chance to get back at the police.
"It was war and for the first time we was in control, like we had the police scared, like there was no more us being scared of the police," one rioter said.
"We actually had the choice of letting officers off the hook or seriously injuring them."
Although mainly young and male, those involved in the riots came from a cross-section of local communities.
Half of those interviewed were black, but they did not consider the unrest to be "race riots".
Rioters identified a range of political grievances, but at the heart of their complaints was a pervasive sense of injustice.
For some this was economic - the lack of money, jobs or opportunity. For others it was more broadly social - how they felt they were treated compared with others.
Many mentioned the increase in student tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).
Just under half of those interviewed in the study were students. Of those who were not in education and were of working age, 59% were unemployed.
Last week, the government-backed Riots, Communities and Victims Panel published its interim report into the causes of the riots and how a repeat of events could be avoided.
Darra Singh, the chairman of the panel - set up by the government - said the findings of the LSE-Guardian study mirrored some of those in its report.
He said: "We identified that rioters' motivations included the perception that they could loot without consequence, and for some - as the Guardian have also found - a desire to attack the police."
The panel found that in many areas there was "an overriding sense of despair that people could destroy their own communities".
It said there was no single cause of the riots, but said it was shocked at the "collective pessimism" among the young people it had spoken to.
Mr Singh said: "The focus for the second phase of the riots panel's activity is to look more closely at the underlying causes of rioting we identified, including youth unemployment, trust with the police, the role of brands and consumerism, values and parenting.
"As such we look forward to seeing more of the Guardian and LSE's findings."
The Metropolitan Police said it was doing everything it could to learn from the summer's events.
An Association of Chief Police Officers statement said it would be "quite odd" if in a survey of 270 rioters a high proportion did not cite the police as a factor in their behaviour.
It said the disorder was "unprecedented in its scale of violence and the way in which events escalated rapidly".
It added that not enough police officers had been available initially and it eventually required 16,000 of them to restore order.
"Of course the way in which those events took place and were seen by others through the media had an impact on confidence in the police, and it is important that lessons are learned from all the different processes and reports investigating what happened," Acpo said.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said there was never any excuse for what happened in August.
He said: "Of course there are issues of policing that need to be looked at, issues of hope and opportunity for young people, those things need to be looked at, but as I say, I don't think there can ever be an excuse."
The assault happened as the victim was walking along Norfolk Street, near Bridge Street, in the Gorbals area of Glasgow at about 16:10 on Thursday.
After the attack, the men ran along Norfolk Street and were last seen at the back of Glasgow Sheriff Court.
They were both described as being about 21 and wearing dark clothes, One had dark hair and the other fair hair.
The victim was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment to serious facial injuries. Hospital staff have described his condition as stable.
Det Sgt Martin Smith, of Police Scotland, said: "A young man has been left with serious facial injuries as a result of this attack and I would appeal to anyone who witnessed what happened to come forward.
"I would also like to speak to anyone who may have seen two men matching the above description on Norfolk Street, or near to the rear of Glasgow Sheriff Court."
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says flying is not harmful during a low-risk pregnancy, but there may be side-effects.
If more than 28 weeks pregnant, a woman should take her medical notes and a GP's letter.
Many airlines have their own rules on when pregnant women can fly.
Although everyone who flies is exposed to a slight increase in radiation, there is no evidence that flying causes miscarriage, early labour or a woman's waters to break.
The changes in air pressure and the decrease in humidity on an aircraft have not been shown to have a harmful effect on pregnancy either.
If the pregnancy is straightforward, flying is not harmful to the woman or her baby, the RCOG leaflet says.
Previously, the advice for women with multiple pregnancies was that the safest time to fly was before 34 weeks, but this has been changed to 32 weeks to tie in with International Air Transport Association (IATA) recommendations.
After 37 weeks, a woman may go into labour at any time.
The leaflet gives advice on the side-effects of flying when pregnant.
These include swelling of the legs due to a build-up of fluid, nose and ear problems caused by changes in air pressure and motion sickness making any pregnancy nausea a little bit worse.
Long-haul flights of four hours or more can increase the risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT), when a blood clot forms in the leg or pelvis, and pregnancy increases this risk even more.
The leaflet recommends that women wear loose clothing and comfortable shoes, take regular walks around the plane and do exercises in their seat every 30 minutes.
Cutting down on drinks containing alcohol or caffeine and wearing elastic compression stockings can also help.
In some circumstances, however, it is better to take the decision not to fly when pregnant.
For example, if a woman has an increased risk of going into labour before her due date, has severe anaemia, sickle cell disease, has recently had significant vaginal bleeding or has a serious heart or lung condition.
Philippa Marsden, chairwoman of the RCOG's patient information committee, said the information was relevant for pregnant women travelling both short and long-haul.
"To help decide whether or not to fly, women should think about how many weeks pregnant they will be, what facilities are available at their destination and whether it will increase their risk of medical problems.
"It is important to discuss any health issues or pregnancy complications with your midwife or doctor before you fly."
Cath Broderick, chairwoman of the RCOG women's network, said the guidance offered sensible recommendations.
"There is new advice around what to take on board the flight such as your pregnancy notes, documents confirming your due dates, a European Health Insurance card and any medication you are taking."
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Retired English teacher Mark Frost, 70, had admitted abusing nine children in Thailand between 2009 and 2012.
He had pleaded guilty to all of the charges, including six relating to abuse of two pupils at a Worcestershire school during the 1980s and 1990s.
Judge Mark Lucraft called the abuse "horrific and deeply disturbing".
Previously known as Andrew Tracey, Frost was brought to justice following an international investigation involving the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), and authorities in Thailand, Spain and the Netherlands.
The charges included multiple rapes, sex assaults, inciting children to engage in sexual activity and making indecent pictures.
Judge Lucraft handed Frost 13 life sentences, to run concurrently, during the hearing at the Old Bailey.
He said Frost was responsible for "the most appalling catalogue of sexual abuse" and it was clear he had an "ongoing obsession" with young boys.
"Your conduct towards each and every one of these victims is horrific and deeply disturbing," the judge said.
Frost raped impoverished Asian boys and encouraged them to engage in sex acts after he groomed them with money, sweets, computer games and swims in his pool.
He skipped bail to avoid prosecution in Thailand but was extradited from Spain last year after his activities were uncovered by Dutch police on the computer of a man in the Netherlands.
Frost had got the boys, aged between 10 and 14, to give thumbs-up signs and make heart gestures with their hands while being filmed on a webcam engaging in sexual acts.
The court also previously heard details of Frost's abuse of two pupils at a school in Worcestershire during the late 1980s and 1990s.
He had sex with the boys in a school storeroom, during breaks, at his home where he lived with his adopted son, and also at a car park in Woking, Surrey, the Old Bailey heard.
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A prolific paedophile has been jailed for life with a minimum tariff of 16 years for 45 sex offences against young boys in England and Thailand.
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The account was one of a number gleaned from survivors of the downed German Heinkel aircraft in Victoria Road, Clacton, on 30 April, 1940.
Frederick and Dorothy Gill both died when the plane landed on their home.
Sunday's service will take place at the refurbished memorial site nearby where a commemorative stone is to be placed.
The memorial works have been funded by an air disaster fund originally set up in 1940 but forgotten about following the war.
The original fund was established by the Rev HG Redgrave, then chairman of Clacton Urban District Council (CUDC), after the crashed German bomber caused "severe damage and considerable distress".
The council added £10,000 to the existing £1,700 fund to improve the landscaping around the memorial bench and plaque.
After 1946, the fund was deposited into a Post Office Savings Bank Account.
The amount of £243, 13 shillings and six pence held in the account in 1950 is now worth around £1,700.
Items preserved from the scene of the crash 77 years ago will be brought to the service by the Clacton VCH Group (Clacton at War) group.
In March, the council asked for relatives or those who remembered the crash to come forward.
Although they have not been named, the council said a number of people had come forward to share their memories of the crash.
Michael Talbot, the council's cabinet member for environment, said: "We had a good response to an appeal for anyone connected - or with family connected - to the plane coming down in 1940 to contact us.
"Through the appeal we have received eye-witness accounts and we are hoping that some of those who came forward will be able to turn up on Sunday for the ceremony."
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An eyewitness account of a plane crash that caused the first World War Two civilian deaths on the British mainland will be read out at a memorial service.
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The boat overturned off the coast of Beer Ali, in the southern Shabwa province, the ministry of defence said on its news website.
A Yemeni naval patrol saved at least 30 people who were taken to a refugee camp in the town of Mayfaa, it said.
Every year thousands of Africans make the perilous journey to Yemen in crowded boats. Hundreds have died.
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Forty-two African migrants have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to officials.
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Evidence of a longhouse has been found at the site, near Lossiemouth in Moray, along with a coin which is 1,100 years old.
The University of Aberdeen archaeologists had feared 19th-Century development would have destroyed remains.
They now hope the site will reveal more significant findings.
It is thought the Burghead Fort was a significant seat of power within the Pictish kingdom, between AD500 and AD1000.
The team from Aberdeen university began their dig in 2015.
They said the longhouse they found could provide vital clues about the character of Pictish domestic architecture and the nature of life at major forts such as Burghead.
Senior lecturer Dr Gordon Noble said: "The assumption has always been that there was nothing left at Burghead, that it was all trashed in the 19th Century but nobody's really looked at the interior to see if there's anything that survives inside the fort.
"But beneath the 19th Century debris, we have started to find significant Pictish remains. We appear to have found a Pictish longhouse.
"This is important because Burghead is likely to have been one of the key royal centres of Northern Pictland and understanding the nature of settlement within the fort is key to understanding how power was materialised within these important fortified sites."
Within the floor area of the longhouse, an Anglo-Saxon coin of Alfred the Great was found.
The team said this dated back to the 9th Century, when Viking raiders and settlers were leading to major changes within Pictish society.
"There is a lovely stone-built hearth in one end of the building and the Anglo-Saxon coin shows the building dates towards the end of the use of the fort based on previous dating," Dr Noble said.
"The coin is also interesting as it shows that the fort occupants were able to tap into long-distance trade networks. The coin is also pierced, perhaps for wearing; it shows that the occupants of the fort in this non-monetary economy literally wore their wealth."
The dig has been carried out in conjunction with Burghead Headline Trust, with support from Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service.
Bruce Mann, of Aberdeenshire Council, said: "Burghead Fort has long been recognised as being an important seat of power during the early Medieval period and is known as the largest fort of its type in Scotland.
"Its significance has just increased again though with this discovery. The fact that we have surviving buildings and floor levels from this date is just incredible, and the university's work is shedding light on what is too often mistakenly called the 'Dark Ages'."
They could become a coach, a TV pundit or do something different like run a pub or even train to become a medical geneticist?
The latter is exactly what former Swansea City striker Guillermo Bauza has done.
The Spaniard graduated with a first class honours degree from Swansea University's College of Medicine on Monday.
"Growing up I'd always wanted to be a doctor, but life changes and football came along," said Mallorca-born Bauza, who was known as Guillem in his Swansea days.
"I realised when I came to Swansea that learning English would be vital if I was going to be able to fit in and enjoy the culture here.
"The PFA (Professional Footballers' Association) were very helpful with getting me over the language barrier and they talked a lot to me about my options after football.
"So I was delighted when I got accepted by Swansea University and had the chance to swap one dream for another."
Best remembered by Swansea fans for his two goals against Gillingham which saw his side promoted to the Championship in 2008, the 30-year-old former Spain under-19 international signed up for his degree after he was released by the Swans in 2010.
Initially he combined his studies with playing professionally for Hereford United, Northampton Town and Exeter City.
But since 2013 he has studied full time while continuing to play as an amateur for Merthyr Town in the Southern Premier Division.
Now he is hoping to go on to earn his PhD.
"I could join the medicine degree and become a doctor, but since starting my course I've become really interested in the research side and would love to do my PhD at Swansea.
"I realise that the thing I miss most about being a professional footballer is the ability to make people happy.
"Hopefully I can go on to make breakthroughs which can help us better understand genetic conditions and make people happy once again."
While Bauza picks up his degree, former Swansea and Wales star Mel Nurse will receive an honorary master of science degree from the College of Human and Health Sciences.
Other honorary degrees from the university go to BAFTA-winning Welsh actor and musician Rhys Ifans (doctor of letters), Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Dr Ruth Hussey (doctor of science) and former Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones (doctor of laws).
Now, the Forth Bridge is expected to be granted Unesco World Heritage Site status, putting it alongside the Pyramids of Egypt, the great Wall of China and the Sydney Opera House in terms of cultural significance.
We've brought together some facts and figures - and some great pictures - of one of Britain's best-known structures.
When it was opened on 4 March 1890 by the then Prince of Wales, the Forth Bridge was the longest cantilever bridge in the world and the first major crossing made entirely of steel.
Though regarded as a Scottish icon, it was designed by two English engineers, Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker, and took eight years to build at a cost of £3.2m. Seventy one workers are known to have been killed during construction.
Spanning 1.5 miles (2,529m), weighing 53,000 tonnes and containing 6.5m rivets, the bridge, now operated by Network Rail, still carries 200 trains per day between over the the Firth of Forth, linking Fife with the Lothians.
As its fame grew beyond the world of engineering, the bridge entered the common lexicon when the job of painting it was used to represent a task that never ends.
However, in 2011 it was revealed that the latest paint job, which took 10 years and cost £130m to complete, should last for at least 25 years.
In 1964, the famous rail crossing was joined on the firth by the Forth Road Bridge.
A third bridge, the Queensferry Crossing, is currently under construction at a cost of around £1.4bn and is due to open in late 2016.
On nomination for World Heritage Status, Unesco was unstinting in its praise for the bridge, with its inspectors stating: "Innovative in design, materials, and scale, the Forth Bridge is an extraordinary and impressive milestone in bridge design and construction during the period when railways came to dominate long-distance land travel."
Finn, 26, felt some tightness in his left side during England's series-clinching victory at the Wanderers.
The Middlesex paceman was sent for scans on Sunday morning, with the results due on Monday.
Chris Woakes, Chris Jordan or Mark Footitt could replace him for the final Test, which starts at Centurion on Friday, as England target a 3-0 win.
"I doubt very much whether he'll be available for the next Test," said England head coach Trevor Bayliss.
"We'll have to wait and see how bad it is and make a decision on the one-day and Twenty20 series.
"But at this stage it looks like we have to make a replacement heading into the last Test. That's unfortunate because I thought he was probably our most dangerous bowler in the first two Tests."
Finn was not in the initial squad for the South African tour after missing last year's series against Pakistan with a bone stress injury in his left foot.
But he was called up in mid-December after proving his fitness and took 11 wickets at an average of 26.09 in the first three Tests.
The fourth Test will present another opportunity for Alex Hales and Nick Compton, who were brought into the England top three for the South Africa series, to cement their places in the side.
Compton, batting at three after a two-and-a-half-year absence, made 85, 49 and 45 in his three first Test innings of the tour, but has since passed 26.
The 32-year-old, who has the second-lowest strike-rate of any batsman to have played 20 innings in England's top three since 1980, fell for a duck trying to complete the run chase in Johannesburg with a loft down the ground.
"I was quite happy with what he tried to do," said Bayliss. "It sent a message that he was playing for team.
"The boys were having a joke about the chances of him hitting a six to win the game, then we thought he might have done it. It was a good catch to get him out.
"He's done pretty well. He's a solid cricketer and with him and Alastair Cook in the order, the rest of the attacking players can bat around them."
Hales, who made his debut in the first Test and became Cook's eighth opening partner in three years, has made 120 runs in six innings, including a maiden half-century in the second Test.
"He's done reasonably well in this series," said Bayliss. "In the first Test in Durban, he looked like he belonged.
"He was struggling with illness before the third Test, so hopefully he can get over that and show us what he can do in Centurion."
Sixers, who lost their first six group games and are now on a nine-game winning streak, will meet city rivals Sydney Thunder in Sunday's final.
Hurricanes, led by England's Heather Knight, made 86-8 from 14 overs.
Set 55 from eight overs to win, Alyssa Healy and Ellyse Perry helped Sixers to a 10-wicket win with 10 balls to spare.
The Duckworth-Lewis-adjusted target proved too easy for Australia stars Healy (32 not out) and Perry (22 not out), who raced to their target without loss.
Sixers were also indebted to veteran ex-Australia spinner Lisa Sthalekar, who came out of retirement for this tournament and took 3-9 from her three overs.
She captured the key wickets of captain Knight (16), Erin Burns (26) and New Zealand left-hander Amy Satterthwaite (24) - the only three Hurricanes players to make double figures.
It leaves Sixers all-rounder Laura Marsh as the only England player left in the WBBL, although she did not play in the semi-final and has only featured in six of their 15 games.
Also at the MCG on Friday, Melbourne Stars beat Perth Scorchers by seven wickets in the second men's Big Bash League semi-final, joining Sydney Thunder in Sunday's final.
Tracy Houghton, 45, died instantly along with her sons Ethan, 13, and Joshua, 11, and her partner's daughter Aimee Goldsmith, also 11, when Tomasz Kroker smashed into stationary traffic.
Kroker, 30, was jailed for 10 years.
He was scrolling through music selections at the time of the crash.
It happened on the Oxfordshire/Berkshire border on 10 August.
The commendations recognise the outstanding work, bravery and dedication of the officers that responded to the collision.
Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Francis Habgood presented them during a ceremony at Sulhamstead Force Training Centre in Reading on Tuesday.
Henry Parsons, head of roads policing at Thames Valley Police, said: "I think the fact that three children were involved in this crash makes it stand out for the wrong reasons.
"The officers involved were very proud to be recognised but ultimately none of them wanted to be there, they just think they're doing their job."
Insp Andy Storey, Sgt Jack Hawkins, Det Sgt Gavin Collier, PC David Beeson, PC John Simpkins, PC Philip Hanham, digital communications officer Ellie Selby and media officer Lucy Billen were all recognised at the ceremony.
Ms Selby, who made an awareness video using footage from the crash, said: "A commendation like this shouldn't exist, people shouldn't be using their mobile phones, and a family should still be alive today.
"So it's a sobering occasion for many reasons. A lot of good has come from the video that was produced, but hopefully we don't have to create another video like that ever again."
Efforts are under way to rescue the remaining miners at the Xiaojiawan mine in Panzhihua city in Sichuan province.
The blast happened on Wednesday evening when about 150 miners were underground, city officials said.
By Thursday morning, more than 100 people had been rescued and taken to hospital, reports said.
Chinese state television said rescue teams had retrieved the bodies of 16 miners who died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Another three people died in hospital.
The mine is owned by Zhengjin Industry and Trade Co Ltd. Its officials are assisting in a police investigation, the city government said in a statement on its official microblogging site.
Accidents are frequent in China's mining industry, which is criticised for poor safety standards.
Official figures show that 1,973 people died in coal mining accidents in the country last year.
While this represented a 19% drop compared to the year before, some have suggested that actual numbers could be higher as not all incidents may have been reported.
China's central government has introduced measures aimed at improving standards but these directives are often ignored at local level.
Just after 11am in the chilly and cavernous interior of the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios, director Sam Mendes revealed the next Bond film will be called Spectre - a name that goes back to the very roots of the world's longest-running film series.
Mendes, who also directed previous Bond adventure Skyfall, said the new film had "everything you would expect from a Bond movie" with "a little more variety... maybe a little more mischief".
Filming starts on Monday with a scene involving Daniel Craig's superspy and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) in her office.
"I've wanted to involve Spectre for many years and Spectre is back," Bond producer Barbara Broccoli said at Thursday's launch event.
The global crime syndicate - Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion - first appeared in Ian Fleming's original novels and was mentioned in the first Bond film, Dr No, in 1962.
It has been the subject of a legal case with a rival film producer that was recently resolved after many years.
While nothing is confirmed, the speculation now is that Bond's old nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the head of Spectre - will make an appearance in the film.
"I don't see the point of using Spectre unless they are going to use Blofeld as well," said Professor James Chapman of Leicester University, and author of Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films.
But he doubted Blofeld will appear the way he was portrayed in the 1960s films. "I don't expect to see a man with a stroking a white cat sitting inside a hollowed-out volcano hijacking rockets.
"The recent films have been about modern plausible villains - terrorists and backers of terrorists in big business. I think we might see Spectre modelled along those sorts of lines."
First appearing in the Ian Fleming novel Thunderball (1961), Spectre is an acronym for the clumsily-titled Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
Headed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, it began as a small enterprise of like-minded criminals. But, as the book and film series developed, it grew to include the criminal masterminds of the Gestapo, the Mafia and Smersh (among others) to create a diabolical - but, crucially, apolitical - empire of evil.
It appeared in three of the 007 novels, but gained greater prominence in the film series where Blofeld, with his white Persian cat, played the antagonist seven times. The films also saw the organisation become more closely aligned with the Cold War-era Soviet Union than Fleming had envisaged.
Its logo was an octopus, which is echoed in the first poster for the new Bond film.
Skyfall is the highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and made more than $1.1bn (£705m) at the worldwide box office.
Broccoli told the BBC the budget for Spectre was "higher" than for Skyfall. "Obviously we have a hell of a challenge ahead of us - we want to make this the best Bond movie ever.
"All the money is going to be on the screen as always. That's the thing my father [original Bond producer Cubby Broccoli] always insisted since the very beginning - don't disappoint the fan.
"We believe that we've got a great movie and can't wait to get started on Monday."
Even with a bigger budget, Mendes admitted "money is still tight" and he was still "cutting and adjusting things".
"The fantasy that I had before I directed my first Bond was that finally you get to have all the money you need to make a movie - but the bigger the movie, the more the pressure.
"For me the pressure is just as big as it was on the last one - not for financial reasons, just because you want to make a great movie."
Everyone was staying tight-lipped about the plot at Pinewood.
Here's a sample exchange with Christoph Waltz, who plays a character called Oberhauser, but many speculate might turn out to be Blofeld.
Q: Tell us about your role. A: Absolutely not.
Q: Are you playing Blofeld? A: No, I'm playing someone called Oberhauser.
Q: And what kind of baddie is he going to be? A: Who says it's a baddie?
Ralph Fiennes, who plays the new M, said Dame Judi Dench's M "still haunts this movie in a way you'll find out".
He added: "There's an interesting follow-on from things in other films - I wouldn't say it's a sequel but there's a connective tissue."
Andrew Scott, who will play an MI6-based character called Denbigh, said: "This script is very moving but it's still got all those elements of adventure and action and great wit."
Asked how the secrecy on Bond compared to that on BBC drama Sherlock, in which he plays Moriarty, he responded: "My whole life is a secret."
Ajay Chowdhury, of the James Bond International Fan Club, said the details of the new film were like a "Christmas present" for Bond fans.
"This announcement is like opening the first window of a Bond advent calendar. Further windows will be: who will sing the song, the first trailers, the premiere.
"The only thing better than this news would be Santa driving an Aston Martin sleigh."
Expect much speculation over the coming months about who will sing the theme song after Adele's Oscar-winning Skyfall. Some cast members at Pinewood on Thursday hinted they already knew who it was.
Bookmaker William Hill puts Sam Smith as favourite at 4/1, with Ed Sheeran second at 6/1, while Lana del Rey, Rita Ora and One Direction are at 8/1.
With so much rumour still floating around the long-running franchise, Mendes revealed how he plans to cope in the months ahead.
"This marks the beginning of the year where I don't read the internet," he quipped, before disappearing behind the scenes on the 007 stage to prepare for his opening shots.
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The British pair beat Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina and his Japanese partner Shingo Kunieda 6-4 4-6 6-2.
They now face Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer of France on Saturday, in a repeat of last year's final.
Fellow Briton Jordanne Whiley will also defend her women's wheelchair doubles title on Sunday.
Whiley and her Japanese partner Yui Kamiji won 6-4 6-4 in their semi against Dutch top seeds Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot.
They will now face second seeds Marjolein Buis and Diede de Groot - also from the Netherlands - who beat Britain's Lucy Shuker and Germany's Sabine Ellerbrock 6-4 6-1 in the other semi-final.
Earlier in the day, 19-year-old Hewett lost to Fernandez in the last four of the men's wheelchair singles.
The Argentine second seed, 23, avenged his French Open final defeat by Hewett last month, coming through 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-3.
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The judge said the rights of those evicted, such as the residents of Otodo-Gbame, had been violated as there was no resettlement plan in place.
The state government had argued that the clearance was necessary as the slum posed an "environmental risk".
It is yet to respond but it has ignored such verdicts in the past.
Otodo-Gbame - one of the many informal fishing settlements in Africa's most populous city - has been emptied in waves of clearances since November last year.
In March, the homes of about 5,000 people were razed to the ground, with reports of people being chased into the water on boats.
The high court judge ordered the government cease evictions and pay compensation.
Crowds cheered outside a packed courtroom where many of the evicted residents had gathered for the ruling.
The judge ruled in their favour, saying that the eviction of their community violated their rights because there was no resettlement plan in place.
Lagos State previously denied that they demolished the slum and said it was destroyed by a fire, after which they cleared the remains because it was unsanitary and posed a fire risk. But it seems that account didn't hold sway in court.
The clearing of Otodo-Gbame is seen as part of a state-wide policy to clear up to 300,000 people from informal waterside settlements.
The charity is calling for more to be done to tackle inequality which it says is an important factor when it comes to people taking their own lives.
The most recent figures show that almost 700 Scots took their own lives over a 12-month period.
The Samaritans report highlights the role played by inequality.
It said poor housing, debt and bleak employment prospects were all factors in the suicide rate being three times higher among the most deprived 10th of the population compared with the least deprived 10th (22.1 deaths per 100,000 population compared with 7.3).
In 2015, 672 people took their own lives in Scotland.
The report, "Dying from Inequality", highlights clear areas of risk to communities and individuals, including the closure and downsizing of businesses, those in manual, low-skilled employment, those facing unmanageable debt and those with poor housing conditions.
Samaritans' chief executive Ruth Sutherland said: "Suicide is an inequality issue which we have known about for some time. This report says that's not right, it's not fair and it's got to change.
"Most important of all is that for the first time this report sets out what needs to happen to save lives.
"Addressing inequality would remove the barriers to help and support where it is needed most and reduce the need for it in the first place.
"Government, public services, employers, service providers, communities, family and friends all have a role in making sure help and support are relevant and accessible when it matters most."
James Jopling, executive director for Samaritans in Scotland, said: "Everyone can feel overwhelmed at times in their life. Those who are at risk of suicide are people that have employers, who seek help at job centres, go to their GP, people that come into contact with national and local government agencies, perhaps on a daily basis.
"So in the light of this report we are asking key people and organisations from across society in Scotland to take action to make sure their service, their organisation, their community are doing all they can to promote mental health and prevent the tragedy of suicide.
"Each suicide statistic is a person, with or without family, friends, community, colleagues. This report is a call for us as individuals to care more and for organisations that can make a difference, to do so."
In Inverclyde, which has the highest suicide rate of any local authority in Scotland, the local Samaritans branch attend homeless lunches, providing support to the most vulnerable in the community who often have complex needs.
Samaritans has already started addressing some of the inequalities driving people to suicide.
It now plans to hold discussions with relevant agencies.
Alison Watson, deputy director of Shelter Scotland, said: "All too often our services see people who have run out of hope as they cope with homelessness and the reasons behind it such as relationship breakdown, redundancy or low income.
"In the long term we need a co-ordinated effort to end the shortage of affordable homes but right now we need to see targeted investment in the services which support people when they are at their most vulnerable.
"With council budgets under pressure it is important that services for people who have lost their homes are protected as these are undoubtedly a lifeline for many."
If you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations which offer advice and support, go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline or you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information 0800 066 066.
The man, aged between 65 and 75, was found fully clothed near Dove Stone Reservoir, Oldham on 12 December, 2015.
The day before, he had gone into a pub and asked the way to "the top of the mountain" after travelling by train from London to Manchester.
Toxicology reports found traces of strychnine poison but police say they still do not know who the man is.
Strychnine is now used primarily as a pesticide, particularly to kill rats.
Greater Manchester Police said no wallet, mobile phone or other identification was present when the man's body was discovered by a cyclist. Their investigation is on-going.
A spokeswoman said: "The cause of death is provisionally strychnine poisoning pending confirmation by the coroner at [the] inquest."
The man had £130 in cash and three train tickets, including a return to London Euston, in his pocket.
In January, police released CCTV images of the man in the hope somebody would be able to identify him.
He arrived at Ealing Broadway just after 09:00 GMT on 11 December and was next picked up by CCTV at 09:50 at Euston, buying a return ticket to Manchester Piccadilly.
After arriving in Manchester at 12:07, he spent 53 minutes wandering around the station before heading into the city centre.
The next sighting was at the Clarence pub in Greenfield, Saddleworth, where he asked the landlord how he could get to the top of the hill.
Police describe the man as white, of slim build, with a receding hairline with grey hair to the side and back.
He had a large nose that may have been previously broken, and was clean shaven.
He wore a brown heavy jacket, blue jumper, white long-sleeve shirt, blue corduroy trousers and black slip-on shoes.
The 21-year-old, who joined Celtic from Belgian club Beerschot for £900,000 two years ago, has agreed a four-year-deal at St Mary's.
Kenya international Wanyama was the Scottish Premier League's young player of the year last season and scored a header in the 2-1 Champions League win over Barcelona.
The fee is the highest ever received by a Scottish club for a player.
Southampton is a good club and it has good players, so I just want to train hard and work hard to be a part of the starting XI. We'll see where that will take me
"It feels great and I am happy to be here," said Wanyama.
"There were other options, but Southampton is a club with ambitions so I chose to come here.
"Southampton is a good club and it has good players, so I just want to train hard and work hard to be a part of the starting XI. We'll see where that will take me.
"I'm very grateful to be here and I'm looking forward to playing in the Premier League."
He scored nine goals last season, including against Barca.
Following that famous victory, manager Neil Lennon suggested the powerful midfielder was worth £25m.
In October, it was revealed that Wanyama had rejected the offer of a contract extension, with Lennon repeatedly encouraging the player to reconsider.
Wanyama made his international debut in 2007 against Nigeria aged just 15 and moved to Belgium the following year.
The sale of Aiden McGeady from Celtic to Spartak Moscow for £9.5m was the previous record fee paid for a player from Scottish football.
Wanyama is Southampton's second signing of the summer and follows Croatian Dejan Lovren to the club.
Gemili, 23, finished fourth in the 200m at Rio 2016, just three thousandths of a second away from a bronze medal.
However Jamaica-based duo Zharnel Hughes and Miguel Francis are among fierce competition for the two spots on offer at July's British team trials.
"Making that team - you'll know you are among the world's best," said Gemili.
"It is going to be really difficult. The depth is great and everyone is going to have to be in good shape for the trials because nothing is given."
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, the second-fastest Briton of all time over 200m after a run of 19.95 seconds in May 2016, Olympic semi-finalist Danny Talbot and promising 21-year-old Reece Prescod are some of the other contenders for a place in the British team.
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Francis had previously run for Antigua and Barbuda, but opted to switch to Britain in April. The 22-year-old is eligible for Britain as he was born in Montserrat, an Overseas Territory without its own Olympic team.
"For me it was slightly strange," said Gemili of Francis' decision.
"I don't really know his personal reasons for changing, but if anything it is more difficult to make the team in Britain than it is in Antigua.
"It is cool. It makes it more competitive. I'm excited to meet him and get to know him. He will be a great addition to the British sprinters."
Gemili switched from coach Steve Fudge to the Netherlands-based training group led by American Rana Reider after last year's Olympics.
The rivalry between the two training camps became unfriendly in 2014, with reports of physical and verbal confrontations, but Gemili insists Britain's top sprinters get on better now.
"Everyone is close and gets on and when someone runs fast, you are genuinely happy that people are being successful. It make you raise your own performance and run even faster," he added.
As well as competition from his compatriots, Gemili hopes the power of his own mind will help him find the fractions of the second necessary to win his first major championships medal at senior level.
The morning after finishing fourth in Rio, Gemili spoke to psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters, who is famed for his work with the likes of Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins and snooker great Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Gemili recalled: "He really hit me with it.
"'I don't know what you were expecting,' he said. 'There is no guarantee of a medal. It is OK to be disappointed, but if you don't want to feel like this, go and do something else. This is what sport is like.'"
Gemili concludes: "I know that next time it comes around I don't want to be that close again."
Men on motorbikes fired at a queue, killing her and wounding three others.
The opposition blamed a "paramilitary" gang. Video from the scene showed people rushing away from the gunshots. Many fled to a church.
Venezuela is in crisis, and more than 100 people have died in political clashes since April.
Opposition spokesman Carlos Ocariz said of the shooting: "We lament this very much, with great pain."
Prosecutors said they would investigate the incident, and the woman was named as Xiomara Soledad Scott.
She died minutes after reaching hospital.
Separately, journalist Luis Olavarrieta was kidnapped, robbed and beaten by a group of people. He managed to escape and images emerged of him receiving medical attention.
An official vote will be held on 30 July for a new assembly, which would have the power to rewrite the constitution and to dissolve state institutions.
But critics say the new assembly could herald dictatorship.
Opposition politicians organised Sunday's unofficial poll, held in improvised polling stations at theatres, sports grounds and roundabouts within Venezuela and in more than 100 countries around the world.
Voting has now closed.
While the vote was only symbolic, BBC South America correspondent Katy Watson said the opposition hoped that a high turnout would heap pressure on the government.
As well as voting on the assembly, people are being asked whether they want fresh elections before Socialist President Nicolas Maduro's term ends in 2018 and whether they want the armed forces to defend the current constitution.
Queues started to form early and there was a festive atmosphere in most places.
But President Nicolas Maduro described Sunday's vote as "meaningless".
"They have convened an internal consultation with the opposition parties, with their own mechanisms, without electoral rulebooks, without prior verification, without further verification. As if they are autonomous and decide on their own," he said.
Catia, where the shooting happened, is a poorer part of the Venezuelan capital where support for the socialist government, headed first by Hugo Chavez and since his death by Mr Maduro, has historically been high.
Mr Maduro argues that the constituent assembly is the only way to help Venezuela out of its economic and political crisis.
He has said that a new constitution would "neutralise" the opposition and defeat "coup-plotters" and thereby promote peace in Venezuela.
Opposition leaders fear that the process of setting up a new constituent assembly and rewriting the constitution would almost certainly delay this year's regional elections and next year's presidential election.
They also fear that the constituent assembly would further weaken the National Assembly, Venezuela's opposition-controlled legislative body.
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The 29-year-old Spain forward was the club's top scorer in 2012-13 with 22 goals in a spectacular first season after a £2m move from Rayo Vallecano.
But he has not played for them since April 2014, and spent last season on loan at Napoli, where injuries meant he only played six times.
His Swans contract, which he extended in January 2013, ran until next summer.
He has not featured in Swansea's squad since returning from Napoli, with chairman Huw Jenkins saying in May the player was unlikely to play for the club again.
He is expected to return to Spain, having been training with fourth-tier side Langreo.
Michu won a Spain cap and was linked to Arsenal after his surprise first season in British football.
He told the BBC a power surge, had "only lasted a few minutes", but the back-up system had not worked properly.
He said the IT failure was not due to technical staff being outsourced from the UK to India.
Mr Cruz said he was "profusely sorry" to the thousands of passengers still stranded at airports worldwide.
He said two thirds of passengers will have reached their destination by the end of the day.
There was no evidence of a cyber attack, he added.
A leaked staff email revealed Mr Cruz had told staff not to comment on the system failure. When asked about the email he told the BBC the tone was clear: "Stop moaning and come and help us".
The airline is now close to full operational capacity after the problems resulted in mass flight cancellations at Heathrow and Gatwick over the bank holiday weekend, affecting 75,000 passengers.
So far on Monday, 13 short-haul flights at Heathrow have been cancelled.
Heathrow advised affected BA passengers not to travel to the airport unless their flights had been rebooked, or were scheduled to take off on Monday.
Passengers on cancelled flights have been told to use the BA website to rebook.
Until now, Mr Cruz had only posted videos on Twitter apologising for what he called a "horrible time for passengers".
BA is liable to reimburse thousands of passengers for refreshments and hotel expenses, and travel industry commentators have suggested the cost to the company - part of Europe's largest airline group IAG - could run into tens of millions of pounds.
Davy analyst Stephen Furlong said the cost to the carrier of cancelling one day of operations was around £30m.
Shares in IAG listed on the Madrid stock exchange are currently trading down by about 2.5%.
Customers displaced by flight cancellations can claim up to £200 a day for a room (based on two people sharing), £50 for transport between the hotel and airport, and £25 a day per adult for meals and refreshments.
Ian Sanderson, one of the affected passengers who is stuck in transit in London, said he was "incandescent with rage" after being unable to rebook his flight, or speak to a member of staff.
Speaking on Sunday evening, he said: "I've bombarded them with about 100 tweets in the last 24 hours. I know that's annoying but there's nothing else I can do.
"We've tried to call them on the numbers they give and all we've got is the same recorded message which then cuts off at the end."
Now, 71 years later, that work continues through the Bavarian State criminal office (LKA) in Munich, that has created a virtual reality version of the Auschwitz concentration camp to assist with the continued prosecutions.
Digital imaging expert Ralf Breker is behind the project: "We spent five days in Auschwitz taking laser scans of the buildings and the whole project to complete took about six months."
About 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed at Auschwitz, most deceived into entering gas chambers where cyanide-based pesticide Zyklon B was released, killing those inside. Their bodies were then burned in the camp's many crematoria.
Initially the model was created to be viewed on a computer monitor, but it has now been adapted so that once the viewer puts on a VR headset they can examine the camp from almost any angle.
Towards the end of the war the SS destroyed most of the camp's files and records as well as the gas chambers and crematoria, leaving only one remaining, which at the time was used as an air raid shelter.
In order for Ralf's model to be useful in court it had to be as accurate as possible.
"We searched the Auschwitz archives and we were lucky, we found blueprints from all of the buildings that had been destroyed - so we were able to recreate them," he said.
The VR version of Auschwitz is yet to be used in court, however, the 3D computer model was used in the most recent war crimes prosecution of wartime SS camp guard Reinhold Hanning.
In June this year, Mr Hanning was sentenced by a German court to five years in jail for being an accessory to at least 170,000 murders. Mr Breker notes that the 3D model aided the prosecution.
"In the court decision the judge explicitly referred to the model and said that the model made it possible to grasp what Reinhold Hanning would have seen from his post at the watch tower."
While many senior members of the Nazi regime faced trial for their crimes, many of the junior SS officers or camp guards who also perpetrated crimes in the camps escaped justice.
Germany's Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist crimes was established after World War Two in the town of Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart.
Today, its staff are still attempting to identify Nazis guilty of committing crimes in the camps.
"We think that each part of the machine was important - even the lower rank SS guard has to take his share of responsibility," said Jens Rommel, the chief senior prosecutor who runs the office.
"I have heard the question very often, is it really worth continuing now 70 years after the war? But I think it's still important for the German state to do so, because these crimes were organised by the state and I think it's a task for the legal bodies to prosecute those crimes."
He thinks the 3D model of Auschwitz is useful in specific trial circumstances.
"This model is a helpful tool and it's especially important when it comes to a specific line of defence, a defence strategy used in almost all cases," he said.
"The defendant admits that he was in Auschwitz but generally he says that he didn't know anything about what was going on in Auschwitz. And here the 3D model can help to understand what the person involved could see from his position."
Beyond its use in war crimes cases, Mr Breker thinks the criminal justice system will make more use of VR in the future.
"I think that within five to 10 years, virtual reality will become a standard tool for police, not just in Germany but all over the world because it's a way to make scenes of crime accessible even years later."
Mr Breker usually works with cutting edge technology to provide evidence in contemporary capital criminal cases, but, even with his experience working at Auschwitz had an effect on him,
"We have been at crime scenes that are terrible, but Auschwitz is in a league of its own. We met the director of the Auschwitz archives and he told us a lot of details about the industrial scale of the killing and it took quite an emotional toll."
Ian O'Mara, 55, suffered head injuries after being struck in Manchester last October and died in hospital.
His two-year-old dog Tia was pronounced dead at the scene in Princess Road.
Colin Ayrton, 65, of Brown Lane, Heald Green, was given a 16-week jail term suspended for two years at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.
Mr O'Mara's widow Glynis said in an earlier statement: "We are relieved that the coach driver has taken responsibility for his actions by pleading guilty.
"However nothing can ever bring Ian back and losing him has had a massive effect on the whole family...Life will simply never be the same for all of us."
The guides died in an area just above Base Camp at 5,800m (19,000ft).
The avalanche was the worst accident in modern history on the world's highest peak.
As a mark of respect, climbing was suspended for the day on Saturday. Services were also held at Base Camp and in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.
Monks held prayers with relatives of those who died.
One of the victims was Ang Kaji Sherpa, a single father of five. His daughter, Chhechi Sherpa, said: "There is a vacuum in our family, no-one to guide or scold us. We are on our own."
At Base Camp, members of the British Army's Gurkha brigade, which is made up of Nepalese soldiers, took part in a commemoration ceremony on Saturday.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the brigade, and the British Army is aiming to help a serving Gurkha soldier to reach Everest's summit.
The accident took place in the Khumbu icefall, a portion of ragged glacial ice that can flow at more than a metre (3ft) a day.
It is one of the first major obstacles that Everest climbers encounter.
After the tragedy, Mt Everest's 2014 climbing season ground to a halt, and there were calls for greater compensation for sherpas.
Nepal's mountaineering association says sherpas' pay and welfare have since improved and weather forecasts are now more detailed.
The route up Everest has also been altered.
But sherpas are demanding that helicopters be allowed to carry equipment part of the way up the mountain to limit the number of dangerous trips they must undertake.
It is a move Nepalese climbing operators have so far resisted.
A BBC reporter at Base Camp says there are 300 climbers there waiting to launch a bid for the summit.
Sakho, 25, withdrew from Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations squad with a back injury but scored 18 days later in West Ham's 1-0 FA Cup win at Bristol City.
Fifa rules state a player cannot appear for his club if he is meant to be on international duty.
World football's governing body has begun an inquiry but the Hammers "vigorously" deny any wrongdoing.
If West Ham are found guilty, Fifa could order the Football Association to overturn their victory over the League One side.
Fifa is investigating a "potential violation" of its regulations by both the club and striker Diafra Sakho over his selection - but has declined to give a timescale on proceedings.
The Hammers are set to visit Premier League rivals West Brom in the FA Cup fifth round on Saturday, 14 February.
The Football Association is refusing to comment but is believed to be aware of Fifa's investigation.
Senegal are angry Sakho featured for West Ham, albeit as a substitute, 48 hours before they were knocked out of the Cup of Nations.
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The Hammers insist the player had a back injury that prevented him from flying and claim he was driven to Ashton Gate in a limousine for the FA Cup tie on 25 January.
A Hammers statement claimed Fifa's inquiry was "clearly unfounded" and requested its dismissal.
West Ham boss Sam Allardyce said he was advised not to select Sakho for Saturday's 2-0 loss at Liverpool while the dispute was ongoing.
And unless the matter is resolved this week, Sakho looks set to miss Sunday's home game with Manchester United.
Bristol City declined to comment on reports they would seek £250,000 in compensation if Fifa finds West Ham broke the rules.
Devon County Council said 23 children from the "Jungle" camp in Calais arrived at the temporary centre near Great Torrington.
But Councillor James McInnes said the figure now stood at 20 after some were considered to be over 18.
The all-male group arrived by bus at about 03:00 BST.
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Mr McInnes said Devon County Council was contacted last week by the Home Office about the site in north Devon.
"I understand that a couple were rejected because they were considered to be too old," he said. "It goes up and down - it was 23 at one point this morning and now it's 20."
The migrants, originally from Afghanistan, Sudan and Syria, could stay in Devon for up to six weeks.
It is believed they will receive medical checks before they are reunited with family members or moved to other parts of the country.
The exact location of the centre is not being released. A source told the BBC most of those expected in Devon were over 16 years old.
The children were transported from Croydon, south London, where they were taken from the Jungle camp by a private security company. The Home Office said they were unaccompanied, vulnerable children.
Conservative MP Geoffrey Cox said he hoped the community would "rally round" as up to 70 children are expected to be sent to the centre in total.
Mr Cox, MP for Torridge and West Devon, said: "I hope that the community will feel that we need to rally round to assist these very vulnerable young people on compassionate grounds, if nothing else, because I firmly believe we need to do our part to assist what is a terrible situation that has been allowed to develop in Calais."
Great Torrington resident Laurence Mustoe said some migrants "have come here for the wrong reasons".
He said: "We have enough. They get all the benefits and they get pushed to the top of the waiting list for housing over other people."
Resident Kate Blundell said: "I thought they were going to come here permanently so I was disappointed to hear they are going to be temporary.
"I worked with refugee children in north London and they were an absolute credit to themselves."
Robin Julian, leader of the Devon UKIP Group and Devon County Councillor for Bideford South and Hartland, said: "I have been assured that should anybody have any criminality or found to have lied about their age they will be sent back.
"It is good that we are doing our bit as long as it doesn't affect local people. We are so desperate here - we are a poor area. I have been led to believe that all monies are going to be funded by central government and I hope that is the case because we are really struggling."
The Czech won 6-3 6-4 in one hour and 20 minutes to claim her eighth WTA title and follow up her most recent victory in Brisbane in January.
A rain-affected week meant Pliskova played her quarter-final, semi-final and final within 24 hours.
"It was an unusual week for me. It was not easy with all the stoppages," said the 23-year-old world number three.
"I'm having a great start to the year, which is always important. Last year was a breakthrough. Reaching the US Open final was my biggest result. It gave me a lot of confidence."
Wozniacki, a former world number one, is set to rise three places to 15th in the new rankings next week.
"I've been proud of how I've been playing this week," said the Dane. "I'm disappointed with the loss, but Karolina has been playing well."
Philip Harper, 46, of High Street, Meldreth, Cambridgeshire, died from a gunshot wound to the chest on 29 June.
He had been hunting on farmland near Melbourn with his friend Ian Catley when he was shot.
Catley, 40, of Metcalfe Way, Melbourn, told police Mr Harper had asked him to test the vest. He admitted manslaughter and was jailed for seven years.
Mr Harper had bought what he believed to be a bullet-proof vest from a surplus store the day before, Cambridgeshire Police said.
In a statement to detectives, Catley said he had shot at his friend in response to his request to test the vest.
Mr Harper suffered fatal gunshot wounds to the chest and although Catley drove him to Melbourn ambulance station, paramedics were unable to save him.
Catley pleaded guilty to manslaughter on 13 November.
Sentencing him to seven years in jail at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Jeffrey Pegden QC told Catley: "You shot Mr Harper at a distance of less than 20 feet, causing him catastrophic injuries and immediate death.
"You then, straight away, took him to hospital but tragically nothing could be done to save his life."
Det Insp Ian Simmons, said: "This is a particularly sad case, where a foolish incident ended in tragedy.
"These second-hand protective vests should not be relied on whatsoever to protect you from gunshot and I'm urging people to take this as a warning."
City were beaten 2-0 at York on Tuesday, having lost 1-0 at Wycombe Wanderers on Saturday in League Two.
"I thought we finished flat again, I don't know why," he told BBC Devon.
"I think we've played very well for the first half, gone a goal down and I didn't see the sort of response I wanted from the team."
The 43-year-old added: "I'm culpable for the result and the players are accountable for their results within."
The two defeats mean Exeter stay in 13th place in League Two, eight points off the play-off places.
"Our season's not over, but we've got to find a way of doing better in the circumstances," Tisdale said.
"I cannot criticise the way the players started the game, there's been no apathy or a lazy starts in either of the two games this week we've lost.
"Both games we've been at it, but somehow we've managed to come away with no points."
"I love Ireland," said Mr Trump, adding that he would visit the Republic of Ireland during his term in office.
The president told Mr Kenny he was his "new friend" and their governments would forge an even tighter bond.
After their meeting on Thursday, Mr Kenny made an impassioned plea for the 50,000 "undocumented" Irish who live in US without legal permission.
"This is what I said to your predecessor on a number of occasions - we would like this to be sorted," he told the president at a lunch event.
"It would remove a burden off so many people that they can stand out in the light and say: 'Now I am free to contribute to America, as I know I can.'"
Noting the presence at the lunch of Northern Ireland politicians Ian Paisley of the DUP and Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, the taoiseach said: "We want to protect this peace process and I know you are going to work with us in that context also."
Mr Trump quoted from what he said was an Irish proverb that he had heard "many, many years ago".
"Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue, but never forget to remember those that have stuck by you."
Later, Mr Kenny presented Mr Trump with a bowl of shamrocks for St Patrick's Day.
Mr Kenny had breakfast with US Vice President Mike Pence in Washington earlier in the day, in the company of their wives Fionnuala and Karen.
That followed his attendance of the Ireland Funds America gala dinner, which included a speech in which Mr Pence emphasised the commitment of America to the island of Ireland.
He said the US was pledged to securing the gains of the Northern Ireland peace process.
At the dinner, Mr Pence congratulated the people of Northern Ireland for turning out to vote in high numbers during the recent assembly election.
"The advance of peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland is one of the great success stories of the past 20 years," he said.
"We thank those unsung heroes in Northern Ireland who, day-in and day-out, do the difficult and important work - strengthening communities, educating children, building that brighter future for the emerald isle and all who call it home."
Mr Pence also recalled his Irish grandfather Richard Michael Cawley, who emigrated to the US from County Sligo in 1923, and spoke with pride about his Irish heritage.
He added that he had thought about his grandfather during inauguration day in January.
"The truth is that whatever honours I will receive over the course of my service as vice president, to receive an honour in the name of the Irish people and my Irish heritage will count as chief among," he said.
"All that I am and all that I will ever be and all the service that I will ever make is owing to my Irish heritage."
Mr Kenny presented Mr Pence with a roll book from a County Sligo school that included the name of his grandfather.
He said Ireland "took special pride in the fact that, for the first time in the history of this great republic, one Irish American has succeeded another in the office of vice president".
The Irish prime minister added that immigration was the main focus of his trip to the US.
He said he was pursuing a process where Irish people living in the US illegally can "come in from the cold, and feel the warmth of this great country they have made their home".
A number of politicians from Northern Ireland are in America this week.
Mr Paisley, a DUP MP, who also attended the Ireland Funds America gala dinner, said that he expects little progress to be made during political talks at Stormont until the last minute.
He said he was hopeful the political parties could get "the show back on the road".
But as the fields of wheat and barley are brought in for the winter, farmers will have their eye on something other than the weather.
"The exchange rate between the pound and the euro is absolutely vital. It is the single biggest determinant of the profitability of British farming," says Anand Dossa, economist at the National Farmers Union.
The average exchange rate between the euro and the pound in September will determine how much money UK farmers get from the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) - the source of more than half of UK farming's income last year.
CAP payments are set in euros, so what British farmers get depends on the exchange rate; last year they got the worst rate in eight years.
Since the EU referendum the pound has fallen to 30-year lows against the dollar and has weakened significantly against the euro.
This means there could be a 15% increase in farmers' EU subsidies once they're converted into sterling - about an extra £500m.
However, the weaker pound can make fuel, fertiliser and food for animals more expensive, but there is some evidence that in some areas it has already given a boost to UK produce, both at home and abroad.
Foreign-sourced food has now risen in price compared to home-grown produce, and UK farmers have gained a competitive edge when selling overseas.
Richard King, head of business research at The Andersons Centre, a farming business consultancy, explains: "The UK beef sector, say, sees a lot of imports from Ireland - suddenly they're more expensive.
"So that just allows our prices internally to rise. But if you're exporting wheat to Spain, for example, our grain looks cheaper. It is noticeable out there already.
"That leaves some thinking we've voted and we have a better situation - but of course it is only a short-term boost."
The UK government has said it will make sure farmers don't lose out on subsidies until at least 2020 as the UK negotiates a deal to leave the European Union.
As well as subsidies, the UK's trading relationship with the bloc is vital.
"Farming is probably more international than people realise," says Mr King.
"There's a mental image of a farmer leaning on his gate with a bit of straw hanging out of his mouth but these are businesses and once the goods get through the farm gate they are commodities that are traded internationally like anything else.
"Grain is traded in the same way as iron ore, steel, coal."
The UK exported £18bn of food and drink last year and imported £38.5bn worth. Its biggest trading partners were Ireland, France, the Netherlands and the USA.
"You can trade with the French as easily as you can between the north and south of England and that's almost as good as it can be," says Mr King.
The boost from the fall in the pound, both through prices and EU subsidies, was much-needed, say many farmers.
Prices have been falling for almost three years in the UK. The latest data from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) shows they are almost back to 2010 levels.
The NFU says many family farms in the UK "would not be viable" without state support.
Defra, a department that is now headed by Andrea Leadsom, a prominent pro-Brexit campaigner, says support for farmers will form "an important part" of the UK's exit from the EU.
In a statement it said: "We will work to ensure the best possible outcome for the British people; not least our farming community who play a vital role in our country."
Daniel Rosario, spokesman for agriculture at the European Commission, says: "The UK remains a member of the EU with all rights and obligations of a member state.
"For the time being, nothing changes."
As far as the harvest goes, this year's winter barley crop was hit by bad weather in June in the run up to the EU referendum. But the crops sown in the spring had the best of a heat wave in July, so the later harvest is looking much better.
"I think farmers are a pretty resilient bunch," says Mr King.
"Farming has been through a lot before - foot and mouth, floods, you name it - and they will get through this too."
Governing party MPs defeated the motion by a big margin, while Mr Zuma's office said he would oppose the court case.
The opposition was behind both actions, accusing him of taking a bribe.
Mr Zuma has denied the allegation, linked to a multi-billion dollar arms deal negotiated over a decade ago.
He was first charged in 2005, and fired as deputy president by then-President Thabo Mbeki.
After much legal and political wrangling, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) dropped the case in April 2009, and Mr Zuma went on to become president a month later.
During a noisy parliamentary session, DA leader Mmusi Maimane described Mr Zuma as a sell-out whose main aim was self-enrichment.
South Africa was "spiralling downward, and doing so at an alarmingly fast rate" under his presidency, the party added in a statement.
The governing African National Congress (ANC) party said that despite the "frivolous antics" of the DA, its confidence in Mr Zuma remained unshaken.
The motion was defeated by 225 votes to 99, with 22 abstentions.
In the High Court, the DA's lawyers said the decision of the NPA to drop the corruption charges was unconstitutional and irrational.
Mr Zuma's office said, in a statement, that the court action was an "abuse of process by a political party in order to advance a political agenda".
The president was confident that the NPA's decision would "withstand any scrutiny", the statement added.
At the time, the NPA said phone-tap evidence, dubbed in the local media as "spy tapes", suggested political interference in the investigation, and it was "unconscionable" to press ahead with the case.
The DA brought the case after it won a lengthy battle in 2014 to obtain the "spy tapes".
Mr Zuma, a former ANC intelligence chief, has been dogged by controversy throughout his time in government.
Last month, he conceded in court that he needed to pay the government for money used to upgrade his private home, which included the building of a swimming pool, amphitheatre, chicken run and cattle enclosure.
That case was brought by the DA and left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party after Mr Zuma failed to pay the money, despite a ruling against him by an independent anti-corruption body in 2014.
In December, South Africa's currency went into a tail spin after having three finance ministers in a week.
In 2005, Mr Zuma's former financial adviser Schabir Shaik was convicted of corruption.
Oil company Total is tackling the leak which is below the seabed in a well being drilled from the Elgin B platform.
The company said there had been an "unexpected flow" about 4km below the seabed.
WWF Scotland said oil companies need to protect staff and the environment.
Director Lang Banks said: "This is a worrying development, as this is the not the first time Total has had problems at its Elgin-Frankin field.
"Only a few years ago, a leak on its platform complex led to an emergency evacuation and a halt to production for almost a year.
"Protecting staff and the marine environment should always be priority number one for the oil and gas industry. Given the previous problems at this site, serious questions need to be asked by the relevant authorities as to what is going on."
Total said the incident was "under full control at the surface" and that it was under "continuous review".
A company spokesman said part of the well may need to be plugged and abandoned.
GM is investing $500m (£340m) in Lyft as part of a $1bn fund raising initiative and will take a seat on the San Francisco-based company's board.
"We see the future of personal mobility as connected, seamless and autonomous," said GM president Dan Ammann.
Lyft president John Zimmer said his company shared the same vision.
A number of technology companies, most prominently Google, are looking at developing driverless cars. Reports suggest Apple is also building prototypes of what are called autonomous cars in the US.
But established carmakers are also in the race, with Daimler, Tesla and others investing in the concept.
The tie-up will focus on two main areas. The first is the "joint development of a network of on-demand autonomous vehicles".
Mr Ammann said that "with GM and Lyft working together, we believe we can successfully implement this vision more rapidly".
"We see the world of mobility changing more in the next five years than it has in the last 50."
The second is giving Lyft drivers easy access to renting GM cars.
Despite various companies' best efforts to develop driverless cars, there remain many barriers to widespread adoption, critics argue.
Quite apart from the technology challenges, which may in time be overcome, there are regulatory issues based on ethical arguments and insurance considerations based on questions of responsibility.
The 23-year-old was left fighting for his life at the London Chest Hospital after collapsing during Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham.
"There's still a long way to go but that is really positive," said Coyle.
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Bolton owner Eddie Davies has told the BBC he plans to visit the ex-England Under-21 international on Wednesday.
Muamba spent a "comfortable" night in intensive care, said a joint statement from his club and the hospital.
His condition was said to be serious but no longer "critical" after he began to move and speak on Monday.
Davies, who said he had watched Muamba's collapse on television, said the player was "recognising people and putting sentences together".
"He was a full hour without breathing or his heart working. 20 minutes on the pitch, 20 minutes in the ambulance and 20 minutes in the hospital before they got his heart working," he said.
Speaking to the BBC from his home on the Isle of Man, Davies added: "It is early days so we don't want to get over optimistic about things because people can relapse in these situations. But at the moment there are no bad signs."
The club was also due to open up the Chairman's Suite at the Reebok Stadium between 1830-2100 GMT on Tuesday to allow fans an area for quiet reflection and prayer.
Meanwhile, Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said football would look to learn any possible lessons from the incident but that it was "too early" to decide on changes yet.
On Muamba's improving condition, he told BBC Sport: "Things are looking better, things are looking brighter and we continue to pray that he makes as good a recovery as he can."
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Muamba was visited on Tuesday by Bolton team-mates Kevin Davies, Nigel Reo-Coker, Darren Pratley and Mark Davies, plus Spurs left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto.
Ashley Cole and fellow former Arsenal colleagues Johan Djourou and Nicklas Bendtner (who both played alongside Muamba at Birmingham City) were among a number of Premier League stars who made the trip on Monday.
Muamba's fiancee, Shauna Magunda, the mother of his son, Joshua, tweeted on Tuesday: "Your positivity, love and faith is helping Fabrice. For that I can only thank you all."
Bolton have said they expect the club's scheduled match against Blackburn Rovers to go ahead on Saturday, although a decision is expected on Wednesday.
The club's game against Aston Villa on Tuesday night was postponed, with no new date yet confirmed.
There is also no update about the abandoned FA Cup clash with Tottenham.
However, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp said any member of his squad "not in the right frame of mind to play" after Muamba's collapse at White Hart Lane would be allowed to sit out Wednesday's clash with Stoke City.
He added the news that Muamba was making good progress was "fantastic."
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He made the comments on US TV to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
PBS asked Mr Wilson what he made of murals comparing the 2015 Paris attacks admitted by ISIS with past IRA attacks.
The DUP MP replied that there "has always been an affiliation between the Irish republicans and terrorist groups, especially in the Middle East".
The Belfast mural shows the aftermath of IRA bombings in London's Hyde Park and Canary Wharf, beside photos of the aftermath of the Paris attacks.
The caption reads: "IRA - Sinn Féin - ISIS, no difference."
Mr Wilson was asked if he agreed with that phrase and he replied: "I do. Yes, of course, I do."
The MP was interviewed by PBS as part of its report on the potential impact of Brexit on the Northern Ireland peace process.
He dismissed arguments that leaving the European Union could be a setback for Stormont.
Mr Wilson told PBS: "I'm fairly sure that at the end of this process we will be wondering 'What was all the fuss about?'"
However, the former Good Friday Agreement talks chair, Senator George Mitchell, has expressed concern that the UK's withdrawal from the EU may limit the scope for co-operation between London and Dublin.
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He added: "I think the UK being out of the European Union may reduce the prospect for further co-operation."
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The plane in question is an Airbus A319 that, at the end of October, became the first jet to bear the colours of Europe's newest carrier: Air Serbia.
As the applause of the guests echoed round the hangar at Nikola Tesla airport in Belgrade, two men looked on in mutual satisfaction - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and James Hogan, chief executive of Etihad Airlines.
This was a rebirth moment - with a new national carrier rising from what was left of the once-proud Yugoslav airline, Jat. And it was also the latest example of how a still-juvenile Gulf carrier (Etihad was only established in 2003) is shaking up the airline industry.
Before the violent break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Jat had prided itself on being among the most stylish and modern operations in Europe.
But by this year its elderly fleet of Boeing 737s appealed only to those with a taste for planes with a patina, period typefaces and ashtrays in the armrests.
Service was gruff, and there was no on-board alcohol to soften the blow of the often unpredictable departure times. The airline's finances were correspondingly dire - and with Serbia's public funds in no state to support Jat any further, it seemed the end was nigh.
Etihad's entrance was timed to perfection. It took a 49% stake in Jat in August - and signed a five-year contract to manage the new Air Serbia.
Mr Vucic is candid about how the Abu Dhabi-based carrier became involved.
"Sheikh Mohammed is my friend and I asked him to help," he told the BBC.
But the relationship between the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and Serbia's most powerful politician does not by itself explain why one of the world's fastest-growing airlines became involved with a "legacy" carrier on its last legs.
"Etihad's ability to make investments like this is unique," says Douglas McNeill, an aviation expert at Charles Stanley stockbrokers.
"It's a compliment in a way that they've gone for Air Serbia. There's no shortage of weak airlines they could have gone for - like TAP in Portugal or LOT in Poland. There are lots of competing opportunities."
Mr Hogan is not known for a sense of charity towards failing businesses. But he does have a track record of improving the fortunes of airlines. He turned around Gulf Air before joining Etihad in 2006 and overseeing a spectacular rise in both profile and business.
He told the BBC that he saw Air Serbia as a key component in Etihad's further growth.
"We have a different business model," he says. "We have demonstrated through our different aviation investments that we are creating a global airline - it's about connectivity."
Unusually, Etihad is not making its connections by joining a global airline alliance such as One World or Star Alliance, but by buying stakes in other carriers.
At 49%, the Air Serbia deal is the largest, but Etihad also owns considerable stakes in Air Berlin, Air Seychelles and Virgin Australia, as well as a small proportion of Aer Lingus shares.
Just this week, India's government gave the green light to Etihad snapping up a quarter of the country's largest carrier, Jet Airways.
For Mr Hogan, the attraction of adding Air Serbia to this "equity alliance" was obvious.
"The Balkans as a crossroads of the world has huge opportunity. The tourism business opportunity of the region is considerable - and we're going to be very well positioned to take advantage of that," he says.
"There are not only the Balkan and European markets, but with Air Berlin we can connect with the US - and with Etihad over Abu Dhabi we connect with not only Australia but the Middle East and South East Asia. We can position Belgrade as the gateway to the Balkans. We're very bullish."
Mr McNeill is rather more cautious about the Etihad approach. "The risk is that you end up with a collection of minority stakes - and if you don't have control you don't have anything. It's a questionable strategy."
Etihad points out that it has been successful in co-ordinating operations and consolidating costs. Air Berlin has ordered the same kind of aircraft as Etihad - right down to the interior fittings and details. And Mr Hogan says that Air Serbia will follow along similar lines, moving many of its operations to Abu Dhabi to avoid duplication.
Balkan airline industry analysts have seen the potential for an Etihad-powered Air Serbia to fill a potentially lucrative gap in the region.
The recently formed Association of Serbian Aerospace Professionals noted that there was a dearth of heavyweight carriers, which had left Turkish Airlines and the Lufthansa group to mop up on long-haul travel. An Air Serbia-Etihad-Air Berlin combination may provide competition on many popular routes.
Meanwhile, other carriers in the region are still facing the kind of financial struggles that afflicted the post-Yugoslavia Jat. Croatia Airlines is actively looking for a partner, while the national airlines of Bosnia and Montenegro have been in difficulties.
Hungary's national carrier, Malev, went out of business last year. A putative replacement, Solyom, has yet to get off the ground, despite rumours of investment from the Middle East.
So there is clear potential for Air Serbia to take advantage if it can get its act together. And Etihad is confident that with its management team in place, the new carrier will quickly turn a profit, pointing to its previous success with Air Seychelles.
Now the question is: what next for the most acquisitive of the Gulf carriers?
Mr McNeill suggests the next logical step might be to acquire a stake in a mainland African airline. Then Etihad's global equity alliance would cover most of the world - and make it a formidable player in the airline industry.
It was addressed to "Marconi Operator, RMS Titanic" and stamped on 11 April 1912 - the day after the ill-fated ship set sail from Southampton.
What the parcel originally contained is unknown, but it is believed to have missed the sailing by a few hours.
A spokesman for the auctioneers said there had been a lot of interest in what was "a piece of history".
An internet bidder from the UK eventually paid £3,100 ($4740) for the label, after John Nicholson's Auctioneers in Fernhurst, West Sussex, opened bidding at £50 ($764).
The parcel was sent by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company in Chelmsford to the radio operator of the White Star liner.
Unsuccessful bidders included a group hoping to turn the old Marconi building in Hall Street, Chelmsford, into a museum.
The auctioneer's spokesman said the item was of interest to both Titanic and Marconi enthusiasts.
"It's a pleasing result - it's got the story behind it, the only thing we don't know is what was in the parcel".
Also included in the lot were photographs of Marconi telegraph operator, Alec Bagot, and the telegraph equipment from on board Titanic's sister ship RMS Olympic.
The label was given to the vendor's mother, who lived in Southampton, by the first officer of the Olympic.
Its 12.7ft (3.9m) diameter has won it a place in the Guinness World Records as the "most slender tower".
The structure, which is due to open this summer, stands 531ft (162m) high.
John Roberts, chief engineer and director of the British Airways i360, said the tower's height-to-width aspect ratio of 41.15-to-one beat those of The Shard and the BT Tower in London.
He said the Shard had an aspect ratio of six-to-one, and the BT Tower had an aspect ratio of eight-to-one.
The tower had used "groundbreaking engineering", he said.
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Architects David Marks and Julia Barfield, who also designed the London Eye, said the i360 built on the design, engineering, technology and innovation behind London's big wheel, taking it to "new heights".
Mr Roberts said the team had not set out to design the project with the aim of achieving a world record; they had just wanted to build a very slender tower.
He said people might think the main challenge was carrying the weight of the 94-tonne pod with 200 passengers on board weighing about 16 tonnes.
But he said: "Amazingly, that's not really the problem of designing the tower. The tower is all about one thing - making it stand up safely in extremely strong winds."
He said Storm Imogen recently brought windspeeds on Brighton beach of about 75mph, but the tower could withstand windspeeds of more than 100mph.
"There's absolutely no way this tower is going to fall over," he said.
The pod, made of 24 segments of handmade glass, will rise up to 137m (450ft) in front of the city's West Pier. It will give visitors views of up to 26 miles along the Sussex coast from Bexhill to Chichester.
Homemade alcohol is popular in central Kenya, where many people cannot afford to buy commercial alcohol.
President Uhuru Kenyatta said many men in the area are "addicted" to what is sometimes called ''killer brew''.
The government has revoked all licences for bars and other outlets selling home brew, which can be laced with methanol.
The operation started in Kiambu county, where home brew has destroyed families, made men impotent and led to many deaths, reports BBC East Africa editor Caroline Karobia.
Last year, some 70 people were killed in the area.
There have been demonstrations by women from the affected areas asking the government to take action.
After the four-day operation, the team will report to President Kenyatta to assess the progress being made.
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Antonis Samaras added: "We Greeks are one with our history and civilisation, which cannot be broken up, loaned out, or conceded."
He said Britain's view that the marbles could not be moved was now invalid.
A depiction of the river god Ilissos is going on show in St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum.
It is due to remain on display in the Russian city until mid-January.
The work is one of a number of relics acquired by Lord Elgin in Athens in the early 19th Century, now known collectively as the Elgin Marbles.
Ownership of the artefacts, once part of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple, is disputed by Greece.
It maintains that Lord Elgin removed them illegally while the country was under Turkish occupation as part of the Ottoman Empire. The items have remained in the British Museum ever since.
Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, said it was a "very big moment".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "This is the first time ever that the people of Russia have been able to see this great moment of European art and European thought."
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Mr MacGregor added that he hoped the Greek government would be "delighted".
"I hope that they'll be very pleased that a huge new public can engage with the great achievements of ancient Greece. People who will never be able to come to Athens or to London will now here in Russia understand something of the great achievements of Greek civilisation."
Asked whether the marbles would be loaned to Greece if it promised to give them back, he said the museum was willing to lend anything in the collection provided it was fit for travel and if it was going a place where it would be safe and from where it would be returned.
The Greek government, he added, had to date not asked to borrow them.
Mr Samaris also said in his statement: "The British argument held until recently - that the Parthenon Marbles cannot be moved - is no longer valid, just as the existence of the new Acropolis Museum invalidated the other British argument that there was no appropriate space for exhibiting the sculptures.
"The Parthenon and its Marbles have been looted. The sculptures are priceless."
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The statue of Ilissos, with its beautifully carved drapery suggesting river water, is one of the sculptures which adorned the triangular ends (the pediments) of the Parthenon.
The British Museum was willing to send it to the Hermitage for its 250th anniversary, but sent nothing to the new Acropolis museum in Athens, where places are reserved for Ilissos and all the other missing sculptures.
British Museum director Neil MacGregor must have been on tenterhooks when it disappeared from show, in case anyone asked what "display" it was being prepared for.
Sending it in secret to Russia was a nifty piece of footwork. Equally nifty would be if the Greeks could persuade Mr Putin to "return" it - but to Athens, not London.
Mr MacGregor says he is willing to start a dialogue with the Greeks about loans of this kind - and the idea of a permanent loan (of the whole Elgin collection) has been suggested in the past.
But for many Greeks, the idea of borrowing back what they regard as their own property would be painful.
BBC Monitoring says the loan of the statue did not get front page coverage in major Greek newspapers on Friday morning, but it was reported widely.
Most simply related the story, relying on British media reports for detail, and recalled Greece's long campaign to have the sculptures returned.
Kathimerini and Ta Nea both saw the loan as act of defiance, given Greek wishes.
"The British Museum not only refuses to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, but, in a move interpreted as a 'show of strength', has decided to lend one of them to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg," said Ta Nea. Ethnos called it an "unprecedented move".
All papers highlighted the "secrecy" surrounding the move, and some deployed irony. To Vima referred to the "loan" in inverted commas, while the Star news website declared: "For the first time: the British lend out one of the sculptures, but not to Greece!"
In a blog about the loan, Mr MacGregor said the British Museum was a "museum of the world, for the world".
He noted that the British Museum had opened its doors in 1759 and the Hermitage just five years later - making them "almost twins... the first great museums of the European Enlightenment".
The British Museum was today "the most generous lender in the world", he said, "making a reality of the Enlightenment ideal that the greatest things in the world should be seen and studied, shared and enjoyed by as many people in as many countries as possible".
"The trustees have always believed that such loans must continue between museums in spite of political disagreements between governments."
Paul Wright, 34, was on holiday in Crete in 2003 when he said he was a passenger in a car which crashed.
He was arrested in March after being convicted in his absence by a Greek court of joyriding and criminal damage.
Mr Wright said he was "really happy" with the CPS's decision.
The father-of-two, from Mold, had faced either a £3,500 fine or a 15-month prison sentence in Greece.
But at a hearing to fight the extradition order last week a judge ruled in his favour, saying he was not satisfied Mr Wright had deliberately absented himself from the Greek proceedings.
The CPS had seven days in which to appeal but told Mr Wright's solicitor on Tuesday that it would not be pursuing the case.
"I feel better now I have the finality of it because when I got the decision last week I was still left in limbo," said Mr Wright.
"More than anything I can actually start planning to build my life again because I had so much taken away from me in the last year - my health, my career and then in March my liberty and the potential of my family life.
"Everything was just stripped away and now I've just been handed it all back."
Mr Wright, who cannot work because of a serious back injury, estimates his case has cost taxpayers about £30,000 in legal fees.
He claims he is innocent of the charges and that his friend crashed the car - which belonged to a Greek barman - ran off and left him to explain the damage.
His case was supported by Delyn MP David Hanson, who said it was unfair for a person to be convicted in their absence with no opportunity to defend themselves.
Mr Wright said Tuesday's news was "just round one" in the fight to clear his name.
"What I have won today is the right to stay in the UK. If I ever want to travel again, I have to now fight it in Europe.
"I've got to clear my name. I've been a prisoner in my own home since March because of my bail conditions and now I'm a prisoner in my own country and I can't accept that."
BBC News has spoken to several research groups and small businesses who say they will soon have to scale down operations and lay off staff.
Seven national academies have called on the government to ensure that research is protected in Brexit negotiations; the President of the Royal Society has told the BBC that the future prosperity of the UK is at stake.
British universities, in collaboration with small businesses, receive £850m in research grants each year from the European Union.
Since the vote to leave the European Union there have been reports that British applicants for grants are already losing out.
Dr Nick Wright is one of the UK's brightest young astronomers at Keele University in Staffordshire. A long-standing collaborator recently told him that he was applying for a travel and accommodation grant, which would enable astronomers from research groups across Europe to work together on similar research projects at each other's universities.
But Dr Wright was told that there were concerns from others involved in the application that a UK institution's involvement in the project would harm its chances - so Dr Wright and his group were asked not to be involved.
He told BBC News that Brexit was already beginning to hurt.
"It made me think we were missing out; that potentially they would go ahead without us or even worse they would find our expertise elsewhere in Europe and we would be frozen out of this kind of research in the future," Dr Wright said.
"We are going to start getting frozen out of big projects. Researchers in Europe are looking elsewhere to collaborate and that might mean we are not at the table when big discoveries are made."
Archer Technicoat is a small hi-tech company in High Wycombe, which develops bespoke coatings to toughen components. On the day BBC News visited the company, engineers there were testing a new coating for rocket thrusters for the European Space Agency.
This coating would allow the thrusters to burn at much higher temperatures and hence use more explosive rocket fuel, reducing the cost of future Mars missions.
Since it was founded, the firm has received EU funds from the Horizon 2020 research programme. That money has helped the firm develop its products, stay at the cutting edge of research and most importantly to develop contacts that have helped the company win orders.
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"The short answer is that it's stopped," he said.
"We have been involved in Horizon 2020 programmes for 30 years and the interest from European partners for involving us in their projects has basically dried up."
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Prof Alison Smith leads a project at Cambridge University to harness the power of algae to develop new products, such as medicines and expensive chemical ingredients, more efficiently.
Her group leads the world in this field and Prof Smith, as the coordinator of a research collaboration worth millions of euros, has helped the team win various research grants.
This year her collaborators suggested that she take a back seat.
"We have decided that I will not be the coordinator; instead my colleague in Paris will do that," she told BBC News.
"That is because getting these grants is very competitive and we don't want to jeopardise our chances by having a UK person as a coordinator."
Christopher Bovey was planning to set up a testing company, Herba Invest, in Totnes in Devon to help manufacturers of herbal products gain European Union regulatory approval.
"I'm flying to Spain to help start up the new Spanish company, since, thanks to Brexit, it is not viable to do this in the UK," he said. "The irony is that Brexit voters have forced me to fly to Spain to create jobs for Spanish people."
Beyond these practicalities and uncertainties, there are grave fears for the reputation of the UK as a place for doing research.
Prof Ilaria Bellantuono of Sheffield University is part way through a funding application process. She said: "If we pass to stage two of our grant application, our German partner said that it was likely the UK participants would not be included in the full application… because there is apprehension regarding reviewers judging our participation as risky."
Prof Rich Dawson, an engineer from Newcastle University, told a similar tale. "A project being led by Coventry University that was due for submission this August, with us as partners, is no longer going ahead because everyone fears it will be wasted effort," he said.
Dr Pietro Cicuta, a physicist at the University of Cambridge, said the UK's image was already tarnished.
"To state things… simply, in the words of a young PhD student in our department: the UK has gone from being cool to uncool in a day."
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Police Commander Mohammad Dawood told the BBC via satellite phone that he was surrounded by Taliban fighters and that he needed urgent help.
Otherwise, he added, he and his men couldn't hold for long as they were running out of ammunition.
Helmand's governor says the whole province could fall to the Taliban.
"The bazaar is closed; we have been surrounded for the past two days," Commander Dawood told the BBC's Mahfouz Zubaide.
"I have casualties lying around me; we haven't eaten for the past two days. If we don't get support in the next hour or so, our fighters will be captured alive.
"We only have the police HQ under our control and have a battalion of the national army with us. The district office and the intelligence directorate are under enemy control."
Earlier, the deputy governor of Helmand complained of a lack of government support in an open letter on Facebook to President Ashraf Ghani.
Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar warned that the province could fall to the Taliban.
He said at least 90 soldiers had been killed in the latest fighting and claimed Mr Ghani's entourage was not telling him the reality of the situation.
"Helmand will collapse to the enemies and it's not like Kunduz, where we could launch an operation from the airport to retake it. That is just impossible and a dream," he said.
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Mr Rasoulyar used the Facebook post to appeal to the president for direct intervention in the province.
"Be quick and act on this! Protect Helmand from this life and death situation and distance yourself from the circle of those lawyers who tell you everything is OK and the situation is normal," he wrote.
In recent months, Taliban insurgents have launched multiple offensives, stretching the Afghan army, which is short of reinforcements, fuel and ammunition.
The fact that a senior Afghan official is addressing the president on Facebook reflects significant internal divisions within the administration, says the BBC's World Service South Asia Editor Ethirajan Anbarasan.
The former policeman, named as Rodney Dias dos Santos, is the alleged mastermind of last month's attack.
Supporters of the Corinthians club were preparing banners ahead of a match when gunmen burst in, police said.
Police say the killings at the Pavilhao Nove supporters' group were likely to be drug related.
The attackers ordered seven fans to lie down before shooting them. The eighth man was hit as he tried to flee.
Rodney Dias dos Santos and the other man, who has not been named, were arrested on Thursday morning and taken into police custody, according to O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
Witnesses say three gunmen stormed into the makeshift club in a working-class suburb of Sao Paulo on Saturday, 18 April.
Sao Paulo police suggested the Pavilhao Nove group may have had links to criminal gangs, saying the killings were probably more to do with a dispute over drugs trafficking than with football.
Violence in Brazilian football is a growing problem both directly and indirectly, with supporters of teams in several major cities using their club allegiances to organise criminal activity outside the stadiums, the BBC's Wyre Davies reports from Rio de Janeiro.
The victims were having a barbecue as they prepared for a Corinthians' match against their fiercest local rivals, Palmeiras, the following day.
Corinthians are one of the Brazil's most popular clubs, followed by millions of supporters across the country.
Rivelino, Socrates and, more recently, Carlos Tevez and Ronaldo, are among the big names who have played for the club.
Compared with April 2015, the consumer price index rose by 0.1%, Germany's statistics office Destatis said.
Pressures driving the inflation rate up were rising food prices, particularly the cost of fruit and vegetables.
There were also hikes in the cost of fish, confectionery and bread. The cost of oil products fell, however.
Excluding energy costs, consumer prices rose by 1.2% year-on-year.
Using the European Central Bank's favourite measure, the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), inflation also rose by 0.7% year-on-year in May.
Meanwhile, investor sentiment in Germany in June fell to its lowest level in seven months as uncertainty over Greece and subdued global growth hit confidence, a survey suggested.
The investor confidence index calculated by the ZEW economic institute fell by a steeper-than-expected 10.4 points to 31.5 points this month.
That is its lowest level since November 2014, ZEW said in a statement.
The German, 44, who retired from F1 for a second time in 2012, was taken by helicopter to hospital in Moutiers before being moved to Grenoble.
World championships: 7
Race wins: 91
Seasons in F1: 19
Points scored: 1,560
Points finishes: 220
Podiums: 155
Schumacher was skiing with his 14-year-old son and others in an off-piste area between two marked runs above Meribel when he fell on Sunday morning.
He is being examined in hospital, with his wife and two children also present.
Christophe Gernignon-Lecomte, director of the Meribel resort, said Schumacher "was a little shaken but conscious" after crashing.
Speaking to Radio Monte Carlo Sport, Gernignon-Lecomte added: "He was wearing a helmet and banged [his head] against a rock."
Schumacher was attended to by two ski patrollers who requested helicopter evacuation to the nearby valley town of Moutiers, before he was subsequently moved to a bigger facility at Grenoble.
The German is receiving the attention of Professor Gerard Saillant, a close ally and friend of Schumacher and his former Ferrari team boss Jean Todt.
Saillant is an expert in brain and spine injury. He oversaw Schumacher's medical care when the German broke his leg in the 1999 British GP.
Schumacher's spokeswoman Sabine Kehm said in a statement: "We ask for understanding that we cannot give out continuous information about his health.
"He was wearing a helmet and was not alone. No-one else was involved in the fall."
Schumacher won seven world championships and secured 91 race victories during a 19-year career in Formula 1.
He won two titles with Benetton, in 1994 and 1995, before switching to Ferrari in 1996 and going on to win five straight titles from 2000.
The German retired in 2006, but returned in 2010 with Mercedes. After three seasons which yielded just one podium finish, he quit the sport at the end of 2012.
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The tree in Llanelli town centre is now 20% shorter than before after workmen had to remove branches from its bottom and drop it into a 5ft (1.5m) hole to make it secure.
One local nicknamed it the "bonsai Christmas tree" as it is now shorter than surrounding trees.
Carmarthenshire council has apologised for any disappointment.
Local people complained about the 20ft (6m) tree online.
Dave Glover wrote: "I've got bigger weeds growing outside my property."
Sarah Williams complained the tree was "getting smaller every year" while another said: "Pathetic. Size really does matter with Christmas trees."
A Carmarthenshire council spokeswoman said: "We are sorry if people are disappointed that it is not as large as those we have had in the past.
"The tree had to be anchored five foot under the ground due to safety reasons.
"It meant that around four foot of branches had to be cut off to accommodate this.
"We can assure people that Christmas in Llanelli will still be a magical time."
Cars, flights, furniture and insurance are among the goods and services which buyers think they are getting at a bargain, but which do not exist.
The charity said nearly all of those tricked failed to get their money back.
The average loss was £1,100, it said as it urged people to take their time over online purchases.
"With so many people shopping online to compare deals, scammers are using numerous tactics to target people with phantom goods," said Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice.
"They are drawing people in with cut-price deals and then persuading people to buy items with phoney recommendations from customers.
"It is really important that people don't rush into buying an item when they spot a bargain, but take some time to make sure it is genuine first."
The charity's advice line received calls regarding 555 cases in the first three months of the year, up 17% from the same period a year earlier. They included:
The government said that social media accounts and websites linked to scams had been closed and hundreds of arrests made.
Although phantom goods only account for a fraction of scam cases, online shoppers are being urged to avoid paying for items online via a bank transfer, encouraged to research a trader before agreeing to a purchase, and told to look for the padlock icon when paying online.
James Alex Fields was denied bail as he was arraigned for second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit and run.
Heather Heyer, 32, died and 19 were injured when a car hit demonstrators in Charlottesville on Saturday.
Mr Fields is said to have harboured Nazi sympathies.
President Donald Trump has been criticised for not specifically denouncing the far-right elements in the weekend's march.
But the White House has defended his remarks as explicitly condemning the white supremacy groups involved.
Ken Frazier, CEO of drugs giant Merck, announced on Monday he would resign from the president's American Manufacturing Council over Mr Trump's response to Charlottesville.
Mr Frazier, who is African American, tweeted he had "a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism".
James Alex Fields looked nervous and listless on the small monitor in the corner of the courtroom. Mostly he kept his head down, his eyes darting occasionally up towards the camera.
He was wearing a striped jumpsuit and had the neat, buzzcut hairstyle favoured by many white supremacists and neo-nazis who have united under the banner of the so-called "alt-right".
Judge Robert Downer read his charges - one count of murder, one count of hit and run, three counts of malicious wounding.
Alex Fields spoke briefly to say he was employed by Securitas and Omni Ohio, could not afford a lawyer, and had no ties to Charlottesville. Judge Downer denied him bail, and revealed he could not be appointed a public defender because someone in the public defender's office was directly affected by the crime.
His appointed lawyer, Charles Webster, named in court by the judge, had yet to be contacted to inform him of his latest client.
In 10 minutes it was over. Outside the court, known white nationalist Matthew Heimbach was shouting that the death of Heather Heyer was the fault of the police.
"Nazis go home," the crowd chanted back at him. "I think I like it in Charlottesville," he said. "I think I'll stay."
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday said the deadly violence met "the definition of domestic terrorism", adding that the Justice Department was opening a civil rights investigation into the event.
"You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation towards the most serious charges that can be brought because this is unequivocally an unacceptable evil attack," he said on ABC News' Good Morning America.
He told the television programme that FBI agents from the terrorism and civil rights divisions were also investigating the matter.
Hundreds of white nationalists convened in Charlottesville on Saturday to protest against the removal of a statue of a general who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.
These groups, which include the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis and other white supremacy organisations, have coalesced under a banner of the so-called "alt-right" movement.
They were challenged by anti-fascist and counter-protesters and the rally erupted into violent clashes.
During the melee, Ms Heyer was struck by a car that rammed into a crowd of dispersing counter-protesters.
Protests and vigils in support of Charlottesville were held in many US cities on Sunday. In Seattle, police used pepper spray to stop protesters approaching a pro-Trump rally.
Hours after the violence erupted, Mr Trump said he condemned "in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides".
"The hate and the division must stop right now," he told reporters in New Jersey, where he is on a working holiday. "We have to come together as Americans with love for our nation."
But his comments did not explicitly condemn the white extremist groups involved in the rally, an omission that was strongly criticised by Republicans and Democrats alike.
Many, including senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, echoed the sentiment of Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, who tweeted: "Mr President - we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism."
The president's national security adviser, HR McMaster, went further by commenting: "Anytime that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it meets the definition of terrorism."
The mayor of Charlottesville, Democrat Mike Signer, drew a link between the events and the rhetoric of Mr Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, saying that "these anti-Semites, racists, Aryans, neo-Nazis, KKK" had come out of the shadows after having "been given a key and a reason to come into the light".
In response to the criticism, the White House issued a statement on Sunday clarifying that Mr Trump's condemnation had included white supremacists.
"The president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred. Of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups," a spokesperson said.
Mr Sessions also came to the president's defence on Monday, saying he "explicitly condemned the kind of ideology behind these movements of Nazism, white supremacy, the KKK."
That is his unequivocal position," Mr Sessions said, "He totally opposes those kind of values".
Nolan, 24, made 22 appearances for The Mariners as they secured promotion to the Football League.
He left Grimsby on Tuesday after appearing in the side's FA Trophy Final loss to Halifax Town at Wembley.
Chesterfield, who finished 18th in League One, released seven players at the end of the season.
Nolan, who began his career at Stockport County, is Chesterfield's second non-league signing of the summer after striker Kristian Dennis joined from Stockport County.
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With China's slowing economy, India's central bank governor, Raghuram Rajan, says the country's economy is heading in the right direction to become an engine of global growth.
He spoke to Simon Jack at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
But this year, as the staff collect up the champagne flutes and stack the chairs, the aftermath is not quite business as usual.
There has been much talk of the new "see now, buy now" trend that upends the traditional system whereby fashion houses showcase their new styles but only deliver them to the market several months later.
So what exactly has changed and why?
London Fashion Week comes around twice a year (in September and February), and, as the people behind it are keen to emphasise, it is about a great deal more than hats and hem lengths.
It is the industry's trade show: new styles are launched, fashion journalists take copious notes, and buyers put in orders for stock.
According to the organisers, the fashion industry contributes £28bn to the UK economy and is growing, currently providing jobs for 880,000 people.
And in an ever noisier world, it can help let your voice be heard, according to Peter Ruis, chief executive of Jigsaw - showing at Fashion Week for the first time.
He says: "Twenty years ago, there were maybe 300 to 400 brands in Europe.
"Now, there are millions of brands everywhere, so London Fashion Week gives us a chance for four days to be on the top of the agenda."
In the old days, a designer would show new styles in the autumn that were meant to be worn the following spring.
February's fashion shows looked ahead to the coming winter.
It gave editors time to publish lots of glossy photos in monthly magazines and allowed the anticipation to build before the clothes arrived in store.
At London Fashion Week this February, Burberry, was the first to introduce the idea of "see now, buy now" or "runway to retail": showing products and then making them immediately available to buy.
Their collection, on Monday night, was billed as "seasonless" and "immediate", available globally.
Topshop and Jigsaw followed their example.
At New York Fashion Week a few days earlier, Ralph Lauren held its show on Madison Avenue, so once the runway had cleared, guests could be ushered straight into the brand's flagship store, where all the designs were immediately available to buy.
Tom Ford and Tommy Hilfiger have adopted the new timetable too.
Natasha Pearlman, editor of Grazia magazine, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that labels had realised it was just too hard to keep people excited about a design while they waited for six months.
"You're responding to what the consumer wants," she said.
"The consumer drives the profits... the more people you're talking to, the more the products are available to them, the more exciting it is."
But not everyone is keen on the idea.
"Fashion used to be a world of allure, and refinement and scarcity," says Patrick Grant, creative director of Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons.
"Personally, I felt there was something wonderful about this," he says/
"Now... there's fashion spam everywhere.
"And what this has done is turn Ralph Lauren and Burberry into [shopping channel] QVC.
"It's totally democratised, but my problem with it is, it's losing its allure."
"Fast fashion" from brands such as Zara and H&M mean that once the big name designers have shown their hand at Fashion Week, ordinary shoppers have to wait only a few weeks before High Street retailers are offering the colours and shapes they are craving.
Then there is the internet.
Fashion journalism is also undergoing a revolution as independent bloggers or "influencers" play an ever greater role in telling consumers what is hot and what is not.
If a high-end label waits six months before its lines arrive in the shop, it risks looking dated as the internet and the High Street have long ago been there and done that.
Moreover, as the fashion industry becomes ever more global, the idea of designing for an upcoming "season" stops making any sense.
There is a market for winter coats in Australia just when Americans are investing in strappy summer dresses.
Some things are not changing.
There is the biannual debate over the influence of super-skinny models and the lack of ethnic diversity on the catwalk.
Designers are still making a splash with outlandish garments - not because they think consumers would ever wear them but because it helps them to establish a brand identity and make them memorable.
And newspapers and magazines, whether in print or online, are as keen as ever to fill their pages with glossy pictures of celebrities ranged along the fashion front rows.
It comes after Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) announced plans to merge its Sandown Bay and Ryde academies.
Conservative councillor Chris Whitehouse said: "We want AET out of Sandown Academy and preferably off the island altogether."
The authority will now take its request to the Department for Education.
The council wants to establish or bring in another body to run the island's schools.
More on this and other stories from across the South of England.
A Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: "We are aware of AET's proposal to merge Sandown Bay Academy and Ryde Academy.
"Any significant change to an open academy must be approved by the department and there is a clearly defined process that academy trusts must follow."
AET said a consultation on the merger between the two schools was due to start next week.
The trust claims falling numbers and the consequent impact on finances had prompted the merger decision.
Catherine Hastings from the trust said: "We really do understand the depth of feeling among students and families. The facts are that there are way too many school places on the island."
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.
A final decision on the proposed merger will be made by the government after the general election.
Jacqueline Melinda Friend, 59, from Castleford, and Lynda Leonard, 52, from Bradford, had been passengers in a black cab heading towards Bawtry.
Ms Friend has been described as "the most fabulous wife, mum, nana, sister, aunty and friend".
Ms Leonard's family said she would be "sadly missed by her daughter Abbygail and partner Colin".
The crash happened at about 00:25 GMT on Sunday near the Mount Pleasant hotel on the A638 Great North Road at Rossington near Doncaster.
A Fiat Scudo taxi, travelling in the opposite direction towards Doncaster, collided with the black LTI London taxi the two women had been in, which was heading towards Bawtry.
Both women died following the collision.
Ms Friend's family said she had been "tragically taken from all her loved ones by the incident on Saturday night in Doncaster".
"Our world has been shattered, and will never be the same again.
"Jackie was the foundation of our whole family, and will be missed unbearably by all who knew and loved her.
"We will love her forever."
Ten other people were treated in hospital for minor injuries.
The black LTI London taxi also carried two 58-year-old men and a 61-year-old driver.
The Fiat Scudo taxi carried six passengers - three men aged 22, 25 and 29, three women, aged 21, 25 and 26, and a 40-year-old driver.
All 10 were taken to hospital and treated for minor injuries, South Yorkshire Police said.
The 23-year-old played in Saturday's pre-season friendly win over Stoke City after arriving the previous day from Ross County for a fee understood to be £300,000, and set up fellow newcomer Chris O'Grady for one of his two goals in the 3-0 victory at the Pirelli Stadium.
Wearing Burton colours for the first time, the Australia international took the field with his long hair tied back - drawing further comparisons with former Wales international Savage, who played under Clough at Derby County before retiring in 2011.
"Jackson has settled in nicely," the Brewers boss told BBC Radio Derby.
"The only worrying thing is the way he runs - it's a little bit awkward, not easy on the eye at times and he reminds me of Robbie Savage."
Irvine, who moved to the Championship club from Scottish Premiership side Ross County, was the second player in a week to break Burton's transfer record after Kyle McFadzean.
Prior to defender McFadzean joining from MK Dons, the club's biggest spend was £20,000 for midfielder Russell Penn in 2009.
"It's a remarkable achievement to get to the Championship paying a maximum fee of £20,000 to this point," Clough said.
"We had to pay a bit more than that to get Jackson and Kyle McFadzean in for similar fees. You can see the quality you get."
The Grade II-listed pier partially collapsed into the sea off the Conwy coast on 1 February, and suffered more damage during Storm Doris.
The initial work will disconnect the collapsed section from the pier and clear any materials. The remainder of the seaward section will then be dismantled.
It is estimated the work will take about three weeks.
Heritage body Cadw and the health and safety executive are monitoring the demolition.
Security arrangements remain in place, and Conwy council has asked the public to keep a safe distance.
Conwy council is due to consider future plans for the structure's possible restoration as a "truncated pier boardwalk" tomorrow.
It will also examine a plan to salvage any heritage elements, including balustrades and the pier's main 1930's pavilion.
The Colwyn Victoria Pier Trust told the council it wants to restore the pier to its original 1900 length, complete with kiosks and a pavilion to serve beach-goers - but recognised the remaining pier needs to be dismantled "so the community can move forward".
The Heritage Lottery Fund said the trust should enlist the support of the council before applying for any funding.
In 2013, Conwy council voted to demolish the Grade II-listed structure, but this was refused by the Welsh Government in 2015.
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According to police, 155 potential suspects have now been identified and 148 clubs spanning all tiers of the game have been "impacted".
On 21 December, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said there were 429 victims, 98% of whom were male with their ages ranging from four to 20 at the time of the alleged abuse.
In London alone, a Metropolitan police investigation has received 106 allegations against 30 clubs - four of which are in the Premier League.
The The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), the UK's leading children's charity, says it has received more than 1,700 calls to a dedicated football abuse hotline set up just four weeks ago.
The Football Association plans to conduct an internal review to determine whether it could and should have done more, while FA chairman Greg Clarke says the crisis is the biggest facing the organisation that he can remember.
The Scottish FA has also launched its own inquiry into alleged abuse.
On 16 November, former Crewe, Bury and Sheffield United player Andy Woodward, 43, waived his right to anonymity and told the Guardian he was sexually abused as a youth player.
Since he has spoken out, several other footballers - including former England and Tottenham midfielder Paul Stewart and ex-Manchester City striker David White - have told their stories publicly.
Woodward has also joined with another former Crewe player, Steve Walters, and ex-Manchester City youth player Chris Unsworth to launch an independent trust that will "fight for justice" and support victims.
The Offside Trust is hoping donations from the FA, the English Football League, Premier League, Professional Footballers' Association and commercial organisations that profit from the game will help fund its work.
The latest figures suggest 148 amateur and professional clubs are "impacted". This does not equate to 148 clubs under investigation, but instead refers to the number of clubs referenced when information is submitted.
And that number could be higher still after the Metropolitan police released its own figures on 13 December saying it was looking into allegations relating to 30 clubs or teams.
Chelsea have apologised "profusely" to former footballer Gary Johnson over abuse he suffered in the 1970s and are conducting their own review. However, the club broke no rules by not notifying the Premier League of its confidentiality agreement with Johnson and the nature of his claims.
QPR say they are taking allegations made against former employee Chris Gieler "very seriously" and will "co-operate fully" in any investigation.
Charlton Athletic, Crewe Alexandra and Manchester City have also opened investigations into allegations of historical abuse.
Former Southampton player Matt le Tissier said he had been given a "naked massage" by Bob Higgins, an ex-coach at the centre of sex abuse allegations.
It is also claimed Higgins showered naked with young players while working for the Malta Football Association between 1989 and 1994.
Higgins denies any wrongdoing, while Southampton say they are "fully supporting" Hampshire Police in its investigations.
The FA has begun an internal review - led by Clive Sheldon QC - to determine what officials and clubs knew about potential abuse and when, looking at documents from 1970-2005.
That review will also look at what information the FA was aware of at relevant times and what action was, or should have been, taken.
The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has reported that the FA scrapped a major review of its child protection policies in 2003.
Ian Ackley, who says he was abused by a man with links to Manchester City, told the programme his father's calls for better protection "fell on deaf ears" and the FA reacted "dismissively" to worries about abuse in the game.
The FA said it was unable to comment on that claim but has said it is working closely with police and added it "must ensure we do not do anything to interfere with or jeopardise the criminal process".
Crewe director Dario Gradi has been suspended pending an FA investigation that will include looking into claims he "smoothed over" a complaint of sexual assault against ex-Chelsea scout Eddie Heath in the 1970s.
Gradi denies any wrongdoing and says he will help the FA's review.
The Child Protection in Sport Unit, which has assisted the FA since 2000, will also carry out an independent audit into the FA's practices.
On 12 December, former FA chairman David Bernstein told BBC Sport: "If the FA was more modern, more sensitive, more in tune with what was going on in the world, there is more chance that it would have picked this up and have been reported to the chairman at the time.
"I think the more old-fashioned organisations are, the more chance there is of these things being swept under the carpet."
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has written to Damian Collins, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, to launch a formal inquiry into the abuse scandal.
He said an FA internal review "will not be enough".
Twenty-one police forces, including the Metropolitan Police, have opened investigations into the claims.
They are: Devon and Cornwall, Warwickshire, Avon and Somerset, Essex, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Dorset, Staffordshire, Greater Manchester, North Wales, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Cheshire, West Midlands, South Wales, Dyfed-Powys, Scotland Yard, Police Scotland, Northumbria Police, Derbyshire Constabulary and the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
The Scottish FA announced its own independent inquiry on 13 December, following meetings with police and representatives from PFA Scotland.
The SFA said the review would focus on "processes and procedures" in place both currently and historically in Scottish football.
A former Celtic youth coach, Jim McCafferty, has been arrested by police in Northern Ireland over allegations of sexual offences against children.
The alleged victims are believed to have been in their mid-teens.
McCafferty also worked for other Scottish clubs, including Falkirk and Hibernian, before moving to Northern Ireland about seven years ago.
Hugh Stevenson, a former youth football coach and top-flight assistant referee, has also been accused of a catalogue of child sex offences in Scotland.
Stevenson, who died in 2004, is accused by Pete Haynes, now 50, of sexually abusing him over a three to four-year period from 1979.
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SFA chief executive Stewart Regan "apologised deeply" to Haynes and said his organisation took full responsibility for child protection failings of the past.
Partick Thistle said they have also identified a historical allegation of abuse made in 1992 against a former club physiotherapist, who is now dead.
The club said Police Scotland and the SFA had been informed.
Three of four police forces in Wales are also investigating allegations of historical child sexual abuse at various football clubs.
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Former Tottenham midfielder Stewart has said the sport could be facing a crisis on the scale of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
After his death, former DJ and television presenter Savile was found to have been a prolific sexual predator.
A lawyer representing the Offside Trust told the BBC that "calls and emails are coming in all the time" from people claiming to have been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements with clubs in return for compensation.
Edward Smethurst told BBC sports editor Dan Roan he "could not make specific allegations" but revealed "several" victims had come forward.
Meanwhile former sports minister, Sir Hugh Robertson, now chairman of the British Olympic Association, said it would be "foolish" to presume there had been no similar abuse in Olympic sports.
"We would be naive to think we have got away with it, but we know that our own protection measures right now are absolutely where they need to be."
On 22 December, the FA gave an update on safeguarding, saying about 8,000 youth football clubs responsible for more than 60,000 teams have renewed their safeguarding commitment since the sport's child sexual abuse scandal emerged.
However, clubs that have missed the confirmation deadline - under 2% of the total number - have been suspended.
The FA has also written to the parents of academy footballers "to highlight the high standard of safeguarding provisions currently in place at clubs".
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There were 2,000 more people looking for work than the previous three months, May to July.
However, compared with a year ago there were 21,000 fewer people unemployed in Wales, according to the ONS.
The Welsh rate of unemployment is now 4.3%, still lower than the UK rate of 4.8%. There were fewer people employed in the UK and Wales in the last quarter.
But this was still more than a year ago.
These latest figures from the Office for National Statistics are not the first to show a slight rise in unemployment in Wales.
Labour market statistics published in November showed an increase of 3,000 compared with the previous three months. The latest show an increase of 2,000.
But looking at the actual numbers of people unemployed in Wales in the monthly surveys, it does not suggest that there is any clear trend.
The figures published on Wednesday put unemployment at 65,000; the ones published in November put it at 67,000 while it was 65,000 in the October statistics.
The Labour Market statistics are a survey of what is happening in businesses across Wales over three months and monthly changes can be misleading.
These figures today do not necessarily suggest that the trend of lower unemployment is ending, rather that employment levels are flat.
Despite seeing a small rise in unemployment, for the second time, Wales still has the lowest rate of unemployment in the UK - after the south east and south west of England.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said it was great to end the year with Wales having experienced record levels of employment.
"The figures today are a testament to Wales' ability to create the climate where businesses can thrive and are confident about the opportunities facing them," he said.
"This coupled with the announcement that the Aston Martin's new manufacturing facility at St Athan in Wales received the green light today shows that businesses have the confidence to expand in Wales.
"There is more work to do but we will look forward to 2017 with renewed optimism."
First Minister Carwyn Jones also welcomed the Aston Martin announcement, adding: "As a pro-business government we are continuing to work hard to support the right economic conditions to help create and safeguard jobs right across Wales."
He said the figures were "evidence of our success in developing high quality employment opportunities across all parts of the country".
Ten years on, with the Women's Ashes series getting under way in Taunton next week, the 25-year-old left-arm spinner, who is currently taking a break from international cricket, looks back at the magic of 2005 and reflects on her other Ashes memories.
1. Did you dream of playing for England in the Ashes and how did you feel on your Ashes debut?
If I'm honest, I didn't really dream of playing for England because by the time I realised it was a possibility I was making my debut at 15. I'd only seen England play an international for the first time the year before.
My Ashes debut was a little bit of a freak incident in that I was practising in the nets at Hove, as a net bowler for the England team, the day before - and based on that, got picked to play the following day! I had no idea who my opposition was, ie the greats like Belinda Clark, Lisa Keightley and Cathryn Fitzpatrick, so I wasn't that nervous. For me it was just another game of cricket with a slightly bigger crowd!
2. Champagne Ashes moment?
Taken quite literally, it has to be on the open top buses riding around central London after the 2005 win - the few bits of TV coverage you saw of me showed me swigging straight from a champagne bottle! It was a day I will never forget, which I will cherish for the rest of my life.
3. Most important bowling spell?
I would say my best bowling spell was actually on debut at Hove in 2005. Given the context of how young and inexperienced I was, to be on a hat-trick ball was something special.
4. Best innings or bowling spell that you saw from a team-mate or opponent?
There have been a lot of stand-out performances over the years but I think there are two that really shine amongst the rest. One was Heather Knight's 157 at Wormsley in the 2013 Test - she just made batting look so simple. It was an absolute pleasure to watch.
The other was Isa Guha's nine wickets in Bowral in 2008. I've never seen someone more fired up - she won us the game.
5. Favourite Ashes ground and why?
Probably Bowral, because winning away from home was a massive achievement. An added bonus was that the changing room walls were really thin, so singing and dancing at the end of the Test, knowing the Aussies could hear us was even better!
6. Fiercest Ashes opponent?
Cathryn Fitzpatrick has to be up there as the fiercest opponent I've ever encountered. I actually got her out on my Test debut and I was a little worried because I thought she would want payback when she bowled at me. When it came to our innings, unfortunately (or fortunately?!) I was run out just as she was warming up to come back on (not on purpose). She would bound in from basically the boundary rope and put everything into every ball - even on day four of a Test.
7. Most memorable Ashes match?
I would say my debut, but that feels like such a blur now. I think the moment I will always remember is at the Ageas Bowl in 2013, when Lydia Greenway steered us to victory in the second Twenty20 international. The Aussie captain Jodie Fields just had no idea where to put the fielders, it was a masterclass. What made it so special was the fact we didn't have a good record at the Ageas Bowl in recent times and the fact we had won the Ashes with a game to spare! It ended up being my last Ashes series so it will always be one I will take with me.
8. Ashes moment you would like to forget?
The Ashes moment I would like to forget is seeing Heather Knight doing the splits at Durham in 2013, injuring her hamstring. When Heather hobbled off the pitch the only position she could stay in that didn't hurt as much was lying down! I had to comfort her by giving her a running commentary of the game and tried to add a bit of humour in there... I think she was mainly laughing at me than with me, but it did the job.
9. Best celebration you have seen in an Ashes match?
A personal celebration that I will always remember was Isa Guha celebrating the wicket of Karen Rolton lbw for four runs. She did her own lap of honour as if we had just won the Test match! The whole team had to chase her around the boundary to celebrate with her.
In terms of team celebrations, there is always a good sing and dance in the changing room afterwards. But there was a particularly memorable bus journey up to Gatwick after we had already retained the Ashes in Southampton in 2013 and were due to fly to Durham the next day. Put it this way, there was some serious karaoke on the bus and coach Paul Shaw's Elvis impression is legendary!
10. Who will win this summer's Ashes?
I think England are as strong as they have ever been, but we all know what tough competitors Australia are. The ODI and T20 sides are pretty evenly matched, so whoever wins the Test match will win the Ashes.
Weeks after staging an epic comeback - winning 67 of the 70 assembly seats in the Delhi state elections and posing the first real challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP - the two-year-old party, run by the charismatic former tax inspector Arvind Kejriwal, has been roiled by feud and dissension. Inspired leaks and murky sting operations initiated by party leaders have meant that most of the party's dirty linen has been washed in public.
Things have now come to a head with Mr Kejriwal completely sidelining two of AAP's key founder members.
Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, who counted themselves among his closest allies, have been dropped from key decision-making panels for their alleged "anti-party" activities. Alluding to the rise of a cult of personality around Mr Kejriwal, the two said that the party was at risk of becoming a "one-man show" and blamed its opaque decision making. Analyst Ajaz Ashraf, who has been closely following AAP, says it is really a "power struggle dressed up as a battle of ideas and a fight for transparency".
Indian politics has a chequered history of splits and mergers, so a breakup of AAP will be an unexceptionable event. (A popular book on politics in India is titled Divided We Stand.)
The allegation that Mr Kejriwal has fostered a cult of personality is also not extraordinary: most of India's leading parties revolve and thrive around personalities, and a number of them would possibly implode after the death of their leader.
What is surprising is that AAP actually held out the hope of being different. Tens of thousands of Indians, tired of dynastic politics, rampant corruption and brazen nepotism, supported Mr Kejriwal's party because they believed it stood for probity, transparency and democracy. Mr Kejriwal was seen as an authentic hero in a country where politicians appeared to have lost the trust of people.
But the unseemly spectacle of AAP's top leaders squabbling in the open, the intemperate language used in phone conversations and the virtual banishment of two of the party's brightest leaders, will now put to rest the illusion that AAP is all that different.
The recent events also prove, as historian Mukul Kesavan writes, that AAP is a "form of sole proprietorship, not a political cooperative that many thought it was". Those who naively believed in its "rhetoric of decentralised democracy" should realise Mr Kejriwal's ownership of the party is complete.
Mr Kesavan points out that there had been enough hints in the past that Mr Kejriwal's "political style was personalised to the point of whimsicality". Remember the time when he quit the Delhi government in a huff after a chaotic 49 days in power following an impressive debut in the December 2013 state polls? Or his unusual sit-in protest sparked by a row over who controls Delhi's police force, when it was difficult to say whether he was the man in charge of Delhi or an opposition leader?
Mr Kejriwal's upstart party is made up of a motley crew of activists, academics, liberals, journalists and leftists. It still remains a quintessentially Delhi-centric, urban party, which is yet to engage with the thornier issues of caste, identity, and religion, which continue to play a key role in India's messy and fragmented politics. (One major area of disagreement between Mr Kejriwal and his estranged comrades was over the expansion of the party outside Delhi. )
In the short term, a split in AAP will not possibly rock the boat for Mr Kejriwal, who remains the party's mascot and only vote-catcher and has the allegiance of his legislators. Also, the star dissenters are well-respected academics and lawyers with little or no political base of their own.
But the purge leaves Mr Kejriwal poorer. He has, says Mr Kesavan, "been damaged by the loss of intelligent, well-spoken allies who had great virtue of not being seen as his creatures". Mr Kejriwal's remaining allies are now "obscure, undistinguished men who dimly glow in the light of his sun".
Many believe that the purge also demonstrates that Mr Kejriwal has emerged as an artful practitioner of realpolitik. But as political scientist Ashutosh Varshney says that "although the short-term consequences of not allowing genuine internal democracy might help a political party, lending efficacy and cohesion, we know from history that such moves can badly hurt in the long run". AAP, as a friend jests, has quickly entered middle age.
In a joint statement following their first meeting since Mr Putin returned to the presidency, they said they shared a belief that Syrians should determine their own future.
The two countries have been at odds over how to resolve the crisis.
Russia and China have twice blocked US-backed UN draft resolutions critical of Syria.
Both countries argue that pushing the government from power using external pressure is unacceptable.
The meeting of the two leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, came amid unconfirmed reports that Russian ships were preparing to set sail for Syria.
The Russian news agency Interfax quoted a navy source as saying the ship Kaliningrad, part of the Baltic Fleet, was preparing for a trip in the Mediterranean, as part of which "the ship will visit the Syrian port of Tartus, where the Russian navy's logistics station is located".
The report comes a day after Interfax reported that two amphibious vessels were apparently on a mission to protect Russian citizens and remove equipment if necessary from the naval base in Tartus.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus says that, if confirmed, the deployment of the ships suggests the Russians are taking prudent precautions in the event of the Syrian regime collapsing.
Also on Tuesday, British marine insurance company Standard Club said it had withdrawn insurance from a Russian ship, the MV Alaed, because of the possibility it was carrying weapons to Syria.
"We were made aware of the allegations that the Alaed was carrying munitions destined for Syria. We have informed the ship owner that their cover ceased automatically in view of the nature of their voyage," the company said in a statement.
Last week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Russia of supplying Syria with attack helicopters, saying this would escalate the conflict "quite dramatically".
However, on Tuesday, President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied this, telling reporters: "Russia is not selling or delivering helicopters to Syria."
Russian specialists were only maintaining helicopters that were sold to Damascus "a very long time ago", Mr Peskov said.
Meanwhile, at least 71 people were killed in the latest violence across Syria on Monday, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Intense artillery fire was reported by activists in several areas, including the cities of Homs and Deir Ezzor and the Damascus suburbs of Douma and Qudsiya.
On Tuesday, the Syrian government said it was willing to facilitate the evacuation of hundreds of civilians reportedly trapped by fighting in Homs.
The head of UN observers in Syria, Maj Gen Robert Mood, had earlier admitted "attempts to extract civilians" from the besieged city of Homs over the past week had been unsuccessful and urged warring parties to let them leave.
The government was willing "to extract the citizens... without any preconditions", but "armed terrorist groups' obstructions" meant this had not happened, the Syrian foreign ministry told state-run news agency Sana.
Speaking after the two-hour meeting, Mr Obama said he and Mr Putin had pledged to work with "other international actors, including the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and all interested parties" to try to find a solution to the Syria crisis.
Mr Putin said the two countries had found "many common points" on Syria.
The US and Russian leaders also warned Iran to comply fully with its international obligations over its controversial nuclear programme, calling for the "minimisation of the civilian use of highly enriched uranium".
And on the issue of missile defence, the two sides said they would work to resolve a dispute over US plans to deploy a shield in Europe.
Correspondents say there were no smiles between Mr Obama and Mr Putin during the news conference, and their interactions seemed stiff and strained.
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Nohad Machnouk told Lebanon's MTV television that the child's mother, who is also in custody, was now believed to be one of Baghdadi's ex-wives.
On Tuesday, Lebanese security officials said they had detained his wife and son at a border crossing with Syria.
But Iraq's government later insisted the woman was not married to Baghdadi.
It said the woman - identified as Saja al-Dulaimi - was the daughter of an active member of al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, al-Nusra Front.
She is also thought to have been detained by the Syrian authorities before being freed in March as part of a prisoner exchange with al-Nusra.
Late on Wednesday, Mr Machnouk told MTV that Ms Dulaimi had been travelling with two sons and a daughter when they were detained by the army two weeks ago.
"Dulaimi is not Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's wife currently. She has been married three times: first to a man from the former Iraqi regime, with whom she had two sons," he said.
"Six years ago she married Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for three months, and she had a daughter with him. Now, she is married to a Palestinian and she is pregnant with his child."
The minister added: "We conducted DNA tests on her and the daughter, which showed she was the mother of the girl, and that the girl is [Baghdadi's] daughter, based on DNA from Baghdadi from Iraq."
It is not clear how the Iraqi authorities have the IS leader's DNA. However, in 2005 he was arrested by US forces in Iraq and spent the next four years a prisoner at Camp Bucca, near the southern town of Um Qasr, before being handed over to the Iraqi authorities and then released.
Mr Machnouk said Ms Dulaimi's children were staying at a care centre while she was being interrogated at the defence ministry's headquarters.
IS has not commented on their detention, but al-Nusra has condemned it.
One Lebanese official has said it is a "powerful card to apply pressure" in negotiations with IS and al-Nusra, who are holding more than 20 Lebanese soldiers and police hostage. They are threatening to kill them unless militants are freed from Lebanese jails.
Leigh Griffiths' 35th goal of the season and a second from Callum McGregor put the visitors in command.
But a Sean Welsh penalty for Thistle with six minutes left made for a nervier finish than anticipated.
"It's never nice when you are hanging on like that but overall I felt we deserved the win," Mackay-Steven said.
"In the first half we created a lot and if we had taken a few more chances, we could have made it a little more comfortable for ourselves.
"But this is never an easy place to come and win, so it is a crucial three points for us.
"It is nice to get them on the board but we know how well Aberdeen are going. This league is going to go down to the wire. But if we look after ourselves, that is all we can do."
Celtic briefly extended their lead to four points, before Aberdeen closed the gap to one point again after beating Kilmarnock 2-1 later on Saturday.
Manager Ronny Deila felt his side "should have killed the game much before" but was pleased with their overall display.
"It got a bit edgy in the end and their penalty seemed very easy to me but I don't care right now," he told BBC Scotland. "We won the game and that is the most important thing.
"I think we controlled it quite well so there were a lot of positives. We created a lot of chances and should have killed it at 3-0 before they scored.
"But we know we have got finishers in the team. We just have to keep on creating and have a lot of energy in the team. We won ball in a lot of good situations and hit them on the break and created a lot of chances.
"The boys are hungry - you could see that. I am very happy for the team - they performed well."
It was a third successive defeat - against the top three sides in the league - in the space of eight days for Thistle, but manager Alan Archibald refused to use their punishing schedule as an excuse.
"I think it told mentally (rather than physically) after the second goal went in," he told BBC Scotland. "Then nobody wanted the ball as much as they did before.
"I felt the first half was pretty even and we had a couple of half-chances, but we lost a poor goal and that took the wind out of our sails a bit."
Partick, who remain eighth, six points above the relegation play-off place, now face matches against Hamilton, Kilmarnock and Dundee United - all below them in the table.
"We have got four cup finals before the split," Archibald added.
"If we can apply ourselves in the same manner as these last three games, we will take something from them but we can't have the defensive lapses we had today."
For decades, penitentiaries here have been criticised by human rights organisations for allowing serious human rights violations to take place behind their walls.
Although the government has introduced reforms to improve living conditions, some Venezuelan prisons are still among the most violent and overcrowded in Latin America.
None of that has stopped this missionary, who belongs to the Mercedarian Order, help teach inmates some of the basics of life, like literacy.
"I'm very happy when they learn to read and write. I can see their excitement.
"It also means they can understand what official documents say about them and their trials", the 52-year-old nun said.
"I have always seen the face of God in their faces", she said on our way to Venezuela's General Penitentiary (PGV) in Guarico state, a three-hour drive away from the capital Caracas.
We accompanied Sister Neyda to one of her workshops after the BBC was granted rare access to the prison.
Although the exterior of the prison is guarded by the Venezuela's National Guard and it has a prison director and staff from the Ministry of Penitentiary Affairs, effectively it's the inmates who are in charge on the inside.
The prisoners have weapons, a clear leadership structure and a strict set of rules.
Those who do not follow these rules often pay with their lives, human rights groups and former inmates say.
The PGV was built to hold 750 prisoners but at the time of our visit there were around 3,000 inmates.
With her charisma and perseverance, Sister Neyda has won the inmates' trust.
It is a very dangerous and unpredictable place where violence is rife, but she walks around unafraid, as if she was untouchable.
"I am sure they will never shoot me. God is with me. They will never do anything against me. In fact, they protect me", she says.
Although she acknowledges that many of the inmates have committed serious crimes, she cannot stop seeing them as "God's children".
"They've lost their freedom, but not their dignity. As a Mercedarian missionary who works in a jail, I have to serve them every day."
When I asked her how she felt around the inmates, she touched my arm and told me with a kind smile that they were close to her heart.
"Many of them have been abandoned. But they have us. I am the voice of men who have no voice."
Two armed young inmates were guarding the entrance the day I entered the prison with Sister Neyda.
"Good morning, my son, and God bless you," she said, looking them in the eyes and shaking their hands.
They replied "Amen, Sister" and waved her in, no questions asked.
She is known as La Gota Blanca (The White Drop) because of the colour of her nun's habit.
As she walks through the jail, you can hear prisoners shouting: "Put your shirts on!"
Like lightning, every bare-backed prisoner obeys, out of respect for the visiting nun who, for years, has been part of the jail's teaching staff.
"Come and spend a nice afternoon with me. I'll expect you in the classroom," she says gently but firmly to the inmates.
One prison leader, who is serving a 17-year sentence, greets her fondly.
"I used to have a tiny heart," the man told me.
"But because of Sister Neyda, it's now huge. She teaches us humanity and spirituality" he said.
Minutes later, the noise of repeated gunfire sent a chilling reminder that we were inside a very dangerous place.
Sister Neyda quickly came over to reassure me and the inmate who was with us told us: "Don't worry, they're just testing their weapons. It's okay. "
Thanks to her appeals and intercedence, many inmates with serious illnesses have received medicines and had their sentences commuted.
Sister Neyda recalls one diabetic man who had had both legs amputated and did not have a wheelchair.
"It was so beautiful when I was able to hand him to his family," she says.
She says the prison has given her the chance to feel maternal.
One of her fondest memories is the time when one of the female inmates went into labour and Sister Neyda delivered the baby.
Another time a woman handed her her baby in a shoebox. The baby girl had inherited syphilis.
She also had intestinal worms and Sister Neyda had to beg doctors to help her save the baby,
She visited her in hospital every three hours and asked new mothers if they could breastfeed the little girl.
The girl is now 18 years old. She says that she has three mothers - her biological one, who died in prison, her adoptive mother and Sister Neyda.
But her memories of tender moments and the morning workshop she is teaching are ended abruptly when the prisoners received the order from their leaders to return to their cells.
They rush back looking worried.
Sister Neyda meanwhile calmly packs up her things and leaves the classroom saying "God willing, I will come back later".
She did return, and no doubt will do so again.
Despite all the crime and violence inside this prison, Sister Neyda has also found respect and hope in what so many call "hell on earth".
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The Wales International Convention Centre will have the capacity for 4,000 delegates, making it the largest of its kind in Wales and south west England.
Newport council's planning committee backed the detailed plans at a meeting on Wednesday.
The centre will create 250 jobs and could be open by 2019.
More than 200 jobs will also be created during the three-year construction of the centre, which will have an auditorium for up to 1,500 delegates and a separate exhibition hall.
It will also have 13 meeting rooms, outdoor terraces and an entrance plaza with potential for an outdoor theatre.
The so-called "ground-scraper" will include two storeys of basement parking for 700 cars underneath the main hall, as well as a new multi-storey car park over four floors with another 290 spaces.
It is nearly two years since the plans were first unveiled, while outline planning permission was granted last July.
The resort has already hosted major events such as last September's Nato summit, which saw 60 world leaders including President Barack Obama descend on the venue off the M4 under tight security.
The hotel and golf complex - owned by telecoms billionaire Sir Terry Matthews - also hosted the Ryder Cup golf tournament in 2010.
ANALYSIS by BBC Wales business correspondent Brian Meechan
Wales needs a convention centre to compete with the likes of Edinburgh, Birmingham and Liverpool.
On that, everyone agrees. But where to put it is a different matter.
The Celtic Manor has beaten Cardiff to deliver a venue that could host international business functions, political party conferences and major events like sporting tournaments.
There has been talk for a long time about Cardiff building a convention centre and it has not happened.
So many hoteliers in the capital are very happy that the Celtic Manor will be going ahead with it.
They will certainly receive a lot of business from events held at the Newport site.
If an event has 4,000 delegates and the Celtic Manor has 400 rooms, that is a benefit not just for other hotels but also restaurants, taxi companies and various other firms.
The Welsh government has set targets to improve tourism by 2020.
The capital has to play a major part in driving that increase.
One of the problems Cardiff hotels have is that they are packed at weekends, but much quieter in the week than they should be.
That is because of a lack of business travellers, which is a result in part of there being no convention centre in the city to host major events.
Cardiff council says it will now focus on creating an "international multi-purpose arena".
You do not have to read between the lines of its statement to sense its frustration that the Welsh government chose to financially back the Celtic Manor convention centre.
In fairness to ministers though, it seems they backed the most solid plan on the table that was likely to turn into something more than a talking point.
The incident happened at Kilclare Crescent in Jobstown at about 15:00 local time on Thursday.
The teenager was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A post-mortem examination is expected to take place on Friday.
There have been no arrests at this stage.
More than 80,000 people are being looked after in emergency shelters, with torrential rain leaving low-lying areas underwater.
Rescuers are using rubber boats to reach stranded people, but some have refused to leave amid fears of looting.
The flooding - neck-deep in some parts of the city - forced the closure of offices and schools.
More than half the amount of rain normally seen in August has fallen in the capital in 24 hours, reports say.
In the worst reported incident of casualties, nine members of one family died when a landslide hit shanty houses in Manila's Quezon City.
Others died from drowning and electrocution, according to the country's disaster response agency. A state of calamity has been issued in at least four areas, it added.
By Kate McGeownBBC News, Manila
The head of the Philippine disaster response agency has described Manila as a "waterworld", in reference to the Hollywood movie about a completely flooded planet.
It feels like that out in the streets. Last night, I had to drive all over the city to find a route back to my apartment, which if the roads hadn't been flooded, should only have been a few blocks away.
This city has not seen anything like this level of rain since the devastation of Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.
But there's a common feeling here that the government's evacuation procedure has been more organised this time.
This is probably being helped by modern technology.
People stranded on roof tops are texting for help, and the Twitter hashtag #rescueph has quickly been adopted by both those who are stuck and others trying to find them.
Benito Ramos, head of the country's disaster response agency, said that at least 60% of the city was underwater.
"We're still concerned about the situation in the coastal areas," he added. "It was difficult to distinguish the sea from the flood waters."
President Benigno Aquino called for the public's co-operation, warning that the government did not have "infinite capabilities" to deal with the natural disaster.
People are said to be stranded in homes all over the city.
Soldiers, police and volunteers are trying to reach them by boat, says the BBC's Kate McGeown in Manila. But some people are refusing to leave, scared their possessions will be taken by looters.
"The flooding has impacted everyone here. Even if your house did not flood - and ours didn't - the streets flooded badly and so much of Manila has been impassable and people have been stranded," Julie Green, an Australian currently living in Manila, told the BBC.
"All businesses have been closed except for 7-11s and some sari-sari [convenience] stores. Everyone's stocks are getting quite low now so you have to wake up early and battle the rains to get some food.
"It rained hard again all last night, but it seems now that the rains might have abated. People are starting to come out again."
Officials have warned that more rain is expected, however, and are urging people to consider their safety first.
Manila and the northern Philippines have been hit by severe weather since Typhoon Saola struck just over a week ago, killing more than 50 people.
The government is better prepared this time than when typhoons hit the country previously - tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, says our correspondent.
Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines in September 2009, causing flooding that killed more than 400 people and Typhoon Nestat and Nalgae struck two years later, leaving more than 100 dead.
The current rain and floods are said to be the worst to hit the country since 2009. However, the state weather bureau has said that weather conditions may get better later this week.
Telusa Veainu and Jack Ram crossed for Tonga, but Namibia's Johan Tromp pulled a try back, before Latiume Fosita's try helped Tonga into a 22-7 lead.
Ram got his second score soon after the break to secure Tonga's bonus point, although Namibia captain Jacques Burger was then forced over to keep it close.
But Veainu's second try secured Tonga's first win of this World Cup, despite a late consolation score from Burger.
Following a shock 17-10 loss to Georgia in their opening game, the win lifts Tonga to second place in Pool C, although their meeting with Argentina on Sunday is a must-win if they are to have any hope of progressing to the quarter-finals.
A first ever World Cup win still eludes Namibia, but they scored three tries in a match at the tournament for the first time.
In front of a capacity crowd at Exeter's Sandy Park, it was clear that neither side wanted a narrow, forward-orientated game, and the outcome was a thrilling clash.
Namibia's Danie van Wyk got the crowd going with a dangerous run before Tonga hit back a minute later with the first try.
Veainu broke from midfield and surged through the Namibian defence before going over despite some desperate last-ditch defending.
Flanker Ram showed a great turn of pace six minutes later as he skipped through the Namibian line to score after breaking down the blindside.
But the African underdogs ensured they would not go down without a fight as Tromp got his first try of the World Cup following an excellent run through Tonga's defence by second-row Tjiuee Uanivi.
A try from Fosita and a penalty from Lilo increased the lead before Veainu had a try chalked off by the TMO after he dived over in the corner, having just put a foot into touch.
Tonga might have had the game wrapped up at half-time, but inspirational Namibia skipper Burger ensured they would not go down without a fight.
After Ram had extended Tonga's lead soon after the break with his second try, the Saracens flanker was forced over the line by his Namibian pack to score the first of two tries.
Namibia changed their attacking impetus, trying to play the game more through the forwards, and to an extent it worked, but Tonga looked dangerous whenever they had ball in hand.
Veainu illustrated that danger as he got Tonga's final try with 26 minutes left, going over in the left corner.
But the inspirational Burger went over for his second try after another strong maul from the Africans. Kurt Morath added a late penalty for Tonga, becoming his country's all-time record points scorer in the process.
As Tonga face a potentially decisive clash with Argentina, Namibia will look to next Wednesday's clash with Georgia as their best chance to break their 17-game winless run at World Cups, stretching back to 1999.
Tonga head coach Mana Otai said: "It was hugely important, just to get the victory, but also the five points - we wanted to win and get maximum points.
"There are two more games to go, we're getting the calculators out and working out points. We're second in our pool and we could easily go into Argentina with an advantage points-wise."
Tonga captain Siale Piutau, comparing the last World Cup to this World Cup, said: "We lost to Canada in the last one and it's the same feeling we had this week after losing to Georgia.
"We got the win but we know we're going to have to play a lot better against Argentina."
Namibia coach Phil Davies said: "I'm proud of the way we tried to play rugby. In parts of the first half we moved the ball well, but that last pass was poor at times.
"The players put a huge effort in against a pretty big and physical Tongan side, they were hard to stop when they were carrying the ball."
Namibia's Jacques Burger told BBC Sport: "I don't score many so when I did score it was a good feeling.
"They were forwards' tries, I was just at the back of it. It was great to get those tries, but I'd swap them any time to get a win."
Tonga: Vungakoto Lilo, David Halaifuna, Siale Piutau (co-captain), Sione Piukala, Telusa Veainu, Latiume Fosita, Sonatane Takulua; Viliami Ma'afu (co-captain), Jack Ram, Sione Kalamafoni, Joseph Tu'ineau, Hale T Pole, Sila Puafisi, Aleki Lutui, Soane Tonga'uiha.
Replacements: William Helu for Lilo (64), Kurt Morath for Piutau (60), Samisoni Fisilau for Takulua (58), Tevita Mailau for Tonga'uiha (63), Paula Ngauamo for Lutui (47), Halani Aulika for Puafisi (63), Tukulua Lokotui for T-Pole (44), Fonua for Kalamafoni (33).
Namibia: Janco Venter, Johan Tromp, Danie van Wyk, Johan Deysel, Russel van Wyk, Theuns Kotze, Eneill Buitendag; Renaldo Bothma, Rohan Kitshoff, Jacques Burger (captain), Tjiuee Uanivi, Janco Venter, Johannes Coetzee, Torsten van Jaarsveld, Casper Viviers.
Replacements: Damian Stevens for Tromp (67), Darryl de la Harpe for Deysel (72), David Philander for Buitendag (72), Johnny Redelinghuys for Viviers (41), Louis van der Westhuizen for van Jaarsveld (74), AJ de Klerk for Coetzee (72), PJ van Lill for Venter (42), Tinus du Plessis for Bothma (71).
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The money will be used to increase production of the Mini at its factories in Oxford, Birmingham and Swindon.
It comes on top of a £500m investment which was announced by BMW last June. More than 5000 British workers are involved in the production of the Mini.
BMW said the investment showed its commitment to Britain "as a vital manufacturing base".
"This investment is about securing jobs for the future," BMW's Graham Biggs told the BBC.
"We tend to build cars where we sell them, so the UK is a very important market for us - about the fourth largest in the world - so building Minis, Rolls-Royces and engines here makes a great deal of sense.
BMW said the investment would help its "international growth strategy" for the Mini as it introduced new models to the market.
In January it launched the Mini Roadster, a convertible version of the Mini Coupe, the first two-seater Mini model.
Both new cars are assembled at the main plant at Cowley, Oxford, which has produced more than two million Mini models since 2001.
As well as extra investment at the Oxford plant, the money will be earmarked for expanding production capabilities at the steel body pressings plant in Swindon and BMW's engine plant at Hams Hall, in the West Midlands.
However, BMW said that because of current capacity constraints at the Oxford plant, it was considering setting up "satellite production" of the Mini outside of the UK in the "medium term".
"We need to look for a flexible partner to help us build the cars and we're considering a contract with a Dutch contract manufacturer," Mr Biggs said.
The carmaker said it was in discussions with Nedcar, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, to use its plant in Born, in the Netherlands. It will have spare capacity from 2013 following Mitsubishi's decision not to continue production of its Colt model there because of difficult economic conditions.
BMW has said that the Oxford plant will remain "the home and heart" of the Mini and will provide specialist advice on establishing the new facility.
Crews from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) are tackling the blaze on the Ballybogey Road. Part of the road is closed.
Liam O'Sullivan of the NIFRS said there were about 1,000 bales of hay in the barn.
He said it was a complex operation, with chemicals in an outlying shed.
Mr O'Sullivan said at this stage it was believed the fire was an accident.
They demanded a ruling on whether a recall referendum on removing President Nicolas Maduro can go ahead.
The decision had been expected on Tuesday on whether enough valid signatures had been collected.
The opposition have said the CNE is biased in favour of the government and is dragging its feet.
The CNE said it would meet next Monday for further discussions but did not give a date for a ruling.
Venezuela is going through a dire economic crisis with severe food shortages and recent polls suggest 64% of Venezuelans would vote to remove Mr Maduro from office.
However, there are a series of steps which have to be met before a recall referendum can be held.
So far, the opposition has completed the first step. On 2 May, it handed the CNE a petition with almost two million signatures, many more than the 194,729 needed at this first stage.
The CNE has since been working on step two, validating the signatures by asking signatories to come forward and be fingerprinted.
On Tuesday, the CNE had been expected to announce the final result of the validation and to set a date for step three, when signatures will have to be collected on a second petition, which, if successful, would trigger the referendum proper.
But by the end of Tuesday, the CNE released a statement (in Spanish) saying it would only meet on 1 August to examine the auditors' report on the validation process.
The opposition has long accused the CNE of siding with the government and using delaying tactics to try and thwart the referendum.
Opposition leaders are anxious to proceed with the referendum as soon as possible because its timing is key to what happens next.
Should it be held before 10 January and go against Mr Maduro, fresh elections will be triggered.
But if the vote were to be held after 10 January - in the last two years of Mr Maduro's mandate - he would be replaced by his vice-president and supporter, Aristobulo Isturiz.
The referendum could also be delayed by legal challenges launched by government supporters.
On Tuesday, government officials asked the electoral authorities to suspend the opposition coalition behind the recall referendum for alleged fraud.
They said that thousands of names on the recall petition belonged to dead people.
It is not clear at this point what effect a possible suspension of the opposition coalition would have on the drive for the recall referendum.
More than £500,000 is ploughed into around 800 machines in just over 200 betting shops every day.
Players typically stake £12 a spin on roulette and other casino games.
Now a council report has called for tougher regulations to tackle problem gambling.
Glasgow's city treasurer, Councillor Paul Rooney, believes the city is paying a huge price - financially, socially and in public health - because rules on bookmakers are not tough enough.
He said: "I'm not against gambling, but the industry is regulated for a reason.
"It is to ensure that when gambling takes place in our communities it is within a safe, sustainable and responsible environment.
"In the case of fixed odds betting terminals, that principle has failed."
Stakes on FOBTs can be as high as £100 and more than of 5% of bets made in Glasgow risk £50 and over.
City gamblers' losses are now estimated to be £31m a year.
Across the UK, bookmakers take around £1.5bn a year from FOBTs - more than from horse racing, dog racing and football betting combined.
Industry insiders admit around 5% of customers are likely to have some form of gambling problem, with these gamblers responsible for a disproportionately high level of bookmakers' profits.
The Glasgow report, believed to be the first of its kind in Britain, stops short of demanding FOBTs be outlawed.
But it calls for detailed independent research to establish the impact of allowing casino-style gambling on the high street.
And it wants regulators to be forced to act on its findings.
Mr Rooney added: "More than a dozen years after machines appeared on our high streets, neither the industry nor its regulators are able to identify to what extent - if any - the intense speed of play, ability to win large prizes with relatively low stakes, and the opportunity to increase stakes rapidly influences problem gambling.
"We want Scottish government ministers to give us the same power that councils in England and Wales will soon have to halt the clustering of betting shops in high streets and town centres.
"And the industry needs to take some very big and potentially difficult decisions if it expects its self-exclusion policies to be taken seriously."
Bookmakers have described the report as "flawed".
Graham Weir, Ladbrokes head of problem gambling, said: "I don't see the machines as being a significant problem compared to any other gaming or betting product.
"The vast majority of our customers play machines and enjoy the experience safely.
"They don't lose large sums and they don't have a problem with their gambling.
"About 60% of machine sessions last five minutes and on average customers will spend £12 in the sessions."
He added: "All things are relative. Someone could place a £20 bet on England going through to the next round of the World Cup and they can do that over the counter in a second.
"At Ladbrokes we encourage all our customers to set their own limits so they can stay in control."
He said that before customers begin playing they pre-determine how much or how long they want to play that machine for.
"The majority of customers who set their own limit then leave that machine as soon as their limit warning is displayed to them," Mr Weir added.
"People who can't engage safely with products shouldn't be in betting shops.
"We will support any customer who admits to us that he has a problem and our shop teams are trained to help identify people who have potential problems and help them to help themselves.
"Some of those measures include self-exclusion."
He said: "During my discussions with the council it was put to me that betting shops will place their shops next to payday lenders and that is absolutely not the case.
"If someone chooses to place themselves next to one of our shops, then that is a problem for Glasgow city council to address."
A spokesman for William Hill said: "William Hill co-operated fully with the Glasgow sounding board report.
"We provided clear evidence of our strong commitment to responsible gambling and the robust processes we have in this area.
"The board also received clear evidence that there was no direct association between payday lenders and betting shops and we are surprised at what appear to be a number of foregone conclusions in a flawed report."
Eddie Bilbey, from Ripley in Derbyshire, died shortly after the bout in South Normanton on 24 March.
His mother, Michelle Bilbey, described her son as "a beautiful, caring, honest, respectful and truly pure soul".
A post-mortem examination has taken place but the cause of death will not be made public until May.
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"He was my confidante, my rock, my very best friend and my shopping partner," Mrs Bilbey said.
"Boxing held the discipline and training ethics that he so enjoyed and I know people who don't understand the sport will slate it, but to us that knew him best, boxing did define him - it made him who he was.
"He lived and breathed boxing; it was his life, his passion. It may be that that's where his life ended on Friday night but knowing Eddie as I do, he wouldn't have wanted it any other way."
England Boxing, which sanctioned the East Midlands Youth Welterweight bout, is investigating the death.
Liz Saville Roberts challenged Theresa May at Prime Minister's Questions, saying Wales had lost 750 officers since the Tories took power in 2010.
Mrs May said crime was at a record low, and that the Conservatives had protected police funding since 2015.
She also pointed to the creation of the National Crime Agency and a national cyber crime unit as boosting resources.
Ms Saville Roberts, who leads Plaid Cymru at Westminster, told the House of Commons: "Police officer numbers in Wales have dropped by 10 per cent since her party came to power."
Referring to figures provided by Dyfed-Powys Police, she added: "If policing were devolved - as it is in Northern Ireland and Scotland - Welsh forces would have extra funding worth £25m at their disposal.
"This would more than replace those lost officers.
"What justification is there for refusing to devolve policing?"
Plaid Cymru said the Dyfed-Powys figures were based on the Barnett formula, which determines public funding for the different UK nations taking population into account, rather than the UK government's separate police funding formula.
The party claimed that changes to the police funding formula would deliver a further £32m cut to Welsh forces.
Responding to Ms Saville Roberts, the prime minister said: "We are currently protecting police budgets. We have been doing that since 2015."
She added: "We're not just protecting those police budgets, we are ensuring that the police have the capabilities they need to deal with new types of crime, creating the national Cyber Crime Unit, creating the National Crime Agency.
"These are all important steps to ensure the police can do their job of cutting crime, and crime is at a record low."
The Scottish Professional Football League announced on Monday that all five games would be moved back a day to Sunday, 1 May (12:30 BST).
That came after BT Sport elected to show Rangers' trip to play St Mirren.
And the SPFL says there "will be no change" to the decision after Falkirk said it would hurt clubs financially.
"All Ladbrokes Championship clubs were advised last Thursday that live broadcast selections for round 36 would be published on 4 April and that, if a game was to be selected for live broadcast, all Ladbrokes Championship fixtures would be rescheduled to the live broadcast kick-off date and time," said a statement.
"No comments were received from any club ahead of the announcement on 4 April of the rescheduling.
"With the potential for St Mirren's result to have a bearing on final league places impacting on a large number of clubs, there is a clear need for a single kick-off time in the spirit of sporting fairness.
"We announced this decision at the earliest opportunity, rather than delay, to give supporters as much notice as possible.
"All of the final day Ladbrokes Championship fixtures will take place on Sunday, 1 May with a 12.30pm kick-off."
Rangers are expected to have clinched the title and automatic promotion by then - and could do so on Tuesday when they entertain Dumbarton.
Hibernian, who host Livingston on Tuesday, will join Falkirk and Raith Rovers in the promotion play-offs should runaway leaders Rangers clinch the title.
St Mirren, who are 10 points clear of second-bottom Livingston in the relegation play-off spot, are in a strong position to have secured their Championship place for next season before the final day.
However, they could also still overhaul Queen of the South and Greenock Morton above them, so the SPFL will argue that that their match against Rangers could still affect the final league positions.
Promising that his club would be "protesting the decision", chairman Doug Henderson: "We understand why the SPFL wanted to change the dates so that all the final-day games took place at the same time.
"The reality is that none of the teams competing for the play-offs would be disadvantaged by allowing their games to take place on the Saturday.
"This decision is inconsiderate of our fans, not only because of the switch to a less convenient day but also because end-of season supporters' events have been planned for the Saturday.
"There's still time to reverse their decision and respect the wishes of our fans."
Falkirk host Morton on the final day and could still be in a race with Hibs for second spot, meaning later entry into the promotion play-offs, which start on 4 May.
The Bairns have approached Raith Rovers chief executive Eric Drysdale, who sits on the SPFL board, and asked him to press the governing body for a change.
League bosses were criticised last season after Rangers' final game against Hearts was moved back 24 hours at 17 days' notice while the other four matches remained on the Sunday.
Hibs, who eventually beat the Ibrox side to second spot, immediately complained that Rangers could gain an advantage while Hearts were angry over the disruption to supporters and consequences for "sporting integrity".
The SPFL then moved all games to a Saturday kick-off despite strong opposition from Falkirk, who hosted Hibs on the last day.
Days of heavy rains brought on by El Nino have caused three major rivers to swell, and authorities have reported at least six weather-related deaths.
A state of emergency is in force in Paraguay, the worst hit nation, where 130,000 people have fled their homes.
In northern Argentina, some 20,000 people have left their homes.
Dry weather is forecast for the Brazil-Uruguay border region in the next few days, but in Paraguay and Argentina water levels are still expected to rise.
The Paraguay river in the capital Asuncion, is only 30cm (12in) away from overtopping its banks. Officials warn this could lead to widespread flooding in the area.
And it could also affect thousands of other people who live by the Paraguay - the country's main river - the authorities said.
"(The flooding) was directly influenced by the El Nino phenomenon which has intensified the frequency and intensity of rains," Paraguay's national emergencies office said.
Nearly 200 electricity pylons have been damaged or destroyed by strong winds, causing power cuts.
Four people have been killed by fallen trees.
After declaring the state of emergency, President Horacio Cartes said $3.5m (£2.3m) would be immediately available in relief funds for the victims of the flooding.
At least two people have died in the floods, which are mostly affecting the north-eastern provinces of Entre Rios, Corrientes and Chaco.
Some 20,000 people have been evacuated in the border city of Concordia, where the Uruguay river is now 14 metres (46 feet) above its normal levels.
Local officials said the flooding was the worst in the last five decades.
Newly-elected President Mauricio Macri is expected to visit the region later on Sunday.
In the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, nearly 1,800 families in almost 40 towns had been forced to leave their homes.
Heavy rain began to fall in the region on 18 December, swelling the Uruguay and Quarai rivers.
President Dilma Rousseff flew over the flooded region on Saturday to inspect the damage.
Thousands of people have been made homeless in the past few days, but most of them have now returned home.
The authorities warn that water levels are expected to remain at their current high level for several days before subsiding.
Issa Timamy was charged over the attacks on the Mpeketoni town area. He faces several charges including murder.
Kenya's president has blamed the attacks on political networks, despite Somali Islamist group al-Shabab claiming responsibility.
Opposition parties have dismissed the president's claims.
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Most of the dead were ethnic Kikuyus, like the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Non-Muslims were singled out to be killed.
Mr Timamy belongs to a political affiliate of Mr Kenyatta's governing Jubilee coalition.
He will remain in police custody until 30 June, while investigations continue.
The attacks earlier in June killed at least 60 people, as gunmen descended on hotels and a police station.
It was the most deadly attack in Kenya since last September, when at least 67 people were killed by al-Shabab fighters at Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre.
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Governor Timamy is a high-profile politician, so the case has attracted much interest.
Senior politicians from the coastal region accompanied him to court while supporters thronged the court precincts in a show of solidarity.
The charges levelled against Mr Timamy are perhaps an indication of how serious the government wants to stick to its line - that local politics were behind the killings.
But it is not clear why a politician affiliated to the ruling coalition would be the first target of arrests.
Most of the people killed in the attacks were ethnic Kikuyus. Mr Timamy is an ethnic Bajuni, an indigenous group from Lamu County. Many of the native communities have had long-standing differences with members of the Kikuyu community, who they say came to the area and "took over their land".
But whether this is a simmering dispute over land, or a terror attack by al-Shabab, this case will be a defining moment in the fight against terrorism in Kenya - and the fragile relationship of the communities in the area.
Five people were killed in another attack on Tuesday by an armed gang on the village of Witu, about 15km (9 miles) from Mpeketoni.
The following day the authorities said they had arrested 13 alleged separatists accused of planning more attacks on the coast.
Lamu island is a well-known tourist resort. However, the attacks happened on the mainland, in Lamu County.
Correspondents say there are long-standing political and ethnic divisions in the area around Mpeketoni, as well as disagreements over land ownership.
Land disputes were behind much of the ethnic violence which broke out across Kenya after the disputed 2007 elections.
The company said the move followed a supply and procurement review of its Scottish manufacturing operations.
The cuts will mainly affect management roles.
Diageo stressed that an ongoing £1bn investment programme in Scotland to increase whisky production capacity would not be affected by the restructuring move.
In a statement, Diageo said the review had concluded that Diageo's Scottish manufacturing business was well placed to meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive global environment.
But it added: "To ensure the business in Scotland remains competitive, the review identified opportunities to simplify processes and organisation at local levels which will result in a proposed reduction of around 80 roles across Diageo's 50 sites in Scotland.
"The reduction will primarily be in management roles and will be spread across a number of sites.
"This change will be managed through a phased process in consultation with employees and implemented over the next financial year until June 2014.
"Diageo will seek wherever possible to minimise the impact of any change."
Last year the company announced it would invest £1bn in Scotch whisky production over the next five years.
The investment plans include a new distillery in Speyside or the Highlands and new warehouses to store the Scotch.
Police were called to the Kingswells store in the early hours of Monday morning.
The incident left the ATM badly damaged.
Police Scotland said a low five-figure sum had been taken.
Clubhouse scores in full
Woods's one-under 69 was only eclipsed by a stunning 66 from fellow American Michael Thompson but the former world number one looked in ominous form.
Justin Rose, Graeme McDowell, David Toms and Nick Watney were also at one under but some big names struggled.
Phil Mickelson carded 76, Rory McIlroy shot 77 and Luke Donald took 79.
World number one Donald finished on the same score as Chinese 14-year-old Andy Zhang, who was eight over after his first five holes at the firm, fast-running Olympic Club in San Francisco.
Lee Westwood, the world number three, was playing with defending champion McIlroy and Donald but fought back from a double-bogey start to card a respectable 73 as only six players broke par.
Woods, back up to fourth in the world after his recent win at Memorial, looked in complete control of his game as he looks to win a first major since the 2008 US Open.
A day where Tiger Woods had that 'look' and appeared in control, hitting 10 out of 14 fairways - some achievement given their narrow, sloping nature. But it is far too early to say that this might be a procession to a long-awaited 15th major. His 69 was good, but he will have to deal with the more difficult conditions as an afternoon starter in round two. The later 69s of Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell were perhaps more impressive and after a day of struggles even Lee Westwood hasn't done himself much damage after a 73.
The 36-year-old, who also won before the Masters but ended tied 40th at Augusta, began with five straight pars after starting at the ninth before dropping a first shot at the par-four 14th.
He made amends with a birdie at the 522-yard par-five 17th and fired back-to-back birdies at the fourth and fifth, the latter courtesy of a 30-foot putt, before a final bogey on the sixth.
"I played well - I felt like I had control of my game all day and stuck to my game plan," said Woods.
"We knew it was going to be quick, but we didn't think it was going to happen overnight.
"I was very pleased with every facet of my game and I stayed very patient."
Masters champion Bubba Watson, who took 78, said of his playing partner's display: "That was the old Tiger. That was beautiful to watch.
At 14, China's Andy Zhang is the youngest to play in the US Open since 1945
"That's what we all come to see. That's what we all want to watch and that was awesome to see him strike the ball."
On his own wayward performance, the left-hander added: "The course beat me up today. It's a lot better than I am - it beat me by eight."
Thompson, a qualifier who reached the final of the US Amateur at the San Francisco course five years ago, was two over after six but made six birdies to leave the field trailing.
"This is one of my favourite golf courses, so I've got good feelings coming in here," said the 27-year-old, who is in his second year on the PGA Tour.
McIlroy, who won by eight strokes and broke a host of scoring records at Congressional last year, said: "I tried to approach it like any other tournament I play and tried to go out there and shoot the best score I could.
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"It wasn't my greatest day, but hopefully I can come out and try and shoot a good one and at least try to be here for the weekend."
Donald, who in part blamed his putting, added: "The top three in the world [with McIlroy and Westwood] and we make three birdies between us - it shows how tough it is."
Five-time runner-up Mickelson lost a ball with his first shot and his day continued in a similar vein.
"I didn't play very well, obviously," said the four-time major champion. "I've got a tough challenge just to get to the weekend. I will see if I can shoot under par - maybe that will get me there."
Billionaire Mike Ashley has been ordered to appear before a Commons committee to give evidence about working practices.
Mr Ashley said he would meet MPs if they travelled to the firm's base in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, and offered to transport them in his own aircraft.
The group rejected this and said it expected him to appear on 7 June.
A spokesman for Sports Direct said the committee is being "unfair" and Mr Ashley will seek legal advice.
Iain Wright MP, chair of the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee said: "Business leaders regularly give evidence to select committees in Westminster without imposing conditions.
"This is part and parcel of living and operating a business in a parliamentary democracy. It is highly unusual for select committees to have to resort to issuing a summons."
The businessman has refused to attend the meetings in the past and at one stage said the MPs involved were "a joke".
He had been warned he could be in contempt of Parliament if he continued to refuse to appear at Westminster.
Newcastle United owner Mr Ashley has yet to comment on the committee's refusal.
Ashley was asked to attend the meeting on the back of a BBC investigation into working practices at Sports Direct's warehouse, based in Shirebrook.
A spokesman for Sports Direct said: "We are disappointed that members of the committee have chosen not to visit Shirebrook in order to see working conditions with their own eyes, as we continue to believe that this is obviously the best way forward.
"The committee are well aware that Mike Ashley's proposal to attend Westminster on 7 June was made on the understanding that MPs would visit Shirebrook on any day in advance of 6 June.
"The committee are clearly being unfair, Mike will therefore now seek legal advice with regard to his position in relation to 7 June."
The 48-year-old made the comments at the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards where she was inducted into the hall of fame.
She was joined onstage by fellow Australian star Kylie Minogue.
The comments came after a well-received performance of her hit single Chains by The Veronicas, Jessica Mauboy and Arena herself.
"I want to still acknowledge that ladies over 40 are still in the game," she said, using Minogue, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and Annie Lennox as examples.
"Keep doing what you're doing, ladies, because we will decide when it's time for us to stop.
"I do believe radio has been a bit ageist," she later told local media.
"Who decides in radio a woman at a certain point in her life is not valuable?
"There's a big difference between a woman on her 20s and a woman in her 40s who has lived her life. You need to be proud of your age," she said.
Arena rose to fame after her time on the Australian television series Young Talent Time and is one of the country's best-selling musicians.
Two crews are attending the blaze at Glenloughan Road.
A spokeswoman for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said the fire was not threatening homes or property in the area.
The musician died two days after his 69th birthday, having kept his illness hidden from everyone except his family and closest collaborators.
He had only just released his 25th album, Blackstar, which came to be seen as his "parting gift" to fans, reflecting as it did on themes of mortality and decay.
It was a typically adventurous and enigmatic record from a musician who maintained a sense of mystery throughout his career.
Since his death, however, fans have been afforded the occasional glimpse into his creative life - all of which elevate his status as a visionary, musical genius and humanitarian.
Here are 10 things we've learned in the last 12 months.
Bowie was cremated in private last January. In accordance with his wishes, no family or friends were present at the ceremony, and the whereabouts of his ashes remain a secret.
His son Duncan Jones denied a rumour they had been spread at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, adding that if his father's ashes were to be scattered in public, "it would at the Skegness Butlins".
However, according to Bowie's will, which was filed in New York on 29 January, the star wanted his ashes scattered in Indonesia "in accordance with the Buddhist rituals of Bali".
For his final album, Bowie dispensed with his regular band and hired a group of young jazz musicians to push his music in a new direction. It was adventurous and exciting, but the star wasn't sure how fans would react.
"He was nervous it wasn't a good album," said Jonathan Barnbrook, who designed the sleeve.
Speaking of which...
The title of Bowie's last album suggests a light flickering out, while the video for Blackstar features a skeleton inside a spacesuit that is "100% Major Tom," according to director Johan Renck, who spoke to Francis Whately for the BBC Two documentary Bowie: The Last Five Years.
The album's artwork, which presents a single black star on a white background, is also loaded with symbolism.
"The idea of mortality is in there, and of course the idea of a black hole sucking in everything, the Big Bang, the start of the universe, if there is an end of the universe," Jonathan Barnbrook explained to design website Dezeen. "These are things that relate to mortality."
On the vinyl edition, the star is cut out of the sleeve, leaving the record exposed. "The fact that you can see the record as a physical thing that degrades, it gets scratched as soon as it comes into being, that is a comment on mortality too," said Barnbrook.
Months after the album was released, fans discovered that holding the record in direct sunlight would make a field of stars appear on the black inner sleeve. Once removed, the stars would fade away - adding another layer of symbolism to the cover.
The list of stars who almost starred in Peter Jackson's Lord of The Rings trilogy is almost as long as the films themselves. Nicolas Cage auditioned to play Aragorn, while the part of Gandalf was offered to Sean Connery and Patrick Stewart.
Amazingly, Bowie - star of 1986 film Labyrinth - was also on that list.
Actor Dominic Monaghan, who played the hobbit Merry in the movies, said he had seen the singer enter the casting studio in 1999. "I'm assuming he read for Gandalf. I can't think of anything else he would've read for," he told The Huffington Post.
"We approached him," the film's casting director, Amy Hubbard, later confirmed. "I'm pretty sure it was Peter Jackson's idea [but] he was unavailable."
Bowie left an estate of around $100m (£82m) to his wife, Iman, and his two children. But he also gave $2m (£1.6m) to his personal assistant Corinne "Coco" Schwab.
It might seem like an extraordinary act of generosity, but Schwab was his closest confidante for 42 years.
She started working for Bowie in London in 1973 when she answered an advert in the London Evening Standard asking for a "girl Friday for a busy office". Before long, she was his right-hand woman, looking after every aspect of his life, right down to diet. In an early Rolling Stone profile, she was depicted going to the market to buy the star some extra-rich milk, sighing, "I've got to put more weight on that boy."
In later years, Bowie called Schwab his "best friend" and credited her with helping him kick his cocaine addiction in 1970s Berlin.
"Coco was the one person who told me what a fool I was becoming and she made me snap out of it," he said.
Producer Brian Eno (pictured above left with Jarvis Cocker and Bowie), who worked on Bowie's legendary Berlin trilogy in the 1970s, said he had been in touch with the singer just a week before his death, discussing new projects.
"Over the last few years - with him living in New York and me in London - our connection was by email," he told the BBC last year.
"We signed off with invented names: some of his were Mr Showbiz, Milton Keynes, Rhoda Borrocks and the Duke of Ear.
"I received an email from him seven days ago. It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: 'Thank you for our good times, Brian. they will never rot'. And it was signed 'Dawn'.
"I realise now he was saying goodbye."
In the week Bowie died, 19 of his albums entered the UK chart. Discounting greatest hits compilations and Blackstar (a new release), the record most people turned to was his fourth album, Hunky Dory.
Released in 1971, and featuring the songs Life On Mars, Changes and Oh, You Pretty Things!, it is one of Bowie's most accessible and engaging albums, recorded with the band who would become known as Ziggy Stardust's Spiders From Mars one year later.
Posthumous sales of Hunky Dory were undoubtedly boosted by the song Kooks, which was one of the most widely-shared Bowie songs on social media in the days following his death.
A music hall pastiche, the track finds Bowie musing on fatherhood after the birth of his first son, Zowie. Awkward, warm and funny (not always common qualities in Bowie songs) it includes lyrics like: "Don't pick fights with the bullies or the cads / 'Cause I'm not much cop at punching other people's dads."
Earlier this week, Hunky Dory was voted Bowie's best album by listeners of BBC 6 Music.
In 1968, David Bowie's music publisher had the then-unknown singer write English lyrics for a song that had been a huge hit in France: Claude François and Jacques Revaux's Comme d'habitude.
"I went, 'yeah, that'd be a good exercise,'" he recalled, "So I wrote a lyric for it, called Even a Fool Learns to Love".
Not having a band at the time, Bowie had simply played the Claude François song at home and recorded his own version over the top, singing in time to the French lyrics.
But Bowie's words were rejected and Paul Anka got the job instead. His version was called My Way, and it became a global smash for Frank Sinatra.
"I was so pissed," said Bowie later. "I thought, 'God, I could have done with that money'. And so I wrote Life on Mars, which was sort of a Sinatra-ish parody, but done in a more rock style."
The demo for Even a Fool Learns to Love was unearthed last year and broadcast for the first time on the BBC Four series The People's History of Pop. It is not, to be brutally honest, worth seeking out.
The story of how it inspired one of Bowie's signature songs can be heard on the Radio 2 documentary Exploring Life On Mars.
Given the number of musical personas Bowie adopted throughout his 50-year career, it is hard to find an artist he hasn't inspired.
But 20-year-old pop singer Lorde - who performed a tribute to the star at last year's Brit Awards and is pictured above with Bowie and Tilda Swinton - revealed the star personally intervened in her career.
Writing on Facebook, she recalled how Bowie had asked to meet her after she played a concert in honour of Swinton's birthday in 2013.
"I've never met a hero of mine and liked it," she said. "It just sucks, the pressure is too huge, you can't enjoy it.
"David was different. That night something changed in me - I felt a calmness grow, a sureness.
"I realised I was proud of my spiky strangeness because he had been proud of his. And I know I'm never going to stop learning dances, brand new dances."
Francis Whately's documentary, Bowie: The Last Five Years gave fans a rare glimpse of Bowie's sense of humour. He was seen larking around backstage, sticking flashing baubles to his face and attacking his band with a plastic crow.
Towards the end of the film, Whately excavated a rare interview, in which the star was asked what he wanted be remembered for.
"I'd love people to believe," he said, "That I really had great haircuts."
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Although both he and his research have been discredited, the MMR scare still casts a long shadow.
That may seem improbable, given that MMR coverage rates now exceed the level they achieved before his claims were published in 1998.
First dose MMR coverage for England now stands at 89% in England and 92.7% in Wales - and latest quarterly figures for both countries suggest rates are edging towards the crucial 95% uptake the World Health Organisation says is needed to provide herd immunity and provide full protection.
But in 2004 it fell to 80% in England and 78% in Wales. That means more than 100,000 children were not protected in that year alone.
There is now a huge cohort of children who are not protected and this has allowed the measles virus to circulate - often infecting babies who are too young to have had the MMR vaccine.
There were 2,016 confirmed cases of measles in England and Wales in 2012, the highest total for 18 years.
The number of cases in the current Swansea outbreak has reached 620.
"The age range of those most affected exactly maps the period after the Wakefield scare, so very many are in the 10-14 age group", said Dr Paul Cosford, medical director, Public Health England.
Children should get two doses of the MMR vaccine - at around 13 months and a second pre-school booster.
The first gives about 95% protection against measles, while two doses gives 99-100% protection.
In Swansea it has taken a huge outbreak of measles to prompt parents to get their children immunised.
Parents there have been praised by public health officials for bringing their children to special drop-in vaccine clinics.
But immunisation officials want parents elsewhere to be proactive and not wait until they see an outbreak of measles in their area before getting their children immunised.
"The message is that it's never too late to get immunised - that means both teenagers and young adults.
"Parents who are unsure whether their children have had the MMR vaccine can check with their GP," said Dr Cosford.
Measles is a highly contagious viral infection. Prior to the introduction of a vaccine it was a major public health threat.
In 1961 there were 750,000 cases in England and Wales and 152 deaths.
It causes a distinctive rash on the body - and can lead to meningitis and pneumonia.
Fortunately there have been no deaths so far in the current outbreak, but around one in five infants infected needs hospital treatment.
In theory measles could be eradicated - like smallpox it has no animal host. No country in the world has managed to eliminate the disease - although almost all cases in the United States are imported.
That used to be the situation here for several years until the current surge in cases.
The outbreak in Wales and others across the UK were the inevitable outcome of years of under-immunisation as this quote from Prof David Salisbury, Director of Immunisation at the 2008 demonstrates.
"Measles is serious and in some cases it can be fatal. Delaying immunisation puts children at risk.
"If we continue to accumulate unvaccinated children measles will spread among them - at some point there will be a measles epidemic.
"The evidence on MMR is absolutely clear - there is no link between the vaccine and autism."
What happens in the months and years ahead depends on how parents regard and respond to the current measles threat.
The biggest increase in tax take by far, according to Labour's plans, will come from an increase in corporation tax.
It's currently 19% and Labour plans to increase that rate to 26% by 2021.
Once that's done, Labour says corporation tax will raise £19.4bn per year.
There are other measures to raise revenue: VAT on private school fees, for example, and a levy on what Labour calls excessive pay - starting with a 2.5% levy paid by employers on pay packages over £330,000.
The manifesto also says £6.5bn will be raised from an aggressive programme to crack down on tax avoidance.
Political parties always say they will do that, and it can be done - but it's a pretty inexact science.
A further £5.6bn comes from a new tax on financial transactions - known as a "Robin Hood" tax.
Another large chunk of extra revenue, £6.4bn, comes from taxing high earners more.
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Those earning £80,000 will be taxed at 45%, while a new 50% rate will be reintroduced for those on salaries above £123,000.
The new income tax rules will apply to about 4% of the workforce, that's about 1.2 million people.
But will all the changes bring in the sort of money Labour expects?
The headline numbers, for one, don't take into account any behavioural change.
For example, high earners could transfer part of their incomes into private pensions, do less work or leave the country.
And remember, the Scottish Parliament has some freedom to set its own tax rates and thresholds.
Even though the manifesto says the changes to income tax should raise £6.4bn, Labour concedes that once behavioural change is taken into account, the actual money coming in will be lower.
The manifesto gives the party £3.9bn of wiggle room for all their tax rises - an allowance for less money coming as a result of changing behaviour.
But according to the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - which looks at tax and spend policy - Labour might still be overestimating how much it thinks it can raise.
The IFS says Labour's forecasts "looks a little on the optimistic side".
Likewise, companies may change their behaviour when tax rates change, and you also have to take account of the overall health of the economy.
This could affect the expected revenue from corporation tax changes and the introduction of the "Robin Hood" tax.
Overall, though, Labour says it can finance all its current spending plans through changes in the tax system: £48.6bn out, £48.6bn in.
But these numbers do not include the party's big plans for investment spending and renationalising services such as the railways, the Royal Mail and so on.
Labour says it will borrow money to pay for future investment - it pledges to create a National Transformation Fund of £250bn - but there is no detailed costing of nationalisation plans in the manifesto and what it will mean for overall borrowing.
Despite all the extra borrowing, Labour makes one bold promise - it says it is committed to ensuring that the national debt is lower at the end of the next Parliament than it is today.
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The NRL side led 22-0 at half-time, with Aidan Guerra crossing twice and Kane Evans, Blake Ferguson, Dale Copley, Shaun Kenny-Dowall and Daniel Tupou also crossing for the Roosters.
Dominique Peyroux touched down twice for Saints at Langtree Park.
Australian sides have won all four games since the World Club Series was expanded to involve six teams in 2015.
Wigan and Leeds will attempt to gain Super League's first win in the event at the weekend, with the Warriors hosting Brisbane Broncos on Saturday and the Rhinos taking on North Queensland Cowboys a day later.
St Helens were beaten 39-0 by South Sydney Rabbitohs in last year's World Club Challenge - a record margin in the annual contest between the champions of Super League and Australia's NRL - and for much of this match it looked as though they would end up without a point once more.
The hosts, who were thrashed by Salford in Super League eight days earlier, got themselves on the scoreboard when visiting full-back Ferguson spilled a high kick in his in-goal area and centre Peyroux scored his first try for the club.
But Saints could not thwart Sydney's young half-back partnership of Jackson Hastings and Jayden Nikorima, with 19-year-old Nikorima particularly impressing after being forced off the field inside the first three minutes with a knock to the head.
Warrington assistant coach Richard Agar told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra:
"The Roosters did a really efficient job, scored some brilliant tries, played with a lot of control and patience, were really strong in their defensive systems and made it difficult for St Helens to make any headway.
"Saints had a couple of good periods early on and, when the Roosters were down to 12 men when Dylan Napa was sent to the sin-bin, they looked like they might mount a little bit of a comeback.
"But over the 80 minutes they made too many mistakes and they were simply outgunned by a better team."
St Helens captain Jon Wilkin told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra:
"I thought there were two or three opportunities for us to get into the game. At those crucial times, we conceded possession or they broke away and scored length-of-the-field tries.
"I don't think the score reflected our effort and our intent. I thought our forward pack were immense at times.
"We just lacked a bit of execution and composure, and ultimately you just have sometimes step back and say they had some outstanding outside backs who came up with some amazing plays. "That probably typifies one of the big differences between our competition and the NRL."
St Helens: Owens; Makinson, Peyroux, Turner, Swift; Wilkin, Walsh; Walmsley, Burns, Savelio, Greenwood, Vea, McCarthy-Scrasbrook.
Replacements: Amor, Tasi, Thompson, Knowles.
Sydney Roosters: Ferguson; Tupou, Copley, Mitchell, Kenny-Dowall; Nikorima, Hastings; Evans, Friend, Napa, Guerra, Aubusson, Taukeiaho.
Replacements: Moa, Liu, Leuluai, Henderson.
Referee: Ben Thaler
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Tylicki suffered a T7 paralysis in a four-horse pile-up riding Nellie Dean.
James Fanshawe, who trained the Tylicki mount Speedy Boarding to victory in May's Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville, was among paying tribute.
"Freddy has a tremendous character and this will help him with the battle ahead," he said.
The sport was united in support for Tylicki, said Professional Jockeys Association chief executive Paul Struthers.
"Racing may have many issues and flaws but its biggest strength is how it pulls together in difficult, tragic times," he said.
"Freddy is one of the most popular members of the weighing room and will not lack for support, with offers already flooding in."
At The Races presenter Matt Chapman set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for Tylicki's recovery, which has already far surpassed its target of £20,000.
He wrote on the page: "We all know the risks jockeys take, and we all know they know the risks. But when one gets badly hurt those of us who love the game, bet on the game, need the game, have the opportunity to come together and say: 'You know what? We can help this person.'
"Freddy Tylicki is going to need loads of help."
Steve Drowne, who avoided injury when his mount, Skara Mae, was brought down in the same incident, added: "He is everyone's friend and he loved doing what he was doing and had just had his best year ever, getting a couple of Group Ones in the book. But racing is probably the last thing he is thinking about now."
Emerging Newmarket-based trainer Charlie Fellowes said he would always be thankful to Tylicki for providing him with his first winner on a day that he described as the "happiest of my life".
Tylicki rode Barbary to victory in a seven-furlong handicap at Lingfield in February 2014.
Fellowes said: "He is the happiest, most genuine guy you will come across. He always came in with a smile on his face and he would never be in a bad mood."
Rod Millman, who employed Tylicki more than any other trainer this year, believes the rider's character will help him in the future.
"This was the news we were dreading all week and the whole yard is devastated. He does, though, have great spirit and I'm sure that will see him through," he said.
The stewards on duty at Kempton on Monday concluded the incident was accidental, and the British Horseracing Authority has no plans for a further review.
"Thankfully, incidents such as these are a rare occurrence but we are not complacent and the issue of racecourse safety is one that we keep under constant review," said a spokesman.
The Democratic-led Senate voted 54-46 against the bill, which would fund the government only if President Obama's healthcare law were delayed a year.
If no agreement is reached by midnight (04:00 GMT), the government will close all non-essential federal services.
The shutdown would be the first in the US in 17 years.
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
The Republican leadership in the House are not stupid. But they are trapped by their radicals.
Any backing away from confrontation could brand John Boehner an Obama-loving apostate, and cost him his job. The same goes for his members who don't want to be deselected in primary elections.
This is not about ideology. The Republicans in the House are all conservatives, all hate "Obamacare" and think government spending is irresponsibly out of hand.
This is about strategy. It is an argument between those Republicans who want to rush to the barricades and go down in a blaze of glory, heroes of the revolution to like-minded Tea Party types, and those who think it is a pointless charge but don't want to be labelled traitors and cowards.
More than 700,000 federal government workers could be sent home on unpaid leave, with no guarantee of back pay once the deadlock is over.
One of the key points of contention in the political stalemate has been President Barack Obama's healthcare law, popularly known as Obamacare.
Republicans in the House of Representatives - and their allies in the Senate - have demanded the law be repealed or stripped of funding as a condition for continuing to fund the government.
Major portions of the law, which passed in 2010 and has been validated by the US Supreme Court, are due to take effect on Tuesday.
After the Senate vote on Monday afternoon, the chamber's Democratic majority leader blamed Republicans for the imminent halt to all non-essential government operations.
"It will be a Republican government shutdown, pure and simple," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, referring to the Republicans as "bullies".
"We are not going to negotiate on this. We have done everything we can to be fair and reasonable."
Following Mr Reid's pledge, Republican House Speaker John Boehner told reporters the House would not pass a budget bill that did not include concessions from the Democrats regarding Mr Obama's healthcare law.
In addition to the threat of a shutdown, a second fiscal deadline is approaching in the coming weeks. About 17 October, the US government will reach the limit at which it can borrow money to pay its bills, the so-called debt ceiling.
House Republicans have demanded a series of policy concessions - notably on the president's health law and on financial and environmental regulations - in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
Although there were no reports that negotiations over either the budget or the debt ceiling were underway on Monday, Mr Obama said he was "not at all resigned" to a government shutdown.
But he warned there could not be "any kind of meaningful negotiations under the cloud of potential default" on the government's debt.
"Our currency is the reserve currency of the world," Mr Obama said after an Oval Office meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"We don't mess with that. And we certainly don't allow domestic policy differences on issues that are unrelated to the budget to endanger not only our economy but the world economy."
Source: Washington Post
The bill the Senate rejected on Monday was passed the day before by the House of Representatives. That bill would have delayed the implementation of the healthcare law and repealed a $29bn (£17.9bn) medical device tax.
Mr Obama and his fellow Democrats in the US Senate have vowed to reject any House bill that touches the health law.
Some Democrats, including Mr Reid and Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, have called on Mr Boehner to put the Senate bill up for a vote in the House.
They say a budget bill unencumbered with a delay of the health law could pass the House with Democrats joining a small number of Republicans.
If the government does shut down on 1 October, national parks and Washington's Smithsonian museums would close, pension and veterans' benefit cheques would be delayed, and visa and passport applications would go unprocessed.
Programmes deemed essential, such as air traffic control and food inspections, would continue.
The defence department has advised employees that uniformed members of the military will continue on normal duty, but that large numbers of civilian workers will be told to stay home.
As lawmakers grapple with the impending shutdown, the 17 October deadline for extending the government's borrowing limit looms even larger.
Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said that unless the US were allowed to extend its borrowing limit, the country would be left with about $30bn (£18.5bn) to meet its commitments, which on certain days can be as high as $60bn.
A failure to raise the limit could also result in the US government defaulting on its debt payments.
Washington faced a similar impasse over its debt ceiling in 2011. Republicans and the Democrats only reached a compromise on the day the government's ability to borrow money was due to run out.
That fight was resolved just hours before the country could have defaulted on its debt, but nevertheless it led to ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgrading the US for the first time ever.
The 2011 compromise included a series of automatic budget cuts known as the "sequester", which came into effect earlier this year.
The US government has not undergone a shutdown since 1995-96, when services were suspended for a record 21 days.
Republicans demanded then-President Bill Clinton agree to their version of a balanced budget.
After weeks of negotiation, they reached a compromise similar to what they discussed prior to the shutdown.
The head of Central Saint Martins college, where Prof Wilson was director of the prestigious MA Fashion course, said she had been "inspirational".
Fashion industry figures called her a "legend" and a "genius".
Prof Wilson was appointed OBE in 2008 for services to education and the fashion industry.
She became course director at London's Central Saint Martins in 1992, teaching students including Christopher Kane and Roksanda Ilincic who went on to become renowned designers.
Prof Jeremy Till, head of the college, said she had taught "a huge proportion of the world's leading fashion designers".
He said: "Her commitment to her students and passion for creative excellence are legendary. Her deep understanding of fashion and her drive for funding for bursaries, facilities and opportunities are part of what made her such an extraordinary educator."
Prof Wilson's legacy would live on through her former students and colleagues, he added.
Caroline Rush, chief executive of the British Fashion Council, wrote on Twitter: "Prof Louise Wilson, I can't believe you have gone. You were much loved and respected. A legend and an inspiration. RIP".
Fashion journalist Hilary Alexander also paid tribute, saying Prof Wilson was a "genius" who would be missed.
Alexandra Shulman, the UK editor of Vogue magazine, said Prof Wilson had "played a remarkable role in making the British fashion scene as successful and relevant as it is today".
She added: "Her teaching and influence made a mark on so many of our leading designers. I will miss her outspoken views and her clever and often very funny observations."
With Rory McIlroy and world number one Jason Day among the later starters, Spieth birdied three of the first nine holes at Augusta National.
The 22-year-old American added three more on the back nine as he went through his round without a bogey.
His playing partner, England's Paul Casey, stayed in touch at three under.
England's Lee Westwood ended the day on a one-under 71, but it was South Africa's Ernie Els who was the talk of the course after a horrific putting display on the first green.
The four-time major winner, who has twice finished second at the Masters, reached the green in three but then seven-putted from within three feet.
It was the worst ever first hole score at the National, and left the 46-year-old six over as he trudged to the second tee.
Rickie Fowler was another big name to endure a nightmarish start as a double bogey on the first and an eight on 13 contributed to an eight-over 80.
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After a stellar 2015 Spieth came to Augusta in less certain form.
But his remarkable record on this course - runner-up to Bubba Watson on his debut in 2014, champion in a record-equalling score a year ago - continued in good scoring conditions.
The Texan birdied the 10th, 13th and 18th on the back nine, Casey moving within a shot with a birdie on the 16th before dropping back with a bogey on the par-four 17th.
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Mr Rosa denied six counts of doping athletes in court in Nairobi.
They include Jeptoo, who was banned for two years in 2014 after testing positive for blood-boosting drug EPO.
Kenya passed emergency new anti-doping measures in May to avoid a ban on its athletes attending the Olympic Games in Rio.
Mr Rosa, who is a director of Italy-based sports management company Rosa and Associati, was remanded in police custody until Monday, when the court will rule on his bail application.
It will also decide whether he should be given back his passport so that he can travel with his athletes to Europe and Latin America.
However the Italian has been defended by one of his athletes, Asbel Kiprop, who is the reigning 1,500m world champion.
Kiprop - who has a vehement anti-doping stance - said he had worked with Mr Rosa since 2008 and never seen any evidence of doping.
"What I can tell, with my own judgement, is that Federico is innocent. With due process, I think justice is going to prevail," he told the BBC in Monaco, where he is due to race on Friday.
"If there was doping, they would have given me first because many times I have attempted to run the world record and I'm not getting it. They'd have given it to break the world record," he added.
More than 40 Kenyan athletes have failed drugs tests since 2011.
As of January 2016, 18 Kenyan athletes were suspended for doping. The best known is Rita Jeptoo, who won the Boston and Chicago marathons.
Last November, former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound said it was "pretty clear that there are a lot of performance-enhancing drugs being used" in Kenya.
Meanwhile, British Athletics has said it is reviewing its policy of holding winter training camps in Kenya due to allegations of widespread doping in the country.
The sentence was initially passed in May, but was confirmed after consultation with Egypt's highest religious figure, the Grand Mufti.
The death sentences of five other leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including its supreme guide Mohammed Badie, were also upheld.
Morsi's supporters have described the sentence as "farcical".
The verdict is subject to appeal. One hundred and one other defendants were also sentenced to death in absentia.
Morsi escaped from Wadi Natroun prison in January 2011 and was accused of colluding with foreign militants in a plot to free Islamists during mass prison breaks.
The 2011 uprising brought an end to Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule and Morsi was elected president a year later.
He was deposed by the army in July 2013 following mass street protests against his rule and is already serving a 20-year jail term for ordering the arrest and torture of demonstrators.
Morsi was also sentenced to life imprisonment by the same court on Tuesday for spying on behalf of foreign militant groups, including Hamas.
The judge said that the Muslim Brotherhood had "collaborated with Palestinian Hamas to infiltrate Egypt's eastern borders and attack prisons", state TV reported.
Sixteen other Muslim Brotherhood members were sentenced to death on charges of delivering secret documents abroad between 2005 and 2013.
Only three of the other defendants are in custody, including Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater.
Morsi was overthrown by military chief - and now president - Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and was subsequently imprisoned facing various charges.
At the start of Morsi's first trial in 2013, he shouted from the dock that he was the victim of a "military coup".
Since then, Morsi has been forced to sit in soundproof glass cages in courtrooms, which officials say are designed to prevent him disrupting proceedings.
There had been worries over his participation after he injured a hamstring at the national trials.
The six-time Olympic champion - who is the 100m and 200m world record holder - is part of a 63-strong Jamaica team.
Bolt, 29, was one of four athletes to be given a medical exemption to make the squad.
He has yet to prove his fitness but confirmed on Friday he would compete at the Anniversary Games in London on 22 July.
Bolt sustained his injury - a grade-one tear - during the first round of the 100m in Kingston and withdrew after winning his semi-final.
Zeid Raad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will spend four days in the country.
Sri Lanka had committed to allowing foreign judges to investigate allegations against Sri Lankan forces.
But President Maithripala Sirisena last month said no foreign judges would be allowed in the investigation.
Sri Lankan troops are accused of killing at least 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final months of the civil war in 2009.
Mr Al Hussein will travel to the former war zone and will meet victims of human rights violations. He will also talk to top government officials, civil activists and religious leaders.
His follows a UN resolution last year, co-sponsored by the Sri Lankan government, that required foreign judges to assist in the investigation.
Speaking to the BBC last month, President Sirisena said Sri Lanka did not need to "import" specialists.
"We have more than enough specialists, experts and knowledgeable people in our country to solve our internal issues," he said.
In October 2015, Sri Lanka co-sponsored a UN Human Rights Council resolution calling for a special judicial mechanism to prosecute war crimes.
Both the army and the Tamil Tiger rebels are accused of atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009. As many as 100,000 people are thought to have died in the conflict.
PC Simon Reynolds, 38, was found guilty after a trial of assaulting a 27-year-old man outside a nightclub in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, in November, 2014.
He was handed an eight-week suspended sentence at Swansea Magistrates' Court in September.
However, on Friday, a judge quashed his conviction at Swansea Crown Court.
An inquiry into PC Reynolds' conduct was launched after a referral to police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
It related to the alleged assault of a man arrested outside Bar Luna in the town centre.
The IPCC confirmed PC Reynolds, who always denied any wrongdoing, was successful in his appeal.
The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday.
It allows the prime minister to notify Brussels that the UK is leaving the EU, with a two year process of exit negotiations to follow.
Mrs May says she will trigger the process by the end of the month.
It is unlikely to happen next week to avoid a clash with an informal summit of EU countries.
The meeting will mark the 60th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, which established the European Economic Community, and in turn became the European Union.
Brexit Secretary David Davis said: "By the end of the month we will invoke Article 50, allowing us to start our negotiations to build a positive new partnership with our friends and neighbours in the European Union, as well as taking a step out into the world as a truly Global Britain."
Trego and Lewis Gregory's (69) decisive 86-run fourth-wicket partnership helped the hosts claim a four-wicket win.
Having been put in to bat, Nick Gubbins (89) and Paul Stirling (58) hit half-centuries before James Fuller's 42 off 26 balls propelled Middlesex to 296-9.
However, Trego followed up his 2-27 with the ball with 104 as Somerset reached 297-6 with an over spare.
An 83-run first-wicket partnership between Stirling (58) and Ryan Higgins set the platform well for Middlesex, before Trego had the latter caught at cover for 39.
Gubbins went on the attack as he hit his first fifty of the tournament, clubbing four fours and three sixes in his 78-ball knock, but fell 11 runs short of three figures as he was caught at short fine leg off Tim Groenewald.
It was left to Fuller, who did not bowl for the away side during the second innings, to get Middlesex just shy of 300 with both Ollie Rayner and James Harris run out off the final two balls.
Somerset faltered early on, slipping to 24-2, after Jim Allenby was caught for a duck off Harris and Johann Myburgh was forced off the field with a back injury.
Trego steadied the innings as the 35-year-old hit nine fours and a six, but he was bowled by Rayner with Somerset still 94 runs short of victory.
However, Roelof van der Merwe bludgeoned 41 in a stand of 71 with Gregory to see the hosts in sight of victory before Josh Davey and Craig Overton took them over the line.
Sunday's win over Levante was their 10th in a row and if they do not lose to Valencia on Wednesday, they will break the record set in 2010-11.
It was Enrique's 100th game in charge.
"More than statistics, I am interested in the collective objectives that we have and we can only reach them at the end of the season," said Enrique.
"We are very well-positioned in all competitions, but there is a long way to go."
Barcelona, who won the treble in Enrique's first season in charge, are top of La Liga by three points from Atletico Madrid with a game in hand.
They face Arsenal in the Champions League last 16, and Valencia in the Copa del Rey semi-final, having won the first leg 7-0.
"We're getting things right," said Barca left-back Jordi Alba. "It's quite some achievement to go 28 games without losing. We have to stay top.
"At the Mestalla, we'll go out to win the match as we always have done. The first leg result was very favourable, but we still have to look to win the second leg, so it's an important match."
The men fled the scene as soon as they came out fearing they would be arrested for illegal mining, police said.
Others though remain trapped. It is not clear how many are stuck as the site is a popular location for illegal mining.
On Sunday four miners were rescued from the shaft, which is Johannesburg's oldest.
Rescue workers say the only way to reach the miners is to crawl through 1.5km (0.9 miles) of small tunnels.
But operations have been halted and the mine cordoned off after a fire broke out on Sunday.
Those that crept out of the mine were helped by an accomplice, who told them no police were there and it was safe to emerge, News24.com reported.
Illegal mining is rife in South Africa, a major producer of gold and platinum. It can be punished with fines and prison sentences.
Bain slammed in a low cross from David Cox after 30 minutes after the visitors had absorbed some heavy pressure.
Michael Paton went close with a free-kick for the Pars, while Michael Moffat miscued in front of goal.
Faissal El Bakhtaoui messed up a close range header and the hosts' top scorer was inches away with a shot late in the game as Airdrie held on for victory.
Airdrie, who were stubborn in defence and well organised throughout, move up two places to fourth in the table.
Dunfermline, who had not lost in the league since mid-September, will have their lead cut to four points if nearest challengers Ayr United beat Stenhousemuir on Saturday.
Action Porty has been awarded £647,500 from the Scottish Land Fund to buy the church and halls of Portobello Old Parish Church in Bellfield Street.
Locals want to turn the church into a multi-purpose community hub for clubs such as Scouts and Brownies.
It is set to become the first urban community buyout under new legislation.
Last year, the government agreed the project was of community benefit and gave it first option to buy the building.
One estimate for the value of the property has been put at £600,000; however, the community is hoping it will be lower than that.
Justin Kenrick, Action Porty chairman, said "With the community fully behind this initiative to save Bellfield Old Parish Church and halls, Action Porty is now absolutely delighted to receive this crucial support from the Scottish Land Fund.
"As the population of Portobello grows while community resources vanish, this is a critical step in our efforts to ensure that we retain and develop fully accessible, affordable, community spaces that can enable our community to flourish in these changing times.
"We hope that all other communities will do the same, and will also get the support they deserve."
John Watt, chairman of the Scottish Land Fund Committee, said: "Today's award to Action Porty is a great example of what can be achieved now that the opportunity for community ownership has been extended to all parts of Scotland.
"This project has the potential to protect and enhance an important community facility, run for and by local people in Portobello.
"The funding marks a significant milestone for the group and I wish them every success as they go on to pursue their ambitions of purchasing and developing this local asset."
Needing a 2-0 win, Bayern were level on aggregate within 22 minutes thanks to Thiago and Jerome Boateng headers.
Robert Lewandowksi put them further ahead and Thomas Muller drove home for 4-0 before Lewandowski added a second.
Jackson Martinez gave Porto some hope, but Ivan Marcano was sent off, with Xabi Alonso scoring from the free-kick.
The result was a boost to the reputation of Bayern boss Pep Guardiola, who was in danger of suffering a Champions League humbling for a second consecutive season.
Since the Spaniard took over the reigning European champions from Jupp Heynckes in 2013, they have dominated in the Bundesliga, losing only four of 63 games.
But they were were beaten 5-0 on aggregate by Real Madrid in last year's semi-finals and looked like they might struggle even to reach that stage this time following a 3-1 first-leg defeat in Portugal.
Guardiola had reached the Champions League last four in all five seasons as a coach of Barcelona and the German club.
And Bayern - chasing a second treble in three years - were confident of making it six. Captain Philipp Lahm was "utterly convinced" the Bavarians would qualify, although Muller warned "everyone just piling forward would be suicide".
But, in effect, that is exactly what they did.
Bayern attacked from the first whistle and Lewandowski had hit a post before Thiago headed home Juan Bernat's cross to open the scoring within 14 minutes.
Boateng levelled the tie when his seemingly weak header from Holger Badstuber's flick-on beat Fabiano.
Five minutes later, Bayern strung together 26 consecutive passes as Lahm's cross was helped on by Muller and Lewandowski stooped to head home.
Porto boss Julen Lopetegui had identified that most of Bayern's threat was coming down the left - despite the absence of wingers Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery - and brought off right-back Diego Reyes after 33 minutes.
But the change did nothing to alter the flow of the game. Muller put Bayern in control when his shot from long distance was deflected through keeper Fabiano's legs by Bruno Martins Indi.
Lewandowski made the second half look like an irrelevance when he was picked out by Muller before firing home, thanks to more woeful Porto defending.
Bayern have twice scored seven goals in Champions League matches this season, and Guardiola frequently looked angry in the second half as they failed to continue their first-half domination.
He would have been even angrier after Martinez headed home Hector Herrera's cross for his seventh goal in eight Champions League games this season.
Moments later the Colombia striker had a chance to reduce the deficit to one goal but shot just wide.
But Porto's hopes of pulling off a remarkable comeback ended when Marcano was sent off for a challenge on Thiago and Alonso curled home the resulting set-piece.
Bayern will find out their semi-final opponents on Friday.
Listen to BBC Radio 5 live's highlights of the game.
Match ends, FC Bayern München 6, FC Porto 1.
Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 6, FC Porto 1.
Attempt blocked. Sebastian Rode (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mitchell Weiser.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Dante replaces Thiago Alcántara.
Goal! FC Bayern München 6, FC Porto 1. Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Second yellow card to Marcano (FC Porto) for a bad foul.
Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marcano (FC Porto).
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Mitchell Weiser replaces Mario Götze.
Mario Götze (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marcano (FC Porto).
Offside, FC Porto. Martins Indi tries a through ball, but Jackson Martínez is caught offside.
Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jackson Martínez (FC Porto).
Foul by Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München).
Jackson Martínez (FC Porto) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Mario Götze.
Mario Götze (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Héctor Herrera (FC Porto).
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Jackson Martínez (FC Porto) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Jackson Martínez (FC Porto) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Casemiro.
Foul by Mario Götze (FC Bayern München).
Héctor Herrera (FC Porto) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Holger Badstuber (FC Bayern München).
Héctor Herrera (FC Porto) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mario Götze (FC Bayern München).
Óliver (FC Porto) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! FC Bayern München 5, FC Porto 1. Jackson Martínez (FC Porto) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Héctor Herrera with a cross.
Foul by Mario Götze (FC Bayern München).
Evandro Goebel (FC Porto) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Sebastian Rode replaces Rafinha because of an injury.
Delay in match Rafinha (FC Bayern München) because of an injury.
Marcano (FC Porto) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marcano (FC Porto).
Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ruben Neves (FC Porto).
John Roach's home in Stannage Walk was set on fire after a burning wheelie bin was pushed up against his front door.
The 67-year-old was treated in hospital following the blaze on Friday but died on Wednesday after being discharged. A post-mortem examination is due to take place, Humberside Police said.
A 13-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson.
Fed up with drunks using buildings in the party district of St Pauli in Hamburg as a toilet, a community group is getting its revenge.
Walls have been coated with water-repellent paint which causes "splash-back", so anyone who urinates against them will get an unexpected, ahem, taste of their own medicine.
It's being called "pee-back" time.
The paint, called Ultra-Ever Dry, uses nanotechnology to cover a surface and create a barrier of air. The maker's website says it will "completely repel almost any liquid."
The paint, called Ultra-Ever Dry, uses nanotechnology to cover a surface and create a barrier of air. The maker's website says it will "completely repel almost any liquid."
Julia Staron, from IG St Pauli, the community group behind the idea, told Newsbeat the paint is usually used on boats and aircraft, but with 20 million tourists coming to the district every year, and drinking a lot, another use has been found for it.
Julia says the paint seems to be working and, "the problem has finally got the attention it deserves."
So far only two buildings have been treated, but there are plans to paint more in the next couple of weeks.
It's not the first time so-called "hostile architecture" has been used to change people's behaviour.
You might remember the row that started when metal spikes appeared outside some buildings in London to stop homeless people sleeping there.
Other examples include studs on low window ledges to prevent sitting, and slanting seats at bus stops to put you off hanging out there for too long.
Armrests on public benches are also designed to stop people sleeping on them.
Metal wedges called 'pigs' ears' or 'skate stoppers' on benches and ledges are designed to stop skaters using them as ramps.
The practice can also extend to sound deterrents called "Mosquito" devices which emit an annoying high pitch sound only audible to teenagers, to stop them loitering in certain places.
As for the idea of "splash-back" paint, Julia Staron told Newsbeat, she thinks it will catch on.
Competing for the first time since the Rio Olympics, her best of 6.69m was beaten by Lorraine Ugen's 6.72m.
Johnson-Thompson, 24, also competed in the 60m hurdles at Sheffield's English Institute of Sport, winning her heat but then withdrew from the final.
Tom Bosworth broke his British record to win the 5,000m walk.
Olympic finalist Jazmin Sawyers, who is competing on singing show The Voice, was third in the long jump, while Ugen's winning jump was the fourth best in the world this year.
Johnson-Thompson, who finished sixth in the heptathlon in Rio, says she is targeting a medal at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March.
She split from her coach Mike Holmes in November after eight years and decided against defending her European pentathlon title.
"I am happy to come away with automatic selection for the Europeans" she told BBC Sport. "I want a medal. I'm not saying gold is the target, I just want to go out there and see what I can do."
Bosworth said he was "ahead of schedule" after he won the 5,000m walk in a new British record of 18:39.47 minutes.
"Breaking a record is special every time. When the crowd realised the record was on, the noise was incredible, I love it."
Asked if he would be targeting a medal at the World Athletic Championships in London in August, he added: "This performance today has got me excited. I'm way further ahead than I thought I would be. Give me a few months time and I'll be flying around 20,000m."
Scotland's Allan Smith beat Olympic bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz in the high jump.
Grabarz, who suffered a burst appendix four weeks ago, said: "I spent two weeks in bed thinking my indoor season was over, it slowly started to feel better so I decided to compete today.
"I've got a few weeks to sort my technical stuff out and be ready to compete at the Europeans."
Scotland's Eilidh Doyle, who won a bronze medal in the 4x400m relay at Rio, won the women's 400m.
The party said she had plotted to remove President Robert Mugabe from office and brought the party into disrepute.
She had been been seen as a likely successor to President Mugabe but was sacked at the end of last year.
She was accused of corruption and plotting to kill the president - allegations she denied.
Mr Mugabe, 91, will have been in power for 35 years when Zimbabwe marks its independence from the UK later this month.
The first lady, Grace Mugabe - who is now a senior figure in the Zanu-PF Party - has been very vocal against Mrs Mujuru in public.
Mrs Mujuru fought alongside Mr Mugabe in the 1970s guerrilla war against white minority rule and was known as "Spill Blood".
Zanu-PF spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo said in a statement that the ruling party's top decision-makers had agreed to her dismissal citing 10 reasons.
These included plotting to remove Mr Mugabe from office, alleged corruption and bringing the party into disrepute - charges she has previously denied.
"The politburo felt that she lacked the quality of strong moral principles, honesty and decency and therefore ceases to be a member of Zanu-PF," Mr Moyo said.
Mr Mugabe has not publicly indicated a preferred candidate to take over his presidency.
But in December he purged the government of several ministers, including Mrs Mujuru, and appointed Emmerson Mnangagwa as his deputy, making the former justice minister the favourite to succeed him.
Didymus Mutasa, one of the sacked ministers and a former confidante of President Mugabe, was expelled from Zanu-PF earlier this year.
He has told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that he now fears for his life.
"You see people disappearing… so will they spare my life or send a sniper to shoot at me?" he said.
He said the fighting in Zanu-PF was worse than the situation under former white minority leader Ian Smith.
"The Smith regime was not as bad as the current regime - it's really terrible," Mr Mutasa said.
Either site would help prevent the need for Operation Stack, when the motorway is closed during cross-channel disruption, Highways England (HE) said.
Both sites are to the north of the M20 at junction 11, close to Westenhanger, and would ease Eurotunnel and Dover port disruption, HE said.
Chancellor George Osborne has allocated £250m to pay for the lorry park.
A public consultation on the plans launches later and will run until 22 January.
Kevin Bown, of HE, said: "A lorry area could help significantly reduce the likelihood of having to close the M20 in the future and also has the potential to improve facilities for lorries across the county in general."
Mr Bown said possible uses of the site could range from emergency use only to providing 24-hour truck-stop facilities.
Operation Stack was used 32 times last summer, following strikes by French ferry workers, migrant activity disrupting cross-Channel rail operations and causing congestion across the Kent road network.
Councillor David Monk, leader of Shepway District Council, welcomed the plans saying Operation Stack had "caused misery" for more than 20 years.
"If the solution can stop lorries clogging up local roads and ruining residents lives by parking in communities across Shepway, I am all for it," he said.
Events to display the plans and invite comments on how the site should be operated will be held on Saturday in Sellindge.
Similar events taking place in Ashford, Folkestone, Hawkinge and Dover in the next few weeks.
"I urge all residents to take this opportunity to have their say," Mr Monk said.
Edrington Group wants to expand production and warehousing at its Macallan distillery near Craigellachie, as well as creating a new visitor centre.
Moray Council's planning committee unanimously approved the plans.
Work on the project is expected to start later this year, with completion due in 2017.
When the plans were announced, Edrington chief executive Ian Curle said they were a "confident investment in the future of The Macallan and its home on Speyside".
The Glasgow-based whisky and rum distiller, which also produces Famous Grouse whisky, announced increased profits and turnover last summer.
The Muslim-led "Fightback Starts Here" coalition includes 100 charities, campaign groups and community organisations, as well as Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh groups.
The campaign has pledged a collective effort to tackle extremism.
It has been backed by the families of murdered David Haines and Alan Henning.
Mr Haines and Mr Henning were both killed months after being kidnapped in Syria by IS, also known as Isis, while on aid missions.
Launching the campaign video online, the coalition said the UK urgently needed groups that had been actively combating extremism - from jihadism to neo-Nazis - to share their experiences more widely.
It has urged groups to help communities equip themselves with the tools needed to combat recruiters.
Mr Haines's brother, Mike, and Mr Henning's widow, Barbara, back the campaign and have signed an open letter calling on a united effort to "reject the lies that extremists spread".
Mike Haines said radicalisation and extremism comprised "the biggest challenge facing our communities in the UK".
"We cannot allow terrorist gangs to polarise our communities, we must stand united, pool our resources and expertise in tackling radicalisation and extremism, and send a clear message to those who wish to cause us harm that they will not defeat us," he said.
Mrs Henning said communities across the UK were being affected by "the serious threat of radicalisation and extremism by monsters like Isis".
"Their ability to use social media and the internet to spread hate must be stopped," she said.
"Now is the time that as a country, we come together and do everything within our power as a united community, to stop these vicious and poisonous groups from stealing our loved ones away."
The Fightback group said efforts over the decade since the 7/7 London suicide bombings had often been disjointed or too focused on expecting Muslims alone to find all the answers.
The group's open letter said: "We work every day to protect young people at risk from radicalisation, but it is a daily battle and one that demands a co-ordinated and concerted response.
"So today - with one voice - we launch our collective fightback against those who wish to do us harm."
Suleman Nagdi, of the Leicester-based Federation of Muslim Organisations and one of the co-ordinators, said: "The fightback has to start right here and right now - everyone has to step up to the challenge.
"Recent events continue to serve as a wake-up call to the serious threat of online and offline radicalisation.
"For too long we have seen a lot of good work in different parts of the community but we have never managed to gel the communities together."
Last month, Prime Minister David Cameron said there were radical elements of the Muslim community whose ideology paved the way for violent extremism, even if they did not go that far themselves.
The Home Office is currently preparing legislation aiming to curtail the extremist activity that falls short of terrorism-related offences such as encouraging violence.
The Fightback Starts Here coalition includes a number of influential Muslim-led groups that have played a key role in combating terrorism either by deradicalising young people involved in violent extremism or helping equip families to spot the warning signs.
Mr Nagdi said: "Many Muslim communities have spoken out against extremism and continue to do so but what we now need to do now is have a united voice.
"This is a true threat that we face as a nation. I do not think that we should single out a section of the community to say that you should be responsible because of the criminal activities of a handful of people."
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) says the country will go through a "marked economic slowdown" this year and next.
It says inflation will also pick up, rising to 3% by the end of next year.
"This is the short-term economic consequence of the vote to leave the EU", said Simon Kirby of the NIESR.
Overall the institute forecasts that the UK economy will probably grow by 1.7% this year but will expand by just 1% in 2017.
This would see the UK avoid a technical recession, typically defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.
Mr Kirby argued that the June referendum vote had led to such financial and political uncertainty that this would bear directly on the spending and investment decisions of both businesses and households.
"We expect the UK to experience a marked economic slowdown in the second half of this year and throughout 2017," he said.
"There is an evens chance of a 'technical' recession in the next 18 months, while there is an elevated risk of further deterioration in the near term."
The pick-up in inflation to 3% will mainly be due to the recent fall in the value of the pound, but that should be ignored by the Bank of England the Institute said.
"The Monetary Policy Committee should 'look through' this temporary rise in inflation and ease monetary policy substantially in the coming months," Mr Kirby said.
The institute forecasts that the Bank will reduce interest rates to just 0.1% eventually, after cutting them to 0.25% later this week.
In a separate report, the CBI business lobby group says that the UK's small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMEs) fear they will be hit by a fall in orders in the next three months.
Its latest quarterly survey of SMEs says business optimism has fallen at its fastest rate since January 2009, when the UK economy was falling into recession.
Now, the culprit is the uncertainty following June's Brexit vote.
Despite this, the 472 firms surveyed said that current orders were stable.
Rain Newton-Smith, the CBI's director for economics, said: "The UK's SME manufacturers reported higher production, more staff hired and now expect to sell more of their world-class goods overseas over the next quarter, with a weaker sterling having a hand in this.
"But overall they do feel less optimistic and are scaling back some investment plans in machinery and plants."
The CBI's survey is just the latest to suggest that the effect of the June referendum vote may be, in the short term at least, to depress business activity.
On Monday the Markit/CIPS manufacturing purchasing managers' index suggested that activity among UK manufacturers in July had shrunk at its fastest pace for three years.
Meanwhile shoppers continue to benefit from falling prices in the UK's shops, stores and supermarkets.
According to the latest survey from the trade body the British Retail Consortium, overall prices fell by 1.6% in the year to July.
Food was 0.8% cheaper than a year ago and non-food items were 2.2% lower.
Flight EK0863 from Muscat was grounded after baggage handlers found the serpent in the cargo hold.
A spokesperson for the airline, quoted by Dubai-based media, said the snake was found before passengers boarded the plane.
The aircraft was searched before re-entering service and arriving at its destination several hours later.
Emirates did not specify the species of snake, nor whether it was potentially dangerous.
Comparisons with the 2006 Samuel L Jackson thriller Snakes on a Plane, which sees passengers battle hundreds of highly poisonous snakes in mid-flight, inevitably emerged on social media.
But it's far from the first time a snake has tried to travel free of charge on planes from warm climates.
In November last year, passengers on a Mexico domestic flight were panicked by the appearance of a metre-long snake which dropped from the overhead compartments.
A 10ft (3m) scrub python was spotted clinging on to the wing as a plane made its way between the Australian town of Cairns and Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea in 2013.
And in 2012, animal protection officers had to rescue a young Middle American smooth-scaled racer which arrived in Scotland on a flight from Mexico.
The Ibrox outfit are third in the Premiership, 12 points adrift of the second-placed Dons, who have won 10 home matches in a row.
Caixinha accepts Rangers must win to have any hope of finishing second.
"Everybody says we are going to hell and I like those type of scenarios," said Caixinha, who has won one and drawn two matches as Rangers boss.
With passions often running high when the two sides meet, the Portuguese coach is preparing his men for a battle.
"Football is about challenges," he said. "The history of football started with two cities fighting until they take the ball from one specific place and you can score one goal. Those moments were really violent and that's the nature of football.
"We need to be clever, we need to have the right attitude and approach and grow with that old-style environment.
"It's a game that we must win if we want to finish second, definitely. And it's also the first of the last seven fixtures."
Caixinha, who joined the Ibrox side from Qatari club Al Gharafa, reckons the remaining games of the season will tell him plenty about the character and attitude of his charges.
"The players need to see this game and all the games until the end (of the season) as challenges," he said. "That's the way I see life.
"If I didn't see the chance to be here as Rangers manager as a challenge, maybe I would be in the sun now in Qatar enjoying my wages.
"I came here for the challenge and I want the players to have that feeling as well, because representing Rangers is about being challenged, all day long, day by day, your entire life."
Injury problems, particularly in defence, have hampered Caixinha in his early days at Ibrox.
But the 46-year-old knows he is already under the microscope, and insists that is a situation he is comfortable with.
"If you work for Rangers, you are judged all the time," he said. "It's one more challenge we are going to be judged on.
"We need to act like that and know that and we need to have pride in that. If we are not under those conditions to be judged all the time, we are doing nothing here.
"We are Rangers and we need to assume it, and we need to have strong character and personality."
Aberdeen City Council said last September that Burger and Lobster had agreed to open an outlet in the £107m office and hotel complex.
The company has now said opportunities have arisen in America which are a higher priority.
Marischal Square is expected to open in the summer of next year.
The council said it was disappointed at Burger and Lobster's decision.
A spokesman for developers Muse declined to comment.
Offices and a hotel are being built on the site of the former council headquarters.
Protestors failed in their bid to get the development halted last March.
Councillors voted by 22-21 to continue with the project.
The 30-year-old Welshman had been scheduled to face the Argentine, 33, last January in Las Vegas.
But the fight was called off with 24 hours' notice after Barros failed to meet the Nevada Athletic Commission's licensing conditions.
Selby and Barros will now meet on 15 July in Wembley, on the same card as Chris Eubank Jr against Arthur Abraham.
Barros' failure to meet the Commission's requirements was related to a problem with his medical tests.
"Barros is going to pay, simple as that," Selby said.
"I was mucked around last time because he and his team couldn't get their act together and this time, all I can say is, I can't wait.
"I am absolutely thrilled to be fighting him at last, on a huge bill in London and with the stage set for me."
Selby has beaten Fernando Montiel, Eric Hunter and Andoni Gago since overcoming Evgeny Gradovich to win the world title in May 2015.
The Barry fighter was last in action against Gago in a non-title bout at the O2 Arena in March, stopping the Spaniard in nine rounds.
But Barros remained the IBF's mandatory challenger despite the cancellation and Selby was ordered to face him, rather than pursue a fight against Northern Irishman Carl Frampton or WBA champion Leo Santa Cruz.
"I have been a worthy IBF world champion and beating a tough customer like Barros will put me in the hot seat for a fight with Carl Frampton or Scott Quigg, or any of the other world champions," Selby added.
"Either of those Brits would suit me down to earth, but first it is Barros and I'm determined to make him pay.
"I don't need any motivation for this one. I was there in Las Vegas ready to fight and through no fault of my own it didn't happen. It is now and Barros will be taken apart."
He said Ukraine was "seeking objectives that are practically terrorist".
Crimea's two million people have been severely affected since the pylons were damaged on 22 November. Anti-Russian activists have been blamed.
Ukraine said Tatar activists would need to allow repairs before the power supplies could be resumed.
The loss of power to Crimea has sparked a reduction of coal supplies to Ukraine from Russia and from the pro-Russian rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
Russian forces annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014.
Crimea in the dark
Mr Medvedev was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying: "The region (Crimea) has been left without electricity as a result of, in fact, energy manipulation, actions by the Ukrainian authorities.
"And legally speaking, what was done is an act of sabotage, that is to say, the destruction of industrial facilities, seeking objectives that are practically terrorist."
Speaking at a meeting with deputy prime ministers in Gorky, he said Ukraine's actions had "endangered the lives and health of many people".
Mr Medvedev said the construction of an "energy bridge" from Krasnodar to Crimea was being speeded up.
Ukraine's Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said Ukraine would meet 20% of Crimea's power supplies once the Kakhova-Tital electricity line was repaired.
But that could only happen at a time agreed with the activists, he said, stressing that Ukraine had asked them to permit repairs.
Mr Demchyshyn said that as soon as the line was repaired, "supplies of coal will also be resumed" to Ukraine.
Only 30% of Crimea's electricity is generated locally - the rest comes from Ukraine, Russia's government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported.
A state of emergency was imposed in Crimea on Sunday, and Monday was declared a non-working day.
It is still not clear how exactly the pylons were damaged in Kherson, a Ukrainian region adjacent to Crimea.
Crimean Tatar activists suggested that the pylons were blown down by the wind. But Ukraine's state energy company, Ukrenergo, said the damage was caused by "shelling or the use of explosive devices".
The activists accuse Russia of abusing Tatar rights and denying them a voice since a pro-Moscow government was installed in Crimea.
Images on social media show Ukrainian flags on some damaged pylons - and Crimean Tatar flags on others.
The men, aged 17, 18, 23, 36 and 46, were expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Police have now made a total of 70 arrests after violent scenes followed a pitch invasion at Hampden on Saturday 21 May.
The disorder marred the end of the Hibs v Rangers clash, which ended in a 3-2 victory for the Edinburgh side.
A Lib-Lab alliance has just voted Andrew George's Affordable Housing Bill through second reading and registered a considerable parliamentary/political coup in the process.
Mr George's Bill would bring in a couple of major exceptions to the government's housing benefit changes - known to their critics as the "bedroom tax."
The Lib Dems (a couple of rebels, including Mr George, excepted) helped vote those changes through in the first place, in the passage of the Welfare Reform Bill, but today they performed a spectacular U-Turn, with back-flip and triple salko, and voted to undo them.
That partially lifts one political albatross from around their neck - a number of their MPs were being clobbered over the issue - and simultaneously puts a new obstacle in front of the Conservatives' cherished EU Referendum Bill.
And Mr George's Bill now has a fighting chance of clearing the Commons.
Let me explain: a big part of today's parliamentary battle was in fact about the downstream effect of sending any private members bill into Committee ahead of the EU Referendum Bill, which is due on the floor of the Commons in October.
As the Conservative backbencher and veteran killer of private members bills, Phillip Davies pointed out during the debate this was always the subtext to the debate.
The more bills that are in the system ahead of the Referendum Bill, the later it will come back to the floor of the House for the crucial Report Stage debate. And the more vulnerable it will be to filibustering tactics by its Lib Dem and Labour opponents.
And this is good news for Mr George and those who want to undo the government's housing benefit reforms, because the Conservatives now face a nasty dilemma.
The normal way of killing a private members bill that has survived Second Reading is to bury it in amendments at Report Stage.
But if the George Bill has a long drawn out Report Stage, there's even less debating time left for the Referendum Bill, later on.
So my bet is that the Affordable Housing Bill will now clear the Commons, to the sound of grinding Tory teeth - and while it might be vulnerable to death by a thousand amendments in the Lords, Labour and Lib Dem peers, plus sympathetic Crossbenchers may see it through to the Statute Book.
And all this may be repeated next week, with Michael Moore's International Development Bill.
And by the time of the Referendum Bill's Second Reading, on 17 October its hopes of success may be forlorn, and the aim will not be so much to pass the legislation as to pin the blame for not passing it squarely on Labour and the Lib Dems.
But meanwhile such a high profile demonstration of Lib Lab cooperation must chill Tory spines and show a little leg to voters lost by the Lib Dems when the joined the coalition.
Collective responsibility may have been suspended within the government today, but trust between its member parties must have been eroded.
The RSPCA was called when the six-month-old cat was found with his head entirely encased within the tub after raiding a bin in Oxford on Saturday.
Frost covered the fur of the black and white stray which could not move, the charity said.
Inspectors used scissors to cut the jar away from the kitten's head who was unhurt by the ordeal.
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"Once I managed to lever the cat out, I had a good check over his head and neck to check for injuries. Thankfully the cat was unhurt," RSPCA inspector Jaime Godfrey said.
"As soon as the cat was free, he ran away very fast. He was obviously shaken up by his experience.
"The cat is a known stray on nearby farmland and was probably scavenging for food when he got his head stuck."
The International Circus Club service celebrates "father of modern clowning" Joseph Grimaldi, who died in 1837.
This year marked the 70th outing of the colourful congregation, which started the tradition in the 1940s.
It began when a circus proprietor arranged for clowns to lay a wreath at Grimaldi's grave in Pentonville Road.
Remembrance services have been held ever since in various London churches.
This year's celebration was held at the Holy Trinity church in Dalston, east London, where clowns mingled with church goers and clergy members.
Clowns International says it is "the oldest organisation to support the Art Of Clowning".
In a tweet, Mr Trump said the top judge was "making very dumb political statements" and should "resign".
His call comes after Justice Ginsburg, 83, moved beyond her usual candour to disparage Mr Trump in a series of interviews.
Critics say the liberal judge has risked her legacy to lambast Mr Trump.
"He is a faker," Justice Ginsburg told CNN on Monday. "He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego."
In a recent New York Times interview, Justice Ginsburg also said a Trump presidency would be unimaginable.
"I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president," she said. "For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be - I don't even want to contemplate that."
Justice Ginsburg also quipped that she would move to New Zealand if he should win the White House.
On Tuesday, Mr Trump fired back, telling the New York Times it was "highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly".
The likely Republican nominee said her remarks were a "disgrace to the court" and insisted she should apologise.
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan also weighed in, saying the Justice's remarks revealed "bias" during a CNN town hall interview on Wednesday.
"For someone on the Supreme Court who is going to be calling balls and strikes in the future based upon what the next president and Congress does, that strikes me as inherently biased and out of the realm", he said.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest brushed off the idea that the comments were inappropriate and said "she didn't earn the nickname 'The Notorious RBG' for nothing".
Justice Ginsburg also recently told the Associated Press that "it's likely that the next president, whoever she will be, will have a few appointments to make".
She is the oldest justice on the court and will be one of three judges over the age of 78 on Election Day.
Justice Anthony Kennedy will turn 80 in July and Justice Stephen Breyer will turn 78 in August.
The court has taken a central role in the US presidential election over the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February.
Senate Republicans have refused to hold hearings on confirming President Barack Obama's nominee for the seat, Merrick Garland, arguing the nomination should be determined by the next president.
She was greeted with music and poetry as she arrived at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay at about 11:30 BST on Tuesday.
The Only Boys Aloud choir, harpist Anne Denholm and the National Youth Choir of Wales were among the performers.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said all AMs had a duty to work together to "deliver for the people we serve".
Addressing politicians in the Senedd as she opened the fifth Welsh Assembly, the Queen said the institution was "an achievement in which all who care about Wales can take pride".
"Your responsibilities are great and the expectations are high, but I have no doubt you will continue to succeed as you discharge these new duties," she said.
"I wish you every success as you prepare to meet the challenges of these constitutional changes, and to help realise the potential of the assembly for future generations."
First Minister Carwyn Jones emphasised that "no single party" had a majority in the assembly chamber.
"No individual has a monopoly on good ideas and no person should feel excluded from out work," he said.
"It's required of us all, a duty, to be true to our values and to respect the mandate on which we were elected but ultimately to work together.
"To discuss, to compromise and to act in a respectful way that allows us all, collectively, to deliver for the people we serve."
The Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall also attended the royal opening.
Children and young people from a range of schools and organisations across Wales gathered on the steps of the Senedd to welcome them.
As it happened: Royal opening of the Welsh Assembly
A new poem by the National Poet of Wales, Ifor ap Glyn was also presented to mark the Queen's 90th birthday.
Presiding Officer Elin Jones urged AMs to show "passion in our debate, prudence in conciliation".
"We have been elected by the people of this country, and we commit to being their voice and to providing the standard of service and leadership they deserve and demand of us," she added.
The mace was carried into the Senedd chamber by assembly security manager Chetan Patel, before Ms Jones officially welcomes the royal visitors.
A large screen outside the Senedd relayed proceedings to members of the public, who were invited inside for free Welsh cakes and tours of the building after the ceremony.
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall later attended a reception with AMs at the Wales Millennium Centre, and viewed the field of poppies outside its entrance which commemorates soldiers who died in World War One.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh also opened a new £44m brain research centre at Cardiff University.
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Ivory Coast beat Mali 3-1 to go top of Group C after Gabon and Morocco had earlier drawn 0-0.
DR Congo thrashed Libya in Group A, winning 4-0 in Kinshasa.
In Group D, Senegal beat Cape Verde 2-0 after Burkina Faso and South Africa had drawn 1-1.
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The reigning African champions, Ivory Coast, took on Mali in Group C in Bouake with a largely new generation of players in the post Toure-brothers era.
The hosts were put under pressure after just 18 minutes when Sambou Yatabare scored to give Mali a 1-0 lead.
It took eight minutes for Ivory Coast to level the match, with Aston Villa forward Jonathan Kodjia scoring an equaliser.
Five minutes later, the Ivorians went 2-1 up after Mali's Salif Coulibaly directed the ball into his own net.
Ivory Coast took a commanding 3-1 lead in the 34th minute when Gervinho (pictured), one of the few existing members of Ivory Coast's so-called "golden generation", volleyed in to put his side top of Group C, above Gabon and Morocco who drew 0-0 in Franceville earlier.
Gabon, hosts of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, were left frustrated by Morocco at home.
They looked to their Borussia Dortmund talisman, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, to conjure up a winner and he came closest to scoring in the 68th minute, only to see his header cleared off the line by Moroccan goalkeeper Munir.
In Group A, the Democratic Republic of Congo looked in firm control as they convincingly beat Libya 4-0.
Dieumerci Mbokani scored twice, getting the first of his two goals in the sixth minute with Jonathan Bolingi adding a second on the stroke of half-time.
Mbokani grabbed his second after 56 minutes to make it 3-0 to DR Congo, with substitute Ndombe Mubele adding a fourth late on for the hosts.
Elsewhere, Senegal beat Cape Verde 2-0 late on Saturday in Dakar to go top of Group D.
Lazio striker Balde Diao Keita struck in the first half and substitute Moussa Sow in the 80th minute to give Senegal an opening win.
Earlier, Burkina Faso squandered two penalties but did manage to grab a dramatic injury-time equaliser as they drew 1-1 with South Africa in their Group D match in Ouagadougou.
Jonathan Pitroipa had the chance to put Burkina Faso 1-0 up in the 10th minute from the penalty spot, but South African goal-keeper Itumeleng Khune saved the spot-kick to keep his team in the match.
It remained 0-0 until the 80th minute when South Africa took the lead through Dean Furman against the run of play.
Burkina Faso won their second penalty of the game with Alain Traore stepping up to take it, but he missed from the spot.
South Africa and their coach Shakes Mashaba were denied a victory when Banou Diawara scored in the 91st minute for Burkina Faso to make it 1-1.
On Friday, the group phase of African World Cup qualifiers kicked off with Uganda holding Ghana to a 0-0 draw in Tamale in the opening game of Group E.
Only the five group winners will qualify for Russia 2018.
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Ivory Coast, DR Congo and Senegal recorded opening group wins in 2018 World Cup qualifiers across Africa on Saturday, while South Africa conceded a late equaliser in Burkina Faso.
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The UK study backs public health campaigns calling for sunscreen to be combined with other ways to protect the skin from sun, such as hats and shade.
Animal research, published in Nature, reveals more about how UV light induces cancer in skin cells.
Malignant melanoma is the fifth most common cancer in the UK, with more than 13,000 people diagnosed each year.
Sun exposure is a well-known risk factor for melanoma skin cancer.
But, until now, the molecular mechanism by which UV light damages DNA in skin cells has been unclear.
In the new study, scientists at the University of Manchester looked at the effects of UV light on the skin of mice at risk of melanoma.
This allowed them to examine the effects of sunscreen in blocking the disease.
"UV light targets the very genes protecting us from its own damaging effects, showing how dangerous this cancer-causing agent is," said lead researcher Prof Richard Marais.
"Very importantly, this study provides proof that sunscreen does not offer complete protection from the damaging effects of UV light.
"This work highlights the importance of combining sunscreen with other strategies to protect our skin, including wearing hats and loose fitting clothing, and seeking shade when the sun is at its strongest."
The researchers found that UV light caused faults in the p53 gene, which normally helps protect the body from the effects of DNA damage.
The study also showed that sunscreen could reduce the amount of DNA damage caused by UV, delaying the development of melanoma in mice.
But it found sunscreen did not offer complete protection and UV light could still induce melanoma, although at a reduced rate.
Dr Julie Sharp, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, said people tended to think they were "invincible" once they had put on sunscreen and may spend longer in the sun, increasing their overall exposure to UV rays.
"This research adds important evidence showing that sunscreen has a role, but that you shouldn't just rely on this to protect your skin," she said.
"It's essential to get into good sun safety habits, whether at home or abroad, and take care not to burn - sunburn is a clear sign that the DNA in your skin cells has been damaged and, over time, this can lead to skin cancer."
Malignant melanoma has become the fifth most common cancer in the UK, with more than 13,000 people diagnosed with the disease each year.
Prof Nic Jones, director of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: "With the number of cases increasing, we urgently need to understand more about the disease and find new and better treatments."
"This is the first example of a mouse model that absolutely shows that UV light causes melanoma," Prof Marais told BBC News.
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At the opening of Ian Walters' trial, the jury was shown CCTV footage of the final seconds before the crash that left his wife Tracy fatally injured.
Mr Walters, 51, denies murdering his wife, who died in hospital after the crash in Leicestershire, in March 2014.
The defendant, of Tregantle Walk, Swindon, who was also injured, said he could not remember the crash.
Leicester Crown Court heard the couple had married in 2012, but over time Mr Walters had become abusive.
In February last year, Mrs Walters, 48, told her husband she wanted a divorce.
Prosecutor Charles Miskin said: "He knew he was in trouble with [Tracy], with wider family and knew he was in trouble with police.
"He probably felt some degree of humiliation and wanted to show her who was in charge. That he was in control."
On the day of the crash, on 21 March 2014, the pair had been travelling home with their two dogs after cutting short a holiday in the Yorkshire Dales, the jury was told.
Footage of four seconds before the crash showed the car travelling at 79mph, apparently with no obstructions in the road.
Mr Miskin said: "He must have foreseen that really serious injury or death would result from this crash.
"While obviously he risked his own life and limb, he also intended to cause really serious bodily injury to his wife."
He said Mrs Walters had been texting her son and in her last message wrote of her husband: "He's driving and volatile... I need him arrested when we get home."
Mr Miskin said it is this accumulation of texts that "acted as a trigger for his conduct."
Mrs Walters was cut from the wreckage and airlifted to hospital. She died from her injuries two days later.
Mr Walters was also airlifted to hospital with serious injuries and remained in hospital for a month.
He later told police he would not have done anything intentionally to hurt her.
The trial, expected to last four weeks, continues.
Ballycastle coastguard were tasked along with the Royal Navy Rescue helicopter after the alarm was raised after 19:00 BST on Friday.
A coastguard team abseiled down the cliff to attend to the man who was then winched to the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine by helicopter.
He was later transferred to Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry.
His condition is described as stable.
Syrian state TV began reporting on Sunday night that this opposition enclave of Homs, held by the rebels since the summer of 2011, had fallen.
Activists and fighters in Homs denied it, saying the government had made big gains but there were still pockets of fighters hanging on.
Later though, one opposition source said the enclave was "80% gone", while another said that fighters had been pushed to the margins.
Hardly any activists or fighters in Khalidiya are active on Skype now - another sign that the retreat may have happened or is at least under way.
The fall of Khalidiya had been expected. One Western diplomat said he had been told recently by a rebel Free Syrian Army commander that it was not possible to get any ammunition or other supplies in. Cut off from help, it was only a matter of time, perhaps, for the rebels.
An Islamist brigade of the FSA posted video on YouTube of fighters wearing suicide belts. With no bullets left, this was their only weapon, they declared.
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There are other parts of Homs still, just, in rebel hands. But if they, along with Khalidiya, do fall, Homs will become just the latest in a line of regime victories on the battlefield.
The regime's forces have been steadily picking off some of the villages around Homs.
Two months ago, with the help of the militant Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, they recaptured the nearby town of Qusair.
The government has halted - if not quite turned around - a rebel advance into the capital, Damascus.
Sources close to the Syrian regime say an offensive is also planned for the northern city of Aleppo. Certainly, the FSA is bracing itself for an assault on rebel-held parts of the city.
Some analysts are already speculating that this is the beginning of the end of the armed rebellion.
Western diplomats dealing with the armed opposition believe the government may be able to establish a "secure area" running from Damascus all the way up to Hama, a city 45km (28 miles) to the north of Homs, or even to Aleppo.
What happens now may depend on the extent of foreign intervention.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been sending weapons to the FSA for some time. The US is moving towards sending small arms. The UK is contemplating such a step, but would only do so after a vote in Parliament.
It would probably take a very large influx of weapons to break the government's momentum.
However, that does not mean that the armed uprising will be extinguished.
President Bashar al-Assad has had to use his own foreign fighters, from Hezbollah, to pursue his offensive.
He does not have enough loyal manpower to chase the rebels into the countryside, the mountains and the deserts.
Even if the government takes back the big cities and the main roads, Syria will remain divided, the conflict far from over.
France number eight Louis Picamoles' disputed try, after there appeared to be double movement, put Saints on the board as they led 13-3 at half-time.
Gloucester flanker Jacob Rowan reduced the deficit and wing Charlie Sharples finished a flowing team move to give the Cherry and Whites the lead.
Tom Kessell put Saints in front before James Hook missed a penalty to level.
Former Wales fly-half Hook's kick five minutes before full-time and from just inside his own half was straight but fell short of the posts.
Northampton second row Courtney Lawes was absent with a knee injury that will require a scan next week, raising doubts around his availability for England's autumn internationals.
Defeat ended Gloucester's unbeaten away record in the Premiership this season, but there was an air of controversy about the way they went behind.
Referee Tom Foley seemed to overrule the initial advice given to him by the television match official that Picamoles grounded the ball before crossing, instead deciding he was driven over fairly.
The accuracy of both starting kickers also proved crucial - the usually reliable Gloucester skipper Greig Laidlaw missed two first-half penalties, while Saints' Stephen Myler sent over all five kicks from the tee.
Rowan and Sharples' scores in each corner gave the visitors a chance of their second league win of the season, but with 10 minutes to go, replacement scrum-half Kessell latched on to the magnificent Picamoles' offload to cross.
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder:
"It was a close game. Gloucester showed some really good line speed in defence and put us under pressure.
"We didn't control the ball, we conceded a couple of tries which were loose, but we got there in the end. The subs did really well: Paul Hill, Dylan Hartley and Api (Ratuniyarawa) made an impact and that put them under pressure.
"Louis Picamoles has continued to impress. Some of his offloading skills are sublime; the pass to Kessell was outstanding today. He is world-class.
"We are not playing at the top of our game, but we have the players - we have done it before."
Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
"It is a bitter pill to swallow. For large parts of the game we were the better team.
"Our defence was absolutely magnificent and really didn't allow Northampton to play at any stage but, ultimately, too many penalties around the set-piece tonight cost us the opportunity to win a game I thought we deserved to win."
Northampton: Foden; Wilson, G Pisi, Mallinder North; Myler, Dickson; Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Paterson, Day, Wood (capt), Clark, Picamoles.
Replacements: Hartley, Waller, Hill, Ratuniyarawa, Gibson, Kessell, Hutchinson, Tuala.
Gloucester: Hook; Sharples, Scott, Atkinson, May; Twelvetrees, Laidlaw (capt); McAllister, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Galarza, Moriarty, Rowan, Morgan.
Replacements: Matu'u, Orr, Ma'afu, Latta, Kvesic, Heinz, Burns, Purdy.
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The man is reported to have sustained life-threatening injuries in the collision.
Police officers sealed of the A96 West Road at the scene of the incident, which was close to a petrol station.
The collision took place at about 12:30.
Efken Ala named the man as Mehmet Ozturk. He told reporters that five people had been questioned so far.
Mr Ala announced a review of security measures and curfews in seven Turkish provinces.
Three Israelis - two with Israeli-US nationality - and an Iranian died in the 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 being flown out on Sunday. The Israeli government advised its citizens to avoid Turkey.
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"We have determined that Mehmet Ozturk, born in 1992 in Gaziantep, carried out the heinous attack on Saturday in Istanbul," Mr Ala told a news conference in the capital Ankara
"It has been established that he is a member of Daesh," he said using another name for IS.
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.
This comes after ex-president Wolfgang Niersbach resigned in November after claims he knew about and assisted in the making of payments to secure votes.
Niersbach denies the allegations.
A new president will be elected on 15 April with treasurer Reinhard Grindel favourite to take over.
Sandrock, who served as general secretary since 2012, said: "It is good practice and normal to give a newly elected president of the DFB [German football federation] the chance to propose a new general secretary for election.
"For the good of our football and the DFB it is necessary to make a completely new start in a credible and consistent manner, also in terms of personnel."
In November, tax authorities raided the DFB's headquarters after it emerged the federation had made a secret payment of 6.7m euros (£4.6m) to Fifa in 2005. An internal audit failed to find any trace of the 6.7m euros in the DFB's tax documents. The DFB denies the claims.
German news weekly Der Spiegel had claimed the money had been used to set up a slush fund to buy votes in the 2006 World Cup bidding process.
The world number two, 29, served five double faults but overcame the Russian 6-2 6-1 in one hour and 16 minutes.
Edmund, 21, broke Spanish world number 18 Roberto Bautista Agut in the seventh game of the decider to win 6-4 4-6 6-4.
World number one Novak Djokovic has won the China Open for four successive years but the Serb withdrew last week.
Edmund, a qualifier for the hard court event in Beijing, has met Davis Cup team-mate Murray only once before, losing in a deciding set on the grass at Queen's Club in 2015.
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The pair are in the same half of the draw as fifth seed David Ferrer of Spain, who beat Italy's Fabio Fognini 6-3 6-4 on Wednesday.
Earlier, British number one Johanna Konta boosted her hopes of reaching the WTA Finals in Singapore by beating Hungary's Timea Babos 7-5 6-2 to reach the third round of the women's event in Beijing.
Meanwhile, in the Japan Open, Britain's Dominic Inglot and his Dutch partner Jean-Julien Rojer were beaten 6-3 6-3 in the quarter-finals by Spain's Marcel Granollers and Marcin Matkowski of Poland.
Police said the crash, involving a white curtain-sided lorry and an orange Daewoo Matiz, happened in Sea Road South just before 05:00 BST.
Police said the car driver who died at the scene was a 75-year-old man from Torquay.
The A35 was closed in both directions between the B3157 and the A3066 with diversions through Bridport.
Officers have appealed for any witnesses who saw the crash or the vehicles travelling beforehand to contact them.
The 20-year-old, who primarily plays as a left-back, has agreed a two-year contract with the National League side.
Scales, who has previously spent time on loan at Crawley Town, graduated through Norwich City's academy before joining Crystal Palace in 2014.
Palace released Scales last summer and he has since played for National League South outfit Whitehawk.
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The champions of Gibraltar host the first leg against Celtic on Tuesday after beating Flora Tallin of Estonia.
"I think they can give Celtic a few problems," said Ayrshire-born Wilson, now manager at Lions, told BBC Scotland.
"But, as the game goes on, you would expect Celtic to take control."
Lincoln Red Imps are the dominant side in Gibraltar with 14 consecutive championship wins.
And many of their semi-professional squad have international experience.
"Eight or nine of the players will have played in a European Championship qualifying campaign with Germany, Poland, Ireland and Scotland, so they won't be phased by a big crowd in Glasgow," added Wilson.
This will be Lincoln Red Imps third European campaign and they will look to leading goalscorer Lee Casciaro.
The 34-year-old scored Gibraltar's first competitive goal at Hampden in March 2015, with Wilson in temporary charge of the national side.
That goal drew the visitors level before Scotland went on to win 6-1, while the return match in the group ended in a 6-0 success for Gordon Strachan's side.
"Lincoln Red Imps will work to Lee's strengths," said Wilson, a former Kilmarnock trainee.
"He has pace and power. He's a real one-touch striker. He'll take a touch and then hit it from anywhere. That's where the goal against Scotland came from."
The Repsol Honda rider, 31, was injured in a huge crash during practice for the Japanese Grand Prix.
He said: "These past three weeks haven't been easy because of the pain.
"We're still not sure about how I'll feel on the bike, but I'm happy to be able to get back to racing."
The MotoGP championship was secured by fellow Spaniard and Repsol Honda team-mate Marc Marquez in Japan.
Pedrosa has only won one race all season and is sixth overall.
"This is sabotage and a felony," said Tomislav Pacak, a Croatian Football Federation (HNS) spokesman. "We expect police to identify the perpetrators.
"This is a disgrace not just for the HNS but for the whole of Croatia."
The game was played behind closed doors after Croatia were punished for racist chants by fans against Norway in March.
Pacak added that Uefa had been told about the incident, which overshadowed the 1-1 draw between the two sides who are vying for top spot in Group H.
The swastika - widely recognised as the symbol of Nazi Germany - was seen during the first half and although ground staff at the stadium in Split tried to cover it up at half-time they were not successful.
It is unknown whether the symbol was mowed or painted into the grass, or who is responsible.
"As far as we have learned, the symbol was imprinted into the pitch between 24 and 48 hours before the match so that it could be visible during the game," added Pacak.
"We apologise to all fans watching the game on television, to both teams and to our guests from Italy for the Nazi symbol."
November's reverse fixture in Milan was stopped twice for crowd trouble, with riot police involved.
Croatia were forced to close part of their stadium for March's game against Norway as a punishment for their fans' behaviour at the San Siro.
But the supporters who did attend the Norway game caused more problems, leading to the Italy game to be played in an empty stadium.
"It's one of our problems and we are working to fix it,'' said Davor Suker, the president of the Croatian football association. "We'll speak about it on Saturday, but I'm very angry."
The RMT is in dispute with DLR operator Keolis Amey over working practices including the use of agency staff.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash accused management of "sheer intransigence".
Keolis Amey said it was "extremely disappointing to find the RMT refusing to work with us".
Mr Cash said union negotiators had "made every effort over the past 72 hours to resolve this dispute through negotiation".
Kevin Thomas, managing director of Keolis Amey Docklands, apologised to passengers for the disruption to their journeys.
He added "discussions to seek resolutions would be more productive than strike action".
Keolis Amey has operated the line since 2014 on behalf of Transport for London and recently announced it had been shortlisted to operate London Overground as part of a new joint venture with Go-Ahead under the name LoKeGo.
The DLR, which connects the City and the Docklands, has used computerised trains since it opened in 1987.
The strike is expected to involve train captains, controllers and signallers.
Aboud Kaplo, 14, was forced out of his home in Aleppo and is now living in Lebanon.
Film-maker Susie Attwood came across Aboud and saw his passion for music, but also his lack of an instrument.
Oxford University has now lent the teenager the restored violin.
The German-made violin is part of the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, which has more than 2,000 examples of historic and modern instruments, tracing their development since the Middle Ages.
They can be used by academics, students and researchers, but for the first time an instrument from the collection is going to be lent to a young aspiring refugee musician.
Curator Andy Lamb said that "the moment I read about this lad's situation" he thought the collection "could make some kind of positive contribution".
"I immediately had an instrument in mind. It belonged to a former curator, Dr Helene Larue, a very generous person, and I knew that if she had been confronted with this situation, she would have donated an instrument instantly."
Oxford University found about Aboud from film-maker and former student of the music faculty Susie Attwood.
She had met Aboud and his family at a Syriac Orthodox monastery, where she was making a film about Syrian Christian refugees in Lebanon, stuck in an "in-between existence", unable to find work or to provide an education for their children.
Aboud had a great interest in music and was trying to teach himself using YouTube videos and a "rattly" toy violin.
"Life is very difficult for Syrians living in Lebanon, but seeing how music provides such hope for someone like Aboud is very moving. I couldn't just let it go," said Attwood.
She contacted the university, and the Bate Collection immediately offered to help.
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"The violin is not rare or ancient enough to be regarded as a precious resource, but it's significantly better than a cheap modern factory instrument, and it's entirely the kind of instrument we would lend to a student here at Oxford," said collection curator Mr Lamb.
Aboud said he "cannot express by words how I feel - I'm so happy, so excited".
"Playing the violin helps me express my feelings. I want to go on to study music and play on a big stage and travel the world."
Last September, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found the Aberthaw plant had been emitting illegal levels.
Plaid Cymru has suggested ministers and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) have not had written communication since then.
The Welsh Government said it was committed to improving air quality across Wales.
The revelation about no written or electronic communication between the two sides came in a Freedom of Information request by Plaid.
Simon Thomas, the party's environment spokesman, said: "The fact that the Welsh Government can show no correspondence between ministers and NRW following the ECJ's ruling demonstrates a lack of leadership
"The Welsh Government has neglected its duty to the people in Wales and beyond who are affected by this issue.
"These include the 600 workers at Aberthaw who face uncertainty as to the future of the power station, which was already due to be downgraded this year.
"It also includes people living near the power station and as far away as Exeter, Bristol, Swindon and Bournemouth who suffer the consequences of air pollution."
Aberthaw in Vale of Glamorgan is one of only two coal-fired power stations still in operation in Wales.
It was found to have been pumping out more than double the legal amount of toxic nitrogen oxides from 2008 to 2011 in the case brought against the UK by the European Commission.
The UK Government was ordered to pay legal costs and could face further fines if pollution levels continue to breach EU law.
The plant's operators RWE said at the time it was "disappointed" by the outcome, stating environmental protection was of the utmost priority.
Friends of the Earth Cymru and Greenpeace have called for "a full and permanent closure" due to claims emissions are impacting upon health.
A report from the two environmental bodies last year claimed 400 premature deaths a year in the UK were likely to be due to nitrogen oxide exposure from Aberthaw.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "RWE should press ahead with the delivery of the necessary emissions reductions at Aberthaw without delay."
Isobel Moore, head of business, regulation and economics at NRW, told the assembly's environment committee on Wednesday: "We have written to RWE to indicate that we will vary the permit based on the European court judgement and that we seek information from them to allow us to do that."
RWE is set to downgrade the plant from April 2017 so it only generates electricity at times of peak demand.
A spokesman said: "Following the EU ruling against the UK government regarding the application of part of an environmental directive, we are working with Natural Resources Wales on a variation to our current environmental permit.
"The investment planned for the station is unaffected by last year's ruling and RWE will continue with the proposed operational changes and further investment in lowering emissions."
The Bluebirds won 3-0 at promotion-chasing Huddersfield Town on Sunday as they finished the season 12th in the Championship table.
Kenneth Zohore and a Joe Bennett brace gave them the win against the Terriers.
"I've agreed a couple of fringe players but I'm looking to sign three or four players to add to that squad in the next few weeks," Warnock said.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales, Warnock continued: "It might be the beginning of June because you can't really move that quick nowadays but it won't be for lack of trying.
"I think we could get three or four players in that squad in the team, I think the future is very bright."
The Bluebirds has been in 23rd place in the Championship when Warnock arrived but they ended the season in 12th place as their fortunes were turned around.
Warnock said Nottingham Forest and Blackburn Rovers' loss was Cardiff's gain after he interviewed for both the Championship strugglers this season.
Forest survived on the final day of the season while former Premier League winners Blackburn will begin next season in League One.
"When you go to a club that were second from bottom, it's fair to say when I arrived, it wasn't a very good situation," he added.
"I had interviews at Nottingham Forest and Blackburn Rovers so today I just wonder what they're thinking because I had good interviews but they went elsewhere.
"That is Cardiff's gain, really. I'm enjoying every minute of it. The fans have been fabulous and I think I've turned the club around."
Hickey is one of 15 IOC members who voted unanimously to leave decisions on individual athletes' participation with their international sports federations.
"The reality of life is that we have a duty to protect the clean athletes," he told RTE.
He also confirmed he will step down as OCI President after the Rio Games.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) had called for a Rio ban in response to the independent McLaren Report that found evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The IOC's decision not to ban Russia from the Rio Games has been widely criticised although 17 athletes. including swimmers, canoeists and modern pentathletes, have so far been banned by their respective federations.
How many Russians will compete at the Rio Olympics?
"I completely condemn all doping in sport and what has happened in Russia is totally reprehensible and has no place in sport," said Hickey.
"But the one thing that was very clear from the McLaren report was that the Olympic Committee of Russia was not implicated in any shape or form.
"The Russian Olympic Committee is in good standing throughout the world.
"You must protect the individual clean athletes.
"The last thing we ever want to do is to go back to our Cold War days and Olympic boycotts that we had in 1980 and 1984 and I think this is the best possible way forward."
Hickey said he will resign from his position as OCI President after 28 years in charge to be replaced by First Vice-President Willie O'Brien following next month's Games.
The Ferrari driver faces a disciplinary hearing on 3 July after swerving into Hamilton's Mercedes.
Vettel was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty in the race on Sunday.
Button tweeted: "Azerbaijan GP was a pleasure to watch because adrenalin and emotions were high. What Vettel did was silly but he's been punished. Move on."
He added: "A driver at racing speed forces another driver off track, he would get less punishment than a 10-second drive-through."
Vettel's actions in Azerbaijan will be analysed at a meeting called by Jean Todt, president of governing body the FIA, who has spent much of his term campaigning for better road safety.
The German was following Hamilton as they prepared for a re-start and ran into the back of him when the Briton did not accelerate out of the penultimate corner, while Vettel did.
Believing Hamilton had deliberately slowed to cause him problems, Vettel pulled alongside him, gesticulated and his car swerved, banging wheels and causing the Ferrari to jump briefly into the air.
A follower of Button's on Twitter questioned his view, asking him whether he felt 'road-rage offences' should be brushed aside.
The 37-year-old replied: "You can't compare racing with driver on the road as racing wouldn't exist."
Vettel has been on a warning since last year's Mexican Grand Prix, when he was penalised for moving under braking while defending from Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and, angered by the driving of the Australian's team-mate Max Verstappen, swore over the radio at race director Charlie Whiting.
No action was taken against Vettel at that time, after he wrote letters of apology to Todt and Whiting, but he was told that any similar incident would lead to an FIA International Tribunal.
Vettel ended up finishing fourth in Baku, one place ahead of Hamilton, who was delayed by having to stop to have a loose headrest replaced.
Ross Brawn, F1's managing director of motorsport, told BBC Sport that the incident "shouldn't have happened".
Brawn, who worked with Todt at Ferrari with Michael Schumacher, said: "Sebastian did something he shouldn't have done and got penalised for it.
"If we hadn't had a technical problem we would be sat here with Lewis having scored substantially more points than he did, so Lewis would have won the race and that would have resulted in a different complexion.
"It shouldn't have happened; it shows the passion of the guys fighting for the World Championship. That's the passion we want to see.
"Sebastian will reflect on what happened and learn from it. We want to see that passion in the future but perhaps not as raw as we saw in Baku."
Brawn added: "It wasn't pre-meditated that's for sure, it was reaction to huge amount of adrenalin and passion running through these guys' systems."
Although Hamilton called Vettel "a disgrace" and said he did not want to discuss the incident with him, Brawn said he believed the respect each had shown for the other so far this season would ultimately not be affected.
"There's huge respect between them and that hasn't changed," Brawn added. "There's a spike in that respect which will calm down.
"You don't have one incident which destroys everything before. It wasn't that severe of an event. Some fierce competition fought in the right way is what Formula 1 is about.
"Perhaps this will add a nice edge to the competition but we're not advocating one approach of the other.
"There was heat, several red hot moments and your perception of what's going on can sometimes get through.
"I don't believe Lewis did anything wrong and Sebastian misread the situation, which is understandable in the intensity of the battle they were having."
The UK government is still considering the recommendations of an independent review, which reported two months ago.
Shadow energy secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey visited the proposed site with the developers on Thursday.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said the lagoon was "virtually over the line".
A UK government spokesman said it would need a period of time to determine what is in the best interest of the UK energy consumer and taxpayer.
Ms Long-Bailey said ministers must "press ahead" with agreeing a minimum price for the energy, known as the "strike price".
She did not say what she thinks the price should be but said it had to be "competitive".
In January, a UK government-commissioned report by former energy minister Charles Hendry backed the technology.
Mr Hendry said it could make a "strong contribution" to the UK's energy supply and said it was cost-effective and would bring "significant economic opportunity".
If the project is given UK government backing, it would also need a marine licence from Natural Resources Wales.
It has received cross-party political support from AMs and MPs.
But there is opposition from angling and conservation groups who are concerned about the impact on fish and other wildlife.
If the project is to go ahead it will require the UK government to agree the "strike price", which will guarantee how much the company will receive for the energy generated.
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It is now two months since the Hendry Review recommended that Swansea lagoon should go ahead as a test for this new tidal energy technology.
Tidal Lagoon Power has been working on its proposals for four years now and had hoped it would not have to wait too many weeks for a response from the UK government.
The project, with investors standing by, has already been delayed while the review ran its course.
To start work out at sea in March 2018, as planned, the developers need to get complicated financial and legal agreements finalised, as well as the marine licence and guaranteed price agreed.
If a decision is delayed until after local elections in May, it could seriously jeopardise that timetable.
Tidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the project, said it was "looking forward to a decision from the UK government".
Ms Long-Bailey said: "This has been kicked in the long grass for some time now. They really need to get moving.
"The work has been done. Everything is ready to go.
"They just need to press ahead with agreeing the strike price and get this project off the ground so Swansea and the wider UK supply chain can start seeing the benefits in terms of manufacturing and in terms of tourism.
"It has to be a competitive strike price that sees a return for the investor but doesn't put the consumer out of pocket."
A spokesman for the UK government's department of business energy and industrial strategy, said it was still considering the recommendations in the Hendry Review and the wider programme.
"Government will require a period of time to assess the merits of such a programme and determine what is in the best interest of the UK energy consumer and taxpayer in the long term, and will publish its response to the Hendry Review in due course," he said.
Police said they received a report of a fight outside a licensed premises on the Hillhead Road at about 02:00 GMT on Sunday.
The man remains in a critical condition in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
One lane of the Hillhead Road is still closed.
The accident happened at about 11:55 on Tuesday at the east junction with the B794 Dalbeattie to Corsock road.
A 48-year-old Springholm man driving a red Nissan van and a 70-year-old man from Dalbeattie in a red VW Tiguan car were taken to Dumfries Infirmary.
Police Scotland said a 57-year-old man from Stranraer who was driving a lorry had not been hurt.
All three vehicles were damaged in the crash.
PC Callum Kingstree said: "We are keen to hear from anyone who may have witnessed this crash and would ask that they call us at Castle Douglas on the 101 number.
"The road was blocked for over two hours to allow for the injured to be removed to hospital and the vehicles to be taken away."
The 20-year-old has made only one substitute appearance in four years with the Blues.
Brown has had loan spells with Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem, Rotherham and Huddersfield.
He scored five goals for Huddersfield last season as they won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs.
"The natural progression for Izzy, having enjoyed such a successful season in the Championship last season, was to step up to the Premier League - and we are delighted he will be doing that with us," said Brighton manager Chris Hughton.
"He is a player with great potential and will bring a different dimension to our attacking options for the season ahead, alongside our existing strikers."
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Data from the Federal Statistics Office showed seasonally-adjusted exports fell by 5.2% from July to €97.7bn (£71.8bn).
Imports fell 3.1% to €78.2bn, the biggest one month drop since November 2012.
Meanwhile, manufacturing turnover fell by 1.3% from July after sales to euro area countries declined.
The data follows sharp declines in industrial orders and output in August, suggesting that waning demand from abroad, particularly China and other emerging markets, may be leaving its mark on Germany.
"This is a strong fall, the kind you don't see every day," said Holger Sandte, chief European economist at Nordea. "Weakness in China, Brazil, Russia and other markets is having an impact."
Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, has reported four quarters of growth in a row.
But as well as a slowdown in emerging economies, the diesel emissions scandal that has hit Volkswagen could have knock-on effects on the rest of the German economy.
The German carmaking industry accounts for a large chunk of exports - 17.9% of Germany's €1.1 trillion in exported goods last year.
It took an estimated $28.4m (£22.3m) over the weekend, while Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them kept second spot with $18.5m (£14.5m).
Moana, which only opened last weekend, has already taken $119.m (£93.5m) worldwide.
Fantastic Beasts, a Harry Potter spin-off starring Eddie Redmayne, has earned $183.5m (£144.1m) in just three weeks.
The weekend's only new film, the budget horror film Incarnate, was expected to take about $4m (£3.1m) but only managed $2.6m (£2m).
"We are disappointed that we fell short of our goal and repeating the success of our previous releases," said John Hegeman, executive at production company BH Tilt.
"The low-cost nature of the BH Tilt films and release model enables us to experiment and take risks, and we look forward to seeing what we can learn from this weekend for our future releases in 2017."
Previous BH Tilt films include The Darkness and The Green Inferno.
Award contender Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, had a limited opening over the weekend.
The Jacqueline Kennedy biopic took $275,000 (£216,031) from five theatres, while dark US drama Manchester by the Sea, starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler, expanded to 156 cinemas, bringing in $2.4m (£1.8m).
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Sherwood is favourite to lose his job after a seventh defeat in eight league games left Villa 19th in the table.
However, he says Crystal Palace boss Pardew has shown how quickly fortunes can change in football.
"I can take a lot of inspiration from people like Alan Pardew, who was screamed out of town in Newcastle and look at him now," said Sherwood, 46.
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"I can only control what I can do and I remain confident in that."
Villa have not won in the Premier League since the opening day of the season - a 1-0 success at newly-promoted Bournemouth - and were easily beaten 2-0 by Chelsea on Saturday.
They are one place below Newcastle, who Sherwood's managerial rival Pardew left at the turn of the year.
The 53-year-old's time at St James' Park was described as a "loveless marriage" when he left the north east side 10th in the table.
His stock soon rose at Palace, where he saved the team from relegation - lifting them from 18th to 10th - while he has continued the progress this season with the Eagles currently sixth in the table.
Pardew has achieved his success at Selhurst Park by playing entertaining and attacking football, and Sherwood wants to do something similar at Villa Park.
"I want to go out on the front foot and, if I die, I die on my sword," the former Tottenham boss said.
"Why do we need to be more pragmatic? I would never be pragmatic. I've done it a few times but I don't like myself for it."
But it is a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to the Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths).
Fewer pupils sat the biology exam, and the proportion gaining the top grades (A and A*) fell from 24.3% last year to 23.9% this year. Having said that, more pupils got an A*, up from 5.9% to 8.3% this year.
Chemistry entrants were also lower this year but the numbers getting the top grades stayed pretty much the same: 33.8% got an A or A* last year compared to 33.9% this year.
Again here there has been an increase in those gaining an A* grade: up to 9.3% from 8.9% last year.
In physics, the numbers sitting the exam stayed pretty much the same as last year. And while slightly more pupils got top grades, up to 28% from 27.8%, fewer of those got the very top, A* grade. That was down from 8.3% last year to 7.9% this year.
In maths there was a slight increase in the proportion of pupils gaining an A and A* as well as those gaining the top grade. The proportion getting an A* went from 17% last year to 19% this year.
Mr Lewis said: "I am particularly encouraged to see the increase of A*s at biology, chemistry and maths.
"These subjects are of real importance to a modern and highly skilled economy.
It was hit and miss when it came to modern foreign languages.
Those studying French did well, overall. More pupils got an A or A* and there was an increase in the A* too, from 4.1% last year to 5.7% this year.
However, German saw a serious decline in the top grades. The proportion gaining an A or A* fell from 34.2% last year to 22.3% this year. At the same time, those getting an A* went down from 7.9% to 4.1%
Only Spanish fares worse in terms of the top grade. The proportion of Spanish entrants gaining an A* went down from 9% last year to 4.1% this year.
It comes as there are fears about cuts to the funding of modern foreign languages.
Dr Philip Dixon, director of the union ATL Cymru said the results suggested the "disastrous decline" in modern foreign language take-up had been arrested.
The only other subject which saw a significant drop in top grades was Welsh as a first language. While there was an increase in the number sitting the exam, the proportion gaining an A and A* fell from 35.7% last year to 20% this year. At the same time, those getting an A* went down from 4.6% to 2.9%
English saw an increase in entrants, but a fall in the top grades. 16.7% gained an A or A* this year. That's down from 17.1% last year. And at A* the proportion fell from 5.3% to 5% this year.
The ministers were selected by Prime Minister-designate Hisham Qandil, who earlier called for Egyptians to rally behind "a people's government."
Only four ministers from President Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood were given posts.
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who ruled Egypt after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, remains as defence minister.
The military retains broad powers, including legislative authority.
President Mursi has been criticised for the time he has taken to name a prime minister and form a government.
He promised an inclusive government, with women and Christians represented. The cabinet line-up includes only two women - one of them is a Christian.
His nomination of Mr Qandil, the outgoing water resources minister, surprised many observers, who had been expecting a well-known figure.
Speaking at a news conference in Cairo ahead of the ceremony, Mr Qandil appealed for Egyptians to pull together to support the new government.
"I call on all Egyptians to rally behind our elected president and to work with the government to achieve all of our goals.
"We have to stop asking who is a Copt, a Muslim or a Salafi. I don't see that. All I see is that we are all Egyptians and this should be the main principle."
By Jon DonnisonBBC News, Cairo
Egypt's first government under President Mursi has a low-profile feel - many of the ministers are technocrats with little political experience.
Critics, including the young secular liberals who sparked Egypts uprising 18 months ago, will say it does not have the air of a revolutionary government. Many of the new ministers worked under former President Hosni Mubarak.
Crucially, Egypt's long-standing Defence Minister Hussein Tantawi will keep his job. He runs the country's military, which seems reluctant to hand over power to civilian rule.
In one respect, President Mursi has avoided confrontation, approving only a handful of Islamist ministers from his own Muslim Brotherhood movement.
But the battle for who actually controls Egypt will continue to be fought out in the coming months.
The new government will have its work cut out. Egypt's economy is floundering and many Egyptians say they've seen little improvement in their day-to-day lives.
President Mursi has listed his main priorities as security, fuel, rubbish, bread and traffic.
Mr Qandil will hold a meeting with members of his government on Saturday to discuss the next steps on seeking an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, he said, according to the Reuters news agency.
Seven ministers will remain from the outgoing military-appointed cabinet - including Mumtaz al-Said, who will serve as finance minister, and Mohammed Kamal Amr, who stays on as foreign minister.
Former prime minister Kamal Ganzouri becomes a presidential adviser.
The re-appointment of Field Marshal Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), is in line with an interim constitutional declaration issued after June's presidential election run-off.
The Scaf assumed presidential powers after Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down as president in February 2011.
Its declaration and decision to dissolve parliament only days before caused outrage and overshadowed the nominal transfer of power to President Mursi on 30 June.
Of the ministers appointed, only four are members of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), which Mr Mursi used to lead.
They were given posts in higher education, housing, youth and information - the ministry which regulates the media.
Another key post, the minister of religious endowments (Awqaf), went to Osama al-Abd, the president of al-Azhar University.
There had been speculation that an ultraconservative Salafist cleric, Mohammed Yusri Ibrahim, would be appointed.
The supermarket's like-for-like sales, which strip out new stores, fell by 0.5% in the period to 11 March.
However, Argos sales rose 4.3%, resulting in a 0.3% increase excluding fuel across the Sainsbury's group.
Sainsbury's said the market remained "very competitive" and the impact of cost pressures "remains uncertain".
The supermarket's performance was worse than the 0.1% rise in like-for-like sales seen in the 15 weeks to 7 January.
Sainsbury's convenience stores saw total sales growth of almost 7%, with 10 new outlets opening in the quarter.
Chief executive Mike Coupe said customers had welcomed Sainsbury's "differentiated food offer", with new products including butternut squash waffles and sweet potato tagliatelle.
General merchandise sales were down 4%, which Sainsbury's said was due to Easter and Mother's Day falling later this year.
Sainsbury's bought catalogue retailer Argos last year as part of its £1.4bn takeover of Home Retail Group.
The retailer has opened another 11 Argos Digital stores in Sainsbury's supermarkets since the start of the year, bringing the total to 41, while there are now eight Mini Habitat stores.
Shares fell almost 1% to 268.9p in morning trading and are down 4% over the past 12 months.
Neil Wilson of ETX Capital said Sainsbury's was being squeezed from all sides.
"Sainsbury's did very well when Tesco and others were struggling but is now facing its own challenges. It must contend with all the sector-wide problems like falling margins and the sterling squeeze from suppliers," he said.
"Falling margins and profits don't look great when the market is growing."
The likes of Rihanna, Beyonce and Jack White gathered in New York to mark the relaunch of Jay Z's streaming internet music service.
Tidal is claiming to be the first artist-owned platform for music and video and is intended to rival sites likes Spotify and Google Play.
However, the problem with linking a line-up of A-listers to a product is the celebrities may steal the show.
And from a failed high five to straddling a table, here are six awkward moments from a pretty awkward launch.
Whatever your views on Jay Z's latest business venture, you have to hand it to him, he has recruited some of music's finest to become co-owners.
At the beginning of the launch they were called on to the stage one at a time.
"Alicia Keys," announces host Vania Schlogel. The crowd cheers and claps as she walks across the stage, dressed in black with a flash of red lipstick.
"Win Butler and Régine Chassagne..." Silence.
"From Arcade Fire," Vania adds hurriedly. Cheers resume.
Next on the stage is Beyonce - cue loud whoops from the crowds as the excitement intensifies.
Then it's Calvin Harris...
Oh, Calvin. Beyonce has strapped a risqué jumpsuit to her body using hundreds of black beads, yet all you can manage is a dodgy video link and a T-shirt you might have slept in.
Jay Z will not be impressed.
At least he can count on Coldplay's Chris Martin...
Oh, wait.
Like two naughty boys at school, Chris and Calvin sat awkwardly at the back watching as their celebrity classmates signed a document.
If there is one thing we all know in this life, it's that Madonna does not do things she does not want to do.
But Deadmau5 must have missed that memo.
When her name was called out the Canadian DJ raised his hand, indicating he waned to high five.
But Madonna had other ideas and instead went to shake his hand, which he in turn refused.
The pair settled for an awkward hug, while Kanye West looked on with bemusement.
The launch was continually compared to a "graduation", and if it was, Alicia Keys was the headmistress rousing her students with talk of the joys of music.
As part of the speech, she quoted musician Jimi Hendrix and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and claimed Tidal would "forever change the course of music history".
The details about how this will happen are still a bit vague...
All the co-owners behaved themselves when signing the agreement, aside from Madonna that is.
Keen to distinguish herself from the rest of the pack, she hoisted her leg onto the table as she did it.
What do you do after 18 celebrities have walked on stage, listened to Alicia Keys and then signed a document?
Well, in this case, just leave them to stand there until it gets a bit awkward.
Rihanna and Nicki Minaj had a bit of a chat, while others just looked into the distance as saxophone music blared from the speakers.
Then just as the awkwardness became too much... the lights went out.
Tidal was launched...
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The aircraft came down on farmland about five miles south of Basingstoke just before 12:00 BST.
Hampshire Constabulary said the 60-year-old woman - the only person on board - died at the scene. Her next of kin have been informed. No-one else was injured.
South Central Ambulance Service said it was called at 11:57 to reports of a plane down near the Moundsmere Estate.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to Southwood Farm in Preston Candover and said the aircraft was an "engine-powered glider".
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said it was "sending a team to investigate an accident involving a glider that occurred near Bradley in Hampshire".
Some villagers fear the community will be ridiculed if it is forced to have signs with Farteg on them.
The move is under discussion as many place names across Wales display both English and Welsh spellings.
There is no letter 'V' in the Welsh alphabet, so it should read Farteg in Welsh.
The move has been supported by the Welsh Language Commissioner.
But people in the village have put their name to a petition opposing the change.
One of the county borough councillors whose ward includes Varteg said local residents remained adamant that the name should not be translated.
"They are very angry - they don't want it on the signs," said Giles Davies, who represents Abersychan on Torfaen council.
"Now there is the consultation, at the end of the day they are going to tell the council that.
"They are the ones who have got to live there, and they are worried that they will end up being ridiculed."
Mr Davies said he was "100%" behind the Welsh language but in this instance was representing the views of the people who elected him to the council.
He said that a decision to consider using the form Y Farteg rather than just Farteg did not improve the position.
"People who are not Welsh speakers will see that as 'Why Fart Egg'. People there have just had enough," he added.
The council said the decision to move to a public consultation over the name of the village followed a county-wide review.
"Following consultation on 22 Welsh place names in Torfaen, the council is asking people their opinion on the possible adoption of Y Farteg or Farteg as an additional Welsh place name for the current English spelling of Varteg," said a council spokesperson.
"If either Y Farteg or Farteg are adopted it will mean that in the future one of these Welsh place names will be used alongside Varteg."
The consultation is open until 9 December, online and through council offices.
Ivana Hoffman, whose parents are South African, was killed on Saturday near Tal Tamr, in north-western Syria.
She had been fighting alongside the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG), their spokesperson confirmed.
A member of Turkey's Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP), Ms Hoffman joined YPG fighters six months ago.
A MLKP statement, which referred to her by her nom de guerre Avasin Tekosin Gunes, declared her to be "immortal".
A video was also posted online showing a woman identified as Ms Hoffman with her face covered with a veil, holding a rifle and explaining in German that she came to Syria to "fight for humanity and freedom".
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that at least 40 Kurdish fighters and IS militants had been killed in the battle for Tal Tamr.
Ms Hoffman is the third foreign fighter known to have been killed fighting IS in Syria's Hassakeh province in the past fortnight.
Briton Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, a former Royal Marine, was shot dead on 2 March while fighting for the YPG in Tal Khuzela.
The previous week, Australian Ashley Johnston was reportedly killed when the vehicle he was travelling in with fellow YPG members broke down and was surrounded by IS militants near Tal Hamis.
About 100 Western volunteers are believed to be fighting IS alongside Kurdish forces in northern Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
The Northern Irishman carded a four-under-par 67 on Friday to lead the US PGA at Valhalla at the halfway point.
McIlroy, who ended his engagement to Wozniacki in May, won the Open in July and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational last week.
"I just immersed myself in my game. I've practised hard and I'm reaping the rewards," the 25-year-old said.
Asked how much more time he had spent practising since his break-up, the three-time major winner said: "It's hard to really say. I guess, what else do I have to do?
"I get up in the morning, I go to the golf course, I go to the gym.
"It obviously works pretty well, so I'm going to keep doing it. It's my life at the minute.
"I always feel like I've practised pretty hard. Over the past couple of months, I've really buried myself in my golf game."
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Judith Thompson told MPs that while an estimated half a million people have been affected by what has happened in Northern Ireland, the vast majority of them are suffering in silence.
Enda McClafferty has been listening to two people from Londonderry who are struggling to deal with their loss.
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She has been recognised for her hard work promoting the right for girls to have an education.
Malala won it jointly with Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.
The prize judges described both winners as "champions of peace".
Malala said she was there to stand up for the rights of forgotten and frightened children, and raise their voice.
Kailash Satyarthi said receiving the prize was "a great opportunity" to further his work against child slavery.
Malala and Kailash received their awards from the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, in the presence of King Harald V of Norway.
They have split the $1.4m (£860,000) prize money.
Malala, 17, is the youngest person to ever get the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was attacked by the Taliban, an extremist group, in Pakistan two years ago for her campaign work.
Malala was seriously injured in the attack, but she was flown to the UK for treatment and has recovered well.
She now goes to school in Birmingham and continues her campaigning.
Malala had brought other girls with her to Oslo with similar stories, among them two classmates shot alongside her by the Taliban.
"I will continue this fight until I see every child in school," she said during a speech during the ceremony.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of a number of Nobel prizes given to people or organisations who have made outstanding achievements in different areas.
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A long-time friend, the daughter of a cult leader, is accused of undue influence over the president.
Choi Soon-sil is alleged to have pushed businesses to donate millions of dollars to foundations she controlled, helped choose presidential aides, and even picked the president's clothes.
Ms Park apologised on TV on Friday.
Ms Park was close to tears as she addressed the nation, and said the scandal involving her confidante Ms Choi was "all my fault". The president admitted she had let Ms Choi edit her speeches.
Ms Choi was arrested on Thursday and charged with fraud and abuse of power.
S Korea's Park 'heartbroken' over scandal
Could a friendship topple a president?
Masses of protesters gathered in Gwanghwamun square in central Seoul on Saturday, chanting, singing and holding banners reading "Park Geun-hye out" and "Treason by a secret government".
Police estimated the size of the crowd at about 45,000, although protest organisers put the figure closer to 200,000.
Some 20,000 police officers were deployed, blocking off some routes with buses and trucks.
Demonstrator Choi Kyung-ha told Associated Press: "I came out today because this is not the country I want to pass on to my children. My kids have asked me who Choi Soon-sil was and whether she's the real president, and I couldn't provide an answer."
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The affair has left Ms Park with an approval rating of just 5%, the lowest ever for a sitting South Korean president.
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The 21-year-old has won 2015's first two majors, with his victory on Sunday coming after his Masters win in April.
Rory McIlroy, 26, holds the other two major titles, the Open and US PGA Championship, with Rickie Fowler, 26, the Players Championship champion.
"It's awesome that the game is in young hands," said Spieth.
"It's kind of cool I think to have two players holding the four majors and Rickie having the fifth [Players Championship]."
Spieth's victories this year are his first in the majors and match the achievement of McIlroy in winning back-to-back titles after the Northern Irishman's victories in the Open at Hoylake in July 2014 and in the US PGA at Valhalla the following month.
Spieth is ranked second in the world, behind McIlroy, but the American downplayed suggestions of a rivalry between the two.
"I don't think there is much of a rivalry. I've said that from the beginning," stated Spieth. "Rory has four majors and dozens of wins and I'm just starting out.
"Again, I'm certainly quite a bit younger than he is. I'm just happy to have this and to be chasing that number one spot that he holds. So I'm certainly focused on that."
Spieth's victory at Chambers Bay on Sunday saw him finish five under and one shot ahead of fellow American Dustin Johnson, who three-putted the last from 12 feet.
It means Spieth is now the sixth player to win the Masters and US Open in the same year, the youngest player to win the latter since Bobby Jones in 1923, and keeps him on course to potentially become the first player to win all four majors in a calendar year.
The next major is The Open at St Andrews on 16-19 July, followed by the US PGA Championship in Wisconsin on 13-16 August.
Tiger Woods came the closest to achieving the feat when he won all four major titles consecutively, but over two calendar years in 2000 and 2001.
"I think it's in the realm of possibility," said Spieth when asked if he could add the Open and US PGA to his haul this year. "I'm just focused on the Claret Jug [the prize for winning the Open] now.
"I think that the Grand Slam is something that I never could really fathom somebody doing, considering I watched Tiger win when he was winning whatever percentage of the majors he played in and he won the 'Tiger Slam', but he never won the four in one year.
"And I figured if anybody was going to do it, it would be him, which he still can.
"I've proven to myself that I can win on a British-style golf course now. Now I take it to the truest British-style golf course of any in the world.
"I'm just excited for the opportunity coming then, and I'm not going to think about what could possibly happen after."
Martyn Matthews, from Wolverhampton, was thought to have been travelling to Germany for a meeting, when the plane came down in France on Tuesday.
The 50-year-old was a season ticket holder at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
In a statement issued through the club, Mr Matthews' brother-in-law said he would have been "honoured".
Mike Lloyd said: "On behalf of the family, I would like to thank all of the Wolves fans and the club for their kind words and thoughts over the last few days.
"We have been overwhelmed with your kindness, warmth and generosity that we have received during this distressing time. It is a great comfort to see that there are so many people who genuinely care about our family."
Investigators have said they believe the plane was deliberately brought down by the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, killing everyone on board.
Mr Matthews worked as a senior quality manager for German automotive manufacturer Huf in Tipton, in the West Midlands.
Mr Lloyd criticised some members of the media for their intrusion following the news that the father-of-two had died in the crash and reiterated the family's request for privacy.
But he said the support from the fans had helped with their grief.
"Finally, once again we are very touched and thank you for being loyal supporters of the club and our family.
"Martyn was proud of being a lifelong Wolves supporter and I am sure he would be honoured to think that his team care about him and his family so much."
The team used an array of radio telescopes in Chile to close in on a nascent planetary system lying 176 light-years from Earth - distant to us, but nearby in astronomical terms.
The forming planet is thought to be an ice giant, similar to Uranus or Neptune in our Solar System.
The findings are to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
In the two decades since the first exoplanets were found, astronomers have discovered that planetary systems do not necessarily follow the familiar template set by the eight planets which orbit the Sun.
There is great diversity in the configuration of planetary systems and in the characteristics of exoplanets themselves.
There is much debate over how this diversity emerges, including over the formation of Neptune-like icy giants.
Takashi Tsukagoshi at Ibaraki University, Japan, and colleagues used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (Alma) in northern Chile to take a close look at the planet formation site.
TW Hydrae is estimated to be about 10 million years old and is one of the closest young stars to Earth.
Thanks to its proximity and the fact that its axis of rotation points in Earth's direction, astronomers are able to get a face-on view of the developing planetary system.
The young star is surrounded by a disc made of tiny dust particles. Variations in the signal received by Alma allow researchers to estimate the size of these dust grains.
Smaller, micrometre-sized dust particles dominate the most prominent gap in the disc, which has a radius of 22 astronomical units (AU - equivalent to the mean distance from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the Sun).
Gravitational interactions and friction between gas and dust has probably pushed the larger dust out of the gap, say the researchers.
The team calculated the mass of the unseen planet based on the width and depth of the 22 AU gap and found that the planet is probably slightly more massive than Neptune.
"Combined with the orbit size and the brightness of TW Hydrae, the planet would be an icy giant planet like Neptune," said Dr Tsukagoshi.
Alma consists of 66 high precision antennas located on the Llano de Chajnantor, a plateau in the Atacama Desert with an altitude of 5,000m.
The antennas capture and concentrate radio waves from astronomical sources, allowing astronomers to see through the dust that obscures parts of the sky from visible light telescopes.
The 8in x 24in (20cm x 60cm) photo from 1941 was sold by a man who had bought it from one of Monroe's classmates.
It was taken at the Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles.
Karen Fairweather, of Omega Auctions in Stockport, said the only other photo from the event had fetched £15,000 because it boasted Monroe's signature.
The photograph, which sold to an online UK bidder, had belonged to one of the actress's classmates called Barbara Chapbaum, who had it signed by several of her friends but not the future Hollywood legend.
A collector from the North East of England bought it off Ms Chapbaum several years ago and has now sold it.
At the time of the photograph, Monroe, then aged 15, was a brunette whose real name was Norma Jeane Baker.
Five years later she began modelling which eventually led to her acting career which saw her star in such movies as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot and The Misfits.
The star died on 5 August 1962.
Greater Manchester PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were lured to a house in Mottram, Tameside on 18 September 2012.
Dale Cregan opened fire on the officers before throwing a grenade at them.
Mr Cameron attended the unveiling of a memorial stone at The Hub in Stockport Road in his first engagement since leaving Downing Street.
The memorial stone is less than a mile away from the scene of the attack.
Police Memorial Trust chairman Geraldine Winner, widow of former movie director Michael Winner, attended the service along with Greater Manchester's Chief Constable Ian Hopkins.
Mr Cameron said: "I spoke last night outside Number 10 Downing Street for the last time and I spoke about the extraordinary ethic of service in our country particularly our police, our intelligence, our armed forces.
He added the officers' murder had been "an act of pure evil" adding that it "shook the policing family to its very core".
"Our fallen heroes in the police exemplify the very best of us. To me they are the very epitome of service, bravery and sacrifice.
"This monument will ensure that their stories live on."
He added: "Fiona and Nicola are lights that will never go out. We are grateful of the service that they gave to the community. We will never let them be forgotten. We are so proud of them. May they rest in peace."
PCs Bone, 32, and Hughes, 23, were the 46th and 47th officers killed in the course of duty to be honoured by the trust since its formation 32 years ago.
Mr Hopkins said: "None of us will forget the morning of 18 September 2012 when PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes were brutally murdered doing the job they both loved so passionately.
Cregan, who was also convicted of two other murders, was told in June 2013 that he would spend the rest of his life in prison.
The unemployment figures, due out later, are seen as one of the main factors affecting the timing of any rate rise by the US Federal Reserve.
US companies are expected to have created 175,000 jobs in June after a disappointing 38,000 in May.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 1.11% to end at 15,106.98, while the Topix index lost 1.3% to 1,209.88.
"The Fed is likely to keep its cautious stance. More jobs data will be necessary to ensure that the recovery of the labour market is entrenched," said Cynthia Jane Kalasopatan from Mizuho Bank.
"Overall, if non-farm payrolls continue to point to solid job gains in coming months, then the Fed may be comfortable to hike policy rate once this year especially if there is more clarity as regards to Brexit risks."
Japan's share market also had to digest weaker-than-expected data, with figures showing Japan's wage growth turned negative in May.
Labour cash earnings, a measure of worker pay including bonuses, fell 0.2% from a year earlier.
That is the first time the measure has contracted in a year. Estimates were for a 0.5% rise.
Japan also reported disappointing trade data. Its current account surplus narrowed to $18bn in May, which was below economist expectations.
However, shares in Nintendo jumped nearly 9% on hopes its Pokemon GO smartphone game will prove a success.
Other Asian markets also fell on Friday. In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index ended 0.6% weaker at 1,963.10.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index finished 0.7% lower at 20,564.17 while the Shanghai Composite closed down 1% at 2,988.09.
Australia's ASX 200 edged up 0.05% to close at 5,230.50.
At least 16 of the 31 matches will be shown on BBC One or BBC Two, with the remaining fixtures available on Red Button and online.
The BBC is also set to broadcast this year's tournament in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
"This is a very significant moment for the sport," said Jon Dutton, the 2021 World Cup bid lead.
"It will increase visibility and profile for the tournament like never before."
Dave Woods, recently appointed as BBC Sport's first rugby league correspondent, added: "It is a chance to show a diverse audience what a great sport rugby league is.
"I feel privileged to play a small part in maximising the BBC's coverage across all outlets."
Research commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) predicted the growth to the year 2025 and beyond.
By 2040, the researchers suggested there could potentially be between 889 and 1,005 pairs.
However, the study added the top figure may not be reached because of a lack of suitable territory.
There have been three release phases to re-establish the large bird of prey, which became extinct in Scotland in 1917.
Two releases occurred on Scotland's west coast - on Rum from 1975 to 1985 and in Wester Ross. The third release was in Fife on the east coast from 2007 to 2012.
The report, authored by researchers at RSPB's Centre for Conservation Science, modelled a range of scenarios to predict the potential size of the sea eagle population, including scenarios with no limits on population growth.
Other scenarios included limits such as availability of suitable habitat, food and nest sites.
The return of sea eagles, the UK's largest bird of prey, to Scotland, and also increases in their numbers, have been the subject of fierce debate.
The eagles attract wildlife tourists to remote and rural parts of the Highlands and Islands.
But some farmers and crofters in these areas have told of the raptors taking lambs.
Five years ago, the Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) raised concerns about whether sea eagles could differentiate between children and their natural prey.
The comment followed an incident where a senior clergyman in Abernethy, in Perthshire, was injured by a young eagle as he tried to scare it away after it attacked one of his geese.
The SGA called for a public inquiry into the impact of the reintroduction of the birds on the east coast.
RSPB Scotland described the small child claim as "alarmist nonsense".
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the newly-released report from SNH showed the return of white-tailed eagles to Scotland was a "genuine conservation success story".
She said: "That success has not been achieved easily, and I pay tribute to all of those whose efforts over many decades have helped us reach this point.
"This story also demonstrates the importance of working together to protect and enhance our natural environment.
"That's why I also want to thank the many farmers and crofters who are working with us to find a way to ensure that they and the eagles can co-exist. Successful reintroduction projects must work with stakeholders, as well as wildlife."
Andrew Bachell, SNH's director of policy and advice, said some farmers and crofters have "serious concerns" about sea eagles taking lambs.
He said: "We are working with NFU Scotland, local stakeholders and others to thoroughly understand the part sea eagles play in livestock losses, and we're committed to working together to find solutions to allow sea eagles and livestock farmers to co-exist."
Angus MacFadyen, chairman of NFU Scotland's environment and land use committee and a sheep farmer from Argyll, said the report was a "valuable addition" to the debate on sea eagles and their impact on livestock.
He said: "It clearly flags up the fact that the sea eagle population and range is likely to dramatically increase in the coming years, and underlines the vital importance of finding ways in which to reduce predation and conflict.
"This effort is something NFU Scotland is fully committed to."
Duncan Orr-Ewing, head of species and land management at RSPB Scotland said: "We can be proud that the sea eagle is once again a key part of Scotland's internationally renowned wildlife spectacle, enthusing local people and tourists alike.
"Our population modelling work is showing that we can expect sea eagle numbers to gradually increase, and re-colonisation of much of the former range across Scotland will take place. Scientific evidence of this type will continue to play a critical role in determining future conservation actions."
The BBC's Panorama programme analysed the accounts of the hotel bought by the brothers in 1995.
The accounts show that the profitable hotel has used a series of tax reliefs to reduce its corporation tax to zero.
The brothers said they have not run their UK companies since they retired to Monaco more than 20 years ago.
The Ritz's efforts to reduce its tax bill are legal but have raised questions at a time when another firm bought by Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay, Littlewoods, is embroiled in a legal battle with HMRC.
The brothers also own the Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspaper titles.
The catalogue company Littlewoods, bought by the twins in 2002, has already won a VAT rebate plus interest worth ??472m from HMRC over payments dating back to 1973.
But the twins' company has gone to court to demand a further ??1bn from the government in compound interest.
It is an important test case for taxpayers because if Littlewoods wins, it could open the door to claims worth billions of pounds from other companies.
MP Nadine Dorries said: "They're incredibly wealthy men who don't pay British tax. I think it is just utterly appalling."
The twins said they have had nothing to do with the running of the UK companies.
"We have not attended office, management or board meetings in the UK since leaving the country," Sir David Barclay said in a statement. "My brother and I have no editorial, political or economic power in the UK."
Littlewoods, the Ritz and the Telegraph are controlled by offshore trusts. However, the trusts were set up by the twins and one of the brothers attends the trust meetings.
Richard Murphy, from the Tax Justice Network, said: "These meetings are taking place in Monaco, but there is no doubt that sitting right in the middle of the meetings are the Barclay brothers who are therefore able to exercise control of these companies."
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The UK businesses are managed by Sir David's son, Aidan Barclay. He told the programme that Littlewoods lodged its VAT claim before the family took over the company.
"This represents tax taken incorrectly by HMRC and held incorrectly for many years, facts which HMRC publicly recognise and accept," he said.
"Directors of companies have legal responsibilities and duties to recover and secure their companies' assets from the perspective of each company itself and its various stakeholders. It would be a dereliction of their duties not to pursue repayments which are properly due from HMRC."
Aidan Barclay also said that the Ritz had not paid any dividends, and profits from the hotel had been reinvested.
"The Barclay family members and their companies abide by the law and pay the taxes required by UK law and the laws of other relevant countries."
In a statement Sir David Barclay said: "We have always acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme. We are not responsible for corporate taxes in the UK and are unaware what tax is paid on the Ritz."
Panorama: The Tax Haven Twins, BBC One, Monday, 17 December at 20:30 GMT and then available in the UK via the BBC iPlayer.
Some 1.1 million people have signed a petition saying it supported a trade fuelling wild elephants' slaughter.
The company said it prohibited sales of raw ivory that breached a 1989 international treaty but not of ivory ornaments produced before that date.
Spokeswoman Takako Kaminaga said the ivory trade on the Yahoo Japan Auctions site was "patrolled" 24 hours a day.
"If we find a sale was illegal, we cancel it straight away."
Late last year, the Environmental Investigation Agency, in Washington DC, said the site had auctioned more than 12 tonnes of ivory products, including whole elephant tusks, in 2012-14.
Fake documents had enabled traders to "legalise" more than 1,000 tusks a year since 2011, it said.
Individually owned tusks face no registration requirement in Japan, and the tusks are not marked in any way to ensure the documents are valid for the items being registered.
Poachers kill tens of thousands of elephants a year to meet demand for the material, despite the trade ban, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and other groups.
In September, the US and China agreed to work toward nearly complete bans on the ivory trade, and Japan is increasingly isolated in its stance favouring continued sales.
The international environmental campaign group Avaaz addressed its petition to Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer, Manabu Miyasaka, chief executive of Yahoo Japan, part-owned by Yahoo Inc. and Softbank Corp, and "all other companies allowing ivory sales online".
"As global citizens, we are appalled that you allow ivory to be sold on your site/platform, fuelling elephant extinction," it said.
"We call on you to urgently stop all ivory sales from sites/platforms in Japan and all other markets."
Various other online commerce sites, such as Amazon, say they have already stopped such sales or advertising.
Yahoo Japan was in touch with the local environment ministry and other agencies on the issue, as well as with Yahoo and other shareholders, Ms Kaminaga said.
Asked if the company might alter its stance, she replied: "You can't say there's absolutely no intention to change."
Softbank said in a statement that it had no comment on the issue.
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The Jakarta attacks began at about 10:40 local time (03:40 GMT) with a series of bomb blasts at an intersection near the Sarinah shopping mall and a Starbucks coffee shop.
Reports say that there were at least six explosions in fairly quick succession.
The first blast took place outside the Starbucks cafe, which had its windows blown out.
As people inside ran out, two gunmen waiting outside opened fire.
At least two militants also attacked the police box in the centre of the intersection in a suicide bomb attack.
Armed police quickly sealed off the area and moved in on the attackers, initially using cars and later armoured vehicles as cover.
Gunmen in the area continued firing at bystanders and police, with sporadic gunfire reported for several hours afterwards.
During a shootout, militants took cover in the Djakarta Theatre cinema, in the same building as Starbucks. Police say two attackers were killed in front of the cinema.
Reports said gunfire and explosions were also heard elsewhere in Jakarta, but it is not clear where those took place.
The Islamic State (IS) group said it had carried out the attacks, in an online statement that could not be independently verified.
Indonesian police said they believed Bahru Naim, an Indonesian currently thought to be in Syria had masterminded the attack and been "planning this for a while".
Police chief Tito Karnavian told local media Bahrun Naim wanted to be IS's leader in the region.
"All leaders [of IS] in South-East Asia are competing to be the chief. That's why Bahrun Naim plotted this attack," he said.
Meanwhile, national police spokesman Maj Gen Anton Charilyan said the militants had imitated the recent Paris attacks.
However, security experts say the gunmen appeared to be inexperienced, with little training.
Police initially warned there could be as many as 14 attackers before bringing that number down to five.
However, one of the five was later found to be a 43-year-old civilian working as a courier.
IS put the number of militants at four.
Two civilians, a Canadian and an Indonesian, died in the attack on Starbucks.
A wounded Indonesian bank employee later died of his injuries and the death of the civilian courier brings the total number of civilians killed to four.
Police also said 20 people were wounded in the attacks, among them at least five police officers and an Algerian, who police said escaped from the Starbucks.
The Dutch embassy said one of its nationals had been seriously hurt and was being treated in hospital.
The militants targeted a busy area in central Jakarta - correspondents say the attack appeared to be designed to inflict maximum damage.
The Sarinah department store is one of the first department stores in Jakarta and a popular place for Indonesians and foreigners alike.
It is on the same intersection as Starbucks and the police box.
Nearby is a UN office, the Pan-Pacific Hotel, some Indonesian government offices and many shops and restaurants.
The US embassy, near Sarinah, has warned its citizens to stay away from the area.
The Istana Negara presidential palace is about 2km (1.24 miles) away, near the US embassy.
Then you spot the magpie, its beak aiming for their heads with laser-like precision.
However, this is not a scene from classic horror film The Birds, but the wedding of Phillip and Sara Maria in New South Wales, Australia, who just happened to annoy some very angry birds with their choice of picture location.
Photographer Karen Parr revealed how two magpies "working as a team" began swooping on the group as soon as they got out the car following the ceremony on 8 October.
But because they had driven for half an hour to reach this particularly picturesque spot, there was nothing the bridal party could do but carry on - despite the danger.
With a groomsman yelling warnings every time the magpies took aim, the shoot began.
"I think we probably got swooped about 20 times. It was quite scary at the time. We were cursing the birds," Ms Parr recalled.
Luckily, the new Mr and Mrs Maria were quite calm about the situation.
"She was an amazing bride. They just rolled with it."
But the photographer, who has been taking wedding pictures for nine years, admitted she probably was not quite as relaxed.
"He went for me a few times. I probably screamed a little bit loud," she said.
Despite the almost constant onslaught, Ms Parr only managed to capture the bird in perfect action on one occasion - and these pictures are the result.
"The groom in particular was quite chuffed with it - he made it his Facebook profile picture straight away," she said.
Australian magpies are known to attack people during August and September - a period of time nicknamed "swooping season" - while their chicks are in the nest.
Last year, there were 801 attacks in New South Wales alone, according to Daily Mail Australia.
The bodies of Sian Blake, 43, Zachary, eight, and Amon, four, were found at their London home on Tuesday.
Police are hunting for the children's father, Arthur Simpson-Kent, who travelled to Ghana days after they were reported missing.
The Ghanaian Police said their help was requested two days ago.
Detectives have been sent to the Cape Coast in the south of the country - where the extended Simpson family is from - as well as to other parts of the Atlantic shoreline.
In addition, police checks are in place on all of Ghana's official borders.
The authorities said while there is no official immigration record of Mr Simpson-Kent leaving the country, the delay in alerting them means he may have left via the borders into Togo, Burkino Faso or the Ivory Coast.
BBC correspondent Alistair Leithead who is in Ghana said while there have been some reported sightings of him, the investigation was low-key and had not been reported in newspapers nor on television.
No appeal has been made for his arrest.
Ms Blake and the couple's sons were not seen after 13 December but a missing persons inquiry was not launched until 16 December, when the NSPCC raised concerns about their welfare.
Police attended the family's home in south-east London and spoke to Mr Simpson-Kent, but that is the last time he was seen.
A search at the home uncovered three bodies in the garden on 5 January and police said significant attempts had been made to conceal them.
They all died from head and neck injuries, police said.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating how the Metropolitan Police handled the case.
Sian Blake, who had motor neurone disease, played Frankie Pierre in the BBC One soap between 1996 and 1997.
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At the moment Prince William, Kate, Prince George and Princess Charlotte are staying at Kensington Palace in London.
Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana was born on Saturday at St Mary's Hospital in London.
On Tuesday, the Queen visited the palace to see her great-granddaughter for the first time.
Newsround asked children in Norfolk for their sightseeing tips for the newborn princess.
What has been agreed?
Cyprus has agreed to a significant restructuring of its banking sector, along with other measures such as tax rises and privatisations. The measures are designed to raise billions towards the bailout, but protect bank customers with deposits of 100,000 euros or less.
Cyprus's second largest bank - Laiki Bank - will be closed down and deposits above 100,000 euros moved into a "bad bank". Deposits below 100,000 euros will be moved into Bank of Cyprus, the country's biggest bank, which is being significantly restructured.
Deposits at Bank of Cyprus of more than 100,000 euros are being frozen.
At both banks, deposits above 100,000 euros will be used by the government to contribute billions towards the bailout. It is not clear how much of the money will be taken, but a government spokesman has suggested customers should expect about 40% of the balance to be converted into bank shares.
What about the bank levy?
In the original EU-IMF deal, all customers of Cypriot banks were to face a one-off tax on their deposits, starting at 6.75% for the smallest deposits.
That was designed to raise 5.8bn euros towards the cost of the bailout. But it proved hugely unpopular with the Cypriot public and was voted down by Cyprus's parliament.
There is no bank levy in the new deal, but the bank restructuring measures mean deposits over 100,000 euros will effectively be used to pay the bulk of the 5.8bn euro bill.
The measures cannot be voted down by Cyprus's parliament, as new bank restructuring laws have already been agreed and voted through by MPs.
Why are there capital controls?
After being closed for almost two weeks, Cyprus' banks have reopened - but with strict controls on how much money can be withdrawn.
This is to prevent a bank run, where customers try to withdraw all their money at once due to a lack of confidence in the banking sector. In the past, bank runs have caused banks to collapse.
In Cyprus, customers are limited to withdrawing 300 euros a day, taking no more than 1,000 euros in cash on trips out of the country, and transferring no more than 5,000 euros a month on debit or credit cards.
Bigger transactions need the approval of Cypriot authorities.
The measures were due to stay in place for just a few days, but Cypriot authorities are already indicating that they are likely to keep them in place for longer. Iceland introduced temporary capital controls in 2008, which are still in place today.
Are the UK operations of Cypriot banks affected?
Bank of Cyprus UK has 50,000 UK customers. Although it is a subsidiary of Bank of Cyprus, it is a separately incorporated UK bank and depositors are protected by the UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), which covers savings up to £85,000. It said the crisis in Cyprus would have no effect on its deposits.
Laiki Bank has four branches in Britain and serves 13,000 customers.
Unlike Bank of Cyprus UK, its UK operations are directly controlled from Cyprus, and so are not covered by the FSCS. It says deposits up to 100,000 euros are guaranteed and customers are free to make withdraws if they wish.
However, the UK Finance Minister, George Osborne, says the UK government is in talks with Cypriot authorities to find "a British solution" to Laiki's UK branches.
So is the crisis over?
Not necessarily. In the short term, the risk of the Cypriot banking sector collapsing has receded, and the bailout funds will allow the government to pay its own debts and undertake the restructuring of the banks without facing economic collapse or exiting the euro.
But in other respects the outlook is less certain. Cyprus must enact tough austerity measures to rebuild its economy, and regain trust among investors in its banking sector and government. It is unclear whether the Cypriot public, angered by how the crisis has been handled so far, will support that.
It is also unclear how much trust is left in Cyprus's banks, and so when fears over a bank run will recede.
Finally, the whole episode has damaged confidence in European authorities' ability to handle economic crises.
What went wrong in Cyprus?
Before the financial crisis struck in 2008, Cyprus was seen to have a healthy economy, with high growth, low unemployment and sound public finances.
But during the good years, the island's banking sector grew rapidly. By 2011, the IMF reported that their assets - which include all the loans they have made - were equivalent to 835% of annual national income, or GDP. A chunk of that is down to foreign-owned banks, but those that are Cypriot had made loans to Greek borrowers worth 160% of Cypriot GDP.
When Greece became engulfed in crisis in 2010, Cypriot banks were hit hard, and the government did not have the money to bail them out itself. Government finances have been further weakened by slow economic growth and international lenders have stopped offering loans.
Negotiations on a bailout with the EU were delayed by the previous socialist government. President Nicos Anastasiades, a conservative who favoured a swift agreement with Europe, assumed office in late February.
Why was a bank levy considered?
When countries get an international bailout, they are often expected to contribute to the solution by raising funds themselves, usually by increasing taxes or selling state-owned assets.
The levy on bank deposits was designed to play the same role. It was intended to reduce the size of the bailout and therefore the amount of new debt Cyprus had to take on.
But there is almost certainly a political aspect, too. In the eurozone, there are concerns about money-laundering in Cyprus and the presence of large amounts of Russian-owned money in the banks. Germany is reputed to be especially unhappy about the idea of using European taxpayers' money to rescue them.
Experts say the decision to target ordinary savers came about because Cypriot banks have fewer private bondholders than banks in other eurozone countries. In the Greek bailout, it was private bondholders who had to take a "haircut" - a slice out of their investment.
However, the deal provoked outrage in Cyprus, parliament promptly voted against it, and it is increasingly seen as a blunder by European and Cypriot authorities.
Police said the student was one of two taken to hospital, but gave no further details.
Witnesses said police used tear gas and batons against around 200 students protesting against escalating violence in the Darfur region.
There has been an upsurge in violence in the region where rebels are fighting forces of President Omar al-Bashir.
Darfur has been wracked by conflict since 2003 when rebels took up arms.
A statement posted on the interior ministry's website on Tuesday did not say how the student had died.
Police "got information that two students were injured and taken to hospital. One of them died," the statement said.
An AFP news agency reporter at the scene said police fired tear gas and beat some of the protesters as they tried to take to the streets outside the university.
Students retaliated by throwing stones. Some chanted: "Peace, peace for Darfur - we want to bring the criminals to the ICC (International Criminal Court)."
Earlier on Tuesday, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said peacekeepers and aid agencies had been blocked from entering affected areas of Darfur.
On Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was deeply concerned about violence in Darfur and he urged all parties to stop hostilities.
The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for President Bashir, accusing him of committing war crimes and genocide against black African communities in Darfur.
He denies the charge.
Thomas Muller scored both goals with the first a header after Clemens Fritz slipped in the box.
His second came from a penalty after Arturo Vidal went to ground without appearing to be touched when tackled by Janek Sternberg.
Bayern are top of the Bundesliga and play Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions League.
Pep Guardiola's side will play Hertha Berlin or Borussia Dortmund, who play on Wednesday, on 21 May in the final at Berlin's Olympic Stadium.
The batsman said in May he was "angry and hurt" after Strauss told him he was excluded because "trust had eroded".
But, speaking on Thursday, the 35-year-old said: "He made his decision and it's turned out absolutely fine."
Meanwhile, Pietersen has agreed to play in the inaugural T20 Pakistan Super League to be held in Qatar in February.
He and Sussex all-rounder Luke Wright are two of the 135 overseas players who will be among those included in the tournament draft in December.
Pietersen, England's leading run-scorer across all formats, was told his international career was over in February 2014, after a 5-0 defeat in the 2013-14 Ashes in Australia.
Six months later his autobiography was published, including criticism of the England and Wales Cricket Board and former England team-mates.
England won the Ashes with a 3-2 home victory this summer.
Speaking at a Sport Industry Group breakfast in London, Pietersen said the decision not to recall him "seems to be the right decision".
He said: "At the time I would have said it was ridiculous and nonsense, but England won the Ashes. I don't draw back to a meeting in May and think 'goodness how things could been different'."
Pietersen added Strauss had done some "brilliant" things - including inviting former players such as Sir Ian Botham and Alec Stewart to address his squad.
Pietersen is now focusing on Twenty20 cricket and will play for the Durban-based Dolphins in South Africa next month before competing in the Pakistan Super League.
What if the linesman had said that Geoff Hurst's second goal for England in the 1966 World Cup final hadn't actually crossed the line? Would West Germany have won instead, depriving England of its only trophy?
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What if Frank Lampard's ludicrously disallowed goal against Germany in 2010 had stood? Would England have gone on to win the match?
Goal-line incidents like these have left exasperated fans - and officials - crying out for technology to come to the rescue.
And although solutions have been used for years in several other sports, this will be the first World Cup to feature goal-line technology (GLT).
It is just one example of how this World Cup promises to be the most hi-tech and interactive yet.
German company GoalControl has fitted 14 high-speed cameras - seven per goalmouth - to the roof of each of the 12 stadiums.
These are connected to an image-processing computer that filters out non-ball-shaped objects and tracks the ball's position to within a few millimetres, the company says.
When the ball crosses the goal line, the system - which has been thoroughly tested by governing body Fifa - sends a vibration to the referee's watch and the word "GOAL" appears on his screen, all in less than a second.
Meanwhile, technology company Sony, which is supporting official Fifa broadcaster HBS, has installed more than 224 high-definition (HD) cameras which will capture more than 2,500 hours of sport during the tournament - more than ever before.
And this will also be the first time some World Cup matches are captured in the ultra-high-definition (UHD) 4K format, which is roughly four times the resolution of current HD TV.
This requires a satellite network capable of handling 100 megabits per second.
While most fans won't yet be capable of receiving a 4K signal, Sony's World Cup programme manager, Mark Grinyer, told the BBC: "We've proved UHD streaming can work and we're building a 4K archive for Fifa for the first time."
Fans - about three million attending the games and possibly four billion watching on TV - will be viewing, chatting, voting and betting simultaneously on a variety of digital devices, making it a truly multi-screen World Cup.
"The ways people can watch content has exploded," says Alex Gibbons, UK and Ireland vice president for Akamai, the global content delivery network.
"There are more, better connected devices than ever before, and more people watching them."
Ian Foddering, UK and Ireland chief technology officer for infrastructure specialist Cisco Systems, agrees: "Two years on from the 2012 London Olympics, user expectations have increased in terms of their experience at such events.
"They now typically have an expectation of ubiquitous, high-speed connectivity enabling them to share exciting moments with the world via social media."
This presents practical challenges for content providers and IT companies alike.
For example, football app developer, Onefootball, has launched a dedicated free app for the tournament.
Chief executive Lucas von Cranach told the BBC: "This World Cup is going to break every record in terms of digital traffic and engagement - we're expecting seven digit downloads of our Onefootball Brasil app."
So how does the company prepare for such high traffic volumes?
"We've built a huge content management system that can cope with major increases in traffic - the load balancing is taken care of by our cloud provider, Amazon Web Services," he says. "We couldn't do what we do without cloud computing.
"But apps crash all the time," he admits . "A lot depends on the connection quality offered by the phone network provider, and that's out of our control."
To get some sense of the scale of this digital World Cup, Akamai says it is expecting to handle up to 2.5 million live content streams at any one time across its network.
This compares to 1.6 million during the 2010 World Cup.
And daily peak data traffic could reach 25 terabits per second (Tbps), says Mr Gibbons, up from its usual peak of 15Tbps.
"As the digital audience doubles, there's a tripling in complexity," he says.
One activity that is likely to generate big traffic during the World Cup is betting via mobile and online.
According to online payments company Skrill, nearly a third of UK adults intend to place a bet on the 2014 World Cup - nearly half of those will do it online and a quarter via mobile app.
The global value of bets placed using mobile devices is forecast to reach $62bn (£37bn; 46bn euros) by 2018 - a six-fold increase on the 2013 figure, according to Juniper Research.
"Mobile betting is likely to take more money than traditional bookies for the first time [at this tournament]," says Tom Levey, from app performance management company, AppDynamics.
"It's the first truly digital World Cup."
The company's online bookie clients will be processing hundreds of bets a second, he says. "As soon as we see peaks in traffic we advise on when and how to increase capacity. The companies can't afford to crash - minutes matter."
But increasing capacity isn't simply a case of plugging in to more cloud-based computer servers, says John Bates, chief marketing and strategy officer at Software AG, an IT services company.
"The biggest problem for service providers is the computational explosion associated with managing billions of transactions every second," he says. "This requires things like streaming analytics and in-memory architecture, and all this has to be done in real time."
Brazilian telecoms company Oi, an official Fifa partner, has been furiously gearing up for the tournament.
"The implementation and expansion of our wi-fi network has been rapidly accelerated in the last few months," a spokesperson told the BBC. "We've grown from 78,000 hotspots in April to more than 700,000 now - the largest network in Brazil."
It has also increased the coverage and capacity of its 2G, 3G and 4G mobile networks at key points throughout the tournament cities.
That will be welcome news for visiting fans wanting uninterrupted, high-speed access to their content.
But they should be wary about the cost of all this streaming content and interactivity.
With every 1MB of data costing about £5 in Brazil, unwary England fans who opt out of data limits set by their network providers, could face unexpected bills running into hundreds of pounds over the tournament, price comparison service Uswitch warns.
But if high phone bills, rather than goal-line incidents, are the only controversies of this hi-tech World Cup, fans will probably settle for that.
The Radio 2 presenter was riding home on Friday after hosting his show when the driver tailgated him, beeping her horn.
He paused and she got out, shouting at him to "get... out the road" and appearing to kick his bike.
The incident has been reported to the Metropolitan Police.
Posting a video of the encounter on Facebook [warning: this video contains language that may offend], Vine invited viewers to "see what you think".
"I hate to overload our hard-working London police with footage from my commute, but I feel the person you see on the tape will at some point hurt someone very badly - either with her car or in a direct personal assault," Vine wrote.
A police spokesperson could not confirm whether it was being investigated.
The incident took place in a narrow street in Kensington after the black Vauxhall drove close behind Vine, beeping her horn.
"Concerned this motorist may be dangerous, I slow to explain," Vine captioned the video.
She yelled: "Why would you do that?"
"There's got to be a car's width," he replied.
Getting out of her car, she kicks out, telling Vine to "get ... out the road.
"I could be done for murder."
After passing him, she again got out of the car at a junction, warning Vine she would "knock you out... if you take a picture of my car again" and apparently making the shape of a gun with her hand.
"Wow. A gun. It's not appropriate," responded Vine.
The woman then drove off.
Vine has declined to comment further, saying the incident is now in the hands of the police.
Evans will defend his WBO European title in Belfast against Stephen Ormond on Saturday, 17 June.
Listed ninth by the WBO on their world rankings list, Evans is keen to test himself against Flanagan.
"I dream of a crack at 'Turbo'," Evans said. "We've sparred loads of good rounds and Terry knows... I'd give him a competitive fight."
Evans has lost just once in a professional career spanning seven years but admits Ormond represents a step up in class.
"Ormond is probably the best I've faced as a pro," Evans added.
"He's very aggressive and experienced. He should bring out the best in me."
Robert Hogg was due to be sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court after admitting targeting the woman between January and March this year.
The court heard previously that the woman had been left frightened by the content of the emails.
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC issued a warrant for the 47-year-old's arrest.
Depute fiscal Stewart Duncan earlier told the court: "The complainer was using her laptop and noticed a large amount of emails in her junk mail folder.
"She opened the folder and found 500 emails from the accused.
"She opened several of them and was frightened by their content, some of which related to her studies, some was of a sexual nature and others referred to conversations she had with her father on Twitter."
The woman then blocked Hogg on the social networking site, but he sent her a further 25 emails in the next seven hours.
Some of those referred to the fact he had been blocked by her on the site.
The victim then contacted police who raided Hogg's home and seized two computer units.
They discovered all the emails had been sent from addresses attributed to Hogg and internet searches about her had been carried out.
Hogg had accessed her Twitter account several hundred times and saved various photos of her from her public profile into a folder under her name.
Mr Duncan said: "Some of the emails were of a sexual nature and some implied he had been watching her at her work."
Hogg, of Dundee, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to a charge of stalking the woman between 1 January and 25 March 25.
Patel, 31, played for England in the 2015 Test series against Pakistan and comes in after Borthwick extended his stay with Wellington in New Zealand.
England batsman Ian Bell will skipper the MCC against Yorkshire in the annual four-day game, starting on 20 March.
Sri Lanka legend Kumar Sangakkara will be also be part of the squad.
"Samit is the perfect replacement for Scott and has played for MCC in this fixture before so will be a great asset to us," said MCC head of cricket John Stephenson.
"He is an experienced county and international cricketer and adds a nice balance to the side."
A package agreed between the Scottish Football Partnership, Sport Scotland and energy firm SSE will provide finances until the tournament is over.
Around half the squad are expected to benefit from the scheme.
Scotland's women will be competing at a major finals for the first time this summer and are in the same group as England, Spain and Portugal.
The championship in the Netherlands begins on 16 July, with the final on 6 August.
Scotland meet England in the opening game of Group D on Wednesday, 19 July.
Head coach Anna Signeul welcomed the initiative, saying: "It's a strong statement from all three parties that they care about the women's game in Scotland and are willing to help the players improve.
"We feel we have support from everyone and that will help us going into the Euros.
"To have our best domestic players on the same playing field as their team-mates who are full-time professionals is really important. It offers equal opportunity and will stand us in good stead ahead of July."
They said the Church had cut contact and emotional support from them on the advice of Ecclesiastical - which has a senior clergy member on its board.
An independent reviewer said in one victim's case "financial interests were allowed to impact practice".
Ecclesiastical said the review contained "factual inaccuracies".
Gilo - a middle-aged man who lives in the south-west of England - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he had been raped in the early 1970s by a City of London clergyman, the Reverend Garth Moore.
Gilo - whose surname he has asked us not to use - said he had made more than 20 attempts to contact senior members of the church after his decision to report the assaults, but often received no reply.
When the Church finally examined his claim, it agreed it was at fault and reached a financial settlement with him of £35,000 on the advice of Ecclesiastical.
But the Church then cut contact, including emotional support - or pastoral care - with Gilo, for which he blames the insurer.
The company insists this was not a result of its advice.
Gilo told the BBC: "I think because of the relationship that the Church has with the insurers, the pastoral response is so fused with the legal response it's really effectively led by the insurers.
"When that insurer has got such significant presence of senior clerics on its board across the years, then you're into an area of moral responsibility."
Ecclesiastical has had a string of senior members of clergy on its board of directors.
The company said this was normal business practice because the Church of England was one of its major customers, and the clergy were non-executive directors.
Ian Elliott, a child safeguarding specialist who conducted an independent review of Gilo's case, echoed the victim's criticism of Ecclesiastical.
He said the insurer's advice had "directly conflicted" with the pastoral and compassionate responsibilities of the Church.
"That's not the direction or advice that is compliant with a compassionate pastoral response which is the stated policy of the Church," he added.
But Ecclesiastical's compliance director, John Titchener, said he had not been asked to contribute to Mr Elliott's review of Gilo's case.
He said: "The report is based on factual inaccuracies and we have been absolutely clear, before and after, that pastoral care and counselling can and should continue in parallel with an insurance claim which is a separate matter."
The Church of England, which accepted the criticisms in Mr Elliott's review in full, said it disagreed with the company.
"The Archbishop [of Canterbury] has very clearly... accepted all those recommendations," the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Rt Rev Peter Hancock, said.
Ecclesiastical has also been criticised over the settlement of claims by former residents of Kendall House, the Church of England children's home in Kent where girls were drugged and abused in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
A former resident, Teresa Cooper, told the programme she wanted an investigation into the involvement of Church figures in settlements.
"Even if they're not legally part of it, the Church are without a doubt fully involved in the Ecclesiastical insurance company," she added.
Mr Titchener said the settlement of claims relating to Kendall House would be looked at as part of the long-running Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
The Church of England's responses to complaints of historical abuse have provoked some calls for responsibility for safeguarding to be removed from its ruling bishops, and instead given to an independent organisation.
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The local party in Brighton Pavilion had the "democratic right" not to oppose Green co-leader Caroline Lucas for her former seat, he says.
But the Lib Dem leader says he will not engage in any pacts, deals or coalition with other parties after the election.
He says Lib Dems would unlock £100bn by keeping Britain in the single market.
Mr Farron was quizzed about his thoughts on local party arrangements following ex-business secretary Sir Vince Cable's assertion that he would find it "difficult to vote against" a Labour candidate whose views were "very close" to his own.
Fellow Lib Dem, the Richmond Park candidate Sarah Olney also suggested the use of "paper candidates" or "not campaigning".
In Brighton Pavilion, the Lib Dems have agreed not to field a candidate in a bid to get Ms Lucas re-elected.
Mr Farron said he was "an admirer" of Ms Lucas and believed it was "up to local parties to make those decisions".
But he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "What I've been very clear about is the Liberal Democrats will engage in no pacts, no deals - there will be no coalition involving the Lib Dems with Labour or Conservatives or any other party following the election.
"The local party in Brighton made a choice as is their democratic right to choose to withdraw in order to support Caroline Lucas. I've always been a fan of Caroline Lucas and I'm relaxed about that decision."
Mr Farron side-stepped questions about his view on Sir Vince's claim that if he were voting in Ealing Central and Acton he would find it hard not to back Labour candidate Rupa Huq.
Instead he insisted that like Sir Vince he was "a pluralist, not a tribalist" and recalled sharing a battle bus during the EU referendum campaign with Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, London's Labour mayor Sadiq Khan, Ms Lucas and other parties.
But Mr Farron said unlike Labour and Conservative plans "to take Britain out of the single market" which is "costing the taxpayer £100bn", the Lib Dems would fight for Britain to remain, which would mean "we have the money we need to spend on our schools and hospitals".
This cash would contribute to the party's plan to plough £7bn into schools and colleges, he said.
He refused to be drawn on whether he would step down if he did not achieve his ambition of doubling the number of Lib Dem MPs from nine to 18.
"As if I'm thinking about the ninth of June now," he said.
"My view is entirely fixed on the next four weeks - leading the Liberal Democrats, being the real opposition, the real alterative to a Conservative government that is taking the British people for granted."
Mr Farron said he predicted the 8 June general election would result in "a Conservative landslide", adding "there's no point in pretending otherwise".
But he claimed the Lib Dems had "fire in our belly and a clarity of purpose" to fill "the real vacancy in British politics and that's for there to be a decent opposition".
The auction house said the 9.54-carat "Fancy Deep Blue" ring was bought by Temple's father in 1940 for $7,210.
Temple, one of Hollywood's most popular stars in the 1930s, died in 2014 at the age of 85.
A private buyer bought the ring from her estate and is now putting it up for auction, Sotheby's said.
It is estimated to be worth up to $35 million.
Temple pursued a career in politics after leaving the entertainment industry, serving as US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.
A selection of her belongings, including a dress worn at the 1935 Oscars, has previously been auctioned off by her family.
The advisers include academics and former military officers with expertise on the Middle East and energy issues.
Mr Trump told the Washington Post that he would name more advisers in the coming days.
Several of his advisers have served as experts for other Republican presidential candidates such as Mitt Romney and Ben Carson.
On Monday, Mr Trump named retired Lt Gen Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and retired Gen Joseph Schmitz.
The team is led by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama who has helped shape Mr Trump's policies, most notably on immigration.
Mr Trump has come under criticism in recent days over his policy credentials. When cable news network MSNBC asked him who was advising him on policy, Mr Trump named himself.
Donald Trump recently boasted he was his own top adviser on foreign policy matters, noting that he had a "good instinct for this stuff".
After more than a month of hints and promises, however, the Republican presidential front-runner has announced who else has his ear on international affairs.
The names are hardly a who's who in the Republican foreign policy firmament - which could be good or bad news depending on one's perspective.
Mr Trump's positions on trade deals and military intervention put him decidedly outside the Republican Party establishment, and this list of advisers will do little to change that perception.
If Republicans hoped they could bend Mr Trump to party orthodoxy, this may be their latest Trump-related miscalculation.
Unorthodox foreign policy goals
While some of his team are not well known in Republican academic circles, others are seen as controversial figures.
Gen Joseph Schmitz resigned from the military in 2005 amid accusations of misconduct. However, Mr Schmitz was never charged with wrongdoing.
Another adviser, Walid Phares, was criticised when he was named as part of Mr Romney's foreign policy team in 2011.
Muslim advocacy groups took issue with Mr Phares's close ties to right-wing Christian militia groups during the Lebanese civil war.
He is an outspoken critic of Sharia, or Islamic religious law, and has appeared on Fox News and other conservative media outlets as an expert on the Middle East.
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George Papadopoulos recently served as an adviser to Mr Carson, who dropped out of the race in February. Mr Papadopoulos has worked as a consultant for energy companies in the Middle East.
Also on Monday, Mr Trump told the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue that he believes the UK may leave the European Union when a referendum is held in June.
"I think they may leave it based on everything," Mr Trump said. "I have a lot of investments in the UK, and I will tell you I think they may leave based on everything I'm hearing."
He also said the US should spend less money on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato).
"We are paying disproportionately," he told CNN. "It's too much and frankly it's a different world than it was when we originally conceived of the idea."
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The centre-right group led by ex-PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen beat Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt's centre-left coalition, although her party is the largest.
Ms Thorning-Schmidt has now stood down as Social Democratic Party leader.
The right-wing, anti-immigration Danish People's Party will become the second-largest in parliament.
With almost all votes counted, the centre-right bloc led by Mr Rasmussen had secured the 90 seats needed to form a government in the 179-seat parliament.
Turnout was 85.8%, the interior ministry said.
Talks are due to begin soon on forming a cabinet, which correspondents say could take weeks.
Mr Rasmussen wrote on Facebook that "difficult negotiations lie ahead".
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The DPP's leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl had previously poured cold water on the idea of going into government (in Danish).
He told Denmark's Politiken he preferred "the little free bird role, which can make the Danish People's Party come closer to getting our policy through in the real world than you think".
But Mr Dahl could yet be in a position to make a bid to become prime minister.
In a victory speech just before 01:30 local time (23:30 GMT), Mr Rasmussen - who led the country between 2009 and 2011 - said: "Four years ago, we returned the keys to the PM's office. I said [at] that time that they were only a loan."
He said he would push for "control of the flow of refugees".
Ms Thorning-Schmidt's governing Social Democratic Party was the biggest party, winning at least 26.3% of the vote, according to Danish broadcaster DR.
But her allies failed to gain as much of the vote as those of the opposition and she stood down as leader after conceding victory.
On Friday morning she presented her resignation as prime minister to Queen Margrethe.
Ms Thorning-Schmidt said she was proud to have led the Social Democratic Party to the highest percentage of the vote, adding: "We lost at the finish line."
According to DR, the Danish People's Party won 21.1% of the vote, and Mr Rasmussen's Denmark Liberal Party came third on 19.5%.
BBC Radio Bristol reports that the fee for Tomlin, who scored seven times last season, could rise to £2.9 million.
Bluebirds boss Neil Warnock described Tomlin, 28, as his "number one" target.
"If I had a choice of any other player I've been after over the summer, Tomlin would have been at the top of my list," Warnock told BBC Radio Wales.
He also confirmed Cardiff have turned down bids for striker Kenneth Zohore and defender Sean Morrison.
Warnock had hoped to bring in Republic of Ireland winder Jonny Hayes, who instead joined Celtic on a three-year deal from Aberdeen.
Tomlin's move to the Bluebirds came despite Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson recently saying the former Middlesbrough and Bournemouth player was still part of his plans.
"It's funny how things work. You think you've lost a player and you're disappointed," Warnock added.
"And out of the blue your number one target becomes available. That's fate at times and let's hope they've played us a good hand.
"Although Jonny Hayes was top of my list, he was more of a wide player. This player (Tomlin) specialises in that middle area, creating something for our wide players and strikers.
"I've been looking at certain areas and certain players because we need goals. We're a difficult side to play against, but you still need a player who can unlock the door and get the you the three points.
"He was top of my list at one stage. But I didn't think we'd be able to get him from Bristol City at the time.
"We were going to have to pay a substantial loan fee for him. But in the end I don't think Bristol City fancied that idea, so Mehmet (Dalman) decided to go in and buy him."
Tomlin is the seventh player Cardiff have signed this summer and Warnock expects him to be the last.
He said: "We won't be signing any other players, although you never know in football. We might get an offer we can't turn down and we have to replace him, or a player becomes available."
Warnock says club owner Vincent Tan, chairman Mehmet Dalman and chief executive Ken Choo have been "so supportive" in the off-season.
"It's not been easy. I'll be glad when the games start and we get back to normality," he continued.
Zohore was Cardiff's top scorer in 2016-17 with 12 goals, and the 23-year-old striker has been the subject of a bid from Hull City.
"I can't tell you a specific account but if they bid £15m to £20m, I'll think about it. But I don't think anyone in the Championship would bid that," Warnock said.
Morrison has been heavily linked with Sheffield Wednesday, but Warnock has made it clear he wants his captain to stay.
"I'm not permitted to say who the clubs (who have made a bid) are," he added. "The offers keep going up for Sean.
"I've kept him informed of the situation and hopefully over the next week or two we can put that to bed.
"But you never know in football. Clubs keep on improving offers, and at some stage you have to be realistic."
Two security officers were slightly injured as they tackled the man, but no one else was hurt.
The attack came in the early hours of US Independence Day and shortly before dawn prayers marking the start of the daily Ramadan fast.
Militants attacked the Jeddah consulate in 2004, leaving nine people dead.
The US State Department said it was aware of Monday's blast, adding that it "can confirm that all personnel under chief of mission authority are accounted for at this time".
Security guards became suspicious of a man in the car park of the Dr Suleiman Faqeeh hospital around 02:15 (23:15 GMT Sunday), interior ministry spokesman Maj-Gen Mansour al-Turki said in a statement.
The hospital is opposite the US consulate.
As the guards approached the man, "he blew himself up with a suicide belt inside the hospital parking," the statement said.
The US embassy in Saudi Arabia issued a warning after the attack, urging Americans to "remain aware of their surroundings, and take extra precautions when travelling throughout the country".
Pupils and staff at the Baverstock Academy, Druid's Heath, were told of the plans at an assembly earlier. A four-week consultation has begun.
The Department for Education (DfE) said a new sponsor had not been found for the school, which has been in special measures since 2014.
The school featured in a BBC Panorama film in 2014.
The documentary looked at whether the academy could honour its pledge to keep disruptive pupils in school and help them achieve five GCSEs.
Its future was plunged into uncertainty in 2015 following financial difficulties.
Nearly 2,400 people signed an online petition which called the school "a constant force of stability to the community".
However, regional schools commissioner Chris Quinn said potential sponsors felt the "financial and educational issues" affecting the school were "too complex to guarantee the improvements needed".
She has asked for views on the proposed closure by 7 February.
Steve McCabe, Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak, said the government had treated the parents, pupils and community "with utter disregard".
"It is a complete disgrace and my constituents will not forgive this betrayal," he said.
He called for an urgent meeting with the education secretary to ask what efforts were made to save the school and about costs of closing it.
The DfE said the school was "undersubscribed", adding it would be working with LEAP, the trust which runs the school, and the local authority to find alternative places to ensure students' education "is not disrupted."
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Eleven minutes of prolonged bidding from telephone buyers preceded the final sale - for much more than its pre-sale estimate of $140m.
The final price of $179.3m (£115m) includes commission of just over 12%.
The sale also featured Alberto Giacometti's life-size sculpture Pointing Man, which set its own record.
It is now the most expensive sculpture sold at auction, after going for $141.3m (£90.6m). Both buyers chose to remain anonymous.
The previous world record for a painting sold at auction was $142.4m, for British painter Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud in 2013.
The Picasso oil painting is a vibrant, cubist depiction of nude courtesans, and is part of a 15-work series the Spanish artist created in 1954-55 designated with the letters A to O.
"This is an absolutely blockbuster picture - it's one of the most exciting pictures that we've seen on the market for 10 years," said Philip Hoffman, founder and CEO of the Fine Art Fund Group.
"Yes there are one or two [Picassos] that could even smash that record but it has a huge wall presence, it's a big show-off picture.
"For anybody that wants to have a major Picasso, this is it - and $179m in 10 years' time will probably look inexpensive," said Hoffman.
Make no mistake; this is a fine painting, by a great artist, produced at an important time in his career.
He started the Women of Algiers series in 1954 shortly after the death of his friend and competitor, Henri Matisse, the master of what he called the Odalisque - exotic paintings of Turkish women in harems.
Now in his 70s, Picasso felt he should pick up the Orientalist mantel from Matisse while also looking to bring together many of the influences that informed his own art. You can see an echo of his famous proto-Cubist work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the debt it owes to Cezanne and El Greco. There was his lifelong admiration for the French romantic painter Eugene Delacroix who painted the original Women of Algiers (1834), and - of course - his adoration of the female form.
Added to this rich mix was the geo-politics of the time, which saw an uprising in the French colony of Algeria that would eventually lead to the country's independence.
In Women of Algiers version O, Picasso has distilled all of these ingredients into one large-scale painting of great quality: a study not only of the Arabesque, but also a serious enquiry into the nature of colour, line and composition.
Experts believe the investment value of art is behind the high prices.
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"The world's billionaires are in New York, the world's museum buyers are there.
"I don't think we've ever seen a sale as important as this in Christie's and Sotheby's in my 25 years of working in the art world."
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The Labour leader, nearing the end of a three-day visit, said Israel's policy on settlements was "wrong and illegal".
He visited a Bedouin camp where residents are among 2,300 Palestinians facing possible displacement.
Mr Miliband's trip follows a recent faltering in US-led peace talks.
Israel and the Palestinians have blamed each other for taking steps they believe breach commitments aimed at advancing negotiations.
Mr Miliband, who is Jewish, said he supported "the homeland for the Jewish people" but also made it clear he does not back all actions of the Israeli government.
Speaking after his visit to the Khan al-Ahmar camp on Saturday, Mr Miliband said: "What I have seen today shows that the expansion of Israeli settlements on the Palestinian West Bank is not only wrong and illegal but represents a mortal threat to the two-state solution and to a successful outcome of the peace process.
"If we are going to have a viable, democratic Palestinian state the more we see an expansion of settlements the more it becomes difficult to construct this state."
Mr Miliband had a kick-about with children at the camp before meeting community leader Abu Khamis.
Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. Settlements it has built there are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this and continues to approve the construction of new homes for Israeli citizens.
Palestinian leaders say the West Bank must form part of a future Palestinian state.
Mr Miliband, who has been accompanied by his wife Justine, will stay overnight in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
He is due to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas before he leaves on Sunday.
He has already met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Taking questions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Friday, Mr Miliband said he had "a deep sense of gratitude to Israel for what they did for my grandmother".
She survived the Holocaust in Poland before emigrating to the country.
Meanwhile, Israel has imposed sanctions against the Palestinian Authority (PA) in retaliation for its signing up to several international treaties - moves which analysts say could give the Palestinians greater recognition internationally.
Israel says such moves hinder peace negotiations.
It said taxes collected on behalf of the PA would be frozen, with limited access granted to bank deposits in Israel.
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told AFP news agency it was "theft of the Palestinian people's money" and a "violation of international law and norms by Israel".
The Palestinian leadership accuses Israel of reneging on a plan to release Palestinian prisoners.
The state news agency, BNA, said the group plotted to attack "policemen... vital sites and security locations, including an embassy".
Bahrain human rights groups condemned the "unfair trial" and sentences.
The Gulf state has seen sporadic unrest since putting down mass Shia-led protests in 2011.
In the latest case the defendants were given sentences ranging from three years to life in prison. Activists said minors were among those jailed. Four people were acquitted.
Among the group's targets, the Gulf Daily News reported, were the Saudi embassy in Manama and the King Fahd Causeway connecting Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
The court alleged that those on trial were funded by the main Shia opposition group, al-Wefaq, and a banned association, al-Wafa (Fidelity).
In a statement, two Bahrain advocacy groups said that nine of those found guilty were under the age of 18.
"Bahrain's politicised courts are disenfranchising an entire generation of Bahrainis with unfair imprisonment," said Husain Abdulla, of Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain.
Bahrain was hit by an uprising in 2011 in which the Shia majority demanded democratic reforms from the Sunni-led government. Since then, protests have been more intermittent, following a crackdown.
In January, Bahrain stripped citizenship from 72 people on the grounds of damaging national security.
More than 800 crew died when the battleship was torpedoed in Scapa Flow in 1939.
A memorial was established at Scapa beach overlooking the site, but a propeller in the garden has had graffiti scratched onto it.
There are now plans to involve local primary schools in caring for the area, as part of a major revamp.
Heather Taylor, whose father Charles Millar set up the memorial, told BBC Radio Orkney he did it to give the families of those who died somewhere to "reflect on their losses".
She said the graffiti was "mindless", and the memorial garden was "not a playground".
People visiting the site said the vandalism was "disgusting".
Tom Brunton, from Macmerry near Tranent in East Lothian, served in the RAF. He said: "Why do it? They're doing it to war memorials as well. It's ridiculous."
And his daughter, Pamela Brunton, who lives in Kirkwall, said: "I wouldn't like to be the parents of the children that were involved. I would have skinned my kids alive if I thought one of them had done that."
Local councillor Gwenda Shearer said there had already been moves to improve the memorial site.
"I had already arranged to come out here and it coincided then with what happened," she said.
"So I came and saw the propeller. Then had a look in the building. And, I must admit, I was disappointed with what I saw.
"It definitely needs some reconstruction into a place where people can come and reflect on what we know is, of course, a significant piece of Orkney's wartime history."
Heather Taylor's husband Phil said involving schoolchildren in caring for the site should teach them "respect for the area".
"If they come and have an input into it, they're more likely to look after it and not do any of the damage that we see here today," he said.
That idea has already won support from Clare Gee, from Orkney Islands Council cultural services.
She said: "I'm certainly very happy to take that (idea) back to my colleagues in the education service to see if there's any ability to get them involved."
She said: "Certainly when we had really big projects last year, like the commemoration of the centenary of Jutland, the schools were involved. Every single school was involved.
"And I think we can certainly move forward with that."
Heather Taylor said she hopes that idea means some good can come out of the damage to the site her father founded.
"It's nice to see that somebody is actually taking note now, and maybe it will go forward, and see progress.
"So the Royal Oak survivors can come here and enjoy the views, and show respect for the lost ones they've left behind."
An online crowdfunding appeal to repair the damage raised its £500 target in less than 24 hours. Orkney's Community Justice Partnership has offered the services of offenders sentenced to carry out unpaid labour to do the work.
Sam Saunders' superb long-range strike and a late Joe Jacobson penalty did the damage as the Bees, who sacked Kevin Nugent on Saturday, slipped to a fourth successive defeat.
The visitors took a 21st-minute lead in spectacular fashion when Saunders stole the ball in midfield and caught Barnet goalkeeper Jamie Stephens off his line from more than 30 yards.
Barnet were very nearly level immediately but Fumnaya Shomotun was twice denied from close range by Chelsea loanee Jamal Blackman.
Wanderers almost doubled their lead just before the break as Stephens had to be quick to block Luke O'Nien's shot from a tight angle.
Barnet captain Curtis Weston was denied by the crossbar after the break after Blackman dropped the ball at his feet.
The Bees hit the woodwork again with seven minutes to go when substitute Ruben Bover unleashed a fine strike from 20 yards.
However, as the Bees pushed for a leveller they were caught out at the back and Weston brought down Garry Thompson in the box, allowing defender Jacobson to score from the spot in the 90th minute.
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The Spain-born winger had been tipped to switch international allegiance to his parents' homeland of Mali.
Brothers Sambou and Moustapha Yatabare are in the 26-man squad.
Crystal Palace winger Bakary Sako is included despite having played only 87 minutes for his club this season.
Mali have never won the Africa Cup of Nations. They were runners-up in 1972 and finished third in 2012 and 2013.
They were knocked out of the last tournament in the group stage but defender Hamari Traore believes the current generation have sufficient firepower to do much better in Gabon this time around.
"We know we are a young squad but we believe we can achieve success together as a team," Traore told BBC Sport.
"Mali have never won this tournament, that is the extra motivation for us to make a good impression.
"Yes there is no big star in our team because everybody is a star and that helps us mentally."
Mali are in Group D alongside four-time winners Ghana, Egypt and Uganda. Their opening match is against seven-time winners Egypt on 17 January.
The tournament kicks of on 14 January with the final on 5 February.
Mali squad:
Goalkeepers: Soumaila Diakité and Djigui Diarra (Stade Malien de Bamako), Oumar Sissoko (Orléans, France)
Defenders: Ousmane Coulibaly (Panathinaikos, Greece), Hamari Traore (Reims, France), Falaye Sacko (Vitória Guimarães, Portugal), Molla Wagué (Udinese, Italy), Salif Coulibaly (TP Mazembe, DR Congo), Mohamed Oumar Konaté (RS Berkane, Morocco), Charles Blonda Traoré and Mahamadou N'Diaye (Troyes, France), Youssouf Koné (Lille, France)
Midfielders: Yves Bissouma (Lille, France), Mamoutou N'Diaye (Royal Antwerp, Belgium), Lassana Coulibaly (Bastia, France), Yacouba Sylla (Montpellier, France), Samba Sow (Kayserispor, Turkey), Adama Traoré (AS Monaco, France), Sambou Yatabaré (Werder Bremen, Germany), Souleymane Diarra (Ujpest, Hungary), Moussa Doumbia (Rostov, Russia)
Forwards: Moussa Marega (Vitória Guimarães, Portugal), Kalifa Coulibaly (Gent, Belgium), Moustapha Yatabaré (Karabukspor, Turkey), Adama Traoré (TP Mazembe, DR Congo), Bakary Sako (Crystal Palace, England)
Barclays is "staying anchored in Great Britain" he told BBC business editor Simon Jack.
Some banks have warned that the Brexit vote may affect jobs.
But Mr Staley said: "Right now we are not making any plans to pick up and move people from one location to another."
That said, Barclays "wants to be involved in the capital markets globally" and wants to "stay connected to the European capital markets".
The bank will aim to take on new employees if access to Europe is restricted by Brexit, he said.
"You might have to increase your presence in another location - that doesn't necessarily mean you have to decrease [at] your location here," Mr Staley said.
"We saw the one of the biggest one day declines in global wealth in history and the financial system worked fine".
That was Barclays chief executive Jes Staley's stoic reflection on Friday's $2.5 trillion market reaction to the UK's vote to leave the EU, which he said caught him and the markets by surprise.
Barclay's own shares lost nearly a third of their value last Friday. A rout he put down to fears that a political upheaval could lead to an economic downturn.
Now the market storm has subsided, many shares, excluding the bank's, have regained lost ground, and the focus moves on to the real economy and the impact on investment and jobs.
Several of Barclays neighbours in Canary Wharf have said jobs may move to Europe.
HSBC ruled out moving its global HQ from the UK but has said 1,000 jobs may go to Paris.
American bank JP Morgan has said up to 4,000 of its 16,000 UK workforce may be relocated.
Mr Staley was keen to emphasise that Barclays was a British bank that will remain anchored in Britain and although he conceded Barclays might set up a subsidiary in Europe, it wouldn't necessarily be at the expense of UK jobs.
As an American in the UK he drew parallels between the Brexit vote and the political landscape in his home country.
"There is definitely something going on here and in the US… the establishment needs to hear the narrative that globalisation and free trade is not working for the man on the street".
Major banks such as Barclays, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs employ thousands of people in the UK.
One of the reasons these banks find the UK so attractive is so-called "passporting" - their being able to employ people in one EU country, and offer services in another.
But there is a fear that banks in the UK could lose this right following the vote to leave the EU.
After the vote to leave, shares in banks including Barclays and RBS plummeted by around 30%.
Barclays shares are still trading around 20% down.
Mr Staley said: "Bank stocks took a real hit."
He said one of underlying factors in the drop were "a sense that the political crisis will lead to an economic crisis".
"I'm not sure that's true, but I think underlying there's this view that there may be a UK recession, and as a British bank we would be vulnerable to that."
If they go ahead, the proposed changes would be implemented by the middle of August.
It comes after the group announced plans to end services in East Lothian and close depots in North Berwick and Musselburgh.
Scottish Borders Council said it had only just seen details of the plans and it was too early to comment.
Bus services across the region would be affected by the changes.
The X95 between Hawick and Edinburgh, via Galashiels, would switch from a half-hourly to hourly timetable.
Services facing cancellation are:
A spokesperson for First Borders said: "We appreciate this will be unwelcome news for our customers, however our operations in the area have not been viable for a number of years.
"Despite working hard to turn the business around, insufficient passenger demand, the continuing challenging economy and strong competition in places have all contributed to the proposed withdrawal from East Lothian, which may also lead to the withdrawal of a number of services in the Borders.
"Our proposal is very much based on sustaining the wider business, including operations in other parts of the Borders.
"We have already met with SBC to discuss bus provision in the area and no decisions will be taken until we have completed a full and detailed consultation, including with our staff and the trade union."
England will play three Tests against Sri Lanka followed by four Tests against Pakistan, with both touring sides also playing five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 match.
The first Test against Sri Lanka starts at Headingley on 19 May.
Pakistan, touring the country for the first time since 2010, begin their Test series at Lord's on 14 July.
The series could see a return for bowler Mohammad Amir, who will be eligible to play for Pakistan from next month after a reduced five-year ban for spot fixing during Pakistan's last tour of England five years ago.
Amir was found guilty alongside Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif of bowling deliberate no balls at prearranged times in the Lord's Test.
Sri Lanka tour dates
4 May: Sri Lanka arrive
8-10 May: 3-day v Essex, Chelmsford
13-15 May: 3-day v Leicestershire, Grace Rd, Leicester
19-23 May: 1st Test, Headingley
27-31 May: 2nd Test, Durham
9-13 June: 3rd Test, Lord's
16 June: 1st ODI v Ireland, venue TBC
18 June: 2nd ODI v Ireland, venue TBC
21 June: 1st ODI (D/N), Trent Bridge
24 June: 2nd ODI (D/N), Edgbaston
26 June: 3rd ODI, Bristol
29 June: 4th ODI (D/N), The Oval
2 July: 5th ODI, Cardiff
5 July: T20 international, Southampton
6 July: Sri Lanka depart
Pakistan tour dates
29 June: Pakistan arrive
3-5 July: 3-day v Somerset, Taunton
8-10 July: 3-day v Sussex, Hove
14-18 July: 1st Test, Lord's
22-26 July: 2nd Test, Old Trafford
29-30 July: 2-day v Worcestershire, New Rd, Worcester
3-7 Aug: 3rd Test, Edgbaston
11-15 Aug: 4th Test, The Oval
18 Aug: 1st ODI v Ireland, venue TBC
20 Aug: 2nd ODI v Ireland, venue TBC
24 Aug: 1st ODI (D/N), Southampton
27 Aug: 2nd ODI, Lord's
30 Aug: 3rd ODI (D/N), Trent Bridge
1 Sept: 4th ODI (D/N), Headingley
4 Sept: 5th ODI (D/N), Cardiff
7 Sept: T20 international, Old Trafford
8 Sept: Pakistan depart
Because living costs vary in different parts of the country, there is a different rate for London and the rest of the UK.
It is promoted by the Living Wage Foundation.
It has received widespread political support, but limited endorsement by employers.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said he supports the idea in principle.
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, favours making it part of his party's manifesto for the next general election.
Both London's former and current mayor, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson, are supporters.
The Greater London Authority (GLA) is among the organisations that pay the living wage to their employees.
The living wage is an informal benchmark, not a legally enforceable minimum level of pay, like the national minimum wage.
The national minimum wage is set by the business secretary each year on the advice of the Low Pay Commission. It is enforced by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The living wage is currently calculated by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University, while the London living wage has been calculated by the GLA since 2005.
The basic idea is that these are the minimum pay rates needed to let workers lead a decent life.
The living wage is now set at £9.15 an hour in London and £7.85 an hour in the rest of the UK.
By comparison, the national minimum wage is significantly lower. Since October 2014, the national minimum wage has been £6.50 an hour for adults aged 21 and over, and £5.13 for those aged 18 to 20.
The most authoritative data comes from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings compiled by the Office for National Statistics.
It shows that median weekly earnings before tax for full-time employees in April 2013 were £517, up 2.2% from £506 in 2012.
For men, full-time earnings were £556 per week, up 1.8%, compared with £459 for women, up 2.2%.
Median annual earnings were £27,000.
However, there was substantial variation across the UK. Median gross weekly earnings for full-time workers were highest in London, at £658, and lowest in Northern Ireland, at £460.
Figures for 2014 are expected later this month.
At present, more than 1,000 employers are accredited by the Living Wage Foundation, committing them to pay the living wage to employed and subcontracted staff.
They include some FTSE 100 companies such as SSE, Aviva, Barclays, Pearson, and Legal & General.
However, plenty of employers pay between the minimum wage and the living wage.
Some supporters of better pay for the low-paid argue that employers who pay their staff too little are in effect benefiting from taxpayers, who subsidise the low wages of their staff by paying their employees top-up state benefits such as tax credits.
But some companies argue that paying the living wage could lead to job losses, and others say that they have been hit by the financial crisis so could not increase staff costs to this level.
No. Some big local authorities have adopted the living wage, such as Cardiff, Birmingham and Newcastle.
Some workers have had to fight to have their employer adopt the living wage. Cleaners in the Houses of Parliament went on strike back in 2005 to demand pay rises that would bring them up to the living wage. They achieved their aim in 2006.
Some cleaners on the London Underground staged industrial action, including strikes, over two years before Transport for London (TFL) conceded a deal based on the living wage in 2010.
The Living Wage Commission is an independent inquiry into the future of the living wage.
It is chaired by Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu, and includes representatives from the TUC, the British Chambers of Commerce, and the voluntary sector.
It looked into the subject for a year, then recommended that the UK government should make it a goal to cut the number of low paid workers by one million by 2020.
It said that the government should pay its own workers the living wage, and that private sector companies that are capable should also pay.
However, it said that other firms should not be forced to do so, especially if this could put jobs at risk.
Nicola Yates has been in charge for the past three years and leaves just two months after the authority came under Labour-led control.
She said it had been an "absolute privilege" to serve Bristol and she was leaving with "a huge sense of pride".
The council said it would make "interim arrangements" while it looks for a permanent replacement.
Ms Yates said: "During my tenure, the council has faced an immensely challenging financial position but I have been dedicated to maintaining frontline services and developing new ways of generating income and expanding our growth sectors for the future."
She was also in charge of organising the city's year as European Green Capital in 2015.
"I am also enormously proud of the contribution I was able to make to Bristol's successful year as European Green Capital, in my role as chief executive of Bristol 2015 Ltd," Ms Yates said.
Nicola Yates is the local authority's highest paid officer and had faced criticism for seeing her pay rise to £172,000 while presiding over cuts in council services.
Marvin Rees, who was elected as the city's mayor in May, said: "I am grateful for Nicola's contributions to Bristol and wish her well for the future.
"She has brought the council a long way in a relatively short time, leaving it with strong governance and a high profile at home and abroad."
One MI6 officer provided detailed statements to the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry which is examining the extent of sexual abuse at the home before it closed in 1980.
Three former staff at Kincora were jailed in 1981 for abusing boys.
At least 29 boys were abused at Kincora between the late 1950s and early 1980s.
The inquiry has been hearing opening remarks from Joseph Aiken QC, counsel to the inquiry, as he outlines the evidence that will be presented to the panel over the next four weeks.
MI6 is now officially known as the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
The MI6 officer, referred to as SIS officer A, is not named, but was introduced to the inquiry by Alex Younger, the chief of the SIS and the only member of its staff who ever reveals his name.
In the statement, SIS officer A, who is the deputy director responsible for compliance, said he "has seen nothing to indicate any involvement of SIS officers in abuse in Kincora boys' home or any attempt to cover it up".
"SIS does not exploit children or vulnerable adults for operational purposes, nor tolerate their abuse by their staff of those that work on their behalf... including agents," his statement added.
In another document to the inquiry, the the deputy director of MI5, he said there is no evidence in the available documents that "such abuse was permitted, condoned or encouraged to further any MI5 plan".
There have been allegations that people in positions of authority and influence knew what was happening and that they covered it up.
Both MI5 and MI6 have agreed to assist the inquiry and many documents have already been handed over.
Where there have been redactions, the inquiry panel has seen the gist of what has been redacted before the documents are made public.
Mr Aiken QC told the inquiry that Ministry of Defence (MoD) cooperation with the inquiry appeared to be good, and that he had been sent emails from MoD staff in Whitehall on one occasion at four o'clock in the morning.
The Cornwall Council vote is a major step forward in the bid to finance the stadium on the outskirts of Truro.
The Cornish Pirates rugby club, Inox Group, Truro and Penwith College and Henry Boot Developments were behind the plans for the multi-use stadium.
In an eight-hour debate, members also approved plans for a new football stadium on a separate site nearby.
The stadium is expected to cost £10m, with £2m promised by Truro and Penwith College and the other £8m from a deal still to be done with a supermarket.
March 2011 Cornwall Council agrees to fund stadium business plan
November 2011 Outline planning permission granted
May 2012 Councillors vote against public funding for stadium
January 2014 Developers say supermarket would fund stadium
March 2015 Council defers planning decision on supermarket
July 2015 Prime Minister David Cameron says he 'wants to see the stadium happen'
Ian Connell, Cornish Pirates chairman, said he was "absolutely delighted" at the "excellent news".
He said: "It will be a tremendous boost for our players, for our supporters and for the public throughout Cornwall."
Rob Saltmarsh, of developers Inox Group, said councillors had realised the "significant community benefit" of the stadium.
Mr Saltmarsh said he hoped the government would "stand by their word" following a pledge by David Cameron ahead of May's general election to support the stadium.
He said: "We can now look to meet with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and ask them if there is any money available."
Mr Saltmarsh said extra government money could be used to expand the scope of the stadium and possibly increase its size to 10,000 seats.
Plans to build a retail development on the Treyew Road site of Truro City Football Club were also approved.
Money from that project is expected to be used to fund a new ground for the football club at Silver Bow, which was also granted planning consent.
The PS4 Pro will be able to render more detail in games when connected to an ultra-high definition 4K television.
A cosmetically redesigned, slimmer PlayStation 4 was also announced and will be sold at a cheaper price.
One analyst said releasing an upgraded console so soon after the PS4's debut in 2013 took the company into "uncharted territory".
Sony typically makes cosmetic changes to the PlayStation between major releases, but this will be the first time it will have two consoles on sale with significantly different graphics capabilities within the same generation.
"We realised that for the very highly-discriminating gamer there is always a desire for advancement, and they want it in this generation," said Sony's Andrew House.
Since outputting games to 4K televisions requires more computing power than HD, Sony said the PS4 Pro would have more than double the graphics processing power of the PS4.
However, unlike Microsoft's Xbox One S, the PS4 Pro will not be able to play 4K Blu-ray movies - a move which has disappointed some fans.
"The PlayStation is primarily a gaming platform, and everything we do is to make the gaming experience as seamless as possible," Jim Ryan, head of PlayStation Europe, told the BBC.
"We recognise that the trend these days is to use streaming services, and we have a great partnership with Netflix offering 4K movies in its app.
"Both PlayStations continue to support Blu-ray discs."
The PS4 was released less than three years ago, alongside rival Microsoft's Xbox One.
Microsoft has already released a slimmer iteration of the Xbox One that can play 4K movies, and is developing a forthcoming console, dubbed Project Scorpio, that it says will support virtual reality and 4K gaming.
"Sony seem to be turning their back on the old console economics of cycles," said Ed Barton, principal analyst at the consultancy Ovum.
"They used to get the core fans in first, and then really make big money when the price of the hardware dropped and appealed to the expanded market.
"Now, they are giving the hardcore gamers a reason to upgrade early."
Sony says the PS4 Pro will be released in November, and games will be compatible with the standard PS4 console.
"PS4 Pro is not intended the blur the lines between console generations," said Sony's Mark Cerny.
"Instead the vision is to take the PS4 experience to extraordinary new levels".
Sony also said it would release a software upgrade to enable high dynamic range (HDR) on all editions of the PS4.
HDR allows a much larger number of colours to be shown. In addition, because it takes advantage of a greater range of brightness levels between black and white, pictures can appear to be more detailed.
Microsoft's Xbox One S also has HDR support.
Sony is currently thought to be leading the console race, after announcing in May that it had sold 40 million PS4s.
Microsoft said it had sold 10 million Xbox One devices in 2014, but has since stopped reporting its sales figures.
"The biggest advantage that the PS4 has is momentum in the current generation of consoles," said Mr Barton.
"But nobody buys new consoles based on technical specifications, they buy them for the entertainment they enable. They need a strong launch line up of games, or they'll be selling it to a limited number of people."
Magnavox Odyssey: The Odyssey is credited as being the first commercial video games machine for the home. It could only render a single vertical line and three white blocks at a time, so owners had to attach a plastic overlay to their TV to provide the layout for its games.
Atari 2600: Atari's first console to let owners swap in different games cartridges launched alongside nine titles including a Blackjack simulation and the Video Olympics - a cartridge featuring dozens of different variations of its "bat-and-ball" Pong arcade game. But it was 1980's release of Space Invaders and 1982's Pac-Man that cemented its success.
Nintendo Famicom: Launched in Japan two years before it became the NES in Europe. Nintendo provided a "seal of quality" for authorised NES games, helping restore confidence in an industry that had become beset by poor quality releases. Notable titles including Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda and the original Final Fantasy - all of which remain huge franchises.
Sega Mega Drive: Sega's third console - known as the Genesis in the US - proved a much bigger hit outside its home nation of Japan than within. It formed a launchpad for the firm's mascot Sonic the Hedgehog - but only after plans to give the character fangs and a busty human girlfriend were ditched.
3DO: One of the first consoles to offer more colourful 32-bit graphics and the ability to play videos and music as well as games. However, the 3DO was a flop, largely due to its high price. The problem was that its developer licensed the right to make the console to other firms but did not give the manufacturers a cut of software sales, leaving them dependent on the hardware alone for profit.
Sony PlayStation 2: The PS2 remains the bestselling console to date and was only discontinued in 2013. In addition to offering exclusives - including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec - it also doubled up as many people's first DVD player.
Xbox 360: Microsoft's console was the first to offer 1080p high definition graphics and built-in wireless connectivity for its controllers. It also helped popularise the idea of using the net to download games and connect with other players via Xbox Live, as well as introducing the Kinect motion control system.
Alec Warburton, 59, has not been seen since 31 July and was reported missing two days later.
Since then his Peugeot 205 was used to travel to north west Wales and returned to Swansea before later being found at Birkenhead ferry port, near Liverpool.
Police had previously called for lodger David Ellis, 40, to get in touch.
His last known movements are CCTV footage of him boarding a ferry to Belfast on 5 August.
Officers have searched in and around Mr Warburton's house in Vivian Road, Sketty, where they both lived, and a police tent was put up on the street.
Another lodger, Christian Evans, told BBC Radio Wales: "Alec kept himself to himself.
"He was a nice guy and we hope we can get to the bottom of this as soon as possible to give any justice that might be needed, and closure for tenants and his brother."
Friday marks one month since a murder investigation was launched.
The European Steel Association urged the EU to dismiss the idea, saying the country would flood the market.
Ahead of the EU membership referendum, leave campaigners said this strengthened their case.
But remain vote supporters said there was a better chance of protecting the industry at an EU level than a UK one.
The association is concerned, if China is recognised as a market economy, its products, including steel, will have easier access to the EU single market.
But Remain supporters said China had not met the criteria to become a market economy, and this status would not be granted.
Thousands of Welsh steel jobs are at risk following Tata Steel's decision in March to sell its UK operations - including 4,100 at its Port Talbot site.
One of the problems facing the industry has been China's ability to sell steel in Europe below the cost of production, as it attempts to get rid of an excess.
Because its government has been seen to interfere in the market, deflating prices to achieve this, the European Commission considers it a non-market economy.
This means it has been able to impose taxes on some of its products coming into Europe.
But the commission is considering changing China's status to that of a market economy, with concerns this could mean its exports would face lower tariffs as a consequence.
"I think we will not survive," said Karl Tachelet of the European Steel Association, when asked by the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme about the impact.
"The excess capacity of China is estimated at 350 to 400 million tonnes.
"The total steel demand in Europe, which is by far the second biggest steel market in the world, is around 170m tonnes."
But Welsh Labour MEP Derek Vaughan said China did not meet the proper criteria to gain that status - so the concerns were unfounded.
"Currently the European Parliament's position is that we would not accept market economy status for China," he said.
"There are many people including myself who feel China have not met the five criteria they need to meet and therefore they won't get granted market economy status at the end of the year."
The commission must issue a proposal on China's trading status by the end of 2016, which will then need to be rubber-stamped by the European Parliament and EU member states.
Campaigners for the UK to leave the EU say the issue is reason enough to get out.
Gisela Stuart MP, chairwoman of the official Vote Leave campaign, visiting Cardiff, said: "I think it's very, very serious concerns.
"But it also shows that the European Commission, which has been investigating Chinese steel dumping for the last 10 years without taking any action, is clearly not acting in our best interest."
But Mr Vaughan said: "We want to speed up the time it takes to impose anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese steel and the amount of tariffs that can be imposed on Chinese steel.
"But unfortunately on each occasion we have tried to do that it's been the UK government and others who have blocked it.
"I think we have got a much better chance of protecting the steel industry at a European level than at a UK level."
Sunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 11:35 BST, on Sunday 5 June
Last October, the Japanese company said its NI workforce was likely to be impacted by 1,800 job losses across the UK.
The firm employs just over 700 people in Northern Ireland, 451 in Belfast and 250 in Londonderry.
However, Unite has now said total job losses across Northern Ireland are likely to be in the region of 11 to 20.
The union said that management had indicated that the bulk of the workforce are no longer included in the scope of potential redundancies being considered currently.
A spokesperson for the company said it could not comment on the union's claim because the consultation process was still ongoing.
Fujitsu, which has 14,000 UK staff, said the job losses across its UK offices were necessary to better compete with foreign rivals that offer IT services more cheaply.
The firm has a range of businesses in the UK, from software services to providing air conditioning units.
Last March, Fujitsu announced that 40 employees faced redundancy as it was closing its maintenance and repair centre in Antrim.
It said following a review, it was transferring the work to Belfast, and Solihull in England.
The Manchester band will be the main act at the 2016 festival, which is being held at Strathallan Castle on Friday 8 July.
They will also play two gigs at Manchester's Etihad Stadium on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 June.
DF Concerts said a limited release of tickets for T in the Park would go on sale at 09:30 this Friday.
Rumours were sparked after posters featuring the band's logo appeared in Manchester.
Pictures of white posters with an image of a lemon, which featured on the band's debut album in 1989, were shared online.
Suggestions ranged from homecoming shows and festival slots, to a 2016 tour.
Some thought the lemon posters pointed to a long-awaited new album, which has been rumoured since the band reunited in 2012.
It would be their first record since 1994's Second Coming.
T in the Park is being held from 8-10 July.
The 24-year-old posted on Instagram: "If Man United and Liverpool fans feel better by calling me a black monkey in my messages .. feel free to carry on if it makes your day better."
Ivory Coast international Zaha signed for Manchester United in 2013.
Zaha is in Hong Kong with the club for the Premier League Asia Trophy.
He posted the message following the 2-0 win over West Brom on Saturday, in which Palace manager Frank de Boer said the winger had been the victim of rough treatment.
With the year-end top ranking on the line, Murray won the much-anticipated final 6-3 6-4 at London's O2 Arena.
"I'm very happy to win and to be world number one is very special," said the Scot. "It's very special playing against Novak in a match like this."
Murray, 29, extended his career-best winning run to 24 matches.
The victory also ends Djokovic's four-year run of success at the tournament and the Serb's bid to equal Roger Federer's record of six titles.
Murray, who had won 10 of the pair's previous 34 encounters, added: "We've played Grand Slam finals and in the Olympics before, but I am very happy to win.
"It is something I never expected," he said, his win capping off a weekend that also saw brother Jamie Murray and partner Bruno Soares crowned world number one doubles pair.
A capacity crowd of 17,000 packed into the O2 Arena to witness a match that felt more like a heavyweight championship boxing bout than a tennis match, and it was Murray who rose to the occasion.
"Andy is definitely number one in the world," said Djokovic. "He deserved to win. He is the best player.
"In the decisive moments, I wasn't able to come back. I played better late in the match but it wasn't enough."
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Murray went into the match having played over three hours more than Djokovic during the course of the week, but in the end it was his big-match sharpness that prevailed.
He played with far greater purpose than Djokovic, who made 30 unforced errors in an unusually erratic performance.
Murray's experience of winning matches day in, day out through the second half of the year shone through, in contrast to the more tentative Djokovic we have seen since he won the French Open.
The Briton did open the match with a double fault, and another three points later, but he pressed for the break at 3-3 after Djokovic sent an easy smash wildly long and wide.
The breakthrough game two games later when Murray fired a forehand into the corner for a 5-3 lead, and the set followed after 46 minutes.
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Murray simply grew stronger and Djokovic more error-prone as the second set unfolded, two breaks giving him a seemingly impregnable 4-1 lead, before the champion fought back.
Djokovic recovered one break and raced through a service game to cut the deficit to 4-3, but Murray steadied the ship with a solid service hold to move within a game of victory.
When he beat Djokovic to win Wimbledon in 2013, Murray had to come through a tortuous 14-minute final game, and there was more tension this time.
The crowd were gripped as two match points passed before Djokovic finally succumbed on the third to give up his title - and the mantle of best player in the world.
Andrew Castle, BBC Sport tennis commentator
This achievement, to put in perspective, is bigger than any grand slam. It takes an awful lot of work.
I didn't think it was possible today. Murray only had 24 hours to recover after a really taxing match. The first five games were important for Murray to establish himself and when he got the break, he took it. That is when the belief round here grew.
You knew Djokovic wouldn't go away without a fight but Murray found a way to get over the line.
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Brown, who turns 90 this month, has played chain-smoking Dot Cotton - now Branning - since July 1985, six months after the soap first aired.
She told Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that her role was a reason to get up in the morning and said: "As soon as I get on the stage it's as if I have energy."
A smoker in real life too, Brown chose tobacco seeds as her luxury item.
Asked by host Kirsty Young how she keeps her energy levels up to act, Brown said: "I haven't really got very much now but I find when I get on set, my energy comes.
"It's like people can go on stage and break an ankle and they don't notice till they come off.
"I can be feeling like death warmed up when I come in, and then I'm alive. It keeps me alive."
She added: "I think that's why a lot of people are very lonely and get ill when they're older, because I think loneliness and having no motivation, nothing to work towards... I think it kills you."
When asked whether she was interested in retiring, she said: "No not at all, I couldn't possibly.
"What would I do?"
When Dot Cotton arrived in Albert Square in 1985, Brown was in her late 50s.
Actor Leslie Grantham, who played Dirty Den, suggested her for the role, which she played from 1985 to 1993, and from 1997 onwards.
Before EastEnders, Brown's career included stage, film and television, with appearances in Coronation Street and Doctor Who.
In 2008, the actress became the first in a British soap to carry an entire episode alone, with an emotional monologue dictated to a cassette for her screen husband to listen to in hospital following a stroke.
Brown was appointed MBE in 2008 for her services to drama and charity.
Brown said her independence was "extremely important" to her.
"If people put out hands to help me out of a car I say 'no thank you' - I won't accept it.
"And I get up and I don't push myself up from the arm of a chair. I use my thighs because you have to do that.
"You can act yourself into age, you can act yourself into anything you want."
The Bafta-nominated actress said she was "quite upset" about Dot losing her sight.
Her character had worked in Albert Square's laundrette until recent months when she retired against her will.
"I feel that Dot - she's very quick and quick moving and quick speaking - and I do not want to become a dependent old woman, or otherwise my character's gone, and I might as well not be there," she said.
"I can run as Dot, I find myself running across the road, and I don't want to lose my character.
"It's like being in a wheelchair or something, and not ever getting out of it."
Brown said she would grow her own tobacco from seeds if she was stranded on a desert island and would make paper from the leaves - displaying a love for cigarettes that she shares with Dot.
You can listen to June Brown's Desert Island Discs on BBC iPlayer Radio.
The film, which sees Britain's Tom Hardy take on Mel Gibson's role as "Road Warrior" Max Rockatansky, will screen out of competition on 14 May.
Charlize Theron also appears in George Miller's futuristic action drama, set for release in the UK and US on 15 May.
Gibson made his last appearance as Max in 1985 in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the third film in the series.
The original Mad Max, released in 1979, was followed by Mad Max 2, also known as The Road Warrior, in 1981.
Set in a post-apocalyptic universe where biker gangs fight for petrol and water, Fury Road sees Hardy's taciturn loner form an alliance with Theron's Imperator Furiosa.
First mooted more than a decade ago, Fury Road was originally to have seen Gibson return as Max - only for the production to hit problems.
After filming finally began in 2012, scenes originally intended to be shot in Australia had to be filmed in Namibia instead after heavy rain caused flowers to sprout in a formerly arid area of New South Wales.
The full list of films on this year's official Cannes line-up will be announced on 16 April.
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Celtic had eight attempts on goal in the first half - including a missed Griffiths penalty - before the striker made amends just before the break.
Motherwell had their goalkeeper Connor Ripley to thank for keeping them in it before Scott McDonald equalised.
But Griffiths struck again, the ball squirming through Ripley's legs.
It was a bitter end to what had been a terrific performance by the Englishman.
Celtic lorded it early on. The irony was that of all their pot-shots at goal the one shot that did not trouble Ripley was that missed Griffiths penalty.
Patrick Roberts, excellent in the first half, had the first of those chances, Nir Bitton the second and Griffiths the third. All of them were beaten away by Ripley.
Midway through the half, Roberts' quick feet bamboozled Morgaro Gomis and the penalty was won - and then missed. Griffiths pulled his effort wide of Ripley's left-hand post. Bizarrely for a man who has scored buckets of goals this season, it was Griffiths' fourth miss from the penalty spot since August.
Ripley continued dealing with the Celtic barrage. Lovely build-up play put Colin Kazim-Richards through on goal but Ripley denied him, this time with his feet.
Motherwell, in that opening half, had none of the edge that had helped them win five on the spin. Their use of the ball was awful, their composure suffering some kind of peculiar bypass.
They continued to invite Celtic on to them. Kieran Tierney and Roberts, again, forced saves from Ripley. True, many of these blocks from the keeper were from attempts delivered straight down his throat, but he had still made seven saves by the time the game was 40 minutes old.
A minute before the break, he was beaten at last, Tierney delivering from the left and Griffiths sweeping it home from close range. One goal was the least that their pressure deserved, but even that slender margin was to be wiped out soon enough.
Motherwell turned up at the party in the second half. At last, they had a bit of attitude and accuracy going forward.
McDonald had the ball in the Celtic net 10 minutes into the half but it was disallowed, controversially, for offside. Celtic now became the nervy team. Dedryck Boyata was an unsettling presence at the heart of their defence as Motherwell's confidence grew.
The equaliser came on the hour when Chris Cadden got the better of Tierney on the left and pulled it back for Celtic's old boy, McDonald, to thump home, aided by a slight deflection off Boyata's knee. It was an emphatic finish from the Australian - one that utterly stunned the visitors.
Celtic dug it out, though. With 15 minutes left - and just after an angry exchange that could have seen Kazim-Richards sent off - Griffiths struck again, his snapshot going through Ripley's legs.
A frustrated figure for much of the afternoon, the irrepressible Celtic striker found a way of getting the job done - again.
The manifesto opposes renewal of the Trident nuclear weapon system - subject to all existing jobs being retained - and fracking.
It also sets out Labour's opposition to a second independence referendum for the duration of the next parliament.
And it makes an anti-austerity pledge to stop cuts by increasing spending on public services in real terms.
The document was unveiled by Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale in Edinburgh with just a week of campaigning left before the election on 5 May.
It promises real terms protection of health, education, policing and culture budgets.
And it proposes raising money to pay for public services by increasing income tax by 1% across all bands and increasing the top rate for those earning more than £150,000 from 45p to 50p.
Ms Dugdale insisted Labour was the "only party offering an alternative to austerity" as she set out plans to use the powers of the Scottish Parliament to "invest in the future and stop the cuts to public services".
She has pledged to put education at the heart of her party's proposals for government, which include funding for a breakfast club in every primary school and an after-school sports "revolution" for every secondary school.
The breakfast clubs policy could see an average investment of £6,500 at every school. Ms Dugdale said it could help grow the economy and help women in particular thrive in their jobs.
Further pledges for children in the manifesto include a "fair start fund" of £1,000 for every child from a deprived background to cut the attainment gap between "the richest and the rest" in classrooms, funding for primary school teachers to go on computer coding courses and scrapping charges for exam appeals.
What to discern from all this? That Labour perceives it has a problem with definition in the minds of the Scottish public, that voters wonder - or, rather, have been wondering - what Labour stands for, that Labour knows it needs to remedy that, for the immediate election and - should they fail to win this time - for subsequent contests.
To be clear, Ms Dugdale is pressing for every single vote. Like the SNP, she wants the electorate to back her party on both the constituency and list ballot papers.
Should that accumulate into overall victory, Ms Dugdale would be more than delighted to move into Houses, Bute and St Andrew's.
And if it does not? If Labour falls short? The manifesto launch then kicks into alternative mode - which involves two facets.
One, Labour hopes that with its offer on tax and education, it has more firmly established its political credentials in the public mind.
Two, Labour hopes that it may have set a series of traps which could snap shut upon the SNP government during the coming term.
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Speaking at the launch, Ms Dugdale said: "This is a manifesto in the best traditions of the Labour Party. This plan for a Labour government is Labour at our boldest best.
"It is the return of the Labour Party that gave us the NHS, the minimum wage, the Labour Party that established the Scottish Parliament.
"It is a positive plan that returns to Labour's roots and invests in our nation's future. Our manifesto isn't about the politician on the front cover. Our manifesto is about the people of Scotland.
"It is about the powers that Scotland holds. It is about the potential of our nation."
Opinion polls have suggested Labour is facing a battle for second place with the Conservatives, while the SNP appears to be on course for a second successive majority and a third consecutive term in government.
To help pay for the extra measures outlined in its manifesto as it seeks to put clear water between itself and the other parties, Labour has proposed a number of tax reforms.
Ms Dugdale opposes George Osborne's rise in the threshold for the 40p income tax rate, and wants to increase the top rate to 50p for those earning more than £150,000 and to add 1p to all other income tax bands.
She also wants to abolish the current system of council tax, replacing it with a new property-based levy including a revaluation of property prices across Scotland.
The party has argued that 80% of people would pay less under its proposals than they currently do through the council tax.
Labour would also seek to empower local government by devolving tax-raising powers such as a tourism tax, land value tax and a surplus from the Crown Estate.
On the NHS, Labour wants to protect the health service budget in real terms, guarantee an appointment at a GP surgery within 48 hours, provide increased university places for medical students and invest more in advanced nurse practitioners.
The party has also set a target of having 60,000 new homes built across the next parliament, including 45,000 for social rent, alongside a plan to help first-time buyers get on the property ladder.
On Trident renewal - which was supported by Ms Dugdale but opposed by Scottish Labour as a whole at its conference - the manifesto says it will "make a submission to the UK party's national defence review opposing the renewal of Trident, subject to defence diversification agency guaranteeing the retention of all existing jobs."
And on the issue of independence, Ms Dugdale said it was time to "move on from the arguments of the past" and instead use the new powers coming to the Scottish Parliament to "make different decisions and act in the best interests of the people of Scotland".
Ms Dugdale said her party's opposition to a second independence referendum was "unequivocal" and that it was a "myth" that independence was the only way to change things".
She also said she was "appalled" that the SNP seemed unwilling to use Holyrood's new powers.
Following on from their 23-10 Challenge Cup win in April, they again restricted Leigh to two tries, from Daniel Mortimer and Atelea Vea.
But Rovers ran in three themselves from the experienced Shaun Lunt, who got two, and winger Ryan Shaw.
Jamie Ellis kicked four goals for Rovers, as did Leigh's Josh Drinkwater.
Both sides had won their opening game in The Qualifiers, but only Rovers and Warrington, who beat Catalans Dragons, now have 100 per cent records.
Leigh coach Neil Jukes:
"Ultimately it was a game of inches - both teams competed high and kicked pretty well. Nobody gave each other an inch.
"There was a clear knock-on in the build-up to Lunt's second try and even though it went to the screen they (the video ref) didn't even look at it.
"In a game of that magnitude, you can't get those things wrong. It's a tough competition. Losing has not made it impossible. It has just added pressure on the next few games."
Hull KR coach Tim Sheens:
"To win two out of two and one against a Super League side certainly helps, there's no doubt about that. Leigh completed at a very high rate and they battered us in the middle.
"We got lucky on the play the ball for Lunt's try on the try-line. And we hung in right till the end. We were not as clever as them with our kicking options but we managed to keep turning their fellahs around.
"We will enjoy the win but it means nothing if we don't come out with the right attitude next week. London at home will be a tough game again."
Leigh: McNally; Dawson, Fleming, Langi, Higson; Mortimer, Drinkwater; Hansen, Higham, Maria, Vea, Paterson, Burr.
Replacements: Hood, Richards, Tickle, Stewart.
Hull KR: Moss; Carney, Blair, Hefernan, Shaw; Marsh, Ellis; Scruton, Lawler, Jewitt, Addy, Clarkson, Kavanagh.
Replacements: Lunt, Greenwood, Atkin, Masoe.
Referee: Jack Smith (RFL).
Spy Booth depicted 1950s-style spies "snooping" on a man in a phone box. It appeared in 2014, three miles from government listening post GCHQ.
A pile of rubble now lies on the ground below the wall of the house it was on.
The piece gained listed status last year after Cheltenham Borough Council granted it retrospective planning permission.
A social media post on Saturday appeared to show the mural being cut down behind a tarpaulin, with the sound of machinery audible.
Local people had campaigned to save the artwork, on the corner of Fairview Road and Hewlett Road, after an apparent attempt to remove it for it to be sold in July 2014.
It was later defaced with spray paint and has been vandalised several times since.
In January this year the Grade II-listed house was put for for sale.
A Gloucestershire Police spokeswoman said the force had had no reports of a crime being committed.
Looking behind the tarpaulin and scaffolding which had already been erected around the Banksy, all that can be seen now is a bare brick wall and a pile of rubble.
But has the Banksy artwork actually been destroyed?
Bits of the rubble definitely have plaster on them, but there do not appear to be many pieces with paint on them.
So could Spy Booth have in fact been taken away and saved?
A post on Twitter from a local resident suggests it is not the last we have seen of the mural.
"It'll be back. Plans have been made," the post says.
Or perhaps that simply means it will be repainted one day?
All attempts I have made today to contact the house owner have failed.
Until we find out exactly what has happened to Spy Booth, it will remain a mystery.
Steve Jordan, leader of Cheltenham Borough Council, said work had been taking place to repair plasterwork on the wall of the house after the council had issued an enforcement notice.
But he said he was unaware the Banksy had vanished.
"It is protected by a listing. I will have a look at what the situation is, certainly," he said.
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It is the 51-year-old's first job since he was sacked as United manager in April after a 10-month spell in charge.
Moyes replaces Jagoba Arrasate, who was dismissed by Sociedad after a poor run of form which currently sees them lie 15th in La Liga.
The Scot has signed a contract to June 2016 and will take charge for the first time at Deportivo on 22 November.
Sociedad announced the appointment late on Monday in a statement on their website.
"Real Sociedad have reached an agreement with David Moyes," it read.
"Details about the official presentation of Real Sociedad's new coach and who will form part of his technical team will be published tomorrow [Tuesday] morning."
Moyes recently told BBC Football Focus he was ready to return to management but would wait for the "right job".
In the interview, he did not rule out a job in Europe.
"It is something that we don't report enough - British managers outside the shores," he said.
"It will actually help the development of coaches where you can come back and give a bit back to them - tell them the experience you have had working in Spain, Italy, Germany or wherever it may be."
Former Preston and Everton boss Moyes took over at Manchester United as a successor to Sir Alex Ferguson, who had an illustrious 26 years in charge at Old Trafford.
However, Moyes was sacked with United lying seventh in the Premier League four games from the end of last season.
He faced Basque side Sociedad as United manager, recording a 1-0 win at Old Trafford and a 0-0 draw in Spain during the Champions League group phase.
Moyes becomes the fourth British manager of the club.
Harry Lowe was in charge for five years from 1930, while John Toshack had three spells in charge, with the last coming to an end in 2002.
Toshack's fellow Welshman Chris Coleman lasted less than seven months following his appointment in July 2007.
Although they are 15th in La Liga, Sociedad have already beaten Real Madrid this season and recorded their second win of the campaign on Sunday when they overcame champions Atletico Madrid.
"You are a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have @BarackObama back," the tweet said.
It also asserted that the president had "tiny hands".
"We deleted the tweet, secured our account and are now investigating this," tweeted McDonald's, not long after the message was removed.
The firm said that it had been notified by Twitter that the account had been "compromised".
It was not clear whether this meant that the account had been hacked or, for example, taken over by a rogue employee.
In January, the BBC said that one of its accounts had been hacked after it reported that Donald Trump had been shot.
The disc, circa 312 to 410AD, found near Swaffham in February, is inscribed 'Antonius, may you live in God'.
Adrian Marsden, finds officer based at Norwich Castle Museum, said: "We have practically no other evidence for any Christians in Norfolk."
The disc was declared treasure at an inquest in King's Lynn.
Mr Marsden added: "The disc that would have been set into the bezel from a signet ring constitutes important evidence for Christianity in late Roman Norfolk.
"The inscription, translating as 'Antonius, may you live in God', is a Christian formula and we have practically no other evidence - apart from a broadly similar ring in gold from Brancaster - for any Christians in Norfolk.
"On one level, of course, this is good negative evidence, implying that most people at the time worshipped the old gods. On another, it shows there were one or two Christians around.
"The ring would have been a gift to Antonius, perhaps on the occasion of his conversion, coming of age or betrothal/marriage."
The inquest, led by Norfolk coroner William Armstrong, also declared a rectangular Viking silver ingot and four Iron Age silver units as treasure.
"The Vikings didn't use coined money at this date but bullion, so these ingots are useful examples of how trade was carried on," said Mr Marsden.
The 28mm (1.1in) ingot, circa 850 to 1000AD, was found by a metal detector enthusiast near Downham Market last summer and features a decorative motif typical on jewellery of the Viking period.
Mr Marsden added: "The ingot offers some interesting possibilities for metallurgical analysis, to look at how pure they are and what sort of other metals if any might be alloyed with the silver."
The Norwich Castle Museum hopes to acquire the ingot and Roman disc for their collection.
Many who had previously ignored its existence are now frantically googling the Belgian region of 3.6 million after it singlehandedly blocked an EU trade deal with Canada - one that every national government in the bloc wanted ratified.
But it is not the first time in history that the French-speaking area has punched well above its weight. Here are eight things you probably didn't know about it.
During the heyday of the industrial revolution, Wallonia became the second most industrialised area in the world after Britain, thanks to its deposits of coal and iron, and was Belgium's richer half.
Since then, however, the tables have turned. Wallonia's smokestack industries collapsed as Flanders developed a dynamic services economy and the Flemish GDP roared ahead. The Walloons are now the poor relations.
Wallonia does, however, produce a lot of weapons and medication. It is home to FN Herstal, which makes the M4 assault rifle and is owned by the Wallonia government. It is also home to pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.
So there is some economic diversity but - as the Financial Times newspaper notes - a diet of bullets and pills is not altogether healthy.
The biggest city in Wallonia, Charleroi is known for its grim post-industrial decay and was voted the ugliest city in the world in a Dutch newspaper survey. It also has a reputation for corruption.
In fact it's so bad it's good. Enterprising locals offer an "urban safari" through the blight, taking visitors to Belgium's "most depressing street" and stopping by the home of notorious serial killer Marc Dutroux. Graffiti is ubiquitous and the city has drawn comparisons with Berlin and even Brooklyn as it looks to achieve its own rise from the ruins.
Unlike the Flemish, the Walloons do not consider themselves a nation or desire an independent state - and this isn't just due to their economic weakness. A poll found that only a tiny minority of Walloons wanted Belgium to break up and if secession was forced on them, about half wanted to be attached to France.
Some have even called for such a move, particularly in the city of Liege, a free principality for 800 years before joining Belgium.
People there have strong cultural ties to the "chtis", as people from northern France are known. "A mere two centuries of Belgium have not severed those bonds," one Liege resident told the BBC.
It's controversial, but there is a theory that French fries may actually be from Belgium. It is said that US soldiers stationed in Belgium during World War Two may have called them French fries because the locals were speaking French.
The Spanish introduced potatoes to Europe in the 15th Century and there is some evidence that the first potatoes were fried in the 17th Century between Liege and Dinant in Wallonia.
It is thought that people in the area were fond of frying small fish from the River Meuse and when the river froze over one year they began frying strips of potato instead.
Wallonia's most famous artist is Rene Magritte, who hailed from Lessines. Magritte, whose mother committed suicide when he was young, wore a trademark bowler hat and painted in his lounge.
His surrealist paintings have inspired pop and conceptual art, the cover of a Rolling Stones record, a video by Oasis, and a song by Paul Simon. One of his paintings sold for $11.5m (about £9.4m) in New York in 2002 and there is a museum dedicated to his work in Brussels.
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Georges Simenon was a prolific author who wrote hundreds of novels, including 75 that featured his best known character, Paris detective Commissaire Maigret,
He was born in Liege and worked on the city newspaper before becoming an author. He also achieved notoriety in 1977 for claiming to have slept with 10,000 women since the age of 13.
A tenuous claim, but not one that the Wallonian authorities are giving up on. Iconic actress Hepburn was born in Brussels in 1929 and spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands.
Wallonia is linked to Brussels through the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, a political entity that has responsibilities in the areas of culture, education and sport.
As a result, the Brussels-Wallonia Tourist Board and Wallonia's representative office in the UK are happy to refer to her as one of their own.
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The United boss questioned the pair for missing Sunday's 3-1 Premier League win at Swansea, saying: "For the team, you have to do anything."
Smalling has a foot injury, while Shaw played in United's Europa League defeat by Fenerbahce on Thursday.
Southgate said there was "obviously something wrong" with both players.
Central defender Smalling, 26, and left-back Shaw, 21, have been left out of the England squad for Friday's 2018 World Cup qualifier against Scotland and next week's friendly against Spain.
Shaw has played six league games this season since returning from a double leg break last September.
Asked by media if the two players were "flaky" characters, Southgate replied: "That wouldn't be my impression.
"Luke I know well and Luke's had a really tough injury. I think very often it's easy to look from the outside or to make judgements on people without knowing them really, really well."
Shaw and Smalling have played with pain-killing injections this season and there are reports that former Southampton full-back Shaw is "baffled" by Mourinho's criticism.
Before the Swansea game, the Manchester United manager said: "Smalling doesn't feel that he can play 100% with his pain. Shaw told me this morning that he was not able to play.
"There is a difference between the brave, who want to play at any cost, and the ones for whom a little pain can make a difference."
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"Blood-stained money, blood-stained power, you can't bring it with you to your next life. Repent," he said.
He was speaking at a prayer vigil for relatives of those killed by the mafia.
The Pope has spoken out frequently about the evils of corruption and wrote a booklet on the subject in 2005 when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires.
The meeting near Rome on Friday - organised by a citizens' group called Libera - was aimed at demonstrating the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to organised crime, and rejecting what some critics say were links between parts of the Church and mafia bosses who claimed to be good Catholics.
The vigil was filled with those who have suffered at the hands of the mafia, including people whose family members and loved ones had been killed.
As the names of those murdered were read out, the Pope listened, deep in sombre thought, says he BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome.
After expressing solidarity with the 842 people at the vigil, he said that he could not leave the service without addressing those not present: The "protagonists" of mafia violence.
"This life that you live now won't give you pleasure. It won't give you joy or happiness," he said.
"There's still time to not end up in hell, which is what awaits you if you continue on this path."
Our correspondent says there is a long list of brave priests in Italy who have stood up to the mafia, and some have paid with lives.
But he says that the wider Church has been accused of not doing enough to confront the gangsters.
Anti-mafia activists hope that the Pope's words are a signal that he is on their side.
Problems with a new Scottish government computer system have caused delays to many Scottish farmers due the money.
The Scottish government had been facing fines of between £40m and £125m if it did not meet the June deadline.
But the EU's commissioner for agriculture, Phil Hogan, announced the new date.
The move followed a meeting between the commissioner and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in Edinburgh last month.
Mr Hogan stressed that this was "an exceptional measure" which reflected the difficulties some member states and devolved regions had experienced with the first year of payments under the new CAP.
He emphasised that the move should not be used as an "excuse" to slow down the rate of payments.
Any deadline shift must not be used as an excuse by the Scottish government in delaying the payment of outstanding 2015 monies any further."
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing said the extended deadline would not detract from efforts to make as many payments as possible by the original June cut-off date.
He added: "This flexibility is welcome but it will not detract from my determination to make full payments to as many Scottish farmers as possible by 30 June. This remains my absolute priority.
"Today's announcement by the EU Commission reflects the challenges being faced by countries across Europe in implementing this CAP reform and making payments, and reduces the potential for financial penalties being imposed on administrations."
NFU Scotland chief executive Scott Walker said: "The shift in the European deadline for making payments is good news for the Scottish taxpayer, as it will significantly lessen the risk of a hefty fine.
"The recent Audit Scotland report estimated that failure to deliver payments by the end of June could have cost the Scottish government between £40m and £125m.
"However, any deadline shift must not be used as an excuse by the Scottish government in delaying the payment of outstanding 2015 monies any further or hold back progress with the 2016 scheme."
This flexibility is welcome but it will not detract from my determination to make full payments to as many Scottish farmers as possible by 30 June
Scottish Conservative rural affairs spokesman Peter Chapman said the Scottish government had been "let off the hook by this decision".
He added: "This should by no means absolve the SNP, or indeed the former rural affairs secretary Richard Lochhead, from blame for this debacle.
"Furthermore, this cannot be used as an excuse for any further delays in the distribution of CAP payments to farmers and crofters.
"The government must continue to work urgently to ensure that all payments are issued in full as soon as possible."
Scottish Labour said that given the "complete mess" the SNP had made of CAP payments, the extended date was a "welcome decision".
The party's rural economy spokeswoman, Rhoda Grant, said: "I will be writing to SNP minister Fergus Ewing seeking confirmation that the government's first priority remains ensuring that farmers and crofters receive their money by the end of June as previously stated."
The Scottish Greens said despite the delay to financial sanctions, the 30 June delivery deadline remained and "must be made to get the rural economy back on track again".
The Scottish Liberal Democrats believed there still required an urgency to get money into the bank accounts of farmers.
The party's Mike Rumbles said: "SNP incompetence has blown a hole in the ability of farmers to plan their finances effectively.
"We need to ensure that funds get out of the door and into bank accounts before the end of June."
"I think it's very much back to 1981," says Bernie O'Connor, who played a role in helping to bring about Northern Ireland's most polarised election of recent times.
The school teacher persuaded the other nationalist candidate, Noel Maguire, to stand aside.
And then in a manoeuvre designed to outsmart Austin Currie, who promised to stand against the IRA hunger striker, he kept the news secret until five minutes before nominations closed thus ensuring the vote would not be divided.
Today he's preparing for battle again.
The sitting Sinn Féin MP, Michelle Gildernew, faces just one unionist challenger, Tom Elliott, while she is also competing for votes with the SDLP's John Coyle.
For Bernie O'Connor there are strong echoes of the past.
He told The View on BBC One Northern Ireland: "I think it's very much back to the high percentage poll that we need to go out, because a vote not cast in this election is really a vote for Tom Elliott; a vote cast for the SDLP in this election is a vote for Tom Elliott.
"I think it is very much back to that again where people have got to come out and vote and show that what we stand for, we really mean here in this constituency."
For those depressed by the thought of things not moving on since the days of the hunger strikes, the antidote is supplied by former local newspaper editor Denzil McDaniel.
He says cross-community relationships in Fermanagh's county town, Enniskillen, are probably better than anywhere in Northern Ireland.
"People do get on throughout the county - good neighbours help each other out most times of the year," he says.
"It's just when it comes to politics they decide to put their 'X' in a particular way."
That way is either unionist or nationalist, orange or green, and Frank McManus, who was the nationalist unity MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1970 to 1974, agrees.
"The first question is always, are you for the union or agin' the union, and fortunately the majority in Fermanagh and South Tyrone has always been agin' the union," he says.
"Now that doesn't mean that the nationalists have always won, because nationalists have become divided.
"If you add the votes of young Coyle and Michelle Gildnernew, certainly there'll be a majority.
"The question is will she get enough, or will he get few enough, to allow her to succeed?
"I very much hope she does succeed. I think she will, though I've spoken to a few people recently who would be supporters of hers and they say that the numbers aren't as good as they were."
Mr McManus says emigration could be a factor.
"All you've to do is look at Gaelic football teams where lots of young people have left for economic reasons," he says.
In 2010 the Ulster Unionists and the DUP backed a single candidate. Rodney Connor was a former chief executive of the local district council.
The gamble failed by just four votes, a margin subsequently reduced to a single vote by an electoral court.
So can Tom Elliott succeed where Rodney Connor so narrowly failed? Yes, according to the last unionist to win. Lord Maginnis held the seat as plain Ken Maginnis from 1983 until 1997.
"I've seen so many things happen vis-à-vis UUP/DUP that I've still got slight hang-ups about Peter Robinson's party (DUP), but having said that I don't see Fermanagh and South Tyrone in those terms," he says.
"I see Fermanagh and South Tyrone in terms of the 60,000 or 70,000 people that I represented, and you cannot effectively represent the interests of one section; Tom Elliott knows that.
"You represent the interests of the community and that's hard work. I think he's up for it."
Five candidates have so far announced they are standing in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the general election:
The View was broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Thursday 2 April, and is available to watch on the iPlayer.
Prime Minister David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nicola Sturgeon laid wreaths at the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall.
The Queen later lit the first of hundreds of ceremonial beacons.
Events this weekend will commemorate the 70th anniversary of VE Day - the end of World War Two on the continent.
The Queen and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh greeted crowds gathered to watch the lighting ceremony at Windsor Great Park.
A series of beacons were also due to be lit at events throughout the country, including one at the Tower of London.
On 8 May 1945 people across the country lit hundreds of bonfires and beacons to celebrate the end of the war.
Earlier, more than 100 veterans joined Prince Andrew - a former Royal Navy helicopter pilot - along with senior politicians and military figures for the ceremony.
Among them was Mr Cameron, who was joined by Mr Miliband and Mr Clegg, in their last major roles as leaders of the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats following their post-election resignations, to lay wreaths.
SNP leader Ms Sturgeon also laid a wreath, and defence secretary Philip Hammond and newly-elected MP Boris Johnson also attended.
The Band of the Welsh Guards started the events by playing music by Handel and Lyell Cresswell with the buglers of the Royal Marines and Trumpeters of the Royal Air Force.
At 15:00 BST - the moment Prime Minister Winston Churchill broadcast the news of the German surrender to the nation - a two-minute silence was held.
Churchill's great grandson Randolph Churchill also read an extract from the speech the war-time prime minister gave 70 years ago.
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The Queen - who as Princess Elizabeth waved to the crowds on VE Day from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, alongside her parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth - will attend a service of thanksgiving on Sunday at Westminster Abbey.
After the service, veterans and serving members of the armed forces will parade along Whitehall, past the Treasury balcony from which Churchill delivered his historic address.
In addition to the remembrance ceremonies taking place, there will also be street parties and concerts across the UK to recreate the spirit of celebration on the day 70 years ago.
The biggest will be at Horse Guards Parade on Saturday, where musical acts including Pixie Lott and Status Quo will perform wartime songs and actors John Simm, Julia Sawalha and Laurence Fox will give readings.
The Royal British Legion, which has worked with the government to prepare the commemorations, will host a reception for 2,000 veterans at the park.
In a 24 hours which has been all about politics, the Service of Remembrance has been a time for a truly momentous day in British history to be remembered.
Seated around the Cenotaph were more than 100 veterans, sheltering under umbrellas from a light rain. Watching from behind metal barriers, the public.
Standing shoulder to shoulder were the Prime Minister David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband as well as Nicola Sturgeon. This was clearly no time for party politics.
After the laying of wreaths, Randolph Churchill, the great grandson of Winston Churchill, read an extract from the speech he gave exactly 70 years ago. "We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing but let us not forget the toil and efforts ahead."
Hundreds of smaller community events have been planned across the country after schools and local authorities were encouraged to take part.
There will also be commemorations in other European and Commonwealth countries.
Russia, which lost more citizens to the war than any other nation, is holding a Victory parade on Saturday in Moscow's Red Square. The UK, US and Germany have declined to send a representative in protest at Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Police suspect the attackers were members of the Mara Salvatrucha criminal gang who were trying to free one of their jailed leaders.
The leader had been taken under armed guard to Roosevelt Hospital for tests.
The gunmen opened fire outside the emergency department killing two guards, two hospital workers, a bystander and two children.
Another child is among those injured and in critical condition, the hospital's deputy director said.
Five suspected gunmen were arrested at the scene but the gang leader they were trying to free managed to escape.
Anderson Daniel Cabrera Cifuentes, 29, was serving a sentence for murder. He is believed to be the leader of a local Mara Salvatrucha cell.
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Confusion reigned at the hospital in the hours after the shooting.
Local media reported that a medical student had suffered a nervous breakdown after a bullet hit his rucksack and got lodged in his 500-page Clinical Anatomy text book.
The maternity ward was surrounded by at least 50 police officers after reports that one of the fugitive gunmen was hiding inside.
Officers arrested a man but released him again after confirming he was visiting his wife who had just given birth to twins in the maternity ward.
Following the attack, President Jimmy Morales asked judges to stop sending convicted criminals to hospitals for tests.
He said that mobile clinics would be installed in the country's prisons to deal with prisoner's needs on location.
Guatemalan jails suffer from serious overcrowding and existing prison health centres have been used to house prisoners.
Lee, who rarely gives interviews, said: "I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries. This is Mockingbird for a new generation."
The writer celebrated her 88th birthday on Monday, the same day as the announcement was made.
The e-book and audiobook will be published by HarperCollins on 8 July.
To Kill A Mockingbird was first published on 11 July in 1960 by JB Lippincott and Co, a company which went on to become part of HarperCollins.
It tells the story of small-town lawyer Atticus Finch's battle against racial prejudice as he defends a black man who is wrongly accused of raping a white woman.
Lee's only published novel, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and has sold 30 million copies in English worldwide.
It has also been translated into 40 languages.
The novel was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1962, with Gregory Peck picking up the best actor Academy award for his portrayal of Finch.
Considered to be a modern classic, it is regularly taught in schools in the UK and the US.
"Every home has a dog-eared copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, and now readers will be able to add this favourite book to their digital libraries," said Michael Morrison, president and publisher of HarperCollins US General Books Group and Canada.
"Although today is Nelle Harper Lee's birthday, she is giving readers around the world the gift of being able to read or listen to this extraordinary story in all formats."
The audiobook will be a downloadable edition of the existing CD, narrated by Oscar-winning actress Sissy Spacek.
HarperCollins said the e-book will feature "extra exclusive content".
It comes after six staff members were suspended from Bryn Hesketh in October after an allegation about patient care on the ward.
That allegation, made by another member of staff, was not upheld.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said a further investigation into four staff members was taking place.
The health board said the new investigation did not concern patient care.
"Some staff will continue to be absent from the ward whilst this investigation takes place," a spokesman said.
The health board did not confirm whether any of the staff in the latest investigation were the same as those previously investigated.
She wore the white T-shirt at the start of a debate on media sexism.
Chairman of the session, Labour's Jimmy Hood, interrupted her and told her to "put her jacket back on" and comply with Westminster's dress code.
Ms Lucas picked up a copy of The Sun and waved Page Three, but said she would comply with the ruling.
She added: "It does strike me as a certain irony that this T-shirt is regarded as an inappropriate thing to be wearing in this House, whereas apparently it is appropriate for this kind of newspaper to be available to buy in eight different outlets on the Palace of Westminster estate."
During the debate, the MP for Brighton Pavilion argued The Sun newspaper's Page Three, which features topless models, should be consigned to the "rubbish bin where it belongs".
She expressed her support for the No More Page Three campaign and said the content of the page was not acceptable in a family newspaper said to be seen by 7.5m people each day.
Earlier this year, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns The Sun, hinted on Twitter that Page Three may be replaced with a "halfway house" of "glamorous fashionistas".
Ms Lucas said: "To date, public pressure has secured the most public sign from The Sun's proprietor that the paper might scrap Page Three. But the clock is ticking and we still have not seen any concrete action.
"So if Page Three still hasn't been removed from The Sun by the end of this year, I think we should be asking the government to step in and legislate."
She also called for The Sun to be removed from sale in Parliament until it dropped the photo feature.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey said there were no plans to regulate the content of the press.
He said it was for adults to choose what they read, provided something remains within the law or does not impact inappropriately on the rights of an individual.
He added: "Freedom of expression is a vital part of our society. But, as well as maintaining this freedom, we as a government are committed to maintaining a media that commands respect from the public through high standards and is capable of appropriately protecting the rights of individuals."
Limited rules on member's dress are set out in Erskine May, the official parliamentary rule book. It says MPs should not wear military insignia or uniforms in the Commons and the custom is "for gentlemen members to wear jackets and ties".
However, other standards of dress are expected to be adhered to as a matter of convention.
A House of Commons spokesman said: "By convention members are expected not to use their clothing to display slogans or make debating points - members are expected to make their arguments through their speeches.
"It is for the chair of a debate to make a judgement on whether those conventions are being met."
The Great Famine of 1845-51 has the grim distinction of being the most costly natural disaster of modern times.
Ireland had witnessed a massive surge in population from 2.6 to 8.5 million by 1845 when blight struck the staple food of the masses - the potato.
Some 80% of this teeming population lived on the land, making Ireland one of the most densely populated countries in Europe.
Under a land system where most of the land was owned by the great Plantation landlords, vast numbers of the poorest 'cottier' class lived on 'potato gardens', often sub-divided among their sons.
By the 1840s, close on two-fifths of the population were totally dependant on the potato and it was the major food-source of the rest.
Between 1845 and 1849, the potato crop failed in three seasons out of four.
The result was starvation and the spread of the "road disease" - dysentery, typhus and cholera.
One million people died of hunger and disease during the crisis and more than one million emigrated, mainly to the United States - often in the notorious 'coffin ships', so-called because many people died because of the terrible conditions during the crossing.
In dealing with the crisis, the British government introduced 'Outdoor Relief' - the provision of soup kitchens in distressed area and public works, such as the building of roads and harbours.
However, these measures were woefully inadequate.
The country's workhouses were grossly overcrowded, adding to the vast mortality.
The claim that the Famine did not affect Ulster has been debunked by recent historical research.
Between 1845-51 Ulster's population fell by 340,000, a drop of 15.7% compared with 19.9% for the whole of lreland.
The greatest losses of population were in the south Ulster counties of Cavan, Fermanagh and Monaghan.
Fermanagh lost almost 30% of its inhabitants.
Tyrone, Antrim and Armagh were close to the national average with rates of around 15%.
Surprisingly, research shows that the events from 1845 to 51 affected normally prosperous parts of the north-east, including Belfast, north Down and particularly the linen triangle of north Armagh.
By December 1846 the first deaths from starvation were reported in the local press.
By early 1847 cholera was spreading in Fermanagh, with the Erne Packet reporting: "In Garvary Wood hundreds of corpses are buried, they were the victims of cholera and their relatives too weak to carry them to the graveyard."
One of the most surprising aspects of the Famine was its searing impact on traditionally prosperous parts of eastern Ulster.
Particularly hard-hit was the Lurgan-Portadown linen triangle of north Armagh.
Lurgan Workhouse in 1847 recorded the third highest mortality of any workhouse in Ireland.
An inquiry blamed the crisis on overcrowding and the fact that the corpses of fever victims were interred beside the workhouse well. The result was a cycle of death.
In normally prosperous Newtownards, there were queues at the soup kitchen of "emaciated and half-famished souls", covered with rags.
In 1847 the worst affected areas in Down included the Mournes and the fishing port of Kilkeel.
The reactions of the landlords varied. Lord Londonderry, the largest landowner in north Down, rejected rent reductions due to "personal inconvenience" and was much criticised.
Newry - the site of the all-island Famine Commemoration - became a key centre of emigration from south Ulster, with vessels carrying thousands direct to Canada and the United States.
Among these was the ill-fated 'coffin ship', the Hannah, carrying emigrants from South Armagh. Fifty people were drowned when it struck ice near Quebec.
The Famine had a traumatic impact on the growing industrial town of Belfast, which attracted large numbers of famished and disease-ridden people from all parts of Ulster.
In March 1847, typhus fever swept the town following the arrival in the port of the Swatara, an emigrant ship from Connacht.
The Plaguey Hill at Friar's Bush Graveyard in south Belfast is a grim cenotaph commemorating some 800 victims of 'Black '47'.
The commemoration to mark the 170th anniversary has been held at the Albert Basin in Newry, County Down.
Attended by ministers from the Irish government and the Northern Ireland Executive, it was the high point of a week of talks, walks, music and drama about the tragedy.
In her remarks, the Irish Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, recalled how in Newry workhouse all the health professionals died of fever.
"A point that has struck me forcibly is how the legacy and memory of the famine is deeply ingrained in the collective memory of the host community in Newry," she said.
Gilbey scored five goals in 37 League One games for Colchester last term, but could not prevent them being relegated.
The 21-year-old was described as "destined for the Premier League" by former U's boss Kevin Keen in January.
"Alex was one of the outstanding young talents in League One last season," Latics manager Gary Caldwell said.
"He's exactly the sort of player and person who suits this club and we're delighted to add him to the group for pre-season."
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The charity saw lifeboats at its 30 stations across Wales launch 1,175 times in 2016, an 11% rise on the previous year.
Mumbles RNLI in Swansea was the busiest station for the second year running, with 83 launches.
RNLI lifeguards also had a busy year, responding to 1,271 incidents across 39 patrolled beaches.
Matt Crofts, RNLI lifesaving manager, said the charity was "extremely grateful for the dedication show by its lifesavers" who spent almost 28,000 hours at sea last year.
"But we really do see our rescue service as a last resort," he said.
The 2016 Wales figures also showed:
The latest figures came as the charity celebrated the official opening of a new visitor centre in Vale of Glamorgan.
The Barry Island venue claims to be the first of its kind in the UK, focusing on drowning prevention.
The RNLI hopes to help teach 30,000 visitors a year about water safety, using bespoke interactive exhibitions.
It is part of the charity's bid to cut drowning deaths in Britain by 50% by 2024.
Speeding this process up - without compromising on safety or efficacy - would seem to be in everyone's interests.
And cloud computing is helping to do just that.
"Cloud platforms are globally accessible and easily available," says Kevin Julian, managing director at Accenture Life Sciences, Accelerated R&D Services division.
"This allows for real-time collection of data from around the world, providing better access to data from inside life sciences companies, as well as from the many partners they work with in the drug development process."
Clinical trials - testing how a new drug works on people once you've tested it on animals - are a crucial part of this process. But they can be very complex to organise and run.
There are three main phases, starting with a small group of healthy volunteers, then widening out to larger groups who would benefit from the drug.
"A big phase three trial will cost anything from $30m-$60m (£24m-£48m) for a pharma company," says Steve Rosenberg, general manager of Oracle Health Sciences Global Business Unit.
These trials may be conducted over 30 to 50 countries and involve hundreds or even thousands of patients - this takes a lot of time and money.
"Patient recruitment has always been the number one problem," says Mr Rosenberg.
And as drug development targets more specific groups of people, largely thanks to the insights coming from genomics, finding the right patients for such clinical studies is becoming even harder.
This is where the cloud can help.
"With cloud and related technologies, we are now able to mine real-world data to find patient populations better, and utilise globally available technology to conduct trials in an even more distributed and inclusive manner," says Mr Julian.
Cloud and increasing digitalisation is also helping to improve the efficiency of data collection and analysis.
"Data collection used to be very inefficient, with data being written on paper forms, faxed and then entered into computers manually," explains Tarek Sherif, co-founder and chief executive of Medidata, a company that has developed a cloud platform for clinical trials.
"Then it had to be double-checked for errors. It could take up to a year before you could draw any conclusions from the patient data."
Digitising the process and automating the checking process in the cloud has reduced this time to "one to two weeks," says Mr Sherif.
And cloud offers many additional advantages to pharma companies, says Mr Rosenberg.
"These days health data is coming from a wide variety of sources, like labs, wearable devices, electronic diaries, health records. Pharma companies can't necessarily handle all the data that's coming in to them.
"So cloud computing helps them do that and gives them a whole bunch of other advantages - the technology is kept up to date, you get the latest security, the latest features and so on."
A spokesman for pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) told the BBC: "Advances in computing and data analytics are providing new opportunities to improve the efficiency of our research and increase our understanding of a disease or a patient's response to medication."
Speeding up the clinical trial process also cuts costs.
"We were able to save one of our clients about 30% on the cost of running a trial," says Mr Sherif, whose firm facilitates nearly half of all clinical trials in the world and counts 17 of the top 25 pharma companies as clients.
And Accenture's Mr Julian says: "We've seen overall savings of 50% - in some cases up to 75% - on the historically labour-intensive parts of the drug development process."
Of course, not all prospective drugs work, or they're shown to work but not any better than existing drugs on the market.
"So the Holy Grail is to fail faster so you're not failing in the very final phases of drug development when you've already spent most of your money," says Mr Sherif.
Winning regulatory approval for a drug is only half the battle. Pharma companies also have to convince health services and insurance companies that's it's worth paying for.
This means collecting reliable patient data.
In the past, patients were often asked to keep written diaries of their experiences with a drug being tested, but these were "horribly inefficient", says Mr Sherif.
So the rise of electronic diaries and wearable devices is helping to improve the evidence a pharma company can present in defence of their latest drug.
With this is mind, Oracle is helping add "mHealth" capability to Accenture Life Sciences' cloud platform.
And GSK says: "We've been conducting clinical studies with biosensors and mobile devices for some time.
"Today's digital technology is enabling us to collect and analyse data in new ways - monitoring activity and vital signs in patients, and collecting patient feedback in real time, improving the quality of data we use in the development of new medicines."
The cloud is also encouraging more pharma companies to co-operate on molecule development [the building blocks of a potential drug], says Mr Rosenberg, as well as on data analysis.
And all this anonymised patient data - historical and recent - can potentially be shared in the battle to combat disease.
"We are seeing clients increasingly use 'virtual studies' - using external and historical data to perform advanced statistical analysis and reduce the need for complicated, costly site-based study activity," says Accenture's Mr Julian, citing a collaborative Alzheimer's project between some of its clients and the Coalition Against Major Disease.
But while efficiencies in the drug development process are undoubtedly being found, discovering the initial molecule is still very difficult, experts warn.
Cloud computing is having a big practical impact, but won't necessarily result in a flurry of "miracle" cures.
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The chief executives of Belfast International, Belfast City and the City of Derry airports want a review into the impact of scrapping the tax.
And they want it to begin as soon as possible.
The confidence and supply deal struck between the Conservatives and the DUP in June contained a commitment to review air passenger duty.
In a letter to First Secretary Damian Green, the airport chiefs said it would be helpful if they could be advised of the timescale for the review and who will carry it out.
They said they stand ready to put the case for removing air passenger duty on the grounds of both economic growth and jobs.
The three airports have said they "already have a number of our existing and potential airlines ready to commit to flying from Northern Ireland should air passenger duty be removed".
They asked that the review could be "initiated, completed and the result implemented as soon as possible".
The Rt Rev Michael Perham was told by police last month he faces no action over two claims of indecent assault.
The Bishop of Tewkesbury, the Rt Rev Martyn Snow, said of the cancellation: "I know this will be the cause of huge frustration and deep disappointment."
Bishop Perham is due to retire officially on 21 November.
Since the allegations were made, the Bishop of Gloucester stepped back from his duties and they were handed to the Bishop of Tewkesbury.
Bishop Snow said: "Church House, Westminster has confirmed to me the process is still ongoing and there is no formal timetable for this process as it must be completed with fairness to all.
"The diocese must therefore await the conclusion of that process."
Bishop Perham was questioned in August over allegations of historical sex offences dating back more than 30 years.
The special service had been planned for 8 November.
Correction 11 November 2014: A quote from Bishop Snow has been amended to clarify that there is no formal timetable for the investigation
Seven-year-old Georgia Allen and her five-year-old brother Geordie were injured at Killowen Primary School.
Their father, 36-year-old George Allen, remains critically ill.
Staff at the school used a defibrillator on Mr Allen after the incident, and he was resuscitated at the scene.
His son was also originally said to be in a critical condition.
The Russian president signed similar documents last week, so the New Start treaty will come into effect when the papers are exchanged this weekend.
The treaty was approved by the US Senate in December and by the Russian parliament last month.
It replaces the 1991 Start treaty which expired in December 2009.
The New Start treaty, agreed to by Mr Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April, limits each side to no more than 800 deployed nuclear warhead delivery systems (including bombers, missile launchers and nuclear submarines), a cut of about 50%. It limits each side to 1,550 deployed warheads.
It will also allow each side visually to inspect the other's nuclear capability, with the aim of verifying how many warheads each missile carries.
The White House barred reporters from the Oval Office when Mr Obama signed the treaty, but allowed still photographers.
The pact, opposed by many Republicans, could become an issue in the 2012 US political campaign.
Among other criticisms, US opponents of the treaty argued Russia would have reduced stockpiles anyway as its arsenal aged, so the US had no reason to agree to scrap its own nuclear arms.
About 100 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took part, some crossing the border from Iraq, some moving from inside Turkey.
The toll - of 24 dead and 18 injured - is the largest suffered by the Turkish security forces since 1993.
The response by the Turkish military has been a predictable one: more raids by jets and helicopters on targets inside Iraq, with ground forces moving around 8km (five miles) across the Iraqi border.
The military says it killed 15 of the PKK insurgents; it claims to have killed as many as 160 in air raids carried out since July.
The PKK has proved before that it is capable of such an attack, and of inflicting heavy losses.
In June last year, it carried out a very similar night-time raid, using large numbers of fighters, and killed 13 soldiers stationed at a remote outpost along the border.
The government vowed then that the soldiers would be better protected, and questions were posed about the suitability of a young, conscript army for tackling an entrenched insurgency.
If lessons were learned, they do not appear to have helped those battling the PKK in the latest attacks.
Bigger questions hang over why the PKK has escalated its operations against the military over the past four months, and why the Turkish government, which repeatedly says it wants to pursue reconciliation, has been unable to stop the harsh treatment of Kurdish nationalist figures by the judiciary.
Time and again, apparent windows for peace have been shut down abruptly.
In October 2009, following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's unprecedented offer of a new beginning for relations between Turkey's largest minority and the state, 34 Kurdish activists, including eight PKK fighters, crossed the border from Iraq, and turned themselves over to the Turkish authorities.
It was presented as a gesture, a test of the government's intentions. The activists were allowed to go free, instead of being prosecuted.
But then it all went wrong.
A jubilant welcome for the activists by tens of thousands of Kurds, waving PKK symbols, provoked a strong nationalist reaction in a Turkish public conditioned to think of the PKK only as an evil, terrorist organisation.
The government had rushed into a badly thought-out peace initiative, without preparing the Turkish people for it.
By the end of 2009, the main Kurdish party had been banned - for the seventh time - by the constitutional court, and dozens of Kurdish community leaders were being prosecuted under the draconian, catch-all anti-terror laws.
One Kurdish editor was sentenced to 166 years in prison, merely for the pro-PKK sentiments published in his newspaper.
It was a similar situation after the general election in June this year, in which Kurdish candidates did well.
This opened the possibility of Kurds pressing their demands through parliament, and working with the government on a new constitution - one of their central demands.
But a court decision to strip one Kurdish MP of his seat, and give it to the ruling AK party, poisoned the atmosphere.
Kurdish MPs boycotted parliament, and announced what they called their own "democratic autonomy" initiative, taking greater control of local government.
There has never been a constructive dialogue between the AK, Turkey's most successful democratic party, and Kurdish leaders.
They just seem to talk, or shout, past each other, even though both have acknowledged that the use of military force by both sides has brought about nothing but hatred and the loss of more than 40,000 lives.
This despite the fact that the AK is the first party to attempt to address the grievances of the Kurds, and has managed to ease some of the restrictions on Kurdish expressions of identity.
The terrible atrocities committed against Kurdish communities in the 1990s have left a searing anger towards the Turkish state, compounded by the poverty, unemployment and ill-treatment that blight the Kurdish south-east.
But such is the engrained hostility of millions of Turks towards the Kurdish nationalist movement, that any attempt to negotiate with it could cost a government significant numbers of votes.
The lack of leadership on the Kurdish issue has left a vacuum, now filled by the armed hardliners of the PKK.
It is hard to interpret its decision to increase its attacks on the army and police as anything else but an attempt to sabotage any future peace initiative, should it ever get off the ground.
In the current, bitter climate of mutual recriminations, that is unlikely to happen.
"We're a lot fitter than we ever have been, we're scoring more goals and we look like a right good team," said the Ladbrokes Player of the Season.
"We're closing people down and we're playing with a high intensity.
"Last season I was struggling with injuries and now I feel I can go for two, three or four seasons more."
The midfielder, 32 next month, has been a key player under Brendan Rodgers, the league sponsor's manager of the season, as the League Cup winners and Premiership champions seek to extend their unbeaten run of 45 domestic games to the Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen on 27 May.
"I'm enjoying my football and playing with a smile on my face," said Brown, adding that the award was "thanks to all the players for digging me out a hole now and then".
"We check GPS and heart rates and make sure everybody is working hard.
"Against Partick, in the 91st minute I ended up on the left wing and trying to close the goalie down.
"That's never been seen before by me in the last five or six years. It shows I still have the energy and desire to keep going for 90-95 minutes.
"It's been enjoyable this season but it's been really hard, with dedication from everyone and the way the gaffer wants high intensity for 90 minutes."
Rodgers may make use of statistical data but he said it "can't measure the size of a player's heart".
He described Brown as "inspirational" and said that, should Celtic complete the treble, "it would be very fitting for a captain of his quality to do that".
"As a manager it's very important that you have that chemistry between you and your captain," continued the Celtic boss.
"It was pretty clear early on when I met him that he was top class in his outlook. He hasn't let up.
"He has been absolutely sensational in how he has led the team and how he's taken on the football idea that we've tried to impose on the team - his tactical positions to get on the ball, the variety so that he can move freely to create space for himself.
"He presses with a real aggression, he anticipates and he blocks and he doesn't need to be jumping in. That has been consistent, whether it's League Cup, the league or Champions League."
Rodgers revealed that he advised Brown last summer that if he looked after his fitness he could play until he was at least 35.
He said: "You have to ensure that everything about your life is perfect.
"He readjusted his diet, took on board everything we were looking to impose and that has given him confidence.
"He will run all day for you; it was just guiding that and making sure it was consistent. I look at his physical shape, he's in great condition - fit, strong.
"He has never let up in any day. I've given him a few extra days off through the season but he has never wanted it. Even in training, he brings intensity."
David Coombs also targeted people in hospitals in Hampshire and Dorset, pretending to be a wealthy businessman.
The 52-year-old, of Hunston Road, Chichester, had previously pleaded guilty to nine fraud offences committed in 2015.
He received a four-year sentence at a hearing at Southampton Crown Court.
Police said his victims were aged between 49 and 83 years old.
Coombs would strike up relationships with them before asking to borrow money claiming his wallet had been stolen or his card mistakenly blocked by his bank.
He purported to be a wealthy businessman, employed by an interior design company, and claimed to have multiple properties and offshore bank accounts.
Coombs came to the attention of police after one woman he had been in a relationship with contacted them when he began to harass her.
Det Sgt Will Whale said he had been "spinning a web of lies" over 22 months.
"His persistent offending has had an immeasurable effect on the lives of his victims, not just financially but also psychologically."
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The video is for The Next Day, taken from his comeback album of the same name.
It depicts Bowie as a messianic figure, dressed in a robe and fronting a band in a basement bar.
Oldman plays a priest who dances with Cotillard before she bleeds from stigmata marks on her palms.
Bowie's last video, for The Stars (Are Out Tonight), featured another Oscar-winner, Tilda Swinton.
The new film was directed by photographer Floria Sigismondi and features characters dressed as clergymen amid heavy religious imagery.
As it ends with the characters arranged in a tableau, Bowie says: "Thank you Gary, thank you Marion, thank you everybody."
Oldman previously worked with Bowie in the 1990s when they performed a duet on guitarist Reeves Gabrels' 1995 album The Sacred Squall of Now.
Imperial War Museum Duxford plans to overhaul the offering at its American Air Museum, built in 1997.
It also plans to put 15,000 rarely seen prints and slides online and carry out conservation work on its aircraft.
Robyn Llewellyn, from the Heritage Lottery Fund, said the grant would allow "fascinating stories" to be told.
The museum said the first phase of the project involves putting its Freeman Collection online, which contains thousands of pictures and artefacts about the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in Britain during World War Two.
Mr Llewellyn said: "The American Air Museum has possibly the best collection of US military aircraft outside the USA.
"This project will give IWM Duxford the opportunity to overhaul the displays and galleries and bring many of the fascinating stories of the First World War, Second World War, and more recent conflicts to life in new and exciting ways."
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Selby, 33, made a stunning comeback on Monday to beat Scotland's John Higgins 18-15 and win his third Crucible crown.
"I am determined that Mark's achievements should be celebrated," mayor Peter Soulsby told BBC Sport.
Last year, Leicester's footballers had their Premier League title win marked by several murals around the city.
Players such as Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy, as well as manager Claudio Ranieri, had their portraits painted on the side of buildings in the streets.
In 2016 Selby, a boyhood Leicester City supporter, potted the winning ball in the final against China's Ding Junhui to secure his second world title just 12 minutes after the Foxes became top-flight champions for the first time.
Two years prior to that, Selby won his first world title against Ronnie O'Sullivan, which came in the same year as the football club achieved promotion back to the Premier League.
Soulsby added: "I am sure Mark will understand, being a City fan himself, that last year there was a danger of his win being overshadowed by Leicester City's Premier League victory, but not so this time.
"I think we should have a mural for him, similar to the murals we have in the centre of Leicester celebrating the football club's win.
"This is a fantastic win for Mark, and for Leicester. It is an amazing achievement."
Selby had fallen 10-4 behind in this year's final, before a run of nine out of 10 frames helped him towards victory.
A 17-year-old boy and a girl, aged 16, remain in hospital after the collision on Battersea Park Road on Monday morning.
Their injuries are not believed to be serious, the Metropolitan Police said.
Five other pedestrians - four boys and a girl, all in their late teens - were treated for minor injuries but were later released from hospital.
One victim is understood to have fallen onto the back window of a parked car on the street below the bridge where the accident occurred, the Evening Standard reported.
The 35-year-old driver of the red Ferrari 458 stopped at the scene and was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
He remains in custody at a west London police station.
Emergency services, including London's Air Ambulance, attended the incident and road closures were put in place.
It was initially reported that six people were hurt in the crash, but that figure was updated by the Met on Tuesday.
There are 24 award categories and, this year, performers in the four-hour ceremony will include Rita Ora, Lady Gaga and Adam Levine.
Radio 1's Film Critic, Rhianna Dhillon, has shared her predictions for the top categories with Newsbeat.
But, as well as who she THINKS will get an award, she also revealed who she WANTS to get one.
I think Boyhood will win, not necessarily because it's the best film but because there has been SO much campaigning around it. I think the dedication of everyone involved (12 years!!) will resonate with voters.
Seeing a fantastically, well-made film is not rare at the Oscars but watching actors grow up and mature before your eyes is such a unique experience and that is what makes Boyhood stand out.
I want Whiplash to win. I wasn't expecting a tense thriller about a jazz drummer but that's what I got.
Again I think it will be Richard Linklater.
Boyhood is not the most action heavy film but it's beautifully shot and captures moments that almost everyone can empathise with. It's got the awkwardness of growing, embarrassing parents, falling in and out of love. It's such a natural story.
I want it to go to Birdman. Alejandro G. Iñárritu should get it for his unnerving and excellent 'all shot in one take' experience.
I reckon Eddie Redmayne will probably take home a little golden man in this one. Mainly because he's just so transformative in the Theory of Everything. His performance goes so much further than just a good impression of Stephen Hawking.
It would have been easy to make the film sad or depressing but he makes it an inspirational and uplifting watch.
It's what I want to happen as well! Eddie's performance is stand-out and he deserves the award.
Julianne Moore has given two stunning performances, for Maps to the Stars and Still Alice. Her characters in those films are poles apart and it's incredible that someone so experienced can still surprise with her versatility.
Still Alice is a film that will stay with audiences for a very long time after they've watched it, not for the script, not even necessarily for the plot, but for Moore's acting ability.
Just because she's pulling a double during the awards season, I want Julianne to get this one.
Patricia Arquette. She's won SO MANY awards already for her role as a single mum struggling to bring up 2 children in Boyhood. It's a very human role and one that audiences can recognise.
She almost makes you forget you're watching a film because she's so natural and portrays such raw emotion in it.
I want Emma Stone to get it for Birdman. That would be brilliant because of the way her character rebelled her egotistical dad.
JK Simmons as the vicious, megalomaniacal conductor in Whiplash is such a alteration from the smaller, character roles we usually see him play.
He shows us a super-villain in an ordinary situation and it is breath-taking and gripping in equal measure. This was the role that came out of nowhere and wowed audiences. He deserves an Oscar.
If JK doesn't get it, I'll eat all the M&Ms in that picture.
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Mr Phillips said the decision was to focus on building Swansea's regional and national profile although details of his new role are not yet known.
It comes a week after he was told to expect a leadership challenge after sacking two cabinet members in a reshuffle but he would not comment on whether his departure was linked.
Mr Phillips led the council's Labour group for 10 years.
The Labour group has been in power at the authority for the last two years.
The selection process to find a new leader begins on Monday.
He said from the back benches he will continue to give his "complete support to the new cabinet and the group as we work to continue to deliver on our manifesto commitments for the good of the people of Swansea and the wider region".
Labour group chairman Robert Francis Davies said: "David Phillips has made an enormous contribution to Swansea and to Labour and will continue to do so in the future. We want to keep his talents working for our city."
James Healy-Pratt, of Stewarts Law, said aircraft owners Canfield Hunter Ltd admitted responsibility in 2015.
He said the firm had resolved two claims and nearly resolved a third.
The owners said the admission was a statutory requirement and they could not comment further on compensation.
The Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 in West Sussex during the air show on 22 August last year.
The pilot, Andy Hill, is at the centre of a manslaughter investigation. The final AAIB report into the crash has not yet been published.
Mr Healy-Pratt said: "We obtained an admission of responsibility from the owners of the Hawker Hunter at the end of 2015.
"Through their aviation insurance in London, we have already negotiated several compensation packages for some of our families, and the other ones we're continuing to negotiate and they'll probably get resolved this year."
He said his firm was representing just over half of the families involved.
He said the compensation packages were final and did not not depend upon the final AAIB report or any criminal prosecution.
A spokesman for Canfield Hunter said the owners could not comment any further given that the AAIB and police investigations were ongoing and the inquest had not yet taken place.
"We remain committed to doing everything we can to assist those affected by this tragic incident," he said. "We continue to be in contact with the authorities and are co-operating fully with the various ongoing investigations."
Events to mark the first anniversary of the crash on Monday include a minute's silence on a toll bridge, where thousands of tributes were laid after the disaster. A church service is also being held on Saturday.
The partner of Mark Trussler, 54, one of the men who died, has said it is getting harder to deal with his death.
The father-of-six from Worthing went to watch the last flight of the Vulcan bomber, which was due to take place that day.
Giovanna Chirico, his fiancee, said: "I don't feel anything's got any easier, if anything it's got harder."
She said: "With it coming up to the year, I think I've become more emotional - it's really hard to explain really, just lost."
Ms Chirico said the toll bridge was a hard place to be: "There are just so many emotions when I'm up there.
"I sit there and I think why Mark? Why the other 10? Why the accident? I feel like I'm always overpowered by questions in my own head."
Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, died after lying in a crashed car for three days after the incident was first reported to police.
Officers had failed to follow up a call received about the crash.
The couple were eventually discovered in the vehicle, close to the motorway at Bannockburn on 8 July, 2015.
The case was subsequently referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc).
Former Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC, who stepped down from the role earlier this year, said he would expect an FAI to be held, given the level of public concern over the incident.
In a letter to Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, the new Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, wrote: "As you know, the former advocate considered that this was a case of the utmost seriousness.
"He was committed to ensuring the matter was investigated thoroughly. I share that view.
"When the investigations, which go beyond the work the procurator fiscal has directed the Pirc to do, are completed the case must be reported to Crown counsel."
Mr Wolffe said that all options that were open to Crown counsel when considering a sudden death would be available.
He added: "One of these options is for Crown counsel to instruct that a fatal accident inquiry should be held.
"Like my predecessor, I consider it inconceivable that a fatal accident inquiry will not be held given the public concern over this tragedy.
"The investigations are, at present, ongoing and there is considerable work to do before the case can be reported to Crown counsel."
An interim Pirc report into the case was submitted in November last year and a supplementary report submitted in June.
A Pirc spokesman said: "The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is currently considering the content of both reports submitted by the Commissioner on her independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of John Yuill, 28, and Lamara Bell, 25.
"We have received no instruction from the COPFS to undertake any further enquiries in relation to this investigation.
"The Commissioner will undertake further enquiries as required."
Mr Rennie said: "The fact that the new Lord Advocate holds the same view as his predecessor is welcome.
"This will help ensure that no stone is left unturned as we seek the answers that we need over the tragic M9 crash.
"An FAI is the best way to ensure that the circumstances that led to the crash and the failure to respond are fully understood.
"The families deserve nothing less."
Mr Quang, 59, has been head of the ministry of public security, which has been the focus of Western criticism of the nation's human rights record.
He had been nominated for the largely ceremonial role at January's communist party conference.
One of his first tasks will be to welcome visiting US President Barack Obama next month.
Mr Quang won 91.5% of a rubber-stamp vote in parliament on Saturday.
"I sincerely thank the National Assembly for electing me," Mr Quang said as he was sworn in. He is the first police general to fill the post.
The Communist Party in January re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong, 71, in the leading role of general secretary for a second term.
His re-election came after reformist Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung withdrew his candidacy.
The National Assembly will vote next week on a new prime minister - set to be Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc,
Earlier in the week, the assembly elected its first woman Speaker - Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.
Analysts believe one-party Vietnam will continue with economic reforms, but steer clear of major political changes.
Steve Pankhurst, a founder of the website, said the platform was still used by "a handful of members" but that it was "no longer used for the purpose it was built for".
The term "Friends Reunited" has been among the top trending topics in the UK on Twitter.
Here, people who have been Friends Reunited users share their stories on how the website has affected their lives.
Emma Hetherington [pictured above with husband John] said it was a "sad day" for Friends Reunited.
"It was thanks to this early social media platform that my husband John and I saw each other again, 18 years after we'd split up in our early 20s," she said. "Over that time he'd married, had two kids and was in the process of divorcing. I had been widowed for five years with a young daughter.
"John looked me up on Friends Reunited in 2002 and got in touch. We've been together ever since and married in 2014 in Cuba."
On Facebook, Rachel Hughes recounts being found on Friends Reunited by an old boyfriend:
@neil_taylor_ tweeted about meeting his wife on the site:
As did @seanymogs:
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes could even give Graeme the task of marking midfield playmaker Andrew, who is on loan at cup holders Hibernian from Birmingham City, out of the game at Hampden Park.
It will be the first time that the former Inverness Caledonian Thistle team-mates have played against one another in a competitive senior game.
The Aberdeen-born siblings have only been in opposing colours once - when Birmingham faced Caley Thistle in a friendly at a time when Graeme was still operating more regularly at full-back.
But Graeme believes that destiny has played its hand and that facing his older brother on Saturday was "meant to be".
"It just had that feeling about it that it was going to go that way," he said.
"We have had a bit of banter about it. We both know it's a massive occasion for both teams and we both will just be focused on doing well.
"We're both professionals. We both know, when it comes down to the day, we've both got a job to do for our teams."
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Andrew, two years the elder at 27, had left Caley Thistle by the time a Highland side featuring his brother lost the Scottish League Cup final to Aberdeen at Celtic Park in 2014.
A year later, Graeme captained Caley Thistle to their first major cup success in the Scottish Cup final against Falkirk.
Andrew was also three months too late in joining Hibs to be able to enjoy the celebrations that accompanied them lifting the same trophy for the first time in 114 years.
Then, in November, Graeme was part of the Dons side that lost this season's League Cup final to Celtic.
The younger Shinnie is all too aware that he could help crush Andrew's dreams of reaching a cup final, while Andrew can destroy his own hopes of a first winner's medal with the Dons.
"The relationship of brothers goes out the window for that 90 minutes," he said. "It's all about doing what we've been doing all season.
"It'll be a different experience but one that can't get in the way of what either of us are trying to do.
"We just need to treat it as a normal game."
Although rivals this weekend, the sibling rivalry has run in the family for a lot longer.
"We were both really competitive - probably one of the worst things for our parents," said Graeme, whose fine strike secured the Dons a place in the semi-final at the expense of Partick Thistle.
Andrew, who can boast one more Scottish Cup goal this season after hitting the net against Bonnyrigg Rose and Hearts, agreed.
"We have always been like that from a young age," said the Hibs midfielder. "Everything we did was to the max.
"We argued quite a lot when we were younger as brothers because we are that competitive, whether it was football or computer games.
"But it made us what we are now - we're winners.
"He's a winner and I like winning as well and it bode well for our futures really."
Any brotherly love will be left in the locker room as both insist that winning comes first, especially when a cup final place is at stake.
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"Winning silverware is always the best thing in football," the Dons midfielder explained. "I'm at a club now where it is kind of expected.
"The fans are desperate for us; the players are desperate for it, the management, everyone's desperate for it.
"The whole focus is on the game on Saturday and trying to get through to the final."
Andrew is looking forward to the challenge.
"It's going to be a feisty affair, but you've got to keep your head as well and you've got to keep your composure and play with a bit of quality and that's what's ultimately going to get you there," he suggested.
"Both teams desperately want to be in the final. I know I do and I know Graeme does."
For the brothers, there is happiness that at least one Shinnie will be in the Scottish Cup final.
As for the parents, Graeme suspects: "They'll try find the most neutral seat in Hampden."
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Ferguson, 71, will step down as United manager at the end of the season after winning 38 trophies during his 26 years in charge.
"It is unbelievable to change around probably four different squads and have the success he has," Robson said.
Prime Minister David Cameron described Ferguson's record as "exceptional".
Mr Cameron, an Aston Villa supporter, added: "Hopefully his retirement will make life a little easier for my team."
It's come as an absolute bombshell. I'm sad and disappointed
Former Newcastle and England striker Alan Shearer, who almost joined Manchester United from Blackburn in 1996, said: "If it wasn't for my love of Newcastle, then I would have signed for Sir Alex. I was that close I'd actually found a house in Manchester.
"His know-how, his desire, his hunger, his will to win and longevity are absolutely staggering. He's an absolute genius. If you could bottle that, it'd be worth a fortune."
Labour leader Ed Miliband tweeted: "Proud man. Great manager. Staunch Labour Party supporter. Sir Alex Ferguson will never be forgotten."
A host of former United players joined Robson, who was at United from 1981 until 1994, in paying tribute to Ferguson, who took over from Ron Atkinson on 6 November, 1986.
United legend Sir Bobby Charlton spoke fondly of a "fantastic" and "sensational" manager.
"I am a director at United but I hardly do anything because we are winning all the time and it is all down to Sir Alex Ferguson," said Charlton, who made more than 600 appearances for United between 1956 and 1973.
"He would get up in the middle of the night and travel 300 miles if he thought there was a schoolboy he could sign. He loves the game."
Premier League: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013.
FA Cup: 1990, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004
League Cup: 1992, 2006, 2009, 2010
Champions League: 1999, 2008
Cup Winners Cup: 1991
Fifa Club World Cup: 2008
Uefa Super Cup: 1992
Inter-Continental Cup: 1999
FA Charity/Community Shield: 1990 (shared), 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Steve Bruce, who captained Ferguson's 1993-1994 double winning team, said his former boss has a "wonderful humility", adding that he would "treat the groundsman the same as he would a star player".
Former England captain Paul Ince, who played under Ferguson between 1989-1995, does not believe there will be another manager who will replicate the Scot's achievements.
"You will never see anyone of his kind again," Ince said. "His standards were so high. He was so demanding. Yes, we had our ups and down. The way he treated me was like a son."
Champions League winning goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel said he could not make sense of the timing of the announcement.
"It's come as an absolute bombshell," he said. "I'm sad and disappointed. I was really, really hoping he was going to stay for another couple of years."
Dwight Yorke, Schmeichel's treble-winning team-mate of 1999, said he could understand why Ferguson has decided now is the time to retire, given that he had regained the Premier League title and was due to have hip surgery in the summer.
The former striker also cited David Gill's decision to stand down as United chief executive as a factor.
"I just feel it's the right time for him to go," said Yorke.
Former England striker Michael Owen, who played under Ferguson at United from 2009 until 2012, said he was proud to have worked with the Scot, while Real Madrid winger Cristiano Ronaldo, who played for United for six years from 2003, simply tweeted a message of thanks along with a picture of the two of them together.
Former United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, who scored 150 goals in a five-year spell at Old Trafford, tweeted: "It was a unique privilege."
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, current manager of Norwegian side Molde, spent more than a decade at United, playing more than 200 games from 1996 until 2007. He was also a coach for a time.
The former forward told MUTV: "I will never forget the loyalty he showed me. Everything I have learnt I have learnt from the boss."
England manager Roy Hodgson described Ferguson's announcement as "a sad day for English football".
England rugby union coach Stuart Lancaster: "His longevity and what he has achieved as a coach I think is unparalleled in world sport. I admire him hugely for what he has done."
Golfer Rory McIlroy: "An end of an era today. Sir Alex Ferguson, the greatest of all time! United will have a tough time trying to replace him."
"It marks the end of an era in football management," Hodgson added. "No one will be able to match his achievements, his dedication, his support for colleagues in need and his team building know-how."
Senior figures at football governing bodies spoke highly of Ferguson's contribution to the sport as a whole.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter tweeted: "His achievements in the game place him without doubt as one of the 'greats'. It was an honour to present Sir Alex with award at 2011 Ballon D'Or. Will his longevity at the top ever be repeated?"
Uefa president Michel Platini described Ferguson as a "visionary" who "has made a massive contribution to football across Europe", while Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said he defined the Premier League era.
"The Premier League has had the privilege to witness many great players, managers and teams," he said. "No one has made as great a contribution to the Premier League than Sir Alex Ferguson."
League Managers Association chairman Howard Wilkinson said: "He is the epitome of the mantra 'Survive, Win, Succeed'. In private, with those he trusted, he was the very best sort of friend you could ever wish for."
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Civil rights activist Cornel West was among those held after he led a march to the police station.
Riot police lined up outside the building and arrests were made when people tried to break the line.
The protests were part of four days of events called "Ferguson October", which calls for an end to police brutality.
Demonstrators also demanded that charges be brought against the white officer who killed Michael Brown, 18, at the start of August.
The shooting sparked weeks of unrest and made national and international headlines.
A grand jury is deciding whether to bring charges against the officer.
The protest began on Monday morning when demonstrators marched with arms joined from Wellspring Church to the police station in heavy rain.
The names of people killed by police across the US were read out, and those included Venderrit Myers Jr, another 18-year-old killed last week by a white police officer in nearby St Louis.
Police say Myers, who was black, shot first but they are investigating why 17 shots were fired by the officer.
Outside the police station, the chalk outline of a man was drawn on the ground, which organisers said was "a memorial for the body of Michael Brown".
Bishop Wayne Smith of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri told US media his faith compelled him to be there.
"I want to show solidarity, and call attention to the structural racism of St. Louis," he added.
Ferguson Police said 42 people were arrested at the police station and another six were arrested for blocking a street elsewhere.
On Monday night, the protests focused on two Walmarts and a political fundraising event.
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Fitted in vehicles mainly for insurance purposes, the cameras store pictures on a hard drive in case of incident, and have provided a rich vein of material on social media and video-sharing websites.
The phenomenon went viral with "Driving in Russia", a 13-minute compilation video of crashes and unusual sights uploaded to the internet in early December 2012. Dash cam videos have become an addition to the popular "fail" genre.
On 29 December, the crash-landing of a Tupolev-204 aircraft was recorded on the dashboard camera of a car on a nearby motorway. Wreckage could be seen flying over the perimeter fence, and striking a car in front, and footage of the incident was widely used in news media.
Much of the video of the Urals meteor posted to social media came from dashboard cameras, usually accompanied by exclamations and expletives from surprised drivers. Other footage was obtained from camera phones and fixed CCTV cameras.
Despite their growing cult status on YouTube and other video websites, dashboard cameras have a serious purpose, installed by Russian drivers in increasing numbers to fight the growing industry of insurance fraud.
Business Insider's Alex Davies notes that many courts no longer accept verbal evidence in the case of traffic disputes, so video evidence is essential to succeed in a claim.
According to Radio Liberty, drivers are using the cameras to fight back against Russia's notoriously corrupt traffic police, and scammers trying to extort money out of drivers. Criminal gangs can make up to $1,000 a day by staging accidents and forcing drivers into a quick settlement, it said.
Footage available on YouTube shows criminals loitering at road junctions, before hurling themselves at slow-moving vehicles, then confronting drivers and demanding compensation.
Dashboard cameras are not just restricted to Russia. Cameras are now appearing on roads in other countries, with some vehicle hire companies in the United Kingdom offering them as standard equipment, and hauliers to ensure the safety of their drivers.
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Sub Lt Samuel Mitchell, 27, was cleared of two counts of rape following a four-day court martial trial.
The complainant said she told him "no sex" after a ball at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth.
The judge said it was "yet another case" where excessive alcohol consumed by service personnel had "led to disgraceful behaviour".
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Sub Lt Mitchell had been accused of the sexual attack on a fellow officer cadet after going into her room at the college following a Victory In Europe Day dinner on 8 May last year.
A panel of senior officers in Portsmouth cleared him of two counts of rape.
The complainant said she was too drunk and drowsy to articulate herself more clearly against having sex.
But the defendant told the trial that she made "pleasure noises" and told him he was "amazing" and told him he was "really good" at what he was doing.
She also admitted getting back into bed with the defendant after the sex and falling asleep next to him.
Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces, Jeff Blackett, told Sub Lt Mitchell he took advantage of the woman.
"You should be absolutely clear that your behaviour on that evening was disgraceful and so was the way you conducted yourself afterwards," he said.
"It's not the conduct one expects of a naval officer, I hope you have learnt a lesson to respect your fellow officers of either sex."
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It closed at $1,268 on Thursday while a troy ounce of gold stood at $1,233.
The current high is being attributed to surging demand in China, where authorities warn it is used to channel money out of the country.
The past months' surge is a major reversal for Bitcoin, which plummeted in value in 2014 after the largest exchange collapsed.
The value of Bitcoin has been volatile since it was first launched in 2009, and many experts have questioned whether the crypto-currency will last.
Earlier this year, Chinese authorities cracked down on Bitcoin trading in an attempt to stop money flowing out of the country illegally.
But the closer scrutiny from Beijing only briefly sent the currency lower. After it had soared to record highs in January, it has since picked its steady rise in value.
Bitcoin is attractive to some users because of its anonymity, as well as its lack of government control.
The website Silk Road was closed in 2013 following raids by the FBI and other agencies amid allegations of drug dealing. Authorities seized millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin during the raids.
Bitcoin is often referred to as a new kind of currency. Yet like all currencies its value is determined by how much people are willing to exchange it for.
To process Bitcoin transactions, a procedure called "mining" must take place, which involves a computer solving a difficult mathematical problem with a 64-digit solution.
For each problem solved, one block of Bitcoins is processed. In addition the miner is rewarded with new Bitcoins.
To compensate for the growing power of computer chips, the difficulty of the puzzles is adjusted to ensure a steady stream of new Bitcoins are produced each day.
There are currently about 15 million Bitcoins in existence.
To receive a Bitcoin, a user must have a Bitcoin address - a string of 27-34 letters and numbers - which acts as a kind of virtual post-box to and from which the Bitcoins are sent.
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The Stags finally took control with two goals inside eight minutes early in the second half from Ben Whiteman and Danny Rose.
Whiteman smashed in the first from 20 yards three minutes after the break when Paul McCallum headed away a Joel Byrom free-kick towards him.
Then Rose slid in at the far post to bury a superb low ball across the face of the goal from the left by Whiteman.
In between those efforts, home debutant Shaq Coulthirst rattled the right-hand post from 20 yards.
Mansfield had the best of a subdued first half in which Orient lacked ambition and seemed content to waste time.
Rose prodded close-range chances wide at the start and end of the half while left-back Mal Benning twice forced saves from Alex Cisak.
The first came on 12 minutes from Byrom's quickly taken free-kick and the second on 40 minutes from CJ Hamilton's low pass through the middle.
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Match ends, Mansfield Town 2, Leyton Orient 0.
Second Half ends, Mansfield Town 2, Leyton Orient 0.
Attempt missed. Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
CJ Hamilton (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).
Attempt missed. Matt Green (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Tom Parkes (Leyton Orient) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Yoann Arquin replaces Shaquile Coulthirst.
Attempt missed. Callum Kennedy (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Callum Kennedy (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Victor Adeboyejo replaces Paul McCallum.
Delay in match Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) because of an injury.
Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town).
Attempt saved. Shaquile Coulthirst (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Nicky Hunt.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. James Baxendale replaces Benjamin Whiteman.
Attempt saved. Benjamin Whiteman (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Benjamin Whiteman (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Benjamin Whiteman (Mansfield Town).
Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Sammy Moore (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matt Green (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sammy Moore (Leyton Orient).
Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ollie Palmer (Leyton Orient).
Attempt missed. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Lee Collins (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient).
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Matt Green replaces Danny Rose.
Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
CJ Hamilton (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient).
Attempt missed. CJ Hamilton (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Shaquile Coulthirst (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ollie Palmer (Leyton Orient).
Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lee Collins (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
A Portuguese police investigation which ran until July 2008, and a continuing high-profile international campaign run by her parents Kate and Gerry, have failed to locate her.
Scotland Yard announced it was launching an investigation into Madeleine's disappearance in July 2013 - after spending two years reviewing the case.
On 24 October 2013 it was announced that the Portuguese police had reopened their inquiry into the disappearance, citing "new lines of inquiry". The Scotland Yard inquiry will run alongside the Portuguese investigation.
Madeleine McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, went missing from her family's holiday apartment at the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz, on 3 May, 2007.
Her parents had gone for dinner with a group of seven friends at a tapas restaurant 100 yards from the apartment, but when her mother, Kate, went to check on Madeleine and her younger brother and sister later in the evening, Madeleine was gone.
Police were called and about 60 staff and guests at the complex searched until daybreak for the little girl, while police notified border police, Spanish police and airports.
Hundreds of volunteers joined in the search for Madeleine in the days after.
2007
5 May: The McCanns issue a statement saying they "cannot describe the anguish and despair" they are feeling. Portuguese police say they have a suspect in mind. They believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive and in Portugal.
12 May: The couple make a fresh appeal for help on their daughter's fourth birthday.
15 May: British-born Robert Murat is made an official suspect - or "arguido" - following a search of his mother's villa. Casa Liliana is 150 yards from the McCanns' holiday apartment.
26 May: Police issue a description of a man seen on the night Madeleine went missing "carrying a child or an object that could have been taken as a child".
17 June: Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa admits vital forensic clues may have been destroyed in the hours after Madeleine's disappearance as the scene was not protected properly.
Late July: British sniffer dogs flown out to Portugal. Keela, who can detect minute quantities of blood, and Eddie, who is trained to detect bodies, work in the apartment and several cars, including the hire car the McCanns had rented 25 days after Madeleine disappeared.
11 August: One hundred days after Madeleine disappeared, investigating officers publicly acknowledge she could be dead. Police say Mr and Mrs McCann are not being considered as suspects following newspaper speculation that they are under suspicion.
31 August: The McCanns launch a libel action against Portuguese newspaper Tal & Qual which claimed "police believe" they killed their daughter. The McCanns say they are "deeply hurt" by the allegations.
6 September: Portuguese police interview Kate McCann for 11 hours as a witness in the presence of her lawyer.
7 September: During further questioning of Mr and Mrs McCann, detectives make them both "arguidos". Later, a family representative says officers believe they have found traces of Madeleine's blood in the McCanns' hire car.
9 September: Kate and Gerry McCann return home to Rothley, Leicestershire.
11 September: Portuguese police play down reports that DNA evidence with a 100% match to Madeleine was found in her parents' hire car.
19 September: Portuguese prosecutors rule there is "no new evidence" in police files to justify re-questioning Gerry and Kate McCann.
3 October: Goncalo Amaral, the detective in charge of the inquiry, is removed from the case after criticising the British police in a Portuguese newspaper interview.
9 October: Paulo Rebelo, deputy national director of the Portuguese police, is appointed to take over the Portuguese inquiry.
18 November: Gerry McCann, in a personal video, speaks of his belief that his family was watched by "a predator" in the days before his daughter's disappearance.
2008
20 January: The McCanns release sketches of a man they believe may have abducted their daughter. The drawings are based on a description by a British holidaymaker of a "creepy man" seen at the resort.
19 March: Mr and Mrs McCann accept £550,000 libel damages and front-page apologies from Express Newspapers over allegations they were responsible for Madeleine's death.
7 April: Portuguese police fly to the UK to sit in on interviews conducted by Leicestershire Police of the so-called "tapas seven".
14 April: Portuguese police deny leaking details of statements given by the McCanns early in the investigation. Spanish television broadcasts quotes, including some made by Mrs McCann, supposedly telling officers that Madeleine had been upset the night before she disappeared that her mother had not come to her when she cried.
3 May: A tearful Mrs McCann urges people to "pray like mad" for Madeleine as the family mark the first anniversary of the little girl's disappearance.
7 May: Alipio Ribeiro, the Portuguese police chief criticised for his handling of the case, resigns.
1 July: Portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case, which the attorney general says "will be the object of careful analysis and consideration".
15 July: British expat Robert Murat accepts a £600,000 damages settlement over allegations in 11 UK newspapers that he was involved in Madeleine's disappearance.
21 July: The Portuguese authorities shelve their investigation and lift the "arguido" status of the McCanns and Mr Murat.
24 July: Mr Amaral publishes a book about the case, entitled The Truth of the Lie, in which he alleges that Madeleine died in her family's holiday flat.
2009
16 May: The McCanns say they will sue Mr Amaral over comments he made in the media.
3 November: A one-minute video message - produced in seven languages - is launched by Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, showing new images of how Madeleine might look more than two years older.
2010
6 March: The McCanns criticise the release of previously unseen Portuguese police files on their daughter's case to British newspapers. The 2,000-page dossier details dozens of possible sightings of Madeleine since her disappearance.
28 April: Near the third anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, Gerry McCann says it is "incredibly frustrating" that police in Portugal and the UK had not been actively looking for Madeleine "for a very long time".
August: Kate and Gerry McCann hold private talks with Home Secretary Theresa May.
November: The McCanns sign a publishing deal to write a book about their daughter's disappearance. They also launch a petition calling for a full review of the case by the UK and Portugal.
2011
12 May: In an open letter in the Sun newspaper, the McCanns ask the prime minister to launch an "independent, transparent and comprehensive" review of all information relating to Madeleine's disappearance.
They publish a book, entitled Madeleine, which they hope will prompt people holding vital information about what happened to Madeleine to come forward. Sale proceeds will go towards the Find Madeleine fund.
13 May: Prime Minister David Cameron writes to the McCanns telling them the home secretary will be in touch to set out "new action" involving the Metropolitan Police.
6 September: The McCanns are among alleged victims who request to be "core participants" in the first part of the Leveson Inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.
9 September: British detectives reviewing the search for Madeleine hold their first face-to-face meetings with Portuguese police chiefs.
16 November: Lawyer David Sherborne tells the Leveson Inquiry the treatment of the McCanns by the press was a "national scandal".
23 November: The McCanns tell the Leveson Inquiry they were left distraught by press suggestions they were responsible for Madeleine's death.
2012
12 January : Daily Star editor Dawn Neesom tells the Leveson Inquiry that she regrets the paper's coverage of Madeleine's disappearance.
24 April: The detective leading the UK review of Madeleine's disappearance says they have the "best opportunity" yet to find her. Det Ch Insp Andy Redwood tells BBC's Panorama his team are "seeking to bring closure to the case".
25 April: Detectives reviewing evidence issue a computer-generated image of what she might look like aged nine.
26 April: Portuguese authorities say they are not reopening their investigation.
2013
17 May: UK detectives reviewing the case say they have identified "a number of persons of interest".
4 July: The Metropolitan Police says it has new evidence and has opened a formal investigation. It says it is investigating 38 "persons of interest".
12 September: A £1m libel case against former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral begins in Lisbon.
4 October: Scotland Yard detectives say mobile phone records may hold the key to solving the case. There are 41 potential suspects, they say.
14 October: A BBC Crimewatch appeal features e-fit images of a man seen carrying a blond-haired child of three or four, possibly wearing pyjamas, in Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine went missing. It also shows a detailed reconstruction of events on the night she disappeared.
24 October: Portuguese police reopen their inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance, citing "new lines of inquiry". The Scotland Yard inquiry will run alongside the Portuguese investigation.
Iain Duncan Smith said it would be the UK, not the US, that would be "left to pick up the pieces" for EU failures.
A "cosy conversation" between Downing Street and the White House took place before the visit, he said, to talk down UK chances of a post-Brexit trade deal.
The Remain campaign says Mr Obama showed the dangers of leaving the EU.
President Obama's forceful intervention, in which he questioned the ability of the UK to negotiate a speedy trade agreement with the world largest economy after voting to leave the EU, has angered Leave campaigners.
Mr Duncan Smith, who quit the cabinet last month in protest at welfare cuts, said there "had always been a code" among politicians not to interfere in the democratic affairs of other countries.
"I have huge regard for the British public's ability to spot a kind of cosy consensus between a government that wants us to vote to remain in and a US President that he wants to get a trade deal with the EU as a legacy," he told BBC Radio 4's Today.
"The US President is actually only seeking what he wants for his own country. I don't blame him for that but what I have to say is that the British people must recognise that when it comes to the EU, controlling our borders, and the risks that remaining in the EU pose to us, it is the British people who will pick up the pieces not the US."
Mr Obama, who leaves office in January, told reporters during a Downing Street news conference that the UK would go to the "back of the queue" in terms of negotiating trade deal with the US if it left the EU - a point he re-emphasised in a BBC interview on Sunday.
He said his country's focus was on negotiating trade agreements with regional blocs, including the EU - talks on which have been going on for years.
But Mr Duncan Smith said he had "never heard" an American use the phrase "back of the queue" before and suggested the script may have been agreed in advance.
"So we had a little cosy conversation between the prime minister and Barack - 'Barack will please just go out and re-emphasise the point that there is a queue and you will be at the back of it'."
Mr Duncan Smith also defended Boris Johnson, who was criticised by Remain campaigners for suggesting that Mr Obama's attitude to the UK was influenced by his "part-Kenyan ancestral dislike of the British empire".
He said claims by some opponents - including Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell - that the remarks were racist were "absurd".
All the London Mayor was doing, he suggested, was pointing out why Mr Obama "may have a particular lack of regard for the UK".
"I know Boris very well and, in no way, can you describe him as that. He has fought against any kind of racism time and time again, as I have.
"He was trying to illustrate, and you may say it was something clumsy, the reality that this President came over to the UK and in essence, ended up actually appearing to lecture the British citizens about what they should do in the forthcoming referendum."
Speaking on Monday, Mr Johnson said there needed to be more focus on the risks of staying in the EU and it was "absolutely ridiculous" for the UK to be told to wait its turn in terms of doing trade deals.
"The reason why we've had no trade deals for the last 43 years is because we've been part of the EU," he said. "For us to be bullied in this way - I don't want to exaggerate - for people to say we aren't going to be able to cope on our own is absolute nonsense."
The local authority plans to close more than half of the centres by March 2017 unless groups take them over.
There were fears that an earlier pledge not to charge struggling centres rent would be limited to six months.
But a year has now been agreed, with one councillor saying six months would be "draconian" and "arbitrary".
The relief could potentially affect eight centres which are based in buildings where the council sets the rent saving them up to £38,493 each a year.
Local Green Party leader David Williams put forward the original motion and said the council's decision will provide campaigners with "an early Christmas present".
Cabinet member for property Lorraine Lindsay-Gale said the council had "listened very carefully" to the concerns raised and had extended the period "to help community-led services get off the ground".
She added: "We've already approved start-up funding for six proposals, a further eight are supported in principle and others are coming to fruition.
"Everyone wants this to be a success and the response of local communities continues to suggest it will be."
Giving rent relief for the eight buildings will lose the council about £155,000 a year but it would have to repay more than £1.5m to the government in 2017/18 if they are no longer used for children's services.
The county's 44 centres will be replaced with a network of 18 council-run centres when it withdraws funding for some non-statutory services to help save £6m.
One-off council grants, totalling £163,000, have been given to six communities to help them set up their own groups, while another eight have funding agreements in principle.
Kenya's Wilson Kipsang won the men's elite race with a time of 2:04:44 and Mary Keitany, also from Kenya, defended her title with a time of 2:18:37.
The men's wheelchair race was won by Britain's David Weir, his sixth victory, and fellow Briton Shelly Woods won the women's event.
But a woman runner collapsed and died near the finish of the 26.2-mile race.
The event's organisers say the 30-year-old fell as she approached Buckingham Palace.
Medical attention was given at the scene, but she was declared dead later in the afternoon.
More than 100 people were attempting to break world records during the race.
David Stone beat six competitors to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon dressed as a book character.
The 42-year-old from Exmouth, in Devon, dressed as Count Dracula and completed the run in two hours 42 minutes, smashing the previous record of three hours and two minutes.
He is already a record holder after dressing as Superman last year to break the record for fastest marathon dressed as a superhero.
Fauja Singh, believed to be the oldest marathon runner at 101, completed his race in seven hours and 49 minutes.
The east Londoner has said this would be his last marathon so he can concentrate on shorter distances and faster times.
Sasha Kenney, 34, raised more than £2,000 for the NSPCC when she broke the six-hour mark for the quickest hula hooping runner. She completed it in a time of five hours and five minutes.
Other records broken on Sunday included the fastest marathon dressed as a jester in three hours one minute by Alexander Scherz, the fastest marathon dressed as a Roman Soldier in two hours and 57 minutes by David Tomlin and the fastest marathon dressed as a vegetable in two hours and 59 minutes by Edward Lumley.
Brother and sister George and Charley Phillips, from Hammersmith, west London, broke the record for the fastest marathon time on stilts coming in at six hours and 50 minutes.
Prince Harry, who had earlier met volunteers at the event, was at the finishing line on The Mall to congratulate runners.
He told BBC 5 Live: "It's the first time I've been on the finish line to watch it. It's fantastic - a great atmosphere. Everyone's very, very happy."
Model Nell McAndrew completed her sixth London Marathon in under three hours for the first time.
Also completing the marathon was BBC newsreader Sophie Raworth, 43, who was running for St John Ambulance.
In 2011 she crashed into a barrier on the side of the road and blacked out when she reached the 23-mile mark.
She completed the marathon in three hours 56 minutes and said: "It was very hard. That was the first time I managed to go all the way round upright because last year I managed to have a bit of a disaster and collapsed.
"I found myself running the first 20 miles with a professor of sport so I reckoned that if I was to collapse again he'd probably know the warning signs."
Claire Lomas began Sunday's marathon as the first person in the UK to wear a "Rewalk" suit.
She suffered spinal injuries in a horse riding accident and is expected to take three weeks to complete the route.
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls ran his first London Marathon and finished in a time of five hours and 31 minutes.
OAS Secretary General Luis Almargo has called for sanctions against Venezuela.
At a summit of Caribbean countries in Havana, Mr Castro called the OAS "an instrument of imperialist domination".
Meanwhile, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has met jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.
It was Leopoldo Lopez's first visit from anyone other than family members or lawyers since the 45-year-old was sentenced to 14 years in prison last year after being found guilty of inciting violence.
His supporters insist he is innocent and say he was jailed on trumped-up, politically-motivated charges.
The meeting at Ramo Verde military prison outside Caracas lasted about 90 minutes, according to Adriana Lopez, the opposition leader's sister.
Mr Zapatero is trying to negotiate between the opposition and the government in Venezeula's worsening political crisis.
Cuba was expelled from the OAS in 1962 but following a recent thaw in relations with the US it was suggested that the island might return.
But Mr Castro appeared to rule out the possibility, offering "our most firm solidarity to our brothers the Venezuelan people, to the legitimate government of President Nicolas Maduro".
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Mr Maduro is locked in a dispute with the OAS over opposition demands in Venezuela for a recall referendum.
Mr Almargo said earlier this week that "the institutional crisis in Venezuela demands immediate changes in the actions of the executive branch".
He has called an emergency meeting of the OAS at which member states will decide whether to invoke the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which could lead to Venezuela's suspension from the regional group.
2 March 2015 Last updated at 17:16 GMT
The gigantic lagoons - like big man-made lakes - would generate electricity using the power of the sea's tides.
There are plans for six lagoons in total - four in Wales, one in the south-west of England in Somerset, and one in the north-west of England in Cumbria.
The lagoons could generate 8% of the UK's electricity, say engineers.
The seas around Britain are tidal: this means the water levels rise and fall every day, sometimes by several metres in height.
A turbine is a way of generating electricity from a turning fan.
When wind, or water, rushes through the fan blades, it turns the turbine and generates power.
This means a huge amount of water comes and goes, roughly twice a day.
These special lagoons will use the power of the sea tides by controlling when the water flows back and forth.
When the tide starts to rise, gates in the sea wall around the lagoon are closed and water builds up outside the wall.
When the tide is at its highest, the gates are opened and the water rushes through turbines in the wall.
As the turbines turn around, electricity is generated, and as the water passes through, the lagoon fills up as well.
Then it happens the other way around: as the tide falls outside the wall, the level of the lagoon stays high. At low tide, the gates open again letting the water out of the lagoon, generating more electricity.
It's thought the turbines would generate power in this way for an average of 14 hours each day.
Environment groups say the lagoon shouldn't disturb wildlife too much and that it'll make much-needed clean energy.
But some people are worried that the turbines might harm fish, so they don't want the lagoons built too close to rivers.
The company behind the scheme say the lagoon walls would act as artificial reefs for wildlife.
After Cipriani's early penalty, Wasps led 6-3 at the break when stand-off Jimmy Gopperth's penalty was followed by centre Elliott Daly's drop-goal.
But Cipriani levelled it again with the first of three second-half penalties.
Gopperth kicked a second penalty but Cipriani's drop-goal secured a third Premiership win of the season to lift them also above Bath into seventh.
Dai Young's side had started the day in eighth place, hunting a fourth successive away win. But, instead, amid a constant drizzle which made handling treacherous, they drop to ninth after slumping to their fifth successive defeat at Sale's Salford home.
In fact, Wasps have only won once on Sale soil in the last 10 seasons, a 25-24 victory at Edgeley Park in October 2010.
Sale twice came close to scoring in a bright start, when centre Will Addison chose to ignore an overlap, and then when full-back Mike Haley's thrilling run was halted by a brave tackle from former Sharks man Rob Miller.
Wasps could then have scored after a blistering break from centre Daly cut open Sale's defence but full-back Miller spilled the ball crossing the line and it was ruled out after consulting the TMO.
But they got on the scoreboard two minutes later with a Gopperth penalty before Daly's deft drop-goal earned a half-time lead.
Cipriani, potentially in line for an international recall under new England coach Eddie Jones after being left out of Stuart Lancaster's World Cup squad, got Sale back level on 56 minutes.
He then put his side back in front to the delight of Sale's biggest home crowd of the season, 7,619.
Wasps refused to buckle as a fine up-and-under from Gopperth opened up a break for replacement Kearnan Myall which led to a Sale foul allowing Gopperth to level again with the boot.
Sale then thought they had scored when replacement scrum-half Peter Stringer darted over but, although it was disallowed after consulting the TMO, referee Luke Pearce did award Sale a penalty for an earlier infringement.
Cipriani's nerve stood up to the test as he booted over his fourth penalty out of four before again finding the posts with that low, late drop-goal.
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond:
"Danny Cipriani played really well. He's pushed into that potential England squad whenever it is announced. You learn more playing for a club like Sale where it doesn't always go well.
"You have to learn how to develop as a player and Danny has done that over the past two or three years, which is why he wants to stay around here for the next couple of years.
"He's a leader by way of his skill sets but also by way of his influence. In these conditions he knows his skill isn't always going to win us games. Instead he needs to put us in field positions. It's so rare these days but so valuable. He has the full skill set.
"He's more mature as a player and he understands what he has got to do. He has worked really hard on his kicking over the past few weeks and his defence has also come on leaps and bounds and he is a real team player for us."
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"Given the conditions, there were never going to be many scoring opportunities but, from our point of view, I was really disappointed with our skill sets.
"It was obviously disappointing but we made far too many errors. We made something like 18 handling errors.
"And I have to say that I thought they also wanted it a bit more. We've got a losing bonus point and that is probably as much as we deserve."
Sale: Haley; Arscott, James, Tuitupou, Addison; Cipriani, Cusiter; Harrison, Taylor, V Cobilas, Evans, Mills, Braid, Seymour, Beaumont.
Replacements: Neild for Braid (41), Mujati for V Cobilas (58), Ostrikov for Mills (64), Jennings for Tuitupou (70), Stringer for Cusiter (70).
Not Used: Lewis-Roberts, Easter, Ford.
Wasps: Miller; Halai, Daly, Jacobs, Piutau; Gopperth, Simpson; Mullan, Johnson, Cittadini, Launchbury, Gaskell, Haskell, G Smith, Jones.
Replacements: Shervington for Johnson (54), Myall for Gaskell (58), Robson for Simpson (64), Young for Jones (64), McIntyre for Mullan (67), Swainston for Cittadini (74).
Not Used: Jackson, Tagicakibau.
Attendance: 7,619.
Referee: Luke Pearce.
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On its Facebook page, St Enda's GAA club said that "significant damage to fixtures and fittings" had been caused.
It also said that vital club equipment and other items had been stolen. The break-in happened late on Monday or in the early hours of Tuesday.
All indoor activities for its youth players have had to be cancelled.
However, the club said it would "not allow this despicable attack on our club to set us back".
Club secretary Conor Sally said the burglars had cut open two gates and pulled open a fire escape.
He said they had "broken most doors forcefully going through each room".
He added: "There was a lot of damage caused, a number of items taken, including a number of safes, some of which had been bolted to the wall and had been obviously forcefully removed.
"It would have been quite noisy, I presume these people used some form of drilling equipment to manage to get the safes out.
"We can only assume they were there for some considerable period of time."
He said a number of activities planned for this week had to be cancelled.
"It's a community resource, it's an attack on the community and the clubrooms are used totally for community activities, whenever needed and whenever required," he said.
"Every single person who plays a role in that is obviously shocked and disappointed - you could see the anger in people as news started to spread yesterday and as people started to come out, you could see the visible anger."
Police say the break-in happened some time between 21:00 GMT on Monday and 08:00 on Tuesday and have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Kathryn Smith, 23, was convicted of murder and cruelty to a child over the death of Ayeeshia Jane Smith at her flat in Burton upon Trent in 2014.
Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board will review the case. Ayeeshia was known to social services all her life.
But Burton MP Andrew Griffiths said an independent inquiry was needed.
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Comparing the case to that of Victoria Climbie and the death of Baby Peter, he said it was too serious to be looked at by local social services.
"Such a shocking and brutal death that raises so many questions about how social workers operate should not be placed in the hands of the local authority to investigate itself," he said.
"This child was known to social services from the very moment she was born, and throughout her life social workers were aware of the real danger that she was in.
"It's remarkable and deeply concerning that, given there appears to be such obvious signs of risk to her life, that social workers didn't intervene earlier and didn't take steps to take her from her mother."
Mr Griffiths, who will call for an independent inquiry in Parliament, said an independent inquiry would examine "missed opportunities" to save Ayeeshia.
In June 2013, Ayeeshia had been placed with a foster family but sent back to live with her mother in October.
By this time Smith had begun a relationship with Matthew Rigby, who was cleared of murder but convicted of causing or allowing the girl's death.
Ayeeshia died from a laceration to the heart on 1 May 2014.
A trial at Birmingham Crown Court heard she had 16 separate injuries on her body, including a historical bleed on her brain.
Andrew Stokes, interim chairman of Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board, has confirmed it will carry out a review of how it monitored and responded to concerns over Ayeeshia.
9 February 2015 Last updated at 08:06 GMT
Bafta stands for British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
The Lego Movie was one of the lucky winners on the night picking up the award for best animated film.
The famous mask trophies are made at a factory in Middlesex, south-east England.
An individual mould is created for every mask, before molten bronze is poured in and left to set.
Each trophy weighs roughly the same as three bags of sugar and takes about three hours to complete.
Watch Jenny's behind-the-scenes report.
In December, four local teams boycotted games in protest over unpaid wages.
"The situation is a result of bad management, and a lack of control and accountability in the management of clubs and football institutions," said Gabon's footballers' union (ANFPG).
The ANFPG hopes the Nations Cup can improve local players' conditions.
The union says many first and second division players are still owed substantial salaries from last year.
In December, world governing body Fifa intervened to ensure that Mangasport - league champions in 2014 and 2015 - paid a former player, Ivorian Mariano Beugre, his outstanding wages.
"We can confirm that the Dispute Resolution Chamber judge dealt with a dispute opposing the player Mariano Beugre to the club Mangasport," a Fifa spokesperson told BBC Sport.
"According to the relevant decision, the club is ordered to pay to the player the amount of ($28,000)."
Gabon will stage the Nations Cup, which runs from 14 January until 5 February, for the second time in five years, having co-hosted with Equatorial Guinea in 2012.
"We believe this Nations Cup must allow us to have a collective awareness and take stock of our football since the last Nations Cup in 2012," Remy Ebanega, president of the ANFPG, told BBC Sport.
"[We need] to put in place general rules for the best practice.
"Our football is deteriorating every day of every year simply because its leaders have not yet understood that the main player is the footballer. Without a footballer, there is no club, no league, even less a federation.
"Everything is done in an anarchic way, with the sole interest of a handful of people, and no reflection on the short, medium and long term objectives of our football."
In a survey published by global players' union FIFPro in November, 96% of players in Gabon reported payment delays.
On 29 December, players from Stade Mandji - title-winners in 2009 - and Adouma FC refused to play matches in protest (with their opponents awarded technical 3-0 victories as a result).
Two teams in the second division also went on strike.
One of the Stade Mandji players, defender Franck Perrin Obambou, has been included in Gabon squad for the Nations Cup, which the hosts open on Saturday against Guinea-Bissau in Libreville.
Only two other domestic players have made the squad, with both Yves Bitseki Moto and Cedric Ondo Biyoghe on the books of league leaders Mounana.
Some of the continent's finest footballers are set to play on Gabon's pitches this month, including recently-crowned Confederation of African Football's African Footballer of the Year Riyad Mahrez of Algeria and Senegal's Sadio Mane, Africa's most expensive footballer.
All eyes will also be on Gabon's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the free-scoring striker with Germany's Borussia Dortmund and an ANFPG vice-president as well.
But Africa's flagship sporting event has been beset by problems, with opposition members of parliament calling for the public to boycott matches in protest at the country's political and economic problems.
Some fans have responded by posting images of ripped-up matchday tickets on social media.
While Gabon hosts some of the richest African footballers for the month-long tournament, local players will continue their fight to be paid.
The league, which is suspended for the duration of the Nations Cup, is set to return on 18 February.
No club from Gabon has ever won a major continental football title, while the national team has never surpassed the quarter-final stage of a Nations Cup.
The BBC contacted organisers of the Gabonese league who have yet to comment.
Midea is offering 115 euros per share ($130; £90) for a controlling stake in the firm, valuing it at more than $5bn.
Earlier this year Midea doubled its stake in Kuka to 10.2%, making it the company's second-largest shareholder.
Engineering firm Voith Group and German billionaire Friedhelm Loh together own more than a third of Kuka.
Midea's shares remain suspended in Shenzhen following the announcement on Wednesday.
However, shares of Kuka surged by 13% in Frankfurt on Tuesday following media reports of Midea's impending bid.
Midea, which makes some of China's most popular air conditioners, fridges and washing machines, has been on an acquisition spree this year.
Earlier this year, it took control of Toshiba's consumer electronics business for about $473m.
Midea also reportedly tried to buy General Electric's appliances unit, but was unsuccessful.
GE ended up selling the unit to Chinese rival Haier for $5.4bn in January.
The unfortunate Devbot vehicle crashed out of the Roborace competition after misjudging a corner while travelling at high speed.
The incident occurred ahead of the start of the latest Formula E electric car race in Buenos Aires.
The other vehicle managed to complete the course after achieving a top speed of 186km/h (116mph).
"One of the cars was trying to perform a manoeuvre, and it went really full-throttle and took the corner quite sharply and caught the edge of the barrier," Roborace's chief marketing officer Justin Cooke told the BBC.
"It's actually fantastic for us because the more we see these moments the more we are able to learn and understand what was the thinking behind the computer and its data.
"The car was damaged, for sure, but it can be repaired. And the beauty is no drivers get harmed because... there is no-one in them."
Photos of the resulting damage have been published by an Argentinian blog. Roborace also plans to upload footage from the event onto its YouTube channel this Friday.
The Devbots are controlled by artificial intelligence software - rather than being remote-controlled by humans - and use a laser-based Lidar (light detection and ranging) system and other sensors to guide themselves. They also communicate to avoid collisions with each other.
Roborace's organisers had previously showed off one of their Devbots speeding round the UK's Donington Park circuit last August, but this was the first time they had publicly displayed two vehicles competing against each other.
Even so, they billed the event as a test run ahead of future plans to pit 10 teams of robotic cars against each other, each powered by different AI software.
Mr Cooke stressed that crash barriers and a limit on the Devbot's top speed had meant spectators in the Argentine capital had not been put at risk.
And he added that another incident involving the winning car illustrated built-in safety measures.
"A dog ran on to the track, and the car was able to slow down, avoid it and take another path," he said.
Roborace's chief executive Denis Sverdlov will reveal more details about his company's plans, at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week.
The company then intends to show off its tech again at the next Formula E race, in Mexico City on 1 April.
The RAF serviceman vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 24 September.
A bin lorry made a collection in the area a short time after the last sighting of the 23-year-old.
His mother Nicola Urquhart said she was both "terrified and desperate" for the result the search, which will start on 22 February, may bring.
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Police will search more than 920 sq m (1,100 sq yd) of waste to a depth of 8m (26ft).
It is expected to take a team of specialist officers up to 10 weeks to complete the search at Milton, near Cambridge.
Mrs Urquhart, from Dunfermline, said: "It is with extreme mixed emotions that myself, the boys and our family take on board this news.
"To know that the police are now going to carry this out is emotionally overwhelming.
"My respect and gratitude to the officers carrying out this task is immeasurable."
Mr Mckeague was last seen walking into a bin loading bay known as the "horseshoe" at 03:25 GMT.
A bin lorry was seized early in the early stages of the investigation after Mr Mckeague's phone signal followed the same route as the vehicle.
No traces of Mr Mckeague were found in the lorry and the landfill site was never searched.
Det Supt Katie Elliott from Suffolk Police said searching the landfill site is the "next logical step".
She said: "While the search may not provide the answers as to what happened it is something we need to do as our investigation continues."
Mr Mckeague, from Dunfermline, is based at RAF Honington. His girlfriend April Oliver is pregnant with his child.
And his antics caught the imagination of audiences around the world as social media feeds caught fire with talk of the British boxer.
Approximately 151,000 tweets were sent about Fury in the hour he was crowned champion, with people from Auckland to the Philippines discussing the fight.
Former cricketer Andrew Flintoff burst into song, while the internet responded with its usual mix of gifs, memes and jokes.
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Approximately 262,521 tweets about Fury were sent from people around the world during and after the fight.
At one stage the Manchester boxer was trending as far away as New Zealand.
The Bleacher Report produced this gif, which refers to the time Fury did indeed punch himself in the face during a fight as he attempted an uppercut against Lee Swaby.
Watford captain Troy Deeney tweeted to say he had won £8,000 on the Fury fight. Earlier in the day the Birmingham City fan scored against Aston Villa in a 3-1 win.
Former England cricketer and one-fight boxer Andrew Flintoff was watching the bout in Australia and filmed himself singing along to Fury's version of the Aeorsmith classic 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing'.
On English-language social media Fury drew plenty of attention - but not as much as Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, who set a new record Premier League record on Saturday having scored in 11 matches in a row.
Vitalii Sych, editor of Novoye Vremya weekly: "Friends, let's face it, Klitschko lost today. It was obvious. And the judges are not to blame… Wladimir is a superior boxer to the British Yeti. But for some reason, he lost today. I think he has every chance to learn a lesson and knock this guy out in a rematch."
Journalist Peter Shuklinov: "Wladimir, whether you take revenge or not, whether you win or lose, whether you retire now or in 10 years - whatever happens, thank you! You taught Ukrainians to believe in victory so strongly that no one can allow even the thought of defeat. We should look up to you and build the country with the same belief in ourselves. Thank you for all these years of craftsmanship. We are with you anyway."
Sergey Naumovich, human rights activist from Donetsk: "Let's admit that Klitschko lost unambiguously. Age takes its toll. And even 5-7 years ago, it would have been difficult for Wladimir to beat such a bulky and raving wardrobe."
The Betoota Advocate, a satirical website posing as a country newspaper, made its low-key debut two years ago.
Perfectly imitating the tone and style of a small town paper, it has brazenly courted confusion between satire, genuine news and advertising.
The publication facetiously claims to be "Australia's oldest newspaper" and to be based in a remote western Queensland town - Betoota - where the last remaining resident died more than 10 years ago.
Its popularity, however, is winning over a real audience that rivals some mainstream news and entertainment websites.
Some of the website's stories have found viral success, including one article which gleefully baited gun-loving Americans.
Other stories - including one about the parking inspector who fined himself - have been reported as fact by mainstream media.
Editor-at-large Errol Parker and editor Clancy Overell - not their real names - put Betoota on the map after dabbling in media and advertising.
"It's exactly 87km [54 miles] due east of Birdsville on the edge of the picturesque but very brutal Simpson Desert," Mr Parker said.
"There's almost no reason why you'd ever go to southwest Queensland unless you were going to the Birdsville Races.
"That's the only tangible reason that a normal well-adjusted person would go down to the Queensland desert."
The thin line between truth and fiction is wilfully misrepresented by the two writers and one publisher behind the website.
They received praise from a brewery executive for an unpaid article which falsely claimed Australia's most popular beer had gone undercover to win a craft brewing competition.
And despite appearing to be mostly harmless fun, threats of legal action from organisations mentioned in articles are not uncommon.
At the time of writing, the website directs complaints to the fax machine listed for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.
With a rising profile, they've conducted guerrilla-style interviews outside Parliament House with controversial senator Jacqui Lambie and billionaire politician Clive Palmer.
They helped eccentric country MP Bob Katter shoot a controversial ad and "spent a night on the cans" with Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce - known internationally for threatening Johnny Depp's dogs.
More recently, their "Make Betoota Great Again" campaign mischievously encouraged Australians to list the ghost town as their official residence in a national census.
Arguably what sets the satirical website apart from the competition is a genuine connection to the bush and their larrikin jokes.
"There's a certain sense of humour that you can feel out there I think and you can be a little bit politically incorrect," Mr Overall said.
"We say things like that where obviously someone's going to get pretty hot under the collar but it's never punching down, I don't think, and that's the key to it."
Although it's an operation that feels more upstart than start-up, the Betoota Advocate broadly follows the footsteps of Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) and Barry Humphries (Les Patterson).
With a book compiling their best stories due for release in October, the editors are hoping more and more people will get come to know their small town paper.
As for the serious business of satire, the editorial team have expressed a desire to retain long-term creative and financial control of the project.
Australian media commentator Paul Barry compares the website to a home-grown version of The Onion and argues that the main threat the website poses is to the reputation of some reporters.
"Many journalists don't check. Simple as that. And they're gullible," he said.
"There's not too many who have been caught by Betoota, but those who have been caught have not made any calls or other checks to find out if the story is true."
The parish councils of Marlesford, Little Glemham and Farnham with Stratford St Andrew have formed the Four Villages Bypass Working Group.
They fear developments at Sizewell and Greater Gabbard would see more heavy vehicles on roads which they say already struggle with traffic.
The group has appealed to senior councillors and local MPs to intervene.
EDF Energy is planning to build another nuclear power station at Sizewell by 2025.
Debbi Tayler, clerk for Farnham with Stratford St Andrew Parish Council, said: "We feel that with the push for the development of the new reactor at Sizewell, it's the best opportunity we've had in a long time, given it may be possible for us to find funding via EDF.
"Whether or not there is going to be a significant increase in traffic because of the new build will depend on the road traffic assessment that Sizewell and EDF are carrying out at the moment."
Ms Tayler said she had seen "huge propellers" passing through the villages recently en route to the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm.
She said: "If this continues there's no way that the road can maintain that sort of traffic.
"It's crazy that you get to Marlesford and you're on a major trunk road and it's a single carriageway that goes through very, very small villages."
Therese Coffey, Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal, said: "Everyone who drives up and down the A12 will understand the problem that the residents of the four villages experience.
"We are determined to work together to get the best solution for residents and businesses alike."
A spokesman for Suffolk County Council said it supported the aim of a "four village bypass".
"We believe that this should be delivered as part of the proposed Sizewell C development," the authority said.
A memorial stone to The Chronicles of Narnia creator will be unveiled later, to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.
He is the first Belfast writer to receive such an honour.
Lewis will join such greats as Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, John Keats, William Blake and TS Eliot in a tradition going back 600 years.
It coincides with a day of literary celebration in Belfast, that includes a CS Lewis mayoral reception at the city hall.
The event is part of the week-long CS Lewis festival designed to celebrate and enjoy the work and life of one of Belfast's greatest literary sons.
Belfast Lord Mayor MáirtÃn Ó Muilleoir said: "I feel honoured to host a reception for the finest modern Belfast writers, who follow a proud local literary heritage which the likes of CS Lewis helped to build.
"It is also fitting that the best Belfast writers should get together to read on the very day that CS Lewis is interred in Poets corner in Westminster Abbey - the first ever Belfast writer to receive that honour.
"This is a great day for our city and our wealth of writers past and present".
Lewis (1898-1963) is best remembered for writing The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of books that has sold more than 100m copies worldwide.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first instalment in the saga, was published in 1950 and has been adapted since for stage, TV and film.
Other works by the Belfast-born novelist, essayist and literary critic include The Screwtape Letters, The Space Trilogy and the non-fiction titles Mere Christianity and Miracles.
Former poet laureate Ted Hughes was the most recent writer to be commemorated at Westminster Abbey with a posthumous memorial stone.
Irish lost 15-33 against Wasps at Twickenham on Saturday - their fifth defeat in five Premiership matches.
The result saw The Exiles drop to the bottom of the table after also winless Newcastle drew against Sale.
"We don't want to go back to the club and become too negative in what we're trying to do," Coventry told BBC Sport.
Irish scored two tries through teenage centre Johnny Williams in the second match of the London Double Header.
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But, Wasps scored four of their own to secure a bonus-point victory and their first away Premiership win of the season.
"We just have to hold our course," Coventry added, who took over team management in the summer.
"The competition is about winning and getting points to move up the ladder and we need to get rid of that duck obviously.
"We'll be striving to do that in a positive manner. We're still competing with some of the better clubs in the competition, that's where we aspire to be.
"We've just got to get over that hurdle, which is difficult when you're losing confidence.
"But, I'm sure when we put in a good performance that confidence will come back."
Shaun Ferguson's Renault Scenic collided with a car in which Eileen Lamb was a passenger at Old Hutton, Cumbria in April 2015.
Miss Lamb, from Endmoor, died 12 days later as a result of her injuries.
Ferguson, 22, of Ridge Square, Lancaster, was bailed and will return to Carlisle Crown Court for sentencing on 16 December.
Adjourning the case for background reports Mr Justice Davis told Ferguson he would be sentenced by a different judge.
He said: "There are options open to him that could see you conceivably go to prison."
How does the British immigration system currently work?
There are different ways to come to live or settle permanently in the UK.
Migrants fall into five broad categories: those coming for long-term work, students, temporary workers and visitors, refugees and asylum seekers and people arriving for family reasons.
There are different laws and policies governing each element of the system. For instance, on asylum, the UK has international obligations to provide refuge to people who have fled persecution. The most complicated part of the system is the broad criteria around economic migration.
How are economic migrants dealt with?
The rules for economic migration, which includes students, broadly divide migrants into two groups.
If a migrant is a citizen from one of the European Union's member states (or one of the other counties in the European Economic Area - EEA), then they are free to compete for jobs in the UK. They are not subject to immigration controls.
This is because the UK is part of the European free market under which goods, services and labour can freely move across borders. The rules mean that British workers can equally seek work and settle across the rest of the EU.
And what about if you come from elsewhere?
If you come from anywhere else, including Commonwealth nations, a migrant has to apply under one of the "tiers" that make up the Points Based System (PBS). Students are also covered by the PBS.
In short, the system awards points to migrants based on their skills, qualifications and experience. Putting it very simplistically, a young applicant with a doctorate and proof of high earnings will earn more points than someone who is less skilled - and therefore find it's easier for them to come to the UK.
The PBS has five "tiers". Tiers one and two cover highly skilled and skilled migrants respectively. Tier three was designed for unskilled workers but has never been implemented. Tier four covers students and the final tier covers a host of temporary workers and special categories. This graphic shows the categories of migrants from outside Europe:
So is the coalition scrapping this system?
No. But they are reforming it to meet their long-term goal. They want to reduce net immigration to "tens of thousands each year, not hundreds of thousands" over the lifetime of the Parliament.
Net immigration is the difference between those arriving and those leaving.
The government want to introduce an immigration cap to help achieve that goal and the first one is due to come into force in April 2011. This was a Conservative election pledge that was opposed by their coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.
And how high is net immigration at the moment?
The latest official figures show that 196,000 more people came to the UK than left in 2009. That figure includes British citizens returning from living abroad and people from inside the EEA. In all, more than half a million people migrated to the UK in 2008 - and the figure has been rising over the long-term, in line with the experiences of many industrialised nations.
What were immigration levels like in the 1980s?
It is difficult to compare official figures for immigration from the 1980s to more recent numbers because the method for calculating them has changed. Since 1991, there has been an attempt to take account of people applying for asylum or those extending their short-term visa to stay more permanently.
According to the figures available, at the beginning of the 1980s the UK continued to see a net loss of migrants, as it had in the 1970s, with British citizens choosing to leave the UK. This wave of emigration peaked in 1981 when 108,000 British and EU citizens decided to leave and only 28,000 people arrived to settle in the UK.
But by 1983 more people were coming to live in the UK than were leaving. This reached a peak of 58,000 migrants in 1985, and the flow of people into the UK continued for every year for the rest of the decade, except 1988, setting a pattern that would continue into the 1990s.
So how will the government achieve its target?
Experts say that if the government is to hit its target of reducing net migration, it has to pull levers that will slow long-term immigration while, at the same time, take steps to increase the rate of emigration.
The only problem is that there are not that many levers that can be pulled. Some 15% of people moving into the UK are returning British citizens, so their movements cannot be affected - but they are counted in the statistics.
The government cannot block EEA nationals who make up about a third of all arrivals.
The remaining half - about 280,000 people - are long-term arrivals from the rest of the world. These are the people whose movements can be influenced by policy changes.
So what does the cap involve - and how does it work?
The immigration cap for non-EEA workers for the year from April 2011 is 21,700 - about 6,300 lower than in 2009.
Of those, 20,700 are tier two skilled migrants entering graduate occupations with a job offer and sponsorship.
The other 1,000 are people allowed in under a new "exceptional talent" route - people like scientists, academics and artists. The former tier one general route - open to highly skilled migrants without a job offer - will be closed.
However, these limits do not apply to a category of workers who come to the UK in an "intra-company transfer" with their multinational employer. In other words, there will be other people coming in over and above the 21,700 limit.
There will be a new minimum salary of £40,000 for firms using intra-company transfers (ICTs) for more than a year - but staff earning at least £24,000 would still be able to come for up to 12 months.
Immigration restrictions are being lifted for people earning more than £150,000 a year, while scientists will be given a "significant advantage" in their attempts to come to the UK to work.
So what else can the government do?
According to Professor David Metcalf, chairman of the government's Migration Advisory Committee, students from outside the EEA make up 60% of the migrants whose movements can be restricted. He said in his recent report that the government cannot meet its target by restricting workers alone.
The following graph shows how highly skilled and skilled workers from outside the EEA make up a small part of the number of people applying for visas - although bear in mind that not all of those counted below are permanent or long-term immigrants:
Home Secretary Theresa May says she is looking at how to cut their numbers - but it's not clear who will be targeted and whether the Liberal Democrats will accept restrictions.
She says her forthcoming consultation on students will focus on allowing in students who are studying for degrees or those joining "highly trusted" colleges. This is a controversial area. Languages colleges are big legitimate businesses - but it's widely accepted that there is also abuse where people use student visas as a means of coming to work in the UK. Another route that the home secretary will target is a mechanism that allows some students to take jobs at the end of their course.
What about family reunion?
Families make up the final 20% of migrants from outside the EEA - but curtailing their right to arrive will be difficult to achieve because of human rights law.
However, the government is also looking at measures to boost the numbers leaving the UK by restricting rights to settle or to extend a work visa. Mrs May says she wants to end the link between temporary migration for work - and permanent settlement.
What effect would a cap have?
It's very difficult to know before it has happened. A large number of businesses have complained that it could damage the economy - and Professor Metcalf has warned that there could be "serious long-term consequences for investment and job generation" if the restrictions on work visas were too tight.
Dunne, 23, is an ex-Republic of Ireland Under-21 international who has played for Wycombe, Blackpool and Crawley.
Antigua and Barbuda international Jahraldo-Martin, 23, was released by Hull City this summer and has spent time on loan at Tranmere, Alloa and Leyton Orient.
They are both available for Saturday's game against Walsall.
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Some patients at Worcestershire Royal Hospital are said to have been waiting up to 54 hours over the Christmas and New Year period.
One person died from cardiac arrest after waiting 35 hours and a second had an aneurysm and died despite treatment, the BBC understands.
The trust said it was not commenting.
Peter Pinfield, chairman of Healthwatch Worcestershire - the patient care watchdog for the county - has called for an investigation saying the public needed to know the reasons behind the delays.
There is no evidence to connect the deaths with winter pressures on the hospital.
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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said patient confidentiality prevented it from discussing the deaths, but added it had "robust plans" to maintain patient safety and emergency care.
John Freeman said his wife spent 38 hours on a trolley on New Year's Day following a stroke. He told BBC News there were many others in the same situation.
"My wife was stuck on a trolley right next to the fire doors on a corridor and she couldn't get any sleep because all the trolleys were banging into the fire doors going in and out, so they stuck her in the plaster room which is ridiculous," he said.
Robin Walker, Conservative MP for Worcester, said lengthy delays at accident and emergency were "unacceptable", and would be meeting Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Monday.
But he said a "significant expansion" of A&E was needed as it is now serving the whole of Worcestershire when it was built in the 1990s to just cater for people living in Worcester.
"What I really want it to make sure is, that we get the new management that have been brought in to run the trust working with the government to deliver that on the shortest possible timescale."
Meanwhile, a group campaigning to keep services at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch has disbanded after four-and-a-half years.
The Save the Alex group said it did not feel it was being listened to by bosses running Worcestershire's hospitals.
On Friday the trust launched a consultation on planned changes to acute hospital services in the county which could see more patients going from Redditch to Worcester for emergency treatment.
Neal Stote, Save the Alex chairman, said the consultation was "too little, too late".
"From a campaigning point of view we have lost," he said.
A spokesman for the trust said the model outlined in the consultation would provide safe and sustainable hospital services to residents for many years.
The 33-year-old defender's present deal was due to expire and he and other experienced players were warned they would have to take a pay cuts to stay.
But McManus told the Well website: "I'm delighted to be staying at Motherwell as I have thoroughly enjoyed my three years at the club.
"I enjoy the coaching and the people around the place are great."
McManus, who won 26 caps for Scotland and started his career with Celtic, joined Motherwell in 2013 after leaving Middlesbrough following loan spells with Bristol City.
He played 40 times this season as Well finished fifth in the Scottish Premiership.
Experienced players James McFadden, Scott McDonald, Steven Hammell and Keith Lasley have also all been offered new contracts on reduced terms.
Manager Mark McGhee said: "Stephen has been excellent and we're extremely pleased he has agreed to stay with us as we know he had offers from elsewhere.
"I firmly believe we were able to develop some of the talented younger players like Ben Hall because of his and the other experienced lads' influence.
"He has the knowledge and ability and will continue to be a huge asset for us.
"I look forward to working with him again in the coming seasons."
While Scotland's Martin Laird led on 10 under, former world number one and 14-time major champion Woods was last in a field of 132 and missed the cut.
The 39-year-old was playing in his first PGA Tour event of the season.
"I've got to keep this in perspective. Sometimes that's hard to do," said Woods, who finished on 13 over.
Struggling with his chipping, he carded six bogeys, two double bogeys, a triple bogey and two birdies in his second round at TPC Scottsdale.
Woods duffed one chip from greenside rough and flew another straight over the flag and into a bunker. He also struggled from the fairway, leaving a chip from 20 yards off the green short.
His previous worst round was an 81 in the 2002 Open at Muirfield, a round completed in a storm that made scoring difficult.
Woods, who carded a two-over-par 73 in his opening round, missed much of last season, including the Ryder Cup, after having back surgery in March 2014.
"We all have days like this," he said. "Unfortunately mine was in a public forum and a public setting, but we all have days like this and we take the good with the bad."
Laird, 32, who shot a second straight 66 in wet and windy conditions, said: "It was a very Scottish day today with the misty drizzle. The big thing was I drove well."
American Daniel Berger is two shots behind Laird on eight under, while another tour rookie, Justin Thomas, is third on seven under.
Phil Mickelson, a three-time winner in Phoenix, missed the cut after carding a second-round five-over 76.
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The important aspect of the game in Rotorua was the victory. I genuinely believe the performance comes second.
The momentum required to bounce back was important after the midweek side lost to the Highlanders on Tuesday.
Generally if you win, it means the forwards have done their job - and that is what this team is looking like.
It's a side led by the forwards and half-backs, dominating in the areas those players are going to be involved in the most - decision-making and set-piece.
The line-out was good, the scrum was good and scrum-half Conor Murray was excellent in the execution of his box kicks, which is so important to the Lions getting out of their own half.
It's very much an Irish strategy that works well for the Lions, and that's one of the main reasons Murray is the number one scrum-half and definitely the starter next week.
He has the experience and he's beaten the All Blacks.
While it wasn't an edge-of-your-seat game, it was enthralling in another way in that the Lions pretty much shut the Maoris out.
Defensively it was tight and they showed good line speed to shut down someone like Damian McKenzie at 10.
Beauden Barrett will be a totally different proposition New Zealand fly-half on Saturday, but the Lions showed they can shut dangerous players down.
I don't think the Lions' tour captain Sam Warburton will start, he may be on the bench. That's because Sean O'Brien had such a big game and it would be a strange selection if he didn't continue at open-side flanker.
Blind-side flanker Peter O'Mahony, who captained the Lions on Saturday, is one of those guys who can inspire the team by doing the basics very well.
The French call it a 'spirit', the Kiwis and Maoris call it 'Mana'. It's a will, a mental capacity, to make his body do things that the normal person would struggle to do.
He is naturally brave and players like O'Mahony do a lot of work that isn't Hollywood.
As a former bricklayer, I would call it a DPC - damp-proof course. It's unseen, but it is the foundations of which wonderful buildings can be built.
Peter is one those foundations on which a team grows and develops. Without those players a team won't be successful.
George Kruis has been impressive since he has come back from injury for Saracens and this tour has been a continuation of that.
He's another one of those players like O'Mahony. His engine is perpetual, his thinking is clear with what he has to do and the line-out calls he makes.
All the players that get in this position have to have an X-factor and Kruis' is certainly his ability to play at an intensity for long periods of time, his clear thinking when it comes to calling the line-out and his decision-making.
He got caught a couple of times one-out stood still, which is a big error at this level. I hope that improves.
I thought Ben Te'o made some good breaks from inside centre, he looked hungry for the ball.
I think he can be more aggressive in the tackle. He can hurt people, legally - so he ought to.
For a man his size, he is not quite tackling his weight. I would have expected him to absolutely crumple someone by now - it would give the team such a lift.
His attacking play has been superb. He's got decent feet and good acceleration. He's a unit, and certainly grabs the attention of anyone's defence.
He went into contact well and there was only one time he looked like a rugby league guy, where he didn't know whether to challenge for the ball at the breakdown.
From that, the ball went away and the Maori All Blacks scored. Te'o could have gone in earlier and challenged it.
The Lions are creating opportunities but still not finishing them. For me, it's not so much not getting support to the line break, it's what happens at the next breakdown.
That's where you have disorganised the defence. Unfortunately, the reloading and realignment of that Lions attacking shape takes far too long. You don't see a lot of composure in that area.
Who should be Warren Gatland's first choice number 10?
It is a surprise, because you've either got Johnny Sexton, Owen Farrell or Dan Biggar at 10, who are used to commanding those positions.
There is no shape, no composure and that would be a concern - that's what I would work on this week.
You are looking at scoring a minimum of two tries against the All Blacks to give yourself a chance. You need 25 or more points and I don't see the Kiwis giving Leigh Halfpenny nine or 10 kickable penalties.
We saw a Lions side that dominated the pace of the game from the set-piece on Saturday, specifically from the line-out where they were able to catch and drive.
We've seen a similar game plan against the Crusaders and the Maori All Blacks.
Nothing will change for the Test match. What changes is intensity, accuracy and execution in getting support to the line-break and in reloading, realigning and getting your shape to enable you to score the try you should be scoring.
It's extremely important for the Lions to get that area sorted out and that shouldn't be too difficult to do.
This All Blacks side, if they execute passes and up the tempo, can score four or five tries in a match whether it's blazing sunshine or hammering down with rain.
That first wave of the Lions' defence is very good. If New Zealand have a way of getting around that it will probably be inside and they will attack the edges of that Lions line speed.
It's unlikely they can get around it passing. They might try the cross-kick pass - which we've seen a lot in the Super 18 tournament - but you won't see the same mercy given by New Zealand.
They will finish off at least 50% of the opportunities they get. So that Lions defence needs to be imperious. If the All Blacks manage to get any tempo and speed into the game, I feel the Lions will struggle.
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The Lions see the scrum as a chance to win a penalty; the Kiwis see it as a way of starting their game.
I've not seen anyone tear apart the All Blacks on a regular basis. There might be one or two penalties that go against them, but they will rectify it.
They are too savvy and have too much nous to let that be the reason they lose a game.
They won't get hammered in the line-out for any length of time. The Kiwis are too clever, smart and technically gifted.
They have too large a skill-set to continually make errors that will lose them momentum and lose them games.
Of course, they are capable of having an off day - but the likelihood of it is very small.
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As chief train attendant in the southern city of Lubumbashi, his job is to attend to passengers' every need while they are travelling.
He turns up for work every day but there is no work to go to because so few of the country's trains are actually running.
Mr Mapokopero complains that he is owed more than 60 months' back-pay.
"I can't afford to resign," he says, hoping that one day, the company will resume payments.
"I'm scared that if I quit I may lose all my benefits, including my pension."
Congo to revamp decrepit railways
Ahead of next week's elections, the state of the rail network reveals all one needs to know about the vast country's problems, past and present.
Originally designed to meet the transport demands of the mineral companies, it is still failing to meet the needs of ordinary Congolese.
Like much in DR Congo, it is old, run-down, badly managed and in desperate need of an overhaul.
"There is a big mess in the Congolese rail system," says Mbuyu Kikidji, who used to run the national rail company.
"First of all the rail system is very old. The management is also old. And the equipment is old," he says.
"And there's not a proper vision to where this railroad is going."
He adds: "I wouldn't take Congolese trains today."
His fears are borne out by the network's safety record.
There are hundreds of derailments every year - more than a third of the 3,641km (2,262 miles) of track is more than 60 years old.
There are plans for the World Bank to fund a big rail modernisation programme.
But for passengers like Kalema Kongo, waiting at Lubumbashi's main railway station, there seems little sign of change.
She was hoping to travel to see her family, who live about 800km (500 miles) from Lubumbashi, in Kilagi.
She was due to take the "diamant deluxe", a special train which is supposed to be faster as it stops at fewer stations.
But once again it has not turned up.
Ms Kongo has been told that it has been delayed by 24 hours.
"Even if it does leave, you never know when it will arrive," she says.
"A journey which normally takes me three days, can take as much as a week, or even more. "
Resigned to her fate, she adds: "It's always like this, but what can I do?
"I haven't got enough money to buy a plane ticket."
The country, which is two-thirds the size of western Europe, has only a few hundred kilometres of tarmac roads outside the main cities, meaning that travelling by bus is not really an option.
"I can't walk all the way, I have no choice but to wait and sleep here at the station," Ms Kongo says.
For the staff of the national rail company's in-house magazine, Njanja, there is not a lot to report - with not a locomotive in sight.
Njanja is a quarterly publication - the last edition came out nine months ago.
Photo-journalist Marcel Mulongo explains that like the railway - and the country - the magazine he works for is having "financial problems".
But in his office at the station, standing in front of a faded map of the network, which is so old it dates back to the era of Mobutu Sese Seko, when DR Congo was called Zaire, he says he is still hopeful that the "diamante deluxe" will turn up tomorrow.
As some passengers leave the station ready to return the following day, they walk past a reminder of days gone by: An old blue and yellow locomotive, the first one to roll on DR Congo's tracks.
It is now the centrepiece of a roundabout, just a few hundred yards from the railway line.
This symbol of the country's past has now become a billboard for the future. The locomotive is covered with election posters for candidates running for parliament.
They are all promising a brighter future for the DR Congo.
Chief train attendant Alexandre Mapokopero is not so confident.
"We have no locomotives, no carriages," he says.
"All we have are empty promises from the government."
Julian Keane is reporting from the Democratic Republic of Congo for the BBC World Service all week. Listen to more of his reports on The World Today.
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Alexandre Mapokopero is proud to work for SNCC, the national railway of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the last time he actually mounted a train was back in June.
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The incident happened shortly before 17:00 local time at a marina near the village of Termonbarry in County Roscommon.
It is understood the boy was in the water with friends when he got into difficulties.
RTÉ reports that his friends made desperate efforts to rescue him and nearby boats also came to help.
The boy's body was recovered from the water a short time later.
The gardaà (Irish police) are investigating.
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A teenage boy has drowned following a swimming accident in the River Shannon.
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Two people managed to get out of the vehicle on Heronston Lane, Bridgend, before fire crews arrived at about 13:25 BST.
Adverse weather also caused delays and disruption for motorists.
Harbour Road on Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, was closed in both directions due to flooding between the A4055 and the A4050.
The road has since reopened.
Glamorgan's Twenty20 cricket game with Sussex in Cardiff on Friday night was delayed because of rain.
A yellow "be aware" warning was issued for most of south east and south west Wales, plus western parts of mid and north Wales until 19:00 on Friday.
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Firefighters winched a car out of flood water as heavy rain and strong winds hit south Wales on Friday.
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The 25-year-old will be eligible to play for the Dons if they reach the League Two play-offs.
Former Arsenal trainee Murphy has scored three goals in 14 appearances for the Latics this season.
The ex-Dagenham & Redbridge front man also spent time on loan at Crawley Town earlier in the campaign, netting nine goals in 16 outings for the Reds.
"With Bayo Akinfenwa suspended and Tom Elliott struggling, we were down to two strikers," Wimbledon manager Neal Ardley told the club website.
"Rhys has had several clubs after him so we thought it was the right time to strike."
Meanwhile midfielder Christian Toonga, who featured five times for the Dons this season, has left the south-west London club by mutual consent.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Astronomers working on the Gaia space telescope have released a first tranche of data recording the position and brightness of over a billion stars.
And for some two million of these objects, their distance and sideways motion across the heavens has also been accurately plotted.
Gaia's mapping effort is already unprecedented in scale, but it still has several years to run.
Remarkably, scientists say the store of information even now is too big for them to sift, and they are appealing for the public's help in making discoveries.
To give one simple example of the scope of Gaia: Of the 1.1 billion light sources in Wednesday's data release, something like 400 million of these objects have never been recorded in any previous catalogue.
"You're imaging the whole sky in basically [Hubble] space telescope quality and because you can now resolve all the stars that previously maybe looked as though they were merged as one star at low resolution - now we can see them," explained Anthony Brown from Leiden University, Netherlands.
Gerry Gilmore from Cambridge University, UK, was one of the mission's proposers. "Gaia is going to be a revolution," he said. "It's as if we as astronomers have been bluffing up until now. We're now going to see the truth."
A web portal has been opened where anyone can play with Gaia data and look for novel phenomena.
When a group of schoolchildren showed the BBC how to do it last week, they stumbled across a supernova - an exploded star.
The European Space Agency (Esa) launched its Gaia mission in 2013.
Its goal was to update and extend the work of a previous satellite from the 1980s/90s called Hipparcos.
This observatory made the go-to Milky Way catalogue for its time - an astonishing chart of our cosmic neighbourhood.
It mapped the precise position, brightness, distance and proper motion (that sideways movement on the sky) of 100,000 stars.
Gaia, with its first release of data, has just increased that haul 20-fold.
Gaia's imperative - To work out how far it is to the nearest stars
It is a function of the leap in technology, of course.
The new mission actually carries two telescopes, which it scans across the Milky Way from a location about 1.5 million km from Earth.
The telescopes' mirrors throw their captured light on to a huge, one-billion-pixel camera detector connected to a trio of instruments.
It is this ultra-stable and supersensitive optical equipment that Gaia uses to pick out its sample of stars with extraordinary confidence.
The called-for specification was to get to know the brightest objects' 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.
In addition to their position and proper motion, the stars are having their physical properties analysed by Gaia.
Its instruments are acquiring details such temperature and composition. These are markers needed to help determine the stars' ages.
Not all of this information can be gleaned at once. It will take repeat viewing, but by the end of five years of operations the 100,000 stars fully profiled by Hipparcos should become at least a billion in the Gaia catalogue. That is a conservative estimate, however.
If one thing is clear from the new data it is that Gaia is seeing many more fainter stars than anyone anticipated. Once the project is complete it could have plotted 2-3 billion light sources.
Gaia - The discovery machine
Astronomers around the world will have dived into the data the moment it went live on servers on Wednesday - and for all manner of reasons.
Some of the 1.1 billion light sources will not actually be stars; they will be the very bright centres of very distant galaxies - what are known as quasars.
The nature of their light can be used to calculate the mass of all the stuff between them and us - a means, in effect, to weigh the Universe.
A good number of other data-users will be planet-hunters. By studying the way Gaia's stars appear to wobble on the sky, it should be possible to infer the gravitational presence of orbiting worlds.
"Gaia is going to be extremely useful for exoplanets, and especially systems that have the Jupiter kind of planets," said Esa's Gaia project scientist, Timo Prusti.
"The numbers are going to be impressive; we expect 20,000. The thing is, you need patience because the exoplanets are something where you have to collect five years of data to see the deviation in the movements."
By way of comparison, in the past 20 years of planet-hunting, astronomers have confirmed 3,000 worlds beyond our Solar System.
One eagerly anticipated measurement is the radial velocity of stars. This describes the movement they make towards or away from Gaia as they turn around the galaxy.
If this measurement is combined with the stars' proper motion, it will lay bare the dynamics of the Milky Way.
It should be possible, for example, to make a kind of time-lapse movie - to run forwards to see how the galaxy might evolve into the future, or to run backwards to see how our cosmic neighbourhood came to be the shape it is today.
At the outset of the mission, scientists had hoped to get radial velocity data on about 150 million stars.
But this was thrown into doubt when it was realised soon after Gaia's launch that unexpected stray light was getting into the telescope. This made the observation of the faintest stars and their colours far more challenging.
Engineers think they understand the problem: in part it is caused by the way sunlight bends past the 10m-diameter shade that Gaia uses to keep its telescopes in shadow.
And the good news according to the scientists is that they think they can work around the difficulties.
The longer the mission runs, they believe, the closer Gaia will get to its target of 150 million radial velocity measurements - and that movie.
"Clearly, with the stray light we lost sensitivity. On the other hand, it happens to be that there are more stars than were thought before. So we're still talking about 100 million radial velocities," Timo Prusti told BBC News.
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Jamar Loza missed a chance to put the Shrimpers ahead when he hit the post from two yards before visiting keeper Daniel Bentley denied Brad Potts.
Blackpool went in front after the break when David Norris' shot fell to Mark Cullen and he headed in from six yards.
The hosts sealed it when Cullen's cut-back was slotted in by Jacob Blyth, as he grabbed his first goal for the club.
Francis Kelly, 35, repeatedly hit 30-year-old Kenneth Heron with a wooden pole, a golf club and a knife in Nimmo Street, Greenock, on 21 May 2015.
The victim was unable to flee as he had become attached to a gate in the street by belt loops on his jeans.
Both men were drunk at the time and had little recollection of the attack.
Jailing Kelly at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Boyd told him that a custodial disposal was "inevitable".
The court heard how the two men, from Greenock, had been friends from September 2014 but fell out in January last year.
On the day of the attack, Mr Heron went to Kelly's house to drink after the pair resumed contact.
Following the attack, Kelly shouted at Mr Heron: "That's what you get for tanning my house. That's what you deserve."
The court heard that Mr Heron could "vaguely recall" being stuck to a front gate while he was assaulted by "someone". His next recollection was waking up in hospital.
Neighbours of Kelly saw Mr Heron tied to the gate by the belt loops of his jeans but detectives were unable to establish how he came to be there.
Eye witnesses saw Kelly bare-chested and covered in blood repeatedly attacking the victim.
He struck Mr Heron several times with a wooden pole before walking back into his house for a golf club which he then used to repeatedly strike the victim.
Neighbours then phoned 999 when they saw Kelly attacking him with a knife.
Police arrived shortly afterwards and arrested Kelly but he was not immediately interviewed as he was too drunk.
The victim was rushed to Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Greenock for emergency treatment.
After admitting a charge of attempted murder, Kelly's defence advocate Niall McCluskey told the court that his client "profoundly" regretted his actions.
The charge relates to an incident in or around the 89th minute of the 2-1 defeat by Crewe on 14 February.
It was alleged the 43-year-old used abusive and/or insulting words towards a match official.
He will watch from the stand against Colchester on Tuesday, has been fined £500 and warned about future conduct.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said members will vote on whether to take action, citing a failure by the company to give assurances on the future use of guards on trains.
The union is involved in a row with Southern Rail on the same issue and also recently announced a ballot of its members on Merseyrail.
Northern called the move to ballot staff "extremely premature".
Arriva Rail North, which operates Northern trains, provides services between cities and towns across the north of England.
The union said its position on Driver Only Operated (DOO) vehicles, meaning the drivers would be in charge of opening and closing the carriage doors, was clear.
Mick Cash, RMT general secretary, said: "We will not agree to any extensions of DOO and will fight to retain the safety-critical role of the guard and to keep a guard on the train."
"This dispute, and the ballot for industrial action, were entirely preventable if the company had listened to the union's deep-seated safety concerns, had taken them seriously and had put passenger safety before profit."
Arriva North could not guarantee a conductor on all of its passenger services, he added.
A company spokesman said: "We are in the early stages of developing our modernisation plans to bring customers a better railway, so we believe the RMT is extremely premature in calling a ballot for strikes.
"We want to protect jobs and pay as we work together to provide safe, secure and accessible services for our customers."
Leading with an article about a 150,000 strong women's rights march, the Express accidentally used a male symbol instead of a female symbol.
Social media users were quick to spot the mistake.
The paper - a free daily newspaper published by the Washington Post - was quick to apologise on its Twitter account.
One commentator referred to the blunder as a "record for largest typo".
"We made a mistake on our cover this morning and we're very embarrassed," the statement from the Washington Post Express read.
"We erroneously used a male symbol instead of a female symbol."
It also released an image of how the cover should have appeared.
Written by Chris Bell, UGC & Social News team
A Match of the Day graphic showed Llorente sprinted less than 20 metres in Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Watford.
Clement revealed the Spaniard was not fully fit and said that, according to Swansea's data analysts, Llorente sprinted "zero metres" at Watford.
"He's not that kind of player," said Clement.
He continued: "If I want a player up there sprinting, running in behind all the time, it would not be Fernando.
"Having spoken to him after the game - it's too late after the game - but he didn't feel at his best and that's obviously had an impact on the way he played.
"They [Match of the Day] are taking their data from one source but our data is from the GPS unit - players wear them in the back of their shirts.
"It's very difficult to look at physical statistics in isolation. The most Fernando has done in a game since I've been here is 65 metres sprinting.
"He needs to be in the right place at the right time, he needs the right service, he needs to help us link play so we can build it up through the pitch and he is determined to do that."
Speaking on Match of the Day, former England midfielder Frank Lampard suggested Llorente's body language was negative at Watford.
The defeat was Swansea's fifth in six games, leaving them in the Premier League relegation zone and two points adrift of safety.
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The Spain international forward was returning from injury at Vicarage Road and, after confirming he would be fit to face Stoke on Saturday, Clement defended Llorente against the insinuation he does not care.
"People show their emotions in all different ways," said the former Bayern Munich assistant manager.
"That figure [sprinting] would not have been mentioned if we had won the game or played better. The figure he hit at Liverpool, when he scored two goals and he won away, was zero metres sprinting.
"People show their emotions in all different ways. There's no way people can know what's going on inside of me when I'm on the side of the pitch, how I'm feeling. It's the same for any of the players."
12 January 2016 Last updated at 12:33 GMT
The plane's engine failed in mid-air but landed safely, with no-one on the road or on-board injured.
A passerby filmed footage of the plane just after it landed.
Student pilot Danielle Lagree explain what happened.
Zambia forbids homosexuality and can pass a jail sentence of up to 15 years.
But Faz is undertaking a constitutional review aimed at upgrading its statutes to put them in line with football's world governing body Fifa.
Fifa prohibits discrimination against sexual orientation and can suspend or expel offenders from football.
A draft constitution circulated by Faz reads: "Discrimination of any kind against a country, private person or group of people on account of race, skin colour, ethnic, national or social origin, gender, language, religion, political opinion or any other opinion, wealth, birth or any other status, sexual orientation or any other reason is strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion."
While that is precisely in line with the statutes of Fifa, should Faz's members adopt the sexual orientation clause it would put the association in conflict with the country's legal constitution.
According to human rights organisation Amnesty, Zambia is one of 35 African nations where homosexuality is illegal.
Faz general secretary Ponga Liwewe played down any potential issues with his association's proposals - despite a widely held conservative view in the country in line with the legal position on homosexuality.
"The draft constitution is in line with Fifa statutes and it is these that are up for discussion," Liwewe said.
"It is the prerogative of Faz members to agree or disagree with the statutes and to make recommendations that will be incorporated in the final document."
Fifa delegate Primo Corvaro conducted a workshop with Faz officials on the constitutional amendments in August whereupon several clauses pertaining to the Fifa statutes were proposed for the new Faz constitution.
But Fifa refused to provide more details when contacted by BBC Sport.
"Fifa is currently working with Faz on the revision of their statutes," said a Fifa spokesperson. "We have no further comment at this stage."
Bailey, 31, was treated last year at the Sporting Chance clinic, set up by former Arsenal footballer Tony Adams.
"You think it's weakness but that's the best thing I've ever done, asking for help," he told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"I never asked for help in my life for anything because it's like weakness especially in a manly sport like this."
The former Great Britain and England international had short spells with Hull KR and Castleford last season before agreeing a one-year deal with Warrington in November.
"I used Sporting Chance because I'd hit rock bottom and I got really bad depression. It was the toughest thing I've ever done but the most rewarding. I got a lot out of it and I wouldn't be here at Warrington if it wasn't for that," he said.
"Leaving Leeds, my hometown club and a lot of good teammates there, and having to just get my head round that, I think I rushed into things with going to Hull KR."
The prop forward still feels he can play for a few more years despite his age, but admitted he faced competition to break into the Warrington side.
"I'm getting older now but I've got four five years left in me feel fit and strong," he added. We've got a strong side so everyone's fighting for their spot this year."
At 36, Venus is the oldest quarter-finalist in the ladies' singles at SW19 for 22 years, while Serena, 34, found her form on Monday to reach the last eight.
They are in opposite sides of the draw so could only play each other if they were to reach the final.
Here is what you should not miss on day eight at Wimbledon.
Her match against Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will be defending champion Serena's third in as many days.
There were straight-set wins on Sunday and Monday and the top seed - who hit 43 winners and made just 14 unforced errors in beating Svetlana Kuznetsova in the last 16 - will be confident of more of the same on Tuesday.
Six-time champion Williams has beaten Russia's Pavlyuchenkova, the world number 23, in all five of their previous encounters and finished her match against two-time Grand Slam champion Kuznetsova in style, winning nine games on the trot.
The world number one, in her 12th Wimbledon quarter-final, will take on Pavlyuchenkova on Centre Court at about 15:00 BST.
At 3-0 down in the first set against Carla Suarez Navarro, Venus looked in trouble but the five-time champion dug deep to win in straight sets, reaching the last eight for the first time since 2010.
In beating Spain's Suarez Navarro Venus, at 36, also becomes the oldest quarter-finalist in the ladies' singles at Wimbledon for 22 years.
Blocking the eighth seed's path to the semi-finals is Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan - a player 88 places below her in the world rankings and one whom she has never played before.
When it was put to her that some people would not expect her to be at this stage at Wimbledon, Venus said: "I think the toughest critic is always yourself in any case. If anyone's hard on me, I'm harder than anyone out there.
"But I don't really care. How about that? I have a job to do on the court. There are very few people that can get out here and play at this level."
Williams and Shvedova start the day on Court One at 13:00 BST.
Dominika Cibulkova thrilled court three on Monday as she beat 2012 finalist Agnieszka Radwanska 6-3 5-7 9-7 in a brilliant duel which lasted three hours.
Has the 19th seed enough left in the tank to overcome Russia's Elena Vesnina?
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Should the Slovakian win she will have to postpone her wedding, which is due to take place the day of the Wimbledon final.
"If I would win then we will change it," said the 27-year-old, who is due to marry her fiance, Michal Navara, in Bratislava.
Cibulkova's wedding guests will be watching closely when she takes on Vesnina on Court One at about 15:00 BST.
Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber should be fresh after needing just 64 minutes to see off Japan's Misaki Doi 6-3 6-1 in the last 16.
Germany's Kerber, the fourth seed, has already won a Grand Slam this year, but has only beaten her last-eight opponent Simona Halep once in four attempts. The pair kick off proceedings on Centre Court at 13:00 BST.
Lindsay Davenport, the 1999 Wimbledon champion, believes Pavlyuchenkova will be up against it on Tuesday.
"If you had asked Serena before the tournament that to get to a Wimbledon final she'd have to beat Pavlyuchenkova, and then either Cibulkova or Vesnina, she would have said 'sign me up'," the American told BBC Sport.
"She knows she still has to play the matches but if you look at those players, and Serena's game on grass, they don't add up.
"Pavlyuchenkova doesn't move well enough to be able to get any balls back. You have to play a nice mix of offence and defence against Serena and defence is Pavlyuchenkova's biggest weakness.
"Simona Halep versus Angelique Kerber will be an amazing match. Neither one may be that comfortable on grass but they both play streetfighter tennis. Both get a lot of balls back into play and move well.
"Serve isn't a weapon for either player so both will have to work hard. Halep had to work much harder on Monday in beating Madison Keys, while Kerber spent an hour in her match. We'll see if that is a factor."
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The chief inspiration on that historic night, without any doubt, was Neymar, who capped a brilliant performance by scoring the first two of those late goals before assisting Sergi Roberto's winner with a perfectly placed chipped cross.
The following day, the high emotions of the unforgettable occasion were encapsulated by the publication of a dramatic image which quickly went viral: Lionel Messi in a Messiah-like pose, standing on the advertising boards to celebrate the victory as awestruck fans hailed his glory.
At that precise moment, Neymar decided enough was enough: he had just delivered the best performance of his career to inspire an amazing victory, and still everyone was talking about Messi.
That, at least, is an intriguing theory proposed by journalist Ramon Besa in Spanish newspaper El Pais, attempting to understand why Neymar is packing his bags from Barcelona for Paris.
Although Neymar and his entourage have not yet revealed their precise motives, the general belief is that he is no longer content to play second fiddle to Messi.
At the prime age of 25, with a potentially career-defining World Cup on the horizon, he has opted to join a club who will make him the centre of attention, both on and off the pitch.
And in doing so, he has left Barca on the brink of a full-blown crisis.
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Whatever the reasons for Neymar's departure, it is merely the latest in a long line of serious setbacks to have hit the Catalan club in recent years.
Neymar was also at the centre of the biggest, with allegations of tax evasion during the Brazilian's transfer from Santos eventually forcing the resignation of then president Sandro Rosell, who is now facing a long prison sentence in a separate money-laundering case.
After assuming office in 2014, Rosell's long-time associate and successor Josep Maria Bartomeu soon saw the club handed a transfer ban from Fifa after breaking regulations on the signing of youth players from overseas.
That's not all. Many fans believed that Barca's 'More Than A Club' motto was sacrificed for commercial reasons in a recently expired shirt sponsorship with Qatar Airways, and there is ongoing concern that the supply of youth talent from the famed 'La Masia' academy system has dried up.
Another cause for complaint has been a loss of the club's playing identity, with the departure of Xavi leading to the emphasis on midfield dominance being jettisoned for a more direct approach by manager Luis Enrique, who was consequently unpopular with many fans before his departure at the end of last season.
There has also been great sadness at the death of the club's most influential figure, Johan Cruyff, who fell victim to cancer last year - as did ex-manager Tito Vilanova, Pep Guardiola's former assistant, two years previously.
So it has been a rough ride for Barca fans, but throughout those travails they could always console themselves that their club remained untouchable in their position at the pinnacle of world football: scandals came and went, but Barca's power and influence remained undimmed and unmatched.
Now, though, they have suffered the rare shock of losing their second most important player entirely against their will, and the club's previously impregnable confidence has been shaken to the core.
From Barcelona's point of view, this summer was supposed to be about three things: extending Messi's contract (finally achieved last month), strengthening the midfield (ironically, PSG's Marco Verratti was the chief target), and easing in new manager Ernesto Valverde.
The prospect of Neymar leaving was never considered as a real possibility, and even when the initial reports of PSG's interest first surfaced they were dismissed as the usual silly season inconsequential rumours.
With the player himself remaining silent, it took a long time for anyone in Barcelona to actually believe that Neymar might go.
The uncertainty and confusion around his future was perhaps best illustrated by Gerard Pique's infamous "he stays" tweet - if even one of Neymar's most senior and influential team-mates didn't know what was going on, how on earth could anyone else?
Since it became clear that the Brazilian really does intend to leave, he has predictably become the target of much bitterness - on Monday, homemade signs denouncing him as a 'traitor' and 'mercenary' appeared on lampposts around the Nou Camp, and social media is full of similar smears from furious Barca fans.
Interestingly, the dressing room appears to have moved in a similar direction. A couple of weeks ago, Barca's players were reported to be pleading with him to stay and expressing those sentiments in news conferences.
But the last few days, perhaps accepting the inevitable, have been met with a deafening silence amid widespread reports in the Spanish media that senior players, including Messi, have been angry with the way Neymar has treated them and the club.
Considering Neymar's ability to influence a game and the on-pitch chemistry he enjoyed with Messi and Luis Suarez, replacing him will be a major task.
For the past three seasons Barca's 'MSN' forward line have enjoyed unprecedented success, scoring an outrageous combined total of 364 goals - enough to overcome the team's structural weaknesses and claim eight trophies, including a La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League treble in 2015.
On the plus side, Neymar's departure does open up the possibility for new boss Valverde to move away from the overwhelming reliance on just three players and instil a more team-focused approach.
But Neymar's contribution has been pivotal, scoring 105 goals and providing 59 assists during his time with the club, and the idea that somebody else - whoever it is - will be able to step into his shoes is unrealistic.
The most heavily touted potential signing is Liverpool star Philippe Coutinho, who continues to be linked with Barca despite Jurgen Klopp's repeated insistence that his star player is not for sale.
But in tactical terms Coutinho would not be the most obvious recruitment, because Neymar's departure leaves Barca in need of a player who can provide pace and penetration from the left wing - and the same argument counts against highly rated Juventus star Paulo Dybala.
In that context, Kylian Mbappe of Monaco, Chelsea ace Eden Hazard and Atletico Madrid's Antoine Griezmann would be better options, but they will all be very difficult to obtain with Mbappe likely to join Real Madrid while Hazard and Griezmann will be tough to prise away from their current clubs.
So perhaps Barca's best bet would be Borussia Dortmund's 20-year-old France international Ousmane Dembele, while a partial swap deal with PSG for Angel di Maria would also be intriguing.
One thing is for sure: after selling Neymar for 222m euros, Barca will not be short of funds.
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The loss of Neymar could prove to be highly significant off the pitch, with the controversial transfer set to contribute heavily to an ongoing battle in the Nou Camp's corridors of power which could well see Bartomeu voted out of office.
The current president's biggest critic is Agusti Benedito, who was among the losing candidates at the last elections in 2015 but has since continued his quest to unseat Bartomeu.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Benedito believes the current board bears a "very evident responsibility" for the loss of Neymar, explaining: "The player has the final word, but the board is responsible for creating the circumstances in which that decision is taken.
"Ultimately, what Bartomeu has achieved is earning 220 million euros. And if you look at it economically, we have made an extraordinary sale - nobody has ever sold a player for that much money.
"But I'm with [Barca captain] Andres Iniesta, who said last week that he'd prefer to have Neymar than the money."
Like many fans, Benedito is downcast at the prospect of losing Neymar, believing it will be impossible to replace him with a player of equal standing.
"I use the analogy of chess," he said. "At Barca, Messi is the king but Neymar was the queen, and in chess you are never interested in sacrificing your queen.
"If you sacrifice your queen for a knight or a bishop, it's always a bad deal. And that's what we're talking about here. We have sold our second most important piece and it is disastrous for the team."
Even before Neymar's departure, Benedito had already announced a motion of censure against Bartomeu in an ongoing bid to force early presidential elections.
With ex-president Rosell facing a long jail sentence and the club still haunted by all the controversies of recent years, Benedito was eager to emphasise that his unhappiness with the running of the club stems from much more than just football.
"Rosell and Bartomeu are two sides of the same coin," he claimed. "And we are in an extremely grave situation institutionally - I repeat, institutionally. Not only in sporting terms.
"There have never been so many reasons to introduce a motion of censure, and I think it's completely fair that the club's members should decide whether the board continues or not. It's a matter of democracy."
Neymar might finally be going, but the aftermath is only just beginning to unravel.
In a 1,800-word statement, "John Doe" reveals he has never worked for a spy agency or a government.
He starts the statement by citing "income equality" as a motive.
The Panama Papers have shown how some wealthy people use offshore firms to evade tax and avoid sanctions.
The papers belonged to the Mossack Fonseca law firm. It denies any wrongdoing and says it is the victim of a hack.
The papers were investigated by hundreds of investigative journalists, including from the BBC, who worked in secret with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for months.
The documents have revealed the hidden assets of hundreds of politicians, officials, current and former national leaders, celebrities and sports stars.
They list more than 200,000 shell companies, foundations and trusts set up in tax havens around the world.
The John Doe statement came shortly before US President Barack Obama delivered an address on the economy, in which he cited the Panama Papers as highlighting the problem of corruption and tax evasion.
He said the US would require banks to identify those behind shell corporations. Mr Obama said his administration's actions would allow it to do a better job of making sure people paid taxes.
Although the name John Doe is used, the gender of the source has not been revealed.
In the statement, The Revolution will be Digitized, John Doe starts by saying: "Income equality is one of the defining issues of our time."
He adds: "Banks, financial regulators and tax authorities have failed. Decisions have been made that have spared the wealthy while focusing instead on reining in middle- and low-income citizens."
He goes on to say: "Thousands of prosecutions could stem from the Panama Papers, if only law enforcement could access and evaluate the actual documents.
"ICIJ and its partner publications have rightly stated that they will not provide them to law enforcement agencies.
"I, however, would be willing to co-operate with law enforcement to the extent that I am able."
But he adds: "Legitimate whistleblowers who expose unquestionable wrongdoing, whether insiders or outsiders, deserve immunity from government retribution."
Responding to speculation about his or her identity, John Doe's statement says: "For the record, I do not work for any government or intelligence agency, directly or as a contractor, and I never have.
"My viewpoint is entirely my own, as was my decision to share the documents with Suddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), not for any specific political purpose, but simply because I understood enough about their contents to realise the scale of the injustices they described."
John Doe says that global judicial systems have "utterly failed to address the metastasizing tax havens spotting Earth's surface".
He says: "I decided to expose Mossack Fonseca because I thought its founders, employees and clients should have to answer for their roles in these crimes, only some of which have come to light thus far.
"It will take years, possibly decades, for the full extent of the firm's sordid acts to become known."
Panama-based Mossack Fonseca says it was hacked by servers based abroad and has filed a complaint with the Panamanian attorney general's office.
It says it has not acted illegally and that information was being misrepresented.
Its shares fell by 7.95% after it said 2017 had got off to a slow start, citing "tepid economic growth".
The comments overshadowed news of record annual revenues of £14.4bn, which were helped by last year's fall in the value of sterling.
The FTSE 100 closed slightly lower at 7,374.26, a fall of 8 points or 0.11%.
On the FTSE 250, shares in WH Smith closed up 3.36% after Barclays upgraded its rating for the retailer to "overweight" from "equal weight".
Also on the FTSE 250, workwear and hygiene company Berendsen, which had earlier slumped by 17%, finished the day 11.4% lower, after it warned on its 2017 outlook.
The firm reported improved profits and sales for 2016, but said it would struggle with "legacy issues" this year.
On the currency markets, the pound fell after the survey of the UK's dominant service sector added to evidence that the economy has slowed since the start of the year.
The dollar was boosted by expectations of a rise in US interest rates.
Sterling was down 0.12% against the US dollar at $1.2251 and dropped 0.59% against the euro to 1.1606 euros.
Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after acknowledging a sexual relationship with a man.
Professor Stephen Hawking, Astronomer Royal Lord Rees and the Royal Society's Sir Paul Nurse are among 11 signatories to a letter in the Daily Telegraph.
They urge David Cameron to "formally forgive this British hero".
The scientists said: "We write in support of a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the modern era.
"He led the team of Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park, which most historians agree shortened the Second World War.
"Yet successive governments seem incapable of forgiving his conviction for the then crime of being a homosexual, which led to his suicide, aged 41."
Denying that it would set a precedent, they added: "It is time his reputation was unblemished."
The others who signed the letter are Lord Currie of Marylebone, Lord Grade of Yarmouth, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, Lord Sharkey, Lord Smith of Finsbury, Baroness Trumpington, Sir Timothy Gowers of Cambridge University and the Science Museum's Dr Douglas Gurr.
Homosexuality was illegal at the time of the mathematician's conviction.
Turing was part of the team at Bletchley Park that cracked the Nazi Enigma code, vital to the allied war effort. He is now widely recognised as a computing pioneer.
However, at the time of his death - which an inquest recorded as suicide - he was virtually unknown to the public. His work at Bletchley Park was kept secret until 1974.
The government rejected a call to pardon Turing in February, when it was presented with an online petition with more than 23,000 signatures.
Prosecutors said Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail entered a woman's flat, removed his trousers and underwear, and went into her bedroom.
The two engaged in a struggle and the woman eventually called the police.
He had earlier pleaded not guilty to more serious charges including assault with intent to rape.
He faces a maximum of seven years in prison.
Mr Muhammad Rizalman's lawyers have said that he was mentally unwell at the time.
The incident occurred in May last year when Mr Rizalman was a staff assistant for defence at the Malaysia High Commission.
He was arrested and charged at the time, but returned to Malaysia less than two weeks later under diplomatic immunity protection.
His departure sparked anger in Wellington and a disagreement with Malaysia on how he was able to exercise diplomatic immunity for his exit. Mr Rizalman was eventually extradited back to New Zealand to face trial.
A government inquiry was conducted on the diplomatic incident and the results will be made public after the trial, reported New Zealand Herald.
The popular resort has been criticised previously for its water quality but is now among 68 beaches in England to have secured the status this year.
Cornwall and Devon claimed the most Blue Flag awards with eight each, followed by Thanet in Kent with seven.
Keep Britain Tidy said there were seven more Blue Flag beaches for 2016 compared to last year.
Across England, 111 beaches were also given the Seaside Award, which recognises resorts that meet the highest standards of beach management and mandatory standards for water quality.
Blackpool Council said it was a "remarkable turnaround" for the southern stretch of the town's beach, which is opposite the Pleasure Beach theme park.
In 2012, it failed to meet the Environment Agency's standards for clean water but became eligible for Blue Flag status after being classed as having "excellent" sea water quality last year.
The northern and central sections of the beach were considered at risk of failing to meet EU water quality standards in 2015 but have been given Seaside Awards this year.
Gillian Campbell, deputy leader of Blackpool Council, said: "Only four years ago every expert in the country was telling us we would fail the bathing water standards and have to put signs up advising people not to swim.
"That simply wasn't an option for us," she added.
Paul Todd, coastal award manager for Keep Britain Tidy, said: "It's great that we're able to award more beaches this year... Visitors can be sure that a Blue Flag or Seaside Award-winning beach is one of the best in the world."
The unexploded German 1,000lb (454kg) device was found in south-east London on Monday.
Bomb disposal experts from the British Army had built a protective "igloo" around the 5ft (1.5m) device to protect surrounding buildings.
Homes within a 200m exclusion zone were evacuated before the device was transported to Kent to be detonated.
The bomb was found by construction workers on the old site of the Southwark Irish Pensioners Centre in Bermondsey
28 February 2016 Last updated at 10:16 GMT
Scott has become the longest-serving American astronaut in space, after living on board the International Space Station for 340 days.
Kelly's mission will help Nasa to understand the long-term effects that living in space has on the body.
The results will help them with their long-term research, where they hope to send humans to live on Mars.
British Astronaut Tim Peake joined Kelly on board the ISS last year.
Scott Kelly will return back to Earth on Wednesday, landing in a remote part of Kazakhstan.
The 40-year-old, who has fronted three series of the programme since 2014, said she was "absolutely delighted to be back".
However, she will host the show on her own, as BBC co-presenter Marvin Humes will not return.
Last November ITV confirmed it had signed a three-year deal to broadcast The Voice, after outbidding the BBC.
Humes had co-hosted the singing competition with Willis since 2014 and said he would "miss working with Emma and the team".
"I've loved every minute of working on The Voice for the past three series," he told the BBC.
"It's one of the best shows on TV and I'll definitely be tuning in to see the new series. I wish the new team the best of luck and look forward to working more with ITV in the near future."
In a statement, ITV confirmed Humes departure from the show: "Marvin won't be appearing on next year's series, but remains very much a part of the ITV family, and we look forward to working with him on other projects in the near future."
ITV has yet to announce who the celebrity coaches will be on the new series, due to air in 2017.
Auditions are set to begin next week in Cardiff, with the eventual winner awarded a record contract with Polydor Records, home to music stars such as Take That and Ellie Goulding.
Former Liberty X singer Kevin Simm won the last edition of The Voice UK, which aired on BBC One earlier this year.
Male escort Michael Brennan, 24, was told he would serve at least 22 years for stabbing Paul Simons, 54, to death in Chelmsford in December 2013.
In November his conviction was reduced to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility.
Court of Appeal judges agreed he was not a danger to the public and reduced his sentence to 15 years on Wednesday.
During his trial, Chelmsford Crown Court heard the body of Mr Simons, from Bushey in Hertfordshire, was found at a flat in Moulsham Street in the early hours of 4 May 2013.
Brennan, who was described as having a complex multiple personality disorder, had written a plan to kill Mr Simons, which police found on a laptop.
It described how he would stab his victim before fleeing to hide in the countryside.
Overturning his conviction for murder last year, Court of Appeal judges heard Brennan had previously been admitted to the Linden Centre mental health unit in Chelmsford.
At a re-sentencing hearing, psychiatrist Dr Gillian Mezey told the court his mental state had greatly improved since he underwent treatment in prison, and that he had shown "genuine remorse" for Mr Simons and his family.
She estimated that, with continued treatment, he would be free of his personality disorder in about five years.
"Provided he has a network of support, ongoing treatment, and monitoring, I would consider his risk to be low," she said.
Her views were supported by another psychiatrist.
Prosecution lawyers remained convinced Brennan did pose a risk to the public, however, judges disagreed.
"We have come to the conclusion that we cannot properly, on the evidence available, style the offender as dangerous, whatever the position may have been in 2013," Lord Justice Davis said.
The 15-year sentence "reflected the gravity someone has died", he added.
Contractors are being asked to limit lane closures, with one report suggesting they should only be between two and five miles long.
Highways England, which manages the roads, is looking at the request to shorten roadworks, the BBC understands.
The Department for Transport said "common sense decisions" were needed.
Motorists on some major roads are contending with speed restrictions running for more than 15 miles.
Areas of particular concern are understood to include the M1 and M3 motorways, where there are currently the longest stretches of roadworks in the country.
Among the longest stretches in England - according to traffic information company Inrix - are:
A DfT spokesman said: "Our road investment strategy will deliver the biggest upgrade to Britain's roads in a generation and secure our transport network for the long-term.
"But as it is delivered we've got to respect the drivers who use our roads every day.
"That means taking common sense decisions to minimise frustrations wherever possible."
Edmund King, president of the AA, said: "We'd like to see overnight working done where it's possible. We'd like to see stretches of motorways limited to 10 miles.
"We'd like to see more the variable speeds on, and also more incentives to get the roadworks finished on time."
A Highways England spokesman said: "We want to provide a better, safer experience for road users on England's motorways and major A roads, including throughout roadworks where major upgrades are being carried out.
"We are committed to minimising disruption from roadworks even further and are exploring managing work in different ways while ensuring good value for money for the public."
He added that the majority of roadworks were carried out overnight, with lanes also closed during the day on some projects like major improvement works.
BBC correspondent Danny Savage said that there was not yet a timescale on when, or if, the changes would come about.
Chemists at Britain's National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) plan to make the batteries using Sellafield's large store of waste plutonium.
The batteries could then be used as a power supply for the European Space Agency's (Esa) spacecraft.
As well as the new jobs, this project could accrue significant UK multi-million pound exports.
In 2009, Esa funded a pilot project to examine the cost and practicality of establishing a European source of material for Radioactive Power Sources (RPS).
RPSs are ultra-long life batteries for use in the Esa's deep space programme.
The RPS batteries are not to launch the spacecraft, but to keep instruments running over several decades.
Tim Tinsley, programme manager for NNL, said: "We're more than half way through the £1m pilot proving the viability of being able to extract the isotope [chemical element] from the civil plutonium stockpiles.
"We have a quantity of this plutonium at our labs at the Sellafield site and a team of highly experienced chemists are 'proving' the chemical flow-sheet for the process."
Currently, Esa uses an isotope called plutonium-238 for these batteries, but this is only available from Russia and America.
It is also only available from military reactors, and supplies could run out in about 2018.
This would mean the isotope being extracted at Sellafield - called americium-241 - could not only be used in Esa's projects, but would also open the door for an even greater multi-million pound export potential to countries currently reliant on plutonium-238.
Mr Tinsley said: "Technically, there are no barriers to the success of the project, it would be down to funding and politics within Europe and they are already tightly constrained.
"Esa needs this fuel source for their space 'road-map' - they cannot do it without it and we at NNL are doing everything we can to make that a success."
But deep space exploration is only one use for the isotope that is being explored.
"There'll always be domestic applications that require a power source for a 20 or 30-year duration in inaccessible locations such as deep sea or deep underground in oil wells," added Mr Tinsley.
In November, Esa will decide whether or not to continue the funding.
If funding is ratified, Mr Tinsley suggests that jobs could start being created steadily from 2014 to a point of full production around 2020.
It happened at the Penmaenbach tunnel eastbound between junction 16 and junction 17 at about 07:30 GMT.
Congestion has backed up to junction 15 Llanfairfechan causing an estimated one hour delay.
It comes as tunnel works have been causing frustration for motorists.
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Chinese New Year traditions include hanging red lanterns and banners in your home, dancing in traditional costume and watching fireworks.
Chinese New Year isn't just celebrated in China - it's a popular celebration all over the world.
We made Chinese lanterns for Art in school! It was really cool, we even put Chinese writing on them.
Ruth, Dundalk, Ireland
My school had a Chinese day where we dressed up in red and gold and we learnt Chinese dancing. I got to wear a Chinese dragon mask with a tail on it.
Suzy, Barsby, Leicestershire
Our school dressed up in red or in Chinese clothes and for lunch we had spring rolls, egg fried rice and sweet and sour chicken.
Charlotte, Croydon, England
I have an Auntie, Uncle and two cousins in China so I am going to visit them.
Jade, Shropshire, England
I am a horse in the Chinese zodiac and so are a lot of my family, that's why we are celebrating. We played mini games and let off a Chinese lantern, it was epic. Also my friends are coming round for traditional meals and dressing up in red and orange clothes.
Blaise, England
We ate Chinese food at school, and did Medieval China in history, and in Maths we did Chinese symbols! Tonight, we are having a feast- crispy duck, egg fried rice, spare ribs, noodles, and stir fry!
Emily, Sheffield, England
At school we celebrated Chinese New Year by having a chopstick race, getting red envelopes and having fortune cookies and sweets.
Maria, Birmingham, England
My cousin Tom is back home from China to celebrate the Chinese New year with us.
Cara, Preston, England
My family and I are celebrating Chinese New Year by having a big homemade Chinese meal of ribs, chicken wings and Fortune Cookies. :-)
Sophia, Bidford on Avon, England
We had a Chinese menu today at our school, where we ate traditional Chinese food with chopsticks!
Maryam, Coventry, England
I have made red envelopes for my Chinese neighbours. I get one off them too! They always invite us over for a delicious meal and everyone is happy and cheerful.
Sofiya, Bury, England
I didn't get to celebrate at all, however my sister went to a Chinese restaurant with school and had lunch there!
Monica, St Helens, England
My teacher is from China even though she speaks English. We did a play of how the rat got the first year named after him. Also we got Chinese sweets, a sticker with the year of the horse on it and we all greeted each other in Chinese in the morning. It was great fun!
Morgan, Cheltenham, England
I love Chinese New Year because there are plenty of things to be doing. My manna and granddad live in China so I go over sometimes for Chinese New Year and enjoy the fun.
Georgina, Manchester, England
Today we have been making Willow plates and we also made some origami cats. We dressed up in traditional Chinese clothes and we have learned some things about Chinese New Year. Did you know that Chinese New Year lasts for 15 days!?
Willow Class, Hoddesdon, England
We all dressed up in red clothes and traditional dress. We then had a huge celebration in our hall. We learned a Chinese dragon dance and tried lots of Chinese food. We really liked all the food especially the noodles, crackers and rice. We can't wait to celebrate again next year.
Class 1MJ, Wistaston Church Lane Primary School, Crewe, England
The Year 1 and 2 classes have celebrated by sampling Chinese food, making lanterns and beginning to make 3D animal masks. They have had lots of fun.
St Bega's Primary School, Hartlepool, England
I'm actually a horse in the Chinese zodiac so it's my year!
Olivia, Northern Ireland
I love celebrating Chinese New Year! It is a time where the family unites and spends time eating, drinking and having fun! I always love helping make the dumplings.
Jasmine, Birmingham, England
The 19-year-old attacking midfielder joined the League One club from Tottenham Hotspur's foundation college programme last May.
His eye-catching strike against Bury in November was voted the club's goal of the season in a debut campaign which included 12 starts in all competitions.
Irishman Osadebe's new deal at Priestfield Stadium includes the option of a further one-year extension.
Businessman Ted Malloch is believed to be the favourite for the role.
In a letter, the leaders of the main parliamentary groups say he supports the dissolution of the EU and that his views reveal "outrageous malevolence".
One of the leaders separately said that Mr Malloch, who has previously compared the bloc to the former Soviet Union, should be declared "persona non grata".
In an interview with the BBC last month, Mr Malloch said: "I had in a previous career a diplomatic post where I helped bring down the Soviet Union. So maybe there's another union that needs a little taming."
However, in another interview on Friday with the BBC's World at One he said that his comments at the time had been "tongue-in-cheek".
He characterised the EU as a "very important arrangement that was largely brought about by American contributions... for some long decades it's been absolutely critical to the trans-Atlantic alliance and to US-Europe relations".
But he added: "I do believe it has more and more become a supranational organisation with political ambitions that probably don't fit with all its member states' ambitions."
Mr Malloch has also been a vocal critic of the common currency and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
A letter, co-signed by the centre-right EPP and the liberal Alde group, said his appointment as US ambassador to could seriously undermine transatlantic relations.
"[Mr Malloch's] statements reveal outrageous malevolence regarding the values that define this European Union," it said.
"We are strongly convinced that persons seeing as their mission to disrupt or dissolve the European Union, should not be accredited as official representatives to the EU," it added.
Mr Malloch has worked at the United Nations in Geneva and been on the executive board of the World Economic Forum, a group of global political and business leaders.
He is currently a professor at Henley Business School at the UK's University of Reading.
Socialists and Democrats leader Gianni Pittella wrote a separate letter, voicing concern about his possible appointment, saying that it could "potentially contribute to the spread of populism and euroscepticism across Europe".
"Malloch should not be accepted as an official representative to the EU and should be declared 'persona non grata'," wrote Pittella.
EU Council President Donald Tusk has said he believes Mr Trump's presidency could be a threat to Europe.
The EPP is the biggest group in parliament, followed by the Socialists and Democrats group. The Alde liberals are the fourth-largest group.
The European Parliament is the only directly elected EU body. It represents the people of the EU in contrast to the Council of Ministers, which represents the governments of member countries.
The 32-year-old started just once in the Championship last season, and has made nine first-team appearances since joining the Seagulls in July 2015.
He will provide competition for Mathew Ryan, who Brighton bought for a club-record fee from Valencia last month.
"He has not played as many games as he would have liked, through no fault of his own," said manager Chris Hughton.
"But his attitude has been fantastic throughout that time and his contribution to the squad should not be underestimated."
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Should Roberts feature in the showpiece against Aberdeen, it will likely be his last appearance for Celtic, with his 18-month deal up in the summer.
"I want to go out the best way possible," Roberts told BBC Scotland.
"To win the Scottish Cup would be a huge honour, especially if it won us the treble."
As things stand, the winger will report to the Premier League side for pre-season training, but he remains unclear where his long-term future lies.
The England Under-20 international has thrived under Brendan Rodgers this season, scoring seven goals, including a fine individual effort against his parent club in the Champions League.
"I haven't decided what's going to happen," Roberts said. "My loan spell ends and I'll be at City for pre-season, but I'm going to play my future by ear and see where it takes me next year."
The 20-year-old has enjoyed his stay in Glasgow.
"It has been wonderful," he said. "I couldn't ask for anything more and it's been a huge achievement for me this year.
"Coming to a club like this, you've got a huge expectation to win trophies, play well and I feel I've done that this year and come on leaps and bounds.
"All I wanted to do was show these fans and show the world what I can do."
Celtic are unbeaten in domestic football this season, lifting the League Cup in November then wrapping up the Premiership title earlier this month.
The Parkhead side eased past rivals Rangers 2-0 in Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final to leave them one game away from clinching a first treble since 2001.
"That was the aim at the start of the season - the League Cup, the league was done a few weeks ago and the last one was to get into the cup final," Roberts added.
"We did that quite comfortably, I felt.
"It was a well-played game from us and we deserve to be in the final."
All of the dead were reportedly members of a family whose house in Babka was hit early on Thursday.
A monitoring group also said at least 22 jihadists had been killed in air strikes in neighbouring Idlib province.
It was not clear who was behind the various attacks, which took place despite a week-old nationwide truce.
The truce covers government and rebel forces, but not members of so-called Islamic State (IS) or the rival jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, which was known as al-Nusra Front until it broke off formal ties with al-Qaeda in July.
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The pro-opposition Local Co-ordination Committees and Aleppo Media Centre reported that warplanes carried out several air strikes on Babka.
The AMC said nine people were killed, while LCC put the death toll at 10.
Both added that dozens of other civilians were wounded and that rescue workers were searching through the rubble of destroyed buildings for survivors.
Meanwhile, in the rebel stronghold of Idlib province, 24 hours of air strikes had left at least 22 jihadist fighters dead, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Some of the attacks were carried out by government aircraft, others by those of the US-led multinational coalition against IS, the UK-based monitoring group said.
One coalition strike on a convoy killed 16 members of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, including two of the group's commanders, it added.
However, the coalition said it had not targeted the area on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The nationwide truce, brokered by Turkey and Russia, has largely held since taking effect on 30 December. However, clashes have continued in some areas.
One of them is Wadi Barada, a rebel-held valley in the mountains north-west of Damascus, where the LCC reported that six civilians had been killed by government bombardment on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the governor of Damascus Countryside province told state media a deal had been agreed for the army to enter the valley and repair infrastructure at the Ain al-Fijeh spring, which supplies 70% of the capital's water.
Alaa Ibrahim added that some local rebel fighters would also hand over their weapons, while those not originally from the valley would be evacuated.
Opposition sources denied there was any such agreement, but dozens of men were photographed by state media apparently queuing to leave the valley.
On Thursday, UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura said five rebel-held villages in Wadi Barada had agreed to a truce, but that two others had not.
Some 5.5 million people living in and around Damascus have been deprived of running water since 22 December because of damage to the spring.
Rebels and activists have blamed government bombardment. The government has said rebels polluted the spring with diesel fuel, forcing it to cut supplies.
In a separate development, the US treasury imposed sanctions on 18 senior Syrian officials in response to findings by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and UN that the government had used the toxic chemical chlorine as a weapon against its own citizens in three attacks.
The state department also blacklisted a subsidiary of the Syrian defence ministry, Organisation for Technological Industries, which it said was boosting the Syrian government's ballistic missile programme.
Visitors to the Twitter and Facebook page for the Peeple app have been met with messages explaining such content is unavailable or that it doesn't exist.
Similarly, the app's website returns a "Not Found" error for many users.
The Peeple app sparked a storm of controversy when it was announced last week as a way to rate individuals.
While the official website for the app is inaccessible for many, some users have reported being directed to a landing page that reads: "Join the positive revolution #oct12".
Julia Cordray, one of the founders of the app, told the BBC in an email: "We look forward to October 12, 2015 where we will be taping for an exclusive talk show and expose our concept to the world.
"World's largest positivity app for positive people launching November 2015 on iOS and Android."
However, Ms Cordray did not provide any details about the talk show or explain why the Peeple social media accounts have been disabled.
Over the weekend, some began to speculate that the app, which wasn't due to launch until November, was in fact a hoax.
Myth-busting website Snopes.com, for instance, considered the online footprint of both the app and its founders - and the fact that several details released about the service remained curiously vague.
However, Ms Cordray directly denied suggestions that the app was a hoax in a blog published on LinkedIn.
She said that she had received death threats and insulting comments since news of Peeple went viral.
She added that a previously announced feature of the app, in which negative comments made about individuals would be posted after a certain time limit, would now no longer be part of it.
"I want the world to be positive and this is how I'm going to inspire it by creating the world's largest positivity app," she wrote.
Uproar over the app was "unsurprising", according to social media researcher Dr Ansgar Koene at the University of Nottingham.
"The obvious thing is the equating people with objects, with services that are being provided," he told the BBC.
He also criticised the company's management of negative comments on social media.
"If you looked at things like the Facebook page that the CEOs of the company made it was interesting to see how they blatantly just ignored any of the negative messages."
Dr Koene added that, although part of him "hopes" it is a hoax or joke, he would have expected a statement announcing this to have been published by now.
The trust owns 48.5% of the shares in Portsmouth and has three members on the club's board of directors.
The rest of the club is owned by 16 'presidents', 12 of whom have voted in favour of the deal.
The votes mean the sale of the club can continue, as more than 75% of the equity holding has agreed to the deal.
Eisner and his Tornante investment group have offered £5.67m to buy 100% of the club and invest £10m in equity.
"This is true fan ownership and democracy at work," PST chairman Ashley Brown said.
"Our fans decided who the next owner of our club would be - and it will be Michael Eisner and Tornante.
"We believe he understands the importance of the custodianship of Pompey and will be an owner all fans will be proud of."
Eisner's takeover would mean the removal of the PST's three representatives from the club's nine-member board.
However, he has pledged to form a heritage board which would protect the club's name, colours, badge and guard, while also preventing relocation to a ground more than 15 miles from Portsmouth city centre.
Analysis of data shows 43% of pupils at England's outstanding secondaries are from the wealthiest 20% of families.
The study from education charity Teach First also shows poorer pupils are half as likely as the richest to be heading to an outstanding secondary school.
Ministers said plans for new grammars would create more good school places.
Under the admissions code, state schools in England must follow strict rules to ensure fair access to school places.
Teach First, which fast-tracks high-flying graduates into schools in deprived areas, also commissioned a survey of 2,000 adults on their views on gaining access to good and outstanding schools.
It showed nine out of 10 parents felt it was very important that their child went to a highly rated school.
Teach First said there was very little variation between parents from different social groups.
About 93% said attending their first choice school was key to their child's future, and nearly three-quarters said they would appeal if they did not get their first choice school.
The Teach First research coincides with a separate study by the social mobility charity Sutton Trust, which suggests poorer children in England are much less likely to gain places at the 500 comprehensives that achieve the best GCSE grades.
Analysis of figures from the National Pupil Database for the charity found over 85% of schools in the top 500 took a smaller proportion of disadvantaged pupils than lived in their immediate areas.
In the average state school, 17% of secondary pupils were eligible for free school meals, compared with 9% in the top 500, the researchers found.
About half this difference is due to these schools having catchment areas with fewer disadvantaged pupils, but the rest is due to social selection.
The study also found a house price premium of about 20% near top comprehensives
A typical house in one of these catchment areas costs about £45,700 more than the average property in the same local authority.
This means pupils whose families can afford to buy in these areas are more likely to get places at the top secondary schools, pricing poorer pupils out, says the charity.
Faith schools, which make up a third of the top 500 schools, and admit pupils on religious grounds from outside their immediate neighbourhood, were particularly socially selective.
Faith schools in the top 500 took 6% fewer pupils on free school meals than lived in the area nearest the school - compared with 2% fewer in non-faith schools, the researchers found.
Last year, 62,301 appeals were lodged for primary and secondary schools (3% of total admissions) of which 22% were successful.
Both sets of research come as parents across England receive details of which secondary schools their children have been offered.
Last year, 84% of applicants for a secondary school place were offered their first preference school.
And about 95% received an offer from one of their top three preference schools.
A Department for Education spokeswoman called selection by house price "simply unfair", adding that the government had already set in motion plans to tackle it.
"We plan to create more good school places in more parts of the country by scrapping the ban on new grammar schools, as well as harnessing the expertise and resources of our universities, and our independent and faith schools," said the spokeswoman.
The stand-in captain faces a ban if found guilty of a similar offence in the next 12 months.
The rest of England's players were fined 10% of their fee after the fourth match of the seven-game series, which Sri Lanka now lead 3-1.
Morgan, 28, was acting as skipper in place of the banned Alastair Cook.
Cook was serving a one-match suspension for previous slow over rates in Sunday's six-wicket defeat.
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In March the US banned cabin laptops to and from eight mostly Muslim nations, fearing bombs may be concealed in them.
The new measures require enhanced passenger- and electronic-device screening across 105 countries.
Airlines have 120 days to comply or could face a ban on carrying all passenger electronics.
They could even be denied the right to fly into the US.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly spelled out the new measures on Wednesday, saying: "Make no mistake: our enemies are constantly working to find new methods for disguising explosives, recruiting insiders, and hijacking aircraft.
"We cannot play international whack-a-mole with each new threat. Instead, we must put in place new measures across the board to keep the travelling public safe and make it harder for terrorists to succeed."
The new measures, which Mr Kelly said would not be the last, include:
The measures are vague on specifics in terms of operational application, but will cover 280 airports and 180 airlines, affecting an average of 2,100 flights a day, carrying 325,000 passengers.
Airlines will be breathing a sigh of relief on the laptop issue, as many feared it might deter passengers, particularly high-fare-paying business customers, from travelling.
Mr Kelly had raised fears of a wider ban late last month, telling Fox News he was still considering it.
Homeland security officials said that even the airports included in the original laptop ban could have it lifted if they complied with the new regulations.
Devices "larger than a smartphone" are currently not allowed in the cabins of flights from Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The UK issued similar rules for flights from six countries.
Air travel safety experts have warned there is a greater risk of lithium battery fires going unchecked if large electronic items are left in the hold.
A naming ceremony, where Ms Jenkins was also presented with a commemorative medal, took place on Monday.
It comes weeks after the mezzo soprano, who is expecting her first child, was asked to sing at the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations.
Ms Jenkins is the third person to be honoured by the railway, along with Bryn Terfel and Sir David Brailsford.
She said: "I'm so grateful to everyone at Snowdonia Mountain Railway for honouring me in this way.
"I'm so disappointed we didn't reach the summit but I look forward to coming back with my family and new baby daughter."
Last year, more than 130,000 people travelled on the railway, which is the only one of its kind in the UK.
Michael Lesslie, who has also adapted Macbeth and Assassin's Creed, is to write the screenplay.
Rogue Male was originally written by Geoffrey Household in 1939.
Cumberbatch told The Hollywood Reporter: "I am thrilled both as an actor and producer to be working on bringing this most treasured of English novels to the big screen."
Household wrote 28 novels but Rogue Male was a best-seller and is regarded as his finest work.
The thriller tells the story of a hunter who attempts to assassinate a dictator but is caught and tortured. He escapes home to England but then has to evade capture from enemy agents and police.
The story has previously been adapted by 20th Century Fox, whose 1940 production Man Hunt presented Hitler as the dictator and starred Walter Pidgeon.
Peter O'Toole appeared in a BBC adaption made for television in 1977.
Cumberbatch, who read Household's novel several years ago, was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in 2014's The Imitation Game and was made a CBE last year.
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A shortage of funding and strains on the workforce have already resulted in the closure of many rural surgeries.
The British Medical Association's Tom Black said GPs have a "huge workload".
He told the BBC's Talkback programme that if GPs did not do something there would be "no GP services".
"There are now fewer GPs per head of the population than there were in the 1950s," said Dr Black.
"There are already rural areas where practices are closing because no one will apply for the jobs.
"Nobody will apply for the jobs because the workload is too huge and there is no workforce, what workforce we have will not go to rural areas.
"This is not about the money - there are just not enough of them (GPs).
"This is not something that's happening in Belfast at the moment or in Derry because that is where the limited workforce are going."
He said the areas that would suffer the most were the south, the west and the south-west of Northern Ireland.
According to the BMA, the shortage of GPs in Northern Ireland is now critical.
Since 2014, hundreds of millions of pounds have been invested in general practice by the Department of Health, but the BMA says this is not enough.
With a growing and ageing population, demand has been growing on general practice, encouraging many doctors to take early retirement.
But Mr Black said this was not what GPs wanted, adding that charging patients would be "a nightmare".
The ex-footballer and Unicef ambassador said people should think of their children and grandchildren before Thursday's vote.
He said his experience playing across Europe instilled in him the importance of a "vibrant and connected world".
Vote Leave said they had support from other footballers, like Sol Campbell.
Meanwhile, Victoria Beckham has accused Leave supporters of trying to "misuse" comments she made in the past about Europe.
The UK will vote on whether to remain in the EU or to leave on Thursday.
Mr Beckham - who represented England 115 times and won a host of trophies playing for Manchester United before spells at Real Madrid and LA Galaxy - wrote on Facebook that he respected those who supported Brexit but believed the UK's future was best served remaining in the EU.
Drawing on his experience on the pitch, he said the heart of Manchester United's title winning teams in the 1990s may have been English but they would not have achieved so much without the input of players from elsewhere in Europe.
"Now that team might have gone on to win trophies but we were a better and more successful team because of a Danish goalkeeper, Peter Schmeichel, the leadership of an Irishman Roy Keane and the skill of a Frenchman in Eric Cantona."
He added: "I was also privileged to play and live in Madrid, Milan and Paris with teammates from all around Europe and the world.
"Those great European cities and their passionate fans welcomed me and my family and gave us the opportunity to enjoy their unique and inspiring cultures and people.
"For our children and their children we should be facing the problems of the world together and not alone. For these reasons I am voting to Remain."
Victoria Beckham said she shared her husband's views and attacked the Leave.EU campaign after it posted a message on Twitter suggesting she believed EU bureaucrats were "destroying" the UK's "national identity and individuality".
It went on to suggest David Beckham "should have listened to the missus".
Writing on Instagram, the fashion designer said Leave campaigners were "trying to put a spin on quotes made 20 years ago about keeping or losing the pound" which she said had nothing to do with the current debate.
"I have to say strongly my comments should not be misused in this country," she said. "I believe in my country. I believe in a future for my children where we are stronger together and I support the Remain campaign".
Mr Cameron, who worked closely with the footballer in the unsuccessful bid to bring the 2018 World Cup to the UK, said people should heed what he was saying.
"There was a very moving statement today from David Beckham talking about his children and saying how effectively, what he said to me was, 'you can't win in Europe, unless you're on the pitch," he told ITV's Lorraine.
But Leave campaigner Michael Gove told the BBC it had the support of former England internationals Sol Campbell and John Barnes and joked that, being a QPR supporter, he relished being the underdog.
It's a bit tricky to see how. The document is still putting £30bn as the amount the Conservatives need to save through spending and welfare cuts and clamping down on tax avoidance and evasion.
So, how will today's new pledges be paid for? The three key undertakings were to allow people living in housing association properties to buy them, to legislate to make sure minimum wage-earners do not pay income tax and to double the amount of free childcare for three and four-year-olds.
So let's take those one at a time. Starting with the housing association right-to-buy policy, it's not clear how many housing association tenants will be able to afford to buy their houses, even at discounted prices. Newsnight's Chris Cook cites figures suggesting that only 23% of housing association tenant households have anyone in full-time work and two-thirds of them are in receipt of housing benefit.
Regardless, the Conservatives say that the policy will be paid for by making local authorities sell their more valuable council houses when they become vacant.
The minimum wage policy is a bit tricky, because the prime minister's promise that minimum-wage earners will not have to pay income tax only covers those working up to 30 hours per week. That means the pledge is already being met because someone working 30 hours a week at minimum wage is below the threshold for paying income tax. The minimum wage for those over 21 is £6.70 an hour, which is £10,452 a year. Currently, the threshold for paying income tax is £10,600.
The Conservatives plan to raise the income tax-free allowance to £12,500 by 2020, which means that unless the minimum wage (based on advice from the Low Pay Commission) rises above £8 an hour, they will be OK with this pledge at no extra cost.
It is the doubling of free childcare for three and four-year-olds that looks expensive. The promise is to give families in which all parents are working, 30 hours a week of free childcare for three and four-year-olds (who have not yet started school) instead of 15.
This isn't actually a doubling of the childcare available, as the 15 hours a week are currently available for all three and four-year-olds regardless of whether their parents are working.
Mr Cameron said the policy would be worth £5,000 for qualifying families. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan later said that included the 15 hours they were already getting, so it is only an extra £2,500 per household.
She also told BBC News it would be paid for with £350m of the £1.4bn that would be raised by reducing pension tax relief for the most highly paid people. The rest of that money is earmarked for raising the threshold at which inheritance tax has to be paid.
That money would fund £2,500 of childcare for 140,000 families. The Office for National Statistics estimates that last year there were about 550,000 households in which all parents were working and whose youngest child was three or four.
We need to subtract some of those households because not all three-year-olds are yet eligible for free childcare ad some four-year-olds are already in school.
We also have to add some for lone parents, about 40% of whom are in employment (with youngest children aged between nought and four) and also for households in which the three or four-year-old is not the youngest child.
After all that, it appears clear that the Conservatives have not set aside enough money to pay for this policy.
And that's before we start on other recent policies not unveiled in the manifesto, such as the extra £8bn for the NHS.
Update, 1730 BST: The Conservatives have been in touch to say that the £350m figure is a Treasury costing.
Now, I haven't seen their workings, but I understand the point is that they expect more free childcare to mean more parents will go out to work, which reduces the benefits bill.
There is some disagreement about the extent to which this happens. The IFS, for example, has been quite critical of the extent to which better childcare provision increases employment among mothers.
Update II, 1820 BST: I have now had more details of how the Treasury worked this out. Apparently it's not about more people going to work, it's to do with people getting free childcare instead of paying for it with tax credits or tax-free with vouchers.
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Victory over Curzon Ashton would have earned them a trip to Westfields, who play in English football's ninth tier.
But they were beaten 2-1 by their National League North opponents, after being held 1-1 at home on Saturday.
Mills was appointed on Sunday, with former Jackie McNamara switching to the role of chief executive.
Richard Brodie put the Minstermen ahead, but Alex Brown levelled before half-time and Niall Cummins scored Curzon's winner, netting the rebound after Luke Simpson saved his penalty.
O'Flanagan put Ireland ahead but Germany equalised in the third quarter.
Mullan scored the winner by diverting in a long ball from Hannah Matthews in the final quarter and Ireland now face China on Friday and Korea on Sunday.
Ireland will next meet Germany in the pool stages of this year's World League semi-finals in Johannesburg in July.
The World League 3 tournament in South Africa will be followed by the Eurohockey Championships in August.
The woman suffered serious burns in the incident in the reception area of Clydebank police station, in the town's Montrose Street, on 7 January.
She is still being treated for her injuries at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner will look at the circumstances surrounding the incident.
A report into the findings of the investigation will then be submitted to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Meanwhile, officials at West Dunbartonshire Council are carrying out their own inquiry as the woman is known to have been in touch with council services in the hours before she went to the police station.
From next year, the civil servants who oversee academies and free schools will take over responsibility for raising standards in all state-funded schools.
But council leaders say regional schools commissioners lack the "capability and capacity" for the job and "could risk children's education".
The government called the claims "nonsense, and the figures misleading".
Currently about a quarter of state schools in England are academies or free schools, run independently and funded directly from Whitehall rather than through local authorities.
This includes most secondary schools but only about one in six primaries.
The job of regional schools commissioners is to oversee academies and free schools in their areas, doing a job similar to that of local authorities for council-run schools.
Ultimately the government wants all schools to be academies, and the commissioners' role is expanding as more schools convert.
In August next year, the government also intends the commissioners to take over from local authorities the job of supporting school improvement and intervening in failing schools.
But the Local Government Association, which represents councils in England, highlights official data it says suggests that, overall, council maintained schools out-perform academies.
According to that data, the proportion of schools rated good or outstanding by inspectors is:
However, at secondary level only, academies do better than maintained schools, with 79.6% rated good or outstanding, compared with 76.3% of council run schools.
The LGA says that almost 800 academies are currently rated "less than good", which means that each of the eight commissioners already has responsibility for about 100 struggling academies.
Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, questioned whether the commissioners had capacity to boost standards in these academies, let alone take on responsibility for another 13,000 schools.
He said local councils had consistently proved themselves to be more effective at raising standards than regional schools commissioners.
"This is no surprise. Each council is working with fewer schools, who they have good, long-standing relationships with and they know what's needed in their local areas," he said.
"It is simply asking too much to expect RSCs to effectively turn around dozens of schools across a huge area."
Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said the findings backed up "our long held concerns that the government's obsession with turning every school into an academy will do nothing to drive up standards, not to mention completely undermining councils' ability to deliver the education provision their communities need".
But the government said the LGA was being disingenuous to claim local authorities were better at raising standards, as the government was taking struggling schools off their books by turning them into academies.
"It is inevitable that councils oversee a higher proportion of good or outstanding schools," said a Department for Education spokesman.
Following conversion to academy status and "after being paired with a strong sponsor, they stand the best chance of breaking from their often long histories of under performance", said the spokesman.
The spokesman said accountability for academies was more robust than in council-run schools, adding that regional schools commissioners enabled "swift action" on problems "that the council-run system would fail to tackle for years".
Brexit Secretary David Davis told MPs there was a lot of research and policy work to be done before it was ready.
Mr Davis said he wanted to be "as open as we can be" without undermining the UK's negotiating position.
The minister also said if no agreement was reached with the EU a transitional Brexit deal could be struck "if it is necessary and only if it is necessary".
The government has said it will notify the EU of its intention to leave - beginning the two year process of talks on its exit - by the end of March at the latest.
In response to pressure from Labour and some Tory MPs, ministers agreed last week to give more detail of their negotiating aims before starting the exit negotiations.
Appearing before the Commons Select Brexit committee for the first time, Mr Davis said the "broad outline" of the UK's objectives were known but the detail had to be filled in.
Asked by its chair, Labour MP Hilary Benn, when the plan would be released, Mr Davis would not be drawn on a specific date but ruled out it happening in January.
Transition, transition, transition. It is the word of the week. Just about anyone who is anyone in business or politics is now gathering around the "transitional deal" camp fire.
A lobbying group for financial services (unsurprising), a House of Lords committee, a deputy governor of the Bank of England, Chancellor Philip Hammond and even David Davis, the Pied Piper of Brexit himself, have come round to openly discussing the possibility that Brexit does not necessarily mean Brexit - at least not necessarily on the original time table and that there may be a halfway house.
The idea for a transitional period to smooth the period between the UK's exit from the European Union and the completion of more detailed negotiations has been in the ether for months - but this is the week it has begun to crystallise into solid political form.
Chancellor Philip Hammond said earlier this week that "thoughtful" politicians acknowledged a transition deal would be helpful to avoid the trauma of a sudden change in trading, customs and regulations the day after the UK leaves the EU.
That could be seen as an insult to Brexiteers such as Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg - who hate the idea of a transitional deal - but I'm told there are very few "red lines" between the key departments in the way this negotiation is conducted.
There are also many definitions of what such a transition might look like. Is it merely an implementation period for a largely agreed deal (David Davis's preference) or is it a longer term arrangement which keeps the status quo in place while details are worked out more slowly?
Either way, the pressure for more clarity is growing. A House of Lords committee will warn tomorrow 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, today told Bloomberg TV that the bank were looking at the option of moving staff to Paris if needed.
As one source told me today "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.
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"The reasons for setting the final possible date, 31 March (for triggering the Article 50 process of leaving the EU), were numerous but one of them was the determination to carry out all of the policy work first, consult properly and then bring something to Parliament," he told MPs.
"It won't be next month. The policy work is still under way and there are quite a few decisions that have to be made."
Officials, he said, were conducting "sectoral analysis" of the impact of Brexit in 57 areas likely to feature in the negotiations, highlighting home affairs as one area where more preparation needed to take place.
Asked about the likely scope and length of the plan, he said anything which jeopardised the UK getting the best possible deal from the negotiations would be left out. The test, he said, would be "will releasing information be hazardous or not? If it is not, we will release it".
He told MPs that his goal was a "smooth and orderly" exit from the EU and - on trade - "maximum market access with minimum of disruption" to British firms.
Pressed about whether he agreed with Chancellor Philip Hammond who has expressed his support for transitional arrangements for a limited period to cushion the impact of leaving the EU, he said he would not rule anything out at this stage.
He told the committee that an interim arrangement could be struck "if it's necessary, and only if it's necessary" but that a deal was "all negotiable" within the 18-month framework currently suggested by European Union negotiators.
"We need to know where we are going before we talk about a transition".
One option, he accepted, was the UK paying the EU to maintain access to the EU's single market for a short period of time but he stressed that "keeping something open does not mean we are doing it".
Questioned by former education secretary Michael Gove on what the remaining 27 EU states wanted out of Brexit, Mr Davis said their views varied and could be shaped by domestic politics, noting there were "15 electoral events" - including in Germany and France - due to take place during the process.
He added: "We are going to have to harness two things - one is economic and maybe security self-interest, and the other is a persuasion of them that it is in in Europe's best interest to have a friend and a strong trading partner off their north-western shore."
Officials say devices "larger than a smartphone" must travel in the hold because of an increased risk that they could contain explosives.
At least one airline is allowing devices to be used up until boarding.
The US ban covers eight countries, while the UK restrictions apply to six.
Nine airlines from eight countries - Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait - are affected by the US ban. They operate about 50 flights a day to the US.
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UAE airline Emirates is offering complimentary packing and shipping services at gates to enable passengers to use their electronic devices after check-in and until boarding.
That also means passengers flying on two-leg trips from other countries to the US through Dubai can use their laptops on the first leg of their flights.
The UK ban meanwhile affects all flights out of Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Lebanon.
The British ban applies to any device, including smartphones, larger than 16cm (6.3in) long, 9.3cm (3.7in) wide or 1.5cm (0.6in) deep. However, most phones will be smaller than the limit.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged the US and UK to lift the bans as soon as possible.
The US Department for Homeland Security has cited attacks on planes and airports over the past two years as the reason for the ban,
Bombs, it said, had been hidden in such items as a soft drink can, used in the downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt in October 2015 with the loss of 224 lives, and the laptop used in the unsuccessful Somali attack last year.
European security experts are to meet next week to discuss the US and UK bans, the Guardian newspaper reported.
Royal Jordanian Airlines has tweeted suggestions of things to do during a long flight instead of using an electronic device.
It followed up with another tweet suggesting that passengers "do what we Jordanians do best - stare at each other!"
Aviation experts say the ban could hit airline profits as risks include a fall in passenger numbers, decreasing customer satisfaction and higher costs linked to screening baggage.
In a report, the UK's branch of the UN children's agency Unicef says most of those deaths occur outside war zones.
It says millions of young people under the age of 20 feel unsafe in their homes, schools and communities.
It also blames rapid urbanisation, youth unemployment and rising inequality for creating greater risks.
Unicef UK says it published its report - Children in Danger: Act to End Violence against Children - to mark the launch of the Children in Danger campaign.
It warns that about 345 children under 20 could die from violence each day in the next year unless governments around the world take action.
The document's findings suggest that children who are victims of violence have brain activity similar to soldiers exposed to combat and more than 30% of them are likely to develop long-lasting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
It says those living in poverty are more likely to be the victims of violence. An adolescent boy in Latin America is 70 times more likely to be murdered than one in the UK.
"We want children living in fear to have a chance of feeling safe and secure," Unicef UK's executive director David Bull said.
"A global target would galvanise action to make the world safer for children."
Only 41 countries, Unicef UK says, have an explicit ban on violence against children.
But the report says that there is no room for complacency in richer countries as no nation is currently able to provide children with the full protection they need.
Luamanu, who was born in Wellington in New Zealand, made 18 appearances last season after joining the club from Treviso in July 2015.
"I'm really excited about moving forward with this extremely talented group of players. My family and I feel very much at home here," Luamanu said.
Harlequins have not revealed the length of Luamanu's new contract.
"I am very pleased that Mat has committed to the club going forward," said Harlequins director of rugby John Kingston.
"He has made a considerable impact with his physical presence and his professional approach to the game.
"There is far more to come from him and I am delighted it will be in a Harlequins shirt."
The 13ft-long (4m) fish discovered at Freshwater East caused a stir among locals, as it was originally thought to have been a swordfish.
It has since been identified as only the third blue marlin to be found in the UK, and the first full one to be recovered.
The museum said it hoped it would now be studied by its research department.
After it was discovered, the fish was inspected by Milford Haven Coastguard and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, before it was reported to the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme.
A day later experts from the Natural History Museum's department of life sciences came to collect it.
Senior fish curator Oliver Crimmen said staff were delighted by the find.
"The flies had started to take an interest in it but we were amazed it was in such good condition," he said.
"I'm hopeful it will go to our research department and provide us with a valuable subject for science," he added, saying he hoped it might eventually go on display at the museum.
Blue marlin spend most of their life in the open sea, far from land, and are more often associated with warmer waters.
Two of the three which have washed up in the UK were found in Pembrokeshire - the first in Saundersfoot in 2008, but it was not good enough to be preserved.
Rockall is fewer than 300 miles from the western coasts of the Republic of Ireland and Scotland.
The UK claimed Rockall in 1955, but Ireland, Iceland and Denmark have previously challenged that claim.
Sovereignty over the islet was settled in the UK's favour in 2014.
However, some in the Republic have warned that the UK's exit from the EU could cause Britain to "pull up the drawbridge" on international use of the area.
"It could raise the age-old controversy over ownership of Rockall which was more or less resolved between the UK and Ireland in 2014," said Jane Morrice, a former European Commission representative in Northern Ireland.
"The fact that the rock outcrop in the north Atlantic is claimed by the UK as part of Scotland could make it a small but serious point in future negotiations."
She said talks over fishing rights would require a complicated agreement that could make or break Northern Ireland's fishing industry.
Éamon Ó Cuív, the island affairs spokesman for Fianna Fáil, the Republic's biggest opposition party, said there would be a strong desire among many in the UK fishing industry to "pull up the drawbridge" and ban non-UK fishing boats in UK waters in the event of a hard Brexit.
Sean O'Donoghue, chief executive of the Killybegs Fishermen's Organisation in County Donegal on the north-west coast, said ownership of the actual rock would not be in dispute but there would be an issue over access to the waters.
"We can fish at the minute at Rockall as we have fishing rights there but when the UK leaves they will no longer be part of the Common Fisheries Policy and there will have to be some detailed discussions around the fisheries which are very difficult to resolve."
Angel di Maria scored twice as PSG won the last-16 first leg tie at the Parc des Princes 4-0 on Tuesday.
No side in the history of the competition has come back to win from such a deficit.
"It was a disastrous night for us; we were clearly inferior," Enrique said.
"I'm responsible for this."
Barcelona are five-time European champions and last won the Champions League two years ago.
They have not failed to reach the last eight of the competition since 2007 and Enrique knows his side will have to be at their very best to have a chance of turning the tie around in the return leg at the Nou Camp on 8 March.
He added: "It's extremely difficult for us now but we go back to our stadium and really we need a heroic performance.
"But why not dream?"
The biggest Champions League deficit overturned in a second leg was achieved by Spanish side Deportivo, who overhauled AC Milan's 4-1 lead to win 5-4 on aggregate and reach the 2004 semi-finals.
It was considered one of the most remarkable nights in European football, with Milan the defending champions and favourites to win the tournament.
Barcelona have won by at least four clear goals in seven games at the Nou Camp this season, including a 4-0 defeat of Manchester City in October and a 7-0 win against Celtic in September.
PSG have never progressed beyond the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
They were defeated by Manchester City in the last eight last season after beating Chelsea home and away in the previous round, and coach Unai Emery is staying grounded.
"We played a great game individually and collectively, with tremendous backing from the fans," he said.
"But I still have a lot of respect for Barca and 90 minutes is long. We must keep our concentration for the return match."
Spanish football expert Sid Lowe told BBC Radio 5 live: "It was a result that has been coming all season. I don't think anyone expected a result as big as this but Barcelona have been vulnerable all year.
"They have been living off the quality of the front three as opposed to a collective identity, solidity or clarity.
"Messi has been bailing them out and they have looked vulnerable when teams have pressed and attacked them. It is not just that PSG beat them 4-0, if their finishing had been better it could have been five or six.
"Messi had fewer touches in the first half than any other game this season. Unai Emery had worked on that - isolating him and depriving him of possession. But when he did get possession he was unable to do anything with it.
"But with the exception of Ter Stegen in goal and possibly Neymar there isn't a Barca player who had even a half-decent game.
"I think they are out."
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Scientists tracked two elephants in Botswana to find out more about the animals' natural sleep patterns.
Elephants in zoos sleep for four to six hours a day, but in their natural surroundings the elephants rested for only two hours, mainly at night.
The elephants, both matriarchs of the herd, sometimes stayed awake for several days.
During this time, they travelled long distances, perhaps to escape lions or poachers.
They only went into rapid eye movement (REM, or dreaming sleep, at least in humans) every three or four days, when they slept lying down rather than on their feet.
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Prof Paul Manger of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, said this makes elephant sleep unique.
"Elephants are the shortest sleeping mammal - that seems to be related to their large body size," he told BBC News.
"It seems like elephants only dream every three to four days. Given the well-known memory of the elephant this calls into question theories associating REM sleep with memory consolidation."
Elephants living in captivity have been widely studied.
To find out more about their sleeping habits in the wild, Prof Manger and his research team fitted the scientific equivalent of a fitness tracker under the skin of the animals' trunks.
The device was used to record when the elephants were sleeping, based on their trunk staying still for five minutes or more.
The two elephants were also fitted with a gyroscope to assess their sleeping position.
Both elephants were followed for five weeks, giving new insights into their natural sleep patterns.
"We had the idea that elephants should be the shortest sleeping mammal because they're the largest," said Prof Manger.
"Why this occurs, we're not really sure. Sleep is one of those really unusual mysteries of biology, that along with eating and reproduction, it's one of the biological imperatives. We must sleep to survive."
Generally, smaller-bodied mammals sleep for longer than larger ones.
For example, sloths sleep for around 14 hours a day, while humans sleep for around 8 hours.
How elephants survive on so little sleep remains a mystery.
The researchers are planning follow-up studies on more elephants, including males.
They also want to find out more about REM sleep in elephants.
REM sleep is believed to be critical in laying down memories.
It is a type of sleep seen across the animal kingdom, in mammals and birds and even lizards.
Most mammals go into REM sleep every day.
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Scores of people, many of them monks, were injured and burned when authorities moved in to violently end months of demonstrations in November.
Burmese lawyers and the US-based Justice Trust compiled the report.
It was based on eyewitness testimony, photos and forensic analysis of a used grenade cartridge.
The mine at Monywa is jointly owned by a Chinese company and the Burmese military. Local villagers had embarked on months of sit-in protests, claiming they had been unfairly forced to give up their land.
No one from the Burmese government was available to comment immediately on the report.
An official commission established in the immediate aftermath of the violent conclusion of the protests has yet to deliver its findings.
The 41-page report says that in the early morning of 29 November, Burmese police repeatedly fired white phosphorus grenades, both into the air and along the ground into camps of protesters.
It quotes witnesses saying they saw bright flares in the sky, and that a sticky, flaming substance was released which set the camps on fire and burned through clothes, skin and flesh.
White phosphorus has often been used on the battlefield, such as in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. It is highly controversial.
"It's unheard of for police to use incendiary military munitions against peaceful protesters during a law enforcement operation," Roger Normand, director of the Justice Trust, said at the report's launch in Rangoon.
The authors of the report obtained one of the grenade cartridges used in the dispersal and tested it at an independent laboratory.
They say that the results showed levels of residue consistent with it being from white phosphorus.
The findings are supported by photos and witness accounts that were published at the time. Many of those injured were monks with horrific burns on their bodies.
The report also examined the villagers' grievances against the copper mine which led them to start the protest.
It alleges that local officials lied and intimidated them in order to make them sign contracts to hand over their land.
Many see the mine dispute as an important test case of how the now reform-minded Burmese authorities handle issues dating back to decades of military dictatorship.
In the immediate aftermath of the protests, Burmese President Thein Sein established an Investigation Commission led by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Its initial brief was a far-reaching look at the copper mine, the protest and its violent dispersal.
Two days later, without explanation, the mandate was changed to exclude looking at the cause of the protests or why people had been injured. That report has yet to be made public.
The Scot made 265 appearances for United and scored 145 goals, including two in their 1963 FA Cup final win over Leicester - their first major trophy after the Munich air disaster in 1958.
He had netted for Arsenal in the last league match United played before the plane crash, which killed 23 on board.
Herd, who won five international caps, started his career at Stockport and also played for Stoke and Waterford.
The son of former Manchester City forward Alec Herd, he made his senior debut for Arsenal in 1954 and scored 99 goals in 166 appearances for the Gunners.
After joining United in 1961, he scored in his first appearances for the club in the FA Cup, League Cup and all three European club competitions, forming a formidable partnership with compatriot Denis Law.
He won the league title twice while at Old Trafford but was not selected for United's European Cup final victory over Benfica in 1968.
After retiring as a player, Herd was briefly manager at Lincoln City.
An actor performing the role of high priestess lit the torch by using the sun's rays.
The torch will be taken by various runners on an international relay that will culminate at the opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on 5 August.
The ritual was established 80 years ago for the Berlin Games, based on a ceremony in Ancient Olympia where games were held for more than 1,000 years.
Actor Katerina Lehou, who lit the torch, offered a mock prayer to Apollo, the old Greek god of light and music, at Thursday's ceremony.
Wearing a long pleated robe, she knelt solemnly to the ground and lit the torch within a few seconds by using a concave mirror to catch the sunlight.
She then delivered the flame to Greek world gymnastics champion Eleftherios Petrounias, the first runner in a torch relay that will conclude at the opening ceremony in Rio's Maracana Stadium.
The chief organiser of the Games, Carlos Nuzman, promised to "deliver history". He said the Olympics would unite Brazil, which is beset by political and economic crises.
"[The torch lighting] brings a message that can and will unite our dear Brazil, a country that is suffering much more than it deserves in its quest for a brighter future," he said in his speech.
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff was forced to cancel her trip to ancient Olympia because of the impeachment threat she faces.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said the flame was "a timeless reminder that we are all part of the same humanity" despite the difficulties that Brazil is facing.
"Rio de Janeiro... will provide a spectacle to showcase the best of the human spirit. In just a few weeks the Brazilian people will enthusiastically welcome the world and amaze us with their joy of life and their passion for sport," he said.
Before the flame arrives in South America it will begin a six-day relay across Greece, passing through the town of Marathon - which gave its name to the long distance race - as well as a camp for refugees and migrants in Athens, the International Olympic Committee has said.
The flame is due to arrive in Brazil on 3 May for a relay across the country, travelling through hundreds of cities and villages in every Brazilian state.
It will be carried by about 12,000 torch bearers.
Some Arab governments are wary that they will be a new mouthpiece for the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement, which they view as a destabilising threat.
The Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera network has been accused of pro-Brotherhood bias, something the station has denied, but it lost a lot of its audience last year, especially after the crackdown on the movement in Egypt, and Islamists' political setback in Tunisia and Libya.
"Qatar lost the political and media prestige which was created by Al-Jazeera over almost 20 years," said a well-known journalist close to the Qatari decision-makers.
Egypt, Saudi, UAE and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Doha last March, accusing Qatar of supporting MB efforts to topple their regimes.
All but Egypt recently agreed to return their envoys after reaching an agreement believed to include written commitments from Qatar to stop media campaigns against them.
Last March, a new media project funded by a Qatari-owned private holding company, emerged, first with a website called Al-Araby Al-Jadeed - The New Arab.
Last September, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed started publishing a daily newspaper, followed by an English version of the website, and it is now preparing to launch a television channel.
The project is supervised by Azmi Bishara, a prominent Palestinian secular academic, who is close to the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
Writing on the website when it launched, Mr Bishara talked about the need for a new project because "we live in a new Arab era" in which Arab youths dream of "freedom, equality and a dignified life".
Mr Bishara did not explain the needs for a new platform in addition to Al-Jazeera, on which he regularly appears as a political commentator.
In a book he has written about Syrian conflict, Mr Bishara admitted that the Qatari government interfered in the editorial policy of Al-Jazeera.
However, Islam Lotfy, Al-Araby Television Network CEO, told the BBC that while Al-Jazeera "is a party in a political battle, we are not".
"Up to this moment, there is no interference in the editorial policy from Qatar," he said.
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper CEO Abdulrahman Elshayyal said claims that the project was subject to any political influence were unsubstantiated.
"Our funding is from a Qatari-owned private holding company. We have no qualms about this nor have we ever denied it. Nor are we a political party or affiliated to any group of any kind," he said.
"Our editorial teams, who come from a varied background, have one thing in common; a belief in the highest editorial standards and in our editorial philosophy: a strong and transparent media can only strengthen and support people in their search for democracy and self-determination - whatever their background may be.
"We should be held to account on the basis of our commitment to our declared values and on professional performance and not judged by our source of funding."
Al-Araby TV is set to launch in London in January. Its main target, Mr Lotfy said, was the youth in the countries of the Arab Spring.
The diversity of cultures and backgrounds of the new project's staff is obvious in the channel's newsroom. However, this is not enough to dispel the suspicions of some, like Shadi Salahuddin, the London bureau chief of the official Egyptian Middle East News Agency.
"Would they be able to criticise Qatar policy?" he asked, before adding: "The Arab audiences are not gullible any more."
Mr Salahuddin drew his conclusion from what has already appeared on Al-Araby Al-Jadeed's website and newspaper.
He insisted that "they are just like Al-Jazeera in the way they are covering the main issues in the Arab world".
On Edgware Road, a road with a significant proportion of Arabic shops and visitors in London where Al-Araby is located, it was clear that the newspaper is not popular yet.
An Arabic newsagent told the BBC that he does not even sell one copy a day. This despite the fact that the paper has been on news shelves for three months now.
"It's still new to the market," said Mr Elshayyal. He rejected the suggestion that the paper's "political agenda" is the reason for its unpopularity.
"We are doing well on the website," he said.
According to the Alexa index, which measures website traffic, Al-Araby's global rank was 6,967 last week. Despite the fact that it is not allowed to operate in Egypt officially yet, 44% of the visitors are from there.
The Egyptian President, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, has accused the new media venture of "targeting Egyptian stability," a charge denied by its management.
However the website's coverage of Egypt's affairs appears to show a dislike of its new rulers. Its daily news reports focus on what they describe as the "repression" and "corruption" that characterise the "coup leadership".
The newspaper's Egyptian editor-in-chief Wael Kandil, attacks President Sisi in his column on an almost daily basis.
Mr Kandil's columns appear sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, although he is not a member of the movement.
"It is not just in Egypt, the political stance of the newspaper is obvious wherever the MB exists," Mr Salahuddin said.
Observers say it is a stance closely linked to Qatar's policies in the Middle East.
The journalist close to Qatari decision-makers, who did not want to be identified, said there was "no future for this [new media] project without supporting the political Islam movements. Qatar cannot abandon this policy, or else they will be without any political weight".
Update 2 December 2014: The article has been modified to include a statement from Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper CEO Abdulrahman Elshayyal, to make clear the media venture is funded by a private company and to remove any suggestion that it may be part of an investigation into Muslim Brotherhood activities in the UK or that Wael Kandil has any association with the movement.
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Japan's official map-making body said foreigners might mistake it for a Nazi symbol, and that temples should be represented by a three-storey pagoda instead.
It is one of six map symbols the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) has proposed dropping, as Japan prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The GSI came up with the suggestions after speaking to experts and surveying more than 1,000 people, including tourists, embassy officials and foreign students.
It is conducting a public consultation before making an official decision, but some people in Japan are not happy.
Many say the ancient Sanskrit symbol - which has been adopted into Japanese where it is pronounced manji - has long been associated with Buddhism and Japanese culture, and that the tourists should learn this.
In this tweet, Twitter user Fei Explorer linked to a news article on the change and asked rhetorically: "So if terrorists hang up the Union Jack, does this mean the UK should change its flag? Or the USA or Australia?"
Another Twitter user, Konosaki Lem, said: "It's said some would mistake the manji for the Nazi symbol, but Buddhism has a much longer history with this symbol. So I strongly oppose changing our maps for some foreigners who are ignorant and extremely stupid. The idea is foolish."
GSI's executive officer for national mapping, Takayuki Nakamura, acknowledged the controversy, but said some people wanted to go even further.
He told the Japan Times: "Some say we should change symbols for Japanese-language maps at this opportunity, while others say the traditional symbols should stay. Either way, it will take a while before any changes are made, as we need to co-ordinate with related government agencies."
Other symbols that will be changed for foreigners maps include that for a hotel, which GSI admitted looked like the symbol for helipads.
The church symbol could be mistaken for a graveyard, added the agency.
Meanwhile, some respondents to the GSI survey thought the symbol for a hospital looked too much like a shield.
Then there were uniquely Japanese symbols that baffled some, such as that for post offices. The symbol is derived from an old Japanese term dating back to the 19th Century meaning "communication".
The giant X symbol for police station actually represents two police batons crossing each other, but also confused many. It would be replaced by a saluting policeman.
The rest of the 18 symbols are either new ones that will be used exclusively for foreign-language maps to denote places like public bathrooms or restaurants, or existing ones that will be used for both Japanese and foreign maps.
The symbol for hot springs will remain as it is, much to the amusement of some who have pointed out that it looks like another quintessential Japanese icon - a steaming bowl of miso soup.
Reporting by Tessa Wong.
Sangakkara struck Mohammed Azharullah for four to seal a one-wicket win after Surrey had collapsed in pursuit of 277.
The visitors needed 12 runs to win off the final over after slumping from 234-5 to 250-9 in the closing stages.
Earlier, Rory Kleinveldt's unbeaten 76 meant Northants posted 276 after a last-wicket partnership added 49 runs.
Surrey will face Yorkshire away in the semi-finals on 28 August after the White Rose beat Kent by 11 runs in their quarter-final at Canterbury.
Northants must pick themselves up ahead of a T20 Blast semi-final against Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston on Saturday.
Alex Wakely's side looked set to pull off a surprise victory as lower-order wickets fell around Sangakkara and Surrey needed 27 off the last 14 balls.
Sangakkara brought that equation down to 12 off the last over and scooped the third delivery from an Azharullah full toss to fine leg for six.
Last man Jade Dernbach scrambled through for a bye to leave two to win off the final ball, which former Sri Lanka wicketkeeper Sangakkara struck to the boundary.
All this came after he had been dropped on just seven before going on to register his 37th career List A century.
Northants had earlier looked set to finish well below par after slumping to 227-9. But seven fours and three sixes in all-rounder Kleinveldt's 62-ball knock rescued them with a last-wicket stand alongside Azharullah.
Opener Josh Cobb (66) also caught the eye with an innings including seven fours and three sixes, but Dernbach proved the pick of Surrey's bowlers with 4-39.
Surrey coach Michael di Venuto told BBC Radio London:
"It was a hell of a game for the spectators, I'm not sure about us watching. Yet again, I'm having a heart attack watching us play one-day cricket.
"Kumar was magnificent at the end and throughout the whole innings. He showed his class and showed why he's still one of the best players in the world.
"I was pretty disappointed with the way we batted in the last 10 overs and the way we went about it, we just lost all intent.
"We had to leave it all up to Kumar to do the job. Luckily, Jade Dernbach stayed with him and kept his head and we're lucky enough to be in the last four."
A motion has been tabled for discussion at a council meeting later this month.
Labour's transport spokesman Ross Grant claimed operators had reneged on running services to some communities.
However First, which operates many city services, said councils and operators had to work together to unlock potential.
Mr Grant said the council could learn from colleagues in Edinburgh, where the authority part-owns its own bus fleet.
However, Aberdeen's SNP group leader Stephen Flynn said it could cost millions of pounds each and every year.
The line has been run by Greater Anglia since 2012 and the company renewed the franchise in August.
It says the deal will result in a £1.4bn investment over nine years, with new trains and average journey times reduced by 10%.
The rail union RMT said Britain's rail network was being sold off like it was a "dodgy car boot sale".
Mick Cash, general secretary of the RMT, said the deal, which follows the sale of the c2c franchise to Ternitalia last week, was "making a mockery" of the Department for Transport's (DfT) franchising process.
"The checks and balances for both passengers and the taxpayer, which the DfT claims are enshrined in its multi-million pound franchising programme, are clearly lacking when the winning bidder can simply walk away, share out its responsibilities and choose its replacement whenever it sees fit," he said.
"They are flogging off Britain's transport assets like Derek Trotter at some dodgy car boot sale."
Abellio has refused to reveal the value of the deal, which is pending final regulatory approval.
Dominic Booth, managing director of Abellio, said: "With the introduction of Mitsui's knowledge and experience, we look forward to delivering significant improvements for Greater Anglia's customers."
Mitsui has yet to comment on the deal.
Last year both companies put in a joint bid to run the West Midlands franchise. A decision on who will operate that franchise is expected from the DfT in June.
A DfT spokeswoman said: "This sale is a commercial decision for Abellio. The government will only approve this partial sale once both parties have satisfied us that passengers will benefit from it."
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A 2-1 victory over Sweden in last year's final at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro earned the midfielder the one piece of international silverware she was missing.
"That was a crazy, beautiful tournament. For me I think the best tournament overall," the 31-year Bayern Munich player said.
"Our goal was to win a medal and at the end we even got gold. That of course was an amazingly beautiful feeling. Indescribable."
Behringer says she realised after the Olympic semi-final victory over Canada that the next match would be her last for her country.
"I have never before made it to the finals at the Olympics," said the midfielder, who won 123 caps for Germany and was nominated for Fifa's World Player of the Year award in 2016.
"It was the right time to say I am done with playing in the national team."
As well as international success, Berhringer has enjoyed club success in her homeland, where she played for Freiburg, then Bayern Munich and then FFC Frankfurt before returning to Bayern in 2014.
She won the German Cup with Frankfurt in 2011 and 2014 before helping Bayern, to back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2015 and 2016.
"[Bayern's] last championship was sometime in the '70s and because of that it was really insane for us to win the title," she said.
"We were 10 new players, as 10 players from Bayern left and therefore we were a complete new team. We had to come together very quickly and managed that in a short period of time."
Some of this recent success is down to the relationship the men's and women's teams have with each other at Bayern, she says.
"It is very, very important that the men's team stand behind the woman's team, especially names like Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Chelsea, Lyon or Paris," she said.
"It helps especially when you play in other countries and they know Bayern Munich is coming. The name alone is important because of the success in the men's team.
"It is very much like being in a family here. We all get on really well with all the players. Actually it is like this at the whole club. If you see any workers from Munich, you just know each other and just talk. It's a feeling that you just belong there. It's a great feeling."
The men's game has been important to her development as a player from an early age, with her earliest footballing memories centring around playing with her brothers and in matches against boys' teams.
"I had to play with the boys, because there was no girls' teams," said Behringer, who was born in Lorrach, in south-west Germany on the border with Switzerland and France.
"I think it is important that you train and play with boys, because then you have to physically push through.
"You learn how to defend yourself and that's why I think it is good to play with boys as long as possible. Opinions are for sure either way."
"To win the Olympic gold medal, to hold it in your hands is a feeling you cannot describe. I'm very happy and proud to be nominated for this award, I never believed I would be nominated, but the year of 2016 was very successful and amazing for me."
They hope the genetic data will offer clues on how to suppress the spread of Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), which is transmitted via biting.
Since DFTD was first recorded in 1996, populations in some areas are estimated to have declined by up to 90%.
Details of the research have been published in the journal Cell.
DFTD refers to a fatal condition that is characterised by the appearance of facial tumours.
As these develop into large cancerous growths, the animal finds it hard to eat. As it becomes weaker, it is unable to compete with other animals for food.
Researchers say that affected animals appear to die within three to five months of the lesions first appearing.
The international team of scientists that sequenced the genome (complete set of genetic material) of DFTD built on earlier work that sequenced the genome of the Tasmanian devil itself, and the combined work could play a role in preventing the continual spread of the contagious cancer.
"We can now look for mutated pathways that might be responsible for the cancer's growth, which may offer potential targets or ideas for therapeutic interventions that could help the devils in the wild," explained co-author Elizabeth Murchison, a researcher at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.
"It has also allowed us to identify a number of genes that have a number of mutations, which makes it different to a normal devil's genome," she told BBC News.
"Of course, we are also keen to develop vaccines that help the devils' bodies detect that the cancer is foreign, and by using these genes that are different between the cancer and the host, they may present ideas for developing vaccines."
'Immortal devil'
Dr Murchison added that the sequencing also allowed the researchers to understand the dynamics of the disease.
"Because the cancer is spread by living cancer cells, it actually arose from one individual devil," she said.
BBC Nature - Tasmanian devil videos, news and facts
By using "genetic detective work", Dr Murchison and the team said the disease first arose in a female more than 15 years ago.
"As far as we know, it was just a normal, wild Tasmanian devil but for some reason it developed this tumour that became transmissible."
As the cancer cells were passed from one animal to another over the years, the original host was nicknamed the "immortal devil".
"She is, in a way, living on long after her own death," observed Dr Murchison.
Previous research revealed that DFTD was spread by biting, which played a major part in the devils' social interaction, such as mating and competing for food.
"Normally, a cancer that arises within the body of one person dies when that person dies," she explained. "It doesn't normally have an existence outside the body of its host.
"What is so unusual about the devils' cancer is that it has been able to survive after the death of its host.
"This has been facilitated by the fact that devils do bite each other, which has created a route for the transmission for the cancer."
The rapid spread of the contagious DFTD saw a steep decline in the wild population of the devils, prompting the Australian government in May 2009 to list the species (Sarcophilus harrisii) as Endangered.
As the world's largest marsupial carnivore is only found in the wild within Tasmania, the species is also listed as Endangered by the IUCN's global Red List of Threatened Species.
The outlook for the devils was so bleak that it prompted the government-backed Save the Tasmanian Devil Program to establish an "insurance population" in 2005.
This involved placing more than 270 disease-free devils in captivity in case it became necessary in the future to re-establish a healthy wild population.
But Dr Murchison added: "My goal is to do something to stop the spread of the disease in the wild before it is too late, [but] the wild population is declining at a very rapid rate, and there are some fears that the species in the wild could go extinct in 20-30 years.
"It would be impossible to re-introduce devils into the wild until we were certain that there were no diseased devils left out there, otherwise the [reintroduction] would be pointless because the disease would just come back again."
Explaining why it was important to continue research into developing a treatment for DFTD, she said: "Even if we do have to wait to re-introduce devils into the wild, it is going to be really important to be able to prevent those devils from getting the disease, and suppress the disease, just in case there are still reservoirs of it still left in the wild."
Emergency services were called to Castle Park, Bristol, on Saturday night.
The woman, who is in her late 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene. Initially officers said the death was "unexplained".
However, following a post-mortem Avon and Somerset Police said it does not believe foul play was involved.
Anyone who was in Castle Park at about 23:30 BST on Saturday is asked to contact police.
The findings, in Nature Communications, show how the parasite has adapted to survive by making detoxifying enzymes that destroy pesticides.
And it has grown thicker skin, which helps guard against chemical attack.
But there is a stage in the bug's life when it might be easier to kill.
This is as a young nymph, before it has had its first taste of human blood, according to the two teams of international researchers - one based at the American Museum of Natural History and the other working out of the University of Cincinnati and Baylor College of Medicine, Texas.
Bed bugs survive on a diet of blood alone, and it is not until the pest has begun to feed that some of the genes that govern these self-defence mechanisms against pesticides get switched on.
Another weakness might be their relationship with bacteria that live on, in and around them - their microbiome.
The researchers discovered the bed-bug microbiome contains more than 1,500 genes that probably contribute to their growth and reproduction.
Attacking these beneficial bacteria might prove to be a powerful weapon against bed bugs, alongside new pesticides.
Dr George Amato, one of the study authors from the museum, said: "We have been learning so much about microbiomes recently, and we know that it's not just that micro-organisms live on and in individuals, but in many ways play a critical role.
"This might provide a vulnerability we can use."
Some of the work is part of a project called i5k - an ambitious initiative to sequence the genomes of 5,000 arthropod species, to benefit medicine, agriculture and ecology.
Chris Gard and Connie Yates announced their decision on a fund-raising website following Charlie's death.
The couple had appealed for cash to pay for overseas medical treatment for their son.
More than 84,000 people donated money to the cause.
Charlie suffered from an extremely rare genetic condition causing progressive brain damage and muscle weakness.
The parents of the 11-month-old, fought a lengthy legal battle with Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to allow him to be taken to the US for treatment.
But they dropped their action after Professor Michio Hirano, the American neurologist who had offered to treat him, said it was too late for the treatment to work.
Charlie died on 28 July shortly before his first birthday.
In a statement, his parents said: "In the following weeks we will be setting up The Charlie Gard Foundation - a foundation that will help other children with mitochondrial diseases, and rare childhood illnesses.
"Too many children are losing their fight against rare medical conditions, which emphasises the need for more research, and we hope we can help deliver this through Charlie's foundation."
They also outlined plans for the charity to provide "information for parents that may find themselves in a situation like ours."
"There needs to be more clarity for parents about parental rights when it comes to making life-saving decisions about their children.
"Access to medical treatment, and expert clinicians, should never be denied if funds are available. We will be looking at ways in which we can help make things clearer for families and hospitals alike.
"We feel that the foundation will be a lovely legacy for Charlie, and we hope that you will all continue to support us in honouring the life of our little warrior as he helps other poorly children and their families."
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